1 H. Kong despatch No. 2. Conf
(orig. on 22923/15/46 Comms.)
Miss Ruston
4.9.46
2
This is the duplicate of
a despatch from Hong Kong which is registered on 22923/15/46 Communications, and is being considered on that file insofar as it directly relates to the project for building an international airport at Deep Bay in the New Territories.
There is a reference, in
paragraph 5, to a scheme for the reclamation of the southern shore of Deep Bay which is said to have been under active consideration before the outbreak of hostitilities in order to increase the rice growing area of the New Territories. The Governor says that it will be necessary to carry out this scheme in order to provide alternative land for the villagers who will be displaced if it is decided to construct the airfield at Deep Bay.
I think, however, that we should be considering whether this scheme should not be carried out in any case, irrespective of the decision on the Deep Bay airfield project. Would you please consider this accordingly in conjunction with the previous papers on the subject.
Mangla
8.10.46.
Mr. North tells me that a scheme was proposed before the war by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke for the employment of the large numbers of refugees then in camps in the New Territories and that this took the form of
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