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Please can any gwulo member tell me if they know of any taxidermists in Hong Kong in the 19th and 20th Centuries and where the records of these taxidermists might be?
I'll be in Hong Kong for 3 weeks in November and had the idea of perhaps making contact with retirees who live in Kwun Tong near the Public Records Office to join to transcribe a page or two each of the Rate Books. There is a large public housing estate there and I imagine there may be one or two English-reading folks who would enjoy the task.
I'd be interested to know if anyone has been successful with the relatively recent online application facility for records launched by the Births, Marriages and Deaths Office. I've previously only submitted written applications by post, enclosing a bankers draft. My bank has now become very reluctant to perform this clunky process, imposing a £25 fee. Very few staff even know how to do it. My last application for a bankers draft sent by fax from my branch to the International Department of Barclays was lost. The Immigration Dept.
A copy of the original is available at HKGRO: http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/a1929/714.pdf
Excerpts:
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Works under the Buildings Ordinance
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B. O. O. Work. —Q 20 —
Sai Yu Shek Cemetery—Areas which had been washed out were repaired, paths surfaced and channels formed.
Cheung Sha Wan Cemetery—Exhumed areas were levelled, and terraces re-formed. Paths, steps, and channels were formed. Undergrowth was cleared. A R.C.C. Bridge was constructed.
From Familysearch.com
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939Z-5FBR-5?owc=collection%2F21…
St. Michael’s Catholic Cemetery (Happy Valley) 跑馬地天主教聖彌額爾
Title and Year
Staying up far too late to scroll through the trove that is St Michael's interment lists - many thanks indeed, Brian! - I am interested in 1945. There are, at the end of December, between 3 - 6 burials a day, almost exclusively Chinese, although occasionally a Portuguese name appears. Then mid to late Jan 45 the number starts to rise - 10, 15 and even over 20 each day. By February it has dropped back again. Has anyone a quick answer ... I assume ? typhoid? had broken out badly.
Dear Colleagues,
The Bowrington Canal was filled up and demolished, I guess in the early 1930's. Maybe I am wrong with the year. Where has the water since then, from that stream (which was originally coming from the hills behing Wong Nai Chung) now been deferred ? Is it still running underground the Canalstreet in to the sea ? Or has the waterstream been directed into a new location. I hope I have explained my question correctly. Thanks again for any answers
Kind regards, Daniel
Dear Colleagues,
I came across a letterhead of the late Hong Kong Hotel on Pedderstreet dated 1928 where a guest describes the condition of the hotel. I was wondering since the hotels north side was burned down in 1926, was the south side of the hotel still in operation and for how long before the hotel was eventually demolished ? Any answers are very much appreciated. Thank you very much. Best regards, Daniel
I've been working on the list of taxes etc levied in the first decades of the last century. I was bemused to see that a Pineapple licence, costing $3 per acre is listed. This in a miscelleaneous section - along with slaughter house and laundry licences ... but no other specific vegetable or fruit products have their own licence. I feel that 'Pineapple culitvation in early Hong Kong' might make a nice little undergraduate disseration.
Caine Road renumbering here
Robinson Road renumbering here
Prior to 11th April 1907 the Road from IL 1544 (Buxey Lodge) to Hatton Road was unnamed