✨ Post and Telegraph Regulations
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No officer shall communicate to any other officer the contents of any telegram coming to his knowledge, save and except for the transaction or furtherance of the business of the Department, and items of news or official information may on no account be made public.
78. Requests by telegram from the public to officers in their official capacity for information as to the results of athletic contests, horse-racing, and other such matters of public interest, must not be complied with. Should any telegram of the kind be handed to them for transmission, they are to suitably inform the sender of the rule. Any officer so addressed, on being sent the telegram in spite of such warning, will hand it without further dealing with it to the Officer in Charge or the Postmaster for his action. Information which may come to the knowledge of officers by telegraph, prior to results being published in the ordinary way, is not to be made known. This also applies to information received on Railway wires. (See Rule T. 75.)
79. Any officer who shall receive in any form a reward or gratuity for affording preferential advantages in the forwarding, delivering, or posting of letters, telegrams, &c., or any officer cognisant of such violation of rule who shall connive at or fail at once to report the same, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £10, and may, in addition, be summarily dismissed.
80. No person unconnected with the Department, other than a duly accredited Government auditor, who must have subscribed to the Post and Telegraph declarations, may be admitted into any permanent post, telegraph, or telephone office, or telephone exchange (except in the case of telephone bureaux), or into any part of the building other than the public office or the Postmaster’s private office, without the authority of the Secretary, the Superintendent, or an Inspector of the Department. This rule also applies to Government Insurance agents, who must transact their business either in the Postmaster’s private office or over the public counter. Before the work at country post-offices can be performed by persons other than Postmasters duly appointed by the Postmaster-General, the Chief Postmaster’s permission must first be obtained, and the persons desired to perform the work must sign the declarations.
81. No person representing himself to be an inspecting officer is to be permitted to have access to any office, or in any way to deal with the cash, forms, or books, unless he is known, or can produce satisfactory credentials. Should any such person attempt to obtain entry into any office the fact must be immediately telegraphed to the Chief Postmaster. The police should also be informed.
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