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SIR PHILIP CURLIFFE-LISTER said that at this par- ticular juncture he thought it might be agreed that the proposed services with Japan should be held up, but at the same time a note should be made of the point that opportunities for instituting new services were being offered and that rather than refuse these services off- hand it might perhaps be possible to consult the Company in order to ensure that their future interests would not bc prejudiced, and if the Company agreed, then such services could be undertaken.
MR. VERNON asked whether it would be agreed that the Company should carry on on the lines of the agreement as regards taking over the existing services at Hong Kong without in any way committing them to the erection of a
high power station there,
SIR PHILIP CUNLIFE-LISTER said that this was a
matter which would require further consideration, but he suggested that the Committee might make a provisional recommendation that there was no objection to this proposal, but that this recommendation would not become operative until the various departments concerned had signified their agreement.
MR. VERNON said he would like to add that the position was very much the same at Singapore, and that the Company wore also hesitating about erecting a high power station
there.
MR. PHILLIPS, in answer to a question from Air-
provide Commodore Warrington-Morris, said that the intention was to / for a wireless telegraph and telephony service between Hong Kong and angland via Singapore.
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