62769
NO CONFIDENTIAL.
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52835/28
Anad.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
Sir,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG, 4th March, 1929.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Confidential despatch dated 19th
December, 1928, on the subject of the alleged
discrimination of this Colony against United States
interests in Hong Kong and particularly as regards
the restriction of the issue of omnibus licences.
This Government has on several occasions
considered the advisability of granting monopolies
2.
to motor-bus services and has laid down regulations
for tenders in such cases.
In actual practice,
however, no such monopolies have been granted, the
history of the motor-bus services of the Colony
being in outline as follows. Shortly after the
War the possibilities and indeed the urgent necessity
for this modern form of transport in the mainland
portion of the Colony (i.e. Kowloon and New Kowloon)
became apparent and application was made to
Government by three Chinese Companies for permission
to run motor-bus services over various routes in these
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&C.,
&C.,
&c.
areas.