Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th November, 1859.

SEALED TENDERS will be received at this Office on or before Tuesday, the 20th of December, at noon, from persons desirous of executing, by contract, either of the undermentioned services for the Provincial Government, for the twelve months ending 31st December, 1860.

PRINTING.

Printing the Provincial Government Gazette, and inserting the same in one of the local newspapers.
Printing Official Forms.
Further particulars may be obtained at this Office.

FIREWOOD.

Rata or Manuka, in two feet lengths, delivered and stacked at the office or building requiring the supply.
Separate Tenders will be required for supplying the Wellington Gaol.
The Government or the Contractors will be at liberty to terminate any of the above Contracts, by giving three months notice of their desire to do so:

William Fitzherbert,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1859.

THE “Weights and Measures Ordinance, 1856,” recently proclaimed in force within certain portions of this Province, is published for general information.

William Fitzherbert,
Provincial Secretary.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ORDINANCE.

[Passed the 26th day of October, 1846.]
In the Tenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

SESSION VII. No. X.
[Confirmation notified in “Government Gazette” of New Ulster and New Munster, 10th May, 1848.]

Title.
Preamble.

I.—STANDARDS TO BE ESTABLISHED.

1. Standard Weights and Measures to be established.
2. Copies and Models to be made.
3. And deposited.
4. And verified every 5 years.
5. If destroyed to be replaced.
6. To be accessible to the public for comparison.
7. Fee for comparing.
8. Weights, &c., brought to be compared, to be stamped under certain regulations.
9. Weights not to be made of Lead or Pewter.

II.—TRUE AND STAMPED WEIGHTS, &c., ONLY TO BE USED.
10. Goods not to be sold by false or unstamped Weights, &c.
11. Goods sold by measure to be stricken off.
12. The heaped measure abolished.
13. Articles heretofore sold by heaped measure how to be sold.
14. Ordinance not to apply to sale of medicine, &c.
15. Nor to Her Majesty’s Customs.

III.—INSPECTORS.
16. Inspectors to be appointed.
17. Inspectors to enter into bond.
18. Power to Inspectors to enter into Shops, &c.
19. And to seize false and unstamped Weights, &c.

IV.—PENALTIES.
20. For injuring Copies, &c.
21. For refusing to compare weights.
22. For having in possession false or unstamped Weights.
23. For obstructing Inspectors.
24. For selling by false or unstamped Weights, &c.
25. For selling by heaped measure.
26. Penalties how to be recovered and applied.
27. Governor to appoint and define Towns, &c.
28. Weigh-bridges and Steel-yards may be used &c.

V.—COMMENCEMENT OF ORDINANCE.
29. Commencement of Ordinance.
30. Interpretation.
Schedule.

An Ordinance for establishing Standard Weights and Measures, and for the prevention of the use of such as are false and deficient.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide wide against the use of fraudulent Weights and Measures in the colony of New Zealand, and for that purpose to establish certain Standards by which all other Weights and Measures may be regulated, and to prohibit the use of any other Weights and Measures than such as shall agree with such Standards. And whereas, certain Weights and Measures of the Standard now in force and use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, denominated Imperial Weights and Measures, (a Schedule whereof is hereunto annexed,) are about to be imported into the colony for the purposes of this Ordinance: Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:—

I.—STANDARDS TO BE ESTABLISHED.

Standard Weights and Measures to be established.

1. The several Standard Weights and Measures so to be imported as aforesaid, shall be deposited in some convenient place to be appointed by the Governor, to be therein safely kept, and shall be and are hereby declared to be the Standard Weights and Measures of the colony of New Zealand.

Copies and Models to be made.

2. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to cause Copies and Models of the several Weights and Measures so to be deposited as aforesaid, to be made.