CO129-510-21 Hong Kong and Canton wireless service- report- and recommendations 7-8-1928 - 7-8-1928 — Page 8

Enclosure No.1.

COPY:

Report on Wireless Telegraphy

at Hong Kong

with Recommendations and Estimates.

In submitting this report I wish to draw attention in the first place to the following details of expenditure already incurred, my object in doing this is to enable Government to realise that the suggestion often made that any expenditure incurred is liable to have to be quickly written off owing to the plant becoming obsolete at an early date, is apt to be overstressed.

2. AS. near as can be approximated the expenditure already incurred in connection with D'Aguilar Station

was up to :

From 1914 to 1926.

1927

Total

(a) Buildings

$105890 $

$105890

(b) Plant

75996

5250

1246

(c) Cables

105700

105700

$287586

$292836

3.

As will be seen the proportion of expenditure to which such an argument could be applied, (b) is about 40% and analysing this proportion again it can be taken that of this 40% one half represents power plant which is capable of being retained in use for supplying new forms of transmitters.

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