✨ Money-Order Regulations
2682
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 65
Special requisition.
(a.) Applications for domestic money-orders should be made on a special form of requisition (Acct. 586), to which a form of certificate of issue is attached. The latter portion, after completion, is to be handed to the remitter.
No advice required.
(b.) No advice of a domestic money-order is required, provision having been made for the insertion of the name and address of remitter and payee in the order. After issue, a domestic money-order must be forwarded by the first mail to the Postmaster at the paying office in an envelope superscribed “Domestic money-order,” to be written with red ink in the left-hand top corner.
How accounted for.
(c.) Particulars of domestic money-orders issued must be shown in the Statement of Money-orders Issued, the word “Domestic” being inserted against the entry in the column headed “Country.” The commission is to be accounted for in the customary manner.
DESPATCH OF ADVICES.
Money-order advices to be properly addressed.
35. All money-order advices, except those to which adhesive labels are affixed, must be addressed on the back with the full designation of the paying office, care being taken to add, in the case or orders payable beyond the Dominion, the name of the country in which the paying office is situated.
Despatch of advices.
(a.) The Postmaster must despatch the advices of all money-orders issued at his office by first mail, as follows:—
To the Postmaster’s Chief Office—
United States of America, Canada.
To the Chief Postmaster, Auckland—
Austria, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga. Hawaii, Cook and other islands (when Wellington is the port of departure of the next mail these advicse are to be diverted accordingly).
Direct to paying office—
New Zealand (Cook and other islands excepted), Australia, Union of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, United Kingdom (excluding foreign countries through London and certain places through Australian offices, which must be sent to the Controller, Money-order Office, G.P.O., Wellington).
To the Controller, Money-order Office, G.P.O., Wellington—
All countries and places not otherwise specified. Advices of orders which have been telegraphed to places in Australia.
(b.) The special envelopes provided must be used for covering advices of money-orders forwarded to places in Australia, the Union of South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, and the United Kingdom, and plain envelopes for those forwarded to the Chief Postmasters, Auckland and Wellington, and the Controller, Money-order Office, G.P.O., Wellington. The plain envelopes must be superscribed in the top left-hand corner “Money-order Advices.” When there are two or more advices for the same office they should be enclosed in one envelope.
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NZ Gazette 1913, No 65
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NZ Gazette 1913, No 65
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