CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 114, 12 May 1903, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We ao not hold ourgaives responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.] THE EASTRRN EXTENSION TELEGRAPH SERVICE. TO THE EDITOR. Km.—ld the Press Association te'egraais from Melbourne of the Ist inst., a return is published on the authority of the Fostmi8 v >er-Gjneral, showing that the error per centage ia slightly higher on telegrams exclncged with a New Zealand "vh Extension" than * " via Pacific." 4 I am, however, in a position to aecer- 11 tain where the errors are made, as all telegrams are sent to my office to le rightly checked fur errors. Upon examination I find that practically the whole of the errors " via Extension " are made on the Government linos connecting witb r the Company's cables, and not on our cables, the return, therefore, is only a sad exposure of carei.se t working on the part of the Govern- j ment operators The return itself rathvr mively proves my statement, t ,the p'.r centige from New South f Wales being '56 per cent., and from ] Victoria 1 33 per cent, that is to e\y as the mcssigea proceeded inland, the 1 errors griw nearly throe-fold. The ( accompanying figutei are the actual re- < turn of the error per centage of cur , New Zeiland station for the list six I months, and speak for themselves. ( Actual number of words examined ] 183798, number of errors made 27, or | one error in every 6000 words, aud ; considering the diffi .ult code words used in cablegrams nowadays, I venture ' to say that this return ■ efforts great credit on the manner this company 1 performs its work for the Telegraph public. lam very pleased to ba in a position to Btite that, so far as the G.vernmeut lines in New Zealand are concerned, we receive a most efficient service at their hands.—l am, etc., W. WAIUHQI. I Manager in Australasia. , The Extern Extension, Australasia, and G'rnui Telegraph Cjmpany, Ltd.