✨ Post Office Operational Rules and Procedures
JUNE 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1595
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245. The Post and Telegraph Guide, issued half-yearly at the beginning of January and July, is the official publication of the Department, and contains the latest post and telegraph information on all matters upon which the public usually require to be informed. It is to be regarded as a handbook for all officers of the Department, and is to be read in conjunction with these rules.
246. The Guide Supplement includes, in addition to the time-tables of inland mails, a fly-leaf containing announcements intended for public information copied from the Circular, and the particulars of changes made in the Guide matter since the last issue of the Guide and later to be incorporated in the Guide. At the beginning of each six-monthly period the announcements in the fly-leaf cover the period for the preceding month only. The changes they refer to will usually already have been incorporated in the Guide. All these items are to be carefully checked.
247. Every care must be taken to insure the accuracy of these publications by means of the reporting forms provided for the purpose.
248. The half-yearly revise of the Guide for the Secretary should be posted at each chief post-office on the 10th June and the 5th December, and any information to be supplied by Postmasters should reach their chief offices not later than the 7th and the 2nd of the respective months. A special form is supplied to Chief Postmasters for the revise, and every care must be taken to insure the accuracy of the information given.
249. The Guide is supplied half-yearly by Chief Postmasters to all permanent offices, and to combined post- and telephone-offices and uncombined telegraph- and telephone-offices. Country post-offices, where postal work only is conducted, are furnished with a copy of the January issue only.
250. The Supplement is to be sent monthly to money-order offices, and quarterly to others. Chief Postmasters will apply on this basis for the number of copies required.
251. A supply of two or three Post and Telegraph Guides is to be kept by Postmasters at the principal sub-offices for sale at their own offices or at offices in their districts. Chief Postmasters will arrange for this to be done, and, in their requisitions for copies of the Guide, provide for the additional number required.
252. Every copy of the Guide sold or issued should be accompanied by a copy of the Supplement of the last-dated issue. For the two the price will be 6d.; for the Guide by
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