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have to travel greater distances, but the conduct of the new routes must entail additional travelling 
‘ime and running costs, and these will have to be borne either by the Commonwealth by the 
payment of an increased subsidy, or by higher rates for fares and freiohts. 
Inter-island services as suggested bythe Committee will mean extra coastal and tranship- 
ment charges, and it is extremely doubtful whether smaller vessels engaged in the local services 
could maintain regular contact with the various points, and, as a result, dislocation of the services 
would follow. 
E. ¢. RILEY. 
We did not have the opportunity of hearing the evidence given before the Committee 
luring its visit to the Territories of Papua and New Guinea, and to the Solomon Islands, but we 
were present during the taking of a large amount of evidence on this subject in Melbourne and 
Sydney. We have, however, perused the evidence tendered. and as a result desire to signify our 
a2reement with the views of Mr. E. C. Riley. 
P. J. MOLONEY. 
C. 8. McHUGH. 
Melbourne, 
22nd March, 1927. 
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