The Straits Times, 17 February 1949

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949 Jf PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 277 1 Request For Immigration Statement V HINT that Australia's policy toward immigrants might be taken into consideration by I n officials of the Singapore Legislative Council when they came to study the Colony's new Immigration Ordinance, now being drafted, was given by Mr. Lim Yew Hock (Nominated
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  • 170 1 BANDITS MAY COME TO COLONY THE Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B, McKerron, yesterday warned of the dang3r of infiltration into the Colony of terrorists and others responsible for disorders in the Federation, as the anti-ter-rorist campaign neared its climax. He spoke when members of the Singapore Legislative l ouncil
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  • 80 1 THE Singapore Government had issued 15 suspension orders whereby persons detained under the Emergency Regulations were released .subject to certain conditions, Mr. McKerron told the Council. He said that other cases for release were being considered. Mr. McKerron was explaining to the council the new regulations providing for
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  • 262 1 Malayan For 30 Years Protests A PROTEST by Mr. John; Laycock against emerI gency regulations which I would grant to Federal dti- i zens privileges denied to Bri-i tish subjects not born In' Malaya led to an amendment In the Singapore Legislative 1 Council yesterday. The Council voted for the
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  • 70 1 THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS, the newspaper with the largest afternoon circulation in Malaya and an unrivalled service of overseas news and features, will publish TWELVE pages tomorrow, including the start of a new series by the famous novelist and columnist. BEVERLEY NICHOLS On Saturday, the FREE
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  • 244 1 PEKING PEACE TALKS NANKING, W»d. FRST contact between Communists and the Shanghai non-partisan peace delegation took place at Peking today, when the Communist Mayor, Gen. Yeh Chlenying, called on the delegation leader, Dr. W. W. Yen. No details of what was discussed have been disclosed, according to radio telephont messages
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  • 38 1 ST. LOUIS (U.S.) Wed The personal aide to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Maj. -General P. H. Whang, has arrived with his 12-year-old son after an 8,000-mlle trip to seek medical treatment for the boy's heart. A.P.
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    74 1 AUSTRALIA-BOUND: A book on Australia holds the interest of Miss Christina Ng Tew Peck, left, and Miss Chan Peng Chin, who are in the second batch of nurses to leave for a two-year course In Australia under the A.I.F. Nursing Scholarship for 1949. Miss Nr is a staff nuns at
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  • 185 1 GENEVA, Wednesday. rHE Soviet Union, the Ukraine and Byelo-Russia have resigned from the World Health Organisation, one of the H specialised agencies set up by the United Nations. Dr. Brook Chisholm, execu- I tive head of the organisation, stated today that the three governments have
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  • 104 1 Workless Total Up UNEMPLOYMENT in the Colony is now on the increase. Government stated in a written reply in the Legislative Council yesterday. Every effort was made through the Employment Exchange to find alternative work for the unemployed but the success of those efforts depended upon the availability of alternative
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  • 145 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed I "rpHANKS for air drop. Liv- A ing last two days on tapioca." This message was flashed by radio from the 2/2 nd Gurkha Rifles to a Dakota of No 52 T. P. T. Squadron, R.A.F., which had just finished supplying them In
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  • 434 1 THE Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, said In the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday that he had given instructions for an immediate inquiry into the leakage to a Singapore newspaper (not of the Straits Times group) of confidential information relating to the war damage
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  • 62 1 CAPETOWN. Wed. The South African Prime Minister, Dr. Daniel Malan. appeared to lose track of his notes while speaking, in the Assembly this afternoon, and suddenly sat down He left the House without resuming his speech. Later It was said there was nothing seriously wrong with the Premier
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  • 322 1 DRITAir: is asked for a further free %\i t of D $220,000,000 for war damage compensation, says the joint report of the Singapore and Federation Select Committees issued yesterday, and laid on the table at the Singapore Legislative Council meeting yesterday. Britain has already
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  • 121 1 Republic Chiefs To See UN Men BATAVIA, Wed. THE United Nations' Commission will leave for Banka tomorrow to meet Indonesian Republican, leaders on the island. The Commission will be accompanied by several Republican official* from Batavia. including members from the Republican delegation and the Information Minister, Mohammed Natsir. All five
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  • 28 1 COLOMBO, Wed. Prince Peter of Greece, first cousin of King Paul, rrived in Colombo today with his wife, Princess Irene, on a month's holiday.Reuter.
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    • 53 1 OTHER COUNCIL REPORTS T EGISLATIVE Council La news in other paces: NURSING POSITION— An improvement, page 4 CHILDREN'S CHARTER Page 4 PLAYING Fields, Page 4 REDIFFUSION Government's reply, Page ...5 HOUSING Definite Plans." Page 7 VOLUNTEERS' DEPENDANTS Mr. Tan's Appeal, Page 7 ANTI GRAFT CAMPAIGN, Page 7 BAN ON INDIANS
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  • 339 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. DRITAIN yesterday told the United Nations that the "growing evil" of forced labour camps was "following the hammer and sickle" westwards and called on Russia to admit United Nations representatives to her penal area. Mr. Christopher Mayhew, British Under-Secretary of State for Foreign
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  • 102 2 LONDON, Wed. THE Colonial Secretary, Mr. Creech Jones, was closely questioned in the House of Commons recently on the possibility o f a Government birth control campaign for the West Indies after he had referred to the social menace of the Islands' growing pooulatlons. He reDlied to Mr.
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  • 256 3 World's Natural Rubber Consumption Sets Record LONDON, Wednesday. THE chairman of the Rubber Trade Association of London warned the annual general meeting here today that consumers would be in a precarious position should there be any interruption to the flow of rubber. World consumption of natural rubber reached a record
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  • 128 3 LONDON, Wednesday. ORITAIN will spend £759,860,000 on defence for the year 1949-50 compared with £692,600,000 for 1948-49, according to a Government White Paper published last night. She will aim at a fighting strength of 750,000 men In 1950. The three fighting Services will have
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  • 190 3 ATLANTIC PACT DELAYED WASHINGTON, Wed. VTEGOTIATIONS on the 11 North Atlantic Security Pact have reached the critical stage, diplomatic and congressional sources Indicated today. They hinted that the negotiations, which were to be completed early next month, may be delayed by the dispute over how far the United States should
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  • 99 3 NEW DELHI. Wed The Indian Prime Minister. Pand't Nehru, protested angrily in the Indian Parliament today when Mr. H. V. Kamath Congress Party, asked whether the Prime Minister proposed "to take a leaf from the book of the British Government which appointed the Lynskey Tribunal." Another
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  • 59 3 TRADE OFFER TO SOVIET 1 GENEVA, Wed.— Britain and the United States have offered the Soviet Union more trade. However, the U.S. spokesman told the Trade Development Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe that the United States could not deliver "strategic" materials to the Soviet Union as
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  • 193 3 Policeman Stopped His Wife MRS. F. B. Oehlers was prevented yesterday by a policeman from entering into the Third Police Court where her husband is the magistrate. Hearing some noise Mr. Oehlers and the court looked round and saw the policeman pushing Mrs. Oehlers out as she tried to come
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  • 75 3 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Wed. A Filipino who fought the pilot of a passenger plane while flying over rugged Alaskan territory, was last night flown back to the United States in a straight jacket. The pilot said that his lone passenger, Laredo Bellow, attempted to strangle him while
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  • 64 3 LONDON, Wed.— The offlcdal Soviet news agency says that 16,767,680 Koreans have sent a letter of thanks to Stalin for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Northern Korea. It says that 9,940,000 of the Koreans live in the United States occupied southern part and that they
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  • 154 3 BIG DRIVE TO TAKE INSEIN RANGOON, Wed. FO- GOVERNMENT sources said today that Burmese troops had opened a major offensive to recapture Inseln from rebellious Karen tribesmen. The informants said the Government troops attacked from a new base one mile below Insein and nme miles north of Rangoon. First reports
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  • 25 3 BANGKOK, Wed. The Allied authorities may shortly sanction the return to Siam of 30,000,000 grammes of Siamese gold held In Japan. —Reuter.
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  • 137 3 TOKYO. Wednesday. riMPEROR Hlrohito today formally installed as Prime Minister Mr. Shlgeru Yoshida with his new Cabinet The Emperor was exercising one of the semi-political functions still permitted him as a "symbol of the State." The Yonsida Cabinet is considered the strongest >t the
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  • 209 4 GRANTS EASE NURSING SITUATION Registration Bill Passed In Colony THE nursing situation in Singapore had eased since the introduction of the revised salary scheme and allowances last year, the Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers, said yesterday, when the Legislative Council passed the Nurses' Registration Bill. He hoped
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    12 4 MR. C. C. TAN. who raised several issues in the Council yesterday.
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  • 113 4 ANY distinction between Otr.cial or Unofficial members ol the Singapore Legislative Council was to bo depnoitfd. the Colonial Secretary. Mr. P. A B, McKerron, said yesterday. "We are all colleagues.' Bald Mr. McKerron, "and we share the responsibility /or Em will-being of this Cony." He
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  • 27 4 Mr. wong n.an reow ana Mr. S. Velauthan have been Appointed to be Trade Union Registration Officers and to ict as Assistant Registrars of rrade Unions.
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  • 79 4 THE Legislative Council meeting: yesterday approved special allowances for the 13 Unofficial members of the Council. The Finance Committee's recommendation for $58,500 for payment from April 1, 1948, was approved by the Council. The Committee's message to the Council said that this decision had been taken in
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  • 168 4 THE Weekly Holidays BUI. providing for one day's holiday every week for employees In shops, restaurants, ano theatr2s was passed in the Legislative Council meeting yesterday. A schedule to the Bill exempts the following categories: Premises used for carrying on retail sale of motor fuel from
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    34 4 Frontier Post iitE CUSTOMS AMI IMMIGRATION stop point at Changlun, the frontier village In north Kedah. At ChangInn is the headquarters of Brigadier H D. Skone, Commanding North Malaya Sob- District. Straits Times picture.
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  • 219 4 SINGAPORE, with a population of nearly a million has less than 100 acres set aside for playing fields and recreation purposes, said Mr. P. F. de Souza yesterday, making a strong plea in the Council for the provision of more open spaces. "It is a
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  • 63 4 The Municipal (Amendment) Bill, removing the ma- j ximum of $1 a month charge- able by the Commissioners for the removal of sewage, was passed through all stages at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council. An amendment to the Bill, proposed by Mr. John Laycock (Municipal North-East subjecting
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  • 166 4 From Our Staff Coi respondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. I UNLICENSED street stalls and unauthorised buildIngs were examples of "flagrant disrespect for the law" cited by the Kuuala Lumpur Municipal President, Mr. H. G. Hammett, yesterday. Reminding commissioners that Municipal elections would be held in a year,
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  • 277 4 Children 's Charter Gets First Reading THE Children and Young Person's Ordinance, 1 upon which the Social Welfare Department has been at work for more than two years, came up for first reading: in the Council yesterday. Consolidating; the provision of five existing ordinances, the Bill gives wider power s
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  • 63 4 The Singapore Government does not admit that its health authorities permit the distribution of rice "of such low quality as to be almost unfit- for human consumption." This reply was Riven to M>.\ Tan Chin Tuan in the Legislative Council yesterday when he asked why a considerable percentage
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  • 174 4 "UNFAIR" SAYS LAYCOCK DESCRIBING as "unfair and unjust" the Slngarore Government's silence In regard to properties requisitioned for the now abandoned Changi adrport scheme Mr John Laycock (Municipal North-East) asked In the Legislative Council yesterday for a statement on what Government proposed to do with these properties. Mr. McKerron replied
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  • 75 4 A N appeal for time was made in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday by Inche Sardon Jubir on behalf of the residents of 14 houses In Palembang Road who have received notices from the Land Office to quit as the houses are to be pulled down. The notices
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  • 44 4 Inche Sardon Jubir asked the Government in the Singapore Legislative Council yesLerday to retain the special police food ration instead of paying an extra $25 a month. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, replied that no decision had been taken.
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  • 385 5 Govt. Welcomes Rediffusion, But Has No Shares TPHE Government welA comes but does not hold any share in (Singapore) Ltd., stated a written reply to a question by Mr. C. C. Tan at the meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday. The company was a subsidiary of Broadcast Relay Services
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  • 172 5 PROCLAMATIONS passed during the British r Military Administration and still in force should cease to be in force four months from the passing of the Transfer of Powers and Interpretation Bill 1948, it was recommended to Singapore Legislative Council yesterday. The recommendation was made by a
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  • 93 5 THERE was a surplus of 1 $2,745,359 remaining in Straits Settlements (Post Office) Savings Bank at the end of 1947 and an increase of 13,000 subscribers over the previous year, stated a report tabled at yesterday's Legislative Council meeting. The number of transactions soared to
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  • 156 5 TODAY Police Band. Waterloo Street, 5.30 p.m. Theo6ophical Society, "Adyar Day" celebration. 8. CairnhilJ Road, 6.30 p.m. East-West Society, discussion on "Polygamy." British Council Hall. Btamford Road. 8.30 p.m. Public are welcome. Students' Christian Movement, Kandy Conference Reports V. M.C.A.. Orchard Road. 8 p.m. Singapore Music Circle. Mrs.
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  • 147 5 THE Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, 1 agreed in a written reply to a question by Mr. C. C. Tan at yesterday's Legislative Council meeting that Asian Assistant Superintendents of Police promoted in 1946, 1947 and 1948 had not yet received the
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  • 255 5 rpHE report of the Finance A Committee, tabled before the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday, calls for an additional expenditure of more than $1,000,000 on thePolice Force. Of this, $59,919 is to pay for fuel and oil used by 170 police motor vehicles. The Committee alo
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  • 85 5 From Our Stall Correspov.Ueiil IPOH, Wed. THE Chinese Consul in Ipoh. Haji Ibrahim W. T. Ma, told a Press conference in Ipoh recently that he had urged Chinese leaders and members of the Chinese community in Malaya to drop using the word "Kwai" in describing other people,
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  • 105 5 MR. McKerron told Mr. C. C. Tan at the Council meeting that the Government had not paid a cent for the recent "buried treasure" excavations in Stamford Road. Mr. Tan had asked on whose behalf and at whose expense the excavations had been carried
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  • 1079 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thur., Feb. 17, 1949 COMPENSATION FROM BRITAIN The Select Committees of the Federation and Colony legislatures appointed to examine the war damage compensation proposals which were laid before the Councils last September have produced, not unexpectedly, a scheme totally different in principle and broadly different in
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  • 1401 6 DUTCH BUILD A FEDERAL INDONESIA By The Times Special Correspondent WHEK the Dutch acted against the Republic in Java and Sumatra in the early hours of Dec 19 they took one of the biggest gambles in their country's history. They knew that they would have to face both armed opposition
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    • 387 6 NOTHING the Commis-sioner-General can say will in any way deter me from pressing my claim to visit Sarawak to ascertain the position for myself and to ensure that consultations take place with the people so that their views may be known without Government intervention. i
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    • 244 6 rp membership of thej proposed Malayan Chinese Association is no J longer restricted to thej local-born then the name of the association is misleading. Alien Chinese are not Malayan Chinese and those who have lived in this country for just five yea r s cannot qualify as
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    • 96 6 WITH reference to the statement by a police spokesman that there is a Police Station at Chua Chu Kang, may I ask him kindly to inform the public at what mile-stone is the Police Station at Chua Chu Rang? So far as we are aware, there Is
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    • 152 6 IN Straits Settlements Gazette notification 3768 of 1938 the unnecesisary use of motor horns j was forbidden in SingaI pore and a total prohibiI tion of the use of the horn tn the Municipal Area between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. This order was restated by
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    • 101 6 A COORDING to the A Straits Times of Feb. 1, the Sultan of West Borneo has said that he will deport all Australians from West Borneo in retaliation for the deportation of Mrs. O'Keefe. It would appear that His Highness has a particularly short memory as in
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    • 89 6 From the Straits Times of Feb. 17, 1899: When the proposal for the granting of an extra sum of money to H. C. Keun, a Queen's Scholar, to enab.t him to continue his studies In England, comes before the Legislative Council on Tuesday next, Dr. Lim Boon
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  • 347 7 HOUSING: "DEFINITE PROPOSALS" NEXT MONTH McKerron 9s9 s Reply To Plea For Vigorous Action D&* imit, proposals aimed at solving the housing problem in the 1 Colony— the biggest task facing the people"— may be placed l before Singapore's Councillors next month. This was stated by the Colonial Secretary, Mr.
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  • 115 7 THE refusal by the Immigration Department to grant entry permits to Indian mercantile assistants wishing to come to Singapore to work was commented upon by Mr. R. Jumabhoy (Indian Chamof Commerce) at yesteriative Council meeting, iid: 'There can be no n by Government that these mercantile
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  • 52 7 From Our Siaff Correspondent .LA LUMPUR. Wed.— B ty Foo. cashier of the Singapore Cold Storage, Kuala Lumpur, who appeared before Mr. 11. Gallon in the Sessions Court on a charge of criminal breach of trust of $33.97 was today acquitted and discharged without her defence
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  • 67 7 A BIGGER staff to fit t corruption is hoped for soon in Singapore, Mr. Tan Chin Tuan was told in the Legislative Council yesterday A written reply said that re-inforcement of the AmiCorruption Branch had been delayed because all available police officers had been required for emergency duties
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  • 93 7 THE Singapore C.I.D. chief, Mr. E. V, Fowler, yesterday commended a "public-spirited person," who helped the police on Tuesday to arrest an alleged taxi robber. The arrested man Is believed to have held up a Chinese taxi driver in Upper Thomson Road, stabbed him with a knife
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  • 171 7 TIHE Governor of Singapore, -1 Sir Franklin Glmson, will n.'Xf. Thursday lay the foundation stone of a $200,000 Buddhist temple which the Singapore Buddhist Association is honing will be the nucleus for a future Buddhist university and cultural centre for Souih-Easr Asia. The new temple will be in
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  • 29 7 The Women's Section of the Muslim Religious Society will open a religious school for Muslim women of all nationalities, and not only for Malays as stated yesterday.
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  • 170 7 By Our Woman Correspondent MEITHER of the two Austra- llan nursing scholarship winners, chosen from 50 Singapore and Federation candidates, has been outside Malaya yet. Miss Christina Ng Yew Peck of Singapore and Miss Chan Peng Chin of Kuala Lumpur will be the second party
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  • 92 7 Government is uru nils cons' Spring a report on a request from the Singapore Harbour Boarr 1 to approve certain proposal* about retiring benefits in which Govern- rrorr has been asked to agree to the Japanese Occupation being allowed to count as service. Mr. John Laycock who
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  • 51 7 MALACCA. Wed.— E. J. Goldsmith, former European Officer in charge, Malacca prisons, was this afternoon found guilty of two criminal breach of trust charges and sentenced to two years' hard labour on the first charge and six months on the second charge, the sentences to run
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  • 236 7 For this reason, added Mr Mackay, the secessionists were "determined to go to London and do all In their power to obtain their ultimate goal." A statement issued by the Committee after their meetIng last night reiterated that the secessionists would not be diverted from their
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  • 344 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE week-long combined operations on the Kedahx Siam border ended today with the withdrawal of Malayan and Siamese forces. Army authorities said that although no bandits were contacted, the operations had been most useful by extending the knowledge
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  • 95 7 THE Commander of the Central Malaya, Sub-District, Brigadier C. I. V. Jones, sails from Singapore in the Orduna on Friday to take up an appointment as Brigadier. Royal Artillery. G.H.Q.. Middle East. Brig. Jones came from Hong Kong to Malaya in Mf.rrh last y?ar primarily to
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  • 26 7 A 25-year-old Malay L.E.P was accidentaly shot dead In the guard room of the Royul Regiment of Signals, N<>e Soon, yesterday afternoon.
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  • 75 7 A YOUNG woman, Ong Chwee Mai, who was charged with causing voluntary hurt by pouring hot water over a man, was discharged in the Singapore Eighth Police Court yesterday because the magistrate said the complainant "deserved all he got." Teh Hak Lian complained that the
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  • 193 7 Rent Board Judgment Upheld MR. Justice Gordon-Smith delivered judgment yesterday in the Singapore High Court upholding the judgment of the chairman of tha Rent Conciliation Board (Mr. A. W. Bellamy) In the suit in which Tay Slong Chuan sought an ejectment order against Ng Kirn Beng. Mr. Bellamy had granted
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  • 91 7 The Commissioner-General Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, will lay the foundation stone of the $100,000 Indian Association Clubhouse to be built at Balestier Plain. The date of the ceremony has not yet been fixed. Some Indian business firms have offered to bear the full cost of uortion.. of
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  • 89 7 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. I EE Peng, who escaped from the charge room of the C.I.D. after the constable who guarded him fell asleep was today sentenced to onei year's rigorous imprisonment by the First Magistrate, Inche Mohamad bin Baba. for extortion and
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  • 346 7 Appeal For Aid To Volunteers' Dependants "BLOT OH COLONY'S HONOUR" pAILIKE to pay cost-of-living allowances In Staff** pore equal to those being paid in the Federation to wives and dependants of volunteers and civil defence personnel was yesterday described by Mr« C. L. Tan as "a blot on the honour
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  • 159 7 A.C.S.U.'s STRIKE HINT THE Singapore Army Civil 1 Service Union would consider taking strike action if the reply to its 24-point memorandum submitted to the Governor last November proved to be "unsatisfactory". a spokesman of the Union told the Straits Times last niKht. In its memorandum the Union which represents
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  • 35 7 The Gov2rnment is to appoint a committee to consider desirable Improvements to the Liquor Revenue Ordinance and the Liquors Licencing Rules, it was stated at yesterday's meeting of the Sln-< japore Legislative Council.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 92 7 o|L. Can a can break? That's one of the good points about Barclay's in cans. If you drop a can it doesn't mean that there may not be enough Barclay's to go round. An end to the breakage jl^jß bogey it's a sound C^^Z-^)/m rea son for cans in itself.
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    • 35 7 Taflc^ed in heavy Spun Rayon in small prints. Available in Red, Blue and Turquoise and, of course, perfection in every detail of fit and finish. Size Womens only. PRICE $29.50 SUIT ROBINSONS RAFFLES PLACE SPORE.
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  • 1735 8  - The Rush For Spoils: Russia's Grab At Baltic The Rt. Hon. WIIVSTON S. CHURCHILL By TIIK rush for the spoils had begun. Hut Mussolini was not the only hungry nniniiil seeking prey. To join the Jackal came the Bear. I have recorded in the previous volume the course of Anglo-Soviet
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 115 8 Tfe Car of the W7 s^~~ «=a>[ <=^=z>\ s^ rordor Sedan the^^Vford/ Powered by the famous Ford V 8 Engine— the wheels.— "Fmather-Touch Brakes "Hydra-Coil" Front Springs giving (35% less Pedal Pressure) contribute new riding comfort with independently greatly toward increased safety. suspended Front Wheels, Coil Springs, "Comfort" in wide
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    • 110 8 it's TERRIFIC! See it TODAY! TII E (J RKAT E S 1 LEONARD in Leonard I 67 years I liraSP NEW! Wte'jffld I Refrigerated Spet'i-frp'.zint and below- rreezlng Frozen Pood chest hoV:s 50 pounds of packaged frozen too Ice cube-.. Two extra-large, glass-covered artoptra keep X quarts of garden greens
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  • FROM A SINGAPORE BOOKSHELF
    • 499 9 SCOTTISH PAGEANT, 1513-1625. By Agnes Mure Mackenzie. (Oliver and Boyd, 12s. 6d.) npHIS is the second of a series edited by Agnes Mure Mackenzie and sponsored by the Saltire Society. It takes the reader from the battle of Flodden to Jamie's firm entrenchment as King
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    • 309 9 THE following new books will be added to Raffles Library, Singapore, whhin the next few days: Food and Health (A. Barbara Callow). A History of Science (Wm. Cecil Dampier), The Psychology of Everyday Life (James (Drever), Beauty for Ashe* (Winifred roriescue). Bird-Watchli^ for Everybody (R. Harrison), Soaring Flight
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    • 102 9 ME. CHURCHILL'S publishers are making every effort to overcome the problems which delayed the English publication of his first volume of memoirs till five months after its appearance in America. They plan simultaneous publication at the end of May on both sides of the Atlantic. Printing and binding
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    • 525 9 THE MISSIONARY. By Cornelia Spencer. (Harrap, $6.30). THE HEARTH AND EAGLE. By Anya Seton (Hodder and Stoughton, $6.30). WOMEN are still turn- ing out many of the novels which come steadily from the presses now that paper is getting easier. These two new tales are by
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  • 318 9 "Dear Mr. Culbertson: The aigument that started over the following hand went on far Into the night, and the interested parties would appreciate your decision on which of them should see a psychiatrist. The difference of opinion was, of course, over the bidding. North dealer Neither side
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 308 9 UPTONS UPTONS 4^ jJr CANISTER TEA IS jm/% "ti J >^ IDEAL FOR FOOD I fSr^ VHi MA TARCELS. f t/yjU^i PACKED IN \J\n^^ I VARIOUS SIZES ©DOIIIT** 1 Ib., H Ib., Vilb. rWllf '«V is^i 5^ BAI.E IMPORTERS: HENRY WAUGB A CO LTD (f^j^fM^hHd^V UNUAI-OKK. FENANG, fcUAI.A LUMPUR. D\)H
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    • 268 9 kWms\ *%/^^^B^ extra mileage RELIABLE COMFORTABLE ENDURING. These are INDIA TYRES' qualitlei. A tyre has t« take to much punishment: wet roads, rough roadj I INDIA TYRES through advanced design and superior, quality will stand up to hard use on any road. Will givt you more lasting performance SOLE DISTRIBUTORS:
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 278 9 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD ••■•as 21 Retkleu peopU 'do so tot CROSSWOnn aa I Hat eltan iporL nomlo. <«U U). UKU N 8g ally (4-SJS>. It Capital at birds B i^jj r^ 4 |^j s M 4M 4 lyu, rUM ft A •upoenrr Is a rtformstf IX Bird on flr. and
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  • 1721 10 THE joint report of the Select Committees appointed by the Legislative Councils of the Federation of Malaya and Colony of Singapore to examine and report on the memorandum of proposals for a Malayan War Damage Compensation Scheme was laid before Singapore
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  • 107 10 A RIDER signed by Mr. W. A. GodsaU and six other Federation Committee members says: "While we entirely agree with the argument that very considerable advantage has accrued to the United Kingdom and indirectly to other territories from the sale since the liberation of Malayan products at less
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  • 155 10 PROCEEDS of the sale of "booty" rubber by the Rub- ber Buying Unit immediately after the liberation should be set aside for the industry a* a whole rather than placed in the pool for general distribution under the War Damae« Compensation Scheme, says minority report issued with
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  • 248 10 "COULD PAY A SHARE" IN an "observation" published with the joint report on war damage compensation, the Singapore Financial Secretary, Mr. J. D. M. Smith, says that, from th« long-term point of view, Singapore and the Federation could ultimately pay for some part of the capital cost of rehabilitation by
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  • 141 10 Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson In a reservation says: "I would not reject, out of hand, the offer of a loan, free of Interest, from H. M. Government, provided that this is limited to a sum which Malaya could afford to repay over a long-term and that
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 261 10 THANK YOU! WE'VE FOUND THE ENTERTAINMENT THAT THE 'REGULARS' WANT!! ITS NATURALLY AT THE today: A COLUMBIA Clh GREATEST SWORDSMAN IN FRANCE! THE BOLDEST *m tOVER IN PARIS! &*^^BBB Br^ C Ol^OR ALSO: 3 STOOIES IN M *T'S THE MATADOR PHONE \WWKZJ+J jP v r\iK ok (.1 Es dVa imkhv
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    • 250 10 HAVE YOU SEEN THE YEAR'S MOST WONDERFUL PICTURE? IF YOU HAVE BE FRANK AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS/ IF YOU HAVEN'T ASK YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT IT/ IF NEITHER YOU NOR YOUR FRIENDS HAVE SEEN 1T... SEE IT NOW At The Air-Conditioned mi. r/iiTfvy* \i f 34 C^'\ 4.15, 6.45 Kal^ anc
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 315 10 Music of Paul Whitemaflf 8-00 of Europe; 6.30 News; 6.45 InS PORE Victor Sylvester; 8.15 Thursday donesian; 7.15 English; 7. 46 Symphony Overture 'La Cam- Siamese; 8.30 English; 8.45 10 55 Schools' Broadcast; 12.00 biale dl Matrimonlo 1 (Rossini). Dutch; 9.00 Kuoyu; 9.30 BurClose- 1 00 Radio Orchestra; 1.30 violin
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  • Commercial And Shipping News
    • 376 11 "U.S. STOCKPILE POLICY MUST BE STA TED from Uur Uwn correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. A FIRM declaration by the United States on stock-pile policy would provide the greatest possible incentive to the tin mining industry, according: to the magazine Tin. Without such a declaration and guaranteed safeguards regarding eventual liquidation of
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    • 329 11 LONDON, Wed CMALL losses were wide- spread on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The account, says Reuter's financial correspondent, ended on a dull note. British Government securities were a sixteenth to An eighth lower and once tgaln various Industrial groups showed a long list of declines. The volume
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    • 70 11 NEW YORK Wed. ALTHOUGH trading remained n restricted, the price balance on the New York exchange rose slightly yesterday afternoon when a trifle better Interest developed In selected Motors, Steels, Tobaccos, Oils. Electric Manufacturing and Department Stores. All averages finished a little! higher at a steady close.
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    • 216 11 6 Months U.K. Tin Stocks ,Jjkitish stocks of tin-metal are equal to something like I six months' consumption at the recent rate, compared with only about four months' a year ago. 8 toe lea of tln-ln-ore were practically unchanged on the year. Having regard to the higher price of the
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    • 106 11 CHIPS In port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main Wharf: Hoegh Silvercloud (31-32), Bekuru (85), Marine Snapper (35-36). Choysang (39) Bendoran (40-41). Wert Wharf: Rhesus (1-2), Oregon Mall (4-5), Benlawers (8-7), Memnon (9-10), SUverwalnut (11-12). i Empire Dock: Asphalion
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    • 70 11 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wed. CIR Lewis Fermor, who some years before the war made an exhaustive survey and report on Malaya's tin resources for the Malayan Government, win address the fourth Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress, to be held in- London and Oxford
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    • 90 11 APPLICATION for a quotaI\ tion for the Ordinary capital of Paterson Simons and Company will shortly be made on the London Stock Exchange. The Ordinary capital amounts to £151.500 in 5s shares following £46.250 In Six per cent. £1 Cumulative Preference shares. Profits for the year to last
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    • 153 11 QPENING slightly below Tuesday's prices, the Singapore rubber market; wa» quiet thronehout yesterday. It steadied slightly towards t£ «S i»£L Min xf P r L ce3 yesterday were: No. J sheet J.b-.b. buyers 35J cent* sellers 35* ceftfr* spot loose buyers 351 ce?& sellers. 35|
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    • 116 11 rTotn uur Market Correspondent SINGAPORE. Wed. BUSINESE In the Malayan share market .vas on a very small scale today. Conditions In the market remained practically unchanged. Price changes announced by Uie Malayan Sharebrokerf Association werer INDUSTRIALS 3od Tin Smelters Pret 23/Otti. 16/6 ienry Waugh $1 Stk. 2.70 Jlngapor*
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    • 51 11 NEW YDHK, Wed. ECONOMIC soft spots are developing in various sections of the United States and In rainy Industrie*, according to Mr. Kenton R. Cravens, chairman of the Bankers' Credit Policy Associa*. tion. "We may be at economic cross* roads," he said at Columbus, Ohio
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    • 61 11 From A Market Correspondent ACTIVE speculation In. pepper i was the only f eatune on tr c Singapore produce markets yesterday. Other, market, sectlonsi were quiet and unchanged. Some small parcels of both black and white pepper i changed hands and pepper quotations rose at the close of
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 1219 11 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. (Incorporated in Singapore) BLUB FUNNEL o»«t T RAItB STEAMSHIP CO.. Carrier 1 option to via otner »t>. to load and discharge cargo LTO. b °JJ A h .7 W T COA MAtAT -E«!!lJl." trc^r OO i A lit ,1 M«"""«':M f»* m •MHid^T, m'TTsA" »*t il "Me^tlklb'
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    • 502 11 j-oiraics iimet servic* PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS EAST ASIATIC LUTE TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON, INDIA. ECYPT AND A lnsir« nAU <»...*.,« MEDITERRANEAN PORTS. SAIIINCS FROM SCANOINAVIA/U.K./ SAILINCS TO CONTINENT/ Smaapoie P Snam Penang CONTINENT SCANDINAVIA. Pros. Polk Codowns 11/14 Feb. 22/2$ l T MoMt Ma.'eHeW U-mil u",»/tf t?
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    • 954 11 McALISTER <S* CO.. LTD (Incorporated in Singapore) BLLERMAN BUCKNAU. KLAVENBSS LIMB LONOON, HAVU, ROTTERDAM U S b CANAOIAW PACIFIC POBTf. b HAM4URC 1T% Accenting cargo tor central b South CITt OF JURham American Poctl. S'poie P. Sham Penang CASTUVlLLfc 13-18 Mar.. 10-IJ Mil. 20-21 Mar. Slpore P bham Pmtnf 19.
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  • 1502 12 JUDGE CALLS FOR PHOTO IN 5 RACES One Verdict Was 'By A Nose By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Wednesday. ii/ITH the photo-finish camera in operation, a short head is no longer the shortest margin separating two horses. The magic eye camera recorded a "nose" separating two horses (Vanguard and Sir Keith)
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  • 64 12 rF.RF. is a sum of $14,218.50 waiting to be collected at the Selangor Turf Club. Under the headinr "unclaimed winnings." the Selaninr Turf Club's statement of accounts for 1948 shows that sums of 15,397 on tote tickets, 58.640 on cash sweep ticket* and 1181.50, a balance of the
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  • 346 12 JOHANNESBURG, Wed. 1»HE fourth Test match between 1 England and South Africa was drawn here today. South Africa scoring 194 for four wickets In their second Innlnga. When the England Innings was resumed today there wa» an obvious desire to score runs quickly. The first half
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  • 161 12 Selangor TC Paid Govt. $885,000 THE Selangor Turf Club paid $885,739.60 to Government in respect of tax on the totalisatw and sweep turn over during 1948. This is revealed in the club's annual report which will be presented at the annual general meeting at the race course on Friday, Feb.
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  • 120 12 IN a friendly return badminton match on Tuesday night at ihe Clerical Union Hall, Mansfield Sports Club beat Harrisons Crosfleld Sports Club by four garni"! to three. Results: (Mansfield Sports Club players mentioned first): K. C. Quek beat Tan Hock Kirn 15-1: 15—7; H. S. Lee
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  • 29 12 HOCKEY: S.C.C. Women v. C.-in-C. Naval Staff im-ni S.C.C: G.H.Q. Sif. Regt. v. BOD< A— Tanglin. SOCCER: C.S.C. v. A.A.A.— Farrer Park; Kota Raja v. Customs—Farrer Park.
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  • 1331 12 From LEE SIEW VEE GLASGOW, Wednesday. 001 TEIK HOCK will be the first Malayan to meet Dave Freeman. This was decided last niijht when the draw was held to determine the order of play in the Thomas Cup semi-final between Malaya and America at Kelvin nail, Glasgow,
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  • 234 12 Nee Soon Win 21-Nil In Sevens Rugby MEE SOON trounced the Royal II Navy "B" team by 21 points (three goals, two tries) to nil in the S.C.C. Seven-a-Side Rugby tournament oa the Padang yesterday. This was the biggest victory registered among the six tits that were decided. The Seletar
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  • 72 12 THE final of the Seletar Inter kampong soccer competition will be played on Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Seletar 15th mile ground. The Seletar Football Ciub and the Deow Seng XI are the finalists. Cups for the winners and medals for the runners-up will be
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  • 44 12 COLOMBO, Wed.— Meeting the Oalle Gymkhana Club at Oalle today, the West Indie.;, who are on a short tour of Ceylon, batted first and scored 435 for nine wickets. Highest scorers were Carew 96, Week?s 97 and Rae 70. R°uter.
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  • 241 12 UIITH Schubert (Singles) at his best, the Married team, with six Coloiry players in their midst, had to be content with a two-one victory over the Singles irr the Singapore Recreation Club's home-and-home match played otr the padang yesterday. In spite of the slippery ground,
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  • 636 12 A TOTAL of 142 entries ha s been received for the Singapore Turf Club's Spring meeting which will be held on Feb. 26, March 2 and March 5. The entries comprise 62 class one horses and 80 class two horses* The full list of entries
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  • 102 12 THERE will be eight races on each day of the Singapore meeting. The schedule Is: First day, Feb. 26: Class 1. dtvs. 1, 2 and 3—63 6 furs.; Class 2, divs. j, 2 and 3—7 furs.; Class 2, divs. 1 and 2, 7 furs. Second day. Mar. 2:
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  • 32 12 TODAY: High Water, 1.31 a.m. (9 ft 1 In.), 1.29 p.m <\C ft. 1 in.) TOMORROW: Hifh Water. 201 a.m. (9 ft. 0 In.), 2.16 p.m. (9 ft. 5 In.)
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 399 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from page 6) FOR SALE MAIK ALBATIAN PUPPY 31 months. Ex. English price wmm ig parents $400. Blnborken Kennrls behind Poh Huat Rd. Village via Simon Rd. 8} M. Upp. Serangoon. DIESEI, ENOINED MOTORBOATS up to 65" length at competitive prices constructed or slipped for repairs to
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    • 46 12 BEWARE OF IMITATIONS Inferior watches with ROLEX dials are in Malaya. To safeguard wou'.d -be buyers we Issue tt: i 3 warning. Only stockists of geunine ROLEX 16 Collyer Quay SINGAPORE DUNLOP the best tyre for every purpose •OHtfl».»1»»»I»..a«. i t»MLAy»{rtT». l ;»«tCA»O«t KUALA LUUPIi; PENANG
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