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Chinese workers' quarters

Chinese workers' quarters
Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Sunday, January 1, 1961
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Taken in 1961 and shows part of the camp where the Chinese wokers were living mainly amahs.Situated on the western edge of the main camp buildings

I am fairly certain that this is Abdul.  He ran the small shop in the basement of Gibson Block and  sold all sorts of things to the airmen, including flip flops, Hawaiian beach shirts and photograph albums.

Hi this is Abdul remember him well,bought enicar watch from him it went for years

forgot to mention in my last post chinese quarters were on lower ground behind mt section,just along from tech block,we used to have problems on night shift with workers playing majong you could here the clacking a good distance away officially gambling was not allowed but I always turned a blind eye.