✨ Telegraph Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Relieving-allowance.
371. Telegraph messengers who are appointed to temporarily relieve letter-carriers or post-office messengers are made an allowance of the difference between their own salaries and the minimum salaries of a letter-carrier or post-office messenger respectively for the period during which they so act. This rule does not apply in any other case than that of a telegraph messenger relieving a letter-carrier or post-office messenger.
Must not redeliver telegrams from the public.
372. Telegraph messengers must not deliver telegrams handed them by the public for redelivery to another person without the authority of their superior officers.
CLEANSING, REPAIRING, AND MAINTAINING BATTERIES.
DANIELL BATTERY.
Cleaning.
373. This battery requires cleansing about every three months. Linemen will attend to this duty. Where there is no lineman the messengers must, as far as possible, do what is necessary; but the Officer in Charge will be held responsible for the condition of his office batteries.
In setting up a new battery, or in resetting up an old one, the first thing to be attended to is to see that the copper element is well down in its place at the bottom of the glass cell, and that the top of the zinc element is placed about three-quarters of an inch below the top of the cell. Water should be poured into the cell until it reaches to within half an inch of the top of the zinc. When all the cells are in the places where they are ultimately to remain, and when all motion has ceased in the water—and not before—crystals of sulphate of copper are to be dropped into the earthenware or gutta-percha tube in which is placed the copper strap. An ounce of sulphate is quite sufficient to put into each cell at a time, either to start it or to renew its power. If the battery is in constant use an addition of sulphate once a week or once in every ten days may be made. It is a mistake to fill up the earthenware or gutta-percha cells with sulphate of copper, for when there is an excess of sulphate it crystallizes on the copper element, and so reduces the size of the efficient or power-giving surface, and consequently reduces the power of the battery instead of increasing it. It will, on the contrary, be found that the batteries will work better and give more constant and regular current by adding the sulphate a little at a time as required. The batteries so treated will last longer without requiring to be taken apart and cleansed.
Setting up new or re-setting old batteries.
Sulphate.
Local batteries of this type require the addition of sulphate
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NZ Gazette 1905, No 80
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Regulations for Telegraph Messengers
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