CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10] — Page 194

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Enclosure 1.

Motion by the Hon.. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C.

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That this Council has read with pleasure the

statement of the Postmaster-General made in the House of Commons on the 7th. of August, 1912, to the effect that it is the intent- -ion of the British Government to erect, at its own cost, a £60,000 wireless telegraph station in Hongkong and that such station is to be used for the transmission of commercial cables, but that this Council regrets to learn from the said statement that the erection of such a station is to be postponed till a later date and that this Council begs to most respectfully urge upon

the British Government the desirability of such a station being erected in llongkong at the same time as the Singapore Station.