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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 21

Post Office Regulations and Rates of Postage.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of February, 1899.

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 fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, published in a supplement to the New Zealand Gazette of the seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, 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 or any amendments thereof, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations specified in the Schedule hereto, and doth hereby order and declare that the rates of postage payable within the colony on letters, 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 twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

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SCHEDULE.

RATES OF POSTAGE.

Letters.

Town .. .. .. .. .. 1d. for each ½oz. or fraction thereof.
Inland .. .. .. .. .. 2d. for each ½oz. or fraction thereof.
Australian Colonies, and Cook, Ducie, Easter, Fiji, Norfolk, Pitcairn, Samoan, Solomon and Tongan Islands, British New Guinea, New Hebrides* .. .. 2d. for each ½oz. or fraction thereof.
All other places .. .. .. 2½d. for each ½oz. or fraction thereof.

Letter-cards.

Town, Inland, and Australia .. .. 1½d. each.
For the South Sea Islands an additional ½d., and for all other places an additional 1d., stamp to be affixed.

Post-cards.

Town, Inland, Australia, and South Sea Islands .. .. Single, 1d.; reply, 2d.
All other places.. .. .. Single, 1½d.; reply, 3d.

Books and Printed Papers.

†All places .. .. .. .. ½d. for each 2oz. or fraction thereof.

Commercial Papers.

Town .. .. .. .. .. {½d. if not exceeding ½oz., or 1d. for the first 4oz. or fraction thereof, and ½d. for each succeeding 2oz. or fraction thereof.
Inland .. .. .. .. .. {1d. for the first 4oz. or less, and ½d. for each succeeding 2oz. or fraction thereof.
†Australia and all other places .. .. {2½d. for the first 10oz., and ½d. for each succeeding 2oz. or fraction thereof.

Pattern and Sample Packets.

†All places .. .. .. .. {Not exceeding 4oz., 1d.; every additional 2oz. or fraction thereof, ½d.

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• Throughout this Schedule the term “South Sea Islands” means these islands only, unless specially mentioned otherwise. To the other South Sea Islands the postage is 2½d.
  † There are special rates for Queensland, which see under respective headings “Printed Papers,” “Commercial Papers” “Patterns and Samples.”