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Enclosure 505043

Resolutions

Recl

This Chamber having been asked to d

its support to the effort.

now

~

to-accord

being

by

made by Chamber.

of Commerce in India and other Eastern countries to secure a reduction in the cost of telegramo between the East and Great Britain, is heartily

with the movement, and hereby

in

sympathy

records the following resolutions :-

1.- That the rate from India to Great Britain, which is now 48. per word, is - excessive and admits of substantial reduction.

2.- That the Chamber is of opinion that a reduction of the tariff would be followed by a sensible increase in the traffic, and that, if there is

hesitation on this accomms

Case

any

the Government should, as was done in the

of the Australian Colonies, give the Telegraph Coo. a limited

d guarantee against

loss

of.

revenue.

3. - That the principle of cheap telegram should follow the concession of a penny post. as it is certain to prove a powerful factor in promoting

trade with the Mother Country

ripe,

and that, so soon as the tune seems an all British line should be constructed between the United Kingdom

its

And

great. colonies and dependencies either by laying a cable the whole distance, touching only at British ports, or by completion of the

isting land lines!

existing