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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 March 1928, Page 5

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CONTROL OF WIRELESS ANJ> CABLES.

COMPETITION FROM AMERICA. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Match 23. “Tine Times,” in a leader o-n the cable-wirele-ss companies’ -offer to take- over the Government Atlantic and Pacific cables, -says : “lx- is a business',ike proposal and has apparently, attracted the Dominions’ Governments, which are not unwilling to be relieved of unprofitable cables, but the British Post Office is reported to be 'unwilling to part' with thp profitable beam system. “American wirelents and cable competition tends to increase, and British enterprise must be- prepared to compete efficienslv therewith, althougn it is not necessary to regard it primarily as a matter of cut-throat hostility. If British control is absolute in the British sphere there is a no disadvantage in friendly co-operation elsewhere. ‘ ‘The Imperial Conference will be guided by the public interest, deciding whether the British Post 'Office retains the- beam stations, but the competition undoubtedly requires the most efficient form of unified administration.”