CO129-545-6 Air Ministry- request for extra land at Kai Tak 29-11-1933 - 8-2-1934 — Page 5

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2.

In the case of the war office

Yoo will see thats the basis of

genual

the arrangement is that a Colony is his

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bound to provide land-required by the

War Department for defence purposes and

that the War Department has the use of

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in a Colmay

sueh lands/as long as they are required for

defence purposes. On their ceasing to

require them the War Department must

surrender them to the Colonial Government.

The values of lands involved are debited

and credited in the Colony in a Military

Lands Account, and a Memorandum of

Transfer is all that is needed in each

transaction.

34. As you know Hong Kong is under an

obligation to pay a very considerable

annual Defence Contribution which is stated

in the local Ordinance as follows:

Ordinance 2 of 1901.

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Section 3. A sum equivalent to

twenty per cent of the Colonial

revenues shall be appropriated yearly

to the Imperial Government as a

I am not of course in a posite to deal with

merry Smagection that this arrangement regarding inclitary lands would

have

any Air Ministry', requirements.

bearing upon the

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contribution