THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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SCHEDULE.

1. From and after the first day of March,
   1859, all regulations which may be now in
   force for the guidance of Postmasters, or for
   the management of Post Offices, are hereby
   cancelled and annulled.

2. There shall be seven Post Office Districts
   in New Zealand, conterminous with the seven
   Provinces respectively into which the Colony
   is divided.

3. There shall be in each of these Districts
   a Chief Postmaster, whose duty it shall be
   generally to superintend the Postal arrange-
   ment in his District, and through whom the
   other Postmasters will correspond with the
   Postmaster-General.

4. The following shall be the Chief Post-
   masters in their respective Districts, the Post-
   master at Auckland, the Postmaster at New
   Plymouth, the Postmaster at Napier, the
   Postmaster at Wellington, the Postmaster at
   Nelson, the Postmaster at Lyttelton, the Post-
   master at Dunedin.

5. For the purposes of these regulations
   there shall be two denominations of Post Offices
   in each district.

6. The chief Post Office, being the Office
   of the Chief Postmaster.

7. The several Post Offices, mentioned in
   Schedule A to these Regulations.

8. All persons employed in the Post Office
   department are required to make themselves
   thoroughly acquainted with the "New Zealand
   Post Office Act, 1858," and as far as in them
   lies to see that it is duly carried into effect. In
   matters not specially provided for in the said
   Act, they will be guided by these or any sub-
   sequent Regulations or instructions issued under
   the said Act.

9. Every Postmaster or other Post Officer
   who may be appointed to any Office in the
   Post Office department must be careful, be-
   fore entering upon the duties of his office, to
   make the declaration required by the said Act.

10. No person not actually in the service of
    the Post Office Department, shall be admitted
    into the interior of any Post Office building,
    and any Postmaster or any other Post-officer
    allowing or conniving at the infringement of
    this Rule, shall be liable to a penalty of five
    pounds on account of every person so admitted.
    This rule however, shall not apply to the mem-
    bers of the Executive Council, the Postmaster-
    General, or any person specially authorised by the
    Postmaster on the business of the Department;
    provided, however, that a record be kept of the
    occurrence of such exceptional cases, and a re-
    port thereof made in the Quarterly Return, as
    hereinafter mentioned, to the Postmaster-Gene-
    ral, detailing at length the circumstances of
    the case.

11. Every Post Office shall be open to the
    Public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on all week days,
    except when an Office is required to be closed for
    the sorting or despatch of a mail, and for one
    hour on any Sunday or Holiday when a Foreign
    Mail, or a Mail by Steamer, has been received
    on that day or too late for delivery on the
    preceding day.

12. The Postmaster-General may however
    by special instructions addressed to any Post-
    master alter these hours as regards any partic-
    ular Post Office or Post Offices-should the
    circumstances of any particular Post Office
    seem to require it. And it shall be competent
    for any Postmaster to require the attendance
    of all or any of the persons employed in his
    office, at any time for the sorting, delivery, or
    despatch of mails.

13. The following days shall be Post Office
    Holidays, viz:-Christmas Day, New Year's
    Day, Good Friday, and the Queen's Birthday.

14. The words "Post Office" in large and
    conspicuous characters must be exhibited out-
    side every Post Office.

15. A letter box for the receipt of letters
    not subject to prepayment, and of letters pre-
    paid by Postage labels, must be fixed in a con-
    venient and accessible situation, and the words
    "Letter Box" placed on or over it in plain
    characters. Its construction must be such as
    to provide for the security of the letters.

16. Tables of Postage rates, notices
    of the despatch of mails, the times of the
    arrival and departure of mails, and the lists
    of unclaimed letters, and other Post Office
    notices requiring publication, shall be exhibi-
    ted in some convenient place outside every
    Post Office.

17. The Postmaster at every Chief Post
    Office must transmit, at the end of every quarter,
    a full report on the efficiency of the Post Offices
    within his district-such report shall contain
    the following particulars-

18. An account of every mail made up for
    places out of the Colony, specifying the
    date of despatch, the destination, the
    vessel by which despatched, the weight
    of the mail in bulk, and the numbers of
    letters and papers.

19. A report of letters opened within the
    district for the purpose of discovering
    the writers.

20. A list of unclaimed, returned, or other-
    wise undelivered letters.

21. A statement of any infringement of
    the law or of these Regulations, which
    may have come under the Postmaster's
    observation.

22. A return of any unauthorised persons
    who may have been admitted into any
    Post Office, and an account of the cir-
    cumstances.

23. Generally a statement of any occurren-
    ces which the Postmaster may deem
    worthy of sqecial mention, and should
    there be no such particulars to record
    under any or all these heads, a blank
    form of report shall, nevertheless, be
    signed and sent.

24. Every vacancy, by whatever cause oc-
    curring, in situations in any Post Office, must
    be reported by first post to the Postmaster-
    General, with a statement of the cause of the
    vacancy, the salary and duties, with such other
    observations as the case may require.

25. Should a protracted continuance of such
    vacancy be calculated to cause serious inconve.