✨ Postal and Telegraph Regulations
JUNE 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1723
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Officers travelling on the public service must provide themselves with forms of receipt, to be obtained from the Storekeeper, and must take receipts thereon for passages by steamers, coach-fares, horse, cart, and boat hire, and every similar petty expense exceeding 5s. in amount.
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Where wages or allowances are fixed by the day or by the hour, the number of days or hours employed, the rate of pay, and the sum due, must be clearly set out, and the voucher certified by the responsible officer.
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Accounts, invoices, &c., for services or supplies must be obtained from claimants and attached to the abstract or voucher. Where any one claim or account includes supplies or services chargeable against different votes, separate accounts should be obtained; but when this is impracticable the items are to be separated, entered on separate vouchers as may be necessary, and the original account attached to one or other of the vouchers, and reference made to it on the others.
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In claims for horse and buggy hire, particulars of the journeys are to be given.
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On no account may forms of receipt be signed by payees in blank. In every case the particulars must be filled in beforehand, and, whenever practicable, by the payee, and his signature only obtained at time of payment.
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Extra payments to telegraph messengers and post office boy-messengers acting as letter-carriers are made on the basis of the difference between the salary of the messenger and £50 per annum. Such vouchers must be sent in to the Secretary, General Post Office, for authorisation. Computations are to be based on annual salary.
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Relieving officers are not entitled to the fees or commissions payable to the officer whom they are relieving, unless the period of such relief exceeds three months. When the Postmaster relieved is also a Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and such duties for the time being are intrusted to a deputy not connected with the Department, care must be taken to see that the fees received by such deputy are paid to the Acting Postmaster, and by him to the Post Office Account.
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Temporary letter-carriers and messengers must not be paid on the Salary Form Acct. 226, but on the special form provided, Acct. 355. The computation of wages should be based on a six-day week. Thus, a lad employed for ten days including one Sunday should be paid for 1⅔ weeks.
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Officers, their wives and children, will be granted passages in Government steamers on conditions laid down by the Marine De-
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Overtime Pay Regulations for Postal and Telegraph Officers
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsOvertime, Postal duties, Telegraph duties, Sunday attendance, Statute holidays, Payment rates, Claims, Allowances, Clothing allowance, Bicycle allowance, Lodging allowance, Sick leave, Night duty
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Overtime Pay Regulations for Postal and Telegraph Officers
(continued from previous page)
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsOvertime, Postal duties, Telegraph duties, Sunday attendance, Statute holidays, Payment rates, Claims, Allowances, Clothing allowance, Bicycle allowance, Lodging allowance, Sick leave, Night duty