✨ Telegraph Service Accounting Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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TELEGRAPH ACCOUNTS.
293. Each station must prepare in duplicate, on Form Acct. 210, a statement of telegraph business transacted, one copy to be retained for twelve months as a local record, and the other to accompany the messages to the Clearing-room. A “nil” return must be furnished when there are no entries to be made for the period for which it is rendered. The statement must be signed by the Officer in Charge, or in his absence by his deputy.
294. Chief offices and sub-offices of the first and second grade will account daily, posting the statement (Form Acct. 210) and relative messages to “The Accountant, Clearing-room, General Post Office, Wellington,” on the third day following the date of the transactions. A summary on Form Acct. 210, showing the particulars of each day’s business and the totals for the full accounting period, must be enclosed with the accounts for the last day of each period. A line of the summary and the daily statement respectively can be prepared simultaneously each day by means of the manifolding process. At other sub-offices the usual accounting periods will be observed, namely: From the 1st to the 7th, 8th to 15th, 16th to 23rd, and 24th to last day of every month, inclusive, and the accounts posted to the Clearing-room by the first mail after the close of the period for which they are furnished.
295. The various documents must not be fastened together in any way, or rolled up. They must be sent under one cover, but in separate divisions as follows:—
Enclosed in Form Acct. 210:—
Forwarded messages prepaid in cash.
Received “collects.”
Received messages on which carriage has been paid out.
Forwarded cables.
Received cables.
Forwarded MOTs.
Forwarded SBTs.
Papers in connection with refunds.
In Separate Divisions:—
Forwarded Bureau communication forms.
Received Bureau communication forms.
Forwarded OTs (including UOTs).
Forwarded PTs.
Transmits.
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NZ Gazette 1905, No 80
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