CHEAP CABLES.
SIR WILLIAM HALL JONES INTERVIEWED.
Received Last Night, 11.35 o'clock. LONDON, Septembar 9.
[ Sir William Fall-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, in an interview ori the question of cheaper cables, eaid it was a monstrous proposition that Britain and her Dominion were unable to reduce the charges on All British cables, when the messages were sent throughout under their own flag, without the consent of a foreign Power. The consent of signatories of the Lisbon Convention was only necessary in international matters, a ecting foreign interests, and messages passing through foreign countries. Th« denial of deferred rates to code mee:ageo was undesirable. It was almost impossible to accurately define what a "plain language cablegram" meant. A better plan would be a reduction in the ordinary charge to eightpence, and double rates for urgent messages. By this means the best results would be secured for the Pacific Cable.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10089, 10 September 1910, Page 5
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149CHEAP CABLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10089, 10 September 1910, Page 5
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