✨ Post Office Regulations
1716
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47
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882. Officers are to consider forty-six letters as the equivalent of a pound weight.
883. Official letters are to be included in the weight of printed matter.
884. At the end of each month returns are to be prepared by Chief Postmasters, on Form Acct. 140, and forwarded to the Accountant, General Post Office, showing the particulars of all mails conveyed from ports in their respective districts by steamers of the Union Steam Ship Company and the New Zealand and South African Steamship Company that will be carried to the port of destination by the original vessel of shipment. Separate returns must also be furnished for one-half and one-third rates on transhipped mails.
885. The correspondence carried by each steamer must be shown separately in one total. The schedules must be totalled and cross-balanced. All payments to the companies named in the last preceding rule for gratuities will be made from Wellington. Vouchers for mails carried by the Huddart-Parker Proprietary Company’s steamers are to be prepared by Chief Postmasters at the time of service, duly checked and certified, and forwarded to the Accountant, General Post Office, who will arrange payment.
886. Gratuities to masters or owners of vessels other than those of the above-named companies may be paid without reference to the Accountant, General Post Office.
887. Gratuities are payable on loose letters posted in the colony, but not on loose letters from beyond the colony, or on “forward” letters when their onward transmission is made by steamers of the same company. Payment on “forward” letters is subject to Rule No. 877.
888. Loose letters conveyed by the Union Steam Ship Company and the Huddart-Parker Company should be included in the totals of the statements sent to the Accountant, General Post Office.
889. Officers completing advices of reshipment of English and Australian mails must insert in the “Remarks” column the words “Gratuity paid,” if the gratuities on any of the mails advised thereon have been already paid.
890. The monthly schedule for the Union Steam Ship Company, and all other vouchers, must be checked by an officer other than the officer responsible for their preparation, and be subject to final revision by the Chief Postmaster prior to certificate.
891. Gratuities must not be paid on inward mails to shipmasters arriving at a New Zealand port who may not have received payment at the port of despatch, without the special authority of the Inspector, General Post Office.
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Sea Mail-service Payments and Classification
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsSea mail-service, Payments, Contract services, Gratuities, Contingencies
🚂 Regulations for Mail Conveyance and Payments
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsPost office, Mail, Regulations, Payments, Gratuities, Chief Postmasters, Union Steam Ship Company, Huddart-Parker Proprietary Company
- Accountant, General Post Office
- Inspector, General Post Office