CABLE RATES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10497, 7 December 1911, Page 5

CABLE RATES

SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS.

IN INDIA AND SOUTH AFRICA

(Received Las Night, 9.25 o'clock.)

LONDON, December 6. The Right Hon. H. L. Samuel states that the dellay in non-urgent press messages ini plain Language 'would net exceed nineteen hours. The New Zealand tariff previously was very Jbw, and he was not asked for a fnrthea- diminution. He regretted that hiitherto lie had been unable. to arrange for a reduction in Indt'la and SouUi Africa, but the Eastern Telegraph Company has consented to carry Australasian cablegrams at a reduced rate in the event of the Pacific cable being interrupted. The service will be fully operative on the 15th, but the Western Union, AngloAmerican Dtitreet, and United States Companies will' accept press tetegrams* at a. reduced rate at their own offices to-day. He hoped the new [ tariffs would prove serviceable- to the sender of uncoded- press and private unurgeaift messages l . The Western ' JJnlon forthe.f&se of the [..public ,'at dhjeajj rates,J", B .*' above a rate, s a itnininiuim of sfbe. sniMinigs for twenty words on night letters, alfso on«-fiftfh of tihe present rate, a minimum of six sibijll&rigs' for thirty words for week-end I'etter's between Britain*, Qaaiada*, and the Uouited States. Wfeek'-enU' letters \wffl, be accepted 1 on Saturday and delivered on Tuesday night.