LETTER TELEGRAMS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3612, 27 October 1920, Page 4

LETTER TELEGRAMS.

A POSTAL INNOVATION

A. night letter telegram service is tobe established on the first November. Under this system provision is mace I for the transmission of such telegrams between any two telegraph offices in the Dominion, subject to the following conditions. The rate is to be 1/6 for the first thirty-six words and Jd for i eaGh word in excess of that number. I Night letter telegrams are to be acI cepted for transmission throughout the day up to one*hour of .the time of closing-of either the office Or origin, or destination, whichever is the earlier. Thus a message either to or from an office closing at 5 p.m. must not be accepted later than 4 p.m. TeVgrams are to be transmitted to the office, of destination throughout the cny as opportunity offers* but must not be permitted to delay ordinary traffic!. Upon arrival at the office of destirntion they are to be held until the hour of closing, and then treated as lettersbeing delivered by the first postman's delivery next morning, and those addressed to private boxes are to h* placed therin when the first morningclearance of posting boxes is mad«\ Jn no circumstances may a night !et'-r----telegram be delivered or placed jr. •>,

letter-box on the day of lodgment T i message must be written in pVn English language. No code nor cypW is permitted, neither may code addresses nor code signatures be ns«d Trade terms such as f.o.b. c.i.f.. etc. may, however, be allowed. F'gures are to be permitted only in the address and signature. Numbers written in words are to be counted in the same way as in ordinary telegrams. No provision is made for "Urgent.' ls ' "Collect" or "Multiple" messages, or any special services such as "Reply Paid," Repetition etc. Night letter telegrams may not be telephoned to the office of origin. Government telegrams are not to be accepted at this rate.