The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 5 February 1927

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1 119 The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)
  • 20 1 The Strats Echo Weekly Edition. ffß PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. t 25 PENANG: FEBRUARY 5 1927 NO. 5
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 220 1 I 1 < If L LEADING ARTICLES MISCELLANEOUS: (C®ntinn»d) JI P 1 Wnß Solving the Servant Problem 102 Death of the Egg Club 11l II! Secondary Schools for All 102 The Late Mr. H. H. James 112 JL I Municipal Music 10S The Mr. S. R. Carr 112 Hl Chinese
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 193 2 3w thi Sl STRAITS ECHO I g WEEKLY EDITION fake Published the day prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, Ao >■ wA tV KH 5X and contain! the latest local and Stales news originally published fn the MM a?/ .iff* cXMQMtsues, as.well as aM important news from
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  • 40 102 BIRTHS Bathurst—On the 29th of January, 1927, at Penang, to Mr and Mis. 11. C. Bathurst, a daughter. Gunn—On the 21st January, 1927, at (Kindale 2, Johore Road, Penang, to Mr. and Mrs. Gunn Lay lor, a son.
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  • 451 102 Hie sentence of fourteen days' impriionment without the opt.on ol a fine, passed on two lamil servants in the Second Police Court by Mr. C. \V. A. Senneil, on a charge <:f having used criminal force towards two other Tamils, servants employed by Mr. K. A.
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  • 480 102 Secondary Schools 'for all. in a phrase sums up the recommendations of tiie Consultative Committee of the Board < t Education in a report just pum.shed entitled the Euucauon oj Uie Adolescent. This Report, which tias been described as one of the most valuable Stale papers
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  • 497 102 A C.M.G. has been bestowed on Mr. A. S. Jeif, now Colonial R eretary of J an a.ca. Mr. J. A. P. Oswald, headmaster of tb.e \ng'o-( hinese Schoel, Par.t Buntar, has returned ir< in his holiday in < e/Gcii and resumed duties. Pr'.m-ess Juliana, Heiress to the rown,
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  • Page 102 Advertisements
    • 30 102 v T'z L El CAvv PUBLISHED DAILY WEEKLY EDITION Containing the news oi the week prior to departure of Mails for Europe The Criterion Press, Limited, 59, Beach Street, Penang
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  • 880 103 The Duke’s ft is a hiirnificant fact that although there has been an urgent rail for troops to protect British live.- and property in China the Duke of Wellington's Regiment has remained in Singapore. It will be readied that at the time of the Singapore Mutiny, in 1915,
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  • 239 103 Ox A Debt of S3O,(XX) Speculating in rubber to the extent of $L)O,(X)O when he was insolvent was ad nulled by a debtor named Lim Yew ('live m the course of his public examination b v the Deputy Official Assignee, Mr. L. Gib- 011 in the
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  • SPORTING NEWS
    • 46 103 Selancor beat Services (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, January3o Selangor beat the Services by 13 points to I*2 after losing 9 points too at half It was a good game. The finish was exciting the winning try being scored in the last second.
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    • 302 103 The first annual general meeting of the Penang Badminton Association wag held at the Old Free's Association on Saturday. Mr. IL.II Abdul Cader took I the chair. The minutes of the inaugural meeting and the first general meeting were read and confirmed after which the report and
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    • 1027 103 ATHLETIC SPORTS Lady Guillemard Distributes Prizes After a 1 apse of several years the P®" nang Cricket Chib held an athletic meeting on the Esplanade on md thanks to the hard work put in hy* ommiitee comprising Dr. Glass Me srs. M. J. Thorpe, C. A. Scott,
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    • 80 104 Lawn Tennis Tournament 1 lie following are the results of tennis tournament ties played on Thursday. J. Duguid beat B. W. B. Powell 63, 75. C. E. Bowers beat VV. Gilliam 62, 5-7, 6-4. A. Ferguson and VV. beat J. P. Souter and AL J. B. Watt
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  • 113 104 Singapore Committee Formed committee has been formed to take up the matter of entertaining troops piss ing through Singapore en route for China. A me ting will be held to make prelimin a»\ .imangements and to arrange for the coll -lit,a ol subscriptions. It is hoped ilia'
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  • 502 104 T-V TRADE ORDERS AT PRICES RULING L< wis and Peat, Singapore, report: Singapore, Jan. 27 Ihe market after showing a sudden p.Gvement at the close of last week as been quiet with a downward tendeny, and very little support has been oilhcoming from the trade. 1 rices
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  • 861 105 (To The Editor or the /traits l.cno) Sir, That rumour is a lying jade max be «-qualh ascribed to tie r* cent persistent reports of the early retirement of Sir Laurence Guilbmard as to what was once circulated with reference to the famous American humorist,
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  • 512 105 $5,000 REWARD OFFERED BY||J Previous Assault on Towuy Particulars were given on Satui-J oi the murder of a Chinese towkayng. id \V an Ann loon by Chinese in Thomson Load on Wednesday ev& ing, and the wounding of four of u grandchildren. i ,ie police have offered
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  • 323 105 OBITUARY Mrs. G. P. Owen curre'd h’' W Singapore Ha 1 late Mrs. Owen, as Mrs n a large part in the' social life of hnvnig u™ partlv r j lor th- foundation of the Ladies I Gnu s hib nndtlu q- L ljlKlles Lawn Immuitie c’h «'ngapore Amateur '"."k.
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  • 517 106 jn the last generation the idea has Jneu ground °ihat civic authorities Luld include music amongst the other amenities (ranging from museums ana uciure gaheries io open spaces anu maying-giounds) which they are carerul U> pi ovine. The experiments have been many and have met with varying sueeess
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  • 483 106 Mr. F. J. Bryant, of Ipoh, is leaving for England later on in the month Mr. J. Melbe and Mr. and Mrs. 2d Scott arrived here yesterday from Sin gapore by the s.s. Takada. Ihe Bishop of Singapore presided at the Tamil Diocesan Conference which was held in Kuala
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  • 561 106 (To ihe Editor of the Straits Echo) Sir, 1 feel rather flattered by your endorsement of the opinion expressed in my last letter to you on the crying needs of Fenang. There is no necessity to qualify it by doubts as to the financial capability
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  • 1025 107 1« or Are The literary world <*l America is Ireing torn as to whether or not two-thirds of the oats and more than half the corn is” produced or are produced. To be precise, the following part of a sentence has to be analyseda tremendous area in which
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  • 1119 107 BkHiill VuiluUii fQu FRULHjLLKS I A. \V. 8., writing from London the limes under date January o I says H ine Governments of Malaya, being jn I a nurry to clear out suid lueir tin hold I mgs at a loss to tnemselves, but 1 h av
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  • 753 108 lhe Late 51 r. Donohoe lhe late Mr, Maitin Donohoe was one of those journalists who where born a little out of their day. IM would have been a great figure when the war correspondent worked as a free man and depended upon his own physique and resource
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  • 316 108 Singapore 'Turf Club Meeting I’he annual general meeting of the Singapore Turf Club was held in Singapore on Friday, Mr. A. W. Vick presiding. Before passing to the business of the meeting the Chairman paid a handsome tribute to late Mr. J. D. Saunders, one of the best-known
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  • 772 109 ORDERS OF THE DAY 1. Question by Mr. i y n Cheng Lock: The Chinese Marriage Committee appointed 1925, having subrmtteu its report, will the Government state what action it propenes to take w:th reference to tiie matters concerning Chinese marriages dealt with m the report, viz. the
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  • 144 109 Previously acknowledged $13,837.82 Taiikerton” $lO. Collection by Lnited Indian Association. Penang, through Mr. M. Nalpon: Messrs. Mendis and Huck Lim $5O, Mr. Khoo Kim Aw $3O, Mr. P. S. Andiappa Nadar $lO, Mr. S. Muthia Nadar s•>, Messrs. Ganesh Printing Works $5. Chetty Firms ;NL* 5
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  • 296 109 I.XEiI- iCIEM' DETECTIVES In the second Police Court 1 uesday afternoon the hearing q case was continued in winch a named Veerasamy is charging Suppiah No do, and his two and mother, with assault (the last with abetting the onence) at Kramat Road on October 30 last. Al.
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  • 210 109 Previously acknowledged Staff. Survey Department, Penang S. Appaduray $lO, R. L. Buckweli j > K. Arumugam $5, S. T. N. Menon $5, J. A. Navaratnasißgam $5. N. Alarimuttu $3, S. Ponna®' palam $3, Foong Siew Pak $3, K- 1 suvaiingam $3, L. J. Rozells $3, Ten?
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  • 1049 110 From time immemorial-the Chinese have been accustomed to attach particular importance to the dawn of a new rear. It is, in fact, the most important of ah Chinese festivals, and although as a result of the extinction of the Ching Dvnasty, the Gregorian calendar has been adopted
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  • 488 110 Mr. 1 R. Heron, managing director of the Singapore Cold Storage Cempany, !.s expected ,n Penang early next week. Mr. J. Bjarnet, of the United Slates Rubber Plantations, Ltd., arrived from Deli to-day by the s.s. Reich. Mrs. rowhall Wilscn, who is on her way to Bangkok, where she
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  • 521 111 The tramp we cau endure, lie >» generally an nine bouieu rogue, witii a pnilosopny of Lie oi ms oaii, continually on tlic move, we have kho»»ii one or two ol the fraternity to move ewf m a vicious circle. Gul he tciuoin stagnates into the vagrant” as the
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  • 547 111 THE FOUNDER HONOURED Dinner to Bishop Oldham Bi-';op William F. Oldham, D.D., B L.D., founder of the Anglo-Chmese School, was the guest of honour at a dinner giw n by the Anglo-Chinese Schoo staff and Old Boys' Association, at the Garden Club, Singapore. Airs. Oldham was also present.
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  • 419 111 dii xiciPAL Attack Upon Singapore Institution A well-known Singapore institution much patronised by the frivolous is likely to disappear as the result of a decis. ii of the Municipal Commissioners deleting Purvis Street from the schedule of streets for night hawkers, says the Straits limes.
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  • 1166 112 VERDICT AT INQUEST Jury's Comment on Hospital The inquest on the death of Air. H. H. James was held in the Coroner s Court, Singapore, belore Ml. h. G. Bourne, Coroner, and a special ju.\ oi V HC h of the witness was subjected to
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  • 556 112 1 oi’.NER Al WAGING BIRECTOR OF J. Little Co. Mr. Samuel Richards Carr, whose leath in London at the age of 78 on A eonesday last was reported to John iditlo and Co. by cable, was for many vears a prominent figure in the business
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  • 1071 113 THE OPENING CEREMONY Society’s Progress In the presence of a large gathering of members and the general public, the Hon. Mr. J. W. Campbell, the Chairman. opened the new offices of the Incorporated Society of Planters on Saturday. The Government was represented by Mr. A. F. Richards
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  • 529 113 MALAYAN CHINESE DONATION Speaking at the congregation at Hon» Kong University for the conferring f ,j degrees last week Sir Cecil Clementi Governor of Hong Kong and Chancellor of the University, said: 1 cannot myself think of a better purpose to which the Boxer Indemnity Funds, already
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  • 550 114 for the last time to day the Straits Echo appears as an afternoon paper, for nearly twenty live years this paper has been published early in the afternoon, competing with its older conteni porary for priue of earliest publication, tor some years a section of the local
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  • 450 114 Miss Martha Lang .s to be munied to Mr. 1. Ugg on Friday, February 11, at Malacca. Mr. H. Welham, who has returned to England from the Continent, has been ill with influenza. Mrs. Hall, well known in Hong Kong s a journalist. is staying in Kuala Lumpur as
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  • 300 114 LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (From Our Own Corrbspondbm») Singapore, Feb. 5 At a meeting of the Legislative Council, to be held on Monday, February 7, the Singapore improvement Bill is to be introduced, for the purpose of constituting a Board of Trustees with power to take measures, particularly in regard
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  • COMPANY MEETINGS
    • 874 115 SIR CGN'UFFE-OWEN’S INTERESTING BEVIEU The twenty fourth annual general, meeting of the British American lobaeco Co., Ltd., was held on January 10 at the» offices of the company, Westminster House, 7, Millbank, S.W. Sir Hugo! Cunliffe-Owen, Bt. (the Chairman), presided, and afb r Mr. E. A.
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    • 1072 115 1 lie 17lh annual general meeting of the < iiempedaK Rubber ami Gambier restate, Ltd., was held on January 7 at the oinee <:t the Secretaries and General Managers, Messrs. J. A. attic A Co. Mr. a. J. vxelch presided, and there were also present: Messrs. W. W
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    • 540 116 Hundred Per Cent. Paid in Dividends lhe 17th annual general meeting of the Ayer Tawah Rubber Plantation Co., Ltd., was held at Shanghai on December 29 when Mr. C. H. Rutherford presided., lhe Chairman said:The steady progress of the company during the period under review has been
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  • 143 116 One Al an Killed A somewhat serious disturbance which occurred about 2 p.m. yesterday aiiternoou in Acheen Street, Penang, led to a charge of rioting against nine hinese, mcstly Hokkiens, in the Second Police Court this morn.ng. All the accused are alleged to have been armed
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  • 160 116 VICE-PRESIDENTS’ AT HOME” The Vice-Presidents of Hu Yew Seah (Mcssr>. Cheung Boon Tong, Goh Chc,T Teik and L iu Gim Kung) will be At Home’’ at the premises of the Association on Saturday, the 12th nstant. There will be a tea-party at 5 p.m. and a ronggeng
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  • 533 116 for the Proiosed New Course Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 30 ihe annual general meeting of the Selangor Turf Club was held on Friday, ihe chairman, Mr. H. C. D’Arcy Irvine, presiding. When, the accounts for the half-year were, placed belore the meeting Mr. E. L. Watson mentioned that
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  • 392 117 BY "HEVEA" (Exclusive to Straits Echo) London Jan. 13 Although th< market at the beginning of the sear was quiet and inactive it was xperi< ncing only a temporary lull which has been followed recently by more activity, and now a confident and cheer* ful sentiment prevails.
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  • 185 117 11 "'ckwm-, presiding at the Mnje.l,. (.10l, ore) Hui,1,,.,. Estates, made .merest ,„g speech regarding the sat.slae or, condition of Majedie's followmg the se ing J ()f th '-r 1'28.247 odd. again" T I'ol'l |H-r ccm Wnr Uan P-"'«‘g a dividend of Hi 2/3 per eent n r--er\f
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  • 78 117 JANCAIH STATISTICS (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Feb. 5 The fo'io' ing arc the figures of the luantity and value of rubber exported from Bril-li Malaya during the m nth of January, 1927: nine of Rlibber Exported in I ie-t in Ji' n .January Exports 192“ 'Hit
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  • 391 117 BY AJAX” (Exclusive to Straits Echo) London. Jan. 13 Tii'-re ure again rumours which are ni.ii al this time <>f the probability of a >ub4;intial increase in the world production of tin during the current year. 'I his rumour, however, is circulated early in every year, and,
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  • 461 117 The Tin Selection Trust fust mining concern s bring out its report for lgjg strong position is shown, and a final dividend of Is. 6d. is proposed, rnakin» i total of 2s. (id., against 2s. for 1925 There will be the handsome balance of £73,862 to he carried
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  • 1017 118 1 LEAN CO.’S WEEKLY REPORI luursday evening I- Tin has made a good recovery, with I the closing prices oi t 29/ ids. tor cash I- and las. tor three months recording gains of and £4 respectively and t the premium for spot has widened from £4 to
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  • 559 118 FURTHER CROP R!VAmH»S Al SERDANG In tin- Straits Tina-, d... ..v-. 'd.. <•.> ained at th'* Govt rnme’ J 1 -it. Scrdang, with the experiiiieu .o' ealtiv;--ion of a collection oi \ams w f ihe collection included twenty-two aces of the greater yam, Diostxwa. uka. and three
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  • Page 119 Advertisements
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