CHEAPER CABLE RATES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 172, 20 July 1907, Page 5

CHEAPER CABLE RATES.

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CESERAI. SEDUCTION.

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J£ELBODBNE, this day. :Tn tie course of an interview on the Jiion of rednced cable rates, via Paci.fL Federal Postmaster-General said * v wry little doubt that the cable be reduced, both for Press, jßgj ___ Government messages. $___. Government, he added, was conjMenng fhe whole matter, but nothing _"j y_f been decided, as so many inter_Llrare involved, since the Pacific mes_~y_ would have to pass over other lines. jj! ae Federal Senate, Mt. Pearce __j_ed if it was correct that Ministers intended to approach the other Governments interested in the racihc cable, ___a view to reducing the Press rates, that more Commonwealth news could _!published in the European papers? He fsWired.Sir William L-yne's suggestion to have the Commonwealth news sent via Pacific cable by the Commonwealth Parliament, which woulS tSen have some control over the news cabled. __> Vice-President replied that the ______ of the reduction of the cable rates had not been considered at any Gsbinet'.nweting he had attended, but the government had under consideration from time-to time the advisability of supp}_i___iig.news sent to Great Britain on _j__ralian- affairs.