New Zealand Gazette – 1914 – No. 54

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✨ Post and Telegraph Department Regulations



May 25.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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RELIEVING-ALLOWANCE.

  1. Officers on relieving duty will be paid allowances at the following rates:
Per Diem. s. d.
To male officers drawing salaries exceeding £110.. 7 6
To female officers drawing salaries exceeding £100 6 0
To cadets .. 4 0

Other junior officers drawing salaries not exceeding £110 when appointed to relieving duty will be paid actual expenses only during the period of such relieving duty; claims for such actual expenses to be supported by vouchers, and to be subject to revision by the Permanent Head. Cadets entitled to lodging-allowance, when appointed to relieving-duty involving separate payment for such duty, will not be entitled to claim lodging-allowance for a longer time than one week after the relieving duty commences.

The relieving-allowance of 7s. 6d. per diem shall apply only to cases in which the period of relief does not exceed four weeks. Where it exceeds four weeks the amount of allowance shall be such sum not exceeding 7s. 6d. per diem as is authorized by the Commissioner.

  1. The allowance shall be for each day of twenty-four hours. For any portion of a day the rate shall be one twenty-fourth of the full daily rate for each hour's absence: Provided that when the absence does not exceed six hours actual and reasonable expenses only shall be paid. In all cases the day shall be deemed to commence immediately after midnight.

  2. Officers are not entitled to draw travelling-allowance for any time during which they perform relieving duty, except as follows : When, in performing relieving duty, an officer is not required to stay more than three nights in the place where such duty is performed, he may claim to be paid travelling-allowance instead of relieving-allowance if his expenses for the time of his stay are not fully paid for by the relieving-allowance ; and if he so claims he will be paid accordingly on submitting vouchers.

OVERTIME.

  1. In these regulations "overtime" means the time in which any official or departmental duty is performed outside the regular hours of duty ; and "Sunday" includes Good Friday and Christmas Day.

  2. (a.) Payment for overtime, when made, will be made at the following rates:

Rate per Hour. s. d.
To officers drawing salaries exceeding £250 2 6
To officers drawing salaries exceeding £200 and not exceeding £250 2 0
To officers drawing salaries exceeding £100 and not exceeding £200 1 6
To officers drawing salaries not exceeding £100 1 0
To telegraph message-boys 0 6

(b.) Payment will be made at a rate and a half for overtime at all hours on Sundays for every purpose, and on week-days between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. only when mails are specially authorized by the Secretary to be sorted. But no payment for any overtime to any officer shall be made at a rate exceeding 3s. per hour.

  1. Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, overtime shall be paid for as follows:-

(a.) To officers called on to perform either postal duties in the sorting and delivery of mails or in operations incidental thereto, or telegraph duties, at the following post or telegraph offices at which there are regular shifts or changes of staff—namely, the post or the telegraph offices at Ashburton, Auckland, Blenheim, Bluff, Christchurch, Dannevirke, Dunedin, Gisborne, Gore, Greymouth, Hamilton, Hastings, Hokitika, Invercargill, Masterton, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Oamaru, Palmerston North, Thames, Timaru, Wanganui, Wellington, Wellington South, and Westport: For Sunday attendance ; for attendance on departmental holidays; and for attendance on other days in excess of forty-eight hours weekly.



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