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No. 45. The Deputy Postmaster-General, Melbourne, to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. (Telegram.) Melbourne, Bth August, 1914. Statement this Department subsidized Oceanic Company incorrect. Proposal in that direction by company under consideration,

No. 46. [Newspaper Extract, 13th April, 1916.] Melbourne, 12th April. The Federal Cabinet has received Mr. Nielsen's American mail proposals. The Postmaster-General says that the Suez Canal route is quicker and cheaper, and he is satisfied with the international poundage rates and arrangements of the Pacific service. [Mr. Nielsen, Commissioner for New South Wales in America, recently placed a proposal for improvement of the San Francisco mail-service before the Government. It was proposed to reduce the journey to Sydney by four days. Mr. Nielsen stated that one company had offered to build two 22-knot vessels for the service.]