Numb. 65.
601

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1869.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Auckland, this
second day of November, 1869.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Post Office Savings Banks
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor in Council to make, and from time
to time, as he shall see occasion, to alter regulations
for superintending, inspecting, and regulating the mode
of keeping the accounts of depositors, and with respect
to the making of deposits, and to the withdrawal of
deposits and interest, and to all other matters incidental
to the carrying the above recited Act into execution;
and it was by the said Act provided that all regulations
made under the authority of "The Post Office Savings
Banks Act, 1865," should remain in force until the
same should be cancelled by the Governor in Council,
under the authority of "The Post Office Savings Banks
Act, 1867:"

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fer-
guson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and in exercise of the powers and authorities
for that purpose vested in him, doth hereby, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Colony, cancel and revoke all Regulations hereto-
fore made under the authority of "The Post Office
Savings Banks Act, 1865," for the conduct of Post
Office Savings Banks, and doth hereby make and
ordain the Regulations contained in the Schedule
hereto; and with the like advice and consent, His
Excellency the Governor as aforesaid, doth hereby
order that this present Order in Council, and the
Regulations hereby made, shall come into force upon
the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine.

SCHEDULE.
POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS REGULATIONS.
THE FOLLOWING REGULATIONS ARE MADE UNDER AUTHORITY OF AN
ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, ENTITLED "THE POST OFFICE
SAVINGS BANKS ACT, 1867."

1. EVERY Post Office, being a Money Order Office,
   at which the Postmaster-General shall permit Savings
   Bank deposits to be received, will be open for that
   purpose, and for the repayment of moneys withdrawn,
   during the hours appointed for the transaction of
   Money Order business at the said Post Office.

2. Any Post Office, not being a Money Order
   Office, at which the Postmaster-General shall permit
   such deposits to be received or repaid, shall be open for
   that purpose during such hours and on such days as
   the Postmaster-General shall determine.

3. Deposits of One Shilling, or of any number of
   Shillings, or of Pounds and Shillings, will be received
   from any Depositor at the Post Office Savings Bank;
   but less than One Shilling will not be received, either
   by itself or as part of a larger sum.

4. Every Depositor on making a first deposit shall
   be required to specify his Christian name and Surname,
   occupation, and residence to the Officer of the Post-
   master-General appointed to receive the deposit, and
   make and sign the following Declaration, to be
   witnessed by such Officer, or by some person known
   to him, or by a Justice of the Peace :-

Depositor's Book.
Place
No....................................

COPY OF DECLARATION TO BE SIGNED
BY DEPOSITOR ON MAKING FIRST
DEPOSIT.

I,
of
do hereby declare to the
Postmaster-General that I am desirous, on my own behalf, to become
a Depositor in the Post Office Savings Bank. I do further hereby
declare, that I am not directly or indirectly entitled to any sum or
sums standing in the name or names of any other person or persons
in the books of the said Post Office Savings Bank, save and except
such benefit as I may be entitled to from such sum or sums as may
be standing in my name as Trustee jointly with the name or names
and on behalf of any other Depositor or Depositors, or as a member
of the Friendly Society called the
; and I do
hereby also testify my consent that my deposits in the said Post
Office Savings Bank shall be managed according to the Regulations
thereof.

Witness my hand, this
day of
186
Signed by the said Depositor in the
presence of me,
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