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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1950.

SCENE IN A Riviera casinO

'Cut' Croupiers'

Cut By Cripps

By SAM WHITE

women I

RANCE is looking for allover unescorted

The result-nearly ward to a record in Ramble. vasion

British 1,000,000 in gross taking, of

The smart Deauville casino | tourists this spring and sum- second, with Nice third and

mer, and is keeping her Cannes a good fourth. fingers crossed in the hope that a change of heart on known The part of Sir Stafford Cripps will result in the Iabolition of the £50 limit Jon tourist spending.

A surprise th was a little- casino near Lyons-a

THE MAN OF

..

COURAGE

Mr. Weston takes

a

chance

'slum' of

the Empire

W

by BERNARD

HARRIS

HAT sort of men were they who built up the British Empire? They were great individual- Ists-men of courage, imbued with a spirit of adventure, and a profound love of liberty. Those were the qualities which laid the foundations of the Empire. And those qualities

live on.

They are to be found in a man who

today is planning to do something which successive Govern- ments have failed to do-to bring pros- perity and new tribute to solid industrial worth hope to Britain's so- called "slum in the over cosmopolitan society,

All this ropresents henv gambling, but it indicates only sun," British Hon-

part of the amounts actually duras.

This 15 because There has been some hart- nvolved. burning here that the 450 limit udreds of thousands of pound should have been abolished for change hands in card games Scandinavian countries and to directly between add insuli in jury the agres, loser without the casinos getting jarnt to do ro was signed in any "rake-off." Parm-and wt for France, where tourism is a major in- HAINS'S... most popular muvie | Empire.

PAS

ball at the moment is algo Called Liberly's--no

dustry.

Tone

50

winner at

in

a

BRITISH HONDURAS: this is the background of a bold Empire project

don,

Ho has built his bakery em- pire by pooling experience, by

of

tho interchange idean, by making fullest Uso of local

knowledge.

He has no use for an unwieldy

central organisa- tion,

So Weston doca not pro-

poso to run Salt Creek from his

offices in Berke- Icy-square, Lon- 4.3 tho ground- nutters run their project from headquarters near Regent's Pack.

He has put in a local manager, backed him with cash, and encour- aged him to seelt all the expert advice that is available.

Although Salt Creek was bought only in late August, 110 workers bad been recruited by Sep- tember 1, and clearing at the rate of 100 acres # month had started.

Alier, two months manager initial Webb reported: "The work was achieved under trying conditions. Hazards encountered Government missions have were snakes and certain suggested schemes for relieving annals of the cat tribe....220 the prinding poverty of British neres have been under-brushed the Honduras. But hardly anything and felled....Over four miles of road have been.cleared, sur- faved, and maintained."

But Its people number only Who is this man? He is and biscuit group based on the

60,000. And most of them are Williard Garfield Weston, "e of Canadian wheat.

Starting with a single small Hving in squnior. chubby-faced, smiling mil- company he has built a chain of lionaire who has built up more than 50 companies, cover- the biggest business in the ing all Britain.

of all those who hope to see its latest,

As A young Canadian the end this year of the £50 doubt with an eye on the dollar soldier in the first World more trade-it is in the Place Blanche War Weston apent his leave "ration," fervently than the mangers of in Montmartre, and

and is doing

opera- the 140 castron duited all over great deal to revitalise what has studying bakehouse

of the tions. depressed area of These have Jong become France.

their Parls Britons monk

entertainment world. counter best customers. Gambling was Modelled on the Casino de the first casualty of the restrle- Paris, it res

i resanbles it

It only tions on holiday spending. price of its champagne--23 10%.

11

In the

Profits Raised

However, from a just pithet boss the phyiscal con- AT hell survey of casino profits, tours of its showgirls.

past

From a few thousands Broup's operating most rose last has been done,

assets year to £2,070,000. Its

F131 new

close are worth

So he is determined to show what leadership and capital, drive and know how can do.

Salt Creek

Within a fortnight a camp of 20 two-roomed huts, with ofice store, mas hall, and a shop, had been built,

Coconuts, are the first crop to be planted. But it la planned to plant red kidney beans (now largely imported for food), rles, hemp, and bananas.

I don't much care for Govern- ment schemes." Westen Once said. "They treat men as £11,000,000,

units. Empire-minded Weston has not individuals,"

SLANC of his ploughed back profits into new projects in Aus- tralia and South Africu. H has toured the West Indies and bought business in Jamaica,

Now he does not seek greater

himself. He seeks AST August he bought the Salt riches for

to take

Le state, which lies to the Greater Britain greater British Em- the north of Belize, the capital possibilities of growing Kenaf, a and pir

of British Honduras - town of bre similar to jute for use in wooden shanties, with no water the manufacture of sugar bags. And for a start he has picked system, no ECTLY supply, 13 on British Honduras,

Conna sewage disposal plant,

Lily, another Abre-

promising plant, is an equally prospect.

T 24 he inherited a small Other-45,000-a-year bakery business it would seem that they are still wise the show is carried out at in Toronto. Within two years be doia: well from Continental such break-neck speed that one hand raised its profits fourfold instead

scarcely time to sip at nand started to spread its opera- and transatlantic gamblers.

drink for fear of missing an net. tions throughout Canada

The show starts at 10 and has

into the US. URING

year a Masler of Ceremonies known

Tom-Tom.

when In the carly thirties, Waiters, pro- French casinos have nek- as

100 stretching profit

of

stagehands the bottom had dropped cut of colony ncarly gramme sellers and £3,500,000 for

wheat market, along the Caribbean and danked State, are all part of the show. the

the Canadian The biggest profits were made Scenes change with bewil-Weston was fired with en by Guatemala and Mexico.

Canadian at the Enghien-les-Bains casino, dering rapidity, and there is nothusiasm to help the

the pace untit four farmers. only seven miles from Paris. let-up in This casing, which permits only or five a.m. depending on the

He came res number of encores the audiences baccarat, has a Brst-rate taurant, Brst-rate band, and have insisted upon.

D

tre?

a

H

littic miles

This old estate, covering 70 Aquare miles (45,000 acres), bor- ders the sea for 20 miles. Its Properly developed. this bays and inlets were once colony, which is the size of haunt of buccancers and pirates to England de- Wales, could support a popula- in the days of the Spanish fermined to build a big bakery tion of 1,000,000.

SEE TO YER MONEY, BOY!

It's the end of the road for my friend of those tin-born gramophone days

by SIR ALEXANDER KING

FARRY LAUDER

the Road, a road he trod congs.

road he for 79 years. A

He was

Harry was a cheque for £1,050.

The late Will Fyffe was

...Cinema magmate and lifelong triend of Sir Harry Lauder

Mali.

the

Later it provided wealth from the great mahogany trees which flourished In its dense jungle.

Tho mahogany forest" has gone. The estate now consists of swamp and savannah, covered with bush and smaller trees.

to

Ex

Garfield Weston intends Turn it into what he calls. "sizeable agricultural develop- ment."

Garfield Weston has also

LIE

New Hope

has sent samples of the timber

on the estain to Canada for experinumtai manu- facture into wallboard, That holds out hope of a valuable new addition to the colony's economy.

if Empire-minded Garfeld British Weston can prove that Honduras can grow food and....... raw materials on a big scale there will coine a great towards prosperity.

surge

aro

"The job is challenging, but not out of reaoh," they say.

His associates In this new Empire bulldlag project That, I think,

hadn't got. And he never did.

OWN Infectious Hreached the oths Lauder's pronkst wan

Leadership which could do Ared with Jils He never lost a chance to tell) a You all know Hurry Lauder's Lauder erony, but he loved to his friends to save. The last to that, he believes, would be of enthusiasm,

pull the Lauder leg, often in get a lecture In my presence tremendous value to the colony. Ile told how once, in was Danny Kaye. "See to yer and to the Empire as a whole. making records and public. began, like many another adding to his fortune in the days urgent need of £500, he applied money, Danny boy," rumbled

It is a tougher job than "Be cautious, be Scots luddie, with nothing of the old tin-horn gramophone. to the bank, and was informed, Harry."

sounds. It will need all his enthusiasm, in his pocket. but with When cylinders became discs he "Yes, he could have the money cautious.”

For British Hon- kept building his output until if he could get someone of stand-

duras hus 110 backbone of genius and grit in his soul.

he had the whole of the English- ing to no security."

pensants with their roots in the But along it he sang and coraking world roamin' in the

oil. one of our became

greatest gloamin' with him. froubadours.

He died in Lauder Ho', the stone mansion he built for him.

Wish

His legend

He himself

Long Past Peak

it

Never a contract He confided in Lauder, Harry

AUDER knew as many of the said: "We have been freen's a' gor lives and the moment you're tricks of entertainment busi- in trouble you go the the bank. ness as any man who ever faced But it's no too late. You go an audience. But on all his fre back to the bank manager and quent American tours Hurry fell him your auld freen Harry never had a contract.

ARLY treaties with Spain He trusted Banned agriculture. To this Lauder will lend you the Will Morrk hin American

day many Honduras belleve and Morris trusted Harry that it is an unworthy occu- on the road from London to Inveraray, in Argyllshire.

Inside the railing is a

Imother at Hamilton, seven miles ed people to think he was the money-if the bank will stand here's an iron-railed hillock pation, fit only for mental

away.

dead

broke the moment

the

F}!*

this

self at Strathaven, 15 miles from Brit bullt found her Glasgow, By his own

buri:d beside his a legend of thrift. He encourag→ 110 Was

last word [11

security." Any parsimony. close friend who surprised, hin

physical defectives. He kept the penny He began life In a row of in a benefaction would have

Reliance on forest Industries miners cottages in Portobello, been guilty of a major betrayal

in stone to the has also made the people "old."

DUT Lauder really did believe' monument near Edinburgh, and it is typical if he had torry is one I can in saving money.' In had memory of a young man who nomadic, unable to settle down of a man who insisted on eating Now that

died in the 1914-18 high

warto agricultural pursuits. tea at the most formal give him

of my seen the rise and fall of other Lieutenant Aliek John Lauder. bway. One banquels that he should choose sidelines is an interest In a great stage figures, spendthrift

Forestry is now long past its the simplicity of a miner's grave, charity to provide cottage homes when the money was going, and Beside the monument is a grave

where Kes

mother, peak. Because of the lack of the boy's for disabled ex-Serviceinen.

agricultural development Annie, Lady Lauder. Sorrow

I am known as an expert public cried "Enough."

cemi-tropical It

is a lovely spot. Hard by

potentially rich, cadger in what I think are good He knew poverty. He started is Loch Eck, either sullen or country imports a great part of HERE was sorrow today in enuses.

thought of work at the age of 12 in on TH

mill. His sparkling. All around are the 1s food." Highland castle, in Gorbals approaching Harry Lauder, be- Arbroath spinning

high Argyllshire hills, grey, Devaluation of the currency have embar- wage was 25. id and he kept brown, green and purple in their has raised food prices by 30 to tenements, sorrow in great cilles cause it would A10 tire world over, sorrow on rassed him to say "No" to me the penny for pocket-money.

At any time of the 40 percent, and would

have prairie, on veldt, and in bush. The and it

given away

moment he began ay, in whatever mood, it is one already miserable standard of great ones

of the land mourn his secret to say, "Yes."

hla journey as an entertainer at of nature's lovellest corners. Ilving in the colony. 100, for it was. Winston Churchill But one day he came to me smoking concerts, through the And I like to think that in who went out of his way at a and handed me an envelope and small Scottish halls, and up to the gloaming the spirit of Harry self-supporting. It could even Yet British Honduras could be Alex, is a wee the great musle halls of London Lauder will go roomin' with bis have a surplus of food for ex- wartime public meeting in said: "Here,

provinces, Edinburgh to pay tribute to that something for your boys." Then, and the

he vowed

lassle by his side.

port. Garfield Weston intends to "grand old minstrel Harry flereely, "But ye're no' to tell that never again would Harry

show how it can be done. Lauder."

anybody." Inside the envelope Lauder sigh for the sixpence he

(London Express Service)

EVER READY TO BUFFERING CHILDREN DR, F. 1. TOEUNG Chairman

China Building, Hang Hong

MR LI FOOK WO Hon Treasurer

The Bank of East Asia, Ltd.

Hong Kong.

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Copics of photographs taken by the South China Morning Post and Hong Kong' Tolograph Staff Photographors are on view in the Morning Post Building.

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