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MkhbOtonb, July i 7. In the Seriate, during the on the Post d Bill ih Sargood moved 4n amendment t 6 givi the senders of cables the right of the choice of route for their messages. The Postinaeter-Getural showed thit ok the Pacific cable would be laid by March next it must he secured against tfaji competition of any private company. Mr Miller, of New South \Valei; declared that the Government were seeking to bold up a State monopoly* They might compel the cable userfi to pay their 'excessive rates however the labour party supported the Government, ani Queensland and Tasmania joined hahdi against the Eastern Extension Company’. The amendment w*s rtegatived;
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 178, 20 July 1901, Page 1
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115The Federal Parliament Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 178, 20 July 1901, Page 1
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