CABLE RATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 44, 21 February 1940, Page 13

CABLE RATES.

SOLDIERS IN EGYPT. Pending the introduction of a cheaprate cablegram service to soldiers in Egypt, which the Postmaster-General, the Hon. F. Jonee, states is still the subject of negotiation, telegrams at ordinary rates may be accepted for officers and men of the first echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt. The address, which is to be paid for, must include regimental number, rank, name and unit to which the soldier is attached, followed by the words, "N.Z.E.F., Egypt." The ordinary rates to Egypt are:— Full rate, 2/10 a word; and deferred rate, 1/5 a word. As recently announced, however, cablegrams having reference to urgent' private matters for dispatch to members of His Majesty's Army or Air Force serving elsewhere than in Egypt and Canada will be accepted at a reduced rate of 5d a word for the text and signature, with a minimum of 2/0 for each message, no charge being made for the address. It is confidently anticipated by the postal authorities that a similar concession will presently be applicable to messages to Egypt.