1488 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII 
5. Universal penny postage : 
That in view of the social, political, and commercial 
advantages to accrue from a system of international penny 
postage, this Conference recommends to His Majesty’s 
Government the advisability of approaching the Govern- 
ments of other States known to be favourable to the scheme, 
with a view to united action being taken at the next meeting 
of the Congress of the Universal Postal Union. 
6. State-owned Atlantic Cable : 
That in order to secure a measure of unity in the cable 
and telegraph services within the Empire, the scheme of 
telegraph cables be extended by the laying of a State-owned 
cable between England and Canada, and that the powers of 
the Pacific Cable Board be extended to enable the Board to 
lay and control such cable. 
7. State-owned telegraph lines across Canada : 
That in order to facilitate the handling of the traffic, and 
to secure entire control over the route in which it is engaged, 
the powers of the Pacific Cable Board be extended to enable 
the Board to erect a land line across Canada. 
8. Cheapening of cable rates : 
That in view of the social and commercial advantages 
which would result from increased facilities for intercommuni- 
cation between her dependencies and Great Britain, it is 
desirable that all possible means be taken to secure a reduc- 
tion in cable rates throughout the Empire. 
9. Development of telegraphic communications within the 
Empire : 
That the great importance of wireless telegraphy for social, 
commercial, and defensive purposes renders it desirable that 
the scheme of wireless telegraphy approved at the Conference 
held at Melbourne in December 1909 be extended, as far as 
practicable, throughout the Empire, with the ultimate object 
of establishing a chain of British State-owned wireless 
stations, which, in emergency, would enable the Empire to 
be to a great extent independent of submarine cables. 
10. All-Red Mail Route between England. Australia, and 
New Zealand, via Canada : 
That in the interests of the Empire it is desirable that 
Great Britain should be connected with Canada, and, through 
Canada, with Australia and New Zealand. by the best mail 
service available. 
That, for the purpose of carrying the above desideratum 
into effect, a mail service be established on the Pacific 
between Vancouver, Fiji, Auckland, and Sydney by first-class