CO129-560-2 Air Ministry- requirements of land at Kai Tak Aerodromes 8-1-1937 - 5-2-1938 — Page 56

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Mr.

Mr.

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Mr.

Sir C. Parkinson.

Sir G. Tomlinson.

Sir C. Bottomley.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Permt. U.S. of S.

Parly. U.S. of S.

Secretary of State.

required then or in the future for the

ial Gent! Colony

defence of the Colony, the Colony should

provide an equivalent for the lands and

buildings so surrendered towards the

satisfaction of the above-mentioned

DRAFT.

FURTHER ACTION.

requirements, and to that intent the

value of the lands and buildings

surrendered should be ascertained and

recorded, and any lands and buildings

provided out of that value should be

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held by His Majesty's Government on the

same tenure as those surrendered.

This decision was based on the

assumption that the Colonial military

lands in question constituted a permanent

Capital Defence Fund of the Colony, the

integrity of which ought to be preserved

in kind or value even though the

original lands themselves might be

no longer repond for defence

diverted to civil purposes. Accordingly,

1/purposes.

whenever such lands which had been set

apart