Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 240.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1913.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1915, No. 168.)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1913 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fifteenth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

WILLIAM WEBSTER,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Post and Telegraph Regulations 1913 (Statutory Rules 1913, No. 348, as Amended by Statutory Rules 1914, No. 151).

Regulation 372a is repealed and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

372a. (1) Letter telegrams shall be accepted for transmission within the Commonwealth, subject to the conditions contained in this Regulation.

(2) Letter telegrams will be forwarded by telegraph during the night to the place of destination, and will be delivered as ordinary letters by first delivery, or dispatched by mail in the ordinary way.

(3) Letter telegrams may be exchanged between any of the following offices:—

(a) Offices which are open for the receipt of ordinary business between 7 p.m. and midnight;

(b) Offices which are open for ordinary or press business after 7 p.m.

(4) Letter telegrams may be accepted for transmission viâ the letter telegram offices of destination for further transmission by post within the Commonwealth, in which case the place from which the letter telegram is to be posted must ho indicated in the address. (See Sub-Regulation (6)).

C.17037.—Price 3D.

 

(5) (a) Letter telegrams must be handed in between the hours of 7 p.m. and midnight, except in cases where the office closes after 7 p.m., and before midnight, in which case the letter telegram may be handed in up to the hour of closing.

(b) Subscribers to a Telephone Exchange at which service is given between the hours of 7 p.m. and midnight may transmit during those hours by telephone to the nearest Telegraph Office which is open for the transmission of letter telegrams and which is connected by telephone to an Exchange, messages intended to be further transmitted as letter telegrams, provided they pay the usual cost of such letter telegrams in addition to the rates for transmission through the telephone.

(6) Letter telegrams must be written in English words having a connected meaning, and must bear the word “Letter” before the address, such word to be counted as part of the address and paid for. Where the letter telegram is to be dispatched by mail from the letter telegram office of destination, the words “post from ” must, in addition, be added after the address, and paid for as three words. The remarks “Urgent”, “Reply paid”, “Collation”, “Acknowledgment of Receipt”, “Multiple”, and “Registered Addresses” are not allowed in letter telegrams.

The address must be set out as follows;—

Letter—John Brown, 17 Bourke Street, Melbourne; or in the case mentioned in Sub-Regulation (4):—

Letter—John Brown, 17 Smith Street, Templestowe —Post from Melbourne.

Letter—C. Smith, Camooweal—Post from Townsville.

In all other respects the form and the manner in which letter telegrams are written must be in accordance with the Regulations dealing with ordinary telegrams.

(7) Express delivery is not allowed at the place of destination. Should re-direction be required it will be effected by post and without charge.

(8) From the moment the letter telegram is posted at the letter telegram office of destination, the letter telegram shall be regarded and handled as a letter. No guarantee can be given by the Department for the due arrival of the letter telegram, or against mutilation or delay. The charges will only be refunded on demand in the event of the letter telegram having gone astray through fault or negligence of the Department’s officers, or having been delayed to such an extent that the letter telegram is delivered later than it would leave been if posted at the time of lodgment as an ordinary letter.

(9) If more than one letter telegram be lodged on the same evening addressed to the same person or firm, and the text indicates that one is a continuation of the other or others, the whole shall be treated as one letter telegram and charged for accordingly.

 

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