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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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28. If a reply to the request for repetition is not received within a reasonable time, a second request will be sent free of charge, and should have the words “second request” included in the instructions.

29. Rectifying, completing, or cancelling telegrams, and all other communications relating to telegrams already transmitted or in course of transmission, when they are addressed to a telegraph-office, must be exchanged exclusively between offices under the form of paid service advices chargeable to the sender or addressee.

30. Paid service advices are designated by the indication “ST”; those which are sent at the request of the addressee in order to obtain the repetition of the passage suspected to be erroneous imply always a telegraphic reply, and the insertion of the indication “RPæ” is not necessary. In other cases in which a telegraphic reply is requested this indication must be employed.

31. These paid service advices take, for example, the following form:—
    (a.) If it is a case of rectifying or completing the address,—
    “ST. London from Wellington.
    “Twenty-sixth (date of original telegram). Brown (addressee of telegram in question). Replace (or Read) . . . . . (indicating the correction).”
    The charges are collected for this class of telegrams.
    (b.) If it is a case of a request for the partial or total repetition of the text,—
    “ST. London from Wellington.
    “Twenty-sixth Brown (date and name of addressee of the telegram to be partially or wholly repeated). Repeat first, fourth, ninth (words of the text of the original telegram to be repeated).” Or,
    “Repeat word (or . . . . . words) after . . . . .” Or, again,
    “Repeat text.”

32. Words to be repeated or corrected in a telegram are referred to according to their position in the text of such message, without regard to the rules for charging.

33. The reply to a paid service advice takes the following form:—
    “ST. Wellington from London.
    “Brown (name of addressee). Albatross, scrutiny, commune (the three words in the original telegram the repetition of which is requested).”

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 correctly rendered 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 consults the sender. If he cannot be found the office of origin adds to the repetition a notice thus expressed, “Writing doubtful.” When the repetition concerns a telegram which has reached the office of origin by telephone, that office requests at once from the sender a repetition of the words in question. In this latter case, if one or more of the words thus repeated differ from those in the telegram, the office gives the repetition requested in accordance with the corrections made; but it inserts after the text of the service advice the indication CTP (retain charge paid) accompanied by an indication in words of the number of words rectified by the sender, the charge for which must not be refunded.

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 or his authorised agent 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 telegraphe 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. The sender may request delivery by telephone, in which case he must insert before the address “instruction telephone.” Telegrams bearing the indication “Jour” or = J = are not delivered during the night; those which are received during the night are only obligatorily delivered at once when they bear the instruction “Night,” or when the delivery office is in a position to recognise that they appear to be really urgent.

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.

44A. Telegrams received from places beyond New Zealand remaining unclaimed at the expiration of six weeks from the date of receipt are forwarded to the General Post Office, and are destroyed at the end of twelve months from the date of receipt.