CABLE BREVITIES.
The Government lias agreed to purchase the provincial interests of the National Telephone Company at the end of the year 1911. Prior to the purchase being effected a Parliamentary Committee is to make inquiry into tiie company's business, and the House of Commons has to pass an approving bill. [The trunk ines are already worked by and are the I property of the Postmaster-General, and the N.T.C. has to pay the Governjngut \q per cent, on its gross telephone exchange business.] HOBART, February 17. The State debts question is still unsolved. The majority of the Premiere favour the extension* of the Braddon clause for twenty-five years.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 42, 18 February 1905, Page 4
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108CABLE BREVITIES. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 42, 18 February 1905, Page 4
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