TELEGRAPHIC RATES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 7 April 1934, Page 8

TELEGRAPHIC RATES.

OPINION IN WELLINGTON. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 6. The new telegraphic rates which came into operation a few days ago have been responsible for an increase in the telegraphic bills of several Wellington mercantile houses to the extent of 20 per cent., although it is a little too early to obtain anything in the way of an accurate average figure. Business opinion seems to be that the new charges will definitely mean an increase, notwithstanding the fact that local telegrams cost less to send to-day than under the old schedule of One city businessman expressed the opinion to-day that, if discrimination was being made in the charges for telegrams according to the distance they had to be sent, he did not see why the same principle should not be applied to letters. It cost only Id to send a letter from Wellington to a post office lialf-a-niile away, or to the northernmost portion of Canada. It seemed to him that the distance a telegram was sent made little difference to the actual handling charges, and that the increased charges appeared to be unjustified.