CABLE CHARGES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 197, 24 September 1914, Page 3

CABLE CHARGES.

TEN-LETTER WORDS. Preta Association. WELLINGTON, September 2?,. The Postmaster-General announces that cable telegrams for.places in Great Britain writteii in plain language, will be clikrged :for at 10 letters to a wor.df irrespective of the actual number- of letters " contained in;.; any one word. Groups of figures will continue to be counted as at present, five figures to a word. Any surplus groups of letters occurring immediately before a group of figures will be counted as one wprd. Telegrams are to be written as at present, and the words will be telegraphed in their usual form; and not broken up intogroups of 10 letters. The alteration, being one of charging only, should prove a substantial concession and saving in the cost of cable messages to England.