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Oral Answers to Questions — Solomon Islands (Wireless Communications).

– in the House of Commons at on 29 April 1929.

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Photo of Viscount Sandon Viscount Sandon , Shrewsbury

8.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can now state what decisions have been arrived at as to the recommendations made in the Report regarding the Solomon Islands, both as to inter-island wireless communications and other matters?

Photo of Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery , Birmingham Sparkbrook

The investigations into the suggestion for a chain of wireless stations are not yet sufficiently advanced to enable a decision to be taken, but I hope shortly to communicate with the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific upon this and other matters dealt with in the Report.

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