PACIFIC CABLE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 35, 10 February 1926, Page 9

PACIFIC CABLE

CANADA'S DISPUTE WITH

BOARD

EFFORT AT CONCILIATION

GRIEVANCE AGAINST AUS-

TBALIA.

(United Press Association—Copyright.)

(Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) LONDON, Bth February.

The Australian Press Association learns that the dispute between Canada and the Pacific Cable Board must soon be settled one way or another. '

The pamphlet of the Postmaster-Gen-eral has at last been published throughout Canada, and will possibly produce a full-dress debate in the Canadian Parliament.

No Canadian representative has attended the board meetings in London for some months, but a factor leading to the present attempt at conciliation is the Canadian Government's intimation that it will not facilitate the landing of the duplicate cable en Canadian soil. Members of the board do not regard this threat very seriously, feeling that Canada cannot long persist in such an extreme measure. They trust that conciliation will have succeeded before the contractors are ready in October for joining up the new line with Bamfield.

Apart from the attempts at settlement here, it ii expected that Sir Campbell Stuart, now in the West Indies on the board's business, will go to Ottawa and use his influence towards a settlement. If Canada persists in its 'deter, mination to withdraw from the board, this can only be done legislatively after discussion by the Imperial Conference.

The Australian Press Association learns that Canada's most serious objection is to the income Austral' i makes from landing charges, whereas Canada does not derive a penny.