CABLE SERVICE.
CHEAPER RATES ADVOCATED
(Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock.) ] LONDON, October 30. I In answer tu Mr W. Redmond in the House of Commons the Right Hon Herbert Samuel, Postmaster-General, said that negotiations with the Pacific Cable Board and .companies were nearly completed. He hoped that they would result in a cheaper system. Week-end messages would be introduced, though it was impossible to fix a charge as low as Mr Redmond suggested, namely 5s for every ten words, with a carrying delay of from fortyeight to seventy-two hours or longer.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 31 October 1912, Page 5
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91CABLE SERVICE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 31 October 1912, Page 5
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