The Straits Budget, 11 June 1936

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    • 804 2 —Straits Times, June 4. “There is land enough in Singapore, now covered with rubber, which would be better used for growing vegetables, rearing pigs, and so on,” said Dr. Tempany before he left Malaya. Others, including editors, have been saying the same thing for many years, but
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    • 495 2 Chiang Kai-shek.—Straits 'Times, June 5. In view of strained relations between Nanking and Canton, and also of the approach of the National Peoples’ Convention, when the new constitution will become law and the election of the President of the Republic will take place, the present crisis in
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    • 212 2 Jimmy Thomas. —Straits Times, June 5. There must be general agreement with the views expressed by the majority British newspapers which have commented on the result of the official investigation carried out by what will o* remembered as the Budget Tribunal The Integrity of British politics has been vindicated by
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    • 798 2 greater freedom of trade.—Straits Times, June 6. An exceedingly valuable analysis ol the whole question of claims for colonial expansion, which has sprung into sudden prominence within the last year, has been prepared by the Royal Institute of International Affairs and is now available to the
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    • 523 3 -Straits Times, June 8. When the Wild Life Commission of Malaya reported in 1932 it presented with its report a draft enactment respecting national parks. It also quoted at length the game laws of other countries. The actual draft was based mainly on the Union of South
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    • 294 3 Straits Times, June 8. One branch of the work which is being done under the auspices of the League of Nations calls for unqualified praise. It is the collection and distribution of health reports throughout the world. At the last meeting of the Singapore Rotary Club Dr. C.
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    • 765 3 -Straits Times, June 9. General Chan Chai-tong, the strong man of the South, has openly allied himself with the anti-Japanese expeditionary move- ment, thus bringing nearer the possibility of civil war in China. Anti-Nanking threats in the South since the Mukden incident, in every case with national
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    • 948 4 —Straits Times, June 10. We have offered repeated warnings in this column against the dangers of risking money in a number of overseas ventures that have been financed by bond-selling campaigns. Those warnings have been supported by quotations from disinterested financial journals published at Home but. unfortunately for
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  • 193 4 IRON MINES FOR PERAK (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, J une 9. Indications that the Japanese are anxious to extend the scope of their iron-ore mining operations in Malaya are provided by the report that a Japanese syndicate in Singapore has obtained an dption, on an area in the Kinta
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  • 115 4 —Reuter. FLYING-BOATS TWICE A WEEK. Melbourne, June 8. IT is authoritatively stated that Australia will accept the British Government’s plan for a bi-weekly flyingboat service for the SingaporePort Darwin section of the EnglandAustralia route of the service which is planned to commence in August 1937. It is
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  • 368 4 Man Who “Borrowed” Employers’ Money. Vincent Osborne Rice, who was originally charged on three counts before Mr. T. D. Hughes in the second magistrate’s court, was on June 8 produced before Mr. L. B. Gibson. Criminal District Judge. According to the Chief Court Inspector, Mr. McQuarrie.
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  • 27 4 The Asiatic Petroleum Co. has give:; a contract to Messrs. Kenneison Bros for a bungalow to be erected at Bintang, Cameron Highlands, at a cost of $30,000.
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  • NOTES Of The DAY.
    • 202 5 A PICTURESQUE episode in Mr. Ormsby-Gore’s tour of the Peninsula in 1928 is described at some length in a book which came out last year. Life and Loves of a Prodigal Daughter, by Gervee Baronte. Miss Baronte was a guest at a menggelunchor party given by the Sultan
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    • 188 5 J7ROM a reader: Apropos the Women’s Supplement in your last Thursday issue, can you tell a lazy reader what the initials of the C.E.Z.M.S. School stand for Certainly. Only too pleased. They stand for Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, which took over the school in Sophia Road from
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    • 208 5 A TYPICAL old Singapore house, of the time when the leading Europeans were plantation owners as well as merchants, Is seen In a picture and a pencil drawing which have just been acquired by Raffles Museum and are now on view there. The house is Mr. Charles
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    • 128 5 QN the crest of the hill above The Gap, on Singapore Island there are—or were when I last visired the place—some cartridge clips, empty Service cartridges and buliy-beef tins. These relics are lying oehind some boulders. If the cartridge cases were blanks one would know that
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    • 246 5 ■pODAY I propose to serve up in this column two of the choicer specimens of Malayan news which have been concocted by London subeditors in recent weeks. If only life in this country was as these sensationmongering gentlemen see it. the Straits Times would be a brighter
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    • 295 5 [WERE is a description of that inci- dent, written by Mr. Theodore Hubback Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt and I were at Kuala Tahan (in the National Park), and in the evening I took him up to a clearing where seladang sometimes go. We were making our way back to
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    • 181 5 MOW we come to the occurrence which, if we are to believe the Daily Mirror. has spread terror through the villages surrounding Singapore.'* You and I may not recollect any such wave of terror, but then —we only read the Straits Times If we were to read
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    • 231 5 of the statements for which Mr Ormsby-Gore was criticised during his tour of Malaya in 1928 was that no European estate yielding less than 1,000 lb. per acre will be able to survive in 10 years’ time.” This provoked Mr. Cyril Baxendale. an ex-Malayan planter and
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    • 145 5 all big-game trophies tell a story of valorous endeavour by field and flood, as the rhinoceros head In the Police Mess at Kuala Lumpur reminds us. The animal to which this head belonged wandered into vegetable gardens at the kampong of UJong Permatang. In the Kuala Selangor district.
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    • 121 5 P"ROM a letter published in the Dewsbury News (Yorkshire): One has only to look down a street in the Chinese quarter of Singapore to be assured that they have lost little of their ancient culture. Women in Singapore have an almost negligible status. The life of the average
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    • 54 5 INHERE has been a strong wild-life flavour about this column during the last day or so, and I really must think of something else to write about, but today I cannot resist printing a contribution to Malayan natural history which appeared In the Chicago Sunday Tribune on April
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    • 143 5 It’ s War to Death Between Monkey and Crab in Malay O BATTLE, Wash.—Mangrove planters In the Federated Malay State are faced with a serious problem. For years the mangrove seedlings have been suffering from the depredations of two distinct pests—monk< s and crabs. Hope was entertained for a long
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    • 166 5 dealt very kindly with Mr. Williams Evans, a former Resident Councillor of Penang and Malacca, whose death was announced In the Straits Times yesterday. He retired In 1913. thus escaping the stress and strain of administrative work In Malaya during the Great War, when shortage of personnel,
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    • 193 6 QLD residents of Malacca will be reminded by Mr. Evans’ death of the \arious changes that have been made In the status of their administrative head during the present century. Mr. Evans was stationed In Malacca from 1905 until 1910. and a writer in One Hundred Years of
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    • 177 6 fJX) newspaper readers in Malaya, accustomed to the enforcement of a minimum wage for Indian labourers and to compulsory restriction of output by estates and mines, the successive blows dealt at the New Deal by the United States Supreme Court are inexplicable. The latest decisions of
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    • 153 6 GANDUT’ S PENSION. CURIOUS repercussion of the Great War In remote Pahang kampongs Is recalled by Caractacus In the Malayan Police Magazine. Some years ago a policeman named Gandut applied for his pension. He gave his age as 48, and looked it. but according to the record made at the
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    • 214 6 A MALAY reader writes from Kuala Lumpur to say that if Mr. OrmsbyGore really used a banana leaf tui menggelunchor he must have had a very sore posterior afterwards, for upeh is always used by Malays for this sport. I cannot find upeh in any reference work but
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    • 271 6 T'HE mauling of a jelutong tapper by a bear near Segamat last week is the third case of the kind that 5 have heard of. The Malay honey bear is, I believe, the smallest member of its family found anywhere, weighing only about a hundredweight, but it
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    • 248 6 A CHURCH PLATFORM IF a visitor to Malaya were to ask for 1 evidence of the more serious side of European life in this country, of something other than business, sport and amusement, I would show him. among other things, a copy of St. Andrew’s Outlook, the quarterly Journal of
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    • 228 6 aiITHAT should they know of the Ulu who only Tanglin know?” Thus sang a Singapore bard after reading my note on mangrove planters. It happened in this wise. A group of people in a Singapore bungalow were chortling over t)he story published at Seattle, Wash., and reproduced
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    • 178 6 is not a note that the squeam- ish will enjoy, but I am printing it nevertheless, because it illustrates the extraordinary faculty of recovery from apparently hopeless wounds which primitive man possesses. Last month a Dyak working for the Sarawak Timber and Trading Company was caught in
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    • 220 6 "QIRLS want freedom in marriage. the right to choose their mates and to say how and where they will live. The attractive young man having serious intentions is often not welcomed if it means living in his parents' home after marriage." That is a quotation from an entitled
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    • 118 6 JJERE’S an odd thing. In New South Wales* there is a Singapoora, the only other one besides our own in the world. The Australian Singapoora (which, I trust, has never known our embarrassing experience of being described in the House of Commons as a Cesspool") is on the
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  • 106 6 New Unofficial Member Of Legislative Council. The following appointments are notified in the S.S. Government ‘Gazette: Mr. Philip Martin Williams, provisionally and subject to the approval of the King, to be temporarily a Nominated Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements during the absence on
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  • 1093 7 Mrs. R. L. Eber is returning to Singapore by the Ranchi, due here on June 19. Mr. R. Williamson, of the Chartered Bank, Kuala Lumpur, has left on transfer for Klang. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Petrie left Singapore on June 5 for a short holiday in Java.
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  • 93 7 Government House Monday, June 1. His Excellency and Mrs. Small, attended by the personal staff, left Penang for Singapore by the Kedah. Wednesday, June 3. His Excellency presided at a meeting of the Executive Council held at Government House this morning. Saturday, June 6. In the morning His Excellency and
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  • 135 7 Twenty-Three Years With Hongkong Bank. The death took place on June 5. at his residence, 14-4, Niven Road, Singapore, of Mr. Oswln de Souza, of the staff of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. He was in his 45th year. Mr. de Souza had been
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  • 278 7 The following ipassengers left for Colombo Marseilles and London, In the Blue Funnel S.S. Sarpedon on June 10: Mr. and Mrs. A. McKenzie, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Paterson, Mr. O. Heron, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Allan, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, Lady Demetrladi, Mr. and Mrs. R.
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  • 271 7 Leaders. Food and Employment 2 Nanking and Canton 2 Raw Materials and Colonies 2 Ignoring the Experts 3 Civil War Nearer? 3 Forestry Bonds 4 Telegrams— Covering past week’s news 25—28 Picture Supplement 17—20 Financial Supplement— Financial and Commercial News to date, following page 32 Malayan General News— Week
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  • DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES
    • 37 7 FETHERBTONHAUOH. —On June 2. at Batu Oajah to Phyllis, wife of A. H. Fetherstonhaugh. a daughter, Buwmne Mary. MARIANI.—On June 5. 1936, at the Maternity Hospital. Singapore, to Anna, wife of Mr. O. Marian!, a son.
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    • 37 7 KRAAL—BARRON.—On Saturday, June 6. 1936. at the Cathedral of the Oood Shepherd, Singapore. Rene Frederick Kraal. Standard Vacuum Oil Company, Teluk Anson, to Maude Barron of the Nursing Staff, General Hospital. Singapore. Bangkok papers please copy.
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  • 229 7 DEATHS LIM. —Mrs. Llm Peng Chin, nee Madam Tan Po Neo passed away peacefully on June 1, at 7.30 p.m. at No. 28, Scotts Road, at the age of 58. TAN.—Mrs. Tan Tlan 800, nee Madam Wee 81ew Ann. passed away peacefully on June 3rd at 3 p.m. at No.
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  • 746 8 Tribute To Services In Malaya AT the King Edward VII College of Medicine on June 8 His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. A. S. Small, presented the Licertce in Medicine and Surgery of the College (Honoris Causa) to Professor J. C.
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  • 71 8 The general committee of -he Singapore Municipal Commissioners has approved or the letting to temporarily dishoused squatters only, of Singapore Improvement Trust housing off Bales tier Road, at rentals of $1 and $i.50 a month respectively for single and double rooms—for a maximum tenancy period of 12 months—the Oom mlssioners
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  • 532 8  -  BY J. I. MILLER, M.C.S. (District Officer, Lower Perak.) In connection with Mr. J. J. Sheehan’s Malayan Bookshelf articles, and the reminiscences of the Perak War in the Straits Times of May 28, I was recently one of a party
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  • 42 8 —(Straits Times Copyright.) (From Our Own Correspondent.! London, June 9. The marriage will take place in London on July 16 of Major O. Mcl. S. Bruce, M.C., Officer Commanding the Malay Regiment, and Miss Diana Hance.—(Straits Times Copyright.)
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  • 76 8 Selangor Planter’s Sudden Death. (From Our Own Correspondent! Kuala Lumpur, June 9. The death occurred suddenly last night of Mr. R. Q. W. Mercer, a planter, of Jinjang estate, Kepong, Selangor. Mr. Mercer, who had been suffering from heart trouble, went to Prince’s Cinema, Kuala
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  • Correspondence.
    • 474 9 “Rising Rapidly In Esteem And Effectiveness.” To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir—The normal Englishman has an aversion to publicity. Mr. Rudyard Kipling, whose phenomenal popularity as an author might be regarded as the measure of his insight into the character of the normal Englishman,
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    • 846 9 Bad Habits That Are Common In Malaya. To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—I was interested to read in your Federal Diary the comments regarding the too frequent use by the people in Malaya of abbreviations to denote places, government department buildings etc. My only regret
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  • 318 9 Sir Ong Siang Song’s Portrait Criticised. M. T. S.” writes from Kuala Lumpur I was interested to see the publication, in your Tuesday’s issue, of the portrait of Sir Ong Sian£ Song with the painter still at his task, and to read the comments by Anak
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  • 208 9 “Business Must Be Run On Economic Basis.” To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir, —We seem to have lost our sense of perspective over holidays for local clerks. I am quite in favour of reasonable holidays being granted to employees, but first the numerous public holidays
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  • 264 9 Farewell Dinner In Kuala Lumpur. A farewell dinner to Lt. Col. B. J Eaton, who relinquished command of the Selangor State Troops last July after twenty-eight years' continuous service with the local forces, was given at the F.M.S.V.F. Headquarters on Thursday evening. Lt. Col. J
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  • 93 9 H.H. Sir Abu Bakar. K.C.M.0., Sultan of Pahang, celebrated his birthday at Pekan, when visitors from all parts of the State gathered to take part in the celebrations. Friday was declared a hoiday in the State. Among those present was the Hon. Mr. C. C. Brown,
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  • 15 9 The road to Cameron Highlands has been further Improved by cutting down many more trees.
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  • 597 10 Part Of Evidence Heard In Camera. AFTER nearly ten years of married life Virginia Mathilda Theresa Phillips (nee Koenij) was on June 4 granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, by Mr. N. H P Whitley, acting Chief Justice. She petitioned for
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  • 138 10 Col. Fink, Capt. Ridout and Capt. Knight All Going Home. Well known officers attached to the Volunteer Forces in the Colony will be leaving soon. Captain D. G. B. Ridout, Adjutant oi the Penang and Province Wellesley Volunteer Corps, is due to sail tor Home on June
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  • 146 10 Fines Totalling $200 In Singapore Case. Mr. L. B. Gibson, Criminal District Judge, delivered Judgment on June 5 in the case in which Kavena Esmail Sahib, of the General Lighterage and Transport Co. was charged at the instance of Mr. W. J. Tobin, late manager of the
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  • 118 10 Convicted Of Cheating Chinese. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, June b. A large crowd of Malays assembled in the Seremban Police court today to hear the magistrate’s finding in the case in which Ahmad bin Jail, Penghulu of Lengeng. was charged with cheating three Chinese. Mr. M.
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  • 37 10 An order by the Governor in Council prohibits the importation into the Colony of “The Indian Struggle. *****5,” by Subbas C. Bose published bv Wishart and Co., of 9 John Street. London.
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  • 347 11 Motorist Exonerated At Inquest. Giving evidence on June 5 at the Coroner’s inquiry into the death of an unknown male Chinese, about 35 to 40 years old, who was fatally injured in a motor accident on the night of June 2, Dr. M. Doraisingham stated that
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  • 61 11 Guest of Honour.—Straits Times Cable. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London. June 5. At the annual London luncheon of the Incorporated Society of Planters to be held at the Criterion Restaurant on July 17, Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, the newly appointed Secretary of State for
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  • 104 11 Returning: To Hong Kong With Health Restored. Lady Caldecott, wife of H.E. Sir Andrew Caldecott, Governor of Hong Kong and formerly Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements, arrived in Singapore by th Ceorfu on June 5, on her way to Hong Kong. Lady Caldecott had to go Home
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  • 305 11 Unusual Prosecution In Kuala Lumpur. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, June 5. Mrs. W. Spall, of Kuala Lumpur, was fined $25, under the Women and Girls Protection Enactment, by Mr. J. Calder in the Kuala Lumpur Police Court today, for buying a seventeen-year-old
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  • 135 11 Discharged Granted In Bankruptcy Court. A application for discharge by T.F. Johnson, a former European foreman of works at the Naval Base, was granted in the Singapore Bankruptcy Court on June 5, the period of suspension being limited to one day. Mr. Lim said that the
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  • 69 11 Five Commissions Granted. In accordance with the Volunteer Air Force Ordinance, 1935. H E the Officer Administering the Government. Mr. A. S Small, has granted Commissions as Pilot Officers in the Straits Settlements Volunteer Air Force to. Mr. W. T. Cherry Mr. N. C. Roberts Mr. T. J.
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  • 204 11 And ‘Cambridge’ Students Just Look For Them! (From Our Own Correspondent) Penang, June 6. The splendid work done by the Penang Trade School was again stressed at the second annual speech day today and the Inspector ol Schools. Mr. J. M. Meade, haa some
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  • 192 11 European Bound Over In Singapore. H. E. Bruce, who had pleaded guilty previously *o a charge of cheating a Chinese of $80 by selling him a car which had not been fully paid for. was on June 6 released by Mr. L. B.
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  • 61 11 Mr. L. B. Gibson. Criminal District Judge, on June 3 sentenced Pri vate John William Lorkin, of the Royal Artillery, to five months simple imprisonment for having retained stolen property, a gold brooch valued at $36 and a watch movement valued at $3O. the property of Sergeant Gibbs
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  • 57 11 (From Our Own Correapondent.) Bangkok, June S. From now on red ref lector a will be compuleory for all vehicular traffic. Moreover, driven of taxi tricyclea are to wear uniform—either khaki or blue ahorta, which muat extend to the knee, and ahirta with breoat cloaed
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  • 156 11 Malay Overpowered By Police. (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, June 3. A Malay living at Sillbln In a semidetached house suddenly went amok, seized an axe. drove off the Chinese tenants living next door, then locked himself In a room, taking his daughter with him He next
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  • 145 11 Soldier Motorist Fined And Licence Suspended. “I am not satisfied with the verdict,” said Fusilier Peter Maglnn to Mr. M. V. del Tufo, Fifth Magistrate on Saturday when he was found guilty of rash driving at Serangoon Road, and fined $50. His licence was ordered to be
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  • 160 11 Selangor Cricketer’s Bride From Singapore. The wedding of Mr. Royson Harold Bain, the well-known Kuala Lumpur Sportsman, to Miss Maud Florence Walters, of Singapore was solemnised at the Catholic Church, Ipoh, on June 2. The Rev. Father Fourgs officiated. Mr. R. Newman performed the duties of best man
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  • 691 12 INJUSTICE BREEDING DISCONTENT. A STRIKING and thought-provoking speech on educational policy was made by Mr. D. M. McLeod, principal of Rattles Institution, at the annual Speech Day on Saturday. He discussed the grave problem of employment, at adequate pay, for youths leaving school, and the mass
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  • 71 12 A gunner of the 22nd Heavy Battery, R.A., surrendered to the Singapore police early on Monday in connection. it is reported, with the disappearance of a motor-car belonging to Mr. W. D. Smith, of the Asiatic Petroleum Co. Ltd., outside his house m River Valley Road the
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  • 95 12 Bangkok, June 8. The Straits Times interview of May 28 with Dr Kiep, leader of the German Economic Mission to the Far East, has been reproduce ed by the Publicity Bureau and broadcast. Dr. Kiep told the Straits Times that he was a great admirer
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  • 241 12 Official Service At Singapore. A LL planes leaving Singapore for Europe, China, Australia and the Indies are now being given a comprehensive survey of the kind of weather they will encounter on the route. Beginning last week the Singapore Meteorological authorities began to provide a free service
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  • 48 12 From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat, June 4. While cut tapping jelutong in the Tenang jungle, about ten miles from Segamat. a Chinese named Goh Seng was badly mauled by a bear. He was admitted to the Segamat District Hospital. and is progressing favourably.
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  • 50 12 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, June 8. The death took place at his residence last night, from heart failure of Mr. Yeow Kim Swee, J.P., head of the Eng Choon Clan and a member cf the Chinese Advisory Board. He was 58 years old.
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  • 308 12 Work Begun At Kallang. Contractors have begun work on the erection of the new headquarters for the Royal Singapore Flying Club at the civil aerodrome Kallang. The new buildings, for which foundations are now being prepared, will take the form of a clubhouse and a seaplane
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  • 244 12 Planter’s Car Forced Into Ditch. (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, June 6. Quek Ah Seng was fined $18 with the alternative of two weeks’ rigorous imprisonment, and his licence was suspended for a month, when he was convicted by Inche Abdul Raaf, third magistrate, on a
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  • 601 13 debentures AT 3 PER CENT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. June 4. A Bill is to be introduced into the Federal Council at its meeting on June 18 to authorise the raising of a loan of $15,000,000 by the issue of debentures in the F.M.S. from
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  • 259 13 “Circumstances Do Not Justify—” (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, June 1. IN the fourth annual report of the Selangor Asiatic Unemployment Committee, the hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr. John Hands, M.C.H., says that he has received a further communication from Government to the effect
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  • 293 13 Further Valuable Finds In Perak (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, June 4. IUITH regard to the find of prehistoric skeletons on Phin Soon estate, Sungei Siput. it is pointed out that they are almost complete skeletons, whereas the previous finds were only fragmentary. Professor Callenfels states
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  • 81 13 To Receive AH Cess In F.M.S. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, June 4. A Bill providing for all cess to go to the Rubber Fund established under the Rubber Regulation Enactment will be introduced at the next meeting of the Federal Council. That part of the cess
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  • 87 13 London June 4. On arrival of the P. and O mail steamer at Plymouth today It was learnt that, a week after the aeath at Singapore of the purser. Mr William Gentry, that of Mr. Harry Foo' a 48-year-old passenger, occurred He died in his
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  • 344 13 332-Pounder Landed By P. And O. Men. A 332-lb. shark was landed at the Tanjong Pagar wharves by members of the crew of the P. and O. mall ship Chltral, after a struggle lasting about twenty minutes. Mir. W. H. Warry, second chef, Mr. F
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  • 45 13 yet befcn announced.—Straits Times Copyright. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jane 5. I understand that three Malay Sultans will be invited to the Coronation of King Edward. The names of the rulers to be invited have not yet befcn announced.—Straits Times
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  • 183 13 Presented To Mr. A. M. Macphail At K.L. (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. June 4. Mr. A. M. Macphail. a well-known Selangor planter, who has served for more than twenty-one years In the M.S.V.R.. was presented with the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal yesterday by
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  • 1088 14 Johore Planters Are Doubtful. IOHORE planters feel that they are paying too much to the «J U.P.A.M.—moiv than the services received from the Association are worth. This was one of several topics discussed recently at the annual meeting of the Johore P.A.. presided over
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  • 124 14 Claims That Rinderpest Is Eradicated. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok. May 23. The veterinary service of Siam’s Ministry of Agriculture has eradicated rinderpest from the Siamese peninsula from Koh Lak down to ooth the Pattani and Kedah frontiers, and is now trying to get
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  • 84 14 Entrance Scholarships Awarded. Entrance scholarships to Raffles College for 1936 have been awarded to the following: Chang Min Tat—St. Michael’s Institution, Ipoh. Tan Teck Chwee—Raffles Institution, Singapore. Tan Teck Kee—Anglo-Chlnese School. Penang. Wong Keng Sam—Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur. Hon Sui Sen—St. Xavier’s Institution. Penang. Eu Cheow Chye—Penang Free
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  • 111 14 “OLD IDEAS ARE NOW YIELDING TO NEW. An event described as unique in the annals of the Tamils Reform Association, Singapore—the marriage of a Tamil to a Jewess—took place at the Association premises at 20, Klang Road. The parties to the wedding were Mr M. Letcumanan. of the Public Works
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  • 54 14 A new Rest House, to cost $40,000, is being erected at Tanah Rata, the Cameron Highlands. The site chosen is behind the old Rest House, which is entirely a plank building It is being built by Messrs. Kenneison Bros, for the Government, and will
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  • 36 14 As an aged Tamil was walking under a high coconut tree in Haig Road a nut fell on his head. He was rendered unconscious and is now in hospital in a critical condition.
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  • 315 14 “JAPAN HAS IGNORED RIGHT AND JUSTICE. China Must Resist Further Aggression. “Japan is offending not only China but the whole jf mankind, and all Chinese should, without any hesitation, resist her with the object of saving not only their own country but the future of the human race.” Mr. Chou
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  • 84 14 Cruel Trick By Bandits Near Singora. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok. June 2. The fiendish plan was adorted by 20 dacoits near Singora to make a houselolder disclose where his valuables *rere kept by inserting the point of kris into his ear until the blood
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  • 78 14 Robbery Charge Against Two Soldiers. Further mention of the case against Fusilier Leonard Qourlay and Fusilier Stuart Wilson, of the Inniskillings. who are charged with robbery, was made in the second magistrate’s court on June 3. The allegation against them is that they held up Messrs. Yick
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  • 274 15 Success In Sight In Singapore. Experiments are being conducted in Singapore with the object of discovering a practicable rubber road surface. One preparation laid on a stretch of road opposite the premises of Messrs. John Little and Co., Ltd., proved a failure, air pockets appearing after a
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  • 106 15 To Face Cheating Charges. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, June 3. Mr. H. F. Ridley, assistant OC.P.D., Central Police Station, Kuala Lumpur, is leaving tonight by train for Bangkok to bring back W. O. Jahn, a German, who is wanted by the Kuala Lumpur Police
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  • 78 15 Profits For Armaments And Red Cross. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, June 4. It is announced that the Government paper factory will reach production stage in 1937. The liquidator states that the final accounts show that the shareholder have been repaid in full, following the assumption of
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  • 1039 15 A Malayan Woman Looks Back Sixteen Years A^o —Cost Of Living —Days Of Hi&h Prices —Mothers Are Happier Now. IOOKING back on the years that I have spent in Malaya, the post war years of 1920-1936, the changes that I see are considerable. Like most changes, however,
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  • 265 15 Large Gathering At Funeral. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, June 2. The funeral of Inche Besar Zabedah, mother of H.H. the Sultan of Johore, who died at her residence, Sunnyside,” Johore Bahru, yesterday, took place this afternoon, and was attended by a gathering numbering over 3,000,
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  • 261 15 New Venture In The F.M.S. THE Federated Malay States Police are to be congratulated on their latest venture—a school for the sons of constables in Kuala Lumpur, says the Malay Mail. It has Just opened with eight boys who have been transferred from the third
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  • 546 16 Killed In Six Months. EXPERIMENT MADE. By Our Planting Correspondent. A CONVENIENT and simple method of removing old trees bordering on young budded areas and of ensuring the minimum of damage to the younger trees underneath, is shown by the experiment with
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  • 510 16 Is There A Nucleus For The “Special Reserve”? AS stated in the Straits Times on Monday the Crown Agents for the Colonies in London have given notice of the intention to redeem, on Dec. 1 next, the whole of the Straits Settlements 6 per cent.
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  • 151 16 Business Area To Be Taken First. (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, June 4. At a meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Sanitary Board yesterday it was agreed that the business area of the town be revalued next year, and that the residential area be divided into
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  • 46 16 Professor V. E. Hendershot. M.A., returned to Penang rceently after three weeks in Sarawak and Singapore in the interests of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission. He reports a great awakening amongst the Land Dyaks of the Sadong River, where he stayed for two days.
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  • 216 16 Mr. W. Murray And Miss E. B. Shirreffs. The Singapore Presbyterian Church was decorated with white nonolulu, lotus blooms, ferns and palms on June 3, for the wedding of Miss Elspeth Brown Shirreffs, who arrived in Singapore by the Dutch mail liner on June 2, and
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  • 109 16 Two Sailors Brought Into Singapore. The N.Y.K. steamer Tokiwa Maru wirelessed to Singapore on June 4 that it had picked up two Chinese who were clinging to the wreck of a small boat near Tanjong Pagar. The Tokiwa Maru later brought the two men
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  • 83 16 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, June 4. Following a post mortem held after the death of Dr. J. S. Webster at Telok Datoh this week, certain organs have been sent to the Institute of Medical Research for examination. The date of the inquest has
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  • 505 17 Mr. S. M. Arathoon and Miss Mary M. Michael after their wedding at St. Andrew’s Cathedral on Saturday. The marriage took place on Wednesday last at the Singapore Presbyterian Church, of Mr. William Murray, of Chumput Estate, Negri Sembilan, and Miss E. B. ShirrifTs. Mr.
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  • A SINGAPORE MERCHANTS NOTE BOOK.
    • 1681 21 GERMANY’S TRADE LOAN REARMAMENT POLICY. Dr. Kiep’s Statement Challenged—No Financial Blockade —German Securities At A Discount —Government Control Of Foreign Bills —Internal Debts Cancelled —Reparation Loans Used For Rearmament By Our Commercial Correspondent. ••■pHE world is suffering because of the financial blockade on Germany. It is economy gone mad.” Thus
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  • 247 21 DISTRICT JUDGE’S COMMENTS. (From Our Own Correspondent) Penang. June 2. “Mui-tsals have more protection than an ordinary child, being protected up to the age of 18, while the ordinary child receives protection up to age of only 14—It is the duty of their employers to provide
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  • 122 21 To Be Formed In Singapore. At a meeting held at the YW.C.A. on June 4, with Mr. R E. Holtttum In the chair. It was decided to form a Singapore Gardening Soclty. Suggestions were made by those present as to membership fees, the calling of meetings and such
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  • 102 23 Hon. Mr. Zehnder Elected President. The Hon. Mr. H. R. S. Zehnder, O.B.E., was elected president of the Singapore Eurasian Association at an extraordinary general meeting held at the S.R.C. Dr. N. L. Clarke and his successor, Mr. R. Tessensohn, had resigned, necessitating this meeting, which approved
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  • 198 23 Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers—“ One Of The Coming Men.” The meeting had also to decide upon the nomination of a successor to Mr. A. J. Braga as the Association’s representative on the Municipal Commission. The choice fell on Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers, member of a well-known
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  • 77 23 The Java Bode learns that the head office for Netherlands Indi?. of the Fiat automobiles in Italy is harbouring plans to establish at Batavia an assembly plant where Fiat cars will be assembled from parts imported from Italy. The factory will be operated along the
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  • 925 23 FEDERAL DIARY. Trend Must Be Stayed—Paint For Town Hall —Mine Silt Brings Flood Danger—Culture On Horseback. (Prom Our Owr: Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur, June 4. 'pHE continuous fall in the price tin is causing concern in the F.M.S., and it is fairly safe to
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  • 72 23 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London. May 26. New members of the Association of British Malaya elected at a committee meeting held this week include Messrs. H. J. Adams, A. Cavendish, H. A. Denne, L. D. Gammans, W. B. Harris. A. J. Kelman, C. Salter, R. C. S.
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  • 127 23 Sultan’s Appeal To Perak Malays. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, June 4. Declaring open the Parit Recreation Club, H.H. the Sultan of Perak counselled the members against making wrong use of clubs. He regretted that in the past clubs had been used for stirring up political agitation
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  • 164 23 Malayan Ports Under Observation. (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, June 3. 'THE whole of the F.M.S. detective force has been enlisted by the Selangor Criminal Investigation Department in a general search for the missing diamonds, valued at $26,000. which were stolen from a house in
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  • 67 23 Charge Against Eurasian Withdrawn. Clarence de Souza, the young Singapore Eurasian charged with enticing away a married woman, was acquitted in the second magistrates court on June 3. Mr. D. O. Osborne-Jone8, for the prosecution, declared that his client had been unable to meet the expenses necessary for
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  • 58 23 Bangkok. June 3. The captain of the Norwegian steamer Hermod was fined 500 tleals for having between 20 and 30 stowaways on board on a voyage from China. His compradore was acquitted of complicity. Other cases are pending following the authorities’ decision to break the stowaways traffic from
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  • 918 24 —British Wireless. WONDERFUL WELCOME IN NEW YORK. Ten Hours Lost Through Fog On First Crossing. ‘T>HIS PERFORMANCE IS HELD TO HAVE IULL\ T JUSTIFIED THE HIGH HOPE WHICH HER DESIGN ERS BUILDERS AND OWNERS, AND INDEED THE WHOLE NATION, HaD HELD FOR HER.” That
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  • 34 24 THE RIVALS MAIDE A VOYAGES. QUEEN MARY 4 days. 12 hrs., 24 mins. NORMANDIE 4 days. 11 hrs., 33 mins. (Official time, for the whole trip from Cherbourg to Ambrose Light, cabled by Reuter.
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  • 215 24 —Reuter Wireless. PANDEMONIUM IN NEW YORK. MORE DETAILS OF AN HISTORIC DAY. New York, June 1. •pHE city went mad when the i Queen Mary docked at 9 p.m. B.S.T., taking exactly 25 minutes. There was no mishap but there was an anxious moment when a tug
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  • 100 24 —Reuter Wireless. Darjeeling, June 3. An untimely monsoon has nullified several years of very careful preparations to conquer Everest. Frustrated in their original plans, the climbers, ied by Mr. Hugh Ruttledge. were recently reported as contemplating an attempt by a hazardous route to the summit which
    —Reuter Wireless.  -  100 words

  • 70 25 —Reuter. London, June 3. Mr. J. H. Thomas, interviewed by Reuter, re-affirmed that he had not made any disclosure of Budget secrets and that his own conscience was clear He had had thousands of letters of help and encouragement from all classes, Mr. Thomas said, and
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  • 50 25 -Reuter Wireless. London, May 29. Formal investigation into the alleged acts of sabotage in Admiralty dockyards have not revealed who was directly responsible, stated Lord Stanley, in a written reply to Mr. Gallacher. Therefore, no disciplinary action can be taken against anyone in this connection. —Reuter Wireless.
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  • 620 25 —Reuter. “Unauthorised Disclosure Of Information.” London, June 2. there was an unauthorised disclosure of information from this year’s Budget and that use was made of that information for private gain are among the findings of the Judicial Tribunal appointed by Parliament on May 5 to inquire
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  • 512 25 .—British Wireless. London. June 3. The thoroughness and impartiality with which the tribunal on the budget leakage has conducted its tigations and the precision with whicn its conclusions are expressed in t c report issued last night are regarde by the newspapers as a vindication,
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  • 131 25 —Reuter. LONDON TO JO’BURG IN SEPTEMBER. London, June 1. The South African industrialist, Mr. Schlesinger, has provided £10,000 in priza money for an air race from London to Johannesburg, starting on Sept. 15. The race will be open to aircraft and pilots of the British
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  • 57 25 PARLIAMENT’ S WISDOM. —The Times. Al GREAT public scandal has been removed from the region of rumour into that of an authoritative pronouncement. From the foul atmosphere of mutual distrust generated, for example, by I’affaire Stavisky, we have been saved by the prompt action of Parliament and the dispassionate logic
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  • 154 25 “Immediate War Against Japan. WHAT CANTON WANTS. Canton. June 2. IMMEDIATE war against Japan is 1 urged In a telegram to the central (Nanking) Government by the authorities in South China. The telegram, which is sent Jointly by the South -west Executive Committee of the Kuomintang and the South-west Political
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  • 136 25 RETURNS AS FIRST LORD OF ADMIRALTY. Sir Samuel Hoare, the former Foreign Secretary, has been appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in succession to Lord Monsell, who has resigned, says Reuter. It has been known for some time that Lord Monsell was going to retire.
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  • 79 25 Whole Of Bangkok In Darkness. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, June 1. An Inquisitive lizard entering the Joint-box where the underground cables Join the overhead cables entering the Siam electric power station caused a heavy short circuit on Sunday night and practically all Bangkok was <;
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  • 67 25 --Reuter Wireless. Arsenic Poisoning Case In Dorset. London. June 2 Another woman was sentenced to death today for murder bv poisoning She was Mrs. Charlotte Bryant, aged 39, and the mother of five young children. who was found guilty at Dorset Assizes of murdering her
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  • 479 26 —Reuter Wireless. “Military Colonies” Planned In Abyssinia. GENERAL GRAZIANI’S PLAN ANNOUNCED. ROME, JUNE 1. Marshal graziani, who is acting as deputy VICEROY IN MARSHAL BADOGLIO’S ABSENCE ON LEAVE, HAS ANNOUNCED THAT THE MILITARY FORCES IN EAST AFRICA, HALF A MILLION STRONG, WILL BE MAINTAINED AT
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  • 75 26 -Reuter. Peiping, June 2. The Japanese authorities have demanded that the British Embassy promptly investigate the murder of the Japanese officer, Kisaju Sasaki, who was found fatally injured outside a cabaret on Tuesday. The Japanese allege that Sasaki was killed by a British soldier. The French
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  • 159 26 —British Wireless. Welcomed By London Abyssinians. London. June 3. The Emperor of Abyssinia arrived in England today accompanied by his two sons, the Crown Prince and the Duke oi Harar, his daughter. Princess Tshai, and a small suite including Ras Kassa. Both at Southampton where
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  • 60 26 —Reuter Wireless. New York, June 5. Despite elaborate precautions by official and private police, souvenir hunters wrought havoc on the Queen Mary. Some 35,000 visitors boarded the vessel in the dock and their filchings included spoons, forks, potted plants, clocks, silver calendars, ash-trays and pieces of
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  • 38 26 -Reuter. Hankow, June 7. Mr. K. I. Samset, superintendent of the Norwegian Lutheran Mission at Laohokow, North Hupeh, was captured by bandits on June 5 while travelling by motor bus from Laohokow to Hankow.—Reuter.
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  • 162 26 —Reuter. FIERCE FIGHTING LAST NIGHT. Jerusalem, June 8. A RAB snipers have taken up positions in war-time Turkish trenches on the hilltops three miles outside the city, from which they are ambushing Jewish buses. Armed police and a platoon of Highlanders were rushed to the scene
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  • 88 26 British Wireless. London. June 4. A new seir-contalned residential square on the waterfront, which is claimed to be the largest scheme of its kind in Europe, is nearing completion. It has a frontage of 400 feet along Grosvenor Road, overlooking the Thames and the
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  • 193 26 —Reuter. SMUGGLING RUINING CHINA CUSTOMS. “THIS INTOLERABLE SCANDAL.” London. June 4 TT has been ascertained that the British Government has requested the United States, Germany and France to combine in protesting to Japan concerning the smuggling in North China, in view of the unparalleled damage to
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  • 59 26 —Reuter. London, June 4. In view of the Budget Tribunal’s report, Mr. Alfred Bates has returned to the brokers cheques for the amount of the claims paid to him in connection with his Budget insurances At the same time, Mr Bates states that he adheres
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  • 198 26 Rodborough Aerodrome.—British Wireless. By Private Aeroplane To Exeter. London, June 3. The King received a very warm welcome on an informal tour today of his Duchy of Cornwall Estate. Large crowds gathered all along the route followed by the royal party, and a number of
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  • 205 26 —Reuter. throughout the United States.—British Wireless. King George V Memorial. London, June 3. The late King’s phrase “memoers of one great famly” was the theme of a broadcast address by Mr. Baldwin, commending the Lord Mayor’s Committee’s recommendations for a permanent memorial to King George between
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  • 579 28 —Reuter. “A NEW ECONOMIC REGIME.” Workers’ View Of Reforms To Be Introduced. PARIS, JUNE 8. AGREEMENT TO END THE FRENCH STRIKE WAS A REACHED at a midnight conference between REPRESENTATIVES OF EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS LAST NIGHT. The success of the industrial peace efforts is regarded as
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  • 149 28 —Reuter. Jerusalem, June 6. WEVER since the Arab strike started has the situation in Palestine looked so unpromising. Determined efforts are being made by the Arab Central Strike Committee to extend the stoppage to essential services, which are not yet seriously affected. Such extension would produce grave developments.
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  • 170 28 —Reuter. REFORMS IN SOVIET DICTATORSHIP. Moscow, June 5. AN All-Union Congress of the Soviet Party is being called to consider the Stalin report on the proposed new Soviet constitution. The project, which will bring a form of democratic election and Party rule to the Soviet, has already
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  • 169 28 Policy Towards Japan To Be Defined. Shanghai. June 8. Replying to the South-West. Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, the Nanking Premier, it is understood, states that the objects of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army are identical with those of the Central Government. However. anti-Japanese measures cannot be enforced. Gen. Chiang points
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  • 97 28 ing a formal reply.—Aneta-Trans-Ocean., Pessimistic View Taken In Tokio Tokio, June 7. The Domei news agency understands that the Japanese Government is awaiting Australia’s final reply to Japan’s protest against the increase In the Australian tariff on Japanese imports before invoking “trade safeguarding” laws against Australian
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  • 184 28 -Sin Chew Jit Poh. Ready To Strike At Canton. WARNING BY TOKIO EMBASSY. Shanghai. June 7. Mr. Wakasugi, spokesman of the Japanese Embassy, is reported to have notified the Nanking Foreign Office that the Japanese Government takes a serious view of the antiJapanese movement in South China, and
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  • 94 28 of the discoverer of radium.—Reuter Wireless. New Grades Of Ministers: Women Included. Paris, June 3. M. Leon Blum is forming a Government on an entirely new principle, divided into three grader of Ministers. Secretaries of State and Under-Secre-taries of State. Principal portfolios so far allotted are:
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  • 104 28 —Reuter. “The Real Wire-Puller In South China.” Tokio, June 7. The Hochi Shimbun asserts that Britain is the real wire-puller in the recent developments in South China stating tnat “her officials in Nanking and Hong Kong are playing an important role Thus Britain is adroitly controlling Nanking and
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  • 60 28 -Reuter. Cape Town, June 5. The German Consul, In an Interview, denied there was an extensive recruiting campaign in South West Africa for military service in Germany. He said what was being done was purely a routine matter and there was no suggestion the men
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  • 1065 30  -  By Windsor Lad. Kuala Lumpur, June 7. A SERIES of very close finishes, an accident in the second race of the day and a thunderstorm which came just before the running of the sprint event
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  • 80 30 (From Our Own Correspondent) Penang, June 7. The Penang Sports Club A team overwhelmed the Butterworth Recreation Club on the Padang today, scoring 208 for four in 105 minutes against 56. The chief scorers were Jeans 45, Miller 20, Ponsford 53 retired, Baker 39, Cooke 28 not out.
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  • 18 30 —Straits Times Photograph.
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  • 202 30 —Reuter. Tony Manero’s Record Four Rounds. Springfield. June 7. 'TONY Manero today won the United States open golf championship, nis scores for the four rounds being 73. 69. 73. 67. making a total of 282, which is a record, the previous best winning score teing 286. His
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  • 108 30 Reuter. Germany vs. Ireland In Semi-Final. London, June 7. The semi-finals of the European zone of the Davis Cup competition will be:— Germany vs. Ireland. Austria vs. France or Jugoslavia. Yesterday at Vienna Austria beat Belgium by four matches to one. Vienna, June 7. Germany yesterday entered
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  • 492 30 Corporal Kerr’s Great Effort At Tanglin. REAPING with a right ankle which he had dislocated the previous afternoon but which had been “put right by a Punjabi boot-boy at night, Corporal Kerr of Headquarter Wing of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, beat several competitors in the long jump
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  • 104 30 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, June 8. 117. A. Turner, the Australian jockey, broke a bone in his back when the pony Great Joy fell dead under him on Saturday, and he will never ride again. Turner is making as good progress as
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  • 641 31 Robust S. C. C. Defence Gave Away Two Penalties. MALAYS 4; S.C.C. 0. pRIDAY’S First Division match at Anson Road Stadium was dull and colourless for the most part. The Malays were complete masters of the situation throughout and won by four goals
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  • 776 31  -  By Leighton. R.A.F 2; CHINESE 2. being outplayed for the majority of the first half and after being two goals down at the interval the R.A.F. staged a thrilling recovery early in the second period of
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  • 443 31 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, June 2. EXCITING finals brought the annual Kajang tennis tournament to an end today. In the men’s open singles H. S. Haskins had to retire against A. W. S. Sim after being at match point. The elder man
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  • 642 32 Unexpected Victory For The United Services. •TTIE S.C.C. defeated the Sungei Ujong Club by 47 runs in a one innings match on the Padang on Saturday and Sunday. Arrangements were made to draw stumps early on Sunday so that the visitors could see the
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  • 595 32 English Cricket. Middlesex Fast Bowlers Play Havoc With Notts. London, June 5. A LTHOUGH rain interfered with all the matches started on Wednesday three were brought to a conclusion. The most surprising result was the defeat of Lancashire by Sussex at Manchester by six wickets after
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  • 275 32 SINGAPORE ISLAND CHAMPIONSHIP. Conditions Were Not Easy Owing To Lack Of Rain. DUNNER-UP for the Singapore Island golf championship last year R. J. Isherwood added this title to his Singapore G.C. title on Sunday at the Island Club returning Ihe excellent scores of 149
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  • The Straits Budget FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT
    • 407 1 Orders For Special Launches. Profit On Sale Of Investments. A DECIDED improvement in the marine department of Thornycroft (Singapore) Limited was reported at the annual general meeting held on June 5. The chairman, Mr. H. Elphick, intimated that orders for launches had been received from
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    • 143 1 The following particulars of operations of the under-mentioned companies for the month of May 1936, are iurnished by Anglo-Oriental (Malaya) Ltd. Hours Cu. Yds. Piculs Ampat Tin 1887 530,000 1,041 Anglo-Siamese Tin 340 21,000 136 Batu Selangor Tin 664 139,000 846 Jelapang Tin 551 95,000 1,120 Kampong Lanjut
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    • 18 1 The output of Talam Mines for the month of April, was 361.77 piculs of tin ore.
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    • 50 1 According to an amended statement issued by the Re-gistrar-General of Statistics yesterday, the exports of rubber from all Malayan ports during the month of May totalled 46,568 tons; the figure previously supplied was 45,647 tons The total exports for the five months ending May are 206,908 tons
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    • 58 1 nat* Spot June July-Sept. Oct.-Dec .Jan.-Mar. Apr.-June London 4 25 V. 25% 25% 25% 28 V. 27 7% 5 25% 25% 28 26% 26% 26% 7 3/16 g 25% 26 26% 26% 26% 27 7% 9 25% 26% 26% 26% 27 27% 7% l 5 25%
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    • 171 1 Singapore, June 11, 12 noon. Buyer. Seller Gambler 5.00 Java Cube 8.50 Hamburg 10 50 Whit Muntok Pepper 16.00 Black Pepper 8.00 White Pepper 15.50 *Sundried Copra 4.90 Mixed Copra 4.65 Sarawak Jelotong 0.00 Mixed Black Pepper Saigon A 1 $152 Rice Saigon No 1 $l4O Rice. Saigon No
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    • 149 1 The directors of Fraser and Neave Ltd., have declared an interim dividend of 3% per cent, on the cumulative preference shares and an Interim dividend of 15 cents per share on the ordinary shares, in respect of the financial year ending Dec. 31, 1930, payable on June 30. The
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    • 19 1 The output of Hitam Tin Ltd., for the month of May was 104 piculs of tin ore.
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    • 337 1 London. June 9. The following are todays closing middle prices on the London 3tocg exchange: Shares of £1 denomination unless otherwise stated: Tester- Rise day or Pall Conversion Loan, o p.c 1944-64 117 Vi bunding Loan 4 o.t 1960-90 116% War loan 3% p.c 105*4 Straits 6 p.c
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    • 62 1 A dividend of three per cent, leaa tax. on account of arrears on the 7 per cent cumulative preference shares of Tyre Investment Trust Ltd., which Is controlled by Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., nus been declared payable on June 18. When this payment has been made the
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    • 543 2 IMPROVED MAY STATISTICS. Stanton Nelson and Co., Ltd. In their weekly report of June 5 write:— The market opened cautiously after the holidays but became steadier during the week on more outside interest being shown with sellers reserved. The franc question together with strike situation in France
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    • 48 2 During the month of May the dredge of Katu Tin Dredging Ltd., worked for 581 hours; treated 141,000 cubic yards of material and produced 529 piculs of tin ore. The estimated cost of production is $13,300 which is equal to 9.43 cents per cubic yard.
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    • 812 2 SHARE REPORT OF FRASER CO. j Messrs. Fraser and Co., sharebrokers, in their report issued on June 10 write:— Market conditions locally have further deteriorated during the past week, and the general feeling of nervousness commented on in our last issue has been accentuated, chiefly owing to the unfavourable Press
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    • 129 2 THE Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association held its 1.280 th auction on Thursday when there were catalogued 308,471 lbs; offered 741,503 lbs; sold 480.257 lbs. Spot London 7V4d New York 15% cts. PRICES REALISED Standard quality 25% (A few >ots 25% > Good average quality 25%
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    • 16 2 The output of Rambun Tin Mines Tanjong Rambutan, for Mav was 316 Pikuls.
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    • 89 2 Foreign imports of tin ore into the Straits Settlements during May amounted to 1,754 tons. Of this amount, 220 tons were received from Burma; 2 tons from Netherlands Indies; 159 tons from French Indo China; 72 tons from Japan; 1,133 tons from Siam; 19 tons from
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    • 94 2 Foreign imports of rubber, i n dry tons, into the Straits Settlemerits, during May totalled 12J527 tons. Of this amount, 4J941 tons were received from Sumatra; 1,918 tons from Dutch Borneo; 181 tons from Java and other Dutch Islands; 74 tons from Brunei; 318 tons from Burma;
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    • 327 2 Increased Dividend Forecast For 1936. The annual general meeting of Broga Rubber Estates Ltd. was held in Kuala Lumpur on June 6. Mr G. Shelton Agar, a director, presided in the ab sence of Mr. C. R. Thurstan. In proposing the adoption of tin’ report and
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    • 108 2 During the month of May the dredge of North Taiping Tin Dredging Ltd., worked for 659 hours, treated 134,000 cubic yards of material and produced 157 piculs of tin ore. Klang River Tin dredge worked for 554 hours, treated 94,000 cubic yard" and produced 701 piculs of tin
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    • 943 3 (INCORPORATED IN QUEENSLAND) RAUB. PAHANG. F.M.S. May 28th 1936. REPORT NO. 507. Hie Chairman Directors. The Ranh Australian Gold Minin; Co., Ltd. SINGAPORE. Si. pear Sirs. Herewith is the Report of the Raub Aus- I tralian Gold Mining Co., Ltd. for the four
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    • 211 3 DIVIDEND OF THREE PER CENT. The annual general meeting 01 the Ayer Hitam Planting Syndicate Ltd. was held at Kuala Lumpur on May 20, Mr. P. H. Mustard, the chairman, presiding In proposing the adoption of the report and accounts for the year ended Mar. 31. 1936,
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    • 37 3 Ocean shipments of rubber, including latex, Revertex, and concentrated latex, for the month of May from Malayan ports, totalled 46,568 tons, making the total shipments for the five months ending May 31, 206,908 tons.
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    • 74 3 In the Straits Times on June 2. a report 01 the annual meeting of Larut Tin Fields Ltd. was published. In the introductory paragraph a reference was made to a property in Siam which this company had acquired Jointly with other companies. It was state' that this
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    • 85 3 Foreign shipments of tin, being final shipments on ocean steamers, at all Malay an ports during May totalled 7£61 tons. Of these shipments 217 tons went to United Kingdom; 5£15 tons to United States of America; I£9B tons to Continent of Europe; 341 tons to British Possessions;
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    • 71 3 —Straits Times Cable. INCREASED REVENUE FOR 1935. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, June 5. The report of the Governor and directors of British North Borneo Chartered Company states that the total revenue for the year 1935 was £348,935 as compared with £333,761 for 1934. The total
      —Straits Times Cable.  -  71 words
    • 298 3 Good Results Of Manuring. The annual general meeting of Allenby Rubber Company Ltd was held in Kuala Lumpur on May 23, Mr. F. G. Souter, the chairman, presiding In proposing the adoption of the report and accounts for the year the chairman said:— You will have seen
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    • 35 3 The output of rubber by New Bcudal, Ltd. for the month of May amounts to 29,700 lb. making a total of 58,800 lb. for the two months of the current financial year.
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    • 202 3 DREDGE TO RE-START OPERATIONS. The annual general meeting of shareholders of Kundang Tin Dredging Limited was held In Kuala Lumpur. Mr. A. A. Henggeler presided and. In proposing the adoption of the directors’ report and the accounts for the year ended Dec. 31. 1935, said Regarding accounts,
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    • 247 3 The annual general meeting of Peraic OH Palms Ltd. was held In Kuala Lum-*> pur on Saturday. Mr G. Shelton Agar, the chairman, presiding. In proposing the adoption cf the report and accounts for the eleven months ended Dec. 31. 1935. the chairman said:— It Is
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    • 114 3 During the week ending May 30, exports of tinned pineapples from Malayan ports amounted to 118.624 cases. of which: 91.811 (77 per cent.) cases were to the United Kingdom. 7,062 (6 per cent.) cases to the Continent of Europe. 15.412 (13 per cent.) cases to Canada,
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    • 609 4 London Exchange Prices On May 28. Allagar (2/) 1/5; Alor Pongsu (2/) 2/}% I Angla-Malay (£1) 13/3; Ayer Kuning (£1) 31/10%; Basan Serai (£1) 15/9; Banru (Sel.) (2/) 2/11; Banteng (£1) 20 3; Batang (2/) 1/; Batu Caves (£1) 21/; Batu Tiga (£1) 17/6; Bek oh (2/) 1
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    • 168 4 London Exchange Prices On May 28. Ampat (4/) 4/9; Anglo-Burma (5/) 14/3; Ayer Hitam (5/) 13/9; Bangrln (£1) 15/6; Gopeng Cons. (£1) 1 31/32; Hongkong (5/) 15/3; Idris (5/) 6/3; Ipoh (16/) 29/3; Kampong Lanjut (£1) 17/6; Kamunting <5/) 11/9 Kepong (£1) 15/; Kinta (5/) 11/3; Kinta Kellas
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    • 19 4 4 Tin, S pore Price $92 per picul 5 95 8 93 9 91% 10 *1
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    • 1528 4 Issued by Fraser and Co. and Lyall and Evatt Exchange and Stock Brokers. Singapore, June 10, 10 a.m. mining! issue Vai Frasei Co Ljah Evan issue Vai Fraser Si Co. LyaiJ St Evatt Buyers Sellers Buyers Seilers Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Ampat Tin 3/6 4/3cd 3/9 4/6cd
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