TELEPHONE REGULATIONS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3105, 8 June 1917, Page 6

TELEPHONE REGULATIONS

THE TRANSMISSION OF TELEGRAMS. 1 , Regulations governing the transmission of telegrams by telephone are issued in yesterday's "Gazette." They provide that subscribers to telephone exchanges and' owners of private lines connected with telephone may, by .... nient in writing l with the telegraph office. have telegraphic messages which aro addressed to them forwarded by telephone from the office of destination, to their business or private addresses. The charge for the service is 3d. per message if the fime taken in transmission." does, not exceed three minutes; and 3d.- for each succeeding three minutes. Subscribers antl owners of private lines ■ may, upon application on the forni provided, telephone to any telegraph office connected ivith a telephone exchange, J during the ordinary hours of telegraph ' attendance, if the exchange is open, mes- • sages to be, further transmitted as telegrams from the telegraph office to the respective destinations of such messages, provided; the usual cost of such telegrams is paid in addition to the fees prescribed. j If desired, short Kress messages up to • fifty words may be telephoned to nows- : papers tlie proprietors of which are subscribers to a telephone exchange, and • who agree' to pay the fee for'* so doing. After being telephoned/ such messages shall be delivered by messenger, when 'their values /if "collect"), together with the fee for telephoning, shall be collected. . ' • ' The provisions of the foregoing regular tions may be availed of during the ordinary hours for attendance of officers at the telegTaph office, except in the lease of offices where officers are on duty until 10 p.m., when telegrams' may be telephoned up to that hour. No charge shall, be made for messages telephoned over' a subscriber's line, or that of a private-wire owner, from or to a destination beyond the limits of the free delivery of telegrams, or fof messages telephoned from an office where the delivery of telegrams is not provided for. Subscribers to a telephone exchange at a central office, whose telegrams are ad- • dressed to a sub-office connected therewith, may have such telegrams transmitted by telephone from the sub-office through that exchange on payment of th» fees prescribed above. No charge shall be made for messages telephoned over nrivatelv-owned telephone lines connected with an office not in charge of a permanent officer of the Post and Telegraph Department.