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Excellency's Government might see fit to vote form a Flying Training
School organized and equipped to carry out the principal objects for
which the Flying Club was formed and which are listed in paragraph
6 (b) of this Petition and that for this purpose and for the economic
and practical carrying out of the scheme your Petitioner should be
permitted to extend all the uses and advantages of the Flying Train-
ing School to all persons irrespective of nationality.
14. That your Petitioner humbly submits that the history of the Hong
Kong Flying Club indicates that the Training School limited in operation to the
training of British born and volunteer corps members cannot prove a financial
success, even with the assistance of Government grants. It is therefore necessary
that if your Petitioner is to operate a financially sound Flying Training School
in Hong Kong permission must be granted to your Petitioner to train non-
British nationals in addition.
15. That your Petitioner wishes clearly to stress the fact that the
Flying Training School if approved would exist primarily to,-
(a) Carry out the principal objects for which the Flying Club was
formed. That is to say primarily to teach and promote flying in the
Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and to extend to
members of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and of the
Flying Club opportunities for becoming trained and efficient pilots
and engineers.
(b) Further the sale of British Aircraft and supplies in China.
16. That if permission is granted to your Petitioner to operate a
Flying Training School, your Petitioner is in a position to operate such school on a strictly business basis and the staff of that school would consist of qualified
full-time officers. In this way Government would not only achieve the objects
for which the Hong Kong Flying Club was formed and subsidized, but would
achieve those objects to an extent never attainable by an organization similar to
that of the Hong Kong Flying Club.
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