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1.
ostal Services
MUUZICATION.
(a) During the period of military seminiɛtration the P ostal
Authority should be chiefly concerned to restore the non-trans i £
meil services, inward and outward, bet early ators should be taken
to prepare for the re-institution of the transit mail traffic in
accordance with the etal Convention.
(b) kates.
nless therwise Inftructed the rates of postag
should approxiaste se elverly ne pobbible to the rstve la force in
1941.
Telecommunications rvices
then full civil administration is restored it will be
the policy of the alvil goy roment that external Vrleenmuniostions
services ehould be operated in assordoneo with an
to roved by
ire :78tels
During the period of militer wministration
it will be im ortent to restore må Boon ar porcible telegraphio
munication *ith neighbouring countries, eselally inn, Indo-
hina,
hilippines, Borneo and ingapore.
The overnment should retain the responsibility for
direat operation of the following services - -
છે,
Thip to shorej
aeronautical meteorological uni
hydrographic services;
(b) Transmission; reception and distribution of
broadcast news services;
(c) Radio-Telephony
(a) Television.
4. The Telecommunications authority should be prepared to
undertake such technical services for broadcasting as may be required.
Internal telephones service
5.
The Hong Kong Telephone Company should be assisted as soon as possible to restore the internal telephone communications under
the