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...sixth of Hong Kong's 3,250,000 people occupy squatter towns like Diamond Hill, made up of cardboard-walled cubicles and straw-mat lean-tos. More than 80,000 others find homes in tar-paper shacks on tenement rooftops. Some 362,000 refugees have already been housed in the colony's impressive resettlement projects, and construction over the next five years will care for 100,000 more annually. Even the unemployed Chinese refugees in Hong Kong need not starve: there are 86 private and public social service agencies...
...city glitter an artificial light. He may get a better-paying job, or he may not; un employment and underemployment are widespread. Even if he does, he rarely finds a decent place to live. Housing is short, and landlords greedy. He usually throws together his own shack in some squatter's field...
...styles are naturally squatter, and masculine. A big seller is the cuffless Macmillan (also known as the Ambassador and the Astrakhan), though men can choose from the cuffed Alaskan (also known as the Troika and the Stockholm) and the round Pillbox (also known as the Detroit and the Arctic...
...Gabriola, about a guilt-haunted alcoholic, the latter work to be published in 1962. A couple of years ago, a longtime Lowry friend, Canadian Teacher Downie Kirk, salvaged a 3-ft. stack of manuscripts (poems, letters, stories, drafts of novels) from Lowry's British Columbia home, a squatter's cottage. Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place is a collection of short stories that are not really stories but anarchic fragments of autobiography...
...missed the biggest story out there in Hong Kong. True, Cheong Sam skirts and shopping infuse the tourist with excitement, but what about the building of the housing estate blocks that are taking 1,000,000 refugees out of hillside squatter shacks and changing the whole face of the British colony? Any tourist who has experienced the giving away of 1,000 bags of noodles to hungry, screaming Chinese children will jet away with the most intoxicating memory for life...