PACIFIC CABLE SERVICE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1911, Page 7

PACIFIC CABLE SERVICE.

* EXPEDITING DESPATCH OF MEfik SAGES. -- • - business Increasing.; •■ By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright,,. SYDNEY, 25th January. ' Mr. Milward, manager for tkerPacsß© Cable Board in the Pacific, has returned from a. visit to Canada. He says the board now controls a line of communlca«.i tion from Australia to Montreal, and! has effected an installation which wilt enable the despatch of cables to be ex-* pedited by 25_ per cant. — in other words, the cable will be able to deal with; 25 pei cent, more business in a given, time. Mr. Milward's mission to Canada wits for the purpose of installing apparatus.; and talcing over for the board a Knar ' previously leased from the Canadian* Pacific telegraphs. The board can now^ carry messages over 6100 miles witli onlw one land line. The old system required) three handlings. Asked if the innovation was likely ttt 1 lead to * reductiyn of tale* witltn al reasonable time, Mr. Milward said it .placed the board in a better position, by, reason of the reduced cost. The present weekly average of the Pacific line watf „ 42,000 words. This was showing a maa'ked and continuous increase, and it * was conceivable that if the board in- ' creased the- carrying capacity of tis - cables to a large 'extent, and the puNSc . supplied sufficieavt business, the rates might be. affected. Referring to the All-Red route, Mr., Milward declared that ib would atovi* ■ously be an advantage to have a cauls right through. The Atlantic cables at the present time were practically; con? trolled by American capitalists. *