✨ Postal and Telegraph Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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partment. Officers travelling coastwise on public service are required
to do so by means of the Government steamers whenever practicable.
944. The certificate to vouchers for travelling-expenses should
read as follows: “that I actually expended on the services named the
sums included in such charges which are not supported by receipts;
and that I was travelling on the public service and absent from head-
quarters at night during the period for which the claim is made.”
945. Claims for travelling or relieving expenses and allowances
(New Zealand Railway fares excepted), may in no instance be paid
without reference to the Secretary, General Post Office, for authorisa-
tion of payment.
946. No payments should be made by officers travelling on public
service for storage or wharfage claimed by any Harbour Board. Claims
for labour handling goods are allowed.
947. All officers stationed in any place or district will be liable
to be removed at any time to any other place or district, and, when
so removed, the actual reasonable travelling-expenses of themselves
and their families will be paid on production of proper vouchers,
except in case of removal at their own request, or in consequence of
any fault of their own, or of promotion, in which latter case they will
be allowed a reasonable sum, to be fixed by the Minister, for expenses.
948. The following concessions are allowed officers of the De-
partment and their families when travelling by the steamers of the
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (Limited): Families
of from four to six adults, or equivalent, 10 per cent. off ordinary
fares; families of over six adults, or equivalent, 15 per cent. off ordinary
fares.
949. Officers travelling on public service over lines of the New
Zealand Government Railways will observe the following rules, unless
payment be made in cash:—
(a.) The way-bill rendered by the Stationmaster must in each case
be accompanied by the order signed by the officer entitled to
issue, and covered by a voucher on Form Acct. 227.
(b.) The voucher must be headed with particulars of the service—
for example, “Relieving Kaiapoi”; “Maintenance, Toko,
Stratford”—certified, and transmitted to the office in the
undermentioned list which pays accounts for the railway
sections involved, with a request that payment be made.
(c.) Chief Postmasters, Auckland, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dun-
edin, Gisborne, Greymouth, Invercargill, Napier, Nelson,
Thames, Wanganui, Wellington, and Westport, and the Post-
masters at Dargaville, Kawakawa, and Whangarei, are the
paying officers for the respective sections of railway.
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