CO129-539-11 Hong Kong Flying Club- proposed establishment of a Flying Training school at Kai Tak 8-4-1932 - 4-3-1933 — Page 67

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17. That your Petitioner humbly submits that by virtue of its excellent

connections at Home it is in a position to obtain and efficiently maintain the

very finest of equipment at strictly competitive rates and with its trained

personnel is in a position to operate the Flying School in a manner in every way

comparable to the most up-to-date Flying School at Home. By allowing the

Flying Training School to enrol students of non-British nationality, the entire project could be placed on a paying basis and the larger and more successful the school the greater the revenue Government will collect against heavy capital expended in the development of Kai Tak aerodrome.

18. That while your Petitioner has received a series of replies from

Government to the series of applications made, the replies received have in most

cases referred to nebulous future developments which to date have not trans-

pired. No clean-cut reply has at any time been received and as regards the

formation of the Flying Training School, your Petitioner after almost three

years of negotiations finds itself today in practically the same position as when

the original application was made in 1929, in spite of the fact that Kai Tak Aerodrome has now been completed with the expenditure of a very consider-

able amount of public funds and is little used.

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that your Excellency may be pleased to consider the foregoing and may be pleased to order the grant of a permit to your Petitioner to operate a Flying Training School at Kai Tak Aerodrome in the Colony of Hong

Kong and that your Petitioner be permitted to extend

op- portunities for flying to non-British nationals as well as to members of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and the Hong Kong Flying Club.

And your Petitioner further humbly prays that in addition to the foregoing your Excellency may be pleased to consider the

following points :-

1. China is fast developing air units throughout the country.

This development will proceed whether the British Govern-

ment approve of it or not, as if the British Government

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