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97. Every claim for refund must be made under penalty of rejection within five months from the date of deposit of the telegram. Claims on account of messages addressed to America must be made promptly, as the American offices do not retain records for more than six months after transmission.

98. Every claim must be made to the original sending Administration, and be accompanied by documentary evidence—i.e., a written statement from the terminal office or addressee if the telegram has been delayed or not been delivered, or the copy delivered to the addressee if the question is one of alteration or omission.

99. The claim may, however, be presented by the addressee to the office of destination, which shall decide whether it will deal with it or whether it must be forwarded to the sending Administration.

REGISTRATION OF ABBREVIATED TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES.

NEW ZEALAND.

1. A register is kept at every telegraph-office in New Zealand for the registration of code or abbreviated addresses of two or more words. (See under “Code Addresses.”)

2. Sell’s Directory of Telegraphic Code Addresses registered in the United Kingdom may be seen at the principal telegraph-offices in New Zealand.

UNITED KINGDOM.

1. Application for the registration of an abbreviated telegraphic address in London should be made to the Secretary, General Post Office. In the provinces application should be made to the Postmaster of the town in which it is proposed to register an address. The British Department cannot arrange for the registration of an address at any place abroad.

2. No address may consist of more than one word in addition to the name of the town where registration is effected.

3. The word should contain not more than ten letters, and should be easy to read and easy to telegraph. Proper names can only in rare cases be accepted, and in no case can a proper name be registered for a person of a different name.

4. The names of professions, trades, countries, States, towns, telegraph-stations, well-known streets, and registered newspapers may not be registered.

5. Numbers may not be registered.

6. To prevent inconvenience to the public, the Department has to reject words which, either in writing or in telegraph symbols, so closely resemble other registered words as to be liable to be mistaken for them. It is desirable, therefore, that any application should not merely offer one word for acceptance, but should give several words, from which a selection may be made.

7. All addresses registered for delivery within the London postal area must contain the name “London.” The name of a district in the postal area of a town cannot be substituted for the name of the town.

8. No address may be registered in one town for the delivery of telegrams in another town.

9. A registered address is available for telegrams from abroad as well as for inland telegrams.

10. The Department reserves to itself the right to cancel an address. In such a case a part of the registration fee proportionate to the unexpired period is returned, or a new address may be substituted for the one cancelled.

11. In the event of a change in the title of a firm for which an address is recorded, the consent, in writing, of all the partners of the firm must be produced before the records can be altered.

12. If it be desired that a registered address should be published in Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, that fact should be clearly intimated to the Department at the time of registration. No charge is made for publication in this Directory.

13. The fee for the registration of an abbreviated telegraphic address is £1 1s. per annum from the date of registration. In London cheques or money-orders sent in payment of the fee should be made payable to the Postmaster-General and crossed “Bank of England.” In the provinces payment should be made to the Postmaster of the town in which the registration is effected.

14. The Department does not recommend the use of abbreviated addresses. The references which have to be made in order to supply the corresponding full addresses inevitably lead to delay.

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