CABLEGRAM RATES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16664, 24 September 1914, Page 2

CABLEGRAM RATES.

[Per Press Association.]

_, WELLINGTON, September 23. g The iostmaster-General announce '' thnt- cai)to telegrams for places in Grc&s 3j Britain written in plain language wii; be charged for at ten letters to .a word irrespective of the actual number of letters contained in any one word. Groups of figures will continue to bo counted as at present, fme figures to a word. Any surplus groups of lettersj occurring immediately before a group of figures will be counted ns one word. ■ Telegrams are to be written as at present, and the words will be telegraphed in their usual torm, and not broken up into groups of ten letters. The alteration, being one of charging only, should prove a substantial concession and saving in the cost of cable messages to England.