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be content with simply forwarding their explanations, but must state whether the explanations may be accepted as satisfactory, and must add any information that may be necessary to render the case quite clear.
(12.) Should communications of an official nature be received from persons outside the colony, officers to whom such inquiries are addressed must collect the necessary information for replies, and then transmit the whole of the papers to the Secretary. Officers are not permitted to correspond officially with places beyond the colony; but this rule does not prohibit the sending of service telegrams on matters relating to the correction, &c., of cable messages, or the formal acknowledgment of orders to readdress letters, &c.
(13.) Letters for the Secretary’s office are to be addressed to the Postal Division, or to the Telegraph and Staff Division, according to their nature, and enclosed in covers so addressed. The brown-paper envelopes should show in large letters the name of the division for which they are intended. All matters relating to mail-services, new offices, buildings, and postal traffic generally to be included in the Postal Division. Telegraph matters generally, excepting those specially affecting the staff, to be included in the Telegraph Division. Matters relating to classified officers, temporary messengers, leave of absence, changes of country Postmasters, country Postmasters’ salaries, &c., are to be included in the Staff Division. Records with the prefix “O.R.,” “Tel.,” “Staff,” “Appt.,” and “B.F.” should be returned to the General Post Office in envelopes addressed to the Telegraph and Staff Division; P.G. and P.O. papers in envelopes addressed to the Postal Division.
(14.) Telephone route forms, applications in connection with new subscribers or for amendment of existing connections, and claims for payment other than those for payment for overtime or of travelling-allowances, must be sent to the Accountant.
(15.) About the closing of envelopes see Rule 220.
- The use of service telegrams must be confined to matters of pressing importance, and communications which could be as well sent by post must not be sent by telegraph. Any telegram sent contrary to this rule, as well as any which
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