POSTAL CHARGES.
THE MINISTER INTERVENES. It was announced recently that the postal and telegraphic charges would be amended early in February, and that the rate for telegrams would be 9d for each twelve words, instead of the curBusiness men had a narrow
escape from having a less satisfactory scale presented to them. The departmental heads are said to have been very keen on maintaining the charge at Is a telegram, and granting some concession by increasing the number of words to be sent for that amount to 16. That would have been of very little use; to all intents and purposes the benefit by expansion from 12 to 10 words. The drop of threepence a message will mean 'much more to the public, a fact which was no doubt well recognised by the departmental officials with anxious eyes on the annual balance-sheet.
It would appear that the position was equally well recognised by the Postmaster-General (the Kon. J. G. Coates), for it is stated that it- was he who vetoed tho department '$ suggestion, and arranged for the business man to secure a real, rather than an Apparent, reduction in his tqiegraghig Vats. - ' "
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Otaki Mail, 10 January 1923, Page 3
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