BY WIRELESS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1282, 10 November 1911, Page 4

BY WIRELESS.

RADIO-TELEGRAM REGULATIONS. Regulations governing tho receipt and transmission of radio-telegrams— telegrams by wireless—were published .in the Gazette last evening. The regulations governing tho receipt and transmission of inland and cablo telegrams shall, it is stated, apply to radio-tele-gTams which shall be accepted at any telegraph office for transmission to any ship equipped with tbo necessary apparatus, except collect telegrams, telegrams with prepaid replies, telegrams repeated at tho request of the sender to insure accuracy, telegrams with notice of delivery, telegrams to follow the addressee, paid service advices forwarded at tho request of the addressee to detect errors, and money order telegrams, which will not bo accepted for wireless.

Tho charge for tho transmission of "ordinary" radio-telegrams to or from ships approaching or leaving: the Dominion of New Zealand from or to any telegraph offico in the said Dominion shall be lOd. per word—ship-statiun charge, Id. per word, const-station and inland charges, 6d. per word. Jlessages transmitted on behalf of Ilis .Majesty or tho Government of New Zealand shall be charged at one-half of tho above charges. For messages to places beyond New Zealand, the charges shall be for ordinary messages lOd. per word, for Government messages sd. per word, and, ill addition thereto, in each ca,"e, the charges tor onward transmission published in the table of rates in the Post and Telegraph Guide. Press radio-telegrams will be charged ss. per 109 words or fraction thereof— ship-station charge, 2s. Cd. per 100 words or fraction thereof; ccast-station and inland charges, 2s. fid. per 100 words or fraction thereof. _ For places beyond NewZealand, in addition to the above charges, the charges published in tho table of rates in the Post and Telegraph Guide shall apply. Tho address of a radio-telegram for delivery on board a ship shall contain the surname of tho addressee, the name of tho ship (when the nmno of the ship is also that of a telegraph ollice, tho word

"steamship" must be inserted, but is not to be counted; when there is moro than ono vessel of the .same name, tho namo of the line or company must be added and paid for; and the name of the coaststation, which includes the word "radio." When a radio-telegram reaches a specified coast-station too late for transmission lo the ship to which it is addressed, it shall bo redirected without further charge to any other coast-station in New Zealand from which it can be transmitted. When delivery of a radio-telegram cannot bo effected owing to the ship having passed beyond range, the charge paid by the sender, less the inland charge, shall bo refunded.