CABLE AND BEAM
VAST VOLUME OF MESSAGES.
COMPARATIVE PATRONAGE. (Australian Press Association.) (Received 1.39 p.xn.) CANBERRA, This Day. Approximately 15,000,000 words were sent from Australia to the United Kingdom by cable and beam last year, ending March 31. Although 81 per cent of the cheaper classes, of traffic went via beam as against 19 per cent by cable, the Pacific and Eastern Company handled more traffic in the aggregate in other classes of traffic.
This is interpreted to imply that the larger number of business firms are willing to pay the extra cost of cablegrams in order to secure what is regarded as greater reliability and secrecy compared with the wireless method.
Press messages were almost equally divided between cable and beam.
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Northern Advocate, 21 August 1929, Page 4
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122CABLE AND BEAM Northern Advocate, 21 August 1929, Page 4
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