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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95

Declaring the Waihi-Akitio Road, in Akitio County, to be a County Road.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland, this tenth day of December, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the road known as the Waihi-Akitio Road, described in the Schedule hereto, shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that road in the Wellington Land District, commencing at its junction with the Waihi Road, at the south-western corner of Section 4B, Block II., Mount Cerberus Survey District; proceeding thence generally westerly to its junction with the Alfredton-Weber Road, opposite the south-eastern boundary of Section 13A, Block III., Mount Cerberus Survey District, in the Akitio County: as the same is delineated on the plan marked R. 5161², deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, coloured green and marked I.J. thereon.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring the Mangahua Road, Akitio County, to be a County Road.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland, this tenth day of December, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the Mangahua Road, described in the Schedule hereto, shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that road in the Wellington Land District, commencing at its junction with the Pongaroa-Aohanga Road at peg marked CXC. on the southern side of the Aohanga River, in Section 1, Mataikona Native Reserve, Block XII., Aohanga Survey District, and proceeding thence generally northerly until it crosses the said river, and from thence generally in a northerly direction to its junction with the Akitio River Road in Section 100, Block XI., Mount Cerberus Survey District, the whole of the said road being in the county known as the Akitio County; as the same road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 5161, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and coloured brown and marked A.B. thereon.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring the Road known as McLeod’s Road, Akitio County, to be a County Road.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland, this tenth day of December, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the road known as McLeod’s Road, described in the Schedule hereto, shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a county road.

SCHEDULE.

McLeod’s Road.

ALL that road in the Wellington Land District, commencing at its junction with the Easdale Road, in Sections 164 and 165, Block VII., Mount Cerberus Survey District, and proceeding thence generally in a westerly direction until it junctions with the Northern Road, in Section 212, Block VII., Mount Cerberus Survey District, in the Akitio County; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 5161A, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, coloured brown, and marked A.B. thereon.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Postal Regulations and Rates of Postage.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland, this tenth day of December, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, by Order in Council dated the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the third day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, rules and regulations were made and rates of postage fixed under the authority of “The Post Office Act, 1900” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), 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 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 aforesaid Order 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 aforesaid Order in Council of the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and two, and the rules, regulations, and rates of postage thereby prescribed respectively, 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 or prior to the time such letters, books, commercial papers, pattern and sample packets, and newspapers are delivered into the post-office, except where otherwise specially provided; and, further, that this Order in Council shall take effect on and after the date of its first publication in the New Zealand Gazette.