TELEPHONING TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144131, 28 June 1913, Page 4

TELEPHONING TELEGRAMS.

In tho Gazette now post and telegraph regulations are published. They provide that subscribers to telephone exchange and owners of private lines connected with telephone bureaux may, by prearrangemnnt in writing with the telegraph office, have telegraphic messages which arc addressed to them forwarded by telephone from the office of destination to their business or private addresses. Such messages will, after transmission, bo posted for delivery to such addresses, and be marked on the front, “Transmitted by telephone.” This system may be availed of during tho ordinary hours of attendance oft officers at the telegraph office, provided' that in tho case of offices where officers are on duty until 10 p.m. telegrams may be telephoned up to that hour. The charges for telephoned messages provided tho conversation docs not last longer than three minutes, are as follows; For a year or portion of a yew over six months, £1; three to six months, 10s; not exceeding 3 months ss; for each separate transmission, 3d for each three minutes. Telephone exchange subscribers and owners of private lines connected with a telephone bureau who have signed the usual form of application may also telephone to any telegraph office connected with a telephone exchange during tho ordinary hours of telegraph attendance, if tho exchange is open, messages to he further transmitted as telegrams, from tho telegraph office to the respective destinations of such messages, provided tho usual cost of such telegrams is paid in addition to the rates prescribed above when applicable. When the sender of a telegram desires that it bo transmitted to the addressee by telephone tho sender shall pay a fee of 3d for tho telephoning, in addition to the proscribed rates for urgent or ordinary telegrams, as the case may bo, and the words “To be telephoned” shall bo inserted in the place reserved for such instructions. Thereupon such telegrams, upon arrival at the telegraph office of destination, shall tx» forthwith telephoned through tho telephone exchange to tho addressee, if such addressee is a subscriber, to that exchange; and in other respects the provisions made for the transmission of telegrams to addressees through telephone exchanges at their own request, shall, ns far as applicable, apply to such telegram.