WEEK-END CABLES.
It may not be generally known that a system of cheap week-end i cables came into operation at the beginning of the year. A short time ago a scale for deferred messages, which were iiablo to be delaved for 24 hours, gave the public the benefit of cable message;; to Louden at Is 6d a word,'or one-half the- rate charged for ordinary -messages. The week-end rate further reduces this to 9tl a word, and enables a'message of %\ words, which hns been fixed as th-e -miuiinum, to be sent for 18s. The messages must be plainly written in ordinary language and lodged by midnight on each Saturday. The Australian postal authorities are urging a reduction of the minimum charge, to widen the benefits conferred by this.concession, but as it stands the reduction is one which shows an immense- -advance in the- development of cable, ram munipersons!
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 January 1913, Page 4
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147WEEK-END CABLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 January 1913, Page 4
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