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WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1993.

EMPIRE FAIR OPENED

COLOURFUL

ing greater trade between Canada and this territory that the appoint men of a Trade Commissioner was made in 1929. It is to the advan

CEREMONY AT

THE PENINSULA tage of Hong Kong importers to

Continued from Page 1.)

The party proceeded between the ranks of a Guard of Honour of Girl Guides and Boy Scouts, to the first floor of the Hotel.

On the dias at the opening cere- mony, the Chairman had on his right, His Excellency the Governor Mr. Lin Yun-koy, Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government,

prepare for the future. Canada can provide them with many of their requirements and it is to their ad- vantage to cultivate a trading part nership with that Dominion..

EMPIRE DAY.

London Message To

The Colony.

THE

ROYAL EMPIRE SOCIETY'S. GREETING..

·

A congratulatory message from I congratulate the Chairman and the Royal Empire Society, London, Committee on their efforts to make to Hong Kong, has been received the Fair a success and feel sure that here by Sir Henry Pollock, the local they will be fully justified by the Hon. Corresponding Secretary.

The message reads: results obtained.

NA MAIL

To-Day's Short Story.

THE SCREAMING SKULL

By F. Marion Crawford.

THE STORY SO FAR.] down to the village during the morning and found a woman who

AFTAIN BRADDOGE; a retired

Csailor, is telling the story was willing to come and do the guest in his Cornish cottage. He has little work there is and cook my 011 his conscience the death, years ago, dinner, on condition that she might of Mrs. Frat, wife of Dr. Luke Pratt go home every night. As for me He suspects that Dr. Pratt murdered moved downstairs that day, and his wife by pouring lead Into her I have never tried to sleep in the cars, in the manner of murder des best bedroom since. After a little cribed by Captain Prat, was

Braddock to the

Yound while I got a brace of middle-aged "On Empire Day the Chairman Pratta. Later NEW ZEALAND MESSAGE. The following message from Mr. and Council of the Royal Empire dead on the beach, with teeth marks on Scotch servants from London, and

gistries Society send greetings to all His his throat, and near by was a bandbox things were quiet enough for Mr. E. G. Jamieson, C.B.E., H.B.M.. Masters, Minister

bad telonged to his wife

from

The long time. I began by telling them skull had rolled out Acting Consul General at Canton, and Commerce, Dominion of New Majesty's subjects, and congratulate

them on the stern and unswerving skull, which

may

have been Mrs that the house was in a very ex- Mr. J. A. Tonkin, representing the Zealand, was read by Mr. S

New courage with which, alike through Pratt's, is now kept by the captain in posed position, and that the wind Department of Commerce of the Williamson, Hon. Agent for

whistled round it a good deal. in Australian Commonwealth Govern-Zealand:

tion and their individual self-denial, where, he says, “it wants to be

It screams at nights and terrifies

T.

their respective Governments' ac the bandbox in a bedroom cup the autumn and winter, which

ment, and the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, Please express the best wishes of J.P., & Vice-Chairman and prin- the New Zealand Government for they have inspired the world in its tain Braddock, who has just describe had given it a bad name in efforts to recover the road to its ed how, one night, he threw the band- the village, the Cornish people Be cipal organiser of the Fair. the success of the Empire Fallest prosperity.

box out of the window. The skull in- On the left of the Chairman was and appreciation of the efforts of

"The Council are satisfied that in explicably returned, rolling into the ing inclined to superstition and Lady Peel, Mr. Liu Chi-wen. Mayor the Government, Committees. Hotel the achievements and principles of house. In the morning the bandbox telling ghost stories.

was found hanging on a hedge out- of Canton, Major B. E. Dudes. Company, and others, to further Ottawa the British peoples have ade the collage Canadian Trade Commissioner In Empire trade. Also express our taken a first step towards the salva- Hong Kong, Mr. S. T. Williamson, thanks for the assistance renderedition of themselves by their exertions T had caught on the twigs by One of them is here again now, Hon. Agent for New Zealand, and to a land in this connection and the hemd ve by their I had thing, and the lid had but she went away with her sister the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall,

C.M.G, LL.D., a Vice-Chairman of

the Fair Committee.

The Chairman of the Fair Com- mittee, Mr. J. J. Palerson welcomed His Excellency the Governor.

OFFICIAL LUNCHEON.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S

APPRECIATION.,

beer!

now

Bt

They stayed with me several months, and while they were in the house we bad peace and quiet.

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's story will be the concluding chapter of "The Screaming Skull," by F. Marion Crawford.

fallen off and was lying on the within the year. This one-che ground below it. "That shows was the cook married the sexton, Mr. J. A. Tokin delivered the fol!

the that it did not open till it was who works in my agrden. A few years aro A tableau represcating Britannia

Those lowing message from the Prime

He's a sober, silent sort of fel- would well over and if it had not open- "local industries" words was staged behind the dias.

the Commonwealth probably not have been written, ed as soon as it left my hand, low, who minds his own business, present at the opening of the Fair Minister of were, His Excellency the G.O.C., and Government of Australia:

Hong Kong then being considered what was inside it must have and be was a widower when I On behall of the Common-i

came here Trehearn is his name, Mrs. Borrett, His Honour the Chief

That's all. I took the box up James Trebeard. The Scotch wealth Government, I wish. Em very little more than a mere tran- gone beyond the road, too,

'sil port.. Industries are Justice and Mrs. Wood, Members of

pire Fair every success and hope, the Consular Body, Canton Officials,

It will mark opening of many new growing up in this Colony, one of stairs to the cupboard, and put the sisters would not admit that there the most notable perhaps of re skull back and locked it up. When was anything wrong about the the Commodore and Mrs. Marrack,

avenues inter-Empire trade. Ap. Members of the Executive Council,

the cent ventures being the brewing of the girl brought me my breakfast house, but when November came she was sorry, but that she must they gave me warning that they preciation is expressed to Government Officials, members of

Government of Hong Kong for

go, and she did not care if she lost the General Committee of the Fair

the encouragement and assistance. Only recently I was informed by her month's wages. I looked. and exhibitors.

in launching the Fair, and to the the head of a well known Hong her, and her face was a sort of Fair Committees, the Hotel Com Keng firm that they had a very greenish, yellowish white. I pre- pany, the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, large order from England for rub-tended to be surprised, and asked soled shoes manufactured what was the matter; but that was and those organisations and assaber clations whose activities

jot no use, for she just turned on been responsible for this display These Fairs are great factors iame and wanted to know whether I of Empire products. Your Fair the commercial life of the Empire,meant to stay in a haunted house, will be successful and beneficial and help to make us realise. what and how long I expected to live if to all British and Dominion part our great Empire is capable of I did, for though sife noticed I was were going, on the ground that the cipants-Lyons, Prime Minister. producing. It is wonderful how sometimes a little hard of hearing, chapel was such a long walk from Thanks are also due to the Fair little many of us know of its great she did not believe that even 1 here, being in the next parish, and A message from The Hon. H. H. Committee The Hotel Company-resources. had an opportunity could sleep through those screams that they could not possibly go to Stevens, Minister, Department of Hon. Mr. J. P. Bruga, and those of visiting the Fair in London in again and if I could, why had our church. But the younger one Trade and Commerce, Government

Organisations and Associations 1928, and I must confess to great been moving about the house and came back in the spring, and as Dominion of Canada, was read by whose activities have been respon-isurprise a. many of the things shutting the front door, between noon as the banns could be publish- Major B. E. Duclos, Canadlan

three and four in the morningted, she was married to James Trehearn by the vicar, and she Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong.alble for such a magnificent

⠀ ACTUAL TRADING FAILURE. There was no answering that since play of Empire products.

The Fair will be successful, and The British Empire has held a she had heard me; sa off she went, seems to have had no scruples it is hoped that as a result, trade high poeltion in trade, but owing and I was left to myself. I went about hearing him preach since The Dominion of Canada cordial- ly associates herself with the in Empire products will receive a perhaps to over-confidence bas Crown Colony of Hong Kong by well merited stimulus, to the bene- tended to sink in a slough of con- participating in the British Empire fit of all British

At the conclusion of the opening ceremony, the Chairman entertained His Excellency the Governor and Lady Peel, and a large number of official guests to lanchean at the Roof Garden of the Hotel.

It is given below:-

CANADA'S MESSAGE.

Fair which la opening to-day.

Nations.

Crown.

participants.

Mr.

Paterson.

have, here.

dis- saw there.

and Dominion servatiam, in spite of considerable technical advances in industry.. Where we really have to some ex- tent failed is in actual trading.

Exeel.

the the

We have been inclined to stand

on a past reputation of the excel lence of our goods, which has al- ways been high, and have been ex- traordinarily unwilling to in- restigate changes in, demand.

Suppliers seem to hold the view on what

1

BRITISH TRADE WITH ICELAND

Commercial Agreement Signed.

COAL MARKET EXTENDED

London, To-day.

then. I'm quite satisfied, if the IsThe couple live in a small cotlage that looks over the church-

yard

It was James Trchearn who buried 'poor Mrs. Pratt, and her husband after her in the same

grave, and it's not far from the

back of his coltage,

He knows something; I'm quite sure that he does, by his manner.

Yes, I'm alone in the house at night now, for Mrs. Trebearn does everything herself, and when I

од

The Governor's Speech "It is gratifying to the Canadian;

His Excellency the Governor, Government, and particularly to myself, as Minister of Trade and Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., Commerce, that Canada has been said:

Your accorded such excellent facilities for thus displaying before the citizens lencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: of Hong Kong and South China! I am very pleased to have sumples of her natural products and privilege to-day of opening thereby extending inter-Imperial second Empire Products Fair held that they should decide trade manufactures, with a view in Hong Kong. As you know, the the consumer should take, ignoring The commercial agreement be-have, a friend the sexton's niece to fur-between these two sections idea was started last year as the the adage that he who pays the

tween the United Kingdom and Ice-comes in to wait on the table. He takes his wife home every evening of the British Commonwealth of outcome of a letter addressed by piper has the right to call the tune land, the text of which has now in winter, but in summer, when

Mr. Amery, the wife of a former This tendency, as far as the Far "It is particularly fitting that this Secretary of State for the Colonies. East is concerned, was recognised been issued, follows on similar lines there's light, she goes by herself. Fair should open on May 24th, the to my wife, in which among other by the Economic Mission which to those recently concluded with

You think you would like to see Empire," the late Queen Victoria things she suggested an all-British visited the Far East over two Norway and Denmark.

skull? I've no objection. anniversary of the "Mother of the food day.

years ago, and also by Mr. Beale, Iceland undertakes that import the

reason why · you and a day celebrated throughout The proposal to have an Empire now Commercial Counsellor to our duties on certain classes of goods in There's, the British Empire as indicative of Products Fair was taken up with Peking Legation, who drew atten- which the United Kingdom is inter- shouldn't have a look at it, and its solidarity and its devotion to the great enthusiasm.. My wife assist Lion to it in a roport which he ested will not exceed the rates you never saw a more perfect one Jed in the preliminary stages, but to wrote. on trade in Malaya somo specified In the schedules. Some in your life, except that there are "The Crown Colony of Hong Kong our regret we were unable to be years ago, when I first met him of these include ad valorem duty, two front teeth missing in the and the Dominion of Canada have here for the Fair itself. We were there.

which at present is 15 per cent, and lower jaw. much in common. It was in 1841, however greatly interested in the There is no doubt that many of in certain cases, including cotton, Oh yea I had not told you during the reign of Queen Victoria, accounts which were sent to us. ar Jarge suppliers have followed linen and artificial silk this has been about the jaw yet. Trebearn

found it in the garden læst spring. that Hong Kong became a Crown There was no doubt that it was fortuitous methods, and have not reduced to 10 per cent de Colony and began to flourish under a great triumph, and I take this appreciated the necessity of study- The United Kingdom undertakes when he was digging alt for a the Union Jack. It was in the same opportunity of congratulating all ing their markets, I think that I not to increase the existing Import new asparagus bed. You know year that Canada had its first de those who helped to achieve that can truthfully say that great im-duty of 10 per cent ad valorem on we make asparagus bede six or mocratic government.

success. It was indeed so success-provement have now been made fresh or sulled fish from Iceland, eight feet deep here. Yes, 900—1 "Direct steamship services beful that it was quite rightly do in our methods. The quality of In the event of quantitative re- had forgotten to tell you that He tween Canada and Hong Kong pro- cided that another Fair should be our goods has always been of gulation being applied, not less than was digging straight down, just as vide a means of greatly increasing held this year, and there is no high standard and with a better 354,000 eris, a year of fresh and he digs a grave, -- the volume of trade between, and need for me to say that that the de- realisation of the special needs wet saited fuh, of which not less Trehsarn had got down about linking closer together, these at cision has been umply justified, and desires of our customers I feet than 104,000 cwts must be wet three feet when he cut into a mass one time distant parts of the Em-and that this year's Fair will that there is every prospect of a halted fish, will be admitted by the of white lime in the side of the pire

greatly surpass that of last year, considerable increase in trade, United Kingdom

trench, He had noticed that the Their products and manufactures

If however suppliers wish Promise of equitable treatment of earth was a little looser there, Suck Fairs have been instituted are to a large extent complementary in many parts of the Empire. The schleye a maximum of success chilled and frozen mutton and lamb though he says it had not been and It Is to the advantage of both British Industries Fair was start think that they should employ from Iceland has also been given. disturbed for a number of years countries that this trade should be ed in a modest way in London soon what 1 might term special Trade considerably increased Hong Kong after the War, and has grown, to be Commisaloners of their own to in at the spearhead of a large and of the greatest commercial value. Carry out a continuous investige TRADE PREFERENCE it up. It was pretty hard, he says, practically unexploited trade terri-

Another Fair of the same kind on of the needs and desires of

to

tory which will, when the existing has been held at Birmingham for those whose custom they wish to

difficulties have passed, provide the last 14 years and yar Hong Kong with markot for many y gains IncreasinZ

retain and develop, popularly, Proposed British Trade

Commissioner.

At the ame time I must say that

Ditish Wireless Servi

a

IN EMPIRE.

West Africa's Case.

of Canada's products and which in Many of the Colonies participate return many provide many of in that held in London, Fift bong Canada's wants, GA: one of the latest notable additions; think that it is time that we had

DISTRIBUTION CENTRE and I hope that at no distant dale something in the nature due to its location and the un- Hong Kong will be able to partiel- British Trade Commissioner excelled facilities offered by its pate, showing the people them to represent the Home Country and harbour, should serve as a centre of that this Colony is developing value and those parts of the distribution for Canadian products able Industries of its own.

It is natural that, Hong Kong,

which will eventusly, be consumed

Hong Kong Industry

In the Bouthern part of the Chinese In a recent edition of Republic. It is our hope that the teresting Journal / ca Importers of Hong Kong will give Crown Colonist

the fullent consideration to the bpman

-portunities

offered to

Canadian" producens, ¤

them by of

It was with the orject of prE

Baked Loc

and trans-shipment" Zor: Chi

w, which are not at present

sented, and I am euch, an appointment ma the not far diafa

Joner, Zaham

for some time, and

I suppose he thought that even old lime might not be good for separa- gus, so he broke it out and threw

in biggish lumps and out of sheer force of habit he cracked lumps with his spade as they outside the pit beside him; the jawbone of a skull dropped out of pug of the pieces. He thinksy he ent of the Board – of must have knocked out? the - two alter Rungiman yostery front teeth in breaking, up!

Ums, but he did not see th where's

London, To-day

keep it if

he would dra

ide in the

Mie Aupposed it iwas

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