CONTROL OF CABLES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 713, 12 July 1929, Page 16

CONTROL OF CABLES

NEW COMMITTEE SET UP SIR JAMES PARR ELECTED Press Association WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Prime Minister announces in accordance with the recommendations of the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference in London last year, it has been decided to set up a committee in an advisory capacity in regard to telegraphic communications. This body, which will be styled the Imperial Communications Advisory Committee, is to be concerned with the policy of new Imperial and International Company and, in particular is charged with Responsibility in regard to the institution of new services and the discontinuance of existing services, alterations in rates, and distribution of traffic between alternative routes. One of the main features of the plan proposed by the conference is the fixing as the standard net revenue which should be available for the purposes of the Communications Company, 50 per cent, of all net revenue. Any in excess of this standard is to be devoted to a reduction in rates or such other purposes as the committee may approve. The following appointments to the committee have been made:—Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Colonel Sir Courthauld Thomson; Canada, Sir Campbell S uart; Australia, Mr. Clive L. Baillieu; New Zealand. Sir James Parr; South Africa, Lieut.-Colonel E. A. Sturman, Irish Free State, Mr. T. J. Kiernan; India, Sir Atul Chatter - jee; Colonial Protectorates, Sir Edward Lawson. Sir James Parr’s appointment is a temporary one and an announcement of the permanent appointment will be made within the next few days.