PACIFIC CABLE.
OA.NVAS6INU FOK BUSINESJ, ' PIB PBBSS ABSOOUTIOX. Wellihotosi, May 5. The Pacific Cable Board* hat* ra« quested the Pes'm ister-General toplaoa one or two of the Department'«officera*t its disposal for the puroue of cativauiag for business. Sir Joseph Ward concurs io this beiog don*, and the fi sCstepa wore tikea ia Wellington to-day. Similir nc'ioa will bs taken >ia other parts of the ia & day or two, The D apartment poin's out that a* taxpayers iu New Zealand are liable to share ia any deficiency in wo: king the Pic fic line, it is to the interests of every person to us) that route when sa :ding cable mes3ag?s, particularly aa it ii the quickest. Under theold cable rates last year's business would have cast £132,291}, owing to reduction* in rates, consequent on the opening of the Pac fio line, the amount actually paid was £99,870, representing a saving to users of the cublo of .£32,426.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 104, 6 May 1903, Page 2
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157PACIFIC CABLE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 104, 6 May 1903, Page 2
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