POSTAL.

Appointments of sundry Postmasters.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 14th May 1862.

In virtue of the powers delegated to me by His Excellency the Governor, the following appointments have been made in the Postal Service of the Colony:

George Ward.

• Southland.

Edward Drury Butts, to be Chief Postmaster at Invercargill.

Chr. F. de Sales O’Toole, to be Postmaster at the Bluff.

Daniel S. Lawlor, to be Postmaster at Riverton. All from 1st March 1862.

(Republished from the New Zealand Gazette, May 22, 1862.)

A PROCLAMATION

Bringing into force certain Regulations touching the carriage of Passengers from New Zealand to other English possessions in Australasia.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey,
Knight, Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the Session held in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth years of Her present Majesty’s reign, intituled “An Act to empower the Governors of the several Australasian Colonies to regulate the number of passengers to be carried in vessels plying between Ports in those Colonies,” it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of each of Her Majesty’s Colonies already or hereafter to be established in Australasia by any Proclamation to be by him from time to time issued for the purpose (which Proclamation shall take effect from the issuing thereof, if no day shall be named therein for the purpose) to prescribe such Rules as he shall think proper for determining the number of passengers to be carried in any passenger ship which shall proceed from any such Colony to any other of Her Majesty’s possessions for the time being in Australasia, and for determining on what deck or decks and subject to what reservations or conditions passengers may be carried, and also to prescribe such penalties for the infraction or non-observance of such Rules as to such Governor may seem proper; and it is also enacted that from the time when any such Proclamation shall take effect, and so long as the same shall continue in force, the rules and enactments contained in “The Passengers’ Act, 1853,” relating to the number of passengers to be carried in any passenger-ship, and the deck or decks whereon they are to be carried, shall cease to apply to any vessel to which such Proclamation shall be applicable, save only as to the recovery and application of any penalty for any offence committed against the said Act before such Proclamation shall take effect.

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the power vested in me by the above recited Act, do issue this my Proclamation to take effect from the 16th day of June, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two; and I do hereby prescribe the Rules hereinafter set forth for determining the number of passengers who may be carried in any passenger-ship which shall proceed from the Colony of New Zealand to any other of Her Majesty’s possessions for the time being in Australasia, and on what deck or decks and under what reservations or conditions passengers may be carried, and the penalties for the infraction or non-observance of such Rules, that is to say:—

A.—SAILING VESSELS.

1. No ship propelled by sails only shall carry a greater number of persons (including every individual on board) than in the proportion of one statute adult to every two tons of her registered tonnage.

2. No ship shall carry under the poop, or in the round-house or deck-house, or on the upper passenger-deck, a greater number of passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twenty clear superficial feet of deck allotted to their use.

3. No ship shall carry on her lower passenger-deck a greater number of passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every fifteen clear superficial feet of deck allotted to their use; provided, nevertheless, that if the height between such lower passenger-deck and the deck immediately above it shall be less than seven feet, or if the apertures (exclusive of side-scuttles) through which light and air shall be admitted together to the lower passenger-deck shall be less in size than in the proportion of three square feet to every one hundred superficial feet of the lower passenger-deck, no greater number of passengers shall be carried on such deck than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twenty-five clear superficial feet thereof.

4. No ship, whatever be her tonnage or superficial space of passenger-decks, shall carry a greater number of passengers on the whole than in the proportion of one statute adult to every twelve superficial feet clear for exercise on the upper deck or poop (if secured, and fitted on the top with railing or guard, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of clearance) on any round-house or deck-house.

5. In the measurement of the passenger-decks, poop, round-house, or deck-house, the space for the hospital and that occupied by such portion of the personal luggage of the passengers as the Emigration Officer may permit to be carried there shall be included.

B.—STEAMERS.

The number of passengers who may be carried on board of any vessel propelled by steam power shall be ascertained and determined in manner following, viz:—

1. Measure in cubic feet the clear space allotted to fore-cabin passengers between decks, and divide the cubic contents by 72.

2. Count the number of sleeping berths exclusively provided for the accommodation of fore-cabin passengers, and add to it the number obtained as above.