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HONG KONG FLOWER SHOWS
Portuguese Residents Play Important Part
PIONEER HORTICULTURISTS
Reminiscences of Yaumati And Kowloon
[By J. P. Braga]
A flood of reminiscences is recalled by Mr. Ho Leung's sprech at the annual meeting of the Hong Kong Horticultural Society on Thursday afternoon.
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Departing from the stereotyped form of speeches on similar occasions, the popular President of the Society made brief allusion ordinary external appearance
Kowloon Tong to any visitors pass- ing through the prettlest suburb
to the exhibitors at the Annual Flower Shows of nearly half a cen-
tury ago, when the residents of Hong Kong did not number a quarter within the dependency of Hong Suspicion of British Now
of that of the European population of the present day. And yet there was considerable enthusiasm in the Shows held at Hong Kong at that time.
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EARLY SETTLERS' ENTERPRISE
Kong. So many are the Chinos residents of this district who pride themselves in the charming lay-out
Removed
Ragby. Yesterday.
of their gardens that it must surely In a Memorandum published to- be surprising if no adequate re- day the Secretary for the Colonies, sponse be made to Mr. Ho Loung's Lord Passfield, deals with the earnest appeal for next year's policy in Iraq. The Memorandum horticultural show. They possess. points out that under the Anglo- moreover, the advantage of an or- Iraq Treaty of 1927 the British Mr. Ho Leung's happy allusion to peach, fig and the common guava.ganisation in the Subscribers', Aa- Government undertook to support Yaumati and Kowloon when these Mr. Delfino Noronha was a regular ociation which should reduce to a the candidature of Iray for ad- places retained all their primeval and successful exhibitor in the miniman the difficulty of transport mission to the League of Nations with ample faciliitles for which the in 1982, provided the present state simplicity with smail Chinese vi- Flower Shows of fifty years ago. lages scattered here and there, in- To overcome the difficulty and Horticultural Society promises pro- of progress in Iraq is maintained, and all goes well in the meantime. habited by poor fisherfolk and a few loss of time in getting to and from spective exhibitors next year. farmors, brings to memory the Yaumati Mr. Noronha acquired the
The qualifying words were regard- pioneering enterprise of the early steam-launch "Blanche" and in- Mr. Ho Leung's reference to
ed in Iraq with deep suspicion. foreign settlers of Hong Kong pro-augurated the frat European-owned Salyingpun brings back to memory
As explanations and assurances minent among whom were members ferry service across the harbour. the little garden owned by Mr. Froved of no avail, the British of the Portuguese community, many The poorness of the traffic In those Mathias Soares in Salyingpun in the Government, on the advice of Sir Gilbert Clayton, which coincided of whose descendants now take an early days did not compensate the early days of Hong Kong. It was with that of his predecessor, Sir active part in the social and muni- enterprise as a commercial venture. there that the enthusiastic Portu- Henry Dobbs, decided to examine Among the first Investors in pro- guese florist carried out much of the possibility of dispensing alto- perty at Yaumati were Mr. J. M. his experimental cultivation of
cipal affairs of the Colony,
"Delmar," It
MR. MATHIAS SOARES
Good Will
The effect of this announcement upon the internal political situa- tion in Iraq was immediate. Dis- trust and suspicion gave place to mutual confidence and good will. Iraq is anxious to co-operate with the British Government in the solution of outstanding questions befors 1932.
GENESIS OF "DELMAR" "Delmar," spoken of by the d'Almada e Castro, a former dis-flowers with so much success to the gether with the provision, and it Societys' President yesterday, con- tinguished member of the Civil delight not only of himself but of was felt that the time had come when His Majesty's Government veys no meaning to the present-day Service of Hong Kong, and Mr. Jose his friends and to the benefit of this could safely and with a full senso residents of Hong Kong.
I remember being told of their responsibility towards A. dos Remedios, who owned the Colony. Without
chalet "Bemin built on the crest many years ago an explanation it is but a name of a hill overlooking Yaumati Bay. Soares who introduced the bulb of commend Iraq for membership in that it was Mr. the League decide definitely to re- only, An explanation is of local historical interest.
PIONEERS OF OWLOON the ginger lily to Hong Kong three years' time. should be stated, was the summer Portuguese residents figured pro- This fragrant flower has earned villa of two close friends-the late minently as the pioneens of Kow-great popularity for table and other Mr. Delfino Noronha and Mr.loon,
It way they who bore the decorations in the summer months Barcos Calisto do Rozario. Mr. brunt of malaria in the early days when they can be had cheaply and Noronha was the founder and pro- of British settlement, when anti- in such great profusion. prietor of the firm of Government malarial measures were practically NURSERY AT POKFULAM ' printers and publishers which re- unknown and the disease exacted a Long before any dairy farm was tains its character to the present heavy toll of human lives. Despite dreamt of for Pokfulam and when day. Mr. Rozario was the manng- this serious handicap members of the road thither was a narrow ing proprietor of Rozario & Co., a the Portuguese community proved pathway permitting of a pony and Portuguese merchant firm of im- the suitability of Kowloon for buggy to carry its fare to Pokfulam, The necessary steps will be porters dealing principally in Aus- suburban residence, and to-day they Mr. A. G. Romano (subsequently taken to prepare a draft treaty |tralian products in the days of the form a large proportion of the non- Consul-General for Portugal in to regulate the relations of Bri- salling ship ploughing the southern Chinese population of the peninsula Hong Kong) maintained a flower tain with Iray, framed on liberal seas to China. Mesara, Rozario's which their forbears had helped to nursery within a portion of the lines, and based generally upon office was situated in Stanley Street, develop. The earliest Crown grounds that in later years became the recent proposals
for Anglo- at the back of the block of buildings lessees of Kowloon were Messrs. the property of the Dairy Farm Co. Egyptian settlement. of the Chinese Club in Queen's J. M. A. da Silva, Mathias Azevedo, Mr. Romano's greatest hobby was
New Commissioner Road formerly occupied by the A. Brandao, A. M. Alves, A. Chagas the cultivation of rare flowers and Sir Francis Humphreys will China Traders Insurance Co., Ltd., and Candida A. Ozorio. There the collecting of ferns and orchids. leave London to-day en route for before its absorption by the Union might have been a few others whose His display was a select one which Iraq, where he will take up his Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd.
names cannot be recalled at the was a treat to see. His city re-appointment as High Commission- to the late Str FIRS AND COCONUT PALMS moment; but it is possible that the sidence at "Duarte," at the junction er in succession
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Gilbert Clayton. On his way to If I remember correctly it was in Portuguese resident. Easily the the cynosure of all eyes for the Bagdad he will vialt Cairo, to that these two gentlemen best kept and the most extensive magnificence of the seasonal flowers meet the High Commissioner for bought K. P. Lots, 2 and 8 with a garden at Kowloon that produced and pot plants that formed such a Egypt, Sir Percy Loraine, and total area of 5 acres of agricultural the greatest variety of flowers for unique feature of the triangular Jerusalem, where he will see Sir Lot 2 bordéted on the sea the annual Show was that owned entrance to "Duarte." It was. & John Chancellor, High Commis- with a beautiful bathing beach in by a Portuguese gentleman, whose veritable beauty spot of the Island sioner for Palestine. British Yaumati Bay. Lot 3 was farther land fronted what is now Middle long before ita natural beauty was Wireless Service.
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PARSEE HORTICULTURIST private gardens and open space had MR. AARON BRENNER Mention must not be omitted of to make room for the insistent de-
conspicuous Parsee gentleman mand for houses and yet more Full Details of Fur the founder of the "Star Ferry houses. If one had the leisure to -On K. F. Ia. 2 Meears.
Merchant's Ordeal line Noronha and Rozario, as joint flower garden at Tsim-sha-tsut was Shows in the newspaper files of of steam-launches-whose look up past records of the Flower
that
a thing of beauty. Mr. Dorabjee Hong Kong, It will be seen Naorojee was
after year. Consul-General a successful and year
Flower Show3.
Tientsin, Yesterday. Following the arrest of the ninth member of the gang, the police have released the details of the kidnapping of Mr. Asror
It transpires that Mr. Brenner a ricksha by a.
Brenner.
in a motor." a long dis
"Delmar," formed by the fnit never-failing exhibitor at the annual Romano was a successful exhibitar syllables of these two gentlemen's chrysanthemums. During the win-
He especialized in of choice plants and rare flowers.
In this brief record of the part Christian names. Mr. Noronha was a keen amateur horticulturist ter months it was the old gentle the membent of the Portuguese man's pleasure to extend an open community took in horticultural ex- and, with the aid of friends, im- invitation, to the whole Colony to periments in Hong Kong: in the was taken from ported a number of indigenous Aus visit his gardens rich with the early days of the Colony, it will not gang who drew up tralian trees including the famous fragrance of brilliant blooms Mr.be difficult to realise that their do He was then driven fins and pines of the island Con Dorabjee was a familiar figure in scendants have, every reason to be tance, evidently roundabout, and tinent. With proper care the trees
small unventilated room opposite grew to a great height, as also did Hong Kong, as distinguished in his satisfied with the active share taken eventually imprisoned in a very
by their forbears in much that con the German Consulate. personal, appearance as he was in
He was a number of coconut palme im kind acts of charity performed with tributed to the amenities of life in
continuously. threatened with· Hong Kong, in much the same way death if the police were inform that they are now taking their parted, or his ransom out the least ostentation
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ported from Singapore. They had the benefit of the scientific advice in-later years of Mr. Chas. Ford," a former auperintendent of the By a later generation of Hong greater prosperity of the Colony Botanical and Afforestation Depart Kong residents Mr. F. P. de Vas- and the contentment of its in- ment, whose advice was readily concellos Soares is well-known as hibitants.. tendered whenever nought by re the enterprising gentleman who aldents with flower and vegetable fathered the scheme for developing gardening as their hobby. To Mr.the district of Hamuntin as Charles Ford a volume of the "Kew suburban residential area. In the Bulletin" was dedicated for his face of many, and serious obstacles work in the afforestation and Mr. Soares succeeded. He is the beautifying of Hong Kong.
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