§ Major ARCHER-SHEEasked the Postmaster-General if he will lay upon the Table of the House a copy of any communications which have passed between the Governments of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand and the Home Government bearing on the question of a State-owned cable since the last Imperial Conference?
Mr. HARCOURTI am not aware of what correspondence may have passed between the Governments of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand on this subject. I wrote to the Governor-General of the Commonwealth last February sending further information on the question and asking whether in the light of that information the Commonwealth Government still desired that a conference should be called. I do not propose to publish the correspondence, at any rate, until the reply of the Commonwealth Government to that dispatch is received.