Craftsmanship of Colony's Workers Recruited from Shantung Tribe Driven South Fnom Ove Own Hongkong, Jan. 16.
Shanghai omen make the best teak furniture, it is agreed, and they. are also the ones to. work in Dladiorood, Local" manufacturers bring their enbinetmakers from the forth, "But you" have to come to Hongkong to see rattan worked into' the smartest pieces of fume, ture found anywhere, 'The industry fs x0 peculiarly Hongkong's own that even. the Gantoncse have never taken readily forthe crafts. The people "most Sept' atthe work are the. Hako ineninembory of a fro Who were find have since become superinpo tung. Tong ago,
upon the Toeal popstation, These are remarkably good chairs, too, of lain Straight variety, tera few more years these boys will be able to finish off one in a day as their elders are doing.
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