The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 19 November 1930
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Title Section21 1930-11-19 1 Straits Echo Weekly Mail Edition. siB PER ANN UM SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. Vol. 28 PENANG, NOVEMBER 19, 1930. N». 4S-21 words
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Advertisement300 1930-11-19 1 CONTENTS LEADERS. Supply Bill For 1931 891 Gruesome Find In Stream 892 Disobedience And Defiance 877 Alleged Wrongful Seizure Of Men Lower T i;m Animals 877 I Goods 892 1 Shelf Stocks of Money 881 Chinese Fair At Magazine Road 89*2 1 A Gilbertian Touch 881 Mr. J. D. Scully300 words
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Advertisement144 1930-11-19 2 THE STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION. I Published (he day prior co the departure of each mail for Europe, it contains the latest local news originally given in the daily issues as well as the leading and special articles. The subscription is .518 per annum, post free to any part of144 words
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Article450 1930-11-19 877 Wilful disobedience of a Police officer’s order in regulating traffic merits fur sterner punishment than a totally inadequate fine of $l5. A heavy fine and confiscation of the car, for the first offence. and a stiff term of imprisonment for the second should be meted out to450 words
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Article686 1930-11-19 877 There are some people who look upon things Oriental from an amazing angle, and Orientals are often those people. A committee has been sitting for a year in the Bombay Presidency to discover ways and means of raising the lot of those sixty million outcaste Indians686 words
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Article300 1930-11-19 877 NINTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. The ninth annual general meeting of the Chinese Provident Associi4ion was held at the Chinese Town Hall on Mondas 10th inst. at 5 p in. with the President, Mr. Ong Huck Lim in the Chair. Sixts-five members were present. The meeting approved of300 words
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Advertisement27 1930-11-19 877 THE straits echo. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEEKLY EDITIONS fining the news of the week P rlor to departure of Mails for Europe. “Strata Echo’’ Building. Penang Road. Penang.27 words
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Article1255 1930-11-19 878 11. V. Millington - B) 11. V. Millington. These are my own views and not necessarily those of the paper I repiesent. hence my signature to them. The nature of a pressman's duty obviously makes him callous, and he records deaths and crimes in a spirit of professional elation —for the more1,255 words
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219 1930-11-19 878 A. P. C. BEAT SELANGOR. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, November 11 I n a Poppy Day rugger match at Kuala Lumpur, Selangor lost to the A. C. by twenty-four points to six points Richards broke away and passed to Wilshaw and the219 words
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Article860 1930-11-19 879 death sentence. CONVERT obsessed with idea of persecution. ]’|ie second death sentence at the Penang Assizes just concluded was |(tS!4 ed on a Sinhalese convert to Islam ho wus found guilty of double mur(]»T Simon Senior Silva alias Abdul Carim. a native of Gandara in Ceylon,860 words
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Article644 1930-11-19 879 impressive service at THE CENOTAPH. B< ne;i; th.- a nuirili-.r <*f pretty wreath* ot poppi< s were reverently placed on I'tn sday on tht* occasion of the 1 welt th anuiv» t* ;l oi the cessation of ho*lilities in the grimmest war that the world has644 words
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Article528 1930-11-19 880 TUESDAY’S TRY-OUT. EXPERIMENT NOT A SUCCESS. Although Penang defeated H.M.S. Cornwall at rugger by 11 points (1 goal, 2 tries) to 8 (1 goal, 1 try) on the padang on Tuesday, the game was a disappointment in that it provided no solution to the problem of528 words
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Article491 1930-11-19 880 CHINESE SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS. Convicted of possessing seditious literature a Chinese was sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment. “Down with Imperialism,” “Jom Soviet Russia,” give military support for colonial revolution’’ “we must use our warm blood to fight the Imperialists.” These among others were the -logans491 words
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Article249 1930-11-19 880 school,, WESTERN Rd. YOUTH S of soccer on the latter's Hound Saturday the 15th Nov J? sharp. dt J M y Kronenburg, M. (l uw Iwdricks, Bakar, Puteh, Ibrahim V mad, Nordin, Yusoff, Cheng (Captain), Tommy Tan, Che bin. Jteseryes. P.,h Seng, Mansor. Mat# Mr. IL H.249 words
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Article99 1930-11-19 880 MOTOR MISHAP IN PENANG ROAD. A Municipal scavenging fdsv knocked down by a car the morning. It appears t u coolv. who was working ttern pted Road, near the Fire Station to cross over from one side when a Morris Minor drnt .yce towards •> tion99 words
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Article435 1930-11-19 881 There are some peculiar aspects in connection with the present trade situation which cannot entirely be explained by the surfeit of shelf stocks. In spite of the fact that business generallv is depressed, the imports of two commodities which can be classed almost wholly under the435 words
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Article444 1930-11-19 881 If Gilbert and Sullivan were alive to-day, we might expect at least one moie immortal comic opera, with Karachi as a probable setting. Because the British Government has attempted to meet the wishes of the swaraj party by holding a round-table conference in which the Swarajists were444 words
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202 1930-11-19 881 ACCUSED SENTENCED TO THREE MONTHS’ GAOL. Arrested on board the ss. “Rhona” with stolen propertv an Indian Tamil who was subsequently charged was esterday convicted and sentenced to jail. On certain information received by the local detective police, Inspector \V. Hamilton boarded the s.s.202 words
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212 1930-11-19 881 INDIAN MUSLIM CHARGED. As a sequel to the finding of the dead Ixxh of a Chinese in the Harliour, Shaik Daud was charged before Mr. E. Jago in the Police Court yesterday that h< at 10.30 p.m. ou November 8 in tongkang No.212 words
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Article449 1930-11-19 882 NETT PROFIT OF $1,683 PAID TO FUND. The Official Puppy Day Dance, held at the Runny medc Hotel on Saturday last, resulted in a nett profit of $1,683. The items of income and expenditure were as follows; Income: Tickets $1,268; Auction $646; Total $1,914. Expenditure: Paid449 words
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Article117 1930-11-19 882 CHINESE SENTENCED. Pack Tong, who previously pleaded guilty before Mr. E. J ago to two charges of theft in a dwelling house and being in possession of housebreaking implements, appeared before Mr. H. A. Forrer in the District Court yesterday morning foi sentence. Detective Inspector117 words
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Article164 1930-11-19 882 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Dear Sir, Cun you please tell me where I can take a het on a race after it is run. To-day I was given a good thing for the first race at 4 o’clock, but the race was run at 3164 words
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Article403 1930-11-19 882 BREACH of TRtST. WOMAN WHO Pawned hired jewellery. Sentence will be passed thk to be the w, t<: U 1 wealthy Chi, who was found guilty of the first of senes of charges of criminal breach of trust preferred against her in o( jewellery403 words
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Article648 1930-11-19 883 YESTEHDAV S results. WESTVALE AND HIS MARK SURPRISE. r n i Our Own Correspondent). Ipoh, November 13 The going was much better to-day for the second day of the Perak Winter Meet when the attendance was again The day’s sport started with a big surprise648 words
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Article169 1930-11-19 883 LOOKING FOR FOOD IN DUST BINS. A voung Chinese lad apparently under fourteen years of age was brought up before Mr. E. dago in the Police Court. Penang. yesterday charged with being found wandering in Weld Qua\ and not having any hous»' or fixed abode169 words
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Article306 1930-11-19 883 ALLEGED MENTAL CASE. MAI!. BOAT’S VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND. I he mail boat which pul in vert -rd.i.' reported that an amah, who xvas suffering from mental aberration find xvas isolated in the hospital of the ship, was j mud missing one morning while the306 words
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Article159 1930-11-19 883 FROM ROOM .MATE. 1n on P« U 2 pleaded gui't 1a fore Mr. E -Ligo in the Police < >urt yesterday mon ing to a charge of tie 'I of five gold buttons md sex en dollars m cash in a h«»u*e in Burundi159 words
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526 1930-11-19 884 An amazing amount of publicity, of a critical nature, has appeared in the press regarding the marriage of the Sultan of Johore, and from some quarters eloquent denunciation has followed. A person’s choice of a wife or a religion is entirely his own business and526 words
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Article333 1930-11-19 884 The Government of India’s recommendations to the Round-Table conference would have made much more interesting reading had they occupied a quarter of a column, instead of two —as they could easily have done, but the Rugby Radio Service is a propaganda agency, and the British333 words
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Article273 1930-11-19 884 client not TO suffer I POSTPONEMENT GRANT ED IN SUPREME COURT CASE I “The client must not sufer". I Ills Lordship Mr. Justice Sproul, w terdaj m allowing a postponement i., I case where it was stated that urfc I counsel lor one party had left273 words
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121 1930-11-19 884 GEORGE TOWN VITAL STATISTICS. Births in George Town M'Wf >nded November 8 nu birth rJ f which 69 were males. IK «creased from 46.85 for the P week to 48.27 for the P m<> rev-ew. qHUrfv-six r Deaths totalled m ‘b• jo.® males.121 words
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Article183 1930-11-19 885 $3,500 SUBSCRIBED. 180 LABOURERS AND 65 CLERKS HELPED. To the binese Unemployment Fund t)| to date about 53.500 has been contributed. of which $1,500 was from the p.-nang Turf Club and $6OO from Mr. [Ji Boon Ghee. Support has been promised from many quarters and among183 words
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142 1930-11-19 885 LARGELY ATTENDED RECEPTION. (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. November 14. File Chief Justice’s niece, Miss CynL la Mahoney, was married to Mr. David olson, of General Rubber Company, yesterday. The reception at Sir William uiibon s house was largelv attended. le lesta including the Officer142 words
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Article263 1930-11-19 885 DECREASE OF 313 AS COMPARED WITH 1928. Dost -mortem examinations per: med on patients at the District and <i -uer»i hospitals in Penang during the last year total L 6. Of these twenty ♦right were on those who succumbed to amoebic Dysentery and twenty-seven to263 words
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161 1930-11-19 885 TWO MONTHS GAOL FOR CHINESE WOMAN. R'gorous imprisonment lor two months was imposed on the Chinese woman who tppeared in the District Court for sentence yesterday. Un Thursday last the accused, Lim \h Kang, was tried and found guilty 'iv the District Judge upon161 words
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Article407 1930-11-19 885 FOR POPPY FUND. OPENING MARRED BY RAIN. In their effort to nugne-nt the Pr.iang Poppy Day collections the Chinese Committee have this vear organised a b.izanr and fair ut Magazine R< ad, kindly lent lor flic occasion by the Trustees of the Estate of the lab»407 words
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Article1550 1930-11-19 886 Projxisals for the reform of Council, sponsored by prominent European members of the Straits Settlements I (Singapore) Association, appear on J page 7 of this issue, and on page 2 we have published an editorial which appeared on Friday night in the pages of the “Straits1,550 words
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Article649 1930-11-19 887 FIVE ENQUIRIES. TFN MONTHS’ CHILD WHO DIED OF SCALDS. )lr E. 'lugro. sitting as 11. M. Corollcr o n Saturday, heard five enquiries m to the circumstances attending the death of five persons —three on dead found floating in the sea. a case f hanging649 words
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Article67 1930-11-19 887 SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES IN HOSPITAL. An Indian Muslim who describe'! himself as the owner of a shop in Ipoh, boarded the s.s. Tairea on Saturday while she was alongside Swettenham wharf, but accidentally fell overboard and sustained severe injuries. The Marine Police were informed of the67 words
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Article234 1930-11-19 887 DESPERATE CRIMINALS IN SINGAPORE. An English-speaking Straits born youth was among the Chinese who were charged before the Third Magistrate (Mr. Whitton) with armed gang robbery. It was alleged that he had been a student in a Singapore English school and that he had fallen into bad234 words
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Article305 1930-11-19 887 LIST NO. 7. lhe Hon. Treasurers acknow i-dg»-with thanks the following subscriptions and contributions, etc. Previously acknowledged $2,933.06 High School, Bukit Mertajuni 37.43 Malay Girls School, Penang Island I<ls.<K> Chinese Recreation Club 5.00 Anglo-Chinese Schixd 90.Hd Keow Seang Kong Sor 2.00 Aun Koi How Kuan 5.00305 words
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Article267 1930-11-19 888 COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY. EVIDENCE OF MEMBERS OF SERVICE CALLED. The Commission appointed to inquire into certain questions connected with the temporary allowances paid to officers and retired officers of the Public Service will be prepared to hear evidence from members of the Service, from delegates of267 words
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114 1930-11-19 888 CHINESE ORPHAN VAGRANT. Ah Koo. the .young Chinese orphan, who was produced before Mr. E. Jago in the Police Court last week, charged with being found wandering in Weld Quay without having any house or fixed abode or proper guardianship or isible means of114 words
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Article213 1930-11-19 888 LOCAL COMMITTEES TO BE FORMED. During the period October 13 to November 8, the European unemployment Committee have received 81 applications for assistance; some of these applicants are still in employment but are under terms of notice which are shortly expiring. Four applicants have been found213 words
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190 1930-11-19 888 APPLICATION FOR BAIL REFUSED. Looi See Eng appeared before Mr. E. Jago in the Police Court on Saturday morning to answer a charge of criminal breach of trust as a clerk in respect of the sum of $49, the property of Davies and Co. and190 words
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Article1420 1930-11-19 888 (From Our Own Jpoh, November 1,Ihe attendance for Hip i to-day. O f the Perak Winter Hat rr'"". V T good and IL H .the Sultan of Perak and the H"* the British Resident. The v r broke at the conclusion of the eynt and the1,420 words
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Article109 1930-11-19 889 By Teh Ah Ko\\ Esq 2.00 Hon. Mr. Cheuh Chcang Lim 2 f M).00 Koh Sin Hock Esq. 25.00 Est. of Tye Kee Yoon Deed. 500.00 Tan Lo Heong Esq. 100.00 Yeap Chor Ee Esq. 300.00 Loh Boon Nghee Esq. (JOO.OH Chee Wor Lok Esq. 50.0>109 words
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Article99 1930-11-19 889 SUM INVOLVED NOT SO LARGE. (From Our Own CowFpondciP) Singafmrc. Noy ember 14. When 1 Ip-c.use .ugain-,t Mi W B. Penman was mentioned in the Police Court this morning, th,- Court h -poetor Mr Kennv. asked for n week's ixrs’poriement which was granted Mr Braga,99 words
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Article564 1930-11-19 890 W e stated as our belief yesterday that the matter of the franchise was of less importance than that of the constitution of Council, and that the Colony could be better governed, to the satisfaction of the people, if unofficial members had a voting majority.564 words
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Article245 1930-11-19 890 There is a significance in the visit to the Colony of Sir Joseph Burn, general manager of the Prudential Assurance Co., Ltd., and there s one feature in connection with his company that has been overlooked by the press of Malaya. Not only has Sir Joseph245 words
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Article437 1930-11-19 890 SUCCESSFUL SHOW IN Aid OF POPPY FUND. '’KT nang ree School gave a very success gymnastic exhibition at the TowtX 1 eil ang, last night in aid of the Poppt Day fund before a large and apprecL tn e audience. It was indeed the best437 words
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Article463 1930-11-19 891 BENGALI AND MALAY WOMAN CHARGED. Several women of ill-repute were pre,at in the District Court yesterdav as witnesses for the prosecution in a case m which a Malay woman and a Bengali !llB n stand charged with offences relating to illicit traffic in women. Chief Court463 words
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212 1930-11-19 891 receiving stolen goods. SECOND HAND SHOPKEEPER CONVICTED. Dishonest retention ul stolen property was the charge upon which a Chinese was tried and convicted at the Police Court yesterday. A. S. P. Chalmers stated that one Sheik Madar Saheh complained to him that he had found212 words
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Article212 1930-11-19 891 (To The Editor of Stra'ts Echo). Sir, During performances of the Municipal Band at the Esplanade, could not certain motorists refrain from accompanying the music with their footers? Could not the Police stop the hawkers from shouting out their wares? With the very creditable band we212 words
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Article272 1930-11-19 891 DETAILS OF NEXT YEAR’S EXPENDITURE. An ordinance for making provision <4 the Public Service for 1931 enacted b\ the Governor of the Straits Settlements provides for the expenditure of a sum not exceeding $43,576,480. This was the sum passed in the Budget for 1931 by the272 words
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Article139 1930-11-19 892 BODY OF INFANT. EUROPEAN’S DISCOVERY IN YORK ROAD. The dead body of an infant was dis covered in a stream yesterday. A European resident of town was going along York Road yesterday morning when near the bridge he was startled by an object he saw floating139 words
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Article240 1930-11-19 892 ENORMOUS CROWD YESTERDAY. It was fortunate for the Chinese Unemployment Fund that the first night (yesterday), on which the proceeds collected at the fair at Magazine Road were to be in aid of it, should have turned out to be fine, for the crowd at240 words
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Article88 1930-11-19 892 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore. November 14. Charles Randall, manager of the Amber Rubber Estates. Johore, was found with a bullet wound in the bead in tin- Botanical Gardens at Johore Bahru yesterday. The deceased had been about nine years in this country and Tvas married. A88 words
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Article120 1930-11-19 892 LONELY ROAD INCIDENT AT SINGAPORE. Singapore, November 17 It has been generally conceded that Chinese roughs confine their activities to their own nationals but a deliberate attack upon a Sikh taxi-wallah last night suggests that they are now attempting to ackie others. It appears that a120 words
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Article112 1930-11-19 892 SIMPLE BUT IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY. The Kedah Branch of the Ex-Se»vices Association of Malaya observed AnnisHce Day at Sungei Patani this ear. Kbout a quarter to eleven the Members fell in on the Padang facing a flagstaff it the base of which was a wreath of112 words
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452 1930-11-19 892 claim for damages two BROTHERS AND A CHETTY. Alleged wrongful seizure of Ilie subject of two suits that waTt? up lor hearing in the Buprein. .veslerday before His Lordshi/? Justice Sproule. The Plaintiffs in the cases brothers named U Kok Earn d L -Wai Sun452 words
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Article714 1930-11-19 893 The public of Malaya owes a debt Ta titiide to Mr. Heah Joo Seang "As masterful lecture on the Kub- Trade to the members ji the Penang Botary Club yesterday. As u expert on the industry and us chairman of the Penang Rubber Exchair'e. the speaker was714 words
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Article420 1930-11-19 893 The eyes of China are on Nanking, m the hope that the North and the South may patch up their age-old quarrel. Marshal Chang Hsueu-Jiaug has promised to make the s ipreme sacrifice, if necesary, if only he can be assured that the country may420 words
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171 1930-11-19 893 REPORTED OUT OF DANGER LAST NIGHT. Filling down a long flight of «tope Mr. J. D. Scully, on of the oldest memls-rs of the Pen»ng Eurasian Community, was seriously mjm» I yesterday. His <••>■• dition, which caused grave anxiety till the evening, improved171 words
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180 1930-11-19 893 TWO CHINESE CHARGED. Two Chine.»» named Lim Le in Cheng and Lim Khrl; were elcu-.-d l»»-for« Mr E. Jago in th.- Police Court yesterday that they on \oy»mber Hat tie Penang Hotel in Chuiia Street did haw* in their possession certain machinery and mater180 words
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Article908 1930-11-19 894 MEMBERSHIP INCREASES BV 41 LAST YEAR. Tire annual report and statement of Recounts of the Penang Teachers’ Association for the year ending September 30, 1900 to be presented at the annual meeting on Saturday is as follows: Your Committee have much pleasure in presenting herewith the annual908 words
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Article441 1930-11-19 894 NO WORK ON SABBATH. DR- GARDNER APOLOGISES TO magistrate. I" connection with the c nquin w, ‘lie circumstances attend™>1 Johara Beel f U deali) i-i v- tUK G u ten-nionth nU 'eluld. m Nyak Aboo. which Z >n Saturda.,, evidence wm given •police constable to the441 words
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2757 1930-11-19 895 economic and artifical LAWS. MR. HEAH JOO SEANG explains ramifications. .If the usual fortnightly Rotary luncheon meeting held at the E <{ I). Hotel yesterday, Mr. Heah Joo Heang delivered a lecture entitled "The Rubber Trade.” The lecturer spoke as follows. I2,757 words
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Article145 1930-11-19 896 ALLEGED SHORTAGE OF THRIFT SOCIETY FUNDS. (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, November 19 The case against Wong Wai Lam, cx-Tru,usurer of the Malayan Teachers Co-operative Thrift Society, who was recently arrested in connection with alleged shortage of funds of the society, was again postponed,145 words
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Advertisement47 1930-11-19 896 SITUATIONS VACANT. EARN' :i biff salary 11 C r p Bookkeeper, Individual !>*«« taken :n your own -home. in time. Fee moderate, cay' m stalmeuts. Success r:, ’pn r r Cit< Final Exams. Bookkt F f g. F. Correspondence College (I«T- j 0 89 New Oxford Street, England.47 words
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Article676 1930-11-19 897 government clinics. I V. K. TAMBY PILLAI’S address TO TEACHERS. importance of social hygiene and prevention and early treatment of ie were emphasised by Dr. V. K. abv Pillai i n an instructive lecture Social Hygiene to a crowded meeting tbe Penang Teachers’ Association at Girfg’676 words
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242 1930-11-19 897 A TAMIL MUSLIM AND A CHINESE FINED. A Tamil Mohamedan named Mohamed Appa was fined $25 by Mr E. J ago in the Police Court yesterdav for failing to report a case of small-pox to the Municipality on October 27. Mr J. S Reutens. Chief242 words
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Article111 1930-11-19 897 notification by harbour MASTER. Lieutenant Commander A Peal. Harbour Master. Penang has issued notice to mariners of the existence of a shoal in the Straits of Malacca. It is situated on Latitude 5 degrees minutes North and Longitude 100 degrees and 13$ minutes East and111 words
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Article69 1930-11-19 897 UNKNOWN CHINESE. An unknown Chinese man was found dead in Sek Chuan Lane yesterday morning. The body was removed by the Police to the mortuary where a postmortem examination was held in the evening. It is believed the man was an epileptic subject and that69 words
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Article151 1930-11-19 897 ACCUSED SENTENCED TO 3 MONTHS GAOL. Thum Peng, who pleaded guilty before Mr. E dago in the Police Com. on Thurdav to a charge of theft of five gold buttons and seven dollars in citeh in a house in Burmah Hoad, came up for sentence this151 words
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