✨ Telegraph and Telephone Line Maintenance Regulations
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Maintenance and Construction of Telegraph and Telephone Lines.
901. All vouchers for expenditure chargeable to lines must be certified, prior to payment, by the Inspector or Sub-Inspector in charge of the district. Whenever the expenditure is incurred under contract or agreement the fact should be stated. The certificate must be made to read “ according to contract ” or “ agreement,” as the case may be. The number of the item and schedule must be shown against each entry on claims for supplies obtained under contract. Expenditure on account of construction should not be included on the vouchers containing items for maintenance of lines. In the case of services performed by the Railway Department separate claims should be required for items chargeable to construction or maintenance.
902. Expenditure on maintenance of lines and exchanges must be claimed on separate vouchers, as follows :—
(a.) Travelling-expenses of Inspectors, linemen, and others, fares, forage, horse-hire, paddocking, horse-shoeing, stabling, and claims of like nature, are included under the general heading “ Travelling-expenses.”
(b.) “ Labour ” includes all amounts paid to wages-men or labourers not on the permanent staff.
(c.) “ Material ” includes all expenditure on material for repairs, and freight and charges thereon.
903. In every case the name of the Inspector’s district to which the expenditure is chargeable should be stated at the top of the voucher.
904. Expenditure on construction of lines and exchanges :—
(a.) The expenditure on each exchange and line should be kept separate, and the name of the exchange or line clearly set forth at the top of the voucher.
(b.) The name of the line should indicate both the place from and the place to which it is taken—as “ Otaki-Shannon Line ”; and the reason for the expenditure must also be given.
905. All expenditure not chargeable to either construction or maintenance of lines, and performed under the direction of an Inspector of Telegraphs, should be placed on separate vouchers, and the name of the office to which the expense relates entered in the place provided.
906. Claims for wages, &c., which include Sunday duty must clearly set forth particulars of such duty. Sunday labour performed by men not on the permanent staff is paid for at double rates. Such
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 47
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