SAFES AND CASH-BOXES.

154. (a.) When a money-order and savings-bank office is about
     to be opened the Secretary will arrange for the supply of a safe,
     if one is required. In all other cases in which safes are required
     application is to be made to the Secretary.
     (b.) On issuing a safe the Stores Manager sends a packing-list
     to the officer concerned, and, when that officer is a Postmaster,
     sends also a duplicate of the packing-list to the Chief Postmaster.
     The Chief Postmaster, Superintendent, or District Telegraph Engineer, as the case may be, is held responsible for seeing that the
     duplicate keys of a safe are enclosed in a sealed packet inscribed
     “Duplicate key No. of safe at [Office],” and deposited with
     the local or nearest local branch of the Bank of New Zealand.
     Immediately the duplicate keys have been so deposited and a
     receipt for them obtained, the receipt is to be filed at the chief
     post-office, the telegraph-office, or at the office of the District Telegraph Engineer, as the case may be.
     (c.) Before a safe may be transferred from one office to another
     application for authority must be forwarded to the Secretary.
155. District controlling officers are to keep on card P.O. 133
     a record of departmental safes and strong-rooms in use in their
     offices and districts. The record is to include any safe or strong-room used by the Department but not its property.
156. (a.) At railway-station post-offices railway safes embedded
     in concrete are to be used for the custody of railway and postal
     cash, and post-office safes not embedded in concrete are to be
     used for other articles and books belonging to both Departments
     which require to be placed in a safe. “Postal cash” includes
     cash, cheques, postal notes, stamps, &c.
     (b.) Registers of births, deaths, and marriages are not to be
     placed in post-office safes.
157. At all post-offices cash-boxes are to be numbered by the
     Postmaster, and the duplicate keys enclosed in a sealed envelope
     and kept in the safe in the custody of the Postmaster. When it
     becomes necessary, through the loss of or damage to the original
     key, to use the duplicate, a new key is to be applied for, the duplicate
     being used as a pattern; and when the new key is received the
     duplicate is to be replaced in the sealed envelope in the custody
     of the Postmaster.
158. For the rule regarding the custody of safe and other office
     keys in use see No. 38.

MOTOR VEHICLES AND BICYCLES.

159. Every motor vehicle owned by the Department is to
     carry two number-plates (one at the front and one at the rear).
     The plates on motor-lorries, motor-vans, and motor-cycles must
     have shown on them the letters “G.P.O.” and those on motor-
     cars “Govt.” followed in each case by the Head Office registration
     number. In addition, on motor-cars, the Royal Monogram is to
     be painted on the right-hand side. The design is obtainable from
     the Workshops Manager, Wellington.
160. The identification number of a machine is the G.P.O.
     number allotted by the Stores Manager. This number must be
     quoted in all communications and returns respecting the machine.
161. Every motor vehicle, except a motor-cycle, is to have
     affixed thereto a speedometer, which is to be kept in good order.
     Except where unavoidable, no vehicle is to be used when the
     speedometer is not registering.
162. On every motor vehicle, except motor-cycles, there is to be
     fixed in a suitable place a “Pyrene” or other suitable fire appliance,
     and care is to be taken that this appliance is kept in good order.