Aug. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2153

open for that purpose between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.,
and Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin, which shall be
open between the hours of 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., and 4 p.m. and
8 p.m.

3. Any post-office not being a money-order office, at which
   the Postmaster-General permits postal notes to be issued,
   or issued and paid, shall be open for that purpose during
   such hours and on such days as the Postmaster-General
   determines.

4. Every postal note shall be numbered and shall be for
   one of the following amounts, and in respect of each postal
   note the following poundage shall be paid :—

Amount. Poundage. Amount. Poundage.
s. d. d. s. d. d.
1 0 ½ 5 0 1
1 6 ½ 10 0 2
2 0 ½ 15 0 2
2 6 ½ 20 0 2
3 0 1

5. Broken amounts (not being for fractions of a penny)
   may be made up by affixing unobliterated stamps not exceed-
   ing 5d. in value to the back of any one postal note by the
   sender or remitter.

6. Postal notes shall be printed on such paper and in such
   characters, and with such distinctive marks, whether on the
   face of them or in the paper or otherwise, and the amount of
   the poundage shall be indicated by means of such stamp or
   mark, as the Postmaster-General from time to time directs.

7. Before a postal officer issues a postal note, the amount
   of the note and the poundage thereon shall be paid to him ;
   and he shall sign the note and stamp it with the proper
   stamp, specifying the day of the month on which the note is
   issued.

8. The blanks in a postal note for the name of the person
   entitled to the money (in these regulations referred to as the
   “ payee ”), and for the name of the office at which it is to be
   paid, may be filled in at the time of issue or after.

9. If the name of the payee is inserted in the note, the
   signature to the receipt must agree with that name ; but if
   the space for the name is left blank, the receipt of the person
   who presents the note will be received :
   Provided, however, that when a postal note is presented
   by the purchaser for repayment his signature thereto will be
   accepted, notwithstanding that the name of the intended
   payee may have been inserted.

10. If the payee of a postal note is described by his official
    title only, or as a club, society, or company, whether trading
    under the names of the persons comprising it or not, the
    postal officer may pay the amount to the signature of the
    manager, secretary, or other recognised legal agent, provided
    that his official designation is written after his name.

11. No alteration can be made in the name of the payee
    when once filled in, except by direction of the Controller,
    Money-order and Savings-Bank Department, General Post
    Office, Wellington.

12. The applicant for payment of a postal note, if well
    known to the paying officer, may be permitted to add to
    the office of payment already entered the name of the office
    at which he desires payment.

13. A postal note not made payable at some specified
    office, but bearing simply the name of a city or town in
    New Zealand, may be paid at any postal-note office
    authorised to pay postal notes within the limits of the city
    or town named, provided that before payment the name of
    such office is added, by the person presenting the note, to
    the name already inserted.

14. A postal note presented by or through a bank may
    be paid although the signature does not correspond with the
    name of the payee, but the note must bear the stamp of the
    bank, and must also invariably bear either the indorsement
    of the person on whose behalf payment is claimed, or the
    bank-teller’s slip-number.

15. When a postal note is presented for payment other-
    wise than through a bank, the postal officer shall require
    the person presenting the note to sign his name on the note
    before its payment, although the receipt has been already
    signed.

16. Nevertheless, the signature to the receipt shall, in all
    cases, be a sufficient authority to the postal officer for the
    payment of the amount of the note if that signature purports
    to be the signature of the payee ; and it shall not be neces-
    sary to prove that the receipt was signed by or under the
    authority of the payee.

17. A postal note may be crossed, and the postal officer
    shall then refuse to pay it except through a bank.

18. If a postal note is presented for payment by or through
    a bank with the name of such bank stamped on the face of it,
    that name may be accepted as a sufficient receipt for the
    amount of the note, and the note may be paid to an officer
    of the bank without any other receipt.

19. A postal note, if presented for payment by or through a
    bank, may be paid at any postal-note office in New Zealand
    authorised to pay postal notes, notwithstanding that the
    blank has been filled in with the name of some particular
    office.

20. The currency of a postal note shall be unlimited in
    time.

21. If a postal note presented for payment has any
    erasure or alteration, or is cut, defaced, or mutilated, a
    postal officer may refuse payment, and refer the person
    presenting it to the Controller, Money-order and Savings-
    Bank Department, General Post Office, Wellington.

22. A duplicate of a lost or destroyed postal note may be
    issued after the expiration of six months and not later than
    two years from the date of issue of the original postal note,
    provided that the number of the postal note is known and
    the person claiming the amount can satisfactorily prove
    that he is entitled to the same : Provided also that when
    there is undoubted evidence of the destruction of a postal
    note, and the number is known, a duplicate may be issued
    forthwith.

23. The person to whom a duplicate postal note is issued
    shall be required to give a guarantee in writing to refund the
    amount should the original postal note be at any time paid,
    and no payment of a duplicate postal note shall be made
    until the aforesaid guarantee is given.

24. The fee for the issue of a duplicate postal note, or any
    number of postal notes comprising one remittance of a
    specified sum, shall be 6d. : Provided, however, that if it
    appears after investigation that the letter containing the
    postal note or postal notes was lost in transit through the
    post, the duplicate or duplicates shall be issued free of
    charge.

25. On application, accompanied by a search fee of 6d., to
    the Controller, Money-order and Savings-Bank Department,
    General Post Office, Wellington, the remitter or payee of a
    postal note may, within two years of the date of issue, be
    informed whether the note has been paid, and, if so, to
    whom, and the date of payment.

26. A postal officer may refuse or delay the payment of a
    postal note for any reason which he deems sufficient,
    but he must at once report his reasons for so doing to the
    Controller, Money-order and Savings-Bank Department,
    General Post Office, Wellington.

27. A postal officer upon paying a postal note shall
    immediately stamp it with the proper stamp, specifying the
    date, and affix his initials, and thereby cancel the note.

28. Postal officers who may be authorised to issue and
    pay postal notes under these regulations shall account for
    the postal notes supplied to and issued and paid by them
    in their Post Office Accounts, and shall treat the money
    received by them for postal notes as part of the balance due
    from them on Post Office Account.

29. Paid postal notes shall be kept in the custody of the
    Postmaster-General for two years, and after the expiration
    of that period of time shall be burnt in the presence of two
    officers to be deputed by the Secretary of the Post and
    Telegraph Department to supervise their destruction.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Exempting Old Military Road, Lower Hutt, from the Pro-
visions of Section 117 of “ The Public Works Act, 1908,”
subject to certain Conditions.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth
day of August, 1909.

Present :
His Excellency the Governor in Council.
WHEREAS by subsection one of section one hundred
and seventeen of “ The Public Works Act, 1908,” it
is, inter alia, provided that the said section shall not apply
in any case where the local authority having control of a
road or street by resolution declares that the provisions
thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street, or
any specified part thereof, and such resolution is approved
by the Governor in Council :