CHEAP CABLES.
"EXTRAORDINARY AND VISIONARY."
LONDON, November 13
Sir John Barry, chairman of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, at a meeting characterised Mr Henniker Heatons proposals as extraordinary and visionary, and advised the public to study the decision of the Government's Inter-departmental Committee of 1902—that penny-a-word cables were quite impracticable. He held that no new circumstances had occurred to invalidate that conclusion.
The Inter-departmental Committee reported as follows:—"We are not prepared to say that any of the existing rates are excessive, with the exception of those to the Gold Coast and Nigeria."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3045, 16 November 1908, Page 5
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92CHEAP CABLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3045, 16 November 1908, Page 5
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