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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1985
PLEASURE CRAFT OWNERS WILL BE ABLE TO OBTAIN THE LICENCE WITHOUT HAVING FIRST REGISTERED THEIR YACHT IN HONG KONG, AND WITHOUT THE NEED TO PASS AN EXAMINATION IN THE USE OF THE RADIO INSTALLATION, UNLESS IT IS INTENDED FOR OPERATION ON INTERNATIONAL CHANNELS OR FOR LONG-DISTANCE COMMUNICATION.
APPLICATION FORMS AND OTHER INFORMATION CONCERNING THE NEW LICENCE MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LICENSING CENTRES IN THE GENERAL POST OFFICE, CENTRAL, OR KOWLOON CENTRAL POST OFFICE, YAUMATI. YACHT CLUBS AND MARIÑAS WILL BE BRIEFED ON THE PARTICULARS OF THE LICENCE. THEY WILL ALSO DISTRIBUTE APPLICATION FORMS TO PLEASURE VESSEL OWNERS.
THE ANNUAL LICENCE FEE IS $130.
+THIS IS COMPARABLE TO THE LEVEL OF FEE ALREADY BEING PAID FOR A NUMBER OF OTHER RADIO COMMUNICATIONS LICENCES, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
INTELPOST ACCEPTANCE OFFICES DOUBLED ****
ELEVEN MORE POST OFFICES WILL BE ACCEPTING INTELPOST FROM MONDAY (SEPTEMBER 16), A POST OFFICE SPOKESMAN ANNOUNCED TODAY (FRIDAY).
THIS WILL BRING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF INTELPOST ACCEPTANCE OFFICES IN HONG KONG TO 22.
THE ADDITIONAL POST OFFICES ARE IN ABERDEEN, CAUSEWAY BAY, TSAT TSZ MUI AND WONG CHUK HANG ON HONG KONG ISLAND= CHEUNG SHÀ WAN, GILLIES AVENUE, KOWLOON EAST AND SAN PO KONG IN KOWLOON- AND KWAI FONG, TSUEN WAN AND TSUEN WING STREET IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
+THE INTELPOST SERVICE OFFERS HIGH-SPEED FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION BETWEEN HONG KONG AND 32 OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS. IT COMBINES THE TRANSMISSION SPEED OF TELEX WITH THE REPRODUCTIVE QUALITY OF A PHOTOCOPIER. DELIVERY AT OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS CAN USUALLY BE WITHIN HOURS, HE SAID.
THE ESSENCE OF INTELPOST IS RELIABILITY AND SPEED, HE ADDED. + IT IS ALREADY ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST PUBLIC ELECTRONIC MAIL SERVICES AND THE INTELPOST NETWORK OF COUNTRIES IS GROWING FAST.+
THOSE HAVING FACSIMILE MACHINES IN THEIR OFFICES CAN, BY ARRANGEMENT, TRANSMIT ITEMS DIRECT TO THE POST OFFICE INTELPOST TERMINAL IN THE GENERAL POST OFFICE FOR ONWARD TRANSMISSION OVERSEAS AT NO EXTRA COST.
FURTHER INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE INTELPOST MANAGER ON TELEPHONE 5-2671148.
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