Aug. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2701

113. The advices of money-orders issued at sub-offices for payment in the United States and Canada must, on their receipt at Chief Offices (to which they are required to be sent from the issuing offices) be stamped with the date of receipt. On the advices of the orders issued at Chief Offices the stamp showing the date of issue is sufficient.

114. Against the entry of the order in the Money-order Issued Statement in the column headed “List No.” must be shown the number of the list on which is entered the particulars of each order payable in the United States and Canada.

115. If, when checking the sub-office issued statements, it is discovered that the advice of a money-order drawn on an office in the United States or Canada, or the original requisition for a money-order or intercolonial money-order telegram drawn for payment beyond the Dominion, has not reached the Chief Postmaster, the following procedure must be adopted:—

(a.) An application for the requisition must be made by telegraph to the issuing Postmaster.

(b.) In the case of a missing advice, one of the forms specially designed to meet such cases (Acct. 432) must be prepared, showing the particulars of the missing advice and the date of application for a second advice.

(c.) Form Acct. 432 must then be sorted with the advices awaiting despatch.

(d.) Should the original advice be received before the second advice comes to hand, it must be entered in the next list and the particulars of the list noted on form Acct. 432, which must still be kept with the advices until the second advice is received, when both may be destroyed.

(e.) Should the second advice be received and the original advice be still missing, the order must be advised by means of the second advice, and the particulars of the list noted on form Acct. 432, which must still be kept with the advices awaiting despatch.

(f.) If the original advice as well as the second advice (applied for when the original was missing) reaches the Chief Postmaster, form Acct. 432 must be removed from the advice file and cancelled, together with the last advice received.

(g.) If, after a period of one month from the date on which the second advice was applied for, the original advice has not reached the Chief Postmaster, form Acct. 432 must be withdrawn from the file of advices awaiting despatch, filed separately for six months, and then destroyed.

(h.) If the requisition for a money-order drawn on an office in the United States or Canada is in the hands of the Chief Postmaster and the advice is missing, a second advice may be prepared at the Chief Office, but in such a case the action taken must be noted on form Acct. 432, and the Postmaster at the office of issue must be directed to note the fact on the back of the duplicate requisition.

(i.) A substitute requisition, containing all the available particulars and an intimation that the original has been asked for, must be forwarded to the Controller in lieu of the one missing. When the latter is received it must be promptly transmitted to the Controller.

116. The particulars shown in the original requisitions for money-orders and intercolonial money-order telegrams issued at the Chief Office and at sub-offices must be carefully com-

Advices of orders on the United States and Canada.

List number must be entered on Money-order Issued Statement in column headed “List No.”

When advice or original requisition is found to be missing.

When advice missing, form Acct. 432 to be filed with advices awaiting despatch.

Precautions to be taken to prevent duplicate listing.

Particulars in requisition to be compared with entries in statement at Chief Office.