CABLE JUBILEE.

Grey River Argus, 26 July 1922, Page 5

CABLE JUBILEE.

EASTERN EXTENSION COY’S LIN2 (Received July 25 at 10 p.m.) LONDON, July 24. The Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies celebrated their jubilee, entertaining 450 guests at a banquet :t. the Botanical Gardens, and 2000 at Al Fresco fete, including Sir James Allen, and the Agents-! •<_ , i( > rj, ex-Governors of the Dominions, and prominent financiers,, and busin. --: me? . The Duke of York, proposing the toast of submarine telegraphy and its relation to the associated telegraph companies, said that what had been of the greatest importance to the East • pany was the prodigious faith, courage, ami business ability of the late Sir John Wender, whose genius stood out as a unique feature from the earliest days of submarine telegraphy. The Duke of York referred to the astounding fact that the companies had down 28,000 miles of cable since thb Armistice. He was greatly impressed bv the speed of transmission, Sydney receiving the result of the Derby, for instance in two and a half minutes. He paid a tribute to the Company’s services during the war, which greatly constituted to the success of the opera- | tions, and also the fact that they had sent millions of words free on behalf of wounded soldiers. Sir John Denison Pender, Managing Director of the Eastern and Associated Companies, replying, said trade followed the establishment of cable services. Two outstanding features which contributed io the development of the colonies were the sister enterprises of shipping and cables.