The new runway went into use in 1958, with the completion of the terminal coming several years later. Temporary terminal buildings bulged with incoming tourists, but they were moved through these buildings fairly well. Most colony residents are hardly aware of the arrival and departure of the huge jets, though they shake the earth with their thunder as they pass over Kowloon. Kai Tak has become a full 24-hour airport. Its 200-foot-wide runway is stressed to take a maximum plane weight of 400,000 pounds, well above the limit of the heaviest airliners. From the air it looks like a super-highway lost at sea. [Illustration: North from Victoria Peak. The colony government and main business section are chiefly based on Hong Kong Island, foreground. Kowloon Peninsula and the long runway of Kai Tak Airport lie at top center. The New Territories start with the mountains in the background, extend north to the Red China border. Hong Kong is one of the busiest seaports in the world.] [Illustration: Hong Kong in a hurry. Queens Road Central, in the colony’s commercial center, swarms with pedestrians in a typical noon-hour rush.] [Illustration: A Chinese funeral procession. Chief mourners ride in a rickshaw. Street bands, drummers, and cymbal players march with them. Firecrackers are exploded along the way to dispel evil spirits.] [Illustration: Many picturesque laddered streets, such as the one above, climb the slopes of Victoria Peak in the heavily populated Western District of Hong Kong Island. Passable only by foot or in sedan chair, they also serve as playgrounds for children and runs for dogs, cats, and chickens.] [Illustration: Night view of Government House, executive mansion of Hong Kong’s British Governor. Behind it are Victoria Peak and tiers of fine apartment buildings.] [Illustration: Billy Tingle, the colony’s best known athletic instructor, demonstrates the game of cricket to young pupils at the Hong Kong Cricket Club.] [Illustration: In contrast to Hong Kong’s many fashionable and modern houses and apartment buildings, thousands of tightly packed boats serve as floating homes in the mud flats of Aberdeen, on Hong Kong Island. Periodically they are damaged or destroyed by typhoon.] [Illustration: Bearded monsters like the one above adorn the prow of rowing shells which participate in Hong Kong’s annual Dragon Boat Festival races, part of a colorful religious observance held annually in the late spring.] [Illustration: Workmen unload 800-pound hampers of vegetables from Red China at Lo Wu, where a railroad bridge crosses the Sham Chun River on the Hong Kong-China border. The Communist flag flies above guard post at the right.]