✨ Postal Money Order Instructions
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO CHIEF POST-MASTERS.
Foregoing instructions to be observed by Chief Offices.
- The rules for the transaction of Money Order business at Sub-Offices are to be observed at Chief Offices, as far as applicable.
Delay in sending in Sub-Office accounts to be reported.
- Whenever a Sub-Postmaster fails to send in his account by the first mail after the close of business on the last day of the period for which it is rendered, in accordance with Rule No. 134, an explanation of the failure must be promptly obtained on Form Acct. No. 35 and forwarded to the Controller.
Advices of Orders on places abroad.
- The Advices of Money Orders issued at Sub-Offices for payment abroad must, on their receipt at the Chief Offices, to which they are required to be sent from the Issuing Offices, be stamped with the date of receipt. On the Advices of the Orders issued at the Chief Offices the stamp showing the date of issue is sufficient.
Advices of Orders on Cape Colony, Ceylon, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Natal, Orange River Colony, Straits Settlements, and Transvaal to be sent to Wellington by registered letter.
- In the case of Orders drawn for payment in Cape Colony, Ceylon, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Natal, Orange River Colony, Straits Settlements, and Transvaal, the Advices must be transmitted by Sub-Offices to their respective Chief Postmasters, and by the latter by registered letter to the Chief Postmaster, Wellington, at which Office the lists will be prepared. They must in all cases bear an impression of the dated stamp of the Chief Office of the district in which they are issued.
Advices for Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa, and Tonga to be sent to Auckland by registered letter.
- Advices of Orders drawn for payment in Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa, and Tonga must be transmitted by Sub-Offices to their respective Chief Postmasters, and by the latter by registered letter to the Chief Postmaster, Auckland, at which Office the lists will be prepared. They must, in all cases, bear the impression of the dated stamp of the Chief Office of the district in which they are issued.
List number must be entered on Money Order Issued Statement in column headed “List No.”
- The number of the list on which the Advice of each Order payable abroad is entered must be written in the column headed “List No.” against the entry of the Order in the Money Orders Issued Statement, and a mark thus, “X,” in red ink must be placed in the same column against the entries of Orders the Advices of which are sent to the Exchange Office to be listed.
When Advice is found to be missing.
- If, when checking the Sub-Office Issued Statements, it is discovered that an Advice of a Money Order drawn for payment beyond the Colony has not reached the Chief Postmaster, the following procedure must be adopted :—
Second Advice to be applied for.
(a.) An application for the issue of a Second Advice must be made by telegraph or on Form Acct. No. 73 to the Issuing Postmaster.
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 83
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