1,
+
·
54035/4
2
1
you.
791
29.12.39
of Committee's report W. plas
53504/1 Ref. 4/1/38.
The
showing
the
proposed layout
of the aerodrome
On the last occasion ine. 1937, when
The aerodrome at Kai Tak was extended and
improved Hong Kong provided
cover the cost of the with
We
$300,000 to
but, with the somewhat
reluctant conant of the greasy. In the teeth
of a
complant) that they had not been fully consulted
the
by the Air hamishing, tho bolony succeeded in
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collecting a contitry. from the A/m of half it's expenditure.
Apart from the fact that the
presex better. of Enquiry did not apparently
have
any power
to consider the question of
an alternative site for
a
new abodrane (vide
mbent's mumite of 8/4/38 an 53514//58), there
is no reference in the report of the Ctter-to the arrestion of framing the work.
On
comparison of plans;
prenant scheme appears the much more
the
elaborate than either
of
those which formed the
salejait of the Sov's desp, at I on the 'ss file the
more costly of which
was est. to run into some
$18,000,000 totale about 8 years to complete.
now is there
any reference to the
diffimely of
obtoring the resessay filling matemal
reclamations
as
mentioned
for
the few occas