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(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) PACLFIC C ABLE. (SYDNEY /Jaiiiiiary 11. Accounts of Pacific cable board tor the year 1926-27 reveal a surplus of £100,739 sterling remained alter the anninty paid to the national debt commissioner in respect of interest and repayent of capital islands. The international press traffic increased by sixty thousand words. Deterred press by fifty thousand to 105.600. The laying of cables for Bamfield and banning Island and Fanning Tslarnl and Suva sections were completed during November 1926. The speed of the new cable surpassed anticipation. Traffic receipts amounted to £4157. 00(1 sterling an increase on the previous year of £13,000. Over twelve million words of international traffis were transmitted during the year an increase of approxinately 120,C0 words in addition to 3700.000 paying words carried between Australia and New Zealand and between those countries and pacific.
SEAMANS trouble. MELBOURNE. January 11. Victorian branch of the seamens union decided if a satisfactory settlement of the seamens dispute was notreached within fourteen days, that tlw crews of all inter-state vessels would leave the ship immediately on arrival at their home port. This is interpreted to mean ft general strike will be declared if the Sydney branch endorses the decision.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1928, Page 3
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