REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1923.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned amended Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1923, to come into operation on and from 1st December, 1929.
Dated this twenty-seventh day of November, 1929.
STONEHAVEN
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
J. A. LYONS
Postmaster-General.
Amendment of the Telegraph Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1927, No. 142, as amended to this date.)
Regulation 76 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
(5) Where a subscriber, whose local telegraph office is closed at or before 7 p.m., is connected to a telephone exchange open after 7 p.m., and such exchange is connected telephonically to a telegraph office which is open, after 7 p.m., a telegram may, on receipt at the latter office, be telephoned over a trunk line to the subscriber provided the sender of the telegram at the time of lodgment pays the trunk line fees involved, in addition to the prescribed telegraph rates.
The address of telegrams to be transited in accordance with this sub-regulation shall include—
(a) A paid service instruction indicating the payment of trunk line fees (for example “6d. trunk-fee”).
(b) Surname of addressee.
(c) The word Telephone”.
(d) The name of the exchange to which the subscriber is connected and the subscriber’s telephone number.
(e) The name of the telegraph office from which the telegram is to be telephoned.
The paid service instruction indicating payment of trunk line fees shall be counted and charged for as two words, and the other particulars—(b) to (e)—shall also be counted as chargeable words.
By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.