Tea cultivation, warehousing.& processing. Informal parade with local troops before visiting dignitary. Large riverside religious /political meeting. Visit of Chinese /Tibetan delegation to grounds of official hill residence. Civil defence exercises of fire fighting & rescue. Layard family children mountain holiday amongst wooden mountains..

Production / Donor Details: The collection was shot mainly in India between 1932 and 1942 by Austin Havelock Layard. The Layard family had held distinguished posts in Ceylon since 1803, and Mr Layard was a high ranking official in the Indian Civil Service in the Central Provences during the 1920s and 1940s, and between 1932 & 1938 was Deputy Commissioner in Delhi. In 1948 and 1949 he served in the office of the U.K. High Commission in Delhi and Calcutta.