Jan. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 149

PRESS TELEGRAMS TO AND FROM PLACES ABROAD.

DEFINITION.

Press telegrams are those the texts of which are intended for publication in newspapers and contain news relative only to politics, commerce, &c. They must be expressed in plain language in the language of the country of origin or destination. The simultaneous employment of these languages is authorised. Press telegrams must not contain any passage, advertisement, or communication having the character of private correspondence, nor any advertisement or communication, the insertion of which is made in consideration of payment. Groups of figures, when used in their natural sense, may be included.

[For Table of Rates see Post and Telegraph Guide.]

CONDITIONS.

1. The wires are available to the Press for the transmission, at the reduced rate, of news or intelligence for publication in newspapers allowed to receive intelligence by telegraph at the reduced rate.

2. Such telegrams shall not interfere with the transmission of the ordinary telegram traffic, and in order to insure this the transmission of such news telegrams may be deferred or suspended, or interrupted, until any Government telegram or any ordinary or Press telegrams at full rates that may be on hand shall have been transmitted and completed. But when Press telegrams have been delayed over twenty-four hours they shall thereafter be forwarded in turn with ordinary telegrams.

3. The working of the wire or wires shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the International Telegraph Convention.

4. No telegrams at the reduced rate shall be sent except for publication in newspapers, and they must be written so as to be intelligible to the transmitting offices. Telegrams containing news or information not for publication, or containing code words or words of concealed meaning, or groups of figures or ciphers, shall be paid for at the full tariff rates in force for ordinary telegrams.

5. The newspapers, their Correspondents or Agents, are required to address their telegrams to a newspaper office, which shall be prohibited from selling, distributing, or communicating such telegrams to clubs, exchanges, or newsrooms, or disposing of them for any purpose whatsoever, directly or indirectly, other than for publication in newspapers allowed to receive them.

6. Telegrams can only be accepted from the authorised correspondent of a newspaper, and the news sent in such telegrams must be duly published in the newspapers, or satisfactory reasons be given for non-publication, in the absence of which full rates will be chargeable.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Renewing Postal Regulations and Rates of Postage.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of January, 1910.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Orders in Council dated the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the seventh day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and the twentieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the nineteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and the twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight, respectively, regulations were made and rates of postage fixed under the authority of “The Post Office Act, 1900,” and “The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908,” for the transmission of letters, books, packets, and newspapers through the post for places within or beyond New Zealand, and for the other purposes therein specified, and it is expedient to revoke such regulations and rates, and in lieu thereof to make those hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by “The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulations made and rates of postage fixed in the Schedules to the above-recited Orders in Council, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations and fix the rates of postage set forth in the Schedule hereto for the same purposes; and doth further order that such revocation shall take effect and the regulations and rates hereby made and fixed shall come into force on and after the date of publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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