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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 65

partners or some person authorized to use the firm’s name in that manner.

75. Postmasters are strictly forbidden to lodge money-orders with a bank for collection in order to conceal an irregular payment or any other breach of these rules.

76. Generally speaking, where the name or initials of the person presenting a money-order materially differ from those furnished in the relative advice, payment should be refused. However, when the applicant is a person of good repute and well known, the Postmaster or senior officer may authorize payment by enfacing the order “Identity established; pay,” followed by his signature. In such a case the payee should sign the order in accordance with the name advised, and also add his usual signature.

The certificate “Identity established” must be sparingly given by paying officers without reference to their superior officers, and then only when the discrepancy is of a slight and unimportant nature.

77. Payment of a money-order (not issued for transmission by telegraph) may not be demanded on the day of issue unless drawn on the office of issue. There is no objection to payment being effected on that day, however, if the Postmaster has sufficient funds.

78. No money-order which has been mutilated may be paid without the express authority of the Controller, unless the mutilation is only slight and unimportant, and none of the essential particulars are missing. If, however, the mutilation extends to the severance of the receipt portion from the remainder of the order, the pieces should be transmitted to the Controller for cancellation, and a duplicate form will then be furnished for the purpose of obtaining a receipt on a complete form.

79. No money-order of which payment has been transferred in any other manner than that directed in Rules 56 to 62 may be paid without the express authority of the Controller.

80. No money-order having the word “Paid” stamped, perforated, or written upon it may be paid without the express authority of the Controller.

81. Whenever an order which has been improperly transferred or an order marked “Paid” is presented at his office, the Postmaster must at once, after refusing payment, report the circumstances to the Controller, and await instructions.

82. When a money-order telegram is presented for payment and it is found that the relative advice (top copy of telegram) has failed to reach the paying office, the paying Postmaster should, after satisfying himself that payment has not already been made by means of a duplicate money-order, telegraph to the issuing Postmaster for full particulars of the money-order telegram, including the code-word. If the particulars received from the issuing office agree with the order as presented, the service telegrams may be treated as a second advice, and payment made accordingly. In such cases a memorandum on form Acct. 77 should be placed among the advices of unpaid orders, and, should the original advice come to hand subsequently, the memorandum, together with the advice, should be forwarded to the Controller.

83. With a view to identification of savings-bank depositors who request that the amounts withdrawn from their accounts may be remitted by means of a money-order telegram,