CABLE MESSAGES.
CHEAPER RATES. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Fremantle, June 4. Sir John Henniker Heaton, who is here on a health trip, states that lie is confident that in time the ruling cable rate of the world will be twelve words for a shilling. He desires the Governments of Australia and New Zealand to co-operate with him to that end, and trusts they will not make this a party question. The main difficuly is the mountain of vested interests of cable kings, and rings, which had seized the God-given gift of electricity and' devoted it to the sole use of millionaires, tos the exclusion uf the millions. Three hundred million word- can be telegraphed to America annually, and only 20.000,000 are transmitted, in order to keep the cables idle and maintain the shilling a word rate. The lines to Australia are ratable of transmitting 50,000,000 words yearly, but only 0.000,000 are sent. "I 'would nationalise the cables, giving the companies a fair price," he concluded.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 4, 5 June 1913, Page 5
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165CABLE MESSAGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 4, 5 June 1913, Page 5
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