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NOTES AND QUERIES
J. A. Prescott
H. A. Rydings
C. T. Smith
Photographers
South China Athletic Association, Photographic Group:
Butt Chak-yu 畢澤宇
Hoh Wing-chan 何永燦
Jimmy Kwok 郭天志
Lai Yat-fung 賴一峰
Lau Cho-chak
Tam Yee-yin 譚以仁
Tong Wai-hang
Royal Asiatic Society:
H.A. and J.W. Rydings
H. Werle
Hong Kong, 1975.
H. A. RYDINGS
BOAT PEOPLE'S CEREMONIES OBSERVED AT ISLAND HOUSE ON 5TH AND 31ST JANUARY, AND 16TH NOVEMBER, 1975*
The following notes were provided by Mr. David Akers-Jones, Secretary for the New Territories and a member of this Society, whose residence is at Island House, Tai Po. The island Yuen Chau Tsai (AMA), connected by causeway to the main road, has long been a centre of the boat population. Ed.
(I) 5th January, 1975
A motorized sampan motored slowly round Island House from the bridge to the shelter used by the small in-shore fishing boats on the other side of the Island House causeway. On board a group of six young women were pretending to pole the boat along, wearing plaited red wheel-hats. Another girl was beating a gong, creating a tremendous noise, another standing in the bow facing aft was beating a drum in a frenzied manner, and on the roof of the
Plate 18 illustrates these notes.