THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 105

40. Telegrams of a seditious, libelous, indecent, or
    injurious nature may be refused acceptance and
    transmission by the officer in charge of any Station.
    The utmost care however must be taken in carrying
    out this rule, and in the case of a telegram being
    refused transmission the full circumstances of the
    case must be at once reported by letter to the
    General Manager.

41. The sender or receiver of a telegram, when
    properly identified, may be allowed to see the Station
    copy of such telegram, or to receive a copy or copies
    of such telegram on payment of the tariff rates for
    each copy so required from the officer of the depart-
    ment.

Payment of Receipts and rendering Accounts.

42. All Officers shall give security for the due per-
    formance of their duty in a bond for such amount as
    shall be required according to the trust reposed in
    them; which securities must be approved and the
    bonds executed by the respective parties within three
    months after the notification of their appointments.

43. When an officer hears of the death or bank-
    ruptcy of one of his sureties he is to report the same
    to the General Manager, and to give in the name of
    another person to become surety for him, and it will
    be his imperative duty to transmit annually to the
    Postmaster-General a report as to his sureties being
    alive and solvent.

44. All cash received for the transmission and
    delivery of telegrams shall be entered in a cash book
    provided for the purpose and the officer in charge of
    a Station shall balance up his cash receipts with his
    cash book daily.

Should any excess be found which cannot be
accounted for, it must be paid into the bank with the
ordinary receipts, but should any deficiency occur
full particulars of the case must be immediately
reported to the General Manager and the officer
in charge is bound to use his utmost endeavours to
ascertain the cause of the deficiency and to report
thereon to the General Manager.

45. All cash or moneys received on account of the
    department, whether for the transmission, delivery,
    porterage or postage of telegrams, together with all
    moneys received for Press accounts or from the
    officers of other lines, shall be paid daily into the
    nearest bank or most convenient Sub-Treasury, or as
    otherwise specially directed.

A monthly account current of all moneys re-
ceived and expended, supported by vouchers, and
prepared in such form as shall be directed by the
Postmaster-General, shall be furnished by the officer
in charge, and forwarded to the Auditor of Public
Accounts not later than the fourth day of each
month.

A monthly statement of receipts and expenditure,
in such form as shall be directed by the General
Manager, shall be transmitted to the General
Manager not later than the fourth day of each
month.

No deductions are allowed to be made from the
Station cash receipts, save and except for the pay-
ment of telegrams transmitted on other lines, for the
payment of special porterage, and for the postage of
telegrams, for all which payments duplicate receipts
must be taken, and the original forwarded with the
monthly account-current to the Auditor of Public
Accounts.

46. Forwarded and received abstracts must be kept
    at each Station, and all telegrams must be entered
    daily therein, according to the special instructions
    that will be issued as occasion may require.

These abstracts are to be forwarded to the General
Manager as near weekly as possible by the regular
mails.

Officers must use their utmost endeavours to
furnish their abstracts at least weekly.

47. All telegrams must be sent up to the Chief
    Station at least weekly, where such is practicable;
    but where mails do not leave oftener than every ten
    or fifteen days, the telegrams must be made up with
    the abstracts, and forwarded to the Chief Station up
    to the latest possible date by each mail.

48. The General Manager to furnish quarterly
    returns of stores, showing receipts and expenditure;
    and officers in charge of stations or Stores Depôts
    are required to keep an account of the furniture,
    instruments, materials, tools, and other stores
    belonging to their Stations or Depôts, and to send in
    to the General Manager at the termination of each
    month a return showing what articles have been
    received, sent away, or used during the month, for
    what purposes they were used, when sent away, and
    from whence received, as well as a requisition for any
    articles required for the following month.

49. Officers in charge of Stations or Stores Depôts
    must keep an account of all stationery received, used,
    or sent away, and must forward a return to the
    General Manager at the beginning of each month,
    showing what articles have been used, sent away, or
    received during the previous month, together with a
    requisition for the supply of any articles required
    for the following month.

Officers will be held responsible for keeping their
Stations and Depôts properly supplied with stationery,
and none but the monthly requisitions will be attended
to.

It will be advisable to keep a month's supply of
stationery always on hand, and requisitions must be
made accordingly.

Delivery of Telegrams.

50. Officers' and servants must use their utmost
    endeavours to have all telegrams delivered to the
    person or persons to whom they may be addressed as
    speedily as possible.

51. On the delivery of any telegram, the messenger
    or person delivering such telegram shall take a receipt
    from the person receiving it in or on the form issued
    for that purpose.

52. Should there be nobody at the house, store, or
    locality to which any telegram may be addressed, the
    messenger must leave in the letter-box, or other
    convenient place, a notice stating that a telegram is
    lying at the respective Telegraph Station for the
    person to whom it may be addressed.

The rule is to deliver the telegram if possible.

Public Complaints.

53. All complaints made by the public, whether on
    the conduct of an officer or servant, on the delay or
    non-delivery of telegrams, on over charges, or on any
    other subject, must be made in writing; and any
    officer or servant receiving such written complaints
    is bound to forward them to the General Manager as
    early as possible.

54. All written complaints must be forwarded by
    the first post to the office of the General Manager,
    accompanied by all telegrams, papers, or documents
    that may tend to elucidate or explain the case in point.

55. In cases of interruptions happening on the line
    which may cause serious delay to telegrams, inti-
    mation shall be forwarded to the senders of all
    telegrams on hand in six hours after the occurrence
    of such accident, and notice of delay shall be given to
    all persons presenting telegrams for transmission in
    two hours after the occurrence of accident.

56. Whenever interruptions occur on the lines,
    and telegrams cannot be transmitted to their destina-
    tion by telegraph, a copy must be forwarded to their
    address by the first post.