CABLES AND WIRELESS
COMPETITION ADVANTAGES. REDUCED RATES WOULD RESULT. (Press Association—Bj Telegraph—Copyright ) LONDON, December 12. Sir Charles Bright, consulting engineer, and widely associated with cable organisations, in an interview said that fair and square competition between cable and radio communications would be an immense advantage to the Empire as & whole, as it would mean reduced rates, which were much needed to encourage interimperial trade. Sir Charles Bright was a son of Sir Charles Tilston Bright, who was knighted at the age of 26 for laying the first Atlantic cable. Sir Charles Bright has been professionally engaged on a number oi cable-laying expeditions, and was associated with the Interdepartmental Cable Communication Committee, 1902, the House of Commons Radio-Telegraphic Committee, 1907, and the Dominions Royal Commission, 1911.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20281, 14 December 1927, Page 9
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