THE PUBLIC SEAL.
The original public seal of New Zealand was presented to the Colony by the Queen, and was presented along with the Royal Charter, which accompanied the Constitution Act of 1852. The seal is made of silver, and was intended to make impressions in wax, as was then customary. As the process of sealing docu* ments is now entirely changed, the impression being embossed upon the parch* ment or paper without the use of either wax or wafers, it has been at last decided to obtain a new Colonial seal suitable foe the purpose. A steel die and matrix with a screw press was necessary. The total cost of the new seal was £9O 6s. The first communication upon the subject was a despatch from Sir Hercules Robinson to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach in 1880. A despatch dated March 17, 1881, announces that the new seal has been forwarded* with a request that the old one niay'ba^'
returned in order to be defaced, and enclosing Royal warrant far its uses. Upon being defaced the old silver seal is to be returned, and will, we suppose, be preserved as an heirloom.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 550, 9 July 1881, Page 2
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191THE PUBLIC SEAL. Temuka Leader, Issue 550, 9 July 1881, Page 2
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