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Red error messages when you save a page

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2013-08-28 18:42

Guy sent me an email:

any problem with my post?

http://gwulo.com/node/17087

I got lots of red warnings which I could not understand.

The error messages show:

warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /nfs/c03/h01/mnt/51424/domains/batgung.com/html/drupaldir/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 70.

Hong Kong Gallantry Awards prior to 1997

Submitted by guyshirra on Wed, 2013-08-28 12:12

I have been researching this and updating Wikipedia from time-to-time. Below are the results so far; please let me know if you have any additions or alterations to make.

1902 Public Works Report

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2013-08-27 21:40

A scanned copy of the original document is available online at HKGRO. 

Excerpts:

WORK UNDER THE BUILDING ORDINANCE

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New MMIS system ... searching old newspapers

Submitted by patricia on Sat, 2013-08-24 00:48

As a very frequent user of the MMIS system run by the HKPublic Library I've alternately loved and loathed it ... wonderful to be freely able to access all these papers at home, maddening how slow it is to load, even with superfast fibre optic broadband.  Now there's a new system, and if anyone can help me round it I'd be really grateful.  I've watched the video for searching old papers, but so far despite my best efforts I can't get a specific paper for a specific date.  I can get a date range - say 1909-1919 for the HKDaily Press, then get a year of that range ...

Alan Whicker - Hong Kong UKTV/BBC4 10.pm BST 19/08/13

Submitted by harryhktc on Tue, 2013-08-20 03:26

Any 'gwulo' with acces to BBC4 TV may find the late AW's lifetime journey to HK interesting.

BBC4 tonight 19/August at 10pm BST.

Anyone know about the Grand Hotel in Kowloon?

Submitted by jameswren on Thu, 2013-08-15 16:54

Hello folks, back in the late 70's / early 80's I stayed at a hotel called the Grand.  I can't find any record of this hotel, does anyone know what street it was on? It wasn't massive, but from what I remember a nice place, modern and well equiped. Any thoughts would be much appreciated! Cheers, james

1948 Hong Kong U.F.O.

Submitted by Richard Muirhead on Sun, 2013-08-11 22:54

Found this in The China Mail(Hong Kong) of May 4th 1948:" STRANGE OBJECT OBSERVED. A ball of blush light about half the size of the moon in diameter streaked across a cloudless sky over Hong Kong late on Sunday [2nd] night,according to an observer`s report.The object,seen seen from the Praya, was travelling at high speed in a westerly direction. It disappeared behind the western end of the Peak in a few seconds.

Photographer wants to photograph old gwulo families for exhibition

Submitted by lizzyg on Wed, 2013-08-07 11:29

Does anyone know any expat families of 3 or 4 generations who are currently living in HK?

HK photographer Leong Ka-tai is keen to take their family portrait for the Festival Flare exhibition on Families, at the HK International Photo Festival.

Can you identify where this house was and tell me the name of this school?

Submitted by Mouton on Mon, 2013-08-05 23:09

Hello! Just wondering if anyone can help me out with this photo. I want to know whereabouts in Hong Kong this house might have been (I imagine it's been well and truly flattened by now!).

This house belonged to my g-grandfather and g-grandmother, Samuel and Elizabeth Baker (nee Kerr). Samuel was an engineer at the East Point Sugar Refinery and before that he worked for Jardine-M's Indo-China Steam Navigation Co (1890s-1910s), so I imagine he would have wanted to live close by to those places of work. 

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