KEEPING IN TOUCH.
SHIPS' LETTER TELEGRAMS.
NEW SERVICE NEXT WEEK,
Radio and postal services will be com-1 bined in an interesting development facilitating communication between ships at sea and New Zealand from Septer 1, when the Post Office will operate a reorganised ship letter-telegram service. It will be possible for passengers on all ships in the intercolonial run, as well as the sudsidised mail steamers operating between New Zealand, San Francisco and Vancouver., to send to the Dominion a letter-telegram, which will be transmitted to a New Zealand radio station at any point of the voyage and then telegraphed to the office of destination for "delivery by ordinary post on the day following that of lodgment on the ship. Ten words may be sent for 2/6, and 3d for each additional word. Passengers on all other vessels, including the liners running between New Zealand and England, will have a similar service at 5/ for twenty words and 3d for each additional word. As these liners frequently communicate with New Zealand by short-wave radio when they are in the English Channel, the ships' letter-telegram service will enable their passengers to keep in touch with the Dominion at any, stage-of pr outward -wye ga, I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 205, 29 August 1936, Page 11
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