TELEPHONE NÝ VICTORIA 5908 (3 LINES) TELEGRAMB,"CREEPHOLE, VIC, LONDON"
RWW/B.
PREECE, CARDEW & SNELL,
CONSULTING ENGINEERS.
-DIR WILLIAM H.PREGOE.
A.H. PREECE.
W.F.C.ONELL.
LLEWELLYN PREECE.
WOODWARD. 8.8. MOORE EDE.
COPY.
Heed 18 JAN 15
8. QUEEN ANNE'S GATE,
WESTMINSTER.S.W.
14th January 1915.
The Crown Agents for the Colonies,
Gentlemen,
Whitehall Gardens,
S.T.
E.254/10.
Proposed reorganisat ion of Government
Telephone System, Hong Kong.
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1.
With reference to your letter of the 9th
November, we beg to inform you that we have gone
carefully through the proposals contained in the report
of the Director of Public Works and illustrated in the
plane and statements furnished therewith, and we now
beg to submit the following report on the matter.
2. The drawbacks of the present syster, as set
forth by the Director, are such that a reorganisation
of the syst ex is obviously necessary and without fuller
information as to the underlying causes of the in-
efficiency of the system, referred to by the Director
as being due to faulty operating, dual control, and
difficulty in hearing owing to indust ion and defects p
the aerial wires, we consider the proposed new system
one that will with minor modifications satisfactorily
meet the requirements of the Government.
3.
We may state, "However, that on a well
organised