We have just read with interest that Dr. J. E. Thomson, who lives and works at Johore Bahru, some seventeen miles from Singapore, and who 69 years old, has just taken his pilot's "A" Certifeate at Heston aero-Jarome." He says that he hopes to use his aeroplane in his practice.
"Johore is my headquarters, and 1 qy, c°'re, my headquarters, and 1 Sometimes X have to go great distances northward into the est of Moleya {109 miles is not extraordinary). and.
occasion T have to travel 209 mies As tredleal officer to extensive planta: tions T have to make these Journeys by motor ear. An immense saving time would be effected by the use of the ale"
The Sultan of Johore bet a friend that Dr. Thomson would never get his pilot's certificate at his age, and how His Highness has lost his bet!
At the end of last week, it was ru. moured that the Finance Minister the province, Mr, Li Wen-hao, had been arrested by the local political authorities, acting on the instructions of Gen, Chiang Kal-shek, and that the head of the Provincial Industrial Bank, Mr, Li Han-chen, had run away, both being alleged' to have in: dulged in malpractices, with the re sult that. all shops in the city sus. denly refused to accept the bank's notes, Hundreds of people ran the bank to change their paper notes.
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