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COMMUNICATIONS AND BROADCASTING

when arrangements were made for a Cable and Wireless representative to meet incoming liners for the acceptance of telegrams from passengers before disembarking.

The traffic figures for the year ending 31st Decem- ber, 1952, were as follows:

Telegrams forwarded

Telegrams delivered

1,347,778

1,279,906

...

Radiotelephone paid minutes outwards 689,450 Radiotelephone paid minutes inwards

Telephones

880,685

The public telephone service is provided by the Hong Kong Telephone Company, Ltd. On the 31st December, 1952, the total number of direct lines working on the Company's system was 25,147, and the number of extensions 12,743, a total of 37,890.

Telephone equipment for nearly 8,000 additional lines has arrived in the Colony, and is now being installed. These lines will be brought into service during 1953.

Broadcasting

Radio Hong Kong is the broadcasting station which serves the whole of the Colony. It is a division of the Public Relations Office.

This broadcasting service is run by a small per- manent staff responsible for programme organizing, aided by a group of part-time announcers. The technical side is entirely professional and is carried out by Cable and Wireless Ltd. Apart from operating the transmitters and the receiving station for relays, the engineers deal with activities which range from complicated outside broadcasts to routine studio control work.

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