Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Ex. Min. 367.        Commonwealth of Australia.

Postmaster-General’s Department,

11th July, 1902.

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IS Excellency the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, by and with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, has been pleased to approve that the undermentioned regulation be made, fixing rates for conversations over telephone trunk lines for press business, between the hours of Eight p.m. and Eight a.m. :—

Telephone Trunk Lines—Press Rates.

Where telephone trunk lines connect two towns at both of which telephone attendants are employed during the night, the charge for conversations in the nature of press telegrams between the hours of Eight p.m. and Eight a.m. shall be as follows :—

Distance.	Rate for 5 minutes’ conversation.
Not exceeding 100 miles..........	Ninepence.
Not exceeding 150 miles..........	One shilling and one penny.
Not exceeding 200 miles..........	One shilling and fivepence.

JAMES G. DRAKE,

Postmaster-General.