SOLDIERS' MESSAGES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2512, 13 July 1915, Page 6

SOLDIERS' MESSAGES

SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS

WEEK-END CABLES

The' Postmaster-General announces that he lias made arrangements with the cable companies, with regard to soldiers' messages,• as follow:— 1. Persons in New Zealand may send at tho rates for suck messages "Soldiers' week-end" (EFM) cable messages to soldiers: in Egypt and the United Kiogdom with' instructions to reply at the cost of the New Zealand senders. Such instructions must appear.' a.s tho last text word, thus: ''Reply. 11TP". "11.TP" means "The New Zealand receiver to' pay"; and 12 i 6 the greatest ■number of words that will be accepted in the reply. 2. The replies from the United Kingdom will not be accepted .at .telegraph offices in the United Kingdom,.but only at the. office of the High Commissioner for New Zealand iu London; they must contain tlio last word "RTP", must be countersigned-by. the. military authority under whoso control the soldier is, and must: bo addressed by post at United Kingdom inland rates to tho High Commissioner for New Zealand, Westminster Chambers, 13 Victoria Street, London, S.W. The High Commissioner will provide for their-dispatch to' Now Zealand. ' 3. The replies from Egypt must contain the last word "lITT and be countersigned by a military authority at the" place, whence they aro intended to bo dispatched/by telegraph. v .4. Members of the New Zealand Ex.peditiouary Force in the United Kingdom, ' but not in Egypt, may also send EFM messages to Now Zealand without the receipt of any preliminary message from New Zealand. They must bo countersigned as prescribed in Section: 2 hereof. They will be accepted at tho same rates, but must, not contain more-than twelve words. They must contain .{lie last Word "RTP" and bo sent to the 'High Commissioner by post at the same United Kingdom inland rates as prescribed in Section 2 hereof. The soldier dispatching, 6uch a message ;ivill not be required to pay for it, but th' 6 receiver-in New Zealand will. No R'l'P telegram received from the United. Kingdom or from Egypt will be handed to the addressee in New Zealand until the charges'on it .have. been paid, V

5. Tho rates .for EFM soldiers' messages are as follow:— :

Egypt; per word; United Kingdom, Bd. per word! No, minimum charge. " .