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Company may be afforded an opportunity of
submitting proposals.
2.
In reply we beg to inform you that the
Company is prepared to take over the operation of
the existing wireless services at the earliest
date convenient to the Hong Kong Government. As
you are aware, the Company's engineer, Mr. Madgwick,
is already in Hong Kong, his services having been
lent to the Government pending the taking over of the services by the Company.
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In order to modernise the present
service the Company will undertake to meet the
essential minimum requirements of the Colony for
existing telegraph purposes which are stated by
the Government to be:-
(a) Additional transmitting equipment
estimated by the Government to cost £12,000
(b) Additional receiving equipment
estimated by the Government to cost £4,000
we should like to receive a general
description of the apparatus covered by this
estimato in order that the requisite orders may be
placed.
4.
We shall be prepared to undertake the
establishment of a wireless telephone service with
Shanghai, on the assumption that it will be possible to make suitable arrangements with a connecting
station at Shanghai.
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