1676
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 65

PRESS TELEGRAMS—continued.

HOLIDAYS (STATUTORY).*

• 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 regarded as Sundays, for purposes both of attendance and of assessment of rates for Press telegrams.

NOTE.—No charge is made for address and signature up to six words. In assessing the total amount due, fractions of a penny are reckoned as one penny. For rates and conditions under which offices are specially reopened for transmission of Press telegrams, see “Charges when Office reopened,” &c. Evening newspapers are newspapers published after noon and before 5 p.m.

CHARGES WHEN OFFICE REOPENED BY SPECIAL REQUEST.

Individual Rate.

Press messages lodged by or on behalf of individual persons or newspapers at a telegraph-office, specially reopened after the usual closing-hour, are charged as under:—
At the rate of 2s. per 100 words up to 1,000 words, the minimum collections on account of messages presented by any one person to aggregate 7s. 6d.
For every additional 100 words after the first 1,000 words, at the rate of 6d. per 100 words or fraction thereof.
In the case of a message of, say, 100 words being sent to less than four newspapers, the “minimum charge” would be divided thus—two at 3s. 9d. each = 7s. 6d.; three at 2s. 6d. each = 7s. 6d.

Press Association Rate.

Messages lodged and forwarded on behalf of the United Press Association are liable to the following charges:—
At the rate of 6d. per 100 words or fraction thereof, together with a fee of 7s. 6d. for reopening the office, and all charges in respect of overtime at offices other than the original forwarding office.
The additional payment to be made in all cases by the applicant.
At least six hours’ notice should be given the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, of the desire to have an office specially reopened for Press news.

CHARGES FOR PRESS TELEGRAMS RELATING TO EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS, ETC.

Press telegrams containing intelligence of extraordinary events, such as collisions, wrecks, large fires, explosions, &c., may be accepted for transmission between offices open for the midnight cable service, after those offices are closed for the receipt of other Press messages, on the following conditions:—
No message may exceed 100 words.
The fee of 1s. to be charged for each message.
The Officer in Charge may refuse to accept any such message which in his opinion does not contain news of an urgent nature.
These messages not to be permitted to interfere with or delay the transmission of the midnight cable news.

Telegrams forwarded by Members of General Assembly.

Members of the General Assembly may send ordinary telegrams at the following rates, viz.:—

For the first thirty-six words or any fraction thereof, including address and signature .. .. .. .. 0 6
For every four words or fraction of four words after the first thirty-six words .. .. .. .. 0 1
There is no “urgent” code for these rates.

LIST OF TELEGRAPH-OFFICES.

The names of the telegraph-offices in New Zealand are to be written in the addresses of telegrams as given in the list of offices published in the Post and Telegraph Guide, and the name of each office as it is thus required to be given must be counted as one word. For instance, Abbotsford in the address of a telegram will count as one word, and Abbotsford, Otago, as two words.

When a telegraph message is addressed to a place not a telegraph-office but bearing the same name as a telegraph-office, as well as to the office to which the message is to be telegraphed—thus, “Richmond, Christchurch”—the names of both places must be telegraphed and charged for, the first of the two names being regarded as that of a place which is not a telegraph-office.

Telegrams for persons on trains that will pass railway-stations which are public telegraph-offices must be addressed to those offices and not the departmental offices, as, for example, to Masterton Railway, not Masterton. To telegrams for persons on trains the word “northward” or “southward” should be added as part of the address to expedite delivery.

Unless otherwise stated, offices are closed on Sundays and public holidays.

A telegram for a locality where a Receiving Office only is situated—e.g., Strand Arcade, Lichfield Street Oriental Bay, &c.—must also bear the name of the delivery office, as Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, &c., the necessary additional word being telegraphed and charged for.