CHEAP CABLES

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 108, 3 November 1926, Page 6

CHEAP CABLES

THE NEW REGULATIONS

NO BESENTMENT IN DUNEDIN.

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. Regarding the telegraphed report from Wellington that considerable alarm is felt' by the Association of British Manufacturers and Agents over the new regulations governing deferred rate cable messages, inquiries in Dunedin failed to reveal resentment amongst business firms. Several managers in constant touch with London and other 'centres by cable say that their codes work so well that they can correspond by cable at the ordinary rates, and do not, except on rare occasions,. use tho cheaper 'rate systems. It is to be remembered that the amendment to international telegraph regulations originated in the ■ convention held at Paris last year. It is not of New Zealand make. Nevertheless one may suppose that the departmental officers in the Dominion could, if pressed, give a shrewd guess at reasons for the alterations. There is more than a suspicion that the systems now amended left loopholes for abuses of various kinds, one of them the "packing" into a single message of matter that really emanated from several senders, and there were other ways of dodging tho full rates. These things, of course, are not spoken about, but there is another point about the amendments that is no secret, and that is that they will facilitate the work in the telegraph offices. Aa things worked up to tho end of last month a lot of time was lost in counting and classifying the letters or figures of cablegrams.