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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79.

Fisheries Officer, Nelson Acclimatisation District, appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th October, 1891.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 9 of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,”

GEORGE SILCOCK,

of Brightwater, Nelson, Farmer, has been appointed an Officer for the purposes of that Act within the Counties of Waimea and Collingwood, and the boroughs and town districts therein.

A. J. CADMAN,
For the Minister having charge of the Marine Department.

Licensed Interpreter appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 17th October, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

SAMUEL COOK

of Otaki, to act as a Licensed Interpreter. License to take effect from the 10th October.

A. J. CADMAN.
Native Minister.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

The COMMISSIONER of TAXES and
The DEPUTY COMMISSIONER of TAXES

to frank and receive letters and parcels, and frank telegrams, on the public service.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

The CHIEF CLERK, LAND- and INCOME-TAX DEPARTMENT,

to frank letters, telegrams, and parcels on the public service.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

The CLERKS of the RESIDENT MAGISTRATES’ COURTS

to frank letters and parcels on the public service.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

Despatch. — Transmitting “The Mail Ships Act, 1891” (Imperial).

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th October, 1891.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 12th August, 1891.

MY LORD,—With reference to my circular despatch of the 9th of May last, I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the colony under your Government, a copy of the Imperial Act, 54 and 55 Vict., cap. 31, “to enable Her Majesty in Council to carry into effect conventions which may be made with foreign countries respecting ships engaged in postal service.”

I have, &c.,

KNUTSFORD.

The Officer Administering the Government of
New Zealand.

CHAPTER 31.

An Act to enable Her Majesty in Council to carry into effect Conventions which may be made with Foreign Countries respecting Ships engaged in Postal Service.

[21st July, 1891.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Application of Act by Order in Council.

1. (1.) Where Her Majesty the Queen has made a convention with a foreign State respecting the postal service between such foreign State and the United Kingdom, or respecting the privileges of mail-ships, that is to say, ships engaged in any postal service of such foreign State or of any part of Her Majesty’s dominions, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council to order that this Act shall, and this Act shall accordingly, subject to any conditions, exceptions, and qualifications contained in the order, apply, during the continuance of the order, as regards such convention and foreign State, and the postal service and mail-ships described in the convention; and where by virtue of any such order this Act or any section thereof applies as regards any convention, foreign State, postal service, or mail-ship, the same is in this Act referred to as a convention, foreign State, postal service, or mail-ship to which this Act or section applies.

(2.) The order shall recite or embody the terms of the convention, and may be varied or revoked by Order in Council, but shall not continue in force for any longer period than the convention.

(3.) Every Order in Council under this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament forthwith after it is made, or, if Parliament be not then sitting, after the then next meeting of Parliament, and shall also be notified in the London Gazette and published under the authority of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

Conveyance of letters by crew or passengers of mail-ships forbidden.

2. (1.) Where this section applies to a convention with a foreign State, the master of a British mail-ship to which this section applies when carrying mails to or from any port of the foreign State, and the master of a mail-ship of the foreign State to which this section applies when carrying mails to or from any port of the United Kingdom, shall not, nor shall any person on board the ship, whether a passenger or belonging to the ship or any other person, convey in the ship for delivery to another person in the foreign State or United Kingdom, as the case may be, any letter, other than the letters contained in mail-bags intrusted to the master by a postal officer of the United Kingdom or of any foreign State, or than the despatches sent by the Government either of the United Kingdom or of any foreign State.

(2.) If a person on board such ship acts in contravention of this section, or refuses or fails on demand to give up to a postal officer, or, if such person is not the master, to the master, any letter so conveyed by him, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(3.) It shall be the duty of the master of the ship to secure the observance of this section by all persons on board the ship, and to inform the proper authorities at the port at which the ship arrives of any breach of this section by any of those persons, and if he wilfully fails to perform that duty he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(4.) Provided that a person shall not be liable under this section to a fine for any offence for which he has been punished by the law of the foreign State.

(5.) Nothing in this section shall apply to any letters which if sent from the United Kingdom would be exempted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster-General under the Act of the session of the seventh year of King William the Fourth and the first of Her present Majesty, chapter thirty-three, intituled “An Act for the Management of the Post Office.”

Regulation as to giving of security for ships engaged in postal service.

3. (1.) Where the owner of any ships, British or foreign, applies to the High Court in England, and

(a.) Produces a certificate of a Secretary of State that such owner is subsidised for the execution of any postal service within the meaning of a convention with a foreign State to which this Act applies, by reason of receiving from the foreign State, or from the Government of the United Kingdom or of a British possession, a bonâ fide subsidy for the postal service mentioned in the certificate, and

(b.) Produces sufficient evidence of the nature of the said service and the number of and the prescribed particulars respecting the ships engaged therein, and

(c.) Gives notice of the application to the Board of Trade,