Early Aerial Link with Home Predicted by Governor Hongkon, May 14.
In replying to several farewell addresses made in his honour, Sir Wil liam Peel, Governor of the Colony, on the eye of his departure for Home, to-day declared that he had pressed the need of placing Hongkong upon the air map of the world.
Sir William assured his listeners that the Government in London was fully alive to the urgency of the matter, and he predicted that within a very short time, Hongkong. will be linked aerially with England, Sir William Poet is leaving for England aboard the s Empress of Japan.
Sir William, who is retiring after 38 yearr in the Colonial service, was the guest of honour at a farewell reception given this evening by the foreign anc Chinese community, 'The retiring Governor first entered the 'Colonial' service in 1897 as a cadet in the Malayan Civil Service, Since that time, he has been president of the Municipal College, Penang; president of the Municipal Commis sioners, Singapore; Joint Passage Controller, Malaya; Food Controller and Controller of Labour, Malaya; British adviser to the Government of Kedah; Chief Secretary to the Government, Federated Malay States; and Officer Administering the Government and High Commissioner, Malay States. He has been Governor and Commander-In-Chief of Hongkong since 1980—Reuter.
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