RAC.
Reference:-
C,1y085/37.
MEMORANDUM
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With reference to Foreign Office letter to the Colonial
Office No. .6021/31/10 of the 7th September relative to the
establishment of an aeroplane assembly depot in the new
territories, hongkong, and to Colonial üffice letter
No.53846/37 of the 14th October, the Department of Overseas
Trade transmit a copy of a letter from Messrs. liawker
Siddeley Aircraft Company Limited saying that the test pilot
of Messrs. Gloster Aircraft Company will arrive at Hongkong
on the 11th November and requesting that a telegram be sent
to liongkong asking that facilities and advice be given to him.
The Department of Overseas Trade have ascertained from
their Ministry that Mesara. Gloster Aircraft Company have
been informed in the sense of telegram No.227 of the 10th
Üctober from the Officer Administering the Government of
Longkong to the Colonial Office.
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3. The Department of Overseas Trade suggest that a telegram
in the sense of the attached draft may be sent by the Foreign
Office to the commercial Secretary at longkong or alternative
ly that it may be sent by the Colonial Office through the
hongkong Government.
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