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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Parcels treated differently.

2. Parcels are, when redirected, liable to an additional rate of postage for each redirection, except where the original and corrected addresses are both within a free delivery from the same post-office.

Redirection of Registered Letters.

3. Registered letters, &c., the redirection of which is desired after delivery, must not be dropped in the letter-box, but must be handed in at the office counter, otherwise double the registration fee will be charged.

Notices of Removal.

4. Notices of removal and applications for the redirection of letters, &c., must in all cases be signed by the persons to whom the letters are addressed. The printed form of notice, which will be supplied on application at any post-office, should be used wherever practicable. Redirection orders by telegraph will be acted upon, but signatures thereto must be verified and must be full. Redirection orders hold good for six months only, unless in special cases.

5. As private boxes can be and are occasionally cleared during the sorting of mails, the Department cannot undertake to intercept and redirect correspondence delivered through private boxes, but will as far as possible endeavour to comply with such requests.

6. The Department cannot undertake to redirect a letter until it reaches the office to which it is addressed.

Redirection Orders not Free of Postage.

7. Applications for the redirection of letters, &c., must be made directly to the Postmasters of the offices to which the letters are addressed, and whence they will be redirected. Postmasters are not permitted to receive orders for redirection to be sent forward to other Postmasters. Orders for redirection are not free of postage.

8. Letters addressed to initials or to fictitious names (noms de plume, &c.) cannot be readdressed. They can only be delivered from the office to which they are originally addressed.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

1. On the first day of each month a list is exhibited at each post-office in New Zealand of the addresses of all letters received from places beyond New Zealand that have remained unclaimed at such post-office for periods varying according to the countries of origin or according to the address of the letters as in the following table, and such of these letters as remain unclaimed at the end of the specified further period are then forwarded to the Dead Letter Office, to be returned unopened to the countries where they originated.

LETTERS.

Unclaimed letters originating in New Zealand are not advertised, but at the end of the specified periods are forwarded (excepting special-request letters) to the Dead Letter Office, Wellington, there to be opened and returned to the writers.

2. Letters addressed to ships at seaports are kept three months.

3. Under section 23 of “The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908,”—

(1.) Every postal packet addressed to any person at any premises licensed under “The Licensing Act, 1908,” or at any shipping office, or public or private lodginghouse, and delivered to or received by the licensee of such premises, or the person apparently in charge of such office or lodginghouse, or any one acting as the agent or servant of any such licensee or person, shall be deemed to be under the control of the Postmaster-General until delivered to the person to whom the same is addressed.

(2.) If the same is not so delivered within two months after the receipt thereof by or on behalf of such licensee or other person as aforesaid, and if instructions to the contrary are not received from the person to whom the same is addressed, the licensee or other person as aforesaid shall return the same to the nearest post-office, with the reasons therefor.

(3.) Every such postal packet shall be transmitted to the Dead Letter Office, and shall be there dealt with as undelivered.

(4.) If any such licensee or other person as aforesaid omits or fails to return any such postal packet as aforesaid he is liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(5.) This section shall extend and apply to telegrams transmitted by electric telegraph.