CABLE RATES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 42, 13 November 1926, Page 9

CABLE RATES

CONCERN IN DUNEDIN.

' Regarding The ■ sudden U.-increase in the cable rates Mr.. L. 11. the’ telegraph ‘ j-nfx-i lllp o dent at Dunedin. ...states .' that the local office is in no way responsible for the brevity of .tire notice given, and that in all probability, the fault is not in New Zealand at all;' ' The Dunedin office sent out notice of the change as soon as it was informed of it,-and there is no reason to believe that the headquarters at Wellington delayed sending ■on news of the change after receiving -

it. k ; , The effect of. the hew regulation is certainly going to be felt keenly by many ’ large’ commercial concerns. In modern business numbers of necessity enter very largely into ’ the ordering of supplies, * and in one very large house it is estimated that about' 90 per cent, of its cablegrams will have-more-than a third of figures and commercial marks. Jhe effect is to increase .the charge from <d. to 2s. 3d. a word." A single cablegram sent by a Dunedin firm last, week cost £139 iOs., .whereas the previous week the same cablegram would-have cost but £36 ss-. Bd.’ : It is 'not at Uli surprising that a large-falling:off-in week-end cable-, grams? has.already. been .noted. » The-matter is going to be brought before tho Cliainber of Commerce next week?T , *«.’