Hong Kong (Civil Airfield)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Jamaica – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 October 1947.

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Photo of Lieut-Colonel David Rees-Williams Lieut-Colonel David Rees-Williams , Croydon South 12:00, 29 October 1947

The difficulty is that it entails a very large capital expenditure which, up to now, the local government has not felt itself able to bear and which would fall on the British taxpayer. Therefore, we have not been in a position as yet to arrange the necessary financial provision.