New Zealand Gazette – 1913 – No. 29

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✨ Postage and Revenue Stamps Regulations

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stamp-depositories on purchases to the amount of £2 and upwards of stamps above the nominal value of 2s. each, and to non-permanent Postmasters and Telephonists on any purchases of the value of £1 and upwards. Poundage is not payable to Postmasters on requisitions of less than £1 in value. Licensed vendors and depositaries may also be granted a poundage of 2½ per cent. on purchases to the amount of £2 and upwards, and non-permanent Postmasters and Telephonists a poundage of 2½ per cent. on purchases of £1 and upwards, of stamps of the value of 2s. each and under. Postmasters on the permanent staff may supply licensed vendors. To other persons poundage is payable at the rate of 1¼ per cent. on purchases to the value of £20 and upwards. Chief Postmasters and Postmasters are authorized to pay poundage as above, when they must take a receipt on form P.O. 66, and send it to the Chief Postmaster as a remittance. Poundage on postage-stamp sales is not to be allowed to permanent Postmasters or Postmistresses. Permanent Postmistresses include any Postmistress on a permanent footing, even if not included in the Classification List. The following explanatory table is published for reference:—

Paid to	On Stamps up to and including 2s. in Value.	On Stamps over 2s. in Value.
Licensed vendors	2½ per cent. on purchase of £2 or more	1¼ per cent. on purchase of £2 or more.
Depositaries	Ditto.	Ditto.
Non-permanent Postmasters, Postmistresses, and Telephonists	2½ per cent. on purchase of £1 or more	1¼ per cent. on purchase of £1 or more.
Other persons	1¼ per cent. on purchase of £20 or more.

386. Sub-Postmasters who are entitled to poundage on ordinary stamps will be allowed the usual 1¼ per cent. on postage-due stamps used.

387. No person other than a Postmaster or other postal officer, unless by special license of the Commissioner of Stamps, who alone issues such licenses, may sell postage and revenue stamps, under a penalty of £10. Postmasters should report any breach of this prohibition.

388. In checking the list of licensed stamp vendors for the Secretary’s information a tick is to be placed against the name of each vendor who has purchased stamps at a post-office since the previous revision, and against no others.

389. The issue of stamp licenses to Telephonists as such is permitted.

390. Chief Postmasters will purchase any necessary supplies of impressed paper from the nearest Deputy Commissioner of Stamps. Postage-stamps to be used by Government Departments bear the overprint “Official,” and are distributed, under existing Stamp Office regulations, to Chief Postmasters, who in turn will supply on a voucher signed by the permanent head or local head of the Department requiring the stamps. Stamps so supplied by the Post and Telegraph Department will be paid for at Wellington by the Departments concerned.

391. Stamps may be supplied to Receivers of Gold Revenue or to Clerks of Courts to cover the cost of Court fees.

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