✨ Post and Telegraph Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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visitors, to hold communication or conversation with strangers beyond what is strictly necessary for the transaction of the business of the Department, or otherwise to allow their attention to be engaged in private affairs.
123. Officers on duty may smoke in telegraph-offices from 7 p.m. Smoking in post-offices, unless specially authorised by the Secretary, is absolutely forbidden. Under no circumstances will permission be given to smoke in mail-rooms.
124. Officers on duty in telegraph-offices are allowed to read newspapers or books before 9 a.m. and after 8 p.m. only.
125. Post-offices are open to the public, unless otherwise specially directed, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.; and at country offices, where private boxes are not provided, and where mails arrive after 5 and before 8 p.m., a delivery of letters is made for a quarter of an hour after the mails have been sorted. Officers are in all cases expected to be in attendance in good time to permit the office to be in full working-order by the time it is opened to the public. The Minister may, however, vary or extend the hours of business at any office, and officers are required to attend to the business of their respective offices during such prescribed hours.
126. At offices where a luncheon-hour is specially authorised it must be clearly understood that no telegrams of an urgent nature proffered by the public are to be refused transmission when the office is closed for luncheon. A notice is to be displayed in a conspicuous place stating that “urgent” telegrams will be received during the luncheon-hour, and indicating how the attention of the officer in charge can be secured. This is a matter in which officers can do much to minimise inconvenience arising from the closing of offices for the purpose stated, and it is expected that every effort will be made to avoid delay to important work.
127. No luncheon interval will be allowed at any office where both a Postmaster and a cadet are employed. In any case of an addition to staff involving compliance with this regulation the Chief Postmaster will make a special report for the purpose of having the list of offices closing for the luncheon interval altered.
128. Every post-office is closed on Sunday, and on Good Friday and Christmas Day, and no officer is required to attend on any of those days for postal duty except by express direction of the Minister. English mails arriving then are not to be sorted for purposes of public delivery. This last provision also applies to official holidays.
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