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Those
entral örganising Corsaittee consisting of the
Hon, fired. J. Paterson (General Chairman of the Fair Committee), the
Hon. Mr. J. F. Braga, Major iuclos and Mr. S. T. Tilliamson, Mr.
J.K. Taggart who, as Managing Director of the Hong kong & Changhai
Hotels, Lt.. Was BⱭ 08cential and most valuable member of this
Committeo. Sir William Shenton and Mr. T.E.Funroe also helped
on this Committee.
FUBBLICITY
Reference to this has been made abwe. It should be added
tat contractors of outdoor advertising space, Government, Military
and transport organisations gave free space for posters, of
which £,000 were printeć, oircular in Englich an Chinese was
distributed by permission of public utility companies and others
in the monthly accounts of 65,000 consumers, The Post Office
shopped all letters for two weeks before the Fair with a rubber
stamp bearing the woNY
the words "British Empire Pair" and a cate in two
languages, Thanks t the gift of free alvertising space, the
cost of publicity was kept down to approximately $400.
#rinting of postara, etc., should have been put in hand
carlior ane a wider distribution made in Canton, the Outports
generally and on inward-bound eteasers from all parts.
LOCATION
Free use of the Peninsula Hotel premises, of course,
Committee a great deal of money, and I have sinos
learned that the Committee is further inebted to Xr. J. 1. Taggart
(Managing Director of the Hong Kong à Shanghai Hotela, Ltd.), who
has undertaken to pay out of his own pocket all the socounta
which the Fair Committee incurred with the Hotel Company for meals
supplied to workers, members of Military Bands and.
others,
On account of the sentimental associati no of mpire ay, it was decides to hold the Fair from Bay 24 camarɛs, but heavy
rain which occurred directly after the Fair showed that the
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