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The Kai Tak Aerodrome and the
Sai Kung Road Extension.
1.
The establishment of an aerodrome
at MK for both civil and military aviation was
2 DRAFTS memorandan.
FURTHER ACTION.
recommended at intervals by the O.D.C. and
the C.I.D. from 1925 onwards, but no action
was taken immediately on account partly of
expense and partly of the difficulties which
would have been raised in view of the terms
of the Washington Treaty. The matter was
lent greater urgency by the troubles which
broke out in China in 1926; and in 1927 it
was decided to acquire the Kai Tak
Reclamation site for this purpose. The
a
temporary but swere
Colony was then undergoing financial
crisis even more severe than the present one;
and it was consequently proposed by the Hong
Kong Government that the cost should be
shared by the local Government and the Air
Ministry in the ratio of 1 to 3. This
failed to secure the concurrence of His
Majesty's