July 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [2047

REPEATED OR COLLATED TELEGRAMS.

70. The sender may have his telegram repeated from station to station on payment of an additional charge equal to a quarter of the ordinary rate. The words “Repetition paid,” or the abbreviated signal = TC =, must be written before the address and charged for.

71. Government telegrams expressed in secret language are collated officially and gratuitously.

72. The collation, which consists of the entire repetition of the telegram (including the preamble) is given immediately after the transmission of the telegram.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT.

73. The sender of any telegram may request that a notice of the date and time of its delivery to the addressee be transmitted to him as soon as possible after such delivery. When the telegram is forwarded to its final destination by post this notification shall indicate the date and hour of posting.

74. If notification by telegraph be required, the sender must write before the address the instruction “Acknowledgment of Receipt,” or = PC = and pay the cost of an ordinary telegram of five words for the same destination by the same route. If notice by post be desired, the sender must write before the address the instruction “Postal acknowledgment of receipt,” or = PCP =, and pay a fee of 5d.

75. When the countries concerned admit urgent telegrams, priority of transmission and of delivery may be demanded for the acknowledgment of receipt. For this purpose, the sender writes before the address the instructions “Urgent acknowledgment receipt,” or = PCD =, and pays the charge for an urgent telegram of five words for the same destination by the same route.

TELEGRAMS TO FOLLOW.

76. Telegrams can be directed to several addresses “to follow,” for instance, “John Brown, Hotel de Rome, Berlin, ou Römer, Frankfurt a/M, ‘faire suivre.’” The sender pays the charges to the first destination, and the cost of further transmission is collected on delivering the telegram. The words “faire suivre,” or the official code sign = FS =, must be inserted before the address, for which the rate of two words is charged in the former and of one word in the latter case.

MULTIPLE TELEGRAMS.

77. Any telegram may be addressed either to several persons in the same locality or in different localities served by the same telegraph-office, or to the same person at several addresses in the same locality or in different localities served by the same telegraph-office. With this object the sender writes before the address the instruction “x addresses,” or = TMx =, which enters into the number of words charged for. The name of the office of destination only appears once, at the end of the address.

78. The address of a multiple telegram, if it contains any supplementary instructions, is written in accordance with the prescriptions of clause 14.

79. For multiple telegrams, in addition to the charge per word, a charge of 5d. is collected for each copy not containing more than 100 words. The number of copies is equal to the number of addresses less one.

80. For copies containing over 100 words the charge is 5d. per 100 words or fraction of 100 words. The charge for each copy is calculated separately, taking into account the number of words which it will contain.

81. For urgent telegrams the charge of 5d. per copy of 100 words is increased to 10d.

82. In the first case provided for by clause 77, each copy of the telegram must bear only its own address, unless the sender has requested the contrary. This request must be included in the number of words charged for, must be written before the addresses, and formulated at follows: “Communicate all addresses.”

83. Multiple telegrams are not accepted for America.

TELEGRAMS TO PLACES BEYOND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM.

84. Telegrams addressed to places not connected by telegraph, may, if the sender so desire, be despatched to destination either by post or express; their despatch by express can, however, only be required when they are for States that have organized means of delivery of telegrams more rapid than the post.

85. The address of telegrams to be delivered beyond the telegraph system must be preceded by the indication denoting the method of transport to be employed whether post or express.

BY POST.

86. Telegrams to be sent by post to a country other than that of the terminal telegraph-station are subject to a charge of 2½d. or 5d., according to whether the address contains the paid instruction “Post,” or “Registered Post,” = PR =. The charges for transmission by express are as a rule collected from the addressee.

CERTIFIED COPIES OF FOREIGN TELEGRAMS.

87. The sender or addressee of a telegram, or his duly authorised agent, may, on proof of identity, and on furnishing full particulars of the telegram, obtain a certified copy of the message as originally handed in, or as delivered at destination, on payment of a copying-fee of 5d. for every 100 words or portion of 100 words.

88. When messages have been forwarded to the General Post Office a search fee of 2s. 6d., reducible to 1s. if full particulars are supplied, is chargeable.

89. As all telegrams are destroyed periodically, certified copies of telegrams more than twelve months old cannot be supplied.

UNDELIVERED TELEGRAMS—RECTIFICATION OF ADDRESS.

90. When a telegram cannot be delivered the delivery office advises the sending office of the cause of non-delivery, which advice, if practicable, is communicated to the sender. The latter can only complete, rectify, or confirm the address by means of a paid telegram.