Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 31 March 1933

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTABLISHED 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 74. Vol. LXXXXI. FRIDAY, 31st MARCH, 1933. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 1085 1 Airman in Penang MISHAP AT ALOR STAR CAUSES SLIGHT DELAY On Pleasure Bent Mr. Carl Nauer, the well-known Swiss sports-fix er, is not out on a pr< g-aganda stunt but there can be no doubt that he is out to show the world that Switzerland, too,
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  • 72 1 Reduced Fee The Secretary for Postal Affairs, S.S. and F.M.S., announces that With effect from the Ist April, 1938, the Air Mai! fee for correspondence to Great Britain and Europe generally by Dutch Air Mail Service will be reduct'd from 50 cents per half ounce to
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  • 98 1 .—Reuter. Last Page Not Yet Written London, March 31. It is too soon to say that the League has been inefficacious in the Far Eastern dispute, declared Sir Austen Chamberlain at a League of Nations Union meeting at i Southampton. The last page of
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  • 79 1 several seriously. —Rugby Radio Service. Methylated Spirits Tank 1 KILLED 21 INJURED London, March 30. A violent explosion occurred at Mitcham, Surrey, to-day when a tank containing hundreds of gallons of methylated spirits blew up at the lavender distillery of Messrs. Bush. Twenty-four houses in neighbouring
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  • 54 1 Reuter Wireless. Government to Secure Mergers Washington, March 25. The Government shortly intends to secure the merging of all American railways into six or seven regional groups, according to political circles here. It is statea that dictators of railways will be established under Federal Co-ordinator with the object
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  • 38 1 —Reuter Wireless. Paris, March 25. A great success is claimed for the first instalment of the three milliard francs of the new national 10 milliard franc loan. It is stated that 5 milliards was subscribed.
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  • 100 1 Rugby Radio Service. Ambassador Called To London GOVERNMENT ATTENTION London, March 30. The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the whole subject of the arrested employees of the Metropolitan--Vickers Company in Moscow is receiving the most serious and urgent attention
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  • 62 1 Reuter Wireless. Dacoit Leader Killed Lahore, March 25. The notorious dacoit leader, Juggoo, was literally hoist with his own petard today. He was escaping from the police at Patiala when he tripped and fell and the bomb he was carrying exploded and killed him on
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  • 49 1 .—Reuter. Negotiations Concluded London, March 30. Reuter understands that negotiations have been concluded for a direct London to Shanghai wireless service operating at the end of the summer. The Shanghai installation will be British and will be financed from the proceeds of the Boxer Indemnity Fund.
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  • 56 1 .—Reuter. Refusal To Reduce Production UNTIL AMERICANS ARE CONTROLLED Paris, March 30. A breakdown in the International Oil Conference with a return to cut-throat competition and a further collapse in prices is feared as a result of the Rumanian producers refusing to further reduce production until the
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  • 122 1 .—Reuter. Japanese Naval Planes Disaster Tokio, Mar. 30. Three persons are dead and two or three are missing as the result of a mid-air collision between two naval planes during flying practice this morning near Yokohama. One of the machines plunged into the sea and the other
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  • 56 1 of ships are affected by the order. —Reuter Wireless. Estimates for Reconstruction of 21 Units Rio de Janeiro, March 25. The Minister for Marine has instructed the Naval Engineers’ Department to draw up estimates for the reconstruction of 21 units of the Brazilian Navy. Various types of ships
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  • 41 1 19. —Reuter Wireless. Bank of Italy’s Action New York, March 25. The Bank of Italy has withdrawn an additional $8,500,000 of earmarked gold from the Federal Reserve Bank, making a total of $17,000,000 withdrawn since March 19. —Reuter Wireless.
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  • 58 1 —Reuter. Conference with Mr. MacDonald London, March 30. Mr. Norman Davies, the principal United States delegate to the Disarmament Conference who is en route to Geneva from Washington, conferred with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald for an hour this morning and will meet again this afternoon. It is understood
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  • 384 1 Ambassador in Berlin. —Rugby Rauio S< rvice. Question In British Parliament GOVERNMENT'S DIFFICULT POSITION London, March 30. References to the treatment of Jews in Germany were made in both Houses of Parliament to-day. During a discussion of foreign affairs in the House of Lords, Viscount Cecil said
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  • 46 1 There was a violent slump on the Bourse, millions of marks worth of securities being thrown an to the market by Jews rushing to realise in anticipation of the Nazi boycott. Meanwhile leading members of the government are participating in efforts at conciliation.
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  • 119 1 Reuter. No Failure of Engines Brussels, March 30. The City of Liverpool air crash was not due to any failure of its engines. This is the chief conclusion of the preliminary inquiry held at the scene of the disaster which was communicated to the Cabinet by M.
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  • 782 3 Total Of £391,000,000 Required PROVISION FOR “DOLE” DEFERRED Details of the estimated expenditure of the Civil and Revenue Departments in the next financial year are given in a Vote on Account issued on February 24 as a Whitepaper. The sum required on account is £156,423,000, representing
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  • 495 3 “Husband Was In Her Mother’s Hands” JUDGE AND SUGGESTION OF FRAUD Judgment was given in the Probate Court in the action concerning the will of Mr. John Byers Maxwell, a former London editor of a provincial newspaper, who was alleged to have gone through
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  • 173 3 Thousands of Men to be Employed Again The decision of the directors of the skinningrove Iron Co., Ltd., to reopen their works next month wdll mean that thousands of men unemployed in Cleveland (Yorkshire) will be found work. The works have been idle for
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  • 110 3 When Man Held Thirteen Spades What is thought to be the world s “record” loss in contract bridge for one hand was suffered in Malvern on Saturday, 11th February, by a man who held thirteen spades in his hand. Mr. S. S. Sargeant, of Glenferrie road, Malvern,
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  • 232 4 Fixtures For To-morrow ASTON VILLA TO VISIT HIGHBURY STADIUM The following are the matches to be played to-morrow in the English and Scottish Leagues. DIVISION 1 Arsenal v Aston Villa Birmingham v Sheffield U. Blackburn R. v Leicester C. Blackpool v Bolton W. Derby County v Liverpool
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  • 209 4 Chin—Cheong A pretty wedding in the reform style took place at the Chinese Town Hall yesterday, the contracting parties being Mr. Chin Kong Liang, third son of Mr. and Mrs. Chin Khong Hon, and Miss Cheong Lye Hoong, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cheong Yew Chee. Both
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  • 94 4 Director of Local Companies Cabled information has been received from London of the death on Wednesday, of Mr. C. R. Hoare, who is a director of several local companies, including the Pen-' ang Rubber Estates, Ltd., Straits Rubber Co., Ltd., The Sabrang Rubber Estate,
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  • 710 4 Mr. R. J- W. Brown, Lyall and Evatt, Singapore, and Mrs. Brown have left for Home. The acting Resident Councillor of Malacca, Mr. N. K. Bain, arrived in Malacca on Wednesday. Mr. Alan J. Doxsey of Banda Bharu, Kedah, is proceeding on home leave via China, Japan
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    • 292 4 super attractions for your entertainment. wembley showing to-night cycledrome cycling round a perpendicular wall and other hair raising stunt»- it is more difficult to do it on a bicycle than on a motor cycle, absolutely brand new attraction for penang. admission 30 cents only, children half price, tan hong seah
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    • 127 4 I HIR E I PIANO I' i Zill/ /I JaLJJ WHY BE WITHOUT A PIANO WHEN YOU CAN HIRE A BEAUTIFULLY TONED INSTRUMENT FOR I $lO 00 PER MONTH. ROBINSON PIANO CO. 31, BISHOP STREET, PENANG. &lt;r\oO^'' VCn fl 9 r and everything’s set for a good evening when the
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    • 108 4 1 ’Phone 264 7] 6.15 OPENING TO-NIGHT 9.30 RICHARD BARTHELMESS f THE FAMOUS STAR OF DAWN PATROE IN FIRST ’NATIONAL’S BRILLIANT PICTURE 1 ALIAS THE DOCTOR" A DARING AND UNUSUAL STORY 1 FROM THE WELL-KNOWN VIENNESE PLAY with MARIAN MARSH and Splendid Cast. ALSO VITAPHONE MUSICAL SHORTS AND Travelogue ROAD
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    • 103 5 A Marvellous buying opportunity and a great show! WHITE AWAYS MONSTER AFTER STOCK-TAKING BARGAIN EVENT for one month Commencing Monday, April 3rd COME ALONG NOW and see what you during I this big sale of Better Bargains. Hundreds of Odd, Discontinued and Excess Lines, Regular Stocks and NewGoodsall marked at
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  • 209 6 Theft Sentence On Pardoned Man SAVED WARDER AT DARTMOOR London, Mar. 12. George Edward Norman Graham, a man whose sentence was remitted on account of assistance he rendered to warders in the Dartmoor Prison mutiny, appeared at Brighton on a charge of theft. He was. sentenced to
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  • 383 6 New Method Of Selecting Legislators The view that it would be reasonable to demand that prospective members of Parliament should require to undergo intelligence tests in order to determine their capacity to fulfil the duties of the position 1 was expressed by Dr. R. H. Thouless,
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  • 101 6 “De Valera’s Talk Leaves Me Cold When Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, return to London, after a three weeks’ cruise in the Mediterranean, he told an Evening Standard representative De Valera’s talk about a united Ireland leaves me cold. We have had a lot
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  • 439 6 Mr. MacDonald on Local and National Tasks AN APPEAL TO PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE The reported threatened boycott of the Prime Minister by the Labour Party of London County Council was not carried into effect—-at all events by the leader of the party and three other members—when
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  • 181 6 Capt. Neville Stack’s Party Uninjured Baghdad, March 9. The Spartan three-engined aeroplane which was coming to inaugurate the new’ civil air service, crashed at Ramada, 70 miles from here. All the occupants escaped uninjured, but the machine was wrecked. The occupants were Captain Neville Stack
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  • 47 6 It is estimated that more than 4,000 British Boy Scouts will attend the great World Jamhoree at Goedoello, seventeen miles from Budapest, this summer. They wall have in their special camp their own broadcasting station, daily newspaper, cinema theatre and police force.
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    • 382 6 Six Pint Bl ancman es ready fl av ure d X. Brown Polson’s Flavoured Corn Flour is a great idea. lt saves time, labour and money because you can make delicious blancmanges and pudding sauces in a moment with only one minute’s boiling. You now have the Resident Agents: famous
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    • 89 6 THE IDEAL FOOD FOR THE TROPICS The Nourishment A Child Receives From Breast Milk And HUMANISED TRUFOOD Is Virtually Identical. EACH TIN STAMPED WITH DATE YOUR SAFEGUARD. HUMANISED OBTAINABLE FROM ALL CHEMISTS AND HIGH CLASS STORES. o SOLE AGENTS FOR MALAYA THE DISPENSARY (1929) LTD.. BISHOP STREET. PENANG. ft «to
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  • 135 7 Wholesale English Changes FOUR NEW CAPS London, March 27. The teams for this season’s final soccer International, on which depends the destination of the championship, show that the English selectors have made wholesale changes forward. The Scottish selectors have called in two Anglo-Scots for the team to meet
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  • 208 7 Championship Qualifying Round The following is the draw of the qualifying round of the Championship on Sunday, ■2nd April. STARTING TIME Aird and Cassy 8.15 Shand and Fenwick 8.20 Fiddes and Hutton 8.25 Anderson and Goodman 8.30 Rees and McKinstery 8.35 Aston and Carmichael 8.40 K. A.
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  • 58 7 P. C. C. vs. Laßrooy’s XI The following will represent Laßrooy’s team agamst the P.C.C. on Saturday on the Esplanade Cheng Hock, Boon Soon, W. Williams, A. S. Williams, F. Reuters, S. Stuart, H. M. Thomasz, P. Foley, M. Orr, M. Saravanamuttu and F. C. D. Laßrooy. Scorers :—Dr.
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  • 70 7 Two Titles for “Bunny” Austin London, March 25. In the Queen’s Club Covered Courts Championship finals, Austin beat Lee 11'9, 8-6, 7-5. Mlle Jedrze Jowska beat Miss Nuthall 6-0, 4-6, 6-3. Miss Ingram and Miss Stammers defeated Mrs. Michell and Mrs. Godfree 7-5, 6-1. Perry and Miss
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  • 266 7 Annual Meeting To-day MR. CAVENDISH TO ADDRESS MEMBERS The ninth annual general meeting of the members of the Penang Government Servants’ Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society, Limited, will be held this afternoon at the Survey Office Hall at 4.30 p.m. Mr. R. H. McCleland,
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  • 277 7 The Robot In Modern Life An “automatic ’bus conductor” has been set up at a stopping place in the centre of Prague. It consists of a large machine, similar to those from which cigarettes and chocolates are obtained, for selling tickets. At present this machine is merely an
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  • 159 7 How Tobacco Smugglers were Caught A leap by a Singapore revenue patrol in mid-ocean from their motor-boat into a sampan being sailed at top speed on March 20 was described by Assistant Supervisor Tan Ewe Chee at the trial of two Chinese for the possession of dutiable tobacco.
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  • 1563 7 Aim For National SelfSufficiency AN INDEPENDENT PRICE LEVEL Berlin, February 28. The counter-revolution’s economic policy —in general, a bizarre confusion of Capitalism and Bolshevism—is unambiguous in the one matter of foreign trade policy. Autarchy, in the sense of the greatest possible exclusion of foreign goods and an
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  • 288 7 District Grand Master Installed As a result of the recent retirement of the Hon. Mr. Justice P. J. Sproule, who was the District Grand Master of the Eastern Archipelago (English Constitution), an important Masonic function took place in the Memorial Hail, Singapore, on Saturday, when Mr. G. W.
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  • 484 8 In the matter of our duty towards our neighbour this is a testing time for every one of us. When we are prosperous charity is an easy, and even a self-flattering thing when affairs go ill with ourselves we begin to realise the wealth or poverty of our attitude
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  • 224 8 There is no doubt about the public support which the Government will enjoy in its decision, announced last month, to suppress the totalisator used for betting in clubs. It is recognised that the so-called tote clubs,” which have rapidly increased in number, are simply gambling clubs run
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  • 820 8 Desmond Evans had just gone up to Oxford, and he still did all those things which somehow make sensitive Third Year men squirm. He still dutifully carried a gown with him wherever he went in the evening, he wore a woollen college scarf, and he had not
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  • 993 8 CORDON TATTOO SPECTACLE More than 2000 soldier actors are short! to begin rehearsals for the presentation of a series of spectacles re-enacting Scen from the life and death of General Gord? 8 This has been chosen appropriately f or th central feature of the Aidershot Tatt™ which
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    • 325 8 Are you still using your throat as a filter When tobacco is burnt, harsh irritants are inevitably produced. If the cigarettes you smoke are not filter-tipped, jhen^your^throat Aiist the filter. With the impurities filtered out. you p ocect your throat from irritation? and enioy to the -full the fine fragrance
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  • 5121 9 Advantages Of Internal Free Trade Outweighed By External Loss BALANCE OF OPINION AGAINST UNION No Considerable Benefits The following is the full text of the report of the Committee of ten officials appointed by H.E. the Governor to examine the practicability and desirability of
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  • 373 9 .—Reuter. Protest Tg Foreign Office CONSTERNATION IN SHIPPING CIRCLES London, Mar. 30. The council of the Mercantile Marine Service Association, representing British certificated shipmasters and navigating officers, has protested to the Foreign Office against the capture of the officers of the Nanchang and urging that steps be
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  • 176 9 —Reuter. Former Air Director MINISTERS AS j WITNESSES Paris, Mar. 30. The sensational trial of a former French air director in which M. Painleve, General Weygand and the former Ministers, in M. Herriot, Tardieu, Pietri and Guernier, appeared as witnesses, ended to-day when Andre Bouilloux Lafont was
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  • 69 9 —Rugby Radio Service. Opened by the King London, March 30. The new extension of the National Portrait Gallery was to-day opened by His Majesty the King, who, accompanied by the Queen, drove to the Gallery from the Buckingham Palace in an open carriage drawn by
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  • 54 9 Oxford and Asquith.—Rugby Radio Service. Motion in House of Commons London. March 30. The House of Commons wull on Tuesday consider a motion for an address to the King for the erection of a memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey to the late Lord Oxford
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  • 40 9 —Rugby Radio Service. Met by Representative of Foreign Secretary London, March 30. When Mr. Arthur Henderson, President of the Disarmament Conference, reached London to-day from Geneva, he was met by a representative of the Foreign Secre- tary.-
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  • 40 9 Reuter. Hertzog and Smuts Unite Pretoria, March 30. General Hertzog has resigned ahd reformed a Cabinet evenly divided between the South African and the Nationalist paxties. General Hertzog is Premier and General Smuts Minister of Justice.-
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  • 30 9 —Reuter. Dublin, March 30. As a result of the discussion between the company’s and the trades, unions the Irish railways strike has been virtually settled.
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  • 34 9 Rugby Radio Service. Received by Pope London, March 30. The newly-appointed tsritish Minister to the Holy See, Sir Robert Clive, was today received in audience by the Pope.—
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  • 100 9 TlN—Spot YESTERDAY TO-DAY London £l5l-2-6 £l5l-2-6 TIN—(3 Months) London £152-0-0 £152-0-0 Singapore $78.25 *578.12 1 Business Done Penang $78.12 V 2 Business Done Buyers No sellers COPRA—(Sundried) 53 90 3 85 BLACK PEPPER $16.50 $16.50 RUBBER London 2^ d 2 d New York Singapore 6 cts 6 A
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  • 64 9 u.—Reuter. Washington, March 29. A Bill for the creation of fifty million dollars central farm mortgage bank backed by Government has been introduced in the Senate by Senator McAdoo. WORK FOR 250,000 Washington, March 30. The House of Representatives passed the Bill which the Senate passed
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    • 125 9 i— PRITCHARDS —1 ANNOUNCE A SPECIAL SHOW OF “&lt;3)iana Stuart" GOWNS and MILLINERY FROM MONDAY, APRIL 3rd. TO THURSDAY, APRIL 6th. The designer of the gowns wilt attend in person and every garment will be the latest in design. The PRICES we can guarantee will be particularly LOW to meet
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  • 1652 10 RECEPTION AND SOCIETY NOTES—THE HOLY YEAR—SMOOTH REACTION CONTROL—THE BOAT RACE RFLAY—NEW VALVES—BUCKLING BATTERY PLATES o (By the Penang Wireless Society) RECEPTION NOTES There was a slight improvement in the reception conditions last few days, as the Empire Station coulu be logged quite easily at the beginning of its transmission.
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  • CORRESPONDENCE
    • 511 10 (To the Editor of the “Pinang Gazette). Sir, —The avowed purpose of the Malayan governments in relation to their policy giving effect to the Ottawa resolutions, which not only ensured Britain’s hold on the Dominion markets, but provided her with a bargaining weapon of inestimable value, has really
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    • 1092 10 PRINCIPAL SHORT-WAVE BROADCASTING STATIONS (By THE PENANG WIRELESS SOCIETY.) In Order Of Wavelength Difference in time to Malaya. GENERAL INFORMATION. L H statio Is 7.4 41,891 La Turbie. France I-.-, I 9.8 30,602 Coltano, Italy |IAG 13.04 23,006 Malabar, Java (PLZ 13.92 21,540 1 Saxonburg, Penn., U.S.A. £1? 2J732 BuentrU;er“
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  • 880 11 BISHOP’S ANNUAL REPORT Financial Difficulties During 1932 The report of the Bishop of Singapore, to be presented to the annual Diocesan Conference is as follows: The conclusion of my report for 1931 cautiously expressed the hope that the following twelve months would witness a turn of
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    • 1197 11 SHORT-WAVE RECEPTION TIMES PREPARED BY THE PENANG WIRELESS SOCIETY Midnight 1 2 3 4 5 a. m. 6 a. m. 5 p m. 6 p. m. 7 p. m. 8 p. m. 9 p. m. 10 p. m. 11 p. m. 1 a. m. 2 a. m. 3 a. m.
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  • LATEST COMMERCIAL NEWS
    • 969 12 Chairman’s Review LOSS FOR THE YEAR OF £1,300 The Twenty-fourth Annual General Meeting of the Krian Rubber Plantations Company Limited was held on Wednesday, the Ist March, 1933, at the Registered Offices of the Company, Ceylon House 49 51, Eastcheap, E.C., Mr. T. B. Barlow (the Chairman
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    • 252 12 1 Feb., Feb.. Total T-t.il Company. 1933. 1934. current last year. year. I Lbs- Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Batavia j (Kerkhoven) 26,200; 61,900(2) I 48,600 Batu Lintang 62,1001 j 563,000(8) 591,600 Brit R. Ests. I ot Java (252,400 I 521,200(2) I 504,700 Ceylon Tim- 111 i ber R.
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    • 426 12 j Messrs. William Jacks and Co., reported on March 8, as follows: Leading U.S. Authorities consider that the present crisis means that Commodities and Securities have now reached their lowest point in the World depression, but to ensure this it will be necessary for our American friends
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    • 1491 12 New Factory Opened By Sultan CEREMONY AT ULU REMIS La yang Layang, formerly one of the best rubber producing areas in the country is now being developed for oil palm production. This week H. H. the Sultan of Johore, who w’as accompanied by the Sultanah,
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    • 133 12 Latest Quotations Thursday Wednesday Paris 87 5|16 86 15 16 New York 3.43 3.41% Montreal 4.12% 4.13% Brussels 24.59% 24.50% Geneva 17.79% 17.71% Amsterdam 8.51 8.48 Milan 66 13|16 66 9|16 Berlin 14.38% 14.32% Stockholm 18.90 18.10 Copenhagen 22 7,16 22 7 16 0810 19% 19%
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    • 30 12 SELLING MADE EASY—Times are hard but prke e S n s°end ed l tO thro *away pr«:e. Send along a small advertisement to the Gazette” and dLpose of u a
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    • 204 12 .0 Ik, i TOBRATCO SO EASY TO WASH! L so HARD TO WEAR offT A TOOIAL PRODUCT HAVE you bought your TOBRALCO? Directly you touch Tobralco you are conscious of its aualitw its beautiful weave; its firm texture. It proves a wood Si economy in sunny climates—and it washes so
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  • 592 13 Schedule of Principal Lines The following is a list of vessels arriving jmd sailing from Penang during the week: IN PORT TO-DAY ss HAMBURG MARU from Singapore for Rangoon and Calcutta. M s. LALANDIA from Europe via Colombo. Sails to-day for Port Swettenham, Malacca, Singapore and
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  • 419 13 MARCH, 1933 MARCH 31 Government Servants’ Co-Operative Thrift and Loan Society, Ltd., ninth annual general meeting, Survey Office Hall, Government Buildings, Penang, 4.30 p.m. Taiping Tin Dredging Co., Ltd., annual meeting, Messrs. Henry Waugh Co., Ltd., Noon. The North Taiping Tin Dredging Co., Ltd., annual meeting, Messrs.
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  • 926 13 The Post Office notifies that a telegram from the G. P. O. London says that the mail despatched from Penang on March. 10 by the s.s. “J. van Oldenbarnevelt” was delivered in London on March 30. OUTWARD DUTCH AIR MAIL The Agents notify that the Outward Dutch Aeroplane
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  • 333 13 P olice Escort Eluded RAILWAY STATION DRAMA London, Mar. 11. A police constable’s eitorts to save the life of a prisoner who escaped from his custody and leapt in front of an oncoming train at Chichester railway station, was described at the inquest
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  • 312 14 Court Story Of Gas And Clock Device CHARGE AGAINST ELECTRICIAN London, March 10. “A remarkable contraption of wires connecting a gas tap, a clock, and an electric light switch, was alleged, at Highgate Police Court, to have been found on partially burned premises. Leonard
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  • 387 14 Evidence Of Drugs Taken For Insomnia London. March 9. Death by misadventure, by an overdose of a narcotic or the combination of three narcotics,” was the verdict on Hilda Barber (62), wife of Ernest Walter Barber, of Ila, Salisbury Road. Moseley, who died at her home on
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  • 266 14 To End with a Talk on the Wireless London, March 11. Plans for the Prince of Wales’s threeday visit to Scotland, which starts, on Mar. 29, in Glasgow, have been carefully worked out, and the whole of the time-table has been designed to enable the
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  • 262 14 Belfast Coroner Appeals for Information Belfast, Mar. 10. An inquest was opened here on Constable John Ryan, of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, who was shot dead by members of an armed gang, following an attack on Great Northern railway lorries on February 28. The attack of the gangsters
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  • 196 16 —Reuter. Two Wickets In Opening Over NEW ZEALAND TEST Auckland, March 31. mi was a sensational start o T d T Zr m atch, and the last game of SCC °MCC tour, here to-day, Bowes, who the bowling with. Allen, clean bowlinAT Muis and Weir with
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  • 87 16 Second Division Match The Second Division League match between the P.R.C. *B’ and the Penang Teachers was played yesterday, on the Dato Kramat ground and resulted in a win for the P.R.C. ‘B’ by the odd goal in three. The match was played
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  • 65 16 Bowls Results The following are the results of matches played yesterday, in the P.C.C. Bowls Tournament: Teams of Three:—E. James, Mrs. Dawson and J. A. McEvoy 4-3 beat C. McLeod Craik, Miss Buntin and G. S. Anderson 4-7, 21—14. L. M. Norris, Mrs. Dodd and O. R.
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  • 66 16 C. R. C. vs. P. R. C. The following will represent the C.R.C. in the above match on the Esplanade, on Sunday 2nd April, at 10.15 a.m. Oh Eng Leong (Capt.), Oh Chong Seng, Tan Ah Ee, Eu Cheow Teik, Ng Teik Lee, Tan Boon Beng, Boey Seng Poe,
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  • 35 16 —Reuter. London, March 30. The following are results of matches played to-day in the English League: DIVISION I Leicester C. 3, Blackpool 0. DIVISION HI (Northern Section) Doncaster R. 5, Halifax T. 1.
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  • 97 16 BOXING NOTES BY “SECONDS OCT” I had an interview with Joe Fernandez ■who arrived to-day by the s.s. Kedah and he wishes me to state to the public of Penang that, according to the writer of the Boxing to be held at the Fun Frolic, in
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  • 691 16 Annual Meeting BALANCE of 546.659 carried forward The fifteenth annual general meeting of shareholders of The Taiping Tin Dredging Company, Limited, was held at noon to- a.; at the registered offices of the No. 33, Beach Street, Penang. Mi. D.A.al Brown. Chairman and Managing Director
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  • 602 16 14th Annua! Meeting BALANCE OF $22,C00 CARRIED FORWARD The fourteenth annual general meeting of the shareholders of The North Taiping Tin Dredging Company, Limited, was held at 12.15 pm. to-day, at the registered offices of the Company, No. 33. Beach Street, Penang, with Mr.
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  • 129 16 Meeting Postponed Owing to the lack of a quorum the halfyearly meeting of the Penang Teachers’ Co-Operative Thrift and Loan Society, Ltd., which was called for yesterday at the Anglo-Chinese School in Maxwell Road had to be postponed to April 7, at the same time and place.
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  • 657 16 TO-DAY’S PRICES The following were the latest quotation* in MESSRS. KENNEDY Co.’s share list at 11 a.m. to-day. Yesterday To-day Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers MINING Ayer Hitam 10 9 ll)3ex’o 9 ll|3ex Bangrin 10 9 113 10 9 113 Batu Caves 35 40 35 40 Gopeng
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  • 263 16 $25,000 DAMAGE T wenty-Three Houses Destroyed (From Our Own Correspondent). Sungei Patani, Mar. 30. The Sungei Patani Police Fire Brigade had another call on Thursday morning, about 3 a.m. when a big blaze broke out in a row of houses situated beyond the Sungei Patani
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  • 57 16 PENANG, MARCH 31 (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank l On London Bank Demand 2)3 23|32 »&gt; 4 m|ts 2|3 13] 16 Hongkong T.T. 42% dis. nom Private 3 m|ts credit 2|4 3 Documentary 2|4 I|B On New York Bank Demand 39% France T.T. 990n0m India T.T. 152% nom
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    • 18 16 POSITION VACANT WANTED an experienced Watch Maker. Please apply with testimonials to Box No. 32, c/o Pinang Gazette.
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 105 16 WIRELESS To-day’s Programme Call Signs: G.S.B. G.S.E. Wavelengths: 31.5 metres, 25.28 metrec&gt; P.M. 9.50 ,f fig Ben C The News 10.05 Talk: "Leaders in O*h?r Lands’" Mr. Vernon Bartleti (Blattnerphone-Stille Process»; 10.25 Variety 11.10 Interlude Gramophone Records The Band of H.M. Welsh Guards Tarantelle de Concert Parade of the Tin
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