IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 139, 19 June 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

A CHAIN

TO CONNECT THE UNITED ■ •-/.;•;^YEMPIRE..-'1 ;■ '~ '

' • -•':>\\\ /■ '■■:': •'; :■' ■ ■ r::? V.:"'.;' ■-'IjJQtoONv-^uiße-16^ ■■ ■■■■ Af*-;^'-''^^n^^<!^.;yfeefeiday; - Sir Joseph Ward: urged the necessity for acchain o| Nqtc> make/Uie Empire largely independent of cables ■ TEe■;Hon. M^Siimueli^Postmasterthat a: 'c^^ibie-.^stablished ;thro«ghr outi/fche;'..Empire' stpat^getios|.lly and commercially * ■- < the Home: Go«ernment- oipitoidered, tfciit this should be., Siate^dwned1 ian* .speedily estabbsdied, and :proip^e<iv. at- i>he f beginnuig_ to have six srf^btions,, one eacli-;..m---JElng^ land, Cfy^rlis,'Aden, Bombayi Singapore, a»d -Australia. From the latter* itVcfadcL-be.. linked TptJi, New Zealaud:; V!4t miglrb "■s&■ :des*abkf to get one of ttie "wireless" compaisaes to emit scions, attd'failing satisfactory ti6rm%^ the Admiralty .might• undertake the work, each of ■ the/ Domirii^ps; he^mrig-ijhe' cost: ofi^he local siiati^n»r;sv'';3?h*/'ibsfc'r^ ■ the stataon sit St^'aptiprifei/.. wKicli would he. exchisi^ely;v^% connectipg link/ would - \>e-Mmo eqns^T ■ llffi;-'^ *■" •";••-■;■'*'" ■ " ' Mr .Graaf ■&uppiJi?ted -,-■ the-scheme,? and said ttet when %he Aden^ station ,^ras erected SoutnAfrica wolald consider'the 'ejection of a " lughj power station ais a link. - ■ ; ■ ; !'■."Mr SaHiuel ;suggested/,poolmg the v working expehi&es; and.- receipts. / • •'■