CABLE CHARGES.
COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT’S OFFER, BY CABLE—PRi!SS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Jan. 20, 12.55 p.m. MELBOURNE, dan. 20. Referring to the London Daily Telegraph’s comments on terminal charges, the Postmaster-General says that the Commonwealth Government is prepared to reduce by 20 per cent, the terminal charges in respect.,to classes of traffic for which cable companies agreed* to make a proportionate reduction. There were strong reasons in favour of the terminal charges for cablegrams, and the reduction by twenty per cent, is as -far as the Commonwealth Government is at present prepared to go in connection with press cablegrams. The London Daily Telegraph, commenting editorially on the high cable rates, strongly criticised the Commonwealth Governments’ refusal to forego more than one-fifth of the terminal charges. The paper pointed out that though the charge yielded a revenue of over £200,(100, it cost the community much more in the restriction of facilities for quick communication, constituted a tax on business and on knowledge, bore heavily on interimperial trade, and was obnoxious from the social viewpoint.'
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 January 1925, Page 9
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170CABLE CHARGES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 January 1925, Page 9
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