CABLE ANOMALIES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 29 January 1914, Page 5

CABLE ANOMALIES

BY CABLE—PBESS ATSSOCIATION-COPTBIGH'T ■ . . LONDON, Jan. 27. Ihe Dominion Trade Commission's report comments on the anomaly of fie Commonwealth charging a terminal rate of 5d per word on the transmission or Pacific cables, whereas New Zealand only charges Id. New Zealand cables should be reduced to 2s Bd. The J'aciiic Board has not shown the enterprise that might reasonably have been expected and a laudable desire to abolish deficits had obscured its vxsioir m respect to its larger and more urgent duties. To spend two millions and then leave the cable comparatively idle for two-thirds of a day was not commercial, pohtie 2 nor commonsense.