21. 4.1921 Somerset Maugham visits Kuching.

10. 5.1921 Rice decontrolled.

20. 7.1921 Incorporation of Sarawak Oilfields Ltd. tvice Anglo‑Saxon).

8.1921 Bau gold works close.

11.1921 Establishment of Kuching Sanitary and Municipal Advisory Council.

24: 2.1922 Visit of submarine flotilla to Kuching.

10. 5.1922 Experimental broadcasting in Kuching. 1922 Sheet rubber drops to $11 per pikul.

1922 Opening of pauper camp at 10th Mile.

3. 9.1922 St. Columba's Church. Miri consecrated.

1. 6.1923 Registration of motor cars and drivers.

15. 6.1923 Electric street lighting in Kuching.

19. 7.1923 The Miri Riot.

1. 2.1924 Peace‑making at Simanggang.

18. 5.1924 Inaugural meeting of the Sarawak Turf Club.

5.1924 Opening of Leper Settlement on Satang Island.

‑‑‑ 6.1924 Sarawak Board of Trade established. 1924 Fort Leonora at Engkilili built.

1. 7.1924 Government Opium Monopoly established; registration of smokers.

16.10.1924 Memorial to Second Rajah unveiled.

3.11.1924 Department of Education established.

‑‑ 10.1924 Chartered Bank opens in Kuching.

‑ 7.1924­

16.11.1924 Kayan, Kenyah and Dayak peace‑making at Kapit.

‑ 7.1925 First Government Dentist appointed. 1925 Extension of railway to 13th Mile.

‑‑ 10.1925 Removal of Leper Camp to 13th Mile, Penrissen Road.

2.11.1925 Opening of St. Teresa's new school.

7.24/8/26 Aerial survey of Rejang Delta.

‑ 2.1926 Sarawak Standard Time established (72 hours ahead of G.M.T.). 1926
Establishment of Rubber Export

Board. 1926 New General Hospital opened. 1926 Sunny Hill School opened.

27. 6.1927 Third Rajah invested G.C.M.G.

1. 8.1927 New Treasury building opened.

13. 1.1928 Simanggang bazaar destroyed by fire.

7. 3.1928 Sibu bazaar again destroyed by fire.

‑‑ 4.1928 Beginning of cold storage service in Kuching.

26. 9.1928 Order of the Star of Sarawak instituted.

12. 1.1929 Government seaplane Royalist crashes a Simanggang.

23. 3.1929 Appointment of Director of Agriculture.

‑ 4.1929 Old hospital becomes the gaol.

1. 6.1929 Appointment of Director of Education.

1929 Peak production of Miri Oilfield.

1929 First appearance of the great African snail.

‑ 7.1929 Sarikei becomes a district headquarters.

1. 9.1929 Appointment of Secretary for Native Affairs.

10. 9.1929 St. Thomas's boarding house opened.

12.10.1929 Opening of the Hokkien Free School for Girls.

16.11.1929 Consecration of St. Augustine's Church, Betong.

‑‑‑ 11.1929 Junior Cambridge Examination first taken.

3.12.1929 Appointment of Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

8. 2.1930 Chinese General Chamber of Commerce inaugurated.

‑ 2.1930 Air Mail Karachi to London commences.

9/12.1930 Daylight saving by advancing clock 20 minutes (Henceforth annual).

24. 9.1930 Simanggang Road reaches Serian.

19.10.1930 Weekly air service Bangkok to Amsterdam.

‑ 10.1930 Opening of new Customs Office in Kuching.

‑ 11.1930 First candidate for School Certificate Examination (Failed). '

1930/31 New Year Regatta at Kuching cancelled because of slump.

24. 4.1931 Consecration of St. Joseph's Church, Miri.

16. 5.1931 Post of Chief Secretary abolished.

4. 6.1931 Opening of Maderasah Melayu.

1931 Outboard motors in use at Miri.

8.1931 No. 1 R.S.S. drops to $9.66; other grades value­ less.

9.1931 First performance of sound films in Kuching.

‑ 10.1931 New Kuching Police Station opened.

10.1931 New General Post Office opened.

12. 2.1932 Entabai Expedition against Asun.

9. 3.1932 Sadong Coal Mine closed.

1932 Oxford Expedition to Borneo in Tinjar.

18. 7.1932 Oxford Expedition arrives.

19.12.1932 B.B.C. Empire Service commences.

31. 3.1933 Sarawak Government Railway closed.

1. 4.1933 Education Department abolished. a

24. 5.1933 Fifth Division incorporated in the Fourth.

21. 4.1934 XXIVth Meeting of the Great Council or Council Negri.

1. 6.1934 Rubber Restriction. introduced.

1934 Evangelical missionaries from N.E.I. start work amongst the Muruts.

24.11.1934 Opening of the Sylvia Cinema in Kuching.

1935 Fort Brooke founded at Meluan.

26. 9.1938 Opening of old Kuching Airport.

1. 4.1939 First broadcast in Sarawak (Commentary on the races).

9. 9.1939 Regular broadcasts in English, Malay andChinese commence.

22. 1.1941 Treaty between Great Britain and Sarawak pro­viding for appointment of a British
Repre­sentative.

24. 9.1941 Enactment of the new constitution.

17.11.1941 First meeting of the Council Negri under the new

constitution.

7.12.1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbour.

16.12.1941 Japanese occupy Miri.

24.12.1941 Japanese occupy Kuching.

14. 8.1945 Japanese surrender.

11. 9.1945 Australian forces liberate Sarawak.

15. 4.1946 Proclamation restoring civil government.

1. 7.1946 Cession of Sarawak to the British Crown.

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