CO129-502-5 Acquisition of Kai Tak for an aerodrome- financial arrangements 23-5-1927 - 27-10-1927 — Page 37

Telephone No.: VICTORIA 1234.

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In reply

please quote Regd. No.

S.26090.

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TREASURY CHAMBERS,

WHITEHALL, S.W. 1.

6th September, 1927.

Dear Clusterbuck,

I have just returned from leave to find

your letter of the 3rd September about the provision

of funds for an aerodrome at Hongkong. The Treasury

are not yet committed to any charge on U.K. funds in

respect of this proposed aerodrome, though, as you

will see from the remarks of the Chancellor of the

Txchequer on page 2 of the C.I.D. Minutes of the 225th

Meeting on the 6th of April last, that if the Air

Ministry put this requirement high in the order of

urgency in their works and are prepared to delete some

other item of proposed expenditure he will be prepared

to consider the matter. We have as yet had no

proposals from the Air Ministry and it is, therefore,

premature, I think, for us to participate in your

conference. You and the Air Ministry had better

formulate your nefarious designs on the unfortunate

Taxpayer and put them to us officially.

P. A. Clutterbuck, Esq., M. C.,

Colonial Office.

Yours sincerely,

Kar