✨ Telegraph Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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requested to affix the stamps themselves, but for cable messages and “collects” the charges, including any carriage not payable to messengers, are to be collected, and accounted for in stamps affixed by officers.
Discount, postage due, and Government Insurance stamps must not be accepted in payment of telegraph charges.
20. When the charges on a telegram exceed in amount the value of stamps on hand, money must be accepted, the transaction shown on Form Acct. 210 as a cash receipt, and the amount brought to charge in the Post Office Account.
21. Stamps must not be affixed one over the other. Surcharges will be made on insufficiently or irregularly stamped messages. Each officer through whose hands a prepaid original telegram passes must see that it is not without stamps; and the first officer to discover the absence of stamps, or any indication of their having been removed, must at once report to the Officer in Charge, who will make full inquiry, and communicate the result to the Accountant. Special attention must be paid to stamps of high value affixed to telegrams. Any telegram bearing a suspicious stamp should be duly transmitted, but the stamp or stamps affixed thereto must not be obliterated. The identity of the sender should be determined; and a report of the case, accompanied by the telegram, must be forwarded to the Accountant at once, a docket being placed with the messages when sent to the Clearing-room.
22. Every stamp affixed to a telegraph form must be cancelled with a separate and distinct impression of the office date-stamp, in the case of forwarded telegrams, before they are sent from the counter. In no case may the date-stamp be impressed more than once. The use of indelible pencil or rubber-stamp ink for cancellation purposes is strictly forbidden.
23. The value of stamps affixed must be marked on the form. A refund of the value of stamps affixed and cancelled in error will be made by the Accountant upon receipt of an application supported by a complete statement of the facts, but stamps once affixed may upon no account be removed.
24. When the amount of which a refund is asked has not been paid by the sender or addressee of a telegram, a statement to that effect, signed by either, as the case may be, must accompany the application.
25. Loose stamps found in any part of a separate telegraph office must be sent to the Accountant, with a report. In
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