CHEAP CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10447, 12 October 1911, Page 4

CHEAP CABLEGRAMS.

Details of the cheap cablegram scneme promised at the - Imperial Conference by the British Postal Department are now available, .says the Melbourne Age. Officially, all that is -nown is that cablegrams between Australia and Great Britain wi'! be possible at Is 6d per word. They .will be "deferred" messages. That is to say, that messages marked "urgent" will be given precedence, but for these the charge will remain at 3s per word. The Postal Department states* that the 'Pacific ■Cable Board has agreed id the reductions', wMchi will apply on and after January Ist next; but Ml details have yet to be received. It is known tha 1- the eighifceen-penjiy cablegrams ar.ust be in plain English. M code /■words or cipher are used, the- full rate of 3s a word will be charged. "Deferred" messages are usually connected with long delays. A' delay of a week was indeed a prominent feature of a scheme recently propounded by the Federal PostmasterGeneral 5 tout in the new system the deferred messages should take not more tlxaa an hour or two longer than the urgent and expensive cablegrams. The Australian reduction will .syncliironise l with reductions in ■cablegram rates between Great Britain and other parts of the Empire.