✨ Telegraph Service Regulations and Tariff Rates
2034
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59
Monthly Registration Fee—
For inland or cable, or for both under same code address, 5s.
For inland and cable under different code addresses, 5s. each.
5. The registration in New Zealand of code addresses applies to incoming telegrams only.
- Unless renewed, registration ceases at expiration of the period covered by the fee. (See also under “Registration of Abbreviated Telegraphic Addresses.”)
TARIF F RATES
IN NEW ZEALAND.
Ordinary Telegrams.
From any Station to any Station:—
For the first 12 words or less, including address and signature Sixpence.
For every additional word ... ... ... ... One halfpenny.
On Sundays, between offices which open both morning and evening, the above rates; at other offices, double the above rates.
[For telegraph fees for repayment of Post-Office Savings-Bank deposits by telegraph see Repayment of Deposits in Post and Telegraph Guide.]
Urgent Telegrams.
For the first 12 words or less, including address and signature... One shilling.
For every additional word ... ... ... ... One penny.
On Sundays, between offices which open both morning and evening, the above rates; at other offices, double the above rates.
STATUTORY HOLIDAYS.
New Year’s Day, Easter Monday, the birthdays of the King and the Prince of Wales, and Boxing Day, or any days substituted therefor. Good Friday and Christmas Day are observed as Sundays so far as regards hours of attendance; but week-day tariff rates only are chargeable on ordinary and urgent telegrams unless Christmas Day should also be a Sunday, when Sunday rates are charged for that day.
Ordinary and urgent telegrams at the same rates as for week-days.
[See charges for Telegrams relating to sickness and death elsewhere.]
Press Telegrams.
Press telegrams may contain only information of general public interest, and the whole text must be intended for publication as news in the newspapers to which the telegrams are addressed. Advertisements, letters intended for publication in the open or other columns of newspapers, or telegrams that are mere “puffs” of theatrical or travelling business companies, and not of general public interest, cannot be transmitted at Press rates.
Provided the offices are open, all newspapers are entitled to receive Press news at night at evening rates, no matter whether sent in the evening prior to publication or not. The evening rates on day telegrams for evening papers are restricted to the day of publication, unless otherwise ordered.
The tariff for ordinary telegrams is applicable to and will be collected from the addressee of every Press telegram of which use is made for some other purpose than or besides that of insertion in the columns of the newspaper to which it is addressed, viz. :
(a.) Telegrams which are not published by the receiving newspaper (failing a satisfactory explanation), or which the latter has communicated before publication to private individuals, or to establishments such as clubs, cafés, hotels, exchanges, &c.
(b.) Telegrams which the receiving newspaper before publishing them itself has sold, distributed, or communicated to another newspaper for publication in its columns.
(c.) Telegrams, addressed to agencies, which are not published in a newspaper (failing a satisfactory explanation), or which are communicated to third persons before being published by the Press.
The following rates are chargeable for the transmission of Press telegrams from or to any office in New Zealand during the prescribed hours for such business. (See “List of Telegraph-offices,” also table of “Additional Attendance for Press Work,” in the Post and Telegraph Guide.)
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NZ Gazette 1907, No 59