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The interview, review, and selected photos from Volume 3 of the Gwulo books appeared in the print edition on 5 Mar 2020, and can be seen online at:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3064785/old-photos-hong-kongs-harbours-show-citys-vibrant-maritime

Whilst trying to locate an old friend who used to be in the Marine Police (without success) I happened to come across a resource which I want to share with HK Police enthusiasts. 

It seems that copies of the HK Police Magazine which must have been printed and circulated in 1956 have been digitized and kept by HKU. 

The link is: http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/HK/HKGS/21019061.pdf

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A few parts of the website stopped working, as is usually the case after an update like this. I've fixed all the problems I can see, but if you notice strange behaviour on any pages, please leave a comment below with a link to that page and a description of the problem.

Dear Gwulo,

Dear list members

I am writing to ask for your help to identify a Chinese artefact that was found at the port of Merimbula in southern NSW during my thesis on the coastal shipping industry, which may have been brought from Hong Kong by immigrants to Australia in the 19th century during the gold rushes.

Identification of the large ceramic artefact, found by divers at the Merimbula Wharf site during my MA research, would help me research Chinese immigrant culture in southern NSW in the second half of the 19^th Century and first half of the 20^th century.

These may be two completely different places ... but has anyone ideas about where Sheki or Shek I ... near Macao (by implication not in HK) might be - the year is 1900.

And another story I'm working on has a reference to Shekki Junk Wharf.  I  am fairly sure that this is in HK.  The year for this one is 1927.

Any help will be much appreciated!

Patricia 

Does anyone know anything about an organisation called The Halcyon Circle? It is mentioned a few times in the South China Morning Post, first mention in 1940 and last in 1949. It seems to have been a group of women of different ethnicities who met at each other's homes - for what prupose I don't know. Lady Northcote, the Governor's wife, attended one meeting.

Hi

I have been looking at the few items left by my uncle Robert Sidney Hill after his death last year.

He was born in Shanghai, interred by the Japanese during the war, moved to Hong Kong with his parents (Arthur) Sidney and Marie Florence Hill, was educated in England, and returned to Hong Kong to work for Sidney.

Two items that he held on to were silver tankards 1: H.K.S.R.A. 4th Division Winners 1966-7 and 2: Y.M.C.A.I -  R.S. Hill, A.B. Lawrence, O. Littler, D Maker, M Owen, G Beresford.

The book Eastern Fortress has the claim of barracks at Tin Wan and Tai Tam (p.10), and Eitel claims that in 1843 Pottinger pushed forward ‘vigorously’ the building of ‘substantial’ barracks in Aberdeen and Stanley (p.185). However, I haven't found any contemporary records of a barracks at Aberdeen.