Aug. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2697

$(a)$ If any other information relating to a money-order which involves a search is required by the remitter or payee, application should be made in writing, and a written reply must be supplied. The fee to be collected for such a search is $1 s$ for the first thirty minutes occupied, and $6 d$. for each additional fifteen minutes or fraction thereof. The application must be forwarded to the Controller, Money-order Office, Wellington, with stamps for the requisite fee affixed, and a minute by the Postmaster stating the time the searcher was engaged.

$(b)$ Should the remitter of a money-order payable within the Dominion, or beyond the Dominion, with the exception of those places mentioned in the Postal Guide, desire to obtain official advice that the order has been paid, the issuing officer will fill in form Acct. $135 \mathrm{~B}$ and collect and affix thereto in stamps a fee of $2 \frac{1}{2} \mathrm{~d}$. Special care must be taken to see that the correct address of the remitter is filled in on the back of the form.

When application for advice of payment is made before the money-order advice has left the issuing office, form Acct. $135 \mathrm{~B}$ is to be attached thereto, and the words “ Advise payment” written across the advice in the space for the date-stamp of the paying office, and also on the form of requisition (Acct. 70).

If an application is received after the advice has left the issuing office, the form Acct. $135 B$ is to be sent to the paying office in the case of an inland order, and direct to the Controller if the order is payable beyond the Dominion.

If application is made for advice of payment of an inland money-order telegram the procedure will be the same as in the case of an ordinary order, but the words “ Advise payment” must appear in the instructions on the telegram, and the remitter’s address immediately after his name in the body of the form. The additional words, including those in the instructions, must be paid for by the remitter at the rate of $\frac{1}{2} d$. per word ordinary and ld. urgent, in addition to the fee of $2 \frac{1}{2} \mathrm{~d}$.

Upon payment of an order for which advice of payment is required, the paying officer will complete the certificate on form Acct. $135 B$ and leave it attached to the advice of the order to which it relates. In the case of a money-order telegram, form Acct. $135 B$ will be prepared and completed by the paying officer.

When an advice is received from beyond the Dominion for which advice of payment of an order is required, and no form is attached thereto, form Acct. $135 B$ will be filled in and affixed to the advice at the office of exchange.

MONEY-ORDER ACCOUNTS.

102. The Postmaster is required to send in to his Chief Postmaster, enclosed in the envelope provided for the purpose, statements of all his transactions, together with a balanced Post Office Account on form Acct. 7.

$(a)$ The statements, with the proper vouchers, must be sent in with the Post Office Account four times a month-namely, for the periods from the 1st to the 7th, from the 8th to the 15th, from the 16th to the 23rd, and from the 24th to the last day inclusive of every month-and must be despatched by the first mail after the closing of his office for money-order business on the last day of the period for D