The Straits Budget, 13 May 1937

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1 6 The Straits Budget
  • 29 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES established nearly A CENTURY.] N<>. 4135. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 13. 1937. Price 25 cents (S.S. Currency) or 7d.
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  • 843 1 SINGAPORE on Monday entered nine days of Coronation celebrations. A rapid survey of the city that morning showed members of the Royal Engineers putting the finishing touches to two huge crowns on Fort Canning, the city’s highest vantage point: fiags of all nations flying side* by-side
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 890 2 behind the times.—Straits Times, I May 6. •yHE palace which is now being built for the Sultan of Johore at a cost of $600,000 is in keeping with the wealth of the State and the importance of its Ruler, but such lavish expenditure would certainly be
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    • 893 2 Straits Times, May 7. Twice recently there have been public references to unduly severe sentences by F.M.S. magistrates, and those references have come 1 from the highest legal authorities l in the land. The Legal Adviser, i Mr. Adrian Clark, spoke on this matter in the
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    • 648 2 -Straits Times, May 8. Farmers are the traditional pessimists, but industrial magnates are now rivalling them as gloomy prognosticators. At a time when works and factories are operating at full pressure and money is being made freely, they are looking ahead with some anxiety. And
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    • 394 3 —Straits Times, May 8. One of the greatest dangers ol attempting to bring about a social reform by prohibition is that a! greater evil may take the place of that which is banned. Examples galore could be quoted—local ones j are so obvious and of such recent occurrence
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    • 741 3 Straits Times. May 10. Colony motorists need to interest themselves keenly in the F.M.S. Bill to create a modern and efficient system of transport control, which is to be introduced in the Federal Council next month. In due course a very similar measure will be brought before the
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    • 357 3 economic sphere.”—Straits Times. May 10. JUDGING from some of the published comments on the forthcoming appointment of a Financial Secretary in the Straits Settlements, in place of the officer now known as the Treasurer, it may be desirable to explain how the civil servant enters
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    • 970 4 —Straits Times, May 11. Tomorrow, in common with the majority of British subjects throughout the world, we shall suspend our normal activities to take part in the general demonstration of loyalty which will mark the Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Today
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  • 533 4 Searchlight Display In Sea Pageant. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, May 9. pENANG’S Coronation programme starts on Monday at 5.15 p.m. when the Resident Councillor will read the loyal address by the people of the Straits Settlements from the steps of the Sports Club
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  • 224 4 It is with regret that we have to announce the death of Capt. Edward Edwards, a native of Carnarvon. North Wales, died at Ipswich on 18.4.37. The late Capt. Edwards had spent several years in the East, Singapore, and Nati\e States. He
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  • NOTES Of The DAY.
    • 230 5 rrnE honeymoon, as we know, does I n ot always live up to its name. S ane people, indeed, go so far as to s y that it should be cut out altogether. But it was not always iSO once upon a time, in the dear dead days
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    • 209 5 IT being an almost universally accept1 eel axiom in Malaya—outside Govern- j ment and Municipal service—that the only workers who need local leave are those who also take Home leave, one nmr.t be forgiven for viewing publicity lor Malayan holiday resorts with a certain cynicism. Hie latest of
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    • 326 5 WHEN the Singapore hangman botched his work in the past, strangling man to death instead of breaking Jhs neck, the whole town knew it. *his is shown by the edifying extract v bich is printed below and which is a k n n, not as might be supposed,
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    • 227 5 ONE MAN’ S MEAT..... gOMEONE who is evidently a newcomer to Singapore has set me a task which I And difficulty in performing. He writes: “Could you tell us something about the diet of the native peoples here— Chinese dinners, ‘ma-mi,’ Japanese foods, where they can be sampled, etc. etc.
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    • 219 5 S for Rijstafel, I should say that my correspondent’s description is correct so far us it goes but that it is inadequate. However, he is not to be blamed for that, as Shakespeare himself could not hope to sum up this gargantuan guzzle in a word or two.
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    • 275 5 as to Oriental dishes obtainable in Singapore, the bestknown is Suki Yaki. The principal feature of Suki Yaki is its cost: a meal that would cost you fifty cents In your own kitchen costs you $1.50 in a Japanese restaurant. But of course you don’t really pay for
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    • 187 5 COR some time past I have been on the look-out for local lore appertaining to that pleasant district which contains Port Dickson and the noble promontory called Cape Rachado. What started me on this hunt was a letter from a reader who himself lives in that district.
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    • 163 5 THIS Rajah Jumahat was a remarkable person. In the sixties, when the Peninsula was under independent Malay rule everywhere outside the Settlements, and was generally in a most unsettled state, he was the most enlightened ruler on the West Coast. His territory of Lukut was small out it
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    • 159 5 QNLY once has Cape Raehado figured in Malayan history after its acquisition, and that was in 1873, when it was one of the causes of the biggest British naval demonstration ever made against a Malay State. After a Malacca trading boa;, had been pirated and its crew slaughtered
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    • 164 5 Rachado was presumably named by the Portuguese, and it has seen many a sea-fight in its time, as the writings of early Portuguese, Dutch and English navigators bear witness. Known to the Malays as Tanjong Tuan, it is still a menace to small craft, for there are swift
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    • 194 6 the arrival of Saturday, my conscience pricks me lest readers may .iave noticed a strange indifference towards the external world in my notes this week. While Singapore has been dally growing gayer, have been babbling about Pithecanthrope. Erectus, Rijstafel, long-forgotten rajahs and other unappropriate things. I feel that there
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    • 186 6 historically minded reader who is almost as much at home in Portuguese Malacca as you or I are in Raffles Place writes to say that records of Chinese settlement in that town go back much farther than 1641. the first date mentioned by Dr. Purcell in the article
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    • 178 6 even earlier reference to Chinese in Malacca occurs in the work of the Portuguese historian. Correa, whc says that among the native headmen appointed by Albuquerque, alter the conquest of the city, was one for the Chinese. It is possible, however, that this does not indicate the presence
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    • 107 6 out of my protest against the use of the term “kilties” as the name of a new type of American female underwear, I owe an apology to the local German community. On the authority of Mencken’s American Language a reader assures me that the slang expression for a German
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    • 221 6 MONDAY DRESS into town this morning, one was struck by the way in w’hich the Coronation decorations had spread during the week-end from the centre of the city and the main thoroughfares tO the Asiatic quarters. All along Bras Basah Road small businesses and shops made a brave show, the
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    • 191 6 25-CENT DANCES 'J'HE dance hall in Singapore’s latest amusement park, optimistically named the Happy World, is one ol the most significant things in this city. This very fine and large hall, circular in shape, with a spring floor, tiered floors around the circumference for sitting out, an overhead gallery for
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    • 278 6 QNE of the more piquant and lessknown facts in Singapore’s social history is that in days gone by the ladies of St. Andrew’s Cathedral used to sew garments to clothe the nakedness of the heathen in Borneo. I discovered this when I happened to be looking through newspaper
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  • 331 6 HISTORIC CEREMONY TO FIGURE IN CORONATION PAGEANT. 'From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca. May 8. CCENES of old Malacca will be re- lived in a pageant to be given by the European community on the Padang of the Malacca Club on the night of
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  • 197 6 A SLIM, bronzed figure with a Lady Lindy boyish bob, Mrs Hart, an American, has brought her 75 ft. yacht Vanora to Singapore from Cowes where it was fitted out for an adventurous cruise to the South Sea Islands via Suez. “I had never been
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  • 101 6 Alleged Indian Assailant Arrested. T*HE P.W.D. quarry at Bukit Timah was the scene of a tragedy on Monday afternoon when a Eurasian overseer named Bernard Klattig. aged 36. ii alleged to have been fatally stabbed in the stomach by an Indian coolie. He sustained a deep
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  • 530 7 Mr. J. A. Tulloch has been seconded for service in Kedah and assumed duty as Assistant Superintendent of Surveys, Kulim. Mr. J. A. Danker, Inspector, Water Works, Public Works Department, at johore Bahru has been granted two months’ leave as from May 6. Dr. V. K. Thambipillay,
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  • 247 7 Johore Celebrates On T uesday. So Folk Can Come To Singapore. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, May 9. THUESDAY, May 11, has been fixed for the observance of the Coronation of H.M. King George VI in Johore Bahru, in order to enable Johore folk to view the festivities at
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  • 185 7 London, May 10. \I7REATHS are to be laid on the Cenotaph in Whitehall today by the Sultan of Johore and by the Yang-di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan. This morning the Malayan Volunteer Contingent participated in the final Coronation procession rehearsal. The Sultans of Jcncre. Pahang and
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  • 112 7 Thursday, Apr. 29. In the afternoon His Excellency presided at the annual general meeting of the Union Jack Club. Friday, Apr. 30. In the morning H.H. The Sultan of Perak called on His Excellency at Government House. At 6.40 p.m. His Excellency opened the British Trade Fair at
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  • 164 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, May 8. JU|R. R. J. P. Rycroft, a railways police officer, of Kuala Lumpur, was rendered unconscious by an electric shock this morning when he bent over the body of a Tamil coolie who had been electrocuted in the compound
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  • DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES
    • 61 7 THORN.— At Maternity Hospital, Penang on May 5. to Anne, wife of L. H. Thom, of Sungei Patani, a son. MAXWELL—At the Maternity Hospital, Penang, on May 5, to Phrena, wife of A. C. Maxwell. Assistant Commissioner of Police. Sungei Petani, a son. LEA.—At the General Hospital, Singapore, on
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    • 39 7 JOSLING—HATCHER.—The engagement Is announced of Lily Alice (“Joss”) daughter of the late H. D. Josling and Mrs. Wormald. Lee-on-the-Solent-Hants. England, to Thomas Charles Phil (“Pat”) son of J. C. Hatcher. Crowborough, Sussex, England. and the late Mrs. Hatcher.
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    • 80 7 GRAY—MOODY.—At The Cathedral Church of St. Mary. Glasgow, on April 26, 1937, by Provost Warner, D. 5.0., M.A., Andrew P. Gray of Penang, S.S., younger son of Mr. <fc Mrs. George Gray, The Haugh, Cambuslang, to Edith May. only daughter of Mr. Mrs. Alfred Moody, Stanmore, Winchester STEFANI—GREENSTONE—At Singapore,
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    • 47 7 THOMPSON—GIBSON —On May 7, 1912 at Albert Park Presbyterian Church by Rev. Wm. Goyen, M.A.8.D., FRANK DOUGLAS. third son of Mr. Mrs. W. H. Thompson, Albert Park, to Roblna Menzies “Beenie,” only daughter of Mr. <fc Mrs. W. S. Gibson. "Abemethy,” Albert Park, Victoria, Australia.
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  • 287 7 Leaders— Johore Court And Kampong 2 Malays On The Bench 2 The Boom And The Boomerang 2 Controlled Transport 3 Long Live The King 4 Telegrams— Covering past week’s news 22—24 Picture Supplement 15—18 Financial Supplement— Financial And Commercial News to date, following page 28 Malayan General News— Johore’s
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  • 125 7 Pinang Gazette’s Attractive Issue. pRODUCED to commemorate the Coronation, a special 50 page Coronation Supplement Issued with the Pinang Gazette has aroused mucn favourable comment up-country. Lord Dunsany has contributed an outstandng article to the supplement,. It Is entitled “The Meaning of the Coronat'on” and is
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  • 28 7 DEATHS WILLIAMS.—At Rotorua. Now Zealand, on May 5, 1937, Leonard Trevor Williams of Ipoh. WISEMAN.—On May 3. 1937, in London, Winifred, dearly loved wife of George Wiseman, Malacca.
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  • 738 8 Federal Capital Stages International Parade. TOWN GAILY DECORATED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, May 10. WITH a tremendous last-minute spurt, Kuala Lumpur has clothed itself in the full glory of a resplendent Coronation dress—as if in open defiance of critics who, last week,
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  • 102 8 (From Our Own Correspondent J Kua a Lumpur, May 10. ALL sorts of problems have been set for the organisers of the Federal Capitals Coronation festivities. One conundrum they tackled was: If an elephant walks at the rate of 2 m.p.h. and no more than four
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  • 556 8 Two Huge Crowns Surmount Fort Canning (By A Staff Reporter.) S Singapore, May 10. INGAPORE today enters nine days of Coronation celebrations. Last-minute preparations are being made. In a rapid survey of the city this morning I saw Members of the Royal Engineers putting the finishing
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  • 217 8 Floodlighting Makes Ipoh “Veritable Fairy-land. (Fi*om Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, May 9. DERAK inaugurates Coronation week tomorrow with a public holi- day in celebration of His Highness the Sultan's Birthday. All Perak towns are now’ busy trying out their illuminations for the great Jay and many novel and attractive decoration
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  • 886 9 Regent’s Speech At Big Coronation Banquet. IGHORE’S “firm loyalty to the ties which bind her to the J British Empire was affirmed by H.H. the Regent at Friday night’s Astana Besar banquet in honour of the Coronation of King George
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  • 51 9 Attorney-General. appointment of the Hon. Mr. R. Williamson as acting Attorney-General for the Colony during the absence on leave of Mr. C. G. Howell is gazetted. While he is acting in that capacity, his seat as a nominated Unofficial member of the Legislative Council is temporarily
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  • 34 9 Bangkok, May 7. Ex-King Prachatipok is reported to be suffering from dysentery in England and is in the hands of physicians. He is making satisfactory progress, according to the Siamese Press.
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  • 45 9 AMR- Bhaskara Rao Naidu, 1.C.5., 1 1 District Magistrate and Collector of Chittoor will succeed Rao Sahib K. A. Mukundan as Agent of the Government of India in Malaya according to The Indian, Kuala Lumpur weekly journal.
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  • 109 9 Chinese Finance Expert In Singapore. A Chinese who had borrowed thirty million dollars was in Singapore on Saturday.. Mr. Low Foo Seng, special representative of the Chinese Ministry of Finance, told reporters that he had succeeded in securing, on behalf of the Government, a loan of
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  • 81 9 Goodyears Extending Factory. “Owing to the improvement in conditions in Java, the capacity of the Goodyear factory at Buitenzorg is being doubled. The undertaking should be finished by the beginning of August.” This statement was made by Mr. R. W. Hadley, managing director of the Goodyear
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  • 52 9 Mr. G. E. Teale To Act Temporarily. Mr. George Eric Teale. of Cumberbatch and Co.. Kuala Lumpur, has been appointed an Unofficial member of the Federal Council during the absence on leave of the Hon. Mr. W. G. C. Blunn. Mr. Teale has served for a brief
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  • 454 9 F.M.S.R. GATEMAN’ S TRESPASS IN EUROPEAN’S OFFICE. Powder Flung At Face: Tamil Convicted At K.L. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, May 7. UOW a man came into his office, stood by his desk and threw' something at his head was related by Mr. J. B. Human, a railways official,
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  • 81 9 Perak Bar’s Sympathy For Widow. I From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, May 7. In the Supreme Court today Mr A. N. Kenion, senior member of the Perak Bar. expressed the Bar’s grief at the news of the sudden death in New Zealand of Mr.
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  • 636 10 But He Found Crime “Sordid And Uninteresting (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Apr. 27. “WRONGDOING is so sordid, so uninteresting,” was the only reason Mr. William Stirling, retired Malayan Civil Servant, would give in reply to a Straits Times representative’s" question as to why he
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  • 209 10 Perak Photographer On Fatal Quarrel. (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, May 3. “I do not deny stabbing Chin. He enticed my wife away to Ipoh and when on Jan. 22 I went to Ipoh and asked him whether he had taken my wife there
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  • 91 10 Mr. and Mrs. T. Wentscher, wno spent some time on the East Coast last year, will pay another visit to Kelantan and Trengganu in the near future for the purpose of painting and sculpture. They left Singapore on Saturday and expect to be away
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  • 246 10 Two Dominions May Move Commissioners. VJILL the success of the Dominions s3ction at the Singapore British Trade Fair, result in a complete reorganisation of the Far East trade representation of South Africa and Australia? South Africa is planning to make Singapore the Far East headquarters
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  • 109 10 Back In Singapore After Six Week’s Leave. Brigadier A. T. Shakespear D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., who is In charge of the Administrative Stair, Malaya Command, arrived back in Singapore last Wednesday in the Rajputana after seven weeks leave in Japan and China. It was my first visit
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  • 370 10 Young Travancore Ruler’s Visit To N. I. < 4 I AM anxious to study civic administration, particularly 1 town-planning, in the Netherlands Indies,” said His Highness the Maharajah of Travancore in an interview with the Straits Times on May 4, just before he left Singapore
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  • 90 10 (From Our Own Correspondent) Penang, May 5. Fcr two hours four fire engines fought a blaze which threatened to gut a rice friill, in the early hours of morning at Sungei Pinang. Extensive damage, estimated at $35,000, was done to the mill which belonged to
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  • 47 10 The following have been elected amembers of the Bar Committee for Penang for the year April, 1937 w April, 1938. Messrs. C. D. D. Hogan (president), Lim Cheng Ean (vicepresident), Ong Huck Lim, T. E. Cona Khan, N. Raghavan and Mr. Gurcharan Singh (secretary).
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  • 986 11 18 Months’ Sentence In Case Involving 11,000. Qn three charges of falsifying United Engineers Ltd’s., accounts, involving, it was alleged, a sum of $11,000, a 27 year old Chinese clerk, Wee Slang Yang, was convicted at the Singapore Assizes on May 5 and
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  • 110 11 “DRITAIN cannot afford to let anyone else have Hong Kong as the garrison there is an essential strategic defence out-post with Singapore. “Her determination to hold it will have a beneficial effect on British prestige in th'e extreme Far East,” declared Col. H. C. Harrison,
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  • 52 11 It is announced that the third annual Singapore Chinese Trade Fair will open in October this year. To invite exhibitors from Chinese nanufacturers and factories, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce lave appointed a representative, Mr .im Tsze Meng. to travel to China Mr. Lim will leave
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  • 243 11 Hollywood All Set For White Rajah.” Ranee’s Flying Visit For Coronation. (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Apr. 27. fj H. the Ranee of Sarawak arrived in London yesterday for the Coronation. She has been in Hollywood working on the story of the first ‘‘White Rajah” of Sarawak. James Brooke, great
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  • 67 11 The “Oehlers’ Luck” has manifested itself again. It is understood that Mrs. Oehlers, wife of Mr. G. R. Oehlers. well-known in Singapore, won the first big sweep prize of $25,733 at the Singapore races last Saturday. She was in partnership with another. The Oehlers family has had remarkable
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  • 518 11 “TRIALS NOT BUILT ON SHERLOCK HOLMES LINES. Guilt Must Be Proved To Hilt, Says F.M.S. Chief Justice. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, May 4. 44 TO the man in the street my decision may sound absurd. He 1 might say ‘The man has confessed to the murder; why trouble
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  • 81 11 The danger from tiger in Johore appears to be growing less every year Last year, live persons were killed by tigers, as compared with six in 1935, nine in 1934, ten in 1933, 45 in 1932 and 85 in 1931. Fifty-seven tigers were killed last year, $1,945
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  • 570 12 300,000 Undeliverable Letters And Parcels. (From Our Own Correspondent) 1 Kuala Lumpur, May 4. THE total number of telegraphic messages sent and received in Malaya last year was 1,078,0415, an increase of 2,7G1 as compared with 1935, and the number of telephones rose in
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  • 205 12 Training Machine To Be Bought. (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh May 5. RESOLUTION authorising the committee to purchase an additional training machine was passed at the second annual general meeting of the Perak Flying Club, which was held at the Ipoh Club. The Hon. the
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  • 147 12 Welcomed At Sanitary Board Meeting (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. May 5. A HEARTY welcome was extended to Mr. W. N. Gourlay, who has taken over the chairmanship from Major G. M. Kidd, when he presided for the first time over a meeting of the
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  • 226 12 Dharampur Ruler On Holiday Trip. DIJLER of a small state in Surat political agency division of Bombay, the Maharajah of Dharampur passed through Singapore on May 7 by the P. and O. liner Corfu. He is the second Indian ruler to pass through here in
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  • 179 12 New Rules For Private Schools. From Our Own Correspondent > Bangkok. May 6. A NEW Private Schools Act is pub- lished in this week's Gazette, and becomes effective U ree months from date ot its publication. At private scho ns—schools maintained and controlled by
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  • 64 12 From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, May 6. Siamese people and the Gov- ernment gave a great welcome to the new units of the Siamese navy which arrived from Italy this afternoon. Crowds lined the river banks and assembled in the vicinity of the Palace, opposite which
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  • 250 12 Stefan i—Greenstone Wedding. HOME VIA FAR EAST AND U.S.A. lyiR. Francesco Robert Stefani. Editor of the Singapore Free Press for the last three years, was married to Miss Sylvia Greenstone, before the Singapore Registrar oi Marriages (Mr. H. A. Forrer) on May 7. Mr. Stefani is
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  • 198 12 Pirelli Executive On Progress. piKLl.il Ltd., have set aside numerous special laboratories for conducting: research on the manufacture of synthetic rubber and good headway is being made,” declared Mr. Yorick Sanguinetti, a prominent executive of the Italian rubber manufacturing lirm, on arrival on May 5 in
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  • 1867 13 Planting Topics Supervision ON ESTATES. Comparison W ith Conditions Ten Years A.go Roads Facilitate Supervision Benefits Of Scientific Training. (By Our Planting Correspondent.) i\ the many changes that have taken place in the rubber plantation industry during the past ten uiirs. the position of assistants on
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  • 118 13 The setting up of a board to mediate between labour and employers in the Colony on the lines ot the Whitley Boards formerly in existence in England was advocated bv Mr Tom Storey in a letter tab’ed at the last meeting 1 ot the committee ot
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  • 115 13 Death Of Well-Known Chinese. The death has occurred of Mr. Chin Chin Joon, also known as Mr. Chin Jit Foo, sole proprietor of Chop Nam Chiang and Co., of Cross Street Singapore. He was 77 years or age. having been in the Colony 61 years. Founder
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  • 297 14 Big Crowds Pack Happy World On Opening Day. MOST recent addition to Singapore amusement parks, the Happy World was opened with a flourish of trumpets and the popping of champagne corks at a largely-attended private ceremony on Friday evening. After the opening of the
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  • 208 14 Conte Biancamano Passes Through Singapore. Lloyd Triestino liner Conte Biancamano. which passed through Singapore last week is the largest and fastest vesse in the company’s fleet being 24,116 tons, with a speed of 23 knots. The vessel, which is making her maiden voyage to
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  • 77 14 A CORONATION token payment to every member of the Home and Overseas staff is announced by the old established firm of Joseph Travers and Sons, Ltd. From the chairman of directors to the junior tamby in the Singapore branch the payment will be made on
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  • 122 14 $4,000 Involved In Rubber Deal. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, May 5. JUDGMENT was delivered in the F.M.S. Court of Appeal today in the appeal of a Kuala Lumpur lawyer, Mr. S. M. Sharma against the decision of the Chief Justice (Sir Samuel Thomas) in
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  • 147 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, May 3. TTHE proposed new Road Traffic Bill, which is to reform transport regulations in the Federated Malay States and make them akin to the English regulations, is being attacked by the Selangor and Pahang branch of the Automobile
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  • 301 14 STRONG TIES STILL EXISTING. Bangkok. May 6. WRITING in the Asiatic Review of Siam’s ties with Britain Sir Robert Holland, former Judicial Adviser to the Siamese Government, stresses the strong pro-British sentiment existing among the better classes in the Kingdom. His article states: It was not
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  • 178 14 Information has been received that all the students in the Singapore first year Normal Classes passed the annual examination held in April 1937. The students are: Mrs. Stella Nevis arc’ the Misses Lily Appucutty, Sophie Chang, Enid Cockburn, Marie Consigliere, Ee Liang Neo, Catherine Especkerman, Pong
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  • 453 14 England As Strong Schoolmaster For World BISHOP ON BRITISH VIRTUES AT ST. GEORGE'S DINNER. **IT is sad to think that the world is in such a condition that som? 4 country or person has more or less to adopt the role of schoolmaster, but as a well-known French politician said
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  • 95 14 ¥/IOLENT and unsolved crimes in Singapore are not on the increase, state the Police referring to the letter written to the Straits Times by Singaporean It is likely that the figures for violent crimes since the beginning of the year will set a new low
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  • 475 15 Coronation Ball Helpers. FEW of the 60 helpers at the Coronation Ball to be held at the Sea View Hotel on Saturday May IS, in aid of the Children’s Aid Society. Miss Peggy I’sher. Mrs. E. C. ('Herrington. Mrs. I>. Nelson. Miss Connie Wearne. .Miss
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  • More Leaves From A WOMAN’S NOTEBOOK.
    • 1133 19 Those First Impressionable Years Need Watching. IT would be a dull subject 1 indeed about which there were not two opinions. The bringing up of children is such a interesting one to those of us who have any and even, or so it
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  • 122 19 Former Member Of Prisons Staff. THE death took place at the General Hospital, Singapore, last week of Mr. Aruthur Edward Pickering at the age of 35 years. Mr. Pickering was an ex-Service man and joined the Prisons Department, S.S. about eight years ago. He
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  • 73 19 AN Englishman named H. G. F. Willis was charged on May 5 in the Third Singapore Magistrate’s Court before Mr. K. Blacker with voluntarily causing grievous hurt to a Malayalee, A Rahman bln Abbas. The offence Is alleged to have been committed on May 4
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  • 296 19 JOHOKE ended 1936 with a deficit on the year’s working of $523,103. This is disclosed in the annual report just issued by the General Adviser, the Hon. Mr. W E. Pepys. The State’s revenue was $17,388,691. and the expenditure $17,911,794. Public works took the largest
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  • 135 19 View Of Mysore’s Financial Adviser. “VJUY the outlook in Iftdia should be viewed with pessimism, I cannot see," said Sir Charles Todhunter, private secretary and financial adviser to the Maharajah of Mysore, who is passing through Singapore on his return to India in the
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  • 76 19 (From Our Own Corespondent.) Johore Bahru, May 4. The Chinese communitv of Johore Bahru have included in their programme two lantern processions on the eve of the Coronation. One procession will be composed of members of the various guilds and associations and the other by school
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  • 334 20 Temporary Allowances May Be Restored. TIIK possibility of restoring temporary allowances to those employed in the Malayan Government services is to be considered by a local committee presided over by the hief Justice of Hong Kong, Sir Atholl MacGregor. Sir Atholl is due to arrive at
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  • 202 20 r rHE Loyal Address oj the Straits Settlements to His Majesty King George the Sixth, which was ceremonially read at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Monday, reads “May it p'.casc Your Majesty, “On behalf of Your Majesty's loyal and loving subjects of all races and
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  • 247 20 Post Office Figures Show Growing Prosperity. (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, May 5. THE Post Office, a fairly accurate prosperity index, reflected the general revival of trade in Malaya last year by increased business activities in every branch to a substantial degree. Sums
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  • 262 20 Story Of Smuggling And Gun-Running. SINGAPORE is to be the setting of a British film dealing with smuggling and gunrunning according to the Straits Times London correspondent. Nila Asther, sauve Danish actor, is to head the film unit, due to arrive at Singapore in August.
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  • 55 20 The following have been erected as members of the Bar committee for the Settlement of Penang for the year April, 1937 to April, 1938: Mr. C. D. D. Hogan, President: Mr. Lim Cheng Ean, vice-president; Mr. Ong Huck Lim, Mr. T. E. Conaghan, Mr. N. Raghavan
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  • 341 20 “HIEROGLYPHIC MINUTES OF K. L. SANITARY BOARD. Convey Very Little Says Uno m Jfie ia l Mem her. From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, May rwfINUTES of the Kuala Lump’,; A Sanitary Board meetings w> > described as “hieroglyphics and eryptV language" by an Unofficial Membe*Mr. J. R. Vethavanam, at
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  • 167 20 Making Representations To The Government. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, May 3. THE Rubber Growers’ Associa- tion’s anxiety concerning the effect of the proposed growth of profits tax, the National Defence Contribution, is shown by the formation of a special committee to consider the matter
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  • 425 21 GOVERNOR TO LAND IN IMPERIAL LINER. Night Aerobatics By Illuminated Machines. VjhARLY 50 civil and Royal Air Force planes will take part in the opening of the Singapore Airport at Kallang on Saturday, June 12. The Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, at 4.30 p.m., will
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  • 35 21 From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh. May 4. A CHINESE syndicate has secured tii* prospecting rights in the Diudings and boring operations have begun. Tin has never been prospected in this region previously.
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  • 319 21 Why Inspector Fired At Batu Arang. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, May 7. evidence was given yesterday at the inquest on a victim of the Batu Arang riots by a Detective Sub-Inspector, who said that he shot a man who attempted to stab the
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  • 128 21 S. S. (S')A. Conclusion After Questionnaire' THE Straits Settlements (Singapore) Association has decided that the present system of nomination of members for seats on the Municipal Commission is satisfactory. The question of relations between the S.S. (S.) A. and nominees to the Commission reached a head
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  • 131 21 Nearly Ready. Rajah Brooke Leaves For Home p*HE now aerodrome for the Royal Air Force in Sarawak is nearly completed. His Highness the Rajah of Sarawak (Sir Charles Vyne: Brooke) told a Straits Times representative on board the Rajputana on Friday. Questioned about the Hollywood film “The
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  • 43 21 MR. J A Hunter, the Under-Secre-tary of the Straits Settlements, went on leave by the P and O liner Rajputana, which left Singapore for England on Saturday He Is being relieved by Mr E T Williams. Secretary to Resident. Perak
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  • 196 21 Australia-England In Less Than Week. LI F. “JIM” BROADBENT, the Australian flier, who was in Singapore a few clays ago, is the first man to have flown solo from Australia to England in less than a week. He arrived (says British Wireless) on May 4 (Singapore time),
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  • 87 21 Did Webster’s Animal Definitions. OTUDYING animals has been Wilfred Hudson Osgood’s hobby and vocation for nearly 40 years. At present zoology curator at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History he is passing through Singapore on a world cruise. He has conducted expeditions in Alaska. Canada. South
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  • 632 22 Equally Loyal To Both Britain And China. Unique Link Forged Between The Two Nations. THE status of Straits and other overseas Chinese living in British territories was defined by Dr. H. H. Kung, leader of the Chinese delegation to the Coronation, in
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  • 153 22 bring the desired result.—Aneta TransOcean London, May 4. bound together by strong ties of friendship, there could be no question whatever of a proposal for a military alliance between the United States and England, declared Mr. James Gerard, the United States’ representative at the Coronation celebrations
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  • 24 22 Prince Chichibu who is representing his brother, the Emperor of Japan at the Coronation Ceremony photographed on arrival at Waterloo Station with his consort.
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  • 89 22 KING’ S PRIVY PURSE. —Reuter. TOTAL OF £410,000 PROVIDED. London. May 4. TTHE King’s Privy Purse, as recommended by the select committee on the Civil List, will be £110,000 plus household salaries and expenses of Royal bounty, making a total of £410,000. The Duke of Gloucester’s annuity will be £35,000
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  • 179 22 .—Reuter. .—Sin Chew Jit Poh. British Papers View Of Japanese Elections. London, May 4. The Morning Post thinks that Gen. Hyashi, while maintaining the present Cabinet, is likely to moderate the demands it makes on the Japanese people. Its leading article says that the elections rebuffed the
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  • 87 22 CAPE-ENGLAND SOLO IN FOUR DAYS. RECORD CLIPPED BY 16 HOURS. J-J L. BROOK, the English flier, has broken the Capetown to England solo flight record, state Reuter and British Wireless messages from London. The airman landed at Heston at 3.20 p m. on May 5 his time
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  • 104 22 —Reuter. Trip In “Home-Made” Monoplane. Shanghai. May 5. The Chinese aviator Khouw Kee Hien arrived at Shanghai from Hong Kong this afternoon, completing the trip from Batavia in his own aeroplane. He is staying in Shanghai for six weeks.—Reuter. Accompanied by another Chinese pilot, Mr. Tan
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  • 82 22 —Reuter. Rome, May 5. AN early increase in Italian naval power was foreshadowed in a statement by Admiral Cavagnari. Under-Secretary to the Navy, who. speaking in the Chamber, declared that Italy would increase her cruiser force and proportionately strengthen the other categories of naval units.
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  • 94 22 Reuter Wireless. London, May 5. OEVEN Field Marshals of the British Army were present at Buckingham Palace yesterday morning for the ceremony of presenting the King with a Field Marshal’s baton. The King wore the full-dress of a Field Marshal and the staff was
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  • 723 23 Grim Close To Germany’s Latest Experiment In Dirigible Aircraft. MANY were killed when the German airship u Hindenburg burst into flames and crashed at the Lakehurst airport, New Jersey, on May 6. The Zeppelin Company’s publicity representative estimates that 20 passengers and 44 members of
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  • 197 23 CEYLON GOVERNOR REBUKED. RESULT OF ORDER TO DEPORT ENGLISHMAN. Colombo, May 6. *"PHE virtual censuring of the Governor of Ceylon, Sir Edward Stubbs, by the State Council, following the Governor’s action in deporting, Mark Bracegirdle, 24-year-old English tea planter on the grounds of subversive political activities has brought
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  • 123 23 London, May 6. /CONVERSATIONS between Dr. H. H leader of the Chinese delegation to the Coronation, Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Mr. Anthony Eden are being arranged, although it is not likely they will take place until after the Coronation. Dr. Kung talked at length with both
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  • 106 23 ’—Sin Chew Jit Poh. OFFERS TO BRITISH GOVERNMENT. SPECIAL CONCESSIONS MADE. Shanghai, May 5. JAPAN’S efforts in London to restore Anglo-Japanese co-opera-tion in the Far East are being closely followed in China According to reports published in the foreign press in Shanghai today, Japan’s offers to
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  • 92 23 .—Reuter. London, May 5. TN the House of Commons, Mr. Eden, the Foreign Secretary, announced that the Government did not intend suggesting a revival of the spheres of influence in China. He was replying to the Conservative Member, Mr. Morgan, who asked whether in any
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  • 135 23 Units For Home Defence. London, May 5. •T'HE formation of five new squadrons announced in tht latest Air Ministry orders will, within the next few days, increase the strength of the Metropolitan Air Force—the home defence coastal command and the army co-operation units—to 113
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  • 309 24 ,—Reuter. SECRET UNTIL CORONATION. Tours, Mav 5. N° ANNOUNCEMENT regarding the date of the marriage of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Simpson, or regarding their future plans will be made until after Coronation Day, Reuter was officially informed at the Chateau de Cande, where
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  • 82 24 the crown from Italy.—Aneta-Trans-Ocean. London, May 5. A CCORDING to reports received by the Daily Express from Jerusalem, the Italian delegation has arrived there in order to persuade the eldest son of the Negus, Prince Asfao Wosan. to accept the Abyssinian
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  • 42 24 .—Reuter Wireless. London, May 5. The King has approved the changing of the colours of the Order of the British Empire to rose, pink and pearl grey and also has authorised certain changes in insignia.—Reuter Wireless.
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  • 105 24 —British Wireless. London,, May 4. INFORMATION reaching London regaining the sinking last Friday of the cruiser Espana belonging to Spanish insurgent forces does not support earlier suggestion she was sunk by a bomb dropped from a Spanish Government aeroplane. Reports suggest the cruiser had been
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  • 323 24 —Reuter. STRONG AND FRIENDLY CHINA NECESSARY. ARMY’S FAILURE ON MAINLAND. London. May 3. u TTHERE has never been a better moment for the extremists in Japan to recognise what the Japanese statesmen have known all along, that the progress of their country and the Far East
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  • 63 24 —Reuter. London, May 7. The York by-election, caused by the appointment of Capt. L. R. Lumley as Governor of Bombay, took place yesterday and resulted as follows: The Hon. Charles Wood (Cons.) 22,045. Mr. John Dugdale (Lab.) 17,986. The Hon. Charles Wood is the son of Viscount
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  • 25 24 The Royal tableau at Mme. Tussaud’s, showing the King and Queen, the little Princesses and Queen Mary in Coronation robes.
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  • 141 24 —Reuter. BALDWIN’S PLEA SUCCEEDS. London, May 7. The threat of an immediate national coal strike in Britain has been averted. After a six-hour conference between Capt. H. F. C. Crookshank, Secretary of Mines, and the executive last night it was officially announced that the executive was prepared
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  • 277 24 said.—Reuter and British Wireless. London, May 5. lyiß. BALDWIN appealed in the House to the parties of the Harworth Colliery dispute not to allow it to lead to a strike. “The whole world has its eyes on London, where it is represented for rejoicings,
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  • 108 24 —Reuter. extra costs involved.—Reuter and British Wireless. INVESTIGATION COURT IN LONDON. WORKERS’ HARDSHIPS RECOGNISED. London, May 7. THE Court of Inquiry on the bus strike interim report finds working schedules operate onerously with the men and were not accurately foreseen when the 1932 agreement was concluded,
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  • 54 24 —Reuter. New York, May 7. AN agreement has been conclud- ed with the Bolivian Government and mine operators whereby the output of tin will be increased. Thirty-five per cent, of the receipts from exports will be handed over to the Government with a view to strengthening
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  • 123 24 .—Reuter. Moscow, May 6. An article criticising France’s policy with regard to Spain and casting doubts on the usefulness now to the Soviet of the Franco-Soviet Pact appeared in Izvestia yesterday, the second anniversary of the signing of the pact The paper declares the western
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  • 1346 25 MING SURVIVES OBJECTION TO PAY HIGHEST DIVIDEND. "THERE was a very large attendance on Wednesday at Bukit Timah for the second day of the S.T.C.’s Summer (Governor’s Cup) Meeting, in spite of its being mid-week. The weather was fine, and the going was good,
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  • 53 25 Messrs. Lee Kim Puat and Chee Soon Keng have issued invitations to a dinner at the premises of the Singapore Chinese Weekly Entertainment Club, Club Street, on Sunday, May 16. Following the dinner there will be discussion of the formation of the Owners' and Trainers’
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  • 565 25  -  By “Echo.” |T has taken Norman Wise two hours and five minutes in all to establish his right to retain the title of lawn tennis champion of the S.C.C. Roy Smith, former champion, and challenger, made him
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  • 155 25 The Great Jubilee Handicap, run on Saturday over I*4 miles at Kempton Park, resulted as follows,- cables Reuter: Mr. N. Christey’s COMMANDER 111 (H. Wragg) 1 Mr. A. K. Macomber’s TEMPEST II (Carslake) 2 Mr. A. Salnsbury’s WILLIAM OF VALENCE (Packham) 3 (Winner trained by Elsey). Betting:
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  • 35 25 Cricket. —Reuter. London. May 6. At Oxford. Yorkshire defeated Oxford University by an innings and 160 runs Oxford 149 and 135; Yorkshire 444 for six wickets, declared iHutton 95. Leyland 94).—Reuter.
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  • 1421 26 CORONATION CUP. RECORD TIME THOUGH BADLY DRAWN. SATURDAY was a memorable occasion for Singapore racegoers. It was the day on which they paid loyal tribute as their contribution to the Coronation celebrations, and the special race marking that happy event proved a thriller. The Coronation
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  • 62 26 Trainer R. Billett met with an accident on Saturday in the paddocks at Bukit Timah racecourse while bringing out the grey gelding Tony Redin for training. The horse was very frisky and it is understood that when he was mounting he was kicked on one knee, which was
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  • 77 26 —Reuter. (From Our Own Correspondent) London, May 5. The Chester Cup Stakes, run at Chester over 2 miles, 2 furlongs, 77 yards today, resulted: Lady NuttaU's FAITES VOS JEUX 7.4 (Maher) 1. Mr. A. E. Savery’s KEPT-ON 8.4 (Taylor) 2. Mr. A. J. Redman's SIR CALIDORE
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  • 66 26 Lawn Tennis. Reuter cables the results of Davis Cup second round ties as follows: At Munich, Germany beat Austria. At Paris. France beat Norway. At Bologna. Italy beat Monaco. At Belgrade. Yugo-Slavia beat Rumania. In each case the victory was by three matches (two singles and the
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  • 342 26 OLD ’UNS EASILY DEFEAT THE OFFICERS’ TEAM. THAT Theo Leijssius, for many years star all-rounder of the S.R.C. cricket team, and a member of the Malayan XI that oeat the Australians in 1927, is still a fine player he demonstrated on Sunday. Playing for the
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  • 135 26 .—Reuter. War Admiral Wins After Leading All The Way. Louisville, May 9. The Kentucky Derby was won by the favourite, War Admiral, from Pompoon and Reaping Reward. The margins were two lengths and three lengths and the time 2 min. 3 2'5 sec.—the second fastest time recorded, and
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  • 521 27  -  By “Echo.” Allong last, the S.C.C. spring lawn tennis tournament was brought to a close last week with the final of the championship doubles event. Rain fell in mid-afternoon and another postponement seemed inevitable, but fortunately it was
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  • 133 27 Major Astor Elected To M. C. C. Presidency. At their meeting yesterday, cables Reuter, the committee of the M.C.C.—the “Parliament of Cricket unanimously decided that, the experiment with it having been a success, the “Ibw. (N.)” rule be incorporated in the
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  • 197 27 Mr. Sime Presents Trophy On Eve Of Retirement. Following the match the prizes won in the tournament were presented by Mrs. J. M. Sime, wife of the president, who accompanied her on the occasion oi the last of many such ceremonies which they have attended, for they are
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  • 256 27 The Guillemard Cup Semi-Finalists. 'J'HE May bogey competition of the Singapore Golf Club was played at Bukit Timah on Saturday and Sunday and resulted in wins for J. H. Beeton in “A” Division with a score of 2 up. G. G. C. Pigott in “B”
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  • 109 27 Cricket. New Zealanders Lead Against Surrey. The following are close of play scores in first-class matches begun at Home on Saturday, as cabled by Reuter: At Nottingham: Sussex 232 (Larwood four for 47); Notts 16 for none. At Worcester: Derby 242 (Martin five for 69);
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  • 535 27 Irish Just Beaten In The International Fours finals of the R.S.Y.C. Rowing Regatta were decided on Saturday and provided thrilling racing. The principal event, the final of the International Fours, fully justified expectations in providing a hard fought race of a high
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  • 180 28 Victories For Buddy Baer Dave Crowley. JIM WILDE SUFFERS FOURTH ROUND T.K.O. WORLD FEATHERS CHAMPION DISQUALIFIED. 'THE two big fights at Harringay Arena on May 6 both ended in sensational fashion. In a ten round contest, cables Reuter, Buddy Baer (brother of Max Baer) beat Jim Wilde, of Wales, the
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  • 235 28 New York, May 8. JN a bout for the world's lightweight championship Lou Ambers, the holder, outpointed Tony Canzoneri, a former holder of the title. Both boxers weighed in at 9 stone 9 lb. and Ambers was a 3 to 1 favourite. Eleven thousand
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  • 150 28 At Oxford. Yorkshire beat Oxford University by an innings and 160 runs Oxford 149 and 135. Yorks 444 for six dec.. (Hutton 95. Leyland 94). At Lord’s, the M.C.C. beat Surrey by 120 runs. M.C.C. 247 (Edrich 97) and 242 (Gover six for 68). Surrey 181
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  • 91 28 CLUBS AS THEY LIKE. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrew’s—the governing body in British golf—has rejected, says a Reuter telegram, the proposal to limit golfers to the use of 14 clubs, as submitted early this year by the United States. The recommendation
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  • 63 28 Lawn Tennis (From Our Own Correspondent; Ipoh. May 2. Perak today won the Storch Cup. beating Negri Sembilan and Selangor. Selangor were last year’s winners. Perak won seven of the twelve singles events and six of the twelve doubles events. The All-in Cup competition
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  • 263 28 Glamorgan’s Great Victory Over Kent. THE first-class cricket season at Home has opened with the batsmen predominant. Eight centuries were scored in the five matches which opened on Saturday and ended yesterday. Lancashire staged a fine recovery to avert defeat by Derbyshire, the champions,
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  • 54 28 ,—Reuter. Toronto. May 8. The Royal Canadian Golfing Association has decided to enforce the limit of 14 clubs in tournament play, to be effective from Jan. 1, 1938. as in the United States, the rules uniform, because a large number of Canadians are competing in
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  • 286 28 DR. AND MRS. DAY WT1NI Cl C MIXED FOURSOMES. The semi-finals in the Guillemard Cup competition of the Singapore Golf Club resulted as follows: Henderson beat Wilson 2 and 1 Black beat Day 1 up The first bi-monthly mixed foursomes competition for
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  • The Straits Budget FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT
    • 882 1 FRASER COMPANY’S SHARE REPORT. Public Confidence Results In Share Recovery. jyjESSRS. Fraser and Co., in their weekly share report, issued at ihe close of business on May 10 write:— Since our last report nothing of outstanding importance has taken place to distract public attention, and financial interest has remained chiefly
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    • 330 1 London, May 10. The following are today’s closing middle prices on the London Stock Exchange:— Shares of £1 denomination unless otherwise stated:— Yes ter- Rise day. or Pall Conversion Loan 5 p.c. 1944-64 113% Funding Loan 4 p.c. 1960-90 110% War Loan. 3% pc 102% Com. Union Assce.
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    • 20 1 6 Tin, S’p or e Price $123 per picul 7 121.62 Ms 10 123.25 M n 122.25
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    • 268 1 Singapore, May 11, 12 noon. Buyer Seller Gambler $3.00 Hamburg Cube $15.00 Java Cube $ll.OO Pepper White Muntok $lB 00 White $l7 50 Black $lO.OO Copra. Mixed $5.90 Sun Dried $6.40 Coconut Oil $13.00 Tapioca. Small Flake $4.90 Fair Flake $4.50 Medium Pearl $5.20 Small Pearl $5.35 Sago Flour.
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    • 41 1 snot May May-June July-8ept. Oct.-Dec. London Mav fi 30% 37 37% 37% 37% 10% May 37% 37% 38 38% 38% 10% 1( 1 38% 39 39 39% 39% 10 15/lft JV 37% 37% 37% 37% 38 10%
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    • 494 2 After Providing For Debenture Interest, Depreciation Loss By Subsidiary Company. QHAKEHOLDERS in Raffles Hotel Limited will derive keen disappointment from the report of the directors for the year ended Feb. 28, issued on Saturday. Last year the directors were able to report the company’s
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    • 43 2 i From Our Own Correspondent) London, May 8 The Government has approved of a scheme for a Colonial Empire marketing board to stimulate the sales of colonial produce in Great Britain, at a eos t of 52 000 a year.
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    • 589 2 CONFIDENCE HAS NOW RETURNED. PRICES STEADILY ADVANCE. LEWIS AND PEAT (SINGAPORE) LTD. in their weekly report on the rubber market issued on May 7. write: Confidence is steadily being restored to the rubber market, and the outlook today is very different to tha t ot a tortnight
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    • 751 2 “Financial Position Cannot Be Considered Satisfactory. ‘<THK financial position ot‘ the company cannot be considered satisfactory said Mr. M. L. Phillips, chairman, addressing.shareholders at the annual meeting of Pulau Kamiri Ltd. in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. At the date of the last balance sheet our
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    • 98 2 Boustead Co., Ltd., Penang, advise the outputs of rubber for March from the following estates: United Patani (Malaya) 235.278 lb. Malakoff 129,830 Taiping 102,795 Sungei Batu (Malaya > 50,500 Windsor (F.M.S.) 27,878 Foothills (Malaya) 25,000 Bertam Consolidated 220,130 Kuala Muda 163,000 Val d’Or 36.980 Gadek 30,000 Kuala Sidim
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    • 1286 3 Maiden Dividend Of 2} Per Cent. After Four Years. FOUR yeais alter its incorporation the Oversea-Chinese Banking 1 Corporation Ltd. is paying its maiden dividend of 2i/ 2 per cent After allowing $203,656 for depreciation, the profit for the year ended Dec. 31, last, was
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    • 120 3 JMPORTS of rubber from foreign territories into the Straits Settlements during April totalled 17,136 tons compared with 19,579 tons in March, 14,048 tons in February and 16,956 tons in January, giving a total of 67,719 tons for the period, compared with 58,167 tons for the corresponding four
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    • 149 3 THE Singapore Chamber ol Commerce Rubber Association hold it.- 1328th auction, on May 5 when there were catalogued 1.357.151 lbs;. 605.87 tons; offered 947.591 lbs. 423.03 tons: sold 925.323 lbs.. 413.09 tons. Spot London 10 316 d. New York 21 cts. PRICES REALISED Ribbed Smoked Sheet cents
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    • 324 3 NEW COMPANY FORMED TO WORK 1,075 ACRES. ASSESSMENT OF 14,400 PICULS PER ANNUM. gERJUNTAI Tin Dredging Ltd. is the name of company recently incorporated in the F.M.S. with a nominal capital of t‘200,000 in shares of 5s. each. The company is to acquire a riredgable- property in
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    • 162 3 1,891 TONS FROM SIAM. JM PORTS of tin ore into the Straits Settlements, from territories other than Rritish Malaya, during April, totalled 2,552 tons, compared with 2,553 tons in March, 2.383 tons in February and 2,681 in January, giving a total of 10,172 tons
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    • 1167 4 Issued By Fraser And Co., EXCHANGE AND STOCK BROKERS. Singapore, May 11, 10 a.m. MINING. lag tie VaX. Boyers Sellers 4/- Ampat Tin 5/9 6/6xd £1 Asam Kumbang 34/- 3o/£1 Austral Malay 57/- 59/n 5/- Ayer Hlt&m 27/6 29/ 6 1 Ayer Weng 140 £1 Bangrin Tin
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    • 42 4 Colony rubber stocks on Apr. 30, were 42,348 tons a fall of 4,002 tons compared with stocks on Mar. 31. These stocks on Jan. 31, were 40,414 tons; on Feb. 28, 47,440 tons and on Mar. 31. 46,350 tons.
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    • 535 4 London Exchange Prices On May 3. Allagar (2/) 1 9 1 1* Alor Pongsu (2/) 2/9%; Anglo-Malay 15/9; Ayer Kunrng 36/3; Bagan Serai 25/; Bahru iSel.) (2/) 3/8; Banteng 29/; Batang (2/) 1/2V,; Batu Caves 20/; Batu Tiga 44/1 Vi; Bekoh (2/) 2/0%; Bertam Con. (2/) 4/44; Bidor
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    • 96 4 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS Singapore, May 11. Company Dividend Total rui Books Close financial Date Ex. Div veai Payable Date to date TIN To Ampat Tin 5% Pinal Apr. 26 May 11 May 3 7Vfe% Lahat Mines 12Vi% Pinal May 17 o'-' Sungel Kinta 5% Final Apr. 20
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    • 209 4 First Trading Profit Since Year Ended January 1930. THE report of the directors of Thornycroft Ltd. states that after charging ‘substantial’ depreciation, the amount of which is not disclosed, and charging $6,092 for directors’ and auditors’ fees, the net profit for the year ended Jan. 31, last,
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    • 136 4 Tne directors of Malaya Publishing House Ltd. report a profit of SI 1.201 for the year ended Feb. 28, 1937, compared with S 10.473 for the preceding year. The directors have allocated $l,OOO as a bonus to the staff and have transferred $7,000 to capital reserve; they
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    • 241 4 London Exchange Prices On May 3. Ampat (4/) 5/3; Anglo-Burma (5/) «A Ayer Hitam (5/) 26/3; Bangrin 22/, Gopcng Cons. 2%; Hongkong (5/) 31/9; Idiia <5. 11/; Ipoh (16/) 31/3; Kampong Lanjiu 25/1 Ms; Kamunting (5/) 13/3; Kepong 2 K.nta (5/) 16/3; Kinta Kellas (5/) 6/6, Kramat Pulai
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