Kowloon Tong service reservoir

Service reservoir - The service reservoir is situated on a hill of decomposed granite just beyond the old boundary-line of the British territory, no site at a suitable height being available near the center of the supply district. is is built entirely in cutting, with floor and sidewalls of cement concrete, and vaulting of the same material carried on brick arches and stone pillars. The reservoir is 150' in diameter and 20' deep, and has a capacity of 2,000,000 galls., the in and outlet being arranged so that the water flows in at the top and out from the bottom of the reservoir, thus insuring aeration and circulation.

source: Lawrence Gibbs, "General scheme and construction of the Kowloon 'Hongkong' waterworks system," The Far-Eastern Review, Vol. 3, Issue 10 (Mar 1907), pp. 316-319. Gibbs later wrote a short article entitled "Kowloon Water Works. Early History," The Hong Kong Naturalist, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Feb 1931), pp. 65-68.

六七暴動後的「時髦愛國」

資料搜集中 

近大半年，每日都下載《中國學生周報》，作教學和研究備用。

沒有餘閒的話，只會隨意看看目錄（每期都有大量廣告（估計收入頗豐），以補習和留學為主）就全部先下載。

有時間的話，會多看到其中的內容，特別留意介紹歐西流行音樂的崇優文章（作者披圖氏（即梁柏濤）有過百篇，將會另文討論）。

以下幾篇討論愛國的文章，放在後六七暴動的歷史脈絡中觀察，尤其有趣。作者除了有為人所知岑逸飛，還有來自女拔和英皇的學生。

一、（拔萃女校）毓秀：〈愛國精神狹隘的民族主義〉，《中國學生周報》，第808期，1968年1月12日

二、岑逸飛：〈反「時髦愛國」 〉，《中國學生周報》，第816期 ，1968年3月8日。 

最近，談「愛國」的人愈來愈了。不少社團、雜誌、文章，都多多少少反映了一點「愛國」的色彩。與許多朋友閒談，也發覺他們的嘴邊總脫離不了一些「國家」、「民族」之類堂而皇之字眼，似乎沒有這些，就顯不出他們的「高級」。

......

三、戴雪君：〈時髦愛國與反時髦愛國〉，《中國學生周報》，第817期，1968年3月15日。

四、（英皇）海文：〈怎樣才算愛國〉，《中國學生周報》，第820期，1968年4月5日。  

Han Suyin's borrowed time, borrowed place

 

Life, International edition, vol. 27, no. 12, December 7, 1959.

Han Suyin, "Hong Kong: Ten-Year Miracle"

The city that was doomed is today more alive and prosperous than ever

Always go to Hong Kong for the Chinese New Year, which may happen any time from mid-January to the end of February. 

...

No cooking can be done during the first three or five days of the New Year; no fires are lit and the servants have all gone. So each housewife stocks up beforehand - with New Year cakes made of sticky rice, barley, sago, with meat or fruit stuffling, meat dumplings which require only boiling water to cook, and mounds of crystallized fruit, dates, kumquats, lotus seeds and watermelon seeds, not counting the dehydrated lacquered ducks and sausages which are sent or received as presents, as well as pomelos, oranges and other round fruit, the signs and symbols of fullness and content. New Year puddings are boiled and put away. As evening approaches, work becomes more frantic: the laundries and the drycleaning shops stay open till 3 in the morning, and so do many shops, discharing their accounts, and cleaning their floors, and their walls, taking the furniture out and sousing it in water. And then everybody must have a bath; all the girls and women have had fresh permanents, and their hair washed and dressed; all nails are trimmed, for no knife or scissor may be used on the first day of the New Year for fear of bad luck. When the houses are clean, then they are decorated in and out. No household, not even the most tumbleddown refugee shack, omits two things; above the lintel of the front door and on both side red paper scrolls with painted characters wishing happiness and luck to all; and inside, flowers bought at the flower fair.

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[to be continued]

[P.S. cover: Blackie Kronfeld of Pan-American Airways. Chester 'Blackie' Kronfeld, a Pan Am photographer, Norman Rockwell, a painter, and Bill House, an art director of an advertising agency, travelled around the world under the commission of Pan Am in September-November 1955. They stayed in Hong Kong for three days residing at Peninsula Hotel in mid October. Kronfeld died in an American Airlines plane crash after taking off in New York killing 95 people on March 1, 1962]