Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1885. URGENT TELEGRAMS.
♦ A wftiTEK m the New Zealand Herald states: — I have lately discovered that the present Government Ministers have adopted a new system of getliug off their own telegrams by marking them " take precedence " by which they take the " line immediately,'* m preference to all " urgent telegrams." Cabinet Ministers having adopted this system, the Under Secretaries now follow suit. Heads of departments will probably follow m their superiors' steps, and so on down to the "tail." Government telegrams are rarely of such immediate importance (except m the eyes of the fussy sender) that they should over-ride the " urgent telegrams," for which the sender has paid double rales, the price fixed by the Government to enable a wire to be sent immediately, or at any turn of " urgents." Very few of the public are aware of this new system being m force, and probably when they are enlightened their faith, like my own, will be gone m the splendid system of " urgent' telegrams."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 112, 15 April 1885, Page 2
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179The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1885. URGENT TELEGRAMS. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 112, 15 April 1885, Page 2
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