HONG KONG
ANXIOUS TIME FOR TWO
YEARS
A visitor.to Wellington from Hong Kong is Mr. R. North, who is in the British Colonial service. Mr. North is Secretary for Chinese Affairs in Hong Kong and is on eight months' leave. He arrived by the,Awatea today.
"In the last two years we have had a pretty anxious time of it," said Mr. North in an interview. "We are very much on the edge of the JapaneseChinese trouble, and ever since hostilities began the results of it have been seen in Hong Kong. When I came away a month ago it was estimated that there were approximately a quarter of a million refugees there. Provision; has been made for the erection of camps and huts to accommodate these people. No doubt they will eventually go back again when things settle down once more, but I am afraid it is too early yet to say when that is likely to be."
Except for a year, in 1922, when he was engaged on special duties for the New Zealand Government in Samoa, Mr. North has been stationed at Hong Kong since 1912. In normal times he has found it a very pleasant place to live in—something like Wellington in appearance only rather more elevated. Quite a number of New Zealanders lived there, he said.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 136, 6 December 1938, Page 12
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