CABLE-RADIO MERGER
TO FUNCTION NEXT YEAR (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. noon. LONDON, Friday. The Government is introducing a Bill In November authorising the cable-wireless merger, comprehending the Eastern and its subsidiaries. Pacific and West Indian Cables, Australian wireless, British beam, Marconi wireless, and Marconi manufacturing. It is understood that further legislation will be necessary by Australia, New Zealand and Canada concerning the respective interests of the" Pacific cable and Australian wireless. It is not anticipated that the merger will be fully functioning before the end of 1929. Lord Inverforth, on behalf of Marconi, and Sir John DenisonPender, on behalf of die Eastern, with with the co-operation of the Pacific and West Indies companies, bought from the County Council an Embankment site for £310,000, on which to erect the merger offices, costing £500,000.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19281020.2.124
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 490, 20 October 1928, Page 9
Word Count
134CABLE-RADIO MERGER Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 490, 20 October 1928, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). 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