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13870/0/1933 98952/33.
SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
GENERAL POST OFFICE,
LONDON, E.C.1.
Sir,
27
February 1934.
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1. With reference to your letter of the 14th December,
2 on the subject of telegraphy and telephony in the Colony
of Hong Kong, I am directed by the Postmaster General to
say, for the information of the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, that he has held over a reply to your
letter in the hope that the material definitions would
be settled in connexion with a Telegraphs (Amendment)
Bill which is now being drafted. As however further
unforeseen delay has now arisen in settling the draft,
the Postmaster General desires to offer the following
observations on the despatch of the 1st November from
the Governor of Hong Kong.
1.
2. The Postmaster General concurs in the view
that a comprehensive ordinance is desirable and that
it might establish an exclusive Government monopoly
The Under Secretary of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE.
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