The Straits Times, 30 December 1952

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times TWELVE PAGES E.,tabtisheJ 1845. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1952. 15 CENTS
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  • 589 1 Carrier, 2 frigates and sub held up at Naval Base J^OYAL Navy ships which reached Singapore from Korea yesterday could not be repaired because 10,000 members of the Naval Base Labour Union began a strike at 7 a.m. Every available British Navy man is being summoned
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  • 194 1 BI T LAK SETAP, Sarawak, Monday. A 16-MONTH search, costing $5 million, for oil in the jun(le*in Sarawak is to be abandoned. No oil has been found, but useful information has been obtained by Sarawak Oilfields Ltd. Bulatc Setap well is deep in virgin
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  • 122 1 LONDON, Mon. ANEW British air service from London to Tokyo by airliners flying nearly over the North Pole is expected to be operating by the end of 1955. the London Daily Mail reported today. The report by Mr Courtney Edwards, the newspaper's air correspondent, said
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  • 137 1 TOKYO, Mon. WAVE upon wave of United Nations aircraft yesterday made the heaviest raid on single target in four months to smash the Communist rmy near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. About 200 B-26 light bombers. Shooting Stars, Thunderjets and Marine Pantherjets attacked the
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  • 59 1 HONG KONG. Mon— Soviet Russia by vlrtbe of a 1950 treaty with China, has only two more days to hand the 6outh Manchurian railway back to China. The Russians in the treaty agreed to restore the railway and the ports of Dalren and Port Arthur
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  • 45 1 LONDON Mon.— The Foreign Secretary. Mr Anthony Eden, today cancelled public engagements for tomorrow to hold last minute discussions with Mr. Churchill before the Prime Minister leaves for talks with the United States Presi-tent-elect. Mr. Elsenhower, and iresldent Truman.— U.P.
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  • 65 1 HONG KONG. Mon Hone Kong is giving Britain C500.0M (Straits $4.!5«.0<M»> as a New Year rift, it was announced today The announcement said (be gift was a practical expression of the Colony's loyalty to the British Government It was also to help relieve the heavy
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  • 63 1 Ceylon to carry on COLOMBO, Mon— The Government of Ceylon intends to go ahead with its plans to export rubber to China, Premier Dudley Senanayake told a protesting deputation of British and European exporters yesterday. The Premier told representatives from seven European and British export firms that the cabinet had
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  • 27 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A gang murdered a Chinese rubber tapper in the Kullm area of Kedah yesterday and scattered Communist leaflets round th« body.
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  • 54 1 SYDNEY. Mon. Air-Vice MarshaC F. R W. Scherger of the Royal Australian Air Force, left Sydney tonight by Qantas Constellation for Singapore to take command of R_A.F. and R.a.a.f squadrons in Malaya Air-Vice Marshal Scherger. formerly Ai r Attache in Washington, was accompanied by hi s
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  • 129 1 Nunn May leaves gaol in night WAKEFIELD, England, Monday. THE Western world's first convicted atom spy, Dr. Alan Nunn May, was released today from prison. The slight, 41 -year-old physicist was said by an official spokesman to have been freed from Britain's grim Wormwood Scrubs gaol during
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  • 11 1 THE BIGGEST HOWL OF 1952 -and Page 7 tells you why
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  • 305 1 —MOVES Ta $'PORE SOOM THE Commissioner-Gen' ?*T for South- East Asia, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. -ill more house on Thursday —from the palace of the fjpltao of Johore at Bukit Serene to Che flve-bedroomed house of the Singapore millionaire, Mr. Loke Wan Tho. at
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  • 119 1 The Queen overworked? —'Rubbish LONDON, Mon. rE London Daily Express today made an editorial attack on the widespread view that the Queen is overworked. "The surest way Of any young woman, queen or commoner, ensuring and maintaining her good health is by a busy and active life," Lord Beaverbrook's Independent
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  • 39 1 ANKARA. Mon— Hasan Yildrim. 21. was taken to hospital Ankara after being drafted into the Turkish army. Officials said that Yildrim a natrve of the Yozgat province of Anatolia, has a tall 20 Inches long.— A.P
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  • 32 1 PARIS. Mon. Madame Etiennette Martln-Mallerln. born near Paris in 1852. said on her 100 th birthday yesterday that her secret for reaching her age was: "Never drink water."— Reuter
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  • 83 1 COLOMBO Mon— Sir Cecil Syers. British High Commissioner in Ceylon, sailed In the cruiser Ceylon today for Male capital of the Maldive Islands a group of 12.000 coral atolls which Is tc become a republic on Jan. 1 after 836 years of Sultanate rule. Sir Cecil will
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  • 35 1 LONDON, Mon. Two doctors yesterday went to Sandringham to see 85-year-old Queen Mary who has a slight chill. The doctors returned to London last night and Queen Mary was reported better. Reuter.
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  • 60 1 TEL U K ANSON. Mon.— I Jarlah binte Sulaiman, 20, was found dead with stab wounds In her home this morning at Sungel Besar. 10' miles from Sabak Bernam. Her husband. Iskandar. 60, was found slashed In the stomach. He was sent to Teluk Anson hospital
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  • 23 1 NEW YORK, Mon— Deaths from Christmas accidents in the United States reached 680 as the long holiday weekend neared its closr
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  • 28 1 HONG KONG, Mon—Catholic Bishop Charles Yogel, 74. of the Swatow diocese, arrived last night after being expelled. He had been in China for 52 years.— A.P.
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  • 30 1 HONOLULU. Mon. The Navy reported today that typhoon with 70»mile winds swept across Enlwetok Island in the central pacific, and left most of (he island under water.— U.P.
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  • 34 1 COLOMBU, Mon. said today that she was forced to conclude a rice and rubber barter deal with China because the United States failed to assist the island's food shortage problem.— UP.
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  • 22 1 BERLIN Mon The East German Cabinet today announced tU« dissolution of the Information Office headed by Gerhard Elsler— U.P.
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  • 26 1 The Pasir Panjang generator was working again at 11.45 last night and engineers said: "We hope that everything will be ajl-rlght from now on."
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  • 129 1 ST. IX>tJIS. Mon.— The knife pressure with often fatal and fork .are suicide wea- heart, kidney and brain ail pons of many Europeans and ments. said the professor. Americans. Dr Victor Levine "In spite of wars more white told the American Aasocia- people die
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  • 191 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A1 o r GaJ a h (Malacca) Police killed a Communist district committee member, Yeung Kit Kwan, chief terrorist or the Malacca central district, in a battle yesterday. Yeung was wanted for at least six murders. In a regular run of successes
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  • 33 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. Th« Soviet Union has produced five times as many military aircraft as the United States since 1947, General Hoyt Vandenberg. United States Air Force Chief of Staff, said today.
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  • 83 1 SOUTHAMPTON. Mon. PIRST checks under the United States McCamuiWalter Act showed no Communist sympathisers among the crew of the British liner Queen M;.ry which docked at Southampton last night. An American immigration in- spector who travelled in the ship screened 650 of the 1.246 crew on
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  • 164 3 Demand for natural going up, says Bureau report WASHINGTON, Monday. THE Malayan rubber growing industry was credited today with a banner year during 1952. The Natural Rubber Bureau, representing Malayan growers, forecast that demands for natural rubber are expanding and that by 1975 there
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  • 57 3 ii \ri*\ smiles from the Queen and the Duke of Idinburgh as Percy Huntor a clown with Bertram Mills circus, London, presents a bouquet. THE QUEEN HAS COLD LONDON. Mon. THE Queen has a slight cold and did not attend morn- ing or evening church services
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  • 75 3 LONDON, Mon— The Queen has approved the appointment of her husband the Duke of Edinburgh, as head of the Cadets Corps of the three armed services, it was officially announced today. H e will be Admiral of the Sea Cadets. Colonel-ln-Chlef of the Army Cadets
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  • 55 3 China has record food production HONG KONG, Mon.— Peking radio today announced that China's food production for 1952 was 15 per cent more than the previous year. The Communist radio said the Ministry of Agriculture had stated that this production figure was 9 per cent higher than had ever be«n
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  • 27 3 SYDNEY, Mon.— The Italian Legation here is to open a cooperative farm at Tamworth, north-western New South Wales, to relieve unemployment among Italian migrants.
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  • 75 3 ADELAIDE, Mon. ANGLICAN Bishop, Right Rev. B. P Robin, said he preferred the noise of lions and tigers from the nearby zoo tothe roars of crowds on the football oval also near Bishop's Court. At St. Peter's College speech day. Bishop Robin said
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  • 234 3 Double Heart rancher wanted to die this way NEW YORK. Mon A SOBBING young rancher committed suicide yesterday by crashing his airplan*after circling for more than four hours while friends and authorities pleaded with him in dramatic radio messages not to do it Sheriff Calvin Montgomery said that William Cox,
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  • 83 3 LONDON, Monday. FOUR Labour party representatives led by the 1 former Colonial Secretary, Mr. James Griffiths, flew to West Africa yesterday to study political and economic conditions. With Mr. Griffiths were two other members of parliament, Mr. Wilfrid Burke, vice-chair-man of the party, and Mrs. Eirene
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  • 374 3 NAIROBI, Monday. \i\ R. D. N. Pritt appeared before the Kenya Supreme iTI Court today to answer a motion for contempt of court arising out of his cable to four British MPs The cable listed a number of complaints about alleged inconveniences in the trial
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    26 3 MLLE. JEANMAIRE, ballet dancer in the "Hans Christian Andersen" film, ha» her hair coiffured on severe lines, for the European premiere of the film in London.
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  • 37 3 LONDON, Mon— The Japanese delegation to the Vienna Peace Congress is now visiting Moscow— the first Japanese delegation to visit the Soviet capital at the Invitation of the Soviet people, Moscow Radio reported.— Reuter.
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  • 38 3 BRISTOL, Mon. Bristol's meanest thief of 1952 sneaked into a hotel on Saturday and stole from beneath a Christmas tree the toys which were to be given on New Year's day to British Navy orphans.— A.P.
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  • 64 3 PARIS. Mon.— Popular Republican leader Georges Bidault yesterday agreed to try again to form a new government after a 40-mlnute talk with President Vincent Aurlol M. Bidault. third political leader called upon In an effort to solve the six-day old crisis, met members of his ow
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  • 133 3 VENTIMIOLIA, Italy, Mon. A FRONTIER barrier went up In flames here— on the French-Italian frontier yesterday as European Union partisans staged a demonstration intended to foreshadow a Europe without protective national fences. M. Paul Henri Spaak, Belgian Socialist ex-Premier, and one of the main driving
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  • 156 3 TOKYO. Monday. THE United States Air Force has assigned the world's best battle-tested jet fighter planes to the defence of Northern Japan, it was learned today. A small formation of MIG-killing F-86 Sabres has joined the Thunderjet units patrolling Hokkaido and Northern
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  • 211 3 LONDON STOCKS Little trading LONDON. Mon. AFTER effect* of the holiday combined with end-of -account considerations, resulted in limited BWOMSi on the London Stock Exchange today. Cosing prices of Mlected stock* LOANS Consols &S1 Fundin«4% War 3t7. 77i BANKS CkaiMnt i«s> N Mercantile (fi-'Ji <£ll) 19 Honslcani llllSi £ut«rn (*il
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  • 28 3 LONDON. Dec. 29.— Cash Buyers £948; Sellers £950: Forward Buyers £M 3; Sellers £944; Settlement £»49 (down £3>. Turnover a.m. 15 tons; p.m. 5 tons.
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  • 30 3 LONDON. Dec. 29 —Spot 26\d.. Feb. 26' s d.. March 26'« d., Apr June 25\d.. July-Sept. 25d.. Jan. c.i.f. 26',jd.. Feb. c.l.f: 28Vid., Jan-Mar, c.l.f. 26d. Market:— Quiet.
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  • 138 4 Malaya well up in social work MALAYA is well up with the times in social welfare tvurk, said Mr. Rowland Lyne. on his return from the 6th International Conference of Social Work at Madras There is every reason to be satisfied with what has been achieved since the Social Welfare
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  • 45 4 TAIPINO. Mon.— ln commemoration of Aavaya. poetess of India, the women's section of the Hindu Aika Seva Association. Taiping. he!d a twoday celebration at lie YMHA Hall in Upper Station Road last week There were concerts by children on both nights.
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  • 38 4 Two motorists. Tan 800 Yean md Tan Thio Phoo. who each ised an unlicensed motor car vere fined $25 each by Mr. )enls D'Cotta in the Singapore City Police Court yesterday. Both pleaded guilty.
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  • 303 4 BAR FOREIGN DEALERS FROM THE KAMPONGS Malay economic committee told— KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. .^U, business activities in Malay kampongs should be run by Malays and should be strictly controlled to prevent "foreigners" from gaining control of kampong economic life. This is stated in a memorandum by the Ketua Kampong Association,
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  • 64 4 Mohamed Salleh Syed YusofT tried to plant himself in a queue outside a cinema in Pasir Panjang Ro^d, Singapore, on Saturday night and that cost him a we** in prison. The Third Police Court was yesterday told that when Mohamed was asked to move away, "he showed
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  • 44 4 The Singapore City Police Court yesterday fined Son Ah Swee $50 for not producing his lorry for inspection by the Registrar of Vehicles. A car owner. Chong Khlm 800, who did not produce his car for Inspection was fined $15.
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  • 122 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. rjTHE Federation Police ■1 Commissioner, Col. A. E. Young, is introducing a personal touch into "Operation Service." He personally replies to everyone who writes to him about police courtesy. In a broadcast last night. Col. Young: said "Operation Service" had been
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  • 117 4 Will cater for 3,000 T»HE Malayan Chinese Association, Singapore branch, will early next year convert its former premises at Robinson Road into a youth centre, Dr. Ho Pao Jin, the vice-president of the branch, said yesterday. This will be done as soon as the
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  • 30 4 The new Methodist church at the 9% -mile Bedok Road, Singapore, will be dedicated by Bishop R. L. Archer at a special service on Sunday, Jan. 11.
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  • 50 4 THE GOVERNOR, MR. J. F. NICOLL. unlocking the fate of the new $513,000 Singapore City Council swimming pool which he opened yesterday evening at Van Kit Road The pool will be chiefly used by the people of Chinatown Strait* Times picture. Another picture in Page 8.
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  • 782 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A LARGE FIRM of samsu distillers, which has paid Government about $4,500,000 In duty since 1946, today failed in its second attempt to obtain a licence to continue operating next year. Its application for renewal of its licence was first refused two months
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  • 137 4 ALOR STAR, Mon. FOBBING nurses sang "Ten Thousand Miles" last night at a farewell party for the Kedah matron, Mrs. O. M. Donaldson. The (Iris broke down when matron will soon be 10,000 miles away from us." .Mrs. Donaldson who to going on six months'
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    • 76 4 ALL-MALAYA CHINESE TEACHERS CONFERENCE: siss>qih at ChbMM Hifh School, Buklt Tlm»h. a.m.. ronrert Of Chinese Kn«Uah pUys «t VkUrla TbeMra a p.m. MALAYSIA CHINESE ANNUAL CONFERENCE: ussliis at Foochow Methodist Church. 90 Race (our* Road, 9 a.m. Cmr COVNCIL: Monthly swtilaf bl ComswU HaU 2 30 p.m. 1.5.1.5.: Film show
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  • 45 5 KUALA LUMPUR Mon.A farewell tea Party wag given to Mr c. K. 001. of the War Damage Commission by his friends at the Eastern Hotel. Kuala Lumpur, on the eve of his departure to take up a •enter appointment i n Perak
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  • 165 5 —and desertion is No. 1 cause of the break-ups JJEARLY three times as many divorces were granted in Singapore this year under the local divorce ordinance as there were last year. There have been 31 local divorces this year compared with 11 in 1951 and
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  • 90 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Federation Court of Appeal today dismissed the appeal of Abdul Hamid bin Mohamed, a traffic police sergeant, who had been sentenced to three years' Imprisonment by Mr. Justice Mathew, Chief Justice of the Federation, for corruptly accepting $120 from two Chinese. The Chief Justice
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  • 43 5 KLANG. Mon.— The Belangor Malay School Teachers' Association will give two concerts on Friday an^ Saturday at the Klang Malay School to raise money for the Klang School Scout and Guide Fund. Tickets are available at S3. $2 and $1.
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  • 131 5 2 children see mother killed by lightning I IGHTMNG flashed and j an expectant mother in an attap cottage fell in front of her terrified children and died. The Singapore Coroner, Mr. Giam Chong Hing, yesterday held that the woman, (hern Puay Keng, aged 33, was struck by lightning. He
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  • 82 5 INDONESIA PLACES NEW BAN From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. THE Financial Times reports from Amsterdam that the Indonesian Government is prohibiting from Jan. 1 all exports of rubber on consignment. All export licences on consignment as from that date have been withdrawn. The paper's correspondent at The Hague says
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  • 205 5 POSTMAN SMUGGLER FINED $10,000 JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. rpHE PRESIDENT of the Johore Bahru Sessions 1 Court, Mr. N. L. Cohen, today imposed a fine of $10,000, or 18 months' imprisonment on a Johore Bahru postman, Amin bin Othman for evasion of duty on 49 dozens of assorted cosmetics, 95 wrist
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  • 162 5 Big Malayan team for talks in Siam By Our Market Correspondent MALAYA will be strongly represented on the British delegation at the meeting called in Bangkok of rice producing and importing nations, by Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations. The F.A.O. has asked 67 member nations to send
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  • 141 5 SINGAPORE Chinese Chamber of Commerce has estimated the number of local Chinese killed just before and during the Japanese occupation at over 18,--000, but only 1,521 names have been registered with the chamber. Because of the poor response, the chamber is extending registration
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  • 141 5 r'O retiring long-service members of the Shell Company staff will be the company's guests at a tea party today in the Roman Room of the Adelphi Hotel, Singapore. They are Mr. Lim Beng Chin, chief clerk of the shipping department, and Mr. W. H.
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  • 31 5 PORT DICKSON. Mon. Cheonu Chuan Seng, of Lukut. was fined $35 or one week's gaol at the magistrate's court. Port Dlckson. for driving a car without a licence
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  • 60 5 iron. Monday. AN Ipoh girl, Miss Foong Slew Muoy, won first place among 49 successful candidates of the first professional year of the .M.8.8.5. examinations at the University of Adelaide, where several Malayan students are taking higher studies. Miss Foong secured top credit and has been
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  • 140 5 Up to Council to decide r? is up to the Singapore Legislative Council to decide whether it should simplify the present procedure requiring visitors to Council meetings to produce a pass, Mr. L. W. Donough, Clerk of Council, told the Straits Times yesterday. He said that
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  • 136 5 Now the Japs may buy Comets T^E new civil aviation agreement between Japan and Britain should have the effect of stimulating Japan to buy Comets. They would compete against British airlines, the acting manager of BOAC, Singapore. Mr. J. P. Hill, said yesterday. He added: "Competition la good for everyone."
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  • 51 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— A State planning committee In being formed in Trengganu to direct long-term progress and development. It will be headed by th* Mentrl Besar or State Secretary and will have five members, including the British Adviser, the State Financial Officer, State Engineer and two unofficial
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  • 55 5 TAIPING Mon.— Ton Puan, wife Of Orang Kay a MentrL Larut was elected president oj the Taiping branch of UMNO'aj Kaum Ibu. The other office-bearers are: Vice-president. Che Wan Yah Hanif binti Wan Mohd Isa; Hon Secretary. Raj a Yong Azyan bintl Rata Chulan; Hon Treasurer. Ch
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  • 144 6 C. C SOONG. 48, on Dec. 29th mt 6 p.m. at General Hospital. Leaves behind 2 wives. 5 sons, 4 daughters. Funeral date be announced later. PEREIRA: Raymond Flmble, passed away on 29th December, at his residence. 483-J. Upper Seran■oon Road. 114 milestone, at the ige of 61 years.
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  • 157 6 MR. <fc MRS. K. L. GALISTAN wish to thank all relatives and friends for their valuable presents And kind assistance on their marriage on 27.12 52. DR. J. E. SEEVARATNAM of the General Hospital, Seremban. thanks all relatives and friends. who attended, sent wreaths, telegrams, letters of condolence and
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  • 26 6 IN loving memory oi ran soo Tee who passed away on 30.12.46. aged 24. 'Gone but not forgotten' by his loving .listers and brothers.
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  • 720 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Dec. 30, 1952. The Civil Service At the November meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council the locally recruited civil service, whose representatives had approached Unofficial members of the Council in connec- tion with expatriation pay and I family allowances, was rebuked Iby the Governor. The
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  • 451 6 It has been difficult to assess I the effect on estate labour of the arbitration award which 1 reduced rubber workers' wages. j The cut appears to have been I accepted philosophically, and without much appreciation if any at all —of the arbitration j proceedings. In
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  • 44 6 HONO KONG, Mon— Half a million visitors have toured Hong Kong's tenth exhibition of locally manufactured products in a fortnight But retail business done Is reported poor. It is estimated that trade was 20 per cent below the 1951 exhibition figure— Reuter.
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  • 1123 6  -  GERALD PAWLE By PALMYRA (Syria). ITNTIL the tragedy of Abadan, oil, to most British people, was a useful but uninteresting commodity. If, however, one examines its problems at first hand one soon finds that the task of finding, producing and transporting oil to the
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    • 397 6 Lobbying in Singapore and in Britain IT was ironical that, barely three weeks before the 1 Governor of Singapore, at the November meeting of the Legislative Council, publicly reprimanded locally recruited civil servants on charges of lobbying Unofficial members of the Council on the question of expatriation pay and family
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    • 124 6 By air to W. Australia I AM surprised and disappointed at the proposed discontinuation of the Singa-pore-Perth air service. With so many parents who have children in Western Australian schools, and the Increasing number of people who find that country an ideal place for a long, or short, leave, I
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    • 145 6 I AGREE with Mr. H. R. Armstrong's explanation that "at this particular season of the year. Postal staff are hard pressed", but I think the Postal staff need to show more courtesy towards the public. Two months ago, at the Q.P.0., I presented a letter to
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    • 370 6 ACCORDING TO ONE'S OPINION rpHERE is a story of a French X politician who was seen, one day of revolution, hurrying down the street. Asked the object of his haste, he pointed to the crowd ahead and replied, I am their leader an<] I must follow them." This attitude reminds
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  • 407 6 Slory of a picture DR. C. A. Gibson-Hill taki our London correspondei up over the latter's commer on a picture of the Singapoi of a century ago which wj published in this page o Christmas Eve. This, it ms he remembered, was a r< production of one
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    • 557 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. TO BETTY, wife of F.J.L. Leonard, a son. Both doing well at K.K. Upcountry papers please copy. CLUMECK: To Joan Louise, wife of N. Clumeck, a daughter. Mary Annetta. on Monday, 29th Dec.. 1952. at Kandang Kerbau Hospital. Both well. THE engagement Is announced between Gerald Nurden Chowns.
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  • 220 7 COUNCIL CHANGES NOT EASY— NICOLL Radical alterations are needed before city gets mayor JTHE Governor of Singapore, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, yesterday said it was never intended that the constitutional development of the city should stop short with the grant of the charter. "It was always intended that we should
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  • 148 7 rE Singapore Government has Invested three trust funds of undisclosed amounts. In the $100,000,000 Federation of Malaya security loan, Mr. W C. Taylor, the Colony's Financial Secretary, told a Press conference yesterday. Subscriptions to half the Joan, which will be redeemable In 1962-1972.
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  • 39 7 The Hua Yu Association. Singapore, is offering a scholarship to local Hainanese students for a course in the University of Malaya. The association is the first Hainanese organisation in Singapore to offer a scholarship for higher studies.
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  • 41 7 Eight American "pilgrims." on their way to Jerusalem In the American President liner Hawaiian Retailer went shopping in Singapore yesterday. The youngest of them, a woman, is 63 years old and the oldest, another woman. 72
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  • 31 7 PENANG. Mon.— The Penanp; UMNO Youth League has decided to press the Settlement Government to introduce free elections to the Settlement Council "as early as passible."
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  • 51 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Eighteen -year-old P. 3atumallai was accused at Kuala Lumpur First Court today of housebreaking. He was alleged to have broken into the house of Thambiah. manager of Central Theatre Kuala Lumpur, on the night of Boxing Day. The case wag postponed to Jan.
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  • 141 7 WHY RENE DIDN'T GET HER PRESENT A CHRISTMAS mystery was cleared up for two little American girls in Singapore yesterday The girls, Rene, six, and Ann, three, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Sherard of the Malayan Seminary, had been wondering why their "favourite folks" grandma and uncle had not
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  • 28 7 KUALA TRENGGANU, Mon. Inche Mohd Shahudi bin Maasom, of the Veterinary Department, Trengganu, was given a farewell tea party on his departure for Teluk Anson Perak.
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  • 176 7 —So Indians don't know truth rpHE PEOPLE in India are getting the wrong lmA pression about the Malayan Emergency as a result of the distortion of the news by Communist newspapers, a visiting Indian author and Journalist, Mr. S. K. Pottekkat. told the Straits Times yesterday.
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  • 57 7 A report in last Saturday's Straits Times that the mother of Tan Kah Hin, well-known Penang rugby player, had died, was incorrect. The information was given to the Straits Times in good faith by an official of the Penang Rugby Union. We regret the error and
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  • 110 7 and Lint pleaded guilty AN old man, Lim Tiong, was yesterday charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court with keeping eight fowls in a basket that was one inch wide and two inches high. And he pleaded guilty. The charge read: "You. Lim Tiong. on Dec.
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  • 122 7 Yes, and wouldn't YOU howl if you were in the hands of this giant? /CHILDREN always hear stories about giants but it is not often that they meet one. Two-year-old Andrew LJew did and be did not enjoy the experience. But would YOU like to be in the arms of
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  • 53 7 The president of the Pan Malayan Labour Party, Mr Mohammed Sopie. and its secretary, Mr. Lee Mok Sang, will arrive In the Colony tomorrow, said the president of the Singapore Labour Party, Mr. 8. K Reddi. yesterday. They are on the way to Rangoon to attend
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  • 58 7 $50,000 THEFT ALjLEGED rpHREE labourers, Quek. Hiok 1 Sim, Heng Chew Kwang and Ooh Hung Kwan were charged In Singapore yesterday with housebreaking and stealing $50,000 worth of textiles from a godown. The godown was in Outram Road, It was stated. The three claimed trial, and were allowed bail of
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  • 46 7 KUALA LUMPUR Mon. Mr M J. Hogan AttorneyGeneral of the Federation, left on six months' leave yesterday. His place has been taken by Mr. T V. A. Brodie. the Soli-citor-General Mr A. D. Farrell has been appointed to act as Solicitor General.
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  • 40 7 Fourteen men were fined a total of $70 in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday for gambling. Inspector A. D. Jacobs, said the men were arrested In a sawmill in Padang Jerlngau, off Kallang Road, on Saturday night.
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  • 158 7 A MAN was carrying a sack •f ppjHxr along a lane off Amoy Street. Singapore, when a strong breeze carried the aroma to a poHseman's nose. Asked by the constable to explain how he came by the pepper, the man said he bought it
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  • 125 7 9 NAMED FOR TOWN COUNCILS JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. JOHORE State Executive Council yesterday named nine people, including a woman, to sit as nominated members on the recently formed town councils of Johore Bahru, Bandar Maharanl (Muar tand Bandar Penggaran (Batu Pahati They are Messrs. M. Ismail, P. J. Pestana and
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  • 48 7 Two thousand five hundred Singapore Muslims through Mr. S. U. Mohamed Sail will ask the president of the Progressive Party today to make representations to the City Council for an access road to the Muslim burial ground at Buklt Permel. in the South Ward.
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  • 24 7 PENANG. Mon.— Penan* had 30 traffic accidents during the Christmas holidays from Dec. 24 to 28 but none was fatal or serious.
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  • 223 7 $4,000 in prizes for sea sports *THE sides of Collyer A Quay are expected to be "packed solid by 8.30 a.m. on New Year's Day for Singapore's 1953 sea sports, one of the honorary secretaries of the sports committee, Mr. J. B. Pagent, said yesterday. Mr. Pagent said that the
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  • 36 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Yang Mulia Ch P Wan Teh binte Che Endut mother of the Raj a of Perlis died last Saturday at the Istana ArauJ aged 54. The funeral took p!ac c yesterday.
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  • 121 7 rpHE City Health Officer, Dr N. A. Canton, yesterday asked people in the Boon Keng and Petaling Road areas, who complained ibout the smell from a rubbish dump nearby to be tolerant for a short while. The land in question is low lying and an ideal
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 83 7 The weather M/'EATHER statistics throughout Malaya yesterday were: Minimum temperature 7.30 p.m. on Dec. 28 to 730 a.m. on Dec. 29): Spore, (69 degrees) Penang (73) Kota Bahru (73) Kuala Lumpur (72) Ipoh (71). Kuantan (71) Maximum temperatar* (7.30 am to 7.30 p.m. cjo Dec. 29); Spore. (85), Penang (88).
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  • 267 8 T/icj want union to help in pay talks with Govt. PENANG, Monday. •THE MALAYAN Teachers' Union has decided to invite the National Union of Teachers in Britain to intercede in the present breakdown of salary negotiations with the Federation Government. The national union will be
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  • 153 8 Union is to hold talks in Singapore PENANG, Mon. TTUII. Malayan Teachers 1 Union plans to hold its first educational conference in Singapore in August next year at the University of Malaya At a meeting in Penang today the union's executive committee decided to ask the Singapore Teachers" Union X"
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    57 8 THE GOVERNOR, Mr. 1. F. Niroll, wears a raincoat as he inspects the new $513,--000 swimming pool which he opened at Van Kit Road yesterday. Following him are Mr. W. I. Watson, City Council Architect, and Mr. T. P. F. McNeil e, City Council President. In the background is a
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  • 24 8 A Singapore man, living at Lorong 36, Oeylang Road, lost $500 when his house was broken Into shortly after noon on Sunday.
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  • 64 8 Arms blow up in a blazing car SEREMBAN. Mon. AN army armoured car caught fire yesterday evening as it was leaving Razak military camp on the way to its base at Paroi. It went over on its side and 'anded in a ditch. The crew jumped to safety a* the
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  • 80 8 THE American National Board of Film Review has announced that the British film "The Sound Barrier" has won three of its 1952 awards. Sir Ralph Richardson wins one for the best male performance, director David Lean another for the best direction and the Him itself gets
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  • 44 8 Two men Lai Leng Kee and Ton See Pen* were yesterday fined $250 each is the Singapore Third Police Court for gambling m public In another court, four men were fined $5 each also for g.imbCins i n public
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  • 90 8 Plans for Coronation week OLAYS and pageants may be staged on a special r platform erected on the steps of Singapore City Hall during Coronation week. The Singapore Coronation Committee has asked the City Council for the use of the City Hall
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  • 50 8 Mr. Q. Hoddinott, police district staff officer, Port Dickson, has a gold watch whose owner he cannot trace. Yesterday, he told the Straits Times. "The number of the watch is **********. Tf anyone claims it, he can contact me by telephoning Port Dickson 222."
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  • 96 8 Today's radio SINGAPORE 630 a.m. Tamil Music; 6.40 News In Tamil: 6.45 Chinese Music; 7 News In Chinese; 7.05 Malay Music; 715 News In Malay; 7.20 English Music; 7.30 News In English; 7.35 Boston Orch.; 8 Announcers' Choice; 8.30-9 Time for Music; 1 p.m. Radio Orch.; 1.30 News: 1.45-2 Woody
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  • 18 8 A roadbuilding programme costing nearly £500,000 is now under way in the Serla oilfield in Brunei
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  • 136 8 rE largest cinema In the Far East and one of the few in the world built on stilts— is steadily rising in North Bridge Road, Singapore. It is the two-and-a-half million dollar Odeon a 1,700-seat, air-conditioned giant on concrete pillars. Owner is
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  • 31 8 Ganga Singh was yesterday charged In the Singapore Third Police Court with murdering Gurdev Kuar in Buklt Berlayar Road on Saturday afternoon. He was remanded till tomorrow
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  • 33 8 Mr. Justice Fletcher Rogers, formerly a Judge of the Singapore High Court and now a judge of the Sarawak High Court, is spending a short holiday in the Colon?.
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  • 99 8 rpHIRTY-TWO Malayan Chinese school teachers decided on Sunday that mahjong should not be played. Thirty others disagreed The teacher* cr p debating on mahjong at the Chinese High School, Singapore. Those against mahjong-playing held that it was a form of gambling, as "nobody
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  • 262 8 SCHOOL FEES INCREASE IS ATTACKED PENANG. Monday. THE time is "not appropriate" for the introduction of increased fees for secondary class children, the Malayan Teachers' Union decided at a two-day executive meeting which ended in Penan g today. A statement today said the union appreciated the Government's need for more
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  • 96 8 Air trooping may replace troopships ENCOURAGED by the results of the recent air trooping" operations In the Far East, which have air-lifted thousands of Servicemen and their families, the British Government Is considering plans that may mean the end ol troopships altogether The Straits Times under- 1 stands that the
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  • 32 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Federation PostmasterGeneral announced today that from Jan. 1 the maximum charge on a cash-on-delivery parcel to or from India will be increased to 500 rupees.
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  • 25 8 Mr. Leslie Rayner of the Attorney-General's Chambers. Singapore, has applied to the High Court for admission to the Bar as an advocate and solicitor.
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  • 24 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Poppy Day Fund collections in Trengganu this year amounted to $7,193. This Is $1,000 more tl\*n last year.
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  • 173 9 By A Special Correspondent T\EEP Into the unknown bushland of Africa goes the adventurer-with-a-difference. Unknown tribes, birds, insects, and plants— these were the things that lured a group of explorers, led by Mr. Bernard Carp, who spends half his time as a business man in Cape
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  • 53 9 A CHOKER A ROSE Not everyone's idea of "chic", perhaps, but at least it's original. This is actress DAGMAR WYNTER wearing a tightly-coiled hair style and a mink choker adorned with a rose. The occasion w as the first night of the show "Remains to be Seen" at Her Majesty's
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  • 438 9  - ROYAL 9 COLOURS FOR THE CORONATION DIANA STRODE By YEW shades of colours, 11 whi'h have been carefully worked out durin? recent years by Britain's Colour Council, will be featured at next year's Coronation. The organisers of the spectacuiar pageant want to make sure that the bunting the elaborate decorations.
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  • 227 9 bO you keep in touch with your cousins? You are exceptional if you do, according to the facts of British family life reported to the British Association. Few people feel any kinship with cousins, and rarely bother with them unless truy happen to live in the
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  • 236 9 Do you know yourself? BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT KNOW yourself, and you know your neighbour But how many women can 'honestly define their own temperaments Marriage expert, Dr. Eustace Chesser refers to peo- pie grouped into four types. Do you see yourself as SANGUINE? That is. en-' thusiastic but changeable.
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    • 236 9 Specially made for baby's fender skin Only the best is good enough for baby. Johnson's Baby Powder is safe, pure ond hygienicolly packed. Its as perfect as modem science can make it. Use Johnson f~~~~~}^\ ot> V Powder regularly, frec'y Jjfer —^"^f^H. Ond w th com f >lete confidence. -^y\
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    • 14 9 c. c. c. Collect six of these coupons to join the Children's Corner Club.
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  • COMMERCIAL NEWS & VIEWS
    • 133 10 Conserving resources T<HE Alor Gajah Rubber Esta'e Ltd. have recommended a dividend of 5 rents a share compared with 20 cents a share In the previous financial year as the directors feel that, in view of the lower price of rubber and uncertainty in the future, it Is considered necessary
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    • 354 10 H.K. company opens $2½m. venture in Colon y AMOY CANNING CORP. ACQUIRES GREEN SPOT RIGHTS THE \niov Canning Corporation (Singapore) Ltd., a Hong Kong enterprise which established a factory in the Colony two years ago, has started a new $2,500,000 venture in conjunction with Green Spot Incorporated of Los Angeles.
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    • 131 10 Commission to study Asian trade MR. KANTILAL J. Shah, managing partner of Jltendra Kantilal and Co., importers and exporters, has already lett for India where he vlll represent the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce it the Commission on Asian nd Far Eastern Affairs at .'alcutta. The commission has been ailed
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    • 196 10 $22-m. development scheme is under way THE $22,000,000 Shenton Way A development scheme Is now under way. Building tenders for the new seven-storey Chartered Bank branch building, which will be erected at the corner of McCallum Street and Robinson Road, will shortly be called. This Is the most expensive site
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    • 201 10 Leaders of business in Malaya AT the early age of 36. MR. TAN PLAY HEE is a Beading- figure in Singapore's robber industry and represents the Rubber Trade Association of Singapore on the Malayan Rubber Export Registration Board. Educated at St. Joseph's Institution. Mr. Tan Joined the Tai Thong Rubber
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    • 94 10 Radio phone to Indonesia next year? SINGAPORE businessmen are hoping, along with colleagues in the Federation, that the new year will see the opening of the radio link telephone between Singapore and Indonesia which has been mooted for the past two years, but Was not yet materialised. The radio link
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    • 270 10 THE APPROACH of the new year sees no material x change in the trade procedure difficulties which, during the past 12 months, have intensified, as far as Malaya-Indonesia trade is concerned. Pro-formas, which much be approved by Indonesian authorities in both Singapore and Jakarta inducement
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    • 139 10 MR A. 8. HULL, chief chemist of lnox» i r Finland, lid, and creator of the toiler eremaa for the prevention of Industrial dermatitis, who passed through Sin irapore by Qantas^BOAC test week. Mr. Hall has been in Sydney for the opening of a new plant
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    • 97 10 MR. P. H. Hopkins, honorary Swedish Consul in Singapore, first came to Malaya in 1923 and has been Consul since 1941. Since that year he has represented the Swedish Match Co. in South East Asia. Mr. Hopkins, who travels extensively in Siam, Malaya, Indonesia and Borneo, served
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    • 50 10 The Mandal-Tekong (Singapore) Rubber Estate* Ltd. showed a loss of $6,777 for the yet\r ended July 31. 1952 Net liquid assets In balance aheet amounted to $43,108 (11.5 cents per share). No longer a rubber producer, this company is valued In market on lt« real estate prospects.
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    • 28 10 The Pakistan Minister for Industries is to discu&s development of the rubber manufacturing industry at a special meeting called in Lahore for January 12.
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  • 63 11 By Our Market Correspondent rE price of rubber jumped 3% cents on the Singapore market yesterday, stimulated by a price Increase of one cent (I.S.) in New York. January first grade shipment closed at 92 Vi cento a lb. There was some short-covering and
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  • 118 11 Singapore:, Mon. Tin price: $472.87'/ 2 a picul (down 37Vz cents). Closing prices yesterday were in cents per lb. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose buyers 92 sellers 92%; No. 1 R.S.S. f.o.b. In bales Jan. buyers 92^j, sellers 92\; No. 2 buyers 871*, sellers 87^; No. 3
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  • 190 11 SINGAPORE Share Market began the week steadily *^in the industrial and tin sections, with fair bus^ iieoo j tow. i *-i<*j Rubbers were very steady and quiet. Price changes announced by the Malayan Share Brokers' Association wtn:- B«»«n Seller* 8.8. Petrol 14/6 36/6 Qammoaa ...j
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  • 177 11 gHIPS alongside the Singapore Har- 1 bour Board codo«ne yesterday were: —Empire Trooper 1/2: Too Hslang j 4/S: Fultala— Coal Plant: Klna 6/7: i Sunnvvllle 9/9: Shlllong 11: Radnor- j shire 13/14: Falitrla :5/l«: Blntani i lt Mlkaxe Maru 18/ JO: Senil-NW Malim— N.W. 8- Langsa- N W.
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  • 108 11 "pHE following dividends were announced during last week: Henry Waagh, lo per cent Interim, less 30 per cent tax. payable on Feb. 3. Books close Jan. 27 to Feb. S. Malayan Tin, 6d. final, less tax, and Is. 6d. Interim, less tax, payable on Jan. 30. Southern Malayan, 6d.
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  • 101 11 f OPRA reached 1U highest price on the Singapore Produce Market this year when business was reported yesterday at $41 a picul f.o.b. Singapore Chineae Produce Exchange (noon price*) Copra $39 > a buyers, $40 sellers steady; Coconut oil $60 sellers steady. Pepper
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  • 49 11 I»KKAK River Valley Rubber Company's liquidator's account for the year to Sept. 30. 1952 shows that a total of $1,109,881 or $2,624 per share has been paid to shareholders. Balance In hand is only $3,926, but there may be a further small Instalment from War Damage Claim.
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  • 258 11 rpHE ACCOUNTS of Jelebu Tin Dredging Limited, after 827,537 (one-half the expenditure incurred on road deviation) Is charged, and providing $26,258 for the depreciation of fixed assets, shows a profit of $197,305. A second dividend on the company's war damage claim yielded $26 404, which added
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  • 860 12  -  JACK FINGLETON AUSSIES, 6 WKTS. LEFT, NEED 241 From MELBOURNE, Monday. DETTING is five-to-two on Sooth Africa winning this second Test here tomorrow, but the odds lengthened several points at five minutes to six when Harvey, oatting in his most brilliant manner, hit a rank full-toss
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  • 61 12 The Royal Singapore Oolf Club's December Medal, "C" Division, (Bogeyt Competition played on Saturday afternoon was won by P.S. Cable (4 down). Ball Sweep on the Ist Nine was divided between S F. Cable. T. A HenzeU. N. W. Hlggln and K. Bedell (2 down) and
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  • 142 12 M»l 111 AFRICA— IST. INNS., ttl AIMKUi, IM INNk.: M 2 SOUTH UKKA-:.\u INNk McUlew >l liiuir, b Kirn v Wall* H.lf k MilUr SS fcadeaa a»l •ul it: run. lon rßa McLeaa Ik* Miller t; Carethaa Ikw j»bb»1» S W>tkia» k Jokn.taa Manicll k MMler IS SUrrar tt.
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  • 366 12  -  SENTINEL By CINGAPORE soccer's "Great Re--0 volt" ended yesterday without a whisper of opposition from the senior clubs which had planned big changes in the organisation of the Singapore Amateur Football Association Council. At S.A.F A's annual general meetIng held yesterday, every elected member of
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  • 516 12 WEIGHTS for third day, Thursday— New 'Tear's Day of the Penang HoUday meeting: vfu. vr»R /-IT* NEW YEA* cur cl. 1. div. 1-1 r. Woodcote Inn 9.«5 Zanzibar B.HBest Bet 8.99 OoodOamb.. 808 Decani* "S SSfTJS SSI g&fffS—iM 8»0 r*h r. M J.n 711 ReUnie
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  • 304 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By top class stayers have been handicapped for the last big race of the 1952 season— the Com-missioner-General's Cup to be run over one and a quarter miles on the last day of the Penan* Turf Club holiday meetinc on Saturday
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  • 85 12 ADELAIDE, Mon. COUTH Australia defeated Queensland by 131 runs today and thus gained their third outright win In the Sheffield Shield cricket competition Declaring at 295 for nine In their second Innings. South Australia left Queensland to get 269 runs for victory. Queensland failed against
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  • 109 12 WASHINGTON, Mon. QTAOO. for whom B. Butcllffe scored 385 on Saturday, beat Canterbury by an Innings and 93 runs in their Plunket Shield match here today. Scutcllffe's score, the biggest ever by a New Zealander, helped Otago make 500 In their Innings. J. O Leggatt and
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  • 363 12 S.C.C. B 6 RASC. 'A' f A PENALTY goal, kicked by Ken Oould In the first half, and an unconverted try scored by Walt In the second, earned for Singapore Cricket Club "B" victory over Royal Army Service Corps 'A' after an even but scrappy
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  • 379 12 DAVIS CUP FINAL ADELAIDE. Monday. AUSTRALIA, holders of the trophy, took a 2—o Ie lx in the Davis Cup challenge round against t United States here today. Frank Sedgman scored their first victory defea ing Vie Seixas 6—3, 6—4, 6—3 while Ken McGreg beat Tony
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  • 187 12 3 SINGAPORE TITLES TO POH LIM j-HOMAS CUP player Ong Poh Llm became the Singapore men's singles badminton champion last night without having to go on to the court to fight for the title. The other finalist. Ismail bin MarJan (Poh Lim's partner In many memorable victories), conceded him a
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  • 54 12 R.A.P. Chsngi beat RAP Beletar by 3-0 In the third replay of the RAP. Inter -unit hockey semi-final at Seletar yesterday. All the three goals were scored in tne second period of extra time Scorers for Changl were: Coello who scored twice, one from a
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  • 23 12 There will be a discussion me ing of Singapore Rugby Unl referees at the Singapore Crlcl Club at 5.30 p.m. today.
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