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Any one know the name of Cox's Road come from? I found two names from "Hong Kong Governemnt Reports Online":

1) Lieut. R. C. C. Cox of 27th Inniskillings and became A.D.C. of HK Governor

2) John Samuel Cox, JP who became Justice of Peace in 1883. He together with a group of owners of land at kowloon Point (Tsim Sha Tsui) including the famous C.P. Chater wrote to the government to give comment of the Bill of Municipal Rate ordinance in 1885.

3) James Henry Cox, JP who also became JP in 1883

Come and see 1940s Hong Kong brought back to life through physical theatre and puppetry!

The Flying Roast Goose tells the story of a Cantonese chef and her pet goose, set in war-torn Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation in the 1940s.

Please see http://outofchaos.org.uk/ for further details.

We hope to see you at the theatre!

Out of Chaos Theatre

I'll be giving a talk in the morning for a change. The content will be talk #2 (see http://gwulo.com/gwulo-talk-2).

The event is organised by the Australian Association of Hong Kong, and non-members are welcome to attend. Details & booking at:

http://www.ozhongkong.com/html/s13_shopping/view_product.asp?id=127&cid…

Regards, David

I found a reference on  a Chinese language web site  a few months ago which I translated into very poor English and it seemed to refer to the remains(maybe only the head) of a crocodile caught in Hong Kong. A long time ago I think.

Does anyone know more?

I've updated this list based on further research.  It should be more complete than the previous version of the list, but it is still not definitive.  That said, a brief newspaper report (perhaps from the SCMP) circa 1945 reports that a preliminary survey of wrecks in the harbor found 53 wrecks total, including 19 large ships.  (This clipping is posted elsewhere on Gwulo.)  My list below totals 19 large ships, which suggests the list must be getting reasonably accurate.  I have not listed smaller vessels, which would account for the other wrecks. 

Martin Dealy, descendent of the owner of Craigmin East on the Peak is in town until 14 May.  If you want to meet him, email me via David.

I did the historical research on this public exhibition and will be in town 24 May to 28 May to check it out.  (I'm in the US at present)  The following talks are scheduled:

http://www.anecdotesfromthepeak.com/about_the_exhibition_en.html

I too am an Eurasian born in HK in 1940. I lived on Stonecutter's Island for most of my life. My father was employed with the Royal HK Naval Dockyard Police. I attended Victoria Barracks Primary School plus 2 other garrison schools. If anyone has a similiar background or know of anyone who has please contact me on the website of on my email address.. dempsteth@hotmail.com

I have an interest in Australian cars exported to HK in the 1970s/1980s. I am going to compile as much as I know on this subject. It wil have limited appeal (obviously)  but there will be information that others may find interesting on the periphery. Let's see...

Thanks to Brian Coak, author of this document, for letting me post it here.

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