CABLE RATES REDUCED.
LOWER CHARGES TO AUSTRALIA WANTED.
1 United Press Association--By Electric Tr'rgraph Copyright.) : Australian Press Association.; Received 12.45 p.m. to-day. VANCOUVER, Sept, 5. The recent campaign to reduce Pacific cable rates to Australia -and the Orient has -resmlted in a cut of five cents per word off the full rate and three and a half cents a word off the deferred fate to various points in the Orient. Tolls to Honolulu have- been given a. three cents cut off the full rate- and one and a half cents off the deferred rate. Canadian traders, in urging a reduction to Australia, contend that a great deal of trade increase would follow. The whole question wi'i] be discussed -a-t the forthcoming convention of the chambers of commerce and further representations will he made to the Government .
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 6 September 1929, Page 9
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