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Mr.
Mr.
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DRAFT. DESPATCH.
Sir,
HONG LONG
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Downing Street,
1946.
|| June,
I have etc. to transmit for your
consideration a copy of the report of the
Mission, headed by Air Commodore Darley,
which recently visited Hong Kong to
examine the problems entailed in the
they international,
selection and construction/or an airports.
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Exell. in (34).
FURTHER ACTION.
MCA: M. W. Ms Burkett.
Try: M. R.L.M. James.
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2.
It will be observed that the
Mission recommended that Deep Buy be the
such
site selected for airport, in view
of the poor bad weather approaches at
Ping Shan, and the estimated that
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The cost of constructing one
would 2,000-yard runway at Deep, Tay be
Kast
be nearly £3,000,000, andthe cost
of constructing one 3,170-yard runway
tilutaime be nearly £4,000,000.
wilbe
3. Clearly, before any further progress cani
beade in the matter, it necessary
consider how the project could be finuncės.
view of the
The Ministry of Civil Aviation here is
that their financial interes
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