✨ Telegraph Service Regulations
Sept. 1. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2157.
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Any damage occurring to telegraph apparatus which cannot be fairly attributed to unavoidable accident or to reasonable wear-and-tear will have to be made good at the expense of the officer under whose charge the apparatus was when injured. The relay cover must not be placed on top of the key when sending; nor must pieces of tin, glass, or any other substance be used for a similar purpose.
307. Circuit slips (Form Acct. 44) must be kept at all Chief Offices and sub-offices of the first and second grade.
308. When a telegram is lost, or not duly forwarded, strict inquiry shall be made into the cause of the failure, and the officer or officers responsible sharply dealt with.
An error-book must be kept in each Chief Post-office, also in the telegraph-offices at Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Napier, and Wellington, in which a record is to be made of each error or irregularity committed at Chief or sub-post-offices. The entries must show the nature of the error, the date of its occurrence, the number of the official record or fine-voucher, the name of the officer at fault, and the notice taken of the matter.
309. Officers in Charge are expected to devote special attention to the training and well-being of cadets placed under their control, and to their acquiring a thorough knowledge of the business of the Department in all its branches. A report should be sent to the Secretary at the close of three months after their appointment on the progress made in telegraphy, &c. by cadets, and also as to their general character and behaviour.
Cadets learning to operate the telegraph instrument are to be treated with every consideration. Anything like hustling or worrying them, through impatience at their slowness, is to be stopped by supervising officers. Officers at corresponding stations must not be too ready with complaints of incompetence or slowness, when it is known that those disadvantages are the result of breaking cadets into their work. This disposition makes it all the more necessary on the part of supervising officers to take care that the young officers whose interests are thus safeguarded do not attempt to play upon the consideration and kindness shown them.
310. Officers are enjoined to cultivate a clear and legible style of handwriting, free from flourishes or eccentricities of formation. Good handwriting is merely the result of making the same letter of the proper shape always, and of writing in such a way that each letter of a word, if read apart from
Damaged telegraph apparatus.
Circuit slips
Irregularities.
Error-book.
Training of cadets.
Progress reports.
Learners to be treated with every consideration.
Instructions to supervising officers.
Clear and legible handwriting to be cultivated.
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