11.
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Governor 444
18.10.29.
Forwards corrected copies Hansard Reports of 19th and
and 23rd September.)
We have already received, in (3),
uncorrected Hansard for 19 September, and press
report of debate of 23 September. There appears
to be nothing new of special interest in the
final form of the Report.
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the
We may now approve the estimates generally;
but it remains to consider more closely one item
provision of $25,433 for establishment of R.N.V.R.
For convenience I repeat here the gist of what has
already been mentioned about the proposal in previous
minutes on this file.
The head (33b) is a new one. An R.N.V.R.
was proposed at the time of the 1927 Estimates but
after due consideration the Secretary of State
decided that, in view of the existing trade depression,
and the special expenditure involved in the
construction of the aerodrome, he was unable to
sanction the proposal (9 on 30176/27).
He informed
the Governor, however, that he was at liberty, to
consider the matter further in connection with the
1928 Estimates. The matter was not brought up in
that connection, but the Governor, in reply to the
Secretary of State's despatch intimating this
decision, admitted that, while in the first flush of
enthusiasm a Division of the R.N.V.R. might be
successfully established in Hong kong it was unlikely
that