3898
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 135

2. Postal packets with the postage prepaid in cash shall not be accepted unless a permit has been first obtained. Persons or firms desiring to use permits shall apply to the Postmaster personally, or through a competent representative who is informed as to the matter to be posted and is authorized to act for the applicant.

3. Authority shall be obtained by the Postmaster from the Chief Postmaster, and a permit will then be issued by the Postmaster to the person applying therefor.

4. Postal packets shall be accepted postage-prepaid in cash under the following conditions:—
   (1.) Such packets shall not be addressed to places beyond New Zealand.
   (2.) In the upper right-hand corner of the face or address side of the envelope, wrapper, address label, or tag of each separately addressed packet there shall be printed a statement showing the amount of postage paid for the packet, the word “Paid,” and the name of the post-office where posted, followed by the permit number in the form and within the sizes of type prescribed in the next following paragraph.
   (3.) The face of the type used in printing particulars in the upper right-hand corner of the packet shall be not smaller than 10 point nor larger than 24 point, and the figure representing the amount paid in money shall be not smaller than 14 point or larger than 36 point, and the particulars shall be clear, and not confused with any other matter whatever; no special marks, figures, or other individual designs for its display shall be allowed.

EXAMPLES.

½d. Paid.
Wellington, N.Z.
Permit No. 1.

Form and minimum size of type.

½d. Paid.
Wellington, N.Z.
Permit No. 1.

Form and maximum size of type.

(4.) Persons who wish to use a permit only occasionally may have the imprint made by a rubber stamp.
(5.) The postage rate appropriate to the class of matter posted shall be chargeable upon each package for a separate address however many pieces the package may contain, exactly as if postage were prepaid by affixing adhesive stamps.
(6.) Postage on the entire quantity shall be paid at the time the matter is presented for posting, except that newspapers posted in quantities from newspaper-offices may be accepted from time to time without actual prepayment. In the case of such newspapers an account shall be rendered after the end of each accounting period—viz., on the 1st, 8th, 16th, and 24th days of each month—by the post-office to the newspaper-proprietor of the postage due on the newspapers posted during the periods ended the 7th, 15th, 23rd, and last days of each month. Settlement thereof shall be effected within forty-eight hours, otherwise the concession may be immediately withdrawn.
(7.) To facilitate the handling of such packets in the post-office the sender shall comply with all reasonable requests of the post-office for the separation thereof into districts, cities, towns, &c., and into bundles of fifty, seventy-five, or a hundred, with the addresses all facing the same way and reading from the same position.
(8.) The packets shall be presented at the place designated by the Postmaster in quantities of not less than 240 identical packages or 100 newspapers.
(9.) Each separately addressed open packet in any posting may contain a number of different pieces of the same class, but every package shall contain exactly the same matter—that is, shall be “identical.” This provision shall not, however, apply to letters accepted under these regulations.

5. Envelopes, wrappers, labels, or tags bearing the printed permit number and particulars required shall not be used for matter to be distributed otherwise than through the post-office, and shall not be used for postings at a post-office other than the one named in the permit. Permits shall be revoked in cases of misuse of such envelopes, wrappers, &c.

6. A permit once issued to an applicant shall remain in effect until revoked; but if a permit is not used during a period of twelve months it shall be cancelled, but may be reissued to the same holder.

7. Packets accepted under these provisions and containing intrinsically valueless printed matter will not be date-stamped at the office of posting, and only those not immediately deliverable will be date-stamped at the office of destination. All letters, also other packets intrinsically valuable, must be date-stamped at the time of posting.

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

Regulations relating to the Export of Honey from New Zealand.
—Notice No. 1814.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-second day of November, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS it is provided by section nine of the Apiaries Amendment Act, 1913, that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations for the following purposes, inter alia, viz.:—
(1.) For the inspection, grading, packing, marking, stamping, branding, and labelling of honey; and
(2.) Prohibiting the exportation of honey from New Zealand otherwise than in accordance with such conditions as may be prescribed:

And whereas it is expedient to make regulations for the said purposes accordingly:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him as aforesaid, and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes aforesaid; and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

REGULATIONS.

1. For the purposes of these regulations—
   “Director” means the Director of the Horticulture Division of the Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce.
   “Dominion” means the Dominion of New Zealand, exclusive of the Cook Islands.
   “Owner” means any owner, shipper, or consignor of honey, and includes the agent of any such owner, shipper, or consignor; and also includes, in the case of a company, the managing director, manager, secretary, or other principal officer of the company in New Zealand.

2. No honey shall be exported from the Dominion until it has been graded as hereinafter provided, and until the other provisions of these regulations have been complied with.

3. Honey shall not be exported from the Dominion excepting at the ports of Auckland, Waitara, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, and Dunedin.

4. The following stores are hereby appointed to be the grading-stores for honey at the places indicated opposite each:—

Place. Store.
Auckland .. N.Z. Express Company’s Store.
Wellington .. Wellington Meat Export Company’s Store.
Lyttelton .. Lyttelton Harbour Board’s Store.
Timaru .. Timaru Cold Stores and Ice Company’s Store.
Dunedin .. Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce’s Store, Railway Yards.

5. (1.) The owner of honey intended for export shall forward it to one of the appointed grading-stores not less than seven days before shipment.
   (2.) He shall at the same time give to the Grader at the grading-store to which the honey has been sent an advice-note in the form set out in the First Schedule hereto or to the effect thereof.
   (3.) Where there is any noticeable difference in the class or standard of honey forwarded to an appointed grading-