CO129-595-4 Governor's report on arrival in Hong Kong and resumption of duty 8-5-1946 - 2-7-1946 — Page 12

No. 2.

Sir,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

8th May, 1946.

I have the honour to report that I arrived in the Colony

by special Transport Command aircraft shortly after 2.00 p.m. on Tuesday,

30th April, 1946. I was received at Kaitak airfield by His Excellency

the Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong, (Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt,

K.C.B., C.B.E., R.N.), the Chief Civil Affairs Officer (Brigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G.) and the Air Officer Commanding (Air Commodore W. A. D.

Brook, C.B.E., R.A.F.). After inspecting the Guard of Honour, which was

supplied by the Royal Air Force, I drove to the Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon,

and shortly afterwards crossed the harbour in the Commander-in-Chief's

barge.

2.

At Queen's Pier in Victoria I was received by the General

Officer Commanding, Land Forces, Hong Kong, (Major-General F. W. Festing, C.B.E., D.S.O.), the Deputy of the Commander-in-Chief of the British

Pacific Fleet, (Vice-Admiral J. H. Edelsten, C.B., C.B.E., R.N.), the Commodore-in-Charge, Hong Kong, (Commodore D. H. Everett, D.S.O., R.N.), the Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong, (Air Commodore

B. V. Reynolds, C.B.E., R.A.F.), and Air Commodore W. A. D. Brook. After

inspecting the Guard of Honour which was drawn from the Royal Navy, Royal

Marines, 3rd Commando Brigade and Jaipur Guards, I drove to Government

House.

Enclosure No.1.

3.

There was no further ceremony on the 30th April but at

9 o'clock in the evening I made a short broadcast from Government House

on all three wavelengths of the Hong Kong broadcasting system. The text

of my address is attached as enclosure No. 1 to this despatch.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

GEORGE HALL, M.P.,

&C.,

&C.,

&c.

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