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NOTE.
Jee Sir W. Peel's
despatch
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01/33824/34)
The question of the repetition of the
Empire Fair which was held in Hong Kong in 1933 was
considered by the local Empire Fair Committee which
reported in 1934 that such a repetition was not
feasible. The reasons included the general trade
depression which was then beginning to be seriously
of the felt, and the fact that the staple articles China
trade were not such that business in them could be
stimulated by an exhibition.
The project was then taken up by the
(of Hong Kong) Advertising and Publicity Bureau, Limited, the
Directors of which are Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Church, the
latter using for business purposes her former name
of Mrs. Beatrice Thompson. The Fair was originally
planned for the winter of 1935, but was dropped owing
to the difficulty of getting adequate support from
the local mercantile community. It may be noted that
only one local firm considered that it had reaped any
benefit from the 1933 Fair. The Hong Kong Government
favoured, and still favours, the project, making
available on conditions a valuable site in Kowloon,
and promising a grant of $2,000 in the event of the
exhibition taking place.
Mrs. Thompson has been travelling in
Australia and New Zealand in order to get support for
the exhibition and has now made her headquarters in
Committee
British Industries House, operating under the
aegis of the "Friends of China Saaiety", a body
which appears torcombine political vitu commercial
Alus
Mas Thompson has promoted to maintain The propaganda campaign
in favour of the fair.
In
P. T.O.