CO129-539-11 Hong Kong Flying Club- proposed establishment of a Flying Training school at Kai Tak 8-4-1932 - 4-3-1933 — Page 46

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My note of the discussion which Sir S. Wilson

had on 17th December at Government House, Hong Kong with

His Excellency, the Colonial Secretary, Director of Public Works, Mr. Breen, and Mr. Shenton is that there was in the

view of the Colonial Government and of the Flying Club

and the Far East Aviation Company no other suitable site

for the purpose of a Flying School.

The possible sites in the New Territories

were too far removed from the city.

The Colonial Government is apprehensive of the

claim of the Air Ministry apparently to exercise a

decisive voice in the future of the Kai Tak aerodrome as

far as civil flying is concerned. The aerodrome was

built with the money of the Colonial Government, on the

understanding that civil flying had equal rights with the

Air Force to the use of the aerodrome.

In June last an Air Ministry official (? Evans)

had been sent to Hong Kong without any notice to the

as they understood, Colonial Government, and he arrived, azaz with the

impression that he had been sent out to establish an Air

Base at Kai Tak with complete control of the aerodrome

by the Royal Air Force.

What the Colonial Government and the civil could not understand

flying authority wantedded mache de feicely was what were

the objections of the Air Ministry to the proposal to

open a flying school at Kai Tak to which aliens might be

admitted.

Were the objections:-

(1) On the score of teaching aliens on military

machines?

If so the Colonial Government would

undertake