EMPIRE COMMUNICATIONS
MERGER ANNOUNCEMENT SOON [ United Service. ] LONDON, Ju’y 25. 4< l have every hope in the near future of announcing a satisfactory conclusion of the merger negotiations,” said Sir John Denison-Pender at the Eastern Cable Company’s annual meeting. “It has been an anxious time, but if it results in the formation of a merger company comprising tho whole of the Empire’s overseas telegraphic communications, maintaining our 'connections with foreign countries, suitable protection for public rates and reasonable return for money, with mobility and efficiency of service, one of the greatest advances in British commercial enterprise will have been achieved, retaining the British Commonwealth’s predominance in the world’s communications.”
CONFERENCE REPORT FOR HOUSE OF COMMONS. [ Australian Press Assn.—United Service ] Received July 26. 9.5 p.m. LONDON, July 26. The report of the Cable-Wireless Conference has been tabled in the House of Commons, and will be issued almost immediately’. It will be debated on August 2, on the second reading of the Appropria tion Bill. Parliament is being prorogued the following day.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 176, 27 July 1928, Page 7
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