The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 11 August 1924

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1 849 The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)
  • 20 1 THE STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. |lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CENTS VOL. 22 PENANG: AUGUST 11, 1924. NO., 33
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    • 215 1 CONTENTS 1 LEADERS MISCELLANEOUS: (Continued) Ptnang Hill Development 824 A Siamese Problem 842 Real Peace at Last! 832 <.d > i Baby Pavlova” 842 An Important Appointment 836 r> n Incident in Harboar 842 Rob erßestaroh 840 Rubber, Tin and Rice 844 Singapore Base 843 Malayan Collieries Limited 849 Coneuble’e
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    • 215 2 t B I I STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. f zf. y J® s r./o J' W r, j-;V Published the day prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, 3 Cl and contains the latest local and States news originally published in the C/ daily issues, as well as
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  • 1329 824 S.F.P. May we. in all friendliness, remind members of the Penang Hill Committee that Penang takes more than a mere perfunctory interest in their doings d would be gratified to learn from time a time of the progress they are making. \>t that anybody wishes to bustle
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  • 256 824 Talip bin Haji Idris, a former police constable in the Marine Police, was placed in the dock at the Singapore Assizes on a charge of attempting to murder a sergeant of the Marine Police at the Marine Station on the evening of June 16. 'The affair
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    • 26 824 the Straits Ecfio. published DAILY MAIL EDITION the news of the weew prior W leparture of Mails f<»' Europe the Criterion Press, Limited, Beach Street, Penang.
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  • 1224 825 Medical Students’ Strike” Students at the M Mical College at Singapore, who engineertd what has been freely described as a strike, or, in other words, directly repudia f ed the Principal’s authority deserve precious little sympathy. Their grievances, such as they a'e, should have been submitted to the
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  • 386 825 FANGri,iiE^a ASOI ASi I HE Mace-week in p rtnQr and Wive time and the U’ n and dance at the E. 4 0 nlf"* 11 daj night constituted an 00 ion to a m et S ucc 3 ,“hl lleM »i4. num! er and nugnifice.L fu"'
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  • 114 825 Whilst engaged in th. lh house at Sungei Teram, a 1 Fung Luk, a workman, fell from and was seriously removed to his home in be where he succumbed to h» 8 ,D J Coroner is holding an etqai y eiicnmstances on g Du.ing th. etrly P~‘ M.t
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  • 470 826 I'HSATIS" day. Inß P. eetor !oi* Kl M, e zine station, char>?tUn»»'A_ ,h Ah Cheanir, with Cb l K ld rin va!oed llU!>“ re -F t f an t'.er Chinese, aD illegal pra,ifi) j ve N 1 22 Accused i 6 -u- tn both chargesL M Ldrnnn said
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  • 663 826 Dr, J, L. Braddon writes to the TOM* liio nut know »he.h.. r lbe t.ie Ipcih Chinese Chamber of Comae who passed the resolutiju in favour of the removal of iestriction are purely planter or trader?, or both, but it is ea ,y to pe.ceive and
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  • 427 826 apL Calthrop Calthrop, A.M., 0.8. E., H.N., left for Europe by the Malwa. -Mr. B. H E. Barnard is to act as Conservator of Forests, Straits Settlements and 'F.M.S. Messrs. Chee Swee Ee, P. Y. Law and and C apt. E. Reffell were passengers from Hongkong by the P.
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  • 714 827 F.M.S. v. COLONY A Win For The States [From Our Own Correspondent] Kuala Lurnpur, August 4. The F.M.S.-Colony match was continued this morning in bright weather and in the presence of a small gathering. The F.M.S., who had 108 for 2 when stumps were drawn on Saturday, compiled
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  • 56 827 Our Kuala Lumpur correspondent telegraphs that the Selangor Golf Club lawn tennis tournament was most successful. There was a large entry and much keen play was seen. Kleinman won the open singles easily, defeating Oliver 64, 62. Oliver and Whit ley won the .open doubles, beating
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  • 155 827 At the annual general meeting of the Straits Chinese F. A. at Singapore, the following were elected officials for the ensuing year: President, Dr. Lim.Han Hoe; VicePresident, Seow Poh Leng; Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Tay Lian Teck; Hon. Assistant Secretaries, Yee Check Wah, Chia Gue Seng;
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  • 468 827 JAL'axese^c CEs ses Asano Win, [From Our Own The finals of the weather before T lar/ S Selangor pair, Duncan and Canremarkable fashion. j n Asano defeated Scovell of Selangor M > o. lhe arrangements did credit ll Whitt,,ker M tlazlul, who were responsible. Ihe prizes were
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  • 1608 828 lilE TOURNAMENT at ipoh ~r L Corespondent). Ipoh, Sunday, August 3. ta «wither the first round and L-finals of he <hainpionslnp z aPI I the Open Doubles were off at Ipo h Sat ril V au<l first day all present were disLted to hear that Penang had
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  • 510 829 STUDENTS’ STRIKE PKIZE-( jtIVING BOYCO'I T The following from the Singapore Free Press confirms and supplements our special telegrams published yesterday A passive strikeprobably the first of its kind in the history of the Colony—among the majority of the medical students at the King Edward the Vllth
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  • 614 829 GOOD SHOOTING ON FIRST TWO DAYS The Bisley meeting promoted by the Singapore Volunteer Rifle Association, which opened on Saturday afternoon, continued on Sunday, and was on Monday attended with a very considerable degree of success. The event, says the Free Press, has attracted a large number
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  • 416 829 Five Boats Capsim The third annual race of circling tb Island of Singapore started on Sat®, day morning with every man jack among owners and crews revelling in the ide» of forgetting their worries for a time to the envy of those kept to the treedmill of business,
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  • 1013 830 LICENCES AND control u. r Simervihion Bill, as briefly was introduced by adtiser at the meeting of the ,r„'„ncil He said, according to '.i th,lt ,h ,ni n °b*l ,h,. Bill was to furnish a better j firstly by the creation Of w,th th( j Staff who Will
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  • 535 830 BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS (F»oni Dm/ Own Corn upoulcnt). Alor Star, -July 31. I’o-day is the fiord birthday of 11. H. Sir \bdul Hamid Halimshah, K.C M.G Sultan of Kedah, who is n<4 only the oldest reigning Malay sovereign linked by Treaty with H.M. the King. but the
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  • 1022 831 THE CO-OPERATIVE THRIFT AND LOAN SOCIETY The Committee of the i.M.S. Posts and Telegraphs Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society, Ltd., in presenting their second annual report on the working of the Society, together with the reserve fund and prolit and loss accounts and balance sheet for
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  • 452 831 NEW SANATORIUM fod CONSUMPTIVES A meeting of the lie Health Education was held'* I’* 1 Council Chamber, Kuala Lumpur, on July 3 JS a The Committee i s in ionned illustrated pamphlet in Chinese <1 il pium Habit has been issued to th Selangor Anti-Opium Society and
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  • 691 832 of the French suspicions i, echo in the senu-otheial Paris received to-day, the stwe ol tbe Lon l J Cou{ -renee to be opening in an atmoswhich encourages 1 That the end of the current X- see the beginning of an era of nd reconstruction -n
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  • 320 832 'Forthcoming Visit M. Chanteloup, the well-known French aviator, who has now been in Malaya for some little time and has made a large number of successful Hights at Singapore, Johore Bahru, Muar, Malacca, Seremban, Kuala Lumpur, Klang, Tanjong Malim, and Teluk Anson, as well as in
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  • 430 832 Mr. D. Bartlett has left Petaling Tin mine for Pengkalen. Mr. A. G. Read, of the Chartered Bank, is now in Puket. Mrs. E. L. 11 usonis in the European hospital, at Kuala Lumpur. Miss Gage Brown, though still in Hospital, is considerably better.M.M. Mr. H 1). Fitzgerald, of
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  • 1245 833 Welcome to the Sultan of Perak In yesterdayri issue, it was announce 1 that under the Chairmanship of H. H. tho Regent, a Central Committee has been formed to organise a loyal welcome to the Sultan of P«rak on His Highness’s return from England.” Adequate subscriptions from the
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  • 992 833 MR. CHURCHILL THE RUBBER POSITION E AMERICAN FACTOR RESULTS of RESTBIjf 10 Mr Lloyd gift of pungent fexpasiti on ,Li if accordance with fit '“V» -yja Calcutta exc rubber growers of the p’ put their poeition they should have sent for th. i**» most brilliant reoruit to the unemployed. In
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  • 1111 834 "notes from betong The ant Of A Good Road Betong, says the Siam Observer, is a town situated to the south-west of Pattani and lies on the borders of Perak and Kedah. Its population is small and consists mostly of Malays. The language spoken is Malay. Both
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  • 611 835 The problem to be faced by the administration of any land such as our own which contains a mixture of many races cannot be easy when it is merely confined to a question of internal defence; when, however, we come to consider the necessity for defending the Peninsula
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  • 1029 835 -MM- A CEYLON VIEW The planter’s lot, like that of Gilbert’s policeman, is not, in the opinion of the veteran Mr. 11. A. Webb, a happy one. The chief trouble, as the Times of Ceylon points out, lies in the fact that planters’ salaries, generally speaking, have
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  • 1130 836 M it «-as Stated some little time Mr 1’ A Anthony, General of the'Hallways, had lioX returning to Malaya that ±ent «as, to the best of our know*e, correct. The post ottered -Mr. u-AS we believe, in Mesopowe rather wondered at the .1 t bat a man
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  • 450 836 i>' <)lm<m has arrived from America and joined the staff ot Suydam Girls School, Malacca. His Highness the Sultan in Council has appointed Mr. \V. S. Ebden to be a Magistrate of the First Class in and for the State of Johore. Captain Rawlings, R.N., and Lieut.Commander
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  • 1383 837 A Perak’s Scot’s Complaint in h circular letter r-fproduc d elsewhere Mr, Walfpr Kellie Smith, wLo is wellknown in subjects members of the House of CommoLS to an indignant harangue upon the iniquities of the double taxation system as it affects those Scotsmen who live and work in
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  • 403 837 gj Cfo the, Editor of the Strait, tk I The clock in the tower u. I head of Beach Street Xtwee .1 Government Offices and the r ,j I < ourts) has ceased to chime I her having seen a on it some little time ago and
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  • 1098 838 «otsmenJ? the tropics COMPLAINT William Kellie Smith, of "rak, K.M.S., has ad.'tom Melfort House, Argyll, 'a the following letter to all member 1 House of Commons on the subject t double taxation of Scotsmen who mbpom House, Akoyll N.H. Sir,-Your tax gatherers aru J*‘ perpetual exiles of Scotsmen
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  • 545 838 CHIN SENG CO., LTD. LIQUIDATORS .MELTING A geileial m -etii.g members of Chiu Seng a Co.. Limited, (in liquidation) was held at noon today at 41, Farquhar Street, in order that the liquidators appointed for the purpose of winding up of the Company might lay before the meeting an account
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  • 622 839 Members Adopt $55,000 Scheme After barely more than half an hour’s discussion a largely attended meeting of members of the Singapore Golf Club which was held at the Race Course on Wednesday evening,after abandoning the scheme involving the expenditure of $85,000, adopted the scheme for the erection
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  • 298 839 The following report will be submitted at the annual general meeting of members to be held on Sunday morning in the Parish Hall: The excess in th G credit balance over that of last year is due to the sale of a billiard table. The receipt and expenditure
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  • 144 839 Gambling A Chinese named Kay Kee Chye appeared before Mr. H. A. Forrer to-day, charged with gambling on vacant land in Tye Sin Street. Inspector Lamb stated that two stools, one mat and 74 cents were found. Accused denied the charge, but was convicted and fined $2. Bad
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  • 435 839 A L,JCUBR^£ASSEMB Lr s r do the Editor of |lt questions discussed th( apathy which appe ars t 0 towards the really i mDort .,m 4 of the day. POT,dM Protfed One Hon. Member, Mr v in deals with the transport o' Pigs; the Hon. Mr.'R a iif
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  • 1067 840 tMr a members of the Federal i .iLi the F.M.S. Government *'a=Unc.- that the formation of witutefor Rubber Research would .lelaved indefinitely. Tn July, the Planters’ Assoc,at,on o Wi mentioned that they were all Sush awaiting the decision of the Secretarv of State, and we hope that it
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  • 424 840 1' Gv- w definitely stated lh.it Mr < 11. Sansom will act as Commissioner f Police, F.M.S. < S-.rgl.-Major V. C. J). Fronde, has been transferred irom Companv M.S.\ R., Ipoh to I)’ Companv, MS. .R., Taiping. Mr. M. Siriwardena is lying seriously ill at his residence in Seremban.
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  • 13 840 domestic occurrence DEATH n <J Leith Street. Penang, 6th instant, Teoh Heun Eng.
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  • 1513 841 The Star and Garter Home In the Post of Ju-y It, there is an interes t a count of the v of the King and Q een to the S *r and Garter Home, Riiliraond, and th c rcmony which Btar»B this f mius it stituti the Women’s
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  • 299 841 Ou/ Siogapote coriespjoientkle; that the firbt-clasa pas-engeis hoard the Satie Bjraej ioe'iuß four ft-mahs and two male 9, nkl tives of Mr. Thio Kim Chv I manager of C iop Thio Yc. I the owners of the vessel. Theri we ei- 1 Captain Afrerhans, a European mite
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  • 732 842 thE URGEJTANDING ARMY ,'Vr't!, a London Sunday paper if Mr Harold Cox to task fIC uteinent made by that publicist rtiek on "India and Demoherein he states: The only the continent of Asia tn which ti i| inv established form of n Xnt is tin- Empire of
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  • 344 842 A High Class Dancing Exhibition Not a very crowded house greeted the first appearance of Mura Shipoff and her company at the Theatre Loyal, Penang, last night, but those present were treated to a classical entertainment of art and character dancing by one who promises, ere long, to
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  • 528 842 ALLEGED PIRACY An exciting incident, which smacks i’\ much like the piracy we often read 'bout as happening off the China Coast, ppears to have occurred in the Penang harbour last night. H is alleged that a hinese contractor had supplied coal, 1 tc., to a Chinese
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  • 1334 843 DEBATE IN THE LORDS No Change in Government Policy In the House of Lords on July 14, the Marquis of Linlithgow (C.) asked the Government whether it was intended, by sale or otherwise, to dispose of any of the plant or materials collected for the purpose of constructing
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  • 228 843 A Chinese, Choo Lai Hock, appear I cd before Mr. H. A. Forrer in i I Second Court this morning charged w I fraudulent possession of 2 suits of uhi> I clot lies. There were two previous cot I victions against accused, and he I sentenced to 18
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  • 1127 844 unction is saving the rubber inftnd since it was made quite clear Government has no intention X of abandoning the policy it j in response to the unanimous SoHhat industry, the price of the made quite a remarkable We do not for a moment question the
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  • 425 844 Messrs. J. 1. Miller and A. V. Aston, o' the M Mayan Civil Service, are expected to return from leave at the end of this month. Mr. IL Langworthy, A.C.P., and Inspectors Garland, Corbett and Delnmore, arc expected back from leave shortly. V Mr C. L. Sansom
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  • 1389 845 Advertisement! One naturally expects an Intbrn4tional Advertising Conference to proclaim the vital importance of advertising, and the Conference of Wembley is doing it, in a fashion that is highly creditable to the delegates’ capacity for propounding truths in a business-like way. They Lave been well supported by politicians,
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  • 218 845 In the Ipoh Supreme Court on Tiunon Mr. Justice P. A. F. David beard cation for an increase to his allowiDcL. present $2OO a month—from Mr, h», Berry, whose public examination in but ruptoy was recently reported. Baja 0» the Assistant Official Assignee, aid a disputed the
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  • 121 845 Although all the students of tbc&M Edward VHth Medical College whoWJ part in the boycott of the the College last week, have apology posted in the College, inn failed to appear at the wl the day of the prize have resumed their studies, t e is not
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  • 550 846 rFMERLOH COCONUTS AND lEMfc RUBBER annual gene al meeting of the Temerloh Coconut LtL, E H at noon Bab J 0 9/Beach Street, Penang. H. Thorne (D. recto 1 /fhe others present were: Director), Mr. J. G. U mirX), Mr. A G. Duke. Mr. h’ffi R. M. N.
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  • 472 846 PROPOSED APPRECIATION OF MR PECK’S SERVICES Malay? n Collieries, Ltd., have circulated among their shareholders tl.e following letter, dated August 6 It has been decided by the Board of Directors to convene extraordinary general meetings of the shareholders (A and B) to consider and if approved to
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  • 72 846 Our Singapore co respondent; that there is still no nsws of the arie Borneo, but mire wreckage has been sighted. o: A telegram from Singapore reports that in the Supremo Court there Mr. Justice Acton gave judgment in favour of the Eastern Mining Company against Mr. oey
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  • 299 846 Married Man An Infant” 1 the Ipoh Supr in» C u< ton Thui sday < vil soil of eom interest came up for i’H' !>■ fora Mr. Jus ice Divid when P.L.O.R.P, Pahniappa Chettiar. of Ipoh, sued (1) Noordin Lin Mohamed Yorsim and (2) the Hon. Mr.
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  • 320 846 On enquiry, we learn that the nonchiming of the Clock in the Memorial tower is only temporary, due to repairs and cleaning up which has been going on for the past month or so. The work is nit yet completed and as soon as it is the
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  • 1178 847 TWO JACK HORNERS? As everybody in the F.M.S. knows, two official appointments of the first importance will have very shortly to be filled by Government. Gne is that of Commissioner of Police, F.M.S., vacated to day by Mr. \V. L. Coulay, and the other that of General Manager,
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  • 186 847 axd Co’B Weekl; P, EMt lin has again strong during the past week cables this morning metal £259 10 0 since our laTreJort Rubber too has maiotainal e rength, and at to-day's Load™ on of ITjd.thereis-aX??: the week. Singapore quotes Cut 4 1 he Share Market suffered from,
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  • 191 847 Further Local Subscriptions The Penang Committee of the Foochow Flood Relief Fund acknowledged receipt of the following generous w* criptions given by the undermentioned gentlemen and Chops in aid. of the Fiffl Chop Kiat Cheang”, $5O; Mr. KW Seng Lee, $5O; Mr. Chenh Lean Go» $25; Mr.
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  • 464 848 lir INTEREST IN BROADRlßl’C n casTlN g the recently formed SinSociety met under the Mr Powell Robinson, 'L draft rules of the Society, fnnned by the ComZ on lines Similar to rules m use Si "i 'ties elsewhere. staled that the delav that had n H e
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  • 1417 848 ANTHONY CO.’S SHARE LIST Name of Company. Buyer»| Seller* Remark RCbBBR—DOLLAR SHARKS. cts. ct« Allevhv Rubber Co., Ltd. iCO in;' A lor Ga jah Rubber Estate, Ltd. 080 nos 1 Amalgamated Malay Estates, Ltd lsq iSS 1 Ayer Hilmn Planting Syndicate Ltd 950 10 50 Ayer Kuninsr Rubber Estate, Ltd...
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  • 269 848 Niwni? Pet, for the month of July, hours run 336, yardage treated 31,777, ore won pieuli) 282, approximate revenue 115,900, approximate oust of mining 95,896, rainfall inches. Men zlemba Lode, for the month of July, 211 piculs. Kahtnan Hydraalio, for the month of July, 900 piculs. Kamunting, for
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