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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-1998",
        "page_number": 338,
        "title": "RAS-1998",
        "content_text": "307\n\nReport of the Committee of the Shanghai Cricket Club and a Statement of Accounts for 1940. Articles on cricket include, Days of Yore, China Coast Cricket (1922-23), A Brief History of Cricket in Hong Kong, by Peter Hall, written in the 1990s, and Cricket in Shanghai (2 pages). In 1981, Arnold Graham donated a large collection of cricketing books and magazines to the Hong Kong Cricket Association.\n\nIn fact, when Arnold Graham came to play cricket in Hong Kong in 1933, he was married in Saint John's Cathedral and there is a wedding photograph to prove it.\n\nAnother of Arnold Graham's pastimes appears to have been the Garrison Players and, on different occasions, he played the role of both producer and actor. Various plays, mostly with a British ring about them, were staged. These included HMS Pinafore, Trial by Jury, Merrie England (1926) and The Scarlet Pimpernel.\n\nIn the box sent by Arnold Graham's daughter there were also a number of photographs and snaps of places like Hangchow (1932 and 1933) and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank on the Bund. Also included is what could have been a soccer team where all players are Chinese, except for one European. There are also photocopies of pictures of groups of people taken at the Hankow Races in 1888, the Hankow Club in 1934 and 1935, and a picture of the stewards of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club, season 1926-27. Many of the pastimes, years ago in Shanghai, were similar to those of Europeans in Hong Kong.\n\nArnold Graham also spent much of his spare time with the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, over a period of 13 years, and there is a paper about the socio-military history of the Corps (14 pages). There are photographs of a military tattoo and another of a group of officers, mainly Europeans (one presumes of the Corps), taken in 1937. There is also a large, dark-blue epaulette, which appears to have been cut from a uniform, embroidered with a gold dragon.\n\nHaving had only one home leave in 13 years he managed to persuade his employer to grant him furlough during the Second World War, whereupon he joined the army in New Zealand. For the latter part",
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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-2001",
        "page_number": 273,
        "title": "RAS-2001",
        "content_text": "222\n\nAPPENDIX - THE LAST-NIGHT PARTY IN PARO\n\nProgramme:\n\n1. Introduction and limericks - Robert Nield\n\n2. Extract from 'HMS Pinafore' - Jenny Wu and Rupert McCowan\n\n3. Some Welsh songs - Ian and Jean Wilson\n\n4. Amazing conjuring tricks - Charles Slater\n\n5. Extract from 'The Yeomen of the Guard' - Jenny Wu and Robert Nield\n\n6. Some songs from Old Jamaica - Ian Wilson\n\n7. 'McPherson's Lament' - Chris Coghlan\n\n8. 'The Wild Rover' - Ian Edwards\n\n9. Another extract from 'HMS Pinafore' - Jenny Wu and Rupert McCowan\n\n10. 'Albert and the Lion' - Robert Nield\n\n11. Some North Country culture - Marlene Courbert\n\n12. The Police Song - Russell Harding",
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        "series_id": 26,
        "series_slug": "histsyn-rashkb-journal-engine",
        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-2001",
        "page_number": 276,
        "title": "RAS-2001",
        "content_text": "225\n\n2 FROM \"HMS PINAFORE\" (with apologies to G&S)\n\nI am the captain of the Bhutan tour\n\nAnd a right good captain too\n\nI'm exceedingly polite, and I think it's only right I command a right good crew\n\nHe's exceedingly polite and we think it's only right\n\nHe commands a right good crew\n\nEven when I've had a beer I never never swear whatever the emergency\n\nThough \"Bother it\" I may occasionally say, I never use a big big \"F\"\n\nWhat never?\n\nNo, never!\n\nWhat, never??\n\nWell, hardly ever!\n\nThen give three cheers and one cheer more\n\nFor our captain, dear old Brian Shaw\n\nGive three cheers and one cheer more for good old Brian Shaw\n\nI do my best to satisfy you all\n\nAnd as a group we are quite content\n\nYou sometimes complain and I find it quite a pain near my progenitive implement\n\nWe sometimes do complain and he finds it quite a pain\n\nNear his progenitive implement\n\nI got meself a bell, and it's given you all hell whenever I have something to say\n\nI'm sure you will agree if you listen carefully you'll learn something more each day\n\nWhat, always?\n\nYes, always!\n\nWhat, always??\n\nWell, sometimes!\n\nThen give three cheers...\n\nI'm sure you will have seen that I'm always very keen\n\nTo get a good punctual start\n\nThis little bell of mine will keep you all in line like Napoleon Bonaparte\n\nThis little bell of thine will keep us all in line\n\nLike Napoleon Bonaparte\n\nI'm sure you will agree that my wife Felicity is worth her weight in gold Wherever I go she's usually in tow, and she always does what she's told",
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