TELEGRAPH CODES.
USE OF UNPRONOUNCEAW.I WORDS.
Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, Manh 28.
The London Chamber of Commerce unanimously protested against any modification Iby the internalif.nal Telegraphic Conference to be opened at I.iebon on May 4th). of clause 8 of the telegraphic service regulation which is applicable to iode words, urging rather th.- removal of all restrict ions respecting the iinpionnunceahility of words so long as they do not. exceed ten letters.
Mr Charlton, chairman of the Council, said he believed that the English Post Office did not. contemplate- -a radical alteration, but only the withdrawal of a small percentage of words. The cab!.- coxpaiiies were pre->;ing the (Jovenimeiit to prevent rhe hr.; of time anil ivwntie resulting from the use of unpinnnunceahle words.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13557, 30 March 1908, Page 6
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