INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES
COPY FOR RESISTRATION
FROM HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)
MAR
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IMPORTANT
No.274. Secret.
No.6).
Addressed to 3. of 9.
Repeated to Commissioner -General, Singapore, No. 81.
Your secret savingram No.39 (Commissioner General
Proposed broadcast service to China.
No special political or other difficulties are
foreseen.
Short answers to points raised in your paragraph 3 are as follows:-
(1)
(2)
Yeo.
Yes, but one European Resident Engineer and some local staff would be required.
(3)
Yes, but standby emergency plant would be necensary.
(4) Yee:
apart from original cost, supplementing and conversion of transmitters, very (word omitted) estimate of total cost is us follows:
Capital of Hong Kong $1,400,000
Recruitment;
programme aids 2600,000°
(5)
engineering side $330,000
Extension of existing programme hours together with improvement in quality of present prograce is favoured with resultant English and Chinese programmus each continuous from 7 a.m. to midnight.
3.
Detailed observations follow by priority savingrem.
Copy Sent to Munay, to
23/3/49.
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