Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 24 November 1936

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 275. VoL XCIV. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 1936. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 353 1 Further Skirmishes On Frontier CHINA’S GROWING INDIGNATION Shanghai, Nov. 24. Members of the Central Military Council flew to Loyang yesterday to consider defence plans, including the transfer of troops northward. Ihe Kwantung Command has established secret headquarters at Dolonor ami is believed to be directing the
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  • 209 1 K L DOCTOR'S WIFE VICTIMISED {l'rom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 24. Waiting on the darkened verandah for her husband’s return last night, Mrs Varonha, wife of Dr. Varonha, a Kuala Lumpur medical practitioner, was suprised by two armed men who demanded money. “I saw the
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  • 118 1 Passengers By "Beringia" The following Straits passengers arriv- in Penang this morning by the “Borinpia" from Europe Mr. J. M. C. Bloot, Mr. and Mrs. A. Jenson, Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Wilson. Mr. J L. Ross. Mrs. L. Shannon, Mrs. M. Adamson, Mr. Adamson, Miss
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  • STOP PRESS
    • 45 1 Reuter. Peiping, Nov. 24. Manchoukuo and Mongol forces began a R'-ncral advance to the South from Peilingai’ao. North Suiyuan, marching in two columns to Wuchuan and Kuyang. <wn. Fu Tso-yi has ordered the garrisons •Utioned there to resist the invaders’ adVance Reuter.
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    • 40 1 Reuter. Sydney, November 24. *h' Australians have declared with the Fr( re of 544 for eight wickets. The M.C.C. did not quite have a good in their second innings, losing the t three wickets for 50 runs at lunch.
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  • 229 1 Both Accused Acquitted Without calling on the defence, the Penang Police Magistrate Mr. H. A. L Luckham. this morning discharged and acquitted Chu Biau Kok and Lim Chau Kai who had been charged with having attempted to cheat the committee and members of the Chung Shan School
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  • 27 1 Reuter. Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 23. Mr. O. P- Swerirgen, railway magnate, died on the train Here en -oute to New York. Reuter.
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  • 143 1 SCRATCHINGS AND ORDER OF RUNNING Following are the scratchings and order of running for tomorrow’s races at Singapore:— Race 1. Herses, Class 3, D.vision 5, Abt. 7 Furlongs. Scratchings: Broadway Baby, Miss Polly (all engagement). Race 2. Ponies. Class 2, Division 2, 6 Furlongs. Sc ratching: Glamou r.
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  • 22 1 —Rotter. Moscow, Nov. 23. The German Ambassador has requested the Soviet Foreign Office to support Stickling’o appeal for clemency. —Rotter.
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  • 195 1 The Government’s proposed action with regard to textile quotas was brought up for discussion when the committee of the Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce met yesterday. The lion. Mr. Khoo Sian Ewe was in the chair. The general cpinion was that the system
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  • 70 1 Boxing Classes At A Chinese School The Chung Ling High School, Penang, bad organised a Chinese art of self-defence class. More than one hundred students of the school joined this class. It is understood that the committee members of the school have engaged Mr. Kuang 1 Jang
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  • 87 1 Offence Which Took Place In Negri Sembilan Chief Detective Inspector livingstone, produced Liew Ah Heng and Yeong Chok Phin, before Mr. H. Watson in the Penang Police Court this morning, charged for arson within the jurisdiction of Negri Sembilan. The offence was alleged to have been committed in
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  • 46 1 .—Reuter. London, Nov. 23. In the House of Commons, i eplying to Mr. R. J. G. 800 th by, the Secretary of State for the Colonies said he toped the telephone service between Malaya and London would be opened within the next few months.
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  • 149 1 All-Malaya Delegate Appointed Mr. Ong Moh Jin, a committee member of the Penang Khengchew Association, has been appointed by the All Malayan Khengchew Association to study trade and industrial conditions in Haihow. Mr. Ong and his secretary, Mr. Choong Se ng, will leave Penang for Singapore by the
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  • Article, Illustration
    25 1 Pear} Buck, the author of “Earth* and other novels depicting rural life in China, has nearly completed another work on Ch'nese rural reconstruction.
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  • 108 1 —British Radio. TRAINS AND SHIPPING HELD UP London. Nov. 23. j I A considerable part of Great Britain ‘was shrouded in fog today, the hclt I being particularly dense in the north 1 western counties of England and southern Scotland. In many ports shipping was handicapped, and
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  • 46 1 —Rente r Tckio, Nov I'.? The War Ministry having accepted a cut of 102.000,000 yen and the Navy Ministry 98,000,000 yen in the draft estimates, tho Finance Ministry will submit to the Cabinet on Friday the budget for 1937-38 approxi mating 3,040,000,000 yen revenue.
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    • 101 1 VIRGIN FACE POWDER Soothing healing antiseptic—it beautifies the skin. Obtainable in Three Shade#. At all good stores. CHENG HENG CO., Agents 205, Carnarvon Street, Penang. COUPON f Please send me a sample pack* of “Bedak Virgin,” for which I enclose five cents in stamp Name Address ROYAL .-O BAKERY SkW;
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  • 537 2 TO SAVE A LOCKJAW PATIENT London, Nov. 15. WAfHILE a patient’s* life hung in the balance at a London hospital last night a doctor travelled from Oxford hoping that a drug derived from the arrow poison of South American Indians might i effect a cure.
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  • 342 2 SCIENTISTS FIND RELIEF FOR HAEMOPHILIA An important advance in the fight against haemophilia—uncontrollable bleeding—has 1 been made by three British scientists work- ing at Sheffield. They have discovered a i preparation from egg-white which, when injected, reduces the clothing time of the blood and controls haemorrhage.
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  • 178 2 Generous Grants A number of grants to the School of Oriental Studies, London, are announced. One of £l,OOO for the year 1937 conies from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company towards the Chair in Persian, with £5OO for each of the following four years. This is a continuation
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  • 168 2 No Question Of Sabotage The Admiralty announced last week that two fires had occurred at sea on the new destroyer H.M.S. Hasty, now at Devonport Dockyard. The statement said:— “An electrical fire took place on Thursday at sea in H.M.S. Hasty, damaging her wireless installation. A
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  • 310 2 CLAIMS HE CAN CURE ALL DISEASES Leicester, Nov. 15. A Leicester man who believes he is a modern "Messiah* is using a small house to conduct a campaign which he hopes will j sweep the world. j He claims to be able to live as long as
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  • 135 2 London, Nov. 15. Fifty of the cleverest young detectives in the Metropolitan Police Force have been transferred to the Special Branch. This section deals exclusively with spies and political agitators, and provides the personal guards for members of the Royal Family and statesmen This
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  • 116 2 “There are two things a woman hates—• one is a man-about-the house and the other is to listen to a man speaking, unless, of course, he is speaking about her/' said Sir Walter Gilbey, at the Royal Agricultural Hall, London, when he presented awards at the Silver
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    • 535 2 Head Office 12, Bishop Street, Penang Phone 1477 1478 with extensions. Telegrams Gazette Penang. Singapore Office Cecil Street, Singapore. Phone 5471. Tel Times Singapore. Kuala Lumpur Office 25, Java Street. Phone 3683. London Office 40, 43, Fleet Street, London E.C. I Phone Central 3608—3609 Tel Lead ma: ay a London.
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    • 117 2 PERAK TURF CLUB DECEMBER SKYE MEETING 193« THURSDAY, 10TH DECEMBER 1936 SATURDAY, 12TH DECEMBER 193« The Subscription for Visiting Members shall be MEN *5 ladies for the Meeting or any day thereof. VISITING MEMBERS must be introduced bv Members of the Club and MUST APPLY TO THE SECRETARY’S OFFICE, CHENG
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    • 368 2 I APIOL 4 STEEL I SureaiidcertainforallF em I n U^ s Ev '7lad I k«p a boi in the house. I The I GEORGETOWN DISPENSE?v 02-M Beaeh Pena Vigour Restored, i Glands Wsde Yoim In 24 Moors tt Is no longer necessary from lus B of vigour en J in
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  • 830 3 ]lr. Eden s Assurance In House Of Commons but carriage of arms to SPAIN TO BE ILLEGAL —Reuter. lyondon, November 23. Tb< Foreign Secretary, Mr. A. Eden, in a Commons question said "The leply 10 of His Majesty’s Government is to t»ke no
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  • 83 3 British Radio. "Coronation" Liners May Anchor In The Thames London, Nov. 23 About 20 shippings companies hav- applied for permission to anchor vessels tn the Thames during the Core nation cel e bra tlohs to act as floating hotels. The ships will be cruising vessels bringing victors from
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  • 82 3 .—British Radio. Germany The First To Make A Promise London. Nov. 23. The German Government have notified the British Government that they accede to part four of the 1930 Naval Treaty governing the conduct of submarines in war. This is in accordance with the undertaking given by Germany
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  • 104 3 British Radio. Britain A Guarantor Power London, Nov. 23. In a written reply to a Parliamentary question, Mr. Eden says the undertaking given by the Government on February 3, 1935, that they consider themselves to be among the powers which will as provided in the Rome agreement of
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  • 48 3 .—British Radio. Herr von Ribbentrop, German Ambassador in London, paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street, this morning. i This was Herr von Ribbentrop’s first visit to the Premier since taking up his du- ties in London. HKRR PON RIBBENTROP.
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  • 120 3 —Reuter. Co-Operation In Gold Agreement The Hague. Nov. 23 It is officially announced that the Netherlands Government has approved the Anglo-Franco-American gold agi eement and proposes to cc-operaie. London, Nov. 23. A Government statement expresses pleasure at the adherence of Holland and Swit-. zerland to the principles
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  • 249 3 Earl Stanhope Gives A Warning London, Nov. 18. “I am bound to admit that under present conditions service on a voluntary’ system of recruitment seems in grave danger,” declared Earl Stanhope, replying to points hitherto raised in the House of Lords debate on defence. He said recruitment for
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  • 169 3 6,000 Miles in Two and a Half Days What is regarded as outstanding in mo.dern aviation achievements is the flight of a K.L.M. aircraft that flew from Rhodes, I the Italian island in the Dodecansc to j Penang in 2% days. The distance from Rhodes to Penang
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  • 50 3 —British Radio. London, Nov. 23. The House of Commons tomorrow and the House of Lords on Wednesday will be asked to approve ratification of the AngloEgyptian Treaty. Other measures to be discussed in Parliament this week include the Public Order Bill, Trunks Road Bill and Import Duties Oiders.
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  • 53 3 —British Radio. London, Nov. 23. In accordance with the undertaking given by the Prime Minister during the defence debate in the House of Commons, a deputation of private Conservative members. were met by Mr. Baldwin this afternoon and a confidential discussion on details of the defence
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  • 37 3 .—British Radio. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Lord President of the Council, replying to a Commons question said the question of making a cinema record of the Coronation and televising the ceremony was under consideration. —British Radio.
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  • 179 3 Interim Reply From lhe Japanese Government London, Nov. 23. In the House of Commons, Mr. Eden, after recapitulating the facts of the naval incident at Keelung, Formosa, as emerged I from the investigation by the Naval Court of Inquiry at Hong Kong, said that a copy of
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    • 314 3 NOW EASY TO MAKE DULL, DINGY TEETH ATTRACTIVE If you have teeth that stain and decay easily, they need the special antiseptic cleansing that Kolynos gives to make them attractive. ■I Stains and decay are caused by germs in the mouth. Kolynos destroys these dangerous germs and cleans teeth quickly
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  • 374 4 Uncrowned "Xing" Of Cocos Island In Singapore “A land without rent or taxes” was how Mr. J. S. Clunies-Ross, the uncrowned "King of Cocos Island,” who ru'es over 1,500 "subjects,” practically all natives, described bis home to a Pinang Gazette representative before he left Singapore
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  • 121 4 Toting Tarzan Of Parit •a LEGLESS Jlahiy youth about lA> years of aye who lives at Liang a village about five miles away from Parit, has often been seen troting about m the Parit town making ttSe of his two powerful hands as his logs
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  • 156 4 Subscription List No. 3 The Honorary Treasurers, Messrs. McAuliffe, Davis and Hope, gratefully acknowledge receipt of the following donations and subscriptions to Earl Haig’s Fund:— Amount previously acknowledged 531.25 Ban Lee Hin Co. 2 00 Tio Sieow Phing 1.00 Tong Ghee Seah 1.00 Kmg Wan Club 1.00
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  • 1270 4 MALAYANS AT HOME Mr. Horace W. Raper is now at St. Ives, where his wife is recovering from an 1 operation which she underwent two months lago. Mr. Raper is returning to London *in the middle of December and is sailing frem Marseilles on the Carthage on
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  • 401 4 Mr. Kuppusamy Talk To Kinta Indians An interesting talk was given last week at the Kinta Indian Association, Ipoh, by Mr. V. D. Kuppusamy, who recently completed a w’orld tour from Ipoh, in addition to attending two conventions in America in conjunction with the Methodist Episcopal
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    • 389 4 v < x I How much younger would K I you look and fed if your skin was clear and entirely free from blemish IwF I Pimples, spots, blackheads, I enlarged pores, burning irri- A I tations and ugly complexion defects are woman’s most com- rid the skin of pimp’es
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  • 929 5 Imperial Airways' Scheme 7o Form A New Company Till formation of a new aviation company, to provide an interna] airways service* in Malaya, was revealed at the annual meeting of Imperial Airs t<l. in London when the chairman, Sir Eric Geddes, stated that the new
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  • 265 5 Salary Was Not Paid A dispute between uncle and nephew as to whether certain money collected by the nephew was salary or not was settled by Mr. Justice McElwaine. the Chief Justice, in the High Court, Singapore, whe n he gave judgment on the facts in the
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  • 874 5 Lower Fees And University Wanted THE much discussed subject of the Municipal “palace’’ and other equally important ones of the Government’s educational policy, the establishment of a university in Singapore, registration of Chinese marriages, the helping of unemployed Chinese and the desirability of birth control
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  • 160 5 Successful Official Tests Kuala Lumpur’s latest fire engine—a Merryweather “Greenwich Salamander,” capable of a speed of 60 m.p.h. and a delivery of 400 gallons of water per minute at a pressure 160 lbs.—was taken out on test last week for the first time. The engine, which
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  • 380 5 GAOL FOR AGED CHINESE How an old man of 60 fell in love with a girl 16 years old, and, because he conic? not marry her, built an underground cel► in his hut and kept the girl there for four yours, was told
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  • 544 6 Hockey COLTS HOLD SXL The hockey match at the 5.X.1., ground yesterday evening, between the Colts XI and the St. Xavier’s Institution, which k-esulted in a goalless draw, was marred by rough play. In the early stages, the game was fast and interesting, but later,
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  • 86 6 Chinese Allowed $2,000 Bail Mr. H. A. L. LUCkham, sitting in the Middle Court, Penang, yesterday morning, allowed Tan Ah Chye $2,000 bail, on a charge of assisting ifi- the management of a public lottery by being fa possession of 984 lottery tickets on
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  • 508 6 SPECIAL PRIZE WINNERS Following is the list of winners of spacial prizes at the Perak and North Malaya Dog show held at the Perak Turf Club Grandstand on Sunday. As will be seen Mrs. E. C. Stivens is the most successful owner and carried away several prizes.
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  • 82 6 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Taiping. Nov. 23. i In a friendly game of hockey on ttie I Esplanade today. Jamal’s XI defeated I the' j Tarping Police by two goals to cne. Jamal’s team, though playing with ten men at the start. we*e the rgg essors
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  • 191 6 AIR MAH, A mail for Siam, Burma, lnd ia Egypt, Sudan, Belgian Congo r tain. Ireland and whole of Euron. Br perial Airways wiili close at 8 P<? by lai a n tornor. A mail for the United States of a ca and other places Served
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    • 55 6 I RUNNYMEDE HOTEL Mtasgc I ’PHONE 543 fl||K PENANG. THERE WILL BE NO DINNER DANCE ON WEDNESDAY THE 25TH f SATURDAY, 28th NOVEMBER (EXTENSION TO 2 a. m.) ST. ANDREW’S BALL The Ballroom is reserved for the St. Andrew’s Society and their gueefe MUSIC BY The Runnymede New Orchestra under
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 299 6 MAJESTIC OPENING TONIGHT 6-15 9-30 A New Triumph from 20th Century-Fox Producers of "Under Two Flogs" "Shark Island" I UPS AN IRRESISTIBLE LOVERI < I lovely l I WRRf. ALLURING I A .ALOOFIi I H WK* I GEORGE A I Raft £~>t| j ROSALIND yhAjfl/J ROSSEL! Mx fl (R«m«mb«r her
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    • 150 6 iWINDSOR I 1 Slightly one only at 8 p,m. The Whole Serial of The Amazing Jungle Opening 9’3o 12 Electrifying Episodes! 12,000 Terrific Thrills' A New Most Dramatic SEE: Lions and Tigers! Elephants au± CANTONESE TALKIE ’Monkeys’ Chimpanzees and Crocodiles• i Battling each other for jungle supremacy* "HLIAL DAUGHTER" Attacking
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  • 1000 7 Controller Of Labour P.A.M. Chairman To Visit India Indian Immigration Committee’s Decision a meeting of the Indian Immigration Committee held at Penang on N r 12 h was that the Deputy Controller of Labour visits India m January next to inspect the establishments there. It was jstated that Mr. J.
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  • 616 7 Chinese On Charge Of Cheating PROSECUTION CLOSED The prosecution closed its case yesterday in (he Penang Middle Court against Chu l? ia u Hok and Lim Chau Kai who had wn charged with having cheated the Committee and members of the Chung School Union in
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  • 133 7 An Eurasian, George Robert Cortez, who Mas charged with cheating four persons by "’hshonestly inducing them to deliver to him $2.80 each for the purpose of securing ’hem employment, again appeared before r M c. Hay in the Penang Police Court yesterday. ItLs pector Astin, Acting
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  • 170 7 Housebreaking Charge Fails Muthu, an Indian, who was charged with housebreaking and theft by entering into a I house at Batu Ferringhi some time in October this year, was yesterday discharg'ed by Mr. C. W. Dawson, in the Penang District Court. Inspector Astin prosecuted. The complainant stated that
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  • 137 7 Chinese Remanded In Custody That one of the accused in the Rope Walk affray case in which seven Chinese were charged with being members of an j unlawful assembly, was in a serious ebndiition at the hospital, was the statement made by Inspector Pattern at the Penang Police
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  • 278 7 DUKE OF YORK OPENS NEW CENTRE King Donates £lOO Towards i Cost Of Clock I A cheque for £lOO from the King was handed by the Duke of York, 1U week I Sir Archib »M Welgau. chairman of the Council of the Royal Empire Society. The
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  • 14 7 The American Consulate, Penang, will be closed on “Thanksgiving Day,” Nov. 26.
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    • 180 7 YELLOW LABEL JR-. v y El 7 N 7 1 I 1 I MLKMI > ■hhßhhw SUPPORT MALAYA'S TIN I INDUSTRY I I I Because Patent Castrol is a “premium” I A OHT* LWAKEFIELD, motor oil, there is always the likelihood of Blsll < motor car owners, when simply asking
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  • 663 8 THE l.ghting in Suiyuan serves to draw attention to» the far north, where so many stirring events take place on the snow-clad plains and mountains, hut of which the, outside world knows so little. Yet news leaks out —even over the closely guarded frontiers of Manchukuo. that state
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  • 144 8 Plenty OF Free Drinßs From Our Own Correspondent Taiping, Nov. ±3. A familiar figure in the Taiping PcAce Court, a Sikh named Hakam Singh- appeared to answer a charge of being drunk and incapable. Inspector Yacob, prosecuting .sa-d “This ma« is a nuisance to this Court.
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  • 146 8 ’’She Deserved If” (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Nov. 23. An Indian woman named Amam was found stabbed in Temerloh Estate, Trong, yesterday. She was removed to the Taiping Hospital with a wound on her thigh. A Malabari, Achuthanair, was arrested and charged in the Taiping
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  • 763 8 Austin Completes Tert— Gazette’' Competition Results —Goodbye to I rams-House-To-House Canvassers HERE was some. bustle in the “Pinang Gazette” office yesterday- We of the editorial watched, for 1 < a brief spell, our colleagues on the ground floor sifting thousands of entries for the Non-Stop Austin competition.
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  • 173 8 Police Supervisee Gets Two Mouths For failing to report to the Police, while under Police supervision, Chew Boon Chye, was sentenced to two months’ rigorous imprisonnaent, by Mr. C- W. Dawson, the acting District Court yesterday. The accused, who pleaded guilty to the charge said that when
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  • 115 8 Wife Of Well-Known S.C.R.C. Sportsman (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, November 21. A Chinese woman was yesterday f<> u lying in the bathroom of her house j ear Road with several wounds at of her head, allegedly caused by a P She was rushed to
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  • 182 9 Chinese Charged With Theft Kampar, Nov. 23. A sensation was caused this morning A hen it became known that a Chinese was arrested here by the Perak Detective Detriment with a stolen revolver in his posHe was charged before Che Baki, the Kampar Magistrate, with possession of
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  • 78 9 A hockey match between the Penang Snorts Club “A” and the Eastern Smelting J !ub will be played at 5.15 today o n the The following will represent the P.S.C. H E. Pettier; N. B. Fletcher, J. A. McEvoy: E. C. Tokeley, S. A.
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  • 373 9 PENANG AND KEDAH READERS SHARE $lOO FIRST PRIZE (By Our Motoring Correspondent.) 1 >37 model Austin 7, which began a marathon test round I enang Island a week ago, arrived al Borneo Motors, Nor- K° a d, Penang, yesterday at 5 p.m. having covered a
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  • 30 9 Checking up some of the entries in the $175 competition at the offices of the “Pinang Gazette” in Bishop Street. —Photo by Ebata. Penang.
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  • 116 9 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 24. The case against a Hylam, Foo S n Ping, who was produced on Saturday before Mr. C.H. Dakers, in the Kuala Lumpur Police Court, on a charge of being a member of an unlawful society, namely, the General
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  • 97 9 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala. Lumpur, Nov. 24. Before Mr. C.H. Dakers in the Kuala Lumpur Police Court yesterday, two Chinese, Loh Thin Poh and Wong Yit Pin, were charged with criminal extortion by putting a woman named Sik Poh Lin in fear of physical injury
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  • 203 9 The annual general meeting cf the Tai Sun School, Penang, was held at their school hall yesterday. Mr. Choo Hoe Lok, chairman of the school, presided and among those present were Messrs. Tan Kcng Peng, Lau Jit Sam, Pan Hoh Cheow, Boey Eng Eng, Ng
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  • 24 9 Pinehurst (Nth. Car.), Nov. 22. In the North Carolina American P.G.A. Championship final today Densmore-Shute defeated James Thompson, 3 and 2.
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  • 202 9 Tenants* Narrow Escapes DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT $3,000 Damage estimated at $3 000 was clone at an early morning fire in Ipoh yesterday in a shophouse in Yau Tet Shin street. The building belonged to Messrs. Russell Co. and was iented out for a tobacco shop by
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  • 66 9 Chartered Bank R. P. vs. Jubilee Party The following have been selected to play for the Chartered Bank Recreation Party i soccer fixture against the Penang Jubilee Party on the Renong Ground at 5.15 today; Goon Siah Kong, Manikkam, M. K. Sbaik Daud, Goon Siah Loong, Lim Th earn
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  • 63 9 (From Our Own CorresnonJpnt) Taiping, Nov. 23. A Chinese sundry shop wan burgle 1 a Simpang Matang during the week-end. A sum of money and jewelries to the vr! -c of $552 were reported missing. The door to the shop (Chop Sin Snng Hunt) was found forced open.
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  • 189 9 "Deliberate Fraud" Says Magistrate (From Our Own Correspondent. Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 24. H. Newman, a young Eurasian and former hotel employee in Singapore pleaded guilty before Mr. C.H. Dakers in the Kuala Lumpur Police Court yesterday, when charged with criminal breach of trust in respect of
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  • 111 9 I Lodging Housekeeper I Fined $lOO i M r M.C. Hay the District Judge, finut .a lodging housekeeper Tan Quee Lim SIOO. in default four months’ rigorous impriaonment. in the Penang Police Court yesterday, for allowing 63 persons to reside is his house which was licenced for
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  • 41 9 Appointed AttorneyGeneral For S.S. The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Coknies has been pleased to approve the appointment of the Hon. C. G. Howell. Legal Adviser, Federated Malay States, to be Attorney-General, Straits Settlements.
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    • 208 9 'I ”E. O Hotel PENANG. TOMORROW DINNER DANCE MUSIC BY THE NEW E. O. ORCHESTRA Under The Direction of i j ERIC NECK HEIM. i :o: DINNER DANCES I i Thursday Saturday Next. i WHEN V ism NG SINGAPORE STAY AT RAFFLES. i=- -J CKe QUADS’ Mi on COW&CATE7 Date
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  • 1655 10 Rapid Depreciation Period At Hand (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Nor. 12. The rubber market closed firm. I There was a certain amount of professional profit-taking, as anticipated, but Shis was more than offset by public toying demand on. the slightest drop an
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  • 414 10 Reduction In Cost Profit from mining operations for the year to July 31 of the Pahang Consolidatled, jumped by £98,455 to £183,578. The figure includes £38,288, being the balance i payment received from the Buffer Pool proceeds. The output permitted under the res’.ric- tions scheme was
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  • 775 10 The following reports have been announced during the week: CASTLEFIELD (KLANG) RUBBER Net profit for year to June 30 last £10,374 j (against £8,764); add £1,868 brought in,! making £12,242; dividend 8 per cent. (71per cent.); forward £4,242 (subject to directors’ extra remuneration £340, and estate
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    • 74 10 BELLISS MORCOM I STEAM ENGINES, OIL ENGINES, COMPRESSORS, ETC. jit HI —TBBEBMMmiDMM w I I 1292 STEAM TURBINE GENERATOR SET AGENTS: HUTTENBACHS LIMITED, penang. (INCORPORATED IN S.S.) ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS UK v 1 —x E) I. FW M aw iWWWSWyRRgFRpW v.Wm Smb ONE OF LIFE’S PLEASURES A Sure Cure Of
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    • 488 11 P EHA N G DELIVERY TIME-TABLE Buß n rf COMBINED SUBSCRIPTION RATE Wx? uk H Me Ho jo m !i TIMES of MALAYA PINANG GAZETTE Sung.i'Bokap Kuala Kangsar 3.45 a.m. Butterworth 130,* Nibong TIMES TSF MALAYA Taiping 4.25 Bukit Mertajam 2.10 'w.PorH BuNfaf Bagan Serai 5.10 Sungei Bakap 2.30 c*.
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  • SHIPPING NEWS from ALL PARTS
    • 544 12 ROYAL NAMES FOR THE TWO NEW BATTLESHIPS The two new battleships shortly to be laid down, by Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., at Walker-on-Tyne, and Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., at Birkenhead, are to be named King George V, and the Prince of Wales. This announcement was
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    • 34 12 It is understood that among the firms invited to tender by the Admiralty for new machinery to be installed in the battleships Queen Elizabeth and Valiant art two Clyde companiea
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    • 291 12 S.S. “ANTILOCHUS” from Liverpool sails for Hong Kong, Shanghai Dairen and Japan. S.S. “AGAPENOR” from Singapore sails for Jeddah, Have, Liverpool an( Bromborough. S.S. “GEN. v. d. HEYDEN” from Lho-Seumawe, Sigli, Olehleh a H’ Sebang. M.S. “BOR1NGIA” from Europe via Colombo. Sails same day for Port Swettenham,
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    • 99 12 Three Ships To Be Put into Service Tokio. Suspended in July following the rupture of trade relations between Japan and Australia, the N.Y.K. (Japan Mail Steamship Co., Ltd) Line between Yokohama and Sydney is to be restored as from Dec. 1. i The company proposes to
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    • 114 12 Attitude Of Liverpool Companies Considerable interest has been aroused by an announcement that certain la-ge insurance companies in Liverpool have not as yet underwritten the building risk on the sister ship to the Queen Mary No 552, under construction at Clydebank. It is understood that
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 47 12 J I NOW 'l Is Your Opportunity to buy a GOOD SECOND-HAND I PIANO for $l5O. I > I OR I A New Portable Columbia Gramophone for $l4. i I NEVER A Better Radio-Gram Than A MARCONI. Tbc j i Robinson Piano Co. (8.8.) Ltd. I PENANG. L
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1373 12 RADIO TOPICS PROGRAMMES PROGRAMME BY THE CONCERT SERENADERS L stenerS to tfie Berti* station at 4 20 At 8.20 tonight the Scrctuiders will this evening will hear a solo concert by a Ludivij/ HoelscKer.one of the brdHant and celebrated of German cellists. He tngramme consuls of 13 <tom» a> fol-
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  • 55 13 The Penang Municipal Band will play at the Esplanade this evening from 6.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Following is the programme:— March —Heroes All —Bidgood. Overture —Chai Romano —Ketelbey. Selection —The Emerald Isle —Sullivan. Waltz—Thoughts—Alford. Descriptive—The Parade of the Tin Soldiers —J essel. Selection —Frederica —L^har. Fox Trot
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  • 149 13 Soviet Embassy's Denial The Soviet Embassy in London denied tatements which have appeared that three Soviet steamers have been sent to Barceona. The following statement was issued from the Embassy:— Newspapers (not The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph) print reports about three Soviet steamers, Volga
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  • 233 13 Concession For Cargo Shipped Before New Year An increase in the freight rates from ava to Europe is announced by the «atavia Freight Conference to come into ull operation on Jan. 1, 1937, but accordng to the "Bat. Nieuwsblad,” the inreases are not to be considered as
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  • 142 13 i Latest Returns Reveal Encouraging Increase The foreign tonnage of shipping entering the port of Liverpool for the period from July 1 last to October 17 shows an inerrser of 99,000 tons over the corresponding period of 1935. This figure, covering period of 15 weeks, is
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    • 778 13 T j d I m 1 1 L» il Nr mi num hi tu XSMCES *£BUIITUMii} LIMB VtsooM LONDON AND NORTH CONTINENT Dq. (in conjunction with Glen Shire Line) PeMag Deaden A. PATROCLUS Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Glasgow. Nov. 27 Dec 23 GLENBEG L’don, R’dam, H’burg, Antwerp A Middlesborough Dec. 4
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    • 393 13 P© and <* V BRITISH INDIA Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Co., under Penang, Teluk Anson, Port Swettenham., contract with His Majesty's Government Malacca and Singapore Service. London sad Far East Mail Service. S/S "BULAN” Nov. 27 Outwards from London for China A Japan. “MATA HARI” Dec. 4 TVdrinnn* SAILINGS OF
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    • 234 13 H! JI fql iixirrurt iuslN KAISHA) LONDON SERVICE For Colombo. Aden Suez, Port flsiG Naples, Marseilles, Gibraltar, Lands* Antwerp and RotterdamI Steamers. Sailing dates iYASUKUNI MARU I (Calls Hamburg) Nov. 28 IHAKONE MARU •SUWA MARU J*®- ’FUSHIMI MARU J» 0 HAKOZAKI MARU •Call at Rotterdam Optional. FOR JAPAN FROM SINGAPORE
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 641 13 RADIO 2. ls—Greetings to listeners in New Zealand. 2.20 —News and economic review in English. 2.35 —Today in Germany Scund pictures. 3.50 —Melodies front operetta “Die Leipztger Lerche” by Siegfried Scheffler. 3.50 —Let’s sing a folk song together! The German Choral Union led by Rudolf Lamy. 4.20 —Solo concert: Ludwig
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    • 282 13 News bulletin in Bengali. 8.11 News bul-elin in itaglish. 8.31 The Aerial Playeis present “Affinities.” 9.01 Dance music from the Stuuiot 9-46 Time Signal. Close down. tG ramophone records. 2RO ROME Waveienglh: 11 Al Alep m.) TODAY 9.20 p.m.—Opening announcement. News in English. News in Chinese. Concert by .«uisa Carlevarini
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  • 979 14 WUowfng are the handicaps for the second day of the Selangor Turf Club Winter Meeting to be run at Bukit Timah tomorrow: Horses—Class 3—Dirisio® 2—About 7 Foriongs. JACK DRUCE 9.00 “Mr. Lightfoot’*Breukelen •33 RUSSIAN ROSE 3.13 Mr. A. Van Tooren 24 0 T.TTTT.EHURST
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  • 172 14 Scotland's Team To Meet The Rest The St. Andrew Society v. The Rest golf match will be played over the Penang course on Sunday. The following win represent the Society: W. Anderson and G. Halliday R. Craik and A. R. Craig; J. F. Fletcher and G.
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  • 72 14 Sekwigor's Team To Meet Perak (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 24. Chosen after Saturday’s Whites versus Colours trial, in which Colours won by 14 points to six, Selangor’s team to meet Perak in the "Malaya" Cup rugby match at Ipoh next Saturday will be as
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  • 52 14 The November Ladies Medal (stroke) competition was played over the week-end. Seven cards were taken out and four returned as follows Mrs. R. B. Horner 51 —l7 =34 (winner) Mrs. G. S. Reiss2 —ll =4l Mrs. J. W. Pinhey 56 —l5 =4l Miss P. M. Babington 81
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  • 202 14 .—Reuter. AUSTRALIANS BIG TOTAL OF 544 FOR 8 Babcock Holds Centre of Stage with 182 Sydney, Nov. 23. Austrafim XI: 544 for 8 wkt*. M.C.C.t 288. The M.C.C. have a sporting chance of averting an innings defeat. The Australians batting all day carried the total
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  • 57 14 Reuter London, Nov. 23 The Call-over for the Manchester vember Handicap resulted as follows: 7|l Penny Royal offered. 10|l Sea Bequest offered, 100;9 taken 10|l Nightcap m offered, 110'9 taken 12|1 Free Fare taken and offered. 100|7 Chrysler II offered, 100J6 taken. 33jl Flam taken and
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 49 14 M INVEST IN AN AUSTIN" The Austin Seven which started from Borneo Motors Limited showrooms at 5 p.m. on Monday Nov. 16 duly concluded its week’s run without having the engine stopped, at 5.5 p.m. yesterday. The total mileage covered during this period was 3,860. Bettor the proved ear.**
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  • 677 15 THREE miles downstream in 16 MIN. 10 SEC. Cambridge, Nov. 15. e two senior trial eight crews rowed three miles lock-to-lock course for the g rst tinit at Cambridge today, and the tit rd crew rowed the mile and a_ half belittle Bridge and Railway Bridge The
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  • 24 15 A FOND FAREWELL!—The Daw (left), Wembley’s veteran longdistance racer, says “Good-bye,” to Grand Flight 11, the new longdistance star at Wembley.
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  • 225 15 DO NOT COMPARE FAVOURABLY WITH CONTINENTAL That our style of play did not compare favourably with that of other nations, and that the “W’’ formation meets with scant favour by the majority of Continental teams, are the outstanding features of the official report on the British team
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  • 64 15 —Reuter. South African Success Cape Town. Nov. 22. i Alfred Padgham, British Open Golf Champion, won the Western Province golf championship today with an aggrega r e of .278. His rounds were: I 72, 64. 73, 69. His second round was marked by bril- iant play
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  • 110 15 Taiping Railway Institute Tourney Taiping. Nov. 22. i Good entries have been received for the coming handicap 3-ball billiards tourna- i meat organised by the Railway Institute. j Taiping. The competition is for a trophy presented by Mr. L.A.G. Newman. Locomotive Foreman. F.M.S.R., Taiping. The following is the draw:—V.
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  • 359 15 HARE, BUTLER WILDE ARE LEADING CANDIDATES FOR VACANCY JJKb.b PERRY'S plunge into professionalism has been coming for two years. 1 that he has taken it there need be her surprise nor regret. p «rry has served British lawn tennis elJ and if at the
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  • 98 15 Scotland v. The Rest Following are the teams chosen for the Scotland-Rest soccer match to be played on the Esplanade at 5.16 p.m. tomorrow. THE REST: (White Shirts): H. Bracegirdle; A. W. Wallich, G. Rude; H. E. Pether, T. A. Maxwell, K. A. G. Hague (p.c.); W. G. Cooil,
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    • 196 15 TIGER BEER good in anq case better I Illi I I I A Christmas Gift for your I friends in Britain. S »O; JP I Give them Nestle’s Chocolates. I I Order in Penang for delivery I i at home. I :o: *C S By sending a postcard to Nestle’s,
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  • LATEST SHARE AND COMMODITY NEWS
    • 302 16 Dull Tkt Stock Exchange was dull. Ixmdon, Not. 23. Yesterday Rise or Fail Cm. 5 fbC., 1944-64 117% Hunding, 4 P-c., 1960-90 117% War Loan. 3% p.c. 106% Stmts 6 p.C., 1936-51 103% Com. Un. Ass. (Units) 11 T*rndential A 37% Beyal Asset. (>os. pd.) 9ii Gt.
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    • 117 16 London, November 23. RUBBER Easy. Spot 81 buyers 82 sellers. Jan./March 81 buyers 82 sellers. April/June 8H buyers 8? sellers. July/Sept. 83 buyers B]g sellers. New York 18.02 cts. United Kingdom Stocks London 39,050 tons Liverpool 52,518 tons •COPRA Straits S.O. Rotterdam. £19.7.6d. PEPPER White Muntok in
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    • 184 16 KENNEDY CO. The tollowing are tne latest quotations a MESSRS. KENNEDY A CX’a Share UM today RUBBER Buyer» Seller» Am al. Malay 2.05 2.25 Broga 1.05 1.10 Jeram 1-00 UO Kamasan 3.25 3.75 Kempas 2.25 2.35 Kluang 1-00 1.10 Mentakab 45 471 New Serendah 3.10 3.25 1 Pa jam 2.171
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    • 115 16 London on Previously Latest Paris 105 1164 105 964 New York 4.89 A 4.89? Montreal 4.88} 4.88? Brussels 28.92 28.95} Geneva 21.27? 21.31 Amsterdam 9.03? 9.031 Milan 92 1 92 U Berlin 12.15} 12.17 Stockholm 19.39 H 19.39 Copenhagen 22.40 23.40 Oslo 19 90 19 90 Vienna 26%
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    • 110 16 Tn< YESTERDAY TODAY London—(Spot) No market £230.15.0 London—(3 months) jjo market £230.5.0 Singapore $113,371 $ll4-871 Business Done Penang Business Done COPRA.-fSundrfed) $7.80 $7.75 BLACK PEPPER $6.50 $6.50 RUBBER s London Bftd Bgd New York 18}c(G) TBftc(G) Singapore- Spot 30? c 30gc Dec. 1 3 °J C 3C?c Jan./Mar
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    • 189 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. TIN Buyers Sellers Batu Selangor 1.32} 1.37} Hong Fatt 1.35 1.40 Jelebu 1.17} 1.20 Kuchai 1.32} 1.37} Lukut 1.47} 1.52} North Taiping 77} 82} Petalings 9.60 10.00 Rahman Hyd. 1.17} 1.20 Rantau Ordy. 1.40 1.45 c Rantau Pref. 1.42} 1.47}c Sungei Luas 1.92} 1.97} Sungei Way 3.22}
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    • 162 16 RUBBER: Buyers Sellers Batu Lintangs 1.30 1.32} Bentas 1.10 1.12} Brogas 1.02} 1.05 Lunas 2.15 2.22} M T’indas 1.72} 180 Mentakabs .45 .47} Pajams 2.15 2.22} Sungei Tukangs 1.27} I.32}ex Ulu Benuts 54 56 TINS Bangrins 236 24 3 Batu Selangors 1.35 1.37} Hong Fatts 1.35 1.40 1
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    • 158 16 Profit for Year M45J29 Kuchai Tin, Limited, report for the year ended Sept. 30 shows: The profit for the year was $445,729.88, which with the amount brought forward from last year $5,356.35, gives a total of $451,086.23. Out of this the following payments had been made:—(l) Bonus to
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    • 201 16 TIN Buyers Sellers Ampats 5,3 5,6 Ayer iiitams 20(6 21|6ex Ayer Wengs 1.95 2.05 Bangrins 23,3 24,3 Batu Selangors 1-35 1.38 Chenderiangs 25|3 26,3 Hong Fatts L 34 1.38 ex Hongkongs 23,0 24|0 Idris 14|3 15|0 Ipohs 3719 39,0 Jelepangs 26j6 27,6 Jelebus 1.19 1.22 ex Kamuntings 16|3
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    • 155 16 LEAN CO. TODAY’S OPENING QUOTATIONS TIN: Buyers Sellers Ampats 5|3 5,7} Asams 32 9 33,9cd A. Wengs 1.97} 2.05 B. Selangors 1.32} 1.37} Hong Fatts 1.35 1.42} 4elapangs 25 0 26,0 Johans 30 33 K Kampars 1417} 15,3 [K. Lanjuts 22*9 23 6 Kuchais 1.32} I.37}cd Kundangs 93 9 9
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    • 97 16 During the week ending Nov. 14, 1936, exports from Malayan ports amounted to 19,258 cases, of which 12,086 (63 per cent) cases were to the United Kingdom. 4,372 (23 per cent) cases to the Continent of Europe, 1,250 (6 per cent) cases to Canada, and 1,550
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    • 243 16 Interim of 2} per cent., or 3d. per share, payable on and after Dec. 15, against coupon No. 10. (First dividend since 2} per cent, was paid for whole of 1929). At special meeting of shareholders held at Jersey yesterday, Mr. H.C. Stewart, the chairman, said that
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    • 265 16 BANKS. NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ N. V. (NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY.) Estabfished in Amsterdam 1824. HEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM WITH BRANCHES IN ROTTERDAM AND THE HAGUE HEAD OFFICE FOR THE EAST BATAVIA Branches throughout the Dutch Easi Indies and in the Straits Settlements, India, China, Japan and Arabia. LONDON BANKEBB: The National Provincial
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    • 528 16 THE MERCANTILE BANk OF INDIA, LTD. (Incorporated in England) Capital Authorised Capital Subscribed Reserve Fund and Rest Z? 0 u p BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Right Hon. Lord Catto of Caimcatto, Sir Charles Alexander Innes, Sir Thomas Smith, Kt., J.M. Ryrie, Esq., P.R. Chalmers, Esq., W. H. Shelf ord. Esq., Sir
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