Referring to your conversation with our chairman of directors through the telephone this day, and to the request made by you for certain information in regard to the materials and apparatus in connexion with the erection of the Pennant Hills Station, we beg to reply as follows : -

Part of the apparatus has already been constructed at our factory, at 16 Underwood-street, Sydney.

Part of the material is in stock, and will be purchased locally during the erection.

Part of the apparatus, and the whole receiving plant has already been shipped, and will arrive in Sydney before the middle of December next.

Part of the apparatus has been constructed in Europe, and will be shipped during this month.

All the rest of the apparatus and materials in connexion with the station (including the mast, engine, and generator), was ordered by cable, on the 10th October last, and will arrive in Sydney in February next.

You will see from the above that no time has been lost by us in carrying out our contract in connexion with the erection of the Pennant Hills Station.