THE NEW CABLE.
* ~— SYDNEY FUNCTION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec November 20, 9,45 p.m.) Sydney, November 20. The Pacific Cablo 'Board entertained leading business and professional men at luncheon to-day in the Town. Hall, to commemorate the laying of the cable ! from -Sydney to Auckland. Mr. Milward, the board's manager in. the Pacific, presided.: The : attendance included Lord Chelmsford/the State Governor, the Lord Mayor, the Federal Postmaster-General (Mr. Fraser), Mr. Trefle, of the State Ministry, and Admiral Sir 6. King-Hall, Lord Chelmsford received! two specimens of the cable, mounted on silver and set in an dak oase. Ho said the event was of considerable Imperial importance, and was another step in the direction of that Imperial co-operation which all held close to their hearts. Mr. Fraser, the Postmaster-General, read cable messages of congratulation from Mr. Heaton Rhodes and the chairman of the-board in London. Mr. Fraser, .stated in- 190iVthat tho-words transmitted •from Australia numbered 922,766, while in 1911 they totalled 2,131,261, an increase of 150 per cent. The Government did' not intend to let this be the limit in the direction of connecting the scattered .portions of tho Empire, but their determination was to have a direct lino entirely State-owned. •
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1603, 21 November 1912, Page 5
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