CO129-549-9 Air Ministry- transfer of land for Officer's Mess at Kai Tak 6-6-1934 - 29-12-1934 — Page 15

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621/30c.

CONFIDENTIAL.

Sir,

Enclosure No.1

15

19th September, 1933

With reference to your confidential

telegram A.48214/9 of the 14th September, 1933, on the

subject of the triangular area of land at Kai Tak, I

have the honour to inform you that subject to the

approval of the Secretary of State this Government is

prepared to transfer an area not larg r than the area

shown coloured red on the attached plan, subject to

the following terms and conditions:-

(a) the grant to be made on payment by the Royal

Air Force of the sum of $176,150.00 being

twenty-five times the annual Crown Rent which

would be reserved for the area if demised by

the Crown.

(b)

User of the area to be restricted to the

purposes of the Royal Air Force.

(c)

The area to be returned to the Colonial Covernment

on its ceasing to be required for those purposes

and if such return shall take place before the

expiry of a period of twenty-five years, a

proportionate part of the sum of $176,150.00 shall

be refunded to the Royal Air Force.

(a)

The grant in any event not to be for a longer

period than ninety-nine years from the 1st. July

1898, less the last three days thereof.

(e)

No Crown Rent shall be charged for the area.

(f)

The Officer Commanding,

Royal Air Force, Base,

SINGAPORE.