CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932 — Page 438

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

No 225

(BOEIVED

6 MAY 1930

@OL, OFFICE]

My Lord,

3512

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG. 23rd April, 1930.

29

With reference to Your Lordship's despatch

12 on 62911A No.326 of the 17th of December, 1929, I have the honour to

address Your Lordship upon the question of the subsidy in

50m

52911/28.

15

62757/29

15 on

62911 A

29

Aned (4)

12

A

aid of commercial aviation for which a provision of $100,000 has been made in the Estimates for the current year. The suggestion for the provision of this subsidy was put forward in my despatch No.408 of the 27th August, 1928, and was approved in principle in Mr. Amery's reply No.121 dated the

11th of May, 1929. In your despatch No.326 of the 17th 629114 December, 1929, and in your unnumbered telegram of the 1st of January, 1930, particulars of the scheme were requested before any expenditure was incurred on such a subsidy.

It has not yet been found possible to conclude any definite scheme for commercial aviation, and no expenditure has taken place on account of the proposed subsidy

3.

2.

Mr. Vaughan Fowler informed me, after his

recent visit to Nanking, that it was improbable that the

Chinese Government would, for the time being, permit

foreign operated air lines to set up services to places in

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD PASSFIELD,

&C.,

&C.,

&c.

China

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