Ma On Shan Iron Mine – HK Naturalist 1931
Hugh Farmer: It is worth looking at the Hong Kong Naturalist – “a quarterly illustrated journal principally for Hong Kong and South China” which was published from Jan 1930 until Feb 1941. The journal contain articles on a variety of subjects of interest to us including, tea production, oysters, Kowloon waterworks, agriculture in the New Territory [sic] and a couple of mountains where mines are mentioned.
One of the latter is Climbing Ma On Shan, by L Gibbs which appears in The HK Naturalist Vol 2 No 3 Sep 1931.
However…to diverge from matters industrial for a moment if you enjoy walking in Hong Kong or want to read about it, may I recommend a book that I found by chance about twenty years ago. Namely, Rambles in Hong Kong by GSP Heywood, first published in 1951, given a new commentary by Richard Gee in 1993.
Delightful writing, gently describing boat trips to now easily accessible areas of Hong Kong, how to keep a pipe alight in torrential summer rain and the necessity of cooling bottles of beer in streams to be consumed at the end of the ramble.
Gibbs has a similar way with words in describing one of Hong Kong’s most impressive mountains as evidenced by his opening paragraph.
Ma On Shan’s summit
But to come to the point. The article continues…
See: Climbing Ma On Shan
This article was first posted on 1st November 2014.
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