97. Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER SHEEasked the Prime Minister whether the Imperial Communications Board have considered the duplication of the Pacific cable urgently required by the Governments of New Zealand, Australia, and Canada, as well as in the interests of the whole Empire, the extension of the Pacific Cable Board's activities to the establishment and control of a connecting cable across the Atlantic, this cable to be in addition to the already existing Government-controlled cable captured from the Germans, and the purchase or lease of the Direct United States Company's cable which is at present the subject of litigation between that company and an American company?
§ THE PRIME MINISTERVarious suggestions on these subjects have been before the Imperial Communications Committee, but no decision in present circumstances is possible. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are, as my hon. Friend is no doubt aware, fully represented on the Pacific Cable Board.