RADIO AND CABLE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 1 May 1937, Page 15

RADIO AND CABLE

A CORONATION CONCESSION More New Zealanders nowadays arc using the radio-telephone service every month than in the whole of a year when the service was inaugurated ir 1902. The novelty stage has passed anc 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 eificient system giving personal communication right across the world will receive further stimulus during May when special reduced lates tor conversations between New Zealand 1 and the United Kingdom are being i made as one of the Post Office CoronI ation Concessions. The many thousands - of visitors to England from all parts

of the Empire 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 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 Bth May until 13th May inclusive. This takes the form of

a special letter telegram at a flat rate oi 4s for 10 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.