Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 15 January 1937

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 12. Vol. XCV. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1937. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 45 1 The worst coal mine- disaster ever known in Indian history occurred at the Poidih colliery near Asansol in the province of Behar. A terrific explosion occurred, claiming 208 victims. Picture shores Indian women waiting for news of husband» and relatives.
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  • 267 1 HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES DETAILS OF ATTACK ON MALAGA I Gibraltar, Jan. 14. It is officially announced from Algeciras that the insurgents have captured Estopona. It is understood that there were heavy losses on both sides. It is reported from Malaga that many were killed or
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  • 128 1 —Reuter. British Delay Criticised Sydney, Jan 14. Despite repeated requests, Australia is still awaiting details from Great Britain regarding Australian bases and air mail flying boats in connection with the Empire air mail scheme. It is stated that Mr. Parkhill. Minister for Defence, has declared that
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  • 61 1 —British Wireless. London, Jan. 14. The Foreign Secretary’ is leaving London on Wednesday according to present arrangements to attend the meeting of the League of Nations Council this day next week. The main items on the Council agenda are the dispute between the French and Turkish governments regarding
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  • 44 1 —British Wireless. London, Jan. 14. During December last new recruits to the Territorial army numbered 2,846, an increase of 128 per cent, over December, 1935. Recruiting for the Territorial army was heavier last year than in any year since 1925. —British Wireless.
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  • 114 1 H. Hirotiaka. the managing proprietor of the Miyako Electric Company, alias “Racing Professor”, was banished for life on Monday, when he was seen off from Penang by the prison authorities, oo the s.s. Kedah together with a batch of 13 others. It is understood that they will
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  • 61 1 A Chinese woman, Mrs. Tye Kien Lien, who obtained a decree nisi against her husband on the ground of adultery, last year in the Penang High Court, had the decree granted to her made absolute in the High Court this morning. Mr. Justice Gordon Smith made
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  • 73 1 —Reuter. Vienna. Jan. 15. An admission that communist activity in Austria is increasing, is contained in an official communique announcing the arrest of 26 leaders of the illegal Red Relief Organisation. Those arrested include the supreme leader of the communists whose name is kept secret. A
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  • 31 1 7 Unit in Svair ari friends having a sing-song at the British Embassy MEMBERS of the Scott sh Ambulance Unit in s^un i^ r^ rid
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  • 441 1 “STRICTLY PRIVATE" TALKS IN LONDON London, Jan. 14. Mr. de Valera, President of the Irish Free State Executive Council, who is in London on his way home from visiting an eye specialist in Switzerland, had conversations today at his hotel with the Dominions Secretary, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. This
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  • 140 1 Dinner Next Month j At the first Committee Meeting of the newly elected Committee held at the Recreation Club last night, it was decided to hold a dinner at the Club-house on Monday, February 1, to celebrate the Club’s Golden Jubilee. Certain elections and appointments were also
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  • 80 1 —British Wireless. Engagements On Return To London London, Jan. 14. The prospective engagements of the King and Queen after their Majesties’ return to London include a visit to the British Industries Fair, which opens at Olympia on February 15, and a visit on the second Saturday in Feb.
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  • 69 1 jailed at 10 Downing Street.—British IVireless. Further Consultations With Ministers London, Jan. 14. Before leaving to spend the week-end at Chequers, the Prime Minister Mr. Stanley Baldwin, today had further consultations with the ministers preparatory to the reassembly of Parliament next Tuesday. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden,
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  • 43 1 —Reuter. M.C.C. AT HOBART Hobart, Jan. 15. In a three days’ match against a comi bined Tasmania XI commenced here ted ay, the M.C.C. had one wicket down for 92 at lunch time. Barnett was not out with 50 runs. —Reuter.
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  • 275 2 India Sending Contingent Of 640 Men j It is tmderstood that some of the Dominion Governments have decided on the size and composition of the military contingents they will be sending to the Coronation. The largest and most spectacular will be the force representing India which
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  • 2582 2 Memorandum To Sastri Deputation An appeal to the Government of India and to “the leaders of public opinion at home to take greater interest in the needs and aspirations of the Indian settler a bread’ is made in the foilawing article, the concluding part of
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  • 234 3 Reuter. Possible Course Of Action London, Jan. 14. Mr. J.M. Keynes, the celebrated economist, in The Times, sets forth the possible course of action for the prevention and cure of slumps in the trade cycle. Basing his arguments on the theiis that the right way
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  • 26 3 ELINOR FAIR, idol of film fans in "silent'* times, was recently picked up ill and dazed, wandering through the streets of Hollywood.
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  • 382 3 Fox “’Reprisal’’ On Head Of B. I. P. i (From Our London Staff) London, Jan. 8. The intervention of Mr. John Maxwell in the negotiations between the Ostrer Brc thers and the Twentieth Century-Fox i has had the result that some well-informed observers have been xpecting. The
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  • 112 3 British Radio. Final Appeal This Week London, Jan. 12. King George V National Memorial Fund row amounts to £392,887 and in a final ap-j"-al is being fade during the week beginning today. 14,000,000 owners of banking accounts are invited to instruct their bankers to transfer
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  • 112 3 —British Radio. Successful Experimental Flight London. Jan. 14. An experiment designed to eliminate long train journeys across Europe in connection with the Empire air services was completed successfully yesterday when the Imperial Airways flying boat Centaurus arrived at Southampton. The Centaurus left Alexandria on Tuesday morning with
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  • 138 3 —Reuter. Women Believed To Be Involved Tacoma, Jan. 14. The police at Saramento have detained a man for questioning in connection with the Mattson murder whose description is said to tally with that in the police notices posted throughout the country. The man. whose face is scratched
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  • 205 3 -British Radio. Sharp Increase In Value Of Exports London. Jan. 14. A sharp increase in the value of exports is the chief feature of the December overseas trade returns which were published last night. The total for the month at £40.516.000 exceeds the figure of December
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  • 323 3 Negotiations IT ith Poland Ending Warsaw’, Jan. 8. p It is understood that the negotiations be- i tween the Polish Government and the Dan- zig Senate will reach their final stage tomorrow. The basis of an agreement will probably be reached before the end of this
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  • 49 3 —Reuter Wireless. Cairo. Jan. 12. Subscriptions to the people’s defence fund for buying aeroplanes and armaments from Britain total £1.000.000 exceeding all expectations, and money is still pouring All officials have subscribed one months salary and everyone in the country is contributing. —Reuter Wireless.
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  • 104 3 Eight Battalions At Strategic Points I Jerusalem, Jan. 11. Eight battalions of British troops will remain in Palestine until June und will be distributed to strategic points throughcut the country. They will thus be in a position to deal promptly with any further disturbances. The Commander-in-Chief,
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  • 30 3 ON THE LOOK-OUT.—A constant watch is kept on Sandringham Palace whenever members of the Royal Family are in residence. Even aeroplanes flying near are scrutinised through field-glasses.
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  • 209 3 —British Wireless. Well Received In London Portugal’s reply to the British note of January 9 on the question of foreign volunteers, which was received in London yesterday, is regarded as most helpful and satisfactory. It is learned that Portugal’s reply to the British note expresses
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  • 195 3 Bedside Interviews There are strong indications that Pius XI. means to create three new Cardinals before he dies. A year ago 20 Cardinals were created, which brought the Sacred College of Cardinals to within one of its possible 70. During the year three
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  • 67 3 British Radio. London, Jan. 13. More steel was produced in the United Kingdom last year than ever before. The output of steel ingots and castings totalled 11,698,200 tons against 9,858,700 tons in 1935 which was also a record production, exceeding the previous highest tonnage of
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  • 73 3 An exhibition dealing with airways and airports has been arranged by the Royal Institute of British Architects and, after being shown in London in February, it is to be seen also in various provincial cities. The Exhibition will illustrate, among other things, the selection of sites for
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  • 120 3 Aneta. Trade Move By Holland Stockheim, Jan. 11. In an interview on Saturday the Dutcn Premier, Dr. H. Colijn proposed that all countries belonging to the Oslo Convention. that is to say Belgium, Holland and the Scandinavian countries should begin negotiations with the object of lowering
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  • 116 3 —Reuter. Liable To Fine Of $100,003 Washington, Jan.' 13. The Treasury announced that $76,250 worth of opium, the largest seizure ever made in New York, was seized aboard the British steamship Maron, concealed in bags amongst the cargo. Three Chinese on board have
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  • 76 3 —Reuter Wireless. End Of Franco-German Tension Berlin, Jan. 12. The ending of the tension between Franco and Germany is further evidenced by the report that Dr. Schacht intends to visit Paris shortly, ostensibly to inspect the German section at the forthcoming Paris exhibition but business
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  • 273 4 RUPEE CURRENCIES OF INDIA CEYLON TO BE SEPARATE It is understood that once result of the coming into being of the new Federal C r.stitutioh in India this year is that the rupee currencies of Ceylon and Burma wi'l be separated from the Indian monetaiy system. It is learned that
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  • 163 4 Thief Chased And Caught Singapore. Pleading guilty to a charge of having committed theft of a bag from a woman at Armenian Street on Jan. 11, Low Ang Ngan was convicted by Mr. W. G. Reeves In the third court on Tuesday. Sentence was postponed to
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  • 1326 4 PASSENGERS BY "SARPEDON" The following are due to arrive here on Sunday, January 24, by Blue Funnel liner I s.s. "Sarpedon” from Home —Mr. and Mrs. H. C. d’Arcy-Irvine, Dr. W. I. Donaldson, Mr. T. W. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Godward, Mr. A. E. Bagnall,
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  • 453 4 Interrupted Court Proceedings Singapore, Jan. 13. “1 am convinced that you deliberately interrupted the Assistant Civil Dis--11 ie:t judge and you were warned several times. I convict you on the first barge. On the second charge you had to be forcibly removed and the evidence of the
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  • 80 4 Sin Chew Jit Poh. Espionage Alleged Hong Kong, Jan. 11. Three White Russians said to be carrying on espionage work in South China were detained by the police of Swutow yesterday. Newly drawn maps of certain parts of South China, a new passport and two old ones
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    • 86 4 B RITISH ..PORTLAND CEMEN SITUNNELITEffi WWW rvWFA' T All Enquiries should be addressed lo fbe Sole Agents PATERSON SIMONS CO., LTD. SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR PENANG. ■aMMmiTnw rm iimw iC I a “The more you smoke wills’ 1 GOLD FLAKE the more you'll realise why I call it a CLEAN SMOKE’’
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  • 1238 5 LANDMARKS OF ANCIENT CAPITAL REFURBISHED Bringing Out Beauties Of Forbidden City ONLA a few years ago, tourists who visited Peiping deplored the lack of attention given the Old Capital’s ancient landmarks, many of them giving vent to vociferous denuncialion of the shortsighted policy of the
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  • 79 5 —British Wireless. London. Jan. 13. The invitation of the High Commissioner in Spanish Morocco, to the British authorities to inspect conditions there in connection with reports of Germen infiltration into Spanish zone has been accepted and .British naval officers have left Gibraltar today in the destroyer, Vanoc. j
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  • 23 5 AUTHOR AS ACTOR —2 Grey iu the leading role in White Death," a film which he also produced and wrote.
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  • 229 5 MR. KENWORTHY BROWN i Indian law has lost one of its most distinguished exponents with the death in London of Mr. Kenworthy Brown, at the age of 77. He died following a heart seizure at the Athenaeum. Until his retirement seven years ago Mr. Brown was
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  • 219 5 Peru-Ecuador Territory Dispute Washington. All modem maps of the North-west shoulder of South America may be rendered obsolete by the ultimate result of boundary negotiations now progressing between Peru and Ecuador here. This opinion was expressed by the National Geographical Society while delegates of
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  • 694 5 SUSPECTED OF RED SYMPATHIES ,l< v. illustration of the present tendency in Japan to apply repressive measures against foreigners suspected of holding “dangerous thoughts’’ was the recent action of the ]k dice in forbidding an American Baptist missionary Mr. J. Spencer Kennard, to land when he
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  • 39 5 SARAH CHURCHILL AND HUSBAND—Miss Sarah Churchill, daughter of Mr. Winston Churchill, who was marr ed in New York last week to Mr. Vic Olive*, the American aetdr, photographed on the Aquitania on arrival at Southampton.
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  • 640 6 The Proper Use Of Leisure The Incorporated Association of Head Masters, at their annual meeting last week I in London, passed almost unanimously a resolution suggesting a modification of the school certificate examination and expressing the view’ that records should not take the place
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  • 225 6 i Cinderella Of Scienc.es A plea for the teaching of biology was made by Prof. J. S. B. Stopford. ViceChancellor of Manchester University, in his presidential address to the Science Masters' Association at Manchester last week. “To put it quite bluntly,” he declared, “it does not
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  • 26 6 Two of the Lord Mayor of London's Boy Players who sang Christmas carols at the Hall, All-hallows-lane, in aid of chanty
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  • 95 6 Amusing Picture At Majestic “THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES With Roland Yount), Ralph Richardson, Joan Gardner, Ernest Thesiger and a huge cast. A United Artists Picture. At the Majestic, Penang. Presented by Alexander Korda, this is an unusual film which is the funniest
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  • 321 6 AIR MAIL A mail for Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and South Africa via Singapore and thence by Imperial Airways will close at 7.00 p.m. today. A mail for Siam, Burma, India, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Belgian Congo, Great Britain, Ireland and whole
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    • 76 6 “IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY** What ELYSEE Creates is Left for others to Imitate. Penang's Up-to-Date De-Luxe Cabaret aMtffcWWSWr TEA DANCE 114 TODAY 6P.M. —8 30 P M 6 Coupons for $l.OO NIGHT DANCE 9 30 p.m. to Midnight 4 Coupons for $l.OO. 9 for $2 00 WATCH
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 220 6 Here’s Another Great Hit At Your Favourite Theatre WINDSOR 6.30 OPENING TONIGHT 9.30 Matinee Tomorrow at 2.30 The Popular Beautiful MISS VIOLET in the year’s superb dramatic CANTONESE TALKIE "HEART OF HUMANITY" SONGS! DRAMA! PATHOS! USUAL PRICES OF ADMISSION. NEXT CHANGE Ajanta Cinetone’s Greatest New HINDUSTANI TALKIE "NAVJIVAN" with Miss
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    • 114 6 ’gVAWAWAftftfti Mu Fali 144 OPENING SUNDAY AT THE MATINEE THE PICTURE EVERY WOMAN WHO HAS A HUSBAND OR EXPECTS TO HAVE A HUSBAND MUST MAKE A POINT OF SEEING» D ss-s Bvt I ALEXANDER KORDA TRIUMPHS AGAIN! “THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES” IS A BIG SUCCESS MAJESTIC Matinee Tomorrow
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  • 861 7 Tamil Sentenced To Six Months 9 R. 1. C I HIS is only a part of an elaborate system by which you have been defrauding members of the public, and these were unfortunate people who were in search of employment and were therefore prepared to
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  • 20 7 A striking dress worn at a New York belt glues a hint of the startling fashion changes.
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  • 155 7 Satisfactory Final Trials Cutting through the water at nearly 20 knots the new S.S.R.N.V.R. patrol launches underwent their final trials on Wednesday under the surveillance of Admiralty engineers, officers of the R.N.V. R., and the managing director of Thornycraft (S’pore) Ltd., Mr. Merton Brown. The
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  • 70 7 (From Our Oven Correspondent. Seremban, Jan. 13. A hired car. driven by a Chinese, is alleged to have run into the railway crossing gate at Sungei Gadut on the SerembanSingapore road yesterday. It appears that the railway gate was closed for road traffic as the
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  • 387 7 $74,000 Allocated By Mission For Improvement A sum of $74,000 has been allocated by the Methodist Mission for the improvement of its schools in Malaya, this sum including $40,000 for a block at the Anglo-Chinese School, ipoh which is to house Science laboratories, woodwork-shops and commercial
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  • 148 7 < From Our Own Correspondent Seremban, Jan. 13. Professor Henri Albertino is on a visit to Negri Sembtlan. He gave an exhibition of his conjuring to the Sri Menanti royal household recently. A fine of $lO was imposed by the Seremban magistrate on a local chettiar for failing
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  • 19 7 CONSTANCE EDWARDS, the actress, wore traditional white for her London wedding to Mr. Raymond Trains, of Northampton.
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  • 81 7 Knocked Down Traffic Constable I Dr. G. H. Garlick, of the Medical Department, Johore, was fined $l5 in the Singapore Fourth Court on Wednesday on a charge of negligent driving Police evidence was given that as Dr. Garlick drove across the junction of New Bridge
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  • 81 7 Briton Charged In Singapore Arrested on a warrant at Raffles Hotel, Singapore, for having fraudulently used as genuine a passport on Jan. 11 which he knew to be forged, John Bernard, British. 51, was produced before Mr. W. G. Reeves in the Third Court on Wednesday. Bail
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  • 100 7 The 2.374-tcn steamer Corchester was badly damaged in a collision with the Blue Funnel steamer Eurymedcn. 6.000 tons, in the Thames at Purfleet last week. The .Corchester is owned by Cory Colliers Ltd., and was at Cory’s jetty discharging coal. The Eurymedon, which is owned by the Ocean
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  • 161 7 Extends To For East j Moscow. In the newly created Soviet Republic of Kirghiz, in Asiatic Russia, former supporters of Trotsky and Zinovieff are being hunted with great energy. Suspicion is so widespread that the issue of new party I tickets to old party members, previously
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  • 659 8 WHAT is the future of the Esplanade? At the present time that part of the Recreation ground is controlled by the Penang Sports Club and the Penang Recreation Chib. The ground is Crown land but it is vested in the Municipal Commissioners who grant a permit each year
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  • 191 8 MALAYS AND REPRESENTATION Sir, —Diocles’ “Searchlight” on Municipal Commissioners in yesterday’s Pinang Gazette afforded interesting reading, and will invite comments from the public. Diocles said inter alia (i) he does not know how the present Malay Member was appointed; (ii) the Malays can be better represented.
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  • 27 8 —British Wireless. The Royal Military Tournament will be held at Olympia again this year. Performances will be given between May 27 and June 12.-
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  • 899 8  -  What Does a Newspaper Cost? —Penang Mystery Ten Cents, Six Cents, or Five Cents? Good Advice Offered DIOCLES WJIAT are the certified net sales of a newspaper I am prompted to ask this simple question in view of the repetition of a ridiculously extravagant statement that appeared
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  • 135 8 Accused Say Act Unintentional (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 13. In the Kualia Lumpur police court today, before Mr. C. H. Dakers, two Chinese, Loke i Yin Thong and Loke Yui Kuen were cha rg- j ed with having been knowingly concerned in a fraudulent
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  • 182 8 Esplanade Hockey The Chinese Recreation Club “A’’ drew with the P.R.C. “A” in a game of hockey yesterday on the Esplanade, each side scoring one goal. The P.R.C. began well and opened the) scoring within ten minutes of the .start through D. Stewart, who
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    • 140 8 ,1k smt</ a keatthf /Ifliftile When a dish is tasteless and insipid, it’s as good as wasted Appetite is lacking. Just add a few drops of Maggi’s Seasoning before serving and note the surprising difference in taste. Maggi’s Seasoning is mainly a concentrate of vegetable origin a wonderful taste restorer
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  • 3711 9 TAIPING SCHOOLMASTER MERCHANTS SUMMONED ALLEGED DISORDERLY COHDUCI Cabaret “Incidents laid In Court (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Jan. 14. Three prominent Taiping residents, Mr. Lim Eng Hong, a school naster, and Messrs. Jal Manecksha and Rustum Manecksha, proprietors of Messrs. Manecksha Co., Taiping, were summoned today before Che Pawanteh, in
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  • Article, Illustration
    28 9 DOROTHY WARD, pantom me principal boy, leaving London for Glasgow to start rehearsals of “Jack and the Beanstalk’* in which she will play the leading vole.
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    • 10 9 THOME 543. PENANG TOMORROW Dinner Dance EXTENSION—I A.M. PIKLER’S ORCHESTRA
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    • 305 9 THE BENTA RUBBER ESTATES, LIMITED i Notice is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of The Benta 1 Rubber Estates Limited will be held at the j Office of the Secretaries, British India I House, Penang on the 23rd day of January, 1937, at 10.45 o’clock in the forenoon
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    • 338 9 LATE ADVERTISEMENTS NOTICES Under the distinguished patronage and immediate presence of LIM CHENG EAN, Esq., 8.A., L.L.8., The Madras Premier Amateurs, the picked actors of the wellknown Madras Secretariat and the Suguna Vilasa Sabah, will stage two Tamil plays. Rama, the Ideal son, and Nandanar on Saturday, the 16th Jan.,
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  • 1409 10 Susceptibility Of London Rubber Market (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 7. NOTHING is more notorious than the nervous susceptibility of the London Rubber Market to changes of fortune usually dramatic, often drastic and occasionally disastrous. When every prospect seems to please, when prices
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  • 268 10 CONSUMERS BUY FREELY London, Jan. 5. London stocks of white pepper were reduced by 40 tons to 11,753 tons last week. Landings were 10 tons and deliveries from store 50 tons. A year ago the stocks were 13,706 tons. Landings of black pepper were 32 tons
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  • 208 10 Sign Of Increased Trade Activity A striking reflection of the increased prosperity both of Great Britain's trade and of the greater activity on the Stock Exchange is provided by the annual return of the Bankers’ Clearing House for 1936. This reveals a sharp increase in the totals
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  • 374 10 New Shore Issue BIG ANGLO-ORIENTAL BEAL (From Our London Staff) London, Jan-. 7. An increased dividend for 1936 and a pending capital issue are announced by the British Tin Investment Corporation. It S 3 also reported that the company has secured a substantial holding in
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  • 76 10 Interim Up 1 P.C. To 5 P.C. Bukit Mertajam Rubber Co., Ltd., is to increase its interim dividend from 4 per cent to 5 per cent., less tax. The final dividend last year was 4 per cent. The transfer books of the Ordinary shares and the 6
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  • 93 10 The Berlin International Motor-car and Motor-cycle Exhibition will be held this year from Feb. 20 to March 7. At the opening ceremonies of the last two exhibitions Herr Hitler disclosed the progress made in the production of synthetic rubber and fuel. It is anticipated that this year
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    • 210 10 VfOtO MHI Above I I the trials I of travel I r 8 days Penang to London— I British standards of service I > Large saloons—Nights spent on land J One inclusive fore. No dps I Now twice weekly service to Brisbane I IMPERIAL AIRWAYS AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES I B
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  • 175 11 CHILDREN were not the only spectators of Gamage’s model railway system. Quite a number of grown-ups found the lure of trains was still irresistible. WITH Christmas HER PRESENT problem solved. Is that why she is looking so pleased? This seasonal picture was taken at a
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 96 11 Get Your Sales Message Home In all parts of the world the foundation cf every successful advertising campaign of any size —is newspaper advertising. Heads of big business everywhere constantly pay tribute to press advertising and its power to create and maintain demand for their products. Millions of pounds spent
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  • SHIPPING NEWS from ALL PARTS
    • 572 12 DECISION OF CONFERENCES London. |T is probable that within a few months an all-round increase in, i liner freight rates will be in operation. Several of the Liner Conferences have' already announced increases. A notable instance is the West African Conference governing the trade
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    • 24 12 Captain A.E. Lang, the British shipmaster who has been imprisoned in Venezuela on a charge of homicide, has now been released.
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    • 734 12 s S “KARAGOLA” arrives from Singpore. S S “MATA HARI” for Teluk Anson, Bagan Datoh, Port Swettenhmi.. Malacca Singapore. S S “BHUTAN” from London via ports. Sails same day for Port Swetten—- ham. Singapore, Hong Kong. Shanghai, Kobe Yokohama. s S “CLEAbTAFFARIC” from Far East via Singapore.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 35 12 Don’t Ruin/ Your Records by Using Cheap Needles. WE RECOMMEND “DURAGOLD” (Each COLUMBIA Duragold Needle Plays 10 RECORDS) Sole Agents Robinson Piano Co. (8.8.) Ltd. ALSO PENANG. OBTAINABLE AT GRAMOPHONE MUSIC STORE, 175, Campbell Street.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1410 12 I RADIO TOPICS PROGRAMMES "JOAN DISAPPEARS" RADIO "MADE IN SCOTLAND" The third episode o/«s« io! musical ptav, PERSONALITIES 158 Made in Scotland’ a programme to be -Cue /or Adventure*', will be broadcast al broadens' from Daventry at 1.20 pm. on «20 tonight in Tmnmnissu:. 2. It is en- JW 7
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  • 706 13 M.P.'s Questions In The House Of Commons CONTROL SUGGESTION REPUDIATED London, Dec. 18. In the House of Commons, yesterday. Sir J.S. Wardlaw Milne asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he was now in a position to state the intentions of the Government regarding assistance
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  • 75 13 Capetown. A cyclone which struck a native kraal on a farm at Vrede near Newcastle (Natal) last week whirled five natives and eight oxen into the air and they were killed. The body of one man was found 540 feet away. The kraal was wrecked
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  • 37 13 At a meeting of the General Committee of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Mr. Robertson F. Gibb, the chairman of the UnionCastle Mail Steamship Co., Ltd., was elected a member of the General Committee.
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  • 236 13 Month's Passenger And Cargo Increases Southampton docks’ statistics for November 1936, present some unusual contrasts. The number of ships, tonnage of cargo and volume of passenger traffic is revealed as greater than in November, 1935, yet both gross and net tonnage show a substantial 1 decrease.
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  • 72 13 On Jan. 6 the steamer Principessa Maria returned to service on the South America line of the Italia Co., after having been employed by the Italian Government on the East Africa service. Her sister ship, the Principessa Giovanna, will follow on Feb. 10.
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  • 159 13 Naval Construction In 1937 In reply to a question in the House of Commons recently, Sir Samuel Hoare announced that orders are to be placed for new machinery for H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth and H.M.S. Valiant with the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd., of Govan, Glasgow,
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  • 91 13 Six motor tankers, ordered some time ago by the British Tanker Co., Ltd., have been acquired by the Admiralty, though the company will continue to deal with the details of their construction until delivery. Two of the ships, the Abbeydale and ArnJale, are being built
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  • 57 13 (From Our Own Correspondent.) > Bangkok, Jan. 13. The Straits Steamship Co’s s.s. Kamuning sprang a leak after leaving for Singsu pore last week and had to return to port, discharge cargo and enter dry dock here. The owners are taking advantage of the
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  • 126 13 Position On The Tyne At tue monthly meeting of the Tyne Improvement Commissioners recently it was reported that the coal and coke shipments ’from the Tyne for the 11 months ended Nov. 30, 1936. were U 2,155,732 tons, as [compared with 12,235,648 tons in
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  • 147 13 The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has awarded a pension and a certificate of service to Coxswain E*.J. Smith, of Kes- singland, Suffolk, who has been an officer of the lifeboat for nearly ,115 years, and previously in the Southwold lifeboat. He has had 37 years of lifeboat
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  • 101 13 An agreement has been concluded between the Board of Trade and the Government Minor and Manipulative Grades Association, as the result of which higher scales of pay will operate as from November 1, 1936, for members of H.M. Coastguard Force. The new scales will give station
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    • 345 13 MANSFIELD CO, LTD SINGAPORE PENANG. THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE i Vessels. AND NORTH CONTINENT Leave Due (In conjunction with Glen Shire Line) Penang London GLENAFFARIC L’don, R’dam, H’burg, Antwerp j Hn 14 Feb. 9 Middlesbrough A. HECTOR Marseilles, London, Rotterdam Glasgow. GLENSHIEL London, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp 29 Mar. 1 Middlesborough
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    • 401 13 MAIL SAILINGS 1937. SHIP FROM S’PORE SHIP FROM S’PORE JOHAN DE WITT N.L. Jan. 15 BALOERAN R L July 9 J.P. COEN N.L- Feb. 5 J.P. COEN N L July 16 INDRAPOERA R L. Feb. 12 JOHAN DE WITT N L July 23 M.V. ST. ALDEGONDE n.L. Feb. 26 INDRAPOERA
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    • 682 13 Ft and I Gt BRITISH INDIA Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Co., undn .Penang, Teluk Anson, Port Swettenham. extract with His Majesty’s Government Malacca and Singapore Service. London and Far East Mail Service. s/s .< M HARr Jan 15 Outwards from London for China <1 Japan, S/S “BULAN” Jan. 22 due
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  • 622 14 MAY BE BUILT IN CALIFORNIA Electric Stands For Stewards If the plans of the architect are approved by those backing the scheme they probably will—lnglewood, a town in the district of Los Angeles Southern California), will have the most remarkable racecourse in the world. er* The designer
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  • 77 14 Raja Malshan ibni Sultan Abdullah, trife of Raja Salim, Magistrate, Bata Gajah has created a notable precedent in sporting circles by being the first Malay lady to take up golf. She frequently visits the Kinta Club’s links in company with her husband who
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  • 93 14 Foo Eng Lin Beat Lim Chooi Tee (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Jan. 15 The final of the Open Bilbards (3 Ball) Tournament of Old Michaelians Association was played off yesterday evening and rejnrfted in Foo Eng Lin beating Dim Chooi Tee 250/188. The winner showed good
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  • 88 14 Sir Fisher Wentworth Dilke has been ap- i pointed by the Royal Yacht Squadron to Jepiesent them in the races for the America’s Cup for which Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith has challenged with Endeavour 11. The first race of the series will take place »n July
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  • 114 14 Som Chit's Easy Win Over Guillermo (From Our Own Correspondent Ipoh. Jan. GJS. Youth beat experience last night at the Jubilee Park. Nai Som Chit easily outpointed Battling Guillermo, the veteran Filipino lightweight, over 12 rounds “Guilly” employed all his wiles gained by long ring experience but
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  • 249 14 AL RIVERS ATTOP OF LIST (From Our Own Correspo ident.) Singapore, Jan. 14. The annual ranking of boxers registered with the Singapore Boxing Association, as compiled by the Board of Control is as follows: The ranking includes only boxers at present resident in Malaya and
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  • 79 14 Mr. C. P. Dixon, British non-playing captain of the Davis Cup team, and Mr. C. i H. Hyem have resigned from the Lawn Tennis Umpires’ Association because they were dissatisfied with the manner in which the linesmen and umpires were selected for the two Davis
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  • 218 14 ENGLAND TO MEET GERMANY London. I learned from Mr. Arthur Elvin, the managing director at Wembley Stadium, that arrangements have been made to stage an official England vs. Germany match at' the Empire Pool early next season, says a London Sports Correspondent. This will be the biggest
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  • 218 14 F.A. Team To Visit Australia i London. The Fcotball Association are to send a team to Australia in 1938. It is proposed to play three Test Matches. The English team’s itinerary will be decided by the select committee appointed by the Australian Association. Arrangements may be—June 30: Leave
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  • 724 14 London. Jan. 4. The coming of the New Year with its spate of matches, its crop of injuries, and, 1 this season, its epidemic of flu, forces to I the front those premising youngsters who get few chances of League games in more normal
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    20 14 W ATKIN, Reading’s out side-right, who scored four goals for his side during their recent match against Newport County.
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    • 192 14 wjhh ij I I IgKM ,1 i s z/ S R p Give your\2=®£»*\ baby the best chance in life "THE baby fed on Glaxo starts life with g® a big advantage. He has robust health IS and stamina—gifts that money cannot buy in ta er years Give your baby
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 178 14 FRIDAY. 15th JANUARY, 1937 Chin Loo Magic Acrobatic Show CANTONESE OPERA: “Hong Song Chai Wan” —Last Part. KHENG CHEW OPERA: “Sai Goa Cheng Wan” FREAKS OF NATURE FOR A FEW NIGHTS MORE ONLY OPEN-AIR CINEMA "Jupiter’s Sceptre” AMOY OPERA: “Seow Ngoh Ghee”—T-jurt Part. ROYAL RUBY’S OPERA: “Aksamana Sekam Of Ruens”
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  • 905 15 CROP OF FANTASTIC SCHEMES (From Our London Staff). Jan. 8. general desire for revision of the rules of the Football Association Cup is apparent in football circles throughout the country. The Moguls of the game have racked their brains to find a suitable scheme
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  • 242 15 > Perry- Vines Tennis Rivalry Perry’s three recent victories over I Ellsworth Vines have made the two' i quits. They have met eight times in all; four times in 1931, once in 1933, and three in 1936? Vines’ wins were all in 1931. 'rhe full scores up to
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  • 146 15 Austral News. Papuans At Next Olympiad? Papuan natives are becoming sport-cons-cious and are discarding their old “Skullcrusher” clubs for golf clubs, according to Mr. J. T. Jennings, M.H.R. of New South Wales, who has recently been on a trip to New Guinea and Papua. “Some
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  • 154 15 No Trials Off Britain Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith has decided that his challenger for the America’s Cup, Endeavour n, shall not carry out trials In British waters. With Endeavour I, Mr. Sopwith’s challenger in 1934, she will cross the Atlantic early in May. This procedure will
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  • 437 15 EYES SET ON BRITISH STAR I 1 A bover without ambition will never get anywhere. Whatever faults Dave Crowley, the Clerkenwell light-weight, may possess lack of aspiration is not one of them. He aims at the stars, or, to be more precise, one of them. j
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  • 163 15 Lord Astor's Stud Ideas In England it is the usual procedure for a classic winner to begin stud duties as a four-year-old. but Lord Astor, whose life study to try to solve the problem of breeding classic winners has yielded great results, even though the Derby
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  • 101 15 Golf Greens Dyed In America Golf greens that lose their colour and become drab and brown are now being dyed a bright and natural green in the United States. The dye, described as the colour of new spring grass, was accidental-, ly discovered by the Greens Section
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  • 810 15  -  Grand National Prospects—Small Montana Has No Punch —The Boat Race—A F ecord Breaker GARRICK. the Grand National drawing near i the question as to whether Golden Miller can win bulks large again Reynoldstown, Major Furlong’s ’chaser which .won the classic event twice in succession, I will not
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  • LATEST SHARE AND COMMODITY NEWS
    • 333 16 Quiet 'Ph* Stock Exchao ge was quiet. London, Jan. 14. Yesterday Rise or Fall Con. 5 p.c., 1944-64 117)6 Funding, 4 p.c., 1960-90 War Loan, 3J4 p.c ios% Com. Uo. Ass. (Units) 10% Prudential A 37)4 Royal Aasce. (10s. pd.) Gt. Western Ord 63 Can. Pac. ($25)
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    • 118 16 London. Jan. 14. RUBBER Easy. Spot 10}J buyers 102 se.lers. Jan./March lOg buyers 102 sellers. April/June 10} buyers 101 sellers. July/Sept. 10 ft buyers 10 ft sellers. New York: 21.92 cts. United kingdom Stocks London 31,792 tons Liverpool 44,709 tons COPRA Straits S.O. Rotterdam. £24.15.0. PEPPER White
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    • 180 16 KENNEDY CO. The following are the latest quotations in MESSRS. KENNEDY A Cow’s Shan UM today TIN:— Buyers Sellers Ampat 5(3 5)7 Ayer Weng 1-80 1.90 Batu Selangor 1.43} 1.47 J Hong Fatt 1.521 1.571 I Jelapang 26 9 27|3 1 Kpg. Lanjut 26,6 27|0cum Katu 2d 6 24.6 ex
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    • 124 16 London on Previously Latest Faris 105 9 64 105 9 64 New York 4.91 ft 4.91 ft Montreal 4.911 4.911 Brussels 29.111 29.11 Geneva 21.39 21.38 Amterdam 8.97 8.96 J Milan 93 ft 931 Berlin 12.22 12.21 Stockholm lB.39’ft Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Oslo 19.90 19.90 Vienna 26 I
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    • 112 16 TIN YESTERDAY TODAY London—(Spot) £231. 0.0 £231.10 0 London-—(3 months) £231.15.0 £232 10 0 Singapore $114.12} >115.121 Business Done Penang Business Done COPRA. —(Surdrled) $lO.BO $10.40 BLACK PEPPER $ll.OO llOO RUBBER London lo}Jd New York 21Ic(G) 21?c(G Singapore- Spof 371 c 37gc Feb. Mar 37gc 37gc April/Jure 372
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    • 146 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. TIN:— Buyers Sellers Batu Selangor 1.421 1.471 Hong Fatt 1.50 1.55 Jelebu 1.30 1.35 Kuchai 1.70 1.75 Lukut. 1.321 1.371 Nawng Pet 95 1.00 North Tai ping 90 921 Petalings 10.25 T 0.50 Rahman Hyd. 1.421 1.47) Raub Gold 7.00 7.20 Rantau Ordy. 1.42} 1.47} Rantau Pref.
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    • 547 16 FORMER GOVERNMENT PENSIONER The remains of the late Mr. Um Tek .Soon, who passed away at this residence, No. 18 Kek Chuan Road last Friday night, were interred at the Batu Lanchang Cemel ter yesterday. The deceased, was a Government pen- jSioner having served
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    • 165 16 LEAN CO. TODAY’S OPENING QUOTATIONS TIN: Buyers Sellers Asams 33(6 34)3 A. Wengs 180 1.90 B. Selangors 1.42} 1.47} Hitams 44 48 Hong Fatts 1-50 155 Jelebus 1.27} 1.32} Katus 23)6 24 6 K. Kampars 15)9 16|3 K. Lanjuts 26)3 27|0cd Laruts 14(6 15|0 Lukuts 1.32} 1.37} N. Taipings 90
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