Mr. Alfred Coutts, a well-known Auckland bowler, is at present visiting Wellington. Sir Joseph Ward gavo notice in Parliament yesterday of a motion authorising tho Pacific Canlo Board to construct ami lay a cable between Doubtless Day (north of Auckland), or any more convenient, point, nnd -Australia*, either direct or partly bv mows of a subteiimnoan cablo across tlio North Island. Tho work is part of that authorised by an Act of t'ho Imperial Parliament, namely, a. submarine cablo Ijotween Australia and New Zealand, as already sanotjonod by tho contributing Governments, and any other oxtensions, connections, or rearrangements in or new tho Pacific Ocean which, in tho opinion of all the contributing: (sovera/ncbls, arc nccossvry or expedient for the improvement of the Pacific Cablo Board's undertaking. Tho. contributing Governments ara tilioso of Gieat Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Sown on May 19 with barley, a field at Great Tey (Essex) has beeli harvested, only three months after the sowing.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1255, 11 October 1911, Page 4
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