SPEED OF CABLES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1013, 2 July 1930, Page 9

SPEED OF CABLES

; NO SLOWING DOWN IN RATE OF TRANSMISSION PRESS CONFERENCE ENDS LONDON, Tuesday. Figures taken out by the Imperial Communications Company, following after Sir Hugh Denison’s remarks at the Imperial Press Conference’s meeting at Edinburgh on June 21, give the average transmission of Press messages from June 4-20 as 02 minutes, compared with 76 from October 4-29, 1929. It is urged that the slowing up which Sir Hugh mentioned was due to temporary causes which have been overcome. The final session of the Imperial Press Conference was held yesterday. In the evening a farewell dinner was given to the delegates, at which Lord Riddell, president of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association, presided. On behalf of the New Zealand delegates Mr. T. C. List presented to the president of the Empire Press Union, Major J. J. Aston a puriri walking stick, which he said had been made from a tree at least 2,000 years old—possibly 4,000. Sg. RET OF UNITY Mr. Theodore Fink (Australia) presented to Major -stor on behalf ot the overseas delegates a book of remembrance signed by all of them. This j expressed gratitude for his unsurpassable kindness. Mr. Fink referred to the inspiring note which was struck by Major Astor when he opened the conference and at the Guildhall. He had inspired them to use and preserve the unity won by the war. In replying Major Astor said the unity of the world depended on the bonds of Empire, which could not be better strengthened than by the friendships established during the conference period. Felicitous references also were made to Lady Violet Astor.