Kowloon Dairy - 1st location [c.1898-1931]

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Albert Ahwee started the Kowloon Dairy about 1902. (Read more about him and his house  Albert Villa here )

There had been several surveys done of the area since 1898, and those who had been living there were entitled to an agricultural lease of 75 years extendable for 20 more. 

The Block Lease was finally issued in 1905,  backdated to 1 July 1898, one block lease issued to everyone, with their names listed against specific agriculture lot numbers on a separate schedule.  

The lease is for “Survey District #1” (SD1L on the Government IRIS database).

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Hoard’s Dairyman - 1918

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“Kowloon Dairy owned by Mr. Albert Ahwee, is probably the most modern and sanitary Dairy under Chinese management. Mr. Ahwee has spent 17 years in business in Jamaica and while there he always kept a few dairy cows for family use. He moved to Hong Kong 27 years ago and took a few good dairy cows with him. 16 years ago when he moved out to his little farm among the beautiful hills of Kowloon across the narrow strip of water separating Victoria from the mainland, he begin to slowly enlarge his dairy, using the profits of each year to help pay for enlarging the plant the following year. He keeps only imported cows of dairy breed and their offspring. At present heard consist of 27 cows.”

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Albert died in 1918, and his second daughter Mary took over management of the Kowloon Dairy when she was 27 years old.    Her younger brother George, age 20, assisted her.  

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Notes on Farm Animals and Animal Industries in China - Page 53

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Carl Oscar Levine · 1919 · ‎Snippet view

The largest Chinese dairy is the Kowloon Dairy at Kowloon , near Victoria , Hongkong . This dairy , which is managed by Miss Mary Ahwee , is very sanitary , and all buildings are of the best construction for this climate , being large

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In 1924 Albert’s son George Ahwee registered The Kowloon Dairy trademark and began looking for land to expand.

Government was looking to move the North Kowloon Dairies to more rural areas to create more residential land.  Ahwee was ultimately granted New Kowloon Dairy Farm Lot #10, and the Kowloon Dairy moved to that new location.