The Straits Budget, 12 September 1946

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  • 31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURYJ »ew Series No. 6 Singapore* Thursday* September 12th, 1946. Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or I ih.
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    • 62 1 The SINGAPORE FREE PRESS has the largest nett sale of any afternoon newspaper published in Malaya The Singapore Free Press is the oldest established newspaper in Singapore. It recommenced publication in May last and its smart presentation of news has made an immediate appeal to the reading public. For advertising
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    • 1003 2 in w -Straits Times. Srpt. 5 One hundred and twenty-six years ago the British flag was hoisted at the ceremony to which we now look back as tho birth of modern Singapore and the beginning of its history as a British possession. Yesterday, almost on the very spot
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    • 938 2 —Straits Times, Sept. 6 Three months after Europe’s newest republic was declared in the city of Tarquin and Nero the centre of the first and most famous republic in the history of civilisation has decided to remain a royal capital. The circumstances of th
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    • 838 2 Straits Times. Sept. 7 The long-awaited interim Government of India has at last taken office, to the accompaniment of an orgy of bloodshed which augurs ill for the future. By sheer force of contrast the Bombay riots have appeared less serious than they actually are. Compared with
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    • 723 3 M*«**'“ n —Straits Times, Sept. Dpean mercantile opinion regard to price control voiced in the Advisory j jls ot the Malayan Union 1 Singapore last week, and, significant that the tone i th cases was lukewiarm, il and pessimistic. In, Lumpur Mr. W. G. C.; 1
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    • 446 3 Straits Times, Sept 10. No better example of the fantastic disparity between supply and demand in Malaya at pre. sent could be found than that well-known brand of biscuits known as Jacobs Cream Crackers, which have been the object of a hunt by many disappointed citizens
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    • 1021 3 Straits Times, Sept. 11 “In Perak They Hang Them”—with the inference that in Singapore they don’t. That was the heading and theme of some rather puzzh u observations in this column recently on the Mountbatcen proclamation of death to” carrying arms and its inter pretation by
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  • 213 3 INDIAN circles in Singapore believe that Mr. N Raghavan. well-known Penang lawyer and Indian leader, who i; at present vacationing in New I>clhi. is likely to he apiHjinted as the Representative of the Government of India in Malaya, states Associat'd Press I he local office
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  • 1228 4  -  By Harry Miller JT was on the morning of Sept, o that the Japanese Hag in Sirrn* Uonri internment camp was supplanted by the Union Jack, hut lor so many long suffering years had the red blob of Japan been over us that
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  • 63 4 lly Our Chinese Correspondent REPRESENTATIVES of about 300 Singapore laundries met recently and passed a resolution to increase washing charges all round, on the grounds that the "black market price of rice has soared out of all proportion.*' The new charges are: coats, trousers and shirts: 50
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  • 112 4 SINGAPORE Sept. 11. A RELIEF ship, carrying food and supplies, organised by the Singapore Overseas Chinese Importers and Exporters Association. leaves this morning tor Muntok. Banka island. where a total of 23 Chinese trading vessels are reported to be still detained by the Dutch authorities
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  • 143 4 YOU have committed a very serious olTence. You do not care whether the Sten gun reach bad elements or not. All you think about is profit.’’ said the District Judge, Mr Newton, to an Indian. Pitchay Mohamed, when he sentenced him to 16 months’
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  • 218 4 TOKIO, Sept, ID YHK .lapancMj general Tomoyuki Varniishita,, paid with his life for war crimes ihe Philippines, approved in advance the plans ;r Massacre id* Asiatic civilians in Singapore at ih ids forces captured the city, according to test;-, o before the War (’rimes
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  • 112 4 SINGAPORE. Sept. THE Governor oi Singapore Franklin Gimson. spei at an ‘‘At Home” held by th Andrew’s Old Boys' Associ to welcome back the R“v. t S. Adams, head ot St And! School, declared that *t a versity “is set up in Kuala I pur it
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  • 66 4 THE honorary secretaries o. I Singapore Ratepayers ciation write as follows “With reference to th* J the spec al committee t’ 1 Singapore Ratepayers' A on Aur. H. which was p’i'1; paper on Kept. fi. we emphasise that onlv the the decision to app t«*e represent the opit'i
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  • 41 4 From Our Own r TATPINC' TTTE Indian P''l" 1 i Kuala Lumper 1.R77 pieces of Ho 4 but ion nntori" d rs in Kuala Knr. r T. c: 0 r > c Puntnr. Bnaan S' arc! Mat anti.
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    • 321 5 ~jll o -eiitence of i ,i i “The ‘Boy’ 1 *m’ contains the i statement that i jr i; c.,!i women eX- nt) i r people do i „u *i 1c i., not i!n* righi Vyou niploy a boy or ok. or you don’t cmat all. If
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    • 156 5 LiS ami ,yed at “Pre-War anientations over <‘i van.t problem. i should say, mis fl bemoaning inevit -lie were to set to lir ol’ man a decent '-'ouid p(> solving two instead of mak- own back, a. who were for*o ft away from it tell to th 0
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    • 118 5 A EURASIAN price inspector had a cup of coffee in a uting-Shop. When the bill of I’O centwas presented to him i i* threatened to report the ver-charge. Another Eurasian price inspector came on the scene and ottered to settle the matter in a rriendiy way by
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    • 162 5 H'HERE has recently be op a lot ol discussion on the 'Ubject of “Lend or be taxed”. A -uiedh men laxalio. eeming. but wliethn v.* sh.iii tiuve any mil say m tne m.*’ i> xtrenuly doubt ml even though We ave the pret-rue ai an enlarged Council. II
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    • 69 5 IT is believed that the report published in the S.T. that, i.ord Killeaip has a mild infection of the toot” was an underfstimate of his condition. Rumour has if that the hot climate plus the coconut diet have upset the equilibrium of his lordship’s metabolism, and that h: s
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    • 308 5 IWAS am.iZt tl t-> read m your paper of tnda\da'e (Sept :iiat a responsible body uch as tile Singapore Ratepayer* Associat.o.l. referring inctv.i -a s i 1 lent. stated. “It was apparent that trade; in Singapore at present could stand such charges and if rents were
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    • 252 5 WHILST the whole of the ft Katong district appears to be over-run by idle troops and “surrendered enemy personnel” (equally idle owing to lack of supervision apparently) the vital matter of cleansing the district remains static. A certain amount ot barbed wire
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    • 370 5 Did The Dutch Flee a.id give valuable information t»? Allied HQ.s, the personnel of all servic s and departments remained at their posts by strict, orru r «>r the (Jovernoi-Con »u 1 vi.ii also staved hniiM-lf. as you i:nov. They stay d and sui Kied Many died I deliberately Mo
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    • 246 5 IIS ru lilt a strange tnat nobody .M'crn t'» he responsible lor. and eulpeb; of, tiie acut< .siioiia.’< iii rie and .'lour in Malaya i uppu.- Mi Hamer blam s i I.ord Kiileain lor nil piocuun.' mote lood |or him for (list i ibuti" i j to
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    • 119 5 HOW lon£» is t he tt.T.C. Irik* o ::i" to last 1 hat i 1 lie burn in;; que f ion in Sin yahoi'e today. What about the workers ana (•hoei ehi? ren '> How .ire we '■om ta manage jar tiaii.sport f-nnic worker, have lorrv trail
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    • 278 5 ARE British authorities m o! Jap suiTen(ieivd persoiim I” allowing the public to think perhaps tha* 111<• v are afraid of tin* Japs? As an ex-lntcrncr ol Kuchin PoW camp. the writer has t pretty comprehensive idea or i m* Jap mentality W* had during the last days
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    • 204 5 |N the pubiie inquiry over oui I Food cri i allepat mils made aj/ainst Mi Humcr appear trne unlair and unju t. 1 had occasion to apply lor perm >• sion to import milk, bu'ttr ham, bacon, tea, chicken br< 11 1 canned meat, etc. it'om
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  • 554 6 SINGAPORE, Se.pt. I<‘. SINGAPORE Police* believe that the armed .'Malay who was foiled in burgling a room at Rallies Hotel yesterday morning anti shot liis way out to escape—seriously wounding a Sikh jaga named Cnanan Singh—is the man who been committing a
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  • 212 6 pop several years editor <>i tin* Straits Times and a well. known journalist in the Far Fast, Mr. Thomas Bird Reid died on Aug. fj at hi, home, 'i he 'oiP'i, Braf mar Road. Ballati i 1 1 j ins i’htv-seeond year Mr Reid was a
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  • 137 6 •SINGAPORE. Sept. 1 1 Chanan Siiudb the Sikh watchman who was .shot in Hallies Hoh 1, died in the General Hospital last niaht. His serious condition prevented an operation to extract the bullet from his chest The police t hi ory now is t hat
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  • 60 6 THE Eastern Rank. Ltd. in •Singapore have* received a cable irom their London office that at a Hoard meeting held on I>t 1. the directors declared •<n oitmm dividend at the rate •vM r. p! r Bh r income >.■' 'i 1 ol ncr pound li.inslcr books will
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  • 468 6 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 5. THK report laid Indore the Advisory Council by the Rubber Storage and Shipping Committee states that t lie* Committee decided at its first meeting that the amount of rubber awaiting clearance through ports at the beginning
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  • 283 6 i T", f: Dl I |,a,tnu 1 of Education 1., hils llad Intensive drive locnasc food jiroductlou Ao a I!' 1 ~lis '> is oslimalcd iba' I "mo. Hardens ol t|„. Malay pupil. no v cached the 1041 li"u*. o: 10.000. while Malay school
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  • 244 6 SINGAPORE, Sept. 10 Criticism of the use of the term ‘‘Belsen of the East” in describing the Outram Road Gaol, was made by the defence counsel, Major N. S. Bains when he opened the case for the defence yesterday. On the submission ol the
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  • 79 6 CRAVES of civilian interna buried in Bidadari ccmete: are in a “disgraceful conditio: according to the Simian >n I Wi Prisoners) Association Th? Association has wt up committee of two to invostigai and report upon the condition i internees graves and to exp?a monies Irom
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  • 138 6 1 By Our Chinese Corresponded FOLLOWING the change fl tus of Sarawak, the fl i .nhabitants of Sarawak fl quested the Chinese (V-dil-kM 1 neral in Singapore to the Chinese Goveniuieik f establishment oi a Chi. v <-■ su’atc i Kuching to i their interests. I
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  • 595 7 e Bus and men of the Malayan forces figure in 4 H list of awards for the Malayan campaign :e Hj in the London Gazette. include the O.B.E. (Military) for Lieut.Malcolm Graeme McConechy, F.M S. Voforce and the Public Works Dept., and Lieut.it^H n i e y
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  • 118 7 millions of vitamin tabk*t s have been made tor the people of ■h\a by recent notfotia■l. l) "'wc(Mi Lord Killearn F'tif'ioi, Offi Ce and the Office. these negotiations i n South-East Asia mm. 1" !1 authorised to release to the civil authom llion tablets have
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  • 82 7 SYDNEY (By air mail*. A USTRALIAN ghee is now being shipped to Singapore, Ceylon and Mauritius. Production of this ghee was a wartime development. When re. irigeration space for first-grade bult.r to the United Kingdom was at a premium Australian butter manufacturers began shipping as ordinary
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  • 111 7 Union’ s Transition Period Extended From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 7 JHE transitional period before the formal inauguration of the Malayan Union which was fixed at six months and was to have expired on Sept. 30, 1946, has been extended for a fur. ther period of six months
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  • 138 7 SINGAPORE’S flour ration 0 will be* increased from half a kati to three-quarters of a kati a week. The increase will become effective in the ration period following Sept. 16. An official statement announcing the increase adds that arrangements have been made to increase the
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  • 75 7 Sunday Times Correspondent SEREMBAN, Sept. 7. SRI Menantl, seat of the rulers of Ni gri Sembilan, was en letc today on the occasion of the 51st birthday of the Yang di Pertuan Besar. It was a public holiday for th state and in the evening a
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  • 216 7 Another Miles aircraft is being shipped tor use by the Civil Aviation Department, which will be responsible for providing the Governor-General with pilot and ground staff. Hie Governor-1 General’s pilot, who will bo a civilian, has not yet been named. Mi. MacDonald has already re- j
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  • 185 7 Singapore, Sept. 7. THE eleven.man committee appointed by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce to implement resolutions passed at the recent meeting of the Chamber and the Oversea Chinese Importers and Exporters Association, will hold a meeting at the Chamber’s premises at 2 p.m. today.
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  • 212 7 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 7. THE; big job oi rehabilitating Penang Harbour is nearly finished now and it is considered practical to start work on new development schemes,” stated Mr. H. Basten chairman of the Har. bour Board In a statement following a two
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  • 309 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 9. THE War Prisoners’ (Singapore) Association is to send a deputation to the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, to represent matters affecting the rehabilitation of ex-PoWs and internees shortly. Mr. J. C. Corbett, Chairman of the Association, will head the deputation
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  • 69 7 Free Press Correspondent. MALACCA. Sept. 5. TWO Japanese. Capt. Kameawa Matsu tosh l and 2nd'Lt. Omoto Kiyonori were hanged in the Banda Hilir prison, Malacca, tills morning. They were sentenced to death by tiie War Crimes Court held in Malacca two months ago toe their part
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  • 65 7 (From Our Own Correspondent* KLANO, Sept. 7. TENGKU Musa Uddm. broth r of tiu* Sultan of Selangor, and himself Sultan of S» langui during the occupation, has been p leased from official detention, according to reliable sources here. He is at pn ant staying In
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  • 266 8 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 3. EVIDENCE that deceased was addicted to sleepwalking was given at an inquiry held by the Penang Coroner to-day into the death of Mr. J. M. Scoular, the well-known “Malaya Cup” rugger player and Ipoh manager of Messrs. Boustead and
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  • 247 8 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Sept. 3. AN their way to Penang by car on Saturday, a Malacca Chinese merchant and his companion were stopped by three Chinese at Bukit Berapit, 12 miles south of Taiping, and the merchant was robbed ol $13,000, while the
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  • 142 8 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Sept. 4. WHEN Karam Chand, Low Kow and Wong Chow Kee appealed against sentence of seven years which has been passed on all three of them by Mr. Justice Evans for gang robbery, the Chief Justice Mr. C. H. Willan, not
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  • 52 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 5. Miss J. Havden was the only Singapore passenger on board the the 8.0.A.C. flying boat which left for the United Kingdom yesterday. Mr. R. N. Fox arrived in Singapore on Tuesday irom India, while Group Capt. E. T. T. Nelson left by Qantas plane
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  • 110 8 r PHE following appointments have been gazetted: Mr. H. A. Forrer to act as Registrar Supreme Court as from Aug. 12; Mr. C. W. A. Sennet t to be Commissioner of Lands vice Mr. W K Wilton with effect from Aug. 1; Mr. Ralph C. Hoffman to be a
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  • 285 8 GOOD progress in the growing of food-crops is recorded in the July Report of the Department of Agriculture, Malayan Union. In Province Wellesley and Penang, Japanese surrendered personnel cleared approximately 100 acres of land on a local lubber estate but planting had to be
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  • 199 8 S’ PORE MAY GET BORNEO PORK TO meet Singapore's pork shortage, merchants are investigating the possibilities of a new source of supply—British North Borneo, where thousands to wild pigs are stated to be causing great damage to plantations. A Singapore merchant, who is also a hunter, has gone to Borneo
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  • 143 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 5. FOUND guilty by a jury of carrying arms, three Indians Shanak Singh, Suaran Singh, and Sunda Singh were sentenced to ten years’ rigorous imprisonment each by Mr. Justice Thorogood at the second Singapore Assizes yesterday. The accused were riding in a taxi in
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  • 128 8 Singapore, Sept y IADY Killearn last c broku Hotary tradition Singapore. She became, first after-dinner speaker ip its history ar !j replying to the toast 0 f, guests, she paid a tribute the women of Malaya fop couiuge unci tlu forti*thev had displayed the years of the
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  • 218 8 Fmm Our Own Correspond! PENANG, Sept. 4 {•PEAKING at a Victory D U ner held by t in* Chin community last night, Union Governoi Sii Edw Gent, denied allegat: made in Malayan newspap that the rice shortage m country was due to iavou ism
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  • 78 8 From Our Own Corresponded PENANG. Sept. FOR the first time since control was lifted, queues were seen in yesterday evening. when bakeries in town worked time coping with tlie* housewives, anxious to share of the loaves. There*., no baking in the day. hu\‘ lined up at
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  • 1466 9 IKST practical steps in the advance towards the British Government’s ultimate goal of self-rule thin the British Commonwealth of Nations for the ni a and protected territories in South-East Asia contained in the report to the Governor of SingaSir Franklin Gimson, by the Singapore Muni--1,1 Constitution Committee.
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  • 419 9 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 5. CRITICISM of the Price Control Bill which was introduced at the Malayan Union Advisory Council meeting today, was made by Mr. W. (>. lilunn who said he regarded with grave misgiving the introduction of legislation which
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  • 523 10 CI(U RES Riven at a special committee meeting ot 1 the Singapore Ratepayers Association show that, in effect, taking a five year period, the sum illicitly paid as tea-money on transfer of certain tenancies in Singapore represented a rent increase of between 70 and 120 per
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  • 53 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 0. STATING that the evidence at the inquiry yesterday into the d' ath of Capt. Jesse Dixon, master of the s s. Empire Gipsy, was Insufficient to show whether death was accidental or due to suicide, Mr. W. G. Porter, the Singapore Coroner, returned a verdict
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  • 66 10 QUALIFIED lawyers in the Services may now appear for Servicemen in the lower courts of the Colony in any criminal cause or matter. A bill granting them this facility was passed at yesterday’s meeting of the Singapore Advisory Council. The bill is limited in its
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  • 142 10 Two Bills To Fight Bribery Corruption TWO hills allowing the Govi ernment of the Colony to deal more effectively with bribery and corruption eases which according to the Attor. ney.General, Mr E. J. Davies, “are being committed with such persistent frequency at the present time,*’ were made law by the
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  • 155 10 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5. THE inequality of rice rations between Singapore and the Malayan Union was strongly criticised bv Mr. W. G. C. Blunn in the Malayan Union Advisory Council today. Drawing attention to the fart that the Singapore ration ranges
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  • 149 10 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Sept. 5. THE curtain was rung down in the Assize court yesterday on the Codnngton Avenue robbery case in which Madame Ida Oei, daughter of the late Java 'sugar king” Oei Tiong Ham, figured as the victim of n armed
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  • 64 10 This picture was taken at Sime Road camp just one year ago today. It tells two stories —that of three-and.a.half years’ starvation on physiques and that the first day’s liberation on these men’s faces. Left to right: Mr. R. O. Jenkins, a well-known Visiting Agent for Harrisons, Barker Co., Ltd.
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  • 101 10 A MEETING of about 200 Gov- eminent Pensioners has unanimously resolved to form a Government Pensioners Association of Singapore. Its objeet is to safeguard pensioners’ interests and give them assistance when necessary to cooperate with and assist the Government and to promote education and social welfare A
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  • 340 10 POLITICAL SLOGANS IN S’ PORE SCHOOLS AN allegation that certain schools are being run in Singapore by political associations and that political propaganda is being thrust upon young children who have not reached the age when they can think for themselves is made in a 'datement issued by the Singapore
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  • 244 10 Police Awards THE award of the ki Police and Kir" Medal for Gallantry made to two members i? Sinsapore Police C. Pestana and Chief V peetor D.W. Dale. ,ni The citation aceompanyin, Pestana "reads: On Feb. 5, 1942, the t ramy Empress of Asia, packed
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  • 87 10 NEARLY two million bushels' Australian apples ha' already been shipped overse this year, including about a o lion bushels to Britain bushels to Sweden and abo 100.000 bushels each to ti United States and Canada. Malaya has taken 91-" bushels, Ceylon 6,000, the Netni lands
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  • 112 10 SINGAPORE. Sept j OUPPIAH, who was sentenced three years’ rigorous implement on Wednesday for P°^ sion of a bayonet and a C ‘J dagger, was again convicted y terday in the Second Sir.? a ?J Assizes and sentenced to years’ rigorous imprisoning Mr. Justice Thorogood tor
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  • 461 11 l SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. IeIIAIHUTAWON covers the major proportion of K i expenditure of the 83,834,134 supplemental bud1,4 t the Singapore Municipality which was presently to and approved by the Commissioners yesterday. mr T revised estimate of expenditure exceeds that* of I j-,,.. the current
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  • 136 11 B (,Ur Special Correspondent KLUANG, Sept. 6. ine conclusion of the 18th oi t h e court Martial H p r the defence of the I/h a r utroopcrs of the 13th ■r l Battalion charged K. approached a close R'r-,' r (,,,Ur t recorded the
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  • 146 11 THE remains of Mr. Justice Adrian Clark and Mr G. H. S. Mavor. both of whom died in Singapore during the occupation, are to be re-buri-ed in Badadari Christian Cemetery. Singapore Municipal Commis. sioners have set aside two grave plots for this purpose, and no lees
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  • 775 11 Court Of Appeal On Death For Arm s Bill AN important judgment which affects all cases under the Public Order and Safety Proclamation was delivered on Thursday at the Ipoh Supreme Court when Mr. Justice Willan, Chief Justice Malayan Union, Mr. Justice Murray Aynsley, Chief Justice, Singapore, and Mr. Justice
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  • 132 11 QIF.STIONS on how many govcriimont departments still occupied space in the Municipal Building were asked by Mr. John haycock and the re. plies were tabled at the meeting of the Commissioners. They disclosed that only the Food Control Department and I the Director of Medical
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  • 207 11 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 6. pENANG is the first place in Malaya to re-introduce the registration system for the sale of bread. An official statement today also gives details of the issue of “bread cards” to rice card holders. Stressing thai, no
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  • 301 11 From Our Own Correspondent PEN A NO, Sept. .*>. A DRAMATIC' story of how an Indian, R. Naidu, now n recuperating in India from the effect of Japanese tortures, had been landed in Penang from a submarine and had eventually succeeded in getting to Siam
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  • 248 11 SINGAPORE, sept. 7. TIIE Palemhang camp trial In 1 which 24 Japanese officers and Korean guards were arraigned on various charges of ill-treatment of PoWs In a camp at Soengci Cicron, c©*' eluded yesterday at the Second War Crimes Court. Nine sentences of death
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  • 1118 12 Sime Road Trial SINGAPORE, Sept 5. JIKKO TOMINAGA, the second accused in the Sime Road camp case whom witnesses described as “the evil genius of the camp” and “a vicious brute,” yesterday told the War Grimes Gourt that he committed only two acts of violence. Mr.
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  • 236 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. <>. OCCUPYING the witness-box for the most part of yesterday, the third accused in the Sime Road case, Shosliira Kobayashi, nicknamed “Okay Charlie” by the internees, denied maltreating any of the internees in the incidents on which he was examined. Ilis examination-in-chief had
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  • 710 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. THE principal witness at yesterday's hearing of the Sime Road case, Mrs. Gwen Kirwan, who was flown from Penang to give evidence, was complimented by the court on the very able manner in which she gave her evidence and “for being a very
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  • 388 12 SINGAPORE, Sept (j THE Governor ol 1 is sending a the King expressing the do. scnSe °f gratitude of tr f people on their liberation year ago and assuring him their continued loyalty A motion for such a be sent to the King was nm* at
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  • 379 13 liberation Day Messages I SINGAPORE, Sept. 5. It JIKSSAGE to the peoples of Malaya to strive to 1(1 work in close partnership with the Governments ft n Alvins the problems of the future comes from the 1 ■lo'vcrnor-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, on the ■anniversary of the
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  • 187 13 THE celebration of Sept. 12, 1 the anniversary of the Jap surrender ceremony in Singapore, will be centred on the Municipal Chamber. The Chamber will be opened during the morning from 10 o’clock to 1 o’clock, arranged as it was on the day of the ceremony.
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  • 699 13 Confident Of Future,’ Says Governor v\k car ago to-day Singapore welcomed with nearhysterical joy the entry of British liberating roops and the official ending of a regime of terror which had lasted three-and-a-half years. Today, the Straits Times publishes messages from epi’esentatives of the liberating forces and the head rf
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  • 90 13 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 4 NINETEEN thousand dollars- worth of doth, allegedly stolen from a train near Bukit Mertajam, formed the subject of the:t charges in Butterworth court today against four Indians, Kadir Gopal, Subramaniam, Baboo and Vairathamby. Two other accused, Tan Ah Weng
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  • 345 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 5. AS a result of official rc- presentations made to the Malayan Union Government, the ban on the export of pigs from I he mainland to Singapore has been partially lifted, and the first lorry load of pigs once again allowed Singapore crossed the
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  • 103 13 p .SINOAi*O!tE, Sept. 5. A lIKI'I |sll military spokesman on Wednesday said MajorGeneral J. N. Arkwright, Acting GOC, Malaya Command, flew to ftangkok on Tuesday to discuss "banditry along the Malaya Siam frontier" with Major-General G. Itrunskill, GOC, British Troops in Siam. The spokesman described
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  • 163 13 From Our Own Cor espoi dent KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 4. "IT cannot *k* denied that some Chines*? Members <*f tr,< Malayan soci v are beioming exports in black market.ng and can even convert members of othe* communities and in *ome cases Europeans ieclarea Mr.
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  • 573 14 Singapore Expenditure SINGAPORE, Sept. 6. fRITICISM of heavy expenditure on the developmerit of new departments such as the GovernorGeneral's Department, Economic Affairs, Public Relations, Malayan Security Service and Social Service, was made in the Singapore Advisory Council meeting yesterday by Mr. E. M. F.
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  • 93 14 “THE sort of thing we want to I know is why the local small egg is twice as dear as a large egg Imported from Aust. ralia, and why locally grown vegetables and foodstuffs are so much dearer than similar goods brought from other
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  • 185 14 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 3. Testifying today at the resumed hearing of the war crimes trial in which 35 members of the Japanese Kempeitai face charges of atrocities during the occupation, Dr. Letchumanasamy, Assistant Medical Officer in the General Hospital, gave evidence of
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  • 120 14 —Sin Chew. By Our Chinese Correspondent A spokesman of the Singa. pore Bakeries Association has revealed that 100,000 lb. of bread is being baked daily in Singapore for a population of approximately 900,000. He ad vocated that more bread should be baked to
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  • 180 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 6. Twentv-two chines* -owned ships and 400 seamen, detained for several weeks by the Dutch authorities in Netherlands East Indies ports, are to be released. A statement Issued in Singapore yesterday by the ConsulGeneral for the Netherlands. Mr. M. F. Vigeveno, states
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  • 79 14 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 4. An appeal was issued recently by the Chinese Consul in Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Hsu Meng Hsuing, to the Chinese community to fly Union Jacks on national occasions. As a result, arrangements have been made for a special
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  • 62 14 SINGAPORE. Sept. 0. THE death occurred yesterday morning at her home in Kempas Road of Mrs. Constance Beatrice Hogan, wife of Mr. N S. Hogan of Messrs. Donaldson and Burkinshaw. A large number of friends and relatives attended the fun. oral which took place
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  • 1220 14 S’ PORE’ S BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR SINGAPORE, Sept. INTRODUCING the estimates of revenue and expe n diture for the period Apr. 1,1946, to Dec.3l the Financial Secretary, Mr. Nelson Jones, j n Singapore Advisory Council meeting yesterday, t\\l closed that there is to he no defence contribution from the
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  • 222 15 i jHOKiII the number of deaths from traiTic accidents l i; dropped from 24 in July to nine in August, the total H r ot accidents reported last month has set a new l„ h record in Singapore’s history— at 512 against 477 in
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  • 239 15 i edibilities ol SEAC are explained in a !>\ H.Q.. ALFSEA, j at ion pools resources the British. Indian .■v •:.kui lire Cross organ!i joint var organisa- no responsibility to ilation. existing soleundoubted benciit o* ind wounded i>ersoni* i i, mine time SEAC Ci has voluntarily
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  • 105 15 r,i, r A: atir mi tubers of i f. i i i-otis. Barker and 1 1 a reunion dinner World last week. ei \ed as a fare* r Cuthbert and Mr. '•"tors of the Sinyuoi; are proceedin'; to t m’s business. Mr return to Singapore, to
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  • 85 15 CORPORAL Mark Scammell, at present with H Q Air Command. South East Asia, w.ll soon be signing a three-year broadcasting contract with Radio Malaya and on its expiry plans to join the B B C. at home. Wlnle waiting lor his release from the Forces he
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  • 200 15 f rom Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 7. IN reply to questions by Mr. V. M. Menon in the Malayan Advisory Council, it was stated •t negotiations as to the future of t lie Burma-Siam railway, which includes 80 miles ol F.M.S. railway track, are
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  • 104 15 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG Sept. 7. Explaining that he had used “this method ol raisin* hinds in order to return to his unit without puttc.” Walter Archibald 21-year-old member of the R A F Butterworth, pleaded guilty in the District Court today to two
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  • 352 15 MALAYA’S research laboratory for veterinary seiences is at present housed in buildings at the Singapore Turf Club grounds, but with the recent allocation of $200,000 for furtherance of the work of the laboratory it is expected that before long, Ihe laboratory will he transferred
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  • 251 15 I nnn Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thins. TWO months before Japan surrendered, three Danes who. it is understood, were In Malaya before the war days and accord, inu to the Japanese military police, were engaged in espion. age activities on behalf of Britain,
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  • 52 15 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA. Sept d. AT the ronclusion of the trial on ;i charge of forgery, Gun 'lion** Sweo was convicted and fined sr,()o, or to undergo three month:;’ rigorous imprisonment, m the Magistrate's Court, Malacca The accused was Riven a month’s time to pay
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  • 353 15 PROFITEERS ARE LEECHES’ From Our Own (’orrespondent KIIALA LIIMPUK, Sept. b. THE people are suffering badly from the opportuni- ties given to a few anti-social people to prey upon them, said Sir Edward (lent, the Governor of the Malayan Union, referring to the black market when he spoke at the
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  • 135 15 From Our Own Correspondent KIJALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 A report an education tabled a» tie Malayan Advisory f’owi ici 1 tat e that there i an inert nse of n arlv 100.000 in the number n* children enrolled at rheols in Malava compar'd 1941 Tie big
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  • 151 15 WK shall have to r|o soinel 1 hospital at tendant s," Franklin Oimson, at a Pre- e t l ike is a monl h old. “Il ever there wa.> a Justifiable case lor prosecution under the relevant ordinance, the strike ot these attendants provides it’ he added
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  • 444 16 Sinu /toad Trial SINBAPOKK. I(>. MAJOK (iLNLKAL MASATOSIfI S\ITO, ovcr-al! (onimandant <0 the l*o\V and inlcmiicn! ram a* in Malawi from Marni, Dll, until the MiiTt'iidor, :m»pouring .is a (IHpiup \\ilm*>s in the Sinv Bond rasr vostord;i\ said il was his intention to maKe the internees
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  • 116 16 SINGAPORE. Sept. 10 TWO well-known Ceylone.se families ol Singapore and Sr n inban were united when the marriage look place yesterday at the Church of Our Lady ot i/Oiird< s ol Mi: s Teresa Imelda Ranjitham, only daughter of the late Mr. N A Marshall and Mrs Mar
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  • 252 16 KI.CANfi, Sept. EVIDENCE given today con- ehif|ed the testimony tor all 259 accused in lie Kluang court martial Tomorrow' the dot once proposes to call witness other than the accused. This will be I*.llowcd by tin* defending olliver s address. Pte. .1 Starkey said today that tiie
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  • 139 16 CUBSTANTIAL contributions troin accrued interest on investments made up a large portion ol the $:Ui5.2B0 profit l v ’orded by tiie Eastern United Assurance Corporation. Ltd., for the period ending March 31, 1540. according to the chairman. Mr. S Q Wong, at the 20th annual general
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  • 441 16 Bv Our Batavia Correspondent BATAVIA, Sept. :5. CINCK return to Singapore of Lord Killearn, accompanied by the Dutch Lieutenant Covernor(ieneral, l)r. 11. .1. van Mook, and the American Consul, Mr. Walter Foote, the local press, both Dutch and Indonesian, have indulged in speculation regarding the
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  • 35 16 Mi. R F. Will gross, the Muni. inal Analyst, Singapore, has ietui nod 1 rom leave after intern, ment and his laboratory is now m its nre-war site in the Municipal Offices.
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  • 104 16 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR. Sept. <>. [RESPITE the stern sentences on smugglers 01 rice from the Same*.* kordt v the racket appears to he going on Several eases -l illegal movement of lie were brought up lor hearing m the district court before Che A/mi
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  • 151 16 SINGAPORE I MARRIED yesterday I Singapore Registrar* ,M in Fulleiton Buildia I L.dr L. C. MeConm Uf r K( n.sinvton. LoncF I OHicer Heather J o 4 F’lint House. I a: I Havant. Hants. Both "aC. on the stall ot IP ad (r Air Command,
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  • 167 16 From Our Own Corn sponda IPOH. Sept A LARGE gathering inclua all community leaders attn ed the Victory Dance held j Town Hall on Saturday night The proceeds of the dance i go to the community des’ii fund. The Resident Commissioner J A. V. Aston, addressing
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  • 229 16 From Our Own rumviumfleal I PENANG, Sent. 1 I GIVING evidence of the execution carried l Penang prison during Jap occupation, former corporal of Ihe guards, said at >' ,wli: hearing ot flu* war crimes trial that on one <> I he saw a
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  • 661 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 11. i.vda> strike of 800 employees of the Singapore Traction Company concluded yesterday after* 1 a ttcr a three-hour meeting between officials and Em.ati>, and saw the institution of a skeleton ser E m p.m. which resulted in overcrowded buses r n r office-workers
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  • 41 17 APADI settlers’ fund, to provide amenities for padi settlers in the government settlement areas at Tanjong Karang, Sungei Manik, Endau and other places, has been set up. The Director of Public Relations is the chairman of the committee.
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  • 88 17 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 6. SHORT (listar. v away from Kiapeng road car strippers last night victimised the Manager of th Singapore Cold Storage. Mr .i k Hill About 5 a m he was awakened and on going to the found his
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  • 448 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 11. OFFICIALLY announced as a public holiday, tomorrow. Sept. 12, the anniversary of the Armistice ceremony i n Singapore, will be observed as a day of thanksgiving and rejoicing among the people. The main official ceremony will take place at
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  • 147 17 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11. Three sikh wut hmen w< pjpv, rl up when inn! < i raid* d NAAF T sfnr< :P Kee Seng |,fl eg! ly ye te; -I v n.ol niO" bu* prompt ro.spon e to iniutma lion by the pnlie, led to *v«r»! memoer 1
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  • 367 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 11 MAJOR Kobayushi, commandant ol the Military section ol the Outram Road gaol, yesterday in the course ol cross-examination by Lt. Col. H. Withers Payne admitted responsibility for the death ol live prisoners from ocriberi during the first live months ol his tenure ol
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  • 64 17 KIN(JAI»ORK Sept. ID A CHINESE, Yony San. who ad* 1 rniU'd six previous convic t.on wit; tcrdav out* rif d ’< rr.onl li. i'i’ or oti Ir:.?>' i I i.• mem hv Mr I T (hi il. the r(,< I)is 1 ri’t tor be n 4
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  • 319 17 KM \N(., Sept 10. TUI! trial ol the 25X para. troopers of the l.'lth l*ara- hutc Battalion for allccrd mutiny aroused fresh interest today when, at the elose of the defenee ease the proserution asked for and received per mission to recall two witness es.
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  • 226 17 THE Army has issued a statement giving the* reasons why it is not considered expedient to distribute lie*- allocated to .Japanese surrendered personnel as an increase to the civilian rat inti in Singapore. I i,c allocation of rice to the Japan s* 1 in Singapore works
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  • 367 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 11. TKillTEK control ol the bread output lrom bakeries and its distribution to retailers are measures contained in the new bread distribution plan launched in Singapore on .Monday by the food ontiol Distribution Department. Under this plan, bakK’ies an* supplied with Hour and are
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  • 178 18 amendment to I,llc Companies Ordinance to be introduced at the Advisory Council. Singapore, shortly will provide that a declaration to the Registrar >1 Companie s to the fleet that memorandum and articles of association arc complete and up-to-date will (xcu.se a company from filing the actual
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  • 202 18 SINGAPORE. Sept. 10 PINKS totalling $550 were imposed on Quck Thiam Ting, a licensed re tailer ol No. 1. Have- lock Road. Singapore, by Mr. T. T. Russell, the Second District •Judge, yesterday, lor refusing to sell a bottle of whisky and silling whisky in
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  • 45 18 The above is a facsimile of the front cover of a booklet published by the Department of Public Relations for the Trade I'nion Department giving model trade union rules, with a summary of registration procedure for the guidance of .Malayan organisations.
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  • 117 18 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 10. AN official communique issuer! at Km hi Liivnuur today States that 90 applications Lorn Japanese for permission to stay in Malaya were recently brought before an examining board which sat in Singapore Alter careful consideration r,3
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  • 297 18 Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 9. Jl ,s Uie cJnt\ of trade unions, instead of taking the law into their own hands to report either to the estate* manager or the police commissioner of suspected commission of any serious offence. This was pointed out
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  • 469 18 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Sept. 9. VUSOFF BIN AHMAD, inspector of police attached to the Joo Chiat police station, Singapore. discharged today in the magistrate’s court, lacca, at the conclusion of a preliminary inquiry into a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to a Chinese. T ll(
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  • 94 18 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 6. ALLEGED to have caus'd hurt to three Malays who. it was stated, assisted British paratroops and a Major Headley shortly before the invasion, Abdul Rahman bin Long. Inspector of Police under the Japanese regime, was found not guilty by
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  • 89 18 IN order to assist rehahilita tion of both the Malayan I'nion and Singapore Colony the Controller of Foreign Ej. change, Malaya, is now prepared to grant U.S. currency for the purpose of the import of 1 private cars from the I’nited i States conditional
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  • 69 18 ONE hundred and fiity-fiv stowaways were di scovei ed on board the s.s. Cam; roonia after she had id Singapore on Sept. 11 aftei noon lor Madras. The ship was immediate! turned back and after f he sto* a ways had been taken asho: left
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  • 150 18 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11 CHINESE who carried 5 1 rounds of ammunition i-', basket covered under vesetaiu at Boat Quay on Aug. 6 was ifr $7.70 or in default six montl rigorous imprisonment by Paul Storr. yesterday he pleaded guilty to unauthors possession of
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  • 271 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 8. int Army 1 Northampton 1 BEAUTIFUL last minute goal by Bannister enabled the p.Tbim d Army to share honours with the Northampyen yesterday, each side scoring once, in one of the 1 J games played at the Jalan Besar stadium. the goals
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  • 115 19 was decided at the SingaI pore Cricket CIud rugby Htin:;. held at the Club on Hrsday evening, that a trial Htrh would probably be held the last Saturday in this Bnth. Hr J. K. Potter was elected Ha;:. H. J. Maxey, vice.captain H A Cromarty hon. secretary.
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  • 108 19 Penang Turf Club will hold "Hr September meeting 0 opening on Sept. H (1 n ding on Oct. 5. There H tuo runs for each of s one tuo, three and four R' in 7 an d stakes will be: ::i one. 6 furs and 5V2 1
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  • 521 19 SINGAPORE. Sept. 9. From Our Own Correspondent JIT Selangor races on Saturday highest dividend of the day was paid by Tommy. $6B for a win in the last race. Harlequin paid $54 for a win Results were: BIG SWEEP The draw on the Big Sweep, total pool
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  • 262 19 r |''HE Ceylon Sports Club scored an easy win over Singapore District on the Thomson Road ground Batting first the Ceylonese ran up a score of 167. S.K. Sundram making 54. Skinner bowled best for the District to take six for 48. Of the District’s 49
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  • 278 19 THE Chinese beat the S.C.C. by 32 runs in a cricket match played on the pariang on Sept. 8. Cheong Thiam Sicw scored 59 for the Chinese, Jeans with six for 35, being the Club’s best bowler. The scores were: S.C.R.C. Cheong Thiam
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  • 45 19 r) commemorate the liberation of Malaya, Mr. F. W. Palmer, president of Selangor Football Association, has presented a cup for soccer to be played annually between Civilians and Combined Services on Sept. 12 each year. The first match will Ik* played cm Thursday.
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  • 239 19 SINGAPORE. Sept. 10 FOR the first time in over a hundred years Singapore s New Year’s Day Land and Sea Sports will be held only as Sea sports when the.* event is revived next year after a four-years’ gap This was decided at a meeting
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  • 181 19 .Sega mat, Sept. 9. Thr P W D Cricket XI drew with tin* Second Durham Light Infantry a* cricket on Saturday. 'I lx- I) I. I tram scored 12 ft runs for fi wickets and declared their innings closed. The P W I> sent In Kandasamv
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  • 296 19 (From Our Own Correspondent) KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 10. REPLETE with all the thrills associated with (’up finals, the 96th Field R.D.Y. heat the Northamptons three goals to two in the Malaya Command soccer championship, before a large crowd, including Major Gen. J. 11. Arkwright, who gave
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  • 257 19 i From Our Own Corn .s|>ondenL> Seremban, Sept H to be a two-day fixture but curtailed to an innings each ti e Segam.it Kuropeans vs Rest match for tlie Carter Cup provide 1 exciting cricket, the Rest winning by two wickcts. Batting first, tile Kuiope.m wrif
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  • 49 19 The Tiipmg Chinese Recreation Club def*ated the Chinese National Language Association Ij»<>h. in a badminton fixture played here yesterday by sev’>i' mutches to nil At the conclusion of the match, the visitors presented a silk banner to See Thoo <"h< ng captain of the* Talptng team
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  • 857 20 Bv A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. THERE was a shrinkage in the volume of business transacted on Malayan markets during the week and practically all price changes were downward. In tin* .staple industries uneasiness was caused l>y tardiness in announcing tin* new tin price
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  • 74 20 Lukut’ s Loss Of Property DIRECTORS’ report to shareU holders of the Lukut Tin I)redt;in«4 Ltd states that the drcd"e was completely destroyed under Oovernment’s scorched earth policy. Some shore plant was also destroyed at the same time and during the occupation the remainder of plant and machinery was removed
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  • 87 20 THE United Kingdom, after consultation with the Governments of the United States, Bolivia, Belgium, and the Netherlands, has invited the main tin-consuming and tin-producing countries to an international tin conference in London. The countries invited are Belgium. Bolivia, China, France, the Netherlands, Siam,
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  • 133 20 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 8. TEN thousand tons of rubber packed and ready for export to London and America are held up in Penang awaiting what one leading dealer refers to as “better times.” This stock is being stored in local godowns.
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  • 49 20 r PHE directors of the Chartered Eank A of India. Australia Ac China, have cb dared an interim dividend foi the curient veai of 3} per cent. 'as against 2} per cent, in 1945 1 subject t(. income tax. The dividend is payable on Oct. 2.
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  • 111 20 JAPANESE succeeded in raising J the Jelebu Tin Dredging dredge in February, 1943. The dredge w’as sunk under Governments orders in 1941. The Directors’ report states the Japanese worked the mine intermittently until February. 1944 and during that period approximately 1.000 piculs of tin ore were
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  • 361 20 Wearne Bros. O n Loss Of Records AT the ordinary general meeting of Wearne n held in Ixmdon on July 13 a resolution was n and the meeting was adjourned to a date to he fi later. No accounts at that time were available to meeting. 1 1 10 tl
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  • 61 20 r pHE Governor nas been pleased A reconstitute the Standing T: Advisory Committee ol Singapore« the following membership:—The S rotary for Economic Affairs iCb man), The Financial Secretary, Controller of Customs. Mr K M Fergusson, Mr. Lien Ying-Chow, R. Jumabhoy. Mr. E C H Cr. wood, Mr. Lee
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  • 714 20 Share quotations, as at Sept. G according to „i.t Malayan i arebrokers Association t i were as follows. IMHSTRiAI S Buv-t Seller Alexandra rtrvkworlo Ords. $l.BO $2.20 Alexandra Brickworks Profs i 80 3.00 Brit Malaya trustee Ac Executor Co a.OO 9.00 Consolidated Tin Smelters 24/3 25 9
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