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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 1

(g.) The Postmaster may also arrange for the transfer of orders issued abroad which are payable at his office, but repayment of these orders, and of orders issued in New Zealand on places abroad, can be arranged only by application to the Controller, Money-order Office, Wellington. In transferring an order issued abroad the commission to be deducted therefrom must be at the New Zealand inland rate.

Repayment at issuing offices.

71. Should an order be presented by the remitter for repayment at the office of issue before the relative advice has left that office, the Postmaster may treat such order as payable at his office on payment by the applicant of a second commission at the inland rate, which he must affix to the advice in postage-stamps. He must be careful in every such case to write against the entry of the order in his Money-order Issue Statement, and on the relative requisition Form Acct. No. 70, the words “Repaid here.” If the order for repayment is a money-order telegram which has not been forwarded, the telegraph fee may be refunded.

Applications to be preserved.

72. The applications which have been dealt with, together with the orders transferred or repaid, must be forwarded by the Postmaster when rendering his accounts.

Repayment of orders drawn in favour of a Receiver of Land Revenue.

73. Repayment of a money-order drawn in favour of a Receiver of Land Revenue, and made payable at an office other than that at which it was issued (see Rule 34 (a) ), may be arranged for if the money-order is superscribed by the payee with a request to that effect. The new order issued in such a case must be transmitted to the Postmaster in charge of the office at which it is made payable, for delivery to the payee named in the advice, upon presentation by him of the memorandum received from the Receiver of Land Revenue announcing result of application, and advising of return of deposit lodged. No deduction from the amount of the original order is to be made, but the letters “C.L.” must be written in the commission column on the Money-order Issue Statement against the entry of each order issued in accordance with this rule.

Orders payable at office of issue.

(a.) In the case of an order made payable to a Receiver of Land Revenue at the office of issue, repayment thereof, without the issue of a new order or any fee being charged, may be made to the remitter on presentation by him of the original order, properly receipted, together with the memorandum from the Receiver of Land Revenue announcing result of application and advising return of deposit lodged.

Alteration in name of payee or remitter.

74. If the remitter of an order shall personally apply for an alteration of the name of the payee or remitter of the order, the Postmaster must require him to fill up one of the forms (Acct. No. 84), and pay a fee equal to the New Zealand rate of commission on the order whether it is payable in the colony or beyond. The Postmaster must then amend the entry on the requisition (Form Acct. No. 70), on the back of which he must describe the correction and insert the date, in the space provided for the purpose, and then fill up and despatch one of the advice forms headed “Corrected Advice,” writing upon the application for the alteration (Form Acct. No. 84) a certificate of the issue and date of issue of the corrected advice.

(a.) If the order is payable in New Zealand the Postmaster must affix on the advice, in the place set apart for the purpose, postage-stamps to the amount of the commission, and forward it direct to the office on which the order is drawn. But if the order be payable abroad he must affix the postage-stamps on the application for the corrected advice, and forward the application with the advice to his Chief Postmaster. He must cancel these postage-stamps by affixing a legible impression of his office dated stamp thereon. In every case the application is to be forwarded to the Chief Postmaster. Applications by letter for this kind of alteration may also be attended to, provided the necessary commission in postage-stamps is enclosed, the application is signed by the remitter, and the correct particulars of the order are given.

Corrected advices.

75. On the receipt of a corrected advice (issued in accordance with the instructions contained in the preceding rule) of an order payable at his office, the Postmaster must first see that postage-stamps to the amount of the second commission have been affixed to the corrected advice and cancelled in the proper manner. If they have not been cancelled he must cancel them himself, and report the omission to his Chief Postmaster. The corrected advice should then be attached to the original, and when the corresponding order is presented he must pay it from the corrected advice, and in accordance with it. The Postmaster must then attach the original and the corrected advice to the order, and send them, enclosed in the statement in which he claims the amount of the order, to his Chief Office.

When insufficient stamps are affixed.

(a.) If the proper number of postage-stamps has not been affixed to the corrected advice, or if, instead of a corrected advice, a second advice has been improperly issued for the purpose of correcting a difference other than in number or amount, the corresponding order may nevertheless be paid, but the Postmaster must report the circumstance to the Chief Postmaster, enclosing the “corrected” or “second” advice.

Additional commission, when returned.

76. In any of the above cases where an additional commission has been obtained from the applicant, the amount will be returned to him if the error which caused his application be attributable to the Post Office. If the Postmaster is to blame for the mistake he will have to pay the commission.

MONEY-ORDER TELEGRAMS.

Money-orders by telegraph.

77. Money-orders for transmission by telegraph, called “money-order telegrams,” for payment at money-order offices in New Zealand at places where there are telegraph-offices, and intercolonial money-order telegrams when drawn on telegraph money-order offices in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia, are to be granted when applied for under the rules for the issue of money-orders for transmission by post, with the following exceptions:—

Orders may only be drawn at and on money-order offices which are also telegraph-offices.

78. The orders may be issued and made payable only at money-order offices in New Zealand and the above-named States at places where there are telegraph-offices, and the maximum amount of each order must not exceed £20.

(a.) The remitter of a money-order telegram may, on paying for the additional words required, have a private communication for the payee added to the official telegram of advice. He may also, if he so desires, prepay the cost of a telegraphic reply to such communication. The special form of requisition (Acct. No. 65), upon which space is provided for a private message from the remitter, is invariably to be used in connection with money-order telegrams. The portion of the form on which this message is written may, by means of a line of perforations separating it from the requisition, be detached in order to be gummed or otherwise affixed to the forwarded money-order telegram in the space provided thereon for the purpose. The money-order portion of the form will be filled in from the particulars given on the requisition in the same manner as for posted money-orders. When completed the combined money-order telegram and remitter’s private message is to be handed in by an officer of the Department for transmission by telegraph.

(b.) In the case of a remittance sent by money-order telegram to the secretary of a racing club to cover an investment on the totalisator, it is imperative that the remitter’s instructions should be added to the money-order telegram, so that the remittance and the instructions relative thereto may reach the secretary of the racing club simultaneously. With this exception it is open to remitters to either send a separate message or take advantage of the facilities offered for adding a private communication to the official telegram.

(c.) In every case the sender of a private communication added to a money-order telegram must write his name and private address, or the name of the office from which the telegram is sent, in the space provided at the foot of the requisition-form, and these words must be charged for; but it should be pointed out that the cost of the payee’s address is saved.

(d.) The 1s. collected for the money-order telegram, and the charges payable, as per scale hereunder, on the remitter’s private message, must be accounted for by means of stamps affixed to the forwarded money-order telegram form in the space provided for the purpose, whilst the commission charge will be accounted for in the money-order issued statement. The rate of commission to be charged for each order is given in Rule 79. For the additional words added by the remitter the charge will be as follows:—

Ordinary, 1d. per word, with a minimum charge of 6d.

Urgent, 2d. per word, with a minimum charge of 1s.

(e.) The money-order telegram and remitter’s private message may be sent urgent on payment of urgent rates on the remitter’s message only, no extra charge being made in respect of the money-order telegram. Thus, an urgent money-order telegram for £1, with a private message from the remitter, consisting of nine words, would cost 3s., made up as follows: Commission, 6d.; fee for money-order telegram, 1s.; charge for remitter’s message, 1s. 6d. = 3s.

(f.) Officers engaged in the issue of money-order telegrams must endeavour to impress upon remitters of money-order