TRADE COMMISSIONERS' REPORT
CABLE RATES,
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LONDON, January 27
The Dominion Trades Commission's report comments on the anomaly of the Commonwealth charging a terminal rate of fivepence per word on the transmission of Pacific cables, whereas New Zealand only charges one penny. New Zealand cables should be reduced, to 2s Bd.' The Pacific Board has not shown the enterprise that might reasonably have been expected. A laudable desire to obscure deficits had obscured its vision in this respect to larger and more urgent duties. To'spend £2,000,000 and then leave the cable comparatively idle for, two-thirds of the. day was neither commercial, politic nor common-sense.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1914, Page 5
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