CABLE RATES.
PENNY-A WORD SCHEME,
PRONOUNCED IMPRACTICABLE,
Received November 4, 10.10 a.m, MELBOURNE, November 4.
The Federal Senate has d cided that the Select Committee on the press cable service should bring up its report by NovemDer 24th. Repiying to a question in the House of Representatives, the Post-master-General, Sir John Quick, stated that the penny-a-word cable suggested by Mr Henniker Heaton does not appear to oe practicable. The most immediate prospect of reduction was to minimum of eightpence a word for deferred cable mensagp, and a shilling a word for such messages in plain language. The scheme of bringing Australia and Britain into communication by means of wireless stages, added the Minister, was considered to bean engineering possibility, hut whether it would be an efficient substitute for a cable service was open to grava doubt
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9641, 5 November 1909, Page 5
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136CABLE RATES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9641, 5 November 1909, Page 5
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