SIXPENNY TELEGRAMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7737, 17 April 1896, Page 2

SIXPENNY TELEGRAMS.

ANTICIPATED LOSS TO BE MET

BY BOY LABOR.

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iWKLLXHaTow, i'jast eight Tho Government has decided to establish i a (■ytitem of eixpsuny tolorirame. Tho deJ layod system will be abolished entirely, and j it. nixponuy tariff for ordinary telegrams for twelve words substituted, with a penny a word after the first twelve words, '.fiio now system will oomo into operation on Juno Ist next 80 ac to enable tho necea-ary avrangomonte to be completed. I It is anticipated tho change will result in Jii voiy large increaao of work through tho •j colony, t.md telegraph mesfinajtora who tire j ab!o us opt.rute ha,vo within tho lost month butts put through tost: , , in tciefiraphy. The chuui;» will rae.'iu shs oiuploymont of a oouaidorablo number of uddititMial pci'BOus iv tho Horvice, and there is every reason to boliiivo thoy can be drawn from tho ranks of the juiiors. Slew Zealand will, under tbi? >iltetedcondition of ttfCaitu, eujoy tho unique distinction of boing , tho only country in Aixstraiesia !ihat has adopted v. sixpenny tologram system. A slight nlterntion will aleo -be made in Frcss nitoH In cases where atalious do no's opou after 5 p.m. i'rem message will be accepted for traMniission to paperfl pub-N hfihing in tho morning at tho rtita of one sbiliiourpor 100 woi-ob up to 300 wovda in the il>-.y timo.