CABLES AND WIRELESS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 192, 28 May 1934, Page 8

CABLES AND WIRELESS

QUESTION OF COMPETITION. (United Press Association— Copyright). LONDON, May 24. At a meeting of Cables and. Wireless Ltd., the joint managing-director (Mi J C. Denison Pender, M.P.) said that the company's expenditure had been reduced by nearly a quarter ot a million a year.. He had made constant representations to the Government with a view to obtaining reconsideration of the agreement of 1929, including the beam rental of a quarter of a million per annum,. which they had continued, to pay during iod of depression. He had also asked for re-examination of the whole question of external telephony, from Britain, which was likely to become a competitor in external telegraphy. In that respect nationalisation of. external services sought by the Imperial Wireless and Cable conference was incomplete, and the time had come when nationalisation should be completed by handling all external telegraphic .services to this company. Another form of competition was the air mail, which was fostered by the Government subsidies He had constantly urged consideration of these .matters by the Government but regretted that lie Government was unable to see its way either to modify the terms whether financial or otherwise, of the> carter under which the company worked oi to examine the developments of communications which the march of time had brought about within the last tout years.