searching old newspapers online
Apr 15, 2014 7:07:31 GMT -5
Post by richardn23 on Apr 15, 2014 7:07:31 GMT -5
Old Australian newspapers from the early 1800's until the 1950's are being made available online at the Trove website of the National Library of Australia. Access is free. The collection may be searched, proving useful for family and historical research.
The Louey-Gung family has been resident in Melbourne Australia since aabout 1900. Unitl the late 1940's members of the family moved between Australia and China. Following is an interesting article in 'The Argus' (Melbourne, Vic., Australia), Tuesday 14 September 1937, page 7 :-
CHINESE GIRL'S NAIVE LETTER FROM WAR ZONE
(photograph: "Miss Maisie Louey Gung, photographed in the garden of her home in Canton.")
The article and the photograph may be inspected at trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/11111849
Richard
The Louey-Gung family has been resident in Melbourne Australia since aabout 1900. Unitl the late 1940's members of the family moved between Australia and China. Following is an interesting article in 'The Argus' (Melbourne, Vic., Australia), Tuesday 14 September 1937, page 7 :-
CHINESE GIRL'S NAIVE LETTER FROM WAR ZONE
"Wing Loo, 14 Mah Pung Gong, Pok Sye road, Tungshan, Canton," is the fascinating address on a letter which Miss Maisie Louey Gung, a former student of Zercho's College, Melbourne, wrote recently to Mr. Zercho, enclosing a photograph of herself taken in the garden of her home.
Miss Gung is stenographer to the Adviser to Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek, and there is a delightful naivete in her reference to her work.
"I have held this important post for several months now," she says, "and find the work very interesting, quite different from the usual office routine work, which is liable to get a little boring at times. It is getting more interesting these days, with war raging between China and Japan, and really it is exciting. Of course I have been warned to keep a closed mouth, which I am doing. The latest news is that China is winning and the Japanese are retreating, which makes me leap for joy. Naturally, you can't blame me for being patriotic and feeling that way can you?"
Miss Gung's office is in Nanking in a building In the National Park. "A very nice environment," she says, "surrounded by lots of flowers giving one a sense of elation."
Before she was appointed to her present post Miss Gung who returned to China in 1931 after having completed her secre tarial training in Melbourne was secretary to the Rotary Club in China This work she considers broadened her outlook on life.
Refening to the International nature of Rotary she writes "Isn't it funny that one can have associates all over the world. As Confucius said 'Under the Heavens we are one family and within the Four Seas we are brethren,' and how I agree with him in that respect."
Miss Gung has a sister who is studying at the High School in Canton where she expects to graduate next year. "The High schools here have English taught, " her sister writes, "just like the schools ove| there with you having French and German. Her English is quite good and after graduation she intends to go to your col lege to take a business course to finish up.
She resembles me to a certain extent but is slightly taller and of course much better looking! "
It appears that it is not at all unusual for Chinese girls to come to Australia to train for a business career later in their own land. There is no ban on their admlttance to Austialla If they come here to school.
Miss Gung is stenographer to the Adviser to Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek, and there is a delightful naivete in her reference to her work.
"I have held this important post for several months now," she says, "and find the work very interesting, quite different from the usual office routine work, which is liable to get a little boring at times. It is getting more interesting these days, with war raging between China and Japan, and really it is exciting. Of course I have been warned to keep a closed mouth, which I am doing. The latest news is that China is winning and the Japanese are retreating, which makes me leap for joy. Naturally, you can't blame me for being patriotic and feeling that way can you?"
Miss Gung's office is in Nanking in a building In the National Park. "A very nice environment," she says, "surrounded by lots of flowers giving one a sense of elation."
Before she was appointed to her present post Miss Gung who returned to China in 1931 after having completed her secre tarial training in Melbourne was secretary to the Rotary Club in China This work she considers broadened her outlook on life.
Refening to the International nature of Rotary she writes "Isn't it funny that one can have associates all over the world. As Confucius said 'Under the Heavens we are one family and within the Four Seas we are brethren,' and how I agree with him in that respect."
Miss Gung has a sister who is studying at the High School in Canton where she expects to graduate next year. "The High schools here have English taught, " her sister writes, "just like the schools ove| there with you having French and German. Her English is quite good and after graduation she intends to go to your col lege to take a business course to finish up.
She resembles me to a certain extent but is slightly taller and of course much better looking! "
It appears that it is not at all unusual for Chinese girls to come to Australia to train for a business career later in their own land. There is no ban on their admlttance to Austialla If they come here to school.
The article and the photograph may be inspected at trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/11111849
Richard