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TIN HAU FESTIVAL
These scenes show how thou- On Saturday the junks
Early
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Hands of Hongkong people lined up along the praya who make their living from dressed from stem to stern the sea celebrated the birth- for the big day yesterday. day of the Heavenly Queen, Tin Hau yesterday. · The festival is one of the most
colourful in the Chinese calendar with- Janks gally
flags vcuecked by
and pennants and pai lau. Thousands of Joss-sticks are burnt as the piterima Day homige lo their guardian To zoddess.
on Sunday Lugs towed those without engines to Joss House, Bay, and there at the Temple of Tin Han the cele- brailons began amidst the din of exploding crackers, beating drums. Cantonese opera and Hon dances.
Austain the energelle pil- crims there was a variety of
cooked food and soft drinks. and for the children it was a day of huge fun with wooden swords and spears and paper clothes and windmills,
One ineldent which upset on
otherwise uneventful .day was when a gangway slipped Into a lighter's hold as pll- grims were crossing from the Junks to the shore. The pic- ture at the bottom of the page shows the pligrims climbing out of the hold.
All
pictures were taken by China Mall cameramen, Chan Khu and Frank Fichbeck.
From the Filos
25
years -AGO-
May 1936
HIS Excellency the Gov-
a
ernor has appointed Mr Cyril Champkin to be member of the Urban Coun- cil during the absence from the Colony of Mr L. C. F. Bellamcy.
His Excellency the Gov- ernor has approved the re- linquishment of his
tem- porary local commission as lieutenant in the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps by Lt W. F. Murray.
His Majesty the King has been pleased to approve the appointment of the Hon Sir Henry Pollock to be an Un- official Member of the Legis- lative Council for a further period of four years.
His Excellency the Goy- ernor has appointed the fol- lowing gentlemen to bu members of the Advisory Committee of the Hong- kong Volunteer Defence Corps: Mr D. C. Edmonston vice Mr de la P. B. Fitz- gerald, and Mr J. R. Mas- son. It is notified that Mr J. R. V. Everest has been appointed Forest Officer in the Botanical and Forestry Department for the control and superintendence of the forests of the Colony.
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50 YEARS AGO
Years
FROM the SCM Post 25 Ago column: "The possibilities of a golf course in the New Terri- tories were mooted in our columns last year and we are pleased to learn that the suggestion is likely to bear tangible fruit.
"Hongkong sportsmen have discussed the matter for some time, it being felt that, owing to the congest- ed state of Happy Valley, something should be done.
"The project came before a largely attended meeting of the Golf Club convened for the purpose on Monday evening, and the unanimity of those present may be taken as an evidence that the idea meets with general approval.
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"Indeed the general com- mittee were empowered to proceed with a scheme lines excceding the cost and completeness of anything previously contemplated."
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