CHEAP CABLES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 309, 12 January 1912, Page 5

CHEAP CABLES.

Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, January 11.

Mr Henniker Heaton,' in an interview said Sir Joseph Ward had been a great advocate of cheaper cables, and never failed to use all the eloquence in his power and to offer large subsidies, binding Xew Zealand for a national cable!

The deferred cable concession was too amusing to contemplate when they realised that there were sixteen cables between England and America capable of 225 million words per annum, while only 21 million were sent. . It had been asserted'and not contradicted that six to ten of these lines were kept idle by a ring. Vested interests • were the only obstacle in the way of shilling cables..