✨ Postage Rate Proclamation
Num. 83. 987
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1877.
Former Rates of Postage abolished and New Rates fixed.
(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 paid, and that the postage so made payable shall be charged and paid accordingly: And whereas by Proclamation duly made and issued, bearing date the nineteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-first day of June, in the same year, the Governor in Council did, in pursuance of the said recited power and authority, fix certain rates of postage 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 the times at which the same respectively should be paid as therein mentioned: 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 twenty-ninth day of September, 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.
Every additional half ounce or fraction of half an ounce ... 0 1
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NZ Gazette 1877, No 83
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🚂 Proclamation on Postage Rates
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Postage, Rates, Proclamation, New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858
- NORMANBY, Governor
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