EMPIRE CABLEGRAMS
( REDUCTION IN RATES BILL BEFORE COMMONS LONDON, May 30. The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Euan Wallace), in the House of Commons to-day, in moving the second reading or the Imperial Telegraphs Bill, under which Empire rates have been already reduced, stated that the rate of the reductions since September 25, on the basis of the present traffic, would amount to £500,000 a year. He indicated that there was a prospect of a future reduction of cable rates. The Bill was read a second time.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23516, 2 June 1938, Page 12
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88EMPIRE CABLEGRAMS Otago Daily Times, Issue 23516, 2 June 1938, Page 12
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