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MANSION HOUSE 304).

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2 JUL 948

BIL'

ARE,

&

5-5

ILLITER STREET,

E.C.3.

27th June 1946

Dear Male,

COL. OFFICE

Hong Kong Labour.

The attached from Finnie, our Dockyard Manager, may interest

you, which we are approving warmly.

A.N.A. I also attach copy of a letter from

C.C.Roberts, our Manager in Hong Kong,

to our directors in Australia, which will be of interest to you.

You will notice the reference to Skymasters and Kai Tak. I must say I should have thought it would have been worth the Hong Kong Government's while to build

Air

a really proper aerodrome in a suitable place. communication between Hong Kong and the rest of the world is so vital to the former and to its functiona as a centre of British influence in the Far East, that surely a few millions more of depreciated currency would not matter in these days for such a good object.

Yours sincerely

N.L.Male Esq.,

Colonial office,

Downing Street, S.W. 1

Cms

Ref.:

CO 537/1427

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