2032
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

or bureau at any time outside the ordinary hours of business on week-days or Sundays (provided the attention of the terminal office can be obtained), on payment of the following rates and fees:—

Outside ordinary hours. — Reopening fee, 1s.; special delivery fee, 1s.; tariff, ordinary.

On Sundays and holidays, outside hours prescribed for telegraph business.—Reopening fee, 1s.; special delivery fee, 1s.; tariff, Sunday or holiday, as case may be.

When in attendance for Press, testing, or departmental business, other than telegraphic.—Reopening fee, nil; special delivery fee, 1s.; tariff, ordinary.

The reopening fee is only to be charged on one telegram if more telegrams than one are handed in together by the same person.

If officers are required to remain in attendance pending the receipt of a reply, the person at whose request the office was reopened must pay overtime at the rate fixed by the department’s regulations.

35. Charges for ferries, tolls, or for any extra cost incurred for delivery must also be paid by the sender at the time of presenting the telegram. The sender shall also be liable for short charges, should it be subsequently found that the amount collected for carriage was insufficient.

36. Telegrams relating to wagers or bets may not be sent under these regulations.

Weather Telegrams for Shipping.

37. Masters of vessels are permitted to forward messages at one uniform rate of sixpence for each message (including reply) to the Harbourmasters of the several ports seeking information as to the state of the weather, &c., at the port to which they are bound, or from any port which may lie in their route. These telegrams must be concise, and should be filled in in accordance with the directions to be seen at telegraph-offices. In no case will a larger number of words in the body of the telegram than twelve be allowed. The telegraphic report giving the state of the weather in different parts of the colony will be supplied daily at a charge of £1 per copy per annum.

Transmission of Telegrams by Telephone.

38. (1.) Subscribers to telephone exchanges may, by prearrangement in writing with the telegraph-office, have telegraphic messages which are addressed to them forwarded by telephone from the office of destination to their business or private address. Such messages will, after transmission, be posted for delivery to such address, and be marked on the front “Transmitted by telephone.”

(2.) If desired, short Press messages up to fifty words may be telephoned to newspapers, the proprietors of which are subscribers to a telephone exchange, and who agree to pay the fee for so doing. After being telephoned such messages will be delivered by messenger, when their values (if “collect”), together with the fee for telephoning, will be collected.

(3.) This system may be availed of during the ordinary hours for attendance of officers at the telegraph-office, except in the case of offices where officers are on duty until 10 p.m., when the telegrams may be telephoned up to that hour.

(4.) The charges for transmitting telegrams as above shall be as follows:—

A fee of £5 5s. per annum, paid in advance; or, in other cases, for each separate transmission, provided the telephone conversation does not exceed three minutes ... ... ... ... ... 0 6

For each additional three minutes or fraction thereof ... ... ... 0 6

When the fee is paid by time, one conversation may include two or more messages, including any referred to in the next succeeding paragraph. The fee is to be affixed in stamps to a docket which will be provided, and presented to the telegraph-office immediately after the message has been telephoned.

(5.) Telephone-exchange subscribers who have signed the usual form of application may also telephone to any telegraph-office connected with a telephone exchange, during the ordinary hours of telegraph attendance, if the exchange is open, any messages, not exceeding fifty words in length, to be further transmitted from the telegraph-office to the respective destinations of such messages as telegrams, provided the usual cost of such telegrams is paid in addition to the above rates.

(6.) Prior to telephoning any such message the sender shall reduce such message to writing, and, immediately after transmission, if telephoned before 5 p.m., deliver the written message to the telegraph-office, with the charges affixed in stamps. Messages telephoned after 5 p.m. and before 8 p.m. must be handed in to the telegraph-office not later than 10 o’clock the following morning. To prevent duplication the word “Transmitted” should be written in a conspicuous place on the form after the message has been telephoned.

(7.) The department reserves the right to exclude any person from the privilege of sending or receiving telegrams by telephone under this system until any arrears of fees which may be due are fully paid, and to demand a deposit before registering any application.

(8.) The transcribed copies of messages telephoned by subscribers will, so far as the department is concerned, become the original telegrams, and the department will not assume or be subject to any liability by reason or on account of any failure, delay, or mistake in or about the transmission, receipt, or delivery of any telegram under this system, from whatever cause the same may arise.

(9.) On payment of a fee of 6d. and the charge for the transmitting—at the prescribed rates for urgent or ordinary telegrams, as the case may be—of such words as may be required to convey the direction hereafter mentioned, the sender of a telegram may insert in the place for instructions thereon the direction “To be telephoned,” and thereupon such telegram, upon arrival at the telegraph-office of destination, shall be forthwith telephoned through the telephone exchange to the addressee, if such addressee is a subscriber to that exchange; and in other respects the provisions made for the transmission of telegrams to addressees through telephone exchanges at their own request shall, as far as applicable, apply to such telegram.