The Straits Budget, 17 January 1929

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1 9 The Straits Budget
  • 28 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED EIGHTY YEABS.] No. 3.701 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY. JANUARY 17, 1929. Price 25 cents (S.S. Currency) or 7<L
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  • 421 1 lieadeks- p V,, awl Hi- Eellow Animals V* Mvthiiul Monopoly Pain’aml Passpons I Th*- M'-rals of Maiaya 4 I \n Inelegant riuth J-'h> I'" "> Do It I OivasioP.al Note? I lfeuter and Special— I .-..viTinir Da-t «'«k'l News lf'-'l pictures—--5 vinca port* Wedding.* I? I iynt. h. r.
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  • 5175 1 on Dcc P V> SS f°A? rds tJlc (lcath at f Ir Alexand'ov vr° f Mrs Murray, wife J, n< Si »»gapor<; md^f’? y f Honjr Kon U v o n rt an 'i of Sampford Peverell, Mr. J. F. Coelho has returned to Singapore from a
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  • 1124 3 Straits Timor,, Jan. 10. li.tlt. time back there was a case Seme h'tle u ome in which several co |?battcrns”°wer* charged with rount ftU mitte d a very cruel and a vint i ,om on the reporter of a rowaruU- r The victim was at
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  • 1103 3 Siraits Time?, Jan. 11. British rubber planters have been told so often that they enjoy a monopoly of crude rubber that unless they keep the statistical facts firmly in their heads they may be tempted to believe it. The actual position is that prior to the introduction
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  • 1118 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 12. A legacy of the Gicat War which every traveller nas bemoaned at some time or am.ther is the passport system, with its ccompaniment of visas, visits to Consular offices, inquisitions by the Police, delay uiil expense. Adopted as a war measure, it has
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  • 1083 3 -Straits Times. Jan. 14. Tn an article with this heading published last week we dealt at sotnc length with recent developments regarding the control of the opium traffic in this country. While deprecating and deploring the attempts, well-meant but predoomed t<> failure, by bodies with no
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  • 1148 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 15. One has often heard quoted in discussions regarding the luture of the Indian Empire the remark attributed to the late Sir i’ertab Singh, a veteran soldier and sportsman and a chief among one of the great fightipg peoples. To him a highly distinguished
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  • 1270 4 Straits Times, Jan. 16. After-dinner speeches are not popular in Malaya. Recently H. E. the General Officer Commanding was addressing a crowded gathering at the Europe Hotel on a very festive occasion and found it impossible to obtain a hearing. Well might others tremble and
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  • 194 4 According to the recommendations of the e *ect Committee on the F.M.S. Budget a vote appears for the Bukit Timah-Tan.ione agar Raihvay Deviation and a new rail-w-ay station in Sirgapore. The members o the Federal Council, however, put a rootnote to the item that the money was not to he
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  • OCCASIONAL NOTES
    • 215 5 Times. Jan. 10. u% vesterday on Blending the In a vi.ressed the hope that the new Arts w e cuur9 e of construction on cinema now in former SailorB Home the site of and other musical would 1 Lhich so far have not been a amenities
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    • 244 5 Straits Times, Jan. 10. v R-ildwin’* strictures on parasitical > Ml have caused quite a flutter in director* na\ jt from us th< any criticisms could be i the directors of Malayan ,v el.ed aha a tfairs from the nmpames h pf s qJq mi l
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    • 373 5 v.m, aim I traits Times, Jan. 10. There are few motorists in Singapore who will agree with the opinion ex;ress«*d by Mr. J. Laycock in a letter to •.he Straits Times that excessive horn .owing in our streets is not caused by 'ii* “absolute lack of traffic sense
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    • 102 5 body.—Straits Times, Jan. 11. Mrs. Shore, a lending physician ant surgeon in Lahore, has been appointed member of the Punjab Legislaiivt Council. Sir Hugh Clifford would not have to go far afield if he were minded to follow this excellent example, for then is a lady
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    • 195 5 A.O.F.B. STILL TOGETHER Straits Times, Jan. 11. Local members of the Ancient Order of Froth-Blowers will be glad to hear a declaration from Froth-Blower No. 1 that the order is not moribund. Not so much, is seen of the cuff-links and other insignia as formerly, and the celebrated anthem s
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    • 553 5 Straits Times, Jan. 11. When Mr. C. Watney, London Agent of '.he Incorporated Society of Planters, writes to the India Rubber Journal that the purchasing power of the Singapore lollar is about equal to the English shillng and no more,” he is making a bob.
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    • 313 5 THAT’S THAT What more is there to be said?—Straits Times, Jan. 12. We propose to-day to indulge in 4 h* o°eulinrly offensive habit of chanting thni dismal ditty “We Told You So.” Or Dce. 18 we unburdened ourselves to the itrnt of a thousand odd words on the abject of
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    • 198 5 —Straits Times, Jan. 12. It is officially notified that the Secretary for Postal Affairs has strong reasons for believing that there is a widespread disregard of the Regulation which provides that letters containing currency notes can only be sent by registered or insured post. The habit of
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    • 256 5 —Straits Times, Jan. \2. W have had a “grouse” from a corrtspondent who complains of the action of ihe Municipal authorities in calling upon .•atepayers to provide themselves with xpensive dust-bins in which to place all lomestic rubbish for collection by the scavenging department The Municipal
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    • 147 5 —Straits Times, Jan. 14. Mr. Kralichek-Soboleff. the young Russian who arrived in Singapore during the veek-cnd after pedalling a ptrsh-bike from Bangkok, via I’onang, set out from Shanghai two and a half months a*go with he intention of cycling round the world. 'I is enthusiasm would .appear
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    • 275 5 Straits Times, Jan. 14. Cables from Hankow and Mukden, to mention only two places where things have been happening, indicate that it is indeed the same old China." The period of calm following the complete ascendancy established by the Nationalists has been broken, and there have
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    • 308 5 POLITICAL PROGRESS .—Straits Times, Jan. 1 1. Malaya contains a complexity of administration without parallel in the territori s under the Colonial Office, and it is inevitable that our internal affairs should sometimes be misunderstood, but it is a little surprising to find so wellinformed a contemporary as the Times
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    • 314 5 SIC TRANSIT. that once wore his. Straits Times, Jan. 15. One more name is added to-day to the long tally of men who have paid the penalty of trying to hustle the Changeless East." Amanullah’s brief hour of f lory has ended and the man who but a ew short
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    • 242 6 HEY PRESTO I’eelinifs and conditions.—Straits Times, Jan. IT*. Now the Governor’s hack, he’ll settle it,” is what one hears on all sides when locul all'airs are being discussed in Singapore nowadays. This touching faith in the ability of Sir Hugh Clifford to produce solutions of Malayan problems as they crop
      I’eelinifs and conditions.—Straits Times, Jan. IT*.  -  242 words
    • 256 6 Straits Times, Jan. 15. Platitudes at school prize givings arc* so traditional that the boys of St. Patrick’s College, Ceylon, must have been' startled to hear tin .r headmaster launch a slashing attack on modern youth at the I breaking-up ceremonies. This educational Oiuruiy oeclarv a
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    • 335 6 Straits Times, Jan. 13. During the past fe v months quite a number of sor’ous cases < f defalcation and or hreai k of tru*D as public servants have been brought to light among Malay offi- < i. in Inhere, mainly, we gather, as the result in' tie*
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    • 236 6 —Straits Times, Jan. IG. The way of the man who would follow the dictates of the health specialists is indeed hard. If these experts could agree among themselves and would advise an anxious public exactly how and when and what to eat and drink and how
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    • 249 6 St aits Times, Jan. 16. Whenever the question of abolishing •apital punishment crops up, as it did in the House of Commons recently, we are reminded of Alphonse Karr's reply to a friend who asked him to support a n.ensure like Commander Kenworthy’s. Quo messieurs !es assassins commoneent
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  • 1910 7  -  (By A. W. Still.) [Copyright] London, Dec. 19. U..P referred once or twice to the 1 h f I nment of a protectionist tendsioW development ol Up y> '“’«tv w»r« ago, it would have been t to find a bona fide trade
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  • 280 7 Interesting information for the British exporter is contained in a letter from the Bandeong correspondent of the Federation of British Industries. After setting forth the economic advantages enjoyed by the Dutch East Indies as compared with Malaya, China and India, and pointing
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  • 926 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Batavia, Jan. 12. During the past few days there have been several serious affrays between native and Ambonese regiments in Bandoeng, which have resulted in a number of persons, including several Europeans, being wounded. Arrests have been made, and
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  • 840 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang. .lan. Hk At the Assizes yesterday two Chinese. Kwek (Juan Chiing and Chaa Seng, wen charged with committing robbery am causing hmt at 10. Perl is Road '»n Oct !10 he t. Th” second a cused pbuidin.guiltv to
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  • 498 8 The annual meeting of the Singapore Turf Flub will be hold in the Chamber of Commerce on Friday, Jan. 25. The report of the committee for the last year stales: The statement of accounts shows a in-plus for the year of $112,505.117 after
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  • 174 8 Two Czechoslovakians, Mr. Bohumil Pospisil, editor and author, with his secretary, Mr. Joseph Hubl, arrived bo Singapore from Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 14 They started two years and four months ago from Prague, Czechoslovakia, on a mission to break the world’s record of
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  • 203 8 Khoo Hooi Hye, the well-known Malayan tennis player, and Chua Choon Leong, his tennis partner, were produced before the Fourth Police Magistrate, Mr. C. S. Findlay, on Saturday on an allegation of cheating. They were charged as follows: That you on
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  • 261 8 Sunday, Jan. 6. The Hon. the Chief Secretary, F.M.S., and Lady Peel arrived at Government House. Monday, Jan. 7. H.H. the Sultan of Johore, accompanied by the Hon. Mr. G. E. Shaw, called on Hi 3 Excellency the Governor. The Hon. the Chief Secretary and Lady Peel
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  • 217 8 A meeting of the committee of the Straits Settlements (Malacca) Association was held at the Malacca Club on the 11th instant. There were present Mr. M Strivens, president Mr. G. C. S. Rabjohn! vice-president the Hon. Mr. H. E. Nixon, the Hon. Mr. Tan Cheng Lock, Messrs.
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  • 403 8 Dr. Rony Chen,” the Chinese who a< recently arrested on an allegation of taining $5O from Dr. Lim Han Hoe h falsely representing himself to be Dire tor of the Political Intelligence Depart ment of the Nanking Government, wju sentenced by the District
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  • 213 8 A Chinese salesman was charged with cheating before the Fourth Police Magi--Irate. Mr. C. S. Findlay, on Jan. 11. It was alleged that when he was employed by Messrs. B. Kirschbaum and Co. he sold a quantity of jewellery cases to the Singaporean
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  • 93 8 (Aneta’s Service) Batavia, Jan. 10. It is stated that the s.s. Hock Seng and the tug Kraus are considered a total loss. It will be recalled that the tug Kraus, while towing the steamer Hock Seng t" Singapore, struck
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  • 2045 9 ,he Assizes on Jan. 9 before the ■ViLucv (Sir William Munson) Lee rlmf K«h was found not guilty of armed .Ifter a trial lasting practically a robbet> a p P q Thuraisingham whole «'*> d The a«u««l successfully pleaded an th( eor.clusion of the
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  • 631 9 The following passengers are proceeding to hutt'pe by the Mantua which sailed on jan. y Mr. N. F. M. Burns, Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Young, Mr. 11. L. Mitchell, Mr. Jones. Mr. Barker, (.'apt. and Mrs. ('ole Adams, Mr. G. K. B.aughnn, Mr. E. Burke (Jattney, Mrs. M.
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  • 522 9 At the next meeting of the Federal Council a Bill will be introduced further to amend The Rubber Research Institute of Malaya Enactment, 1925.” According to the statement of objects and reasons, as the enactment stands at present the Secretary for Agriculture,
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  • 118 9 An unsatisfied judgment for $20‘J.0o against Leo Dye in lavour of Sarkies Brothers, for board and lodging, was mentioned before the Civil District .Fudge, Mr. J. L. McFall, yesterday The defendant was summoned to appear and be examined respecting his ability
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  • 1213 10 As a result of mv inquiries in Malaya r.nd Ceylon, reinforced by what 1 learned in Java, I am convinced that research rather than restriction < j ;*<• r~ the prosperity of the ruhher industry.” This conclusion,
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  • 241 10 Malays are alleged to be the robbers who broke into a Chinese shop at the ff’.i mile. Tampenis Hoad, on Tuesday, and shot an assistant., who being awakened in the early hours of the morning by a noise in tin* front portion of
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  • 71 10 t aptmn A. L. Snngge, of H.M.S. 1 umherland and his officers on Tuesday entertained I’enang residents to a delightfid At Home on hoard the ship. The ‘unction was held on the main deck which J ‘«.is beautifully decorated and illuminated. Dancing was indulged in to the strains of j;
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  • 68 10 'The Straits Times is not responsible fur ihi* opinions of its correspondents. Correspondents should bear in mind that letters must be short ftlid to the point. Lung epistles are liable to be rejected or cut down. Cm respondents must enclose their nanus and addresses, nut necessarily for publication but
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  • 303 10 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, I have rend with interest your article win. h gives the police view on oca I trathc problems, hut you will allow me to duler strongly front you on one point. You say that “observation has -Mown that this is
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  • 230 10 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—A correspondent, Singapore Merchant,” deplores the Late Delivery of Mails” in his letter which appeared in your esteemed daily of last evening. To bring our mail service into line with those of the civilized countries, he would have
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  • 211 10 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, As the public* are probably aware, a fund has been opened at home for the erection of flats and houses for disabled men, as a memorial to our great war lender, Earl Haig. It is felt that the public
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  • 151 10 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir.-—ln one of the lifts serving the •'hipping Office in the Fullerton Building appears the following notice iambics, coolies and seamen are pioniu ted the u«e of this lift.” Like all rules and regulations, it seems that this is made to
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  • 101 10 T o the Editor of the Straits Times. —The Municipality could not have found a nicer site for a park than the Did Fort site at Katong. For several month- now this “lung” has been open Jo the puhl.c, and much advantage has >een taken of it. Now
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  • 309 10 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, J ;in- tl Manikam, the driver of a motor-car who was charged with causing Br j evo hurt to the Hon. Mr. J. S. Arnr on ov o, was to-day convicted by the Ma-istra* Air. T.
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  • 103 10 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang. Jan. 15. In conr.cvtii n with the Penang Harbour B"urd :ignte;men s strike which deveiopu a month ago a delicate situation his nr sen. \Vh< n the men refused to work the Beard obtained new hands. i hands. aft< p being on strike
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  • 578 13 v„ n criticisms were voiced by sharef a an extraordinary meeting ot leu Malaya Tin 1‘redging Company, Ltd., ni .I in London recent In V,"r ,h, .hairman (Major F. B. Lawaddressed the meeting, Mr. Lyru ',’l "e desired to move: “That an
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  • 47 13 '"L, vv il a t n ’ir e l n In,iian taxi driver I' b k convicted of offering cm, w a bribe of $8 was Tlr. vv V(1 r Seoond f oli cc Magistrate, v m Mon y n an> to or biS future good be-
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  • 458 13 The official opening of the new Law Courts, Muar, took place on Saturday morning when Mr. Justice McCabe Reay arrived at the Court and inspected a guard of honour. His Lordship accompanied by H.H. the Tungku Mahkota then proceeded to his chambers
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  • 250 13 The older generation of Singaporeans will learn with great regret of the death <>t Mr. .John Somerville, a director, and formerly manager, of Messrs. Adamson, Gilfillan and Co., which took place from pneumonia on Jan. 13 in Edinburgh. Mr. Somerville,
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  • 62 13 The full text of the Criminal Procedure '"ode, 1928, passed at a meeting of the Johore Council of State on Oct. 30, 1928, md approved by His Highness the Sultan on Dec. 10, is published in the current ssue of the Johore Government Gazette. The enactment will come into force
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  • 1062 13 The Bankruptcy Court before Mr. Justice Deane, sat the whole of Friday, one of the longest lists in the record of the court containing over 70 matters being dealt with. Time was insufficient 1 to finish the list, and many cases had to be
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  • 291 13 At the Batu Pahat Assizes before Mr. Justice McCabe Reay the last murder case has now been disposed of. The deputy Public Prosecutor, Mr. R. Moor, M.C.S., appeared for the Crown. Haji Salleh bin Mohamed Yasin, a youth of some twenty
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  • 133 13 The Singapore Municipal health statement for the week ended Jan. 5 gives the total number of deaths as male 161, md female 78. This represents a death rate of 25.70 per mille, per annum, compared with 24.91 in the preceding week 'nd 25.50 in the corresponding week of
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  • 155 14 (From Our Owr. Correspondent.) Penang, Jan. 14. The steamship Jlong Wha while entering Penang harbour early yesterday morning via the South Channel ran on a mudhank off Prai. Despite all his efforts the captain was unable to extricate the vessel and waited
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  • 461 14 Not merely in application to mining j*• i iiij.niil;iciarcs. luu to internal transj ;i ini I* '.'iuiiiii, elect licit >, obtained n. lia i Dossing rivers and streams, holds in* i o of an as yet barely imagined .in.mi m conditions, ami this
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  • 159 14 An arrival in Singapore on Saturday morning was a young W’hite-Russian who is d »int; the first laps of a ride round the world on a bieyele. His rame is Knli-ehek-SoholelF and he shows no signs of strain, after a ride of 511 miles from Penang to
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  • 682 14 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Dec. 20. There appears to he some misunderstanding with regard to the work at present I being done by Sir Laurence Guiliemard, K.C.8., your former Governor. Sir LaurI ence Gu llemard is the chairman of a Committee constituted
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  • 81 14 The local manager of the Hong Kong jrtd Shanghai Hanking Corporation informs us ho -has received a tele’ram from his head office in Hong Kong stating that subject to audit 'he final dividend for the year will probably Ik* H\\ (Three Pounds) per <nnre, bonus
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  • 350 14 Twenty-one shophouses were burnt down at Bukit Panjang on Jan. 10. It was the isolation of the fire by the pulling down of several houses that saved the village from being wiped out, while it was the absence of a breeze and
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  • 415 14 \Yc regret to have to record the death of Mrs. Bethine Mary Muller, wit. Mr. G. <\ G. MOller, M.C.S., w! cl occurred at the General Hospital. Singapore. on Sunday. M ‘l’ !e w leaves several children, was a woman oi great charm
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  • 444 14 At the Supreme Court on i before Mr. Justice Deane, MouUi r° Quaith Ali sued M. A. Nanny, monies owing for rent in lieu of tor and for stock in trade. n^trce, Mr. A. J. Braga was for the and Mr. C. H. Smith
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  • 242 14 The Presbyterian Church was the seme of a pretty wedding on Saturday alternoon, when Mr. Herbert Leslie Barnett, son of Mr. and Mrs. W\ J. Barnett of Birmingham, was married to Miss Dorothy Ivy Waters, only daughter of wr.
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  • 67 14 The engagement is announced, and marriage will take place shortly, h<*i' v, en Mr. E. P. Goddard, of the Malacca Kid r Plantations, Malacca, and Miss M' 1 u Helen Lawrence Cuninghame. 11,1 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. funmjr* hame, of Bath, Somerset, and tf rin< daughter of
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  • 423 16 The French Government is congratulaing the Republic upon the fact that she in the only naval power whose expenditure upon r’leit maintenance during 1929 will snow a reduction upon the figures for 1914. This reduction, according to M. Lcygues, will amount to
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  • 161 16 At a conference held in Moscow for devising means to combat the spread of alcoholism, figures were quoted revealing the losses incurred by the workers through drink. Thus. in Moscow, 31,000,000 litres fapproximately 6,820,000 gallon*] of vodka and 62,000,000 litres of beer were consumed during
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  • 139 16 Health bulletin of the League of Nations’ l')2y orn unau or week ended Jan. 5, Bombay Ten smallpox cases and six deaths. < alcutta Thirteen cholera deaths two smallpox cases. Madras Two cholera deaths HC, smallpox cases and four deaths as against five cases and one death during
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  • 1653 18 The appeal against the order made by Sir Chartres Biron, the Bow Street magistrate, on Nov. 16, that a number of copies of Miss Radclyffe Halls “The Well of Loneliness, should be destroyed was dismissed at the <°n< Sessions in
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  • 1402 25 I (K rom Our Own Correspondent.) I Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 10. I i Kim la Lumpur Supreme Court ■n the Ki« judgments were deliItrrday i ar t t t U I t Thorne and Mr. r a Manb in the F.M.S.
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  • 165 25 The Malay who was attacked by a shs\rk while diving for coins in the harbour died on Jan. 7. At the Coroner’s inquiry this on Jan. 10 a statement by the man, that when he dived he saw the shark coming
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  • 47 25 News has reached Singapore of a fire of serious proportions at Banting, in the Kuala Langat district, about 30 miles from Klang. Some five shop-houses substantially built of brick and concrete are reported to have been destroyed. The premises were insured for about $90,000.
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  • 63 25 Mr. S. J. Vincent, the hon. treasurer of the St. Andrew’s Hospital, has received the sum of $4,650, being part of a legacy under the will of the late Mr. A. R. Van Der Beck, of Singapore. All the monies received from this fund will be devoted to the permanent
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  • 190 25 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 11. The danger of borrowing even small sums of money on 1.0. U. chits without due precautions was demonstrated in the Supreme Court yesterday when a Punjabi watchman of the Planters’ Stores, Ltd., Port Swettenham,
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  • 439 25 The adjourned tenth annual ordinary general meeting of the Bukit Palong Syndicate, Ltd., was held on Dec. 29, at Seremban. Mr. J. K. Mandy presided and in the course of his speech said :—You will have seen from the accounts that
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  • 127 25 The wife and 16-year-old daughter of Mr. Chew Liam Swee, son of the late Mr. Joo Chiat, after whom Joo Chiat Road is named, were severely burnt on Friday by acid thrown at them by an unknown person while they were about to
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  • 631 25 Capt. Harry Graham, the well* known English humourist, has just published a book of verse (Methuen’s. 5b.) entitled “The World’s Workers.” We print below his poem on The Governor not, of course, any particular Governor. Can one tell a sadder story
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  • SPORTING NEWS.
    • 173 27 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 12. Before a very large fathering anxious to see the Welch regimental team in ~rder that they ntight gauge their chancrs in the Malaya Cup final, Selangor went under to a team which was
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    • 639 27 Perak’s Team Not Definitely Selected. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Jan. 15. Perak, having played its last State match, selected its team for the final of the il.M.S. Malaya Cup to-day. The game is to U* played at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday against the Services. The back
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    • 99 27 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Jan. 11. A letter has been received from Mr. Toone, manager of the M.C.C. team in Australia, replying to a proposal to invite a few’ members of the team to visit Malaya on their w’ay home. Mr. Toone
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    • 537 27 Giving an exhibition game at the S.C.C. on Jan. 9 Mr. Claude Falkiner, the well-known professional billiards player, defeated Mr. W. N. Hansell by five points in a game of 800 up. Falkiner conceded his opponent 500, and an added handicap was
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    • 159 27 JARDINE CAUGHT BY UMPIRE Unprecedented Incident At Bendigo. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Sydney, Jan. 11. An amazing incident occurred in the Aendigo match, which concluded on Thursday, when D. R. Jardine mis-hit a ball nd gave an easy catch to square-leg. A deldsman was running to take the catch vhen
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    • 89 27 [REUTER TELEGRAM] Sydney, Jan. 13. The swimmer Arne Borg, interviewed :y the Sydney Sun with regard to hi« leeision to retire at the end of hi: Australian tour, says he intends to return co the Illinois Athletic Club and hopes
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    • 302 27 The following is the list of 1921) maidens ordered by the Perak Turf Club Kingswear, bay mare, 4 years, by King’s Zenith out of No, Mr. C. L. Green. Latuko 11, brown gelding, 3 years, by Curlingham out of Gloxina, Mr. J. Cameron. Santorio,
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    • 40 27 The following races will be held on Sunday next A Class.—Final for the Sailing Committee Trophy. Start 10.10 a.m. Club Course. Handicaps Joy 10 per cent. B Class. —Final for Columbine Trophy Start 10 a.m. Club Course (B Class).
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    • 418 27 A couple of goals by Buschow, scored in the second half, gave the S.C.C. a well deserved victory over an eleven, chosen from the R.E. and R.A. in a match on the Padang on Jan. 9. The exchanges were fast and
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    • 76 27 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Jan. 10. After years of agitation by the Press the first step to form a cricket association was taken last night at a meeting in the. club of repntentative cricketers. Over .*>o were present and unani nou s'y v oted for *he
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    • 94 27 Ino Singapore Ladies’ Kiflc Association December spoon was shot for at Pukit Timaii Knnge on Jan. 10. Nine cards were taken out, and the following weie returned Tl. and .’5O) 200 10.) Nett heap Mrs Sanrom 32 2X 29 H<) 103.30 Mrs. I vail 27 30 33 iii)~
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    • 56 27 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, Jan. 15. At water polo a naval team from fI.M.S. Cumberland lost to Penang Swimming Club by 1 goals to H. The Chinese Swimming Club also defeated two team: from tic v jintunand by 6 goals .u nil
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    • 985 28 [REUTER TELEGRAM J London, Jan. 12. The third round of the F. A. Cup produced many surprises, the most sensational being the defeat of Wolverhampton Wanderers by Mansfield Town, the Midland league side. Other unexpected results were Swindon’s defeat of
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    • 150 28 (From Our Own Cot respondent.) Sydney, Jan. 10. Owing to the third Test match lasting eight days it was not possible for the M.C.C. tourists to fulfil their fixture with leelong, but on Wednesday they visited Bendigo for a two-days match. Th*
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    • 318 28 Arrangements For This dear’s Competition. A meeting in connection with the InterCommercial Cup competition was held at the Stadium on Tuesday at which representatives of the following firms were present to discuss arrangements for the competition for the year 1929 :—The A.P.C., Robinsons, the O.T.F.C., M.P.H., Bousteads, Adamson
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    • 59 28 A cable from Mr. Yee Check Wah tating that the South China Footbail Association have accepted the invitation o send a soccer team to Singapore during April. Ihe visitors will play matches igainst the Malayan Chinese XI and such J-}' 1 U‘
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    • 419 28 Tee following v/as the result of the eclectic competition for the Brastagi tup it tr.e Race Course Golf C lub A. J. Lim 58*/2 net E. Uo T. Hoshizaki 33 fa net H. Makino net The following were the scores in the eclectic competition held at the Sepoy Lines
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  • 371 29 The Coroner’s inquiry into the death of the Chinese motor-cyclist who was killed at Pasir Panjang in a collision with a lorry while riding into town on an errand for his brother, a Press photographer, was held on Jan. 15. Lim Tian
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  • 458 29 Taiping Tin Dredging (two dredges).—593 piculs. 1,246 hours, 145,000 yards. The dredges stopped one day for Christmas. North Taiping Tin Dredging.—309 piculs, 588 hours, 75,000 yards. The dredge lost 31 hours on account of boiler cleaning and repairs, and one day for Christmas. South Taiping Tin Dredging (1922).
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  • 185 29 Comparative statement of the total value of foreign merchandise, excluding parcel post, imported and exported to and from British Malaya during 1927 and 1928. IMPORTS. EXPORTS. Increase Increase or or 1927 1928 Decrease 1927 1928 Decrease (In thousands of
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  • 274 29 New Delhi, Dec. 27. A public lecture on the prevention of malaria was delivered with slides, by Sir Malcolm Watson, the international anti-malarial expert and Director of the Ross Institute, London, in the Mohindra College, Patiala, last night. Sirdar Maqbol Mahmood,
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  • 73 29 The Bishop of Hankow', Dr. Roots, of the American Protestant Episcopal Church w’as present at the service in St. Andrew’s Cathedral on Sunday evening, when prayers were offered by the congregation for the work of the churches in his diocese. Dr. Roots came to Singapore as a member of a
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  • 39 29 Mr. C. E. A. Ermen, Mr. H. H. Kortritrht and Mr. W. F. de V. Skrine *>"< going on leave prior to retiring from the Sarawak Civil Service. Mr. O. Lang, the Commissioner of Police, Sarawak, is retiring next year.
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  • 90 29 IAMBY’ PILLAI. On Jan. 10. 1929. at the Maternity Hospital. Singapore, to I>r. and Mrs. V. K. Tantby Pillai, a daughter. K.M.S. and Ceylon papers please copy. ANG. On Jan. 13, 1929. of A.P.C.. P. Bukum, at No. 29-B, Lorong 23. (iaylang Road, at 6.30 p.m. to Mr. and
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  • 30 29 CHAN —CHIA. Chan Cheng Cheong, the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Chan Knab. with Miss Chia Clin Neo, the eldest daughter of Mr. und Mrs. Chia Kheng Kiat.
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  • 145 29 Singapore, Jan. 16. EXCHANGE On London, Bank 4 m/s 2/3 29 32 Demand 2/3 26/32 Privute 3 m. credit 2/4 11/32 On New York, Demand 56 1/16 Private 90 d/a 57% On France, Bank T.T 1436 On India, Bunk T.T. 153% On Hong Kong, Bank T.T. 10
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  • 783 29 Singapore, Jan. 16. MINING. Issue Val. Pd. Buyers Sellers £1 £1 Asam Kumbang 44/8 45/8 £1 £1 Bangrin Tin 40/- 41/1 1 Batang Padang 0.47 0.52 1 1 Batu Caves 1.57% 1.62 1 .76 Bukit Arang 0.80 0.00 pm. £1 £1 Burmah Malay
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  • 93 29 Invention privileges have been granted by the Governor in Council to the following :—Prosco Oils Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, U.S.A. for extraction,” to Photomaton Parent Corporation Ltd., of London, for improvements in and relating to automatic apparatus for taking and
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    • 87 29 NOTICE All communications for both the Straits Times and the Straits Budget should be addressed to the Head Office, Cecil and Stanley Streets, Singapore, Straits Settlements. The post free price of the Straits Times to the United Kingdom and foreign countries is $48 a yeur. The post free price of
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  • 36 29 DEATHS BOEY.—On Sunday, Jan. 13, 1929, at his residence No. 45, Cuff Road, Mr. Boey Liar. Chin, aged 65. SOMERVILLE. —On Jan. 13, 1929, at Edinburgh, John Somerville, formerly oJ Adamson, Gilfillan and Co., Ltd., Singapore.
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  • The Straits Budget RUBBER SUPPLEMENT
    • 74 1 (ieneral Rubber Situation London Rubber Stocks 1 Singapore Rubber Auction^ Rubber Position My A. \N. Still Ciude lll’iiber Another Income* Tax Sc indal Analysis of Rubber healers Stocks 1 Standard \Nave on Estates '2 Rubber Returns Ihe Rubber .Market Cable News Rubber Combine Not Wantec 1 The Rise in
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    • 71 1 yi.ot.it ions Forward t ontruvl Spot Seller Prices t d. K. b. Apl. Date L’doit Spun .Ian. .Iar. June Jan. in *.»i i«; n.no', n.:;i 0.31** 0.32*4 11 i»V, «».:> i o.,;r, 0.31 0.32 12 9 0.33 1 z 0.33 h 0.34*4 0.34 *4 14
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    • 40 1 A cable received by Lewis and Peat {Singapore), Ltd., lrom their London correspondents states that rubber stocks in London show an increase of 1,080 tons during the past week, tne total now on hand being 24,526 tons.
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    • 166 1 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce K..ltl>cr Assoiiatmii uelit it* te.i'.qh auction on .l.n. lb, when there was catalogued 2,147>,d0i ll< or t#.". a ion.- ottered i,.»br>.004 lb. or 10M.2 7 toils old 1...11 ,it>i ll. or (iU2.n0 tons. Spot London lOd. New 1 urk i a 4
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    • 192 1 At the annual meeting of Bekok Consolidated Rubber Estates on Dec. 14, Sir Ernest Birch, presiding, in the course of his remarks, said:—I must make a few remarks about our very old friend Mr. Rowland Allen. When he came home from the East, having known this estate very well and
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    • 1147 1  -  (By A. W. Still.) [Copyright] London, Dec. 19. The rise in London stocks has begun gently, with an increase of 1,152 tons during the past week. It is the first advance for thirteen weeks, and has had no real effect upon market conditions, having
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    • 111 1 .ruWtted to the Planters’ u»n of Vlalayu for the following details of the importations of crude rubber inti* the nitei States during December, 192'jk The w U th« nuhL be r co m P iled and distributed by the Rubber Association of Ameritti
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    • 443 1 [REUTER TELEGRAM] Amsterdam, Jan. 0. The Telegraaf declares that neither the Dutch. Government nor Dutch rubber I producers will have anything to do with Heer Kloppenburu's plans for the for{mation of a:i American-Dutch Rubier Trust Company. New York, Jan.
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    • 38 1 Messrs. Guthrie and Co., Kuala Lumpur, local agents for Malacca Rubber Plantations. Ltd., inform us that l)r. J. S. ramer has not been engaged by the company nor is the oomoany introducing estat™^ n R ar^e sca^e on
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    • 48 1 ollowing are the numbers of arrival' and departures to Madras Presidency 01 the month of December, 1928. Arrival' j^ rcs u PP^ e d by travelling inspectors' adults 2,045, minors 335 departures vgures supplied by steamer agents' Remits /,107, minors 080. The arrivals relate to aided passengers only.
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    • 142 2 Mr. A. W. Still, the special correspondent of the Straits Times in London, cahles London, Jan. 14. The position in the London rubber market is at present somewhat obscure. The present rise was largely due
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    • 42 2 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Jan. 15. Small rubber producers are elated at the higher prices now prevailing, hut the general tendency is to hold the product Several Chinese dealers record transactions higher than the price reported from Singapore.
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    • 66 2 [REUTER TELEGRAM] New York. Jan. 12. There were lively scenes on the Rubber Exchange following a violent and unexpected rise of price* in London. 1 he advance brought a flood of buying orders, and all trading records were broken. 9,717 tons of rubber changing hand*; in five
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    • 125 2 [BRITISH IMPERIAL RADIO) Rugby, Jan. 11. The feature of the Lom.on markets today was the sharp rise in the price of rubber, which jumped from i* l-16d. per pound to lOd. before a reaction to »<**id set in. The arrivals of rubber since the abolition of Restriction have been much
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    • 178 2 In the report of the Kuala Muda Rubber Estates to March 31 last startling figures are given with regard to a monstrous theft attempted by the Income Tax authorities. The company commenced operations in «luly, 1925, and^t he total profits earned to
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    • 18 2 There were no seizures for rubber smuggling in the Colony. F.M.S. or Kedah during the month of October.
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    • 57 2 ana 1 s Ribbed r,- Smoked Unsmoked Tr»n.l Singapore 8 fg®*? oSl? St Z ai) Lump All Grades Penang 2 793 H 7 '5 IVt 2 22 >™ Province Wellesley 101 41 ’IJ” 18 The Dindings 38 o 0 Malacca 1,086 97 88 2 4
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    • 318 2 Official figures of the standard rates of wages recently fixed for rubber estates n Malaya have just come to hand, says lie Times of Ceylon of Jan. 8. Coast district of the State of Selangor -»0 cents per day
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    • 157 2 Anglo-Johore Consolidated. —40,000 lb. A lien by .—63,500 lb. Anglo-Ma1ay.—130.230 lb. Ayer M01ek.—18.470 lb. Alor Gujah.—2o,o3o 11». Ayer Pan a 5.—70,000 lb. Australasia.—2s,2oo li>. Balgownie.—4o.ooo II». Bukit Kubu.—l7,ooo lb. Brunei United.—37.s4o lb. Bukit Timah.—ls.7BG 11». Bassett. —36,000 lb. Bukit Palong.—2l.loo ll>. Broome (Selangor*.—sl.72o lb. Benar (Selangor'.—2l.2oo lb. Bertam
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    • 538 2 Messrs. Harlow and Co. report Singapore, Jan. 10. During the period under review there has been some revival of interest in the commodity and prices have improved in nil markets probably due to covering orders. The latest cables’ quote London at 0 l-16d. and
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    • 52 2 (Anota’s Service.) Batavia, Jan. 11. The estimated production of rubber on estates in the Dutch East Indies during 1928 was 139,300 tons. The estimated export of native rubber was 128,500 tons, including dirt and wet, which is i.hequivalent of 35,000 tons
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    • 795 2 The Annual General Meeting of Indrafjiri Rubber Limited, was held at the Registered Offices of the Company, French Bank Buildings, Singapore, on Wednesday the 9th January 1929, at noon. Major A. M. Thompson, 0.8. E., V.D., was in the chair and the others
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    • 806 3 It cannot be said that the information officially cabled from Malaya, with ret prince to exports from the Peninsula due inj? the month of November, ha> ta vd the market situation. The total shipments, writes Mr. A. W. Still in the Investors’ Review of
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    • 622 3 Macphail and Co.’s weekly report, dated Jan. 15, states Alter what appears to have been an interminable, long drawn-out period ol .ifries*, stagnantn a real rower was ..a.h.tl over the week-end, the sudden -<.• in the rubber pi ice galvanising markets
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    • 108 3 At the extraordinary general meeting (Johore) Rubber Estates held >n Doc. 15 the shareholders sanctioned the sale of the company’s estate to the United •Mia Letong Rubber Estates, Ltd., for a price represented by 28,000 fully paid ordinary shares of the latter company. Subsequently Melville (Johore) Rubber Estates was wound
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    • RUBBER SHARE PRICES.
      • 503 3 Stoek Exchange i va*ue Company. £1 Abaco j 2 2/ Allagar 15 £1 Anglo-Malay n lfi £1 Ayer Kuning £1 llanteng of Ratang Consolidated £1 Batu Caves 2 7/6 £1 Batu Tiga mail 2 Rekoh .> 2 Heranang \n\L 2 Hertam Consolidated 2/ Brieh
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      • 700 3 Capital Issue Closing Prices Paid Up Vslne Dividends Frnaer Lyall A Company A Co. f>att 389,293 1 Nil for yoar 89-8-88 ..Allenby .$1) 1.90 2.00 1.85 1.95 100,000 Nil for year 30-9-28 ..Alor Gajah ($1) 1.40 1.60 1.35 1.55 435,425 1 TVs pc. int.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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