✨ Telegraph and Telephone Service Regulations
Sept. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2161
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326. In the event of communication being totally interrupted, central offices on each side of the fault will advise chief offices. Partial interruption owing to bad weather or leakage, causing an undue accumulation of work, must also be advised. In either case the widest public notice is to be given, and telegrams, urgent or ordinary, will only be accepted from the public and transmitted to the furthest point practicable on the distinct understanding that they are taken in at the senders’ risk, and that the Department will not be responsible for any delay which may occur. When communication is restored, public notice must again be given, and any telegrams on hand forwarded with the utmost despatch, the best operators being utilised to reduce the accumulation of work. When communication is totally cut off, and will probably not be restored for some time, all telegrams on hand which can be forwarded by train or otherwise must be copied and sent on to the nearest transmitting office by first opportunity, addressed “Urgent telegrams, for immediate delivery or transmission”; the words “Copy sent by train,” or otherwise, to be written across such telegrams. Should communication be restored before the copies reach their destination, the telegrams must be transmitted by wire, and the words “Copy by train,” or other means, signalled in instructions.
327. Notification of interruptions must be sent by UST, and given precedence, and the time of the notification stated in the text. The maximum time allowed for such notices to reach LS is thirty minutes. The senders of telegrams should be given the option of paying “urgent” rates or allowing the telegrams to be transmitted in the ordinary course.
328. Whenever the diary records abnormal condition of the wires, occasioning an accumulation of telegrams at the offices and delaying the traffic, a brief extract should be transcribed therefrom on the back of the Statement of Telegraph Business for the period affected (Form Acct. 210). In the event of partial or complete line-interruptions the number of the circuit affected and the nature and duration of the interruption are also to be given.
329. When a telegram has been delayed in transmission in consequence of an interruption to communication the words “Delayed by interruption of lines” must be stamped or written upon the addressee’s copy. A note must be made in the diary when the use of the superscription is necessary, and when the necessity for the time being ceases.
Chief offices to be advised when communication interrupted.
Restoration.
Telegrams forwarded by train.
Notification.
Abnormal conditions to be noted (Form Acct. 210).
Telegrams to be marked when delayed.
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