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Use of old railway rails as telegraph posts, Observatory staff member dismissed, need a universal postal rate for postcards, Toss supported on query of extra funding for instruments at the Observatory

Mentions populations of the Colony and the Northern Territory

May be of interest to "farming operations"

Some controversy on whether Todd was a V.P.

His impressions of Europe and mentions telegraphy, electricity, lighting, telephony (including stats), post and meteorology where SA observations are " best in the southern hemisphere"

Main feature was the parcel post negotiations. He doesn't like privatized telephony, was impressed with lighting on trains, clock for Adelaide library being built, meteorological equipment inspected and purchased

Melbourne Postal Conference, mail contractors competing with gov't funded rivals, European mandates on what ships can be used. SA meteorological records praised, continental standards agreed to on observation methods and instruments.

Reference to Clement Wragge's work (Torrens Observatory) and Todd's tables