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allocation of which among the Service
Departments is a matter for them to
decision by HNG.
settle with the Imperial Treasury,
(2) That the Military Lands Account
Yếmex) had, as a pre-requisite, a "fund" in-
possersed in H.Kh
which/the War Department, were in undisputable
*/the
it was
possession, and as a means of maintaining this
credit
"fund" intact, either in money or in land.
This necessary pre-requisite does not exist
in the case of the Air Ministry who
Laim to
cannot, therefore,/receive an analogous
treatment.
(Attach as Annex paras 2-7 of No.15).
That the Air Ministry must
consequently be prepared to pay for any
lands which they may require in Hong Kong
at a rate of which past experience shows
the Colonial Government will be willing
to agree to a fair and reasonable assessment.
The attitude of the Government of
Hong Kong must obviously be determined to
a large extent by local conditions. These
include the extremely limited amount of
suitable