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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. A code address must be registered in the Post and Telegraph Department before being used, and may be registered for any term not exceeding one year (except in case of first registration) and not less than one month. Code-registration years end on the 31st December only. In case of first registration, if the period to the 31st December is three months or less than three months, the fee for the next full year must be added to the fee for the period then remaining of the current year. The minimum registration fee in any case will be 5s. Where a telegram is received bearing an unregistered code address, it will be delivered to the addressee, if ascertained, on payment, in respect of each telegram, of a sum of 6d. for an inland telegram, 2s. 6d. for an intercolonial telegram, and 5s. for an international telegram respectively.

12. A register is kept at every telegraph-office in New Zealand for the registration of code addresses. Code addresses for inland telegrams (meaning telegrams received from places within New Zealand) are registered separately from code addresses for cable telegrams (meaning telegrams received from places beyond New Zealand), and the registration charges are cumulative. The charges are as follows:—

Yearly Registration Fee—
For Cable telegrams, 10s.
Inland telegrams, 10s.; or
When same code address used for cable and inland, 10s. each. (If different cable address subsequently registered, £1 for the inland address from same date.)
When different code addresses used, £1 for inland, 10s. for cable.
For each registration after the first, of inland or cable address, 10s. each.

Monthly Registration Fee—
For inland or cable, or for both under same code address, 5s.
For inland and cable under different code addresses, 5s. each.

13. The registration in New Zealand of code addresses applies to incoming telegrams only.

14. Unless renewed, registration ceases at expiration of the period covered by the fee.

TARIFF RATES

IN NEW ZEALAND.

Ordinary Telegrams.

From any Station to any Station:—
For the first 12 words or less, including address and signature Sixpence.
For every additional word ... ... ... ... One halfpenny.
On Sundays, between offices which open both morning and evening, the above rates; at other offices, double the above rates.

[For telegraph fees for repayment of Post-Office Savings-Bank deposits by telegraph see Repayment of Deposits in the Post and Telegraph Guide.]

Urgent Telegrams.

For the first 12 words or less, including address and signature ... One shilling.
For every additional word ... ... ... ... One penny.
On Sundays, between offices which open both morning and evening, the above rates; at other offices, double the above rates.

DEPARTMENTAL HOLIDAYS.

New Year’s Day, Easter Monday, the King’s Birthday, Dominion Day, and Boxing Day, or any days substituted therefor. Good Friday and Christmas Day are observed as Sundays so far as regards hours of attendance; but week-day tariff rates only are chargeable on ordinary and urgent telegrams on those days unless Christmas Day should also be a Sunday, when Sunday rates are charged for that day.

Ordinary and urgent telegrams at the same rates as for week-days.

[See charges for Telegrams relating to sickness and death in the Post and Telegraph Guide.]

Press Telegrams.

Press telegrams may contain only information of general public interest, and the whole text must be intended for publication as news in the newspapers to which the telegrams are addressed. Advertisements, letters intended for publication in the open or other columns of newspapers, or telegrams that are mere “puffs” of theatrical or travelling business companies, and not of general public interest, cannot be transmitted at Press rates. Such matter must be paid for at the rate of ½d. per word.