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organisers were gambling at long odda with the weather. The
best date needs careful ucnsičeration,
hole the Fair before one-third of the
It would be better to
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European population (oes
RWBY ON LABSer leave, leaving merchants' offices shorthanded,
If held in kveaber, when the weather in Hong Bong is pod,
susner holidays in England way interfere with the organisation
of exhibits. Another objection is that the work of the Organi se re
would then fall to be done in the hot weather of August,September
and October. fixture in February would overcome this difrioul ty
and perhaps mit United Kingdom suppliers better, and the Fair
might be combine◊ with the Chinese Hew Year Fair. To hold a Fair
in hot weather is very trying to exhibitors më the public,
LIMOTII DE BAIE
The first Fair lasted barely two days, and voluntary
belpers found it quite sufficiently trying to be on duty for that
However, it
period. However, it was felt that from the point of view of
muppliers, the Fair ought to last longer and it was therefore
decided to contime from ednesday, the 34th, to saturday, the
27the But the New Territories Section and the Flowr Foation,
ân which the voluntary hilpers were engaged, shut down at the end
of the second day.
The divison of the Fair into so many different parts of
the Feninsula Hotel building, and the location of a large section
in two matabede, open on all sičes to public access (to comply with
Fire Brigade requirements) safe it impossible to regulate aduim BÅGEI
in any way. From an early hour on the 34th the curious tirong bo-
gan to ascomble, and by the time the opening ceren ny was over it
was difficult to walk about the builing. The chairs vacated by
thome who took part in the opening Ceremony were quickly occupied
by unwashed coolies who seemed to find it the height of life's
ambition to be senteŭ for once in a comfortable chair. They were
content