He informed me that he would at once cable to Captain
Jackson on this subject, and requested that when I made
my report of this interview to the Colonial Office the
following procedure should be adopted, viz:-
That the Colonial Office should address a further
letter to the Air Ministry stating that: -
(1)
(2)
they had received the report of this meeting from me, and:
Sive the subject matter of the report, and
(3) ask that the same should be confirmed by the
Air Ministry.
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2.
After this decision had been arrived at, Colonel
Turner, Director of Works raised the point of the sale
of the triangular piece of land to the East South East
of Kai Tak Aerodrome, and stated that he felt that the
Hong Kong Government should sell this land to the Air
Ministry on favourable terms, observing that in the future
it might be required for further developments in the
Royal Air Force establishments in the Far East. I
replied that, as this land was outside the Hong Kong
Aerodrome area, it did not come within my jurisdiction
as