“CABLE OBSOLETE”

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12395, 15 March 1926, Page 8

“CABLE OBSOLETE”

REMARKS AT PRESS CONFERENCE HIDDEN BARRIERS TO MIGRATION NOT ALL OVERSEAS By Telegraph - Press Assn.—Copyright. (Sydney “Sun” Cable.) LONDON, March 12. The Empire Press Conference resolutions have been presented to the Empire Press Union. Sir Robert Donald deplored the Post Office's lack of enterprise regarding communications, instancing its reference to wireless as a “subsidiary service.” The Imperial Cable in 1925 lost £34,000, proving that its methods were obsolete, which unhappily seemed the Post Office’s reason for refusing to scrap them. The union referred the communications resolutions to a committee for report. Mr P. A. Hurd, M.P., said that the migration resolution should have mentioned the barriers, many of which were hidden, raised by the Dominions. Lord Burnham : All barriers are not overseas. , It was decided to call a conference of the Overseas Settlement Committee, the High Commissioners, and AgentsGeneral. and newspaper proprietors. Mr Colebatch remarking that it would be useful if it only removed the impression that obstacles were deliberately raised overseas. Mr Hurd moved, and Sir Harry Brittain, M.P., seconded, a motion expressing the union’s regret at the estrangement of Canada on the Pacific Cable Board, and a hope that the differences would he settled in a spirit of goodwill and mutual accommodation, Mr Hurd mentioning that he had been informed that such a resolution was likely to he fruitful. The union adopted a comprehensive vote of thanks to their Australian and New Zealand hosts.