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
Dannevirk
Kaitangata
Petone
Waipukurau
Dargaville
Lawrence
Picton
Wairoa
Dunedin North
Levin
Port Ahuriri
Waitara
Eketahuna
Lyttelton
Port Chalmers
Wanganui
Eltham
Manaia
Queenstown
Waverley
Feilding
Marton
Rangiora
Wellington S.
Foxton
Masterton
Reefton
Westport
Geraldine
Mataura
Riverton
Whangarei
Gisborne
Milton
Rotorua
Woodville
Gore
Napier
Stratford
Wyndham
Greymouth
Naseby

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. If required to be delivered beyond the distance of three miles, all moneys disbursed in payment of cab-fares, omnibus-fares, horse-hire, portage, or any other expenses incurred in delivery, shall be charged for and paid. All telegrams shall bear any expenses incurred to defray ferriage and tolls. To prevent the non-delivery or detention of telegrams when a telegram is presented for a place known to be beyond the free delivery, the cost of carriage from the office of delivery should be prepaid. If the carriage is insufficiently prepaid, the balance will be collected from the addressee. When the sender gives a guarantee that carriage will be paid for by the addressee, the words “Carriage guaranteed” should be written on the back of the forwarded telegram and signed by the sender, whose address also should be given. In the event of the addressee refusing to pay, the amount due will be recovered from the sender. If the sender declines to pay for the carriage, or to give the guarantee, the telegram will be delivered by post. When a telegram is received requiring delivery by special messenger, and upon which no carriage has been prepaid, the sender will be asked for his instructions, and if no reply is received before the despatch of the next mail or the next letter-carrier’s delivery the telegram will be posted. Free telegrams on behalf of sender or addressee about the amount of payment required for carriage, and so forth, will not be sent.

Sender responsible for Delivery Charges.

22. The sender of a telegram shall be responsible for the payment of all charges incurred in the delivery, and, if the sender fails to pay the charges upon being requested to do so, the Officer in Charge of the telegraph-office at which the telegram was delivered for despatch may, in his own name, in any Court of competent jurisdiction, sue for and recover from the sender thereof the charges due on such telegram.

Redirected and Undelivered Telegrams.

23. Telegrams redirected to a corrected address are liable to an additional charge of 8d. if delivery can be effected from the original receiving office, but if the corrected