CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929 — Page 2

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Governor 444

18.10.29.

Forwards corrected copies Hansard Reports of 19th and

and 23rd September.)

We have already received, in (3),

uncorrected Hansard for 19 September, and press

report of debate of 23 September. There appears

to be nothing new of special interest in the

final form of the Report.

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the

We may now approve the estimates generally;

but it remains to consider more closely one item

provision of $25,433 for establishment of R.N.V.R.

For convenience I repeat here the gist of what has

already been mentioned about the proposal in previous

minutes on this file.

The head (33b) is a new one. An R.N.V.R.

was proposed at the time of the 1927 Estimates but

after due consideration the Secretary of State

decided that, in view of the existing trade depression,

and the special expenditure involved in the

construction of the aerodrome, he was unable to

sanction the proposal (9 on 30176/27).

He informed

the Governor, however, that he was at liberty, to

consider the matter further in connection with the

1928 Estimates. The matter was not brought up in

that connection, but the Governor, in reply to the

Secretary of State's despatch intimating this

decision, admitted that, while in the first flush of

enthusiasm a Division of the R.N.V.R. might be

successfully established in Hong kong it was unlikely

that