ELECTRICITY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 25, 4 June 1913, Page 5

ELECTRICITY.

A GOD-CfVEN GIFT, CABLE KINGS AND HINGe [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Associatrw. , (Received 9.45 u.m.) Fremantle, June 4. Sir Henniker Heaton, who is taking a health trip, said he was confident that in time the ruling cable rate throughout the world would be twelve words a shilling. He desires the Governments of Australia and New Zealand to co-operate with him to that end, and he trusts they will not make this a party question. The main difficulty is the vested interests of the cable kings and of the rings which had seized the God-given gift of electricity and devoted it to the sole use of millionaires to the exclusion of the millions. Three hundred million words can be telegraphed to America annually, but only twenty million were transmitted. They keep the cables idle in order to maintain the shilling-a-word rate. The lines to Australia were capable of fifty million words yearly, but only five million is sent. I would nationalise the cables, he said, giving the companies a fair price.