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PENNY-A-WORD CABLES.

CLAIMS AM) ADVANTAGES

(Received 9.40 a.m.) Sydney, June 16

Sir Hennikor Heaton, in a long letter to the press, enumerates the claims and advantages of cheap calnVHe says: "We want a cable post for the million. Vested interests alone stand in our way., Millions of years of time will be saved by the people of the Empire ir electric communication being made general." To the southern Empire he suggests that the first step should be meetings of post-masters-general of the Dominions. If they resolved to have land lines costing only £3O in place of cables costing £2OO per mile, and political frontiers for telegraph lino3> abolished, the near-approach of the ideal penny-a-word messages would be secured.

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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 16 June 1913, Page 6

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PENNY-A-WORD CABLES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 16 June 1913, Page 6

PENNY-A-WORD CABLES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 16 June 1913, Page 6

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