like lasting for years)
no passenger.
acroplanes shall be assembled for anyo in Itong Kiong.
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I suggest that it we be best to have the meeting & fight for the maximum freeton of action for Itong Kong compatibl with not positical necessities before
we
say anything to the Good
Whalder
10.3·38
G.L.K.
Годовиди 9/3
Aftoward 7/2015
This is a matter of policy; but I am rather surprised to find the Economic Department pressing for liberty for Hong Kong to manufacture aeroplanes. I seem to remember some obstruction of a proposal by the Governor to facilitate the expan ion of the ship- building industry in Hong Kong; and the Colony has been warned not to encourage the manufacture of rubber shoes, and other innocent goods, too actively. I should have thought that we were on much safer
ground in discouraging an air-craft industry, which
freal-
is not likely to be of any commercial value to Hong
Kong after hostilities cease
point?
-
but perhaps that is the
I
#Rlowell
10.3.
seems to me that, aput from the temporary
Objections there may
the continuance
J
be to this perposal during
the present hostilities, we
want to know from the Service Departments
Werther there is any takie Mjection this
suy
the proposal on the grand frounds flue Orfence of Somgkang. If their answer is in the negative, then the parties question were