CHEAP CABLES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7977, 7 December 1911, Page 5

CHEAP CABLES

FOR PUBLIC AND PRESS . REDUCTIONS ON UNCODED MESSAGES. By Tel seraph—Frees Association— Copyright LONDON, December 5. In the House of Commons, Mr Herbert Samuel, Postmaster-General, announced that half the present rates for •uncoclod public and- press messages to Australia, both being liable to bo deferred, wove to ho charged in future. Tho concession to tho public would commence on January Ist; that to the press immediately. " NIGHT ” AND “ WEEK-END ” LETTERS. (Received December 6, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, December 6. Mr Herbert Samuel, PostmasterGeneral, states that tho delay in unurgent press messages in plain language will not exceed nineteen hours. The Now Zealand tariff was previously very low, and ho had not asked for a farther diminution. He regretted that he had hitherto been unable to arrange for a reduction to India and South Africa, but tho Eastern Telegraph Company had consented to carry Australasian cablegrams at a reduced rate in the event of tho Pacific cable being interrupted. The service will bo fully operative on December 15th, but the Western Union, Anglo-American, and Direct 'United States Companies would accept press telegrams at the reduced .rate at their own offices to-day. He hoped that tho new tariff would prove serviceable to tho sender of uncoded press and private unurgent messages. Tho Western Union Company instals cheap rates for the use of the public, lust above a quarter of the usual rate with a minimum of six shillings for twenty words will he charged for socalled night-letters; also at one-fifth of tho present rate with a minimum of six shillings for thirty words for week-end letters between Britain, Canada, and the United States. Week-end letters will be acpepted’on Saturday, and delivered on Tuesday. Night letters will he delivered on the morning of the second day after acceptance.