REDUCED RATES.
WOULD BLOCK CABLES. AND HINDER COMMERCE. Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, November .15. Before tho Dominions Commission, Sir J. Pqnder, referring to the suggestion of a minimum charge for cablegrams from Australia of 9s instead of 18s, said that the cables might be blocked. Traffic which, was only paying a small proportion of tho total cost might interfere with commercial traffic. A pooling arrangement between tho Eastern Company and the Pacific Cable Board would before this have rendered a reduction of rates possible, enabling the transfer of traffic from one to the other to save a eudden rush on one company. If the Post Office assented, the Eastern Company would always deliver week-end' cable letters on Monday morning instead of Tuesday. Tho Commission adjourned till January. __
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10927, 17 November 1913, Page 7
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