AUCKLAND-SYDNEY CABLE
COMMEMORATIVE BANQUET
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SYDNEY, November 20
The Pacific Cable Board entertained leading business and professional men at luncheon to-day in tho Town Hall to commemorate the laying of the cable from Sydney to Auckland. M. Milward, the Board’s manager in the Pacific presided. The attendance included Lord Chelmsford, the Lord Mayor, the Federal Post-master-General and Mr. Trefle Hall. Lord Chelmsford received two specimens of the cable mounted on silver and set in an oak case.
He said the event was one of considerable Imperial importance and was another step in the direction of that Imperial co-operation which all held close to their hearts. The Hon. Mr. Fraser, PostmasterGeneral, read cables of congratulation from Mr. Heaton Rhodes (New Zealand), and the Chairman of the Board in London.
Mr. Fraser stated that in 1904 the words transmitted from Australia numbered 922,766, while in' 1911 they totalled 2,131,261, an increase of 150 per cent. The Government does not intend to let this be the limit in the direction of connecting the scattered proportions of tho Empire, but the determination was to have a direct lino entirely State owned.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 November 1912, Page 6
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