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imposed by the Convention being that any station shall be bound to receive a message from a ship in distress.
Awaiting the favour of your Excellency's favourable reply,
His Excellency
Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.,
Governor of Hong Kong,
Government House, Hong Kong.
I have, &c.
R. TAYLOR,
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YOUR EXCELLENCY,
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Grand Hotel, No. 2, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, 3rd December 1910.
ON or about the 15th of November I had the honour to address your Excellency praying that you, Sir, would be able to see your way clear to extend to me a permit to use a wireless telegraph outfit for experimental purposes only, a courtesy which is extended to experimenters in England by the Postmaster General, but as I have not yet received a reply from your Excellency, I fear that my application must have gone astray, it having been posted at the Hong Kong Post Office.
Being deeply interested in wireless telegraphy, and having been at considerable expense in purchasing an instrument, believing, according to the ordinances dealing with the subject, that a license for wireless telegraphy could be obtained in Hong Kong, it inflicts a very great hardship on experimenters if a permit be not granted, more especially when permits are granted in England. I would also respectfully bring to your Excelleney's notice that such a permit is entirely outside the Wireless Telegraphy Convention of November 3, 1906, and, therefore, as suitable regula- tions would govern its crection, I pray that your Excellency will favour me with a favourable reply.
I am entirely at the service of your Excellency for any other information you may desire in this respect, and would assure you, Sir, that it would be my constant endeavour, should your Excellency favour me with a permit, to do nothing outside what such regulations would permit.
His Excellency
Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.,
Governor of Hong Kong,
Governmout House, Hong Kong.
I have, &c.
ROBERT TAYLOR.
DRAFT.
Stong Kong
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Sir C. Lucas.
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SIR,
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Foreign Office, January 30th, 1911. WITH reference to your despatch No. 52, Commercial, of the 10th October last, with regard to the proposal to establish wireless telegraphic communication between Hong Kong and Macao, I have to inform you that it has been ascertained that there is no room for two low-power stations at Hong Kong, and that Mr. Robert Taylor has already been refused a license by the Colonial Office in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee on Landing-Rights for Submarine Cables. The Colonial Office, however, see no objection to an extension of the license for the Hong Kong station to admit of communication with Macao, provided that suitable arrangements can be made between the Portuguese Government and the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, who are to work the station at Hong Kong.
I accordingly request that you will return a reply to the Portuguese Government
in this sense.
A copy of the report of a meeting of the Cables (Landing-Rights) Committee which was held to consider this question is enclosed for your information.
The Honourable Sir F. Villiers, G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G.,
&c.
&e.
&c.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
Lord Lucas.
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