✨ Shipping Telegram Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 80
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SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.
San Francisco mails.
209. (1.) On arrival of the San Francisco mail at Auckland all ports must be advised by UMT, but the movements of the coastal steamer carrying the mails should only be reported to those places on the main route towards which such steamer may be sailing, and to the last port of departure. The main route will comprise Onehunga, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Nelson, Wellington, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Invercargill, and Bluff.
The West Coast route of the Middle Island will include Wellington, Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, and Hokitika. These offices must be advised in respect of their portion of the mail similarly to those on the main route.
Tauranga, Gisborne, Port Ahuriri, and Napier must be advised locally only, except when the mails for those four places are carried by one steamer.
A copy of all mail telegrams addressed to Napier will be sent by that office to Port Ahuriri.
Brindisi and Direct mails.
(2.) The movements of steamers carrying English mails received via Brindisi, and by Direct steamers, are to be reported similarly.
(3.) English mails for places other than those named are to be reported locally only.
Direct English mail-steamers, and steamers trading to South African ports.
(4.) A UMT is to be sent to Auckland, Thames, Gisborne, Napier, Port Ahuriri, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Wellington, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, and Invercargill, notifying the arrival and departure at and from the several ports of all Direct English mail-steamers, and the contract steamers trading to South African ports.
Other ocean-going steamers and sailing-vessels.
(5.) The arrival of other ocean-going steamers and sailing-vessels at the “first” port and their departure from “final” port of call should be reported to Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Port Chalmers, and Bluff, their movements in the interval being reported from port to port only as in the case of coastal vessels.
Coastal steamers.
(6.) The arrivals and departures of steamers which trade only in New Zealand waters are to be telegraphed to the port whence they last came and the port whither bound, except in the case of steamers reported to Greymouth, Lyttelton,
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