Numb. 30. 487

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1891.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1891.

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED AND THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL OF NEW ZEALAND.

Articles of Agreement made and entered into
this fourteenth day of April, 1891, between the
Honourable Joseph George Ward, the Post-
master-General of the Colony of New Zealand, ap-
pointed under the provisions of "The Post Office
Act, 1881," and acting for and behalf of the Go-
vernment of the said colony, of the one part, and
The New Zealand Shipping Company Limited,
carrying on business at Christchurch, in the said
colony (hereinafter referred to as "the com-
pany"), of the other part: Witness that, for
the consideration herein set forth, the company
doth, for itself, its successors and assigns, hereby
covenant with the said Postmaster-General and
his successors; and the said Postmaster-General,
on behalf of himself and his successors and of the
Government of the said colony, doth hereby
covenant with the company and its successors,
in manner following, that is to say,—

1. In the construction of these presents the follow-
   ing words and expressions shall, unless inconsistent
   with the context, have the meanings hereby assigned
   to them:—

"Postmaster-General" means the Postmaster-
General for the time being of the Colony
of New Zealand, and includes also any
member of the Executive Council of the
colony acting for and on behalf of the
Postmaster-General:

"Company" means the New Zealand Shipping
Company Limited, and includes its suc-
cessors and assigns:

"Mails" include all boxes, bags, or packets
of letters, newspapers, or printed papers,
patterns, and all other articles transmis-
sible by means of the Post Office, without

regard either to the place to which they
may be addressed or to that in which they
may have originated, and also all empty
bags, empty boxes, and other stores and
articles used or to be used in carrying on
the Post Office service:

"Mail" means the aggregate of mails trans-
mitted at any one time by any of the
vessels for the time being employed in the
mail service under this contract:

"Hours" mean hours calculated according to
Greenwich time:

"Master" includes any officer for the time
being having command or charge of any
steam-vessel employed in performing this
contract.

2. The company shall from time to time, and at
   all times hereafter during a period of twelve calen-
   dar months computed from the eleventh day of
   December, 1890 (unless previously terminated in
   pursuance of the provision for that purpose herein-
   after contained), convey all Her Majesty's mails,
   and all other mails of whatever country or place
   which the Postmaster-General shall at any time
   and from time to time require the company to con-
   vey, from and to the Port of Plymouth, in England,
   and either of the Ports of Auckland, Wellington,
   Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, or Bluff, in New Zea-
   land, and any port or ports intermediate between
   Plymouth and New Zealand at which the steam-
   vessels hereinafter mentioned may call, as herein-
   after provided, or of any such ports, within the
   times and in the manner provided for.

3. So long as the whole or any part of the ser-
   vices hereby agreed to be performed in pursuance
   of this contract ought to be performed, the company