PRESS CABLE SERVICE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9669, 7 December 1909, Page 5

PRESS CABLE SERVICE.

SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT. Received December 6, 9.40 a.m. MELBOURNE, December 6. The Select Committee's report says: — "The organisation of the Cable Association is so complete tnat it seems almost impossible for another a sociation to btart, and succeed, without Government assistance for t the first four or five years. It was contended by the association that while it had passed the whole benefit of the recent reduction on to the public by means of increased messages, the figures supplied by the telegraph authorities showed that while the Cable Association had increased the service at a cost, to itself of about £lB3 per month, it was saving, as a result of the reduction, at the rate of £550 per month " Senators Pulsford and Chatsway presented dissenting reports, in which they stated that in regard to the alleged monopoly, witnesses had stated that a new service might be e-tablislied. The evidence disclosed fairly generous dealing with the press outside the association, especiilly in view of the fact that New Zealand was inoluded. The Cable Association had enlarged its service as a result of the reduction in rates. Some doubt had been thrown on the Telegraph Depaitment's figures, and there was no reason to auesdon the accuracy of the Association's figures. Senator Chatsway dissented generally, on the ground that the report was against the weight ot the evidence; but he advised a reduction on the Australian iand charges to the New Zealand rate.