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FINDING NEW MARKETS.

WHAT WEMBLEY HAS MEANT. REPRESENTATION IN DISTANT

MARKETS.

THOSE AMERICAN HOTELS.

SOME CONTRASTS WITH OUR OWN.

[BY 918 JOHN FOSTER FRASER.)

To-night the two hundred and fifty United States hotel proprietors who are giving Europe, a "once over "-having surveyed England in a week—will be given a banquet in London, and meet the Duka of York, before hustling off to the Cont

Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister (President of the Board of Trade), in a debate in the House of Commons on April 29th, said that last year we were doing, rather less than our pre-war share of the export trade of the world. In 1913 we were doing about 13 per cent, and last year about 11.9 pertinent in the morning.

Next to the cent. The position to-day was certainly better. The first quarter of 1926 showed

...

movies, Americans spend most money on hotels. We have not had

n definite increase in the export of British first-class hotel erected in London for manufactures over the general 'average for over a quarter of a century, whilst New 1995. Even so, the Arst quarter of this Fork sprouts a million-dollar palatial year only showed that we were exporting caravanserie every fortnight.

In recent years' eighty per cent, of the something between 2 and 63 per cent. of the volume of manufactured exports be-American tourists who crossed the Atlan fare the war. On those figures there was tic landed in France chiefy because the a great need of expansion of our export Yankee loves to talk about Paris when trade, particularly in manufactures. We be returns to his home town, but partly were not likely to find that expansion in because he has been told that English Europe for some time, and were therefore hotels are dingy, methods antiquated, and more than ever driven to the necessity of the cooking vile. developing new markets, and particularly Imperial markets.

We had already achieved in part this endeavour. In 1913 our exports to the Empire represented 37.2 per cent of our total export trade. In 1920- easy year, when it was possible to sell in any market-that percentage had fallen to 34.2. Last year our exports to the British Empire were 39.3 per cent of cur total exports It was satisfactory to observe that in the first quarter of 1996 we show ed a further advance. When one came to the character of our exports, the im portance of the Empire trade was even more marked

Of our exports to foreign countries 28 per cent. were fully manu factured articles, while of our exports to the Empire 38 per cent. were fully manu- factured articles. Therefore, both in value" and in character, this expansion was proceeding. (Hear, hear.)

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Bosting, Fishing, Golf, Tennis, Billiards, Orohestia twice a wook "Capital place, Phildren. OGONDAI --Moet beautiful and select Semaids Bewert in the Far East. Two miles from Port Arthur. Formerly the Summer Besort of the high Russian officers and officials. Yemato Hotel and 20 villas and, bangalows, mostly with detached ser ants quarters. Excellent Eathing, Wonderful Scenery, Historia Bastionicing Facilities. Orchestra, twice a work, Bainol and Dismantled Forta Miew of charming Walks and Drives. Abundant Bowl pince for high-class families. PORT ARTHUR Famous for its two memorable Fleges and its beautiful landlocked

Harbour. Emelly one hour's journey from Dairen by express train.

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Moreover just as our trade with the Empire was expanding, an the trade of the Empire with this country was growing even more rapidly, emphasising the mutual character of the trade. In 1913

Our hotel-running visitors have, how- ever, been made "wise"; they admit that a good deal of the conceit has been knocked out of them. When they go back to their own country they will spread the news that though their hotels are bigger ours are more comfortable, that they ever knew there was sach crac_erjack food in the world, that service is smarter. than anything they can provide, and, as for courtesy, it will be something for them to dream about.

OUR DEST AND OTHERS.

In fairness. it should be stated that they have stayed only at our very best hotels, that our hoteliers have been especially afort to give them a good time, and that if they had more time to wander found they might have found hotels, especially in the provinces, which would not have. fascinated them and of which we are not proud.

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*The story is, told of a stranger, landing in ece of our Midiand towns. "Which is the best hotel?" he asked the station- "Well, sir," wLS the reply, master. "there is the Black Bull and the Red

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TO-DAY HII SATURDAY

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VIOLA DANA MONTE BLUE AND LEW CÓDY

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THE WORLD

TO-DAY A± 5.15 & 9,15

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"BROADWAY ROSE."

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"A nice sunshiny morning, miss," the HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE,

the imports from the Empire to the United Lion." "As I cannot stay at both," said young lady looks straight over your head!

the stranger,

which one do you advise me to go to" The station-master re- plied: "It doesn't matter which one you 50 to, because you won't have been there half an hour before you'll wish you had gone to the other one

and demands what cereal you want.

Kingdom were 2157 per cent of our total

It is no good putting your shoes out- imports. In 1925 they had risen to 39.77 per cent, and in the Erst quarter of this

side the bedroom door expecting to find

they will be fear they showed again & marked increase.

be there, but th the morning. They may Hear, hear.) He thought that illustrated

You must go down to the basement and the value to the Dominions and Colonies

there take your tum sitting on a throne of the, Wembley Exhibitions and of the

coon" or a "dago" gives you Many of our hotels in the provinces are whilst a intensive campaign and effort of the woefully bad, grimy, with ancient wall- a "shine," invariably excellent, and you

thank you if you pay a shilling British people to realise the possibilities paper, wheezy furniture, threadbare car- get a of trade within the Empire. (Hear, hear.) pets, the monotony of the daily food the What we call the barber's shop, and what He wished manufacturers would com- neme of unimaginativeness, and the weathe Americans call the tensorial parlour, bine more than they did for represent-ager inclined to be grumpy if you summon is a wonderful place. The feverish, ener tion in distant markets. The Government up courage to tell him a clean towel once getic American business man is largely could do much, and, indeed, was doing a day is one of your weaknesses.

a myth, just like the overworked English inuch, through its trade commissioners They have bad hotels in America, business man. If you want to see what abroad and export credits. But the especially in the Southern States: I've a lot of spare time the Americaa has, sit Government were not going to finance stayed at them. As a man who has slept in a tonsorial parlour for an hour and consignment business. They could only in 247 different American hotels within a watch him. finance new business, and they could not year I have had experiences. I oner allow the credit of the State to be used stopped, in Tennessee I think, at what for carrying stock. They could not go was to be the only second-class hotel in "back on that position and start financing the world." That confession, however overstocks,

One million pounds was met the visitor only one-tenth of the way being spent this year on the development toward the truth. Up in Idaho a bury of Empire markets; and there would be landlord opened the morning with the Larger sums in future years. The develop the greet. Very badly" was the answer; Well, how have you ment of air services to Australia was a slept T matter which required a great deal of the fact is I was troubled with insom- experiment, and was one of considerable in You're a liar," retorted the land. Gnancial uncertainty. The Air Ministry lord," for there isn't a single one about had been by no means idle, and it was the place "1" hoped the service to Karachi would be in operation by the end of the year. Con- sultations were constantly taking place between the Air Ministry and the

Dominions.

***A CHAINED GOAT."

J A LESSON FOR US.

But here is a lesson which British towns

ON THE CREDIT BIDE,

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

JUNE 2ND, 1926, hongkong Bank........... $1,100, Bol Don London....£128 nom. Chartered Bank...... Mercantile Bank, A & B,

£20 nom. Ich nom. EIS) nằm.

Do

F.&O. Bank.

Ba to n China Underwriters North China Insurance, Union

Insurance Yangiare Insurance ......................

Dom, 28d now. 8810 buy. $LED yom fls. 145 nom.

So buy.

China Fire Insurance3150 bay. Hongkong Fire Losurance $570 buy.

2 sel

$20 nome

$10 nom.

...90/- buy. ....862 bay. buy.

$15 num

..$22 buy.

.836 com. $1 bay.

Tia. 5f nom

U. & M. Steamboazz ...$241 bay. scrupulously clean. Hot and cold running

On the credit side American hotels are Hongkong Tug...

Lado-Chinaa (Prof.) water is in every room; there is none of Shall Transports

Do. (Def)...... the delivery of a tin of hot water in the Star Ferries.... morning or before dinner, placing it in the Waterboats... basin and tenderly wrapping it about with Chms bugars........... apartly-used towel, which causes all Malabon Bugars foreigners in England to laugh when they Benguets... encounter the custom here. Even in the Kalan Mining Ad......

41/-bay. Ti 24 sel cheaper hotels there is no niggardiness Langata toombined) in the matter of towela. You are never

Do:“ (Kingle) ............Ts. 124 buy, expected to use the same towel twice. Shanghai Explorations......... Ta.

All the furniture, seems to have been Shanghai Loans ......... ? nom.

Fanba should take from the majority of Ameri- manufactured in the same works at Grand Tremoh Mines can towns. If we want visitors, commer- Rapids; it is stiff in style, but good. Ural Caspians cial men who come to do business, to have There is an assortment of clean writing HK. & K. Ward........ a good impression, to be in a friendly Paper, clean blotting paper, neat tele-

H.K. & W. Docks.....$35 nom. Dr. Haden Guest (Lab Soc, Southmood, to pass a pleasant comment, when graph forms, pens that will write, and ink

ever the place is mentioned, it is essential holders with ink in them, together with Nowerminal wark, N.) said migration wing there should be a good hotel. Americans every room every a good... because there was no one Government! are more town proud than we are. They every room. On every landing is a letter HK. & 8. department responsible for it. What was love to boost their towns

chute. Usually there is a cushion with a Hongkong Lands If you pass threaded needle and a few buttons in Hongkong Realty (o.p.)......$5) buy, wanted was a kind of Imperial Cook's office, which would make it as easy for through them by train at night there are an intending migrant to get information electric sigua winking their virtues; as case your trousers need attention. In a HR Territorials (2.p.)...

you drive there in an automobile you read folded. In it you put your soiled laundry, Prince's Buildings.............598 DOM,

drawer you find a large paper bag neatly Humphreys Hetaton about the Dominions as it was for anyone Welcome to Fordville," and as you ride and write your name and your room nuz?-

$14 noin. to get information about hotels in Paris, away you are shouted at "Come again

Baral Lands

$7 nom. Berlin, or Milan. The Government were but always the first thought is to show head the bundle to the bell-hop. At 3 Orientals.

9am. you Ewo Cations too conservative and tintorous, lacking the there is a dandy hotel. initiative to inaugurate large schemes, and in this connection the Chancellor of the Exchequer, instead of comparing him- sell, as he did, to a Channel swimmer ought to have compared himself to a goat, tied to a stake by a chain and only able to run round in a limited circle. (Laugh- ter). The Government were in that posi

tion.

Pariz

EXCHANGE RATES. -

[DRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

RUGBY, June lat.

1401

Brussels Amsterdam Berlin

Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors Lisboa

154)

1210

20.43

16.447

34 141

103

ber on the dotted line. Before

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85/ nom, 8/-nom. $126 sel.

Th178 buy,

bay.

*****$10,40 buy, 10

*******362 buy, 83 3.

nom..

In arall middle western towns of 7,000 p.m. your shirts, socks, collars and pants Khanghai Cottons (old) inhabitants I have, not occasionally, but are laid out on your bed beautifully constantly, found better, bigger, cleaner cleaned. If you proceed on your journey Amusement. hotels than I have found in a number of you leave a forwarding address and Canton Ices......

Cementa (combined) English towns with more than 2,70,000 laundry, post-office and hotel act in co- Do population.

iced water.

•Toa 4901 %.......

(now)......Is. 29 bay.

Tr. 87 ôn. Tia, & nom. 11. 53 bay.

$il nota

operation, so that you receive your gar ments hundreds of miles away three days

(old). (now)

...$13 nom,

3

(new)

1. 10.90 nom. $18$ nom. 314 buy. 49) buy ..$5.60 buy.

318 sal

$642 buy. 840

nom

120 sta, nom,

$30 sol

110 sal

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BLOGANS.

Chins Providents Constructions Dairy Farma Hongkong Electrics Der. A. Wing (I.p.)

Macuo Klectris... A.K. Developments....... H.. Ropes (ombined),

Do.

(old) Hongkong Tramways

jja

(now)

Mckintoshs... Laze Upward...... Peak Trams (old)

Do.

(W)

buy.

Some things an English visiter to the

Bares average American hotel does not like. He later, and all charges are placed on your Chins Lights (combined) is rarely an individual; he is a number. hill. Yet there are folk in England who

Da. (old) APART

Do. from the collar-box capped "bell- object to the c.o.d. system.

or page boys, who show alertness to seize your

grip

"and carry it to When you enter an American hotel you your room-with a quarter" tip in the do not request, the young lady in ball offing there is little personal service. mourning beyond a window if you can There are no bells, so you have to tele-have a room? You address the clerk- phone for everything, though in former pronounced Scotch fashion: "What are days, when there were bells, whatever you your rates?" You do not find intimation rang for you were sure to be served with in your bedroom that unless notice of

vacancy is given before noon you will be I have been in over fifty countries, and charged for the following night. When I would say that the restaurant service, you take a room in an American hotel whether in New York or Sioux City at 10 p.m. it is yours until 10 p.m. on Iowa, is apart from Ruesia in the lei the following night, and if you do not Burely old days-about the slowest on "check out till 9.45 it in all right. The earth It must have been an eyeopener room is yours for 24 hours. And by the Sinceres. to American hoteliers this week to have door is a plate saying in gold on a black Taxis seen the smartness of the English service, ground" Have you forgotten anything?" United Asboston though we do not pretend there is any Americans love slogans such as "There Watsons (cl)*** thing to boast about, except by compari is no fun like work." As you move to the

Wm. Powells "Over, there" the coloured waiters are

lift you many read "Now be cheerful for Singapore Tractions

buy-buyer; sel-llers; ---sales usually courteous; the American waiters ten minutes and you'll be happy the rest as distinct from the recently imported of the day." In an elevator I once read *32.23.

Italians are conscious that they are this hotel the guest is invariably right !',

the genial cynicism, "In all disputes in quite as good as you are and indicate it; 1/5.31/32 whilst the women waitresses, in the second

217/3g 45

Buenos Aires Shanghai Yokohama

New York Geneva Milan Stockholm

2/11 1/111 4.88-7/6 25.12

128 18.17

БОЛ.

Oslo

Prague Madrid

Rio

Bombay

Hongkong Silver (spot forward)

27.1039

1641

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There is much about hotel life that the three-dollar-a-day-American-plan English and the Americans can learn from hotels, are supercilious. If you remark, each other. Erening Standaril

2/22 30.1/10

clash,

919h nom. $16 bay. $7.50 buy.

311

* sel.

320 nom.

12 bag. $10 nom

Governments can hinder or they can help, but they cannot create. Mönd, M.P.