THE CABLE QUESTION
SYDNEY, this day
The '"Daily Telegraph," condemning the proposed cable pool, says cable rates would be kept high, aud cable users have to pay a high tariff to benefit Eastern Extension lines, as well as maintain the Pacific cable on a basis of purely artificial profitableness. It would be far cheaper and more honest to let the Pacific cable run on its merits, the Governments concerned footing whatever bills accrued, because it did not pay. The public are always willing to pay in a proper way for such works of national necessity as the Pacific cable. The wonder is that the Pacific Board, which represents the Governments!, should have started a pooling project.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 48, 26 February 1901, Page 5
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