MONTHLY MESSAGE

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21242, 12 October 1940, Page 9

MONTHLY MESSAGE

BRITISH EVACUEES FREE CABLE FACILITY CONCESSION BY COMPANY (By T pl'“graph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. ;P. Fraser, announces that as from Monday children separated from their parents and evacuated from ; Great Britain under Government auspices may keep in touch with their parents at reasonable intervals by means of a free cablegram facility. One telegram a month containing a pre-arranged text may be sent by each child to its parents in Great Britain. Parents so separated may send similar telegrams to their children. This free service, which applies in all Empire countries to which children have been evacuated, is the outcome of negotiations initiated by Sir Edward Wilshaw, chairman of directors of Cable and Wireless, Limited, London, and represents a very i substantial concession on the part of j the company. An authority card was I posted today by the manager of : Cable and Wireless, Limited, Auck- | land, to each evacuated child in New | Zealand (or its guardian), and the I presentation of this card at any post | office will entitle the holder to send j without charge an appropriately 1 worded cablegram to the parent in i the Mother Country. Appreciative references to the free communication facility have been made by those responsible for the welfare of evacuated children now in the Dominion, and the service will undoubtedly help to allay the natural anxiety of parents in Great Britain for their children in this distant part ot the Empire.