From Then To Now
NN the 25th of January, 1841, a small party of marines drank, at the Queen’s expense, her health on the newly-acquired island of Hong Kong. The next day the island was formally occupied and the flag ran up; but scarcely anyone was pleased. Queen Victoria and Lord Palmerston were annoyed, although later the Queen passed it off as a joke. For the title to the island was doubtful, and the troublesome negotiations. of the so-called "opium war" were itmperilled, so that trade through Canton would be difficult. Hong Kong was, so most people believed, unlikely ever to supplant Canton as a base for British trade. However, in spite of the gloomy forebodings . of the merchants in Canton, the island was retained and its Cession ratified by the Treaty of Nanking the following year. Since then it has grown to be a colony including 360 square miles'on the mainland; it has a total population almost equal to that of New Zealand. It includes two cities, with modern eight and tenstory buildings, housing air-conditioned offices, hotels and shops; it has tramways, motor buses, railways and excellent tarred and concrete roads.-("Hong Kong." A National Service Talk prepared by the Rev. David Rosenthall, who recently came to New Zealand from the Far East. 2YA, December 23.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 134, 16 January 1942, Page 2
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216From Then To Now New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 134, 16 January 1942, Page 2
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