POSTAL CHARGES
WHERE MINISTER INTERVENED. THE NEW TELEGRAPH RATE. It was announced recently that tho postal and telegraphic charges would be amended early in- February, and that the rate for telegrams would be 9d for each twelve words, instead of the current Is. - Business men had a narrow escape from having % less satisfactory scale presented to thmn. The departmental heads are said to halve been very keen on maintaining the charge at 'ls a telegram, and granting some concession by increasing the number of words to bo sent for that amount to 16. That would have been of very little use; to all intents and purposes the benefit would have been nil, for there are very few telegrams which would benefit by expansion from 12 to 16 words. The drop of threepence a message will mean much more to the public; a fact which was no doubt well recognised by the depart* mental 1 officials with anxious eyes on the annual balance-sheet. [ It would appear that the position was equally well recognised by tho Postmaster-General (the Hon. J. G. Coates), for it is stated that it was he who vetoed the department’s suggestion, and arranged for tbe business man to secure a real, rather than an apparent, reduction in his telegraphic rate.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11412, 8 January 1923, Page 8
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212POSTAL CHARGES New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11412, 8 January 1923, Page 8
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