2016

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 60

measurements required to be shown on the forms of requisition are
to be taken by the Postmaster or other local controlling officer.
As a general rule, uniform is not supplied to message-boys at
offices at which not more than two boys are employed unless the
offices are on a main railway-line and the attendance of the boys
at the railway-station is required. Overcoats and leggings are
supplied to message-boys at all offices. Temporary officers employed
in positions in which the permanent officers are in uniform are
supplied with uniform if they are likely to be employed for an
indefinite time.

(b.) For schedule of overcoats, &c., supplied to linemen and
faultmen see form Stores 137.

(c.) The boots of postmen and message-boys in uniform must
be black. Messengers and message-boys supplied with uniform
may wear straw hats (not supplied by the Department) as part of
the uniform during the summer months.

(d.) The numerals supplied for the identification of postmen and
message-boys are to be affixed to postmen's caps and to message-
boys' satchels.

(e.) A uniformed officer may wear on his tunic a military-service
decoration. The wearing of unauthorized badges, such as fern-
leaves, football colours, &c., is not permitted.

(f.) When officers wearing uniform are engaged on duty indoors,
the previous year's tunics should be worn. Messengers will be
supplied with canvas aprons for protecting their uniforms while
cleaning and doing other work likely to soil the cloth.

(g.) In the event of the promotion or resignation of an officer
who is supplied with uniform, the tunic must be properly cleaned
and repaired at a cleaning establishment, and, at the discretion of
the local controlling officer, transferred to his successor if it will fit
him, the Stores Manager being at once advised. If it will not fit
him, it must be sent to the Stores Manager, and requisition made
in the usual way for a new tunic. In all cases, new inside bands
must be sewn into caps or helmets. Trousers that have been worn
are not to be transferred.

(h.) Controlling officers are held responsible when an officer
supplied with uniform leaves the service for taking action before
the term of the officer's employment expires to secure the prompt
return of the articles of uniform issued to him.

(i.) When a new waterproof overcoat is issued, the old coat is
to be returned to the Stores Manager.

(j.) All cases and alleged cases of leaky or faulty waterproof
coats must be reported to the Stores Manager, the overcoats in
question accompanying the report.

(k.) Applications should not be made for new uniforms more
than three months prior to the date of their becoming due. If it
should be necessary to make an earlier application, a memorandum
should accompany the requisition, setting out the reason therefor.

128. Chief Postmasters, Superintendents, and Postmasters are
     required to see that officers in uniform under their control present
     at all times a clean and tidy appearance; that they wear the full
     uniform when they are on duty and, if they are not in private
     clothes, when they are proceeding to or from their homes; and
     that their uniform garments are properly worn, kept in good con-
     dition, and repaired when necessary. To this end, officers in uniform,
     other than message-boys, should be mustered on a day in the
     last week in each month, and an inspection made by the Chief
     Postmaster or Postmaster of their appearance and the state of their
     uniform. At the same time an inspection is to be made of depart-
     mental bicycles used by the officers. The bicycles are to be com-
     plete in all respects. Postmasters will report the result of the