2044
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

bers of previous papers are to be quoted in cases in which special
consideration is to be given. Where no tender has been received
for any service, form Mail 71 is to be furnished, with a report
thereon of any action that is being taken to provide for the service.
After the Chief Postmaster has made his recommendations, the
schedules, together with the tenders and sketch-maps, are to be
despatched under registered cover to the Secretary. Sketch-maps
are to be drawn approximately to scale, and are to show any
adjacent or connecting services.

275. On receipt of the list of accepted tenders, and when all
     services have been settled, the Chief Postmaster will forward to
     the Secretary, on form Mail 65, a full schedule of all mail-services
     in his district for the ensuing contract period. The numbers pre-
     viously allotted to services are to be disregarded, and the services
     placed in alphabetical order as before and renumbered in each
     separate Part. The schedules will be prepared at the General Post
     Office for the printer, and a proof forwarded to Chief Postmasters
     for check and certificate of correctness. The proof—which will
     form part of a printed list, to be widely published, of the whole of
     the services in operation at the commencement of the new contract
     period—is to receive a careful scrutiny in every detail, not ex-
     cepting the correctness of initials and of the spelling of names of
     persons and offices.

DEPOSITS WITH TENDERS FOR MAIL-SERVICES.

276. (a.) In any case in which the tenderer for a mail-service
     desires to obtain a money-order for the amount to be lodged with
     his tender his request may be complied with subject to the following
     conditions:—

(1.) The order is to be issued for the exact sum of the deposit
required, no limit of amount being imposed in respect of
orders issued for this purpose.

(2.) The order must be drawn in favour of the Chief Postmaster
with whom the tender is to be lodged, and made payable
to him at the issuing office. The Postmaster should
explain as the reason for doing so that repayment will
thereby be facilitated.

(3.) No commission charge will be made in respect of orders so
issued, or fee charged if repayment thereof is subse-
quently desired.

The letters “O.H.M.S./M.S.” must be written in the
“Commission” column as an explanation of the non-
charging of commission on such orders.

(4.) The orders returned to tenderers should be superscribed by
the Chief Postmaster as follows: “Repayment to remitter
authorized”; and when they are presented for payment
they will, assuming the advice thereof is in the possession
of the Postmaster, be paid to the remitter, whose receipt
will be taken in the usual manner. In respect of the
deposit made by the successful tenderer, the amount is
not to be returned until a bond has been executed.

(b.) Deposits received with mail-service tenders must, when
remitted in any other form than by cheque endorsed by a bank or
a free money-order, be converted into money-orders drawn in favour
of the tenderers, to whom they should be forwarded when the time
comes for returning the deposits. In the case of cheques endorsed
by banks, the endorsement must hold good until the completion of
the necessary bonds; otherwise the cheques must be converted in
the ordinary way. No commission will be chargeable in respect
of such money-orders, which are to be issued for the exact sum