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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII," SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1991..

NEWS about

GETTING ABOUT

• Travel, hiking, cycling cruising, railways, camping and everything you want to know-with perhaps a little you don't know

More Travel- Better Trade

"GETTING ABOUT" is the life blood of Hongkong, Tourists bring millions of dollars into our Colony every season, Without them, trade would stagnate, hun- dreds of Europeans and thousands of Chinese would be thrown out of work, and our development would be re- tarded half-a-century,

Every season tourists spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on purchases in the Colony. They stay at our hotels, hire our taxis, visit our places of amusements,

Women who visit here with the intention of spending £20 on clothes go berserk when they enter our fascinating shops and double, treble and even quadruple their budget.

People are coming to Hongkong money that Hongkong people, in over increasing numbers. More going Home for the Coronation, and more Amerleans are making will spond on Getting About. the Oriant their rendezvous in Then there are the tourists we stead of Europe. Australians and expect every winter. Four large New Zealanders recognise the Far. liners, including the Empress of East as their stamping ground. Britain, are bringing them to Competition is providing cheap, llongkong, They will spend swift, de luxe shipping services another $500,000 in this Colony. from Europe. Aeroplane travel Hongkong newspapermen Inter- has brought England four weeks view all sorts of people who visit closer to the East.

this Colony Getting About. .Re- Next year will be a recòrd tour- cent visitors have included the fat year for our Colony, The King and late Queen of the Bol- Eucharistic Congress at Manila glans (when they were Crown

will be the magnet that will at- Prince and Princess), Marconi, tract the majority of the visitors George Bernard Shaw, Charlee to the East, but Hongkong will Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, probably see more of their money Ronald Colman,

Will Rogers, than any other centre."

Wheeler and Woolsey. Joe, E. Ten gigantic iners employed on Brown, and Mary Pickford. His the trans-Atlantic service have Majesty King Edward visited hero already been booked to bring these in 1922. The Duke of Kent› was › pilgrims to the East. On both stationed here in H.M. Fleet. outward and inward voyage they On the other end of the social w tayover in Hongkong, some scule, Hongkong has been visited

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Politics won't

spoil your

trip home

TRAVELLERS, thinking of their trip Home, are wondering how they will be treated in countries in Europe owing to the political situation.

Remember that every foreign country does everything pos- sible to prevent interference with the tourist traffic.

ITALY. A special rate of exchange for tourists is being Introduced. For the £ they will get 82.10 lire instead of the normal 62% lire. They will also have special hotel coupons. These will provide tourists with rooms and three meals a day,

Carry

your own canoe

VERY year more people are learning what pleasure, there is in

owning an inexpensive cance.

to trouble with a trailer but fix it above)

costing from 7s, Gd. to 178. a day, including the 10 per cent, tips. The canest way to set it from your home at the to the roo

Petrol coupons will be issued at the frontiers reducing the price to 28. 2d. a gallon for the visitor who staya fifteen days. Usual price is 5s. 6d. a gallon.

GERMANY. Tourists will have 60 per cent, reduction on German rallways if they stay for seven days. There are 12 marks to the £, but holidaymakers will get 20 to 24 to the £ with travellers' cheques.

SPAIN. The exchange is profit- able. The is worth about 30s. Ju Spain, and hotel prices re- main at par level. Cheap raios for travel are provided for all tourists,

AUSTRIA-Return rail jour- neys to the interior from the fron tiers carry a 60 per cent. reduc. tion. The exchange gives the tourist 264. for the £.

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FRANCE. Fear of an invasion is reversed in the case of British tourists. exchange rates there

Despite unfavourable special facilities,

SWITZERLAND. Tourists will get a 30 per cent, reduction on all public transport if they stay six days. Season tickets for unlimited NEVER do too much the use are issued for eight and fifteen daya, Hotel rates for English. first day of your hiking people on holiday will be reduced season. It is best. to train from 10 to 20 per cent.

by going for progressively longer short walks.

CORONATION

CROWDS

of them for several days. While by fugitives from justice, pirates, WILL BE

the ships age in Manila they will alleged nasassinators and plain be used as floating hotels, becausa confidence men. accommodation ashore will be in- We are making millions of dol- adequate.

Iars out of tourists. But we have,

At least 200,000 people will only tapped the fringe of the visit the Far East in 1917 for the trade. We do not advertise out. Eucharistic Congress alone.

WHAT THEY SPEND

solf enough, and when tourista do arrive, offer them insufficient inducements. Red Tape is mak-

Do you know what these 200,000 ing Hongkong too Westernised. people will mean to Hongkong Cabarets and similar-highlights during the three or four days tourists are led to expect when they will be hero?

they visit us have been turned by They will spend at the least the authorities into wishy-washy $50 each, a total of $10,000,000. nffairs that are not the truc They will more than offset the Orient tourists come here to see.

Girls' and Boys' Corner

Dear Kiddies. Some plendid work went in for Jast week's Competition, which I felt sure you would all like, sa-jou always No do well in painting contents. Taking age, neatness and Porrect colouring into acount, find that the best effort in the Bealor Compattion W that of Destrics Greaves (aged 13), 67 Rolln

pon Road; while in The Junior Section the best work wil sent br Irene Osmund taze 8), 29 Jorden Road. Aan Mari Bani MACRO fred C), ka Awarded

KATHLEEN

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Benlurs; and Margaret Chater, Molle Terry: Xavier, and Coleste Guterres amonx Ingmar Eriksen, S. K. Khan and Robert Harrington anwas the Junion.

This werk. In response to requeste frum two or three children, I am niving you a Cremenil Competition: You will probably be able to in the correct words, but in the event of a tie the wrises will be awarded on a back of age and nestries.

There will again be twe prlas-one for: children from 10 to 14 and another for those under 10. Entries, which meat siste the cont pelitor age, shou reach Uncle

Exhille e/o "Hotakung Telegraph," not later than; 4 p.. on Weduwday,

Jacqueline Andersen-As you will see, there is a Camaword Competition this week. Gi you enjoyed your swim. Keep & up; N'a good for you in this hut weather.

Celests CaterresYou did quite a good job, but being just ten years of age, you have to compote ngainat older kiddies. Never initud; you'll no dusht win a prize woon,

Ana Maria Banta Clara-Your work wom Bpecially commended so good that you are being given a special for good work are consolation prize. Thanks ever so much for

llora Gome, Bybil the phot Romevais, žatly Hough- Time OsmandCongratulations, Irene, on Junior Prize winner. Betty Goodwin, Dian300

tan, Fernando Alves, winning again. Froman, Winnie o Angeline Gardner,

Uncle. Eddle. Mario Xavier, Incqueline Anderson, Lul Xavier, Tobel Morrison, Vivienne Chúro, Imma

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BOOK NOW IF

YOU'RE GOING HUNDREDS of Hongkong

of your car. The thin wooden strips to which the boat is strapped can easily be fixed to the car roof without interfering with the sliding roof apparatus. An outboard motor can be carried in the lurgake boot.

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Tips

for

Tourists

Left-hand and right-hand driving rules vary different regulations in different provinces of one everywhere in the world. Sometimes there' are country. The rule changes four times in the Far East alone,

DEFORE you leave Hongkong learn the rates offelals will confiscate it at the frontier as you of exchange of the countries you will visit. leave. Answer their questions truthfully.. Know exactly what a yen looks like. Some people-get mixed up with small change. They think the large pieces are worth more than the small pieces. Very often the reverse is the case. Be careful not to lose your tickets. You have to pay the additional fare for a lont ticket. I qnce got stranded after losing a long-journey rail ticket. Starved for four days. Repurchase took all the money I had.

Take no notice of hotel toats at station terminl. Get advice about hotels from a tourist agent before you start.

Some countries have very complicated currency regulations. You are not allowed to take money

painting or photographing. Tourists are continually Be very careful to avoid canning suspicion when getting arrested for behaving like apics.. This applica.especially to Japan.

Be careful when travelling by train to sit fn the right carriage, one Inbelled with your destina- almost every station in some places. It's even dono tion. They have a habit of dropping carriages at to Hongkong. It is very easy to be dropped at some obscure place and lost.

The best method of travelling is to carry- tra vellers' cheques. Some countries, however, con-

Start taking special care of out of these countries. Take, then, only what you. aider even these cash assets. Make sure at a travel

your feet. Wash them and use foot ointment to keep them soft. When the big day comes, dress yourself, in comfortable. old clothes. There is no need to look like a youth movement. Wear heavy, old shoes,resoled with thick leather and studded with nails. Woollan stockings are casential. for real foot comfort.

Before setting out read tho weather forecast, and bear in mind. these tips, drawn up by Gipsy tulen in Romany Hints for

flikers" (Methuen, 28.):

residents have already Red sky at night is the shop- booked their berths to go of small gnats flying about threa herd's delight, and so da a swarm Home for the Coronation feet from the ground, swallowB celebrations on May 12 next flying high, or books cawing more.

than usual,A year.

Millions of dollars of Hong red sity in

Bad weather is indicated by a the early morning, kong money will go to London swallows flying low, cattle lying on with them, for tourists from the high ground, or blackbirds singing Far East are proverbially the solo when other birds are silent. heaviest spenders in Europe. Having fixed the weather, make They spend much more than for the country. If necessary go American millionaires who by trai to save your legs from

streets. are usually careful of their baw-

Walk at a moderate pace, head bees.

up, shoulders squared. Each person leaving Hongkong hurry. Go six miles at three miles. spends at least $4,000 during his an hour, then have a rest. Near leave. Five hundred holiday- midday have a light meal. makers would spend $2,000,000.

Never

Reniember that "Trespassera

If you intend going Home next will be prosecuted" notices mean year, make your reservations almost nothing in law. now Steamship lines estimato

Maybe you do not want to go

that they will be entirely booked home. Perhaps you brought your out within two months.

tent and rucksack. In that caso Two principal British lines have settle down before you itinerarice as follows:

tired to enjoy pitching a tont:

Canadian Pacific.-Empress of Canada, depart Hongkong January 28; Empress of Russia (Eucharis- te Congress) depart

Manila February 9, next port of call Shang- hat, from where she will depart February 12; Empress of Japan, depart Hongkong February 23; Em- press of Arla, depart: Hongkong

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March 10.

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P. & D. Liné-Rawalpindi, de part Hongkong February 6, Corfu, depart Hongkong February 20; Ranchi, depart Hongkong March 6; Carthage, depart Hongkong March 20.

CHART

THIS name is symbolic of enter- prise, high adventure, gallant independence.

Thursday is the lucky day, and the third hour after sunrise is the most favourable. The 12th and 21st days of the month are fortunate.

Saxe blue and purple are as- sociated with the name of Gillian, and are very lucky colours to use," either alone or in combination..

The turquoise is your luckiest gem; evil is powerless to harm you while you wear it.

The wild purple clover is the flower assigned to you and the number six brings you good fortune,

Symbol

wonian riding Borden #the Wehoors with a hawkfön

need for each country.. If you have money over. agency before you start,

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