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The questions raised in (17) concerning the reorganisation of the Department of Air Services in Hong Kong need to be considered against the background of the airfields to be staffed in the Colony. I have spoken to McArthur of the Air Ministry and Dunnett of the M.C.A. about the provision of an airfield of international standard in Hong Kong, and I understand that the situation now is that the Air Ministry have decided that they do not require a V.H.B. field in The M.C.A. have therefore to consider
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by Hong Kong to become as important an air centre as it is already a sea centre. They must, however, consider the various considerations involved, particularly the financial ones, and compare the relevant merits of Canton, where an aerodrome already exists, and Hong Kong. We shall be able to consider what we have to say to Hong Kong on this subject when we have received Dunnett's letter.
To return to the more immediate question of the Department of Air Services in Hong Kong. I think we can now take it that the airports to be administered will be those that were administered before the war, namely, the flying boat and landplane base at Kai Tak. The reasons put forward by Brigadier MacDougall at (17) for replacing the former Directorate of Air Services by a separate body called the Department of Civil Aviation
convincing. Work in connection with civil aviation is likely to increase, and as the civil staff will have to work in close liaison with the R.A.F.
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