✨ Government Payment Procedures
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ant, General Post Office, unless such payment has been authorised by telegraph, when a receipt must be taken on Form Acct. 227, the particulars given on the telegram being copied on to the voucher.
987. Officers lodging money on Advances to Settlers Account to the credit of solicitor’s official accounts at the Bank of New Zealand must pay in the amount of each voucher on a separate bank-slip.
988. Care must be exercised by paying officers to see that the occasional payments which are intended to be paid direct to the mortgagee are not paid to the solicitors’ account in the ordinary way.
989. Advances to Settlers paid vouchers must be treated by Postmasters as a remittance to their Chief Postmaster of the amount represented and entered by Chief Postmasters on the special form of statement provided.
990. Old-age Pensions Payments.—When claiming payment the pensioner or agent must always present a certificate granted under “The Old-age Pensions Act, 1898,” or “The Old-age Pensions Act Amendment Act, 1900.”
991. The Postmaster must first compare the pension-certificate with the advice issued by the Accountant, General Post Office, and should he discover any discrepancy, or should the advice not have reached the paying office, he must communicate by telegram with the Accountant, General Post Office, quoting number of certificate and name of district. This comparison must be very carefully made when entering the first payment on the back of a pension-certificate.
992. Upon the Postmaster satisfying himself that the pension-certificate and advice are in agreement the payee’s receipt should be taken. When paying to an appointed agent, the payee must also sign the declaration in the margin of the advice, and enter therein the name of the place where the pensioner is residing; the date of the Magistrate’s warrant must also be quoted in the space provided for the purpose. The receipt should then be initialled and date-stamped, and the due month and amount indorsed on the pension-certificate, which must be duly signed and date-stamped by the paying officer. The name of the month on the first of which the instalment is due must be entered in the first column on the back of the pension-certificate. Alterations of the amounts payable in advices must be initialled by the officer who makes the amendment, and also by the payee when claiming payment. In the case of payees unable to write, the alteration must be initialled by the witness to the payee’s mark.
993. Payment of instalments of pensions must always be made over the counter of the paying office, and the acknowledgment of receipt signed by the payee in the presence of the paying officer. In
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Advances to Settlers Office Payments
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🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesSettler advances, Payment procedures, Voucher requirements, Bank deposits, Postmaster responsibilities
🏥 Old-age Pensions Payment Procedures
🏥 Health & Social WelfareOld-age pensions, Payment certification, Postmaster duties, Pension verification, Receipt procedures