Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 12, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba U Winnipeg free press Friday octo Iet 12, 1973 by gosh the Price is right ruts Elfi Trivi thru tuis Duy october 16th i Rose Xvi Iii. Right to limit Quin Lotif frying chickens Frozen eviscerated in. Canada Grade a 3.4 it. Average freshly sliced sirloin in. Canada a Grade Kef Cut into pork Rob. Kraft Canadian processed single cheese slices i in pkg. A mix or match Golden delicious red delicious in. Canada fancy Grade valuable Coupon clips this Coupon lob Laws limit one per customer with this Coupon you May Purchase one package of soft Louws Book matches Cerf in effect we my Creber redeemable Only at Leb Lawt High Rise buildings dominate Hong Kong by Vern Foi vue free press staff writer Hong Kong this is the land of the High Rise building. Almost the first thing the traveller sees As his aircraft reaches the coast Are the High Rise buildings glistening in the hot summer Sun. They stand like sentinels along the coast crowd into coves Perch precariously on the sides of mountains and squat astride the Mountain peaks. Building space is at a Premium on Hong Kong Island and in much of the Kowloon District on the Mainland. New building Sites it seems have to be carved out of the Rock and some smaller buildings apparently Are being replaced with new High Rise structures. Hong Kong is a British Crown Colony consisting of 23f islands and islets Many of them being waterless and Unin habited. The total land area is 403.8 Square Miles of which the most important Island Hong Kong accounts for just 29.2 Square Miles. It is directly across the Victoria Harbor from Kowloon office buildings and High Rise apartments crowd the Flat areas. The apartments Are clearly distinguishable by the reams of clothing hanging out Side the windows and Balco Nies. On the streets below Are hundreds of Small shops Selling everything from folding Orien Tal fans for a few cents to exquisite Ivory carvings wit Price tags running into the thousands of dollars. Shoppers looking for bar gains and there Are plenty of savings to be had Here wind there Way along the Nar Row sidewalks and around the Small puddles formed by water dripping from the dozens of Ai conditioners humming in the windows be Bead. The contrast Between the air conditioned hotel and the out Side air is such that when a person Steps outside i glasses and camera Lens usually fog up. One of the most intriguing shopping areas Isle Kowloon. There is a steady ferry ser vice from Hong Kong Island t Kowloon across Victoria bar nor. 1 the fare is about to cents Canadian second class in the Harbor a few Britis warships lie beside the Nava docks while elsewhere score of Ocean going freighters rid at Anchor or Nestle against the docks As they Are unloaded o readied for a voyage. Smalle Craft Bob about the Wate while the most quaint of All the traditional chinese junk with their Broad Brown sails Glide gently across the Harbor in the Kowloon shops Liste prices represent Only the Start no Price. What the shopper ends up paying depends upon tenacity in fighting for a Luch lower Price. Hard bar dining is the order of business and it s As much fun As it is economical. Compared with Canadian rices some of the biggest bargains Are in watches Cam Ras and tape recorders. Orig Inal Oil paintings sell for a few Ollars and there also is the Amous tailor made in one Day uits for less than a boy s Mickey mouse watch Swiss mount it says and still running Sells for Canadian while ladies ring watches in Canada will have expo Park Ottawa up Federil government is building a Park instead of a Pavilion at he expo 74 world s fair in Spokane Wash. Earlier plans had called for i Pavilion on an is and site in the Spokane River iut the Canadian commitment has fluctuated Over the last year and the final decision to Ake part was announced Only ast month. The Park to be built on the Island will be landscaped t produce an open Woodland an Meadow using Only natural or recycled materials. A spokesman for the Exter Nal affairs department said this week that at least one pro have a Pavilion on the site an there May be contributions rom Alberta and Manitoba. Organizers plan to landscape the area with 45 species of Ca Nadian Trees and plants an Hope to Stock the site wit Small an squirrels. When the exposition a Runnin May 4 nov. Over the is land hopefully renamed Canada Island will Bis turned Ove to Spokane. The whole contribution in eluding a Canada Day Celebration is. Expected to Cost Abou the British Columbi Pavilion will be paid for by the province. Attractive settings with Spring iut tops sell for Canadian regular Brand name watches so go for reduced prices. Wood carvings Range from Beautiful tables chests and dressers to statuettes to Grace living room or study. At one Street stall a Young ii inese girl extolled the value 10-Inch High Rosewood Arving of a craggy chinese Sherman with a Small catch. She started off asking Ong Kong for it Canad this Price was of course existed firmly while interest As still shown in the carving this kept up until the Price As Down to Canadian. In some shops prices. Still re added up on the Abacus be ancient counting Board 01 which Large beads Are shifter round and produce surprising a speedy answers to relatively Irge calculations. While bargains can be found i a great Many shops the Ost of living Western style in hotels is a Shade steeper than Canada in some respects. For be thing most of the colony1 Ood has to be imported. In 1971 the Colony s Popula Tion was 3.9 million. In 1972 was estimated to be 4.1 Mil Ion. To Cope with the population our new towns Are under con traction. Three Are being developed in the new territories and one is East of Kowloon the new town East of Kowloon which has been under develop ment for several years is located on land terraced from the hillsides and on ground re claimed from the sea Over the never sat die Wirra England up five years after Georg Dodd s death his Niece Alic Gardner was keeping him Aliv on her income tax form claiming an allowance for dependent relative. Alice a to official herself was Fine and s a eke from the Revenue service. Ast 18 years. For a Westerner a Surpris n g feature of construction Here is that the scaffold around new buildings Indue no High rises consists of Bam to poles lashed together with in strips of Bamboo. These scaffolding look awfully fragile compared with the Metal inter Locking ones use in Canada but they seem serve the purpose. The climate Here is. Us tropical and monsoonal. The Winters Are Cool and dry b the Summers Are hot an humid. The average rainfall is Abo 85 inches with most of it com ing Between May and be tember. Are vital to to Kong for its water suppl much of it is channelled in Large reservoirs. Howe Hong Kong still buys million Gallons of water a be from communist China. Mea while the Colony is Busy it strutting what is said to be t world s largest Desalin Ati Plant with a planned Capaci of 40 million Gallons a Day. Ben Gurion celebrates birthday Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Israel s first prime minister celebrated his 87th birthday thurs Day in the midst of his country s fourth War with the arabs since he pro claimed the Independent jewish state 35 years ago. Ben Gurion who lives at an isolated Kibbutz in the Negev desert was in Tel Aviv with relatives and friends for his birthday. The actual Date of his birth was oct. 16, 1886. 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