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JM- 1537/14,
20th
February
6514
1
340
Str.
Re 21 FEB 14.
I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to sivart to correspondence which took place
in 1905 relative to an arrangement with the Colonial Government of Pong Kong by which the Signal Stations at Cape d'Aguilar and Victoria Peak were taken over by the Admiralty (on payment of a nominal rent) and the Colonial Government was to pay an annual sum of $2,000 to Mavy Funds for the work done for the Colony. (Admiralty Letter of the Ath November 1905 and Treasury reply of the
18th idem No.20981/05).
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2.- It was at that tim the intention of the
Admiralty (as stated in the correspondence) to maintain a "ireless Telegraphy Station at Capo d'Aquilar, and a
temporary installation was in fact erected and maintai
there for a considerable period. It was however fotni
to be unsatisfactory, and in preference to establ↑ «Māj
a more powerful installation at that place My Lords
eventually sanctioned an installation on board M_Y_S/
"Tamar", the depot ship at 'tong Kong, and have maintined
Capo d'Aquilar as a viqnal signalling station like at
at Victoria Ponk. The financial arrangment with
Tony was not modified.
The situation has however recently changeat ordnet
o the abolition of R.V.S. "Tamar". the new depot
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