Meeting at Ping Shan between Sir Henry Blake and the gentry and elders of the New Territories communities | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Meeting at Ping Shan between Sir Henry Blake and the gentry and elders of the New Territories communities

Meeting at Ping Shan between Sir Henry Blake and the gentry and elders of the New Territories communities

Also availabe at the Public Records Office, Government Records Service

Text on the Public Records Office website:

Meeting at Ping Shan between Sir Henry Blake and the gentry and elders of the New Territories communities at which the Governor explained the principles upon which the leased territories would be governed. Sir Henry Blake reading his address to the gentry and elders. Mr. Stewart Lockhart is on his left, with the interpreter facing the camera, Friday 4 August, 1899.

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Friday, August 4, 1899
Connections: 
  • Meeting at Ping Shan between Sir Henry Blake and the gentry and elders of the New Territories communities shows Person Henry Arthur BLAKE [1840-1918]