No 225
(BOEIVED
6 MAY 1930
@OL, OFFICE]
My Lord,
3512
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG. 23rd April, 1930.
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With reference to Your Lordship's despatch
12 on 62911A No.326 of the 17th of December, 1929, I have the honour to
address Your Lordship upon the question of the subsidy in
50m
52911/28.
15
62757/29
15 on
62911 A
29
Aned (4)
12
A
aid of commercial aviation for which a provision of $100,000 has been made in the Estimates for the current year. The suggestion for the provision of this subsidy was put forward in my despatch No.408 of the 27th August, 1928, and was approved in principle in Mr. Amery's reply No.121 dated the
11th of May, 1929. In your despatch No.326 of the 17th 629114 December, 1929, and in your unnumbered telegram of the 1st of January, 1930, particulars of the scheme were requested before any expenditure was incurred on such a subsidy.
It has not yet been found possible to conclude any definite scheme for commercial aviation, and no expenditure has taken place on account of the proposed subsidy
3.
2.
Mr. Vaughan Fowler informed me, after his
recent visit to Nanking, that it was improbable that the
Chinese Government would, for the time being, permit
foreign operated air lines to set up services to places in
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
&C.,
&C.,
&c.
China