TELEPHONE CHARGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 32, 27 January 1908, Page 2

TELEPHONE CHARGES.

AJWiisDEI) KJEGULATIONS. TKANSMISSIOjNOi!' TELEGRAMS. Thursday's Gazette contained a long list of . amended regulations governing the use of public telephones throughout the Dominion. Included are the conditions under which telegrams will be transmitted to subscribers by telephone. By written prearrangement with the telegraph oflice subscribers to exchanges and owners of private lines connected with bureaux may have telegrams addressed to them forwarded by telephone from the office of destination to their business or private address. Such messages will after transmission be posted for delivery, and be marked on uie front, "Transmitted by telephone. ll desired, short press messages up to fifty words may be telephoned to newspapers the proprietors of which arcsubscribers to a telepnone exchange, and who agree to pay the fee for so doing. After being telephoned, such messages will be delivered by messenger, when their values (if "collect"), together with the fee for telephoning, will be collected.' This system may be availed of during the ordinary hours for attendance of officers at the telegraph office, except in the case of offices whore officers are on duty until 11) p.m., when the telegrams may be telephoned up to that hour. The charges for transmitting Ulegrams by telephones, at all chief offices, ana at all lirst and second grade suboffices, and for all press messages, shall be as follows:—For one year, £1; for six mouths, 10s; for three months, ss; for each separate transmission 3d for every (luce minutes or fraction thereof. When tin- fee is paid by time, one conversation may include two or more mesBa ff • ' •'< tm i Messages may also b % delivered TJy telephone to a telegraph office for transmission, but messages must subsequently be delivered to the office in writing with the proper stamps affixed.

.it m . JH'IUSAU CHAKUES. lt lhe lolluwmg scale of charges for the a| use of telephone uureuux lias been fixed- „. For a distance up to 25 miles, 3d (uon,e subscribers lid); up to 60 miles, (id; un is , t0 ~!t mik .' : ' M ' U P t0 m miles, Is; ap to 140 miles, Is Od; up to 180 miles, 2sf and for every succeeding 40 miles or less, 6d, . , . - j Owners of private telephone lines led mto a bureau may use the Departmental lines when available for speaking puri- poses through such bureau. Thechargei e lor this service are the same as those II payable by non-subscribers, the distance c being calculated from the telephone s bureau. t. When a message to the effect that 0 any person is required to attend at a '. telephone bureau is sent to such bureau for delivery beyond the premises in which the bureau is situated, 3d will bo i' charged for delivery. Those charges ■ must be paid by the sender. Messages ' lor addresses outside the ordinary des livery limits are subject to special , charges for delivery, according to the , extra expense thereby incurred • UVNG-DISTAjnCE COMMUNICATIONS The charges for long-distance converversations through exchanges which are open continuously, or through other bureaux or exchanges during tlie ordinary hours of attendance of switchboard or bureau attendants: For a period not exceeding six minutes, 2s ltd; anil a furtlier charge of 2s (id for every additional period of six minutes or portion of six minutes. (1>) When special atlendunca of switchboard or bureau attendants out of ordinary hours of attendance is required, then for each switchboard or bureau attendant called upon to make. the necessary wire-connections: For 1 every hour or less, 2s Od in addition to I tue charges set forth in paragraph (a). No tree "conversations on public sorvico are permitted over long-distance circuits. i The long-distance circuits are: Tnverrargill - Duncdin, Dnnedin - Christchurch C'liristehurch - Wellington, Wellington! Napier, Wellington-Auckland, Napier. Gisborne, and Napier-Auckland,