Advert from the Hong Kong Volunteers Year Book 1935-1936
It suggests sending biscuit gift parcels back ‘Home’, but Peak Frean was a well-known biscuit manufacturer back ‘Home’ in the UK, as it was known by the ‘homesick.’
Surely the biscuits were not shipped to Hong Kong, and then parcelled back to the UK again by ship? The perishable product could hardly have survived the double journey by sea.
Perhaps they used the equivalent of modern internet methodology that my sons use when they forget to send a birthday card by using a supplier in the destination country to make a local delivery, while making payment with an agent in Hong Kong, or in my son’s case via the web?
Of course, in the 1930s the order would have been transmitted by cable/ telegram.