Mar. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 895

Opawa Road; thence northerly along the easterly side of Opawa Road to Gadd's Road; thence along the southerly and easterly side of Gadd's Road to the Christchurch-Lyttelton Railway-line near Woolston Station; thence by the south-west boundary of the railway land to Opawa Road near the bridge over the Heathcote River; thence by the north-east side of Opawa Road to Martin's Road, the point of commencement: the said area including the full width of the roads forming the boundary thereof: as the same is delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 20630, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Retention of Unclaimed Letters: Shortening Period.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1904.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. McGOWAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section eleven of “The Post Office Act, 1900” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in Council from time to time may make regulations for the receiving, despatching, and delivering of postal packets, and, inter alia, for the detaining and return or other disposal of unclaimed, refused, or rejected postal packets, or such as from any cause whatever cannot be delivered or forwarded, and for the publication of a list of the same: And whereas by Order in Council dated the twelfth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, rules and regulations were made under the authority of “The Post Office Act, 1881,” for the purposes aforesaid, and it is desirable to revoke such regulations and to make others in lieu thereof in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him 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 regulations numbered 276, 279, and 285 in the Schedule to the aforementioned Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth order that such regulations shall have effect on and after the date of their publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

UNCLAIMED AND RETURNED LETTERS, ETC.

276A. At chief offices, and offices where letter-carriers are employed, a dead-letter mail must be made up every Monday morning, to include all letters, letter-cards, and packets posted in the colony which have remained unclaimed for the periods specified in section 285A. Letters, &c., addressed to all other offices must be kept as directed in the same section, and then forwarded to the chief office in the dead-letter envelope, which Chief Postmasters will send out at the close of each month. Dead-letter mails must be sent by Sub-Postmasters to their chief offices, and by Chief Postmasters to the Dead-letter Office, Wellington, in the special bags provided for the purpose, and must be registered.

279A. A list of all letters from places beyond the colony which remain undelivered for periods as follows:—

Addressed to the post-office, or “To be called for,” or to a person residing outside the letter-carriers' deliveries,—

From Australia .. For three weeks from the date of receipt;

From other countries beyond New Zealand For one month from the date of receipt;

Addressed to a specified house for a person who, nevertheless, cannot be found; or addressed to a person who has gone away without leaving an address,—

From Australia .. For two weeks from the date of receipt;

From other countries beyond new Zealand For three weeks from the date of receipt;

must be exhibited at the office to which the letters are addressed, and if the letters, after being so advertised, remain undelivered from the date of receipt for the periods specified in section 285A they are to be marked as in that section directed, and returned in the first dead-letter mail thereafter.

285A. The following table denotes when undelivered letters, letter-cards, and packets are to be sent to the Dead-letter Office, the time at which they are to be so sent, and the reason to be assigned upon each.

Circulars and catalogues from beyond the colony, delivery of which cannot possibly be effected, are to be sent to the Dead-letter Office at the expiration of one clear month from date of receipt.

Undelivered post-cards, circulars, and commercial papers must be returned direct to the senders by Chief Postmasters.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Varying Rules as to Life-saving Appliances for Ships.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1904.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. McGOWAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 56, of the ninth day of the same month, rules were made for the classification of ships and as to life-saving appliances for ships:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 77, of the first