✨ Telegraph Accounting Procedures
Sept. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2155
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(Transmits of telegrams originating at non-accounting railway-telegraph offices are to be kept separate by the first Post and Telegraph Office handling them).
Received OTs (including UOTs).
Forwarded GVMs.
Forwarded ORTs.
Received GVMs and SBTs.
Received ORTs.
Unscheduled received PTs.
Press schedules with relative telegrams enclosed.
296. Forwarded telegrams must be sorted in numerical sequence; top copies of received telegrams, also transmits, daily according to number, and arranged in alphabetical order of forwarding offices without regard to districts. When a telegram is withdrawn for any purpose from its place a docket (Form Acct. 64) must be substituted, showing, in addition to the necessary particulars, the cause of removal. Telegrams and copies should be enclosed with the accounts for the period to which they belong, but if any are unavoidably held over they must be specially forwarded to the Clearing-room with an explanatory note attached.
297. Bureau communication forms are to be sorted as EX forms. follows at all offices before being despatched to the Clearing-room at the end of each accounting period :—
Forwarded EX forms: Into alphabetical order of name of receiving office, the transactions for each office being placed in order of date, and also of time of commencement of conversation. The oldest date and earliest time of each series of transactions to be placed on top.
Received EX forms: Into alphabetical order of name of forwarding office, and into date and time order, as detailed for forwarded forms.
298. Telegraph receipts collected in cash, for which stamps are not affixed to messages, are to be shown on the statement of telegraph business under the heading “Debits.” (See Rule T. 20.)
Cash paid out for carriage, postage, refunds, delivery fees on bureau communications, &c., must be entered under “Credits.” Credit will not be allowed for any payment unless the necessary particulars are duly set forth under this heading.
299. In the Post-office Account rendered to the Chief Postmaster no entry is to be made of any receipts already accounted for by means of stamps affixed to telegrams, deficiency memoranda, or other papers.
Method of sorting telegrams.
Held-over telegrams.
Telegraph debits and credits.
Post-office Account.
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NZ Gazette 1905, No 80
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🚂 Transport & CommunicationsTelegraph accounts, Accounting procedures, Form Acct. 64, Telegram sorting, Numerical sequence, Alphabetical order, Held-over telegrams, Debits and credits, Bureau communications, EX forms