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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 109

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Application Forms.

10. [ Particulars of money-orders required must be furnished to the issuing Post-master on the printed forms of application. Wherever practicable the form should be filled up by the applicant.

Particulars required.

11. No money-order can be issued unless the applicant furnish in full the surname and, at least, the initial of one Christian name both of the remitter and payee, together with the remitter’s address. The exemptions are as follow: If the remitter or payee is a peer or a bishop, his ordinary title is sufficient; if a firm, trading under the name of the persons comprising it, the usual designation of such firm will suffice. The remitter is at liberty to desire, at the time of issue, that the order be crossed thus: and Co., and be made payable through a bank. Prefixes such as Mr., Mrs., Miss, Messrs., Revd., Doctor, are not allowed. The remitter, when applying for an order payable to a married woman, should be careful to give the Christian name or forename of the payee and not that of her husband.

Orders cannot be cancelled.

12. An order once issued cannot be cancelled, and should repayment or transfer be required, application must be made on a form provided for the purpose, which can be obtained at any Money-order Office.

Order may be crossed by Holder.

13. The holder of a money-order is always at liberty to direct, by crossing it, that the order be paid through a bank, notwithstanding that its payment was not originally so restricted.

Limit of Amount of Money-order.

14. The maximum amount for which a single order may be issued is shown in the preceding list of countries, &c.

No Fractions allowed.

15. No order is allowed to contain a fractional part of a penny.

Orders on Austria, Germany, Samoa, India, Japan, and Foreign Countries, &c.

16. (a.) As payment in Austria, Germany, German New Guinea, Samoa, India, Japan, and Corea, Formosa and Pescadores Islands through Hong Kong, Egypt, through Ceylon, and Foreign Countries, &c., named on pages 200 to 216 of Post and Telegraph Guide, except the British Agencies at Constantinople, Salonica, Smyrna, and Panama, is not made upon the orders issued in New Zealand, but upon new orders issued by the Austrian, German, New South Wales, Samoan, Indian, Hong Kong, or London Offices, and forwarded by post to the payee in accordance with the address furnished by the issuing office, it is very important that the complete postal address of the payee should be given.

(b.) The remitter should retain the order issued in New Zealand, but should advise the payee of the name of the remitter as given to the issuing office, and also of the delay in payment of the order which may probably occur from the transmission of the advice through the Austrian, German, Indian, Hong Kong, Ceylon, or London Offices.

(c.) In the case of other countries an order will be handed to the remitter to be transmitted by him to the payee for presentation at the office of payment.

India.

(d.) Amounts of money-orders issued in New Zealand on India are paid in rupees, annas, and pies; the rupee being the standard of value in India.

(e.) As, however, the value of the rupee is subject to constant variation, no tables of conversion can be given. All Orders on India are issued in sterling, and the equivalent in rupees is settled by the Post Office at Madras on the arrival of the Advice List from New Zealand.

(f.) Money-orders drawn in India on New Zealand are issued in the currency of India, and the equivalent in sterling is calculated by the Post Office at Madras at the rate of exchange current in India at the date of preparing the Advice List for despatch to New Zealand.

Natives of India, Corea, Formosa and Pescadores Islands.

17. In the case of natives, the name of tribe or caste and father’s name must be given. The full name and address of the payee is required in vernacular whenever the payee is a native. Forms for this purpose are supplied by the Department.