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7. The construction of a line erected by its owner and at his risk is subject to the
   consent and to the control of the Department. The Department, however, will
   not abrogate the claims of the Department to the right of road. Any private line
   erected across or into a Departmental line must be at the owner’s sole risk and
   liable to him for all damage to the Departmental Electric Lines.

8. Private lines intended to be connected with a telephone-office must be equipped
   with a signalling apparatus, and, where the telephone is not on the same circuit, a
   battery, 2s 6d each. Any other apparatus or material required for the construction of
   a private line may also, on application and due prepayment, be supplied or executed
   by the Department and cannot be obtained from any dealer in such goods.

9. No private line can be transferred or removed for reuse unless reconstructed as in
   dicated in clause 2 (a) above.

10. A private line may be connected with a telephone-office at which there is no tele
    phone-exchange on the following conditions:

(a.) The line must be led into the office under the supervision of a departmental
lineman, who shall determine at which side, high, or low current will be
allowed, and shall install such other apparatus as he considers necessary.

(b.) The telephone at the telephone-office must be of the bridging-bell pattern if
there is a battery on the telephone, and of the same resistance as the other
telephones if there is only one telephone on the line. It is furnished,
where it is not on the same circuit, with a battery for the use of the service.

11. When a private line is connected with a telephone-office the service of switch
    ing telegrams on to the private line, and the transmission of telegrams by telephone
    to the private line, will be performed free, but for the transmission of telegrams from
    the transmission of telegrams over the public line will, however, be chargeable.

12. A Departmental telephone-exchange will, on special application in some cases,
    switching one private line to another private line, but may charge only the usual
    charge for each service, or the following charges for full or half Departmental
    APPOINTMENTS, whichever is the greater, and as is now chargeable.

13. Where a telephone exchange has been established in a country town private
    persons may, on payment of an entrance fee of £1 and paying the entrance fee of £1, pay £1, on application
    and paying the entrance fee of £1 and the charges set out in clause 14.
    Then the entrance fee is payable in advance.

14. Where a private line is opened up to a telephone-exchange connection, either
    through a subscriber’s wire or direct, the Departmental departmental wire not
    allowing a wire in length, the following rates in addition to the entrance fee shall
    apply:

(a.) For private residence connections:

If one connection on the private line, £5 per annum.
If two connections on the private line, or connections to different persons, £4
per annum for each connection.

(b.) For business connections: The initial business rate in force at the exchange
plus £3 for the connection, or, if two or more connections on the private line,
either to the same or to different persons on the private line, the business
rate in force at the exchange plus £2 for each connection.

(c.) If a Departmental line exceeding one mile in length has to be erected, payments
of the usual mileage rates for exclusive and duplex subscribers for exclusive
services, as specified in the current telephone regulations, will be required
for each connection to be made on the basis of a division of the total
expense due to the number of connections in the Departmental wire at the
time.

15. The Department supplies a telephone free of charge to each subscriber, and,
    where telephones are removed by him, he is to receive the usual Departmental charges.
    These remain the property of the Department, and are not installed or maintained by
    the Department unless at the request of the subscriber, but then he is charged for the
    conveniently spare the services of a lineman. Neither does the Department maintain
    private lines, but supplies, on due prepayment, new batteries, unless charged for by
    newing batteries, and will also repair or replace a defective telephone if it is sent in to
    the Telegraph-office by the subscriber. Otherwise such subscribers have all the
    privileges of ordinary subscribers.