New Zealand Gazette – 1902 – No. 68

Page 1789

✨ Telegraph Tariff Regulations

Aug. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1789

TARIFF RATES
IN NEW ZEALAND.
Ordinary Telegrams.

From any Station to any Station:—
For the first 12 words or less, including address and signature… Sixpence.
For every additional word … … … One penny.
On Sundays, between offices which open both morning and evening, the above rates; at other offices, double the above rates.
[For telegraph fees for repayment of Post-Office Savings-Bank deposits by telegraph see Repayment of Deposits, pages 181, 182.]

Urgent Telegrams.

For the first 12 words or less, including address and signature… One shilling.
For every additional word … … … Twopence.
On Sundays, between offices which open both morning and evening, the above rates; at other offices, double the above rates.

STATUTORY HOLIDAYS.

New Year’s Day, Easter Monday, the birthdays of the King and the Prince of Wales, and Boxing Day, or any days substituted therefor. Good Friday and Christmas Day are observed as Sundays so far as regards hours of attendance; but ordinary tariff rates only are chargeable unless Christmas Day should also be a Sunday.

Ordinary and urgent telegrams at the same rates as for week-days.
[See charges for Telegrams relating to sickness and death, elsewhere.]

Press Telegrams.

PRESS TELEGRAMS may contain only information of general public interest, and the whole text must be intended for publication as news in the newspapers to which they are addressed. Advertisements, letters intended for publication in the open or other columns of newspapers, or telegrams that are mere “puffs” of theatrical or travelling business companies, and not of general public interest, cannot be transmitted at Press rates.

The following rates are chargeable for the transmission of Press telegrams from or to any office in the colony during the prescribed hours for such business. (See “List of Telegraph-offices,” also table of “Additional Attendance for Press Work” in the Post and Telegraph Guide.)

Class of News.	Hours.	Morning Papers.	Evening Papers.	Conditions.
		12 Words.	Each additional Word.	100 Words or Fraction thereof.
WEEK-DAYS.
(1.) Ordinary ..	8 am to 5 pm ..	6	0½	..
(2.) News received by the San Francisco mail-steamer	8 am to 5 pm ..	6	0½	..
(3.) Experiences of the New Zealand Contingents in South Africa	8 am to 5 pm ..	6	0½	..
(4.) Cable news	8 am to 5 pm ..	..	..	0 6
(5.) Ordinary news from or to stations not reopening in the evening	8 am to 4.30 pm	..	..	1 0
(6.) Ordinary ..	5 pm to 11 pm	..	..	0 6

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1902, No 68

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