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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

APPENDIX A.

Abbreviating telegrams, or instructions on same .. .. .. £ s. d.
Accounts, carelessness or delay in furnishing .. .. 0 1 0
Acknowledge receipt of a message, neglect to .. .. 0 5 0
Bureau connection, careless recording .. .. .. 0 1 0
Checking officers: Neglect to see that telegrams have been
properly timed and initialled .. .. .. 0 1 0
Circuit return, failure to complete .. .. .. 0 5 0
Coding, careless .. .. .. 0 2 0
Correction of a telegram, delaying .. .. .. 0 1 0
Counting of telegrams, careless .. .. .. 0 1 0
Date-stamping telegrams, neglect or carelessness in .. 0 0 6
Delivery of a telegram, delaying .. .. .. 0 1 0
Disconnecting wires or changing office connections without
authority .. .. .. 0 5 0
Earthing line in order to work with a distant office without
informing the offices cut out of circuit thereby .. 0 5 0
Earthing line to take undue possession of circuit.. .. 0 10 0
Earth-peg, neglecting to remove .. .. .. 0 5 0
Figures and doubtful words, neglecting to repeat or to
obtain repetition of .. .. .. 0 1 0
Improper, insolent, or insulting language, making use of,
on line .. .. .. 0 5 0
Initial a telegram as examined, omitting to .. .. 0 5 0
Inattention to station call .. .. .. 0 2 6
Instrument-room, entering, while off duty .. .. 0 2 6
Interruptions of communication, neglecting in cases of, to
post telegrams to the office most convenient for tele-
graphing them .. .. .. 0 2 6
Messengers loitering while on duty .. .. .. 0 0 6
Messengers neglecting to complete their delivery statements 0 0 3
MTs, WTs, and mail-notices, neglecting to post on the
board .. .. .. 0 1 0
Midnight cable messages, inattention to.. .. .. 0 5 0
Neglect or delay in forwarding a telegram, a fine of not
less than the value of the same up to .. .. 0 5 0
Name of office, omitting to write, on telegrams .. .. 0 0 6
Quarrelling on the wire, or otherwise obstructing work, or
not exercising due patience when working with cadets.. 0 5 0
Repetition, failure to obtain correct .. .. .. 0 1 0
Sending telegrams, carelessness when .. .. .. 0 1 0
Service telegrams, inattention to .. .. .. 0 2 6
Smoking in office before prescribed hours .. .. 0 2 6
Stop an office, neglecting to .. .. .. 0 1 0
Time a telegram as sent, omitting to .. .. .. 0 1 0
Time, neglecting to acknowledge, at 9 a.m. .. .. 0 2 6
Time on telegrams, omitting to write “a.m.” or “p.m.”
after, or writing “a.m.” for “p.m.,” and vice versa .. 0 0 6
Time sent or received, neglect or failure to complete .. 0 2 6
Transmit telegrams, refusing to .. .. .. 0 10 0
Undue possession of circuit, taking .. .. .. 0 2 6
“Urgent,” sending as, and so giving preference to an ST
without sufficient cause .. .. .. 0 2 6
Urgent telegram, failure to mark or stamp an .. .. 0 0 6
Urgent telegram, receiving an, without at once acquainting
the distributor or officer in charge .. .. 0 1 0
“Wait,” giving, on being offered anything of the code
“Urgent” .. .. .. 0 2 0
Words signalled, neglecting to count number of .. .. 0 1 0
Wrongly addressing an envelope containing a telegram .. 0 1 0

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