The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 2 May 1928

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  • 18 258 Straits Echo WEEKLY EDITION $lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. FOL. PENANG. MAY 2, 1928 No. 18
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    • 237 258 Hr». I t— CONTENTS-» I M f Leading Articles Miscellaneous (continued) A I'jw' The Budget 260 Dedication of New B.M (Tiureh.t 267 The Hookworm Menace 264 The Lighter Side of Life in Ugl Malaya 269 Dll Confusion Worse' Confounded 268 A 1 The Late Mr. Nambvar 269 and 271 Ll|
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    • 202 259 pt Pays To Buy Genu II EVEREADY Unit Cells I i llllUllllll lIIH Fjf I 8 I II II II ff\ I I IR'J/ I I 188 ISml I IRW I**- i m H&ddfeNM MB^'aGS^ 1 V 1 I i -HI i iiiiiHfiiiiii ill ii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH I B 4h VEREADY
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  • 473 260 fa find it somewhat difficult, from brief telegraphic outline, to grasp [principle of the Chancellor of the eheauer’s scheme for the establishn{ of a fixed debt charge to extinguish (internal and external debt of Great fain within fiftv years; and that we not alone in our bewilderment is
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  • 257 260 I HOUR 10 MINUTES AS COM» PARED TO I HOUR 25 MINUTES The record time which had but recel ul\ been established by two Penang Erec School swimmers, who crossed the* channel to Butterworth in one hour twenty-five minutes, was again beaten vesterdav when s x
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  • 53 260 Airs. T. Doig Messrs 11. If. Dodd. A. S. Gosling P. I) G Gum G. Thomson, R. L. Webb. L II Worth, .Ur. and Mrs. E. I I) 17 and Mm. E H. King
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  • 61 260 occurred vesterday after- n- n ,af i sid ‘lice of Mr. L red Aerie, ■I.P.. 22-> Burmah Rie d, of Daphne, the < u old voungest daiight rof Insdor aid ?h-. 0.A.-L Wyld gfter a very brief illne.-.-,. 'l’he funeral takes ;dac?' to-'lw )d ucli swiipal h will
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    369 260 TRIBUTE TO THE CHINESE (From Our Own Correspondent) Kim. I .ruin it 29 Apiul At a Silin given b\ the Malacca him S n urda\ Mr. W G. Orms-'O-Com mad- an optimistic forecast of *he f tw. < th. ruhla r industry in I da\a. a Mr. Ormsbv-Gor*
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  • 21 260 (From Our Own Correspondent) h'on. 30 Apiul fire destroxerl a smoke-hou on fiemor Knifed Estate ve-'erday.
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  • 47 260 (From Our Own Correspondent) Tpoh, 25 Api.il r oii'b/ o <e pticaolias occurred ahioni catilr li< re I HS deaf have been rocord•l. J) Ficult h cxp.-ri-'Tio d in eontrollj’ tl r,ntbr- ik ow niz to the owners’ r fusal to allow scrum treatment.
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  • 2350 261 CASE FOR THE DEFENCE When the hearing of the case against Mr. Lim Cheng Ean for damages for alleged wrongfully and negligently advising Madame Klioo Saw Ee with regard to certain title deeds which she pur chased from the Hon. Mr. Quah Beng Kee was resumed in
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  • 168 262 IMPORTANCE OF CO-OPERATION BETWEEN COLONIES (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 27 April The Chinese community gave a banquet in honour of Mr. G. A. OrmsbyGore yesterday evening, Dr. Lim Boon Keng presiding. Sir Hayes Marriott, Colonial Secretary, was deputed to represent 11. E. the Governor.
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  • 13 262 hav leR for Home b\ th- Sarpedon.
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  • 1066 262 in die absence of Mr. E. L. Chambers, Air. Arthur H. Mile.- yrs de l at the general meeting as well is the special general meeting of the Penang Turf Club which were held yesterday in the Turf Club Office. 29 A Beach Street. The others present
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  • 704 263 From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, 18 April Speaking at the I’.A.M. luncheon today y.f. Ormsby-Gore dwelt at length on tin; future of the rubber industry. hile admitting that the industry was bound to pass through a difficult period, he reminded them that it had its ups and
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  • 195 263 MALAYS AND SHANGHAI TEAM DRAW The match between the Malays ani the Chmam University of Shanghai drew an even bigger gathering .han ffl Tuesday w lien the visitors plated the P. C. All lour sides of the ground were lined 15 to 20 deep, while trm and house-top-
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  • 42 263 i .ft bv The following i assengers Uor ss. Kinta yesterday after p Port Swettenham. Mr. B I'or Singapore. Mr. and A*. Hr. 11. Bathumt. Mr son. Master and M** B sW icL G. W. rawford and L. Be*
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  • 422 264 ,1 issued bv the Straits SettleitX I Sanitation Campaign reprevalence of hookworm in »Kv indicate an alarmingly 1 10 nt -e of infection. Consider- which this disease, iLrted action on the part of the could be eradicated the poby a three year investibv the staff of the
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  • 759 264 NO FINAL DIVIDEND 1 he nineteenth annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Semanggol Rubber Company, Limited, was held at noon yesterday at the registered offices of the Company, No. 9 Union Street, Penang. Mr. J. McNeill (Director) presided, and the others present were: Mr.
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  • 245 264 HARPUR—YEOMANS The marriage was solemnised yesterday afternoon at St. George’s Church, Penang, the Bev. Keppel Garnier, Colonial Chaplain, officiating, between Mr. William Alexander Harpur and Miss Mav Yeomans, third daughter of Mr. and Airs. S. C. Yeomans. The bride, who was given awav by her father, looked charming
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  • 1642 265 In the Supreme Court yesterday morning the Hon. Mr. .Justice Stevens delivered judgment in the case in which Mr. Um Cheng Fan. a well-known Penang lawyer, was sued by a former client, Madam Khoe Saw Er, for damages lor wrongfully and negligently advising her that certain
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  • 33 265 Mrs. E. M. Anthony Rangoon vesterdav by the Mrs. H. M. Leicester, Miss r. (G Miss P. Halfern and Mr. llsoD passengers to Penang on the same from Calcutta.
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  • 62 265 Major J. J. Hilliy<l, geon of the Calcutta Turf well-known race horse ner t L e fr-e through Penang yesterday by na en route to Singapore to a race meeting there next Singapore Major > catching a boat for H h he will stay for a
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  • 1372 266 ,oiH OF KHOO 800 f TB,A LONE CASE n f Mr. Justice Sproule fe NTn" Cheng Hong v Chee to» w*s reversed m the ®Sirt yesterday before Mr. on re-trial of the case *7 v the last Court of Appeal. this ease are well-Known. *L, Lone, a Burmese
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  • 81 266 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 30 April Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore was not able to attend the St. George’s dinner owing to his departure for Java. On Sunday he had lunch with Dr. and Mrs. Winstedt and had dinner with Sir Hugh and Lady Clifford. This morning
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  • 62 266 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 30 April At fhe Flying Chib dinner on Saturday Sir Hugh (Tifford mentioned that the membership was highly encouraging and predicted a vers satisfactory future. Wing-Commodore Trimmer paid a tribute to the assistance given by FlightLieutenant Carnegie and other members of the
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  • 43 266 chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Heah Joo Seang, who went to Singapore to sit on the CommiUee appointed to enquire into matters in connection with the Bankruptcv Ordinan e, returned >( -terday by the s.s. Ipoh.
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  • 557 267 CORONER’S VERDICT OF “MURDER” Charged with the murder of an Indian woman, Pakir chi, Santa Singh, a Sikh, appeared yesterday in the Police Court where, in the course of the Coroner’s enquiry, very incriminating evidence was given against him. Account Of An Eye-Witness A Leith Street
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  • 187 267 SUCCESSFUL TEA PARTY (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star On Wednesday, at the Kanchut Hotel. Alor Star, the Staff of the Land Office, Alor Star, gave a tea-party in honour of Tuan Syed Ahmad Aljeffri, Land Officer, who is going to Kulim to act as
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  • 68 267 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoii. 30 April A car containing two Europeans, Messrs Amsden and Munro,, was coming into Tpoh yesterday from Kuala Kangsar. when it ran into a bullock on the road, then swerved off and crashed against a coconut tree. The car became a complete
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  • 31 267 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 26 April Ch’ng Cheng Tuan, the driver of the lorry which fatally injured Mr. Eber, was fined $5O for driving with a faulty footbrake.
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  • 45 267 we are informed that Low Cheng Cheow, who broke the recent record held by two P. F. S. boys, is an emplovee. not of the Chartered Bank, but of the Hong Kong And Shanghai Bank.
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  • 48 267 M. 8., 8.5.. Hong Kong, daughter of Sir Robert and Lad" Ho Tung, who has been studying at the London School of Hvgiene and Tropical Medicine, was granted her diploma at the annual meeting of the Roval College of Physicians held on 3 April.'
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  • 460 267 “TO THE GLORY OF AND SALVATION OF MA? Re P.Lhn Ihe Bukit Mertajam MetlvJ Church, which is a newly erected mg situated m Straight Street yesterday officially opened and’ dL Gated by the Rev. P. L. Peach i large congregation, consisting of and Chinese,
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  • 23 267 Mr. W. J. Hastens. <***** construction, F.M.S. n Penang on a visit or turned to Kuala Lump ,ir mail train.
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  • 435 268 lmerv Secretary of State for the fr.*®; even less convincing in the Commons, as an apologist for ItoXder, than is Mr. Ormsbye Vdava The Under-Secretary s Jishave excited considerable adrXnment; but his chief B speech *X will only serve to heighten Impression that the Colonial Office according
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  • 15 268 ‘Wr, "L r J Tiiveira and l jesterday bv he s s
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  • 783 268 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The 26th ordinary general meeting of the Criterion Press, Limited, was held at the Registered Offices of the Com parry No. 59, Beach Street Penang at 3.1* p.m. yesterday, Mr. F FT. Grumitt presiding. In proposing the adoption of the Report and the Accounts
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  • 32 268 of Seafield Rubber Co., Ltd.. Batu Tiga, Selangor, who returned from Home leave by the Anterior yesterday morning, left the same afternoon for Port Swettenham by the Kinta.
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  • 29 268 of Mr. Baruch David, in old and well-known resident of Singapore. occurred at his residence, “Bexhill.” Oxlev Rise, on Tuesday morning. Mr. David leaves a large family.
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  • 140 268 tele- graphs that the wedding took place on Saturday at St. Andrew's Cathedral of Mr. Edward Walker, branch n.anager of Messrs. McAlister X Co., a well known soccer goal keeper, to Miss Doris Poynton, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Poynton, of the F. M. S.
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  • 1419 269  -  (By Richard Sidney) Having determined that we were not going to be beaten by the forces against us it was necessary to work hard if we were to be ready in time for our first performance on the Monday afternoon st 5 p.rn.
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  • 87 269 TRIBUTE FROM SINGAPORE (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 27 April Tn the Supreme Court this morns Mr. Knowles referred to the death' Mr. Nambyar, requesting the Courts nermit an entry in the official records i expression of sympathy to the relative The Acting Chief Justice, the
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  • 17 269 Mr. H. Ball, European master,J due to arrive in Penang by the t--0. Delta.
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  • 24 269 Messrs. A. W Viek amil E-J rick, who spent a snort Brastagi are en route to bmgal the s.s. Kedah.
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  • 23 269 Mr. Stanley McCracken «f Sl has been acquitted of a .|irq,:L>riding grievous hurt to a Tamil w his motor cycle.
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  • 22 269 —W T thp We have received from ment Printing Office Singaio of the Proceedings of the Council for 1927.
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  • 26 269 PR Drs. C. IT. Williams a d Fur-vth, who have J Ubt rr tf b" England, are now attached •emban Health Board.
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  • 1772 270  -  (By Richard Sidney) VIRY A Life and Intimate Kathleen Woodward. (Pub2ith the permission ot Her «tv the Queen who allowed the k /facilities for obtaining authenhitherto unpublished.) tic eiauB 7/fi x .flutchinson mn,s is a book which will interest al ff ho wish to know something
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  • 51 271 Three young men in Penang have announced their intention of swimming across the channel (which separates this island from the mainland) on Sunday, the 29th instant, at 9.30 a.m. The new aspirants will make their start from Kedah Pier and head for a landing at
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  • 27 271 left Ku- ala Lumpur for Australia on Wednesday on leave. During their holiday they are visiting England and the United Slates.
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  • 35 271 hns been appointed to act as Inspector of Prisons, S.S. while Lt.-Col. J. H. Tyte, Inspector of Prisons, is on leave, and to exercise tin* powers of Inspector and Superintendent of Prisons.
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  • 44 271 so well known in the Kinta District, will be glad to know that he has recently been elected a Director of Aylesbury and Nutter, Ltd. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Walker are n<>w stationed at Taiping.
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  • 95 271 who has been staying in Singapore for some time is returning to Amoy to continue beneficial labours in connection with the I’n versify, although much of the tontine work will be delegated, leaving the Doctor freer to maintain the general supervision of affairs and to carry
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  • 553 271 Mr. Milne Elected As Chamber’s Representative At a special general meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce held yesterday afternoon Mr. J. M. Milne, Director, Messrs. Guthrie and Co., Ltd., Penang, was elected Chamber of Commerce representative on the Legislative Council in place of the Hon. Mr.
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  • 488 271 RE <ENC^ sw «<. References to the late Hon. M Nambyai were made in tlip s'* Court yesterday morning before dmary work was commenced V was a very full attendance of and when the Hon. Mr. mounted the bench, the Hon. \fr t grave
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  • 17 271 •■’r. D. R. Swaine. Hutchings School, left pur by the mail train last
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  • 354 272 v Mv-organised twentieth cenundertakings the home F bU9 exhibit a surprising at The feomawmoth products <>f Sir Sics Bailwny (.rouping Bill, F X victims to the craze tor what I" tat erroneously reterred to as fcs with a resultant keen comfrVcr the longest non-stop run Kdon Midland
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  • 141 272 > f lf a un tbo pulse r ions in tbe Easi y so m as tb of the Ki. If y o rati 4 g 111 tbis part of tbe ‘'Mire nk lfr( dore reassuring to note hneo S f M n r Ce in
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  • 481 272 MR. ORMSBYGORE’S VISIT Sunday, 22 April Group Captain Cave Brown Cave left Government House. Tuesday, 24 April Ihe Rt. Hon. G. A. OrmsbyGore, ALP., Mr. G. H. Creasy and Mr. E. M. fl. Lloyd arrived to stay. The following had the honour of lunching at Government House
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  • 13 272 returned to Penang vesterdav from his visit to Sumatra.
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  • 421 272 A STORM TRAGEDY A pathetic account of how a 16-year-old girl was struck by a coconut tree during the torm on Alonday night was told in the Police Court on Saturday, when an enquiry was held into the totality. The girl’s mother said that while the storm raged
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  • 21 272 Visitor of the Christian Brothers’ Schools in the Fast, returned from Singapore yesterdav bv the Elephant a.
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  • 28 272 who were •i a visit to Sumatra and Brastagi. reirned yesterday by the s.s. Kuala.
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  • 26 272 the well-known ingapore Lawyer, who appeared in a ISC in the Supreme (iourt here, return I to Singapore by the Kinta yesterday fternoon
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  • 571 273 JUSTICE IN KEDAH (To the Editor of the Straits Echo Sir, We, being Kedah Students at present in England, have read an article entitled ’‘Justice in Kedah”, in the issue of 15 February last of the I’inang Gazette, and which article n our opinion calls for a
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  • 515 273 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo) Sir, The above match played on the Padang on the 24th instant was one of the best and interesting matches ever witnessed here but it was unfortunately marred by very bad refereeing, which resulted in many questionable decisions
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  • 104 273 (To the Editor of the St WT(Kq| With reference to a paragraph, that pending the appearance o f new permanent issue, engraved n u don with the likeness of the tel Ktng, etc. etc -on “Stamp in the Straits Echo of to-day, thj your readers who arc
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  • 89 273 (To the Editor of the Straits Ea Sir, In your able report of the abovepf ceedings in your this morning’s w, Mr. Khoo Siew Ghee was reportedi one of the witnesses. In view of observation made by the learned Jui I shall be
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  • 269 273 (To the Editor of the Straits Ea Sir i .Having personally supervised th sign ami construction oi this p feel that a reph to Bohaz dav’s issue of your paper is called I am in receipt of a telegram the Manager, vvhich was date dav, and
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  • 1048 274 To the Editor of the Straits E eno] Sir Now that it is a settled fact that Restriction is to be removed on 1 Noember. the salvation of the Rubber lanting Industry has been thrown on he backs of the growers. For the past five and
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  • 542 274 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo) Sir, i 1 am entirely at one with your ex- pressions, in this morning's leader, ic- garding the rapacity of landlords and the increasing boldness with which they pursue their extortionate methods in the absence of any governmental check. Indeed the
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  • 63 275 We understand that the Perak Transport Co., Ltd., of 24a Beach Street, Penang, which undertakes the transport of express parcels to Alor Star, Jitra, Baling and Kroh, will commence delivery on Thursday, the 10th proximo. Bp to the present, in spite of heavy hookings, they are still
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  • 22 275 who arrived here from Rangoon yesterday by the Takliwa, left for Belawan (Deli) the same afternoon by the Kedah.
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  • 24 275 ar- rived in Penang yesterday from Singapore by the Kedah.
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  • 22 275 Director, P.W.D., Kelantan, who was recently married in Singapore, left with his wife for Home on furlough last week.
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  • 99 275 the first assist- ant to the Treasurer of the American Presbyterian Mission at Bangkok, has met with a serious accident in Singapore, says the Malaya Tribune. He was riding in a taxi going towards a corner and another car approaching the same corner collided with the taxi.
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  • 581 275 A GREAT SUCCESS The fifth annual athletic sports of the Old trees’ Association, held on the Hutchings School ground, formed a very interesting event on Saturday, the various activities on the programme being keenly contested by members both of the club and of other associations in Penang.
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  • 505 275 ASSOC IATION FOOTBALL What was easily the big„ e 5. course that has ever Esplanade turned out vesterd.v ttess the association football ~‘,a t U'' tween the I enting Cricket Club ..A students of the Chinan, IUU of Shanghai who are pn of Malaya. From crowd began to gather and
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    • 693 276 PINE BOWLING bv thomasz 9 low scoring match on the lD j nn Saturday the Penang defeated the Eastern Company by 30 runs. BatS the *r>elters were only able Btup 45 towards which, Mr. 1 P in was the only double figure Smor Van Sanden 9 and Thomas
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  • 492 276 FINE INNINGS BY ORR The League cricket match on Saturday on the Esplanade between the Penang Cricket Club and the Penang Recreation Club ended in a draw'. The Recreation Club batting first put up 171 for 7 wickets and declared at 4.30. Orr and Williams gave
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  • 35 276 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 26 April In I In- final of the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club Tennis Championship, Khoo Hooi Hye retained the t tle by beating Lim Bong Soo.
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  • 18 276 are pasaen- gers on board the Glenbeg bound from Home to Port Swettenham.
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  • 20 276 who returned from Sumatra by the Morsel, left for Singapore by the mail train last nighf.
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  • 25 276 Acting Senior Ae- countant, P. and T. Dept., will be proceeding on eight months’ leave about the first week in May.
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  • 28 276 the Acting District Officer. Klang, who is shortly going on transfer to Perlis, will he relieved by Mr. J. W. W Hughes, from Singapore.
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  • 1395 277 BRILLIANT GATHERING AT RUNNYMEDE HOTEL The annual Ball of the Royal Society of St. George (Penang Branch) was celebrated al the Runnymede lintel last night. One of the principal reasons for this was tin- venue, the new dining and ball room of the Runnymede Hotel lending itself
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  • 17 277 left for Kuii Lumpur by train last night on a bus ness visit.
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  • 14 277 goes to Kum Kubu on Tuesday next by then# mail.
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  • 21 277 it» I if ya ouhimu an’* ed here from Singapore yesterday byl Blue Funnel liner Sarpedon.
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  • 20 277 of the Co-operative nil ii. JJwyvi, cieties Department, Penang, lea*® Kuala Lumpur by train on dfiw night.
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  • 26 277 wife of Airs. A. 11. i^ancasici Editor of the Pinang Gazette, re from Home, accompanied by er I by the Antenor yesterday-
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  • 26 277 Mrs. Jensen arrived backf^ nl gp vesterdav by the Antenor. •Jensen, who came to meet htr. to headquarters by the Kinta ®|H| a fternoon.
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  • 34 277 Hr. W. A. Fm-man, ager for the ioodrich 1 vr, ~b iD Ai ddk> East, and Airs, -y ito\ ard bo. nd by h' ie li i t Sarpedon.
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  • 15 277 > Board is iv-erec.-n. ]he 1 P exhibit ;>< -si reconstruction is proent 'ouilding at
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    • 191 278 K 1 HE STRAITS ECHO j WEEKLY EDITION. i g J S K -w < Published the day prior to the departure of ooeh mail for Europe; and contains F J X the latest local and States news originally published in th* daily issues, as well as all J important
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    • 94 279 II 1 11 4» 11 Penang Sin F >e II K il H (ESTABLISHED 1 896.) II > u H f Chinese Daily Paper I 11 w X fl x n I The Oldest Chinese paper in Penang 24-28 PAGES. 1 'fl The most comprehensive and the most 1 I
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