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SON OF MALAY CHIEF BETRAYS

TRUST.

PENGHULU WHO WITH-`·

...HELD MONEY,

LIABLE TO TEN YEARS"

IMPRISONMENT.

Kuala Lumpur. March 20.-Pen- ghuin of Kalumping, Ulu Selangor. and son of the laser Dato Penglima Kirk, one of the major chists of Selangor, an elderly Malay of

superior typo angeared before the Hon. the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice W. H. Thorne, at the Selan-

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HỒNG TỔNG DAILY PRESS.

Grönquenning withses, the lo oused asked, Word, may

tions flod in the Land Office for

to the Land Offer, and that he land in 1997

sever did so...

Mr. Bridge la my submission that is my case.

DASH PARENTS

SEX BY FLANE

REASING

PPLICATION.

OF

(Döntinued from, Pays 1.)

Witness: None to my knowledge, the Glasgow hotels in response to is remembered that a weld bi s His Lordship: The perghulu

knows and I know that no applichen 5.0.8, from the Carlisle police. 1S.W.G. motal occupies only 0.3 Mr. Bridge motioned that transtion can be filed in the Land Office di able to reveal thus the reason second with 35 kw. giving 3,090 Intion might predat some difficulty until the fees have been paid for Mr. and Mrs. Hanbury's stay welds per kilowatt hour. Special as many of the witnesses spoke the

Acensed: The District Officer in for a few hours at an hotel in Car-attention is given to the design" of" Korincji dialect,

structed that the applications forlisle was that they were waiting the electrode tips, which are usually this land be made through Tor

word from Glasgow after the in-of forged copper fitting into taper Kassim

The witness mentioned that, subvestigations had been sot, going sockets of the slostrador, so that a Detectives made, inquiries at water-tight joint can easily be made scquently, the accused made a re port to the Land Olles dealing with the leading hotels in the city before with the possibility of easy datach-

they finally found that a young ment.

Victimised Malay.

Mat Labasaan bin Hussein, öf Falumpang, stated that in 1927 hề was looking for land for himself and for others. He approached the accused as penghalu of Kalumpang Mukim, and was of land was

a totally different area.

เ

gor Assizes, Kuala Lumpur, to-day available and that fees for pus loted people who have paid their couple were staying in a small hotel

on a charge involving sum total ling over $2,000,-

The decused. Potut bin Panglima Kiri, was charged with. on eight occasions betoon May 1 and Sep tember 27, 1927, at Kalumpang, being entrusted in his capacity as a public servant, namely penghulu of

Kalumpang, by Mat Lakassan with a sum of 49,304, he committed criminal breach of trust.

Claiming trial he said he admit tod receiving the money but paid it to the Collector of Land Revenue

when the grant was approved.

His Lordship: Paid it now, yes. Is it not a fact that after the in-

quiry into this cass began, you paid

considérable sum of money?

The acoused was understood to

of 83 for one year and 6 for two yeurs would be required. For rent S1 a your would be required. Each let was three acts in area. The accused told with that if 7 were paid he would go a licence and could go into ocupation. After cultivation. it was hoped to get chtained a further a would have titband before this title could be to obtained. Fres were paid to the accused during 1997. Witness Had applied for 400 lots and this azcused had agreed subject to there being enough land.

His Lordship I hope the wretch-

money will not be lost sight of

that these people who have cul- Witness: I hope to recommend

tirated their land, be allowed to remain.

ignorant man," said the accused I have little to say; I am an from the dock when asked if he the charge, and added, "It was wished to give evidenon in reply to

a mistake I leave the matter in your Lordship's hands,''

His Lordship convicted the accua

ed.

"

Mr. Bridge informed his Lord The penghulu Inter Informed him that there were lots available.ship that he did not press for a Witness had desired 12 lots and the heavy sentence as accused would rest were for other people. Ha probably lose his offer as penghaha and would lose in prestige in any took ten lots and collected money

Water cooling in oarried down mostly usued by sommerical tanval right to the dottom" of the tips to lers in the heart of the town.

increase their life to a maximum:

after they arrived by train from most usually treated metal, but brass They booked single room soon By this process mild steal is the

Gretna at 2.15, and they were bliss-and aluminium, stainless steel, and fully unaware that they had been the majority of ferrous and non- bracked,

ferrous alloys may also be satisfac forily handled.

...

SEAM WELDING...

A variation in the spot welding

They were not aroused, but strict precautions were taken to ensure that they did not slip through the guard pending the arrival of the parenta Mr. and Mra. Hanbury process, and therefore of the ma were immediately telephoned at chine in which it is carried out, Carlisle and proceeded at once to enables the wolding to take the form Glasgow.

of a continuous seam. This is effént- The parents arrived: Mina Dvoed by the production of the spots:

admit paying. alter the beginning for the other lots and remitted fase. He had raised the money to and their son were awakened, and so close together that they overlap.

of the ouse but that some of it was paid before..

His Lordship: Why did he pay this money if he had paid ic already 7

The accused made a lengthy state. ment to the interpreter, which we inaudible at the Press table.

His Lordship Tell him the time has gone for procrastination and subterfuge. Here he is faced with "fact. I want to know why ho paid

if he had already paid:

Accused: sums of money.

I had paid certain His Lordship: 1 know that;

what about it f

The accused: This was in the Hands of. Mut Laboss.

His Lordsbip.; Very well, if he does not want my assistance in the matter.

At a later stage, his Lordship asked, "Who has lost the money, the Government or the public?"

Mr. B. F. Bridge (Deputy Public Presscutor): In this case there is a slight doubt as to whether the money was paid for licences or for

rent of land,...

Certain Amount of Authority.

it. with money fut his own lats,pay part of the sum at stake by loan so that his financial provision totalling 82,820, to the accused. Ho identified account books kept by

waniu not be good. himelf in regard to the payments

the situation was explained to the gas and water-tight joint is thus in their bedrooms, They at once secured equal in strength, to the agreed to return home with Mr.sheet metal. Replacing the pointed "Proved Faithless."

and Mrs. Hanbury.

electrodes in the spot welder tho pointed to gight payments, made by hip to the nccused, enter. Addressing the accused his Lord-

It was stated at the hotel that curront passes between two rollers Le into these books and signed by ship said. You were selected by the couple betrayed no signs of the

between which the work passes, By Ithe accused.

an ingenious contrivance the oler, Government, in order that your excitement through which they had trode discs rotate intermittently, These paynients were made in the follow-countrymen might communi etc. of others. Haji Abdullacate with the Government. This was nesod when they booked their making from 5 to 12 stops per inch

of circumferential movement. xam, Haji Hasein and May thought to be best in the interests rooms. Arang were present who a number of the people to whom the land" be

With oxnet synchronism the cùr- They had plenty of luggngrent is variad so that it quickly at- of the payments were made. No longs. You have proved faithless said a girl clerk," so it was evi tains its maximum with each stop

overnment receipts for the money

te the trust that, the Government were issued up to the end of 1930. has le approached the accuses for proved faithless, to your fellow-some time." They were very happy farther stage of rotation is being dent they intended to stay here for of the discs, and is equally quickly roposed in you; you have

reduced to

a low value while the licences and was told to wait. Wit-countrymen who relied on you and After they had a meal they saw the effected. By this method no burn by your act you have done con-nights of the town before going to ing of the metal takes place, nor is siderable harm to the prestige of

their bedrooms." :

there any tendency for the metal to the Mainy officers holding similar

Back in London. At Euston Mr.be picked up by the electrodes. appointments to yours, The burden on your conscience must be heavy. Hanbury and Miss Eve jump into

"The result of this will be that you will lose your position. You have maile at any rate partial re- stitution of your dofikations and the sentence which it is my un- piensant duty to pass on you takes

ness and the other took up ocupa,

Lion of their lots.

Confession to District Officer.

Inchie Abdul Maisk; Acting Dis- trick. Ufcer, Jelebu, stated that be tween January and July, 1931, he' was. Assistant District Offeur, Cin Selangor. At that time the accused was penghulu of Kalumpang and Sungei Gumas. Towards the end at 1030 witness was occupied in

making inquiries into unlawful oc.. cupation"of land Mat LahnssonI came to see witness by request in

Hi Lordship That dose not December, 1930, and produced books matter. This man was a Govern-recording payments of land fees. ment servant. Beïause he was one, Thess contained entries in the hand- with that offer, this money was writing of, the accused. paid to him. His duty, na between himself and the Government, was to pount for the money to Govern ment immediately. He was taking money from the public in confid eace that he would pay the money avor to the proper department im- mediately.

that into consideration. "You are liable to ten years' imprisonment. In the circumstanes the least I can 'impose is‹ Ewèlve months.”

taxi and hurry away to meet Mrs. Eve. Mrs. Hanbury and her Bon go to their house in Smith square, B. W..

It will be appreciated that there is an extensive field for the applica tion of scam welding. Amongst its numerous usos may be mentioned the manufacture of petrol tanks and cisterns, steel barrels, drums and MOTHER'S STATEMENT, boilers, with smaller types such as kottles, jugs, hot-water one, and Interviewed by a reporter at her many classes of hollow-ware. home, Mrs. Hanbury said:

Naturally it is essential that the surfaces to be welded should be clean, this preliminary operation being achieved by any of the well- "Miss Eve is with her mother known processes of grinding, pick- and is going back to the country to-ling, or und-blasting. Thicker night.

gauge metal is usually ground and consequently we thought it. & pickled.

"She is just under 17 years old while the thinner material is

"I hope that nothing will be done which may interfere with the young His Lordship added that the sea-people's happiness. tence would be of rigorous im- prisonment as simple imprisonment would mean twelve months' idlenes and, in these enlightened days pri- sonors were given suitable employ

Witness. went to accused's house, taking these books, and questioned him regarding the entries. At first he denied knowledge of them but ment. his sons identified the signatures as those of their father, and the ac ozaed admitted the signatures to be his. On being asked what he had Mr. Bridge, If the money were done with the money, which he ad- licence fees he should not bars col-mitted receiving, the accused said lected them. If the money were he ind made over certain amounts rent ho had a certain amount of to one, Toh Amput Kassim, the authority.

Kotra Kampong of Sungei Gumat. | On His Lordship: The question is He said he paid first $1,200 and whether he had authority to accept produced two receipts and two on payment or not. Once he got the

a later date." The four receipts money, what should he have done totaled $1,230 Witness knew the with it 7

signature of Kassim, and the signa- tures on the receipts appeared to be.

Mr. Bridge: He should have paid it to the Land Office whether his. he had special authority to collect

Witness told the accused, who

that money or not; whether he went admitted receiving $2,780, that outside the scops of his authority he must make up the balance

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EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS."

April 8, 1933. Loisons Telegraphic Transfer..... 1/2) Bank Billa, on demand 1/2) Back Bills, 4 months?

Eight dining 1/2) Credit; monthe

aight

1/37 Documents, 4 months'

"might

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pr not, and because people who paid of $15,050, the accused replied Our Boxy

the money to him paid it belleving that he had not the

he was a Government servant

Was

paid,

RIODAY.

The money

bow- ever, between December; 1930, and April, 1931. In 1927, accused "knew,

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Bank Bills, on demand 2o1 Credits, 90 days' sight. 243 Telographio Trazalet Bank, on demand..

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Telegraphic Transfer Jor Back, on demand, ON SHANGHAI:----

Bank, at light

Os FaKOHAMA :-

His Lordship: I am not at all sure that if the breach of trash in that he broke faith with some mem-frem records, that he had autho- her of the public then we must make rity to collect revenue. Instractions your case against him that he broke had been given to all penghulus faith with that individual or each empowered to receive land revenue, of noh individuals. If you are

to pay in at least twice weekly or attacking him as a Government whenever their collections reached servant, it seems to me that it does: $200. Witness was not aware of O

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not matter: from whom he received ahy authority possessed by the On Bator: On amand the money; all you have to stab penglulu to pay money to the Dato ORBACEOK fish is that the money came into his Kassiin. Witness acceptat de joto khamand " 1954

Boysantai Kank'sBuying hands, which it was his duly to the position that the accused had pay over as a Government, mrvant' paid Kassim.

little young for her to marry,

BUTT WELDING. "We are very pleased with tho! young people's idea, but we thought

Butt-welding is effected by press it desirable to postpons matters ing together the two ends rendered They are both too young to marry: plastic by the electric heating. The There is no question of their metal to be welded is of somewhat having been married. We hope to uniform section and the two parts be able to give an announcement of ura; securely clamped in suitable their engagement shortly, but it is holders. The heavy current posses for Miss Eve'a mother to decide," and pressure is applied, producing

sound weld. HUNTING FRIENDSHIP.

Miss Joan Eve and Mr. Tom Han-

It was by this system of slow 'up- 22 bury are both well known in the st welding that all butt welds were bunting field and they have follow made until recently. Trouble, how- edhounds in North and Sonth ever, arose in the attempt to effect welding when one or other part was Dorset.

of small thickness in comparison Mins Eve in a striking blus-eyed with sectional sres. For this pur blonde. Hor mother has lived at pose the flesh welding system is Avalon, Marnbull, for many years, used, the current being applied bo- Her father, Captain William Henry fore the metals come into contact. Eve, the son of Mr. Justice Eve, First contact then gives rise to was killed in Mesopotamia in 1918. |árcing, with immediate rise to a His name appear in bronze on the high temperature; st which the village war memorial at Marhull. needful pressure is applied.

After leaving school, Miss Eve The applications of this system of went to France and Germany and butt welding are exceedingly. num. studied languages. She returned

to her home about 18 months agorous, as are also the types of matal

which can be successfully treated..

It is by the application of thess systems of resistance welding that Mr. Tom Hanbury is very pop La considerable range of abric-form

Mr. Justice Eve has beerrin′′ frév quent visitor to Marnbull.:

lar on By father's extensivă" istate erly outside the scope of fabrica at Dorchester. Marahull intion by welding has been transform- "Ban" Bulvar, per on em 16 15/16 M Hanbury's constituency.

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