PACIFIC CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 9894, 26 January 1911, Page 5

PACIFIC CABLE.

NEW INSTALLATION,

THE ALL-RED ROUTE

DISPATCH ACCELERATED,

Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright, Received Last Night, 10.50 p.m. SYDNEY, Wednesday. Mr Milward, manager for the Paoific Oable Board in the Pacific, has returned from a visit to Canada. He says the Board now controls a line of communication from Australia to Montreal, and has effected an installation which should enable despatched cables to be expediated by 25 per cent. In other words, it will be able to deal with 25 per cent more business in a given time.

Mr Milward's mission to Canada was for the purpose of installing apparatus aud taking over for the Board the line previously leased from the Canadian-Pacific Oompauy. The telegraphs cau now carry messages over 6100 miles, with only one laud line. The old system required three handlings.

Asked if the innovation is likely to lead to a reduction of rates within a reasonable time, Mr Milward said: "It places us iv a better position with regard to reduced cost. The present weekly average of the Pacific line is 42,000 words. This showed a marked, ooutiuous increase. It was conceivable that if the Board increased the carrying capacity of the cables to a large extent and the public supplied sufficient business, the rates may be affected."

Referring to the All-Red route, he declared that obviously it would be an advantage to have a canle right through the Atlantic. The cables at the present time were practicaliy controlled by American capitalists.