CO129-511-13 Civil Aviation- proposals for experimental passenger and mail service 28-7-1928 - 28-12-1928 — Page 48

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(4) Tree meteorological service. After discussion of the

elaborate and expensive arrangements at first

suggested Mr. Vaughan Fowler said he would be content

with the same free meteorological service as is at present given to shipping.

7.

The matter was fully discussed at a meeting of the Executive Council at which Mr. Vaughan Fowler was

present, and was subsequently placed confidentially before

the Finance Committee. The members are in favour of granting the assistance asked for subject to the following conditions:

(a) The Company to be formed to the satisfaction of

Government.

(b) The work done to be in the opinion of Government such

as to justify the subsidy each year.

(c) The conclusion of satisfactory arrangements with the

Chinese Authorities concerned.

Two members of the Finance Committee qualify

their approval by the further proviso that Government

assistance should be conditional on the flotation of the

Company on business lines.

8.

There is one other requirement, viz. that

for a period of five years the proposed Company should have

the sole rights of operating as the official commercial

Aircraft Company fran and to Hong Kong and that the Hong

Kong Government will not support any other Aerial Transport

Company which may operate from and to Hong Kong in any form

unless the proposed Company is unable to carry out its

obligations or extend its services sufficiently fast to

meet the requirements of Hong Kong.

Provided that this monopoly is interpreted

merely as meaning that the Government should not give free

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