THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 79

22. No person other than a Postmaster
    shall, unless specially licensed thereto by
    the Postmaster-General, sell Postage Labels,
    under a Penalty of Ten Pounds (£.0).
23. Country Postmasters and Licensed
    Stamp Sellers will receive their supplies of
    Postage Labels from the Chief Office of the
    District, and must pay for the same on delivery
    or by remittance accompanying their requisi-
    tion; a poundage of five per cent. on the value
    will be allowed to them in reduction of the
    purchase money.
24. No information must be given respecting
    Letters which pass through the Post Office,
    excepting to the persons to whom they are
    addressed.
25. Any Post Officer who shall receive in
    any form a reward or gratuity for affording
    preferential advantages in the delivery or
    posting of Letters, and any Post Officer cog-
    nizant of such practice who shall connive at or
    fail at once to report the same, shall be liable
    to a fine not exceeding Ten Pounds (£10) and
    may in addition, should it appear necessary, be
    summarily dismissed.
26. Every Chief Postmaster must transmit
    to the Postmaster-General at the end of every
    quarter a full Report on the efficiency of the
    Post Offices within his district, and shall
    furnish, in addition to the quarterly accounts—
27. A Report of Letters opened within the
    District for the purpose of discovering
    the writers;
28. A List of Unclaimed, Returned, or
    otherwise Undelivered Letters;
29. An Account of the Number of Letters
    and Packets transmitted free of Post-
    age, distinguishing between those on
    Naval and Military Service, and those
    on the Public Service of the Colony;
30. A statement of any infringement of the
    Law or of these Regulations, which
    may have come under the Postmaster's
    observation;
31. A return of any persons, not actually in
    the service nor duly authorised on the
    business of the Department, who may
    have been admitted into any Post Office,
    and an account of the circumstances;
32. Generally, a statement of any occur-
    rences which the Postmaster may deem
    worthy of special mention.
    Should there be no such particulars to record
    under any or all of these heads, a blank form
    of Report shall nevertheless be signed and
    sent.
33. Any Postmaster, on receiving notice of
    a Mail being missing, lost, or stolen, must
    immediately report the same to the Chief Post-
    master, and to the Police authorities of the
    District; and the Despatching Postmaster must
    as soon as practicable forward copies of the
    Letter Bills, together with a list of the Regis-
    tered Letters, if any, and other information as
    to the contents of the Mail, and a description
    of the Package and conveyance; so as to afford
    every means of tracing the missing Mail. The
    Chief Postmaster must report all the circum-
    stances of the case to the Postmaster-General
    without delay.
34. Postage labels shall in no case be affixed
    by any Post Officer on duty to any Letter,
    Newspaper, or Packet received at a Post Office
    for despatch.

DESPATCH AND RECEIPT OF MAILS--ACCOUNTS.
29. All Letters, Packets, and Newspapers,
except such as are by law free of Postage, must
be pre-paid in Postage Labels.
30. All letters receives into any Post Office
are to be carefully assorted, each description
being, before despatch, tied in separate bundles.
31. Postmasters are carefully to stamp or
mark as required Letters posted at, or passing
through, their Offices :—

1. All Letters with the Daily Date Stamp;
2. The label on every letter to be marked
   with the obliterating stamp;
3. Every Letter, posted too late for the
   Mail of the day of which it bears the
   date stamp, to be marked in Red Ink,
   either in writing, or by Stamp, with
   the words "Too Late."
4. Should a Postmaster omit to use the
   "Too Late" Mark, the Date Stamp will be
   regarded as evidence that the Letter was in
   time for the Post of the date given.
5. No Postmaster shall be required to
   receive any letter, if it exceed two feet in
   length, or one foot in width or depth, or three
   pounds in weight.
6. No Letter or Packet intended for
   transmission by Post may contain glass in any
   form, nor any cutlery or sharp instrument,
   nor any fish, meat, fruit, or vegetables,
   nor any bladder or vessel containing liquids,
   nor any gunpowder or lucifer matches, nor
   anything which is explosive or combustible, or
   likely to injure the contents of the Mail-bag
   or the person of any Officer of the Post Office.
7. Postmasters must be careful not to
   deliver a Letter to any other than the person
   addressed, without a written order from that
   person,—nor even to the writer, except on a
   written order of the Postmaster-General, or in
   cases hereinafter specially provided for; and,
   should any unauthorized person obtain posses-
   sion of a Letter not addressed to him, the
   Postmaster who allowed of the delivery will be
   held responsible for the neglect.
8. Should a Letter intended for one person
   be (notwithstanding every precaution) delivered
   to another, and opened by the wrong person,
   the name of the person by whom it has been
   opened, and the reason why it was opened,
   must be written upon it; the Letter re-sealed,
   and a Report made on the subject to the Post-
   master-General.
9. When Letters or Packets are mis-sent
   to any office the words "Mis-sent to [name
   of place]" must be written on the face of
   each, and the dated stamp of the office affixed
   immediately after. Such Letters or Parcels
   must then be carefully forwarded to their pro-
   per destination by the first post.
10. Any Letter, Newspaper, or Packet