DELAYED TELEGRAMS.
MOVEMENT FOR REINTRODUCTION
Mr J. T. Martin, president of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, said at Monday’s meeting of the chamber that the night telegram had been tried, but the fact that the minimum charge was Is 6d had to a large extent killed it. If they reverted to the delayed telegram, at a halfpenny per word and a minimum charge of Bd, such messages to be sent after urgent, ordinary, and Press telegrams', he felt sure it would be a good thing for all business men, whilst it would not cost the Department any more than at present. It would not mean any addition to the staff; indeed, it would mean that they would be more steadily employed than was the case. He proposed that a resolution to the above effect be passed, and that the Government be urged’to give it a three-months’ trial. Mr C. Young, in seconding the motion, said that in such telegram the use of figures' should be permissible. At present if they wanted to send figures they had to spell them out. as words.
This was agreed to Mr H. D. Grocott (chief postmaster) said that the reintroduction of the delayed telegram was a policy matter. He would report what had been said to the Secretary of the Department.
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Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1179, 8 December 1921, Page 5
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