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Albert Ahwee, a very successful Chinese businessman who also spoke English fluently, had traveled to Jamaica in his younger days, about 1875, and had made his fortune there.  While in Jamaica at age 33 he married a 19 year old ethnic Chinese woman, and they had several children.  Around 1892 the family moved to Hong Kong, had several more children, and Albert continued to run several businesses. During all this time he kept a few dairy cows so his family would have fresh milk. 

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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.