Original Official New Zealand Documents

This is in three parts:

a) Acts relating to the early New Zealand Post Office
b) New Zealand Gazettes relating to early postal rates
c) Postal Guides.

They can be viewed online or downloaded by clicking on the links below.

New Zealand Post Office Acts

• Postal Services Act 1858.
• Post Office Acts Amendments 1870.
• US-NZ Postal Convention 1870.
• Stamp Act 1875.
• Post Office Act 1881.
• Stamp Act 1882.
• Foreign Parcels Act 1888.
• Post Office Acts Amendments 1891.
• Post Office Act 1900.

New Zealand Gazettes relating to early postal rates

The New Zealand Gazettes were published each Thursday.

• Gazette 1867 no 41 July 1867 p299-315 – PO Regulations
• Gazette 1873 no 73 December 1873 p728 – Reduction of Postage Rates on letters for Australia and Tasmania
• Gazette 1886 No23 April 15 pp475-8
  gives Rules and Regulations for the conveyance of Circulars, Patterns, Samples, Packets, Books, Magazines
  and Newspapers.
• Gazette 1889 No58 October 3 p1025
  describes the 3d registration fee.
• Gazette 1889 No66 November 28 pp1205-1207 gives rates of postage
  for places beyond New Zealand
• Gazette 1889 No69 December 5 pp1311-1318 gives regulations for Foreign
  Parcels to other places than the United Kingdom.
• Gazette 1891 No72 October 1 pp1087-1104 describes UPU regulations
  and gives postage rates.
• Gazette 1892 No55 July 7 pp977-992
  gives revised postage rates.
• Gazette 1892 No62 August 5 pp1123-4
  gives newspaper postage rates.
• Gazette 1892 No64 August 1892 pp 1149-1150-Regulations for parcels to Queensland
• Gazette 1893 No29 April 20 pp488-98
  gives amended parcel rates.
• Gazette 1894 No85 November 1894 p85 Revised Postage Rates for Newspapers .
• Gazette 1896 no 13 February 1896 pp272-275 Transmission of Printed and Commercial Papers .
• Gazette 1897 no 11 January 1897 p 247 Parcel post to the UK, reduced rates of postage .
• Gazette 1897 No 28 March 1897 p738 Additional regulations for posting letters on trains at Flag Stations and Railway Sidings .
• 1899 No 21 March 1899 pp541-570 Postal Office Regulations and Rates of Postage
• Gazette 1901 No3 January 9 pp19-51
  gives the Post Office Regulations and Rates of Postage after the accession to the UPU.
• Business Reply_Gazette No 16_5 March 1931
• New Zealand Airmail Gazette October 1935

New Zealand Gazettes relating to New Stamp Issues

• Gazette 1873 no 73 December 1873 p728 – New Issue of Stamps (First Sideface issue)
• Gazette 1898 No 24 April 1898 pp 596-597 New Issue of Stamps (1898 Pictorials)
• Gazette 1899 No 86 October 1899 p1932 Postage Due Stamps

Postal Guides & Rules

The Postal and Telegraph Guides were published quarterly.

The scanning of the Guides currently to October 1890 (No 68) has been undertaken by NZ Post Volunteer Researcher Andrew McNiven.

They are now listed on a new page

The 1922 ‘Rules and Regulations’ of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department have been published on the
King George VI New Zealand website at the bottom of their Topics & Research page.

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