✨ Continuation of Postal Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
unpaid, the letters must be taxed with double the
late fee or postage, as the case may be. Letters,
for places beyond the Colony, found in these
boxes without the late fee must be detained until
the following despatch.
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Postmasters at ports where mail steamers
call must be careful to have the receiving boxes
on board these steamers cleared at the time the
mails are taken delivery of. Officers neglecting
this duty, besides being punished, will incur the
serious displeasure of the Postmaster-General. -
Each Postmaster must render a quarterly
Return, and account to the Secretary for all fines
inflicted on officers in his department under these
regulations. The amount of such fines will be
invested by the Secretary for the purpose of
forming a fund for rendering pecuniary assistance,
when necessary, to deserving officers in cases of
sickness or accidents. Application for such
assistance to be made to the Postmaster-General
through the Chief Postmaster, who will state full
particulars of the case, and whether the assistance
asked is necessary, and the applicant deserving. -
Postmasters must keep an account, and
render a return quarterly, of the number, weight,
and value of postage on correspondence posted in
their departments, franked for exemption from
prepayment of postage, in accordance with the
forms furnished. Every Postmaster is provided,
for his guidance, with a list of persons authorized
to frank letters "on Public Service only." -
A Postmaster must be strictly guided by
these rules, and as they ought to be carefully
perused, the plea of ignorance must not be offered
as an excuse for not observing them. When an
instruction is received altering or cancelling any of
these rules, the Postmaster must write in the
margin opposite such rule the word "altered"
or "cancelled," as the case may be, together
with the date and number of the official circular
in which the change is announced. -
Every Sub-Postmaster is furnished with
a book of Sub-Office Regulations; and each Chief
Postmaster should have a copy of it for his
guidance, and to enable him to call the attention
of the Sub-Postmaster to any breach of the rules.
Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.
NZ Gazette 1867, No 41
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Continuation of Post Office Regulations: Rules 212-216 regarding mail handling and Postmaster duties
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🚂 Transport & Communications16 July 1867
Postal regulations, Postmasters, Fines, Sickness fund, Franking, Sub-Office Regulations
- Postmaster-General
- George Didsbury, Government Printer