Governor Cutting Cake at Ninth Exhibition

Mon, 09/22/2014 - 22:24

I'm not sure of the exact year, but some of my father's photos are dated 1949, he left HK in early 1951, and this looks like Governor Grantham (judging from the Wikipedia image of him), who took office in 1947.

After the war, my father (Thomas Edgar) worked for the Cheung family's Garden Company, which, as his note on the back tells us, provided the tea for the ninth Exhibition. But does anyone know what this Exhibition was?

Date picture taken
1952

Comments

The exhibition would have been the Ninth Hong Kong Products Exhibition held between 14 December 1951 and 3 January 1952 in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon at the corner of Nathan and Salisbury Roads. Hence the nine layer cake.

It was Governor Grantham that officially opened the exhibition.

A photo of the main entrance to a previous exhibition:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/csmith/3079635357/