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South), and the Broadcasting Studio - assistance in many
ways has been forthcoming.
Your Excellency and our visitors will presently be
aaked to make a tour of inspection of our miniature
Exposition, We plead for indulgence in your criticisms.
From first to last, all those responsible for assembling
and staging the exhibits profess no expert quel ifi cations.
Indeed, they are in a literal sense veritable amateurs in
the art of organising an exhibition, Amateur though their
efforts have been, their enthusiasm, however, was great,
and the results of their combined efforts may yet lead in
the future to an ambitious project, undertaken by a more
qualified organisation, that will be a credit to the
Colony and that will redound to the benefit and advantage
of Empire and Hong Kong workers and produce28.
Flanking the dais is a tableau composed of young
girls designed to represent the British Empire.
The central
stands for a
There is Canada, Australis,
figure is, of course, Britannia.
distinctive unit of the Empire,
New ealand. There is the vast mpire of British India,
and there is South Africa. In the eyes of the sons and
daughters of Hong Kong, this Colony occupies a large portion
of the map of the British Empire and as an integral part of the Colonics she is represented by a little Chinese girl
from Hong Kong and another from the New Territories.
the conclusion of the addresses, the girls will tender to Mrs. Southorm, in testimony of loyalty and dutiful devotion, small offerings of the products of this Colony and of the Dominions, which typify the visible manifestation of our
humble
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