APRIL 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1065

sent to the Inspector of Post-offices with a full report. An
application for a telephone-office is to be referred to the Chief
Telegraph Engineer, with a report of the cost and the probable
revenue. Any estimate of cost of a proposed office is tentative,
and applicants should be cautioned against acting on it as
final. The proposed office may not bear the name of an
existing office. A map or tracing of the locality, showing the
position of the proposed office, should accompany the report. In
recommending the opening of an office the officer recommending
should name the postal district, the county in which the office is
situated, and the circulating office.

19. When an office is proposed to be opened at a Native school
    or at a Native schoolmaster's residence under the control of the
    Education Department, or in charge of an officer or employee of
    any other Department, the Secretary is to be informed beforehand,
    in order that the permission of the Department concerned may be
    obtained. Action, or any promise or undertaking to open the
    office, should be deferred meantime.

20. The salary of a non-permanent Postmaster to be fixed
    according to the amount of business done at a newly opened office
    should be applied for by the Chief Postmaster not later than six
    months after the opening of the office. When a proposal is made
    to open a money-order office and a savings-bank, it should be made
    clear to the Postmaster that payment for the performance of the
    accounting-work is not made separately, but that such work is
    included in the total business on which the scale salary is based.
    When the money-order and savings-bank duties have been performed for a reasonable time the scale salary will be ascertained.

21. Maori names are, whenever possible, to be found for new
    offices. Chief Postmasters and Telegraph Engineers when recommending their opening must submit one or more suitable Maori
    names, together with the meanings thereof. Care should be taken
    that such proposed names do not clash with those of existing offices.

22. When a post or telegraph or telephone office is opened,
    or a Postmaster transferred, the Chief Postmaster must satisfy
    himself that the officer appointed or transferred is fully instructed
    in the duties of his office, and is in every way suitable and trustworthy.

23. Every office should be in a central and convenient situation, should afford adequate accommodation to the public, and
    should be supplied with all requisite fittings. No office may
    be established at a publichouse without the sanction of the
    Licensing Committee (see section 168 of the Licensing Act,
    1908), nor should an office continue to be maintained at a public-house when other accommodation is available.

24. No office may be removed from one site to another without the authority of the Secretary. When it is found necessary
    to remove an office, application must be made to the Secretary
    by the Chief Postmaster in respect of a post-office, or by the Telegraph Engineer in respect of a separate telegraph-office, and the
    position of the proposed new premises stated in the application.
    In the case of a combined office, the Chief Postmaster will first
    consult the Telegraph Engineer. When an office is closed, or
    transferred, the Chief Postmaster must satisfy himself that the
    sign 'Post-office' is removed, and that the posting-box is closed.
    The Telegraph Engineer will take similar action in respect of
    telegraph appurtenances, unless the cost is likely to be great, when
    he should ask the Secretary for instructions.

25. The actual date of completing action of any kind in any
    matter of record must be reported to the Secretary, whether previously stated or not.