New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 51

Page 1672

✨ Legislative Orders



  1. All moneys which in New Zealand would be payable into or out of the Post Office Account shall in Samoa be paid into or out of the Samoan Treasury on behalf of of the Post Office Account, anything to the contrary in the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, notwithstanding; and a Debtor and Creditor Account shall at all times be kept as between the Samoan Treasury and the Post Office Account accordingly.

  2. At the end of every month the balance of all moneys in the Samoan Treasury representing deposits in the Samoan Post Office Savings-bank, and in excess of two thousand pounds, shall be paid out of the Samoan Treasury into the Post Office Account for investment or other disposition in accordance with the laws in force in New Zealand with reference to that account.

  3. Special postage stamps or revenue stamps or postage and revenue stamps for use in Samoa shall be created in accordance with the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, the Stamp Duties Act, 1908, or other Acts for the time being in force in New Zealand with respect to stamps, at the cost of the Samoan Treasury.

  4. Electric lines, radiograph stations, and all buildings and public works required in Samoa for the purposes of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, shall be provided and controlled by the Administrator at the cost of the Samoan Treasury, and not otherwise, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in that Act.

  5. The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, shall have no application to any system of telephonic communication which may be established by the Administrator in Samoa.

  6. All powers conferred on a Magistrate by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, may in Samoa be exercised by the High Court.

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

THE SAMOA IMMIGRATION ORDER, 1920.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this first day of April, 1920.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Territory of Western Samoa conferred upon him by the Western Samoa Order in Council, 1920, made by His Majesty on the eleventh day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty, under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, doth hereby order as follows:—

  1. This Order may be cited as the Samoa Immigration Order, 1920, and shall come into operation in Western Samoa on the same day as the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920.

  2. (1.) Save with the authority of the Administrator, no person (other than a child under the age of fourteen years) shall land in Samoa from any place beyond the seas unless and until he has made and delivered to an officer of Customs or of police a declaration in the form in the Schedule hereto.

(2.) A person arriving in Samoa as the master or a member of the crew of any vessel, or as a passenger in the course of his journey by that vessel to any place beyond Samoa, shall not be deemed to have



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🌏 Samoa Post and Telegraph Order, 1920 (continued from previous page)

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
1 April 1920
Post, Telegraph, Samoa, Legislation, Order in Council
  • F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council

🌏 Samoa Immigration Order, 1920

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
1 April 1920
Immigration, Samoa, Legislation, Order in Council
  • Liverpool, Governor-General
  • The Right Honourable W. F. Massey, P.C., Presiding in Council