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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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34. The number of words in the reply will thus exceed by one the number of words to be repeated.

35. The charges will not be collected if the repetition proves that the original telegram has been mutilated in transmission.

36. In case some of the words repeated are shown to have been correctly transmitted, the cost of the words employed to designate the words correctly rendered, both in the telegram of inquiry and in the reply, will be collected; but if errors occurred which prevented the addressee from understanding words which were correctly transmitted, and so led him to obtain a repetition of these words, the charges are not collected.

37. When the words to be repeated are ambiguously written, the office of origin adds to the repetition a notice thus expressed, “Writing doubtful,” in which case the cost of the service advice must be paid.

38. No reimbursement of the charge for the original telegram will be allowed, and no refund will be made when the repetition is obtained directly instead of by means of an official service telegram.

STOPPAGE OF TELEGRAMS.

39. The Telegraph Administrations reserve to themselves the power to stop the transmission of any private telegram which may appear dangerous to the security of the State, or which may be contrary to the laws of the country or to public order or decency.

40. Any sender can, by proving his identity, stop, if in time, the transmission of a telegram deposited by him. When a sender withdraws or stops his telegram before transmission has been commenced, the charges are returned to him, less a fixed sum of 2d., the fee of the sending office. If the telegram is already transmitted by the office of despatch, the sender’s only means of requesting that it be cancelled is a paid service telegram.

DELIVERY AT DESTINATION.

41. Telegrams are delivered according to their address at the place of residence of the addressee, or poste restante at the Post Office, or telegraph restante at the Telegraph Office, and in the two latter cases they are only delivered to the addressee or to a person duly appointed by him. Where so desired telegrams will be delivered in duplicate. Telegrams bearing the indication “Jour” or = J = are not delivered during the night hours.

42. A telegram taken to the place of residence may be delivered either to the addressee, to the adult members of his family, to his employees, lodgers, or landlord, or to the porter of the house, unless the addressee has given special instructions to the contrary.

43. If the door is not opened at the address given, or if the messenger finds no one who will consent to take in the telegram, notice is left at that address, and the telegram is brought back to the Telegraph Office, to be delivered to the addressee upon application. If not applied for in the meantime, the telegram will be sent out a second time when a messenger passes the address given.

44. 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 a paid telegram.

45. Telegrams for any suburban office situated within the London Metropolitan Postal District must be addressed to London as the office of destination.

46. A telegram to Australia must contain a fuller address than a surname only, however well known the addressee may be. Surnames should only be accepted when stated to be registered as cable-code addresses.

47. Telegrams handed in for transmission with the instruction “Post, Sydney,” &c., must not be accepted without a full postal address, the abbreviated or code address being only allowable in messages telegraphed to actual destination.