SOLDIERS’ MESSAGES

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9095, 14 July 1915, Page 11

SOLDIERS’ MESSAGES

ARRANGEMENTS FOB TRANS- 1 MISSION. The Postmaster-General announce!! that he lhas made arrangements with the Cable Companies with regard to soldiers' messages as follow:—. j. Persons in New Zealand may send, at the rates for such messages soldiera' week-end (EFM) cable l<r soldiers in Egypt and the United Kingdom with instructions to reply at tho cost of the New Zealand senders. Such! instructions must appear ns the last text word thus: "Reply ETP."’■“BTP" means "New Zealand receiver to pay”; and twelve is the greatest number of words that, will bo accepted in the reply. * 2. The replies from tho United Kingdom will not be accepted at telegraph offices in the United Kingdom, but at the office of the High Commissioner; for New Zealand in London ; they mush contain tho last word "RTP," must bo countersigned by tho military authority: under whoso control tho soldier is, and must be addressed by post at United Kingdom inland rates to tho High Commissioner for New Zealand, Westminster Chambers, 13, Victoria street, London, S.Wi The High Commissioner will provide for their despatch to New Zealand.

3. The replies from Egypt must contain the last word "BTP" and be conn- 1 tersigned by a military authority at the, placa whence they aro intended to be] despatched hy telegraph. i 4. Members of the New Zealand expeditionary force in the United Kingdom. but not in Egypt, may also sona "EFM" messages to New Zealand without the receipt of any preliminary message from Now Zealand. They must bo countersigned as prescribed,in section 2. They will be accepted at .the same rales, but must not contain more than) twelve words. They must contain the last word "ETP" and bo sent to the High Commissioner by post at the same United Kingdom inland rates’ as prescribed in section. 2. The soldier dcs« patching such a message will not be inquired to pay for it, but the receiver in New Zealand will. No "ETP" telegram received from the United Kingdom or from Egypt will be handed tffi the addressee in Now Zealand until tho charges on it have been paid. i

5. The rates for "EFM” soldiers' messages are as follow.—Egypt, 11 Jd per word; United Kingdom, 8d per word/’ There is no minimum charge. -1 V)