NIGHT LETTER TELEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 101, 22 January 1921, Page 7

NIGHT LETTER TELEGRAMS

CONDITIONS REGARDING DISPATCH. Night letter-telegrams may now bo sent and last night’s Gazette contains tho following information :— Subject to tike conditions set out hereunder, night letter-telegrams shall be accepted at any telegraph or telephone office for transmission within the Dominion:— . , . — (1) They must be written in plain English language. No code or cipher words are permitted. The use of a code address or a code signature is prohibited. Trade terms in general use. such «-s f.0.b., c.i.f., are permitted. Figures are permitted only in the address and signature. When required to be used in the text figures must be written in (2) They may not lie sent as “urgen. •'collect.’’ or as "multiple” telegrams, and such instructions as "reply paid.* "'repetition paid,” are not permitted. They will not be accepted by telephone, nor will they be accepted, from Government Departments. /(3) They may be accepted throughout the day up to one hour of the time of closing of either the office of origin or destination, whichever is the earlier. (4) They may not be accepted on Departmental holiday?. (5) The charge, for a night letter-fele-gram shall be one shilling and sixpence for the first thirty-six words or fraction thereof, and one halfpenny per word for each word in excess thereof. (6) A night letter-telegram shall not be delivered until the morning following the lodgment of the telegram.