CO129-543-14 Hong Kong Flying School at Kai Tak Aerodrome 14-5-1933 - 5-9-1933 — Page 44

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TEL. No. HOLBORN 3434.

Any communications on the

subject of this letter should be

addressed to:-

THE SECRETARY,

AIR MINISTRY,

ADASTRAL HOUSE,

KINGSWAY,

LONDON, W.C.2.

the following number quoted :—

S.31183/S.6.

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Sir,

SCHEME

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AIR MINISTRY,

LONDON, W.C.2.

June, 1933.

RECEIV

16 JUN 1934

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With reference to Colonial Office letter No.

13792/33 of the 19th May last and to previous correspon-

dence on the subject of the establishment of a Flying

Training School in Hong Kong, I am commanded by the Air

Council to state, for the information of Secretary Sir

Philip Cunliffe-Lister, that after careful reconsideration

of the question they are pleased to find themselves able

to withdraw their objection to the proposed use of Kai

Tak Aerodrome as a Flying Training School by the Far East

Aviation Company.

The Air Council regard it as essential, however,

that Service requirements should be adequately safeguarded.

and to this end they propose that the use of the aerodrome

by the Far East Aviation Company should be controlled by

the Civil Aerodrome Superintendent under the direction of

the Officer Commanding, Royal Air Force Base, Kai Tak, who

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

Whitehall. S.W.1.