"DAILY LETTER TELEGRAMS."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16213, 25 August 1923, Page 3

" DAILY LETTER TELEGRAMS."

[Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day

The Post a ?'d Telegraph Department announces tbei introduction!, on September 1 of a new cheap class of plain language cable/ messages, known as daily letter telegrams. The messages, which msy to exchanged, with I the United Kingdom and Canada qnly, will be accepted on any day except Sundays, and will be subject to delay in transmission of forty-right hours. 'flip charge for daily letter telegrams and tlhp Testrbtiorm on the text will be the same as is at present in force, for week-end cable messages, but unlike Hid latter the new class* of message will be delivered by a message l boy at any timd after fortytight hours from the time of lodgment. Daily letter telegrams for the United Kingdom will be accepted for transmission liy either the Eastern or Pacific routes, and those for Canada via. the Pacific only. The new service, will be equal to the present "deferral" system, except that the metisage.s will bo subject to forty-eight hours' delay, against approximately twentv-four hours for deferred messages. The rate will bo just half the present rale for deferred messages, except that there is no minimum in the latter casei. From tho same dalo tihe rates for week-end telegrams to tho United Kingdom will be reduced •frcin 13s 6d to lis lOd for a minimum of twenty words, and from eicbtpcncei to sevenpenro for each succeeding word, and to- Canada troni 10s 2d to 8s Hid for a minimum of twenty words, and from sixpence to s£d for everv word in excess of twenty. ~ Week-end telegrams arc accepted for transmission via- the Pacific °nlv,