TRAVELLING ALLOWANCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14144, 20 August 1909, Page 5

TRAVELLING ALLOWANCES.

POSTAL REGULATIONS.

[BX . TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION".]

Wellington, Thursday. It is notified in to-night's Gazette that, except in cases where a higher rate is or may be specially authorised by the Minister, officers travelling on the 6ervice of the Post and Telegraph Department will receive the following allowances for personal expenses: —Officers drawing • salaries not exceeding £400 per annum, per diem 10s; officers drawing salaries exceeding £400 per annum, 126 6d; while at sea, for the first day the ordinary on shore allowance, and for subsequent days 2s 6d. ' For the last day's travelling actual expenses only will be paid. The cost of transport by land and sea will be paid by the Department. Officers performing relieving duty ; are not entitled to draw travelling allowance under this regulation for any time during which they perform such relieving duty, except as fol- '■ lows:, —When •in performing relieving ■ duty an. officer is not required to stay more than three nights in the place where such duty is performed,-he : may claim to ? be paid travelling allowance instead of relieving allowance if his accommodation for the time of his stay is not fully paid for by the relieving allowance, and if ho so claims ho shall be paid accordingly.