✨ Travel Allowances and Regulations for Officers
JUNE 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1581
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will be paid for day of return to home or arrival at station. Cost of transport by land and sea will be paid by the Department.
- Except in cases where a higher rate is, or may be, specially authorised by the Minister, other officers travelling on the service of the Department will receive the following allowances for personal expenses :—
Per Diem.
s. d.
(1.) Officers drawing salaries not exceeding £400 per annum ... ... ... 10 0
(2.) Officers drawing salaries exceeding £400 per annum ... ... ... 12 6
(3.) While at sea,—
For the first day ... ... {The ordinary on-shore allowance.
For subsequent days ... ... ... 2 6
For the last day’s travelling actual expenses only will be paid. The cost of transport by land and sea will be paid by the Department. (See also Rules 59, 60.)
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The actual expenses will be paid, up to £7 10s., of removal of newly appointed cadets from their homes to the places to which they are appointed.
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Vouchers for steamer-fares, or any other expenses whatever in connection with the travelling or transfer of officers, are not on any account to be paid until they have been checked at the Secretary’s office and payment authorised. This does not apply to railway-fares. In all cases the vouchers must show the office from which an officer departs and that at which he arrives.
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Officers should, when practicable, travel by the Government steamers, the masters of which have been instructed to carry Government officers and their families who are travelling on the public service, on the written orders of the local heads of their Departments. The following instructions relative to granting passages in the Government steamers are dated as taking effect from the 1st April, 1897 : Government officers, their wives and children, will be allowed passages on the approval of the Minister of Marine, a charge of 7s. 6d. a day (children under fourteen half-rates) being made; fore-cabin passengers being charged 3s. a day. In case of trips to outlying islands of New Zealand, or to the West Coast Sounds, 10s. a day to be charged. This daily rate to be charged from last commercial port of departure. All orders for passages are to be approved by the Minister of Marine. Tickets will be issued by the Marine Department subject to the understanding that they are only available
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