✨ Post Office Regulations
June 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1589
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report will be in this case made monthly also to the Secretary by Officers in Charge and to Chief Postmasters by Postmasters. 208. Requisitions on behalf of letter-carriers and messengers who ride bicycles may be made for waterproof overalls and waterproof capes in lieu of the ordinary walking overcoat with cape.
PROPERTY, STORES, AND STATIONERY.
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Office fittings, furniture, &c., are required to be kept clean and in repair, and are to be used exclusively for official purposes. They must be brought to charge in the stores-ledger supplied to each permanent office. Stores for issue should be carefully posted up from the Storekeeper’s invoices.
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Returns of departmental property and stores for issue, except telegraph material and linemen’s tools, must be made to the Inspector, on Form P.O. 76, on the 30th June in each year. All vouchers or authorities in support of issues or other disposal of articles must accompany the return. Postmasters must make a personal examination of the office property, and certify that the return is correct. Telegraph material and linemen’s stores must form a separate return, and be sent to the Superintendent through the District Telegraph Inspectors.
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Requisitions for supplies of telegraph or telephone material must be made on Form Acct. 225, and forwarded to the Superintendent through the District Inspectors of Telegraphs. Applications for stores, including ink, which cannot be forwarded in the mail-bags, must be made quarterly only—namely, in January, April, July, and October.
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No supplies of any kind may be purchased without authority, and, unless in cases of emergency, requisition for current requirements should be made at the beginning of a month on Form P.O. 107A, and forwarded to the Secretary for authorisation. Sub-Postmasters will make requisition through their Chief Postmasters for any supplies they require.
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All requisitions for supplies for different offices are to be made separately. This instruction applies to requisitions for date-stamps and mail-seals as well as for other articles.
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Supplies purchased from persons other than the authorised contractors (if any) will be charged against the officer making the purchase. Bicycle accessories must be obtained from the Storekeeper.
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