250 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION P. 



Repairs. 



Output of shops in relation to personnel employed. 



Reduction in percentage of locomotives and wagons out of traffic. 



Inland Waterways. 



Traffic handled. 

 Tou-miles worked. 



Roads. 



Total mileage maintained by British Army. 

 Area of new roads and cours constructed. 

 Area of existing roads and cours reconstructed. 

 Area of roads and rours re-surfaced. 

 Material used and number of men employed. 

 Plant : percentage under repair. 

 Woi'king of quarries : — 



Total output. 



Output of stone per man. 

 Working of lorries conveying road stone, etc. : Ton-miles per lony per day. 



Personnel Employed. 

 Percentage skilled, unskilled, and non-effective. 



Joint Discussion with Section L on Business in relation to Education. 



See Section L, p. 355. 



THIJERDAY, SFA'T EMBER 11. 



Joint Meelinij wiUi. Section 1 and Siihseclion nf Vsycliology. 

 See Section T, ]). 3()S. 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 

 The following Reports and Papers were read : — 

 ]. lleport of Comviillee on Beplacenient of Men hy Women in Industry. 



2. Inter-imperial Conmunications. By Sir Charles Bright. 



The war has produced a shortage of communicating links with much tele- 

 graphic congestion and resultant delays that need to be considered with a view 

 to remedy. 



Moreover, the increased tendency and need of communicating with other 

 branches of the Empire calls for special and early action in political and trade 

 interests. 



The All-Red Cable Route requires to be rendered a complete reality as soon 

 as maybe, including a new absolutely British Atlantic Cable and a duplication 

 of the Imperial Pacific line, with satisfactory independent land line connection 

 between the two. 



It is conceivable that national and imperial interests can only be adequately 

 provided by the State controlling at least one complete cable to all points oi 

 the British Empire, supplemented by an All-British Wireless Chain. The whole 

 .sliould be run at a single and distinctly low imperial tariff, common to all and 

 independent of distance. 



