✨ Telegraph and Telephone Service Regulations
Sept. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2159
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however, the scrutinising officer thinks the surname sufficient to identify the sender at transmitting offices and the office of destination, the telegram may be passed with the surname only.
316. Official diaries must be kept at all transmitting offices, in which should be noted the duration and locality of interruptions, extraordinary occurrences, all irregularities, or anything which may cause delay to the business, and full particulars respecting the disposal of work.
Officers in Charge are supplied with forms for reporting particulars of earthquakes, and when occasion calls for their use they should be carefully and fully filled up and posted to the Secretary without delay. Extraordinary occurrences, such as extensive fires, shipwrecks, &c., should be telegraphed to the Secretary by UST.
317. Wheatstone circuits are worked under special rules, which are printed separately, and may be had on application to the Storekeeper.
LINE INTERRUPTIONS.
318. Upon the occurrence of any interruption, Officers in Charge of the offices on the circuit where such interruption exists must thoroughly overhaul and examine the instruments, lightning-guards, and all the connecting-wires in their offices, and advise whichever central office can be communicated with of the result.
319. Officers in Charge at central offices are required to localise faults on wires, in accordance with their instructions.
320. Officers at intermediate offices must promptly and correctly carry out the instructions of the central office when testing, otherwise a misleading test may ensue, causing delay, inconvenience, and expense.
321. No officer is allowed to disconnect the wires, or to change the connections at the test-board or instruments, or to use earth, without a direct order from the Superintendent, the District Inspector, or the Officer in Charge of a central office, except in the case of heavy lightning, or when entirely cut off owing to interruption to line, when he will act on his own judgment, and in accordance with the following clauses.
Intermediate offices may not alter or interfere with “through” wires that are used as telephone circuits after hours and on Sundays, without express instructions from the Superintendent or the Inspector for the district.
322. In the event of probable damage to instruments through a heavy storm of lightning at or near a terminal
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