New Zealand Gazette – 1866 – No. 55

Page 385

✨ Telegraph Tariff Schedules

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 385

SCHEDULE.

Plan and Tariff of Charges for the transmission of Telegrams on the Lines of Electric Telegraph belonging to the General Government of New Zealand.

PLAN FOR TARIFF CHARGES.

		Nelson.	Picton.	Blenheim.	Wellington.	Kaiapoi.	Christchurch.	Heathcote.	Lyttelton.	Timaru.	Oamaru.	Dunedin.	Tokomairiro.	Invercargill.	Bluff.
-		2	2	1	3	4	4	4	4	5	5	6	6	6	7
Nelson.	...	2		2	3	4	4	4	4	5	5	6	6	6	7
Picton	...	2	2	1	2	4	4	4	4	5	5	6	6	6	7
Blenheim	...	2	1	2	3	4	4	4	4	5	5	6	6	6	7
Wellington	...	3	2	2	3	4	4	4	4	5	5	6	6	6	7
Kaiapoi	...	4	4	3	4	...	1	1	1	3	3	4	4	4	5
Christchurch	...	4	4	4	4	1	...	1	1	3	3	4	4	4	5
Heathcote	...	4	4	4	4	1	1	...	1	3	3	4	4	4	5
Lyttelton	...	4	4	4	4	1	1	1	...	3	3	4	4	4	5
Timaru.	...	5	5	5	5	3	3	3	3	...	2	3	3	3	4
Oamaru.	...	5	5	5	5	3	3	3	3	2	...	2	3	3	4
Dunedin.	...	6	6	6	6	4	4	4	4	3	2	...	3	3	4
Tokomairiro	...	6	6	6	6	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	...	3	4
Invercargill	...	6	6	6	6	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	...	5
Bluff	...	7	7	7	7	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	5	...

PRESS CHARGES—10 TO 1000 WORDS.

Number of words.	SCALE 1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.
	5s. per hundred words.	5s. 10d. per hundred words.	6s. 8d. per hundred words.	7s. 6d. per hundred words.	8s. 4d. per hundred words.	9s. 2d. per hundred words.	10s. per hundred words.
	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.
10	0 0 6	0 0 7	0 0 8	0 0 9	0 0 10	0 1 0	0 1 0
20	0 1 0	0 1 2	0 1 4	0 1 6	0 1 8	0 2 0	0 2 0
30	0 1 6	0 1 9	0 2 0	0 2 3	0 2 6	0 3 0	0 3 0
40	0 2 0	0 2 4	0 2 8	0 3 0	0 3 4	0 4 0	0 4 0
50	0 2 6	0 2 11	0 3 4	0 3 9	0 4 2	0 5 0	0 5 0
60	0 3 0	0 3 6	0 4 0	0 4 6	0 5 0	0 6 0	0 6 0
70	0 3 6	0 4 1	0 4 8	0 5 3	0 5 10	0 7 0	0 7 0
80	0 4 0	0 4 8	0 5 4	0 6 0	0 6 8	0 8 0	0 8 0
90	0 4 6	0 5 3	0 6 0	0 6 9	0 7 6	0 9 0	0 9 0
100	0 5 0	0 5 10	0 6 8	0 7 6	0 8 4	0 10 0	0 10 0
200	0 10 0	0 11 8	0 13 4	0 15 0	1 0 8	1 4 0	1 4 0
300	0 15 0	1 6 6	1 10 0	1 2 6	1 11 0	1 14 0	1 14 0
400	1 0 0	1 15 8	2 0 0	1 10 0	2 1 6	2 8 0	2 8 0
500	1 5 0	1 14 2	2 6 8	1 17 6	2 13 4	2 12 0	2 12 0
600	1 10 0	2 3 4	2 13 4	2 5 0	3 5 0	3 6 0	3 6 0
700	1 15 0	2 8 10	3 0 0	2 12 6	3 16 8	3 10 0	3 10 0
800	2 0 0	2 14 4	3 6 8	3 0 0	4 8 4	4 4 0	4 4 0
900	2 5 0	3 0 0	3 13 4	3 7 6	4 19 2	4 8 0	4 8 0
1000	2 10 0	3 6 8	4 0 0	3 15 0	5 5 0	5 2 0	5 2 0

Minimum charge, 10 words. By Press Telegram is meant intelligence transmitted for bona fide publication in the regular newspapers and journals.

ORDINARY TELEGRAMS.

Number of Scale.	Number of Miles distances.	Per 10 words.	Per word.	PRESS TELEGRAMS.
		s. d.	s. d.	Number of Scale.	Per 100 words.	Per 10 words.
1	Under 25 miles ...	0 10	0 1	1	s. d.	s. d.
2	25 and under 100 miles ...	1 3	0 1\u00bd	2	5 0	0 6
3	100 and under 200 ...	1 8	0 2	3	5 10	0 7
4	200 and under 350 ...	2 1	0 2\u00bc	4	6 8	0 8
5	350 and under 500 ...	2 6	0 3	5	7 6	0 9
6	500 and under 700 ...	2 11	0 3\u00bd	6	9 2	0 10
7	700 and over ...	3 4	0 4	7	10 0	0 11
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