CO129-539-13 Proposed transfer of Government Wireless Service to Imperial and International Communications Ltd. 11-4-1932 - 17-6-1933 — Page 99

ANNE X.-

Letter from the Colonial Office to Imperial and International Communi- cations Limited.

92640/32.

Sir,

C.

83

6th September, 1932.

X

With reference to your letter GM(C) of the

5th of August regarding the wireless services in Hong

Kong, I am directed to inform you that a telegram has

been received from the Officer Administering the

Government of Hong Kong in which he states that the

essential minimum requirements of the Colony for existing telegraph purposes are (a) additional trans- mitting equipment estimated to cost £12,000, and (b)

additional receiving equipment estimated to cost

£4,000. He states that these requirements are entirely

apart from the requirements which a regular service with

Japan would involve, and merely suffice to modernise the

present service. They would permit, however, of initiating a service with Japan if necessary.

2.

The Officer Administering the Government proposes

to make provision for these items in the Colony's

Estimates for 1933 unless your Company is prepared to

undertake the work. If the equipment is installed by

the Government it will be necessary for your Company to

take it over at a valuation, if and when an agreement

for the transfer of the wireless services is concluded.

The Officer Administering the Government also

states that the establishment of a wireless telephone

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X Enclosure to Annex of I.C.C. 1421.