✨ Postal Money Order Telegram Regulations
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 83.
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Applications for M.O.T.s.
- Applications for Money Order Telegrams for payment within the Colony must be made on the special form of requisition (Acct. No. 65).
The applicant must furnish the Christian name and surname of both the remitter and the payee.
Private message may be added to official Telegram of Advice.
- The remitter of an Inland Money Order Telegram may, on paying for the additional words required, have a private message for the payee added to the official Telegram of Advice. He may also, if he so desires, prepay the cost of a telegraphic reply. The private message, for which space is provided on the requisition form, must be written by the remitter, who need not necessarily add his name and address. The private message must be detached from the requisition, and securely gummed to the forwarded Money Order Telegram.
M.O.T.s for racing clubs must bear additional particulars.
- In the case of a Money Order Telegram made payable to the secretary of a racing club, to cover an investment on the totalisator, the accompanying private message must bear the remitter’s signature and address or Office of Origin; and it is imperative that the remitter’s private message should be added to the Money Order Telegram, so that the remittance and relative instructions may reach the payee simultaneously.
M.O.T.s may be sent as urgent.
- Money Order Telegrams may be sent “urgent” on payment of the urgent fee—viz., 2s.; but, when a remitter’s private message is added, the fee must only be charged on the private message, no additional fee being charged on account of the official Telegram of Advice.
How fees must be accounted for.
- The 1s. collected for the Money Order Telegram and the charge for the private message—viz., ordinary, 1d. per word, with a minimum charge of 6d.; urgent, 2d. per word, minimum charge, 1s.—must be affixed in stamps to the Order. Commission must also be charged on Inland Money Order Telegrams at the same rate as for ordinary Money Orders.
Carriage charges to be prepaid.
- Any charge required for carriage must be collected at the Office of Origin from the remitter, and affixed to the Order in stamps.
M.O.T.s may be “crossed.”
- A Money Order Telegram may be crossed for payment through a bank, in which case the word “Crossed” must be written in the instructions of the telegram.
M.O.T.s for Receiver Land Revenue or Commissioner Crown Lands.
- Money Order Telegrams drawn in favour of a Receiver of Land Revenue, or Commissioner of Crown Lands, may be issued free of commission, but the telegraph fee must invariably be prepaid by the remitter and affixed in stamps to the forwarded copy of the Telegram. The letters “C.L.” must be written in the commission column of the Money Order Issued Statement against the entries of such Orders. (See Rule No. 31).
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