TELEGRAPH CODE
EFFECT OF THE NEW SYSTEM. (United Press Association—3y Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 18. The table issued by the amalgamated cole compilers shows the effect of the new five-letter code. ’The basis of the .twenty-piece word is now dearer than the old ten letter up to eight words, but thereafter the new system is progressively dearer; for example ais much as seven (shillings on a fifty word message.
The' week-end letter rate has been abolished in favour of a standard rate of one third of the full rate, with a minimum . equivalent to twenty-five words. All urgent messages are double instead of treble.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1932, Page 5
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