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CONTEMPLATED EXPLORATION 
That this Committee would propose, in order to facilitate the 
progress of the expedition, that depots be formed at convenient 
points on the route ; that it is proposed to make Fowler’s Bay 
the first depot on the route from Adelaide, and to leave it to the 
Government of Western Australia to decide upon the sites which 
their local knowledge may point out as the most eligible for 
similar stations, as far to the eastward as may appear prac- 
ticable. 
That a subscription list be immediately opened in Adelaide to 
collect funds in aid of the undertaking 
That R. F. Newland, Esq., be requested to act as Treasurer to 
this Committee, and that subscriptions be received at the Banks 
of Australasia and South Australia. 
E. C. Frome, Chairman. 
Chas. Bonney, Secretary. 
The Committee again met on the 9th April — the Hon. the 
Assistant Commissioner in the chair. It was resolved that the 
following statement head the subscription list : — 
“ Several meetings having taken place at Adelaide of persons 
interested in the discovery of an overland route to Western 
Australia, and it being the general opinion of those meetings 
that such an enterprise would very greatly benefit the colonists 
of Eastern, Southern, and Western Australia, it was determined 
to open subscriptions for the furtherance of this most desirable 
object under the direction of the following Committee : 
G. A. Anstey, Esq. 
Charles Bonney, Esq. 
John Brown, Esq. 
Edward Eyre, Esq. 
John Finniss, Esq. 
J. H. Fisher, Esq. 
Lieutenant Frome, Surveyor- 
general 
0. Gilles, Esq. 
Captain Grey 
J. B. Hack, Esq. 
G. Hamilton, Esq. 
Ephraim Howe, Esq 
John Knott, Esq. 
Duncan M‘Farlane, Esq. 
David McLaren, Esq. 
John Morphett, Esq. 
Chas. Mann, Esq. 
R. F. Newland, Esq. 
Dr. Rankin. Esq. 
G. Stevenson, Esq. 
F. Stephens, Esq. 
W. Smilie, Esq. 
T. B. Strangway s, Esq. 
Capt. Sturt, Ass. Com. 
John Walker, Esq. 
