Registry No. HKK 21/7
DRAFT SAVING DESPATCH
Type 1 +
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
SECTOR.
To:-
From
Confidential,
Restricted,
Unelassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
The Governor, Hong Kong.
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
In your Despatch No. BL 2/926/65 of 10 March, 1967,
you requested a financial contribution amounting to
£2 million towards the cost of extending and modifying
the runway, terminal apron and taxi-ways at Kai Tak
This request for a contribution was changed
#6 million
Airport.
to one for a loan for the game amount in Sir John
Cowperthwaite's letter of 15 July, 1968.
2. In addition, you asked in your Saving Despatches
Nos. 197 of 27 February, 1969 and 809 of 10 July, 1969
for grants totalling £281,850 for equipment for the
airport.
iated.
3. These applications for assistance have been care-
fully studied, since the benefits to be derived from
an enlarged and modernised airport are fully apprec-
Unfortunately, although the economy of the
United Kingdom has made progress, it is necessary to
watch very carefully any extension of investment abroad
and at present it has not been possible to approve
However, this does not rule out
these requests.
completely the possibility of a financial contribution
from Her Majesty's Government for the extension and
improvement of Kai Tak Airport and the matter will be
looked at again in 1971 in the light of conditions
prevailing at that time.
(118281) Dd. 391599 1,500M 2/69 Hw.
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