CHINESE PARTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 281, 28 November 1938, Page 9

CHINESE PARTY.

WOMEN AND CHILDREN. FROM HONGKONG TO FIJI. F Mr. Yee Hoy Shang, of Suva, Fiji, . was a busy man when the Niagara arrived from Sydney this morning. Accompanied by his wife and two small children he lias l>een guide and escort to 21 Chinese women and children who are on their way from Hongkong to ) join husbands and fathers in Suva. The blaze of colour from their picturesque costumes lent a touch of the Orient to the ship. Mr. Yee Hoy Shang is a director of Kwong Tiv, Limited, storekeepers, of Suva, and lias lieen paying a visit to his homeland. The party he brought back to- , day represents the wives and children , of his firm's employees in Suva. Chinese children are just as full of > curiosity as any other children, and f as Mr. Sluing was speaking little black- , eyed youngsters listened with interest to t a language they did not understand and s broke into floods of what was presum- ' ably Cantonese. With their black hair i and coloured costumes tliev looked like little dolls. Their mothers, in flowing 1 silk costumes, listened shyly. 1 "Business is good in Hongkong at J present," said Mr. Shang. "The place 1 is, of course, crowded with people from | the mainland. My people are confident that they will win the war, but we have . no more news about what is happening ' than you get in the cables." I The party will continue the voyage to I Suva by the Niagara to-morrow.