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 218

Your reference 82765/31

P.O. reference.

66423/30

All communications should bar

addressed to-

FOR DIS

SCHEME

ED

MEN

GENERAL POST OFFICE,

LONDON, E.C. 1.

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11 February 1981.

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"The Secretary,

General Post Office."

J

Sir,

RECEIVED 12FEB 1931

COL. OFFICE

of the 31st of

With reference to your letter

January regarding the proposed transfer of the

wireless services of the Hong Kong Government to

Imperial and International Communi ca ti ons Limited,

I am directed by the Postmaster General to say, for

the information of the Secretary of State, that

the Draft Agreement enclosed with your letter has

been examined and that the only alterations which

this Department wishes to suggest are those shown

below.

Article 2. It is presumed that the broadcasting

services referred to in Article 2 (c) are not only

entertainment broadcasting services but also press

broadcast transmissions normally received at

Government stations (see Article 14) and broadcast

telegraph messages containing commercial information

or news messages such as are broadcast from Rugby.

The Postmaster General would suggest that Article 2 (c)

should be amplified to read "broadcasting services

(including the reception of news and commercial

information broadcast by radiotelegraphy or

radiotelephony").

Article 9. This article might be read as implying

that the stations to be used in Great Britain for

radio te lephonic communication with Hong Kong would be

The Under Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

provided/