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Enclosure
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The Electric Traction Company of Hongkong, Limited.
The Honourable
Tensuel Esegon e
The Director of Public Works,
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Hongkong.
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General Manager's Office,
Bowrington,
Hongkong, 23rd. March, 1909.
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Rece Rcc 4 AUG 09
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter numbered 103 of 13th. February,
2.
In reply thereto I beg to state that the
operations of this Company are carried on in general conformity with the regulations cited in the circulars issued by the Board
of Trade - four in number as enumerated in your letter under
acknowledgment. This Company's operations are not, however, carried out in strict conformity with these Regulations, and I beg to point out that it has been the universal practice of Companies and Corporations owing and operating Tramway Systems which employ electricity as motive power to interpret in a
liberal manner certain of these Regulations.
Thus on the one hand the undertakers do not
hesitate to comply fully with the majority of the Regulations issued by the Board of Trade, as it would be detrimental to their interests to neglect any precaution to ensure the efficiency, the reliability, or the safety of an important public service
of this nature.
On the other hand however, there are certain Regulations (which I shall deal with seriatim), whose strict enforcement could not be regarded as in any way beneficial to the public while the compliance with these to the latter might
be