CO129-502-5 Acquisition of Kai Tak for an aerodrome- financial arrangements 23-5-1927 - 27-10-1927 — Page 31

Mr. Clutterbuck

Mr.

Mr.

Ellis

Mr. E. J. Harding.

Sir C. Struchcy.

Sir J. Shuckburgh,

Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

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Sir S. Wilson.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore.

Lord Lovat.

Mr. Amery.

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DRAFT.

THE SECRETARY,

wos 9.9.22

AIR MINISTRY.

(2)

To

パ

30044 B Hong Kong

ذكر

Downing Street,

173

12 September, 1927

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ands love of s.o. Wells to M. Caines

(companion aff)

SECRET.

Sir,

I am, etc., to ack. the receipt

of your letter No.S.23467/S of the 7th

of July, on the subject of the

acquisition of the Kai Tak site at

Hong Kong for an aerodrome, and to

request you to inform the Air Council

that the Secretary of State has learnt

with regret that owing to the necessity

for curtailing their expenditure

during the current financial year, the

Council find themselves unable to

Revised Estimate

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proceed with the scheme on the basis

for

hitherto contemplated pafare submission

to the Treasury.

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•

There can be no doubt, in

view of the repeated recommendations

of the Oversea Defence Committee and

the Committee of Imperial Defence, that

The provision