TELEPHONE CHARGES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8510, 12 February 1908, Page 5

TELEPHONE CHARGES.

AMENDED REGULATIONS. TRANSMISSION OF TELEGRA,MS/ Amended regulations governing the use of public telephones" throughout the Dominion have been gazetted, and these have been printed on lists lately issued in Palmerston. .... .. Included are the conditions under which telegrams will be transmitted to subscribers by telephone. By written 'pre-< arrangement with the telegraph office subscribers to exchanges and owners qf Erivate lines connected with bureaux may ave telegrams addressed to them forwarded by telephone from the office of destination to their business-or private address.' Such message* will after transmission be posted for delivery, and bo marked on the front "Transmitted by telephone." If desired, short press messages up to 50 words may be telephoned to newspapers, the proprietors of which are subscribers to a telephone exchange, and who agree to pay the fee for so doing. After being telephoned, such messages will be delivered by messenger, when their values (if "collect"), togethe< with the fee for telephoning, will be "col- • lected: This system may be availed of during the ordinary hours for attendance of officerp at the telegraph office, m the-case; of .oii? " cers are on duty until 10 p.m., when-the telegrams may be telephoned up to that hour. The charges for transmitting itelc- . grams by telephone, at all chief offices, and at all first and. second-grade- suhand for all prejss fmessageSy. shj£E>"; be as follows;^—For. iOne ; feet* six; months,: lfls;.. for- V or for each separate transniiifeion, 3d for every three minutes or tract ion thereof. When the fee is paid by time, one conversation may include two or three meß- • sages. Mesatt&eilTmay also be delivered ' by telephone.'to* : «• telegraph office for trrnsmissionj but they must subsequently be delivered to the office in writing, with the. proper stamps affixed. The of charges for the,, use of telephone bureaux has been fixed: —For a 'v(j§- to 25 miles, 3d (non- ;. subscribers 6d)'•;■' 'iujjl to 50 miles, 6d;. up ? to 75 miles, 9d; up to 100 miles, 1?; up to 140 miles, Is 6d; up to 180 miles, 2s; and for every succeeding 40 miles or less, 6d. When a message to the effect that any person is required to attend at a telephone bureau'is sent: bureau for' delivery beyond the premlseflyin. which the bureau is Sdj. will bocharged for delivery. These." charges must be paid by the sender. Messages for addresses outside the oitfihary delivery limits are subject to special charges for delivery, according to the i extra expense thereby incurred.

The charges for long distance conversation are as follows: —(a) For conversations through exchanges which are open continuously, or through other bureaux or exchanges during the ordinary houra of'attendance of switchboard or bureau attendants: For a period' not exceeding six minutes, 2s 6d; and a further charge of 2s 6d for every additional period of six minutes, or portion of six minute*; (b) when special attendance of switcnboard or bureau attendants out of ordinal * ary hours of attendance is required-; then for each. ;• switchboard.- or • bureau attendant called upon to make the necessary, , wire-connections: For every hour or less. , 2s 6d, in addition to the charges set forth in paragraph (a). No free conversations on public service, are permitted over long-distance circuits. The long-distance circuits are: InvercargillDunedin, Dunedin-Christchurch, Chris*-church-Wellington, Wellington-Napier, Wellington-Auckland, Napier-Gisbornc, and Napier-Auckland.