TELEGRAPH RATES.
TO THE EDITOII. Sir-Would you allow me to call your attention to the extraordinary way in which the telegraph office calculate the cost of telegrams:' For instance, the following words are counted as -.-Hard head, dugstail, halfpenny, halfpence, two pennies, three lier.nies,' sixpence, ninepence, twelvepence,, twelve pennies, woolpackis, hundredweight, threepence. twopence. threepence, fourpence, six pennies, tenpence. 'Hie following as two:-Cocksfoot, twentythird, ryegrass, three farthings, four pennies, five pennies, seven pennies, eight pennies, ten pennies, eleven pennies, bonedust, chaffcutter, twenty-three, oowgrass, one penny, fivepence, sevenpence, eightpence, nine pennies, elevenpence, don't, haypress. I understand that the basis upon which the office decides is Webster's dictionary. However, it seems a most extraordinary arrangement.—l am, etc., Fbolicher Landemann.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11010, 14 March 1899, Page 3
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