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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 29

(c.) At non-accounting offices the fees must be affixed in stamps
to the back of the advice-forms which accompany the parcels.
The stamps so affixed must be cancelled by an impression of the
office date-stamp and the forms posted to the Government Printer.

(d.) Applicants for Gold-miners’ Guides should be advised to
apply direct to the Government Printer.

(e.) Charges for embossing private envelopes and impressing
postcards with the halfpenny or penny stamp are to be accounted
for as Government Printing Office receipts.

969. Machinery-inspection Fees.—The Chief Inspector of Ma-
chinery furnishes Postmasters with schedules (accompanied by
certificates with dockets affixed) of the fees payable. These fees
must be paid within the period indicated on each schedule, failing
which a higher rate is imposed, particulars of which are also given
on the schedule. The particulars of fees received—viz., name of
person by whom paid, number both of certificate and schedule,
period covered by payment, and amount—must be furnished on
form Acct. 190, under the special heading “Machinery Fees.”
The date of payment must be entered against each entry in the
schedule. When a certificate is paid for, the Postmaster or other
officer who receives the fee must complete the docket as indicated
by the blanks, detach it from the certificate, and forward it to the
Chief Postmaster in support of the entry in the statement in which
the fee is accounted for. The schedules received from the Ma-
chinery Department with the certificates should be retained by
Postmasters and filed for record purposes. If payment of any
fee is not made within six months of the date of the schedule, the
fact should be reported to the Chief Inspector of Machinery on the
form provided for the purpose.

970. Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages.—The
fees received by Postmasters who are also Registrars should be
shown on form Acct. 190. The date of payment, name of person
by whom fee paid, and description of service rendered, must be
given. To avoid the penalty, notices of births must be given
within sixty-two days, including the day of birth.

971. National Provident Fund Receipts.—Contributions to
the National Provident Fund may be accepted at any money-order
office. Any person resident in New Zealand, and between the
ages of sixteen and forty-five, whose income does not exceed £200
a year, may on application become a contributor. The applicant
must be required to fill in and sign the application Form A.
When completed this form is to be folded up and at once posted
direct to the Superintendent of the Fund, Wellington, at any time
after completion of Form A. Contributions may be accepted for
any sum amounting to not less than one weekly contribution. On
payment of the first sum the receiving officer will enter in a new
receipt-book the particulars asked for inside the cover thereof.
The receipt-books should be issued in numerical sequence. The
receipt and pay-in slip in the book must on completion of the
entries be duly date-stamped and initialled for the sum received.
The pay-in slip is then to be detached, by means of the perfora-
tion, from the receipt-book. The book is thereupon to be handed
to the contributor for presentation by him at each future pay-
ment, and the pay-in slip retained by the Postmaster for his
accounts. Fifty-two payments are provided for in the book.
When a contributor’s book is filled the next unissued book is to
be issued to him, and the old number noted on the first pay-in
slip detached from the new book. The name and amount shown in
the pay-in slips retained by the receiving officer are to be entered
in the special statement of National Provident Fund receipts