CHEAP CABLES.
A CABLE MANAGER'S VIEWS. Brisbane, December 1. Mr. Milward, manager ot the Pacific Cable Hoard, arrived here by the Aorangi. In an interview he said that the Pacific Cable Board continued to progress. lie regarded a penny-a-word rate as impossible if it was intended to produce sufficient revenue to cover interest and expenses. Otherwise it would require an enormous subsidy. The increased traffic would necessitate the multiplication of the cables. Ho believed there was a possibility of existing rates being considerably reduced. He would favour some reduction if it were on paying lines. He hoped to see the wireless system extended to the island* of the Pacific.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19081202.2.27.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 290, 2 December 1908, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
109CHEAP CABLES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 290, 2 December 1908, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. 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