CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11] — Page 159

OPY.

Enclosure 1.

United Wireless Telegraph Company.

General Offices, 42, Broadway, New York.

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Hongkong, October 15th.,1909.

The Honourable

Sir,

The Colonial Secretary,

Hongkong.

30.50 fotos foros

We have the honour to address you on the

matter of obtaining a licence to establish and use installations

for the purpose of wireless telegraphy in the Colony under the conditions of the Wireless Telegraph Ordinance of 1903.

Acting upon the suggestion embodied in your

letter of the 14th. instant addressed to the American Vice-

-Consul General in charge we now make formal application for a

licence to establish and operate a commercial wireless telegraph

business within the Colony and beyond its limits with permission

to do all the things that wireless telegraph companies are

legally entitled to do under the Articles of the Berlin-Tele-

-graph Convention and subject to its regulations and the laws of

the Colony.

We would expect a licence giving us the

sole right to conduct a wireless telegraph business for a period of twenty-five years with the understanding that the Government would have the right to purchase the business at a

valuation at the end of ten years and at the end of the

fifteenth, twentieth or twenty-fifth years.

We would agree to receive and transmit Governmental massages without charge and to use every effort in Eathering meteorological information for the welfare of the

Colony.

We propose to establish installations in

Manila, Bangkok and Singapore and are making applications to

the