LINKING THE EMPIRE.
BY MEANS OF CABLES.
(By Tel.—Press Assocn. —Copyright.)
SYDNEY, Nov. 21 The Pacific Cable Board entertained leading business and professional men at luncheon to-day at the Town Hall to commemorate the laying of the cable from Sydney to Auckland. Mr Milward, the Board's manager in the Pacific, presided. The attendance included Lord Chelmsford, the Lord Mayor, and the Federal PostmasterGeneral Lord Chelmsford received two specimens of cable mounted in silver and set in an oak case. He said the event was of considerable Imperial importance and another step in the direction of that Imperial co-opera-tion which all held close to their hearts. Mr Fraser, Postmaster-Gen-eral, read cables of congratulation from Mr R. ITeaton Rhodes and the chairman of the Board in London. Mr Fraser stated that in 1904 the words transmitted from Australia numbered 922,76G while in 1911 they totalled 2,131.261. an increase of 150 per cent. The Government did not intend to let this be the limit in the direction of connecting the scattered portions of the Empire, but was determined to have a direct dine, entirely State-owned.
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Northern Advocate, 21 November 1912, Page 5
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