Copy.
No.1 in 2820/1925.
Sir,
Enclosure No. 2.
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Public Works Department,
Hong Kong,
4th April, 1928.
With reference to the signal to you from the
Air Ministry dated 20th March, 1928, stating that it was impossible for them to spare Wood fron Singapore etc., and
your message for me saying you would take no further action
until you arrived home, etc., copies of which were forwarded for my information from the Fleet Air Arm Headquarters, Hong Kong. It is very important that the Air Ministry should
realize our position in regard to the preparation of plans
for the layout of the Aerodrome. We have received much
assistance from the R. A. F. Officers stationed in Hong Kong from time to time and are embodying the many valuable
suggestions made by them in the scheme, but I understand that all this assistance is given unofficially and in no way comm- its the Air Ministry to accept any of these proposals.
2.
It would avoid much unnecessary work and
correspondence if an authorized agent nominated by the Air
Ministry could give us their definite requirements to be
so incorporated in the scheme that when completed it may be
approved by the Air Ministry with perhaps only slight
modifications.
3.
Should the nominee of the Air Ministry be
selected fran the R. A. F. Officers serving in Hong Kong or
Group Captain E. D. M. Robertson,
Headquarters, Fleet Air Arm, China,
Exchange Building.
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