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THE 'CHINA · MAIL" *** SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1961.

PHOTO NEWS WHAT WOULD YOU DO

By Frank

Fischbeck

done.

Storm or no storm, the shopping still has to be

In the rainy background, Shek Kip Mei

Resettlement Estate.

IF YOU LIVED

IN A HUT

ON A HILL?

By

Sylvia da Costa-Roque

QUESTION: What would you do if you were an $80-a-month coolie living in a shantie hut on a hillside in a howling gale? ANSWER: Tie up your hut more securely with whatever pieces of string or rope you can find, put some stones on the tin that forms a roof in the hope that it won't blow away, and stay inside with your fingers tightly crossed.

Your hut may survive to bat- tle with another storm. But the chances are you will end up at the base of the hill surrounded by the remals of your "home" will be blown ...or your but

down around you....or it and you will be completely smashed and buried beneath a noge manu of earth and rock.

If the latter happens, of course, and the resque kurvives don't reach you in time, you will never again have to worry about the best methods of survival during the colony's typhon season-or anythisfe.

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But back to reality. We aren't $80-a-month coolles

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living in shanties on ex- to imagine - and still remain

While so cheerful. posed hillsides.

were fearing many other for their lives during tro- pleal storm Olga, we were grumbling that we esuldn't

to the beaches, nd worrying that our wind an might ha brokon by flying pieces of debris.

It is awfully hard to con- prehend how one person, never mind a whole family, can aurvive

on a little less or a little micre than $100 a month. As hard to comprehend as the garning of $1,000 a month is to them.

It is harder still to underaland how people can live in conditions which we find almost imperstule

And cheerfulness WAR what China Mail camerman Frank Fischbeck found on Sunday morning when he went to Shek Kip Mel in search of the Iundalklo tragedy in which three people died.

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pouring rola he trudged through the soaked squatter ates and splashed through the hun- dreds of newly formed streams that criss-crossed the area wash- Ing away the foundations of the

rickety homes.

The sight of a European wad- ing through the water in the high

This heavily burdoned rain-soaked woman makes her way up a slippery

path to har homo.

winds

was something these people didn't expect. They took him for lost and invited him into their huts.

Inside One, Frank sald, tu found life going on as if the family were "qulte unaware of their precarious position and that over 30 huts in the area had al- ready been washed away,

The children were pulling plastic flowers together and mok-. ing small toys. The flour WUN ittered with cans catching the rain that dripped from the roof.

"The mother," nald Frank "was terribly con- cerned about my cameras, which were wet, and the produced a piece of cloth to dry them.

The father wasn't there. He was outside tying up a life but that housed a coûalé ef hens and

n pis."

All through the area, people were digging to divert streams that threatened their huts. "But no matter what they were doing, almost everybody greeted me, Frank said.

"They really „didn't look very worried, but I suppose 'they had gone through the same routine many times before."

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A South African who is unused to anything more violent than an occasional thunderstorm, Frank saya the morning spent in Shek Kip Mei Is an experience he will never forget.

This wreckage used to house a family.

Livestock is valuable and this man can't afford to let it be washed away.

Ho is tying up his hen house with wire and pieces of rope.

Pan Am navigator

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This family has just lost half of its home. It collapsed when part of the hill gava way. The part that's left is teetering on the edge, but they are still living in..it,

Just Fancy That!

[INE detectors should be used to find

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weapons hidden

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PADIOS have been banned at

the £123-a-menuen Boyally

I Fishery at Christchurch, Hampshire -because members have

decided thai salmon don't like music.

Calchen are down tila jynah,

but members say that when radio users leave uthär anglers duri catching fish.

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