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5, 1931.
X-RAY APPARATUS FOR THE POOR.
THE CHINA MAIL.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
Sunday two cases of typhoid fever and one of diphtheria were notified. All were Chinese.
During the three days ended on PRESERVATION
OF
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Mr. Thomas Fox, Editor of the Sanitary Board Appoint
Siam Observer, who was recently in this Colony on a holiday, has had' a sharp attack of Influenza since returning to Bangkok. He descrites Hong Kong as "being "nearer, to Home than any other part of the East he know."
Sub-Committee.
200 APPLICATIONS.
were
to
Demonstration`· at Singapore.
MILLIONAIRE'S GIFT.
Minutes relating
by-laws The successful installation of governing food-preferving esan X-ray apparatus at Tan Tock At a public auction of Crown land tablishments and departmental Seng Hospital, Singapore, made held in the Land Office yesterday, Unie-washing discussed at possible by the great generosity Kowloon Inland Lots Nos. 2554 and yesterday afternoon's fortnightly of Mr. Choo Swee-cheng, J.P., the Malacca banker and rubber- 2555, altuated in Fa Yuen Street, meeting of the Sanitary Board. ench comprising an area of 10,540 With regard to the first minute, planting millionaire, was signalis- square feet, wero sold for $28,400 the Chairman (Mr. G. R. Sayer)ed by a demonstration before the
food-donor recently.. each. Mr. Wong Tung 55, Bute said that applications for
This significant occasion was Street, was the buyer of the first lot, preserving establishments usually whilst the other was knocked down came before the full Board, but us marked by the greatest simpli- to Mr. Lau Yuk-aang 169, Tainan there were 200 applications at one city. Besides Mr. Chee Swee Street.
time it was a very difficult task, cheng, Dr. J. S. Webster (Gov- and therefore it was decided to ernment. Radiologist) and Dr. Charged with the theft of 560 appoint a sub-committee to deal B. J. Ess, (assistant radiologist), Dr. D. N. McSwan, (Medical bags of flour from the Po On go-with the matter. down, three. Chinese. appeared The committee is to consist, of Officer in charge of the Hospital) before Mr. Williams at the Central two elected members, Mr. M. K. Lo and Mr. C. C. Brown, (Under- Police Court yesterday. The third and Dr. R..A. de Castro Basto, and Secretary) there were present man was discharged. Further one of the Chinese representatives only about a dozen well-known The matter will Chinese business men and their charges of conspiracy. to defraud on the Board
the Po On godown company were be brought forward for further friends.
Passing into the room in which brought against the first two. The discussion at a later meeting and in case was adjourned until Thursday, the meantime the authorities con- the apparatus was installed, Dr. cerned will have to go fully into it. Webster explained to his small With regard to departmental audience, while they were getting to the half-light, the
August 13.
Engaged in a fight with another me-washing, Mr. Sayer said that used man in Nathan Road near the junc-the charge per floor had been fixed purpose of the occasion. tion of Nanking Street, Yaumati at $3.50, and the authorities had yesterday afternoon, a man, later approved of it. identified by means of a letter
I found on him as Wing Fat, a sub- contractor of the Seen Shing con- tractors, Lan On Fong. Shaukiwan
He was collapsed and died. moved to the mortuary. The other man is now in custody, pending en- quiries into the case.
BOMB OUTRAGE.
re- Murder by an Unknown
Person.
It was (he said) to thank the donor for his most handsome generosity which had made the installation possible. Speaking as a radiologist he would like to say he admired the donor's public spirit very much. It was A great example to others, Mr. Chee Swee-cheng had shown a wonderful appreciation of the The third hearing of the bomb fact, which was getting more more evident, that no use, was completed. Doubtlese A Chinese apprentice of the affair at the Peking Hotel on April and
Teang Fook Piano Company was 29, resulting in the death of Lui modern hospital with any depu the Government will be found charged before Mr. Schofield this Wan-sang, & foki, was heard at the tation was complete without an The China Mail equally sympathetic in regard to morning with having unlawfully Koivison
Magistratey yesterday X-ray apparatus and for the
was indispensable. the suggestions for certain im- placed a tin can on the tramway afternoon, Mr. Fraser sitting as urpose of teaching students it
Another for Malacca. provements at three sharp bends line at Shaukiwan Rond yesterday Coroner, when the following verdict
evening. Defendant picaded not was returned:
That apparatus,, was not the leading up from 'Bowen Road. guilty and maintained that he had (1) Lui Wan-sang met his death full extent of Mr. Chee. Swee- Overland China Mail. It was suggested at the meeting accidentally kicked the tin can, then by a fragment of a bomb thrown cheng's generosity. He had also yesterday that taxis should not picked it up and thrown it on the into the vestibule of the hotel from provided one for the new hospital
foreshore opposite the company's the street entrance.
in Malacca and, indirectly, there be allowed to park on the wrong works.. He had witnesses to side of the road at the entrance testify to that, and wished to call intent that it should explode there. action.
(2) The bomb was thrown with was an even further result of his
to the No. 1 N.Y.K. huts. This them. His Worship granted a re-
(3) The bomb was thrown by a mand of 24 hours,
person 'unknown. is a dangerous position, as it is immediately on a blind corner) coming down several crashes have just been averted recently. It is to be hoped that the authorities will anticipate any representations by the incoming Committee of
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the hill, and TELEPHONE EXTENSIO diet of murder by a person
IN MALAYA.
or
persons unknown..
The Coroner concurred, and said that according to the evidence, that was the only possible verdict.
NAVAL VISIT OVER.
The donor (explained. Dr. Webster) had been very anxious The jury also returned the ver- to present a treatment set. The one installed was à diagnostic set to which usually worked up
For the treat- 100,000 volts. ment of cancer a set with a voit- age of at least 200,000 volts was The first step in linking up
necessary and for deep-seated This Singapore by telephone with the
cancer, 230,000 volts. rest of Malaya is notified by the
kind of set Mr. Chee Swee-cheng Oriental Telephone and Tlectric
had been anxious to present. Co., Ltd., says the Singapore
However, Dr. Hoops and Dr. Public (if not Government) Free Press.
Pathy had managed to persuade sympathy will likewise be ex--
As from August 1, 1931, tele
the donor to change his mind as the set installed was sufficient for tended to the Association in its phonic communication will be es-
their needs at the moment, but five-years-old efforts to secure a tablished by the Posts and Tele
The British cruisers Dorsetshire as an indirect result of Jr. Chee graphs Departments, S.S., and children's playground.
and Norfolk left this morning for Swee-cheng's desire, Government There FMS, between the company's home by way of the Kiel Canal, had promised to instal such a will be general agreement that exchanges in Singapore and at after a highly successful visit last-treatment set, for which pro
ex: ing a Heng Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1931. this is “a very necessary adjunct Johore Bahru, and various
week, during which the vision for $18,000 had been made to the amenities of the neigh-changes as far as Kuala Lumpur oficers and crew were everywhere in this year's estimates. (Ap-
and district. bourhood." Something must be Between the hours of 7 am
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steaming past the German warships R very damp atmosphere (Dr,
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Because they were working in risk of accidents to children on on the phone at the price of to the strains of the British and Webster explained before demon- Only once a year do the Peak the motor road. Costly schemes tween 7. p.m. and 7 a.m. for 65 Oldekop, Commander-in-Chief of had been spending some time on $1.25, from Singapore, and be German national anthems, Admiral strating the apparatus) they
Mid-Levels Residents' Associa-ed at least a decade before their the Free Press was given to Hausen, commanding Kiel Naval room and it was hoped that by tion come into the limelight-on time could well wait. Preference understand recently, compare Station, exchanged hearty greetings the end of the year the room very favourably with. trunk the occasion of their respective should be given to the much charges in Britain and elsewhere by signal with Admiral Astley would be complete in this re annual meetings. It is, there-more urgent matter of children's and are in fact considerably
The Donor's Inspiration. fore, little cause for wonder that playgrounds both on the Mid- cheaper than most. The length
The apparatus, which was the attendance is only fair, the Levels and elsewhere on both of the call is 8 minutes,
Though the special trunk natively four telephone conver- built by Newton and Wright, financial support comparatively sides of the harbour. It is to be board in their offices in Singa sations.
Ltd., of London at a cost of over poor, and the trifling, dues over hoped that the Unofficial mem- pore has been provided by the The aystem is already in £2,000, and is of the latest design, looked. We resist the annual ber's of the Legislative Council O. T. and E. Co., Ltd., the car operation between Kuala Lum-provides for the examination of limbs, etc., lying down, and the temptation to make comparisons will press during the preliminary rler telephone and telegraph pur and Ipoh.
system which is being introduced Later in the month it is hoped chest and stomach, standing up, with another similar Association and private discussion of the eventually to connect up the zone to open a further carrier system and those present were given which issues a monthly precis Estimates for something tangible centres of Malaya, which are (single channel) on the existing the opportunity of seeing under circuits connecting X-ray the internal organs of the of its more important minutes of being done next year even if Singapore, Tampin, Kuala Lum telegraph Committee meetings for publica- elaborate.
pur Ipoh and Bukit Mertajam Singapore and Tampin; thus chest and stomach and the bones costly more
Chatting to a representative of tion in the Press, thus keeping white elephants are slowed down (Penang), is being installed by providing two trunk lines be- of the hand, of two patients.
Standard Telephones and Cables,ween Singaporë” and Tampin.; : both its members and the general until such time as the public Ltd N
Bad Weather!
the Free Press during the inter community in close touch all the purse is a little fuller than at Carrier System Over Existing
val for tea which followed, the A further three channel car donor, who saw his first X-ray Lines...
ier, system to establish tale- year round. If this method of presently
The carrier system supplephonic communication between the idea of presenting an appara apparatus in Madras in 1916, sald publicity be disliked on the Mid-
ments rather than supersedes the Singapore, and Rukit Mertajam tus for the benefit of the sick means previously existing for increasing the facilities available (Penang) direct, is being car
mind when he was given the op- te lowest open air temperature with any given equipment of phy ried out on two further existing poor of Singapore came into his
telegraphic circuits (there are ETĆ, PRESSED minutes of Committee meetings humidity was 79 at 10 a.m. and 82 fore be seen that the existing for the end of the years Ipoh will value at the offices of he saw tion of circulating copies of yesterday was 79 degrees. The sical circuits and it will therefour in all) and should be ready portunity of realising fully its
Street specialist where to their own members. The at 4 pm..
telephone and telegraph circuits are to be used. It is thought also be in direct communication how sufferers could be cured in work of each Association, al though strictly limited to certain At the weekly tifan of the Rotary that it will be many years before by that time via (it is understood) some cases within half an hour,
Bukit Mertajam
of examination. AerClub, yesterday held in Lane, the trunk traffic is sufficiently specified areas, is much too valu- Crawford's Restaurant and pre-heavy to necessitate the pro This means that by next year able and important to risk dissided over by Sir William vision of special Cables under Singapore will be connected to solution through indifference on Hornell, Prof Russell H. Story, ground, psp
Tampin by two speaking chan the part of all but a handful who Ph.D., professor of political science As from August 1, the existing nels, Kuala Lumpur by three and member of the editorial staff of trunk line connecting Singapore Penang by two; and Ipoh by one
By August 5, 1921.1 are anddled with purely hedor the American Political Science Re- with Tampin and the trunk line The only qualification it is ary duties in the interests of allylew, gave an address on What is in course of introduction, be necessary to make in connection
To-day's dollar is worth 2/9%. the residents within one parti- Public Opinion?
tween Tampin and Bukit Merta with this very welcome news is jam (Penang) will be used for that in view of the fact that the 'cular area.
The body of little Harry Bolder The record- the activities of
William Bournesa negro Inmate the Singapore Kuala Lumpur system is being carried out on
Lunatie Asylump was carrier system. This will pro the existing lines it is possible in son has Hean recovered from the the Mid-Level: Association for
yes vide for one physical cireult be bad weather for both telephenie harbour
tween Singapore and Tampin and and telegraphic communication reader writes to correct.
rier circuits between to be affected at the same time!
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