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GOLDEN JUBILEE
Sultan Of Selangor
Selangor, important Malay State which contains the capital of the Federated Malay. States, was en fete last week in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of their venerable Ruler, His Highness Sultan Sir Aladin Suleiman Shah, G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.
King George VI sent a message of congratulations to His Highness.
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accession. During this time, he has seen his State change from a
SINGING VOICE NOT NATURAL
Sir M. Rees' Experiences
Str Milsoin Rees, writing in the "British "Medical Jounal" In sup-. port of his contention at the meet- ings of the BMA, in Belfast, that the vocal cords are not construct- ed by nature for singing purposes. but that singing is an... acquired
Grandson of Sultan Abdulsamad, Sultan Suleiman has achieved a distinction which has fallen to all his predecessors on the throne of Selangor-a reign exceeding over 40 years. "At the age of 73 His Highness is loved by his sub-wealthy State in Malaya and cer-known paths in the Sudan, Abys-
jects, of whatever race or creed. He is one of the last links with the "wild and woolly" days when the British stepped in to allay the wars and troubles which ruined the country of his predecessors.
country without roads, or any art, atates that from 1923 he has public buildings, or any form of cultivation other than the few. kampongs on the river to the most
tainly the most advanced of all the States,
visited Central and East Africa on mans occasions, traversing un-
sinia. Uganda, Kenya, and Tang- anyiga.
His first act as Raja Muda was
"In the remote parts of these to start schools at Bandar, both areas," he adds. "especially on for boys and girls, for which he festival days. I came across occas- paid out of his own pocket. His lonal groups of primitive natives
casually next step was to appoint a kathi singing either
among for each district and an imam for themselves or deliberately to en- each mosque, as his religion is courage dancing, which would ge very serious matter with His High-on for hours on end.
ness.
The fascinating history of Sulten Suleiman, as gleaned from His Highness's Gwn collections" and from family and State records, is published here for the first time.
His Highness was born on Sep-
ACCESSION TO THRONE In 1898, on the death of Sultan tember 11, 1885, in an attap house built at the foot of the Kuala | Abdulsamad. he was proclaimed Selangor Hill, where the present Sultan and in 1903 he was "tabal" road up the hill starts. His father or enthroned. was Raja Musa, eldest son of Sultan Abdulsamad, and his mother. Che Uteh, u commoner Bugis.
He was there when the Malay fort at Kuala Selangor was attack ed by Her Britannic Majesty's ship Rinaldo, and he was hurried away by his father to Langkat. He lived there two years with his grand- father.
Thence his father took him to Singapore where they lived for six years in a coconut plantation which his father made at Kandang Kerbau.
He attended Raffles College as a day boy, for three or four years. but at the age of ten played truant-especially at the ume of the Perak and Achinese Wars, when he would go down to Tan- jong Pagar to watch the ships.
DEATH OF FATHER
He returned to Selangor with his father in 1876. and iri 1883 was sent to work in the paddy fields of Krian and the sugar plantation on Caledonia estate. In order to fearn
all about these crops. In 1884 he was hurriedly summoned back owing to his father's death.
In 1886 Sultan Abdulsamad, his grandfather, appointed him Raja Muda and gave him a "kuasa" which made
or
"The singing was accompanied by tom-toms, the drums originally used for conveying messages warnings from tribe to tribe.
"But what singing it. was! None of the women or children sang. Even before the Federation of but only the men, and in their the four central Malay States was singing voices there was not a formally working. Selangor came semblance of resonance, harmony, to the assistance of Pahang by or musicality. the notes being advancing money to build
the usually limited to three or four. In roads to Kuala Lipls and Bentong all these regions this rough produc- and even lending money to Perak tion and quality was about the for building its railway.
same.
In 1900 a Federal Council was
"Among these people there was created for the proper enactment no balance or synchronisation be- of all laws intended to have force tween the singing and the speaking throughout the Federation or invoice. Yet the vocal cords of the more than one State: on the primitive African are the same to Federal Council was conferred all appearance as those of the supreme financial authority.
cultivated European. If singing is DECENTRALISATION POLICY natural endowment the ap- On April 24, 1927, His Highness paratus is available." the Sultan. with the Rulers of Ferak. Negri Sembilan and Papang. signed a new agreement for the reconstitution of the Federal Council, under terms of which the During excavations at a cairn In Rulers withdrew from active par- Co. Derry by archeologists directed ticipation in the deliberations of by Mr. E E Evans, of Queen's the Council. The Council, in addi- University, Belfast, two large burial tion, was enlarged by a number of chambers have been revealed. Only official und unofficial members. one is intact.
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BURIAL PLACES OF
STONE AGE
That was the beginning of what More than 100 pieces of pottery is now commonly called the "de-of late Stone Age type, and int centralisation policy," and led to implements, such as knives and the increased autonomy of the scrapers, were found. State Council, over which His Highness still presides.
In 1925 His Highness visited Bangkok, in 1930 northern Suma- him virtually thetra, in 1833 Java and in 1936 he
Ruler of Selangor, so that he has achieved the great journey for a actually beer, the Ruler for over 50 years. But in accordance with Malay custom his Golden Jubilee as auch is being celebrated 40 years after his accession to the throne and this on his birthday and not the actual anniversary of
MR. F. G. RIDOUT
Retiring From Singapore Harbour Board
man of his age in going to Eng- land where he had audience with King Edward VIII, who conferred on him the order of the K.C.V.o.: which, as is well-known, is a per- sonal Order of the Royal Family in England.
BANKER LEAVES
£187,000
Sun Seeker's Gift To Shipping Line
Mr. F. G. Ridout, of the Sin- gapore Harbour Board,, who is Mr...lloward Guinness, West leaving the Colony shortly on re-
Clandon, Surrey. and Cornhill tirement, was entertained by the E.C., formerly of Dublin, senior subordinate staff at a tea party partner in the banking Arm of
at the Harbour Board Junior Ser- Guinness, Mahon vice Club last week and presented
with an address.
graph was taken.
The address
follows:-
and Co., left £187,891 (net personalty £168,-
A group photo-187).
read. in part, as
Mrs. Annie Covington, the Lodge, Norwood, widow of Mr. Stenton Covington, left £6,837 (net per-
During your long career with sonalty £6,857). Bequests com- the Board, extending to 19 years. prise:
as Engineer and Estate Manager. The large chair with carved
a highly responsible position, you
wooden
figures supporting the have always been kind ard
arms, used by King Edward VIII., sympathetic towards your sub- when Prince of Wales, at the ordinate staf Because of, that opening of Norwood Grove, Streat- you are held in high esteem by ham, to the Fowey· Borough all of us; hence we are very sorry
Council, Cornwall, to be used as to learn of your retirement.
the Mayor's Chair.
As our superior, you are, very sympathetic, considerate and im- partial, and you are ever to do anything in your power for the welfare of your staff; therefore your retirement from the service will be a very great loss to us. ...
17,000 MORE CIVIL SERVANTS
The oll painting "The Sun Seekers" by Arthur Wardle, to the Blue Star Line for their office in Regent-street, in remembrance
of the many happy. voyages taken by my husband and myself in their ships as sun seekers."
Various carved ivories to the Horniman Museum:
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to Gertain Honiton lace Victoria and Albert Museum.
the
Аn increaве of 17,735 in the employs 214,673, workers. The only number of Civil Servants in the reductions of staff were in the year ended April last has brought | Inland Revenue Department (23) the total number of workers in, fewer) and the Ministry of Pen- Government Departments to 356,- sions (94 tewer).
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