CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12] — Page 100

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His Excellency

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Oriental Hotel, Hongkong,

15th. November,

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Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.C., C.B., D.s.o.$18 JAN

Governor of Hongkong,

Government House, Mongkong.

Your Excellency,

I have the hour to be very grateful to Your Excellency for your great kindness and courtesy in con- -nection with my recent application to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, for a licence to erect and establish a com- -merciall wireless station in Hongkong, and while I regret that it has not been considered advisable to grant me such a licence I feel confident that had it been at all possible Your Excel- -lency would have been only too pleased to have it so.

Being greatly interested in wireless tele- -graphy, and having been at considerable expense in purchasing the necessary apparatus, believing as I did that my reading of the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinances was the correct one, namely that a licence could be obtained for the installation and work- -ing of wireless telegraphy at the discretion of the Governor of the Colony for the time being, I venture to again approach Your Excellency for permission to establish wireless telegraphy apparatus for experimental work only, such permits being granted by the Postmaster-General in England. By the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinances in force in the Colony no one is allow -ed to establish such apparatus even for experimental work and this I respectfully beg to submit, throws a very great hardship on persons desirous of experimenting with wireless telegraphy unless a permit be granted, and under these circumstances I trust Your Excellency will be able to extend a similar courtesy to me as the Postmaster-General does in the case of experiment- wors in England when I shall be pleased to make a proper applica- -tion through the recognized channels.

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