New Zealand Gazette – 1906 – No. 83

Page 2554

✨ Post Office Money Order Regulations



2554

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 83.

4

Letter-carriers, &c., not bound to procure Money Orders, &c.

  1. No Letter-carrier or other servant of the Post Office is bound to procure a Money Order for any person, or to procure payment of one, but such services are not forbidden.

Cases not provided for in these Instructions.

  1. When any case occurs which is not provided for in the rules relating to Money Order business it must be reported. The Postmaster will be held responsible to the Postmaster-General for neglecting to report such cases to his Chief Postmaster, and for any loss resulting from such neglect.

Books and forms required.

  1. The books and forms required for the business of a Money Order Office are described in the standard list of printed forms, &c. (P.O. No. 108), and the Postmaster must make timely application for the renewal of his stock thereof.

Applications for books, forms, &c., and disposal of correspondence.

  1. The applications for books, forms, stationery, the reports of irregularities, and the correspondence generally in connection with Money Order business must, when coming from Sub-Offices, be addressed to their respective Chief Postmasters unless otherwise directed by these Rules; and the Chief Postmasters must in like manner communicate with the Controller.

Correction of list of Money Order Offices.

  1. When notice is given in the Official Circular or otherwise of the opening of any new Office, whether within New Zealand or elsewhere, or of any change whatever relative to Money Order Offices, the Postmaster must immediately make the necessary correction in the list of Money Order Offices affected. He must carefully examine the Official Circular every month, and note any such information and any instruction relating to Money Order business.

Official Circulars to be carefully noted.

Supply of Money Order and Advice forms to be examined and irregularities reported.

  1. The Postmaster must be careful to examine the Money Order and Advice forms supplied to him immediately upon their receipt, and he must report all irregularities on the receipt form. If any Order be omitted in the series supplied to him he will, when he reaches the missing number, make a note in the Statement of Money Orders Issued, thus : “ No. not supplied.”

Money Order and Advice forms to be securely kept.

  1. The Postmaster’s stock of Money Order and Advice forms and Second and Corrected Advice forms must be kept in his own custody, under lock and key, in some place of security to which none of the persons employed in his Office or in his private business have access. He will be held responsible for any loss arising from fraud committed through a disregard of this regulation.

Missing Order and Advice forms.

  1. Should the Postmaster miss any Order and Advice forms he must make instant and careful search for them in every receptacle in his Office, and should he fail to find the missing forms he must at once report the loss, by telegraph, giving the numbers of the forms, to the Controller.


Next Page →



Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa — PDF NZ Gazette 1906, No 83




✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🚂 Money Order Office Procedures and Responsibilities (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
Post Office, Money Orders, regulations, letter-carriers, forms, Official Circular, Postmaster responsibilities