✨ Postage Rates and Erratum
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1877.
(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The New Zealand Post
Office Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time,
by Proclamation to be published in the New Zealand Gazette, to fix, alter, and abolish the rates of postage
at any time payable within the colony for the transmission of letters and newspapers by post, either
between places within New Zealand or to or from places beyond seas, and at what time the same shall be
charged and paid accordingly : And whereas by
Proclamation duly made and issued, bearing date the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the sixth day of July in the same year, the
Governor in Council did, in pursuance of the said recited power and authority, fix certain rates of postage,
and the times at which the same respectively should be paid as therein mentioned: And whereas by
Proclamation bearing date the third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette of the nineteenth day of October in the same year, the Governor
in Council did, in pursuance of the said recited power and authority, alter the rates of postage fixed to be
paid within the colony for the transmission of all letters and newspapers and packets by post to or from the
countries and places mentioned in the Schedule thereto: And whereas it is desirable that the said rates
should be altered, and that other rates of postage should be fixed, as hereinafter mentioned :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the said recited power and
authority, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby abolish all former
rates of postage fixed to be paid within the colony, and doth proclaim and declare that the postage payable
within the colony for the transmission of all letters, newspapers, and packets by post to or from the
countries and places mentioned in the several Schedules hereto, shall be according to the rates mentioned
in such Schedules, and that such postage shall in all cases be paid at the time such letters, newspapers, and
packets are delivered into the post; and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth further proclaim
and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect from and after the first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven.
RATES OF POSTAGE CHARGEABLE ON LETTERS, BOOK PACKETS, NEWSPAPERS, ETC., POSTED IN
NEW ZEALAND.
SCHEDULE A.
I.-TOWN LETTERS.
For delivery at or from the same Post Office at which the letters are posted—
Not exceeding half an ounce ... ... ... s. d.
0 1
Every additional half ounce or fraction of half an ounce... ... ... 0 1
ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette, No. 53, of 14th June, 1877—Rules made under "Law Practitioners Act, 1861"—for
"Tuesday, 1st day of January, 1877" (date of coming into force), read "1st January, 1878."
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