CHEAPER CABLEGRAMS.
« - MR. 'HEATON'S PLAN. ' CAPITALISE THE GOVERNMENTS' : ANNUAL BILE. (By TeieirraDh.-Prcafl AmociaUon.-Ooi,jrli:bt.l London, August 1. T&t. Henniker Heaton, the postal reformer, in a letter to Mr. Asquith, offers to submit to the Defence Conference statistics showing that the sum expended annually by the" Home and Colonial Governments on cablegrams l for official purposes is enough 'to pay the interest on any capital expenditure necessary,to bring electric messages within reach/of the poorest within the Empire. Mr. Heaton appeals to the delegates for a consideration of this great question. [According to Mr. Henniker Heaton. "thn money the Governments of tho colonies ' and India, expend on cabling to London and the British Government expends on cabling to tho colonies and dependencies amounts to a-sum sufficient to pay the interest on all the cables and land lines they would have to acquire."]
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 576, 3 August 1909, Page 5
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139CHEAPER CABLEGRAMS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 576, 3 August 1909, Page 5
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