✨ Postal Regulations
Aug. 22.
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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used in connection therewith. A copy of the subjoined notice should also be exhibited in the window of the vacant office:—
SUSPENSION OF BUSINESS.
The business of this office is for the present suspended. Any money-orders drawn on this office will be paid on application at — [Naming the office], or the money will be sent by post on a written application to that effect enclosing the money-order duly signed, and showing on the back of the order the required information respecting the remitter’s name.
Chief Postmaster.
Date : ——.
The suspension of money-order business must be reported at once to the Controller. All advices addressed to the vacant office must be intercepted and treated as payable at the nearest suitable money-order office.
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The books, forms, &c., supplied to Postmasters for money-order business must be carefully preserved, and must be delivered up by the officers intrusted with them when they are called upon to do so, or when they give up charge of their offices.
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The Postmaster will be allowed to retain a certain fixed amount of official cash, called a “reserve balance,” to enable him to meet the ordinary requirements of his office. If, however, in special circumstances it should be necessary for the Postmaster to keep an amount of cash above the authorized reserve, to enable him to pay money-orders that have been advised upon his office, payment of which will be immediately required, he must enter particulars of the orders in the space provided on the back of the Post Office Account.
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Except in the foregoing circumstances, the Postmaster must remit to his Chief Postmaster by every mail all the official cash, exclusive of odd shillings and pence, in his possession in excess of his authorized reserve, whenever that excess exceeds £10.
(a.) Remittances should be enclosed in the form provided for the purpose, the amount being stated opposite to that heading in the form which describes its nature. When despatching a remittance the instructions laid down in Postal Rule 726 must be observed. It must not on any account be enclosed in the envelope in which the Post Office Account is sent.
- Should the Postmaster receive notice of unusually large demands to be made upon his office, for the payment of which he requires more cash than the reserve balance, he must, when no funds have been specially remitted to him or authorized to be retained, apply to his Chief Postmaster for a remittance on the appropriate form (Acct. 93), and must enter thereon full particulars of unpaid documents in hand and also of those expected.
(a.) In urgent cases the Postmaster may telegraph for funds.
(b.) In all cases in which a Postmaster is placed in funds by telegraph, the usual form of advice of remittance (Acct. 87A), filled up with the necessary particulars and enfaced “Sent by telegraph.” will be sent by the Chief Postmaster to the Postmaster, who will, on receipt of the form, acknowledge the remittance in the usual manner.
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VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 1913, No 65
NZLII —
NZ Gazette 1913, No 65
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