✨ Postage Rate Proclamation
Numb. 88.
1257
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1878.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1878.
Alteration of Rates of Postage.
—(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 twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourth day of October, 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 Schedules 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 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 alter the 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 the countries and places
mentioned in the Schedule hereto, shall be according to the rates mentioned in such Schedule, 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 fourteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.
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NZ Gazette 1878, No 88
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🏛️ Proclamation Altering Rates of Postage Within the Colony
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration16 September 1878
Postage rates, Proclamation, Letters, Newspapers, Packets, Executive Council
- NORMANBY, Governor