✨ Telegraph Regulations
SEPT. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2141
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227. Service telegrams relating to “forwarded,” “transmitted,” or “received” telegrams must be securely attached to the back of the telegrams to which they refer. Should, however, a service telegram be sent, or received, after the original telegram has been sent to the Clearing-room, it should be forwarded to the Accountant, accompanied by a memo. quoting the particulars of the relative telegram.
228. Circular service telegrams from the General Post Office and from Auckland and Wakapuaka requiring acknowledgment must be acknowledged to the central telegraph-office of the district. The acknowledgments are not to be coded urgent.
The Officers in Charge, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington, and the Chief Postmaster, Nelson, collect acknowledgments.
STs from the General Post Office requiring acknowledgment are to be acknowledged by a repetition of the words after the word “acknowledge,” together with that word.
229. Service telegrams must not be used to inquire if a paid reply to a telegram has been sent. Requests to add “Reply paid” or other instructions, or to alter or amend a telegram after transmission, must not be made by ST, except in correction of departmental errors.
230. Service telegrams must not be used in making application for the special reopening of offices, or in connection with wires for chess matches. Communications on such matters when made by telegraph must be paid for.
231. Officers must confine the use of service telegrams to matters of pressing importance, and not make use of the telegraph for correspondence which could be as well conducted by post. Any service telegram sent contrary to this rule, as well as any which may be necessitated through carelessness or neglect, will be charged at ordinary telegraph rates to the officer in fault.
Conciseness and brevity of expression, as far as is consistent with clearness, must be strictly observed in all communications between officers. The coded service telegram (vide Rule T. 2) must be made use of whenever practicable. The names of offices must be written and signalled in full.
Up to 5 p.m. traffic STs must be signed by the Officer in Charge; after that hour, by the Assistant Officer in Charge, up to the time he leaves the office; and then by the senior officer in charge of the instrument-room. Such telegrams are not to be addressed to officers by name, but by official title.
Relating to other messages.
Acknowledgment of service telegrams not to be coded urgent.
Only departmental errors to be corrected by ST.
Special reopening.
Abuse.
Brevity.
Traffic STs. Address and signature.
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