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From Admiralty.

For Chairman;

Hong Kong Communciations Board.

From Chairman, British Joint Communications Board.

My 191121.

Communal Transmitting and Receiving 3ites Hong Kong.

Your memorandum dated 1st July, 1946, and the Hong Kong Government Surveyor's provisional reconnaissance report.

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Consider your proposed Mai Fo site for trensmitting station and Ping Shan site for receiving station satisfactory provided the centre of the Ping Shan receiving site is taken as the centre of the triangle Ha Tsuen Skek Po - Ping Shan. In these circumstances the stations are sited sufficiently far away from neighbouring hills as to make slight screening effect acceptable to all concerned.

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We have agreed Mai Po site firstly on the assumption that Hong Kong Government would prefer to reclaim anu ärain this site than to allot land already cultivated to such a project, secondly on the assumption that the cost of draining etc., will not be prohibitive, and thirdly that you have got clearance from the medical authorities to erect the camp

on the reclaimed ground and that these authorities will not turn project down owing to possibility of malaria etc., due to swampy ground.

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B.J.C.B. request you now initiate detailed survey from both Civil and Wireless Engineering aspects and in due course let them have your estimates. It will then be decide a AB to how to apportion the cost of the work etc.

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It is suggested that the whole of the 250 acres Mai Po be reclaimed so that in a few years cultivation will

be possible on the lines we suggested in our signal 201056A

of April paragraph 3. This should make project more attractive

to Hong Kong Government.

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Finally as regards future siting of aerodromcs the following are present regulations regarding approach obstructions. (n) 100 ft. masts must not be sited within 500 ft. 1.e. acrourome perimeter will have to be at least one mile from nearest 100 ft. mast at receiving site and (b) 180 ft. masts must not be sited within 9000 ft. i.e. aerodrome perimeter will have to be at least 14 miles from nearcat 180 ft. mast at transmitting sitc. T'he se figures are based on elevation of 1 in 50.

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For Chairman, British Joint Communiontions

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