✨ Post Office Regulations and Rates
Number 55.
977
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1892.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1892.
Post Office Regulations and Rates of Postage.
GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of July, 1892.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by “The Post Office Act, 1881” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make, alter, and revoke rules and regulations for the managing of the several post-offices, for the receiving, despatching, conveying, and delivering of letters, and, in respect of places beyond the colony, to fix, alter, and abolish the rates of postage payable within the colony for the transmission by post of (inter alia) letters, books, packets, and newspapers to places beyond seas :
And whereas by Order in Council bearing date the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, published in a Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette of the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, certain rules and regulations were made under the said Act: And whereas it is expedient to revoke the said Order in Council and the regulations made thereby respectively, and to make other provision in lieu thereof:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the several regulations made, and abolish the rates of postage prescribed, by the Order in Council hereinbefore recited, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations specified in the Schedule hereto, and doth order and declare that the rates of postage payable within the colony on books, commercial papers, and pattern- and sample-packets for delivery within the colony, and on letters, books, commercial papers, pattern- and sample-packets, and newspapers for transmission to the several places beyond seas respectively mentioned in the Schedule hereto, shall be those specified in such Schedule ; and, with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, His Excellency doth hereby further order and declare that such rates of postage shall in all cases be paid at the time such letters, books, commercial papers, pattern- and sample-packets, and newspapers are delivered into the post-office ; and, further, that this Order in Council shall take effect on and after the nineteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.
SCHEDULE.
Business Hours.
All post-offices are opened for delivery of letters, sale of stamps, receipt and delivery of parcels, and registration of letters, &c., from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on week-days only. Money-order and savings-bank business is transacted at certain offices and hours named at pages 128–129 of the Postal Guide, on week-days only.
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