PACIFIC CABLE DUPLICATION
3IESSAGE FROM LORO BURAHAM
.WELLINGTON. Last Night
In connection with the celebration of the duplication of the Pacific cable, the toiJovving cablegram was received from Lord Burnham by the Manager of the United Press Association of New Zealand;
“As President of the Empire Press Union, 1 send greetings and the congratulations of my executive upon the inauguration of trans-Pacific communication by the new cable of the Pacific Cable Board. “The occasion marks a great advance in the history of Empire consolidation and this organisation of newspaper proprietors throughout trie Empire regards the new channel as a means to closer union of thought and policy, believing that a further flow of press messages will follow upon a reduction of press rates enabled by increased capacity.” The following message has been sent in reply: “Thanks for your felicitous message. The press of New Zealand reciprocate the kindly sentiments of the Empire Press Union, and are, in common with that body, looking forward to great Imperial, ."journalistic and commercial advantages from the duplication of the Pacific cable.”
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 December 1926, Page 5
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