New Zealand Gazette – 1879 – No. 109

Page 1511

✨ Postal Revenue and Land Claims

1879.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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RETURN of the POSTAL REVENUE collected by the General Post Office and in the several Postal
Districts of New Zealand for the Quarter ended 30th September, 1879.

| | Postage re-
ceived from
Foreign
Offices. | Postage
Stamps Sold. | Money Order
Commission. | Private Box
and
Bag Rents. | Postal
Guides. | Miscellaneous
Receipts. | Totals. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |
| General Post Office | 4,200 0 0 | | | | | | 4,200 0 0 |
| Auckland | ... | 4,097 2 6 | 270 0 0 | 50 10 0 | 0 7 0 | ... | 4,417 19 6 |
| Blenheim | ... | 402 15 7 | 45 3 8 | 2 10 0 | 0 1 0 | ... | 450 10 3 |
| Christchurch | ... | 4,987 17 8 | 239 5 8 | 44 15 0 | 2 7 0 | ... | 5,274 5 4 |
| Dunedin | ... | 5,578 10 2 | 307 7 2 | 41 10 0 | 3 3 0 | ... | 5,930 10 4 |
| Greymouth | ... | 422 5 0 | 57 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 0 6 | ... | 481 6 6 |
| Hokitika | ... | 388 17 6 | 39 0 4 | 0 10 0 | 0 6 | ... | 428 8 4 |
| Invercargill | ... | 1,196 11 8 | 85 1 6 | 20 0 0 | 0 2 0 | ... | 1,301 15 2 |
| Napier | ... | 1,344 16 10 | 95 4 6 | 10 5 0 | 0 1 0 | ... | 1,450 7 4 |
| Nelson | ... | 690 16 8 | 39 2 6 | 1 0 0 | | ... | 730 19 2 |
| New Plymouth | ... | 307 5 3 | 31 14 6 | 0 10 0 | 0 1 6 | ... | 339 11 3 |
| Oamaru | ... | 709 16 9 | 51 10 8 | 8 0 0 | 0 4 6 | ... | 769 11 11 |
| Thames | ... | 257 1 8 | 23 19 10 | 2 10 0 | 0 0 6 | ... | 283 12 0 |
| Timaru | ... | 1,342 16 6 | 77 10 10 | 8 10 0 | | ... | 1,428 17 4 |
| Wanganui | ... | 1,241 0 0 | 100 12 6 | 37 0 0 | 0 2 0 | ... | 1,378 14 6 |
| Wellington | ... | 3,255 13 6 | 239 11 4 | 26 0 0 | 0 7 0 | ... | 3,521 11 10 |
| Westport | ... | 145 0 0 | 24 15 0 | 5 0 0 | | ... | 174 15 0 |
| Total third quarter in 1879 | 4,200 0 0 | 26,368 7 3 | 1,727 0 0 | 260 10 0 | 6 18 6 | 12 2 0 | 32,562 15 9 |
| Total third quarter in 1878 | 3,000 0 0 | 23,776 3 9 | 1,535 17 2 | 219 10 0 | 6 17 6 | 12 2 0 | 28,550 10 5 |

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th October, 1879.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

I, DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15, Session XI., of
the Legislative Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to hear and decide claims to land by persons
claiming title thereto from, through, or under the New Zealand Company, report that the claims of the
under-mentioned persons having been duly referred to me for investigation, I do hereby decide that the
said persons are respectively entitled to Crown grants of the land set against their names in the annexed
Schedule.

New Zealand Company's Land Claimants Office,
Wellington, 20th October, 1879.

DAVID LEWIS,
Commissioner.

SCHEDULE.

No. of Report.	No. of Claim.	Name of Claimant.	Commissioner's Decision.
1,604	1,751	Joseph Lowry	Entitled to a Crown grant of part of Rural Section No. 23, Ohiro District.

The legal estate to be antevested in the grantee, as from the 30th October,
1858. |
| 1,605 | 1,752 | Charles Hight | Entitled to a Crown grant of Section No. 913, in the City of Wellington,
and of Rural Section No. 4, Tukapu District. The legal estate to be
antevested in the said grants, as from the 4th day of February, 1860. |
| 1,606 | 1,753 | Lucy Houghton | Entitled to receive a Crown grant, to be issued in favour of Robert
Houghton, of five acres of land, part of Section No. 11, Hutt District,
being Lot No. 12, on the subdivisional plan of the said section. The
legal estate to be antevested in the grantee, as from the 30th October,
1841. |

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