✨ Postage Regulations




cover or in a cover open at the ends, and
there be no writing thereon, or upon the
cover of the same, excepting the name
and address of the person to whom sent,
and that no paper or any thing be en-
closed in or with any such book or parcel
of books; And every such book or parcel
of books which shall be contrary in
any respect to the conditions hereby re-
quired to be observed shall be charged
with the rate of postage to which it
would have been liable as a letter.

And further, I hereby repeal and
abolish the postages established as
aforesaid on Newspapers in so far as

respects Newspapers printed within
the Province of Otago, and such only.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal
of the Province of Otago at
(L.S.) Government House, Dunedin, this Thirty-first
day of December, One Thousand
Eight Hundred and Fifty-seven.

W. Cargill,
Superintendent.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Printed for the Provincial Government by D. Campbell, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.




Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa PDF Otago Provincial Gazette 1857, No 63





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πŸš‚ Proclamation on Local Postage Rates (continued from previous page)

πŸš‚ Transport & Communications
31 December 1857
Postage rates, Books, Newspapers, Otago
  • W. Cargill, Superintendent