✨ Telegraph Regulations and Procedures
SEPT. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2123
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Except by special arrangement, made by the Secretary, cable messages cannot be accepted as “Collect.”
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Receipts demanded for amounts paid for cable messages are to be given free of charge.
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Cable messages must be fully counted and complete before being put upon the wires. Incoming messages bearing the instruction “C T F” must not, however, be stopped, but delivered when practicable, with the words “Correction to follow” written boldly across the face of the addressee’s copy.
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When sending beyond the colony for the repetition of words in cable messages, the words as received by the delivering office should be shown in parentheses, in order that the handing-over office may, if the error has occurred on New Zealand lines, stop or amend the repetition ST. The following is an example: “Wellington from London (RP4), Twenty-sixth, Brown: Repeat first, fourth, ninth (credence, anomaly, deltoid.” The words “credence,” “anomaly,” “deltoid” in this example are not to be charged for. Cipher and code in STs must always be repeated (Rule T. 68).
Requests for rectification may be forwarded without prepayment if the addressee gives a written undertaking to pay the cost of the service should the reply confirm the original rendering.
- Service telegrams addressed to foreign offices must be concise. All such messages must be countersigned by the Officer in Charge prior to transmission.
Immediate attention must be given to all foreign service telegrams, and to service telegrams from handing-over offices respecting cable messages. If received after business hours, STs must be replied to before the office is finally closed. Upon no account may they be held over until the office reopens. The midnight-cable, Sunday, and holiday-morning attendances form no exception to this rule.
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Cable messages are to be treated as ordinary telegrams for the purposes of any returns or statements of telegraph business. (For “Reply paid” cable messages see Rules T. 150–153.)
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Cable messages remaining unclaimed at any telegraph-office on the expiration of six weeks from the date of receipt must be forwarded to the Accountant (Clearing-room), marked in accordance with the directions given for inland messages in Rule T. 99.
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NZ Gazette 1905, No 80
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