CO129-560-2 Air Ministry- requirements of land at Kai Tak Aerodromes 8-1-1937 - 5-2-1938 — Page 59

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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allocation of which among the Service

Departments is a matter for them to

decision by HNG.

settle with the Imperial Treasury,

(2) That the Military Lands Account

Yếmex) had, as a pre-requisite, a "fund" in-

possersed in H.Kh

which/the War Department, were in undisputable

*/the

it was

possession, and as a means of maintaining this

credit

"fund" intact, either in money or in land.

This necessary pre-requisite does not exist

in the case of the Air Ministry who

Laim to

cannot, therefore,/receive an analogous

treatment.

(Attach as Annex paras 2-7 of No.15).

That the Air Ministry must

consequently be prepared to pay for any

lands which they may require in Hong Kong

at a rate of which past experience shows

the Colonial Government will be willing

to agree to a fair and reasonable assessment.

The attitude of the Government of

Hong Kong must obviously be determined to

a large extent by local conditions. These

include the extremely limited amount of

suitable

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