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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1901.

Post Office Regulations and Rates of Postage.

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

JAMES PRENDERGAST.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the General Post Office, at Wellington, this first day of January, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and also by an amending Order in Council dated the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the seventeenth day of May then instant, rules and regulations were made and rates of postage fixed under the authority of “The Post Office Act, 1881,” for the transmission of letters, books, packets, and newspapers through the post for places within New Zealand and beyond seas :

And whereas by section eleven of “The Post Office Act, 1900” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is prescribed that the Governor in Council, from time to time, may make regulations for the managing of post-offices and the conduct of business therein, and for the receiving, despatching, conveying, and delivering of postal packets (including the imposition of fees for private boxes, bags, or deliveries), for the insurance of registered postal packets, for the registration of newspapers, for the making, custody, sale, and use of special postage-stamps for the payment of postal charges, for licensing persons to sell postage-stamps, and for the several other purposes in such section set forth: And whereas by section seventeen of the said Act it is prescribed that the postage and other charges payable within New Zealand upon postal packets posted within New Zealand for delivery within or transmission beyond New Zealand shall be levied according to such respective scales and at such respective rates as are fixed from time to time by the Governor in Council: And whereas it is expedient to revoke the hereinbefore-recited Orders in Council, and in lieu thereof to make the rules and regulations and fix the rates of postage hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the hereinbefore-recited Orders in Council of the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred, respectively, and the rules, regulations, and rates of postage thereby prescribed, 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, pattern and sample packets, and newspapers, for transmission to the several places within the colony and beyond seas respectively mentioned in the Schedule hereto, shall be those specified in such Schedule; and 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 date hereof, to wit, the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one.

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