Feb. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 707

Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a Government road.

SCHEDULE.

In the Nelson Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Deferred Telegrams to Places beyond New Zealand.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1912.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, BART.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, regulations were made under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), inter alia prescribing the conditions under which telegrams are accepted for transmission to places beyond New Zealand and fixing the rates therefor: And whereas it is desirable to make further regulations in that behalf:

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 said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the additional regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto. and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

DEFERRED TELEGRAMS TO PLACES BEYOND NEW ZEALAND.

1. If the sender of a private telegram in the International service writes the telegram in plain language, in accordance with Regulation 4 hereof, and agrees that it shall be withheld from transmission under the conditions hereinafter set forth, the charge for the said telegram shall be reduced to one-half the charge at the ordinary tariff rate. Telegrams so withheld from transmission shall be called “deferred telegrams.”

Declaration by Sender.

2. The sender of a deferred telegram shall, when handing it in at a telegraph-office, sign a declaration that the text is entirely in plain language, and that it does not bear any meaning other than that which appears on the face of it. The declaration shall specify the language in which the telegram is written.

Supplementary Instructions.

3. The sender of a deferred telegram shall insert before the address the supplementary instruction “L C” completed as prescribed by Regulation 4 hereof. This instruction shall be counted in the number of words charged for.

Form.

4. The text of deferred telegrams shall be written entirely in plain language, and shall not contain any figures, commercial marks, groups of letters, signs of punctuation, or abbreviated expressions. Any telegram containing a succession of isolated letters, of numbers, of names, or of words without connected meaning, and generally any telegram which does not, in the opinion of the telegraph officer to whom it is presented for transmission, bear an intelligible meaning on the face of it, shall not be treated as a deferred telegram.

Registered addresses will be accepted if accompanied by a text which makes their nature clear.

Numbers shall be written in words.

Deferred telegrams without text shall not be admitted.

Deferred telegrams shall be written in French, or in one of the languages of the country of origin or of destination specified by the Administrations concerned and authorized for international telegraphic correspondence in plain language. According as the language employed is French, a language of the country of origin, or a language of the country of destination, the supplementary instruction “L C” shall be completed, and become “L C F,” “L C O,” or “L C D.” The use of two or more languages in the same telegram shall not be allowed.

The wording of the address and the signature of deferred telegrams shall be governed by the rules in force for ordinary telegrams.

Counting of Words.

5. The words in the address, in the text, and in the signature shall be counted according to the rules in force for ordinary telegrams.

Régime.

6. Deferred telegrams shall be accepted for transmission from New Zealand to any country in the European Régime. Deferred telegrams may only be accepted for transmission from New Zealand to any country in the Extra-European Régime (including Senegal) if the charge for ordinary telegrams is not less than 9½d. per word, unless special arrangements have been made for acceptance at a lower rate.

Telegraph money-orders and maritime telegrams shall not be admitted as deferred telegrams.

Rates.

7. The terminal and land and submarine cable transit rates for deferred telegrams shall be respectively one-half the rates charged for ordinary telegrams.

When a deferred telegram is diverted in consequence of an interruption of route, the rates which are shared pro rata shall be half those which would accrue to the different Administrations for a telegram charged for at the full rate if it were similarly diverted.

Application of Full Ordinary Rate to Irregular Telegrams.

8. The Telegraph Administrations reserve the right to refuse to accept at the reduced rate any telegram which, in their opinion, is not in accordance with the foregoing conditions.

When the delivery office observes that a telegram bearing one of the supplementary instructions “L C F” or “L C D” does not comply with these conditions, the telegram shall be charged for at the ordinary rate.

Order of Transmission.

9. Except as hereinafter in this regulation provided, deferred telegrams shall be transmitted only after non-urgent private telegrams and Press telegrams. Those which have not reached their destination within twenty-four hours from the time of handing in shall be transmitted in turn with ordinary telegrams.

Delivery.

10. Deferred telegrams shall be delivered in turn with ordinary telegrams.

Special Services.

11. Deferred telegrams may bear any of the supplementary instructions applicable to ordinary telegrams except that relating to urgency. The rates applicable to the various special services (if any) desired by the sender of a deferred telegram shall be the same as for ordinary telegrams. The corresponding supplementary instructions shall be charged for at the reduced rate.

Reimbursement.

12. If, owing to the fault of the telegraph service, any deferred telegram is not delivered within seventy-two hours from the time of acceptance, the full cost of that telegram may be refunded in accordance with Regulation 92 of the regulations hereinbefore recited relating to the transmission of telegrams beyond New Zealand.

Accounts.

13. Accounts for deferred telegrams shall be drawn up in accordance with the conditions set forth in Regula-