APRIL 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1157

610. Postmasters will make requisition, when necessary, to
     the Chief Postmaster for further supplies of postage-due stamps,
     in the same manner as they do for ordinary postage and revenue
     stamps.

611. Postmasters, before delivering surcharged correspon-
     dence, must affix or cause to be affixed, and cancelled as ordinary
     stamps are cancelled, one or more postage-due stamps equivalent
     in value to the amount of postage due. No mail-matter is to be
     delivered until the postage due thereon has been paid. Any Post-
     master, or other person engaged in the Postal service, who shall
     collect and fail to account for the postage due upon any article
     of mail-matter which he may deliver without having previously
     affixed and cancelled the special postage-due stamp, is guilty of a
     breach of duty, and is liable to a penalty not exceeding £50.

612. At post-offices where delivery of letters, &c., is not
     effected by letter-carriers, postage-due stamps are not to be affixed
     until delivery has been requested; and they are not to be affixed
     to matter forwarded by request of addressees, returned to writer,
     or sent to the Dead Letter Office.

613. At post-offices where there is a delivery by letter-carrier,
     postage-due stamps are to be affixed to all surcharged correspon-
     dence as soon as received, unless an order has been received for
     redirection, in which case the correspondence should be forwarded
     without affixing the stamps.

614. The office to which a surcharged article is redirected
     must return form Acct. 154 with the postage-due stamps affixed
     by the first mail after the article is delivered. If the article has
     to be again readdressed, a fresh form is to be prepared by the
     office making the second or subsequent redirection.

615. Postage-due articles for private-bag holders must have
     postage-due stamps affixed and cancelled before being placed in
     the private bags. To enable the value of the postage-due stamps
     to be recovered, the form "'Redirected Postage Due"' (Acct. 154)
     should be altered to suit, and enclosed with the letters.

616. If matter should arrive at a post-office with postage due
     thereon, and the Postmaster has no postage-due stamps on hand,
     he will collect the amount due, and, as soon as he can obtain
     postage-due stamps, will affix the amount in such stamps to a
     sheet of paper, cancel, and forward the same to the Chief Post-
     master for transmission to the Chief Accountant, General Post
     Office, with a statement of the facts.

617. When postage-due stamps have been affixed to refused,
     unclaimed, or other undelivered matter, credit must be obtained
     therefor by means of a claim on the Chief Postmaster for postage-
     due stamps on undelivered mail-matter. The Chief Postmaster
     will, when satisfied as to the correctness of the claim, arrange for
     a refund being made, and will take credit for the amount of such
     refund as "'Postage refunded"'; a notice (which must be made
     in duplicate by the manifold-writing process) on form Acct. 340
     being sent to the Chief Accountant, General Post Office, with the
     Daily Cash Account in support of such entry. The counterpart of
     the notice must be sent with the undeliverable mail-matter to the
     Dead Letter Office, as an advice of the fact that credit has been
     taken for the postage-due stamps affixed thereto.

618. When postage-due stamps have been affixed to corre-
     spondence subsequently redirected, a claim stating the amount
     due and the name of the person from whom it is to be collected
     must be attached to and sent with the letter. The Postmaster
     receiving the same must detach the claim and return it by next
     mail, with amount of uncancelled postage-due stamps enclosed, to

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