✨ Telephone Exchange Procedures
- After the expiration of the last day of grace, the Officer in Charge will telegraph to the Accountant the number of subscribers who have been cut off, or failed to pay, and thereafter once a week until all the subscriptions have been paid or the connections given up.
A report must be made to the Accountant, through the Inspector, on Form P.O. 106, of all cancellations, notwithstanding any authority for such having been telegraphed by the Accountant.
- Telephone-exchange subscriptions are to be entered on Form Acct. 172, Report of Collections, and the daily total of such receipts must be brought to charge, under a separate heading, as "Telephone Exchange Receipts" in the account furnished to the Chief Postmaster.
The return must be written in copying-ink, and press-copied.
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When a subscriber applies to be connected with one who has been cut off in consequence of neglect to pay the subscription, a reply must be given that the latter has been "disconnected."
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The District Inspector will be authorised, when necessary, to keep a foreman, whose duty it will be to attend to the running of the exchange wires, otherwise the work will be carried out by the lineman in charge of the section in which the exchange is situated, under the direction of the Inspector.
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The line-route form is intended to be filled in thus : The wires on each side of the pole to be commenced and numbered from No. 1 on the road side to the last insulator on that arm, and from No. 1 on the footpath side to the last insulator on that arm, the numbering to commence from the insulator next the pole on each side, supposing the arm to be 2-, 4-, 6-hole, or more. The arms themselves to be numbered from the top of the pole downwards, thus : Top arm is called No. 1, second arm No. 2. Insulators will be numbered thus : No. 1, top arm, road side; No. 1, top arm, footpath side; No. 1, second arm, road side; No. 1, second arm, footpath side, and so on. Thus the numbering of the arm will indicate the place where a wire is situated, and the numbering of the insulator, footpath, or road side, will indicate the insulator to which that particular wire is fixed on that arm.
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At the larger exchanges the Inspector will appoint one or more men, as may be authorised, whose chief duty will be to attend to all exchange batteries. At the smaller ex-
Cutting off subscribers.
Report of Collections.
Application for connection with disconnected subscribers.
Foreman.
Line route form: How to be filled in.
Exchange batteries.
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NZ Gazette 1905, No 80
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Procedure for Processing Telephone Exchange Applications
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