CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 53

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Sir,

With reference to your letter of the 8th April,

1914, No.3831/14, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners

of the Admiralty to request that you will inform the Lords

Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury that it now appeara

that the Colonial Government of Hong Kong desire to revise

the terms a reed upon in connection with the new wireless

station at Cape d'Aguilar, in the following sense

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2.-

In paragraph 6b of Admiralty Letter of the 20th February, 1914, it was stated that the Colonial Government proposed to cease payment of $800 out of the $2,000 hitherto paid annually in respect of work done for them

by the Lavy at the Cape d'Aguilar and Peak visual stations.

3.- The Colonial Government now represent that, with

the establishment of the Cape d'Aguilar wireless station, no work will any longer be required to be done for them

at the Peak station, any more than at Cape d'Aguilar visual station, the interest in both these visual stations being

now purely l'aval.

In these circumstances, the Local Naval Authorities at Hong Kong consider, and My Lords concur, that there is no longer any justification for claiming contribution from the Colonial Government in respect of the Peak station. It is, of course, to be understood that the contribution from the Colonial Governmont in respect of the maintenance of the Cape d'Aguilar wireless station is not in question,

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H.1.Treasury,

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