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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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call must repeat it to all stations for which they transmit. Exactly at 9 a.m. Wellington will give the word “time,” which transmitting officers must be on the alert to repeat on all necessary wires.
Railway and telephone offices must be given “time” daily at 9 o’clock, or as soon after that hour as possible.
Officers in Charge will be held responsible for the receipt and transmission of time, and for the regulating of clocks under their care.
TRANSMISSION AND RECEIPT.
53. No officer may permit any improper priority in the receipt, transmission, or delivery of any telegram, under pain of incurring the penalties laid down in the 18th section of “The Electric Lines Act, 1884.”
54. In order to prevent a monopoly of the line by any one company or individual, when several telegrams are presented for transmission about the same time, and would be likely to block the line to the serious prejudice of other telegrams, Officers in Charge may divide the telegrams, and forward others, or portions of others, in “time” turn.
55. Telegrams lodged for persons or places within the delivery of the office at which they are handed in, and therefore not requiring to be signalled by wire, must be copied on “C” forms, marked on front “Lodged at ,” and sent out for delivery in the ordinary way. Government telegrams cannot be accepted under this rule, but Ministerial memoranda may be accepted.
56. At offices where telegrams are conveyed by means of a cage or shoot to and from the instrument-room, the cages or shoots must be regularly cleared by responsible officers, and each telegram placed at the proper circuit without delay.
57. The operator will then proceed to call the office which is to receive the telegram, by signalling its code-call again and again until answered, every third call being followed by the code-call of his own office. If attention is not secured after fifteen calls, any other office on the same wire having work may break in and take possession of the circuit. The inattentive office must be called again at reasonable intervals, and the time of each call recorded. (Rule T. 60.)
58. If the wire required is occupied by stations engaged in the transmission of a telegram, it is strictly prohibited for another office to interrupt, except with a message coded DR, TR, “Take precedence,” or “Urgent.” The operator must listen for the time of work in course of transmission, and, on
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