Oriental Brewery / Hongkong Ice Company, Lai Chi Kok [1908-????]

The Oriental Brewery was built on NKML 3 (see comments below). NKML 3 is outlined on the map above.

The brewery is also shown on Map 1913.1 at http://www.hkmaps.hk/mapviewer.html

Timeline:

• 1908: The brewery is completed
• ????: Oriental Brewery starts business.
• 1912: The brewery was in liquidation in October, and was sold to a syndicate in Manila who owned the San Miguel Brewery. [Source: IHHKG]
• 1913: About May the brewery's equipment was dismantled and re-erected in Manila. [Source: IHHKG]
• ????: Oriental Brewery limited its business to manufacturing ice.
• 1914: Hongkong Ice Company buys the operation from Oriental Brewery and continues running it.
• ????: Plant closed and site re-developed.

The buy-out in 1914 was reported on page 1 of the China Mail for 1914-06-04. Extract:

The circular which the general managers addressed to shareholders on the 14th April fully explains the object for which this meeting has been called. I may say that since the Oriental Brewery Company ceased to be a brewery and got rid of their brewing machineiy and confined their energies to ice making only your general managers have endeavoured to come to some arrangement with the owners of the property which would eliminate undue competition. I am glad to say that through the good offices of Sir Paul Chater an agreement has been come to with the present owners of the brewery property which we recommend the shareholders in the Hongkong Ice Company now to confirm.