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The attaobod vind rose, Ayyaxlix C, gives the situation at ilong song and it is expected that the valley at fing than will add a Tortherly component. Conditions of low aloul occur frequently during the winter at which times the cloud base is down to 600 feet, taking a norma. instrument let dom a neosssity.
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There is considerable feeling arxxg the local Chinese population against a British aerodrome loonted in the liew Territories. ho New Territories are lease, from C ina witì, a 52 years of lease still to rum. One of the conditions of lease is that the life of the local Chinese population should be interfere; vlth as little as possible. this respect the building of an aerourous on either site involves thn removal of Chinese nationals. In the case of ing Shan it will be necessary to rehouse about 48 villagers for a normal R.A.F. rumy of 2,250 yards and 1,800 villagers for a runway of 3,000 yards. The Goon Bay site will require tie displacement of 903 vållagers irrespective of the runway length. Rehousing has to be done with oach inŭiviðuml householder an. cannot be done as a village collectively and it is statai by the civil Affairs Officer at Hong Kong that the whole prOOCGS will probably takes 12 months.
In alition to new houses and land, all the villagors re:guire compensatio. until the lan. they are moved to is pro ucing the same standaru crop as their exlətin, ground. be; alec regire compensation for the removal of the bones of their ancestors from their prosent gravos in the hillsides surrvamling either sito. in akiitio; there are important alpects with regard to the selection of sites for new villages, as they must be situated on lanu with favourable wind and water conditions and must be an "lunky" (round.
There has been considerable unofficial political op osition from the Chinese Government to the construction of 1g van, mainly bocause they were not consulted originally on tho rezoval of the Chinese nationals from their villages, and it is felt that any further change of plan,such as the removal of the aerodrom site from ing than to Deep lay, would roosive further on osition. lovovar, it is the view of the chief of Civil Affairs of the long Kong Government that if it monos the differmoe between a good airport ani à bad airport they are prepared to accept the olange.
The ear Bay site ins the approval of the chier vil ffairs ffloor, as he is most keen to obtain for liang Yog an airport omarable to the
merican one at Canton. On the other hand the i...F. are most reluctant to abandon the ing than site in view of the work they have alreal, put into it. However, as a certain amount of this work is common to both sites, the remainder whioù, is not a great amount, cannot have a great bearing upon the ultimate uecision. The RA,1, are quite prevared to use "ing than for heavy bombers and fail to see why Civil iation are not prepared to use if for their heavy aircraft. It was pointed out to them that the ivil zir services are intende. to run regularly irrespective of bad weather conditions, whereas the R.A.F. eculú cancel flying du: ing bad weather, and that ng han was moot wsuitable for bad weather flying.
A meeting was hold with the C. in C. Bing Fong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt at which boti. the "ission anú local. R. A. F. representatives vore present but as the C. in Ü. ma presentad with two conflicting sets of expert opinions, 1.8. the local 8.5.7. and the xission, he was unable to make a decision on the spot ani referred the matter to the C lels of taif in London, whilst procaking with the present construction work at Fing „han at a rohani zate.
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