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HINUTES of a Meeting of the Committee appointed to

consider the details of the scheme for a chain of wireless telegraph stations throughout the Empire.

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Mr. H. Samuel

Mr. S. Buxton

Mr. Farmall

(in the Chair)

Mr. Mackay and others representing the General

Post Office.

Mr. Lambert representing the Colonial Office

(C) r. Charlton representing the Admiralty.

Mr. Kirk representing the India Office Captain Muirhead Collins representing the Commonwealth of Australia.

Sir Wn Hall Jones representing New Zealand. Sir Richard Solomon representing the Union of

South Africa.

There were also present the Joint Secretaries

Mr. A. B. Keith and

Mr. F. H. Nichols.

The question or the route of the proposed

wireless telegraph stations was considered and it was

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agreed that the stage should be from the South of England to Cyprus (which on strategic grounds was

regarded as preferable to a site imate, to Adon and

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Bombay). In the case of Bombay it was explained that

the