✨ Post Office Regulations and Procedures
1558
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47
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of proficiency, at a public school. Fatherless boys are to be given preference over boys both of whose parents are alive. For the position of letter-carrier or post-office messenger, preference should be given to eligible telegraph messengers.
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Chief Postmasters and Officers in Charge must take care that every appointment of permanent officers and of telegraph messengers is regularly and promptly advised of on Form P.O. 168, and that the form is fully filled up. The transfer of officers should be reported in the same way on Form P.O. 209. When the permanent appointment as messengers of lads who have previously been employed temporarily is recommended, and the service is continuous, Form P.O. 168 must show the date of the permanent appointment in the ordinary way, and also the date from which the service is continuous.
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Letter-carriers, telegraph messengers, and others who have qualified for promotion to the Clerical Division, should be informed that application in proper form, supported by the requisite certificates, is necessary to their promotion. Any such application should be accompanied by a report from the local official head as to the capabilities of the applicant, especially as to his progress in telegraphy. For this purpose a test examination in sending and receiving on the Morse instrument for a quarter of an hour each way should be arranged with the nearest central office. The copy written by the officer examined, also a report from the examining officer, both as to the sending and the receiving of the examinee, should accompany the application. These examinations should be occasionally repeated, and the result reported to the Secretary.
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Whenever temporary assistance of any kind is required, application should be made, according to the work to be done, to the Secretary or the Superintendent, who, subject to the approval of the Minister, will nominate any person whose name stands on the register as an applicant for temporary employment. No person may, however, be temporarily employed for a longer period than three months at any one time.
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The name of a proposed temporary officer, the date of his birth, his educational qualifications, and the office to be filled, should be inserted in the telegram requesting authority to employ him. Care must be taken to see that the application and the necessary certificates, the same as those for permanent employment, are produced, and are in order. They should be sent on by first mail after receipt, except in cases of substitutes for leave-of-absence purposes. Form P.O. 168 is required to be posted to the Secretary in each instance of temporary employment, except in connection with leave of absence.
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