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THE BLF. FAIR

Catalogues In Nine

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(Special Air

Mail Service) London, Feb. 21.

Buyers from 90, different coun- tries are converged on Londón for the opening of the British Indus- tries Fair at Olympia and the White City.

They come from countries as widely separated as Chile and. Manchuria, bringing with them credits for millions of pounds, and they will be,, welcomed by a corps of interpreters and catalogues In mine languages.

day.

Miles of Stands 2

The fair, showing as it does the cream of. Britain's industrial en- deavour for the last year, is our greatest trade boost and this

year it has broken all records for size and the number of exhibitors.

Thousands watched workers putting the finishing touches to the two towns which have sprung up at Olympia and the White City. Ten miles of stands have been ruched up and an army of electricians were busy at Olympia connecting up the 150 miles of wiring which lights the stands ›

Secret Devices

THE RAFS NEW DIARY OF LOCAL

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EVENTS

Thursdays, March 14 Сіделая

'King's: "The Queen's Ansir." Queen's "A Wicked Woman? Central:-"Chinese Picture." Oriental:--“Convention City," World:--"Chinese. „Eicture.” Alhambra:-"Pardners."

| Majestic: "The Vanishing

Shadow"

A number of new twin-engined fytng-boats for the RAF has been ordered from Mesars, Saunders- star:-"Christopher Strong.” Roa, Limited This type, describ

Dances-Royal Welch Fusiliers celebrate St. David's Annual Ball, China Fleet Club, 8.30 p.m.

ed for the present as the Baro R 25/31, has been chosen after trials in a replacement competition, on ¿Lectures-Mr. Wel Tat, Theo- account particularly of its ges-sophical Society, HK. Club Annex. worthiness, ease of maintenance, 8 p.m.

and the roominess and comfort of │· Meeting's-Annual, Dairy... Farm its hull. Details of performance Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd, 2) One foreign buyer has 'engaged | are not get_available, ¡but it is Lower Albert Road, noon; a hotel room near Olympia and known that the speed of this boat Teachers' Association, Eilis Ka- booked the telephone for foreign exceeds that required in the origin-doorie School, 5 p.m.; Women's calls for the whole of the Birstal specification. The boat is a Fellowship, 3 p.m.; and Buildings biplane with wings- of unequal and Grounds Committee, St. An- span Two Bristol Pegasus (620drew's Hall, §. pim. the upper wings., hp.) engines are set close beneath Miscellaneous St. Andrew's

Club Open Night; Whist Drive, | | The boat is of metal construc-Civil Service Cricket Club, 8.45 p.m. tion, with fabric coverings of the Moon. II Moon, 10th, Day. wings and fall organs. The hull Rebicarsals-Hong Kong Singers, consists of ahlad, which has been "Elijah,” St. John's Cathedral, 5.30 shown during the last six years to p.m. be specially resistant to sea-water corrosion. It is said that the new boat may remain anat continu- ausly for six months and there is an example at Singapore of a smaller boat, built by the same Arm, and showing no sign of hull „Lawn Tennis.—Open - Bingles, .K. The fair is the zero hour for corrosion after five years' service. L Shute v. Lee Wai-tong; Tsul scores of exhibitors who have the new boat is remarkable for the Wal Put *. Tsui Yun-pul; been working for the last year on

breadth and headroom of the hull. Paul Kong 7. M. Beach Thomas; new devices. Many of these were kept secret until the moment of The crew of five is able to sleep & A. Rumlahn v. Leung Ping- opening

and prepare food board Actord-chiu Club Championship, J. Fifty policemen were on dutying to the bolders, the accom-Bazroy YG RM. Ricketts, A at Olympia, and chey and Amodation, is equal to that of a Mackenze v. TA Pearce;" number of commissionaires were yacht of similar dimensions. Handicap Singles, L. G. Robertson scrutinising the cards of buyers to In tests, it was reported as havy. M. Pagh H. J, Armstrong V. T. weed out the trade, spies who ing a good take-off in all condi-C. Mohaghan. always' attempt, and sometimes succeed, in gate-crashing before the show opens and wiring confidential details to their firms.

The Jubilee colours are Aying verywhere in the halls, and many manufacturers have incorporated them in their products. There a Jubiler clothes, ties, pens, pencils stoves, furniture, leather, glass, jewellery and plate.

One of the most interesting side- shown of the fair is the stand of Cables and Wireless, Ltd., the British firm which controls 100,000 miles of cable or two-thirds of the world's total

300 Words A Minute Visitors will see the n⚫tual apparatus which telegraphy mes sages at 300 words a minut, and will be able to send a wire at one end of the stand "kit" recare it back automatically typed out by the receiver at the other end.

From this stand they will also be able to transmit tables all over the world.

Social Functions. YMCA Ladies' Night".

Sports........ Hockey-Police v. Royal Engi neers (Police Training School), 5 p.m.

Sunrise.-634 àm. Sunset-6,32,

Tides. High at 12.05.

Low at 0.21.

Friday, March 15. Anniversaries and Holidays— Ember Day

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tions, es very stable and easy to fly, as affording a good field of p.m. vision for the pilot, and a good field of fire for the gunners, and as being one of the quietest boats to fly in. It has an enclosed cock- pit for the pilot and three gun cockpits-one in the bows, De Auctions.-Sale, of Grown Landa, amidships aft of the wings, and District Office, South, 11 a.m.

one in the tall. One of its features is the long range, which has come

The boat has a span of 30ft. is 57ft. long and, 20ft. 3in. high.

It

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to be regarded as essential. in the King's: The Queen's Affair" fying-Queen's: "A Wicked Woman" open-sea reconnaissance

Central:-"Chinese Picture." boat.

Oriental:-"Convention City." World: The Danger Island Alhambra Pardners" Makstle, 'Umgje" "Trap" StarSisters Under The Skin.".

·Dances.—Et. Patrick's Ball, Pen- insula Hotel, 9.30 pm. Garrison Lecture Hal, 8.45 p.m.

The English of It

An English tourist was on his arst visit to the Niagara Falls, and guide was trying to impress him with their magnitude,

|

Lectures-Christian Fellowship, Helena May, 1030 am. Speaker: Rev. Cyril Brown

Meetings"Annual," Kowloon Re-

“Grand!"" suggested the guide. The visitor did not seem im-sidents' Asscn., St. Andrew's Hall,

Twelve-women inventore are among the exhibitors Their in-pressed. Ventions include rubber pads to stop housemaid's knee and a com- bined kettle, and saucepan in which the kettle is boiled by the steam from the saucepan.

the

The furniture, section at White City contains a high per- centage of Empire woods and produce, nne manufacturer stating that 85 per cent, of his raw mate rials come from the Empire.

minute!"

Millions of gallons explained the guide.

How many in a day?" asked the tourist,

Oh, billions and billions.” The visitor looked all round, as gauging the dow. Then he turned away. Runs all night, too, I suppose," he remarked nonchal- antly...

6 pm.

p.m

Miscellaneous Claims against.: the Estate of Sydney Sheppard Brown, late of Shing Mun, due Royal Engineer's Whist-Drive

Moon.-II Moon, 11th Day. Snrise-6.33

Supset -6.33

Tides-High at 9:20 and 18:18; Low at 107 and 11.12.

p.m.

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