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Via ports : from Hong Kong to Hong Kong /

: Via ports : from Hong Kong to Hong Kong /
Title: Via ports : from Hong Kong to Hong Kong /
Author/Creator: Grantham, Alexander William George Herder, Sir, 1899-1978
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Publisher Date: 1965.
Note: Includes index.
Description of unnumbered plates: Sir Alexander Grantham, Governor of Hong Kong, 1947-1957
1. The author (Sir Alexander Grantham) and W. R. Scott at Macau, 1923
2. The author and his future wife outside General Munthe's house in Peking, 1925 / 3. General Munthe
4. The author and wife with Tags and Philip at 'La Garza' / 5. 'La Garza', Bermuda
6. Tennis in Jamaica
7a. Governor House, Lagos, 7b. Chieftain with retainers at garden party, Government House, Lagos / 8.The Lodge, Lagos
9a. Government House, Suva, Fiji, 9b. Retreat, Government House, Suva / 10a. Presentation of Yangona at the Fijian Ceremony welcoming a new Governor, 10b. A Fijian Bure
11. Welcome by school children, Marakei, Gilbert Islands / 12. Maneaba at Abaokoro, Tarawa
13a. With Queen Salote at Tonga, 13b. With Prime Minister Ata of Tonga / 14a. Feast at Tonga, 14b. a Tongan "tapa" cloth / 15a. Inspecting Guard of Honor on arrival in Hong Kong, 1947, 15b. The author, Bishop R.O. Hall and Mr. T.W. Kwok / 16. Government House, Hong Kong
17. Driving locomotive 21 on the Kowloon-Canton Railway / 18. Vice-Chacellor of the University , Dr. L.T. Ride on 12th June 1952
19. Author and wife dancing at a Consular Corps Ball, Feb. 1954 / 20. Chatting with Sir Robert Ho Tung
21. With the army at Sekong
22. Sino-British frontier at Lowu... with Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark / 23. With a former employee of Government House, with his wife and children
24. With the Lennox-Boyds / 25. Author's wife greeting Mr. Nehru, Prime Minister of India in Hong Kong, October 1957
26a. The author talking to townsfolk at Tai O, Lantau Island, 26b. Author and wife at the Trappist monastery, Lantau Island / 27. Chai Ma Wai, open prison, Hong Kong
28. Camelia granthamiana (discovered in 1955 by a Chinese forester, Mr. C.P. Lau.
Subject: Grantham, Alexander William George Herder,--Sir,--1899-1978.
Governors--Hong Kong--Biography.
Autobiography.
Great Britain--Colonies.
China--History--1949-.
Hong Kong--Description and travel.
Macau--Description and travel.
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