CO129-543-14 Hong Kong Flying School at Kai Tak Aerodrome 14-5-1933 - 5-9-1933 — Page 35

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incompatible with its joint use as a

base for the Fleet Air Arm in Chinese

Watters and as a civil air port."Ts to be feared that

reference this tendinte by

The mention of the Air Ministry's desire

control of Tainaka civil air port" World

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be regarded by

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the Hong Kong overment as another attempt

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to infringe the existing arrangement for joint •

coequal

control.

It is maintained by the Hong Kong

Government, rightly in Sir Philip Cunliffe-

Lister's opinion, that the Royal Air Force has

direct

no/concern in the control of the Aerodrome

as a civil air port. It is suggested, therefore,

that the words " and as a civil air port should be

regarded as omitted at the end of the

paragraph of your letter.

In order that a Flying School may be

successfully established on a commercial basis,

it would appear to be essential that the

company