FREE CABLEGRAMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1940, Page 4

FREE CABLEGRAMS

BETWEEN BRITISH CHILDREN & PARENTS SUBSTANTIAL CONCESSION BY CABLE COMPANY. GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENT (By Tel. —“Times-Age” Special.) WELLINGTON, October 11. The Prime Minister announced today that as from Monday next, October 14, children separated from their parents and evacuated from Great Britain under Government auspices may keep in touch with their parents at reasonable intervals by means of a free cablegram facility. One telegram a month, containing a prearranged text, may be sent by each child to its parents in Great Britain. Parents so separated may send similar telegrams to their , children. This free service which applies in all Empire countries ,to which children have been evacuated, is the outcome of negotiations initiated by Sir Edward Wilshaw, chairman of directors of Cable and Wireless, Ltd., London, and represents a very substantial concession on the part of the cable company. An authority card was posted today by the manager of Cable and Wireless, Ltd., Auckland, to each evacuated child in New Zealand (or its guardian), and the presentation of this card at any Post Office will entitle the holder to send, without charge, an appropriately-worded cablegram to the parents in the Mother Country. Very appreciative reference to the free communication facilities have been made by those responsible for the welfare of the evacuated children now in the Dominion and rhe service will undoubtedly help to allav the natural anxiety, of parents in Great Britain for their children in this distant part of the Empire.