Numb. 77.

1507

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1890.

Clyde Town Board, County of Wairoa, declared subject to “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887.”

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of December, 1890.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Clyde Town Board, being a leasing authority within the meaning of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), has requested that these presents should issue, and it appears expedient to make the order hereinafter contained:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the Clyde Town Board shall, as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, be subject to the provisions of the said Act.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

New Plymouth High School Board to be subject to the Provisions of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887.”

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of December, 1890.

Present:

The Honourable the Premier presiding in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor, by Order in Council, may from time to time declare that any leasing authority shall be subject to the provisions of the said Act, but that no such order shall have any effect unless it be issued at the request or upon the recommendation of the leasing authority on whose behalf such order is issued:

And whereas it has been made to appear that the New Plymouth High School Board is a leasing authority within the meaning of the said Act, and has requested that it may be brought under the provisions thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said Act, doth hereby order and declare that from and after the date hereof the New Plymouth High School Board shall be subject to the provisions of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887.”

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Transmission of Post-cards to the United Kingdom.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of December, 1890.

Present:

The Honourable E. Mitchelson presiding in Council.

WHEREAS under the provisions of “The Post Office Act, 1889” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), the Postmaster-General of the Colony of New Zealand hath arranged (subject to the issue of this Order in Council) with the Postmaster-General of the United Kingdom that post-cards of the Colony of New Zealand made and issued in the said colony by or under the authority of the Postmaster-General thereof, and bearing, in respect of each card, an impressed stamp denoting the duty of twopence, may be transmitted by means of the Post Office to the United Kingdom; and that, in like manner, post-cards of the United Kingdom, made and issued therein by or under the authority of the Postmaster-General thereof or other lawful authority, and bearing, in respect of each card, an impressed stamp denoting the duty of twopence, may be transmitted by means of the Post Office to the Colony of New Zealand; such post-cards to be so transmitted to and from the Colony of New Zealand and said United Kingdom subject to the provisions of “The Post Office, 1881,” in relation to post-cards sent by post within the Colony of New Zealand: And whereas it has been agreed that the said arrangement shall take effect and become operative on and after the first day of January next: And whereas it is expedient that the consent of the Governor in Council should be given to such proposed arrangements in the manner required by the said Act:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Onslow, the Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby consent to the said arrangements for the reciprocal transmission of post-cards by means of the Post Office to and from the Colony of New Zealand and the United Kingdom, upon and subject to the terms and conditions mentioned and set forth in the said arrangements, and to the conditions herein contained: Provided always that, until suitable post-cards to be used in terms of this Order in Council can be printed, stamped, and made ready for use, and for such time only, it shall be lawful, in transmitting post-cards from New Zealand to the United Kingdom, to use the post-card at present authorised to be used for transmission to the Australian Colonies from New Zealand, termed “the inland and Australian post-card:” Provided an additional postage-stamp denoting the duty of one penny be previously affixed to any such post-card. And it is hereby declared that this Order in Council shall come into force on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.