CABLE CHARGES.
We may. not be able to 1 greatly modify cable charges to London, but there is absolutely' "no reason why we should not reorganise the cable ser vice to Australia. In the days of : Yogel a "State cable "between New Zealand and Australia was projected, and in recent years Sir Joseph .Ward has insisted that such a cable business could jbo profitably carried on at a halfpenny a word. The existing charge is threepence. If our » Prime Minister 'really desires cable reform, why not arrange with the Federal Government for a new Tasman Sea service, which at a penny a word ought to prove a magnificent success?— Aucklan d"Herald."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 14 September 1909, Page 3
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