ملف ٥٠/ ١٩١٤، الجزء ١٠، "الخليج الفارسي: الإضاءة والطافيات؛ توريد سفينة حفيظة على المنارة؛ السفينة نيارخوس" [و‎‎٥‎٦] (٤٧٠/١١٦)

Ships .
No. 2416/3-M.
G-overnment of India.
MARINE DEPARTMENT.
Simla, tho 3rd May 1915.
To
The Director, Royal Indian Marine.
Sir,
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I am directed to refer to the correspondence ending with
your telegram No. 128, dated 18th March 1915, regarding a proposal
to appoint two wireless operators on the R. I. M. S. "Nearchus".
One of the operators has already been employed and the services of
a second operator are required to admit of day and night watch in
connection with the lighting and buoying administration in the
Persian Gulf. \
2. In reply I am to say that the Government of India approve
the proposal on the distinct understanding that the second operator
will only be employed during the period of the war.
3. The expenditure involved which is estimated at Rsl308 per
annum in the case of the first wireless operator and 3s. 1128 per
for the second will fom a charge against the Persian &ulf
Lighting and Buoying project and is divisible in equal moieties
between the Horae and Indian Governments under the head "25-
annum
Political".
I am, etc.,
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Secretary to the Government of India.