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I was at the British Library in London in late May `15 looking through their collection of the Hong Kong Police Magazine from the early 1950s to 1970. It provided a fascinating and often humourous glimpse into colonial  policing during that era. It was also bi-lingual but I cannot read Chinese. I was actually looking for unusual fauna-related stories and I wasn`t disappointed, I found an account of a Chinese Giant Salamander which I vaguely have a memory of seeing before but it was good to see again.

That's the snapshot of the pre-upgrade version of the Gwulo website.

I'll close it in the next few days, so if there is anything you still use it for that isn't working on the new site, please let me know.

Regards, David

You've probably noticed that the spammers have been busy on Gwulo lately. I've just made a few changes that I hope will cut down the amount of spam you get to see. One side effect is that when you next post to the website, you may see a message:

Your new post is awaiting approval from the administrator. Once approved it will be published to the website.

I'll get an email alert and will publish the post as soon as possible. Once I've published, you shouldn't see the message on future posts.

If anything isn't working as expected, please let me know.

My late father, YOUNG Sze Kuen,( also known as Anthony Norman ) joined ICI Hong Kong in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Then he, and my late mother Annie Lam Young ,started a company named Yuen Hing Hong & Co. Ltd. (YHH) in the 1940s.

I was born at 7 Braemar Terrace North Point in 1931. The house was the terraced type, grey in colour and situated on a hill. Has any reader got an old photograh of the buildings. I presume they have been replaced with mansions?

I searched through some old Hongkong Bank annual accounts from the 1960s and 1970s.  Does anyone know if the bank published its entire annual accounts in the South China Morning Post? 

Annual accounts were not that long back then, but from the newspaper publications that I have seen, the bank did not include all the notes to the accounts.  However, there were a few years where the bank did publish a note (in the newspaper) regarding their directors' remuneration.

The names below are members of the BAAG that Elizabeth Ride has provided information on. One of the difficulties in tracking mentions of these individuals is that their names aren't always spelled the same way in English.

The Chinese characters stay the same though, so if you can type Chinese, please could you help type a few of the names below that Elizabeth has sent? Then I'll cut and paste the characters onto their page on Gwulo.

Thanks & regards, David

I wonder if anyone can give me some information on salary increases in pre-war Hong Kong?

Q. Will people copy my photos if I upload them to Gwulo?

A. Yes, if they are interesting photos, and you upload them to Gwulo (or any other public website on the internet), there is a good chance someone will want to copy them. There are several options for what happens next:

1. The person leaves a comment or sends me an email, asking if they can use the photos.

I ask them to contact you to request permission.

Background to this research.

These lists are my own compilation, based on studies over 20 years. They may disagree with other sources, as documents on the same subject from different offices sometimes contradict each other. 

References given in the timelines are from the National Archives at Kew, London, unless otherwise marked. Names of batteries are those used at the time and names of localities, in particular, may vary from those now in use. Current names are shown in brackets.