CABLE ENTERPRISE
INCREASE, IN BUSINESS. STATE OWNED LINE PREDICTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright). SYDNEY, November 20. Received 20th, 9.45 p.m. The Pacific Cable Board entertained leading business and professional men at luncheon to-day in the Town Hall to commemorate the laying of the cable from Sydney to Auckland. Mr Milward, the Board's manager in the Pacific. presided, nad the attendance included Lord Chelmsford, the Lord Mayor, and the Federal Postmaster-Gen-eral. Lord Chelmsford received two specimens of cable, mounted on silver and set in an oak case. Ho said that the event was of considerable Imperial importance, and was another stop In the direction of that Imperial co-operation which all held close to their hearts. Mr Fraser, Postmaster-General, read cables of congratulation from the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes and the chairman of the Board in London. Mr Fraser stated that In 1901 the words transmitted from Australia numbered 922,766, while In 1911 they totalled 2.131,261, an Increase of 150 per cent. The (Government did not intend to let this be the limit In the direction of connecting the scattered portions of the Empire, but their determination was to have a direct line, entirely State-owned.
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Southland Times, Issue 17201, 21 November 1912, Page 5
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192CABLE ENTERPRISE Southland Times, Issue 17201, 21 November 1912, Page 5
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