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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1933.
Kowloon Supplement
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Hosa Kone, May 16, 1039. -
SEA-ROVERS
WHEN A LARGE LINER DOCKS AT KOWLOON -
AND A WORD FOR THE WHARF COOLIE
(BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
Wharves are known to be very
Another thing about these fellows
busy places but when a large liner is that they all want to give in- is in the process of docking, the stractions as regards the way the bustle" is increased to the maxi-work should be done what is the. beat way to get the best results and the "thousand and one things they all claim to know about every job of work!
mum,
I was at the Kowloon Wharves yesterday when the ss. President Hoover arrived from Shanghai and as is usual in such cases, there was a large crowd on the wharf, waiting to meet friends or relatives arriving by the big liner. Maybe the crowd was larger than usual due to the fact that the two world-famous cinema stars, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, together with Mrs. Woolsey, were on board.
"WHERE Are you going to, all you small steamers "Kipling might have written of those numerous yet mysteriously unknown vessels which ply between Far Eastern ports, visiting spice islands in the Java Sea, or those remoter trading posts So vast is this. in latitude 132, harbour of ours, so thronged with mast-high lanes of shipping, that we seldom notice those inconspicu- ous two thousand tonners who ride quietly at anchor below Shamshus Oar spoiled eyes see nothing but swanlike Empresses, queenly in white and gold, or those khaki and black giants of the P. and O. which bring our mail and take us to and fro on the all too-familiar route.
Long before the liner got any These are the ships that get on the picture postcards and in the illus where near the wharf, the crowd trated papers: Homeward bound, began to walk up and down, as if they take silk from India and impatient at the slow progress Japan, and, on the return journey which the 21,000 tons of steel was bring to the outposts of the Empire making, but even the most im the motor cars and shirts and steel patient had to realise that, bring. furniture from Birmingham facing a ginnt liner alongside a wharf tories They are the indispensable is no easy task, and, slowly but links in inter-Empire trade and we steadily the Hoover moved towards ars justly proud to see their great, the jetty, until at last the hawsers halks glide alongside the Docks, made her fast to the pier, stirring the harbour into muddy eddies and taking full advantage
Meanwhile, the gang of coolies engaged in fixing the hawers were
But apart from all the fuss and noise he makes, the Chinese coolie is He does a very fine type of man. an enormous amount of work and in return is paid only a few cents, yet he does not grumble. Admitted- ly their methods are somewhat primitive and unorthordox, but in certain respects they seem to have just the right way of doing things. This doen not apply to the wharf coolis alone. It is the same with the earth coolie, the rickshaw coolie and the chair coolie.
"Baggage Carriers,
I am drifting from my subject for this is not meant to he an article on Chinese Coolies. To re- turn to my narrative, however.. When any steamer arrives in and. discharges her passengers on any of the wharves, we see olenty of bus- the by a section of the wharf.com
the baggage
but in the smaller ones, it is not It is of interest to note that uncommon to see a coolia snatching while the public were allowed on the bag out of a passenger's hand, so wharf before the liner was actualy anxious is he to earn the few cente alongside, no one was allowed on it that carrying it would bring him. as soon as the hawers were thrown. In the Kowloon Wharf, the largest over the side of the ship, until every thing was fixed. ·
Whart Coolies.
While one gang of coolies were busy with the hawsers, another gang stood by near the sliding gangways and as soon as it was possible to do so, they fixed these up and people began pouring into the boat.
One characteristic of the Chinese coblie is that he cannot work with out making a noise. He is quite happy so long, as he is allowed to have bis say and make his war cries, but if he is stopped from do ing this, he begins to sulk, and the result is that he does not give as much service as he otherwise would.
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of our wharves, one has to be very careful not to get into way of the many tracks which run from one. end of the wharf to the other. Then there are the many cranes and other equipment common to a big wharf.
Somatimes we have two or more liners docking at the same time and it is then that the wharf staff is kent really hard at work.
When a liner leaves, we have all the bustle all over again and the work in this place never ceases Eyen on holidays when all and· sundry are taking things easily, the wharf people do not rest, and yet there are those among us, who have their Sundays and holidays regular ly, grumbling about hard work!.
of their right of wayYet working hard under the directions munity known as great as is the part these vessels, of a European wharfager and yes-coolies Of course there is plenty play in the import and export trade terday. Major Manners, the Godown of system in the way in which they of the Colony, the humbler steam-Company tai-pan was on the wharfare regulated in the larger wharves; ers of lines little known to the watching operations, general public have just as im- portant a mission in their less distant but more adventurous voy ages. There are dozens of modest shipping companies in Hong Kong, generally owned by one man, whose vessels, ranging from tramps of one thousand tong burden to cargo steamers of up to five thousand tops, rove the China Sea on all kinds of chance commissions. For month they may lie idle off Kow. loon sadly lacking in that spin and-span grandeur of their Olym pian superiors, waiting until some merchant thinks fit to charter them and send them voyaging to half- forgotten ports where copra, coffee, tapioca, cloves and spice will form the principal cargo. Every month these small steamers modestly slip out of port bound for Timor, that dreamy Colony in the Flores Sea that lives as a remnant of Portu- sal's sca-power; others go to Singa nore and Bangkok, returning vin Swabow with their holds brimming with rice, and some they go as far ins Calcutta, in which port they are quickly lost in the lanes of mighty ships whose cargoes serve this teem- ing populace of industrial. India. Those who seek in yain for romance in the modern steamer, who sigh for the wind-blown sails of the tea elippers, would do well to reflect that these little iron ships which the landsman is so apt to overlook, carry on the traditions of the sail ing ships even though their decks are grimy with coal dust. Com- pared with the huge liners, they are indeed frail little craft, yet they withstand the fiercoat of gales and typhoons and plough wearily along the blazing sens until their paint Very soon they were overjoyed when reaching a depth of six feet, who man these ships are sailors into strike a large earthenware pot, the real sense of the word; scerning the geld braid and the social graces which modern ocean travel demands of a liner's company, yet fonder of their ships because they are the less like those floating palaces where the chef is a person of higher import ance in the passengers eyes than the Captain himself. The men who command the amal ships are a tribute to the Merchant Service; they know the China coast and the treated with acids it turned into a The magistrate imposed a fine of
is black and blistered. The men
adjoining seas as though they had
DISCOVERED IN KWEI LIN
It seems to be quite interesting to learn that Liu Yam Sun & citizen of Kwai Lan City recently observed a bright red glow which continually appeared in the garden at the back of his house for many evenings. He guessed that it was either something variable or buried
treasure?
SOLDIER GOES FOR JOY RIDE
THEN GIVES HIMSELF UP
TO POLICE
Private A. E. Prics of the South Wales Borderers attached to Mount Austin Barracks, was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy. yesterday with driving a dar without an ap Being desirous of discovering thepropriate license and driving it origin of this glow, he and the men without permission of the owner. bers of his family went to the spot It was stated by Sergeant Smith and started digging..
that whilst he was on charge-room duty at the Water Police Station on Saturday evening, defendant walk- din and gave himself up. He told the Police that he found the car, which belonged to Sergeant Grover of the Hong Kong Police, parked The happy ander took one of them hear the Majestic Theatre. He got to a goldsmith's shop in Canton in and drove out to the Taipo Road. to be examined, but what was his After a spin round Kowloon he took surpris and disappointment when it to the Water Polo Station smashing open the brick with a eil Defendant who had several pre ver hammer, it was found to consiet viona convictions against "* -hìm. only a red substance, then pleaded guilty to both charms and
And further when chemically said he had no statement to make
which contained seven gold bricks, altogether weighing about fifty catties..
little ball, which looked like gold 810 or one week's imprisonment on
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