Aug. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2693

Chief Postmasters are directed to insert on the requisition form (Acct. 65) the words “Savings-bank Account No. ——” in the space for the name of remitter. All officers to whom application is made for copies of form Acct. 3 should advise the depositors that in order to protect their own interests they should be in a position to furnish the number of their savings-bank account when presenting the money-order telegram for payment.

84. When a money-order, except a Public Works Department order, is paid through a bank, it is sufficient, as regards the receipt, that it be impressed on the front with the official stamp of the bank at the town where payment is claimed, and that it is presented by some person known to be in the employ of that bank. As regards date, number, and amount, the order must be seen to be in agreement with the relative advice before payment is made.

85. The holder of a money-order, except a Public Works Department order, payable at a place where there is a bank is always at liberty to direct, by crossing it, that the order be paid through a bank, even though its payment was not originally so restricted, and when such an order is so crossed the question put on the presentation of an ordinary money-order is dispensed with, and the foregoing observances alone enforced; but an order crossed as payable through a bank must not be paid unless presented through a bank, although the advice may not be so crossed, except where there is no bank in the place on which the order is drawn.

(a.) When a money-order issued, or afterwards crossed, for payment through a bank is drawn for payment at a place where there is no bank, it may be paid direct to the payee named in the advice, on the conditions prescribed in Rules 72 and 74. The order should be enfaceed “No bank.”

86. Money-orders issued by the Public Works Department must not under any circumstances be paid if presented through a bank. A direction to that effect is printed on the back of the order forms.

87. Payment of money-orders presented through a bank may only be made at the post-office upon which the orders have been drawn and advised, unless there is no bank at the place named as the paying office.

88. Money-orders drawn upon a place where there is no bank will, if presented at the Chief Office of the postal district in which the paying office is situated, be paid subject to the following conditions and the bank’s acceptance thereof:—

(a.) Bank authorities must be informed at the time of payment that the amount so paid must be refunded should it subsequently be ascertained that payment has been made at the paying office by means of a duplicate money-order.

(b.) A commission at the inland rate must be paid on presentation of an order so treated, and stamps to the value of the commission must be affixed thereto, and cancelled with an impression of the Chief Office date-stamp.

(c.) When a bank manager applies to the Postmaster at a place where there is no bank for transfer of an order of which he is not the payee, the application must be refused. The applicant should be requested to present the order (through his agent) at the Chief Post-office of the district.