CHARGES FOR DELIVERY OF TELEGRAPH MESSAGES.

Kumara Times, Issue 2300, 11 January 1884, Page 3

CHARGES FOR DELIVERY OF TELEGRAPH MESSAGES.

By an Order in Council dated Wellington, December 21st, 1883. it is arranged that telegrams shall be delivered free of charge within a radius of one mile of the statiou to which they may be transmitted by wire. And— For any distance not exceeding s. d. half a mile beyond the free delivery ... 0 6 For any distance over half a mile but not exceeding one mile beyond tho free delivery ... 1 0 For any distance over one mile but not exceeding two miles . beyond the free delivery ... 2 0 The foregoing charges provide for ordinary delivery only. For messages to be delivered by special messenger, the cost of such delivery is to be added and paid for. If required to be delivered beyond the distance of three miles, all moneys disbursed in payment of cab-fares, omnibus-fares, horse-hire, porterage, or any other expenses incurred in delivery shall be charged. To prevent the non-delivery or detention of telegrams, when the sender of a telegram refuses to pay the above charges, or any of them, the telegram will be posted immediately on its arrival at the station to which it is transmitted by wire. The sender of a telegram shall be responsible for the payment of all charges incurred in its delivery, and the officer in charge of the telegraph office at which the telegram was delivered for dispatch may, in his own name, sue for and recover from the sender thereof the charges due on such telegram.