Aug. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2695

95. The payment of a money-order, by whomsoever presented, discharges the Department from all further liability in respect of the amount. The Postmaster-General, however, may require an officer to make good any amount which, through want of care or neglect of the instructions, has been paid to a person not entitled thereto, and which cannot be recovered.

96. No application will be entertained for compensation for alleged injury through the non-payment of a money-order at the expected time.

97. Ordinary money-orders, and inland and intercolonial money-order telegrams, become void at the expiration of the twelfth month after the month of issue. Thus, an order issued in January becomes void if not paid before the end of the following January. Savings-bank money-orders become void at the expiration of the third month after the month of issue, and domestic money-orders at the expiration of the first month after the month of issue. In no circumstances should an advice of an order that is not void be removed from the file until payment is about to be made.

    (a.) At the close of business on the last day of each month the Postmaster must carefully examine the advices on hand, and forward, with his accounts, all the advices of orders which have become void, particulars of which must be entered at the foot of the Money-order Paid Statement.

    (b.) Corrected advices, letters of inquiry on form Acct. 73 and 73A, and duplicate order notices from the Controller directing payment of the duplicates, must be sent in with the orders to which they relate.

PAYMENT OF DOMESTIC MONEY-ORDERS.

98. Upon the receipt of a domestic money-order for payment at his office, the paying Postmaster will, after entering particulars in the register (Acct. 587), hand it to the letter-carrier in whose walk the payee resides, together with the requisite cash to enable him to effect payment. Each carrier to whom domestic orders are intrusted for payment must be furnished with a list thereof on form Acct. 585, and must be required to sign the register for the amount of each order handed to him. In the event of the carrier being unable to effect payment while on his round, the order and cash must upon his return be handed to the Postmaster, who will affix his initials to the entry in the register in the appropriate column. If necessary, the cash and order must be sent out by the carrier on his next and subsequent deliveries, and the effort to effect payment must be continued until successful, or until the carrier ascertains that the payee has either removed beyond the limits of the town delivery or that he is likely to be absent until after the date up to which the order is valid. A fresh entry must be made in the register upon each occasion that the order is taken out for payment. If payment of a domestic money-order cannot be effected upon the first delivery after its receipt the reason must be indorsed upon it, thus: “Not at home, 9 a.m. 12th”; “Removed to 26 Hanover Street, Christchurch.” On each further occasion that the order is taken out for delivery the reason for non-payment must be similarly indorsed.

No claim after payment.

Orders not paid, no liability in respect of.

When money-orders become void.

Advices of void orders to be taken off file on last day of each month.

Documents to be sent in with void orders.

Particulars to be entered in register.