✨ Telegraph Regulations
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received for onward transmission, as well as such as have not been wholly sent forward. When found necessary to stop LS Doubtless Bay and Wakapuaka are not included, and must not be detained unless specially stopped.
79. Offices closing at 5 p.m. must remain on duty till released by their central offices, and no office shall be released till 5.10 p.m. Offices closing at 8 p.m. will not be released till 8.10 p.m., at 11 p.m. till 11.10 p.m., and at midnight till 12.10 a.m. This rule is to provide a margin for stopping offices, but such margin is not to be encroached upon for the stopping of offices save under exceptional or unavoidable circumstances.
Officers to remain on duty till released.
80. All unsent telegrams on hand at the close of business must be entered on Form Acct. 186.
Telegrams held over.
81. When a telegram has been transmitted to a wrong office that office must be told to cancel it, and the office of origin must retransmit the telegram to the correct address. Should it, however, be found that the error can be corrected at a transmitting office more quickly than by reference to the office of origin the correction may be made, but in such case full particulars of the error and the action taken must be given to the office of origin to be attached to the “A” Form. The irregularity is to be reported by post to the Accountant by the office to which the telegram has been wrongly transmitted.
Mis-sent telegrams.
82. Officers in Charge, except at the principal telegraph-offices where the duty is delegated to other responsible officers, must at the close of every half-hour during working-hours initial as examined all telegrams dealt with—i.e., “forwarded,” “transmits,” and “received”—for the purpose of ascertaining that each message has been promptly and properly handled. Any bad writing or slovenly work in either office or transmit copies should be drawn attention to. Effectual arrangements must be made to prevent erroneous or premature filing of incomplete forms with those properly filed. Officers responsible for these duties must be specially designated in the time-book, and when they are relieved their successors must be careful to see that no telegrams have been overlooked. A special examination of each day’s completed work must be made before 8 p.m. for the purpose of detecting any unsent or erroneously filed telegrams. Messages filed subsequently should be scrutinised before the hour of closing.
Work to be examined every half-hour.
CANCELLING OR CORRECTING TELEGRAMS.
83. When the sender of a telegram desires to cancel or correct it,—
Cancellation or correction of telegram by sender.
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