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This is the first we have heard of this
Empire Products Fair, which was held at the Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon, on two succeeding days in May, one
of which was Empire Day.
The Consul General gives a full and interesting account of this, the first, Fair, and
it appears that there is a desire that the Fair may
become an annual event. I have had this file
connected with 92687 on which minutes have been
written concerning the possibility of a Hong Kong Exhibition. The success of the smaller venture
may encourage the Colony to undertake something of the sort on a larger scale.
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The Fair appears to have grown out of a suggestion made by Mrs. Amery Chairman of the
Women's Committee of the Fellowship of the British
Empire Exhibition that on Empire Day all British subjects should consume only Eritish food and drink, but if there has been correspondence on this sub- ject it must have been direct between the Committee
and Hong Kong, as I have been able to trace no
record of it.
Fr. Southorn's speech, which forms the second sub-enclosure, seems to me to strike just the right note. In expressing the hope that "H.. the Queen, who has taken so keen and personal an interest in the movement, may hear of" Hong Kong's "humble efforts in this Empire-wide campaign", the 0.A.G. probably had in mind his telegram No.109 ( (1) on 92564/32) a copy of which was sent to Sir H. Verney with (2) on that file. In any case there appears
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