Picture Telegram.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17976, 22 March 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

Picture Telegram.

CHARGED BY THE IP-iCH. Mr H. B. Lees-Smith, the British Postmaster-Genera], inaugurated the first Post Office picture telegraph service between London and Berlin last month. He sent his photograph and a message of greeting to the German people. Twenty minutes later a photograph of the German Postmaster-General with a message to the English people’ was received. ’ Perhaps the most useful aspect of this new national service is that longer telegrams can lie sent for a smaller fee. The charge for a picture telegram is is 4d a square inch, with a minimum charge of £l. There is no limit to tiie number -of words. Post Office clerks are now accepting messages to he charged by the area of paper they occupy instead of by the number of words. Clerks in a number of offices were supplied with measuring tapes. The pictures are sent from the Central Telegraph Office in St. Martin’s-lo-Grand, London, hut they are accepted in several offices in the City of London and at lxcaM offices in Birmingham. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle. Jf this service proves successful, said Mr Lees-Smith, services will he opened with, other European countries.