§ Lords Amendment:
§ In page 1, line 12, leave out from "telegraphy" to the end of line 13, and insert "within their existing sphere of operations and within the Caribbean area."
§ The CHANCELLOR of the DUCHY of LANCASTER (Colonel Wedgwood)I beg to move, "That this House cloth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
This Bill as it left this House gave the Pacific Cable Board the power to do telegraphic work without any geographical limitation whatever. When the Bill was going through the House of Lords, Lord 2714 Banbury thought that was giving them too wide a power, and an Amendment was moved limiting the geographical area to that area where they are operating at present and also the Caribbean Sea. We should have been glad to see wider powers, but we do not propose to contest this matter with the Lords.
§ Question, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment," put, and agreed to.