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No. 112. The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Acting-Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne. (Telegram.) Wellington, 26th February, 1.914. Reduced wireless charges : Dominion agrees ship charge 2d. Charges, applicable all vessels engaged exclusively intercolonial trade or between ports Dominion, were reduced to ship 2d., coast station including inland charge 3d., total 5d., from Ist ultimo for messages to or from Dominion.

No. 113. The Acting-Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne, to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. (Telegram.) Melbourne, 4th March, 1914. Yours 26th ultimo : Information received here that " Maheno," L ' Maitai," " Manuka," " Maori," " Maunganui," " Moeraki," " Riverina," " Ulimaroa," " Victoria," " Wahine," " Warrimoo," " Westralia," and " Willochra " licensed by your Administration, are charging reduced rates on New Zealand traffic. To prevent confusion collection charges, please state whether those vessels will charge 2d. per word ship-handling of traffic via Commonwealth stations. See my letter 25th idem.

No. 114. The Technical Manager, Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Limited, Sydney, to the Assistant Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Limited, Culwulla Chambers, Sir,— Castlereagh Street, Sydney, 9th March, 1914. I have pleasure in referring to your letter of the 9th January, and thank you for the advice that your Department agrees to pay up to £100 per annum, half the cost of advertising in some of the leading New Zealand newspapers ; to exhibit at post-offices a suitable poster; and»to keep your tele-graph-offices supplied with advice of ships within range of your coast stations, as well as showing our communication-charts at the principal offices and instructing your counter officers to make full use thereof. I have to inform you that my board thoroughly appreciates the co-operation and assistance to be given by your Department in this matter, and wishes me to tender our best thanks. As you have no doubt observed, we have been making a trial of advertising in the leading newspapers at Wellington and Auckland. As a result of this trial lam instructing our Mr. Gill to provide full information in reference to the use of larger and more prominent spaces in those journals, so that with the assistance you have promised we may be able to make a very good feature of this form of publicity. I regret that your letter has not been acknowledged previously, but owing to pressure of other matters I have had to leave the question of advertising in abeyance up till just now. I have, &c, E. T. Fisk, The Assistant Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. Technical Manager.

No. 115. The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Acting-Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne. (Telegram.) Wellington, 10th March, 1914. This Dominion no objection ship stations licensed by New Zealand and engaged exclusively in intercolonial trade participating in your reduced rates. New Zealand will avail itself of similar privilege ship stations licensed by Commonwealth. Ship-station charge 2d. per word in both cases.

No. 116. The Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne, to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. (Telegram.) Melbourne, 28th April, 1914. Instructions issued vesselsjliocnsed yourJAdministration participate reduced wireless rate 6d. per word from Ist proximo.

No. 117. The Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne, to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. Melbourne, 9th May, 1914. Reduced wireless rate applies to all vessels licensed by Dominion communicating with Commonwealth stations independent of vessel's route.