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Encl.No.2
1934, (copy of which is enclosed) was next received from
the Officer Commanding, Royal Air Force Base, Kai Tak,
enquiring if this Government would agree to the immediate
transfer to the Air Ministry on a free basis of the site for
the Officers' Mess and also of the area known as the Trian-
gular Area at Kai Tak, regarding which I am addressing you in
a separate despatch. In reply a letter dated 2nd June, 1934,
was sent by my direction inviting attention to this Govern-
ment's previous letter of 10th August, 1933, but expressing the
willingness of the Colonial Government, in order to avoid
delay, to grant permission for the necessary buildings to be
erected subject to an undertaking by the Air Ministry that it would agree to the terms originally offered, subject to a slight variation necessitated by the new arrangement in
regard to the access road, or such modified terms as might
A copy of this letter is enclosed.
It is this arrangement which presumably is
Encl.No.3 ultimately be agreed upon.
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Encl.No.4
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4.
referred to in your telegram of 19th June, 1934. The Air
Ministry's concurrence therein was conveyed in a letter dated
26th June, 1934, received from the Officer Commanding, Royal
Air Force Base, Kai Tak.
5.
A plan showing the area which at their request it has been agreed immediately to transfer to the Air Ministry
is enclosed.
6.
I appreciate the liability of the Colony to provide land for its defence and the fact that the Air Ministry, unlike the War Department, holds no land in the
Colony by prescription. As an alternative to the terms offered in respect of the transfer of this area (and
similarly of the Triangular Area regarding which I am
addressing you separately), I would suggest for your consider-
ation and if approved, for the consideration of the Air
Ministry, the opening of an Air Ministry Lands Account on the analogy of the existing Military Lands Account and the
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