The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 26 November 1930

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  • 20 1 Straits Echo WEEKLY (MAIL) EDITION. SIS PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. VOL. 28~ PENANG, NOVEMBER 26, 1930. NO. 47.
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    • 289 1 CONTENTS LEADERS. Coroner's Court Enquiries 909 Relief For Chinese Unemployed 909 Benevolent Autocracy And Wife’s Unnecessary Expenditure 901) Burglars 898 Attacked Policeman With Chopper 910 Street Carnage, And A Remedy 898 Penang Teachers Association 910 The Unemployment Mystery 902 Malayan Migration Statistics 911 R. I. P. Lovett Scheme? 902 Chinese
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    • 147 2 THE STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION. Published -the day prior' to the depar* ture 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 $lB per annum, post free to any part of
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  • 457 898 At long last the press-reading public of Malaya is provided with a comic interlude to relieve the deadly monotony of the endless discussions that have, seemingly, from time immemorial centred round those indigenous subjects —tin, rubber, restriction and slump; and we have to thank "The
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  • 298 898 One of the reasons why motor accidents are so prevalent in Penang is because of the paucity of footpaths. Pedestrians must necessarily walk on the roadway, which in modern chies. is intended solely for the u>c of vehicular traffic. It is for that reason that motorists
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  • 486 898 DRIVER CONVICTED. ALL OTHER CARS HELD UP. Mohamud Z. n bin Bedin was summoned before Mr. 11. A Furrer n the District Court yesterday charged with (buying his motor bus along Burmah Road on iJctober 7 at a spued and in a manner dangerous to
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    • 26 898 THE straits echo. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEEKLY EDITIONS Containing the news of the week prior to departure of Mails for "Stra ts Echo" Building. Pennng Road, Penang.
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  • 2623 899 HITAM TIN LIMITED. The twelfth annual general meeting of Hitam Tin, Limited, was held at Messrs. Evatt and Co.’s Office, Chartered Bank Chambers, Station Road, Ipoh, on Monday, November 17, 1930, at 11.30 a.m. Present: Mr. Harold Huntsman (Chairman); Mr. R. P. Brash (Director); Mr. D. L.
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  • 502 900 ENTERTAINMENTS FOR POPPY FUNDS. (BY A CORRESPONDENT). Life in the Province is just returning to normal after a strenuous fortnight spent in raising money for Poppy Day Fund. Ihe Chinese Fair and Waynnc at Bagan Tuan Ketchil was tie ti»-l event, starting on October 31 an
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  • 477 901 MANAGEMENT OF ESTATE. DOCUMENT ALLEGED OBTAINED BY COERCION. Disputes between the widows of two brothers arising over the management of a plantation were related before His Lordship Mr. Justice Sproule in the Penang Supreme Court yesterday. Pan Chiam Neoh, the widow of one Tho Chong Sooi, on
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  • 155 901 BUS THAT WAS DRIVEN DANGEROUSLY. Khoo Cheng Hooi pleaded guilty before Air. H. A. Forrer in the District Court yesterday to driving his motor bus at a speed and in a manner dangerous to the public. Inspector Eusoff said that at about 9.40 p.in. on
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  • 109 901 EUROPEAN CLAIMS TRIAL. 11. Pcterhaus, a European, appeared before the District Judge, Air. H. A. Forrer, yesterday, in answer to a summons for driving his motor car P5BO at a speed and in a manner dangerous to the public on September 25, and for failing to stop
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  • 71 901 AN EMACIATED INDIAN. Another dead body of an unknown man was found yesterday. Farly morning the Police received information that' a man was lying uncon scions in the Public Lavatory off Gladstone Road. Going there they found the corpse of an emaciated Indian Tamil.
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  • 184 901 MR. peter pedley i,,,. IN SERIOUS CORDlnm His many friends in P cn(ui p I sorry tn hear that Mr. Peu/pLul ho is about 73 years old i, i,?’" bls house suffering from rather 'S’' I •■'Jjyes as the result of an It appears that
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  • 171 901 MALAY’S ALLEGED PROWLINf IN LOGAN ROAD. Mat bin Chat, a Malay, was product before Mr. E. Jngo in the W» CoiW to show cause why he, a person wi ostensible means of subsistence cannot give a satisfactory accoun > himself, should not be ordered cute
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  • 421 902 •f| ie extent of the unemployment problem in Penang, as far as it coneerns Europeans, is a complete n ,vsterv, because there is not a soul i n Penang who is willing —if he be •ible—to supply the required information. for three months members of our have
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  • 366 902 1 here were critics of the Lovett scheme who were sceptical as to whether its operation would result in a substantial rise in the price of tin. hether or not they were righ is, of course, purely a matter of opinion. but the amazing fact stands out
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  • 290 902 The National Government of Chinn is being asked to pay a terrific price to insure pence in the North, but. unfortunately. the cables have not told us whether Chiang Kai-shek has decided to treat with contempt the terms of the blackmailing Judas Feng Yu-hsiang.
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  • 106 902 CHINESE WONT ANSWER. Oo; Kam pleaded guilty before Mr. E. Jago in the Police Court yesterday to theft of a rubber toy dog from a stall at the Chinese Fair and Bazaar in Magazine lioad. but s'.nti nee was deferred till the 24th instant. Detective
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  • 131 902 ELECTION OF Oi l ICE-BEARERS. At the first g» ncral meeting of The Penang I i ban Co-operative Inion Limited held in th" P« n.-mg Chamber of Commerce at L3<> p.m on Thursday, October 30, 19-30, ih<- followDg g<nt>einen were elected as President and Vice-Presidents: President —Hon.
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  • 807 903 Anent the Council reform proposals put forward by the European members of the Straits Settlements (Singapore) Association, we publish in another column a letter which appeared in the Singapore “Free Press.” The letter is written by Mr. Boland Braddell, who was one of the members of the
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  • 203 903 Residents of the Dominions—invariably, but always wrongly, described as Colonials—-have never quite understood the meaning of Lord Irwin’s promise that India would subsequently attain Dominion status but that it would not be given the r ight to break away from the Empire. Lord Reading, who is himself an
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  • 345 903 ACCUSED FINED 170. THOUGHT he WASTAKIM SALARY DUE. W hen arraigned before Mr P > m the Police Court yesterdav on a charge of criminal breach oH*' in respect of $49, the ±l* Messrs. Davies Co., Loot 01 who on the previous occasion cIJS tnal,
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  • 66 903 DRIVER CHARGED. i i Malav chauffeurMan bin Ahmad, a AlaJa > p o ]i c e was yesterday charged in v j n g Court before Mr- E Ja absent notor car P 2336 in a rash or ne nanner and thereby caused hur Mr Peter
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  • 227 904 PENANG’S URGENT NEED OF AERODROME. Owing to the lack of an aerodrome or proper landing place for which money has already been voted. Penang has k-en deprived of visits by several airpn passing over. In the recent race to Australia, Kingsford-Sinith, Lt. Hill and other famous
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  • 192 904 |TWO CHINESE CHARGER Kwek Keng Khck was yesterday charged before Mr. E. J ago in the Police Court that he on November 20 at 425 b Jelutong Road trafficked in or used as genuine 48 forged or counterfeited twentv-tical Siamese Government notes for $3OO and that he
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  • 730 904 ALLOWANCE FOR SLUMP. JUDGMENT IN COFFEE TRADE MARK CASE. All trade has suffered cruelly L the Colony from Ist April 1929 onwards from the prevailing financial depression and allowance must be made for that,” said His Lordship Mr. Justice Sprau le yesterday in the Penang
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  • 226 904 SAMPAN CAPSIZES IN ROUGH WEATHER. Early yesterday morning about 4 a.m. a sampan, loaded with fishing tackle and having two mtn aboard, capsized during rough weather and the men were thrown into the water and remained floating by clinging to the boat for over
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  • 276 905 DR.SMITH ELECTED PRESIDENT. The Hon. Dr. J. E. Smith was elected President of the Penang Eurasian Association at its annual general meeting held at the P. R. C. Pavilion yesterday evening. Mr. J. W. B. Ogle, the President, occupied the chair and there was a fair gathering
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  • 109 905 TWO KEDAH CARS DAMAGED. There was a collision at the junction of Burmah Road and Anson Road yesterday evening between two Kedah cars —a Morris and a Baby Austin— resulting in damage being done to both cars The Baby Austin was disabled the front axle
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 225 905 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir, You have been misinformed as to the actual position of those miserable and poor unemployed at present in the streets of Penang. On Pulau Jerejak island there were less than 125 unemployed yesterday and some might have left to-day. There
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    • 178 905 (To The Editor Of The Straits Echo). Sir. 1 will be thankful if you will insert the following in your well read journal: The Poppy Day Fund Fair was organised by the Chinese community and was held at Magazine Road for three days. The huge crowd that
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  • 323 905 motor lorry driver. ALLEGED RASH DRIVIXq ON AYER ITAM ROAD. When charged before Mr. E J wih the 1 ohce Court yesterday with .irivinfi lus motor lorry in Ayer Ram Koad on November 9 m a rash or negligently ner, Gatar bmgh said that
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  • 100 905 CHINESE WITH CHISEL Mr. E. Jagojn the Police terday found Ng Sen gu t 8 to sion of housebreaking im veB terday wit, a chisel at 3.30 a.in. n d the junction of Burmah Port Pangkor Road, but sentent ferrod till the 27th instant Nai
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  • 667 906 INDIAN ORGANISATION. KEDAH CLUB DRAW WITH D.A.F.C. Under the auspices of the Indian Committee of the Poppy Day Fund a well contested and exciting football !nu tch between the Darul Aihsan F. C. and the Youngsters’ Becreation Club of Kedah was witnessed by
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  • 351 906 CLAIM FOR LORRY HIRE AND SAND SUPPLIED. In the District Court belorc Mr. 11. A. Forrer yesterday, a Municipal contractor, T. H. L. Merican, was sued by Syed Hassan, a lorry owner lor the recovery of a sum of $416 being the charge for lorry hire and
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  • 460 906 REVISED SCHEME. TEN TO BE AWARDED IN PENANG. A revised sr’.ctnv for Government Scholarships for Malay Im»vs at Eng.Kh schools is announced. Three scholarGiips annually are given n Singapore. ten in Malacca, and ten n Penang to .Malay Im)\> from the Verlaeular schools, anil the scheme
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  • 424 907 The High Commissioners in London for the Antipodes, both of them eminent men in their own particular walks of life, are lamentably ill-informed respecting the Singapore Base, the speeches which they recently delivered. reported on another page of this issue, shewing that they could not have made careful
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  • 795 907 The trouble about hypocrites is that they are seldom consistent. On urgent representations of Japanese officials, the foreign authorities of that mud-flat on the Whungpoo, known as Shanghai, have decided to foolish grev-hound racing, because it tavors too much of gambling. Nippon gave the
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  • 214 907 HU YEW SEAH VOTE $l,OOO. Mr. Koh Sin Hock presided at an extraordinary general meeting of the members of the Hu Yew Seah at 43 Madras Lane, Penang, yesterday afternoon al which there was a fair attendance ol members. The business of the meeting was to pass
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  • 634 908 pENANG TO LEAD RELIEF i MEASURES. public meeting of Indians in Pe- wa s held at the Indian AssociaJ® o premises, Dato Kraniat Road, last gening to consider measures for the alnation of Unemployment among Inlalaya. jf r X. Ragbavan. Bar-at-Law, was ganimously voted to the
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  • 176 908 TENDERS ACCEPTED. Tenders have now been accepted for the additions and improvements to the Penang General Hospital, details of which were published in these columns ;ome time ago Twenty-four firms and individuals tendered for the erection of quarters for >ne hundred attendants and of these he
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  • 57 908 NO DEATHS. Four Tamil colics fell into the sea near Victoria Jettv on Saturday mornnr but no lives were lost Jt i- fated that a number of cooliewere getting into sampans to go to some ffiins discharging cargo, and m the .Lb four of tbon
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  • 310 908 BURMAH ROAD MOTOR ACCIDENT. Die motor collision at the junction of Imrmah Road and Anson Road on I ridav aftem«x»n between two Kedah cars had a sequel in the Police Court before Mr E. .lago on Saturday morning vln n Haji Noordin was ch irgvd with
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  • 173 908 S. P. C. A. KEEPING SPECIAL WATCH. Yew Huah and Sob Kcvv were charged before Mr E. lago in the Police Court hi Saturday morning with cruelly to animals bv overcrowding 101 docks in ox baskets at Seek (huan Lane on November 22 Th»- first
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  • 461 909 HARBOUR DROWNING. VERDICT RESERVED TILL TO DAY. b Mr. E. Jago in the Police Court on Saturday disposed of two Coroner’s enquiries and heard the medical evidence in two others. The first was into the circumstances attending the death of Tan Soon Kent, who fell ill at
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  • 360 909 MALAYA CUP RUGGER. SELANGOR BEATEN AT KUALA LUMPUR. (brom Our Own Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur. November 22. Selangor met Penang in a Malaya Cup Hugger match this evening on the Kuala Lumpur padang. There was a downpour of rain throughout except for the first five minutes but there
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  • 154 909 ENQUIRY INTO CASES Of clerks. A sub-committee of a Fund, C 1 l ll;a, ‘S Fan (Chain,, fc 5 Sum Yeoh Cheana JS’ b Goh. Koh sin Hock and.nA', 1 held vesterdavat ’own Hall the first of a J* C ■•onscentive daily meetings to lt4 T
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  • 190 909 HUSBAND REQUESTS COURT TO ADVISE HER. I would like the Court to advise d. wife not to be extravagant in spendin; money” was the request of Khoo Chen: Chye, a respectable Chinese, to the lice Magistrate when sued by his who claimed for maintenance. He added that
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  • 789 910 j’he case for and against Council reform can be summed up in a few words, providing, of course, that such terms’ as “crass folly” are not included in the summary. On the one baud, there are those who believe that the Colony is so well governed that
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  • 274 910 Lovers of out-door exercise, but of a kind that is not too strenuous, will be glad to hear that Penang is to be provided with miniature golf courses of a kind similar to those which have taken the outside world by storm. Providing the weather (dears up—which appears
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  • 240 910 CART DRIVER WHO REFUSED TO MOVE ON. Charged with causing obstruction with his cart at the junction of Malacca Street and Anson Road and with using criminal force to a public servant, P. C. 2346, Swee Lok adhered before. Mr. E. «lago yesterday. Accused said that
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  • 129 910 OFFICE-BEARERS FOR ENSUING YEAR. At the second annual general meeting of the Penang Teachers’ Assucintion, held at the Government Girls’ School. Northern Road, on Saturday, November 22. the following members were elected Office-bearers for the ensuing year:— President—Mr 11. Mortimer. Vice-Presidents—Mr. P. J. Morsingh and Mr. D.
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  • 227 911 EXODUS CONTINUES. 37,555 LEAVE COUNTRY IN OCTOBER. According to the Malaya Migration Statistics for October, 151 more Europeans came into Penang than left it «luring the month. There were 9 more Japanese and 21 more Malays also who arrived during October. In the ca«e of Chinese 1,765
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  • 223 911 (To The Editor Of Straits Echo). Sir, It will be very interesting to hear next the views of the Kinta Sanitary Board on the above problem. It would he a pity to the coffee shops and eating shops if licences are not issued to them just for the
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  • 116 911 FAILS TO APPEAR FOR THIRD TIME. A Chinese woman named Teh Ewe Lean, who is charged with playing in a common gaming house and abetting the offence of receiving an illegal gratification by a public servant, failed to appear in Court on three occasions and
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  • 83 911 RECENT CASE SEQUEL. About $6O to $7O in ten and twenty cent pieces were thrown into the sea outside Penang harbour yesterday by a detective sub-inspector. The money figured in a counterfeiting case before the Penang Assizes about a fortnight ago when two men were
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  • 208 911 APPEAL DISMISSED. The appeal was dismissed yesterday by His Lordship Mr. Justice Sproule of K. Mohamed Khan who had been convicted by the First Police Magistrate (Mr. Furrer) on a charge of Having driven motor car D. P. 661 without a licence along
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  • 154 911 final chapter. CONTRIBUTIONS TO municipal fund. Ihe recent Municipal def-ilo r were recalled yesterday when $73,594.48 which stood' to the crS 2 thiee ex-Municipal servants at the t of their leaving the service were U solution of the Commissioners estreated and credited to the Municipal Fund Of
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  • 197 911 FORTNIGHTLY MEETING. The fortnightly meeting of the Penanf Municipal Commissioners was held vesterday evening with the. President, Mr. (J. W. Bryant, in the chair. Others present were:— Messrs. Khoo Srm Ewe. Yeoh Chuang Ann, L. E. Slow. B. E. Hoss and H. H. Abdool Cader Drs. Teng
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  • 661 912 Xever in the history of Sino-foieign relations have the powers been more nxious to surrender their treaty rights and privileges, and at no time Kl ve there been more legations engaged in the unedifying supplicat.on to the National Government that “Codin’s the friend, not Short”. In spite
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  • 580 912 From time to time “The Straits I Echo” receives protests from some oil its readers because news which has I been sent, in for publication has found its way into the waste-paper basket, I and also because certain functions I that have aroused interest locally l ave I
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  • 309 912 MEEKLY LEAGUE OF NATIONS BULLETIN. The following is the Health Bulletin of The Leagu of Nations, Eastern Bureau, for the week ended lath November 1930: Alexandria: .3 plague cases and 2 deaths; Cochin 7 smallpox cases aid 2 deaths; M alias: 1 smallpox cases; Negapat; :u
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  • 388 913 OPENING BY RESIDENT COUNCILLOR. The Resident Councillor, the Hon. Mr. E. XV. F. Gilman, will drive the first ball on the newly erected miniature golf course which will be formally opened at 9 o’clock to-night at the E. A 0. Hotel. The Dunlop Rubber Company
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  • 302 913 SEQUEL TO SLUMP. LANDLORDS SEEK RELIEF IN ASSESSMENTS. There is evidence of a general reduction of house rents everywhere, and despite this a large number of houses can be seen vacant in every street in Penang, the reason being that the existing trade depression has
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  • 109 913 CHINESE COUPLE CHARGED. Before Mr. E. Jago in the Police Court yesterdav Cluing Ah Choy was charged with allowing a child named Chiam Swce alias Eiin Sin aged eh ven to be ill-trcatrgd and neglecting her aftei such ill-treatment on November 11. In connection with this
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  • 272 913 RELIEVED IN TURN By alleged instigator Khor Ewe Tee, n youth of «hu. pleaded guilty before Mr. E. J a W ’be Police Court yesterday to thslt a dwel ling house of $l,OOO in note,, propeit\ ol Khor Lai, on September Inspector Frew said
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  • 133 913 BOND TO BE OF GOOD BEHAVIOUR. Mat bin Chat appeared beforei Mr Taco in the Police Court vesterdsm shew cause why he should not be over to be of good behaviour in of $3O for four months in one He stated he was a lascar by
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  • 269 914 lorry driver to pay COMPENSATION. Gator Singh who was charged before \fi. E. Jago in the Police Court yesterj. 1V with driving his motor lurry P. 3197 in a rash or negligent manner along Ayer jtani Road and with not having two efficient brakes
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  • 207 914 DRIVER FINED $6. bee Ab Kow was sentenced to a line of $6 by Mr. E. •lago in the Police Court yesterday for disobeying the lawful orde of P.C.2252 by refusing to park his motor lorry P. 2630 at the stand in Weld Quay
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  • 432 914 RESIDENT COUNCILLOR OPENS COURSE. SPECIAL PRIZES TO BE AWARDED. As the clock struck 9 3U last light, -.he Hon. the Resident Councillor hit t golf ball, and to the cheers of the assembled onlookers, Penang’s miniaure golf life commenced A new sjxjrt has now arrived in the
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  • 219 914 LOCAL COMMITTEES APPOINTED. Ihe Straits Sctth-nivnts Government has appo nted the following Local Committee» to deal with F.uro|a.an Unemployment. Singapore:—Messrs. C. E. Wurtzburg (Chairman), J. A. I’. Strachan, I’. E. Diley, Lt.-Col. Mackenzie and Dr. Webster. Penang—Messrs, G. A. Potts (Chairman), N. A. M. Griffin, Lt.-Col.
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  • 135 914 MAN FALLS DEAD WHILE PUSHING BARROW. W’hik pushing hi> wheel-barrow, an iged man fill down dead in Brick Kiln 'load <»n Monday evening The Police removed the Ixxly tn the mortuary. \fter the p<»"t-mi>rt< in. th* corpse was )tiri< d unidentified. It is stated that fie
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  • CORRESPONDENCE
    • 292 915 (To The Editor of The Strits Echo.) Sir, J am sorry to say that I almost disagree to what your correspondent in favours. 1. '‘They appear clean and tidy in their dresses than the males in many respects.’ This is in fact a part of intoxicating the hearts
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    • 138 915 To the Editor of the Straits Echo] Sir, You have talked too much about China. Ido not know what nationality do you belong to. If you belong to one of the “Three Men s Nat ions. you might have recollected the time when extraterritoriality was existed in Japan.
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    • 188 915 Flo the Editor of the Straits Ecim] Sir, Oh® rfeads With wonder, and amazeW?ut the latest correspondence of Mis* L. C. M., who has been for the past championing the laudable cause f.»r “Women Reforms. Since the beginning of the world up till now. the vane nature of
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    • 671 915 To the Editor of the Straits Echo] Sir. Whilst admiring Miss L. C. M.’s beautiful Epistle on the above 1 quite disagree with her views in all respects. It is all very nice and well to write to the Papers on one’s views and opinions on a certain
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  • 98 915 IPOH INSTITUTION. Al the 27th annual general nieetng d“ the Chinese Widows’ and Orphans Institution. Ipoh, held on the 23 lay of November, 1930, at the Peras Jhincse Chamber of Commerce, tn oilowing ollie als w ere elected for t car 1930-1931: President Mr. Lee Ah
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  • 20 915 Tile following is the l 9 kbj I( ''2fth'i"- >b^ B EXt:r Balombe; and Kim < biev McAlister Road.
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