DEFERRED CABLES

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1365, 16 February 1912, Page 5

DEFERRED CABLES

TIIE NEW itEGULATIONS. The new regulations concerning the transmission of deferred cable, iiu'wiges appwu , in this week's (jazolte. They are If tlie sender of a private telegram ia (lie. inUriutionnl stiTic" writes live telegram in plain language, and agrees that it shall be withheld from Ironsmission under tho conditions set forth, the charge for tho telegram shall be reiluced to oiif-half Hie charge at tho ordinary tnrilV rale. Telegrams >a withhold from transmission shall be called

"deferred telegrams." Tho sender of a, deferred telegram shall, when handing it in at a telegraph ollice, sign a declaration that thu text is entirely in plain language, and thai it does noi boar any meaning other than that which appeals on Hie i'ncc of it. The declaration shall .-peeify the language in whkh the telegram is written. The text shall not contain any figures commercial marks, groups of loiters, signs of piinclnation, or abbreviated expressions. Any lelegram containing a succession of isolated tellers, of numbers, of names, or of words without, connected meaning, ami generally any telegram which docs not, in tho opinion of tho telegraph ofiioor to whom it ii presented for transmission, bear an intelligible meaning on the face of it, shall not bo treated as a deferred telegram. Deferred telegrams shall be accepted for trauMnis*ion from New Zealand to any country in the European licginie. Deferred telegrams may only be accepted for transmission from Kew Zealand to any country in the Extra-European Regime (including Senegal) if the charge for ordinary telegrams is not less than tl.'d. per word, unless special arrangements have been made for acceptance at n lower rate.

The terminal and land submarine cabin transit rates for deferred telegrams shall be respectively one-half the. rales charged for ordinary telegrams. When a deferred telegram is diverted in consequence of an interruption of route, the. rates which are shared pro rnta shall be half those which would accrue to the different Administrations for a telegram charged for at the full rate if it were similarly diverted.

The Telegraph Administrations tliu right to refuse to accept , at the reduced rate any telegram which, in tlirir opinion, is not in accordance wilh Ilia conditions. Deferred telegrams shall be transmitted only alter non-urgent private telegrams and press telegrams. Those which linvp not readied their destination within twenty-four hours from the time of handing in shall he transmitted in turn w['.h ordinary telegrams. , it' the sender of n press .telegram addressed to Vnncouver or to Great Britain agrees that it shall be withhold from liaiismissioji as per conditions, the charge for the said telegram shall be, reduced. Deferred press telegrams shall be subject to all the conditions of the International Telegraph Convention and Service Hegulalio'is relating to (he acceptance of press lolegrums. They shall be transmitted only nfton non-urgent private telegrams and ordinary press telegrams. Those which have not reached their destination within a period nf eighteen hours from the time of liniulius; ii\ shall be transmitted in turn with telegrams charged for at (he full rale.

The clisxi-Rft for deferred press telegrams exchange:! between New Zealand' and Groal; lirilain shall be reduced to onehalf the charge at the ordinary press rate, and the charge for such telegrams exchanged between Ken- Zealand and Vancouver shall be reduced to J2d. uer word.