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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

107. When an officer is instructed to prepare for transfer from
     one place to another, an estimate of the cost of removal must be
     furnished to and approved by the Secretary before action is taken
     to incur any expense. In every case as much care is to be taken
     to keep down the cost as if the officer were removing entirely at his
     own expense. There is no authority for claims from married or
     unmarried officers, for hotel expenses at destination before obtaining
     permanent lodgings. ‘Order for Passage’ forms are to be used when orders for train or steamer passages are required in the
     case of officers on transfer or travelling on public service.

108. Officers transferred from one office to another at their
     own request will be required to pay their own expenses.

109. Temporary exchanges will be agreed to only under exceptional circumstances.

110. All permanent officers of the Department whose salaries
     are less than £100 per annum, and all who have not been
     twelve months in the service, and temporary employees from
     whom security is required, with the exception of non-permanent
     relieving Postmasters and Postmistresses, are required to give
     security to such amount as the Minister may direct. All other
     officers are guaranteed under the provisions of Part III of the
     Civil Service Act, 1908. “Permanent officers” includes distributors, telegram-sorters, and telegram-folders, but for the purpose
     of this regulation does not include telegraph message-boys and
     telephone-exchange cadettes.

111. An officer on reaching a salary of £100 is no longer
     obliged to find private bond, but comes under the scheme of the
     Civil Service Act. The private bond will, however, remain in
     force until the officer under guarantee receives notice that the
     Civil Service Guarantee Board has entered his name on the roll
     of assured.

112. Postmasters and Officers in Charge will be held personally
     responsible for any defalcations which may occur through neglect
     to obtain fidelity bonds from officers drawing salaries less than
     £100 per annum.

113. Bonds need not be furnished by telephone-exchange
     cadettes unless they perform counter or other clerical duties in
     addition to their ordinary work.

114. Postmasters not on the permanent staff, but in charge
     of money-order offices and post-office savings-banks, are required
     to give bond (on form P.O. 100) to the Crown, generally in the
     amount of £200. In the case of small money-order offices and
     savings-banks, however, a fidelity company’s policy of £100 will
     be accepted in lieu of a private guarantee of £200. The amount
     of the bond for a money-order office alone is usually £100, and
     for postal-note offices—that is to say, offices where Postmasters
     are intrusted with a credit stock of postal notes, but do not
     transact either money-order or savings-bank business—it is £50.

115. No abbreviations are permitted in filling up forms of
     bond or contract. All words and phrases must be inserted in full,
     as, for instance: “New Zealand,” not “N.Z.”; “Cadette in
     the Telephone Exchange,” not “Cadette, Exchange”; and the
     proper spaces must be used for the insertion of titles. It will
     be observed that in the legal description in the form of fidelity
     bond, for example, the occupation comes after the place of residence.

116. Forms of bond are not to be passed from office to office
     and from hand to hand and filled up piecemeal. Chief Post-
     masters and Officers in Charge are to have all bonds written out
     after having collected for themselves the necessary particulars.

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