RADIO AND CABLE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 April 1937, Page 8

RADIO AND CABLE.

A CORONATION CONCESSION More New Zealanders nowadays are using the radio-telephone service every month than in the whole of a year when the service was inaugurated in ;1932. The novelty stage has passed [and the monthly' business is being i steadily maintained at a point higher than the first year's total. There were ! 825 calls in the first three months of this year, and this efficient system giving personal communication right across the world will receive further stimulus during May when special re' duced rates for conversations between New Zealand and the United Kingdom are being made as one of the Post Office Coronation concessions. The many thousands of visitors to England from all parts of the Empire will be ab!«3, during that month, to keep in persona, touch with their' homes through the medium < of the radio-telephone, a call to or from New Zealand being possible at the reduced rate of £1 2s 6d per minute, with the usual minimum of 3 minutes. Cable communication is also being facilitated between Great Britain and all parts of the Empire as a Coronation concession from May Bth until May 16th inclusive. This takes the form of a special letter telegram at a flat rate of 4s for TO words and 5d for each additional word. These concessions, full details of which are being advertised by the post office, are similar to those granted on-the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of His Late Majesty George V.