Dec. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3209

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Inland Multiple Telegrams.

20. A prepaid telegram may be addressed on one form to several persons in the same town, or to the same person in different parts of the same town (multiple telegram). If multiple telegrams are addressed to different places, or are written on separate forms, both or all will be treated as distinct messages, and charged full rates. In multiple telegrams for the same place, each address must be complete in itself; consequently the office of destination will appear as many times as there are names of addressees. The text, and all the addresses, and the signature will be counted and charged for as a single message, with an additional fee of 3d. per address for each copy excepting the first, provided always that the charge shall not exceed that for the same number of single messages. “Urgent” telegrams may be accepted at double the above tariff. The number of addresses will be indicated to the office of address by the insertion of “Multiple [No. of addresses]” in the “Instructions”; but this information will be omitted from the messages actually delivered, which will show one address only unless the sender has inserted and paid for the instruction “Communicate all addresses.” Multiple telegrams cannot be sent “collect.”

Free Delivery.

21. Except as notified in the printed list of telegraph-offices in the Post and Telegraph Guide, and the list of offices given below, all telegrams are delivered free of charge within a distance of one mile by the nearest practicable road from the office to which they may be transmitted by telegraph.

The distance of free delivery—

At Auckland Christchurch Dunedin Wellington
is—
Between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. .. .. Three miles.
After 6 p.m. .. .. .. .. One mile and a half.

At Akaroa Greytown Nelson Taihape
Alexandra South Hamilton New Plymouth Tapanui
Ashburton Hastings Oamaru Tauranga
Balclutha Hawera Onehunga Te Aroha
Blenheim Hokitika Opotiki Te Awamutu
Bluff Hunterville Otaki Temuka
Cambridge Hutt Paeroa Thames
Carterton Inglewood Pahiatua Timaru
Cheviot Invercargill Palmerston Waihi
Coromandel Kaiapoi Palmerston N. Waimate
Cromwell Kaikoura Patea Waipawa
Dannevirke Kaitangata Petone Waipukurau
Dargaville Lawrence Picton Wairos
Dunedin North Lyttelton Port Ahuriri Waitara
Eketahuna Manaia Port Chalmers Wanganui
Eltham Marton Queenstown Waverley
Feilding Masterton Rangiora Wellington S.
Foxton Mataura Reefton Westport
Geraldine Milton Riverton Whangarei
Gisborne Napier Rotorua Woodville
Gore Naseby Stratford Wyndham
Greymouth

Between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. .. .. Two miles.
After 6 p.m. .. .. .. .. One mile and a half.

Carriage when necessary beyond the one-mile, the mile-and-a-half, or the two-mile limit respectively is charged for at the rate of 6d. per mile or fraction thereof up to three miles. The foregoing charges only provide for ordinary delivery from offices where the service can be performed by a departmental messenger. All carriage beyond three miles will be made by special messenger. For telegrams to be delivered by special messenger, the cost of such delivery shall be added and paid for.