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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 21

Radio-telegraphic Regulations.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of March, 1931.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, at page 1525, a regulation was made under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, fixing charges for the transmission of radio-telegrams:

And whereas the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, and its amendments, were repealed by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, but all regulations made thereunder and subsisting on the coming into operation of the last-mentioned Act enure for the purposes of that Act:

And whereas it is desirable to amend 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 last-mentioned Act, and of all other powers 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 regulation in the Schedule to the above-recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth order that the regulation hereby made shall be read as part of the regulations with respect to the transmission of radio-telegrams made on the twenty-second day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and shall take effect on and from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.

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SCHEDULE.

CHARGES.

Ordinary, Urgent, and Relaying.

3. Ordinary.—The charge for the transmission of an ordinary radio-telegram to or from ships (other than His Majesty’s ships when in New Zealand waters, ships registered in New Zealand or Australia, and ships trading exclusively between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand, or between ports on the coast of the Dominion of New Zealand) from or to any telegraph-office in the Dominion of New Zealand is 11d. per word, allocated as follows:—

Ship-station charge .. .. .. 4d. per word.
Coast-station and inland charges .. .. 7d. ,,

The charge for the transmission of an ordinary radio-telegram to or from ships registered in New Zealand or Australia and ships trading exclusively between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand, or (except as hereinafter provided) between ports on the coast of the Dominion of New Zealand, from or to any telegraph-office in the Dominion of New Zealand is 6d. per word, allocated as follows:—

Ship-station charge .. .. .. 2d. per word.
Coast-station and inland charges .. .. 4d. ,,

The charge for the transmission of an ordinary radio-telegram—
(1) To or from ships trading exclusively between the ports of Wellington and Lyttelton, from or to any telegraph-office in the Dominion of New Zealand;
or
(2) To or from ships the property of the Government engaged on Government service in New Zealand waters exclusively, from or to any telegraph office in the Dominion of New Zealand

is 2½d. per word with a minimum charge of 1s. 3d. for each radio-telegram, equal to a message of six words, allocated as follows:—

Ship-station charge .. .. .. 1d. per word.
Coast-station and inland charges .. .. 1½d. ,,

The charge for the transmission of an ordinary radio-telegram to or from the mainland of New Zealand from or to Chatham Islands is 6d. per word, and to His Majesty’s ships (when in New Zealand waters), 3d. per word.

The charge for the transmission of an ordinary radio-telegram to or from the mainland of New Zealand from or to Kawau Island, Puysegur Point, or Stephens Island, is 2½d. per word. with a minimum charge of 1s. 3d. “Collect” telegrams may be accepted at or for these stations.

The New Zealand coast-station charge on radio-telegrams exchanged with the fixed stations of other Administrations, or with Rarotonga, is 6d. per word.

Urgent.—The charge for an urgent radio-telegram is the charge for an ordinary radio-telegram plus the rates charged for urgent telegrams over the telegraph systems the message has to traverse. When such a message is transmitted over New Zealand lines only, the additional charge is 1d. per word.

Relaying.—Whenever Chatham Islands Radio-station is used as a relaying-station the charge is 4d. per word.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.