COPY
No. 1 in 2820/25.
Public Works Office,
Hong Kong.
4th April, 1928.
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sir,
With reference to the signal to you from the Air
Ministry dated 20.3.28, stating that it was impossible for them
to spare Wood from Singapore, etc. and your message for me
saying you would take no further action until you arrived home,
etc., copies of which were forwarded for my information from the
Fleet Air Arm Headquarters Hong Kong. It is very important
that the Air Ministry should realise our position in regard to
the preparation of plans for the layout of the aerodrome. We have
received much assistance from the R.A.F. officers/stationed in
Hong Kong from time to time and are embodying the many valuable
suggestions made by them in the scheme, but I understand that
all this assistance is given unofficially and in no way commits
the Air Ministry to accept any of these proposals.
2. •
It would avoid much unnecessary work and correspondence
if an authorised agent nominated by the Air Ministry could give
us their definite requirements to be so incorporated in the
scheme that when completed it may be approved by the Air Ministry
with perhaps only slight modifications.
3.
Should the nominee of the Air Ministry be selected
from the R.A.F. officers serving in Hong Kong es a member of
their staff on foreign service it would not be necessary to
obtain an officer from England to safeguard their interests.
As already known to you we have collected much
information and obtained considerable knowledge of aerodromes
both for Commercial and Air Force services and have a good
insight as to their general requirements.
4.
What we are endeavouring to do in regard to the Hong
Kong layout is to so arrange the sites reserved for buildings
Group Captain E.D.M. Robertson,
Headquarters,
Fleet Air Arm, China,
Exchange Building.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.