REDUCED CABLE RATES.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12400, 16 November 1908, Page 2

REDUCED CABLE RATES.

— ♦ THE PENNY-A-WOkD SCHEME.

[Phess Association — Copyright.] London, Nov. 13. Sir John Wollffe- Barry, chairman,.speaking at the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company's meeting, characterised Mr * Henniker Heaton's proposal for penny-a-.word cables as extraordinarily visionary. Ha advised toe public to study the dceision of the Government's loter- . Departmental Committee "of 1902 that a penny-a-word sebme was quite impracticable, and no new circumstances had occurred to iuvalidate that conclusion. v - ,