The Land Cows and the axes from early sixties

The Land Cows and their Axes,
The Health Inspectors and their Axes ,

The early sixties was suffering time for many citizens who lived in the village. Their land, their farms, houses were possessed by the government. Many people can not find employment. People were not English educated, most were Chinese educated but with primary school education. There were no job. Many moved to HDB, they have bills to pay, the food were not free, the farms were taken, some became illegal hawkers, every one had to find a mean to survive.

The illegal hawkers found themselves facing the axes, the hygiene inspectors were carrying, the hygiene inspector took their good and chopped the stall until the stalls were destroyed, the policemen detained the hawkers With the stall destroy there no food for the family. The only way out was to join the gangsters to collect money from the shop owner. The detention without going to court was worst, life were a mess in the early sixties.

There was a easy solution, Many borrowed money from ah long to provide food for the family, the interest rate collected by ah long was very high, many people were unable to repay to loan, they had no way to go. The high rise flat was the way out, they took the lift up, solved their problem by falling down the flat, but the problem were not solved, the ah long went after their family member.