Aug. 8.]

(r.) The holder of a power of attorney can receive payment
of an instalment only on presentation of a warrant under section 47.
(s.) Any alteration in an agent's warrant must be initialled
by the officer who issued the same.
(t.) The direction "Pay to agent only" stamped across the
face of an advice indicates that the instalment must not be paid to
the pensioner direct, but to an agent appointed under section 46
or 47. If payment is claimed by the pensioner in such a case it
must be refused, and the Commissioner informed by telegram.

891. (a.) Pensioners residing in outlying districts who desire
     payment through the medium of a non-money-order office may
     make application on form 12A to any Postmaster or Registrar,
     who will forward the application superscribed "Identity
     satisfactory" to the Chief Postmaster, who in turn will instruct
     the Postmaster at the paying money-order office to forward the
     advice each month to the office named in the application. The
     Postmaster at the non-money-order office will obtain the payee's
     signature to the advice, and return it, together with the certificate
     (and, if there is an agent, the warrant also), to the
     Postmaster of the paying office. After satisfying himself that
     the advice is in order, and having endorsed the certificate,
     the paying Postmaster will remit the amount (accompanied by
     form 12B) either in cash or by cheque direct to the pensioner in
     a registered letter, enclosing the certificate therein. The number
     of the registered letter and the office of delivery must then be
     entered on the back of the advice in the space provided for the
     purpose. (Note. — This system of payment is not to apply as
     between one money-order office and another money-order office.)
     (b.) A record of the applications under this rule is to be kept at
     the money-order office which pays and remits the instalments each
     month, the applications themselves being forwarded to the Commissioner to be filed.
     (c.) Postmasters at money-order offices who deal with this class
     of pension-payments must see that the advices are posted each
     month immediately after receipt, in order that payment may be
     made as soon after the due date as practicable. In no case is
     payment to be remitted to the pensioner before the due date.

892. (a.) A Maori applicant for payment, when not personally
     known to the paying officer, must in every case be identified by a
     European of repute known to the paying officer.
     (b.) The signature of a Maori payee must be witnessed by a
     European other than the paying officer.
     (c.) No payment is to be made to a Maori acting as agent
     under section 47 unless a special direction has been previously
     given in regard to such agent. Should a Maori not duly authorized
     at any time apply for payment of a pension on behalf of
     another Maori, the circumstances must at once be reported to the
     Commissioner.
     (d.) For the purposes of the three preceding paragraphs
     "Maori" shall be deemed to include half-castes and persons intermediate
     in blood between half-castes and persons of pure Maori
     descent.

893. (a.) Immediately after the expiry of the time allowed for
     payment (see Rule 888), all unpaid advices must be withdrawn
     from issue and returned under cover of form 13B direct to the
     Commissioner.
     (b.) Applicants for payment after the expiry of the appointed
     time should be asked to fill in form 14, which, when completed by
     the addition of the recommendation of the Postmaster as to payment, should be forwarded direct to the Commissioner.