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Dick Hughes and Saul Lockhart
Hughes,
the doyen of the foreign
were invited by Doug Gauntlett of
correspondents in Asia, at the pre-
in
Auckland airport. Happily all ended well as His Worship gracefully
Air New Zealand to partake of the Auckland-Rarotonga inaugural f light February. As soon as His Eminence agreed to the trip, Kiwiland immediately began to
prepare for its first "Vatican Visit,, since Reporter Hughes (not yet a cardinal) broke the celebrated Piha Bones Mystery in ,lg39. Lockhart,s
report on the Vatican's favourite emmtsary:
"The protocol people at Air New Zealand were just a little worried what the proper procedure would be when His Worship, the Mayor of Hamilton, Mr R. Jansen (also an
inaugural guest), met His Eminence Richard ,,Cardinal,,
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"The last time Dick
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Frank Packer's Daily Telegraph in Sydney, he broke the famous (at least in New Zealand) Piha Bones
murder mystery
in his
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column "Dr. Watson Jr." (featuring the mystery of the week) before the New Zealand papers could publish it.
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"Russian Waters"
the barefoot reporter from Sydney. The trip started out on a marvellous
Hong Kong
30th anniversary celebration.)
"When the Hong Kong
note with His Grace being seated on
group returned
Wellington where former FCC'er
were duly reported
(and Veep) Derek Round (formerly Reuters in Hong Kong and now NZPA in Auckland) and wife Jan
Auckland unconverted.
escorted His Eminence to a meeting of the New Zealand National
lecture his neighbour on the various "virtues" of CD's, which of course
to the delegation leader. They arrived in
Press
"The trip happily turned into a pleasant nostalgia journey as old
to various intercept His
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to
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"modest" after-lunch
lecture
about the New Zealand involve-
FCC'ers made their way
ùe
press
to Auckland from Rarotonga, His Grace flew to
the flight in the midst of a seven man delegat¡on from the PRC. His Grace found a few moments to
o
to Pass through
in May to attend the
At the Fairy Springs, Rotorua happenings.
"On tour with the Hong Kong in Rotorua after the inaugural flight, His Eminence
press group
in 1965, now AAP in received retired Reuters man Monty Auckland) and his wife Cecily. Parott and his wife Esther. Parott, Another old FCC-hand. Keith who in addition to covering such Hooper (formerly the business events as the Occupation of JaPan, editor with the SCM Post and now the Chinese Civil War and the on the business desk of the New Korean War with Dick, was the Zealand Herald in Auckland) and second president of the FCC in wife Gloria also made contact ¡n 1951. (Monty and Esther promised Auckland to discuss Hong Kong on one of Dick's inf requent
ment under General Fryberg in the
"Africa War." Ex-FCC'er Tim Birch (formerly RHK and now with the NZBC in Wellington) was also on hand to greet His Grace at the Press luncheon.
"As
Hong Kong
bef
its visiting diPlomats, for His Eminence
Derek arranged
to
present Foreign Minister Brian
Talboys
with a new FCC
tie
because, Derek reported, the mini-
ster wore his out with frequent usage (Talboys wore the FCC t¡e, the story goes, when he met Chairman Hua.)"
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to "a nice place" for a drink, but he held out for Costello's
take him
Van Eses on Tour Annie and Hugh Van Es made
instead a
quick swing through the United States, England and Holland last month where they met some old FCC members who all miss the
place, believe it or not. ln Los Angeles they were picked up at the airport by Beverly Bennett. She drove them straight to
a bar in "beautiful downtown Burbank", where
the Hon.
Jack Worth was waiting with some long
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cool drinks. He sported the same old shirt that drip-dries on his back. The only noticeable change was an empty space in his mouth, where a nicotine-rum/coke stained tooth once held pride of place. After many libations and talk about "the good ol'days" they all
decided to pay a surprise visit to the Bennett's eldest son Scott, who is part-timing as bartender in between trying to break into acting. After what seemed hours of driving from suburb to suburb along many miles of freeway they finally found the place. According to Jack they could have been there in 20 minutes
but Beverly had decided to
take "the scenic route". ln other words, she'd gotten lost several times.
Scott is doing fine. The bar was
quiet, so he and Hugh had a game of pool. Nothing had changed he beat Hugh 4-0.
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The Van Eses stayed at the Bennett residence. Jim was not there, as he has recently become Executive News Director for WGHP-TV in High Point, North Carolina, and commutes between there and Los Angeles. They talked
to him on the phone and Hugh
reports he sounded great. ,'l dont know if High Point is his own high point though," said Hugh. "He
claimed to have difficulties understanding the folks there and can,t get himself to cultivate a Southern drawl." Next stop was New York, where
they saw such infamous people as Bob Page, Annette Holst, Al Webb and Bob Schnitzlein, all of Upl. On Hugh's visit to the UPI digs at E 42nd Street, Annette offered to
- the
famous UPI-New
York Daily News hangout. Webb was there, cursing the Vietnamese and Cambodians who were giving him a headache at the United Nations, where he is now the UPI bureau chief. Page couldn't make it for a drink as he had to rush offto
catch the shuttle to Washington DC where he had to make an ¡mportant speech.
ln Washington DC the Van
Eses
stayed with Arthur Berger, former FBIS bureau chief in Hong Kong.
He lives in a great old place
in
Georgetown. The only trouble was that part of the roof had caved in, because of the weight of the snow on it a couple of weeks earlier, and
it was no use having it repaired since more snow was expected. Also at the airport was Margot Miller
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Jim
is at
the moment TDY
to the Embassy in Ottawa,
so as with the other Jim in Los Angeles, Hugh only talked to him by phone.
There was about 10 feet of snow in Washington and the temperature was around -20 degrees Celsius. No
wonder everybody wants to get back. They had some marvellous dinners with Margot and Arthur and Pat and Paul Phillips, the retired former ICA boss in Hong Kong, who is very busy fixing up a new house just outside Washíngton. Before leaving the Van Eses also ran into two members of the "Vietnam Sore Losers Assocíation", namely
Dick Pyle and Bob Kaylor, who both spent a lot of time out in the East.
ln London they came acros old UPI hand Leon Daniel, who seems to have settled down nicely as News Editor for Europe, Africa and the
Shanghai Poser
Middle East. From there it was on to Holland, to spend some time with the Van Es family and to have dinner with that colourful character Ed Van Kan, a Hong Kong doyer of the early '70s, whose series "The
The dynamic duo from CBS, cameraman Udo Nesch and technician Derek Williams arose, belíeve it or not, at 0630 hours to meet former FCC Veep Bill Stubbs
Crazy World of Sport" is now showing in Hong Kong on TVB Pearl every Saturday afternoon. He threatened to pay a visit to the FCC
(now on TDY with the new in Peking) in front of the Peace Hotel (background) in Shanghai to pose
in the near future.
for this picture.
American Embassy
CBS' guide told them that the FCC was located on the 14th floor of the building, before it was the Peace Hotel of course, some 40 years ago. The euphoria was broken when AP's Henry Hartzenbusch informed the trio that in fact the
FCC was never housed in that building. Who is right? The PRC guide or AP's intrepid bureau chief? Anybody know?
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Australasian Express Hong Kong's latest newspaper, a
48-page tabloid called
The
Australasian Express, aPPeared on
the streets at the
beginning of
Association and
Club. lt is also available free through the Australian Trade
edition.
Commission, Oantas,
It
draws
on
cable coPY
and
It is being run bY Group but there is an eight-Page centre Communicators Ltd. and is section of Southeast Asian news, effectively handled by FCC and the sports pages and some members Tom Earl, David Leonard and Adrian Batten.
The idea stemmed from Australian, Colin Speairs, who forsook Victorian countrY newspapers and a marketing role with the Melbourne Age for the bright lights of London, where, six Years an
of the Australian
free
Australasian ExPress. Earl has become managing editor of the paper's new Southeast Asian
features used in the London issue,
April.
to
ago, he began turning out The
cables are rewritten too.
The print run initiallY is 15,000 copies, about 5,000
of which
for Hong Kong, 4,000 Singapore, and
are
for
the rest divided
among Penang, Kuala LumPur, Manila and Jakarta.
ln
Hong Kong, distribution
is
members
the
Australian
9Êl6os5
the Hong
Kong Press Club and
diverse
Australian bars. Apparently an application for its inclusion in the FCC's library is pending. The paper is further available at central news-stands in Hong Kong (HK50c) and by subscription (HK$26 per annum). lt is on sale in Singapore as well. Group Communicators buys its own paper from Japan for the
weekly publication, which
is
printed web offset at The Star.
Introducine Bureaufar Hone Kone$ new higþspeed, ecôínomy facsimile Ërviceio the UsA Iægal papers, invoices, graphs, Chinese cha¡acters...now you can send copies of urgent documents of aII types to the USA in a matter
ofminutes'
to eiüher of the ercury Housein
Press
At its first meet¡ng the broad
Motif
press-type atmosphere.
fuiother C¡ble & Wireless Data Service
involves trying to Club-related historic material, photographs and news stories as
who may have an offering in the
Cqlrte&Wirel
possible.
strategy was mapped Somebody mumbled at a Board
of Governors meeting the other day that the Club's decor doesn't really reflect its media leanings, and so a
out.
This gather as much
Any present or past members
good cause are asked to contact one
of the committee.
sub-committee comprised of Tony Paul, Mike Keats and Tim Rossi has
Selected documents, snaps and tomes would then be framed and
Original material would, of course, be carefully looked after, and if necessary returned to the
been set up
suitably displayed on Club walls,
owner after copying.
done.
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a
preference.
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The acid-dipped typewriter of Jean Rook has been battering out copy on China for the past few weeks.
Rook, probably Britain's bestknown woman columnist, passed through Hong Kong en route home from an extensive China tour. She managed to get into China
with Daily Express photographer John Downing without having to
travel as part of a group. Looking after the formidable Ms Rook must have been a tough job for the Chinese guides. Her newsman's nose is not easily deflected
when
it
l I
is pointing in the general
direction of a story. Express editor Derek Jameson was so delighted with her copy that
when she arrived at the Sheraton ('the first decent hotel l've been in
for three weeks") she found a
The
bottle of Dom Perignon, a dozen roses and a
glowing herogram.
thebiggamefishtug
Exciting Pool Play The Club's second annual pool
tournament promises to reach an exciting conclusion in May, with intense competition for quarterfinal and semi-final berths. Altogether 42 members hope-
fully chalked their
\W
cues when play
began in late March.
But many a mean shooter fell by the wayside in the best-of-fivegames tie.
Eddy Tseng conquered Dean Wakefield, and then beat Gerard Cox who had a first round bye. He goes
Earnshaw in Peking
joined Reuters in Hong Kong and last August was transferred to As so accurately predicted in London for head office experience. The Correspondent last year, We tipped then that Hong Kong Reuter man Graham Earnshaw has would see him again in the near been sent to Peking. future, and as it turns out, we were The young Australian, who right. speaks fluent Cantonese and On his way to China, Earnshaw Mandarin and who writes Chinese, performed his popular guitar act on is now third man at the Reuter the FCC's 1Sth floor - singing Peking Bureau. some of his own compositions such The talented Earnshaw, a former as "Front Page Read" and "The
South China Morning Post reporter, 10
Governor's Blues".
on to meet the victor of
a
second round match between Derek Williams and Tim Street, the former having survived the first round on a
We hear more tall stories about the lb black marlin that got away last time but wont this time, about the 40 lb barramundi that hght to get on to the hook, and some of it's even true. Ifs just that when you fly to the world's two most famous reeß, estuary and big g¿rme fshing spots, you seem to carry a surprising numhr of businessmen *stop over'on their who intend to, er, way to or from Sydney or Brisbane or wherever.
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If youd care to unwind a bit on your next trip to Arstralia, fly our big "bird
of paradise" jet on Sunday evening. We'll take you to Port Moresby, or Cairns, or Brisbane, or Sydney, and help you ¿rrange a couple of days off to do battle with the big ones on your way. See your travel agent. Or Jardine Airways, G/F., Alexandra House, Hong Kong or Peninsula Hotel Arcade, Kowloon. TÞlephon e 5 -77 5023
bye, and Street apparently through a
Warren Rooke forfeit.
ln the next group,
Derek
Maitland had moved through to
round two on a bye, and was awaiting the result of the Les Leston-Bob Sanders match
to
see
who he would cros cues with on the lonely road to the top. Play in the other segment of this group was fierce, though, with Peter Luffman
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outlasting an Alasdair Sutherland 2-0 lead to go on to face first round bye-drawer Barry Simpson, himself
no mean operator on the green baize. ln the event, the cool Luffman marched through to round
America's normalisation of relations Short note from lan Wilson, now covering Africa for CBC
with China.
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two civilian planes have been shot down by missiles in Since
Rhodesia, take-off procedures have
th ree.
Kenneth Ko, playing decidedly
adroitly these days, went into the
at the expense of Mike Holbeche, and then took accomplished Australian player John McDougall to move to round three. There he meets Gerard Sharman, winn""r of a round two second round
tussle
that country in the wake of
Rhodesian Take-Offs
with
Holger Jensen, both
players having had byes
in
round
one.
ln the same category, Ross Way went through to round three after beating Michael Pascoe, and was to meet Jean Chan, who had disposed of Tony Ralph. And Max Lucas defeated Bert Okuley to be paired
with bye-getter Brian
slightly changed at Salisbury Airport. Right after take off the planes now bank
a sharp
where they circle to gain airspeed. When they get to about 500 miles per hour, they turn away from the city and fly at almost treetop level for about l0 minutes, during which the passengers hope that the pilot has steady hands. After that it's almost -straight up into the blue skies, till they reach their cruising alt¡tude of around 35,000 feet. The
sales
of
booze
on board
have
increased drastical I y. "
The "house full" sign virtually had to be erected when Jack
Reynold's documentary for NBC News - "China, A Class by ltself,, was shown on the 15th Floor on Friday, March 30. NBC's crew spent two months in
China making the hour-long film, visiting the industrial northeast, including Taching, Shenyang and Harbin, and spendíng two weeks in a commune in Honan. Those they interviewed included Více Premier
Fang Yi,' and Peking University
Mair.
Whoever wins that one is pitted against the victor of the match
A Class by ltself
left over the city,
President Chou Pei-yuan.
Correspondents Leave
Stork Story
between Tim Williams and R. Jones
the reason this game has taken so long may be because an R. Jones doesn't seem to appear on the FCC
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membership list.
South Korea seeking, among other
lan
things, a widowed stork. It seems the stork was the last of
Leonard beat Bruce Maxwell, and Vic Laniasukas nudged out both David Gilhooly and Mike Keats. He plays whoever takes the match
its kind in the country. A cat was set among the pigeons, if you'll pardon the mixed metaphor, when Russia offered to provide it with a
between Leonard and Tom Self. Sam Weller and Vernon Yates'
mate, thus hopefully saving the line from extinction.
tie became a second round affair, with Yates going through, while club champion Andy Sloan
Having taken account of the ruffled diplomatic feathers caused
ln the
following sector,
knocked out both Steve Eddy and Kevin Sinclair to form the other part of this draw. And finally, Ken King beat Alec Taylor in a second round match to meet Nick Ouin, a first round bye-
getter who had defeated Keith Jackson, victor over Peter Miles, in
round two. King won the encounter with 0uin, and will be pitted against Sloan or Yates in the quarter-f inals, which have to be played by May 4. The semi-finals are due to be completed by May 15,
with the f inal date yet to announced, 12
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Board member Kenji Asakawa, of the Tokyo Shimbun, was among four correspondent members
Jim Biddulph, the BBC man in Hong Kong, spent part of March in Curfew in Mirs Bay
lntrepid boating duo FCC accountant Bill Areson and girlfriend Mary Crigan set sail for Mirs Bay in Bill's Supercraft cruiser over the Easter weekend, but found the area's inlets not such a get-
away-from-it-all retreat as
in
past
years,
The reason, of course, is that
by the Russian gesture, Biddulph Mirs Bay has been humming set off in search of the stork itself, recently with virtually every type and actually managed to locate it of craft the Government can beside a remote lake. muster, to pick up illegal refugees For other newshounds following
from China.
up the saga, it is said to be in the area of Chung Chong Tuk To. With Biddulph in South Korea
There was even a dusk to dawn curfew to díscourage any islandhopping after dark.
was correspondent Susanna Fung, wife of former FCC President Bert Okuley, cameraman Joe Yue, and
But what kept Bill on his toes most, he said, was an article he'd
as sound recordist Joe's son, Jonathon. The crew was primarily in South Korea to cover the latest talks in Panmunjom. Biddulph was also in Taiwan in March, looking at developments in
read in the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club's mâgazine Ahoy, saying that those navigating in Mirs Bay should "beware of the sunken junk". The trouble was that the article didn't mention exactly where the sunken
junk
rivas
to
be found.
farewelled at an FCC cocktail party on March 16. Tlíe others, like Asakawa accompanied by their wives, were Amrit Mehta of All lndia Radio, Nobuo
of Mainichi
News-
papers, and Noriaki Shinoda
of Jiii
Yamamoto Press.
Pictured here (from leftl Shinoda, Yamamoto, Mehta
are
and Asakawa saying goodbye to FCC President Tony Paul.
The date for the Club's 30th anniversary celebration (based on Henry Hartzenbusch's accoun-t of what happened in Shanghai) has
now been firmly fixed for May 19. It promises to be a lively affair, and for those interested in the club's history, a number of founder
near-founder members
are
expected to be on hand to recount tales of the FCC's beginnings.
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the postal
more information soon.
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Peter Finn, a
distinguished Australian writer, who now lives in Perth (West Austral¡a), recently re-
v¡sited Hongkong and evidently enjoyed his visíts to the FCC. He has discovered this verse about Hongkong which he wrote way
back in 1965 and thought he would send it along to The Correspondent: "l hesitated to sent it but, being
a bit of a bushranger at heart, I thought, 'll/hat the hell!,, lt is nor the first verse I have written, nor will it be the last, but I hope the rest will improve.',
down the lost underground streets of morten cadavers a coloured China-shop of sweat.
Rossion Rolls Royce Club secretary and Cathay Pacific public relations man Tim Rossi was in Derby iast month having a look at the Rolls Royce
plant.
seems the airline starts adding
to its fleet in August, and has opted for the latest vers¡on of Rolls' RB21l - the "dash 52à,, 747s
to power the
planes.
The move from pratt Whitne
and
g:"::
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::"ä eline
too.
Cathay's eight L10,l1 Tristars different type of R8211.
use a
While on the subject, some
incidental intelligence Cathay has sold fíve of its Boeing 707s to an aircraft broker in the United States. They begin becoming available for delivery from August.
Kennerly Joins FCC Dave Kennerly, who used to be President Ford,s photographer in t!" White House, was passing
through Hong Kong recently. He was trying, reportedly without much success, to reach the Sino-Vietnamese border via Hong
Kong, or Bangkok, or
indeed
anywhere,
Kennerly
is
Washington-based
these days and spends most of his time on behalf of Time lnc, but during his Far East sojourn he took the opportunity of joining the FCC 't4
she
and respected regionally-circulating publications, has decided to leave
ions for Asia with Bank of
off f rom the
FCC,s clientele. Asian Travel Trade,s editor,
prunders on,
so that an amiable watering hole
would be at his disposal on future visits.
A former UPI staffer, he
Murray Bailey, is taking over lnsight as well until pacif ic Communications can f ind somebody suitable to run the magazine.
is
perhaps best remembered in this area for his coverage of the Vietnam War.
He won the pulitzer prize for
Nomination Meeting The elections for the FCC Board are currently taking place. By the nomination meet¡ng in
in 1972. and in 1976 two firsts in the World early April, both Derek Davies, Press Photo Contest. His book, editor of the Far Eastern Economic Photography
notched
Shooter, was published this year. Fogged ln Hong Kong Tatler editor Neville
who lives on Lamma lsland, found the fog banks shrouding Hong Kong during Chesney,
March and April more of a hazard than most. One particularly grey morning
he set off in his launch
for
Aberdeen, and swiftly lost sight of land.
Only then did he discover that he couldn't remember the compass cou rse.
Chesney and launch eventually emerged unscathed but, the story has it, more towards Stanley than Aberdeen.
The moral, of course, is that
unless you have to commute, don,t use the East Lamma Channel at all
Review, and Vicky Wakefield, of UPI subsidiary Unicom, had been nominated for President. For first and secoçd vice presidents, however, it r,,üas no contest - these posts going to Hugh Van Es
and Tim Rossi respectively. Correspondents showed consideris time, osed mbun),
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(UPl), Frank Ching (Asian
Kaff Wail
Street Journal), Brian Mair (AFp), Frederic Moritz (Christian Science
Monitor), Paul Byers {CBS), Steven
Siu (Readert Digest), Mike Keats {UPll, Henry Hartzenbusch (Apl, V.G. Kulkarni (Depthnews Asia) and Bruce Maxwell (Asiacover). ln the runníng for associate slots
in these condítions. lt is now the principal approach to Hong Kong Harbour, and the chances of having
an
altercation
with a
passing
freighter are somewhat high, as one of Neville's neighbours found a couple of years ago.
Efiertainment
has spent most of the last decade building first Asian Travel Trade and then lnsight into established
America. Judging by the title, the job isn't exactly go¡ng to cut him
The departure signal of deception. Down the shaft,.
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FCC member lan Verchere, who
He moves to Tokyo, becoming Director of Corporate Communicat-
Symptomatically, like a humpty-dumpty wall of plaster she rises; austere and floating in globules of monsoonal rain. Clinking past a Shanghai-street memory of emissary grey;
model
at lnsight
Hong Kong.
Hong Kong
It
Changes
Co) and Tim Street (Levi Strauss). Warren Rooke was unopposed Journalist Member Governor.
as
Wine Tastings chants (Seppelt). Bernard Stephens, wine advisory officer to the Australian Wine Board, confessed it had been a busy week when he made it to the FCC for a tasting towards the end of an Australian wine promotion in Hong Kong. Fortunately, however, suitable samples of the grape from Down Under had survived the onslaught of connoisseurs elsewhere in the territory, and had,been laid out on Friday, April 6, to tempt members' palates.
The format had individual agents displaying their wares - AFA (Far East) Ltd (Hardy's, Houghtons, Seaview), Asia Provisions (McWill iam's),
Dodwell Trading (Yalumba), Gande Price (Wynns), Jardine Marketing Services (Orlando, Chateau Tahbik, Coolabah), Keogh Wood Ltd
(Lindemans), Lucullus Food and Wines (Hardy's) Pieroth Hong Kong (Wolf Blass), H. Ruttonjee and Sons (Angrove's), Siber Hegner (Kaiser Stuhl) and Watsons The Wine Mer-
GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN WINE
With this formidable line-up it
to deny that Australian wines have been making was pretty difficult
an
increasing ¡mpact
in the Far
East in recent years, but although
the upmarket selection is now broader than it was, the consensus of the gathering was that still more noble vintages could be entertained.
Stephens said some difficultìes
had been encountered in shipping wines into the Far East, and in one or two instances in the past he
hadn't been too happy about but these
storage facilities here,
initial teething troubles appeared to have been overcome, leading to
more well-travelled and coddled wines coming Hong Kong's way.
A
fortnight before this
event,
another group of members attended
a wine tasting
hosted
by
Brothers and Wynne, one
Yen
of
the
club's suppliers.
Featured were fine French and Californian wines, served at tables and introduced by Thomas Yen.
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for thinking they had stumbled into a High-Rise Venice. Italian cuisine overflowed from
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Mauro Mauriello
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of
Gucci). The first prize of two return plane tickets to Bangkok (courtesy of Alitalia) and two n
ights hotel accommodation of Love & White) was
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Jim).
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Price Rises Questioned
Treasure/s Reply
Dear Sir,
Dear Mr. Demuth,
Your communication of March
lãh on the above subject repre-
sents how far the views of the committee have grown away from many of the members. Whilst recognizing that the club is not immune to inflation I do not accept that the prices in other clubs have
any bearing on the point at
I
issue.
note the board,s concern that members who infrequently use the
club should not be penalized and
several members
of the
as
board
come under this heading, I am not
surprised. However, agree
a club is
to be used and I do not that members who use the
supposed
club should not be penalised and as the pockets of those who do not. lf the subscriptions were raised, members infrequently using the Club might be encouraged to use it more with a resulting increase in income.
ln answer to your letter on price
ímportant because this involves no the FCC, the prices in other expendíture in overheads on our clubs were quoted as examples of part and, in fact, already helps the inadequacy of our prices ín subsidize the prices to regular users rises
in
covering overheads,
Your comment about
several
by some î30,0000 each month. To risk driving these members away
board members rarely using the could damage revenues rather than Club is surprising; on reviewing the ímprove them, and the board is not current membership of the board prepared to take this risk. I can identify many of the Club's The Board has consídered your most devout eaters and drinkers. letter and this reply while As for raising subscriptions to thanking you for your and, interest has encourage inf.requent users to use decided to continue the Club more often, this would rise policy as stated with the price in my circular not necessaríly raise income for two letter. reasons. First we are already filled
to capacity at lunchtíme and on many evenings. Secondly the
Yours
revenue from the subscriptíons of Tony Scott members who rarely use the Club is Honorary Treasurer
I note that the proposed price rise will be 15% to give us an additional íncome of g3S,O00 per
month. As we have 1.000 members an additional $20 on the monthly subscription rate would not impose undue hardship and with a E/7o/o increase on restaurant and bar prices the target would be reached
without penalising the most loyal members of the Club. lf we all just use it as a convenient place to have lunch, the fínancial situation will be far more serious than at present. Trusting that this matter will be
reconsidered, I remain,
Yours
Nick Demuth (Membership #2301) 18
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