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My note of the discussion which Sir S. Wilson
had on 17th December at Government House, Hong Kong with
His Excellency, the Colonial Secretary, Director of Public Works, Mr. Breen, and Mr. Shenton is that there was in the
view of the Colonial Government and of the Flying Club
and the Far East Aviation Company no other suitable site
for the purpose of a Flying School.
The possible sites in the New Territories
were too far removed from the city.
The Colonial Government is apprehensive of the
claim of the Air Ministry apparently to exercise a
decisive voice in the future of the Kai Tak aerodrome as
far as civil flying is concerned. The aerodrome was
built with the money of the Colonial Government, on the
understanding that civil flying had equal rights with the
Air Force to the use of the aerodrome.
In June last an Air Ministry official (? Evans)
had been sent to Hong Kong without any notice to the
as they understood, Colonial Government, and he arrived, azaz with the
impression that he had been sent out to establish an Air
Base at Kai Tak with complete control of the aerodrome
by the Royal Air Force.
What the Colonial Government and the civil could not understand
flying authority wantedded mache de feicely was what were
the objections of the Air Ministry to the proposal to
open a flying school at Kai Tak to which aliens might be
admitted.
Were the objections:-
(1) On the score of teaching aliens on military
machines?
If so the Colonial Government would
undertake