REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1923.

I, THE person administering the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1923 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this thirtieth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and thirty.

SOMERS

Administering the Government of the

Commonwealth of Australia.

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 58 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new regulation:—

58a. In addition to the multiple telegram facility, subject to the Postmaster-General’s approval, copies of press telegrams may be delivered, upon receipt at the office of destination, to a newspaper or news agency other than the actual addressee when either the sender or the addressee has previously requested this to be done. The charge for the additional copies shall be at the rate of fivepence for each fifty words or fraction of fifty words contained in each copy.

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.