CO129-532-8 Proposed transfer of Government Wireless services in Hong Kong to Imperial and International Communications- Ltd.... 19-12-1930 - 19-4-1932 — Page 212

RECEIVED

3 OMAR 1931

COL. OFFICE

No.

CONFIDENTIAL.

219

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG, 27th February, 1931.

My Lord,

I have the honour to refer to my

confidential despatch dated the 19th of December,

1930, and to emphasise the need of a speedy decision on the part of the Merger Company

regarding the offer set out in the Draft

Agreement. Although certain minor points may have been overlooked, the general negotiations should have now reached a stage approaching

finality and in my opinion the Company should be

pressed to give a definite decision before

Mr. King the Colony's Electrical Engineer returns

from leave in England.

He is due back in the

Colony on the 3rd of October next.

2. The normal development of the Colony's Wireless Services has already been retarded

approximately two years on account of the Merger

Company's proposals. During this period the task of properly equipping the Hong Kong Wireless Station has been suspended and the growing requirements of the Colony in the matter of telegraphic communications have been met by temporary and

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD PASSFIELD ,

&C.,

&C.,

&c.

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