Smack the CAT News Flash
The Gateway of India was built to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Bombay, prior to the Delhi Durbar, in December 1911. The foundation stone was laid on 31 March 1911, by the Governor of Bombay Sir George Sydenham Clarke, with the final design of George Wittet sanctioned in August 1914. Between 1915 and 1919 work proceeded on reclamations at Apollo Bundar (Port) for the land on which the gateway and the new sea wall would be built. The foundations were completed in 1920, and construction was finished in 1924. The Gateway was opened on 4 December 1924, by the Viceroy, the Earl of Reading. Out of the total expenses, Gammon India claims that it did India's first pre-cast reinforced concrete job for the foundation of the Gateway of India.
The last British troops to leave India, the First Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry, passed through the Gateway in a ceremony on 28 February 1948.
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Kind of a neat history lesson, but how does that relate to our Boycott CAT in Canada?
Have you seen the graphic suggesting we take Smack the Cat global?
Workers in solidarity in India are the first to offer up an image, destroying a CAT product in front of the Gateway of India!
Our message has now officially gone international. Watch it grow now!
GAME ON CAT!!!!!
