✨ Post and Telegraph Department Rules
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Officers in Charge. Chief Postmasters and these Officers in Charge will be held responsible that declarations, both postal and telegraph, are filed for every officer under their control. Inspectors of Telegraphs are responsible for requiring linemen and other officers and persons engaged in telegraph construction and maintenance to make the declarations, and for filing the declarations when made.
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When an officer is removed from one district to another his declarations must be forwarded to the Postmaster or the Officer in Charge of the office to which he has been transferred. After being noted they must be sent to the Chief Postmaster, except in the cases provided for in Rule 72.
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The declarations of officers no longer in the service must be sent to the Inspector, General Post Office, Wellington.
CONFIDENTIAL NATURE OF DUTIES.
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No information regarding any matter which may come to the knowledge of any officer through his employment in the Department shall, without authority, be given or made public by him under pain of dismissal. This instruction applies not only to Post Office and Telegraph matters generally, but to all matters relating to Old-age Pensions, Advances to Settlers, Public Trust Office, Government Insurance, Customs, Land and Income Tax and Valuation transactions, as well as all other matters respecting receipts and payments of moneys on behalf of other branches of the public service, including the countersigning and payment of Treasury cheques. No information may be given respecting letters, &c., which pass through a post-office, except to the persons to whom they are addressed. No officer may make public any official communication which he may receive, unless he shall be directed to do so. Members of Parliament have no privilege in these respects.
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No letter or packet whatever is to be returned to the writer or sender thereof except as provided by the Post Office Act. By the Post Office Act the power to open, detain, or delay a post-letter is vested in the Governor alone. An exception is made of official letters, which may be returned, or otherwise disposed of on warrant signed by the Postmaster-General.
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All telegrams must be regarded as strictly confidential, and treated with the same care and secrecy as sealed letters. Any officer divulging the contents of a telegram, save and except to the sender or addressee thereof, or making improper use of any telegram passing through his hands, will render himself liable to dismissal, and to the penalties provided under the thirtieth section of “The Electric Lines Act, 1884.”
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