Working at Kai Tak Airport

We were building believe it or not a runway for the planes, and it was really ridiculous in a way you were leveling the ground and then mixing concrete by hand and pouring it on this runway which would have never held a plane and I mean we knew that. They must have known that but that’s what we did and, of course, we put a lot of cement in one mix and no cement in the next one and this sort of thing when you could get away with it and, of course, you always had somebody with a rifle at your back wherever you went. That was about it, there was some rock hauling and carrying and drilling and breaking, there was some of that too.