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I believe that the term "Joss" has been found to be a derogatory term.

Marjorie Earl When describing historic images in our collection we use descriptive information that might accompany the photograph, as in this case as well as more contemporary subject headings. The term "Joss" does now have deragatory overtones, but it was the term in common usage at the time this photograph was taken, when joss houses were part of the architecture and culture of the Chinese community in Queensland. Our catalogue records also reflect the term "Chinese Temple" which we have added as a tag to this record. Thanks for your comment.

Research showed that Forday, born in Canton , had left Cooktown for China aboard Changsha on August 12, l915 and returned to Townsville in March 1918; on arrival back in Australia he had been exempted from the dictation test under the Immigration Restriction Act 1901-1908, the White Australia Policy. The Forday name brought back fond memories from Darwin of Chinese - Australian, Timmy Forday , whose father, just 11, came out from China in 1888 to work for an uncle who ran a store for miners in Cooktown. His name was Lee For Dai, but somehow the shipping authorities gave him the surname Forday during the voyage to Australia. Timmy's mother, his father's second wife, Kim Sing Fong, was born in Darwin. Timmy had a varied career in the newspaper and printing industry. Starting as a linotype operator/ compositor at the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, he worked in Cairns, Innisfail, Townsville, Mackay, Sydney, and Brisbane. For a time he produced the Chinese Chimes, run off on a Gestetner, the front page of which was a stencil designed by Brisbane herbalist Willy Sou San that usually included a dragon and Chinese symbols. Young Australian-Chinese across the nation received the publication. An adventurous person, Timmy went to New Guinea and worked on the South Pacific Post. With gusto and chuckles, he often told how he decided to move back to Australia when the Papuans told him they would " eat " him when they gained self-rule. Not wanting to become a Chinese takeaway, he headed for Darwin. In Darwin, he was doing his washing at the back of the NT News one night when a large python slid through the window and Timmy took to his heels, a workmate chased the snake about the building with a speargun. Timmy's mates in the boisterous News factory often yelled out there was a python on the premises which felt Chinamen were very tasty. Source: littledarwin.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-chinese-in-north-qu... An enterprising couple , Timmy and his wife had several business ventures , one being a toy shop at Parap trading as Tim the Toy Man with the Humphrey B. Bear of TV fame franchise . When the star bear visited Darwin for Timmy the Toyman police had to control the crowd. Timmy opened a video business and set up a centre for the many reporters covering the Azaria Chamberlain case .

A churchwarden pipe is a tobacco pipe with a long stem. The history of the pipe style is traced to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.[1] Some churchwarden pipes can be as long as 16 inches (40 cm). Such pipes were very popular as an Oriental influence from the seventeenth century onwards in Europe. They remained most popular in Eastern Europe, as an emblem of the Hussars, cavalry troops with roots in Hungary and Poland, whose employment and influence spread from Russia to France and England during the Napoleonic Wars and brought the pipes with them as part of their characteristic dress. It was even known as the "Hussar pipe" at the time. Engraved portraits exist of men smoking such an instrument. This long stem pipe type has its origins in the Ottoman Empire, geographically and historically. Churchwarden pipes generally produce a cooler smoke due to the distance smoke must travel from the bowl to the mouthpiece. They have the added benefit of keeping the user's face further away from the heat and smoke produced by combustion in the bowl. They are also more prone to breakage since more pressure is placed on the tenon when the pipe is supported around the mouthpiece. Long ago, churchwarden pipes were made of clay and were common in taverns, and sometimes a set of pipes would have been owned by the establishment and used by different clients like other service items (plates, tankards, etc.) Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchwarden_pipe