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Only a section of the 2426 pages of report are so far included here.  They are the start and finish of the Commissions report and the first and last people who presented.  More may be added in time.

The Royal Commission on Postal Services 1910

The amalgamation of the State post and telegraph administrations into a Commonwealth Department did not go smoothly.  A Royal Commission that took evidence for two years and its report and minutes of evidence were published as Volumes 4 and 5 of the Papers Presented to Parliament and ordered to be printed for 1910.

Evidence
Robert Townley Scott, Secretary, Post-Master General's Dept Part 1 [PDF]
Alexander Graham Bell [PDF]

Report
Paras 1 to 56 [PDF]
Summary of Recommendations [PDF]

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