Num. 72.

1087

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1891.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1891.

Transmission of Postal-cards.

ONSLow, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of September, 1891.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS under the provisions of “The Post Office Act, 1889” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), an Order in Council was issued on the twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-fourth day of the same month, approving of certain arrangements for the transmission of post-cards between the Colony of New Zealand and the United Kingdom:

And whereas it is desirable to revoke the said Order in Council, and to make other provision in lieu thereof: And whereas, under the provisions of 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 and the Director-General of Posts, Berne, having the control of all business arrangements connected with the Universal Postal Union, 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 one penny halfpenny for each single card, and, in respect of each reply-card, impressed stamps denoting the duty of threepence, may be transmitted by means of the Post Office to the United Kingdom and to the several other countries comprised within the Postal Union, as enumerated in the Schedule hereto; and that in like manner post-cards of the United Kingdom and of the several said other Postal Union countries, made and issued therein, by or under the authority of the Postmaster-General thereof, respectively, or other lawful authority, and bearing, in respect of each card, an impressed stamp denoting the duty of one penny halfpenny for each single card, and, in respect of each reply card, impressed stamps denoting the duty of threepence, 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 Act, 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 October 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 and the several Postal Union countries aforesaid, upon and subject