Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 1 April 1933
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Title Section20 1933-04-01 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTABLISHED 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 75. Vol. LXXXXI. SATURDAY, Ist APRIL, 1933 PRICE 10 CENTS20 words
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598 1933-04-01 1 Total Deficit Of £32,279,000 UNANTICIPATED PAYMENT OF AMERICAN DEBT INSTALMENT £30,000,000 Saving A remarkably sound budgetary position was revealed by the publication of the year’s revenue and expenditure statistics. The total deficit of £32,279,000 includes the unanticipated payment of the American debt instalment inlie departments of £34,550,000.—Rugby Radio Service and Reuter. - 598 words
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Article83 1933-04-01 1 Sinks Chinese Junk At The Dindings (From Our Ovvn Correspondent) Singapore, April 1. The Master Attendant notifies the wreck of a Chinese junk sunk after collision with the s.s. Ipoh on the night of March 28 at the northern entrance to the Dindings 4° 27’ north83 words
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Article60 1933-04-01 1 —Reuter. Espionage as a Chief Charge New York, March 31. It is understood on high non-Soviet authority,” that Sir Esmond Ovey will not return to Moscow after his trip to London. According to the Herald-Tribune’s Moscow correspondent one of the chief charges gainst the arrested Britishers will be—Reuter. - 60 words
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Article46 1933-04-01 1 —Reuter. Canberra, March 31. Questioned in the House of Representatives on the subject of butter exports to Britain, Mr. Latham, Attorney-General, said that he understood that legislation would be introduced in the British House of Commons to-day, probably excluding Russian goods from Britain.-—Reuter. - 46 words
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Article380 1933-04-01 1 —Reuter. Latest Developments LAWYER DIES FROM BEATING Berlin, March 31. It is announced that the anti-Jewish boycott after beginning at 10 a.m. will be called off on Saturday evening till April 5. Announcing the calling off of the antiJewish boycott to-morrow evening Dr. Goebells, Minister for—Reuter. - 380 words
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Article91 1933-04-01 1 —Rugby Radio Service. Further Discussions In London WITH U.S. DELEGATES London, Mar. 31. Conversations between Norman Davis, chief United States delegate to the Disarmament Conference, and the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary were continued this afternoon. Further discussions on matters to be considered at the World—Rugby Radio Service. - 91 words
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Article250 1933-04-01 1 .—Reuter. Not In Definite Form TENTATIVE DRAFT London, March 31. It is authoritatively stated that the text now published in some newspapers of the so-called Four Power plan represents the first tentative draft produced for discussion by Signor Mussolini at a Rome meeting with Mr. Ramsay.—Reuter. - 250 words
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103 1933-04-01 1 —(RDV). Berlin, March. The German Institute of Music for Foreigners will again hold special courses for violin and piano from May 27th to August 12th in the Marble Palace and in thef Barberini Palace in Potsdam. The courses include both instruction and lectures by noted—(RDV). - 103 words
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85 1933-04-01 1 (HDV). Mainz, March. The programme of the Institute for Pedagogy, with headquarters in the Mainz Citadel, includes an international congress of the Montessori Society, which will be held from July 23rd to August 7th. Practical demonstrations will be given by Montessori classes from England, Italy,(HDV). - 85 words
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Article32 1933-04-01 1 Reuter. Death Roll Sixty New York, April 1. The death roll caused by the tornado is at least sixty, mostly in the Mississippi region. Hundreds are reported injured.—Reuter. - 32 words
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446 1933-04-01 1 SERIOUS REFLECTION ON JAPANESE CONTROL .—Reuter. The Newchwsng Piracy SECOND IN SEVEN MONTHS A Bandit's Revenge Shanghai, March 31. The Newchwang piracy is the sole topic of conversation here and the utmost anxiety is felt for the fate of the kidnapped British officers. The Japanese and Manchukuo authorities are exerting.—Reuter. - 446 words
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Article81 1933-04-01 1 —Reuter. Demonstrating a. New Machine Hong Kong, March 31. Mr. Ronald John Stevens, the test pilot of the Far East Aviation Company, was killed in a crash at Liuchow, Kwangs!. Stevens was demonstrating a ne\< machine in the capacity of aviation adviser to the Provincial Government when—Reuter. - 81 words
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Advertisement15 1933-04-01 1 7. NAGATA BROTHERS DENTISTS Head Office next to The Dispensary Branch Office 52, Leith Street15 words
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Advertisement1902 1933-04-01 2 RATES FOR CASUAL L„ WWWWW. oversea Chinese BANKS MILK BUNS i SANDING CORPORATION Thev are delicious, strengthening and nourishing. Price 5 Cents. BBS LIMITED. Why not try one |f Q (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements.) They are in great (temand now The Merccsn<* Bonk Hong Kong and All cQmfcluairfitions relating1,902 words
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Article450 1933-04-01 3 Tired Of Running It Alone ON NEW GOLDFIELD Nights Of Shooting Lions And Scaring Raiders A widow is in London to sell a whole town. Her identity is concealed in this announcement: Kenya Colony (about 100 miles from Kakamega Goldfields). The ORTLEPP TOWNSHIP (500450 words
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206 1933-04-01 3 If King Carol of Rumania gives permission for his son, the eleven-year-old Prince Michael, to be educated in England, Princess Helen may return to Rumania. This statement was made to the “Evening Standard by the secretary to Princess Lkn (who is King Carol’s former206 words
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Article297 1933-04-01 3 Joined In Carnival Festivities After The Crimes TROOPS PROTECT HIM FROM CROWD London, Mar. 8. Troops were called out to hold back the crowd on the square opposite the law courts at Agen (France) when, the trial began of 30-year-old Pierre Pelafait for the murder297 words
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Article360 1933-04-01 3 Inventions Containing The Seeds Of Destruction “The great discoveries of science are being used to increase the power of financial opportunists,” said Mr. R. R. Butler, Principal of the Technical College, Aston, at a meeting of the Birmingham and Midland Institute Scientific Society. Even in matters360 words
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Article215 1933-04-01 3 A Resident Erects His Own Lamp A Crawley (Sussex) resident, who lives on the main London-Brighton road, has provided his own street lighting. He has erected a lamp at the entrance to his house as a protest against the local authority’s inactivity in regard to215 words
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Advertisement80 1933-04-01 3 in the “p;. SALESMAN-—An advertisement one we<-L’ ng Gazette” is a tireless salesman From Iwirinv <,* anotfler talks business without (nnCnown w” CUS ‘ells your story ’«•rested reade7 OU -in^ r^? n° a wi<^e circ,e °f >n••utisf etn? an l ltS ,nflue nce is all the more 7, 'r", <•80 words
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Advertisement23 1933-04-01 3 It is a long lane that has no turning. An advertisement in the Pinang Gazette" will help to pul! you through dull times.23 words
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Advertisement497 1933-04-01 3 suffered unnecessary since I was 15” a zana tablets are a boon to such g r s as pa n at certa n periods. I have suffered these unnecessary pains since I was fifteen years of age, as a matter of course. Kalzana has done for me all it claims497 words
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87 1933-04-01 4 (RDV). Munich, March. Sir Thomas Beecham, the famous English Corduc‘or, will again take part in the 1 Wagner and Mozart Musical Festivals at Munich this year. He will conduct “Tristan and Isolde" at the Prinzre- 1 genten Theatre on August 17th; “The. (RDV). - 87 words
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Article94 1933-04-01 4 ;.—(RDV). Berlin, March. The high coefficacy of safety on the German Railway system is graphically illustrated by a placard in the exhibition “Reichsbahn and School," now open in Berlin. It depicts a man with white hair and beard which have grown over the w-hole;.—(RDV). - 94 words
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Article311 1933-04-01 4 "ALIAS THE DOCTOR Excellent Unusual Drama At Queen’s The ethics of this unusual picture is open to question, but the problem leads to good drama and fine suspense. Richard Barthelmess plays the lead with sincerity and conviction, and his restrained performance brings human interest to the theme. The atmosphere is311 words
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Article122 1933-04-01 4 Giap Khor Teong, against whom a charge of possessing 2 quarts of dutiable liquor was brought by the Government Monopolies Department on March 5, was yesterday discharged by order of the Police Magistrate, Mr. D. Wills. Accused alleged rough treatment at the hands of a Revenue Officer.122 words
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90 1933-04-01 4 -(RDV). Berlin, March. Copies of Pompeiian mural paintings, made by Reinhold Vetter of Leipzig, are being shown in the passage-way between the Old and New Museum here. Vetter and his wife, who is a chemist, worked four years to discover the secret of-(RDV). - 90 words
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Article88 1933-04-01 4 Xanten, March. Excavations on the Fuerstenberg near this old city on the Lower Rhine have disclosed that a row of shops formerly lined both sides of the Via Principalis, the “Main Street” of the camp of the Fifth and Fifteenth Legions of Rome, and that88 words
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Article512 1933-04-01 4 Mr J. V. Cowgill, Secretary to Resident, Perak, has left Taiping for Home on furlough. Flight-Lieut. J. D. Breakey and Mrs. Breakey returned to Singapore from a trip to Yokohama by the “Comorin Mr. D. J. Murnane, head of the Singapore Municipal Water Department, is going home512 words
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73 1933-04-01 4 (RDV). Eisenach, March. In the coming summer plays in the open air will be added to the various attractions of this Thuringian city. The “Wartburg Forest Theatre,” now nearing completion, will have 2,000 seats and 3,000 standing places. The dramas to be given will include(RDV). - 73 words
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Article39 1933-04-01 4 STRANGE WEDDING CUSTOM .—(RDV). Thuringia, March. Do you know why Horschel, a small town in Thuringia, has such an abundance of fruit trees It is because every newly married couple has to plant two fruit trees for the Municipality.-.—(RDV). - 39 words
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Advertisement19 1933-04-01 4 A small advertisement in the “Pinang Gazette” is busier than the bee. It works all day and every day.19 words
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Miscellaneous64 1933-04-01 4 'Phone 6.15 TO-NIGHT 9.30 MATINEE TO-MORROW AT 2.45 P.M. RICHARD BARTHELMESS in "ALIAS THE DOCTOR" A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE. FOR RESERVATIONS PLEASE ’PHONE 264 |¥HKsfiF3~' < LAST 7 SCREENINGS: TO-DAY at 2.45—6.15 and 9.30 f TO-MORROW at 11.30—2.45—6.15 and 9.30 J "AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 MINUTES" 1 WITH DOUGLAS64 words
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Article271 1933-04-01 5 —Reuter. 158 All Out BOWES'S SIX VICTIMS* FOR 34 M.C.C. 127 For 1 Wicket Auckland, March 31. New Zealand would have fared disastrously but for a splendid innings of 83 not out by Dempster in the second Test against the M.C.C. Bowes was the most successful—Reuter. - 271 words
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Article166 1933-04-01 5 A series of three Sunday night lectures on vital aspects of Christianity will be given in the Town Hall during April by Professor V. E. Hendershot, M.A. Professor Hendershot received his university training at Leland Stanford Junior University, California, —the alma mater of exPresident Hoover. He has166 words
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Article105 1933-04-01 5 Debate Under the auspices of the Penang Teachers' Association a debate will be held at the Hutchings School new Hall on Tuesday at 8 p.m. sharp. The motion before the House is that In the opinion of this House capitalism is a hindrance to the progress of105 words
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Article473 1933-04-01 5 .—P. P. S. Ancient Rome on gala days assembled to see the gladiator do battle in the arena —watched critically, condemned unsparingly; callous observers from their marble seats of the carnal scene below. Toga’d moneylenders, prosperous merchants, condemned the flower of Rome’s youth should the scene enacted before.—P. P. S. - 473 words
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Article154 1933-04-01 5 Mr. Baldwin Does Not Know His Own Size in Collars Mr. Stanley Baldwin had instruction on domestic subjects when he visited the White City section of the British Industries Fair. He was shown the effect on artificial silk cotton and wool of bad or injudicious washing—how “ladders”154 words
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Article134 1933-04-01 5 More Ships Go Into Service Trade is improving. This is reflected in the announcement made by a shipping official in Glasgow that since the beginning of the year not a vessel has been laid up and eight ships have left the grave-yards of the Clyde.134 words
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Article414 1933-04-01 5 Scientists Can Do It With Bees SO NOW— What of the Human Secret Professor E. W. Macbride, one of the foremost biologists in England, said to a “Sunday Express” representative:— Scientists have definitely accomplished predetermination of sex in the lower forms of life, and414 words
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Article328 1933-04-01 5 Youthful Offenders Se-k to Pawn Stolen Coats Two fresh charges were brought against Ng Gow in addition to one of criminal breach of trust in respect of certain articles of clothing, which was preferred against him on March 25. Accused claimed trial on the third charge which328 words
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Article321 1933-04-01 5 Express Goods’ Service 12,000 MILES IN 18 DAYS Fresh proof has just been afforded of the time-saving of the air-and-ocean freight service which was instituted, some time ago, by Imperial Airways in conjunction with ocean shipping companies. The other day an urgent consignment of goods321 words
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Article359 1933-04-01 5 £17,000 Distributed in 1932 Brave deeds in all parts of the country were recognised at a meeting of the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust held at Dunfermline. The following are some of the awards:— Ronald Burnett, seaman, of Redvers Drive, Orrell Park, Liverpool, who lost his life359 words
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Article64 1933-04-01 5 (RDV). Heidelberg, March. The war atlas used by King Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years War has been found in the library of the Heidelberg University. Its author was Gerard Mercator. The atlas was printed in 1607. It is in excellent condition except for the mars(RDV). - 64 words
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Article290 1933-04-01 5 ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR CHURCH OF ENGLAND sth SUNDAY IN LENT 7.50 Litany. 8 a.m. Matins. Ps XXII. Hymn 322. 8.30 Holy Communion, 9.15 Holy Communion Tamil 6.30 Evensong. Ps LI 138. Magnificat 137. Nunc Dimittis 136. Hymns 96, 332, 200. WEDNESDAY 8 a.m. Holy Communion. FRIDAY 6290 words
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Article86 1933-04-01 5 Saturday, on the Esplanade, 6 p.m.— 7.30 p.m. 1. March —B. B. —Horne. 2. Overture —Poet and Peasant—Suppe. 3. Selection —Lilac Time —Schubert. 4. Idyl—Blumengefluster —Bion. 5. Intermezzo —Canterbury Chimes —Ancliffe. 6. Selection—Yes, Uncle—Ayer. 7. For Trot —Rock your cares away— Nicholls. GOD SAVE THE KING Sunday, at86 words
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Advertisement289 1933-04-01 5 EVERY DAY DRESSES WE PAY ATTENTION TO THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS LINE CUT PRICE CiimEst k kAfITERTi. 31, BISHOP ST., PENANG. By Courtesy Robinson Piano Co., Ltd. BARGAINS I BARGAINS I I AUCTION SALE of Valuable Household Teak Furniture, Almetrahs, Piano, New Bicycles, Chocolates, Provisions, Paints, Low Chairs W/ Settee289 words
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Article603 1933-04-01 6 Civil Aerodrome COMMITTEE’S PROTEST AGAINST BY-LAWS The following are the minutes of a committee meeting held in tho Singapore Exchange Room on Tuesday, March 28, 1933, at 5 p.m. Present:—Mr. J. G. Campbell (President), Mr. G. Parbury (Vice-President), Hon’ble Mr. W. A. Fell, Hon’ble Mr. C. E.603 words
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Article443 1933-04-01 6 Groceries Paid To See Wrestling Match pawnbrokers BUSY New York may be a city without dollars, but it has not lost its humour. Here are a few sidelights on the life of the Man in the Street during the Bank Holiday: The only people able443 words
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Article170 1933-04-01 6 Aspects Of The Problem Lecturing on the subject: “What is a Just Price?” at a meeting which was held in the Permanent Exhibition of Irish Manufactures, 3 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, Mr. T. Kennedy said that in almost every country there was no scarcity of170 words
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Article127 1933-04-01 6 Baronet Sells Fourpenny Neckwear For 2/6 Sir Francis Acland, M.P. is an expert at making neckties. He made this claim at a meeting at Westcliff. He said: “Except when I am in House of Commons clothes, when I have to make myself extra tidy,127 words
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Article722 1933-04-01 7 RESULT OF REVIEW AFTER OTTAWA Sydney, March 9. Amendments of the Australian tariff were introduced in the House of Representatives by the Minister of Trade and Customs. This is the first of a series of new tariff schedules arising out of the Ottawa Conference. One of the722 words
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Article268 1933-04-01 7 BUT LIZARDS DON’T SEE THE JOKE Birds and reptiles from which the former originally evolved sometimes make amusing playfellows. A magpie, a fallen fledgling, has just been introduced to the lizards’ cage, the only one temporarily available, at the Melbourne aquarium. At first the bird spent268 words
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Article97 1933-04-01 7 America Loses Nearly Half Australian Market British films are rapidly gaining ground in Australia, although the total importations from all sources have fallen considerably. In the State of Victoria alone, according to figures just issued, the decline was 580 films or 1,675,287 feet compared with 1930, yet97 words
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Article98 1933-04-01 7 But Only in Ski-ing—and in August Looking for new worlds to conquer, Japan has turned her attention to Australia, and a battle-royal is to be staged next August—in the snow. In other words, says Austral News, a team of six of Nippon’s finest ski-ers have challenged a98 words
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Article100 1933-04-01 7 Cricket Match Starts Hunt for Gold If Jardine had been captaining an English team at the New South Wales township of Home Rule, he might not have protested against bowlers cutting up the pitch, if his experience had been that of E. James of the local100 words
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Article51 1933-04-01 7 A special postage stamp is being issued in Australia, in 1935, to commemorate Melbourne’s centenary, the celebrations of which are being organised on a big scale next year. The Melbourne Philatelic Club is to submit designs, says Austral News. A special cancellation stamp will probably be51 words
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Article181 1933-04-01 7 Neuritis Hampered Her In writing of the pain and inconvenience she suffered from neuritis, this woman tells also how she rid herself of it:— “I have been using Kruschen Salts for neuritis, and it certainly has the most wonderful effect. My knees were very painful, and it181 words
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Article363 1933-04-01 7 Air Dash to Liner by His Attorney-General DOUKHOBOR’S FIGHT Peter Verigin 11., leader of VS estern Canada’s 17,000 Doukhobors, a strange religious-communistic sect among whom marriage is compulsory, left Halifax (N.S.) on March 4 to return to his people after a dramatic fight with the363 words
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Article95 1933-04-01 7 Soap Box Carriers as Competitors The latest phase of the world-wide competition of transportation interests is the advent in Melbourne, of scores of boys with soap-box trucks who carry housewives’ purchases from the markets to the nearest tram and, in some cases, right home, says Austral News. Rivalry95 words
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439 1933-04-01 7 Condemned By Committee Of Judges SHORTER “LONG VAC” An interim report by the Lord Chancellor’s Committee of Judges on Law Reform, of which Lord Hanworth, the Master of the Rolls, is chairman, recommends: The abolition of grand juries; Cutting the Long Vacation from ten439 words
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Article154 1933-04-01 7 Waving To His Sister: £5O Fine For Flying Too Law Fines totalling £5O were imposed by the Chertsey Bench on Mr. Hubert Bentick Chantry, of Connaught-place, Paddington, W., for flying an airplane dangerously at Chobham on two dates in November and December. It was154 words
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Article47 1933-04-01 7 One cannot make fowl of one and fish of the other,” said the chairman at the Somerset County Football Association meeting, when two players, one named Fisher, who were said to have fallen foul of each other,” appeared before him. Both players were cautioned.47 words
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Advertisement753 1933-04-01 7 $lOO $lOO FOOTBALL FORECASTS. $lOO WAITING FOR YOU! Just a few strokes of the pen. Quite a simple task. Ne worry, no waste of time. Yet it may bring you $lOO. You are not required to forecast scores—only results. If you succeed in forecasting the highest number of correct results753 words
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Article931 1933-04-01 8 Piracy on the China coast has taken a new and entirely unexpected turn. Formerly, it was the custom for pirates to board a vessel in the guise of passengers and, when a suitable opportunity occurred, to seize the bridge, the engine-room and the wireless cabin. With the931 words
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Article1000 1933-04-01 8 “Cubic” in the P.L.A. Monthly. FELLED giants that fetch thousands When you see the timber, lying to the st the docks— huge logs -ch marked distinctively before• thc^ ara jjFmltes- which the close-grained mahogany takes on at the h2ds oi the skilled craftsman, are you ev“r“Cubic” in the P.L.A. Monthly. - 1,000 words
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Article787 1933-04-01 8 SUMMER-TIME Summer-time is here—but not in the British Isles. On the night of Saturday and Sunday (April Ist and 2nd) France and Belgium advance their clocks an hour, but it will not be the turn of Great Britain and Ireland until April Bth and 9th, while Holland787 words
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Advertisement428 1933-04-01 8 PRITCHARD'S —i ANNOUNCE A SPECIAL SHOW OF H)iana Stuart” GOWNS and MILLINERY FROM MONDAY, APRIL 3rd. TO THURSDAY, APRIL 6th. The designer of the gowns will attend in person and every garment will be the latest in design. The PRICES we can guarantee will be particularly LOW to meet the428 words
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Advertisement65 1933-04-01 8 E. O. THE BEST SITUATED SEASIDE HOTEL IN THE EAST. ALL ROOMS FACE THE SEA each with sitting room and private bathroom attached. Modem Sanitation Throughout EXCELLENT CUISINE under expert European Chef. WHEN BUYING TIN PROVISIONS Always Specify. DEL MONTE PRODUCTS are known the world over. OBTAINABLE AT All the65 words
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1727 1933-04-01 9 Ninth Annual Meeting MR. JAMBU'S SUGGESTION OF A CAVENDISH SCHOLARSHIP At the ninth annual general meeting of the Government Servants’ Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society, Ltd., held yesterday at the Survey Office presided over by Mr. R. H. McCleland (vice-president), a fitting tribute was paid to1,727 words
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Article765 1933-04-01 9 A Successful Show TUNKU YACCOB ON MALAYS AS SHOP-KEEPERS (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star, March 31. Though not an elaborate affair the exhibition of the combined weekly fairs of Kota Star, held yesterday and to-day at Tanjong Chali was an unqualified success in satisfying the objects765 words
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Article223 1933-04-01 9 .—Reuter. Armaments For Manchukuo ARMY AND NAVY! London, March 31. Attention has been drawn to the effect of Japan’s withdrawal from the League on the question of armaments for Manchukuo by the weekly reviews. The Spectator says that if Manchukuo is an independent State as Japan.—Reuter. - 223 words
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Article289 1933-04-01 9 Life Interest of Lim Ah Chen In the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr. Justice J. C. Cobbett delivered judgment in the latest phase of the Ah Quee estate litigation in which the Court was asked to consider whether the life interest of Lim Ah Chen in the289 words
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88 1933-04-01 9 (RDV). Berlin, March. Summer Holiday Return Tickets in Germany, at a reduction of 20% on the ordinary 2nd and 3rd Class train fares, will be issued daily from the beginning of May until October from all stations to any station at a minimum distance(RDV). - 88 words
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60 1933-04-01 9 receiving their requirements in full —Rugby Radio Service. London, March 31. Tenders for £45,000,000 2% per cent, conversion loan 1944-49 and Treasury Bills were opened to-day. The total amount applied for exceeded £79,000,000. The amount of the conversion loan allotted was £9,165,000, applicants at £94%receiving their requirements in full—Rugby Radio Service. - 60 words
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Article150 1933-04-01 9 Bangkok European Sentenced BRITISH LEGAL ADVISER THINKS PROSECUTION FAILED (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, March 31. Mr. J. R. Balharry, accountant of Messrs. Barrow Brown Co., Ltd., was sentenced to six months and fined 800 ticals for negligently driving his car on New Year’s morning, resulting150 words
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Article107 1933-04-01 9 TlN—Spot YESTERDAY TO-DAY £l5l-2-6 £l5l-7-6 London TIN—(3 Months) «52-0-0 £152-5-0 London $78.25 Singapore Business Done $77 87 y 2 Penang Buyers —No sellers Business Done $3 85 $3.85 COPRA—(Sundried) Sl6 50 $16.50 BLACK PEPPER RUBBER 2 d 2 Ad. London 2?«c.(O) 2»c.(G) New York cts 6|V c ts.107 words
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Advertisement59 1933-04-01 9 j DBICK, HACGH6OPI iSS ANNOUNCEMENT We take pleasure m Announcing that as from APRIL Ist 1933, we have been appointed Sole Agents for the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States for JOHNN3E WALKER "BLACK LABEL," RED LABEL and SWING WHISKIES. CALDBECK. MACGREGOR CO., LTD., Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances of59 words
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Article485 1933-04-01 10 Two Killed In 50ft. Plunge Passenger Lowered Down Cliff to Rescue COACHES SAVED BY SPLIT SECOND A landslide swept down from a mountain near Towyn (N. Wales), and carried away the engine of a G.W.R. mail train which plunged 50 feet into the sea killing485 words
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Article724 1933-04-01 10 Many Useful And Valuable Articles In The World Of Medicine Are Under A Cloud Because Of "Narcotic" Drugs f In the minds of lay journalists, whether British or American, ‘drug’ has only a sinister meaning, and whenever the word is used it is in724 words
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Article134 1933-04-01 10 Capital’s Advantage Over the Rest of the Country Though London increased its population by 60,000 last year and, as Lord Ashfield recently remarked, seems to be drawing more people to itself annually, successive statistics dealing with the capital’s life and labour show its superiority in the134 words
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Article856 1933-04-01 10 Comments That Led To A Libel Action “BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS” Pleasure Resort Stories Of Bathing “Orgies” Comments on up-river night life were the subject of an action for alleged libel heard before Mr. Justice Charles and a jury in the King’s Bench Division. The United856 words
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Article459 1933-04-01 10 Police Allegations “OFFENSIVE AGAINST SWITZERLAND” The Geneva newspaper Travail publishes a report to the Chief of the Geneva Police dated November 26 last by M. Edouard Magnin, an important police officer in the detective services, which would be incredible were not its authenticity certain. The report459 words
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Article93 1933-04-01 10 Smallest Is Now Up For Sale The smallest navy in the world, which belongs to Panama, is for sale. It is a steam yacht, manned by two caretakers. Ecuador’s navy is one gunboat, manned by fifty-three officers and 264 ratings. Mexico has five gunboats, and Peru owns93 words
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Advertisement299 1933-04-01 10 nW 1 I I B You did not learn that at school. But, W E for your health’s sake, you should know g B it now! A, B, C, D these are the four W E vitally important vitamins. See what B they stand for! That’s how they are added299 words
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Article668 1933-04-01 11 Died, “Very Wealthy,” At Thirty-Nine BROTHER’S CLAIM Woman Tells Of Board Meeting In A Caravan The story 01 a showman who became the chief proprietor of a dog-racing track and died a rich man at 39 was told to Mr. Justice Humphreys and a jury668 words
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Article358 1933-04-01 11 More Gambling And Drinking AN AMERICAN DOCTOR’S REPORT Unemployment is described by a report of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in the United States as causing heavier consumption of alcohol, an “alarming increase of apathy,” gambling and much more chronic irritability. However, says Reuter’s New York Correspondent,358 words
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Article291 1933-04-01 11 Where Boswell Gave The Lead In the course of a lecture on “Boswell and Lockhart,” given to the Royal Society of Literature, London, Dr. R. S. Rait, Principal of the University of Glasgow, claimed that Boswell had anticipated a modem school of biographers in placing reliance upon291 words
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Advertisement34 1933-04-01 11 SELLING MADE EASY—Times are hard but there is no need to offer that article at a "throwaway price.” Send along a small advertisement to tije I’inang Gazette” and dispose of it-at a satisfactory figure.34 words
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Advertisement354 1933-04-01 11 I "V7II" CoCd Cream I i .'fluEnc c lfie47irVaniafung GrCCim f /gi fliiillK This delightful cleansing cream w 0 A 1 r(J w i i. I SsL* V will keep your pores in working 6j 3 (W' Exquisitely perfumed 3 WF with'47//'Eau de Co- MT /7 order and your g354 words
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Article887 1933-04-01 12 T ree Destruction AN ENLARGEMENT OF THE HYNER SCHEME An article appeared in a Ceylon newspaper as long ago as last May, but apparently attracted but little notice. This was followed six months later by The Hyner Scheme,” on very similar lines, which was commented upon more favourably,887 words
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Article674 1933-04-01 12 Fungus Known as Oidium Heveae DUSTING OF TREES WITH SULPHUR A demonstration of sulphur dusting was given on Bhuan Estate, Nilai, on Monday, when, in ideal weather, about eighty rubber estate managers saw the operations necessary for the control of Oidium Heveae carried out under ordinary estate674 words
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Article571 1933-04-01 12 Singapore, Mar. 29. There has been practically no change in market conditions, either locally or at home, to report during the past week, state Fraser and Co., in their weekly report. Sterling continues very steady and the daily fluctua‘ions in the London-New York cross-rate have been571 words
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Article108 1933-04-01 12 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association held its 1,115 h auction or. Wednesday. Catalogued 1,429,560 lbs. 638.20 tons Offered 1,263,148 563.91 Sold 970,939 433.45 PRICES REALIZED Ribbed Smoked Sheet Cents Per Lb. Standard Quality No Sales Good Average Quality 5% to 6 Off Quality 5% to108 words
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Article65 1933-04-01 12 The following are tin outputs for the month of March, J 933 Renong Consolidated Tin Dredging Co., Ltd.: —Hours, 288; c. yards, 93,000; piculs, 546; estimated cost, $9,000; cost per cubic yard, 9.67 cents. Katu Tin Dredging, Ltd.:—Hours, 492; c. yards, 152,000; piculs, 380; estimated cost, $12,200; cost65 words
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Article433 1933-04-01 12 The following publications were Issue or received by the Department of Stat» tics S S. and F. M. S.. during the period March 18th to 24th, 1933, inclusive, mid are available for public use, m the Re ference Library. Fullerton S capore. Application may be made by433 words
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Article234 1933-04-01 12 BOUSTEAD CO., LTD. Rubber Sales Department Penang, March 29. There is a fairly steady undertone in the market but conditions generally continue extremely quiet with little business passing. Local values, after minor fluctuations, close about unchanged to a shade lower on balance whilst London and New York are both down234 words
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Article130 1933-04-01 12 Latest Quotations Friday Thursday Paris 87 1132 87 5|16 New York 3.41% 3.43 Montreal 4.12 4.12% Brussels 24.50 24.59% Geneva 17.71% 17.79% Amsterdam 8.48 8.51 Milan 66% 66 13|16 Berlin 14.35% 14.38% Stockholm 18.90 18.90 Copenhagen 22 7|16 22 7|16 Oslo 19% 19% Vienna 31 31130 words
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Advertisement272 1933-04-01 12 I I /TJ A a s' I a,® M'Wl N ft «Ollenburgs’ Foods i Made from the purest milk of cows pastured in the home counties, the ‘Allenburys Foods arc as easily digested as mother’s milk. They are geim (ree ano are simply and quickly made by the addition oi272 words
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Article578 1933-04-01 13 Schedule of Principal Lines The following is a list of vessels arriving and sailing from Penang during the week: IN PORT TO-DAY S.S. HAMBURG MARU from Singapore for Rangoon and Calcutta. M.S. FRIESLAND from Japan, China and Manila via Singapore. Sails for Colombo, Port Said, Genoa,578 words
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Article370 1933-04-01 13 APRIL, 1933 APRIL 1 George Town Dispensary, Ltd., annual meeting, Messrs. Kennedy Burkill Co., Ltd., 12.30 p.m. Cricket: P. C. C. v. La Brooy’s XI, Esplanade, 2.15 p.m. APRIL 2 Cricket: P. R. C. v Chinese Recreation Club, Esplanade. APRIL 6 Cricket: P. C. C. v Combined370 words
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Article88 1933-04-01 13 Sale of Books Double Since His Death The novels of Mr. John Galsworthy have sold twice as rapidly since his death. A first edition of the Forsyte Saga sold the other day for £15,” said a London bookseller. “Before Galsworthy died, the same book sold for £3. His88 words
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Article901 1933-04-01 13 AIR MAILS A mail for South America, by steamer to Marseilles and thence by French Air Mail Service, will be closed at 6 p.m. today. OUTWARD MAILS A mail for Port Swettenham and Singapore by the s.s. “Klang” will be closed at 4 p.m. to-day. A mail for901 words
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Article224 1933-04-01 13 DYNAMITE DORA Brighton Sets a Good Example MORE FREEDOM Brighton is taking the lead in a big offensive against D.0.R.A., with the object of getting rid of hampering restrictions and making the sea-side resorts brighter. Resorts all along the south coast are looking to Brighton to give them a lead224 words
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Article140 1933-04-01 13 You Cannot Sleep in Them Dr. Donald Laird, of Colgate University, for many years has studied the sleeping habits of all kinds of people. In his report, which he has just completed, he states that people should be taught how to sleep just as much as140 words
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Advertisement335 1933-04-01 13 TOUCH THE POINT TO PAPER AND EFFORTLESS WORDS FLOW OUT! B sill g !i >/ (V\/1) One of the most important features of the Parker ;«S Pen, to millions of owners, is the smooth, effortt kUS' l ess wa y makes words. Just a pressureless touch of the gold point335 words
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Article547 1933-04-01 14 TO KEEP AWAY FROM THE CITYEX-DIRECTOR WHO "LENT” HIS TITLE Sir Logie Elphinstone, Bart, aged 52, who at the last sessions at the Old Bailey was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud «uch persons as might be induced to invest or purchase shares in the547 words
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Article276 1933-04-01 14 Court Allegations By Ratepayers Protests about dust alleged to be emitted from a fertiliser factory were made at Watford (Herts) Police Court, when 21 people involved in a rates strike were summoned. When the first case was called, the defendant’s wife said that her husband had refused276 words
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Article110 1933-04-01 14 France Now Has Habeas Corpus Procedure France now has her Habeas Corpus Act. This has been carried out by an important legal reform which has been the subject of many years of agitation. Up till last month a person accused of a crime could be detained in110 words
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Article354 1933-04-01 14 Ex-Detective Who 'Championed* A Woman Fined The Chief Constable of Southend was present in Southend Police Court when summonses were heard against James Ernest Stent, of Dryden-avenue, Southend, aged 46, an ex-detective-sergeant of the Southend Police. Stent was summoned for committing damage to a door354 words
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Article208 1933-04-01 14 Judge On "Scandal” Of Mother’s Dominance MARRIAGE ANNULLED Mr. Justice MacNaghten, at Derby Assizes, granted Mary Elizabeth Thomas, aged 18, a domestic servant, of Hucknall, a decree nullifying her marriage to Reuben Thomas, of Denaby, on the ground that she acted under duress. He said that208 words
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Article146 1933-04-01 14 Clergyman Acts As His Own Best Man With an extremely simple ceremony and in the presence of only half-a-dozen people, three of whom were relatives, the Rev. Edward Williams Hudson, a Church of England clergyman, of Highgate, N., was married at St. Andrew’s Church Enfield, Middlesex, to146 words
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Advertisement2097 1933-04-01 15 d -1.. s p ©.-BRITISH IMSIA 0 l-4 Lru AND apcar lines (Companies Incorporated in England) WMWMtMHUM TRAVEL HOME BY DOLLAR M ««.X, seto Leaves Due grj a, Ve««e!. LONDON AND NORTH CONTINENT. Penang London L !i.-> Peninsular r< Marseilles, London RotteMam& Hamburg. Apl. 7 May 3 gn( j cn2,097 words
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Article, Illustration244 1933-04-01 16 SUNDAY’S BOXING AT FUN FROLIC BOXING NOTES Teddy Fong v. Kay Yong FOR LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP The boxing at Fun and Frolic on Sunday night should be well worth going to see. Teddy Fong of Singapore who is back to form is fighting Kay Young an ex light weight Champion of244 words
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742 1933-04-01 16 Jayaraj Draws With Chan IPOH KID RETAINS WINNING RECORD By Seconds Out A packed house greeted the second promotion of the Penang Boxing Syndicate who staged a really fine meeting last night at the Drury Lane Theatre. The main fight, for the Bantamweight Championship742 words
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Article71 1933-04-01 16 Three Readers Share Prize The I’inang Gazette Football Competition No. 11 was won by three readers, one from Alor Star and two from Penang, with thirteen correct forecasts each and they share the prize accordingly. They are C. E. Zainul Abidin, Government English School, Alor Star. H.71 words
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Article122 1933-04-01 16 Bankrupt’s Story of $5OO and $5,000 Bail During his public examination in the Bankruptcy Court, Singapore, a Chinese bankrupt admitted he once jumped bail of $5OO and, when arrested again, the same bailor advanced another bail of $5,000. Counsel conducting the examination asked “Do you know why122 words
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Article61 1933-04-01 16 Stealing Tiffin Money a Common Offence i J- This is a type of offence vdby common in the vicinity of schools when boys are robbed of their tiffin money,” explained Chief Court Inspector A. F. Sheedy to Mr. H. A. Forrer, the Criminal District Judge Singapore, when Fong61 words
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Article54 1933-04-01 16 PENANG, APRIL 1 (Bv Courtesy of the Chartered Rank' On London Bank Demand 2j3 23J82 4 m[ts 2|3 13|16 Hongkong T.T. 42% dis. nom Private 3 m ts credit 2|4 3 Documentary -,:214 I|B On New York Bank Demand 39% France T.T. 990n0m India T.T. 152%n0m Shanghai T.T. 134%54 words
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Article633 1933-04-01 16 Pantomime and Fairy Tale at the Town Hall The girls of the Anglo-Chinese School, Anson Road, Penang, gave a concert in aid of the school building fund to a full Town Hall last night. The programme, which was mainly musical, consisted of two parts, a young one’s633 words
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Article501 1933-04-01 16 TO-DAY’S PRICES The following were the latest quotations 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 Ul3exlO|9 ll|3ex Bangrin 10j9 H|3 10|9 11|3 Hong Fatt 25 30 25 30 K. Kamunting sjo 6!0 s'o501 words
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Miscellaneous65 1933-04-01 16 WIRELESS To-day’s Programme Call Signs: G.S.B. G S metr es Wavelengths: 31.5 metres, 25.-8 metres P.M. 9.50 Big Ben The News 10 Q 5 Dance Music Harry Roy and his Band from the Cafe Anglais, London 10 50 The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race A Running Commentary By J. D.65 words
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Miscellaneous35 1933-04-01 16 PENANG WRATI,p R REPORT Temp. 6 a.m. 74 e o Noon 88 s TIDE TABLES High Water. TO-DAY 2.59 a.m. 8.55 3.06 p.m. 9.45 TO-MORROW 3.20 a.m. 9.02 a m 3.29 p.m. 10.20 p. m35 words
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