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(Copy) R. 7,532

Mernorandum

110742 Rad

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Rent 22 JUN 00!

by the Electrical Adviser to the Bound

of Trade

First, with regard to the injurions

effect apon cron pipes, the Board of Trade regulations have been sufficient, asfar as experience has theun hitherto, to prded pupes from mjury, but in order to protect the lead Covering of then own cables which would be the first to suffer it is the practice of homway engmeers & kap well arthin the limits of these regulations, specially Reg. 17 of the regulations

for the employment of uninsulated returns. Second, with to disturbance of the

regard

working of the submarine cable, I have qwen

very careful attention to the only case of this kind that has occurred, viz., at Cape Hown.

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