1960-01-16 — Page 51

CUNSET. A sail on the sea, chasing its own Homeword- shadow towards Castle Peak. bound, a weary junk ploughed its way over the blue deep.

Home was Wong Keung, fisherman of the New Territories, without fanfare or salute, though his was a hero's return.

Each

The result? · Wong voyage was an ad- marketing. vanturo In itself adven- is perpetually in debi,

ture Into the

unknown

During the Japanese occupa- and sua weather

over a tion, the fishing industry almost a standstill. At the number of wooks, advon- same to

Wong without end of the war in 1945, turo at high cost

and all the and his family knowing the prize, advon herfolk were literally half- ture into a region where starved and dressed in Jags. life sometimes vorges upon doath.

Each return was a triumph -- over the elements, the waves, the treachery of creatures in the sea and, sometimes, over death by the skin of his teeth in a struggle

bring to

tables delicacies

Colony,

Debts

marine

Death from starvation stalked among them. Luckily Govern- inent stepped in with a $100,000 fean to revive the industry.

ū

So that the exploitation of shermen by uddiemen might for not occur again, a scheme

Fish non - Government

(FMO) Organisation of the Market

came into existence in 1945,

Wong

thankful. was really

with The FMO helped him smarketing and transportation, provided schools for his

facilities

The New Territories story

By DAVID LAN

part five

hnd

almost

Other fishermen imitated him. Mechanisation SUTC with the help of the come to a standstill! enthusiastic

engine manufce- turers wh gave $5,000,000 in

credi!.

As a result, the number of mechanized junks increased by the hundreds from eight in 1952 to 2,958 in 1938, the year when China imposed restrictions on inshore fishing in Chinese ferri- torial waters.

It was the year when thou- sands of junks came to the TECY Colony with their crews. lived on savings or cked out a

The ruin of the fishing Indus- stranded. Others don't know try by the Japanese occupation your whereabouts, And deaths brought about FMO (better in watery graves are marketing), mechanisation (more NIKON," frequent landings), and establish- ment of the A.F.F.D. (research, guidance and training in modern techniques).

Answer

The loss of the salt-sh market In China since 1949 diverted more fish products to Hongkong, and the Inshore-fishing restaic Lions

added to our fleet and

added. fishing population,

Wes he right? The answer is yes,

The net result of all the fore- In disguise was

going blessings

Jo Kwel, 38, a shizan the nearest thing to the Lunik that Hongkong has over created

not un-

Another fisherman in Talpo, Ho Kwel, 38, also attributed his hardship to low prices, a limited market,

after oversupply mechanisation and lowered catch per junk when a swollen popula- overworked and lon fahed in limited waters.

Jobs

"That's why in certain cases, ilfe is even worse than 1059 and many fishermen have joined Inc. tories or turned to earth coolies jobs."

immed up fishermen's

caps 05:

One informant in Castle Peak handi- Talpo said on the go-elow in mechanisation, "You borrow ou

Population increase credit to fix up an engine. Saya skyrocketing graph showing

Government, en-

our post-war fishery production.

of refuger *S The $1,000 from

1100

zoomed upwards through Influx from a friend ond other $1,000

from

190,000 plouls in 1945-46 well as early marriage often at several more thousands trum

17 or 18, and very soon with an to 136,928 picule in 1958-601

of five to six Dew other sources at the high interest

Average And fish has become Hong- mouths to feed, adding to con- of five per cent a month.

Bad catches

"When you are all set, you

kong's nnly that can fully nerds, leaving export.

primary produce

satisfy our own sumption. plenty more for

There are 80,800 peoplo like children, gave him cheap credit living by working the already find you cannot return the loans record in the short span of last resulting In less big fish. Sub-

him, loading an eternal floating Ife on 0,421 Junks based at a slozen inlets throughout the

because

of Ashing grounds overished waters of the Colony imitations, oversupply and drops Wong was not so reckless, bitt in price. In a few years the some daredevil shermen took

oul-even before waters and Une and again got Naturally. we hold back caught, shot or chaard off.

mechantaation."

the risk of fishing in Chinese engine wears

you can clear your debts.

Oversupply through mechanisation and overpopula- The frozen shrimp

export tion, creating market glut and trade, for instance, has created a forcing down the price.

⚫Indiscriminate fishing three years, from a million to

$7,538,000!

sequent catches of Emailer and certifled his

Progress has also been made it mean a smaller income, shrimps for quick-freezing and

in development of oyster beds at • High cost of operating a export to America,

not only tho Deep Bay (20 sq. ml.), cultured junk that carries The Agriculture, Fisheries

pearls in Tolo Harbour, and crew but generations of families. fresh water pond fisheries in The songs of N. T. Ashermen and Forestry Department also

Innate habits of gambling research,

under with

Yuen Long-all laughter and helped fishermen by overflow

the and drinking away their hard- their skippers Wong training

was then opinions were Said a fisherman in zn inter- tears. The story

earned profits. guidance of the AFFD. and coxswains for voiced in the Colony for the view nt Castle Peak, "It takes The laws of supply and de-

Superstition in placating Keung symbolizes

fishing engineers, our

extending focal Industry to turn to deep-"about $17,000 mechanised fishing,

just to Ax your mand worked

gods, festival celebrations when fishing International junk with a used

in pond-fisheries etc.....

bus engine. ash market.

thousands of dollars are spent Surely the bigger the capacity waters with mechanisation.

sticks, Joss paper, joss the more powerful the engine,

monks, priests, decorations ZAYIC chanting rites.

N. T.

industry.

of

Wong's income varies with the baronieter. Though he had seen many good days in pre-war years, he never learned to suve so that when typhoons came, he wallowed in Anancial straits.

Ta de over the lean years, Wong would borrow from the tuans, wholesale middlemen, a of interest- handsame amount free money which he has never repaid.

Nor d the leans demand for loans were repayment, made on the understanding that Wong would hand over all his, catches to the middlemen

16

for

Engines

sca

21

on

To help flod new fishing But it will cost even more, and grounds in deep seas, Govern who wants to gamble in the face

corked $700,000 tar of certain catches?" inent

and main- modifying, staffing. trining the research vessel, the

Mary, which beller!" 230-ton Cape St

**Who?"

overtime on the

on

Prices

When mechanisation omelally started in 1953, Wong itled his junk with a diesel, engine on a loan from the $800.000 grant out of the Catanial Develop- arrived on September 30, 1939, barged in.

from British Guiana as a gift ment and Welfare Funds.

To his jubilation, he found his frem the U.K. Government, mechanised junk could catch

However, at the end of March, three to four times more, do a

where 1958, the number of mechanised trip in only 20 hours formerly he needed 14 days and Junks was 2,366-a meagre in- were blessings in disguise, said his present standard of living

of eight also, enabled him to go much crease farther out to sea.

A British Crossword Puzzle

of

120

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24

25

26

ACROSS

1 King of the forest? (0),

7 Depict artistically (4)

22 yards in China (6).

10 This man salled the

(5).

11 Sock repair (4).

13 Presiding (2, 3, 5).

15 Quile a job_,(4),

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2 Not at all oppropriate (5).

3 This corporal has only one

stripe (5).

previous year.

•

Our meteoric rise in produc-

literacy. I is said that kermen's Bliteracy is rouch tion has been accompanied by a

more extensive than thei: coun- "Of course, the bigger the price plummeting from $1 per

another Arherman cartly in 1945 to 60 'cents In terparta on land, the farmers,

And carly 1959.

illiteracy closes the doors This is good for the consumers to knowledge of modern naviga- -mare goods at cheaper prices. tion and fishing methods in In- Birt themselves?

what of the producers ternational waters.

And last but not the least, a limited market which can only In Talpo, Lou Sun-hun, 37, a Asherman for 30 years, said of be solved by export and canning. However, like farmers on

fishermen years land, our

daunted, Most of them ret sails even

as usual in the face of all the handicaps.

"So that you may run away fanter when chosed!" be mapped. AR ezizmities for the industry

believer In fole, who reasoned this way:

the

pr

BY. THE. WAY

by Beachcomber

The time for their strike for

U

LE water-diviners choso punch-ball keeps the nose at

any amount of pea recently. A spokesman in touch pushing." said Evans's trainer. with authoritative sources said:

with on as compared ago, "No better! Maybe worse,"

Bro

un-

No wonder, Mr W. J, Blackle, Director of Agriculture,

"Things are costly. It takes $20,000 to $30,000 a year to run

junk carrying 15 to 20 crow Fisheries, and Forestry, pointed members and families. Yet the prices of our catches plunged out with pride: due to oversupply and a limited production has hit a new high market,'

this year the total value is in excess of $220,000,000."

On fishing in deep-seas, Lau had his misgivings. "You can't seo the kind or mountains. It's water all round. You get lost. "What did they hope achieve? In the City

In case of high seas, storms, or The public was learning to do SNAP

A

take-over bid sent engine breakdowns, you get without then during ruiny A Industrial equities rockating periods,"

the other day. It transpires that

A blacking who, wielding his Garler & Carter, working magic stick, discovered a river under the quota system and 113 flood has been sent to trading as Maslowlth & Lubber, Coventry by his angry mates persuaded their subsidiary com- "It was a wildcat strike," said pany Gwelve Products to make, in official of the Water Diviners anonymously, B gentleman's Union. The Thames Conger- agreement with the Ferne vancy Board preserves in combine

rationalise their

"Our primary

WEDNESDAY:

Our industries

JACOBY on BRIDGE

ominous silence on the matter. policy of consolidating theOLLIE

ADAMS

of Los of Angeles is one

04.2 The only

woman-divider, dandardisation of production, Agatha Spidge, of Nether control through an amalgarna. greatest rubber bridge players. Spalding, fell into a pool while tion of Interests by a new In rubber bridge a great player picketing and was rescued by method of restrictive monopoly, profits by his knowledge of his |a laughing plumber.

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an X-1 result? (8).

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diehard? (8).

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noble lady (5).

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13 Very angry (5).

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countryside rather than in churcht (8).

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when in

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