HC Deb 01 February 1949 vol 460 c1513

"to give effect to certain provisions of an agreement for promoting and co-ordinating the efficiency and development of the external telegraph services of the Commonwealth, and to make provision for certain matters incidental thereto and for extending the system, heretofore embodied in the arrangement made by the Postmaster-General with Cable and Wireless, Limited, in pursuance of subsection (4) of Section one of the Imperial Telegraphs Act, 1938, for the sharing of revenue derived from telegrams transmitted to or from places outside the United Kingdom," presented by Mr. Wilfred Paling; supported by Mr. Creech Jones and Mr. P. Noel-Baker; read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 73.]