CO129-525-12 Transfer of Government wireless services to imperial and international communications Ltd 20-3-1930 - 7-1-1931 — Page 25

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(a) Acquisition must be by Imperial and Inter-

national Communications Limited, themselves

and not by any branch or subsidiary Company,

and the Colony must be included within the

scope of Imperial Communications Advisory

Committee instituted by the agreement of the

29th of May, 1929, copies of which wore

forwarded with Your Lordship's despatch of

the 15th of August, 1929. If it is co

desired negotiations will be conductod with

Mr. Richards but it must be understood that

he has full power to act for and does act for

the main Company and not merely for Marconi's

Wireless Telegraph Company whose representative

he claims to be, still less for the Chinese

National Telegraph Company mentioned in Your

Lordship's unnumbered telegram or the 5th of

October, 1929.

(b) The Company to take over from the Government

at a value to be agreed upon all plant per-

taining to the Service transferred whether

such plant is actually required by the Company

for its own services or not, and to establish

its own transmitting and receiving stations.

(c) The Company to take over from the Government

its lease of the offices in the Peninsular

and Oriental Building now used for Radio work.

(a) The Company to absorb as far as possible all

members of the Government staff who will cease

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