PACIFIC CABLE BOARD'S POLICY.
"NOT COMMERCIALLY SOUND.! 1 By Toletraph—Pfcjs Assoclction-Copyrieht London, January 27. The Dominions' Royal Trade Commission's report comments on the anomaly of th'o Commonwealth charging a terminal : rate of sd. per word for the transmission of Pacific cable messages, whereas New Zealand charged a ponnv. The New Zealand cable rate should he reduced to 2s. Bd. Tho Pacific Cable Board had not shown the enterprise that might reasonably have been expected; the laudable desire to abolish a deficit had obscured its vision to its larger and more urgent duties. To spend two million pounds, niid then leave the cable comparatively idle for two-thirds of the day was not commercially sound, politic, or common sense.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1970, 29 January 1914, Page 5
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117PACIFIC CABLE BOARD'S POLICY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1970, 29 January 1914, Page 5
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