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I. Government
sircuit between the principal Commer Departments and the various Police
Stations in the Colony.
2.
Pending Your
Lordship's approval, I have accepted,
as a
provisional
measure, the offer of
the Great Northern Telegraph Company, with which is amalgamated the "Oriental Telephone Company of London,
to let the instruments to the Government
at twenty five dollars per set per .___ annum, the Company Keeping them in order but the Government laying
down the lines.
13.
The Captain Superintendent
Police states that the instruments of the Company are preferable to the ~
now in use
delegraphie instruments in his department, as they do not: require a skilled operator, any constable in the station being able to
speak through them
I have the honour to be,
My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant