2042
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

approval of the Department. The form of assignment given on
the back of the bond is intended to provide only for simple
transactions. For a second assignment, form Mail 53 is to be used.
(c.) 'When a mail-service is assigned the incoming contractor
must sign the conditions of contract and time-table as well as the
deed of assignment. The signature may be placed underneath
that of the outgoing contractor.

270. (a.) All changes in time-tables of mail-services under
     Parts I, II, and V are to be reported on form Mail 73, and only
     in cases in which there are special circumstances need the Secre-
     tary's approval be obtained.
     (b.) All proposed changes of time-tables or schedules of
     maximum fares of mail-services on tourist routes should be re-
     ported in good time to enable the Department of Tourist and
     Health Resorts to be consulted or informed when necessary.

271. Other changes in services under all Parts (as, for instance,
     the establishment or abolition of a service, the inclusion of an
     additional calling-place consequent on the establishment of a post-
     office, &c.) are to be reported on form Mail 47, except on the
     occasion of the general reletting of services. (See under “Re-
     letting of Services.”)

272. Contributions agreed to be made to the Department
     towards the cost of mail-services must be claimed immediately they
     become due, and the Secretary advised as soon as payment has
     been made or is in default. County Councils are not legally able
     to contribute towards the cost of mail-services out of their funds.
     The question of obtaining contributions from County Councils is
     not, therefore, to be considered in connection with the cost of
     mail-services. No guarantee of a contribution towards the cost
     of a mail-service is to be accepted except on form Mail 51.
     A duplicate form is always to be made out, to be delivered to the
     guarantors as a record. The penal sum in a contribution bond is
     the total amount to be contributed during the whole of the term
     of the bond. When a settler who is a contributor to a mail-
     service transfers his property, the settler to whom it is transferred
     is to be required to sign form Mail 51.

273. Chief Postmasters should see that reports on mail-services
     are obtained from Postmasters on form Mail 61 on the 1st April
     and 1st October each year, and at more frequent intervals when
     necessary.

RELETTING OF SERVICES.

274. (a.) About seven months before the expiry of a general
     mail-contract period instructions are given Chief Postmasters to
     furnish on form Mail 70 a schedule of existing and proposed con-
     tract services (Parts I and V) in their districts for the new period,
     and to report or make suggestions on matters which, in their
     opinion, should be considered before calling for tenders. They
     will also bring up proposals which have been directed to be con-
     sidered. In the schedule all services proposed to be let to tender
     must be placed in alphabetical order of the names of the first-
     mentioned offices, numbered consecutively. Care is to be taken
     to see that the distributing office or point is shown first, even
     when the contractor commences his journey at the terminus of the
     service. The estimated revenue will appear against both present
     and proposed services. In every case in which it will facilitate
     reference the present number of an existing service is to be given.
     The schedule is also to serve for memoranda in which the Chief
     Postmaster will set out his proposals in regard to the services.
     The remarks in respect of each service are to be allotted a
     separate paragraph, immediately after the entry of the service.