CHEAP CABLEGRAMS.
Received November 10 12.45 a.m
LONDON November 9.
Mr Henniker Heaton, in a letter to "The Times," forwards messages he had received from Mr Joseph Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Ward, several Lord Mayors, many members of Parliament, bankers and shipowners in favour of universal penny a word telegrams. He proposes tnat tr.e Governments of the civilised world should buy "at market prices the cables now in the hands of monopolies, and remarks that the British and colonial Governments now pay yearly £250,000 for official messages, a sum which would go far towards paying the interest on purchasing the cables. He emphasised the vital importance of time saving by telegraph as compared with postal communication, and considered that the first step was to call a conference of European postmasters and establish a penny cable rate.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3040, 10 November 1908, Page 5
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135CHEAP CABLEGRAMS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3040, 10 November 1908, Page 5
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