CHEAP CABLE RATES.
SIR HENNIKER BEATON'S IDEAL
CHIEF OBSTACLE.
'• MOUNTAIN OF VESTED INTERESTS." By .Telegraph—Press' Association—Copyright Fremantle, Juno 4. Sir Hcnniker Heaton (who arrived by tho Medina, accompanied by his family, on a health-recruiting trip) has been interviewed. said he was confident that in time the ruling cable rate for tho world would bo twelve words for a shilling. Ho desires the Governments of Australia and New Zealand to co-operate with him to that end, and trusts they wilt not make this a party question. The main difficulty, he says, Is the mountain of vested interests. The cable kings and rings had seized the God-given gift of electricity, and devoted it to tho sole use of the millionaires to the exclusion of the millions.' Three hundred million words can be telegraphed to America annually, and only twenty million are transmitted. The eablos are kept idle in order to maintain the shilling-a-word rate. The lines to Australia are capable of carrying fifty million words yearly, while only five million ure sent. "I would," said Sir Henniker Heaton, "nationalise the cables, giving the companies a fair pricc."
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1768, 5 June 1913, Page 5
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185CHEAP CABLE RATES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1768, 5 June 1913, Page 5
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