L.H.KING, ESQ.
3.
11
Towning Street,
ecember, 1927.
Dear Mr. King,
Referring to your letter of the 7th
December, I have to inform you that I received
a visit to-day from a Mr. Laidlaw representing
Siemens Bros. The object of hir call was to
say that his firm had tendered for the supply of automatic telephone exchanges to the Hong Kong Telephone Company, and believed that theirs was the lowest tender. He feared, however, that the
tender would be allotted either to an American
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or to an American controlled company, because Mr. "actat, the Company's Manager, was prejudiced
in favour of American work.
I told him that I was doubtful how far
the Governor would consider that his powers under the Ordinance extended to the rejection of a
system apparently suitable, merely on the ground
that it was not of British manufacture
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as
you