✨ Telegraph Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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To be filed
with relative
original
telegrams.
109. UCTs forwarded and received must in all cases be written on the “A” and “C” forms respectively. UCTs must be filed with their relative original telegrams.
Repeated
telegram to
be marked
“Repetition.”
110. The word “Repetition” must be clearly written on the form on which the repeated copy of the telegram is delivered.
URGENT TELEGRAMS.
Insertion of
“urgent” in
instructions.
111. After an urgent telegram has been coded, the code prefix and the word “urgent” in the instructions must, at offices not supplied with “urgent” stamps, be boldly underlined with blue pencil, and the telegram despatched immediately to the instrument-room. Transmitted copies of urgent telegrams must be similarly marked.
Care and
promptness
in instrument-
room.
112. A distributor or other officer, when placing an urgent telegram at a circuit, must draw the attention of the operator to the fact; and an operator should, immediately upon receipt of an urgent telegram, call the attention of the distributing clerk to it.
Transmission.
113. Urgent telegrams are to receive the very quickest despatch. Should more than one “urgent” await transmission, special care must be exercised in order that each is sent in proper “time” turn.
Not to be
refused during
luncheon-
hour.
Urgent telegrams must not be refused, when proffered by the public, during the period an office is specially closed for luncheon.
Notice to be
exhibited.
At such offices a notice must be displayed in a conspicuous place stating that “urgent” telegrams will be received during the luncheon-hour, and indicating how the attention of the Officer in Charge may be obtained.
Calling office
for urgent
codes.
114. When one office is calling another office with urgent telegrams the signals for DR, TR, URT, ULT, UGVM, UOT, UMOT, UST, &c., as the case may be, should, after a slight pause, be signalled very distinctly at intervals between the calls. The call must be answered immediately, and transmission expedited in every way.
Delivery.
115. Upon receipt of an urgent telegram at office of destination it must be sent out for immediate delivery.
Urgent replies.
116. Urgent reply-paid telegrams must bear instructions as follows: If only the original telegram be prepaid as urgent the instructions will read “Urgent, reply paid”; if the reply only be prepaid as urgent, then the instructions should be “Reply paid urgent”; but if both original telegram and reply be prepaid as urgent then the instructions should read, “Urgent reply paid urgent.”
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NZ Gazette 1905, No 80
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsUCT forms, Repeated telegram marking, Urgent telegrams, Blue pencil underlining, Instrument-room procedures, Transmission priority, Luncheon-hour service, Office notices, Urgent call signals, Immediate delivery, Reply-paid instructions