Aug. 18.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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revoke so much of the regulations in the Schedules to the above-recited Orders in Council as is inconsistent herewith; and doth further order that the said revocation shall take effect and the regulations hereby made shall come into force on the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette, and that the regulations hereby made shall form part of and be read together with the above-recited regulations.

SCHEDULE.

TELEGRAMS.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

Receipts for Charges.

8. 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 1d. for each receipt, irrespective of the amount or number of telegrams concerned. Nevertheless, if particulars of more than one telegram are required to be shown on the receipt-form a fee of 1d. for each message shall be charged. Books of 100 forms with receipt-foils attached may be purchased at the telegraph-office at a cost of 3s. each, and when these forms are used the receipt-foils will be completed without charge.

General Rules for writing Telegrams.

10. Printed forms upon which telegrams should be written may be obtained at any telegraph-office on application; but all telegrams, whether written upon the prescribed form or upon any other form, shall be (subject to the provisions hereinafter stated) considered as presented for transmission under the several conditions contained in these regulations : Provided that telegram forms other than those supplied by the Government shall be first approved of by the Minister of Telegraphs. Books of telegram forms, interleaved with white forms for use with carbonic paper, may be purchased at the principal telegraph-offices at 1s. 4d. per book. One hundred forms, in duplicate, are contained in each book. Books of telegram forms with or without lines, the latter made specially for use with the typewriter, may be purchased at telegraph-offices at 9d. per book.

11. All telegrams presented for transmission must be legibly written. Inland telegrams may be written in ordinary lead-pencil; but cable and radio messages, if written by hand, must be written in ink, in indelible pencil, or in manifold.

12. Telegrams may be written in plain, code, or cipher language. For definitions and counting of each see "Rules for Counting," Regulation 43 hereof.

Address.

19. 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. An address ordinarily used for letters is not necessarily correct or sufficient for telegrams.

Replies may be prepaid.

27. The cost of a reply may be prepaid, and a reply form will then be delivered to the addressee, who may send another telegram of the value prepaid, from any telegraph-office, at any time within six weeks. Should the form not be used its value will be refunded upon application being made within three months, accompanied by the form itself, to the Controller of Accounts, General Post Office. A reply form need not necessarily be used for a reply, but may be used in payment or part payment of any single telegram. The sender of the original telegram must write in the space for instructions the words “Reply paid,” or, when the amount to be deposited exceeds the minimum charge for an ordinary inland telegram on a week-day, “Reply paid (amount deposited for reply).”

Inland Multiple Telegrams.

31. A prepaid telegram may be addressed on one form to several persons in the same town, or to the same person in different parts of the same town (multiple telegram). All the addresses in a multiple telegram must be in the same town and must be written before the text. Telegrams addressed to different telegraph-offices or those bearing a common text but presented as separate messages, will not be accepted at multiple rates. In multiple telegrams, each address must be complete in itself; consequently, the office of destination must appear as many times as there are names of addressees. The text, and all the addresses, and the signatures shall be counted and charged for as a single message, with an additional fee of 4½d. per address for each copy excepting the first, provided that the number of chargeable words therein does not exceed 50. For copies containing more than 50 words the charge shall be 4½d. per 50 words or fraction thereof. “Urgent” telegrams may be accepted at double the above tariff. The number of addresses will be indicated to the office of destination by the insertion of “T.M. [No. of addresses]” in the “Instructions”; but this information will be omitted from the message actually delivered, which will show one address only unless the sender has inserted and paid for the instruction “Communicate all addresses.” Multiple telegrams cannot be sent “collect.”

Rules for Counting.

43. (a) Telegrams may be written in plain or secret language, or partly in plain and partly in secret language.

(i) Plain-language telegrams are those composed of words, figures, and letters that offer an intelligible meaning in any language, including Esperanto. They must be written in Roman characters. Except as provided in Regulation 43 (b), plain language words exceeding fifteen letters shall be counted at the rate of fifteen letters for each word, plus