✨ Money-Order Regulations
Aug. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2677.
(e.) Upon receipt of warning of a theft of money-order forms, the Postmaster must take the following precautions:—
All money-order, money-order telegram, and domestic money-order advices either in hand at the time the warning arrives or afterwards received must be carefully examined, and if an advice corresponding with one of the stolen forms be discovered it must at once be set aside, and the Controller advised by telegram.
A docket on form Acct. 146 must be placed on the file, in relative sequence with the advices, showing particulars of the missing forms.
If any one of the missing forms be tendered for payment, whether by a bank or by one of the public, the officer to whom it is tendered should refuse payment and impound the form. If the person tendering the form be not known to him, or is unable to give a satisfactory explanation of his possession of it he should be closely observed with a view to subsequent identification. In any case, a telegram should at once be sent to the Controller, giving an account of the attempt to cash the form.
ISSUE OF MONEY-ORDERS.
- The maximum amount for which a single money-order may be issued in New Zealand is as follows:—
For payment in New Zealand—
(a.) To the general public . . . . £40
(b.) To the Receiver of Land Revenue or Commissioner of Crown Lands, and vice versa . . . . No limit.
(c.) To the tenderer for a mail-service (see Rule 31) . . . . No limit.
(d.) Domestic money-order . . . . £5
For payment beyond the Dominion—
See Post and Telegraph Guide, under “List of British and Foreign Countries and Colonies, &c., to which money-orders may be sent,” &c.
For rates of commission, see Post and Telegraph Guide.
No money-order may contain a fractional part of a penny.
- Application for a money-order should be made on one of the printed forms of requisition, but a manuscript requisition must be accepted if tendered. After entering particulars of the order on one of the printed forms the Postmaster must affix thereto the manuscript requisition. If the applicant is unable to write, the requisition must be filled in by some person other than the issuing officer. The serial number of the relative order issued must be entered on each requisition, and an impression of the office stamp showing the date of issue must also be affixed. Requisitions must be filed in sequence of the date and serial number of the various classes of money-order issued, and retained for three years (see Rule 134). It will be found convenient for future reference to tie them in monthly, quarterly, or half-yearly bundles.
(a.) Requisitions for money-orders and intercolonial money-order telegrams payable at places beyond New Zealand must be obtained in duplicate. If the remitter demurs at furnishing the duplicate, or when a manuscript requisition is re-
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NZ Gazette 1913, No 65
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NZ Gazette 1913, No 65
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🚂 Transport & Communications18 August 1913
Money-order, Regulations, Post Office, Theft, Precautions, Payment Limits, Requisitions