OPY.
Enclosure 1.
United Wireless Telegraph Company.
General Offices, 42, Broadway, New York.
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Hongkong, October 15th.,1909.
The Honourable
Sir,
The Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong.
30.50 fotos foros
We have the honour to address you on the
matter of obtaining a licence to establish and use installations
for the purpose of wireless telegraphy in the Colony under the conditions of the Wireless Telegraph Ordinance of 1903.
Acting upon the suggestion embodied in your
letter of the 14th. instant addressed to the American Vice-
-Consul General in charge we now make formal application for a
licence to establish and operate a commercial wireless telegraph
business within the Colony and beyond its limits with permission
to do all the things that wireless telegraph companies are
legally entitled to do under the Articles of the Berlin-Tele-
-graph Convention and subject to its regulations and the laws of
the Colony.
We would expect a licence giving us the
sole right to conduct a wireless telegraph business for a period of twenty-five years with the understanding that the Government would have the right to purchase the business at a
valuation at the end of ten years and at the end of the
fifteenth, twentieth or twenty-fifth years.
We would agree to receive and transmit Governmental massages without charge and to use every effort in Eathering meteorological information for the welfare of the
Colony.
We propose to establish installations in
Manila, Bangkok and Singapore and are making applications to
the