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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 71

General shall permit postal notes to be issued and paid, will be open for that purpose during the hours appointed for the transaction of money order business at each such post office.

3. Any post office not being a money order office, at which the Postmaster-General shall permit postal notes to be issued and paid, shall be open for that purpose during such hours and on such days as the Postmaster-General shall determine.

4. Every postal note shall be numbered, and shall be for one of the following amounts, and in respect of each postal note the following poundage shall be paid:--

Amount. Poundage.
s. d. d.
1 0 .. .. .. .. ½
1 6 .. .. .. .. ½
2 6 .. .. .. .. 1
5 0 .. .. .. .. 1½
7 6 .. .. .. .. 2
10 0 .. .. .. .. 3
12 6 .. .. .. .. 3
15 0 .. .. .. .. 3
17 6 .. .. .. .. 3
20 0 .. .. .. .. 3

The poundage above set forth has been fixed by the Governor in Council under the provisions of "The Post Office (Postal Notes) Act, 1885." Broken amounts may be made up by the use of unobliterated stamps not exceeding 5d. in value affixed to the back of any one postal note.

5. Postal notes shall be issued in the form and upon the conditions prescribed by "The Post Office (Postal Notes) Act, 1885," and shall be printed on such paper and in such characters, and with such distinctive marks, whether on the face of it or in the paper or otherwise, and the amount of the poundage shall be denominated by means of such stamp or mark, as the Postmaster-General from time to time directs.

6. Before a postal officer issues a postal note, the amount of the note and the poundage thereon shall be paid to him; and he shall sign the note and stamp it with the proper stamp, specifying the day of the month on which the note is issued.

7. (a.) The blanks in a postal note for the name of the person entitled to the money (in the regulations referred to as the payee), and for the name of the office at which it is to be paid, may be filled in before or after issue.

(b.) The purchaser of a postal note may make the note payable to "bearer" by filling in that word, or, if the space for the name of the payee is left blank, it will be treated as if made payable to bearer.

(c.) If the name of the payee is inserted in the note, the signature to the receipt must agree with that name; but, if the space for the name is left blank or filled in with the word "bearer," the receipt of the person who presents the note will be received.

(d.) No alteration can be made in the name of the payee or of the paying office when once filled in, except by direction of the Postmaster-General or of a postal officer.

(e.) A postal note presented by or through a banker may be paid although the signature does not correspond with the name of the payee, but the note must bear the stamp of the bank.

8. (a.) When a postal note is presented for payment otherwise than through a banker, the postal officer shall require the person presenting the note to sign his name on the note before its payment, although the receipt has been already signed.

(b.) Nevertheless, the signature to the receipt shall, in all cases, be a sufficient authority to the postal officer for the payment of the amount of the note if that signature purports to be the signature of the payee; and it shall not be necessary to prove that the receipt was signed by or under the authority of the payee.

9. A postal note may be crossed, and the postal officer shall refuse to pay it except to a banker.

10. If a postal note which is crossed is presented for payment through a bank with the name of such bank stamped on the face of it, that name may be accepted as a sufficient receipt for the amount of the note; and the note may be paid without any other receipt.

11. A postal note which is crossed--if presented for payment through a bank--may be paid at any money order office in New Zealand, notwithstanding that the blank has been filled in with the name of some particular office.

12. After the expiration of four calendar months from the last day of the month in which any such postal note is issued, the note shall be payable only on payment at any post office, in postage stamps affixed on the face of the note, of a commission equal to the amount of the original poundage, with the addition, if more than four calendar months have elapsed since the said expiration, of the amount of the original poundage for every further period of four months which has so elapsed, and for every portion of any such period of four months over and above every complete period.

13. If a postal note presented for payment has any erasure or alteration, or is cut, defaced, or mutilated, a postal officer may refuse payment, and refer the person presenting it to the Postmaster-General.

14. A postal officer upon paying a postal note shall immediately stamp it with the proper stamp, specifying the date, and thereby cancel the note.

15. A postal officer may refuse or delay the payment of a postal note for any reason which he may deem sufficient, but he must at once report his reasons for so doing to the Postmaster-General.

16. Postal officers who may be authorized to issue and pay postal notes under these regulations shall account for the postal notes supplied to and issued and paid by them in their Post Office accounts, and shall treat the money received by them for postal notes as part of the balance due from them on Post Office account.

Rule under "The Deceased Persons' Estates Duties Act, 1881."

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by "The Deceased Persons' Estates Duties Act, 1881," and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby order and declare that, from and after the publication of this order in the Gazette, every statement of property to be delivered to the Commissioner of Stamps pursuant to section thirteen of "The Deceased Persons' Estates Duties Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1885," shall be in the form contained in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

(Q.)--THE DECEASED PERSONS' ESTATES DUTIES ACT 1881 AMENDMENT ACT, 1885.

Form of Statement by the Trustees [or Beneficiary], under Deed of Gift, to be delivered to the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner within Two Months after the Trusts or Dispositions therein have taken effect, pursuant to Section 13 of the said Act.

Register No. 188 . Folio

STATEMENT of all real or personal property of or to which I, , of , am entitled as , under a deed of gift made by , of , and dated the day of , 188 :-

Particulars of Property comprised in Deed of Gift. Value.

TOTAL VALUE .. ..

DEDUCTIONS (if any)--

NET TOTAL .. .. ..

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this tenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

Jos. A. TOLE.

Conditions for Trout-fishing in Counties of Grey and Inangahua.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by "The Salmon and Trout Act, 1867," His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby make the following regulations for the Counties of Grey and Inangahua:--

1. Any holder of a license as hereinafter mentioned may fish with rod and line for trout in each river or stream in the Counties of Grey and Inangahua from the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, to the thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, both inclusive; but only between the hours five o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock in the evening.

2. Licenses to fish with rod and line in the said waters will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Grey