MONTE CARLO

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1935, Page 7

MONTE CARLO

EFFECT of depression 111 an ifl'ort to lure visitors to the tables at Monti: Carlo Casino the. charges for admission to the public rooms was abolished ill December. 'there were <KU) British residents in ,Monte Carlo two years ago. To-da.s there 'are g(/00 at the- most.

Anxious people pass the hank windows each dav asking lor brici interviews with Llio managers of the British hanks, says a correspondent ol tin ‘Sunday Express.” They do not ask the rate of exchange any'more. The\ already know full well that that is dead against them. At a palatial In tel where a feu years ago people, were forming themselves in qiieiie s and olierihg .C> lor ;■ roe, ll f here were recently three guests. 'ldle staff numbers well over a couple of hundred persons.

(Another famous hotel! overlookin', the Mediterranean, one of the fines 1 in Europe, was to be under the auc tioiiecr’s hammer last month. The reserve price was less than Tin furniture alone is worth many time this sum while the tennis courts grounds and buildings could not be du plicated to-day for £20,(1(10.

Formerly long lenses were, asked fo and demanded by properly owners. Te day one can have alimst any place, m his own terms. But the people hav left.

The man in the si reefs says “Where are the English now!'” Tb answer seems to he- they-ve stayed r home.