83. At the Peak wireless station, new multichannel equip- ment for the Canton circuits was installed and will shortly be put into operation. A 50' lattice steel self supporting mast was built to carry the aerials for this service.
84. Aeradio services were strengthened and improved by the erection of two 100′ lattice steel masts at Hunghom Trans- mitting Station, and one at Kai Tak Aeradio Maintenance. The aerial position at the Royal Observatory Wireless Station was consolidated by the erection of two 100' lattice steel masts.
85. Telegraphy. The despatch, reception and relaying of telegrams is the Company's principal business, the average number of telegrams handled, including those in transit, being approximately 3,000,000 a year.
86. Cable and Radio Circuits. The telegraphic communi- cations of the Colony are well served by several deep sea cables linked to the Company's world wide network of 150,000 miles of submarine cables, in addition to 14 direct high speed wire- less telegraph circuits working with centres in the Far East and beyond.
87. Radiotelephones. The overseas radiotelephone ser- vices, worked in collaboration with the Hong Kong Telephone Company, Limited, continued to expand and new services were opened to Seoul, South Korea, and Bombay. In addition, services were extended to Puerto Rico and Alaska via Oakland, California. The Company also continued to provide links between Sydney and Tokyo, Sydney and Taipeh, Singapore and Macao, Singapore and Manila, Oakland and Bangkok, and Oakland and Macao. On some days over 1,800 paid minutes of overseas radiotelephone calls were handled, in addition to the V.H.F. circuits to the Chinese mainland and Macao, which occupied a further 2,000 paid minutes daily.
88. The short range ship/shore radiotelephone service, through which ships at sea can be connected to subscribers on the Hong Kong Telephone exchange, continued to grow in
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