2018

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 60

132. Stores for issue are to be carefully posted up in the Stores
     for Issue Register from the invoices sent with the goods. Stores
     for issue are expendable or consumable supplies, and are to be
     treated as distinct from property.

133. Mail-bags, hampers, and other departmental material must
     on no account be used for private or other irregular purposes. Any
     officer converting departmental material, temporarily or permanently, to private use will be very severely punished. Mail-bags
     and other departmental receptacles are not to be lent to the public
     for any purpose whatever. Also, they are not to be lent indiscriminately to mail-contractors. When bags or hampers are required
     by contractors for the safe carriage of mails, they may be issued
     only on special request, and must in all cases be returned immediately the purpose for which they have been supplied is served.

134. (a.) On no account is departmental property to be disposed of by sale or otherwise, except as provided by rule, without
     specific instructions from an administrative officer of the Department.

(b.) Sales by auction of valuable departmental property must
be first approved by the Minister. In every case in which an officer
recommends the sale of any departmental property by auction the
name of the auctioneer proposed to be engaged must be submitted
to the Secretary. Sale by private tender is absolutely prohibited.

(c.) The sale of old or new telegraph material, &c. (including
telephones), may be effected only through the District Telegraph
Engineer, to whom all applications are to be forwarded.

135. The material sent to a stock station must in all cases be
     debited to stock, and, when issued, taken credit for and debited
     against the work to which it is chargeable. The only exceptions
     to this rule are when goods are sent from an Engineer's stock (or
     from the Stores Manager) and are to be used for a special line,
     for which the material held cannot be, or is not, supplied from the
     nearest adjacent stock station, or when special material of a special
     character is sent out for use in such a work as "conversion into
     automatic" or "placing of wires underground."

136. Waste in stores and battery materials, particularly mercury
     and acids, must be prevented. Old zines, coppers, and copper
     deposits must be preserved, and when a quantity of more than
     1 cwt. has accumulated, a report of the quantity and description
     of the material must be furnished to the Stores Manager, who
     will instruct the office concerned as to its disposal. Smaller quantities from sub-offices may be sent to the Telegraph Engineer, whose
     authority, however, should first be obtained.

137. All packages on departmental business containing stationery,
     telegraph or telephone material, &c., are to be sent by parcel-post
     if the weight does not exceed 20 lb. A package exceeding the
     weight of 20 lb. is to be sent as freight. A package is not to be
     divided to bring the weight within the limit.

138. (a.) Local controlling officers who have occasion to consign
     material by either boat or rail must pay particular attention to
     the nature of the entries on the respective consignment-notes or
     boat-notes. The material must in all cases be fully described, as
     the description or the lack of it affects the classification, and consequently the rate charged. Empty cases which have been received
     containing material or stationery, and are being returned to the
     Stores Manager, must be entered on the consignment-note as
     "Returned empty cases." The exact measurement must be stated
     when the cases are conveyed by sea, and the weight when they
     are conveyed by rail. The entry in the case of consignments of
     scrap or waste material must be plain, the word "scrap" or
     "waste" being included in every instance. The duplicate boat