An autobiographical account of the life of Dorothy Neale and her family, of which the years 1929 until the 1940 evacuation were spent in Hong Kong, The account continues until the death of her husband Freddie Neale in 1987.
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The 1937 Typhoon
Extracts from Green Jade by Dorothy Neale, Chris Neale, Goulbourn, 1995, pp. 36-37.
On 2nd September, 1937 the worst typhoon ever recorded hit the colony (…) There was plenty of warning, but even so a lot of damage and loss of life was recorded on a chart we have framed, hanging on our back verandah here. Thirty-six ships were sunk, wrecked ashore or damaged. The high tides…