POST AND TELEGRAPH AFFAIRS
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.— COPYRIUHr ] '". MELBOURNE, This Day.—Referring to the Commonwealth telegraphic .business Mr Hesketh when giving Widence before the Postal Commission said it should be made to pay. It was an unsound policy to charge ninepence for a tele'gram which cost ten pence to send. He did not know that the New Zealand Department showed a profit of a hundred thousand last year on a basis of penny postage and sixpenny telegrains;. Perhaps that result had been i achieved without providing for the payment of interest on capital. • , MELBOURNE, This Day. "Mr'Hesketh continuing his evidence before the Postal Commission was not prepared to say if the Eastern Extension Cable rates were too high. The :Pacific Cable which charged the same did not pay. He understood the Eastern Extension 'Company hatT 'special arrangements as to press mes-, sages between Australia and London 'biit was.holt; prepared to : say if..'it was J a'fyad.'jpoii(!y ,! c>n the part'of the Gov,-. jer'nment to 'allow <jhe, 'Eastern. Cp.m-. ■oajijy to have a'.monopoly of the press nablo business.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 October 1908, Page 3
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