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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 109

Immigration and Emigration Returns.

RETURN of Immigration to and Emigration from the Colony of New Zealand during the Month of November, 1906, showing the Places from which Persons arrived and to which they departed, and the Ports of Arrival and Departure.

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES FROM AND TO DIFFERENT PLACES.

• From Cape Colony, 148; Norfolk Island, 37.
  † From Friendly Islands, 12; Navigators, 15; Society Islands, 15; Sandwich Islands, 4.
  ‡ For Friendly Islands, 5; Navigators, 3; Society Islands, 4.
  § From United States of America.
  ∥ For United States of America, 45; Monte Video, 20.

ARRIVALS AT AND DEPARTURES FROM DIFFERENT NEW ZEALAND PORTS.*

CHINESE.—Arrivals—At Auckland, 3; Wellington, 18. Departures—From Auckland, 3; Wellington, 15.

• It is important to mention that, in the returns from which this table is made up, immigrants to the colony are all counted at the first port of arrival, and emigrants at the final port of departure.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1906.

Abolition of Franking.

ON and after the 1st January, 1907, Government and public-service letters, packets, and telegrams shall be prepaid in stamps, with the following exceptions:—

(a.) Letters, packets, and telegrams from His Excellency the Governor;

(b.) Letters, packets, and telegrams from any of His Majesty’s Ministers;

(c.) Addresses and petitions to Parliament, marked as such, provided the said addresses and petitions do not exceed 2lb. in weight, and are forwarded without covers, or in covers open at the ends.

2. Letters and packets forwarded by or on behalf of His Excellency the Governor or any of His Majesty’s Ministers shall be enclosed in covers imprinted or marked “Official, Paid, Government House,” or “Official, Paid, [Name of the Minister’s office]”; or franked by the signature, or a facsimile thereof, of His Excellency, or the Minister, or of any officer to be designated by him. Telegrams shall be similarly marked in the space provided for “Instructions.” The envelope superscribed “Telegram for Transmission,” or any other envelope used for enclosing telegrams, shall be marked as in the case of letters and packets.

3. All other Government letters, packets, and telegrams, and public-service letters, packets, and telegrams from local bodies heretofore authorised to frank, and from the Bank of New Zealand, shall be paid for by means of postage-stamps to be affixed to the letters and packets before posting or to telegrams before presentation. But Government Departments posting more than one hundred pieces of mail matter at one time may, by arrangement with the Post Office, hand such letters, &c., unstamped, over to a responsible postal officer, together with a certificate of posting. All mail matter shall be paid for at the following rates: Letters, each, 1d. for each 4 oz. or less; printed matter, ½d. for each 2 oz. or less; and shall be stamped by the Post Office with a stamp bearing the words “Official, Paid,” and such stamping shall entitle the mail matter to delivery without surcharge. An account for the postage due on such matter to be rendered by the Postmaster, and the amount due paid by means of “Official” stamps or cash.

4. Postage-stamps to be used by Government Departments shall bear the overprint “Official,” and shall be distributed, under existing Stamp Office regulations, to Chief Postmasters, who in turn will supply on a voucher signed by the permanent head or local head of the Department requiring the stamps. Stamps so supplied by the Post and Telegraph Department shall be paid for at Wellington by the Departments concerned.