national Banking Corporation, and held the position of Chief Clerk at the time of his retirement. The orther sons, named respectively Francisco Xavier dÁlmada e Castro and Leonardo dÁlmada e Castro, Senior, were both solicitors in Hongkong and did well in their profession. The son of Mr. F. X. dÁlmada e Castro, named after his father, has also embraced the profession of his father. The elder son of Mr. Leo. dÁlmada e Castro, Sr. -- the Hon. Mr. Leo. dÁlmada e Castro, Jr.-- is a barrister-at-law, and was appointed a member of the Legislative Council of the Hongkong Government in 1937, and the younger son -- Mr. C. dÁlmada e Castro -- was appointed Assistant Crown Solicitor in Hongkong, in November, 1941. Of the daughters of Mr. J. M. dÁlmada e Castro, the eldest, Maria Theresa, maried Mr. Alexandrino dos Remedios, and among their children are Mr. J. M. dÁlmada e Remedios, a Hongkong solicitor, Mr. F. E. dÁlmada e Remedios, a partner of the Union Trading Company, Ltd., a well known Hongkong firm, and r. F. X. dÁlmada e Remedios, employed by the General Electric Company, of China. Another daughter, Camilla Maria, married Mr. Jose Gutierrez, of the Hongkong Colonial Secretariat staff. Ignez Maria married Mr. Fernando Carvalho, of the Hongkong office of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, and Anita married Mr. J. Mowbry Jones, who was engaged in insurance business at Canton.

Another Portuguese gentleman occupied a responsible position in the Colonial Secretariat in Hongkong in the 1840's. He was Mr. Alexandre Grande-Pré, who held the post of 4th Clerk and like the Almada brothers went from Macau to Hongkong with the British establishment. He was the son of the Major A. J. Grande-Pré, A. D. C. to the Governor of Macao in 1825-1827. He was also served the Hongkong Government as Intrepreter of Malayu, Bengalee, and Portuguese. He was later transferred to the Hongkong Police Establishment.

A very strenuous life of it did the police force of Hongkong lead in the hectic '40's and '50's of the last century. The growing young port of Victoria was a pioneer town in the true «frontier» tradition. In those old days the main street of Hongkong ran along the waterfront, which was where Queen's Road is to-day. From the ends of the earth came trading ships to Hongkong, and tanned and bronzed