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PENINSULA HOTEL OPENING.

H. E. ON THE FUTURE OF KOWLOON.

A FINE BUILDING.

There was a huge attendance of guests at the opening of the Peninsula Hotel yesterday after- noon, the ceremony being perform- ed

H. E, the Officer Administer- Ing the, Government, who was necompanied by Mrs. Southern. In the course of his speech, Hla Excellency pald' ચી warm tribute to the courageous optimism of Mr. J. H. Tag- gart, without whom there would have been no Peninsula Hotel, and cited the completion of the build ing na proof of the fact that the courage of our forefathers is still with us. He also spoke glowingly of the future of Kowloon.

After the opening ceremony, the guests made a tour of inspection of the Hotel (a full description of which, with illustrations, was pub. lished as an art supplement by the Telegraph last Saturday), and all were delighted with the sumptuous decorations and the modernity of the general equipment,

His Excellency together with Mrs. Southern arrived promptly at 4.30 p.m. and, after entering

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on the fanumerable details which have been so ably carried out by the Architects and Contractors re- sponsible for the work. The cour- teay of the local Press has already enabled us to present through that medium comprehensive publicity for this Hotel and much descrip- tlve matter of the various apecial features comprised there- in, Moreover, a tour through the Hotel, which we shall at all times be pleased to arrange, will afford a much better iden of its attrac- tions,..

Behind the Scenes.

I cannot, however, refrain from availing myself of this oppor tunity the most fitting occasion for the purpose of thanking and congratulating the Company's Hotel Superintendent, Mr. J. P. Bourne, on the result of the stu- pendous amount of labour he has bestowed on the multifarious de- tails relating to the equipment of this establishment and its ser- vice. His unrelaxed efforts which have covered a very extend- ed period of time-in planning and supervising the infinite variety of minute details involved are very largely responsible for our being able to present to you to day an establishment containing the most modern hotel equipment and hygienic appliances to an ex- tent without parallel in this part. of the world,

"A Chequered Career.".

The Peninsula Hotel has, during the period of its construction, ex- perienced a somewhat chequered career, in that much has happened to delay its progress towards the realisation of the hopes of those. responsible for its inception, its erection and the ceremony which Your Excellency is so kindly per- forming. I would like to mention. here that the last incident in the foregoing relation is one upon which we look back with feelings of pride. I refer to the many months during which we had the honour of housing a large portion. of H. M., Forces, forming part of the Expeditionary Force despatch- ed hither by the Home Government

conducted by Mr. J. H. Taggart, Chairman of Directors, to a raised dais at one end of the main hall on the ground flour. After spee- ches were made by Mr. Taggart and by His Excellency, the official party was conducted to the top 1loor where ten was served in the Bauquetting Hall. On the same floor, in the Roof Garden a num- ber of visitors enjoyed the Hotel's band, and dancing was in during the troubloux. times in the full swing shortly after the open-early part of 1927. ·

ing. The special bar on the top! floor was niso well patronised.

The band of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, by permission of Lt. Col. L. J. Comyn, C.M.G., 1.8.0., rendered a pleasing selec- tion of music from the terrace on the first floor.

Chairman's Speech.

J. II. Taggart, Managing Director of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited, said:

Your Excellency, Ladies and

Gentlemen,

The extremely pleasant duty has been assigned to me of extending. on behalf of the Hongkong and

thanks for the honour you are bestowing upon us, and the kind- ly nustatance you are according to us in formally opening to-day this most recent addition to our chain of hostelries in the Far East,

A Good Omen.

In conclusion I desire to voice to sure afforded to us by the fact Your Excellency the great plen-

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that you are supported in your the finest hotel, not merely in and of the architects and the con-plentiful supply of that vital. task to-day by the presence of Hongkong, but in the Far East. tractors, to all of whom has been necessity, water, with busy docks, Mrs. Southern, who, as is well

As Mr. Taevart has said, this paid a tribute they as well deserve, wharvas and warehousea, with the known throughout the Colony, is not the occasion for a detail- but the fact remains that without terminus of what will one day he never begrudges the assistance description of this really Mr. Taggart there would have the through railway line from her charming personality lends to magnificent building. Time would been no Peninsula Hotel. As the Europe, and with a fuc modern Occasions such as this. In businot permit one to do justice to It, newspaper put it, his has been the Lerodrome now in course of con- Addressing the gathering, Mr. nesses of the nature of that and I recommend everyone pre-inspiring mind behind the creation struction-delty with a future far wherein our Company la engaged, sent to accept Mr. Taggart's in- of the Peninsula Hotel. From exceeding the possibilities of the It is an essential maxin

vitation to make a tour of the pre- the very start in 1921 through all cramped surroundings of Victoria. hotel executives and their assle-mises and then to re-read the ad- the troubled period which has in-

Landmark in History. tanta should be imbued to the full mirable description of the hotel tervened down to the present day with instincts of kindly hospitality which appeared in the Press last it has been Mr. Taggart's courage- And, ladies and gentlemen, and ability to render cheerful ser

ous optimism which has carried this hotel stands as a landmark. vice úmparingly, and I would like

But there are one or two points the project through to its present in the history of this great city to add that we all realise that, in

of the future; nay, more, It proves addition to the good fortune we which I feel I muat mention for magnificent consummatian,

It has often struck me that that the courage of our fore- Shanghai Hotels, Limited, a very are experiencing in being accord-I have already carried out my hearty welcome to Your Excel-ed the privilege of the presence

own advice. First I would bring longkong affords a striking exam-fathers is with us stil!; the broad HONGKONG and CHINA GAS Co., Ltd. ency and Mra. Southern, and of of Your Excellency and of Mra. to your notice the amazing care ple of the courage and optimism visions of the sixties still inspire

offering to both of you an expres- Southorn At

this our opening which has been lavished by the of our predecessora. If there is the people of Hongkong. Strikes alon of our keen appreciation and ceremony, we have, by reason proprietors on their efforts to at-one thing more than another which and boycotts and civil war

thereof, an ideal example of the tain a completely hygienic hotel, strikes a newcomer to Hongkong, China are rightly regarded as but exercise of the principles of the No detail has been too small and it is the size, the solidity and the temporary checks to that pro- maxim to which I have made re- no expenditure too great where boldness of so many of our build-sperity which her geographical ference, and, if I may be excused the question of the health of the ings. Our predecessors were men position must bring to Hongkong, for saying so

in Your Excel- guests is concerned, and so far as who saw visions and dreamed The success of this hotel is not a lency's presence, we regard that human foresight can go, there dreams, or they could nover in the thing of to-day or to-morrow. omen can be no place in the world sixties have conceived the idea, The Inspiration which gave rise to of Mrs. Southorn which augur well for our future where the diner can eat his food for instance, of the City Hall, this building is the inspiration of success in our operation of the with a greater faith in the purity which must in its day have been the future; it stands as an out- of its preparation than in the one of the finest civic bulldings Peninsula Hotel. (Applause).

Peninsula Hotel. Opinions may East of Suez. But for many years differ as to architecture and de- development was mainly restriet- coration; some may prefer a Spared to the Island of Hongkong, un- tan simplicity, some the sumptu til in the early years of the present ousness of an castern palace--but century the importance of Kow- there can be no two opinions as to loon began to be recognised. I am the arrangements made for the fold that until some ten or fifteen Mr. Taggart, Ladies and Gen- hygiente cleanliness of the hotel years ago Kowloon was the Cin- tlemen, have first to thank Mr. and everything connected with it. derella of Hongkong, but now the Taggart for the very hearty wel-

time is arriving when Cinderella come he has given to my wife and

will come into her own. The myself and for the very kind re-

And then I notice one serious town planners caught Kowloon ferences he has made to us both.

Hongkong are.witness. I am sure. ladies and gentlemen, omission in Mr. Taggart's re- just in time, and we of this gen- we have done nothing to deserve marka, viz., that there is no men-feration

tion of Mr. Taggart. Now, Ing the growth of a great new elty thanks, for it has been a matter ladies and gentlemen, I do not built on modern lines with wide of great pleasure to us both to be wish to detract in any way from streets and broad spaces and present and to assist at so hie- the skill and ability of Mr. Bourne spacious playing fields, with a toric u ceremony as the opening of

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If I may be permitted to say 80, I think that this edifice may just ly be regarded as not only a worthy addition to the amenities of the every day life of the re- sidents of this Colony, but also (in view of its location at the His Excellency the Officer gate-way of this great port and the Administering the Government, in fact that it is superlatively formally declaring the building equipped for its particular sphere open said: of activity) as an establishment which may fairly be expected to enhance the popularity of the Colony by affording to transient visitors thereto attractions in the way of comfort and facilities hitherto unobtainable here.

It would be a poor tribute to Your Excellency's kindness in honouring us as you are doing to- day, were I to mar the occasion by a lengthy technical dissertation

SALESMAN SAM

(SAM, I WANNA CON- |GRATULATE YOU FER

CAPTURIN' "TH' THUGS WHO TRIED TA STERL |TH' SHECKLES'GEMS!

CH, IT WAS EASY,

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