THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 603

17. Applications in writing from persons residing at
    distance from any Post Office who may be desirous of
    opening an account, but are unable to attend personally
    to make the usual declaration before a Postmaster, may
    be received and acted upon. In such cases the Post-
    master will forward a blank form of Declaration, which
    must be filled up and signed by the intending Depositor
    in the presence of and attested by a Justice of the
    Peace or by any respectable person known to the Post-
    master. The Postmaster will also forward a Depositor's
    Book, in which the signature of the intending Depo-
    sitor is to be affixed in the place assigned for it, and be
    similarly attested. Both documents, with the money to
    be deposited, must be returned to the Postmaster with-
    out delay. On their receipt the Postmaster will enter
    the sum in the book in the usual manner, and return
    the book to the Depositor.
18. Intending Depositors are not to enter the sum
    in the book themselves, nor make any entry in it
    whatever, except their signature.
19. The Postmaster-General will not be responsible
    for any money which may be lost in the course of its
    transmission to a Postmaster for deposit in a Post
    Office Savings Bank.
20. All Books thus forwarded to intending Depo-
    sitors are to have their proper numerical places in the
    Chief Post Office Ledger kept unoccupied until they
    are returned by the Depositor.
21. If a Depositor loses his book, a duplicate thereof
    shall be supplied to him on payment of two shillings.
22. Deposits may be made by married women, and
    deposits so made, or made by women who afterwards
    marry, will be repaid to the original Depositor, unless
    her husband shall give notice in writing of such
    marriage to the Postmaster-General, and shall require
    payment to be made to him.
23. When a female Depositor marries, she shall
    'submit a certificate of such marriage to the Chief Post-
    master, or where such certificate is not readily obtained
    she shall furnish evidence of her marriage by statutory
    declaration. The Chief Postmaster will record the change
    of name over her account in the books of his office,
    and return the certificate, if any. She is also required
    to sign her married name in her Deposit Book. No
    withdrawals from her account will be allowed until the
    above requirements have been complied with.
24. If the husband of a female Depositor shall re-
    quire payment of her account to be made to him he must
    make a written application to that effect, accompanied
    by a certificate of his marriage and a statutory declara-
    tion identifying the depositor as his wife. If these
    documents are found satisfactory, and if the request be
    acceded to by the Postmaster-General, payment will be
    made to the husband on his producing the Depositor's
    Book and granting the usual receipt.
25. The Trustees of any legally established Friendly
    Society, or of any Charitable or Provident Society, or
    Savings Bank, when duly approved, may deposit their
    funds, without restriction as to amount, in the Post
    Office Savings Bank, and interest on such accounts
    will not be restricted but will be allowed on every
    complete pound in deposit: provided always that such
    deposits shall not be of less amount than One Shilling,
    nor of any sum not a multiple thereof, and that a copy
    of the Rules of the Society or Bank be forwarded by
    post to the Postmaster-General, with the names and
    addresses of the Trustees, who will then be furnished
    with the necessary instructions.
26. The following Declaration must be made in cases
    of Friendly Societies :-

27. Every Depositor shall, during the months of
    January or February in each year, forward his Book
    to the Postmaster at the Chief Post Office in the Pro-
    vince in a cover to be obtained at any Post Office
    Savings Bank, in order that the entries in the said Book
    may be examined, and that the interest due to the
    Depositor may be inserted in his Book.
28. No charge for Postage will be made upon the
    Depositors for the transmission of their Books to the
    principal Office in the Province, or for the return thereof
    to them, or for any applications they may have to make
    for acknowledgments of deposits, or for any application
    or necessary letter of inquiry respecting the sums
    deposited by them, or for the replies thereto. Such
    letters should be handed open to the nearest Postmaster,
    who, after satisfying himself that they refer only to
    matters of the nature named, will frank and forward
    them to the Chief Postmaster, or to the Controller, as
    the case may require.
29. Any Depositor at the principal Office in the
    Province can make withdrawals thereat without the
    necessity in all cases of making application in writing;
    but any Depositor at a sub Office of the Province, &c.
    wishing to withdraw the whole or part of the sum
    deposited by him, must make application for the same
    to the Chief Postmaster of the Province, in the follow-
    ing Form, a printed copy of which may be obtained at
    any Post Office Savings Bank :—

I hereby give notice that I wish to withdraw the sum of
from my Deposit Account, bearing the above Number in
the Books of the Post Office Savings Bank, and I request that a
Warrant may be issued for the above-named sum, and made payable
to me at the _____ Post Office.

Signature
Address
_____ Occupation
} of Depositor.

30. In this form the Depositor must specify the
    number of his book, the name of the Office at which
    his first deposit was made, the sum he wishes to with-
    draw, his occupation and residence, and the Post Office
    within the Province or Postal District at which he
    wishes to receive his money.
31. When a Warrant for the repayment is issued, it
    will be forwarded to the Depositor, and by the same
    post, the Postmaster at whose Office the Warrant is