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Commercial Wireless Telegraphic Station at Hongkong
His Excellency the Governor, with whom was the Colonial Secretary, met representatives of tue Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, 27th. August, 1912, at the Council Chamber at 5 p..
The following were present:-
The Honourable Mr. C.H.Ross, Manager, Jardine,
Matheson & Co., Ltd.
The Honourable Lr. Lurray Stewart, Representative
of Chamber of Commerce in Legislative Council. Mr. N. J. Stabb, Chief Manager, Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation.
lir. G. T. Elkins, Lanager, Butterfield and Svire. Kr. H. W. D. Shallard, Acting Superintendent,
P. 0. S. II. Company .
His Excellency. - I have asked you to come here, gentlemen, to
discuss the question of establishing a wireless telegraphic station for Commercial Purposes at longkong. I have read the correspondence which has taken place between the Goverment and the Chamber of Commerce and I confess that I am somerat baffled by it. It is not clear to me what the Chamber wants exactly. The idea originally was to have only one station for Imperial and Commercial purposes. That plan, was however, abandoned as the Admiralty wished to have their own High Power Station with a range of about 1,600 miles. I think the introduction of strategical considerations into the discussion confused matters. Strategy is not our affair. That is for those responsible for
the Imperial system. That we have now to consider is a purely Commercial proposition. I find that on the 29th. November last
the Chamber wrote that they wanted a wireless station with a range of 1,500 miles to enable vessels to communicate with their agents in Hongkong. Apart, however, from some vessels crossing the Atlantic to New York possibly, there are no vessels as far as I am aware, with appliances sufficiently powerful to communi-
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