THE NIGHT LETTER.
SERVICE EXTENDED TO AUSTRALIA.
(hi the 17th April last the Post-master-General announced that as ;i result of negotiations with tlie Pacific Cable Board the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and the Commonwealth, post office arrangements have been made for a night letter telegram servicei between the Dominion and the Com--111(01 wee 111). The now system commenced on the Ist instant. For some years it lias been considered that, there was an opening for a cheap class of telegram between the two countries. Returns have beetn kept over the first seven days during which the new system has been in operation; it is announced that during that period there were 393 messages from New Zealand to Australia and 108 from Australia to New Zealand. As the concession is practically unknown as yet, these figures are .considered very satisfactory indeed. The messages cost 3/- for a minimum of twenty words and 2d for (iicli word in excess of twenty. Transmission is effected on the day of despatch and the messages are delivered by post on flic following morning. The'Department anticipates that when Ihe system becomes better known it will lie used eagerly by public.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2733, 15 May 1924, Page 2
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194THE NIGHT LETTER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2733, 15 May 1924, Page 2
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