1172

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 29

packets compulsorily registered, and a suitable note made on the
bill or list (if any) with which the packet was received.

711. A registration label which has become detached from a
     registered packet may be reaffixed if the packet can be certainly
     identified. If there is any doubt, the matter should be reported,
     the label being pinned to the report form.

712. Letters directed to places within the Dominion and
     Australia, presumably containing coin, which have not been regis-
     tered, must be registered in the ordinary way. The caution label
     must be gummed over the flaps of the envelopes, and the receipts,
     with the words “Compulsorily registered” written across them,
     filed in the office. The letters must then be taxed with a double
     registration fee of 4d., and be treated in all other respects as
     registered letters. Unregistered coin letters, if originating in New
     Zealand and directed to any country other than New Zealand or
     Australia, are to be sent to the Dead Letter Office. (See Rule 703.)
     To a packet compulsorily registered one of the labels of the office
     at which the compulsory registration is effected is to be affixed,
     and its number on the label entered opposite the entry of the
     packet in the usual record. Business firms advertising in the news-
     papers and asking for remittances for goods supplied or to be sup-
     plied should be advised by Chief Postmasters to request their
     clients to register all letters containing such remittances.

713. Letters or sealed packets, however, must not be regis-
     tered on the mere suspicion that they contain valuables, nor must
     there be any prying into them for the purpose of ascertaining
     their contents; and it is only when there is no doubt that coin,
     bank-notes, jewellery, watches, &c., are enclosed that they are
     subject to this regulation. Letters or packets are often found in
     post-offices under some of the following conditions:-
     (1.) Posted in such thin covers that their contents are clearly
     visible.
     (2.) Posted with some of the contents protruding from the
     covers.
     (3.) Posted without being sealed or in any way closed against
     inspection.
     (4.) Accidentally come open in transit.
     Under any of these circumstances there will be no difficulty in
     determining whether the contents are such as to bring the article
     within the rule, and whenever there is any doubt in the matter
     compulsory registration is to be waived.

714. Officers are specially warned against exchanging bank-
     notes for coin when the circumstances clearly indicate that the
     person applying for such an exchange intends to post the bank-
     notes in a letter.

715. Compulsory registration fees charged in error can be
     refunded only on the authority of the Inspector of Post-offices.
     The facts of the case are to be reported.

716. A letter addressed to any place in New Zealand, marked
     “Registered,” but not entered on the list or letter-bill, or marked
     in blue pencil must, when discovered, be registered and treated
     as not having been duly tendered for registration, and charged
     with a double fee of 4d. in addition to the postage, less any amount
     prepaid for registration. On the face of such letters the words
     “Irregularly posted” must be written. Official letters must be
     charged the double registration fee only. Such irregularly posted
     letters, however, addressed to places beyond New Zealand must be
     treated as ordinary letters, even though marked “Registered.”
     In such cases the word “Not” must be prefixed to the word
     “Registered,” and the officer’s initials added.