Part III. Services performed by non-permanent Postmasters
as part of the duties of their offices, for which payment
is included in salary.

Part IV. Services performed by permanent officers of the
Department.

Part V. Sea services performed under contract.

At the periodical reletting of contracts it will be necessary to
scan the services in Part II, with a view to the removal to
Part I of any which will from that time be usually let to tender
--viz., those services the subsidy for which exceeds £40.

The entries in each Part are arranged alphabetically and num-
bered consecutively, and should be referred to by Part, number,
and name. The distributing office or point should be shown first.
Each Part is to be separate and distinct, and numbered by itself.

264. Any service the cost of which is defrayed out of the
     vote for carriage of mails must appear as a mail-service, as, for
     instance, the delivery of letters by subsidized carrier, or a service
     between a post-office and railway-station.

265. Full particulars of all mail-services in each postal district
     are to be entered in the Mail-service Register.

266. In a case in which, in order to convey one outward mail
     and one inward one, the contractor is required to make two
     separate trips to and from a train, landing-place, or other delivery
     or receiving point, the two separate trips are to be counted as one
     for the purpose of describing the frequency of the service.

267. (a.) The revenue from a mail-service is estimated at 1d.
     each for letters and letter-cards, 3/4d. each for post-cards and
     book-packets, ½d. each for newspapers, and 6d. each for parcels
     posted and delivered. Care should be taken in the computation
     of revenue in order that the real value of the mail-service may
     be known. In computing the revenue, correspondence forwarded
     and received by the service at and from any office on the route,
     except the distributing office (i.e., the office from which the
     service starts), is alone to be taken into account. A deduction
     of 33⅓ per cent. of the total revenue of a mail-service or rural
     delivery, including the whole of the private-bag fees, is to be made
     to cover Postmasters’ salaries and various incidental expenses. This
     net revenue is always to be shown on forms Mail 47, Mail 52,
     Mail 70, and Mail 71; and in all correspondence relative to mail-
     services. In a service such as that providing for the carriage of
     mails between a post-office and railway-station or wharves, &c., no
     revenue is to be shown.

(b.) Where two separate services run between the same places,
the revenue from each is, as far as practicable, to be computed
on the correspondence actually dealt with.

(c.) When a special return is kept of letters, &c., delivered, in
order to compute the estimated revenue from correspondence that
would be despatched in both directions by a proposed mail-service
the basis of the computation is to be double the number of letters
delivered plus the number of other articles delivered.

268. In communicating with the Secretary on the subject of
     inland mail-services, form Mail 52 is generally to be accompanied
     by a sketch-map (drawn approximately to scale), and always by
     such a map when reporting on proposed new services.

269. (a.) All applications for transfer of mail-services in Parts I,
     II, and V must be forwarded to the Secretary. When a service
     is under bond, a certificate is to be furnished that the proposed
     sureties are financially satisfactory.

(b.) It is for a contractor to prepare a proper deed of assign-
ment of his contract and to have it completed, subject to the

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