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Enclosure No. 1.

Extact from the Hongkong Daily Press of 9.2.1926.

CANTON AND AVIATION.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

The Board of Estimates of the Canton Government has under consideration a bill to provide funds for the establish- ment of an aviation school, using the former Bank of China building in Canton as the headquarters and Tai-sha-tao as the training field. A school of aviation is not a new thing in Canton. For years the Canton Government has spent money on a school which did practically nothing, the director at one time being Captain Tom Gunn, an American-born Chinese. The new school, if the Board acts favourably on the proposition, will provide facilities for 60 or more stud-

ents.