CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4] — Page 337

ONFIDENTIAL.

C.O.

LC?

GESELS MAY 12

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 15th. April, 1912.

3437 Straits

admy

7560

Sir,

With reference to the first paragraph of your

Confidential Despatch of the 16th. February last, I have the

honour to transmit for your consideration the enclosed correspond- -once, regarding the selection of e site in this Colony for a

medium power commercial wireless station, and I should be glad to

learn whether in view of the letter of the 22nd. March from Major-

-General C. A. Anderson and that of the 3rd. April from Commodore

C. J. Eyres you are prepared to approve of the proposed site on

the South end of the d'Aguilar Peninsula.

2.

I shall also be glad to learn whether you con-

-cur in the report of the Committee (enclosure 1) in which the

Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce expressed their agreement

(enclosure 7) that if a Commercial Station is erected it should be

of medium power having a day range of 850 miles.

3.

I have just received your Confidential Despatch

of the 15th. of March transmitting a copy of a letter from the Atacks.

Admiralty No. . 0361/12 of the 12th. arch. The site proposed at Point d'Aguilar for the low power station fulfils the condition

laid down in that letter as the distance from the proposed High

ERICHT HONOURABLE

LEVIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

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Power