CO129-502-5 Acquisition of Kai Tak for an aerodrome- financial arrangements 23-5-1927 - 27-10-1927 — Page 29

Mr. Clutterbuck.

Jr. Ellis

Mr.

Mr. E. J. Harding.

Sir C. Strachey.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Sir G. Grinulle.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. Wilson.

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Mr. Ormsby-Gore.

Lord Lovat.

Mr. Amery.

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30044B/1927 Hong Kong.

Dear Caines,

Downing Street,

18 29

/Z-September,1927

C. D.

R 10SEP.

Hong Kong Ameri

In pursuance of our telephone

For Mr. Ellis's signature.

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9.9.27

conversation,

Ι

e an official

letter suggesting that the best solution

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S.G.CAINES, ESQ.,

AIR MINISTRY.

would be for the Air Ministry to under-

take to pay their contribution during

leaving

1928-9, dar the amount required

during the current financial year to

be advanced in the meantime by the

Hong Kong Government.

This seems to

12 sep. 192 (Companion draft)

us the only way of meeting all the

difficulties, and I hope that you will

Lesitation

have no maieurty in agreeing to the

proposal.

I do not altogether follow

the suggestion in your letter of the

30th August that the aerodrome ought

to share in the reduction in the cost

of reclamation. As you are aware,

Hong

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