✨ Telegraph Regulations
Sept. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2111
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67. Received telegrams, Ministerial memoranda excepted, To be taken duplicate. are to be written in duplicate on the “C” form, which is supplied in two sheets—viz., an upper, or office copy, and a lower copy for issue to the addressee. Both copies must be made at the same time by inserting carbonic paper between the two sheets before the writing of the telegram is commenced. The carbonic paper must be changed frequently, and every attention given to writing neatly and legibly.
68. As the signals reach the receiving operator he must Acknowledgments. write down on the requisite form the letters, characters, or words they represent. The office of origin must be written in full. He must then carefully count the words, see that the number received agrees with the check, and, if the telegram appears otherwise correct, acknowledge by repeating the number, all figures (except in UMTs), ciphers, and instructions, if any. The number, office of origin, and instructions must be repeated as an acknowledgment of cable messages. (Also see Rules T. 128, 141, and 178.)
69. Forwarding operators must demand full and complete Responsibility of forwarding operator. acknowledgments. For every omission to obtain a proper acknowledgment the forwarding operator will be severely dealt with.
70. To insure the correct receipt of mixed numbers—i.e., Repetition of mixed numbers. groups of figures which contain both whole numbers and fractions—the numerator of the fractional part should be repeated in words; for instance, 1⁵⁄₁₆ or 1⁵⁄₁₆ should be repeated “1 five 16,” to distinguish it from ¹⁵⁄₁₆, which should be repeated “fifteen 16”; and ¹⁄₆ should be repeated as “one 6.”
71. Sending operators on duplex circuits will acknowledge Duplex acknowledgments. received telegrams immediately they are completed. When a sending operator is signalling a telegram of a few words, the acknowledgment of received telegrams may be delayed until its despatch; but when he is signalling a telegram of, say, 100 words, he should stop and acknowledge any received messages on hand.
The receiver must mark words to be queried thus, X, and Sender to repeat word queried by receiver. call attention of his sender to the necessity for repetition; that officer, after repeating, must place a tick at the side of the cross thus, X✓.
72. “Skeleton” vides, that is, vides containing only ad- Signalling and acknowledging telegram containing several addresses. dresses, are not to be sent until the message to which they refer is actually on hand. The numbers of the respective telegrams, and, in cases where numbers are not transmitted, the number of addresses, must be signalled as an acknowledgment.
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