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Extract frm Himites of Special Meeting

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After some discussion

THE COMMITTEE

AGREED

(1) That the Main Navy Army and Air Force circuits to the

following locations should be operated in channels leased from Cables & Wireless Transmitters and Receivers.

I Note:-

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

(4)

(*1)

(vii)

(viii)

(ix)

1) U.K.

(Navy 1)

Singapore (2 R.A.F.

1 Army. 1 Navy)

Colombo (Navy, 1 Army)

Manila (1 Navy) Shanghai (1 Navy)

Australia ( 1 Navy)

The Naval Service to Manila will have to be provided by a separate Naval Transmitter unless Cables & Wireless instal a primary circuit.

That the Navy circuit which might be required to Honolulu in War Time could be relayed through Manila but that plans should provide for installation by Admiralty of separate transmitter and receiver equipment on the Cables & Wireless sites.

That Air Ministry would instal, at the Cables & Wireless Sites Transmitters and Receivers to operate their circuits to Japan and Rangoon,

That transmitters and receivers for the other Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry circuits for Naval Broadcast, Shore-Ship, Ship-Shore, Shore-Shore, R.A.F. meteo area control, ground-air and Army local point to point Service should be installed in the Cables & Wireless sites.

That local civil goverment services:-

(1) Ship-Shore L/F and H/F

Local Broadcasts

Police VH/F

would operate as followE;-

(a) Transmitters to be sited in the D'Aguilar area except

that Broadcast transmitters will remain in Hung Hom

(b) Receivers other than Broadcast receivers will be

sited on the Peak.

That if a "Voice of Britain" Broadcast transmitter is installed

it should be sited in the Cables & Wireless site.

That receivers for reception of broadcasts from U.K. India, and U.S.A. should be sited in the Cable & Wireless site.

That the existing Cable & Wireless Transmitting and Receiving sites should be enlarged to 250 acres each to accommodate aerial systems now planned and to allow for possible future expansion.

That at both the receiving and transmitting sites as much land as possible should be rented on short leases to local farmers, and that a system of causeways or embankments will be required to facilitate aerial maintenance during the season when the cultivation is under flood.

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