22923/15
19676/7/48
(10) m
54403/48
(4)
installations in the New Territories
e. g. water-au ply
and airfield. But I have not found on there or any other
papers any consideration of the broader question of the
weight to be given, when considering further physical
development in the New Territories, to the fact of
termination of the lease, either in due efflux of time in
1997, or prematurely.
( N.M.l. This point was not seriously considered as such
when the decision to site the new airfield in the New
Territories was made; the points there taken were proximity
to China and the fact that the choice of a site in the New
Territories was likely to provoke political difficulties
with the Chinese.
N.B. 2. The point has been recently raised in
connection with mining development in the New Territories,
but consideration has not yet gone far.
M.B.3. It has been agreed in princi le that half of
Hong Kong's C.D. & allocation of £1,000,000 should be
devoted to agricultural and fisheries schemes for the New
Territories. None of the individual schemes however
involves large capital expenditure on installations in
the New Territories.)
(The above Note, dated 7th October, 1948, was
prepared for consideration with the Tai Lam Chung
reservoir case 53687/48. Andher copy is filed on
54145/48 Hong Kong
Future Policy).