PRESS CABLE SERVICE.
Received November 10, 12.40 a.m MELBOURNE, November 9.
Mr Locksley, manager of the Pacific Cable Company, in giving evidence before the Senate Committee on the Australian press cable service, said that there was no agreement with the Australian Association as to the number of cables to be sent over his lines. The Canadian lines were being strengthened. What was really wanted was a direct land line. The Canadian Government had offered a free right-of-way. An extra £6,000 worth of business would enable the Pacific board to reduce its rates, and the press would proportionately benefit. The Pacific cable was ge ting only 23 per cent, of the dir c.ly competitive traffic. If the Pacific cable got the full traffic it would pay handsomely; if tho Government got 50 per cent, it would have a surplus. The Pacific cable should have two cables across the Atlantic in order to be free of other Jcampanies. The cost would be £1,000,000. As the Pacific cable is owned in part by the Au&tralian Government the latter should take steps to push its business.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9645, 10 November 1909, Page 5
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182PRESS CABLE SERVICE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9645, 10 November 1909, Page 5
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