✨ Telegraph Regulations and Procedures
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Sender to be communicated with if additional cost entailed.
Disputed counting.
To be promptly and specially examined at transmitting offices.
State cable messages.
Cable messages in duplicate.
indication of the fact that the sender has prescribed the route must be made by the officer receiving such a message. The instructions in the messages are, on receipt at Auckland and Wakapuaka, to be amended by the substitution of “vid” for “Routed.” In the case of a diverted cable message requiring an additional prepayment, the sender should be communicated with to learn whether the additional cost will be prepaid or the message cancelled.
121. Cable messages must receive the utmost despatch, and must not be delayed owing to the counting being challenged by any transmitting office. They must be sent on at once with a memo. calling attention to the error of which correction has been demanded. In all cases of disputed counting in cable messages which cannot be settled forthwith the Officer in Charge at the handing-over office must be referred to, and his decision accepted as final.
122. The transmitted copy of every cable message must be specially and promptly examined at transmitting offices, to correct errors, check delays, and to see that the time and the initials of the sending operator have been correctly inserted.
123. State and Admiralty cable messages take precedence during transmission. Official instructions, as under, must be inserted therein :—
(1.) “British Government” or “B.G.”: (a) In telegrams on the business of the Imperial Government; and (b) in British-Colonial Government telegrams addressed to places in United Kingdom, South Africa, United States of America, and Canada; and (c) in telegrams sent by His Majesty’s naval officers to international stations.
(2.) “French Government” or “F.G.”: In telegrams on the business of the Government of France.
(3.) “Mixed Government”: In telegrams on the business of any British-Colonial Government, addressed to countries other than United Kingdom, South Africa, United States of America, and Canada.
(4.) “Government”: In telegrams on the business of foreign Governments other than that of France.
(5.) In the case of reply-paid Government cable messages the code must be entered in the reply voucher to enable the provisions of this rule to be carried out. (Also see Rules T. 150–153.)
124. Cable messages must be delivered in duplicate when receivers apply in writing to have this done.
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