NEWS IN BRIEF
'Tnited Press Association--By Electrio Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) BAGDAD, Sept. 22. Indicating how the romantic East is becoming prosaically westernised, the Iraq Chamber of Deputies has passed a Bill granting a .50 years’ concession to a British syndicate for the provision of electric lighting and construction of tramears in Bagdad. BRUSSELS, Sept. 22. The international telegraph conference has decided that the charges for code telegrams constisting of nve-letter words should be I two-thirds the ordinary rate for the extra European zone, ,andi tbreequ alters for the European. Ten-letter Words will be chargeable at -the existing rates.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 September 1928, Page 2
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100NEWS IN BRIEF Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 September 1928, Page 2
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