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near Shameen specially for Hong Kong traffic, indents
covering certain of the items mentioned on pages 6 and 7
of Mr. King's report involving an expenditure of £4,091.17.3d
have been forwarded to the Crown Agents.
3. The Canton Station was opened on 11th June
and in four days the number of messages exchanged rose
from 2 to 71 and a daily average of 60 has since been
maintained, representing the bulk of the traffic
between this Colony and Canton.
station.
4. For this traffic a makeshift installation at
Cape D'Aguilar Station was employed, but it was found
that the geographical position of D'Aguilar was not
suitable for short wave transmission owing to high
hills on the northern side and the plant was removed
to "The Eyrie", a Government house on the Peak which
was this year set aside for an experimental Wireless
Transmission has so far proved satisfactory
from this site, and if further experiments are
successful it is proposed to group all transmitters
at this station, and to convert Cape D'Aguilar to a
central receiving station. In this connection I
invite reference to the annexed copies of the reports
of the Electrical Engineer dated 3th June and 4th
July, 1928.
necessitated a
5. The removal to "The Eyrie'
number of alterations in the scheme as originally set
out, principally in the matter of suitable buildings,
involving an increase of $22,650 in the estimated
expenditure for the current year and a total increase on
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