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GARDEN "ALL GONE."
CHIN SHOO CARRIES ON.
SCENE AFTER THE FLOOD.
People travelling to the city over Victoria Bridge have noticed Chin Shoo prodding the. waste left by the recent flood* on his market garden. To the inevitable questions they ask. the answer is that Chin Shoo is looking for lost soil under t?ix inches of sand, says the Melbourne ||Herald." On the morning of November 30, Chin Shoo had «i large crop of tomatoes and beans near the river bank, most of it ready for picking. In the afternoon the floods came, and during the ensuing days the waters rose and covered all but about half an acre, of Chin Shoo'e sevenacre garden. When they receded, tomatoes, beans, young cabbages, and many other plantings had vanished, along with moot of the soil. Where die flood did not take away the soil, it left sand, so Chin Shoo's garden on t'ie west bank of the Yarra, north of Victoria Bridge, is now mostly clay subsoil or sand. Through the top of the sand pee)) the tops of n rhubarb crop, which was to have made money for Chin Sh-o. The sand is sfx inches deep. It will take a long time to move, and Chin Shoo is getting old. But he comes of a race of philosophers, and when interviewed he was smiling broadly. "All none," he (said with a grin, "five hundred and sixty-five pounds worth. No goo'." The flood destroyed beautiful willows on the bank below Chin Shoo's garden. It washed away part of the cape at the bend of the river, and cut hujze gashes in the banks. It submerged Chin Shoo's pumping plant. A fellow countryman was trying to save some of the sand-submerged rhubarb. Chin Shoo was. Hitting about in his conical-haped Chinese coolie. hat, his smile hardly belying his plaintive chant. "All gone."
His Reasons. Chin Shoo lias been in Australia 42 years. For the first two he worked in a market garden. Then he went into Lonsdale Street and made furniture for 30 years. "Sijrht no goo'," he said in explanation of his departure from the furniture trade, and ao lie went back to the market jrarden again. There is still some soil left in parts, the six inehes of sand can be shifted, and Chin Shoo must live, and smile, and carry on. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 302, 21 December 1934, Page 8
CHIN SHOO CARRIES ON.
SCENE AFTER THE FLOOD.
People travelling to the city over Victoria Bridge have noticed Chin Shoo prodding the. waste left by the recent flood* on his market garden. To the inevitable questions they ask. the answer is that Chin Shoo is looking for lost soil under t?ix inches of sand, says the Melbourne ||Herald." On the morning of November 30, Chin Shoo had «i large crop of tomatoes and beans near the river bank, most of it ready for picking. In the afternoon the floods came, and during the ensuing days the waters rose and covered all but about half an acre, of Chin Shoo'e sevenacre garden. When they receded, tomatoes, beans, young cabbages, and many other plantings had vanished, along with moot of the soil. Where die flood did not take away the soil, it left sand, so Chin Shoo's garden on t'ie west bank of the Yarra, north of Victoria Bridge, is now mostly clay subsoil or sand. Through the top of the sand pee)) the tops of n rhubarb crop, which was to have made money for Chin Sh-o. The sand is sfx inches deep. It will take a long time to move, and Chin Shoo is getting old. But he comes of a race of philosophers, and when interviewed he was smiling broadly. "All none," he (said with a grin, "five hundred and sixty-five pounds worth. No goo'." The flood destroyed beautiful willows on the bank below Chin Shoo's garden. It washed away part of the cape at the bend of the river, and cut hujze gashes in the banks. It submerged Chin Shoo's pumping plant. A fellow countryman was trying to save some of the sand-submerged rhubarb. Chin Shoo was. Hitting about in his conical-haped Chinese coolie. hat, his smile hardly belying his plaintive chant. "All gone."
His Reasons. Chin Shoo lias been in Australia 42 years. For the first two he worked in a market garden. Then he went into Lonsdale Street and made furniture for 30 years. "Sijrht no goo'," he said in explanation of his departure from the furniture trade, and ao lie went back to the market jrarden again. There is still some soil left in parts, the six inehes of sand can be shifted, and Chin Shoo must live, and smile, and carry on. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 302, 21 December 1934, Page 8