With a hat that size, you will have no trouble. A group of 108 family from Northern China, from cities and provinces namely Tian jin, He Bei, Chang Zhou, Beijing, Sandong and etc, signed contract with British Government in 1913 to work as labour North Borneo ( now Sabah, Malaysia) in South East Asia. It took nearly a month for the Northern Chinese to travel across South China sea to reach the paradise of South East Asia, the North Borneo to carried out development project planned by British Government, including rubber plantation. In return, the Northern Chinese family were given monthly salary and a piece of land to settle down. Such settlement area was then named Sandong Village. Live was though but much easier compared to their homeland China, which at that time was having bloody revolution between empire of Qing Dynasty, Kuomintang party and General Yuan Shi Kai. While in paradise of North Borneo, also decribed as the Land Below The Wind by Agnes Keith, an English Author, at least the Northern Cinese had a peace of mind to earn a living, and slept well at night without disruption of gunfire.
North Borneo was then joint hand with Federal of Malaya to form Malaysia in 16th September 1963, thereby gained its independence. Since then the Northern Chinese became Malaysian. In memorial of their brave ancestor who travel a long journey from Northern China to North Borneo, and unit all community, Hua Bei Tong Xiang hui or Sabah Northern Chinese was formed.