STATE CABLES.
.AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. ■Mr. Fraser, the Commonwealth Post-master-General, who arrives by tho Aorangi to-day, proposes, while ho is in Now Zealand to discuss with tho Post-master-General of Now Zealand the question of tho two countries making further joint representations to Great Britain regarding the Atlantic cable rates.. At Jio last Imperial Conference the British Posfc-niastcr-Goneral, Mr. Samuel, said that ho could not plcdgo tho Imperial Government to tho laying of a State-owned Atlantic cable, but ho suggested as a motion "That, in tho event of considerable reductions in tho' Atlantic cnblo rates not being effected in tho near future, it is desirablo that tho laying of a State-owned cable between tho United Kingdom and Canada bo coneidored by a subsidiary conference." This motion was agreed to. . • Federal Ministers hold tho view Hint thcfD have been no "oonsidorablo reductions." Mr. Frazer will also confer with the New Zealand Minister on.tho question of bridging tho Paciflo Ocean by wirolow telegraphy*
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1637, 2 January 1913, Page 5
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161STATE CABLES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1637, 2 January 1913, Page 5
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