The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 10 April 1929

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  • 19 1 Straits Echo WEEKLY EDITION hlB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. m 27. PENANG. APRIL 10, 1929. NO. 15
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    • 344 1 EMT LEADERS. OUTSTATION NEWS. F €g I Newspaper Changes (Apl. 4) 394 Our Singapore Letter 394 I Soldiers in Trouble 397 I 1 Au men in Singapore 391 b The Book of a Film (Apl. 6) 401 A Letter from London 401 II I Alleged Assault bv Soldiers 402 gry
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    • 165 2 THE STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION. '-A-' < Published the day prior to the departure of each mad for Europe, and contains J Z the late*t local and State* new* originally publiahed in the daily i»»ue*, a* well as all important news from various parts of the FAR EAST, including CHINA,
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  • 924 394 The following paragraph appeared in “The Times" in Mail week, under the caption "Lord Reading. “We are asked to state that the announcement telegraphed from India and published in London (not by Ihe Times”) that Lord Reading has accepted the chairmanship of the company owning the "Statesman and
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  • 1141 394 PROSPECTS OF AIR MAILS SOON. THE NEW MUNICIPAL OFFICES. Singapore, April 1. Penang folk may be tired of my references to air services, but the subject is still very much under discussion at Singapore, and there are one or two points in which you may have a
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  • 1025 395 CLAIM FOR WAGES. ALLEGED WRONGFUL DISMISSAL. The Municipal Commissioners were the defendants in a case heard in the District Court yesterday; the plaintiffs were two of their employees, lhe fi st plaint ft was a bus conductor, Mat b. Lab, who claimed $54 as the amount due
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  • 1095 396 vc a PLY MEETING OF Government servantsboVt SOCIETY. «nPFRATIVE union for t° OPER PENANG. The half yearly general mee ting of Pmane Government be.van s .j, e Pena g, Loan Society, Ltd., Ckl nthe Chinese Protectorate Jnv at 5 p.m. yesterday. I "chairman in opening toe pro 2 gs
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  • 477 396 PENANG SCOUTS’ HOLIDAY ATTEMPT. Seven scouts and an officer of the First. Penang (Free School) Troop are walking round the island, partly for the benefit of it and partly as an experiment to determine how many miles each scout can do each day; what is the
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  • 212 397 CONVICTED OF BREACH OF TRUST. REGIMENTAL CHARGES TO BE PREFERRED. SENTENCE POSTPONED BY MAGISTRATE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 4 Privates Davies and R. Head, of the Welsh Regiment, were charged in the Second Police Court with criminal bleach of trust in respect of three bicycles.
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  • 142 397 MR, AND MRS. MURRAY’S ARRIVAL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 4 Flying Officer Murray with his wife arrived here safely yesterday at the Seletar air base in their Gipsy-Moth looking quite fit. They are enthusiastic about reaching Australia with the least possible delay. The men of
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  • 63 397 (brom Our Own Correspondent). m. Singapore, April 3 1 hough the police are exerting their utmost the twelve escaped convicts are J* 1 large has been ascertained _hat the banishee, who was seen at Pulau Übin on the morning of the escape, stated he had just been
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  • 1211 397 “One man’s meat is another man’s poison.’’ If it were not, many of the necessary jobs which have to be done in this world would never get done. To the literary man, for example, the idea of soiling his hands with oil and grease is anathema. To the engineer
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  • 730 398 cB |MINALBREACH_OFJ rust ‘S®n T "not T bs OF n «lleiatio» was made in the Police ,'tlwdav against a Haman V' in the Penang Sw?m- rl„h that he committed criminal tf Kt respect of three £5 X one 10s. note, and 60 francs m The cash
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  • 240 398 PRELIMINARY INQUIRY RESUMED. The preliminary inquiry into the Kinta Lane murder was continued in the Police Court yesterday. It will be remembered that a Mohammed Ibrahim b. Haji Moh am md Lebbe was charged with causing the deatli of (1) Adamsah, (2) Sheik Mohammed and- (3)
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  • 1601 398 LAST NIGHT'S MEETING AT THE TuWN HaLL. PENANG SOCIETY IN MAKING. There was a large and representative gathering at the down Hall yesterday afternoon for the public meeting convened by Mr. V. W. W. S. Purcell for the purpose of forming a Penang Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
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  • 91 399 the Drury Lane Theatre while screening Chinese films, caught fire at about 835 p.m. yesterday, "i he blaze, it is stated, began at the filming room where a hitch had occurred and two rolls of films were burnt to cinders. Three fire engines appeared on
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  • 2186 399 *'t nang tin prospectix 0 share H 0 L D f d DISSATISFACTION? s The second annual meeting of Penang Tin pecting Co., Ltd., k* ,m Messrs. A. A. Anthony 4 Co’soffit Beach Street, Penang, at yesterday. a,Bt r ir m Hume font, J. Crabb-W att) was in
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  • 556 401 Tn Penang this week there is plenty to attract those who wish to see moving pictures. Of both “Salammbo” and of "Beau Sabreur” we have heard excellent accounts, though we have not had the pleasure of seeing either film. In Penang, and in fact in
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  • 1614 401 HOW THE GENERAL ELECTION IS AFFECTinc BUSINESS. Malaya and the Ideal Home Exhibition. JIX" AND BOOK CENSORSHIP. (From our own Correspondent—London, Ma»ch 11.) The whole of England is gradually working u,p to a great interest in the forthcoming General Election. And most business people will be
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  • 128 402 PINEAPPLE AND RUBBER EXHIBITS. (From Our Own Correspondent). Singapore, April 4 The London correspondent of the “Singapore Free Press” understands that the Malayan Government has instructed the Malayan Agency in London to exhibit only the culinary uses of pineapple at the North-Eastern Counties Exhibition at Newcastle. Apparently
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  • 61 402 ENTERTAINED AT KUALA LUMPUR. (From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur, April 4 In the Town Hall to-day the Chettiar community entertained a large gathering in honour of the granting of the hereditary title of “Raja” to the prominent Chettiar, Sir R. M. M. A. Annamalai Chettiar, a
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  • 123 402 APPEAL WITHDRAWN. (From Our Own Correspondent). Tpoh, April 4 Mr. Dunn, assistant on Kramat Pulai Mine, who was convicted on a charge of rash and negligent driving, and was sentenced to 18 months’ rigorous imprisonment withdrew his appeal and surrendered to the police to-day. He was taken
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  • 180 402 ENQUIRY INTO DAETH OF SQUATTER. Singapore, April 5. The enquiry into the death of the aged Chinese squatter, who, it is alleged. was assaulted by soldiers in Holland Road on the night of March 1, continued befoi’e the Coroner yesterday. Tan Beng Swee, draughtsman employed by
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  • 121 402 RICSHA PULLER FINED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 5 A Chinese ricsha puller was charged in the Fourth Police Court yesterday with assaulting a police constable in the exercise of his duty. The incidents in the case took place on February 3. The prosecution alleged
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  • 164 402 A STABBING CASE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, April 15 The longest Selangor Assizes on record which began on March 18 ended to-day, the last case being that against a Chinese goldsmith of Klang who was sentenced to fifteen months’ rigorous imprisonment for causing grievous hurt to
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  • 456 403 ARRIVAL IN PENANG ON APRIL 18. PROGRAMME for visit of His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester to Penang on April 18. His Royal Highness will land at Victoria Jetty at 10.15 am. and will be received by His Excellency the Governor, the Resident Councillor
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  • 357 403 MOTOR CYCLISTS' STRANGE EXPERIENCE. A WARNING TO MOTORISTS. A party of young Penang motor cyclists, members of the Penang Health Culture League, had an exceedingly strange experience when they made a trip to Kuala Lumpur by motor cycle during the Easter holidays. One of the party in conversation
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  • 167 403 Reuter, LARGE DOLLAR LINER IN PENANG. The Dollar steamship “President Johnson’’ arrived in Penang yesterday from Singapore on her round the world cruise. This is the “President Johnson’s’’ maiden voyage being the latest and largest addition to the Dollar fleet. She is under the command of Capt.
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  • 898 403 WIDOW WHO SAW HUSBAND’S INTESTINES, The hearing of the inquiry int alleged triple murder in Kinta hl was resumed yesterday in the pT Court. Rabiabi, the wife of MoU med Kassim, one of the deceS >n the ease entered the witness bm and described her experiences
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  • 164 404 WARRANT AGAINST ABSCONDING DEBTOR. In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday morning before His Lordship Mr. Justice Stevens an application was made for a receiving order against M. A. Noordin. Mr. Conaghan for the debtor asked His Lordship for a month’s postponement. His Lordship adjourned the matter for a fortnight
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  • 70 404 ACCUSED CHARGED YESTERDAY Hadji Pais alias Gujoli was charged »n the Police Court vesterdav with the theft of 40 000 guilders approximately from one Bentenzorn, of Java, about eight years ago. The case was transferred to the District Court where formal evidence of identification was taken
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  • 132 404 CASE AGAINST MR. NAMA7TE (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 3 Mr. M. A. Namazie, the well-known >and proprietor of Singapore, was charged in the Third Police Court vesterdav with failing to prevent an anti-malarial dram being damaged, thus lessening fhe efficiency of anti-malarial works constructed by the
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  • 59 404 VISIT TO THE COURT. (From Our Own Corresnon dent h Kuala Lumnur Ann’l The Hon. Mr Justice L. H. Elnhinston. the new Chief Justice, arrived tn-dav and visited the Court. He will sit on Mondav and is tomnorarilv staving with the Hon. Mr
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  • 116 404 JUDGMENT RESERVED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 5 The hearing of the charge against a Hinanese clerk at a local printing office for attempted cheating was resumed to-day. The accused, it is alleged, tendered at the Chartered Bank a cancelled 1916 War Loan Bond. Counsel
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  • 52 404 SETTLED OUT OF COURT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, April 5 Mention was made in the Supremo Court of a Chinese broker’s claim of $16,000 against Dr. Rogers, being commission due on the sale of Beatrice Mine, Counsel stating that the claim had been settled out
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  • 110 404 OCCUPANTS UNHURT. A Citroen two-seater, P. 3839, ran into Hie red lamp post at the junction of Transfer Road and Hutton Lane on Thursday night. The lamp post was lifted right off its foundation and fell a few yards a wav. But the car carried
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  • 155 404 The Ladv Superior gratefully acknowledges the following donations towards Hie School Building Fund Dr. K. Muttukumaru $50.00 Mr. O’Sullivan $20.00 Mr. and Mrs. L. S. T. $20.00 $90.00 Previously acknowledged $17,761.00 Total $17,851.00 Mr. N. D. Mudie, District Judge. Penang, who has been ill, is
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  • 1670 405 There are no doubt a few residents in Malaya who read many English papers week by week. Some read them in the privacy of their own bungalows: a few glance at them in the Club: others are glad to borrow from their neighbour’s post bag.
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  • 791 406 [By “Icon”]. n e l,rtv shareholders of Malayan \tn bp ated on the WI £X oftbX company for f rear Profits at $1,519,215 thM a’ fresh record, and equal near. t «nt. of the paid up Captol. (tn8 l dividend of 12 J per cent making Iper cent,
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  • 76 406 MR. WHITLEY’S SUCCESSOR. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 7 A telegram has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies stating that Mr. W. C. Huggard, K.C., Attorney-General of Kenya, has been selected Attorney-General of the Straits Settlements on the retirement of Mr. M.
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  • 124 406 BIGGEST FOR SOME YEARS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, April 7 Mr. Francis Burdett Ivens, partner of Messrs. Hogan and Ivens, Penang, and Bannon and Bailey, here, whose sudden death on Saturday morning is generally deplored was given the biggest funeral for some years. He
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  • 575 406 INTERESTING POLICE COURT SEQUEL. In the Penang Police Court on Saturday morning before Mr. B. S. Walton, Mr. M. B. Lynch appearing for the Chinese "boy” employed by the Penang Swimming Club who was convicted the other day of theft of certain monies belonging to Mr. J.
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  • 530 407 PLAINTIFFS’ CLAIM DISMISSED. Judgment was given last Saturday in the case in which the Municipal Commissioners were sued by two of their employees for alleged breach of contract of service and wrongful dismissal. The first plaintiff was a bus conductor, Mat b. Lah, who claimed $54 as
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  • 3890 407 MR. KENNEDY’S INTERESTING REVUW OF RUBBER POSITION. LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE WITH CONFIDENCE. The annual meeting of the Malay Peninsula Agricultural Association was held in the Caledonia Club, Nebong Tebal, yesterday morning. The chairman, Mr. J. W. Kennedy, presided and there was an attendance of about twenty members,
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  • 76 409 kennieson-frank. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, A pr j] A pretty wedding was y. Mary s Church yesterday when H, h. A. Kenmeson, younger son oU Kenmeson of Kennieson Brother. married to Miss Esme Frank, the"n, 0. A. Parsons offimating. There large attendance at the reception]*
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  • 94 409 ESTATE MANAGER DROWNED, (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, April 7. A distressing accident of which details are not yet to hand is reported to have occurred on Kepong Estate, Kepong, yesterday evening when Mr. G. S. A. Aylmore, divisional Manager, was drowned while learning to swim
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  • 60 409 SATURDAY’S FINE DISPLAY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, April 7. The Selangor Fire Brigade gave a fine display yesterday afternoon. 1 was watched by a large ciow. including Mr. G. W. Bryant of t e Sanitary Board. Fireman Pattmson was adjudged champion after severs, competitions
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  • 87 409 FOURTEEN DAYS FOR BREACH OF TRUST. (From Our Own Correspond* 1 Singapore, Apn Privates R. Head and Davey, Welsh Regiment, who were C on a charge of criminal breac of three bicycles belonging to a teDC .d cycle shop in Tanglin, were e to fourteen days’ rigorous W
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  • 1134 410 table before ua lie three differ- >" „1 cured booklets containing with- hm rules and regulations about the of motor engines on the public 2 Technically these booklet» are oo Drivers’ Certificates of ComOne is red, one is strongly Sin khaki cloth, and the last (and ■Xeest
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  • 1113 410 [By “The Digger.’’] A tour of estates in all the rubber bearing countries near Malaya would demonstrate to an observer what totally different ideas are still held as to how much land a European Assistant can be expected thoroughly to supervise. At
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  • 557 411 TRIBUTE FROM BENCH AND BAR. MOST DISTINGUISHED LAWYER. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, April 8 Before the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Farrer-Manby, in the Supreme Court, this morning, Mr. E. A. S. Wagner, on behalf of the Bar, paid a touching tribute to
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  • 1693 411 DEAD BODY OF IPOH BPsinr FOUND ES,WS THE CORONER’S inquiry. A Coroner’s inquiry was held day into the death of Ooi 800 Beck a Ipoh Whose dead body was at the Penang Hills on January is 1929. Our Ipoh correspondent U written <hat a pocket book
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  • 137 412 ITINERARY OF MOVEMENTS. His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by Captain C. J. Corbin, will be leaving for Penang, to meet His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. K.G., at 9 a.m. on April 16. The following is an itinerary of His Excellency s movements: Tuesday April
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  • 259 412 A MILITARY FUNERAL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, April 3 The body of Mr. Aylmore, who was drowned on Saturday at Kepong Estate, was recovered this afternoon and was accorded a military funeral at the Cheras Road Cemetery. The accused was only 27 years
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  • 1049 413 TRUSTEES’ REPORT. The following are excepts from the annual report of the trustees of St. George’s Church, Penang, for the year ended December 31, 1928 The trustees submit their Report and Accounts for the year ending December 31, 1928. The Bishop of Singapore, The Right Reverend Basil
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  • 441 413 MOTOR CYCLE COLLIDES WITH RICSHA Department, collided with N -■ogan Road yesterday. Ghee was travelling j n 11. Anson Road. From the C >* rectum there came two riesh fl P 91tU whieh bore two ladies and the carried goods. The goods on the wrong side of the roX eupied
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  • 925 414 I kar of official and li lit l 'eons“hat has poured into r t P ub f s been too great for each b receive the attention c L tioD tO ri ts There are several •t. 11 111 d 1 mqaazines which we to Tenable to
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  • 218 414 Bulletin of the League of Nations’ Eastern Bureau, for the week ended March 30, 1929. Suez 1 plague case. Aden 9 smallpox cases and 4 deaths. Baghdad 2 plague eases and 1 death. Basrah: 1 smallpox case and 1 death. Bombay: 1 plague death; 1 cholera
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  • 618 414 [By ‘'Nemo.”] Gardening in this part of the world is a more heart-rending and soul-sear-ing recreation than in England. To wake with the lark, as one would like to do (if only Malaya had some of those birds), and see a heaven!/ rose—so perfect the night before —riddled
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  • 396 415 WARM WELCOME BY THE BAR. CONGRATULATIONS ON APPOINTMENT MR. WAGNER’S ELOQUENT TRIBUTE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Anril 9 The Hon; Mr. L. H. Flphinstone, K.C., the new Chief Justice of the F. M. S., sat on the Bench to-day for the first time and
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  • 978 415 REFUSING TO OBEY ORDERS. PROCEEDINGS IN THE POLICE COURT YESTERDAY. ALLEGATION OF ILLTREATMENT. Seven men of the crew of the s. s. ‘City of Newcastle’’ were charged before the magistrate, Mr. B. S. Walton, yesterday with wilfully refusing, on the Ith instant, to obey, and
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  • 1550 416 appeal court JUDGMENTS IN bankruptcy case >« P T" g Mr UP T- HoSk Aun d,i n pe°i”rar) read the judgments W® Deane, Mr Justice r i AV nnd Mr. Justice DinsK in which Khoo Saw J ae wife of Clieah Soo Tuan, prof!“"’ of Guan Hup Hin,
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  • 304 416 Al th? general meeting of the P ov Jcont Association, Penang, held »ast month the following were elected officers:— m wne decided to Hon hie the Pesident ConneilloPenang to accent this offinp. ,7 worn unable toHmso. then Mr. DAM Brown should be asked). V'ce-PreehW,: P» v P
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  • 167 417 The annual general meeting of the Penang Hindu Sabha was held at the Sabha premises on the 28th instant and after verifying the accounts of the year 1928-29 and their report, the following members were elected Officebearers and members of the Executive Committee for the year 1929-30.
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  • 141 417 MEDICAL EVIDENCE. (From Our Own Correspondent). Singapore, April 9. The inquiry was resumed in the Coroner’s Court this morning touching the death of the young Chinese mui tsai, whose body was found in a back lane oft* Synagogue Street on the morning of March 1.
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  • 377 417 PERSONAL PARAS, (From Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star, April 8. Mr. T. S. Adams, M.C.S., has assumed duties as Adviser, Lands, and Superintendent of Mines, Kedah, in place of Mr. H. C. Eckhardt, M.C.S., who has gone on leave. Mr. J. J. Boonzaaier of the Survey Department, Kedah,
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  • 96 417 PROFIT FOR THIRTEEN MONTHS. (from Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, April 9 At the first annual general meeting of the Grand Hotel Mr. Brash, the Chairman. stated that the trading profit was $18,461 for the first 13 months. Mr. Boutcher, a shareholder, pointed out that the legal and
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  • 247 417 SUIT AGAINST MP p t cherry, (From Our Own Corre. poadent ti Singapore, Anril q 1 he ease was taken up lore the District Court in wl T?’ S. Anthony sued Mr. \V T Superintendent of the Gnv hfcrr b Printing Works, for the $2OO in
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  • 130 417 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 9. The Coroner’s finding in the recent assault case in Holland Road in which an aged Chinese was done to death on the night of March 1 was delivered yesterday. The verdict was culpable homicide not amounting to murder
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  • 120 417 (From Our Own Correspond®'.! Singapore, Apr'- Chim Teh Fat. one of the con" who recently escaped from the pleaded guilty in the District this morning to a charge of e from legal custody. Court Inspector Meredith e P how the prisoners made, by an underground drain.
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  • 1102 418 AO About Macaroni. 3 [By “Phoenix”.] itesroni is rather a tasteless Tut it is ver >’ DOurlshlQ !?> l bs week I Propose to m Beaders some recipes which T'lhev will like- Of course every- taws that macaroni ,s chiefly made 't,i v hut it is also made
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  • 525 418 [By “Phoenix”.] ABOUT APPLES. Fresh apples can be obtained in Malaya, exported from Australia all the year round, they can be used in so many different ways in various dishes, and they are an important thing in diet. MARKETING. In many places in India, the Mem Sahib
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  • 773 419 I Learn To “Cut Out” A Pattern and Economise in Other Directions. [By “Phyllis.”! We were havin'? breakfast nnd T was endeavouring to interest Mr. Man in clothes, and the sports model that T told him about last week. It was useless, how’ever. He mumbled something about “women
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  • 155 419 YESTERDAY’S MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Penang Municipal Commissioners was held in the Municipal buildings yesterday afternoon. The Deputy Chairman Mr. J. H. Pedlow presided and the others present were Dr. J. E. Smith, the Hon. Mr. Abdul Cader, Dr. K. L. Teng, Messrs. E. Newbold, Yeoh
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  • 413 419 SEVERAL s P Sd 8TOdes [The Director of Education m r Estedt, C.M.G.) seX V ing for publication t,ie f<t. The following students have the First Year Examination in tf? jects set forth below. ENGLISH (Principal Subject) A. Ponnurajah; Soo Ban Hoe j Soong Kang; G. A.
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  • 585 420 0E RECENT RIOTS. ALLABOuTthĔ^ MR Ai tragedy. INDIA ANpT'HE LEAGUE OF INPI nations. /From Our Own Correspondent.) Calcutta, March 26 T u event of the week has been the 7 n f “Reds”—the wholesale nf Communists all over India. "tons ton the Meedistrict authorities, the Police in
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  • 2061 420 UTMOST CO-OPERATION NECESSARY BETWEEN ARMS. Modern warfare as well as peace time training has become a complex affair demanding the utmost co-operation and the most intelligent co-operation between all arms and services. That, it seems. s the principal lesson to be derived from the deplorable tragedv
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  • 731 421  -  (By H. Milton,) A fortnight ago reader, her that T recommended tn a book called “How to liskn'ln" not by H. E. Krebhiel publish VTi’ Murray. Beginning with theemik® first we looked at the picture,“lf?’ cussed them, lamenting tl at th. d not more of them to show
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  • 238 422 THIRTEEN COOLIES CHARGED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 6 Nine persons were injured in an affray between coolies at the Alexandra Brick Works last night in which Chinese and Tamil coolies were involved. The timely arrival of the police preventel a more serious affair.
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  • SPORTS NEWS.
    • 74 422 D. A. F. C. VS H. M. S. “BLUEBELL.” In a friendly game of Football on the Renong Ground yesterday evening the Darul Aihsan Football Chib defeated H.M.S. ‘‘Bluebell” by six goals to two. The following represented the D. A. F. C: —Pawanteh; A. O. Yahaya and M.
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    • 121 422 The soccer match between the Penang Cricket Club and the Post Office Recreation Club, played at the Esplanade yesterday, was quite interesting and became exciting when Rozells of the P.O.R.C. opened the score before the whistle went for half time. But that only started the P.
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    • 128 422 FU TAN UNIVERSITY AGAINST CHINESE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, April 6 Malacca had the rare chance of seeing a team from a Chinese University in action at soccer against the Malacca Chinese Football Association. The team from the Fu Tan University of Shanghai
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    • 100 422 LATEST CLASSIFICATION LIST. The latest amendment to the Straits Racing Association classification list is as follows Horses. Transfers —Slawi from Class 5 to Class 4. Panrilla from Class 5 to Class 4. Deletions —Irish Channel, Queen Humbug, Sir Probyn, Footnote, Poseuse. Prince Bucknell, Bombastic, Candidate, Cornucopia, Dorinda.
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    • 83 422 RESULTS OF FRIDAY’S TIES. The following were the results of bowls tournament ties played on Friday Championship Pairs— J. G. Barrett and G. B. F. Southam beat H. G. Downer and T. E. Mason 21—8; D. McLeod Craik and J. M. Chalmers beat E. J. Bennett and
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    • 733 422 NEW RECORDS ESTABLISHED. Eleven records in running, jumping and cycle racing were broken at the Seventh Annual Sports Meeting of the Municipality of George Town, which was held at the Esplanade on Saturday last. There were 25 events, and all keenly contested. Equally enthusiastic, too, was the large
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    • 916 423 TO BE READY SHORTLY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Anril 6. The necessity for the immediate completion of the football field and Stadium situated on its grounds at the junction of Ampang Road and C-eular Road was the most important subject discussed at the annual
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    • 2627 423 THE IPOH AMATEUR MEETING. [By “The Syce.”] With Gentlemen Riders in the saddle horses at Ipoh maintained on the whole (he public form that they had been showing- at Professional Meetings. It is rather the fashion to decry the riding of our present-day Amateurs, but there can’t be
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 364 425 To The Editor of the Straits Echo). Sir, Now that the official programme of the visit of H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester to Penang has been published and includes a drive into the country it is hoped that His Royal Highness will be given an
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    • 311 425 WARNING TO MOTORISTS. (To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir. 1 think it will be of interest to your readers if you put the following news in continuation of your article appearing in your issue of Saturday April 6th—page 10—under the heading “Penang— Ipoh Road—Warning to Motorists’’:
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    • 178 425 (To the Editor of the Straits Ec»j Sir, flu Reference the programme for w Duke of Gloucester’s visit to Pen# 1 have rhe honour to inform you that it has now been decided that His W® Highness will leave Penang from w to ria Jetty and
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    • 56 425 i Correspondents should bear in mind 'hat letters must be short and to the joint. Long epistles are liable to be rejected or cut down. Correspondents must enclose their names and addresses, not necessarily for publication but as a guarantee of good faith. No letter um accompanied by the writer’s
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