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RECEIVED

our reference 72838/30

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P.O. reference....6.6423/30...........................

All communications should be

addressed to-

"The Secretary,

General Post Office."

29JUL 19

NATIONAL

SCH

DISABLED

MEN

CR

Sir,

GENERAL POST OFFICE,

LONDON, E.C. 1.

10

28 July

1930..

46

With reference to your letter of the 23rd instant

relative to the question of the future development of

radiotelephone services in Hong Kong, I am directed by the

Postmaster General to say, for the information of the

Secretary of state, that the Imperial and International

Communications Company recently approached this Department

with a view to securing its support in obtaining a concession

for radiotelephony in Hong Kong. A copy of the correspondence

is enclosed.

It will be seen that this Department expressed its

willingness to co-operate with the Company in working a

telephone service between this country and Hong Kong if the

Company obtained a concession at the latter place. It also

reserved its right, in general terms, to work with whatever

organisation could give access to subscribers' stations in

the area concerned.

The Postmaster General would hesitate, without a

comprehensive knowledge of the local conditions and the

available financial resources, to express an opinion on the

merits of the question whether the radiotelephone services

in Hong Kong would best be operated by the Hong Kong

Administration or by a private Corporation. He would, of

course, be prepared to co-operate with the Administration if

it should be decided that they should work the service

themselves, and he would also be prepared to co-operate with

The Under Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

any/