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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

Telephone Regulations: Amendments.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of October, 1927.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Orders in Council dated the seventeenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, the sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, the sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and published in a supplement to the New Zealand Gazette of the seventeenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, the sixteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, respectively, regulations were made under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, for the control of telephone exchanges and for the other purposes specified therein: And whereas it is desirable to amend and add to such regulations 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 make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth hereby 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.

TELEPHONE REGULATIONS.

PART I.—TELEPHONE EXCHANGE SERVICE.

Applications and Conditions of Service.

3. All applications for telephone-exchange service must be made on the forms supplied for that purpose. Any application made on behalf of a partnership or a company must be signed by one of the partners or by an authorized officer of the company respectively.

4. Except in cases in which the preservation of human life or the protection of public property may be involved, or as otherwise provided in these regulations, telephone-exchange lines are to be used only by the subscriber, his family, guests, or employees, and exclusively on his affairs. Any breach of this regulation will render the subscriber liable to have his telephone disconnected without prejudice to the right of the Minister to recover the rental and [or] other charges due under these regulations.

Rates.

15. For the rates prescribed in Regulation 14 the Department shall supply one copy of the telephone directory for each telephone, and provide and maintain all necessary exchange equipment, subscribers’ lines, and where necessary one telephone wall-set per station; desk telephones shall be 5s. per annum extra.

16. Four-party lines consisting wholly of business stations shall not be granted at Class I exchanges. Any business station on a four-party line connected with a Class I exchange shall be charged £2 10s. per annum in excess of the rate for a residential connection similarly situated.

Poles on Private Property.

23. All poles in excess of one on private roads or private property within or beyond a base-rate area must be supplied, erected, and renewed at the cost of the subscriber or subscribers concerned, except that no charge shall be made in this respect (a) when the pole line forms part of the route to be used in serving other subscribers, (b) when the pole line is used for other departmental purposes, (c) when there is an alternative route by public road; or in exceptional cases where the Secretary so directs.

Rural-line Service.

30. Rural-line service will not be established until contracts have been secured for at least five subscribers’ stations to be placed on the same circuit. In the event of the number of subscribers’ stations connected with a rural line, by reason of the withdrawal of one or more subscribers, falling below five, the remaining subscribers must, from the date on which the next half-yearly rental is due, pay the rates prescribed for party-line connections until such time as the requisite number of additional stations is [are] connected with the line.

Special Conditions of Party-line Service.

40. A conversation over any party line must not exceed six minutes in duration if the line is required by any other person.

Private Telephone-lines connecting with Departmental System.

43. For the equipment of a private telephone-line which forms part of a telephone-exchange circuit, the Department will provide for each station a telephone, lightning-arrester, earthplate, and inside wiring free of expense to the subscriber, but these will remain the property of the Department, and will not be maintained except at the expense of the subscriber, nor will the Department maintain any part of the private telephone-line. The Department will, however, upon application, supply material