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Provided that the Company shall only be required to place its lines muderground in those parts of its system in which twenty or more wires can in the opinion of the Director be conveniently grouped together, and the opinion of the Director in this respect shall be conclusivo and binding on the Company.
29. The Company shall at its own cost and charges, Victoria to be within two years from the commencement of this Ordinance placed under or such later limit of time as may be specified and approved ground.
of by the Governor in Council and notified in writing to the Company, place underground such as may be practic- able of its wires or cables passing over, across or along any street in the City of Victoria.
Improved and efficient service to be provided and works kept in repair.
Company
ball provide testing circuits, etc.
30. The Company shall, on and from the 1st day of July, 1925, take over, maintain and operate the public telephone service in the Colony, and shall within such period of time as the Governor in Council may decide to be reasonable, install an improved system of telephone service to be approved of by the Governor in Council, with modern appliances, including all reasonable modern inventions. The Company shall also, at all times during the continuance of the concession, provide and maintain to the satisfaction of the Director a good efficient and con- tinuous service of public telephonic communication. The Company shall likewise provide buildings for its plant and offices, and shall keep in a good and sufficient state of repair all lines, cables, posts, attachments, plaut and appliances necessary for the provision and maintenance of such service.
31.—(a) The Company shall establish, at its own cost, and keep in proper condition such number of testing cir- cuits as the Director may reasonably direct for the pur pose of testing the insulation resistance of the conductors, and shall supply and keep iu proper condition all such instruments for testing as the Director may approve, aud shall supply energy to every testing station for the purpose of testing.
(4) The Company shall afford to the Director all faci- lities for inspection and testing of its works and for the reading, testing and inspection of its testing instru ments, and may, on each occasion of the testing of its works or the reading, testing or inspection of any testing instruments, be represented by an agent who may be present but shall not interfere with the reading, testing or inspection.
(c) On the occasion of the testing of any works of the Company by the Director reasonable previous notice in writing thereof shall be given to the Company, and the testing shall he carried out at such suitable hours as in the opinion of the Director will least interfere with the telephone service and in such manner as the Director may think fit, but, except under the provisions of a written order made in each case in that behalf by the Director, no person shall be entitled to have access to or interfere with the works of the Company at any points other than those At which the Company itself has access to the same.
Provided that the Company shall not be held respon sible for any interruption of or irregularity in the telephone service which may be occasioned by or required by the Director for the purpose of any such testing as aforesaid.
Provided also that the testing shall not be made in regard to any particular portion of the works oftener than once in any one year unless in pursuance of a written order made in each case in that behalf by the Director,
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32. The Company shall, on and from the 1st day of exchanges to July, 1925, take over, maintain and operate the existing be provided. telephone exchanges of the China and Japan Telephone and Electric Company Limited, and shall within three aml
a half years from the date of the commencement of this Ordinance or such other extended period as may be approved of by the Governor in Council and published in
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the Gazette, provide and equip to the satisfaction of the Director, in reinforced concrete and brick or similar fire resisting material, in locations suitable for the purpose at Victoria, the Peak District, in the neighbourhood of Quarry Bay, at Kowloon, New Kowloon and Taipo, suitable and adequate telephone exchanges, capable of expansion to meet the following requirements :-
In the City of Victoria 10,000 Subscribers.
In the Peak District 500 Subscribers.
In the neighbourhood of Quarry Bay 1,000 Subscribers.
In Kowloon 10,000 Subscribers.
In New Kowloon 1,000 Subscribers.
In Taipo 500 Subscribers.
And the Company shall from time to time hereafter furnish such exchanges with all such fittings and apparatus as shall be necessary to meet the requirements of such respective areas.
The Company shall also, within such period of time as the Governor in Council may decide to be reasonable and after receipt of notice in that behalf from the Director provide and equip in like manner such further exchanges as the Director shall from time to time during the continuance of the concession by notice in writing require, but such further exchanges need not exceed in number two in that part of the Island of Hongkong outside the boundaries of the City of Victoria and four in the New Territories, Each of such last mentioned exchanges shail be adequate for the requirements of the area concerned, and shall be capable of such expansion as shall appear to the Governor in Council to be reasonably necessary, und shall be furnished from time to time by the Company with all such fittings and apparatus as shall be uocessary for the requirements of the area concerned.
33. The Company shali, within a reasonable time after Lines to be the receipt of a request in writing in that behalf from any provided on person, and upon the payment in advance of the Company's request. usual charges (if demanded), and the signature of the Company's usual form of agreement for an exchange line (if required), install a telephone in such building within the Colouy as the requesting party may require, and shall connect the same with the nearest exchange and accord to the requesting person a good and continuous telephone service for so long as any such person continues to pay the Company's usual charges on due date. For the purposes of this section the Company shall be given such time as the Governor in Council may decide to be reasonable within which to obtain adequate plant.
34. The Company shall be entitled to charge its Rates of subscribers rates of subscription which shall not exceed subscription. those specified in the Schedule or such revised rates Matters as are hereinafter provided for. Such subscription shall covered by include the cost of erection and fitting up of the lines and subscription, the installation of all necessary receivers, transmitters, switches or other appliances and the connection thereof with the nearest exchange and also all necessary repairs and renewals requisite for the maintenance of an efficient and continuous service, with the exception of damage, not occasioned by fair wear and tear, to telephonic apparatus which is inside a subscriber's premises.
35-(1) For the purposes of section 36, the net profits Computation of the Company shall be the gross takings of the Company of net profits. less the moneys appropriated for the following purposes, namely:-
(1) Interest on moneys borrowed by the Company, including interest on Debentures: (2) the subr payable yearly to the Treasurer in accordance with section 7: (3) working costs: (4) reason- able management expenses: (5) superannuation and provident funds (6) maintenance and removal of works, apparatus and other property
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