CABLE RATES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13166, 10 September 1910, Page 5

CABLE RATES.

Press Association.—Telegraph.— Copyright. LONDON, September 9. The Hon. Hall-Jones, interviewed on the question of cheaper cables, said it was a monstrous proposition that Britain and the Dominion were unable to reduce the charges on the all-British cable, when messages were sent throughout under our own flag, without the consent of a foreign power. The consent of the signatories °of the Lisbon Convention was only necessary in international matters affecting foreign interests and messages passing foreign countries. The denial of deferred rates to code messages was undesirable. It was almost impossible to accurately doliuo what a “plain language cablegram” meant. Tlie better plan would bo the’ reduction of the ordinary charge to Sd, and double rates for urgent messages. Tims the best results would be secured for the Pacific cable.