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94. A sports club which requires a telephone connection for six months in each year may be granted the connection upon paying the cost of making the connection and at least a half-year’s subscription at residential rates. If the connection is used beyond six months, one month’s rental is to be charged for each additional month or fraction of a month. After payment of the cost of making the first connection only the bare cost of inside work necessary for installing or dismantling the connection in any subsequent year is to be charged..

95. Where a medical practitioner having a telephone fails to pay his subscription within the period of grace allowed he must be specially informed by telephone or by memorandum that prompt payment is necessary to ensure continuance of the connection. If a telephonic notification is given it must be given to the doctor personally. On the expiration of forty-eight hours the request is to be repeated by telephone, and the doctor warned that unless the account is paid within twenty-four hours the connection will be cut off.

96. An entrance fee of £1 only is chargeable for a party line. The fee will be waived in the event of any one of the applicants being already the holder of an exclusive connection, provided both connections are held simultaneously for one year.

97. Not more than six connections may be made on one party line.

98. When an additional connection is applied for on an existing line a fresh bond must invariably be signed by both the old and the new subscribers, and a note made on the face of the bond that the line is an existing one. A fresh form of appointment of agent must also be signed. The new bond must be dated and will commence to run from the day on which the latest connection is made. In other words, the joint liability of each of the existing parties to retain his connection for a stated period is extended by each addition to the number of connections.

99. If not more than 40 chains of new line is required for the additional connection the new bond must be made to expire twelve months later than the existing one, or, if the original bond has already expired, a fresh bond for a term of twelve months from the date on which the new connection is made must be obtained. Where more than 40 chains of new line would be necessary the question of the term for which the fresh bond will be required must be referred to the Chief Accountant.

100. When a new connection is made on an existing line an account is to be rendered to the agent at the rate of the difference between the former and the new rentals for the then current half-year.

101. A subscriber on a party line may not relinquish his connection while under bond excepting with the written consent of each of the remaining parties, which must embody an undertaking to pay any additional rental involved by the change.

102. Transfer of a connection on a party line may not be made until all parties on the line have indicated in writing their concurrence in the proposed transfer. The party-line agent must obtain the signature of all the subscribers to an agreement to read as follows: “We, the undersigned subscribers to the party-line exchange connection No. , Exchange, agree to the transfer of the telephone on this line at present held by to .” When the agreement has been duly signed the ordinary transfer forms (Acct. 162) must be prepared and the agreement attached. In cases of ordinary transfers of