POST AND TELEGRAPHS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 63, 5 September 1911, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPHS

PROPOSED NEW DEPARTURES.' By Telegraph—fresa Association. Wellington, Monday. Sir .Joseph Ward, speaking at the letter-carriers' dinner on Saturday, said lie did not agree with the movemeut for uniformity of postage stamps for different parts of the Empire. The individuality of the country should be preserved. lTi< saw no reason why New Zealand postal and telegraph officers should not exchange with English officers. The Vancouver mail route was practically settled upon. With regard to the penny postage system, every opportunity would he taken to bring other countries into line. The revenue of the N>w Zealand IVist and Telegraph Department was the highest of any country in thes world in proportion to population. Before long lie hoped a second cable would he laid from Xew Zealand to Sydney. Doubtless Hay would be abandoned and the present cable taken through a pipe to Auckland, messages being deapatilled from there. A similar arrangement would lie made on the other side. Instead of the cahle ending at La Peronse it would be piped to Sydney. He was sanguine that before long he would he able to materially reduce the fee to telephone subscribers at a distance, and additional facilities would he provided? for establishing private linos.