Ma Tau Chung#Geography

According to gazette of xin an county,{{Huh?|date=October 2024}} Emperor Bing of the southern Song dynasty (AD 1127 – AD 1279) settled in Ma Tau Chung and the surrounding Song Wong Toi area for a few months.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in the Second World War between 1941 and 1945, most of the Indian prisoners of war (POWs) captured in Hong Kong were interned at a POW camp here. The Japanese 'encouraged' these men to join the Indian National Army of the Indian Independence League, but met with little success. While hundreds of these POWs were not considered a threat by the Japanese, and were used as 'guards' at Gun Club Hill Barracks and other areas, 500–600 Indian soldiers considered anti-Japanese were held at Ma Tau Chung in very unpleasant circumstances.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}} There were many deaths, and the men were buried just outside the camp near the vegetable gardens of the Argyle Street Camp immediately on the other side of Argyle Street.

Where Chun Seen Mei Chuen now stands was the Ma Tau Chung Cottage Area, which existed since 1938 and taken over and expanded by the Hong Kong Housing Society in 1955,{{cite news|url=https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/coverpage/-/coverpage/view?_coverpage_WAR_mmisportalportlet_hsf=%E9%A6%AC%E9%A0%AD%E6%B6%8C&p_r_p_-1078056564_c=QF757YsWv5%2FH7zGe%2FKF%2BFKGcQJ6F4TaD&_coverpage_WAR_mmisportalportlet_o=6&_coverpage_WAR_mmisportalportlet_actual_q=%28%20%28%20allTermsMandatory%3A%28true%29%20OR+all_dc.title%3A%28%E9%A6%AC%E9%A0%AD%E6%B6%8C%29%20OR+all_dc.creator%3A%28%E9%A6%AC%E9%A0%AD%E6%B6%8C%29%20OR+all_dc.contributor%3A%28%E9%A6%AC%E9%A0%AD%E6%B6%8C%29%20OR+all_dc.subject%3A%28%E9%A6%AC%E9%A0%AD%E6%B6%8C%29%20OR+fulltext%3A%28%E9%A6%AC%E9%A0%AD%E6%B6%8C%29%20OR+all_dc.description%3A%28%E9%A6%AC%E9%A0%AD%E6%B6%8C%29%20%29%20AND+%28%20dc.category.category%3A%28Newspaper%29%20%29%20%29&_coverpage_WAR_mmisportalportlet_sort_order=asc&_coverpage_WAR_mmisportalportlet_sort_field=dc.publicationdate_bsort&_coverpage_WAR_mmisportalportlet_filter=dc.publicationdate_dt%3A%5B1950-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z+TO+1959-12-31T15%3A59%3A59Z%5D|script-title=zh:香港屋宇協會在馬頭湧建單層屋一百廿八間專供二百元以下低薪階級市民居住月租不超過卅元七月中可完成遷入|date=31 May 1955|access-date=1 February 2021|newspaper=Wah Kiu Yat Po|language=zh-hk|page=6|title=Coverpage – MMIS }} until demolition in 1962 to make way for the construction of Chun Seen Mei Chuen.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0cHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA93|title=Promoting All-Round Education for Girls: A History of Heep Yunn School, Hong Kong|isbn=978-988-8528-39-4|last1=Chiu|first1=Patricia P. K.|date=2 June 2020|publisher=Hong Kong University Press }}{{Cite web |url = https://news.now.com/mobile/local/player?newsId=330401 |title = 房協展覽中心展示昔日屋邨面貌 |date = 11 December 2018 |language =zh}}

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Ma Tau Chung was a creek. It was converted to an underground drainage. There was a village and land area that named after the stream.

In modern-day the place name is not commonly used, or replaced with Ma Tau Wai, Ma Tau Kok or Kowloon City, the names of nearby neighbourhoods. 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MMIS }} The official address of Hong Kong Aviation Club is Sung Wong Toi Road, Kowloon City,{{cite web|url=http://aviationclub.hk/contact/|title=Contact|publisher=Hong Kong Aviation Club|access-date=24 January 2021}} but secondary sources used Sung Wong Toi Road, Ma Tau Chung.{{cite web|url=https://www.aviationfly.com/training-institutes/hong-kong-aviation-club/|title=Hong Kong Aviation Club – offers Private Pilot License course|website=aviationfly.com|quote=Hong Kong Aviation Club, Sung Wong Toi Road, Ma Tau Chung, Hong Kong|access-date=24 January 2021}}{{cite news|url=https://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/news/20170518/bkn-20170518161750524-0518_00822_001.html|script-title=zh:會址涉沙中線工程 區會商終止飛行總會租約|website=on.cc 東網|publisher=Oriental Press Group|date=18 May 2017|access-date=30 January 2021|location=Hong Kong|language=zh-hk}} Chun Seen Mei Chuen, once credited as located in Ma Tau Chung, the current official address is Fu Ning Street, Kowloon City.{{cite 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Most of the area is covered by the western end of the Sung Wong Toi constituency in the Kowloon City District Council. This constituency was previously named Kai Tak until 2015. The seat has been held by Yeung Chun Yu since 2012, who was first elected as an ADPL candidate but now sits as an independent. The rest of the area are represented by the Ma Tau Wai and the Ma Hang Chung constituencies.

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Sung Wong Toi Road,{{Cite web|title=會址涉沙中線工程 區會商終止飛行總會租約|url=https://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/news/20170518/mobile/bkn-20170518161750524-0518_00822_001.html|access-date=2021-04-05|website=on.cc東網|date=18 May 2017 |language=zh-hk}} Ma Tau Kok Road{{Cite web|title=獨行賊佯裝乘客 勒頸劫的士司機兼搶車 (18:15) – 20200509 – 港聞|url=https://news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%e8%81%9e/article/20200509/s00001/1588987042646/%e7%8d%a8%e8%a1%8c%e8%b3%8a%e4%bd%af%e8%a3%9d%e4%b9%98%e5%ae%a2-%e5%8b%92%e9%a0%b8%e5%8a%ab%e7%9a%84%e5%a3%ab%e5%8f%b8%e6%a9%9f%e5%85%bc%e6%90%b6%e8%bb%8a|access-date=2021-04-05|website=即時新聞}} and Mok Cheong Street (Chinese: 木廠街){{Cite web|title=Hong Kong Government Reports Online|url=https://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/index.jsp|access-date=2021-04-05|website=sunzi.lib.hku.hk}} connects the area with Ma Tau Kok.

Sung Wong Toi station on Tuen Ma line of the MTR serves the area{{Cite web|last=黃泳樺|date=2017-09-09|title=【媽我好亂】馬頭圍站唔喺馬頭圍 專家：完全唔明港鐵改名邏輯|url=https://www.hk01.com/社區專題/117735/媽我好亂-馬頭圍站唔喺馬頭圍-專家-完全唔明港鐵改名邏輯|access-date=2021-04-05|website=香港01|language=zh-HK}} and will be connected through pedestrian subways to Kau Pui Shek (珓杯石), as well as nearby Kowloon City across the Boundary Street in New Kowloon.

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