DEPARTMENT OF THE POST-OFFICE. 205 
varied. He is authorized by statute’ to exercise the following 
powers :— 
1. to establish and close post-offices and post routes, 
2. to appoint postmasters, other than those appointed by 
the Governor-General, and other officers and servants, and to 
remove or suspend any postmaster or other officer or servant, 
3. to enter into and enforce mail contracts, 
4 to make regulations as to what is mailable matter; 
to restrict the weight and dimensions of letters and packets 
sent by post; and to prevent the sending of explosive, 
dangerous, contraband or improper articles, or obscene or 
immoral publications, 
5. to establish rates of postage for mailable matter not 
being letters, and to prescribe the conditions on which such 
articles will be received, 
6. to prepare and distribute postage stamps and stamped 
envelopes, 
7. to make postal arrangements with other countries, 
8. to make arrangements for refunding postage on H. M. 
Military or Naval Service, 
9. to make regulations regarding money orders, 
10. to make regulations regarding registered letters, 
11. to decide what is to be decreed a letter, 
12. to sue for money due, 
13. to provide street boxes, 
14. to grant licenses for sale of stamps, 
15. to impose pecuniary penalties not exceeding $200 
for contravention of regulations, 
16. generally to make regulations for carrying on the work 
of the department. 
Tn addition to the above powers relating to the ordinary 
business of a post-office the Postmaster-General has also 
power to establish a parcel post’, and with the consent of the 
Governor-General a system of post-office savings banks’. 
1 1b, 8. 9. 2 Ib. s. 41. 3 Th. 5. 63.