New Zealand Gazette – 1905 – No. 80

Page 2125

✨ Telegraph Regulations



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applied to. If, however, it is known for whom the message is intended it may be delivered upon the cipher being registered and the fee paid.

  1. Cable messages which come to hand bearing lapsed Lapsed. code addresses must not be delivered unless a fresh registration fee is paid. Officers must exercise care to distinguish between messages bearing a surname as an address and messages addressed to an obvious code address. In the former case every effort must be made to effect delivery.

CODE AND CIPHER TELEGRAMS.

  1. Telegrams may be written in cipher, which will be Cipher permissible. counted and charged for in accordance with conditions stated in the Guide.

  2. In order to reduce to a minimum errors in cipher Should be written or printed in capital letters. telegrams, senders of all such telegrams must be requested to write or print the ciphers in capital letters as plainly as possible.

  3. In taking off cipher telegrams, either at a receiving or a transmitting office, the ciphers must be written or printed in capital letters as plainly as possible, thus :—

Bank of New Zealand, Auckland.

XW. H S. BOF. EJHJ. HAO. SKX. ASPBLGYMWDH.

THOMPSON.

Telegrams in cipher are more liable to mutilation in trans- Great care to be exercised in signalling. mission than those written in plain language. Great care, therefore, must be exercised to avoid errors in signalling. (Rule T. 68.)

“COLLECT” TELEGRAMS.

  1. “Collect” telegrams may be accepted under the Acceptance. conditions notified in the Guide. When addressed to a post-office they are to be retained at the receiving telegraph-office, and a notice posted to the addressee intimating that such a telegram awaits delivery on payment of its cost. Should delivery of any “collect” telegram not be effected within twenty-four hours, or the addressee refuse to pay the charge, the forwarding office must be directed to make the telegram prepaid, except in the case of cable messages. Inquiry must not be made by wire whether or not the charges on “collect” telegrams will be paid by addressees.

  2. The Officer in Charge may demand a deposit from Deposits and charges on “collect” telegrams. the sender of the amount to be collected on the delivery of a “collect” telegrams.



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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🚂 Cable-Code Address Registration and Management Procedures (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
Cable-code addresses, Registration, Fees, Record keeping, Cancellation, Renewal, Unregistered messages, Central telegraph offices, Dictionary words, Code approval

🚂 Rules for Handling Cipher Telegrams

🚂 Transport & Communications
Cipher telegrams, Capital letters, Transmission accuracy, Message formatting, Telegraph procedures, Bank of New Zealand, Auckland
  • Thompson, Named as recipient or sender in cipher example

🚂 Procedures for 'Collect' Telegrams

🚂 Transport & Communications
Collect telegrams, Payment on delivery, Post-office notices, Deposit requirements, Delivery refusal, Prepaid conversion, Telegraph charges