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incompatible with its joint use as a
base for the Fleet Air Arm in Chinese
Watters and as a civil air port."Ts to be feared that
reference this tendinte by
The mention of the Air Ministry's desire
control of Tainaka civil air port" World
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be regarded by
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the Hong Kong overment as another attempt
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to infringe the existing arrangement for joint •
coequal
control.
It is maintained by the Hong Kong
Government, rightly in Sir Philip Cunliffe-
Lister's opinion, that the Royal Air Force has
direct
no/concern in the control of the Aerodrome
as a civil air port. It is suggested, therefore,
that the words " and as a civil air port should be
regarded as omitted at the end of the
paragraph of your letter.
In order that a Flying School may be
successfully established on a commercial basis,
it would appear to be essential that the
company