Jan. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 145

PAYMENT OF CHARGES.

61. All charges for telegrams must be prepaid, except those for transmission beyond the first destination of “to follow” =FS= telegrams for express delivery, or respecting alterations or illegal combinations of words discovered by the delivering office, which shall be claimed from the addressee before delivery of the telegram. In the event of non-payment by the addressee the sender shall be required to pay the amount due.

62. A receipt for the charges collected for any cablegram handed in for transmission may be obtained by the sender on payment of 1d.

63. Charges erroneously collected in excess are refunded to the persons concerned.

PREPAID REPLIES.

64. The sender of a telegram can prepay the reply which he requests rom his correspondent; writing before the address the instruction “Reply paid,” or = RP = and adding the number of words paid for the reply: “Reply paid x” or = RPx =. The charge for the reply is calculated on the supposition that it will follow the same route as the original telegram.

65. The sender who wishes to prepay an urgent reply must write before the address the instruction “Reply paid urgent x,” or = RPDx =, and pay the corresponding charge.

66. At the place of destination, the delivery office delivers to the addressee a voucher which entitles him to send free of charge, within the limit of the amount prepaid, a telegram to any destination whatever, from any office of the Administration whose office has issued the voucher.

67. When the proper charge for a telegram prepaid by a voucher exceeds the value of the voucher, the excess charge must be paid in cash by the sender of the reply. In the contrary case the difference between the value of the voucher and the amount of the charge actually due is refunded to the sender of the original telegram when application is made within three months from the date of issue of the voucher. This reimbursement is only made on the authority of the Administration of destination of the original telegram.

68. The voucher may only be used in payment for a telegram during a period of forty-two days following the date of its issue.

69. When the addressee has not made use of the voucher for any reason whatever, or has refused it, the amount thereof is refunded under the conditions fixed by clause 70.

70. When the voucher remains in possession of the Administration, the latter, after expiry of the period of validity, officially initiates the refund. The amount of the voucher is nevertheless reimbursed to the sender if he applies for it before the expiration of this period. In this case the delivery office cancels the voucher, and the telegram, annotated accordingly, is preserved during the prescribed period. (Clause 90.)

REPEATED OR COLLATED TELEGRAMS.

71. The sender may have his telegram repeated from station to station on payment of an additional charge equal to a quarter of the ordinary rate. The words “Repetition paid,” or the abbreviated signal = TC =, must be written before the address and charged for.

72. Government telegrams expressed in secret language are collated officially and gratuitously.

73. The collation, which consists of the entire repetition of the telegram (including the preamble) is given immediately after the transmission of the telegram.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT.

74. The sender of any telegram may request that a notice of the date and time of its delivery to the addressee be transmitted to him as soon as possible after such delivery. When the telegram is forwarded to its final destination by post this notification shall indicate the date and hour of posting.

75. If notification by telegram is required, the sender must write before the address the instruction “Acknowledgment of Receipt,” or = PC = and pay the cost of an ordinary telegram of five words for the same destination by the same route. If notice by post is desired, the sender must write before the address the instruction “Postal acknowledgment of receipt,” or = PCP =, and pay a fee of 2½d.

76. When the countries concerned admit urgent telegrams, priority of transmission and of delivery may be demanded for the acknowledgment of receipt. For this purpose, the sender writes before the address the instructions “Urgent acknowledgment receipt,” or = PCD =, and pays the charge for an urgent telegram of five words for the same destination by the same route.

TELEGRAMS TO FOLLOW.

77. Telegrams can be directed to several addresses “to follow,” for instance, “John Brown, Hotel de Rome, Berlin, ou Römer, Frankfurt a/M, ‘faire suivre.’” The sender pays the charges to the first destination, and the cost of further transmission is collected on delivering the telegram. The words “faire suivre,” or the official code sign = FS =, must be inserted before the address, for which the rate of two words is charged in the former and of one word in the latter case.

MULTIPLE TELEGRAMS.

78. Any telegram may be addressed either to several persons in the same locality or in different localities served by the same telegraph-office, or to the same person at several addresses in the same locality or in different localities served by the same telegraph-office. With this object the sender writes before the address the instruction “x addresses,” or = TMx =, which enters into the number of words charged for. The name of the office of destination only appears once, at the end of the address. In telegrams addressed to several addressees, the particulars concerning the place of delivery (such as exchange, railway-station, market, &c.) must appear after each address, or, if they relate to a succession of addresses, after the last of those addresses.