CO129-544-13 British Empire Fair- reports- etc. 10-8-1933 - 8-11-1933 — Page 38

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organisers were gambling at long odda with the weather. The

best date needs careful ucnsičeration,

hole the Fair before one-third of the

It would be better to

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European population (oes

RWBY ON LABSer leave, leaving merchants' offices shorthanded,

If held in kveaber, when the weather in Hong Bong is pod,

susner holidays in England way interfere with the organisation

of exhibits. Another objection is that the work of the Organi se re

would then fall to be done in the hot weather of August,September

and October. fixture in February would overcome this difrioul ty

and perhaps mit United Kingdom suppliers better, and the Fair

might be combine◊ with the Chinese Hew Year Fair. To hold a Fair

in hot weather is very trying to exhibitors më the public,

LIMOTII DE BAIE

The first Fair lasted barely two days, and voluntary

belpers found it quite sufficiently trying to be on duty for that

However, it

period. However, it was felt that from the point of view of

muppliers, the Fair ought to last longer and it was therefore

decided to contime from ednesday, the 34th, to saturday, the

27the But the New Territories Section and the Flowr Foation,

ân which the voluntary hilpers were engaged, shut down at the end

of the second day.

The divison of the Fair into so many different parts of

the Feninsula Hotel building, and the location of a large section

in two matabede, open on all sičes to public access (to comply with

Fire Brigade requirements) safe it impossible to regulate aduim BÅGEI

in any way. From an early hour on the 34th the curious tirong bo-

gan to ascomble, and by the time the opening ceren ny was over it

was difficult to walk about the builing. The chairs vacated by

thome who took part in the opening Ceremony were quickly occupied

by unwashed coolies who seemed to find it the height of life's

ambition to be senteŭ for once in a comfortable chair. They were

content