CABLES AND WIRELESS
REDUCTIONS IN RATES EXTENSION OF BENEFITS (Received April 10, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April » It is officially announced that the new Empire wireless and cable rates will also be applicable to traffic between the Dominions and colonics. The new rates will be introduced on April 25. The reductions will result all round in mutual sacrifices. A White Paper estimates that the benefit of the proposed reductions to the public at home and overseas will be nearly £500,000 a year. Further reductions will be made should the stimulus to traffic reach expectations.
REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE • / r-, ■ ■ ■ NEW RATES WELCOMED COMMENT BY THE .TIMES (Reeoived April 10, 6.30 p.m.) Brit?s]j Wireless RUGBY, April 9 Commenting on the cheaper rates for Empire telegraphic communications, the Times says: "This important and revolutionary change'is to ,be' ; welcomed as both the cause and the consequence of /Imperial unity. For this joint handling of a problem of common concern, of a kind which must become increasingly frequent under the Statute of Westminster, there are still a few precedents."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23010, 11 April 1938, Page 12
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