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"There are two sorts of rice huller. One is made of wood. The other sort is made of mud. This sort is made with a round bamboo frame, filled with clean yellow mud. Bamboo teeth are pressed into both the upper and lower hulling faces. The upper frame of the huller has a hollow to receive the grain, the capacity of which is double that of a wooden huller. If the grain is at all damp when it goes into the huller, it will be crushed. After hulling 200 shek (E) of rice, a mud huller will start to fall to pieces. Wooden hullers require strong men to operate them, but mud hullers are suitable for operation by women or young people. The ordinary peasants use mud hullers of this type."
I am grateful to Mr. Yau for drawing my attention to this description.
James Hayes
A GLIMPSE OF THE LAND SETTLEMENT AT SHEK PIK VILLAGE,
LANTAU ISLAND, HONG KONG
In the opening years of this century, following the lease of what is now the New Territories of Hong Kong, all land that was being utilised or had been occupied was surveyed by the new government. A Land Court was set up to settle all claims to ownership of land, and any disputes were adjudicated. Finally, a register of ownership for each of the 355 Demarcation Districts was prepared and bound into a folio together with a survey sheet and a Block Crown Lease.
Whilst the work of the survey and land court are well-documented in the official reports of the time,1 few materials showing the process in the villages have survived.
To my mind, the most interesting of these are the small printed "chits”, known to villagers and government staff alike as Chi Tsai
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It reads in translation:
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"There are two sorts of rice huller. One is made of wood. The other sort is made of mud. This sort is made with a round bamboo frame, filled with clean yellow mud. Bamboo teeth are pressed into both the upper and lower hulling faces. The upper frame of the huller has a hollow to receive the grain, the capacity of which is double that of a wooden huller. If the grain is at all damp when it goes into the huller, it will be crushed. After hulling 200 shek ( E ) of rice, a mud huller will start to fall to pieces. Wooden hullers require strong men to operate them, but mud hullers are suitable for operation by women or young people. The ordinary peasants use mud hullers of this type."
I am grateful to Mr. Yau for drawing my attention to this description.
James Hayes
A GLIMPSE OF THE LAND SETTLEMENT AT SHEK PIK VILLAGE,
LANTAU ISLAND, HONG KONG
In the opening years of this century, following the lease of what is now the New Territories of Hong Kong, all land that was being utilised or had been occupied was surveyed by the new government. A Land Court was set up to settle all claims to ownership of land, and any disputes were adjudicated. Finally, a register of ownership for each of the 355 Demarcation Districts was prepared and bound into a folio together with a survey sheet and a Block Crown Lease.
Whilst the work of the survey and land court are well-documented in the official reports of the time,' few materials showing the process in the villages have survived.
To my mind, the most interesting of these are the small printed "chits”, known to villagers and government staff alike as Chi Tsai
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