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A copy of the original document is available online at HKGRO.

Hi

I have my father's Long Service and Good Conduct medal.

He received it in the late 1960's.

Does anyone know if these awards were announced or mentioned anywhere around that time?

Thank you.

Frank Young

Some years ago I posted a list of the "Ladies" of Caine Road during 1904-1906 from the Ladies Directory. The list doesn't necessarily correspond to the owners listed in the Rate Books. During my trawls of the Rate Books I noted five of the owners of the houses in Caine Road during the same period. I list them below in case the information is useful to someone:

Rt. Rev Piazzoli owned nos. 2-8;

E.R. Belilos owned no. 27;

John Howell May (Shanghai Harbour Master) owned nos. 33 and 35;

Su Yuk Kwan owned no. 39;

As far as I know, the Japanese erected at least 2 Japanese-type letter boxes in Hong Kong.

According to South China Sunday Morning Post (10 April 1956), there was a Japanese letter box at the Junction of Dundas Street and Nathan Road. It was replaced in 1956.

The full report is available here. The 1889 Rainstorm is also listed as an event on Gwulo.

The following part of the report deals with the destruction by the rain in connection with Albany and Gleanealy Nullahs. Several photos were attached to the report which are not available on HKGRO but in the Flickr account of the National Archives UK. [note: photo 2 is missing].

Damage in the Albany or Military Nullah.

Just before this site goes to read-only for a few days, I thought I'd alert readers to an article I've written for SCMP Post Mag which is due out this coming Sunday, 5th June, on the scramble to protect Hong Kong from fires during its first three decades.

Mar On

Bark Loo

Shou Hing

via Hong Kong

eurasian_david found this report of a well at 4 Queen's Road Central being closed in 1899:

“A WELL TO BE CLOSED.

Mr. F. Browne, Government Analyst, certified that the water obtained from a well at No. 4 Queen’s Road Central was so tainted with impurities as to be unfit for potable purposes and likely to prove injurious to health.”

Hello wonderful forum. I have enjoyed the amazing info people contribute here and really hope to get a conversation going.

I'm presently working on a photo project I started back in 2014 and have exhibited; interviewing and collecting stories of the Tanka people that lived round Hong Kong. I have now moved forward with the project to concentrate on the changes of their lives- 100's of years on the water ending in one generation with sweeping government changes.