NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
THE NEW PRESS RATES. UNIIHD fEBK [ASSOCIATION Wellington, October 4. The new press rates are gazetted. \ Where the former rate was sixpence per hundred words it will now be one shilling, and after 11 p.m. Is 4d, with the exception of parliamentary news, which will be Is until the close of the telegraph office. Evening papers will still be allowed one thousand words, counted in the aggregate, and fifteen hundred during the session, but the special Monday rate is abolished. On Sundays the rate between 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. for cables will be Is, and for ordinary news Is Id; after 5.30 p.m.. Is 4d for both. On holidays the rate will be the same as on other days, but messages for evening papers will be counted separately. The new tariff comes into force on Monday next.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 31, 5 October 1915, Page 7
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141NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 31, 5 October 1915, Page 7
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