✨ Postal and Financial Regulations
June 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1683
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Officers are strictly forbidden to cash cheques for any officer of the Public Trust Office, and must not allow the Post Office to be made a medium for negotiating private cheques. (See Rule 94.)
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Postmasters in charge of offices where there is no agency of the Bank of New Zealand must not collect exchange on cheques tendered in payment of amounts due to the Advances to Settlers Office. They should be sent in to the Chief Office as a remittance. The Chief Postmaster will negotiate the cheque either at his own office or at the office on which the cheque is drawn, or, if not drawn on any office in his district, through the Chief Postmaster of the district in which the bank on which the cheque is drawn is situated.
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Nothing in the above rules applies to cheques tendered as Savings-Bank deposits which are governed by special instructions relating to Savings-Bank work.
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Officers must see that exchange at the current rates is collected on all cheques excepting those mentioned in Rule 699.
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Cheques drawn in favour of the Receiver-General’s Deposit Account by persons tendering for contracts should, when they are liable to exchange, have included in them the amount of such liability.
702A. Every receipt given for a refund of charges paid on telegrams, postage, or Customs duty is liable to stamp duty when the amount of any such payment is £2 or more.
The accounts which Chief Postmasters and Postmasters are required to render are as follows :—
CHIEF POSTMASTERS.
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A copy of the Daily Cash Account, Form Acct. 133, supported, where required, by statements of receipts and payments and the necessary vouchers, which should be arranged in order of entry in the account, and tied with twine.
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All entries for which no form of statement is provided must be summarised on the Summary Slip, Form Acct. 337, and the supporting documents pinned to the slip.
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A Post Office Account, on Form Acct. 7A, at the end of each of the following accounting periods, namely :—
From the 1st to the 7th,
From the 8th to the 15th,
From the 16th to the 23rd, and
From the 24th to the last day of every month, inclusive.
In this account must be shown the tota’s of the summarised receipts and payments under the various heads both at chief and sub-offices
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsPost Office financial procedures, Official deposit accounts, Cheque handling, Bank of New Zealand, Postmaster responsibilities, Exchange on cheques, Savings-Bank deposits, Stamp duty, Telegrams, Postage, Customs duty, Chief Postmasters, Postmasters, Daily Cash Account, Post Office Account