Radio and Cable

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 105, 5 May 1937, Page 3

Radio and Cable

A CORONATION CONCESSION Moro 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 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 reduced 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 Empiro will be able, during that month, to keep in personal touch with their homes through the medium of the radio-telephone, a call to or from New Zealand being possib e at the reduced rate of £1 2s Gd 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 feth until May lGtli inclusive. This takes the form of a special letter telegram at a flat rate of 4s for 10 words and 5d for each additional word. These concessions, full details of which aro being advertised by tho post office, aro similar to those granted on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of His Late Majesty George \ r .