New Zealand Gazette – 1905 – No. 80

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✨ Telegraph Codes & Procedures



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  1. UMOT. Urgent money-order telegram.
  2. IMOT. Intercolonial money-order telegram.
  3. Cable. Cable messages.
  4. UWT. Urgent weather telegram.
  5. UMT. Shipping reporting telegram.
  6. MOT. Inland money-order telegram.
  7. GVM. Government telegram. — Unimportant Government
    GAP. telegrams should bear the letters GAP in the instructions and are to be delayed until other work is dealt with.
  8. SBT. Savings-bank telegram.
  9. ORT. Ordinary railway telegram.
  10. OT. Ordinary telegram sent by the public and paid for at ordinary tariff rates.
  11. EX. Bureau communication.
  12. ST. Service telegram.—Used for telegrams entirely on the service of the Post and Telegraph Department.
  13. PT. Press telegrams accepted at Press rates.

Telegrams prefixed MOT, GVM, SBT, ORT, OT, ST, and PT must be transmitted in the order in which they are timed as received from the senders. With the exception of the codes, DR, TR, ULT, “Take precedence,” UST and Government cables, a similar grouping is to be observed in the case of urgent telegrams and cable messages. Acknowledgments of circular service telegrams must not be coded “Urgent.”

OFFICIAL CODES AND ABBREVIATIONS.

  1. The following official code signals must be used when necessary. Repetition back of all code signals is imperative.

Repeating code signals.

Code Signal INTERPRETATION OF CODE SIGNAL.
CQ. Your [Number] [Addressee's name] undelivered.
DF. Send better address for your message [Number] to [Give full address as received, and reason for non-delivery.]
MQ. Do not close your office until further orders.
FI. Repeat figures in your [Number] to............
SA. Communication partially interrupted between ............and.... ........ Traffic will suffer delay.
SSG. Communication completely interrupted between ............and........ Messages only accepted at sender’s risk.
LS. All stations. This call must be promptly answered.
GAP. Unimportant Government telegram.
LVC. Postmaster............commenced leave [Date]. Relieving officer, [Name in full]. Advise Treasury, &c. Deposit account [or, No deposit account].
LRV Postmaster.. ............resumed duty [Date]. Relieving officer, [Name in full]. Advise Treasury, &c. Deposit account [or, No deposit account].
LCL. (LCM, if a temporary messenger). [Name of officer commencing leave. Name of temporary substitute. Date of employment.]
LCM.


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