✨ Post Office Regulations and Bonds
June 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1561
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such amount as the Minister may direct. All other officers are guaranteed under the provisions of “The Civil Service Officers’ Guarantee Act, 1893.”
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A cadet on reaching a salary of £100 is no longer obliged to find private bond, but comes under the scheme of the Civil Service Guarantee Act. The private bond will, however, remain in force until the officer under guarantee receives notice that the Civil Service Guarantee Board has entered his name on the roll of assurers.
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Postmasters and Officers in Charge will be held personally responsible for any defalcations which may occur through neglect to obtain fidelity bonds from officers drawing salaries less than £100 per annum.
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Bonds need not be furnished by Telephone-exchange cadettes unless they perform counter or other clerical duties in addition to their ordinary work.
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Postmasters not on the permanent staff, but in charge of money-order offices and post-office savings-banks, are required to give bond (P.O. 100) to the Crown, generally in the amount of £200. In the case of small money-order offices and savings-banks, however, a fidelity company’s policy of £100 will be accepted in lieu of a private guarantee of £200. The amount of the bond for a money-order office alone is usually £100, and for postal-note offices—that is to say, offices where Postmasters are intrusted with a credit stock of postal notes, but do not transact either money-order or savings-bank business—it is £50.
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No abbreviations are permitted in filling up forms of bond or contract. All words and phrases must be inserted in full, as, for instance: “New Zealand,” not “N.Z.”; “Cadette in the Telephone Exchange,” not “Cadette, Exchange”; and the proper spaces must be used for the insertion of titles. It will be observed that in the legal description in the form of fidelity bond, for example, the occupation comes after the place of residence.
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Officers of the Department charged with seeing to the execution of bonds, deeds of contract, and other instruments, must not pass over without remark the action of a surety in witnessing the signature of a principal, or of one principal witnessing the signature of another. Such action is irregular. The witness to any signature must be that of a person not interested in the instrument signed.
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The security required of a Postmaster or other officer may be given by means of two or more approved bondsmen, or of an approved guarantee society. It is the duty of the Chief Postmaster to see that the bonds required from his subordinates
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 47
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