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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

(2) When it is desired that delivery of a message be made to a person within the usual radius of the free delivery of telegrams, that such person is required to attend at a toll station to receive a “person-to-person” call, a delivery fee of 3d. shall be added to the personal fee. If the person required lives outside the free-delivery area of telegrams a special delivery charge shall be made, according to the expense incurred. The delivery of any message, either written or spoken, other than a request for attendance at a toll station, is prohibited. Such message shall be accepted only as a telegram.

109. Toll calls over the telephone system connecting the North and South Islands of New Zealand are subject to a special fee of 3d. in respect of each call in addition to the rates ordinarily applicable. This does not apply to station-to-station calls to which there is no reply, or to ineffective person-to-person calls.

110. No extra charge is made for toll calls during the normal hours of attendance on Sundays and holidays.

111. Provided the attention of the toll stations concerned can be gained, toll calls may be arranged after the ordinary hours of attendance on week-days or Sundays on payment of a reopening fee of 1s. if the Postmaster is resident on the premises, or 2s. 6d. if he is not resident on the premises. In addition, if the attendance of any officer is required beyond a period of twenty minutes, such attendance must be paid for at the rate of 1s. for every subsequent twenty minutes or fraction thereof. Toll calls to or from offices which have been specially reopened under this regulation are given precedence over those of similar code between offices then open for ordinary toll purposes,

112. (1) A charge of one-third of the ordinary initial rate for the toll call concerned, with a minimum of 4d., shall be made for every ordinary and urgent station-to-station call which is not completed owing to—

(a) The failure to establish communication with the called station through no fault on the part of the Department’s officers or the equipment ;

(b) The person with whom it is desired to communicate not being a subscriber ;

(c) The calling station failing to make use of the line or to cancel the request before the line becomes available ; or

(d) Failure to gain the attention of a toll station or telephone exchange after the calling station has been advised that the office required is closed.

(2) The appropriate “personal” fee to be known in the following circumstances as a “report” charge as prescribed in Regulation 106 shall be made when a person-to-person call is not completed owing to—

(a) The failure to establish communication with the called station through no fault on the part of the Department’s officers or the equipment ;

(b) The called person or an acceptable substitute not being available and the call being abandoned, or not completed at midnight on the day on which the call is lodged ;

(c) The calling person cancelling the call after an endeavour has been made to establish it ; or

(d) Inability, through no fault of the Department, to complete a call before midnight on the day on which the call is lodged, provided that such call is not booked for completion on a day other than the day of lodgment.

113. Any person making a request at a toll station for a toll call may be required to deposit an amount equivalent to the charge for a three-minute conversation in respect of the length of line on which it is desired to communicate.

114. When a private telephone-line connected with a toll station is used for the purpose of having communication on a toll line, the charges for the toll call shall be the same as if the communication had originated or terminated at the toll station—i.e., the private telephone-line is not calculated in the toll-line mileage.

115. If any person uses the public telephone at a toll station or post-office for the purpose of communicating over a private telephone-line connected therewith, such communication shall be charged for as a toll call.

116. All toll calls on official business from officers of Government Departments other than the Post and Telegraph Department, or from postal officers on behalf of other Departments, shall be charged for at the prescribed rates.

117. Any person may not use a toll line for more than six minutes at a time when another applicant is waiting to use it. Should the wire not be asked for, then the person using it may continue to do so at tariff rates.

118. The Department will not undertake to refuse toll calls from any subscriber’s telephone, or to restrict in any way the hours, while the exchange is open, during which application for toll calls may be made.

119. Particulars of a toll call to or from his telephone number, and in respect of which the relative call-card has been forwarded to the General Post Office, may be obtained by an exchange subscriber upon payment, in advance, of a fee of 1s. if the necessary particulars to enable the call-card or cards to be found without delay are supplied, or 2s. 6d. if such particulars are not furnished. Should search extend beyond one hour an additional charge of 2s. 6d. for each and every subsequent hour shall be made. Satisfactory proof of identity of the applicant as the lessee of the telephone-exchange connection from which the call originated or at which it was received, or the agent of either, must in all cases be given.

120. Toll Accounts : Accounts for toll calls are payable to the Department on demand.

121. Non-payment of Toll Charges : If payment of the charge for any toll call is not made within seven days after demand, an exchange subscriber may be refused further toll calls until the outstanding amount has been paid, and if the amount is not paid within one month after demand the exchange service may be discontinued, without prejudice to any proceedings for the recovery of any moneys due under these regulations.

122. Daily Toll Accounts : Except as hereinafter provided, a daily account for toll calls will be rendered to an exchange subscriber upon payment of a fee of £1 per annum. Where a subscriber requires daily accounts of calls made from more than one exchange connection, the fee is £1 per annum in respect of one connection, and 5s. per annum in respect of each additional connection. In cases where subscribers pay telephone rental on a monthly basis, the monthly fee for rendering a daily toll account is one-twelfth of the annual fee plus 5 per cent. Hotels, hostels, and clubs which provide residential or general social facilities are exempt from the foregoing charges. Daily accounts are issued subject to the condition that payment shall be made not later than the day following the receipt of the account, Sundays and holidays excepted.

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