New Zealand Gazette – 1905 – No. 65

Page 1675

✨ Press Telegram Rates



July 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1675

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 the telegrams 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.

Provided the offices are open, all newspapers are entitled to receive Press news at night at evening rates, no matter whether sent in the evening prior to publication or not. The evening rates on day telegrams for evening papers are restricted to the day of publication, unless otherwise ordered.

The following rates are chargeable for the transmission of Press telegrams from or to any office in New Zealand 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. Week-days.
(1.) Ordinary (see 1A) 8 am to 5 pm .. 6d. for first 12 words; ½d. each additional word.
Morning Papers. | Evening Papers. | Conditions.
12 Words. | Each additional Word. | 100 Words or Fraction thereof. | 100 Words or Fraction thereof. |
(1A.) Ordinary (on day of publication only) 8 am to 5 pm.. d. .. | d. .. | s. d. .. | 0 6 | Evening papers on day of publication may receive telegrams amounting in the aggregate to 1,000 words during the recess of Parliament, and 1,500 words during the session. Any excess is chargeable at ½d. per word.
(2.) News received by the San Francisco mail-steamer 8 am to 5 pm .. 6 | 0½ | .. | 0 6 | 500 words additional to the above are allowed to evening papers on the day the San Francisco mail-steamer reaches Auckland. If steamer arrives on a Sunday, the 500 words are allowed on following day.
(8.) Cable news 8 am to 5 pm .. .. | .. | 0 6 | 0 6 | If sent on day of publication of paper addressed, and bearing instructions “Cable news.” Each message charged separately.
(4.) Ordinary news from or to stations not reopening in the evening 8 am to 4.30 pm .. | .. | 1 0 | .. | Telegrams not to exceed 300 words and to be lodged on day next before publication. “Special day rate” to appear in instructions. Papers may receive only one message at this rate on any one day.
(5.) Ordinary .. 5 pm to 11 pm .. | .. | 0 6 | 0 6 | At offices open until midnight and at others if kept open by special arrangement.
(6.) Ordinary, except as at (6A) 11 pm to midnight .. | .. | 0 8 | 0 8 |
(6A.) From Waka-puaka 11 pm to midnight .. | .. | 1 0 | 1 0 | If kept open by special arrangement.
(7.) Ordinary .. After midnight .. | .. | 1 0 | 1 0 |
(8.) Parliamentary reports from Wellington 11 pm to 1 am .. | .. | 0 6 | 0 6 | These telegrams must contain “PR” in the instructions.
1 am to 2 am .. | .. | 0 8 | 0 8 |

**SUNDAYS.***
(9.) Ordinary .. 5 pm to 5.30 pm .. .. 0 8 .. If kept open by special arrangement by or on behalf of a morning paper, or by the United Press Association.
(10.) .. After 5.30 pm .. .. .. 1 0 ..
(11.) Special .. 5 pm to 5.30 pm .. .. .. 1 0 Any one evening newspaper may not receive more than 300 words and the contents of telegrams must be confined to news of events which occur between the time of closing the telegraph-office on Saturday night and its closing on Sunday.

*No Press Telegrams are accepted during the morning attendance, nor are Press Telegrams for weekly newspapers transmitted at any time on Sundays.



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