How the Post reported The Peninsula’s grand opening in 1928

“Work has commenced upon the three million dollar Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, which it is hoped to open in the winter of 1924,” ran the April 30, 1923 report in the South China Morning Post following the Hongkong Hotel Company’s annual shareholder meeting.
Owner of the Peninsula, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels has this year been celebrating its 150th anniversary – The Hongkong Hotel Company having been incorporated in 1866. It was also in 1923 that the operator merged…

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