STATE-OWNED CABLES.
AUSTRALIA TO NEW ZEALAND. AN ATLANTIC LINE; IS LIKELY, v ' -. ■ I By Telegraph Press ./Association.— Copyright* '■*.': [ ;....',.!: , Melbourne, ; December * 19.,. In the House of , Representatives tho" Postmaster-General, Mr. ' , Frazer, : intro- • duced a Bill to authorise the Pacific Cable , v Board to construct a cable ; from <Austra-; ; lia to New- Zealand. ./'' ; , :*";;.;?i.'r'. ; ./.-..v Mr. Frazer said it only ' rested with Australia ;to complete the authorisation,;. other Governments concerned having given their -.■ authority. . It > was : <.>: a matter of;, urgency, the duplication "being necessary.to obviate delays and in the* event of*a/ Breakdown. , ' * ' ", .'■ ' The Prime Minister, .'Jlr.uFieher,' said; he had heard that something was'being*' , done 1 in- connection ■ with a Stale-owned-Atlantic, cable, .which", might ibe expected to come "to pass, but the Commonwealth was in the hands of the British. Government in the matter. -•,.;■„.; The Bill passed all j its stages. • ,",
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14868, 20 December 1911, Page 9
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