SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
of
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1919.
Regulations for Post Office Savings-banks.-Amendments.
LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fifteenth
day of December, 1919.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM FRASER PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the seventh day
of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirteenth
day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen,
regulations were made under the authority of the Post and
Telegraph Act, 1908, for the conduct of post-office savings-
banks:
And whereas it is desirable to amend such regulations in
the manner hereinafter set forth:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the power and authority conferred upon him by the Post
and Telegraph Act, 1908, and the Post and Telegraph Amend-
ment Act, 1919, and of all other powers and authorities in
that behalf enabling him, and acting by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion;
doth hereby revoke the regulations numbered twenty-two,
forty-two, and fifty-seven in the Schedule to the above-
recited Order in Council, and doth make the regulations set
forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth declare that the
regulations hereby made shall be read with and form part
of the above-recited regulations, and shall have effect on and
after the date of publication of this Order in Council in the
New Zealand Gazette.
SCHEDULE.
22. (1.) EVERY depositor shall enter the amount of each
deposit made by him on the form of voucher supplied for the
purpose by the Postmaster-General; he must also sign his
name on the said voucher, and state thereon the address to
which he desires that the acknowledgment hereinafter referred
to may be transmitted.
Under no circumstances may a depositor enter any sum
or make any entry whatever in the numbered book issued to
him.
(2.) When a first deposit is made, a numbered book (in
these regulations referred to as the “Depositor's Book”)
shall be handed to the depositor.
(3.) See Appendix, section 70, subsections (1),(2), and (3).
(4.) The acknowledgment of the Postmaster-General of
the receipt of a deposit of £20 or more shall be signified by
the Controller of the Post Office Savings-bank, or by such
other officer as the Postmaster-General shall appoint for the
purpose, and shall be in the following form:-
Depositor’s Book No.
Savings-bank Department,
General Post Office, Wellington, N.Z.
THE Postmaster having reported to the Postmaster-
General the receipt by him of your deposit of the
,19, amounting to £ : : , that amount
has been placed to the credit of your account in the
books of this Department.
[N.B.--Should any alteration or erasure appear to
have been made in this acknowledgment, or should it
be inaccurate in any particular, it should be returned to
the Controller, General Post Office, Wellington.]
(5.) Such acknowledgment shall be conclusive evidence of
the fact and amount of the deposit. In the case of a deposit
of less than £20 the entry in the depositor's book shall be
conclusive evidence of title in the same manner as an acknow-
ledgment by the Postmaster-General of a deposit of £20 or
more, and it shall not be necessary to transmit any acknow-
ledgment of a deposit of less than £20.
In order to allow a reasonable time for the receipt of such
acknowledgment, the entry in the depositor's book shall be
evidence of title for six weeks from the date of the lodgment
of the deposit; and if such acknowledgment has not been
received by the depositor through the post within one month
from the date of his deposit, and the depositor has before or
upon the expiry thereof demanded the said acknowledgment
from the Postmaster-General, the entry in his depositor's
book shall be evidence of title during another term of one
month, and toties quoties.
If the sum mentioned in any acknowledgment is not
identical with the sum actually deposited by a depositor,
or the sum entered in such depositor's book or any other
particulars are incorrect, he shall at once, by letter addressed
to the Controller of the Post Office Savings-bank, call the
attention of the Postmaster-General to the discrepancy.
57. (1.) The amount at credit of an account may, upon
the application of the depositor, be transferred from the
Post Office Savings-bank of New Zealand to the Government
Savings-bank of Great Britain or that of any British pos-
session or foreign country with which a reciprocal arrange-
ment to that effect has been made; provided that the total
amount standing at the credit of the account, inclusive of
interest, does not exceed the maximum sum which may be
deposited under the law of the country to which such transfer
is desired.
(2.) Such application shall be made in the authorized form,
which may be obtained at any savings-bank, and shall be
accompanied by the depositor's book, or by other evidence,
to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General, of the title of
the applicant to the deposits to which the application relates.
(3.) There shall be paid by depositors to the Postmaster-
General for the transfer of their accounts a fee regulated by