INTER-EMPIRE CABLEGRAMS
LOWER CHARGES INSTITUTED. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received April 26, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON. April 25. Inaugurating the inter-Empire fivepenny rate cables;. Mr Wilshaw stated the Government approved l that the chairman of Cable Wireless should send a message to the Governors of the colonies, the four Empire outposts -with seventy thousand regular clients. Ross, the uncrowned King of the Cocos Islands, and others, including Fanning Island, flashed back co ngr atu 1 ati on s. _.. . . MESSAGE TO N.Z. WELLINGTON, April ,26. The. Press Association has received the following, cablegram from tjie chairman of Cable and Wireless Limited,! from London, dated. Apri1...25; On the .inauguration to-day. of the re? ductions in overseas-,. telegraph charges, under, the new Empire flat rate scheme,. I venture to hope that, our desire to service in this way the [social and commercial interests of,.the Empire, may be •’ fulfilled, and? that in particular it may bring benefit to your own undertaking.” •••••>
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1938, Page 7
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