CO129-587-1 Kai Tak- extension of aerodrome 29-12-1939 - 20-11-1940 — Page 2

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54035/4

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29.12.39

of Committee's report W. plas

53504/1 Ref. 4/1/38.

The

showing

the

proposed layout

of the aerodrome

On the last occasion ine. 1937, when

The aerodrome at Kai Tak was extended and

improved Hong Kong provided

cover the cost of the with

We

$300,000 to

but, with the somewhat

reluctant conant of the greasy. In the teeth

of a

complant) that they had not been fully consulted

the

by the Air hamishing, tho bolony succeeded in

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collecting a contitry. from the A/m of half it's expenditure.

Apart from the fact that the

presex better. of Enquiry did not apparently

have

any power

to consider the question of

an alternative site for

a

new abodrane (vide

mbent's mumite of 8/4/38 an 53514//58), there

is no reference in the report of the Ctter-to the arrestion of framing the work.

On

comparison of plans;

prenant scheme appears the much more

the

elaborate than either

of

those which formed the

salejait of the Sov's desp, at I on the 'ss file the

more costly of which

was est. to run into some

$18,000,000 totale about 8 years to complete.

now is there

any reference to the

diffimely of

obtoring the resessay filling matemal

reclamations

as

mentioned

for

the few occas