CO129-551-9 Acquisition of land for Air Ministry at Kai Tak 17-2-1936 - 9-1-1937 — Page 39

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Sir C. Parkinson.

Sir G. Tomlinson.

Sir C. Bottomley.

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Sir J. Shurgh (/12/36

Permt. U.S. of S.

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Secretary of State.

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The Kai Tak Aerodrome and the

Sai Kung Road Extension.

1.

The establishment of an aerodrome

at MK for both civil and military aviation was

2 DRAFTS memorandan.

FURTHER ACTION.

recommended at intervals by the O.D.C. and

the C.I.D. from 1925 onwards, but no action

was taken immediately on account partly of

expense and partly of the difficulties which

would have been raised in view of the terms

of the Washington Treaty. The matter was

lent greater urgency by the troubles which

broke out in China in 1926; and in 1927 it

was decided to acquire the Kai Tak

Reclamation site for this purpose. The

a

temporary but swere

Colony was then undergoing financial

crisis even more severe than the present one;

and it was consequently proposed by the Hong

Kong Government that the cost should be

shared by the local Government and the Air

Ministry in the ratio of 1 to 3. This

failed to secure the concurrence of His

Majesty's