Aug. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2033

217. No person other than a Postmaster or other Postal officer,
     unless by special license of the Commissioner of Stamp Duties, who
     alone issues such licenses, may sell postage and revenue stamps,
     under a penalty of £10. Postmasters should report any breach
     of this prohibition.

218. The issue of stamp licenses to Telephonists as such is
     permitted.

219. Stamps may be supplied to Receivers of Gold Revenue or
     to Clerks of Courts to cover the cost of Court fees.

220. Government officers are expected to purchase stamps, &c.,
     at post-offices whenever practicable, and not from licensed vendors,
     and Postmasters should report to Chief Postmasters when they are
     observed not to do so.

221. In connection with the repurchase of stamps (see Guide)
     Postmasters and officers will observe the following directions:—

(1.) Stamps may not be purchased from any officer or other
person employed by the Department, except by the
special permission of the head of the office at which
such stamps are presented. Stamps may not be pur-
chased from any other Government Department unless
the person offering them produces an application in
writing from a responsible officer of the Department.

(2.) A record must be kept in the Stamp-commission Book
under a separate heading, "Repurchase of Stamps",
showing the names of the persons from whom stamps
have been purchased, the value of such stamps, and the
amount charged as commission. These particulars must,
at the end of each period, be entered on form Acct. 112
and treated as "Miscellaneous receipts."

(3.) No charge is to be made for commission on the repurchase
of postage-stamps received as a remittance by Govern-
ment officers in their official capacity. On no account
must "Official" stamps be repurchased or exchanged for
stamps of the ordinary issue.

(4.) In special cases in which the circumstances warrant it, the
question of repurchasing stamps exceeding in value the
limit of 5s. may be referred to the Secretary for his
decision.

222. Chief Postmasters are supplied with a stock of inter-
     national reply-coupons for issue to post-offices in their respective
     districts. The coupons are for the purpose of prepaying the
     postage on replies to correspondence posted in New Zealand, and
     are for sale at 6d. each. A person wishing to prepay the postage
     on a reply to his letter encloses a coupon. The addressee on
     presentation of this coupon at any post-office receives in exchange
     a postage-stamp representing the amount of the postage on a single-
     rate international letter, and this stamp can be used as postage on
     the reply.

The coupons are to be treated as stamps, and accounted for
accordingly by Chief Postmasters. Those sent to accounting offices
are to be dealt with as part of the stamp balances at those offices;
those sent to offices where there are credit stocks of stamps are to
be treated as a part of those credit stocks; and those sent to the
smaller offices, where there are no credit stocks of stamps, must be
paid for by the Postmasters.

The coupons must be date-stamped at the time of sale in the
space provided for the date-stamp of the office of origin. When
exchanging coupons issued in other countries, an impression of the
date-stamp must be affixed in the space provided for the office of
exchange. The impression is to be made with a steel date-stamp

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