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This American woman international correspondent, travel writer and authoress wrote under the pseudonym of Violet Sweet Haven. She travelled far and wide and was on the first China Clipper (aeroplane) flight to Hong Kong in 1937.

Summer is here and the perennial favourite ice cream is on all minds, young and old. But when was ice cream first sold in Hong Kong? 

I tried Google AI and got this answer:

Ice cream was first sold in Hong Kong in 1921 by On Lok Yuen, a Western-style cafe chain that established the city's first ice cream factory, according to the South China Morning Post. They imported ingredients like skimmed milk powder and canned butter from Australia to make their ice cream. 

In more detail: 

Topical documentaries about 1930s Hong Kong appear not common in the public domain. 
The 'Historical Time and Space' (歷史時空) facebook hosted by the late Wai Tse have shared few informative ones, with own annotation, enhancements and present day photos.
Possibly, some of them he acquired from overseas ? They appear not generally available on youtube before he shared on FB posts.

Greetings learned ones , 

Does anyone know where the enrollment lists might be published for the above school ? I suspect that a great great uncle may have been a graduate given the backstory of his life as much ,as we know, which seems to mirror some of the information relating to graduates published by Wong Man Kong of the Hong Kong Baptist University in recent publications.. 

The Tower of Patriotic Souls (loosely translated) is situated on a knoll in Kowloon, near Kowloon Hospital.

When the Japanese troops invaded and dominated Kowloon for a short time, they built a monument to pay tribute to the Japanese soldiers who had lost their lives in the war.  Today it still stands, though long forgotten and tucked away in a corner of Kowloon Hospital, now a government hospital.  It is apparently similar to another tower on Hong Kong island, and was built to commemorate the Japanese war dead.

Hello,

I have lived in Hong Kong for 40 years, and we have done lots of research on old Hong Kong, but we never came across photographs of the construction of the peak tram. For example, the digging and blasting of rocks, the layout of the tracks etc.

There are photographs of the Stanley road construction which was completed in 1919.

Looking forward to your reply and thank you very much. Have a pleasant week.   Daniel

I've been fascinated by the importation of palm trees across various colonies around the world, and I am wondering where the first batch of those planted in HK came from (and when they were introduced). Does anyone have some information on that or some pointers as to where I might find it ? 

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