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· VIA SAN FRANCISCO÷&-LOS, ANGELES
THE CHINA MATE, MO
HONG KONG WATERFRONT
In My Log
HOME Sweet: Homa!-
Have you ever felt that sudden "pang at the sight or sound of something familiar that takes you back home?
It could be a catchword-"P.' and 0 to the Coloniais. It could be a song “Aloha Oe" to thei Hawaiians. Or it could be edibles
**
BY OUR HARBOUR REPORTIN
"Tanka" Life In Hong Kong
(This is the second of a series of articles on the life, belieĵs amž traditions of Hong-Kong'a-uni- que "Floating Colony" community).
To the shore people, the life of the "Tanka" or "Water Tribe" community in Hong Kong savours of anachronisti salient feature of our "float- ing colony.
Within the aura of antiquity, surrounding a typical
•
Hensiveness which ultimately ag-
as possible.
"Tonka", cluster one generally sees the 20th "rst-time" reaction of appre century vieing with the Ancient for pro-ivates a keen desire to get minence in the social and domestic aspects as a second visits will be
However, of their phenomenal existence.
a very pleasant experience. The tranquility, greatly enhanced by the soft lapping" "al ripples, "which generally is the only disturbance affords superb relaxation" to the
city mán. ere are not so many
off- shoots like the mainland Shanghai
hot dogs" to the Americans.
To us, it is that brown, hard- shelf fruit of the coco palm- the coconut
It is not uncommon, for ex-fat bottoms, weaving their way We saw them they were ample, to hear a repertoire of lazily through the bobbing mass during the week along the Praya modern entertainment from Radio of Junes and ampang, herald with Stentorian -hundreds rolling or being tossed Hong Kong emagating from anti-their approach iam lorries from funks which quated-looking links, hugging
the fiskering tock them ashore from a ship, one another for mutual security Displayed in arriving from the Straits.
at any of the Colony's Tanka illumination of a solitary oil lamp Street. The side tanes easu
not longer than a roosting nests:
every cook and corner on the ing usually narrow deck are nylon tooth junk's length and about five yards brushes, much-publicised modern vide, serve to relief traffic con- beauty
candles gestion considerably. beauty aid paraphernalia. of all description and
taste. mineral waters and clothes.
Clustered in groups as they are,
It
and
is common to see sampans -junks making their way
Wealthier familles have diverg- ed considerably from their tradi- Rarity in Hong Kong
bon-bound mode of living. Many of this "Tanka" class have in- To those in the Colony here, stalled dry-battery generators to where the coco palm is rare, the illuminate
duorescent lights. Cotton prints families conduct evening tete-a- coconut is visually seen at fruit stalls, stripped to the last shred of rainbow hues adorn the bam-tetes across the bows Because
cupola that provides of the varying distance from from all sides by the never-end- of fibre and hung up like a priboratdients with the only shel- one yard to 18 yards friends ing
ed fruit.
their craft with
In markets, it is not so respecter from the elements. tably treated, but nevertheless | carefully stored.
Common but indispensible...
Take the coconut away from the Malayans-be they Chinese, Indian, Portuguese or the Malays themselves. It will be tantamount to depriving them of their live- Lood.
For the cocoput has 101 uses to the people in the torrid South- for the household, the farms, the mantlepieces, distilleries, bakeries and nurseries, only to mention a few main utilities,
Hundred and one uses..
Every bit of the coconut palm has its ow utility-the trunk, the leaf. its stem, the husk shell, kernel and milk.
From the kernel, the julee forma the staple ingrediens of Malayan cuisine and confes tionaries. Surplus rated ker- nel is turned into cooking oll or fodder for the sty Copra-dried kernel-serves as fuel, and is one of Malaya's mam exports.
Boiled with brown sugar, the resultant juice is moulded inta
honeycomb pans to come out as candy blocks, favourite of the Southerners. This also is exported in considerable amount
The shell has" as many varied usages. Coconut, shali orna- menis, button and kitchen utensils have been popular in forrige countries besides being domestic necessities in many Malayan homes.
Scraped to the last shred of fibre, the shell is cut into two to serve as "grating cups" in nurse- ries and orchards. Many a pome has these cups as tower pots
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Nightfall eventuates the in- congruity when the Tanka families would normally waive aside tradition to indulge in the Had of entertainment and re- creation familiar to their modern- shore brether
Floating District
The Yaumat Floating Dis- trict "focated "Within the pre- | cincts- of the
OT relatives shout themselves hoarse to exchange it bits or discuss problems of the day.
Silent Zones
Sad out of the lants
It appears to" tis“ mtranger} that everyone and everything) seems to have one common aimi
of proceeding in one course to be hemmed in
flow of traffic. No Sense Of Time
In embodying this "peculiar Chinese "traft of"~"taking "it esty, floating people- per- hapa have the least respect for a sense of time. To the "Tan ka" family, a day la not a matter of seconds, minutes and hour. It la just daylight for work and alghtfall for recrea tion and rest,
be the solsiest. Here and there very mah-joor tiles
notally under the voc
mud-slinging of the Rarely does one find a time-
a ̈*"Tänka”- Typbsen Au- players; while nearby a dilapi keeper abdari a
craft dated-looking chorage typifies the unique!
Wireless * This may probably account for
Bet existence of the floating com.
blares forth latest hit tunes the cocasional As betwech' 'a munity. There are some 2,000
wasted more ofich than not be fare usually a Tandibber
Tanka resident
of craft
types. "atmospherics "clans," Becom clustering in
الم
The
passenger-carrier." and
*modating about 25,000 “Tańka") to wager inevitably beginsjiz a hurry to get ashore after a
Many a share visitas has been
the sampan
wonder how the individual “fing.” people, according to conser manages to define his sense of vative estimates
perception especially that of irritated by the lackadaisical There one still finds life some-bearing and appreciation - amid manner in which what akin to a heap of loose jig- the incoherent mixture of strident weenan usually prepares to get ber saw bits in spile of the impact human voices, jarring music, the craft under way or to, berth of modern civilisation to set them
of wood upon wood. into an orderly pattern.
By dusk, the
But then, changes
this is one of the rapidly from one of inertia to maar "mysteries of the floating bee-hive activity. Sheill whines colony.
of native
-scene
1th of steel upon steel rind the alongside
But paradoxically the Tanka? people have cffen be- trayed their fondness for speed. This, however, is evident only Shanghai Street." main the when they indulge in good-natur- roughfare of the Younati Floated pranks-racing each other for ing District, has its silent their passengers pleasure and zones where the seemingly amin- deriving as much enjoyment from the din, ours silence never fails to shroud the vociferous prompts of their Itinerant vendors in their dim-l the stranger with the inevitable' excited fares.
blend with 5ddles strident modern jazz blaring forth from jarring amplifiers to create an unearthly discord.
As if to augment
Chief Preventive Officer Leaving On Retirement
One of the Colony's most popular officials and the best known along the
waterfront, Mr. Jack William Macintyre Brown, will leave for Aus tralia on November 30 on retirement.
With 27 years service to his credit, the Chief Pre- ventive Officer of Hong Kong plans to settle down in New South Wales at Cronulla. He will be accompanied by his second daughter, Christina Joyce.
As
the Brisbane
sent to Australia and admitted to Later when he was At to be
General Hospital moved, he was allowed to travel
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to Sydney where he was further York Building. treated for more than six months. On March 14, 1948, he returned
Indian distillers tap the young stems bearing the nuts to siphon
Chief Preventive Officer, Hong Kong and Wuchow, former to Hong Kong and proceeded on out the juice into bamboo conta- Mr. Brown has under him more treaty port on the West River home leave to Southampton and iners, left among the clusters for than 30 Revenue Inspectors, some He served with HMS. Moorhen Edinburgh. He was accompanied several days. The liquid fer- 200 Revenue Officers and two on her trips further up the West by his family. They returned to mented-with-lime and distilled as Revenue Launches. These men River as far as Posch, in North a strong alcoholle drink, which are responsible for seeing that West Kwangsi. Malayans know as samsu.
In hot days, the milk from the
revenue from dutiable goods is
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young coconut is a refreshing collected and paid." Hairst-quencher.
The biggest single seizure of The husk is cut into rectangu- gold made by Chief Preventive lar blocks and utilised as brushes. | Öffeer Machtyre “Brown's men The fibres are used as fuel or was HK$880,000 worth of gold braided into rope.
plates and rods, cleverly hidden Rice dumplings are baked or in the frames of leather suitcases. stewed, wrapped in coconut leaves The leaves de split to denude the joints, which are 'tied" together to bundits to serys "ás “broomÉ: Plaitad' Havet feature in decoration at village marriage certmobie
• When bridges are required
over brooks or pitches, the trunk
According to Mr. Brown, the Chinese smuggler is good but could be better.... His biggest fault la that be invariably uses
the same devices agalo, and agale.
...
Joined CMC
In 1920, Mr. Beaven effered a post in the Hong Kong Government but was ungble to accept it as he could not obtain leave from the Navy." When he completed his service "with the
Navy he joined, the Chli -nese Maritime Customs at Can-
ton.
the Colony in August the same year. Mr. Brown was then ap pointed Chief Preventive Officer.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES Consignees Per BARBER-WILHELMSEN - LAE
m.s. TITANIA”
There he
served for three are hereby notified that their months as Tidewater and Trans-rargo is being discharged into port Officer. One of his most the. Hongkong & Kowloon Mr. Brown is also an ardent amusing experiences was when Wharf & Godown Co's godown ́amateur. radio transmitting
be was in charge of a Customs where it wilt be at Consignees
of an aged tree is laid across operator. He is the founder of party on board the ss. Kwanasi, risk and subject to the Whart's Mative farmers are well protected the Hong Kong Amateur Radio lying off Canton by formidable stockades of co
terms and conditions of storage, convi
trunks
lagers prop
* Transmitting Society." "He was Early one the morning he and where delivery may be
spotted a long salt-laden sampan obtained.
suburos, Fil-once-president of the Society and
editor of its publication "DX"
with
trunks. It is not uncommon to
See clusters of brown coconuts Keen Sportsman
undera Malay but or even in more modern bungalows of Cal- He was at one time also in-}
pese, Indian end Eurasian re- terested in boxing and repre-
sidents
moving past the Kwangsi He jumped on the sampan, grabbed an our and managed to subdue
the crow.
Damaged packages are to be left in the godowns for exam- ination by Consignees and the Company's Surveyors, blessis, However, a minute Later he Goddard & Douglas at 10 am found himself sinking into the fan November 22, 1949, Cildren have their own use matches at Shameen, Canton, Ee river. One of the sampan's crew for old coconuts. Tarse serve as was also a member of the Kow had crawled overboard to pus To comply with General floats when boys learn to swim loon Cricket Club and played in at the bung. Jack got a duck-Bonded Warehouse Regulations Village boys gather ac nuts and the First Division Levn Bowlsing and the salt, went down the tonsignees must have a Re tie them together into a raft League.
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Venue Officer in attendance In 1921, Mr. Brown was ap- when damaged dutiable goods Jack Macintyre Brown whose home town is Paisley, Scotland, pointed to the probationary staff are examined. first arrived in Hong Kong in of the Hong Kong Beverne De April 1918. He was educated at partment. His appointment was No claims will be admitted
confirmed three months later. the Broughton High
School, As Revenue Offer he serves after the goods have left the I Edinburgh.
on the waterfront before being steamer's godown, and all goods Patriotism led him into World transferred to the Mainling, remaining undelivered after
ARRIVALS FROM PACIFIC COAST War 1 He served in the Wire-During his 27 years with the Re November 23, 1949, will be
venue Department he served at subject to rent M.S. "BOUGAINVILLE“ less Section of the Royal Navy and was at one time attached to was in charge of Kowloon and different stations. From 1840 he
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New
War broke out the Pacific mer must be presented to the
before
or they
ba
Chinese Freight Agents.”
He also served in German West He was mobilised in the Hong November 30, 1949, Africa following which he was Kong Volunteer Defence Force will not be recognised. transferred to the China Station Armoured Car Company Exter at Hong Kong. He attributes his emergence from: World War"]
I without scar or wound to the luck of the "Maes.”
he was transferred to the Ma- No fire usturante chine-gun Company and later to effected: Signals. He was with the units which covered the withdrawal of the Royal Scots in the Cheung- shanwan, Districh.
war ended:
Shortly after his arrival here, Mir, Brown was transferred to HMS Moorhen, gunboat maintain
communications between internal, hiem
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