CO129-544-13 British Empire Fair- reports- etc. 10-8-1933 - 8-11-1933 — Page 35

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Deveral Buropeans (male) have unid to thw writer that the

only thing that interceted tuera vas the motor car (cotlung ladies

have said that if they ould only have got nour tim cxi: bita and

had an opportazity of esminiak them at leiswe, waey would

certainly have taken a (efinito interest in all use to mied

provisions on view Lo te ponerad lapuoselou patio au was tit

there were many brvulde on exibition aion we not be avan

in local stores

It is, of agurtu, impossible to day how many of the vuant

throng of Chinese va alioneu tau Fair n each of the four days

were trade purchaseru GL British goodly or even potential acnmunON'S

or the same in mg qüinality, Ha great majority appeared to be,

bli y Lebk In

de cor dus wel

not tradeve at all, but alle coll. interoste. to stave in milc

astonishment au scrii paola: see a ving wild lever use of

purchasing. it any exhibit moved they would .voain in front of it

for an hour at a time though they vere viille to move on zien

urged t. du so bile

the opinion of as officiel of the Toluphore Company, the novelty

of these bistructiode irm the air ULB

effectivenwasi prhage the pugle regaron the motoru Liqua me te

voices of the pouni 20 attitude of xh of us crowd is perhaps

best illustrated by the thot that shem the railvay un ambit

was flood-light at alt ut die plonsed the oruwd better than

to get between file 1200-light apparable and the origise mu stare

at the bright light for lung porics at a time, with a more wat

damage to their powers of visiorie

d

as

It la lapossible at we stage to supply as.e that these

very general notes of the Fair. It is proposen after a sort

interval to allow exhitibora to get tas peractive, to wand thes

all a ciro:1ar asaing for Bir views as to what the Fair had

achieved, was business resulta they have definitely experienced

or expect to derive in the next few months and generally their

views

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