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Nos. 35 and 42. What follows is subject to any further light which may be thrown on the matter from your file 54145/14/46° (which I have not seen),
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I think that we now have no alternative but to send the Governor of Hong Kong a copy of the Joint Committee's Report enclosed in No. 34 and communicate to him the M.C.A. view, as disclosed in No. 42, as to the likelihood of their contributing anything towards the cost of the project to build a new airfield at Deep Bay.
I fear that the attitude of the M.C.A. as reflected in No. 42 is only in line with the attitude which they have consistently adopted towards contributing anything towards the cost of airport projects in other parts of the Empire.
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I agree that the Governor of Hong Kong should now have a copy of the Report and be advised of the M.C.A. view.
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I presume that in proceeding as proposed, we should ask the Governor for his views on the traffic possibilities of Hong Kong and the likelihood of
its developing attractions superior to those of Canton' as a focal point of international traffic services, pointing out that the Ministry of Civil Aviation require information on these points to enable them to reach a decision on the question of contributing to the cost of constructing an airport at Deep Bay.
When this action has been taken, I think that some further consideration might be given to the whole problem here, and in this connection I would like to put forward, purely tentatively, a suggestion that the Chinese might be invited to co-operate in the construction of an airport at Deep Bay, on the ground that such an airport would be serving Southern China, and also because the territory on which it will bẹ constructed is at present only held on lease, expiring in about 52 years' time, and there is not perhaps sufficient security of tenure so far as we are concerned to warrant the construction of a £4,000,000 airport on this territory. I think also that there might be some political advantage in an approach to the Chinese of this nature. Perhaps the first thing,
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