✨ Post and Telegraph Department Regulations
2008
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60
(c.) Controlling officers must clearly understand that it is
the desire of the Department that every effort should be made
to provide opportunities for men to attend to their military
duties, and that any case of failure to afford the fullest possible
facilities will be met in the serious manner it deserves.
SUGGESTIONS.
- The Secretary will be glad to receive from any officer
suggestions for improvements in either the system or details
of work. Such suggestions must be forwarded through the local
controlling officers, or through the suggestion-boxes at the chief
post-offices and the telegraph-offices at Auckland, Christchurch,
Dunedin, and Wellington. An annual prize (the Gray Memorial
Prize)—usually a medal—is awarded for the best original sug-
gestion that is adopted for the improvement of the service.
ATTENDANCE: HOLIDAYS, ETC.
- (a.) Special announcements as to holiday attendance or
duty are made from time to time in the Official Circular. A
notice of holiday-closing must be exhibited in some conspicuous
place at least three days prior to the holiday, and the notice
must specify the hours of attendance. Newspaper advertising
charges are not to be incurred in announcing holidays.
(b.) Every post-office is closed on Sunday, and on Good
Friday, Anzac Day, and Christmas Day, and no officer is re-
quired to attend on any of those days for postal duty except
by express direction of the Secretary. At offices at which the
sorting of mails on Sunday is authorized the sorting is to be
restricted to letters only. English mails are not to be sorted on
Sundays or holidays except on special occasions and by special
permission from the Secretary. The sorting of other mails on
holidays is not to lengthen the time during which offices are open
to the public, but mails received up to the time of closing the
office must be completely sorted. Local mails delivered at the
office before or at the time of opening to the public are to be
sorted and distributed.
(c.) Sufficient staff must be provided on holidays to meet all
public requirements and avoid occasion for complaint.
(d.) A counter delivery by postmen is not to be made on a
departmental holiday, except in the case of the arrival of English
or other important mails.
(e.) Under certain circumstances a special evening delivery of
correspondence is made at chief offices on the day prior to a
departmental holiday. (See Rule 440.)
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For instructions regarding the despatch of mails to sub-
offices on post-office holidays see Rule 380. -
The General Post Office is closed on the following dates or
days in addition to the statutory holidays:—
2nd January.
22nd January (Anniversary Day, Wellington Provincial
District).
Easter Saturday.
Labour Day (4th Monday in October).
27th December.
On these dates or days the General Post Office is not to be
communicated with by telegraph unless the matter is urgent.
- Chief Postmasters may authorize, without reference to the
Secretary, temporarily restricted attendance at or temporary
closing of a non-permanent office at which the Postmaster or
Telephonist is in receipt of a salary not exceeding £50 per
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NZ Gazette 1922, No 60
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NZ Gazette 1922, No 60
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Military Training for Post and Telegraph Officers
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🛡️ Defence & MilitaryMilitary Training, Signal Corps, Territorials, Post and Telegraph Department
🚂 Suggestions for Improvements in Post and Telegraph Services
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsSuggestions, Improvements, Post and Telegraph, Gray Memorial Prize
🚂 Attendance and Holiday Regulations for Post Offices
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsAttendance, Holidays, Post Office, Mail Sorting
🚂 Closure Dates for General Post Office
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsPost Office Closure, Holidays, Wellington Provincial District
🚂 Temporary Closure of Non-Permanent Post Offices
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsPost Office Closure, Temporary, Non-Permanent Offices