CHEAP CABLES.
HEXNIKERIJE'ATOX'S SUGGES- ../• v-vfajioxs.,*. By Cable—Press Association—Copyrig.Bt.V Sydney, June 16. Sir Ilennikcr Heaton, in a long letter, to the Press, enumerates what be claims arc the advantages of cheap cablegrams He says: "We want a cable post for the Vested interests alone stand in our way. .Millions of years' tim>! will be saved by the people of the Empire hy electric communication being made general to the southern parts of the Empire." He-suggests as a first step meetings of postmasters-general of (lie dominions. ,If they were resolved to have land lines costing only ,t'3fl a mile in place of ea files costing £2OO per mile-, end the political frontiers for telegraph lines abolished, a near approach to the. ideal penny-a-word messages would be secured.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 14, 17 June 1913, Page 5
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125CHEAP CABLES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 14, 17 June 1913, Page 5
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