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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(1.) The Officer in Charge must satisfy himself that the person making the application (which must be in writing) is either the person who handed in the telegram, or the actual sender. (See clause 7.)
(2.) If the telegram has not been signalled, it may be cancelled and its value refunded, without reference to the Accountant.
(3.) If the telegram has been signalled, or partly signalled, it can still be cancelled, but no refund of its value can be made.
(4.) If the signalling has been completed, the telegram can only be cancelled by means of a further prepaid telegram addressed on a form in the terms of the subjoined example, viz. :
UCT., Auckland.
Cancel our [quote No.] [name] to [name].
[Address, town only.]
[Signature.]
Every effort should be made to give despatch to the cancelling telegram so that there may be no failure to arrest the telegram to be cancelled.
(5.) If the cancelling telegram should arrive too late to admit of the telegram being cancelled, the office of origin must be informed by ST accordingly.
(6.) Telegrams which have been cancelled must not be destroyed or returned to senders, but sent to the Accountant in the ordinary course, the word “Cancelled” being written across the telegram, to which the request for cancellation must be attached.
(7.) No telegram may be cancelled or altered if the office of presentation is a racecourse telegraph-office.
DELIVERY.
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Should it appear to a despatch clerk that a telegram is not clearly readable, owing to indifferent writing, or to the carbonised paper having been used too long, he must submit it to the Officer in Charge.
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The pages of telegrams consisting of two or more sheets must be numbered consecutively and pinned together.
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The exact address as furnished by the sender must be written on the envelope : for instance, a telegram for “J. Somers Brown” must be so addressed on the envelope, and not “J. S. Brown.” Abbreviations of addresses are forbidden. When addressing telegrams bearing the instructions “Private,” “Confidential,” &c., such instructions must be plainly
Telegrams presented at racecourse offices must not be cancelled.
Illegible writing.
Numbering pages of telegrams.
Addresses of envelopes.
Abbreviations forbidden.
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