HF: “Since colonisation began, Australia has bred animals for export. In the 1820s, horses were sent to India for military and civilian use, while Western Australia started exporting live sheep in 1845. Australia’s first shipment of cattle arrived in Hong Kong in the 1880s. In 1903, sheep were sent to Africa, the Pacific islands and Asia.” The Age, Australia 8th May […]
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Hugh Farmer with thanks to Tymon Mellor: This article was first posted on 13th May 2014. Related Indhhk articles: 1924 Report on the Commercial Development of the Port Of Hong Kong
» Read moreHF: Fung Chi Ming has sent chapter 5 of Hong Kong and its External Communication before 1842: The History of Kong Kong prior to British arrival. This contains a short section on The Relation between ‘Hong Kong’ and the Kuan-Hsiang’. And this partly concerns the former village of Hong Kong T’s’un (香港村) in what is now Aberdeen harbour and which was the sole […]
» Read moreHF: Initial information about this Hong Kong company. The following extract is from a 1944 BAAG WW2 report courtesy of Elizabeth Ride. This article was first posted on 10th May 2014 Related Indhhk articles: Early HK Shipyards and Graving Docks Bailey’s Shipyard – 1908 Account Kwong Hip Lung Shipyard Tai Koo Dockyard Wing On Shing Shipyard
» Read moreIDJ and Hugh Farmer. IDJ has sent this early 1950s image of a Kaolin Mine in the New Territories from Hong Kong in Picture and Story by John and Veronica Stericker published in HK in 1953. As IDJ says ‘ the book doesn’t say where it is located except it is “remote and difficult to access”. I have another 1950s book which […]
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In his article, Why “Lead Mine” Pass?, Tymon Mellor asked, based on his research, “Is the Shing Mun Arboretum on the site of the old lead mine that was closed in 1892 and after which Lead Mine Pass is named?” Thomas Ngan writes: I was in the Shing Mun Country Park area on 20th April 2014 and took a detour to the […]
» Read moreHugh Farmer: This page comes from the CLP website. It contains much information of great interest to us, including:, ” In the 1950s there were many small factories of leather, incense, paper, ice and shipbuilding on the island”. Secondly it reports that “kerosene was the fuel for electricity and thus the cost was high”. I had never heard of this […]
» Read moreHugh Farmer: There are two North Point street connected with The ‘Sugar King’. Not a bad memorial for someone more closely associated with the island of Java. This information is taken from the fascinating book, Signs of a Colonial Era, Yanne A and Heller G, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, p 135 Related Indhhk articles: Kwik Djoen Eng – North Point […]
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HF: The following list shows the product, date when first manufactured in Hong Kong and the company involved. The website has information about only of two of these, Leung So Kee Umbrella Factory, and The Hong Kong Cotton- Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Co. Ltd. Therefore further information about any of these companies would be welcomed. And confirmation that they were indeed […]
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Hugh Farmer: Elizabeth Ride has sent a British Army Aid Group (BAAG) report from 1st March 1945, An Outline of Conditions in Occupied Hong Kong. Here I am going to include the introduction to the report including the Table of Contents. I have already posted the section on Dockyards and will add further relevant areas in the future. If you are unfamiliar […]
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