✨ Telephone Exchange Regulations
Feb. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 493
Electric-line Regulations.—Telephone Exchange Rates.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of February, 1924.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by Order in Council dated and gazetted the seventeenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, regulations were made and rates and charges fixed under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, and its amendments (hereinafter termed “the said Act”) for connections with telephone exchanges: And whereas it is expedient to amend such regulations and rates and charges in the manner hereinafter set forth :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling him, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulations numbered nine, fourteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, paragraph two of regulation twenty-eight, and regulation forty-two, under the heading “Telephone Exchange Service” in the Schedule to the above-recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations and fix the rates and charges set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth declare that the regulations hereby made shall form part of and be read together with the regulations first herein mentioned, and shall come into force on and after the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.
SCHEDULE.
TELEPHONE EXCHANGE SERVICE.
Rating System.
- The system of rating for individual, two-, three-, and four-party line service shall consist of classifying the exchanges according to the number of subscribers’ stations connected therewith, and the hours of attendance allotted; defining for each exchange or network an area—known as the base-rate area—within which telephone service will be furnished on a flat-rate basis; and fixing for each class of exchange a schedule of rates covering an unlimited number of local calls.
Rates.
- Unless otherwise specified in these regulations, individual, two-, three-, and four-party line service shall be furnished to stations within base-rate areas at the annual rates prescribed hereunder :—
| Class of Station. | Class I. Exchanges or Networks observing Continuous Attendance and having more than 3,500 Paying Subscribers’ Main Stations connected therewith. | Class II. Exchanges or Networks observing Continuous Attendance and having 1,001 to 3,500 Paying Subscribers’ Main Stations connected therewith. |
|---|---|---|
| Annual Rates for Stations within Base-rate Area. | Annual Rates for Stations within Base-rate Area. | |
| Individual line— | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |
| Business .. .. | 15 0 0 | 11 0 0 |
| Residence | 8 10 0 | 7 10 0 |
| Two-party— | ||
| Business .. .. | 10 0 0 | 8 0 0 |
| Residence | 7 0 0 | 6 0 0 |
| Three-party— | ||
| Business .. .. | 9 5 0 | 7 15 0 |
| Residence | 6 15 0 | 5 15 0 |
| Four party— | ||
| Business .. .. | .. | 7 0 0 |
| Residence | 6 0 0 | 5 0 0 |
| Class of Station. | Class III. Exchanges or Networks observing Continuous Attendance and having 201 to 1,000 Paying Subscribers’ Main Stations connected therewith. | Class IV. Exchanges or Networks where the Attendance is restricted. |
|---|---|---|
| Annual Rates for Stations within Base-rate Area. | Annual Rates for Stations within Base-rate Area. | |
| Individual line— | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |
| Business .. .. | 10 0 0 | 8 0 0 |
| Residence | 7 0 0 | 6 0 0 |
| Two-party— | ||
| Business .. .. | 7 0 0 | 6 0 0 |
| Residence | 5 10 0 | 4 10 0 |
| Three-party— | ||
| Business .. .. | 6 10 0 | 5 10 0 |
| Residence | 5 0 0 | 4 0 0 |
| Four-party— | ||
| Business .. .. | 6 0 0 | 5 0 0 |
| Residence | 4 10 0 | 3 10 0 |
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- Jellcoe, Governor-General