New Zealand Gazette – 1910 – No. 3

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✨ Press Telegram Rates

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 3

PRESS TELEGRAMS—continued.

Class of News.	Hours.	Morning Papers.			Evening Papers.	Conditions.
		12 Words.	Each additional Word.	100 Words or Fraction thereof.	100 Words or Fraction thereof.
(8.) Parliamentary reports from Wellington	11 pm to 1 am	..	..	0 6	0 6	These telegrams must contain “PR” in the instructions.
	1 am to 2 am	..	..	0 8	0 8
(8A.) Ordinary..	9 am to 5 pm ..	1s. for fraction thereof.		150 words, or		The telegrams hereby authorised must be addressed to a country newspaper, but may not be sent on the day of publication of the newspaper addressed. Not more than one such telegram not exceeding 150 words in length at the rate hereby prescribed shall be sent on any one day to any one country newspaper. (A country newspaper is a newspaper printed and published at any place other than a city or town where there is a chief post-office.)

SUNDAYS.*

| (9.) Ordinary .. | 5 pm to 5.30 pm | d. | d. | s. d. | s. d. | |
| (10.) | After 5.30 pm .. | .. | .. | 0 8 | .. | If kept open by special arrangement by or on behalf of a morning paper, or by the United Press Association. |
| | | .. | .. | 1 0 | .. | |

HOLIDAYS (DEPARTMENTAL).†

| (11.) Ordinary .. | 9 am to 4 pm .. | d. | d. | s. d. | s. d. | Each message to be charged for separately. |
| (12.) | 7 pm to 11 pm | .. | .. | 0 6 | 0 6 | |
| (13.) | 11 pm to midnight | .. | .. | 0 8 | 0 8 | |

No Press Telegrams are accepted during the morning attendance, nor are Press Telegrams for evening or weekly newspapers transmitted at any time on Sundays.

† 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 regarded as Sundays, for purposes both of attendance and of assessment of rates for Press telegrams.

NOTE.—No charge is made for address and signature up to six words. In assessing the total amount due, fractions of a penny are reckoned as one halfpenny. For rates and conditions under which offices are specially reopened for transmission of Press telegrams, see “Charges when Office reopened,” &c. Evening newspapers are newspapers published after noon and before 5 p.m.

A margin of seven words is allowed on Press news under classes 3, 5, and 6 of tariff rates set out above. Thus 107 words but no more are charged for as 100 words; so that on a message of 108 words, for instance, the added charge will be for the next 100 words. This instruction does not apply to any Press telegrams which are scheduled and charged for in the aggregate, and the privilege may be withdrawn from any paper at any time without notice.

CHARGES WHEN OFFICE REOPENED BY SPECIAL REQUEST.

At least six hours’ notice should be given to the local telegraph-office of a desire to have an office specially reopened for Press news.

The fee of 7s. 6d. for reopening an office must be paid by the first applicant, whether another applicant or other applicants have the use of the office specially reopened or not. A second fee will not be charged for the same reopening.

Rates.

Messages lodged and forwarded are liable to the following charges:—
At the rate of 6d. per 100 words or fraction thereof, and all charges in respect of overtime at offices other than the original forwarding office.

CHARGES FOR PRESS TELEGRAMS RELATING TO EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS, ETC.

Press telegrams containing intelligence of extraordinary events, such as collisions, wrecks, large fires, explosions, &c., may be accepted for transmission between offices open for the midnight cable service after those offices are closed for the receipt of other Press messages on the following conditions:—
No message may exceed 100 words.
The fee of 1s. is to be charged for each message.
The Officer in Charge may refuse to accept any such message as in his opinion does not contain news of an urgent nature.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1910, No 3

The Old Government Buildings (depicted) were completed in 1876 and initially housed the entire Wellington-based civil service as well as the entire New Zealand Cabinet. The Executive Council met there until 1948.

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