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the Harbour Office to the Naval Yard and to arrange at the ex- -pense of the Admiralty for a separate Naval wire from Cape D'Aguilar to the Naval Yard.
2.
These arrangements differ from those
suggested in your letter in so far as they avoid division of
responsibility. All work within the Naval Signal Stations will
be done by the Navy with their own staff. The communications
will be maintained by the Colonial Government.
As the Harbour Master contemplates en-
-ploying Naval pensioned or time-expired men as telegraphists
at the Harbour Office as soon as financial provisions can be
made for them it would appear unnecessary to provide for a Naval
Staff to be accommodated at that Office, an arrangement which
would tend to confusion.
As it is proposed that communications from
the 8 Signal Stations not be taken over by the Navy and of a
proposed new Signal Station at Cape Collinson should concen-
-trate at the Harbour Office it would be inconvenient if the
wires from Cape D'Aguilar and the Peak did not also go direct-
-ly there. The addition to the system of a direct naval wire
from the former place to the Naval Yard would obviate any delay
in the receipt of Naval intelligence by wireless telegraphy.
The wire between the Harbour Office and Naval Yard would be
used for communicating to the latter place news of incoming
vessels from wherever they may be signalled.
3.
I enclose a sheet of directions which
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