2406
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

The distance of free delivery at—
Auckland Christchurch Dunedin Wellington
is—
From 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. .. .. .. Three miles.
After 6 p.m. .. .. .. One mile and a half.

Akaroa Greymouth Naseby Taihape
Alexandra Greytown Nelson Tapanui
Ashburton Hamilton New Plymouth Tauranga
Balcutha Hastings Oamaru Te Aroha
Blenheim Hawera Onehunga Te Awamutu
Bluff Hokitika Opotiki Temuka
Cambridge Hunter ville Otaki Thames
Carterton Inglewood Paeroa Timaru
Cheviot Invercargill Pahiatua Waihi
Coromandel Kaiapoi Palmerston Waimate
Cromwell Kaikoura Palmerston North Waipawa
Dannevirke Kaitangata Patea Waipukurau
Dargaville Lawrence Petone Wairoa
Devonport Levin Picton Waitara
Dunedin North Lower Hutt Port Ahuriri Wanganui
Eketahuna Lyttelton Port Chalmers Waverley
Eltham Manaia Queenstown Wellington South
Feilding Marton Rangiora Westport
Foxton Masterton Reefton Whakatane
Geraldine Mataura Riverton Whangarei
Gisborne Milton Rotorua Woodville
Gore Napier Stratford Wyndham

From 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. .. .. .. Two miles.
After 6 p.m. .. .. .. One mile and a half.

A telegram will not be put under a door unless written instructions to do so have been given. A notice stating that a telegram awaits delivery will be left. Delivery will again be attempted after a reasonable time.

A telegram taken to the place of residence may be delivered to the addressee, to an adult member of his family, to an employee, lodger, or landlord, or to the porter of the house, unless the sender or addressee has given special instructions to the contrary.

Carriage Charges.

Carriage when necessary beyond the one-mile, the mile-and-a-half, or the two-mile limit respectively shall be charged for from that point at the rate of 6d. per mile or fraction thereof up to three miles from the delivery office. The foregoing charge provides for ordinary delivery only from offices where the service can be performed by a departmental messenger. Delivery beyond three miles will be made by special messenger. For telegrams to be delivered by special messenger, the cost of such delivery, including all moneys disbursed in payment of cab-fares, omnibus-fares, horse-hire, porterage, or any other expenses incurred must be paid. To prevent the non-delivery or detention of telegrams when a telegram is presented for a place known to be beyond the free delivery, the cost of carriage from the office of delivery should be prepaid. When the sender gives a guarantee that carriage will be paid for by the addressee, the words “Carriage guaranteed” should be written on the back of the forwarded telegram and signed by the sender, whose address also should be given. In the event of the addressee refusing to pay, the amount due shall be recovered from the sender. If the sender declines to pay for the carriage, or to give the guarantee, the telegrams will be delivered by post. When a telegram is received requiring delivery by special messenger, and upon which no carriage has been prepaid, the sender will be asked for his instructions, and if no reply is received before the despatch of the next mail or the next postman’s delivery the telegram will be posted. Free telegrams on behalf of sender or addressee about the amount of payment required for carriage, and so forth, shall not be sent.

Redirected and Undelivered Telegrams.

Telegrams redirected to a corrected address shall be liable to an additional charge of 6d. if delivery can be effected from the original receiving office, except when the address is amended by the sender by means of a paid telegram; but if the corrected address requires that the message be re-telegraphed from the receiving-office, a charge shall be made equal to the original amount paid, plus or minus the charge at 1d. a word for any words by which the number of words in the original address is increased or diminished, provided that the total number of words in the telegram exceeds 12. The minimum redirection charge shall be the charge for 12 words.

Excepting money-order telegrams and telegrams addressed to a post-office or to a telegraph-office, inland telegrams which cannot be delivered shall be retained for seven days, exclusive of the accounting period in which they are received, and shall be sent to the General Post Office, Wellington, where they shall be kept for three months from the dates of the telegrams, and shall then be destroyed.

Transmission of Telegrams by Telephone.

(1.) Subscribers to telephone exchanges and owners of private telephone-lines connected with public telephone-offices may, by prearrangement in writing, have telegrams which are addressed to them forwarded by telephone from the office of destination to their business or private addresses. Such messages will, after transmission, be enfaced “Transmitted by telephone,” and posted for delivery to such address.

(2.) Subscribers to telephone exchanges and owners of private telephone-lines connected with public telephone-offices may, upon application on the form provided, also telephone to any telegraph-office connected with a telephone exchange, or to any public telephone-office, as the case may be, during the ordinary hours of attendance, messages to be further transmitted as telegrams, provided the usual cost of such telegrams is paid in addition to the telephoning fee, if any, prescribed.

(1.) At an office at which a telephone exchange is established, and at which provision is made for the delivery of telegrams, charges for messages telephoned over