✨ Money-Order Regulations
Aug. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2675
Money-order Regulations for Guidance of Officers.
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of August, 1913.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.
WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the second day of October, one thousand nine hundred and six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and six, regulations were made under the authority of the Post Office Act, 1900, providing for the transmission through the medium of the Post Office or the electric telegraph, by means of money-orders, of money to and from places within and beyond New Zealand, and for the reciprocal delivery and payment of the same; and it is expedient to revoke such regulations and to make others in lieu thereof:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, in pursuance of the provisions of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, doth hereby revoke the regulations made by the said recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth direct that this Order in Council and the regulations thereby made shall have effect on and from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.
SCHEDULE.
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In these rules the term “Controller” means Controller of Money-orders and Savings-banks, General Post Office, Wellington. Interpretation of terms.
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In the rules relating to the issue, payment, transfer, or repayment of money-orders, the alteration of the name of the payee, or the issue of a duplicate, unless there is something in the subject-matter or context repugnant thereto, the word “money-order” shall be regarded as including inland money-order telegram, intercolonial money-order telegram, and domestic money-order.
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The hours of business at all chief post-offices and at the post-office at Palmerston North are—Working-days, except Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturdays (with the exception of the offices at Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington, which close at noon), 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hours of business.
(a.) At all other money-order offices, with a few exceptions indicated in the Post and Telegraph Guide, the hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. every working-day, except on Saturdays, when the time of closing is extended to 5 p.m.
(b.) No money-order business is to be transacted on Sundays, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, or the King’s Birthday, except by special direction. Holidays.
- The Postmaster is strictly forbidden to divulge to the public any information relative to the advices of money-orders payable at his office. Official secrecy.
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NZ Gazette 1913, No 65
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NZ Gazette 1913, No 65
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🚂 Money-Order Regulations
🚂 Transport & Communications18 August 1913
Money-order, Regulations, Post Office, Telegraph, Public hours, Holidays, Secrecy
- LIVERPOOL, Governor
- Controller of Money-orders and Savings-banks, General Post Office, Wellington