Sept. 13.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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Messages by Telegraph.-Regulations.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 10th day of September, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the Post
and Telegraph Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him
in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, doth hereby make the regulations and fix the charges set forth in the
Schedule hereto for the purposes of the transmission of telegrams by means of electric
lines and for the delivery thereof; for the disposal of unclaimed or undelivered
telegrams; for the fixing of and determining the fees and rates to be demanded and
received for the transmission of telegrams and for the forwarding thereof for delivery
respectively, and the modes and times of payment and by and from whom such fees
and rates shall be legally recovered; and for the destruction of original copies of
telegrams: And doth order and declare that any regulations and fees and rates of
similar purport heretofore made are hereby revoked in so far as they are not in agreement
with the regulations and fees and rates made in the Schedule hereto; but that
otherwise any such other regulations and fees and rates shall remain in full force and
virtue, and shall be read and applied together with the regulations and fees and rates
hereby made and fixed: And doth further order and declare that such revocation, and
the regulations hereby made, and fees and rates hereby fixed shall have effect from
the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

TELEGRAMS.-GENERAL REGULATIONS.

Departmental Holidays.

New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, the King's Birthday,
Labour Day, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day, or any days substituted therefor, shall
be observed as departmental holidays. Good Friday, Anzac Day, and Christmas Day
shall be regarded as Sundays for the purposes of attendance.

Payment.

Payment may be made by means of-

(a.) Postage-stamps.
(b.) Cash (where cash-registers are used).
(c.) Automatic-stamping-machine impressions.

At offices where payment is required to be made in stamps, the person
sending the telegram shall be required to affix them to the form. Automatic-
stamping-machine impressions must not exceed 10s. in value for any single telegram.

Receipts for Charges.

Receipts for the amounts paid for cable, radio, and inland telegrams may
be obtained by the senders at the telegraph-office at the time of presenting such
telegrams for transmission on payment of a fee of ld. for each receipt, or books of
100 forms with receipt-foils attached may be purchased at the telegraph-office at a cost
of 3s. each.

Sender responsible for Charges.

The sender of a telegram shall be responsible for the charges for transmission,
for any amount due for transmission owing to an accepting officer failing to collect the
proper charges at the time of presentation, and for any charges incurred in delivery.
If the sender fails to pay any of the aforementioned charges on being requested
to do so, the officer in charge for the time being of the post-office or telegraph-
office at which the telegram was delivered for despatch may, in his own name, in any
Court of competent jurisdiction, sue for and recover from the sender of such telegram
all charges due for the transmission or delivery thereof.

General Rules for writing Telegrams.

Inland telegrams presented for transmission must be written in ink, or with
pencil, or in manifold, in a clear and legible manner; cable and radio telegrams must
be written in ink, indelible pencil, or in manifold.
A telegram consisting merely of the address-i.e., without text or signature-
will be accepted for transmission.
Telegrams addressed to initials only, to a fictitious name, or to a nom de
plume, at a post-office, shall not be accepted for transmission.
Every interlineation, reference, erasure, or alteration must be authenticated
by the sender or his representative.

Address.

The use of a registered code address shall be allowed except in the case of night
letter-telegrams.
The address of a telegram (except in the case of a code address or the address
of a well-known firm) must be sufficiently full to enable delivery to be effected without
reference to other sources of information. The name of the street and the number of
the house therein, if known, or the profession or occupation of the addressee should
be given. A telegram the address of which consists of only two words, one representing
the addressee but not being a registered code indicator, and the other the station
of destination, or otherwise insufficiently addressed, will be accepted only at the sender's
risk.