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MORE THAN 125,000 SEE COLONY STAND AT SYDNEY TRADE FAIR

Big store

store may help with

further showing

From ROBIN HUTCHEON

Sydney, Aug. 10.

dear sir

Two robbers walk

Film Festival into police party

Mr David Lan tells us in

"Ifongkong Movieland" that the Venice Film Festival te

and that "any doubt about

of "high artlatio standard Two men who robbed a couple of their watches and cash in Bowen-road on July 20, walked into a party of police detectives resting just round the bend, some 120 yards from the scene of the robbery, the Victoria District Court was told this morning.

the resilval's highbrow stand- ard can be dispelled by what Mr Chen L has to say.”

он one bocasion MGM WAA Bald to be "furious" because her entry, "Julls Caesar," Was rejected "unsultable," whereas

entries

More than 125,000 people had passed

through the Hongkong stand by last remember night- eight days after the opening of the Sydney Trade Fair.

as

such

"Pickup On South

Street were accepted, and on A-

Admitting Q charge. of robbery with aggravation, Lo Ke), 30, and Lau Kam, 28, were sentenced to three years and other occasion much "contro- Fix months by Judge B. J.

"commercla?" the This estimate is based on surveys conducted by Hongkong officials which show the Colony stand is receiving at least 25 per cent of the total gate which last night reached the half-million mark.

Shanghai Land Invest- ment Co, Ltd this mom- ing, the Directors reported that there had been no change in the situation in Shanghai and that they had no information

The only full in the constant | From inquiries at the Melbourne as to the condition of any stream of visitors comes after Trale Fair in 1959.

also been many of the company's assets; nine o'clock at night when, with There have

hour only one

to closing, the Inquiries for agencles for Hong- in China.

show crowds thin out.

korg goods. There is hardly But there are stili manyan iten on the stand that has people on the stand right up to not attracted some attention- the end, and night after night even Sheltox tly spray caught longkong offelals have had tonicone's eye. switch out the lights on the On

to get the last minute visitors to leave,

They stated! that they were contluing their efforts to pre serve the company's liquid sols outskie China.

The Polt and Loss Account shuwed a net income for the year unlside China of HK$47-

To this

was added the means, balance brought forward fromt 1959 of 1K$79,009, making the

Knappropriated

Outside arising HK$127,178.

"Everybody seems to want to 177. get rich, by whatever possible. But I'm not surprised after veing the vast difference total hetween the rich and the pur," she added.

HOLIDAY TRIP

Mr. R. Kapahi, Manager of Pravin & Lumpany, left for New Delhi by

last BOAC Comet night 10 begin a one-month varstion.

Arpanded by his wife, he will traved in to Europe befors returning to Hongkong.

i

Profits

to

China

This was deducted from the debft balance of Prolit and Loss Account as at December 31, 1854, of HK$3,332,184.

Thus the debit balance 011 Profit and Loss Account to carried forward .was HK$3,205,008.

now

It is condently expected that with another big attendance on Saturday over 200,000 people all potential customers, as buyer remarked-will have sen the Colony stnud.

After the far there are hopes i

that at least parts, if not the whole exhibit, will be taken up big Sydney department store for further showing.

الله سوف

The total trade inquiries are now nearing the 300 mark, but aud in many cases these were for ended more than one category of goods,

here be Hongkong officials

at the inquiries

the re-Sydney Fair will lead to mo

substantial business than came

Directors' reports The accounts for the year December 31, 180

were ap- proved.

Mr W. A. Weten elected a director.

Was

lieve

There's no shadow of a doubt.

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tha other hand, hand- carved ivory chess sets costing £80 fob Hongkong have been the subject of several inquiries. Unfortunately Hongkong's low

prices are no longer low when they reach Sydney shops. To the j

means

retatiers and wholesalers mar- gins, and the sales tax. This the prices “re often double. sometimes triple, the Hongkong prices.

versy" was aroused by he chules of "Romeo & JulieJennings, who (a film none too well received by the critics) over “On The Waterfront" for the Golden Lion Award

As "highbrew” film critić Lind-

zy Anderson once put it in his survey on a film festival: "The awards are, As usual, Irrelevant."

N, T. CHOW.

dear sir

CRITICAL

elf prices has to be added duty, The review of a book by Hareld Harris in your Saturday (Aug. B) edillon Indicated that it was completely bad in every way. In that case. why print 112 Its hint of the book's pornographic content will help to sell a few extra coples, no doubt.

The

TRADE INCENTIVE

ឌ

beat trnde Incentive Hongkong could hope for is further reduction

In tariff, but with over 100,000 people still unemployed and Australia only just beginning to emerge from the recession, It is hardly likely that tariffs on cheaper foreign manufactured goods will be re- laxed in the near future.

More likely is a reduction in the sales tax in the forthcoming budget as an incentive to cur reatly stuggish consumer buy-

ing.

Even this would be good for Hongkong's exports.

One thing vertain among the Hongkong delegation is that whatever benefictal results the recent mission had an two-way Australian - Hongkong trade. there is little hope for increased exports of Australian meat pies, hamburgers und not dogy to Hongkong.

Chinese delegates and stu denia who have had to esl

them at the showground des pise them and delegate J, S. Lee has suggested to the m thorities that for the next fair they should have a pavilion where different national loods can be served.

Even the showground res-

where taurants

three-course meals are served have come in for criticism.

said that while

Greyhounds to be flown here

A total of 1,000 greyhounds will be flown in from Australia in transit for the now track in Macao, it was learned this morn- ing. Negotiations have been going on between Qantas Empire Air- ways Ltd, and the Angkas Tours, local agents for Mr Tay Kun-the, owner of the grey- hound track.

It has been tentatively agreed that Qantas will airlift the first in batch of 330 greyhounds

in three planeloads sometime October,

of

It is typical of the hypocrisy of The importer is buying from newspapers in general, whose various breeders in Australia editorials express ahocked in Sydney, Melbourne and other horror at the amount of print- } cities down south. cù flik on sale to corrupt the The maximum number young, while on other pages greyhounds per plane is 110, so they reproduce advertisements as to keep the dogs under for films which are invariably | “humane" flying conditions designed to stimulate the maxi- | advised by the Society for the mum possible sexual interest. | Prevention of Cruelly to

CRITICAL

Animals,

Probation cases

reach record during quarter

The number of probation cases increased to a record figure of 759 during the quarter ended on June 30, states the Director of Social Wel- fare.

By the end of the quarter. 002 probationers and 07 other types of cases were under supervision as compared with 715 cases ot the end of the previous quarter, Of the 760 cases under super- vision, 97 were women and girls,

There is too much of the "uusage and mask" In this tal for the Chinese and they leave eating until their shift is over. One delegate who modestly pre- During the three-month fers *to remuln anonymous period, the rate of successful consumed no fewer than fve completion declined slightly daren Sydney rock oysters dally once more to only 66 per cent It Is rumoured he has his in comparison with a rate of 71 Bat plate for breakfast,

per cent during the preceding

POP by Cand

THE RUSSIANS CAN'T BE FIRST-

A BRITISH COW JUMPED OVER IT

AGES AGO!

quarter, and of an average of about

for 3D per cent

the previous five years.

ANOTHER FEATURE Another feature of the period was the reversal of the trend, noticed for some time, of adult probationers increasing at A rate faster than juveniles.

Of the 180 new cases handled, 3 were juveniles and 67 were adults.

Last quarter's figures were 86 juveniles and 115 adults.

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for a Carlsberg

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no violence was used, a con-

siderable amount of terror and embarassment were enused,

INTERCEPTED

Appa

From the Files

25

years AGO

August 1936

THE

HE United States con- tinues to dominate the

Olympic games at Berlin, and the latest return of pointe show them leading with 128 points, Germany

trailing for behind with

41.7 points and Finland be- ing third with 30.25 points,

Jesse Owens, the Negró sprinter und jumper, has

Chief Inspector W, P. said when the two accused were won three Olympic titles, intercepted after the robbery, namely the 100 metres, the Lou Kam, the second accused,

was

ran away and escaped into the 200 metres and the broad

Luu bushes.

traced

and jump. This feat equals that urrested the following day.

of the of Panrve Nurmi who won Insp. Apps said one men held a knife

the couple, three events in the Paris Chan Chi-man, u man, und a Kiri, Miss Leung Miu-hang. The Olympiad in 1924. knife and a white shirt worn by the second secused were found on the scene and next day, jhe added.

one

for

A New Zealand runner, J.

First accused had 10 previous Lovelock, in winning the convictions, most of them for 1,500 metres set up a new

and offences

world record. In nearly all second accused had 29 Olympic events,

drug

have been recorded,

drug robbery. The

convictions, among them offences and inreeny.

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