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Confidential.
Sir,
SECRETARIAT FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS,
HONG KONG, July 13th, 1931.
No. S. 319.
The Government has appointed a Committee to consider the necessary fur- ther regulation, co-ordination and possible amalgamation of Road Passenger Trans- port within the limits of the Colony.
The Committee will be obliged if you will be good enough to give your views on the method by which the best interests of the Colony will be served in this connection, and for your general guidance gives below the outlines of three proposals which have been already put forward:-
(1) A combination in the hand of a single Company of all the road power traffic conveying passengers with separate charges for seats: This would include the Tramway Company and all the Bus Companies on both sides of the harbour.
(2) A single Company for both sides of the harbour covering all this road
traffic with the exception only of the existing Tramway Company. (3) A separate Company for each side of the harbour including bus traffic
only, i.e., exclusive of the Tramway Company on the Hong Kong side.
The Committee anticipate that consideration of this question will be facilitated by verbal confidential discussion of your views in due course; and would be glad of an assurance that you are prepared if necessary to adopt this suggestion.
A letter in similar terms has been sent to:
1.
J. H. Taggart, Esq.-Chairman, Hong Kong Hotel Garage. 2. Ngan Shing Kwan, Esq.-Manager, China Motor Bus Co.
3. Louie Wai Sun, Esq.-Manager, Kowloon Motor Bus Co.
A reply at your early convenience would oblige.
A. B. STEWART, Esq.,
CHAIRMAN,
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED, and
KAI TACK MOTOR BUS Co.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(sd.) E. R. HALLIFAX, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Chairman,
Traffic Committee.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
It is hereby notified that sealed tenders in triplicate, which should be clearly marked "Tender for Road Passenger Transport" are hereby called for.
Time for tendering and subject matter.
1. The tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office until Noon
on Wednesday, the 30th day of November, 1932, and will be for a licence or licences for the exclusive maintenance of a service or services for the mechanical transport of persons by road wherefor payment is made for the seat occupied.
2. A tender may extend to the maintenance of a service for the whole of the Colony, including the New Territories, or may be limited to the maintenance of a service for the whole of the Island of Hong Kong, or for the whole of the Kowloon Peninsula, including the New Territories.
3. The continued operation of the tramway services of the Hong Kong Tram- way Company Limited and the Peak Tramway Company Limited and any lawful extensions thereof and the maintenance, under licence or otherwise, of any service of motor buses for the transport of persons to, from and between the Hong Kong Hotel and the Repulse Bay Hotel (but not between any two intervening points on the route between them) shall not be an infringement of the rights under any licence for exclusive maintenance referred to in paragraph 1 of this notice and shall not give rise to any claim in respect of such service.
4. The licence or licences will be for a period or term of Fifteen years com- mencing on the 11th day of June, 1933; Provided that, at the request of the licensee, the Governor in Council may, for such reasons as he shall consider sufficient, at any time during the existence of the licence or licences extend such licence or licences or either of them for a period not exceeding twelve months at any one time: Provided also that such extensions shall not in any case exceed in the whole a period of three years for any one licence.
Service or services to be provided.
5. The service or services to which any tender relates must be provided and commenced on the 11th day of June, 1933, and must be maintained thereafter during the subsistence of the term of the licence, including any and every extension thereof in the event of renewal.
6. (1) The service or services shall be conducted only by means of vehicles of British manufacture.
(2) Nothing in the foregoing provision shall be deemed to prevent the use while serviceable of any vehicle of non-British manufacture which is owned by the successful tenderer and was in use by him in the Colony immediately before the 11th June, 1933, or was acquired by him under the provisions of paragraph 21 of this Notification.
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