VITAL TO EMPIRE
carLK COMMUNICATIONS CHEAPER HATES ADVOCATED LONDON, Mlsi August. The importance of cables and the need for cheaper rates are emphasised in the report of the Imperial Communications sub-committee of the Imperial Conference. The report will be submitted to the British, Australian and other Dominion Government. It lays stress on the im-
port a nee of maintaining the most efficient (able services and urges that wireless does not. olTcr continuity and secrecy. It. is pointed out that the cables to Australia and the other Dominions are not carrying a li*l load. Proposals, it is understood, will be submitted involving all-round reductions of rales in order to stimulate traffic, with the double object of improving business and bringing the various parts of the Empire into closer touch with one another. The plans drawn up involve close coordination between cables and wireless and measures for meeting foreign competition in communications.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 7
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150VITAL TO EMPIRE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 7
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