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other offices they must be disposed of as directed in General Rules.
TREATMENT OF A TELEGRAM FROM THE TIME IT IS HANDED IN.
26. Inland telegrams must be addressed to places mentioned in the list of telegraph-offices published in the Guide. Specific directions on this point precede the list.
Places to which to address inland telegrams.
27. When a telegram is presented addressed to a place which is not a telegraph-office, officers must refer to the list of post-offices to ascertain the nearest telegraph-office, and advise the sender of the probable charge for carriage.
Nearest telegraph-office to be ascertained.
28. In order to prevent delay, misdelivery, or non-delivery, officers must carefully scrutinise all telegrams presented, particularly those for delivery within the colony, and tactfully challenge all seemingly imperfect addresses.
Scrutiny of addresses.
Imperfect addresses to be challenged.
29. Telegrams, except for well-known addressees, must not be accepted when the surname of an individual only is offered as the address, unless the address be otherwise amplified to make it quite clear to the receiving office. An address should consist of at least three words, and only in the case of persons or companies well known throughout the colony should a bare surname or title be accepted without demur. While it is not imperative that telegrams for well-known firms should be fully addressed, telegrams for a business firm containing an abbreviated address which is likely to delay delivery should not be accepted.
Surnames and abbreviations in addresses.
30. If a sender declines to amplify an apparently insufficient address, the telegram is not to be refused, but the words “Sender’s risk” are to be inserted in the instructions, without being charged for, as an indication that the sender accepts the risk of possible non-delivery. At the office of destination, unless there is no room to doubt for whom the telegram is intended, Rule T. 94 must be observed. (See also Rule T. 95.)
Refusal to amplify abbreviated addresses.
“Senders risk.”
31. Inland telegrams bearing code addresses must not be accepted, except those addressed “Britannia,” which represents the senior naval officer for the time being in New Zealand waters of His Majesty’s war-ships, and those for Government officers whose abbreviated addresses are notified from time to time in the Official Circular.
Inland code addresses not to be accepted.
Exceptions.
32. Telegrams addressed to initials or to a nom de plume may be accepted if addressed to the care of some one known to the Department. Telegrams, to be called for at a post-office, may be addressed to initials or to a nom de plume.
Initials or noms de plume in addresses.
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