DELAYS ELIMINATED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 8

DELAYS ELIMINATED

SENDING RUGBY TEST SCORE* SPEED BY TELEGRAPH Anxious Rughv enthusiast* all aL New Zealand, and particularly smaller towns and villages wifi j„ t ' at least half an hour less to wsfi j, the result of the third test match b? tween Britain and New j through a new service that is to b* run by the Post and Telegraph DejaT ment. Brown, an Aucklander wtth a frisj, in Invercargill who is keenly ested in the result of the game, nsasend a telegram on the morning of tl» match —John Smith, blank Street, It. vercargill, Britain —, New Zealac —, Brown. When the game ends the score will be immediately telegraph*, to every office in the Dominion whi*. Is holding any of the telegrams fcpatehed in the morning. The score* will be filled in on the form and ti, addressees will know the result at tb, game within a few minutes of the final whistle. A special arranges*! is bding made with the Rugby Cnioaei that there will be no delay in th* transmission of the scores. Similarly, telerramß may be sentte the half-time score, the sender merth adding those words to his telegnm; which will be filled in as with tie telegram for the final score. AH office, holding Rugby telegrams for defirerr will be kept open to receive at scores. This system is an innovation as fit as New Zealand is concerned, although the department has alwav, been eager to keep enthusiasts postec on the results of big Rugby matcher. Both on the South African tour jj 192 S and the English tour in ISI4, all telephone exchanges and salexchanges were informed of the scores in matches as soon as the news arrived in New Zealand, so that tele phone subscribers could know at results as soon as possible.