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Even with one full time instructor and one full time engineer, the
Club found it necessary to appeal for outside instructional assistance.
In this connection it is worthy of note that a considerable amount of
time was voluntarily given to the Club by several officers of the Royal
Air Force and by Mr. A. V. Harvey, South China Manager of your
Petitioner.
(d) At the Annual General Meeting of the Meinbers of the Hong Kong
Flying Club held on August 1st 1931, the Wing Commodore Hon.
Mr. W. E. L. Shenton said in part :-
It would be a thousand pities now that we have organized
the Flying Club and got it into complete and satisfactory
working order, if we have to abandon it, but it is apparent
from the Finance Committee's report that unless substantial
further financial assistance is forthcoming or we can acquire at
least three more machines, the future of the Club seems
uncertain.'
'In conclusion may I say that at the wish of those in authority
an efficient and up-to-date Flying Instruction Organisation has
been created for this Colony which, in case of an emergency,
would be of considerable value and its shortcomings, such as
they are, are not due to any want of effort, but to circumstances
over which we have no control.'
(e) As indicating that Government considered an up-to-date Flying
Instruction Organization of great importance to the general welfare
of the Colony it may be stated that during the unfortunately short
active life of the Flying Club, the Club received from Government as
an initial grant and subsidies a total of HK$105,000.00.
(ƒ) At the present time while the Flying Club is still nominally in
existence, as an active Flying Club it has virtually ceased to exist.
The remaining equipment is not sufficient to carry on instructional
courses and owing to the conditions described, the Flying Instructor and ground Engineer brought out from Home have been released for employment elsewhere.
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