✨ Money-order Regulations
Oct. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2553
Money-order Regulations for Guidance of Officers.
PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of October, 1906.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and three, regulations were made under the authority of “The Post Office Act, 1900” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), providing for the transmission through the medium of the Post Office or the electric telegraph, by means of money-orders, of money to and from places within and beyond New Zealand, and for the reciprocal delivery and payment of the same, and fixing the rates of charges for such transmission; And it is expedient to revoke such regulations, except those fixing rates of charges, and to make others in lieu thereof:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act, doth hereby revoke the regulations made by the said recited Order in Council, except regulations numbered fourteen, seventy-nine, and eighty thereof, fixing rates of charges, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth order that this Order in Council and the regulations thereby made shall have effect on and from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.
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In these instructions “Controller” is always to be read as Controller, Money Orders and Savings Bank, General Post Office, Wellington.
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Money Order Offices in New Zealand must be open for business as follows:—
Auckland
Christchurch
Dunedin
Gisborne
Greymouth
Invercargill
Napier
Nelson
New Plymouth
Newton (Auckland)
Thames
Wanganui
Wellington
Working-days, except Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, when the Money Order portion of the outward English mail closes after 1 p.m., 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
(a.) All other Money Order Offices must be open for business from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. every working-day, except on Saturdays, when they must remain open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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No Money Order business is to be transacted on Sundays, Holidays. Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the King’s Birthday, and the Prince of Wales’s Birthday, except by special direction.
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The Postmaster is strictly forbidden to divulge to the Official secrecy. public any information relative to the advices of Money Orders payable at his office.
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 83
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🚂 Money-order Regulations for Guidance of Officers
🚂 Transport & Communications2 October 1906
Post Office Act, money orders, regulations, transmission of money, telegraph, postal services, Executive Council
- Plunket, Governor
- His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
- Executive Council