✨ Telegraph Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15
- When the transmission of a telegram is delayed at the request of the sender for the purpose of making a correction or addition, the message must be retimed with the actual time of re-presentation, and a certificate upon the back of the form obtained, as follows:—
“Withdrawn [time]........
“Re-presented [time]........
“Signature of sender:........
“Date:....................”
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The time transmitted forward is to be the time of re-presentation, not the original time of presentation. In no case is any alteration to be permitted in a telegram already transmitted. Such a correction must be made by a further paid message.
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In order to prevent a monopoly of the line by any one company or individual presenting a number of telegrams for despatch about the same time which would be likely to block the line to the serious prejudice of other telegrams, the supervising officer may divide the telegrams, and forward others, or portions of others, in “time” turn.
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When the sender of a telegram desires to cancel or correct it, the officer in charge must satisfy himself that the person making the application (which must be in writing) is either the person who handed in the telegram or the actual sender.
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When the code notice DF is received at the office of origin respecting any paid telegram and it is necessary to amend or amplify the original address, the alteration or addition must be conveyed in a paid correcting telegram at a fee of 6d., coded UCT.
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Redirected telegrams are liable to a second charge for transmission.
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The charge for readdressing an urgent telegram is the same as for an urgent telegram. It must be coded as “Urgent readdressed,” unless otherwise directed by the person authorizing the redirection.
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Telegrams for Government officers, originally coded as ordinary telegrams, are subject to redirection fees as other ordinary telegrams are.
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If the receiver of a telegram doubts its accuracy he may have it repeated by paying half the amount paid for its transmission—fractions of 1d. not exceeding ½d. being charged as ½d., fractions above ½d. being charged as 1d. Should he require only a portion of the message to be repeated the deposit must be at the half-rate sufficient to cover the number of words embraced in the repetition, but the maximum charge for the repetition of any portion of a telegram containing not more than twelve words shall be half the transmission fee. Free repetitions may be obtained for Government Departments in the case of paid telegrams, as well as when they are sent on the public service.
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In the case of temporary interruption to the New Zealand land lines making communication with Auckland impossible, messages for Norfolk Island, Fiji, Fanning Island, and Sandwich Islands must be referred to the sender, who should be informed that the message cannot go forward unless routed “Via Eastern and Pacific,” and an additional 4d. per word paid; messages for America, Great Britain, and Germany presented unrouted or marked “Via Pacific” must be amended to “Via Eastern and Pacific” without reference to the sender; all other messages should bear the indicator “Via Eastern.”
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🚂 Transport & Communications31 January 1916
Telegraph Regulations, Post and Telegraph Department, Order in Council