CO129-544-13 British Empire Fair- reports- etc. 10-8-1933 - 8-11-1933 — Page 32

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Local Hamunctures. - Amongst those who booked space late and

therefore found themselves in the Pavilion were the proprietors

of various amali local inetories, making tinned goods,

enmelware and the like. The packing of their canned goods

was far below that or imported articles in appocranou, bust

the prices marked on on vert also mach lower% She bulk of

the Chinese population, ci caizve, do not pawase imported

tinned goods, but were local emelies, joking atuled rice

birds and other chileue dellondies at low pricuú, may be

able to attract puroMABE75,

local knitting mille made a maller

show than might have been expecten.

Machinew

importøre of macht.nry showed a few small

Het one in tea

engines an à cunorete mixer in motione

thousand o.. Mivoe ulio pavec tough could have ima

purchasing interest in the machinery exhibited, bang

according to statements in the room, tàu attahiu un

some of the sow people deiinitely interested was attructed

and at least poze sales vere eIectau

Motor Car erton. from enquiries wacket the local uropean

populatis, it appears tast this twa to them the acat attractive

display in the whole chibitioTLE They found it advanta,ocus,

they said, to coc acveral makes of motor oars asambled water

one roof and be able to compare them. The agent for two of

the less popular British makes of motor oar apparently found

there was a rovere side to this advantaṣso,

Up to the third

evening he stated to the writer that he had not been able

to sell a single car. This may have been cue to the fact

that British Ports, Morris cars, and Austins were on view in

alone proximity.

Textilos. Textile ma: (uz'ne turou goods were to be seen in the

ured

ustralian and Canadian ections to some extent, an one Hong

Kong firm, having a Hanchester „ffice, showed a small range of

sheetings

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