RADIO AND CABLES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 149, 25 May 1934, Page 8

RADIO AND CABLES

3.15 P.M. EDITION

NEAV PROBLEAIS ARISE. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.) Received Alay 25, 11.50 a.m. EONDON, Alay 24. At a meeting of Cables and Wireless, Ltd., Mr J. C. Denison-Pender, Ai.P., said the company’s expenditure had been reduced, by nearly a quarter of a million a year. He had made constant representations to the Government with a veiw to securing reconsideration of. certain elements of the agreement of 1929, including the beam wireless rental of a quarter of a million per annum, which they continued to pay during the period ot depression. He had also asked tor a re-examination of the whole question of external telephony from Britain, which was likely to become a competitor in external telegraphy. In that respect the rationalisation of external services sought by the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference was incomplete, and the time had come when rationalisation should be completed by handing all external telegraphic services to this company. Another form of competition was the air mail, which was fostered by Government subsidies. He had constantly urged consideration of these matters by the Government, but regretted that the Government was unable to see its way either to modify the terms, whether financial or otherwise, of the “charter” under which the company worked, or examine the developments in communications which the march of time had brought about within the last four years.