✨ Postal Service Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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notice the manner in which mail-services are performed, to see that contractors and all persons who have charge of mails duly sign the official declaration, and to report any irregularity he may observe, such as conveyances out of repair, unsafe, or discreditable to the service, absence of necessary harness (breeching-straps, &c.), or the use of worn-out harness, overcrowding of coaches, horses unfit for their work or in a discreditable condition, drivers or mail-carriers unsteady or otherwise untrustworthy, or under sixteen years of age, or in any way unfit. A driver of a mail-conveyance is liable to punishment by law for any delay of the mails attributable to his carelessness or wilful negligence. Mail contractors should be informed that they must not place any one to the duty of conveying or handling mails until they have first communicated his name and given an assurance of his good character.
272. Chief Postmasters at Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Napier must satisfy themselves that no driver in a city mail-service is being paid a wage of less than £2 5s. a week, and that he is not being employed more than forty-eight hours in the week without being paid for overtime.
273. No abbreviations are permitted in filling up forms of bond or contract. (See Rule 66.)
274. Under clause 27 of the Terms and Conditions of Inland Mail Tender on Form P.O. 97, each mail contractor must give a policy of insurance and indemnity against accident, to extend to all His Majesty’s liability arising in connection with the contract, under “The Workers’ Compensation for Accidents Act, 1900.” In the case of the contractor such insurance and indemnity must extend to cover all His Majesty’s liability arising under the aforementioned Act, or the Employers’ Liability Acts, and, as far as practicable, the common law.
275. The policies as received are to be kept in charge of Chief Postmasters in safe custody, and a register is to be kept giving particulars of the risks covered. It will also devolve upon Chief Postmasters to see that on the due date a receipt is forwarded to them for the premium on the policy. Any failure on the part of the contractor in this matter is, after the contractor has been warned, to be reported to the Secretary, with a view to action being taken under subclause (5) of clause 27 of the Terms and Conditions.
276. A record of the policies should be kept in the “Remarks” column of the mail-service register.
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 47
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