Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, visits Hong Kong with his wife.

Lady Park boards a car at Government House, Hong Kong. Lady Park inspects a swimming pool at a previously exclusive club which is in the process of being converted into a services club. ACM Park and Lady Park outside a large building; a workman is digging on the pavement and traffic is passing. The camera tilts up to a show a sign reading 'Union Jack Club for Combined Services NAAFI/EFI' [Navy Army Air Force Institute/Expeditionary Forces Institute]. A sign reads 'St Nicholas Catholic Services Club - Open to all servicemen in uniform and merchant seamen of the fleet train'. Lady Park enters. Lady Park meets a young Chinese boy, the mascot of the local RAF squadron (see note). Party arriving at an RAF hospital in Kowloon. The party are met by a nurse on the hospital steps and go inside. Park and Lady Park meet patients. The party survey the site of a new RAF airfield 25 miles from Kowloon (RAF Sek Kong?). Consulting a map with Wing Commander Fawdry, the officer in charge of construction of the new airfield. Park presses down the plunger on a detonator; a large explosion blasts rock from a hillside on the site of the airfield (the cameraman's dopesheet apologetically notes that 'camera movement here due to debris flying through the air in my direction'). At Fanling, on the border with China, Park and party meet members of No. 5 Army Commando. Party passes camera; a number of local peasants mill about. Park meets commandos at their guardroom.

Notes

Lady Park appears in uniform in this film, and is seen wearing the badge of the Joint War Organisation of the Red Cross and St John Ambulance.

This visit was also covered by an RAF cameraman, Sergeant Layzell. For his footage, see related items.

The Chinese boy seen in this film was one of two brothers adopted by RAF 132 Squadron, which was based at Kai Tak aerodrome. For film showing the two brothers, see related items.

Dopesheet names other members of the party as:

Rear Admiral Cecil Harcourt, Senior Naval Officer Hong Kong and head of the military government.

Air Vice Marshal Weedon, Chief Maintenance Officer at Air Command South East Asia.

Air Commodore W A D Brook, Air Officer Commanding Hong Kong.

Group Captain Dodds, Senior RAF Public Relations Officer.

Wing Commander Albery, officer in charge of entertainments RAF Hong Kong.