CABLE DRAYS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 29 May 1919, Page 8

CABLE DRAYS

A NEEDED PROTEST,

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received May 29, 30.10 a.m.) LONDON, May 17 (delayed). The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has protested to the Board of Trade against the heavy cable delays, it taking between twenty and thirty'days to get replies from India and China, rendering business almost impossible, and ; nullifying the advantages of the abolition of trade restrictions.

|Tt will be observed that this cable itself i s nearly a fortnight old. —Ed.]