Original Kowloon Dairy 1902 and later Albert Villa [1898-????] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Original Kowloon Dairy 1902 and later Albert Villa [1898-????]

Current condition: 
Demolished / No longer exists
Date Place completed: 
1898-01-01

Location correct 

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I have an address from a letter written by Rudy Choy which gives an address for Kowloon Dairy as 53 Waterloo Road.

In the 1941 Hkg Jurors list there is a George Emanuel Ahwee - Farm Superintendent c/o Kowloon Dairy, Customs Pass, Sai Kung Road. also a Henry William Ahwee. Rudy Choy is in the same list as Managing Director Kowloon Dairy.

There is some more info on locations in this link-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Dairy

I wonder if Farm Road in nearby Kau Pui Lung might give us a hint?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kau_Pui_Lung

 

 

According to the official website of the Kowloon Dairy (http://www.kowloondairy.com.hk/innerpage.jsp?lang=en&pid=pid_01_01), the farm was founded in 1940 by Ahwee & Choy at Ngau Chi Wan where the present Choi Wan Estate is., in quite a distance from Customs Pass. Maybe the address of the latter was where Ahwee lived?

I managed to locate the farm from the Hong Kong Historic Maps website (see the Map 1970).  It was a more-or-less rectangular piece of land located down the slope from Good Hope School (now the junction at Ngau Chi Wan Street and Fung Shing Street). Seems that some dairy cattle on the pasture can even be seen on an aerial photo (Map 1963.2)!

The address cited as 53 Waterloo Road was in fact a retailing shop of the company(?). To my memory, there were lots of bottles of Kowloon Dairy milk available. The shop was just on the opposite side of Waterloo Road from the school where I was attending in the 1970s.

Was that Kowloon Dairy adjacent to Albert Villa an earlier (and vanished) company bearing the same name?

Besides, the Chinese name for Farm Road in To Kwa Wan is 農圃道. It's most likely a market garden, not a dairy farm.