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No. 71. The Manager in Australasia, Eastern Extension Company, Adelaide, to the Acting-Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. (Telegram.) Adelaide, 29th July, 1914. Your service 24th : Portugal agrees Ist proximo for week-ends.

No. 72. The Acting-Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Manager in Australasia, Eastern Extension Company, Adelaide. (Telegram.) Wellington, 30th July, 1914. Pacific notify week-end messages for European Continent other than Belgium, Holland, and France to be posted from London now accepted. Prefix TWP. All such messages to be delivered by registered post. Prefix PR, however, unnecessary. Messages must bear full mailing-address. Word " London " after address unnecessary, as prefix will explain required disposal. Please reply quickly whether such messages and conditions acceptable your route.

No. 73. The Acting-Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Manager in Australasia, Eastern Extension Company, Adelaide. (Telegram.) Wellington, 30th July, 1914. Exchange week-end services with Portugal from Ist proximo agreed to, and offices notified.

No. 74. The Acting-Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Superintendent, Pacific Cable Board, Auckland. ■ (Telegram.) Wellington, 30th July, 1914. Your service 24th : Week-end messages for European Continent other than Belgium, Holland, and France to bo posted from London. This Dominion agrees prefix TWP. Messages to be post registered. Offices will be notified accordingly.

No. 75. The Manager in Australasia, Eastern Extension Company, Adelaide, to the Acting-Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. ' (Telegram.) Adelaide, 31st July, 1914. Yours 30th : Arrangement not same as agreed with Commonwealth for Continental week-ends post >.j» London, but please accept for Eastern same as Pacific, and will meantime obtain further information from London.

No. 76. The Manager in Australasia, Eastern Extension Company, Adelaide, to the Acting-Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. (Telegram.) Adelaide, Ist August, 1914. My service yesterday : London approves arrangement via Eastern, but asks whether same rules as in force Commonwealth can be applied Continental week-ends post London for sake uniformity.

No. 77. The Acting-Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Manager in Australasia, Eastern Extension Company, Adelaide. (Telegram.) Wellington, 3rd August, 1914. Rules in force Commonwealth regarding week-end messages post London not known here. Offices have been instructed accept in terms my service 30th ultimo. Better write details required your route.

• No. 78. The Superintendent, Pacific Cable Board, Auckland, to the Acting-Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. (Telegram.) Auckland, 24th August, 1914. London office asks whether there is demand for week-end cable rate between New Zealand and Fiji to appreciable degree. [Answered on the 10th September, 1914, there was no demand for such a service.],