✨ Post and Telegraph Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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be only a bare supply of money in the office over Sunday. Safe-keys are to be put into a place of safe deposit nightly. (See Rule 238.)
111. Officers of the Department may communicate with each other by telegraph memoranda. Under no circumstances is the ordinary work to be interfered with, and any abuse of the privilege will be seriously noticed. Transmitting operators must send and receive such memoranda. Questionable communications must be submitted to the Postmaster or the senior officer on duty for scrutiny. Any officer intercepting or destroying them will be fined. Irregular communications and communications subversive of discipline are forbidden, and must be withdrawn by the sender. Telegraphic memoranda between officers are required to be properly signed with the usual signature of the sender. If a scrutinising officer thinks that for the sake of brevity the surname only will sufficiently identify the sender at transmitting offices and the office of destination, he may pass the telegram signed with the surname only. Officers are not permitted to forward their private correspondence with each other free of postage.
112. A Postmaster must forward to the Secretary, through his Chief Postmaster, any newspaper-extract containing comments or correspondence on the working of the Department, or the extension of postal or telegraphic communication, or giving any information on the postal or telegraph service likely to be of use or interest to the General Post Office. Chief Postmasters and Officers in Charge should take steps to systematize this work in order to insure its frequent revision, so that nothing which should be within the cognisance of the Department in the way of newspaper comment may be missed. It may sometimes be a matter of reasonable doubt whether a newspaper notice is of sufficient importance to be extracted, but it will be always better to err on the side of redundancy.
113. At Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Napier, and Wellington, extracts relating to telegraph matters will be forwarded to the Secretary by the respective Officers in Charge, and not by the Chief Postmasters. At combined offices Chief Postmasters or Postmasters will attend to extracts on both postal and telegraphic matters.
114. Such matters as intimately affect the Department though they are not wholly controlled by it, as, for instance, an ocean-mail service, international rates of postage, wireless telegraphy, or submarine cables to or from New Zealand, come within the scope of these instructions, which also apply to speeches of members of
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