CO129-518-8 Colonial Development Fund- requests and recommendations for monetary assistance for various projects 30-8-1929 - 28-2-1930 — Page 51

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S. of S.Tel.10.9.29 Gov.Tel. 5.10.29

C.O. Memo 12.10.29

COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE

I circulate herewith for the information

of the Committee copies of:-

(a) Telegraphic correspondence between

the Governor of Hong Kong and the Colonial

Office arising out of the Secretary of State's

circular telegram of the 7th of August last on

the subject of the Colonial Development Act.

(b) A memorandum by the Far Eastern Department

in the Colonial Office regarding the thres

projects referred to in the telegrams.

It will be observed (1) that the Secretary

of State does not recommend for approval the

proposal that the purchase of engines for the

Kowloon-Canton Railway should be assisted from

the Colonial Development Fund, and that as

regards the other schemes :

(2) The construction of a cross-harbour water

pipe line, and

(3) The development of the Aerodrome, the

Committee are not required to take any action

for the present.

Colonial office.

14 October, 1929.

E.B. BOYD.

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Secretary to the Committee.