Jan. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 13

By Post.

For Money-orders payable in

Limit of amount of each order.

15. No single order granted in New Zealand for payment within the colony, or in the Australian States, Samoa, United States of America (and Hawaii), the Dominion of Canada, and the German Empire, may exceed in amount the sum of £20. The maximum amount for all other places is £10. In the case of orders issued for Government Departments for payment within New Zealand the limit is £50.

Fractional parts of a penny not admissible.

16. No money-order may contain a fractional part of a penny.

Remitter and payee.

17. The remitter of a money-order is the person who sends the money, and the payee is the person who is to receive it.

ISSUE OF MONEY-ORDERS.

Particulars required.

18. With the exceptions mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b), no money-order may be issued unless the applicant furnishes in full the surname, and at least the initial of one Christian name or forename, both of the remitter and payee, together with the remitter’s address, in order that, if necessary, the remitter may be traced. These particulars, as well as the name of the office of payment, must be given on the form of requisition (Form Acct. No. 70). If the name of either person be tendered at greater length it must be received, and advised accordingly. In the case of a married woman, care must be taken to see that her own Christian or forename is given instead of that of her husband.

(a.) The Postmaster should inform intending remitters who may not know the correct names of the persons to whom they wish to remit money, or the correct designation of the firm or company, that in such cases orders may be issued payable through a bank, but that orders so issued, being crossed like a cheque, will be paid only through a bank.

Orders payable through a bank.

(b.) When the remitter notifies that the order is to be paid through a bank it is left to his option to give or withhold the name of the payee. The issuing officer must in such a case cross the order and advice

and Co.,

in the way that cheques are usually crossed when they are to be paid through a bank.

Prefixes not allowed.

(c.) Prefixes such as “Mr.,” “Mrs.,” “Miss,” or “Messrs.” may not be inserted in granting a money-order.

Forms of application for money-orders.

19. Applications by the public for money-orders should be made on the printed forms (Acct. No. 70). If, however, for any reason the form is not or cannot be filled up by the applicant, the Postmaster must fill it up himself. He will carefully number every form to correspond with the relative money-order, and affix to it the date-stamp of the day of issue. Any manuscript requisition handed in by an applicant must be carefully attached to the printed form (Acct. No. 70).

How to be treated.

(a.) All requisitions for money-orders must be sorted in numerical order, neatly tied up in parcels proper to each period for which the Post-office Account is rendered, and preserved for a term of three years.

Issue of second advice to be noted on requisition.

(b.) The issue of a second advice, alteration of name of payee, &c., must be noted on the back of the relative requisition, in the space provided for the purpose.

Orders on towns having several offices.

(c.) When application is made for a money-order payable in a town where there are several money-order offices, the Postmaster should ask the remitter at which of such offices he wishes the money-order to be paid, and, should he name any office, the Postmaster must draw the order and advice accordingly; otherwise the order should be drawn upon the Chief or Head Office of the town where payment is required.

Requisitions for orders payable abroad.

20. In the requisition for a money-order on the United States, Canada, India, Japan (through Hongkong), and the German Empire, or on any of the countries on which orders can only be issued through the medium of the United Kingdom, the applicant must give the complete postal addresses of the payee and remitter, and these addresses must be copied, with the other particulars given in the application, into the advice.

United States and Canada: County and State, &c., of office of payment required.

(a.) In the case of orders issued on the United States of America, the office of payment and that of the county and State in which it is situated must be given upon both order and advice. Similarly, in the case of Canada, the county and province in which the office of payment is situated must be given.

British India: Payee’s caste or tribe required.

(b.) In the case of orders drawn in favour of natives in British India, the caste or tribe of the payee must be given, also his father’s name.

Orders on foreign countries: Names of places upon which they may be drawn.

(c.) Orders to be paid in countries for which no lists of money-order offices have been issued may be drawn upon any place in those countries.

A gummed label to be affixed to orders drawn on certain countries, and omitted in others.

(d.) One of the gummed labels (Acct. No. 238) supplied for the purpose, intimating that the order is valueless except as an acknowledgment of the amount paid in, must be affixed, immediately below the signature of the Postmaster, to money-orders drawn in New Zealand for payment in all foreign countries and British colonies (except British agencies at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Panama) exchanging money-orders with New Zealand through the United Kingdom (as per list in the Post and Telegraph Guide); Japan, through Hongkong; Egypt, through Ceylon; also the German Empire and British India (including Burmah, the agencies of the Indian Post Office at Aden, Bahrain, Bandar Abbas, Bushire, Guadur, Jask, Linga, Mahammerah, and Muscat), and Zanzibar.

When the gummed label is used the lower portion thereof must be detached and affixed to the back of the relative advice; the payee will in such case receive a proper form of money-order from the Chief Money-order Office of the country in which payment is to be made.

Gummed labels must not be affixed to orders drawn in New Zealand for payment in any State of the Australian Commonwealth, Canada, Cape Colony, Ceylon, Fiji, Hawaii, Hongkong (including Chinese agencies), Natal, Straits Settlements, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Orders drawn on foreign countries and British colonies payable through medium of London Office are liable to deduction as per scale.

21. In the case of orders issued for payment through the medium of the United Kingdom care must be taken to inform applicants that the amounts for which such orders are drawn will be subject to a deduction of the commission for remittance of the money from London to its destination, and