CO129-521-5 Complaint by Davie- Boag and Co. against refusal to grant permission to erect traffic signals... 15-1-1929 - 19-2-1930 — Page 7

Ahad (2.

4807;

No 535.

My Lord,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 17th December, 1929.

I have the honour to forward for Your

Lordship's information, in accordance with Colonial

Regulation 200, copies of a letter received from Messrs.

Davie, Boag and Company, a local firm of Import and Export

Agents.

2.

The subject matter of their complaint appears

to fall under two heads, namely the refusal of this

Government to consider their offer to supply reflecting

traffic signs, and secondly the refusal to permit them to

erect, almost at their will, such signs in the form of

advertisements broadcast throughout the Colony.

3.

With respect to the first complaint, the

Traffic and Public Works Departments have already adopted

a cheap and simple reflecting sign for danger signals at

certain points in the Colony, and are satisfied that no

advantage would be gained by the use of the ray reflecting

sign.

4.

As regards the second complaint, I would

point out that this Colony is renowned for the beauty and

picturesqueness of its natural scenery.

While modern

development

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD PASSFIELD,

&c., &c., &c.