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Please have twenty-five wall-maps and twenty-five pamphlets sent to the Superintendent of the Board's office at Doubtless Bay for the use of his station, &c. As the maps and pamphlets are handsome and costly, I shall be glad if you will give instructions to the canvassers and others who may distribute them, to give them away with discretion and not too lavishly. All important public bodies and customers should, of course, be supplied, as well as Ministers, &c. My Board hope that the wall-maps may be prominently exhibited in all the leading post-offices in New Zealand. As noted on the tariff pamphlets, you will observe that the rates therein given are liable to change at any time. The authoritative rates will, of course, be those contained in the Postal Guide, to which the rates in these pamphlets will -be subject. Your Government will be advised as hitherto from London of all changes in rates, or of new rates. Meanwhile the pamphlet is correct for the present, and may form the basis for the rates to be published in your next Guide, subject to any corrections that may meanwhile be received by you. I have, &c, C. H. Reynolds, General Manager, Pacific Cable Board. The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington.

No. 22. The Acting-Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the General Manager, Pacific Cable Board (at Melbourne). Sir,— General Post Office, Wellington, 21st July, 1906. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 23rd January last [not printed] and of the 25th ultimo, stating that 1,000 wall-maps and 1,000 tariff pamphlets issued by your Board had been forwarded to this office for distribution. In reply, I have to inform you that the maps and pamphlets have been received and arrangements made for their distribution to principal cable-users throughout the colony. As desired, Ministers, members of Parliament, customers of the Pacific cable, and important public bodies will be supplied with copies, and the required number will be sent to your Board's Superintendent at Doubtless Bay. Officers concerned have been instructed that the maps and pamphlets are to be distributed with discretion and not too lavishly. A copy of the wall-map will be exhibited prominently in each of the principal offices. I have, &c, Thomas Rose, Acting-Secretary. C. H. Reynolds, Esq., General Manager, Pacific Cable Board, Melbourne.

No. 23. The Acting-Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Secretary, Pacific Cable Board, London. Sir,— General Post Office, Wellington, 21st July, 1906. I have the honour, by direction, to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 26th March and 9th May last, stating that 1,000 copies of a wall-map illustrating the Pacific cable route had been forwarded to this office for distribution. In reply, I. am to inform you that 1,000 maps, together with a similar number of tariff pamphlets, about which the General Manager of your Board wrote this office, have been received, and arrangements made for their distribution to principal users of the cable throughout the colony. As desired, Ministers, members of Parliament, customers of the Pacific cable, and important public bodies will be supplied with copies, and twenty-five copies will be sent to your Board's Superintendent at Doubtless Bay. Officers concerned have been instructed that the maps and pamphlets are to be distributed with discretion and not too lavishly. A copy of the wail-map will be exhibited prominently in each of the principal offices. I have, &c, Thomas Rose, Acting-Secretary. The Secretary, Pacific Cable Board, Queen Anne's Chambers, London, S.W. [Letter in similar terms on same date to Superintendent, Pacific Cable Station, Doubtless Bay.]

No. 24. The Superintendent, Pacific Cable Station, Doubtless Bay, to the Secretary, General Post Office. Sir, — Pacific Cable Station, Doubtless Bay Station, 18th August, 1906. I beg to inform you that the Pacific Cable Board has sent me a marble slab to be placed on the top of the pillar from which Dr. Klotz made his observations to determine the transpacific longitudes. The slab bears the following inscription : — Doubtless Bay. Lat. 34° 59' 22" S. Lon. 173° 29' 2" E. Dr. Otto Klotz . F. W. O. Werry. The General Manager instructed me to convey to you, for the information of Sir Joseph Ward, the above particulars, and, later on, similar information regarding the slabs at other Pacific stations. I am, &c, C. L. Hertslet, Superintendent. The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington.