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Hong Kong is a valuable centre of communications. It is a major port, providing both ship building and repair facilities. The international airport at Kai Tak is a valuable point on trunk and regional air routes and the Colony provides major aircraft repair facilities. Air traffic rights at Hong Kong have been of increasing importance to the United Kingdom in the negotiation of Air Services Agreements with other countries; the monopoly of cabotage rights at Hong Kong enjoyed by B.0.A.C. has been of great value to that Corporation. The SEACOM relecommunication cable link between Singapore and Australia passes through Hong Kong.
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THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN RETAINED IN THE DEPARTMENT UNDER SECTION 3(4) OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT 1958
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