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THE number of wires which may be attached by the Telephone Company to any bracket or pole within the numbers limited by the preceding clauses shall be such as the Company may decide.
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between the Governor and the Telephone Company it is agrad that Clauses 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17 and 20 of the principai agreement shall operate and be binding upon the Telephone Company in all respects as if the same were incorporated in this present agreement with the substitution therein of the words "The Telephone Company" for the words "the Company" and the omission of the words "posts", "telegraph poles" and "cables" wherever the same may appear and also with the omission of the last sentence of Clause 15.
AND WHEREAS the execution of these presents by the Company cannot immediately be obtained.
NOW IT IS HEREBY FURTHER WITNESSED that if the ratification and confirmation by the Company be not signified by its execution of these presents within a period of six months after the 1st day of September, 1932, then these presents shall as from the expiration of such six months be void and of no effect and the Telephone Company shall forthwith remove the said brackets and wires and in default of such removal the Company or the Government may remove the same.
A S WITNESS
whereof the Governor hath hereunto set his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony hath hereunto been affixed and the Company and the Telephone Company have hereunto set their respective Common Seals,
W. T. SOUTHORN,
Officer Administering the Government.
(SEAL)
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO. LTD.,
Copenhagen,
23rd February, 1933.
A.497.
We hereby empower the Eastern Extension Australasia and China
Telegraph Company, Limited, to sign an agreement with the Hong Kong
Government and the Hong Kong Telephone Company, Limited, dated 2nd
September 1932, regarding a landline in the British Territory of
Kowloon on behalf of the Great Northern Telegraph Company Limited,
of Denmark, as well as on their own behalf.
For the Great Northern Telegraph Company,
Limited, of Denmark.
W, WEIMANN
Chairman,
H. BONDE
Ass. Secretary.
SIGNED by Admiral H.W. Grant C.B.
a Director and Arthur Charles Hesse an Assistant Secretary for the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company Limited on behalf of that Company and The Great Northern Telegraph Company Limited of Copenhagen Denmark and Sealed with the Seal of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company Limited in their presence :
H. W. GRANT,
A. C. HESSE,
Director.
Asst. Secretary,
(SEAL)
Stamps
7/62 & 2/-.
SEALED with the Common Seal of the Hong Kong Telephone Company Limited and signed by John Percival Warren and Denis Henry Blake, two of its Directors, and by William Louis McKenzie, its Secretary in the presence of :
M. da ROZA,
J. P. WARREN
DENIS H. BLAKE
(SEAL)
W. L. MCKENZIE
c/o Hong Kong Telephone Co, Ltd.
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I CERTIFY the foregoing signature to be that of W. Weimann
Chairman of the Great Northern Telegraph Co. Ltd., Copenhagen.
BRITISH CONSULATE,
Copenhagen.
23 Feb. 1933.
JOHAN B. DANO, Acting British Consul.
BS/EM.
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