PACIFIC CABLE RATES
» COMMITTEE TO REPORT By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright ; London, April 7. At a meeting of the Pacific Cable Board, Sir Matthew Nathan moved to rescind tho concessions in the New Zealand cablo rates. The Hon. Thos, Mackenzie (High Commissioner, for New Zealand) moved an amendment to tho effect' that the wholo question of Australasian rates be referred to a committee, in order, if possible, to make further reductions. Mr. Mackenzie pointed out that where reductions had been mado these had been compensated for by an increase in revenue. He mentioned the increasing reserves of the board, and stated that the contributions by the Imperial, and Dominions Parliaments had amounted to £55,000 sterling in ten years. Tho amendment was carried.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19140409.2.39
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2119, 9 April 1914, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
120PACIFIC CABLE RATES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2119, 9 April 1914, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in