The Straits Budget, 24 October 1946
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Title Section31 1946-10-24 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] New Series No. 12 Singapore, Thursday, October 24th, 1946, Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or I ih.31 words
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Advertisement66 1946-10-24 1 Mu**" 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.66 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article700 1946-10-24 2 Straits Times. Oct. 17 Those of our readers who wer e reading the Straits Times in .1940 and 1941 must have thought of tnose days when they read the news published on our front page last Tuesday that Siam is to return the four border provincesStraits Times. Oct. 17 - 700 words
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Article877 1946-10-24 2 —Straits Times, Oct. 18 The commercial community of Singapore at last feels that effective action is beginning against th e looting of godowns and stores, which has been so frequent during the last six months or so as to be a disgrace to British administration. The powers given—Straits Times, Oct. 18 - 877 words
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Article810 1946-10-24 2 —Straits Times, Oct. W Today the Straits Times picks up yet another of the threads in its pre-war files and extends a greeting and good wishes to the Incorporated Society of Planters, which has figured in these columns many times since its foundation in 1919. The I.S.P.—Straits Times, Oct. W - 810 words
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Article798 1946-10-24 2 —Straits Times. Oct. 21 A plate of rice, 'jj bilis. bean sprouts ana -or. alternatively, nood* bean cake, water crcs.'- sprouts and P rawn perhaps not a suitable t for a leading article. ea the announcement a cJ or j. containing one of th ()S—Straits Times. Oct. 21 - 798 words
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Article969 1946-10-24 3 Straits Times, Oct. 22 Haci Malaya bosn less concerned with immediate domestic problems, it is probable that the recent debate in the House of Lords on the subject of Imperial Defence would have given ris e to a great deal of controversy in this country. Some– Straits Times, Oct. 22 - 969 words
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Article939 1946-10-24 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 23 One of the most interesting places in Singapore ut the moment is the old Supreme Court at the back of Empress Place, where are housed tin* various branches of the Social Welfare Department. In the eyes of the public this department is still—Straits Times, Oct. 23 - 939 words
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Article146 1946-10-24 4 SINGAPORE. Oct. 23. THE death took place in the office of William Jacks and Co., (Malaya) Ltd., yesterday morning of Mr. Robert Campbell Stewart, a director and the secretary of the firm. Mr. Stewart was sitting at his desk at 8.45. having Just arrived. when he146 words
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Article180 1946-10-24 4 PENANG, Oct. 19. A declaration in respect of a shipment of 100 tons of rubber to the United Kingdom formed the subject of an Interesting case heard In the District Court yesterday, when a prominent local rubber firm. Saw Seng Kew and Co., were180 words
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Article58 1946-10-24 4 SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. Seventeen Chinese were arraigned before the Fourth Police Magistrate, Inehc Ahmad bin Ibrahim, yesterday on charges ot committing gang robbery o! several barber Instruments valued at $5O. in Sembawang Road on Oct 20 After the charge was explained to the accused, the case was58 words
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Article819 1946-10-24 4 DAVID FIENNES - By DAVID FIENNES A LITTLE official in blue overalls stands guardian at tne barrier. A fat woman »s coming out with a chicken m a basket. The little official in blue overalls digs her in the ribs looking (he would no doubt say) for concealed819 words
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Article111 1946-10-24 4 —Reuter. Batavia, Oct. 20. Dr. A. K, Gani, Economic Minister of the Indonesian Republican Government, spoke at a Press conference yesterday of the flourishing barter trade between Palembang and Singapore. Dr. Gani, who is also Assistant Governor of Sumatra, stated that Republican authorities collected 40,000,000 Japanese—Reuter. - 111 words
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Article610 1946-10-24 4 Singapore, Oct 22 REPRESENTATIONS made by the War iw u (Singapore) Association on the question of Liability claims are now being considered bv Worley Commission which was appointed by the g' ernor of Singapore, recently, to go into ‘the vvhoi question of back pay. This610 words
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Article198 1946-10-24 4 SINGAPORE, Oct. 20. THE Singapore Municipality plans to spend about s6*i million on water and more than ss*4 million on electricity services during 1947, according to official estimates of revenue and expenditure released yesterday. Against an estimated 1947 revenue of $20,226,881, expenditure for the same period198 words
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Article64 1946-10-24 4 PENANG. Oct. H TN connection with the deat 1 dance hostess Molly seefell from the landing of nai been a spiral staircase w Shanghai Hotel, the manage the hotel, Loy Kia »T eI ?i«tra charged in the Third Mat, Court today with causing by a rash64 words
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Article56 1946-10-24 4 SINGAPORE). Oct. RULES and procedure 8 0V claims for comp n5: J respect of land or °t m arc published in a to the Government ssued yesterday. cmeaP The rules are called s Essential Regulations i sation Board* Rules. rir ;j hIso provide for the o tion56 words
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309 1946-10-24 5 IhEN i eleased from th? siim Road internment Ijp ,fi,-r three tind a hall H 4 internment, I was R the foolish person* the story told us bv repatriation officials. V- would be well looked E,. by the Government when reached309 words
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Article221 1946-10-24 5 HAD hoped to see some comment on the notice V by the Singapore Turf ■jb to its Ordinary Memunder date 14th Oct., ■46. f ‘oro the late war the com- eof t h e;ub was notoriously I,. T iro P' a n pres: rve—proxies !1 known to have221 words
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Article327 1946-10-24 5 Rubber Betrayal” THE planting community was glad to learn from Mr. rf. B. Palmer’s letter published m the Straits Times of Oct. l.*i that he has given notice of another question in the Union Advisory Council following tin* extraordinary reply by "Government which purports to refute his charge that up327 words
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Article278 1946-10-24 5 I WRITE to you with a heeling of Utter Hi-gll-t a Governments “Grow M°tv Food” project, which habeen proved a mere mocken in this island, which is stiil a pari of the Malayan Union although it is off the coast of Kedah. Everybody knows that th world is278 words
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Article226 1946-10-24 5 PRICES are coming down at last, and I suppose everyone is interested to know whether they eventually tail to what they were pre-war. Our economic expert. Mr. Fyke, has told us that they never will, but he has never given us any reason lor his contention. With226 words
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Article168 1946-10-24 5 WHEN people in Singapo* received their ration '>1 cloth, we in the Malaya i Union eagerly looked forward to our turn. Perpavali i approach.ng. but nothing has n h'ard so lie oi fjtjr sh.fr,. ol cloth Rumour is th<* air about a rat.on ol five t, .iir 1168 words
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Article476 1946-10-24 5 Sanatorium As A War Memorial 1 OBSERVE with interest in your issue of Oct. 17 th.it the directors of the Singapore Rotary Cluh have decided t<. support tin* Singapore Association in pressing lor a tuberculosis clinic as a war memorial for Singapore. I am a member of both these bodies,476 words
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Article156 1946-10-24 5 with distrust your r<‘ port regarding tin* refuge* from Bagan Si Af)i Api. number ing a lew thousands. who have come to k shelter in Malaya Your report sta'ed that the.**' flsiiertolk fiuvc come "to provide a welcome addit ion to Malay i d» plet. f| n .hlng156 words
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Miscellaneous9 1946-10-24 5 A MEMENTO OF yOUR VISIT TO JAVA K i»nd9 words
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Article331 1946-10-24 6 SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. DRICES of black market rice in Singapore registered a sharp drop over the week-end as a result of the announcement of the opening of a free market for one month for three per cent, of all rice sold to the Siamese331 words
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180 1946-10-24 6 SINGAPORE. Oct :>l pp2SCRIBEI) as a naval dev rt r. 21-year-old James Shanley was yesterday sentenced to three years’ rigorous imprisonment and fined SHK) by Mr Paul StoiT. the District Judge, tor possession of a pistol and ammunition it was stated that180 words
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198 1946-10-24 6 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. THE Field General Court Mai* ial. in Singapore, of Capt. c R Wadsworth. R.A.M.C., on charges of using insubordinate language to his superior oflicor. and also causing bodily harm tcj Indian Other Ranks, was d ‘.solved yesterday, on the Instructions of198 words
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Article72 1946-10-24 6 I’Toin Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Oct. PJ. I\UI’ to delay in the expected shipment of flour, resulting in insufficient stocks at present, there will be no issue of flour ration to the Penang public lor the next »wo ration weeks it is uITiei'Hy announced here. All72 words
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124 1946-10-24 6 A 24.000-mile operational sur- vey flight to 10 principal cities in the Far East, including Singapore, by Pan-Ameri-can World Airways has begun. The clipper Westward Ho left San Francisco at 11.30 a. m. yesterday lor Honolulu, the first scheduled stop on the trip,124 words
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Article744 1946-10-24 6 Singapore, Oct. 22. AF the trials in respect of war crimes said to ha\e v been committed in the course of the war in SouthEast Asia, one, which it was claimed may rank a.> second only to the Tokio trial, began yesterday at the Victoria Memorial744 words
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287 1946-10-24 6 INQUIRIES arc being made in Singapore to ascertain the number of children whose parents were war victims, with a view to setting up a special fund to give them relief as well as educational aid This is one of the three recommc ndations for the287 words
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Article221 1946-10-24 6 «y Our Chinese Correspondent WITH the arrival oi u pean and American ur/* in Malaya, the heyday 0 fth importers of Australian wi is over, states the Sinche Jit Poh. The paper &]1 states that prices of gener„ imported goods of foreir manufacture have dropped221 words
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Article154 1946-10-24 6 For Car r\inj Revolver SINGAPORE Oc:. 22 A 21-year-old Chinese. Tan Huat. was sentenced to sei years’ rigorous imprisonment Mr Justice Thorogood at t Singapore Assizes yesterday he pleaded guilty to a charge carrying a .38 revolver which 1 loaded with six rounds o'. ammunition. Mohamed Yaha."i.154 words
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Article57 1946-10-24 6 II# A f PENAN 1 OCtj*j rRClNG their way in’'> at Machang Bra eJ through the kitchen t( j of seven robbers w* ‘,>.0!! last night when tie* rushed out of the b raised an alarm gs On hearing this tie’ twice but the shot -.7 The57 words
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771 1946-10-24 7 I [Iso First Graduate Of Medical College I Straits Times Reporter L A. VISWALINGAM, to whose eye clinic in Kuala fJ Lumpur thousands of people from Perak, Selan|or. Negri Scmbilan and Pahang have gone for treatment in the last twenty years, has been appointed771 words
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Article159 1946-10-24 7 THE Public Works Department is drawing up plans for an extension of the Jubilee Home for Aged Women at San Peng Road in Kuala Lumpur. The estimated cost of $29,000 was approved it the last meeting of the Central Welfare Council on Oct. 10. The159 words
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Article70 1946-10-24 7 50 Servicemen’ s Children Arrive Singapore, Oct. 21. FIFTY servicemen’s children were among the 358 service and civilian passengers who arrived in Singapore yesterday evening aboa-rd the P and O. liner Ranchi. The ship brought in 234 civilians, mostly returning Malayans from the United Kingdom. R.A.F. servicemen’s wives aboard numbered70 words
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Article83 1946-10-24 7 PENANG’ S NEW CINEMA PENANG. Silt. WORK, on Pi nano's new cinema at, Swatow Lane, adjoining the New World park, which had been held up last month pending the approval of building plans. has now been resumed Permission has been granted nv the Commissioners to proceed with the construction. To83 words
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268 1946-10-24 7 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 17. A RESOLUTION expressing dissatisfaction and dis- appointment with the majority report of the Rack Pay Committee was passed at an extraordinary meeting of the Government Junior Civil Services Association held at the Town Hall, Kuala Lumpur,268 words
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405 1946-10-24 7 SINGAPORE. Oct. IS AT the conclusion of an inquiry into an accident in the approaches ot Singapore Harbour on July 19. last, when the 957-ton motor vessel Bentong struck a floating submerged object, a Marine Court of Inquiry yesterday decided to deliver their decision in405 words
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220 1946-10-24 7 Straits Times Reporter MANY volunteers to tht Special Police Constabulary formed to augment police patrols at night and l.* guard godowns and stores, were interviewed by officers of the Singapore Police head quarters last week. Those accepted will begin a revolver training course this week220 words
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Article155 1946-10-24 7 From Our Own Correspondent 11*011. Sunday. CUBSTANTIAL relief to Ipoh s housing shortage envisaged in a scheme of the Public Works Department will not materialise us the Kinta Town Board at its meeting on Thursday turned down the Department’s application lor erection of temporary Quarters155 words
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Article552 1946-10-24 8 STUDY OF DIETS Straits Times Reporter NUTRITIONAL surveys are being carried out in Sin* I? a pore by a team of investigators to determine the extent of malnutrition among the people in view of the critical food situation. Another reason for the survey is to build552 words
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117 1946-10-24 8 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Friday. PENANG dock workers who last w«*ok intimated that they would be raising then’ handlin'* charges by 20 per cent, have now decided to waive the increase. •This decision. whi h was rcached alter a throe-hour meeting on117 words
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Article135 1946-10-24 8 IN the absence of riee in the Malayan’s daily diet, Singapore nutrition authorities recommend one well-balanced meal which is said to provide at least one third of the daily requirements in regard to energy and other essentials This meal is made up of: Five and135 words
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139 1946-10-24 8 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun r pHE statue of Sir Frank Swettenham. a pre-war landmark at the side of the Government Building in Kuala Lumpur, ir being restored by the Public Woiks Department. The preliminary work on the stone base has started A new139 words
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Article317 1946-10-24 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 20. SINGAPORE’S first Air Scout Group, started early this year by a small number of enthusiasts from the R.A.F. and local Scnutcrs made its public bow at Knllang Airport yesterday at a parade during which they were inspected by their Group Patron, Air317 words
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Article195 1946-10-24 8 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday careful consideration ot the history and scholastic record ol T. Mori, the wellknown K.L. Japanese. and public representations. the Governor of the Malayan Un on. Sir Edward Gent, has decided to grant permission for Mori and n.s aged mother195 words
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Article150 1946-10-24 8 From A Correspondent BATU PAHAT, Sat. THE Chinese Consul-General Dr. 1 Wu Paak Shing, on his way to the East Coast stopped at Batu Pahat last Thursday He called at the Office of the Assistant Commissioner, and met Government officials and the Penghulus. Dr. Wu.150 words
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Article61 1946-10-24 8 From Our Own Correspondent A lor Stcr Thurs A freak child whs torn again at 1 Tanjong Dawai, scene of the birth of a child Ait v two heads, four legs and «hrre hands in August. This new freaK L a child with two61 words
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562 1946-10-24 8 A SUGGESTION that Government should immediat e “a people’s representative conference, through* medium of which they can consult the wishes of the including all parties and religious bodies” i s made President of the Malay Nationalist Party i n a statem* The statement reads:562 words
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Article71 1946-10-24 8 From Our Own Corn PENAM 1 Sl \FTER hearing one speaker's “something out o. should be included ar public’s interest.” th«* 1 and Province Wcllesl* Pay Committee under manship of Mrs. E 1 *m on Thursday decided three-day bazaar or* ?Q „f communities71 words
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Article409 1946-10-24 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 19. EQUATIONS between the King Edward yjj C ollege of Medicine Alumni Association and Government on a revised salary scheme for -employed doctors in Malaya have made Hie progress. While Government is still considering a scheme .h the Alumni Association first submitted m n409 words
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Article29 1946-10-24 9 io'uer who usofi r> i fi a* tho Navnl Ha sc heel ana t vr f from was yestefdav srr.momh.,’ I—nr;* T1 ird Magistral c livrue.29 words
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218 1946-10-24 9 THE Government of India nave decided to chart .v a special ship to take Indian r* patriotrs from Malaya to India at the ra-e of 3,000 persons each month. In order to systemati:-* the selection of repatriates for this ocrat the Represent .ve ol th<218 words
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Article48 1946-10-24 9 Prom Our Own Correspondent From penaNG. Friday ms gris-js as»*|ri been made ny 1 drivers and eonduetors In pressing lor tu pa t L, -the Het that 1 trolley buses are not available or that spare Pa.s could not be had m fault.”48 words
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Article57 1946-10-24 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. Ift AN extraordinary meeting of the Singapore Clerical Union, railed to consider and pass the revised rules of the Union was held yesterday. The rules were revised to enable the Clerical Union to be registered under the Trades Union Ordinance. Its new name will be57 words
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Article101 1946-10-24 9 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Thursday EMIGRATION of Chinese to Hong Kong, Swatovv and Amoy has eased considerably ot late, according to Mr. T Huggins. the Deputy Immigration Officer, w'ho said three or four vessels are now leaving Penang every month for China. A further batch101 words
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Article405 1946-10-24 9 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. TAKING advantage of a failure in the electricity supply and a heavy downpour of rain, six Chinese prisoners in Pudu Gaol, Kuala Lumpur, on the night of Oct. 13, put into operation a plan to escape from405 words
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Article367 1946-10-24 9 From Our Own C orrespondent KUALA LUMPUIt, rt d W HE Mala"u m‘December.‘l94l the Malayan Dost m t o Bank deposits «mou d js 53G.000.000 rius amoun,. revealed, was ecPrnd > enmities in L Tho chief Accountant anti cipated these deposits might b- iu danger367 words
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Article421 1946-10-24 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 19. THE introduction of fruit juices into the iocal market at prices almost half of what it costs a local importer to bring them into .Malaya has caused some concern to importers and has resulted in the cancellation of thousands .of dollars of orders421 words
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107 1946-10-24 9 SINGAPORE, Oct TWO clerks Tuy Ah Hcng and M Veloo. employed in a mill turv depot at Hukit Timah Road, were each sentenced to one dav’s simple imprisonment, and a fin" of $3OO or in default two months* imprisonment each by the Fourth107 words
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106 1946-10-24 9 THlv Singapore Cleri al Union has sent a reply to tlv* Controller of Supplies. Mr J Hauler, who recently denied tha* there was discrimination .shown in the distribution of supplies and that the Cham Utility Stores had a right to disixwr oi its goods106 words
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Article339 1946-10-24 10 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 16. THE (Jovernment cannot permit conditions under which certain sections are reaping a harvest at the expense of consumers, said the Chief Secretary of the Malayan Union, Mr. A. T. Newboult, when he addressed the Price Control Committee339 words
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150 1946-10-24 10 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 15. PENANG traders will invite representatives of dock workers to discuss the new rcide of handling charges, according to a decision reached at a meeting of members of ihe Importers and Exporters Association and other leading trading bodies.150 words
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Article78 1946-10-24 10 Hospita l’s 11 Sets Of Twins From Our Own Correspondent. KIJALA LUMPUR, Oct 16. ELEVEN sets of twins were born during August at the Kuala Lumpur Maternity Hospital, adding considerably to the complications of over congestion which reached its height during that month. There has been a noticeable increase in78 words
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Article173 1946-10-24 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. W. THE Chinese Chamber oi Commerce decided at a meet in 4 of the committee yesterday to forego its allocation ol 330,00t yards 01 (Moth and to ask Mr .1 Hamer, Controller of Supplies, to place tills quantity for dhstnbuttion by ration cards. The meeting173 words
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Article, Illustration407 1946-10-24 10 Y. M. C. A/s Building Plans Straits Times Reporter BECAUSE there is not sufficient money to pull them clown, cells installed by the Japanese Kempeitai in the Y.M.C.A. building in Stamford Road, Singapore, will remain untouched, but locked up. when the building is reoccupied next month.407 words
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243 1946-10-24 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 17 THAT it was the purpose ol tbo Colonial Government to have “no ra»a discrimination or social barriers, no colour bars and no social injustice*, no economic or political privilege's but free* coop ration ol all peoples.” was stressed o.v Mr Arthur CreeehJone.s.243 words
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Article191 1946-10-24 10 (Translation copyright l>.v Stn Times) yHE Singapore Overseas Chine Importers and Exporter Association have made anoth appeal to Chinese eonsd authorities in Singapore a; Batavia regarding the rece detention of Chin esc-owned sb on the Singaporc-N .E I trai and th p new regulations impos by(Translation copyright l>.v Stn Times) - 191 words
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Article86 1946-10-24 10 SINGAPORE Orl. THE Chinese gurur. .1: shot down by whom he himself during a rhase in M r, CJ Singapore on Tuesday in the General H< dav afternoon. The Singapore 1. understood, took from him before i 1 Earlier in thf c' V'tjj expressed the 186 words
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Article521 1946-10-24 11 Lam is to release rice through commercial channels t for a period of one month, and the Governments If Singapore and the Malayan Union will not restrict Inports in this scheme in any way. P i understand that the amount of rice affected by liain's521 words
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181 1946-10-24 11 I SINGAPORE, Oct. 19. IvLLEGED to nave robbed two 1' Indians at pistol-point, four ■oims Chinese, Tan Ba Bi. Yong Rlh Soon. Tan Eng Seong and Loh ■'mam Quee. were committed to ■land trial at the Assizes on a ■haw of armed robbery after181 words
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Article123 1946-10-24 11 from Brunei show t ii. population is making ;°rt to grow more .ood ir own food problems. P nph re returning to their ''W end. in most area3. has been cleared and T r i w h hill padi. of hill padi and ic-to-the-land” ir.ove- encouraged actively123 words
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81 1946-10-24 11 JHE Siamese authorities arc now prepared to return British and Australian tin mines in Siam to their owners, and for this purpose the British and Austrat.uu concerns arc requested to gi in touch with the Committee for the Control and Ma.« leemeiu81 words
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85 1946-10-24 11 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Thursday. THE timely arrival of the Alor Star police helped to prevent an alleged Chinese extortioner from obtaining S'M.OOC from a Chinese shopkeeper in Pekan China yesterday in broad daylight. Coming under the pretence of purchasing goods, the Chinese85 words
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298 1946-10-24 11 SINGAPORK, Oct. 1!>. P. P. Webb. Inspector of Police, was convicted on all three charges of causing hurt to Abdul Kadir, Wallington Pereira, and K. Vitalingam during the Japanese occupation and sentenced to 21 months’ rigorous imprisonment in all, by Mr. T. T Russell298 words
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Article340 1946-10-24 11 The Only Standards Are Those Of Humanity SINGAPORE. Oct. lb MAJOR Kudo, head of the 19th Ambulance Corps, which was responsible for the medical care o! the quarter-million Asiatics who wer i press-ganged tor labour on the Death Railway: and L/Cpl. Omidera. one ot his oro<340 words
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Article480 1946-10-24 11 rENT by cent the price of fish in Singapore has been dropping during the last three months, and will continue to drop—hut not to the same level as before the war. A survey of tin* fresh fish supply position in Singapore shows that the price of480 words
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Article228 1946-10-24 11 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 10. B,OOO people attended th Rembau District Agrt-horti-cultural Show opened by the Yang di-pertuan Besai of Negri Sernbilan on Saturday Amonj those pres nt were Mu Tengku Arnpuan, Lady Gent, the Resident Commissioner, the Undang of Rembau and ti e Tengku228 words
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Article395 1946-10-24 12 RUBBER IN AUG: $80,000, 000 DUMBER made up half the value of* August exports from Malaya, according to the first all-Malayan statistics of imports and exports which are now being prepared in Singapore. More than $80,000,000 worth of rubber went from Singapore and the Malayan Union to Britain, America and395 words
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Article101 1946-10-24 12 Mr. Mrs. MacKay Entertained f rom Our Own Correspondent RAUB. Oct. IG. MR and Mrs. N Douglas Mac--1,1 Kay were entertained to a farewell luncheon at Frasers Hill on Oct 13 by friends and well wishers on th? eve of their departure to the United Kingdom this week-end by the101 words
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227 1946-10-24 12 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 16. SCHOOLS ir. the Malayan Union arc taking steps to eliminate 1 the subconscious feeling of sub--1 icction and tear brought about by three and a hall years of Japanese occupation. A local schoolmaster su.d that the227 words
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233 1946-10-24 12 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Oct. 16. A PROCLAMATION read at the Balai Besar today heralded the ceremonies of tile royal wedding of Tungku Hamidah, eldest daughter of Sultan Badlishah of Kedah, to Tungku Abdul Aziz, second son of the late Sultan Suleiman233 words
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Article363 1946-10-24 12 Straits Times Reporter MALAYA'S pineapple industry is to be re-organized so as to fuse into one the interests of growers and packers and thus abolish the prewar practice of what is described as “exploitation of growers." To carry out this scheme a new company, Malayan Growers and363 words
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Article182 1946-10-24 12 M SINGAPORE. Oct 17 RS. K. M. ENGELMAN pre- s'ded at a meeting of the [lnner Wheel Club which was morning. 1^6 G Cafe yeslerday I' af > decided to hold a fortnightly business meeting for members of the Committee the first meeting to be at182 words
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Article214 1946-10-24 12 (Translation copyright ;>‘ Sjail Times) By Our Chinese CorresnonH THE S15 million d J which the Nanl > Government has promise/, allot to Malayan Chin,.* rehabilitation purposes u be distributed and handled l the Bank of China. Sir/ pore, reports the Nanvw Siang Pau. 1(Translation copyright ;>‘ Sjail Times) - 214 words
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Article80 1946-10-24 12 SINGAPORE Ot' 1' ACCEPTING the unanimoi finding ot a common j“J Mr. Justice Thorogood tit Singapore Assizes, yesUrdi sentenced a 30-year-old Climes Sam Fook Hong, to four yea.' rigorous imprisonment on tl reduced charge of voluntar. causing grievous hurt. Sam Fook Hong original stood trial on80 words
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Article70 1946-10-24 12 THE Government of the Coles of Singapore has authon* the Department of Education* makp rehabilitation «rant> the Chinese Aided Schools. he on 1941 enrolment figures, proportion to thp amount essential furniture lor P llDl and staff lost or destroyed 15 result of the war. A grant70 words
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Article41 1946-10-24 12 From Our Own Corn c KUALA LUMPUR 1 THE Department of Pwblif lations has arrant d plies of silverware fro.: and baskets and Trer.gganu to sold Lumpur. A fresh consienmer.' sale at the Informal r Mountbatt?n Hoad. K pur.41 words
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Article211 1946-10-24 13 I From Our Own Correspondent f IPOH, Thursday. Ii/HKN the vault doors of the Bank of China building It were opened yesterday, the staggering quantity If 2)11,(1110 tubes of two hoon Japanese chandu was dis lovered stored inside. I The pre-war value of this211 words
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174 1946-10-24 13 I Singapore Oct. 18. ImOTHER arrest has been made bv the Singapore police l'olLin'o further investigations in■the series of mysterious thefts have taken place in I be ■prerri' Court building It second Chinese, reported to la labourer in the Singapore |rbour Board whos174 words
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Article86 1946-10-24 13 I Irom Our Own Correspondent Puala Lumpur, Oct. 16.- While ftj; e parties of police were f in the jungle in the P r 4 i Bf*si area yesterday evenf Ijoking for armed gangsters had seriously wounded Inrtor Driffin, O.C.P.D., Sungci another gun battle develop- atiring86 words
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Article95 1946-10-24 13 i‘V ,v;n s af e the results ol l-,.‘\,. I I cJon Matr.culation li t i), J Examination: l Vanmusingham Petei f! Ruth; Thean .dp ft‘ Hutsutau; One; I fad'll, Vone N«*n Khiong. K, j fK c s ,n; yanniasingham Jam.' ’t<n; Ponniah; Wan Rvk;,!, n95 words
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Article132 1946-10-24 13 W HEN the Nederland Line luxury ship Oranje arrives in Singapore cn Oct. 24. with more than 900 passengers for Malaya and Java, she will be making her first voyage since being derequisitioned by the Netherlands Government as an “evacuee vessel.” The Oranje is carrying 750132 words
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55 1946-10-24 13 Wins Commander and Mrs. I). J. Devitt. after their wedding at Tanglin’s Garrison Church on Oct. 16. Mrs Devitt was formerly 2nd officer Betty Harris. W.R.N.S. She arrived (below) in the rain, on the arm of Rear Admiral H. J. Egerton, under a huge coloured umbrella held at oft by55 words
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186 1946-10-24 13 SINGAPORE, Oc-1. IS. OEATED at a plain board table on a bard Army bench, m J what was formerly the Fob I-fong Kok. the olomai Secretary Air. II. P. Bryson, yesterday ate a lunch nl rice and curry and vegetables, finishing off with a desert186 words
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Article39 1946-10-24 13 TIIK following ex-Malay Volunteer Air Force personnel have been awarded mentions in despatches in recognition of their services during the operations in the Far Fast in 1941—1942. Sergeant K.B Milne, M.V.A.F. Sergeant Kamala Ral, M.V.A.F.39 words
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216 1946-10-24 13 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. ALLEGED to have forced Dr. Ooi Kee Wan at th« point of a revolver to go to a lonely hut 500 yards Irom his dispensary and there to have demanded from him a sum of $30,000, which was eventually216 words
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Article119 1946-10-24 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 17 \T Tanglin’s Garrison Catholic Church yesterday morning the wedding took plac 0 of Wing Comdr D .1 Dcvitt of Esher. Surrey, to 2nd. Ofllcrr Betty L. Harris. W R N S of Guilford Surrey Thp bride was giv* n away bv Rear Admiral119 words
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127 1946-10-24 13 Singapore Oct. IK CIX Chinese, with pistols, walk «d into a house in Bidetord Road at 9 a m on Wednesday and robbed the inmates of $5.230 in cash and jewellery and then drove oIT In a car belonging to the head of the household127 words
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77 1946-10-24 13 THE jurisdiction o: the Chinese Consul-General in Singapore has been clarified by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which announces that the area his Jurisdiction shall be similar to that under the Oovemor-Gene-ral, namely. Singapore, the Malayan Union. Sarawak and Bnti.sh North Borneo, reports the Kung77 words
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Article93 1946-10-24 13 THE export ot coconut oil r Burma and More- K»>ng is l oing p rrniltcd laeetKM < will he granted against proofs of import licences ;..sued m Burma and Hong Kong F.arlicj- this week the Burmese Minister lor Agriculture, U Ha P*\ disclosed that Burma was93 words
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Article831 1946-10-24 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. IN. WITH the passage of the Road Vehicles (Special Powers) Bill in the Singapore Advisory C ouncil yesterday allowing the stopping and searching ol vehicles, the Singapore Police were yesterday evening finalising their proposals for the imposition of a curfew on the movement of831 words
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Article117 1946-10-24 14 From Our Own Correspondent I’ENANG. Thurs THE discussions. which have 1 been proceeding tor some time between Ur- authorities and representatives of 4.000 Government and Municipal employees, took a new turn or. Tuesday when ii a special meeting the Government and Municipal Labour Union decided that117 words
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Article58 1946-10-24 14 THE lifting of the ban on exports of coconut oil from Singapore to Burma and Hong Kong is a result of Burma’s attempts to buy 4,000 tons of edible oil from Malaya. “Burma can get the oil now. il she arranges for importers there to send import58 words
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164 1946-10-24 14 Singapore Oct. 18. PUND guilty oy a common .ury on a charge ol committing armed robbery a Chinese, Chua Ah Sai. was sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment and six strokes with the cat by Mr Justice Thorogood at the Singapore Assizes,164 words
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Article97 1946-10-24 14 l rom Our Own Correspondcm KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Disruption to railway traffic has been caused by floods in various parts of Malaya during the last lew days. About 50 yards ol line between Tobong and Batang Malacca stations was severely damaged and no train was uole to97 words
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Article173 1946-10-24 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 18. MR. Lim Chuan Geok, member of the Supplies Advisory Board, sent a letter to the Colonial Secretary last night, urging that the 1,500,000 yards of cloth available for distribution among Singapore merchants, should be sold to the public on the ration card173 words
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Article60 1946-10-24 14 MALAYA’S share of the 21.000 11 tons of rice loaned by China to deficit countries in South-East Asia will be slightly under 3,000 tons, the Straits Times understands. This represents the country’s proportionate share of China’s last-quarter allocation from Siam. It is hoped that the rice60 words
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Article300 1946-10-24 14 Singapore Oct. 18. £APT. Kasai, Kempeitai Chief at Miri. and his adjutant. Warrant Officer Macda. were yesterday sentenced to death by hanging. by Lt. Col. R. L. le Oallais at the Third War Crimes Court, for the unlawful killing of 28 civilian residents of Miri.300 words
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Article252 1946-10-24 14 From Our Own Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Friday I MALAYAN Collieries have managed to avert a strikl at the Batu Arang coal mines which threataS to have serious repercussions throughout Malaya® The Malayan Railways, the Electrical Department J numerous tin dredges throughout the Malayan Union252 words
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Article100 1946-10-24 14 CHINESE NAVAL MEN RETURN ING WHEN tile 22,000-toil Car.adj fT Pacific liner Empress of Ai tralia arrived in Singapore Tuesday she carried 13 offi c and 65 men of the Chineses# who have completed th-ir tng in Great Britain and thei r way back to China Captain Li Lian t’hih,100 words
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Article143 1946-10-24 14 Singapore Oct. lb KOREAN guard Kioshi KanecH who by his insensate cruel® caused and contributed to deaths of many British a M Dutch PoWs who were taken airfield construction in Ambc® was yesterday sentenced to dea® by hanging in the War Ciin® Court at Changi.143 words
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Article116 1946-10-24 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct 18 I AT the first meeting of JJ Selangor Poppy Day 'J mittee, held at the Commissioner’s house on ,1 plans for the sale of P°PJ| throughout the State and R p® arrangements for Poppy were discussed. Poppies will be on Friday,116 words
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Article567 1946-10-24 15 .Malayan Union Government is a i?rant of $30,000,000 (£3,500,000) from <he Colon,al Development and Welfare Fund to carry out a ten-year oj/ranimc lor the construction of irrigation works to promote the cultivation padi on modern lines throughout Mai ay a, reports the Malayan Observer, a567 words
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Article145 1946-10-24 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 20 A Pretty Chinese girl who risked her life to warn Capt. Turner and a party of Argyll and Sutherland llighlanders who were hiding in the jungle after being cut oil during the Malayan campaign and in imminent danger of being cantured. is145 words
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Article97 1946-10-24 15 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. Thomas Goodwin, a Paratrooper of the 7th Parachute Battalion, was acquitted and discharged by Mr Justice Thorogood at the Singapore Assizes yesterday when the common jury returned a verdict of not guilty against him on a charge ,>1 voluntarily causing hurt in committing a robbery97 words
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Article106 1946-10-24 15 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. THE Coroner recorded a finding <>l death caused by an act don** with intent to cause miscarriage against an unknown Malay woman when he held an jnquest yesterday into the death of a 21 year-old Eurasian grl on June 8 this year. It106 words
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Article84 1946-10-24 15 From Our Own Correspondent KRIAN. Oct. 20 LLEGED to have harboured an Indian soldier who had deserted from his unit, a Tamil woman was produced before th» District Judge. Mr C P Nov.*ton, at the Parit Buntar court and charged w*ith having harboured a deserter from84 words
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Article42 1946-10-24 15 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Sun FOLLOWING a reported outbreak o: small-pox in Parit Buntar. the Municipal health authorities today renewed their request to th public to avail themselves ol lrec vaccination measures offered bv the health office42 words
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Article223 1946-10-24 15 SINGAPORE Oct. 22. NINETY loaves—two from each of 45 bakeries in Singapore—were tested yesterday by a committee of leading bakers for colour, texture, odour, flavour and general appearance, and on their findings will depend the future allocations of flour to bakers. This test will continue223 words
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161 1946-10-24 15 From Our Own Corespondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 20. PLANS for extension of Mio Jubilee Home for women at San Hoad. Kuala Lumpur, estimated to cost $29,000, were approved at the last meeting of the Central Welfare Council. The extension is bring made161 words
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347 1946-10-24 15 From Our Own Correspondent > PENANG, Oct. 20. LIVING ill small muddy hut.s which jut nearly a hundred yards out to sea. Penang’s floating population of sampan men and th(ir families has defied lor decades all attempts by man and by nature to347 words
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Article136 1946-10-24 15 PENANG. Oct. Ift IN order to get the employees’ point of view and to hold dis missions botwc-c n the beads >: departments and representative., of their staffs, the Government is introducing a “joint interim council” in the various services, according to th'* Deputy Labour136 words
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Article79 1946-10-24 15 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2t) THE wedding of LA C Ken neth Beckett, OJ RA F Heletar, and Pte Ha/el May Lueas, A T.b took place yes terday, at St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, tin- Rev. It M I,*od officiating. The bride was given away by SQ M S E Phillips79 words
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Article68 1946-10-24 15 The wi dding oi YM C A Army Secretary, Mr Guruba tham Pen fold Ernest Edward and Miss Margaret Thangam took place at the St Andrew’' .itin dial yesterday Ihe Rev D Rosenthall otli elated The bride wore a gold bordered white sure* and earr.ed a bunch of68 words
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Article92 1946-10-24 15 F rom Our Ow n Correspond* at TAIPING, Oct LM) 'IN Engll h ipeakln (fhlnt a I.i»‘w Weng Kong, alias Foo Han S n. was si nfenced to four ■inon’hs’ rigorous iinprisoninent t>v Mr p Newt«) n in the District Court on a charge <>f92 words
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201 1946-10-24 16 From Our Own C orrespondent IPOH, Oct. 21. A JOINT petition by the C hinese and Indian Chambers of Commerce here to Sir Edward Cent, the Clover nor of the Malayan l nion, seeks Government approval to permit the free importation of essential consumer goods201 words
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Article196 1946-10-24 16 Irum Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR. Oct. 22. SINCE the Malayan Robin Hood, Ember, is under heavy guard in Alor Star |x>lice headquarters. robberies have, however, given place to extortion which is sweeping the northern districts ol the State and the police ol Kedah and Pcrlis196 words
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Article106 1946-10-24 16 I rum Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 22. MEDICAL auihoritns hav<* m- Icmifed tin vace.nation drive* in tin* Hesut coastal ana n» ar the Tr< ngganu-Kelantuii gorder as a result of an outbreak <>l small-pox Th< p’(J< nnc, liowc ver, is confined to a small106 words
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Article84 1946-10-24 16 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Oct. 22. A MALARIA branch of the Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, is being opened in the Tampin Hospital. Members ol the stall are beginning work there investigating the potentialities of the new malarial drugs discovered during the war.84 words
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Article78 1946-10-24 16 Major’ s Appeal Dismissed \N appeal .submitted by Mr. P F do Souza for Major William Henry Rothwell. who is now in the United Kingdom, against this conviction and sentence. was dismissed by Mr Justice Worley in the Supreme Court. Major Rothwell had been convict! cl ol having drawn rations78 words
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Article69 1946-10-24 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. 23. A CHARGE of criminal breach of trust in respect to 250 ci ses o brandy worth $ll,OOO belonging to the forces was explained to a 22-year-old Indian soldier. Roshin Din. in the Fourth Police Court yesterday. The property lias not been recovered yet. Bail69 words
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Article42 1946-10-24 16 Singapore, Oet. 20. TIIK Governor, Sir Franklin Crimson, said yesterday he considered me Police were doing “extremely well’’ in their war against gangsters. Police action, he thought, had already begun to limit concllerably activities of gunmen, robbers and looters.42 words
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Article205 1946-10-24 16 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. ELLIOT M. Davis, a Police Do partment clerk. told the S cond District Judge, Mr. T r. Russell, yesterday that when h: was called to the War Crimes Department on Feb. 2G he was locked up in a room and intimidated by a British205 words
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Article122 1946-10-24 16 A DECISION on the future of the 13th Parachute Battalion 255 men of which were in volvcd in the Kluang court-martial-has already been taken, the Straits Times understands About 150 of the original men who went on trial are to be posted to units in Singapore122 words
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Article160 1946-10-24 16 ‘ROBIN HOOD CAUGHT ALOR STAR. Oct. 19. MALAYA'S Robin Hood ol the jungles. Em bee. wanted on 20 charges ol gang robbery and possession of firearms, has been caught by the Kedah police Many members of his gang were sentenced at the recent Assizes and the police are still trving160 words
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265 1946-10-24 16 From Our Own Correspondent I PENANG, Oct. 22 I IN order to present a “more united front' j n ne J 1 tions with harbour workers, the Penang UniondH Commercial Associations was formed followin four-hour meeting yesterday. fl Over 300 representatives of local Chinese m265 words
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Article95 1946-10-24 16 TOUR Japanese, suspected of war crimes, will be tried in Kuala Lumpur commencing Oct. 28. The first two accused, ILomitsu Morritada and Fujiyama Teruyushi. are civilians and are charged with ill-treatment of civilian residents in Malaya, resulting in deaths of live persons. They will be95 words
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Article101 1946-10-24 16 SINGAPORE, Ort. 23. A N Indian soldier attached an ALFSEA transport Coy. R.1.A.5.C.. Inayat Mohamad, was yesterday sentenced to nine months’ rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Paul Storr. the District Judge, for dishonestly retaining stolen property. It was stated that following an armed robb:ry by Indian101 words
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183 1946-10-24 16 i DOLICE in Perak a:v il( A (t: that the crime v avt ;n *1 State has passed Its -1 drop since the policy took uvt:*I April is most encouraging i Perak's Chiel Police Oflir.r. J I C. W. D. Hall, told m that183 words
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Article96 1946-10-24 16 THE total number of PoWs ufrfl to work on the Burmu-SiaJ Railway was 64.C00, include Americans, Australians. Brit* and Dutch, and of these approiB imately 20,000 died, stated affidavit of John C. Reas a® American PoW who was empioy® ed at the Japanese HoadquawJ in Kanburi to96 words
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Article64 1946-10-24 16 SINGAPORE Oct. Backfiring from an started a fire in new omnibuses belon.i: Singapore Traction O-ninui Magazine Road yesterc The Singapore Brigade immediateh engine to the scene ai d action by the firemen fire from spreading vehicles nearby. The started at about 0.45 i up some no64 words
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Article44 1946-10-24 16 The chairman ol' Damage Claims Com?-* j I to arrive in Malaya I I end of the month .^r.1 The Commission nd rl functioning in Singap L 0 *l Kuala Lumpur where n^“ n0f the preliminary work done. I44 words
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Article311 1946-10-24 17 I Singapore, Oct. 23 establishment of a Local Trade Voyage Hoard j s announced in Singapore, following GovernL t s decision that no further general relaxation I be permitted to unregistered craft plying from Hapere. a communique issued yesterday states, however. It where clear311 words
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198 1946-10-24 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. B)(TEKN lawyers and ten inter- preters, forming the first Htch of Japanese civilian perHnel to come to Singapore after ■termination of the war. arriv- by sea last week. Hpve lawyers will be employed I the defence of Japanese surBuiered j>ersonnel accused of198 words
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Article102 1946-10-24 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. death took place in Bang.mkJk,on Saturday of Mr. Gram Sidney Sanderson, one of the British residents in Siam, Mr c aRe of 74 years. ir Sanderson who arrived in lrom England more i dii years ago. was the pionthe lorry-boat service be„n102 words
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Article70 1946-10-24 17 f of the Committee 5inp an 0 n Earasia n Association, ii thf. f recently approvIhf'^,..;: |)r ndit uro o. $250.00 for th-- g*. lon in the pavilion of 11 P r ocrea tion Club, of r.i-jr.'' al all Eumsians who Vj r;d ie T L prem70 words
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Article46 1946-10-24 17 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tuesday THE 27,000 School-children in Sembilan have been supplied with about 4 ozs. each of chocolates. It is proposed to give schoolchildren in areas badly allceted by malaria supplementary rations of milk and biscuits jn the near future.46 words
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Article81 1946-10-24 17 DEAN'S arc going ahead for 4 the revival of the Kuala Lumpur Flying Club. Three Tiger Moths have been bought in Australia and flying will probably start again as soon as these arrive. The future of the club depends very much upon whether the Government81 words
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Article124 1946-10-24 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. DUSSIAN ships are infrequent 44 callers at Singapore. One o! the few to visit Singapore is t* c •».000-ton vessel which arrived yesterday Under the command of Capt. Pieter Timofeuk. the Magnet oporsk is making a voyage from Novorossisk, a Black Sea port,124 words
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Article129 1946-10-24 17 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN. Oct. 22. A resolution protesting against deduction from arrears of pensions of the monthly relief granted to pensioners by the Japanese from January 1, 1943 to August 31, 1945 was passed at a meeting of the Negri Sembilan pensioners held at129 words
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375 1946-10-24 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 21. SUGGESTIONS for a revision of the duty on tin ore and a warning that Government’s present mine taxation scheme was economically unsound, were made by Mr. T. I). Ensor, Chairman of Ulu Klang Tin Ltd. at the ordinary general375 words
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Article47 1946-10-24 17 Sentenced to death for war crimes, Major Yamaiauchi Toruo was hanged at the* Johcre Bahru jail This was the first hani'bi" of a Jana nose war criminal at Johor** Bahru, which was th'> scone of the crimes porpotrated by the ac cused.47 words
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Article343 1946-10-24 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. FINDING Lt. Col Banno and six of his co-accused yesterday guilty of treating inhumanely and causing the death of many of the members of the ‘F’ Force, comprising 3,600 Australian and 3,400 British PoWs, who were sent to work on the ‘Death343 words
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Article247 1946-10-24 17 A Women’s Federation with plans to extend its membership throughout Malaya, has been formed in Singapore and is aiming to educate women to take their part in public life. With the intention of forming an All-Malayan Women’s Federation, representatives from upcountry have recently visited Singapore to247 words
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Article77 1946-10-24 17 •SINGAPORE, Oct. 23 AN alleged banlshee wnu returned to Singapore was committed for trial at the next Assizes at the conclusion of a preliminary inquiry in the Second Police Court yesterday. He was Leong Hup Slew, alias Leong Ah Kow, who on July 22 was arrested in77 words
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Article72 1946-10-24 17 SINGAPORE, Oct 23 A 2\ year-old Chinese, Than. Meng Seng, had two charges of arm'*d robbery and murder explained to him in the Fourth police court yesterday. The armed robbery was alleged to have been committed in a house In Kampong Bahru Road in tiie earlv hours of72 words
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Article409 1946-10-24 18 THE Singapore Government is contemplating a scheme for providing a free morning meal to children of pre-school age at an estimated cost of $30,000 a month. This scheme will apply to children between two and six years of age and it is anticipated tnat if approved409 words
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Article103 1946-10-24 18 From Our Own Correspondent j PENANG, Oct. 22. UH N. Ponnudurai. President ot the Penang Clerical and Administrative Staff Union, was entertained yesterday at a dlnne. given by members of the Union on his appo ntment as a member of the Settlement Advisory Council Addressing the gathering103 words
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Article213 1946-10-24 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. SPECIAL anti-looting patrols J are now employed to accompany trains leaving Singapore for the mainland with valuable food and textiles. Gangs of organised lodters have attempted to board trains in transit, and it has been found necessary to place guards on certain213 words
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Article67 1946-10-24 18 Singapore, Oct. 23. Mohamed bin Zaimudin, a clerk employed in a Naafl warehouse at I3f‘aeh Road, wa-. s»*nt' need to ten weeks’ rigorous imnrisonment by Mr. L. C > j tin Second Magistrate, yesterav. for tealing 12 muses belonging to Naafi on Oct 21 He was searched as67 words
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Article188 1946-10-24 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. 'fHE International Emergency Food Council sub-corn mittee on rice for SouthEast Asia met for the first time in Singapore on Monday. The committee elected as Chairman the United Kingdom del ‘gate. Mr. Charles Empson, Economic Counsellor to the British Special Commissioner188 words
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Article145 1946-10-24 18 TOWN CLEANSING MEN’ S PETITION MANDORES, carpenters, masons, peons, office watchmen and shelter keepers of the Municipal Town Cleansing Department have sent a petition asking for increased wages and A.RP allowances for those employed on A.R P work during 1941. They have also demanded that certain labourers declared medically unfit145 words
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Article141 1946-10-24 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. THE story of how a husband, Tan Kin Khian, who before he died admittid to having stabbed three women and then ’aims: If, was related at an Inquest into the death of two women, Ng Lee Keow, his wife, and Lim Siou Eng.141 words
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151 1946-10-24 18 150- Year-Old Veil At S’pore Wedding Singapore, Oct. 23. THE bride wore a *reil trimmed Arith lace 150 years old, when the wedding took place at the Cathedra, of the Good Shepherd yesterday of Mr. Patrice Francis Given-Wilson, only son of the late Mr. H. M. Given-Wilson and Mrs. Given-Wilson,151 words
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Article317 1946-10-24 18 Singapore, Oct. 23. PERSONAL assurance that he felt there would be no wilful discrimination against Ceylonese in Malaya was given in a farewell message from Mr. A. 1. Raja Singham. Representative if the Government of Ceylon, who left Singapore yesterday on the Queen of Bermuda, at317 words
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Article287 1946-10-24 18 SINGAPORE, Ocl. 23 I THE people of Singapore have shown, in the returns I by them to their retailers and through them to th Control Department, that only a minority want bre-i 1 their ration. A clear majority wish to buy the f u n287 words
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Article228 1946-10-24 18 TOMPULSORY Third Party !:.<■ surance has been brought it m to force from Oct. 1 with publication in a Supplement the Government Gazette ot t® Road Traffic (Third-party Insurfl ance» Rules 1946 I Under the terms ot these ru® all owners o: mechanically P® polled vehicles228 words
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Article281 1946-10-24 19 Prom Our Own Correspondent) KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 19. I first inter-State rugger match since reoccuption I areat interest in Kuala Lumpur this evening Ithe padang was crowded with spectators, including L ar d (lent and Lady Gent and the G.0.C., Malaya In nd. who281 words
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Article140 1946-10-24 19 month the Selangor Turf Club will celebrate its anniversary with a Golden ec meeting which will be on Nov. 1) and Nov. 16. rowing will carry a spe•r°Phy to commemorate the T'ary. and it will be com- or by class one. division nors-f's 0V( r ;i distance140 words
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Article35 1946-10-24 19 T AIPING RUGBY >ur >\n C orrespondent i< Taiptng. h:ne this seaaon U’u j /> :,:ri s B deferurd u a riirger nxture lx point* i. “v r ,,nf tr y) Yhe impre.-ivc in f u-35 words
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Article278 1946-10-24 19 SINGAPORE. Oct. 20. JOME of the thrills trom last three-quarter movements and clever Individual work seen in recent Padang rugby games were missed when the S.C.C. met the Royal Scots, but an interesting tussle nevertheless resulted, ending in a win for the Club by278 words
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Article76 1946-10-24 19 SINGAPORE. Oct. 20. RK«CiIE TIIOY, well-known Singapore ericket and hockey player, returned to Singapore yesterday by the <|uee n of Bermuda from the United Kingdom. Thoy, who was a prisoner-of-war in Siam, had been recuperating i n England. While in England, Thoy played crieket for76 words
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Article91 1946-10-24 19 ARANG Kaya Indera Maharaja Perba Jelai presented a challenge trophy to the newly formed Lipis Football League. Some keenly contested mutches were seen on the Kuala Lipis Padang. Six teams competed and the league result was as follows Teams p W D L F A Pts 1.91 words
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Article522 1946-10-24 19 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Oet. If). lOCKEYS Spencer and Lewis each rode three winners in today's Perak Turf Club races. The going was yielding. Then* was a good crowd present. Kwsults were 1 me; sweep The draw on the big sweep, total poo! 5196,253, resulted:522 words
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Article372 1946-10-24 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 18. AFTER one of the best rugby games seen on the Padang this season, the S.C.C. beat the 13th Parachute Battalion 14 points (goal, 2 tries, penalty) to eight (goal, try; yesterday. It was only a sligh' superiority in the open that gave the Club372 words
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Article380 1946-10-24 19 (From Our Own Correspondent) PENANG, Oct. 19. ALTHOUGH rather belatedly, a definite step has at last bee,,« taking towards putting hockey on a proper organised footing in Penang. At a meeting held last Wednesday, the Penang Hockey Association was revived and office-bearer-were elected for the current380 words
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Article285 1946-10-24 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. T'ME Command Pay OHice were beaten by six points (two tricsi t.e> llv<* (one goal» by the Cricket Club in th rugby match on th#* padang yesterday, but they are quite away the* bettci side*. Tile Aimy team led five-nil at285 words
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638 1946-10-24 20 liy Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct. 21. HOLLAR tin transactions last week included Hong Falls $1.05), Jelebus 87t\, Kuchais $1.75 down to $1.70, Petalings $8.25 to $8.10 and Sunffei Luas $1.20. In Australians, Sydney was only a spasmodic seller and there was less local interest than638 words
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Article132 1946-10-24 20 Iteutcr MW YORK. Oe-t. 10 I'rins today we*rr held within a narrow range* around Friday’s close with activity quiet. Numerous traders wen. awaiting further developments of the commodity price readjustment as well as the* start of the* United Automobile workers’ campaign for higher wages in I he motorIteutcr - 132 words
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Article35 1946-10-24 20 —A.P Tin Goodycui I’>r*- Rubber Company has declared a regular $1 <US> common dividend plus $1 extra dividend p r share and a regular $1.25 dividend o'> sfi preferred payable on Der. 16.—A.P - 35 words
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Article233 1946-10-24 20 COUNTRIES within the sterling area are defined in an official notification gazetted yesterday. These are: United Kingdom any dominion, any other part of His Majesty’s dominions, any territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League ol Nations has been accepted by H.s Majesty233 words
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Article62 1946-10-24 20 —U.P. Washington, Oct. 19. Some diplomats here smile wryly at Allied proposals tor small armies and navies for the five Axis satellites whose peace treaties are being prepared. The first dralts allowed an army of 275,000 for Italy, 70,000 lor Hungary. 133.000 for Rumania. 65,500 for—U.P. - 62 words
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Article187 1946-10-24 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. THE Voice of Britain. a vast Empire short-wave radio network compassing the surface of the earth, will have a ‘staging post’ in Singapore, for which the.* cost of erecting the necessary installations alone will be “not less than €5000,000.’’ 'The Singapore staging post will187 words
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Article193 1946-10-24 20 September Total On! Half That Of August From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 20 THE fact that no tin was exported from Penang month and that rubber exports showed a subst tial drop from 35,000 tons to less than 11,0001 have resulted in a reduction by193 words
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Article66 1946-10-24 20 Sydney, Oct. 21. —An Australia legation of six representatives o( merce and industry are leaving week for India on the invitatio the Indian Government. Three delegates. Mr. B. Meet leader of the delegation. Mr. 1 Simpson and Mr. J. A. Kemp, leaving today for Karachi66 words
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Article696 1946-10-24 20 Share quotations, as at Oct. 18 according to me Malayan i arebrokers Association «Singapore? w**re as follows INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alexandra rh:olcworkf Ords si.7o SI 9t» Alexandra Brickwork* Profs 2 (50 I Hli Brtt Malaya trustee Ex-cutor Co 9 00 9 00 tVnsoMdntcc Tin Smelters Orel 22696 words