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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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7. If, by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise, the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant, the members may at any monthly or special meeting appoint a Chairman.

8. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

And with the like advice and consent as aforesaid doth hereby also order that this delegation shall take effect in respect of the parcel of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, Tahoraite Survey District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres, more or less, being Section No. 1, Block V., Village of Kumeroa; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Money-order Rules and Regulations.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of December, 1902.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section sixty-four of “The Post Office Act, 1900,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make arrangements with any postal authority for the transmission through the medium of the post-office or the electric telegraph by means of money-orders of any money to and from any place whatsoever, and for the reciprocal delivery and payment of the same, and may fix rates of charges for such transmission, delivery, and payment, and may make such regulations as he deems expedient for carrying such arrangements into effect:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, including, inter alia, the transmission through the medium of the electric telegraph of money within and beyond New Zealand at rates of commission lower than those heretofore levied; and doth order and declare that such regulations and such lowered rates of commission shall have effect on and after the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette, and that thereupon all former regulations on the same subject shall be deemed to be revoked.

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SCHEDULE.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL POSTMASTERS IN CHARGE OF MONEY-ORDER OFFICES.

Hours of business.

1. ALL money-order offices in New Zealand must be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., except on Saturdays, when they must not be closed before 5 p.m., with the exception of the Chief Offices at Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Gisborne, Greymouth, Invercargill, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Thames, Wanganui, and Wellington, also Newton (Auckland), which close at 1 p.m. on Saturdays. The offices named will, however, when English mails are despatched later than 1 p.m. on Saturdays, remain open until 2 p.m.

Holidays.

2. No money-order business is to be transacted on Sundays, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the King’s Birthday, and the Prince of Wales’s Birthday, except by special direction.

Official secrecy.

3. The Postmaster is strictly forbidden to divulge to the public any information relative to the advices of money-orders payable at his office.

No fees.

4. The Postmaster must not, under any pretence whatever, demand a fee for cashing a money-order.

Letter-carriers, &c., not bound to procure money-orders, &c.

5. No letter-carrier or other servant of the Post Office is bound to procure a money-order for any person, or to procure payment of one, but such services are not forbidden.

Cases not provided for in these Instructions. Caution.

6. When any case occurs which is not provided for in the rules relating to money-order business it must be reported. The Postmaster will be held responsible to the Postmaster-General for neglecting to report such cases to his Chief Postmaster, and for any loss resulting from such neglect.

Books, &c.

7. The books and forms required for the business of a money-order office are described in Form P.O. No. 108, and the Postmaster must make timely application for the renewal of any stock before it becomes exhausted.

Application for forms and disposal of correspondence.

(a.) The applications for books, forms, stationery, the reports of irregularities, and the correspondence generally in connection with money-order business must, when coming from sub-offices, unless required by these rules to be addressed otherwise, be addressed to their respective Chief Postmasters; and the Chief Postmasters must in like manner communicate with the Controller Money-order, Office, General Post Office, Wellington.

Correction of list of money-order offices. Official Circulars to be carefully noted.

8. When notice is given in the Official Circular or otherwise of the opening of any new office, whether within New Zealand or elsewhere, or of any change whatever relative to money-order offices, the Postmaster must immediately make the necessary correction in the list of money-order offices affected. He must carefully examine the Official Circular every month, and note any such information and any instruction relating to money-order business.

Supply of money-order and advice forms to be examined, and irregularities reported.

9. The Postmaster must be careful to examine the money-order and advice forms supplied to him immediately upon their receipt, and he must report all irregularities on the receipt form. If any order be omitted in the series supplied to him he will, when he reaches the missing number, make a note in the Statement of Money Orders Issued, thus: “No. not supplied.”

Forms and advices to be securely kept.

10. The Postmaster’s stock of money-order and advice forms and second and corrected advice forms must be kept in his own custody, under lock and key, in some place of security to which none of the persons employed in his office or in his private business have access. He will be held responsible for any loss arising from fraud committed through a disregard of this regulation.

Missing forms and advices.

11. Should the Postmaster miss any order and advice forms he must make instant and careful search for them in every receptacle in his office, and should he fail to find them he must at once report the loss by telegraph, giving the numbers of the forms, to the Controller, Money-order Office, Wellington.

Offices on which orders may be granted.

12. The Postmaster may grant an order payable at any office named in the list of money-order offices; but he must not grant an order on any other place, nor, in filling up a money-order, use any other designation than that given in that list. Where two or more offices of the same name exist, the full designation of such offices as given in the Money-order List must be given in the order and advice, and the latter must be addressed in the fullest manner.

Misdirection of money-order advices.

13. It is of the utmost importance that all advices should be filled up and addressed in a correct and legible manner. When an advice reaches an office for which it is not intended it should be at once redirected and forwarded, while at the same time the irregularity should be reported to the Controller, Money-order Office, Wellington.

Scale of money-order commission, and list of places upon which orders may be granted.

14. In granting money-orders, commission must be charged according to the following scales, viz.:—