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H4 History (as witnessed by Jim Hughes)

On 16^th February 1970, in response to a small but significant advertisement placed in the South China Morning Post, a number of exiled hashmen and other kindred spirits met in the Pub in the D’Aigular Street.  Office bearers were appointed and H4 was born.  One week later, 24 stalwarts convened at the Peak car park and H4 was up and running.

 By October 1970, numbers had grown and there was sufficient support to start a Kowloon Hash for people “…who are keen to continue hashing through the winter months but are unable to go across to Hong Kong in time now that the nights are drawing in and runs have to start much earlier…”.  Those were the days of “summer time” and no cross-harbour tunnels.

In 1972, HK decide to clean up its act and, out of deference to Lap Sap Chung,  H4 made the switch from paper trails to flour. 

By January 1973, H4’s fields had grown to numbers that were both difficult to accommodate and detrimental to “…the convivial atmosphere of the Hash…”.  The membership list was therefore closed at 100 as a temporary measure.  Other Hashes were slowly formed to take up the ever increasing demand for hashing.

Throughout the 1970’s, H4 ran happily on Tiger beer (in 1972, some 28,000 cans were consumed) and then a bold committee decision made the switch to Carlsberg, newly arrived in Hong Kong, in preference to the existing local brew, San Miguel.  Many hundreds of thousands of little green cans later, hares anxiously await the arrival of the Carlsberg van on Monday evenings.  It has rarely let them down. 

When H4 started in early 1970 only a handful of Hashes existed, nearly all of them in Asia, but the floodgates were about to open.  Now the number of organisations purporting to be Hashes runs into the thousands, Hong Kong alone supporting ten.

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