interest, in which case he suggested it would cause very bad feeling
in the Colonies concerned.
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CAPTAIN MURRAY
suggested that if the Communications Company
were allowed to take over the Government wireless services at
Singapore and Hong Kong they would be in a very much stronger
position as they would represent a single body to face any attempted
foreign competition.
AIR COMMODORE WARRINGTON-MORRIS asked whether local governments
were opposed to the scheme of handing over their services to the
Communications Company, when it was proposed to erect high
power wireless stations.
SIR PHIDIP CUNLIFFE LISTER stated that the high power stations
represented some inducement to the local governments but, all the same
they would have preferred to continue on their own as they felt that
their interests would have been second to those of the Communications
Company.
AIR COMMODORE WARRINGTON-MORRIS suggested that if they were not given
wireless services the Communications Company would be purely a cable company in Singapore and Hong Kong and it would put them in a strong position to
ask for a subsidy in respect of those cables.
SIR PHILIP CUNLIFFE LISTER said that what in fact was suggested
was that Singapore and Hong Kong should be asked to do something to
minimise the contingent financial risk attendant on maintaining
strategic cables.
MR. ROBINSON asked whether it would be possible for the Colonial
Office to inform the local governments concerned not to develop their
services out of harmony with imperial and International Communications
Limited on the lines of a recommendation contained in the Report
of the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference of 1928, which read as
follows:-
14.
No comments yet.
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