New Zealand Gazette – 1906 – No. 47

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✨ Post and Telegraph Regulations

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129. For the hours of attendance at telegraph and telephone-offices, or at telephone exchanges, also for the hours of Sunday and holiday attendance, refer to the latest issue of the Guide.

130. The following days in each year shall be observed as holidays :—

(1.) New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the Birthdays of His Majesty and of the Prince of Wales, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day.

(2.) Whenever any such day shall fall upon a Sunday, the day following shall be substituted for it.

Good Friday and Christmas Day are regarded as Sundays for the purposes of Departmental attendance.

131. At offices provided with flags the New Zealand Ensign is to be flown on New Year’s Day, Accession Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter Monday, St. George’s Day, Empire Day, the Prince of Wales’s Birthday, Labour Day, the King’s Birthday, St. Andrew’s Day, Queen Alexandra’s Birthday, and Boxing Day, and on special leave being obtained may be flown on local festival days.

132. The ensign is on no account to be used for mere signalling purposes, and must not be flown at half-mast without special authority of the Secretary.

133. The Minister may require the services of officers during any holiday, but in such case, and in lieu of any payment for overtime, such officers will be entitled to a holiday, or relief from duty, upon such other day as shall not interfere with public business.

134. Special announcements as to holiday attendance or duty are made from time to time in the Official Circular. A notice of holiday-closing should be exhibited in some conspicuous place at the office at least three days prior to the holiday, and in the case of telegraph- or telephone-offices the notice must specify the hours of attendance.

135. The attendance of any or of all the persons employed in any office may be required at any time for official duty.

136. When requested by the General or District Traffic Manager of Railways to remain on duty for the purpose of transmitting telegrams on urgent railway business, officers are to carry out such instructions without reference to the General Post Office; but a report of the circumstances must at once be made to the Secretary by wire.

137. An attendance-book for clerks and operators, also one for letter-carriers and messengers, must be kept, and

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1906, No 47

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🚂 Reissuing Rules and Regulations for Post and Telegraph Officers (continued from previous page)

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