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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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General instructions.
232. On receipt by a Chief Postmaster, or an Officer in Charge, of an ST containing general or district instructions, Postmasters must be informed in all cases where information is required by them. On their part, Postmasters should bear in mind that it is their duty to ask their Chief Postmasters for information in any case of doubt.
SERVICE OF NOTICES BY TELEGRAPH.
Regulations.
233. The service of notices by telegraph (vide the 32nd and following sections of “The Electric Lines Act, 1884”) is governed by regulations made from time to time by the Governor in Council. The regulations at present in force will be found in the Official Circular for April, 1895, and for July, 1904.
In the transmission, receipt, and service of such documents Officers in Charge appointed in that behalf will be guided by, and will strictly conform to, the regulations in force for the time being.
Disposal of documents after completion of service.
Postmasters or Officers in Charge who are appointed to deal with the transmission of writs or warrants by telegraph will, after the service has been completed, forward the documents, under separate cover, to the Accountant, General Post Office, Wellington, filing a docket in their place in the day’s telegrams, stating the date on which the originals were posted.
Warrants issued under “The Bankruptcy Act, 1892.”
A warrant issued by the Court under section 88, subsection (3), of “The Bankruptcy Act, 1892,” for the arrest of a debtor may be accepted as an ordinary telegram with ordinary repetition, and be paid for as such.
The subsection reads, “(3.) Any such warrant may, if the Court shall so order, be transmitted by telegraph and executed on the telegraphic copy thereof, accompanied by a telegraphic copy of such order of the Court.” Such a warrant is held not to be a “notice” within the meaning of section 32 of “The Electric Lines Act, 1884,” and consequently the warrant may not be refused transmission as an ordinary telegram. At the same time, if it be desired to send it as a “notice” in the manner set out in the Order in Council of the 25th March, 1895, published in the Official Circular of the 1st April following, no objection should be offered to its being so sent, provided the necessary fees are paid. The responsibility of sending such a warrant either way rests with the sender.
Of course, if the sender elects to transmit the warrant as an ordinary telegram, it is not necessary that the transmitting or receiving officer should be gazetted as such, but no other than gazetted officers may deal with warrants to be treated as pro-
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