The Straits Budget, 31 October 1946

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  • 31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] New Series No. 13 Singapore, Thursday, October 31ii, 1946, Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or I A
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    • 63 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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    • 901 2 —Straits Times, Oct. 24 Living conditions in Malaya have improved markedly during the past three nicntlis. In many directions, the situation is still acute, particularly so far as allects th e Asia! c section of the population, and there is as yet no justification lor belief that all is
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    • 820 2 —Straits Times. Oct. 25 The rice policy and programme for post-war Malaya was published in th e Straits Times last Monday. Much of that programme had a familiar ting, being a repetition of what was said many times during Ithe period between the two wars, but
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    • 598 2 Straits Times, Oct. 26 Dr. Chen Su Lan is an authority on the subject of tuberculosis in Singapore, and th e macabre story which he told to the Rotary Club on Thursday must not be dismissed as an example of that ebullience which so often characterises post-prandial speeches.
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    • 903 2 —Straits Times, Oct. 28 Entirely incredible as seems to those who know the Singapore, behind the sen as well as on th e stage < public life, this last and ma massive stronghold of colon I conservatism (fo r ?t ll that, all fanfares from lib eratc
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    • 1028 3 -Straits Times. Oct. 29 In ths past few days President Truman, Mr. Attlee, Mr. Ernest B?vm and Mr. Churchill have madf public refj vnc P to current fears of anothei world j war. Those fears are finding frequent expression in the 1 United States, but to
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    • 916 3 Straits Times. Oct. 30 What us a suitable form ol memorial to thosj ol our ifellow-citizens of Singapore I who lost their liv \s in the Second World War? We think of those who wer? killed while serving in the regular and volunteer forces; thos*
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  • 1402 4 By A Special Correspondent [M.Ps. continue to ask questions in the House of Commons about delays in the port of Singapore which are a thin** of the past. The average delay for non-priority ships at the Singapore docks was reduced to less than two
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  • 67 4 A list of members oi tile Singa--1 pore Overseas Chinese Volunteers who made the supreme sacrifice in the battle of Singapore is to be drawn up and submitted to the Nanking headquarters of the San Min Chu Yi Youth Corps, at the request of Nanking. The
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  • 436 4 NEARLY four months after setI tin*' sail from Britain in a 78-ton trawler which they intended sailing to Australia, a party of men and women arrived in Singapore last week after being forced to abandon i sailing in their shin at Malta. Alter sailing
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  • 223 4 SINGAPORE, Oct 2j UOLDING that the striking u a 11 submerged floating obieccould not have been forseen Marine Court of Inquiry which last we c k inquired into an accY dent in the approaches of Singapore involving the 957-tor. rice ship Bcntong, have
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  • 142 4 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 26 OETTING an example. Batu Road School in Kuala Lumpur “feeder" school of the ViciorL Institution, has introduce* a news period in its curriculum A ten-minute talk on loeui jh\C I world events is given daily .v. teachers in
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  • 72 4 THE Singapore War Department 1 Civilian Staff Association :> seeking registration as a treunion. At a meeting of the Assocun rece ntly, the Trade Union Ac*.n ser, Singapore, Mr. S. P Garre, gave an address, in which promised all help to the Association. The Council
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  • 37 4 From Our Own Correspond* 1 < PENANG. Oct 27 MR. J. B Prer.tis. Registra; Trade Unions. Mat Union, w*ho is at present in. 1 nang, had a four-hour inters yesterday with representative. various trade unions here.
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    • 403 5 T hough On The Cenotaph And The Esplanade r KKTUHNED to Singapore 1 ivcciitly after an absence of v()iru years and have been most iorcihly struck by one thing—.bad thing amongst, let it b* K A \d. many good things to be seen in this city. I refer to the
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    • 282 5 *|)£CENTLY then* has been much talk about a UniverS|t V College and free compu!- ,r .v education in the Malayan Ul 'mi and Singapore. f u t I wonder whether the «*horit ies are aware of the fact there are still several isund children who are out 1
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    • 164 5 jyiR. CREECH-JONES, the new 111 Secretary of State for the Colonies, in his recent broadcast said that it was the purpose of the Imperial Government to have no race discrimination or social barriers, no colour bars, no social injustice, no economic or political privileges, but
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    • 210 5 THE Press recently has contained many references to the “Death Radway which cost the lives of 10,000 Pows and 100.000 Asiatic labourers. Now I see that Great Britain has soid. the railway to the Stam Government for Cl.500.000 he i purchase including equipment and rolling stock. If
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    • 268 5 AS proprietor of a smalt business in Singapore, allow [me to tell you that we are being intimidated for protection money. A deposit ranging troin $200 downwards, and a monthly collection of $3. has to be paid *n i The Ban Yee Secret Society. the headquarters of which
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    • 121 5 THE number of mosquitoes breeding in the centre of this city, not to mention the suburban areas, is alarming. The stagnant and foul con1 ditions ot drains, lanes and bacKI yards have not been properly attended to since the liberation, 1 and it is high time that
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    • 75 5 Better Stamps AFTER many years of stamp issues in Malaya, one can I hardly find one stamp which really appeals to the collector’s eyes. Yet other countries. urh as j the USA New Zealand and Australia, are g.ving stamps of j rare heautv and interest to the philatelic world Sure.y
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    • 239 5 IV SHOULD like, through the medium of your columns, to bring to the attention of local Service officers and executive committee of the Mount bat ter; Club the unnecessary unfairness of the exclusion of Merchant Navy officers from the use of the very excellent faci lities
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    • 143 5 IT is high time that the Arab community of Singapore j roused themselves to approach th" Government and that an Arab representative be up pointed in the Legislative Council as well as the Municipal Council to watch the in- terests of their community. The Arabs are second only
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    • 155 5 |M!E Malayan Union Govern ment’s policy of seeking public views on toddy shops i- highly commendable. The Japs advocated toddy as a source oi vitamin and pr ventive against beri-beri We no longer need this panacea of the Japs. Many well-meaning people re commend toddy a tonic for
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  • 299 6 SINGAPORF/S newest experiment for titfhlintf malnutrition in children —the provision of a free well-balanced meal to the child of pre-school aue--is expected to be launched during the second half uf next month. Government have sanctioned tin* expenditure d SJ>O,O(X) a month and have directed the I)e))artment
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  • 108 6 SINGAPORE. Oct. 20. MIDDI.lv-A 1K I) Chinc.se woman. Poon Thyc Hen”, who appeal d against her .sentence, of two years' rigorous imprisonment tor transporting rhandu had ini sent'ik reduced to IK months' i i by Mr Justice Worley m tin Supreme (tour 4 yesterday Mr
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  • 55 6 SINGAPORE, O. t. JO. CHARGE ol being in possession of 24 Japanese rifles on Oct 27 was explained to Tan Ah Juan when he was produced before Mr. L C. Goh, Second Police Magistrate, yesteiday. i The case was postponed to Nov F> lor mention, and
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  • 109 6 SINGAPORE. Oct. 3U. appeal bv two young Chinese, Lee Chi Cheng and Chia Swee Meng, to have their sentence of 18 months’ rigorous imprisonment reduced to a shorter term was dismissed by Mr. Justice Worley in the Supreme Court yesterday In rejecting the appeal. Mr. Justice
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  • 62 6 SINGAPORE, Oct. 29. STATING that he knew nothing about a stolen Siudcba::Ci car that, was found in his com|M)und at Chariton Road. Singapore, on Sept. 9. a Malay. Musa bin Mohamed was yesterday sentenced to three months’ rigorous mprisonment for assisting in the wrongful disposal of
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  • 86 6 SINGAPORE, Oct. 29. A sentence of two years’ rigorous imprisonment was imposed on a Malay. Isnain bin Puteh, by Mr. Paul Storr. First District Judge, yesterday, for breaking into a house in Patani Street on the night of Oct. 4 The accused was one of a number of
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  • 126 6 .—A. p KUCHING, Oct. 29. SIR Charles Arden Clarke was installed as the first British governor of Sarawak at. ceremonies here attended uy the Governor-General, Mr. Malcolm Ma* Donald. atid representatives of the resident communities. S r Charles in his installation [address pledged that no changes would
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  • 108 6 SINGAPORE, Oct. 29. FOUR Malays, Mohamed Dm Sukor, Bakar bin Mohamed, Om.u bin Lian and Mohamed Ali bin Marsuki were each sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment by the Singapore First District Judge. Mr. Paul Storr. yesterday on house-breaking and theP charges. In addition, Mohamed Ali
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  • 190 6 SINGAPORE, Ocat 30. THE Singapore Harbour Hoard strike, in which about 10,000 dork workers are involved, and which has caused a stoppage of shipping turn-round for several days, was fur tlier complicated yesterday. Strikers representatives, after discussions with the Harbour Board authorities, decided once
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  • 329 6 Singapore, Oct. 27. ONE of the first tasks of the new Governor of Sara wak, Sir Charles Arden Clarke, after hi, installation at Kuching on Tuesday, will be to set im<, motion a survey of the new Colony’s resources, ir.clud ing its oilfields, to give him
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  • 110 6 From Our Own Correspondent. IPOH. Oct. 29. PAR thieves carried out the most daring theft yet reported in Ipoh on Saturday night when a newly purchased Austin •> and a new Triumph motor-cycle w« re removed from a garage in Gopong Road. Both the vehicles were
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  • 71 6 from Oui ()«n Correspondent. PENANG, Oct. 28. AN assurance that there is no .shortage of small change in Penang is given in an official statement today by the Government Treasury, which points out that banks not well supplied with small notes may apply lor them
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  • 258 6 Chinese Give W arm Welcome To Minister From Our Own Correspondent BATU PAHAT Oct. 29. Mr. tai kwee sheng Vice-minister for Overseas Chinese Affairs in the Nation’ al Government of China, u* ceived a warm welcome fron. representatives of ail Chir.o><* organisations and members <>i the Chinese public of Ba
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  • 665 7 TllK general health of schoolchildren since the m--1 stitution of carefully prepared morning meals .supplied to them free of charge at school, has improved considerably wherever meals have been iven according to investigations by medical authorities in Singapore. immediately after the re-occupation of Singanuiv, surveys
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  • 195 7 PENANG, Oct. 23. A TRIBUTE to tile Penang Free School for its part ia producing “worthy men with responsibility ate! unselfish in their devotion to the Empire” was paid by th Union Governor, Sir Edward Gent, in his address to th Penang Free School
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  • 224 7 SINGAPORE, Oct. 24. TO establish a strong and vigorous consumers’ movement, which will obtain and make available to purchasers goods at low prices, the Singapore Co-operative Stores Society. Ltd., has now been opened. With its opening, yet another organization is added to the limited number
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  • 244 7 “IT Is an indication of rcsponsi- ble thinking that certain members of the public are demanding tMat cloth b? rationed and a sign of official awakening that a Consumers’ Advisory Committee has been set up in Singapore to enable consumers to propose measures tor the improvement
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  • 407 7 AUSTRALIA needs between twenty and thirty milfoil men for purposes of national fence; at the moment ther is on intake of about 70,000 or "5.000 nun a year, said Mr. G H. Westburv, Army lecturer, in a Singapore interview. Mr. We.-tbury has come from Great Britain
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  • 324 7 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Oct. 2 5. lINUSUALLY large crowds were present in the Kuala Kangsar District Court on Monday when a preliminary inquiry was held by Tuan Sheik Abdullah into w hat has become known as the “Bekor Massacre.” According to the
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  • 135 7 SHANGHAI, <Hy Air Mailt TO promote trade relation# beiw/,en Chlne.se in Malaya and the mother country. Mr Yap Pheng O ck. Singapore business leader, who arrived here recently, is today making an extensive study of economic and industrial conditions In China lie has already completed h:s
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  • 51 7 f rom Our Own Correspondent MUAR. Oct. 23. RDUL Rashid, a Malay alleged 1 to have enterec a provision shop in Muar armed with a rifle and to have extorted $18 from the shopkeeper, was sentenced to five vear,’ rigorous Imprisonment at Muar Assizes last
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  • 928 8 Singapore, Oct. 2(i. UOW co-operative stores can help overcome the hlack market in Singapore was described by Mr. S. P. Garrett, Trade Union Adviser, Singapore, addressing the Singapore Co-operative Stores Society yesterday. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, said Mr. Garrett, has decided to appoint
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  • 121 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. TIIE arrival of 2.574 sheep from Western Australia by the Blue Funnel liner Charon on Wednesday has brought Singapore’s sheep imp"? tations from Australia this month <0 7,374. There were aLo 20 heifers on board for Singapore. The Gorgon which arrived
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  • 342 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 26. TIIK early attention of the Municipal Commissioners should be directed to the throwing open of parks, playing grounds, swimming pools, and the clearance of the watei fronts at Connaught Drive and Coilyer Quay, stated Mr. Lien Ying Chow, at a
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  • 117 8 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 24. an emergency meeting of the United Malay National Organisation held yesterday in Kuala Lumpur to review the decisions adopted by the C7.M.N.0. at Penang, regarding non-participation of Malays in all councils, hoards and committees set up by
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  • 315 8 THE Singaj>ore Swimming Club, which was at one time considered the cheapest club of its kind in the Far East, will double its monthly subscriptions and raise its entrance fees, if proposals to be submitted to members at a special general meeting are approved.
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  • 193 8 —S.T B SINGAPORE, Oct THE blackmarket pneo I rice in Johore Bahru hacame down from over $2rn to about $100 per picul S av the N«nyang Siang Pau. Wheat flour is sold at a lim. over $10 per picul, and the t 0 a
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  • 141 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 2G. CINGAPORE Municipal Commis- sioners, at a meeting yesterday. agreed unanimously f o rescind an earlier decision removing the ceilling on assessment rates The motion for the repeal r. that decision was first introduced by Mr. D. K. Walters. Mr. John Lavcock. win mm
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  • 174 8 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 25. THE story of how five men in a sampan stopped a junk bound for Penang with a cargo of runber and other good." in water- oj Pulau Rimau was told at a P rf j minary inquiry
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  • 572 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 24. DICK millers and dealers in Bangkok are asking the 1» Siamese Government to extend the period of free export of rice to the end of December on the grounds that the scheme, as it stands, is premature. Further information from unofficial sources
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  • 102 9 r From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Oct. 23. IN a recent fight between the Kedah police and gang robbers in the village of Paul*, on the Siamese frontier four robbers were killed and a large quantity of booty was captured. Th> fight was
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  • 223 9 DASSENGERS who arrived by the 1 Blue Funnel liner Charon :rrj m Fremantle. Sydney and Mel- rne on Oct. 23 were: -’rs. K Aikman ar.d child. Mr, and W A Aeria Miss B.J Acria, vf»*. Mrs. G Aurley. Mrs. D V Bell tuu daughters, Mrs. A. R.
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  • 60 9 1 r( »m Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 23. Munpaign to collect old r J*hfs for the poor and v. especially school children 1 i 1 <• parents cannot afford to n w suits for them, has launched by the Penang wcl- committee appeal is narticularly di>v ,r
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  • 181 9 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 23. THE Penang General labour Union, following a 16-hour discussion ending at 1 a.m. yesterday, decided to address lour petitions to the British Labour Party, the GovernorGeneral, the Resident Commissioner and the Registrar of Trade Unions, Malayan Union,
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  • 221 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 24. rHE 13th Parachute Battalion, 263 of whose members wore charged with mutiny at Muar in May this year, ended their regimenta’ association with Malaya and Singapore yesterday. With the exception of c ome men who have been V ft behind fo r reposting to uni's
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  • 80 9 From Our Own Corrrsporwl.nt PENANG, Oct. 23. V OC'AL A It P ,/ardcns are now being paid tlmir arrears of pay at tie* Record Ofllce of the Volunteer ILadquarters. The pa; Is computed tor the period from mobilisation day. December fi. lfitl to flu- fall of
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  • 305 9 Prom Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 23. Discussing the future of aviation in Malaya, Air Marshal Sir George Pino, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South East Asia, said yesterday that one of the chad no. ds at present is an auxilitry Air Force to man
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  • 73 9 JOIf ORE’S second public restauJ rant, sponsored by tiie Social Welfare Departnu nt. was opened l)v the Rei»f nt of Johore. T« ngku Malikota. on Oct If), n the j>r*• encr of a large number of Government olTicials and leaders of the various communities. I he
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  • 138 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. ?.i pi (TURKS made entir ly from 1 minute particles of padi straw are on display at the Information Centre. Mountbattcn Road. Kuala Lumpur Tiny are for sale at prices as low as $ll and $4 The artLst who has invented this n
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  • 463 10 From Our Own orrespondent KIJALA LUMPUR, Oct. 2:5. IN spite oi the numerous difficulties of posl-war it:- organization, conditions in Port Sweftenham are rapidly returning to the standard oi’ .'ficicncy experienced before the occupation. The day to (lay work f'oes on to facilitate the passage oi oi
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  • 265 10 SINGAPORE, Oci. PE 1HE guards at the War Crimes Court in Nassim Koad were reinforces, yest- rday when Lt. Col. Ikuo. and the six co-accused in the ‘F’ Force cas who uad been ■jonvicted o fl Tuesday appeared to receive their s*?, it euros.
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  • 175 10 From Our Own Corr spondent PENANG, Oct. 23. MO instructions have been ollicially received in Penang as to the operation of the free rice market sehem it is learned trorn the Penang Imports and Exports Oil ice, which adds that so far no permits lor
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  • 330 10 Petty remittances from Singapore to China by the “back door” will be considerably checked by a new rule which has come into force. Under this rule such remittances may not be credited to the .accounts of firms or individuals resident in China. A notification from the
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  • 290 10 r riIK Singapore Post O lice <• nounc s that Chr stmas and New Year parcel mails lor the United Kingdom will linalh close on Nov 15 but t.h re will he d 'S patches earlier than ret. and the public an* advise d to oust
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  • 227 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. ALBERT Edward Watson lance-corporal 01 a p 0 a Marine Provo. it Ccy. whoV“ stated to have g ven away iy revolver to a naval d; t James Shanley, for $40 Wa sentenced to three years’ ri- ous imprisonment by Mr p u |a
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  • 192 10 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 21. MORE Chinese are tak ng an increasing interest in farming, as indicated in the farming scheme in the Srkingchang a rt;l in Kuala Selangor. Thi s area is reserv'd only for Ch'nese. During the past fortnight,
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  • 81 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. '!’> TWO Chinese youths. Low C' 1 Chong and Chang Hock F aged 15 and ID respectively. stole a motor car Jack frem military lorry parked at i'yrv Road outside the Jalan B' Stadium on Wednesdday convicted in the Second P< 1 I Court yesterday
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  • 312 11 TUB Joint Malayan Committee on War Damage Compensation, representing various tin and rubber organisations including the United Planting Association of Malaya and the British Association oi Straits Merchants, has been formed in Kuala Lumpur. The main object of the committee is to co-oidir. do 'on
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  • 146 11 J.JIH MAJESTY the King has ap1 proved the awaid ol the O d r t ie British Empire to <*c *i.t, '•'•uiy Commander William Cocke iht;s. R.A.F. -ing Commander Pitts, a s;gds technician captured in .h va, '■'•as in command of 2,070 Brn:s d Netherlands
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  • 121 11 THE Controller 01 Supplies in Paharg is issuing cloi.i, to estates employers, associatio and Chambers of Commerce at live yards per employee. District Officers in i'a h arg through Penghulus and vhl gJ headmen, are also dist.iLih i• 180.000 yards of textiles lo kampong dwellers. Distribution is
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  • 68 11 From Our Own Correspond nt PENANG, Oct. 27. AFTER having waned lor months a happy batch ol over JO I Indians lei’t Penang yesterday by g Rajula on th ir vo;,a .<■ ome to India. The majori y vs h tpk icpers, mom y chimgers.
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  • 376 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2;i. THE Union Jack dew at tilt* masthead of tin* 20,000ion Nederland liner Oranje when she arrived in Singapore yesterday in honour of three of her passengers— Lady Gimson, wife of Singa pore’s Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, and Sarawak’s new Governor, Sir Charles
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  • 189 11 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 22. PTFPS are being taken to expedite the salvaging <d .hipping S Ivreclvs in Penang harbour, Mr. F. E. Martin, the Penang Harbour Master, said today. t Mainlv located in the South < hamnd and off Miti h, ,1
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  • 85 11 From Our Own Correspondent A LOR Sl’Alt, Of L. 2*i. The Rob.nho k! of Uv Malayan jungles, Em bee bin Ibrabna, who was captured alt r a v> "i Miifl pain iking comb-out by the Kcdan polief. was produced in the A lor Star Magistrate's
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  • 292 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 25. THE rationing of flour am* broad in Singapore hoH been postponed lor a week. Consumers will hav until Friday. Nov 1, to register with theh retailers Bread and flour will remain on Mie tree market lor he whole ol nex- we
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  • 216 11 Tut; nurses u'n > liv m Kan Kerbau II > r nuises nostel Sinpapore t.a*/• fthe mlluerce ot ,i »i. fi i r. ;in’ jr over a year. I is im i figure </ romance. i< i*r. out petty tints. Me started operations in the host
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  • 108 11 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 22. ON grounds of Irregularity midinltted by counsel, the C’ouit of Appeal sittin*» In K .ala Lumpur, presided ovei by Mr Justice Wilian, Chief Justice, Malayan Union, ordered a retrial in a case m which a Malay,
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  • 139 11 Sydney 'By A:r Made Till- Australian Government will reward Borneo people for 1 1 1 help they gave to Australi: n wai nri oners who made th»* Sandakan Kanan death refi n 1015 Major 11 W Jackson will leave Ai'.tralla tor Borneo in the near tut
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  • 53 11 An aprxal by a 22-year-oid Chine I an S< «i Choi* at* mist h t enei w d m 1 by Mr Ju ‘lee Wot lev In th Suprn Court Tan h id been conv!**te in the lower court for housebreaking and ♦heft, and was sentenced to IS
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  • 430 12 Singapore, Oct. -<>• UOW the affairs of the Singapore Municipality were managed in Iamdon during the period of the Japanese occupation of the island was disclosed in Singapore for the first time yesterday when the Municipal Commissioners held their monthly meeting. A vote of thanks was
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  • 65 12 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Oct. 25. THE Social Welfare Department is planning to ojHn another People’s Restaurant to supplement the present one at Ipon Market. Tli? new restaurant will cater for clerks though it wi,j open to all. It will provide slightly betV r
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  • 141 12 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 25. rHE question of constructing deepwater berths on the mainland in the vicinity of Bagan Luar is to be investigated, it was decided at a meeting of members of the Penang Harbour Board and representatives of the Penang Chamber
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  • 105 12 From Our Own Correspondent MXJAR, Oct. 25. £OUND guilty ol robb.ng an In1 dian woman. Kamachi, of $30 i!i cash and a gold chain. Ong Mi Yam was sentenced to five vi ars’ rigorous imprisonment and welve strokes of the “(git.” by Mr Justice
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  • 114 12 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Oct. 24. VERNACULAR education is now popular among boys in English schools. Classes m Malay, Punjabi, Chinese and Tamil have already been started in the King Edward VII School, Taiping, and Clifford School, Kuala Kangsar. I he King Edward VII School was
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  • 103 12 OINGAPORE schools are not to be used as places for political meetings or lectures. The Education Department has circularized schools that, in addition to the ban or- the dissemination in sCi.ools ol politica propaganda by whatever parties or 1 actions, and the teaching Of political slogans,
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  • 57 12 SINGAPORE, Oct. 26. THE wedding of !VK Hamish Ross Barron, a planter from Layang Layang, Jo,'.or?, and Miss Diana Louise W: ‘-ion look place on Thursday at St. Andrew’s Cathedral the Rev. D. Rosenthall officiating. A reception was hold at ir'O. Mount Plea. iut and the hoMy-
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  • 156 12 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 25. VILLAGERS in Ampang, three miles outside Kuala Lumpur, who have been cultivating crops for orivate consumption ip ord(*r to cope with the rice .shortage, became infuriated at repeated damage to their allotments by what appeared to be wild
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  • 185 12 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2G. OUESTIONS were tabled by Mr. D. K. Walters at a meeting of the Singapore Municipality yesterday, on Singapore transport problems. The replies stated that the pre-war carrying capacity of the Singapore Traction company as at Dec. 1, 1941, was 10,205 passengers
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  • 57 12 Tho Food Controller In Singapore announces that it has hitherto been impossible to include domestic stall in the con trolled distribution scheme o textiles, but it is hoped to externdistribution to include this cia.s. Details of the scheme will b published in the ne, v r future.
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  • 754 12 THE military authorities in the Malayan Union are 1 censured for their “scandalous disregard of the well-being of a country which has suffered Japanese occupation for nearly four years,” in a report by a special housing committee appointed following a public meeting in Kuala
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  • 90 12 SINGAPORE, Oct, 25. THE Naafi warehouse at Beach Road was the scene of two theft cases on Tuesday, and as a sequel a Malay, Abdullah bin Kali Fajar, and a Chinese. Tan Ah Sny, were convicted in the Second Police Court yesterday. Abdullah bin Haji Fajar
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  • 823 13 liy A Special Correspondent CAST troopships formerly utility aiul luxury liners on Far Fast runs, have 1 lately been reaching Singapore from the U.K. either wholly without cargo or passengers or with little or lew of either. One glaring example was the
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  • 62 13 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 26. A resolution to approach the Government as to what steps it intended to take to assist business houses which had been bombed and which could not rc- establish themselves without a.d. 1 was unanimously adopted at a 1
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  • 223 13 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 27. THREE Malay extra policemen attached to the Klang Police, a Chinese railway clerk and an Indian porter were produced be fore the District Judge, Klang. following a daring theft of Naali stores from a railway godown near
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  • 88 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 27. APPLICATION for the Irar.sler of the case against A Thambydorai and L.H.A Jayasuria to the Supreme Cour*. Kuala Lumpur, was successfully made by deienrc counsel, Messrs R. P. S. Rajasooria ana E.T C Thuraisingham belore the. Chief Justice of the Malayan
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  • 351 13 SThgapore, Oct. 2(>. EOLLOWLNG a tribute to the loyalty of the Smga- pore Municipal staff during the Hattie of Singapore and throughout the period of the .Japanese occupation, the Municipal Commissioners, at a meeting yesterday, passed a resolution agreeing in principle to grant all Municipal officers
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  • 88 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 27. MR Arturo Tunco and Mr V Concepcion, representatives ol the Filipino Republic on the new Rk?o Sub-Committee of the Intei national Emergency Food Council in Washington, entertained members oi the Singapore Filipino community at a dinner held the Great World, last night. Amongst those present
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  • 281 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 28. A delegation comprising seven members of the Singapore Chinese Federation for Peace and Democracy in China will present the American Consul in Singapore, Mr. Paul josselyn. with over 20,000, signed rcouests to President Truman fur the withdrawal of American forces in China.
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  • 317 13 SINGAPORE. Oct. 27. THE Oriental Telephone and Electric To.. Ltd., is seeking permission to acquire th» grounds and premises of the Khee Fatt Chinese School *n Hill street, (which were bombed out during the battle of Singapore). The matter came up before Mr H E
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  • 55 13 SINGAPORE. Oct 27. 'IRIBUTE t old b y< of t' e \rglo-Cblncs< School had risk' d tlvir lives dur n t the (H’run.ition bv sending r,} civilian internees w.i< nirde by Mr T W Him h, principal of the t an it
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  • 530 14 I ACK of interest amonjj up-country dealers who have suddenly stopped purchasing consumer goods in igaporc in any large quantities, tor ether with recent increased shipments from the I .K. and Australia and the announcement of a free rice market, has caused a general falling
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  • 176 14 SINGAPORE. Oct. 27. TRIBUTE to the good relationship and understanding existing among the Hindu, Muslim and other Indian communities in Singapore was paid by Mr. S K. Chettur, Representative of the Government of India, yesterday at a party given in honour of Mr K.
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  • 42 14 Mr A. W. I). James. M C S. has oc n appointed Assistant Dstrict Judge and Police Mig stratc for Singapore, and Mr. 1 K Smith a pcl'ce magistrate ton Singapore, according to a Singapore Government noli flea lion. I
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  • 228 14 Java Rice From Our Own Correspondent Batavia, Oct. 24. 1 A communique issued by iht representative of the Govern merit ol India in Java. Mr. K. L. Punjabi, states that the expecta lions of his country that considerable quantities of unhuskect riot could be obtained
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  • 121 14 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Oct. 27. I| UA HUAY lottery has become 11 rampant in Muar, and It is understood that at least two agents are operating secretly at present As a result of the vigilance or the local polic?, severai persons were arrested and convicted
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  • 236 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 28. WAR Office guidance is being sought by military headquarters in Singapore in formulating comment on the Washington report, which stated last week that Gen MacArthur was “complaining bitterly” over the British failure to set a definite time for the evacuation of
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  • 500 14 NEARLY half a million dollars will be spent by the Singapore Government in the next few months ,'n dredging the Singapore River, one of the island’s mil important trade arteries. This figure also include the cost of dredging operations in the seaplane chan, nel at
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  • 81 14 An acquittal on a charge of causing hurt to an unknown Chinese during the Japanese occupation was granted to Cheah Chcok. a Chines 1 Inspector of Police, by Mr. T. T. Russell, Second District Judge. The Singapore Municipality will folio v government practice in matters connected with the
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  • 220 14 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 26. IN order to increase th e present strength of Penang’s police force a new training centre will shortly be established in Butterworth for police recruits from Penang and Province Wellesley, it is understood. A batch of 20 trainees
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  • 127 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 27 THE wedding took place yesterday at St. Joseoh’s Church. Singapore, of Miss Clara Pereira and Mr. Adrain Oliveiro. Tiie bride, who was given awa\ by her brother, wore a beau’iiu! gown of white talTeta with a lengthy train. She carried a sheaf of heather and
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  • 302 15 Singapore, Oct. 29. A statement issued by the Singapore Government last night describes as “an exaggeration without medical justification the statement that, on medical grounds it is outrugccus to bring European children under ten years to Singapore.” The statement claiming it is unhealthy for European
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  • 52 15 Many Singapore and Johore residents were present at a tea party held on Oct. 28 at the residence of the Tungku Mahkota in Johore Bahru to celebrate his 52nd birthday. This Straits Times picture shows the Tungku Mahkota (second from left) and Mr. Eric Pretty, Resident Commissioner of Johore. at
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  • 163 15 f'inm Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 23. p addition to 18,000 lbs. ol I'ice and considerable quan- > of milk and tinned food, '•Inch have been distributed orphans and destitutes, the ang Social Welfare D( ctinont has now bought h0 yards of cloth
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  • 146 15 SINGAPORE. Oct. 27. WARM tributes were paid to Dr G. V Allen’s services as principal of the King Edward VII Co.lege of Medicine at the Medical College Union term.nal staff and students dinner on Friday night. Dr. Allen was also congratulated by students and staff on
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  • 117 15 TWO new judges. Mr. Justice G. L Jobling and Mr. Justice T A. Brown, were introduced ro the bench by Mr. Justice Worley at the Singapore Supreme Court A welcome was extended cd to them by Mr. M. Futtrose on behalf of the Attorney-Gene-ral. by Mr.
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  • 157 15 PERTAIN restaurants In Smgapore have been placed in bounds to Service personnel tor meals at a controlled pile.* of $1.50, and now, with the concurrence of the Food Controller, it is intended to open to Service personnel a lurther limited number wi restaurants which will be prepared
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  • 91 15 From Our Own Correspondent’ MALACCA. Oct. 28. CONVICTED on a Charge of Obstructing a police c unstable In the discharge ol his duties by preventing him from escorting on arrested person to the police station. Ke> Ah Chik. who described .im.sf !l as a driver,
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  • 164 15 Irom On' <»«.. CorresponUi-nl Scremhan Oct. Zn. Malavas pou«» rkers -,.t from SUM) !<• StiO# r>' r month as well as liircc free ■reals of rice an.) vcxctahl.s free quarters and medical an. when necessary. tvoical Malayan potlt?r> firm, the Kune Soon
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  • 306 15 RAFFLES Institution, the oldest school in Singapore, hits been derequisitioned by the ILA.F. and after extensive repairhave been made, it is expected that the school, at present housed elsewhere, will occupy their old building. This i.s but one oi a nuruoi i of buildings
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  • 133 15 f.'n tn Own Corre.sjionden? PFNANG. Oct 27 i*. ;N i ATI()NS made v;e< k bv I’ fiaoe, troiav i > fjriver and conductors will be ron clered bv the Munic pal Com missioners at their next meeting on Tue d iv. the Municipal Prr ddent. Mr
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  • 209 15 THE United States has signed a corpra agreement with the Netherlands Indies under which the N.E.I. Government has agreed to sell exportable surplus of copra from the chief copra producing areas of the islands to the United States for a period of one
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  • 107 15 nun Oie Hui loi i **NjH.rul«-ut A LOR STAR Oct 20 SCHOOLS 111 Alor Star ar» jub: lan* ov« r the decision of th** au’horit e to open canteens m schools m line with othr r schoo canteen, opened m the country Spaces have been
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  • 224 16 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. |HE tripartite labour advisory bo: r:I iracle up employers, employees and Government which the Secretary of State for the Colonies, .Mr. Arlhu’ Creech-Jones, announced in the House of Commons on Wednesday would Ik* established in the and Singapore, will not be formed in
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  • 305 16 From Our Own Correspondent A LOR STAR. Oct. 26 THE story of how a 12-year-old Sikh boy saw his lather while sleeping on bed shot to death by a compatriot in the early hours of Oct 5 at the Anak Bukit r»c** mill was told
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  • 149 16 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 27. TUP" driver who causes an accident bv an error of judgment is a public danger. Mi Justice Spencer Wilkinson voiced this opinion in replying to a 'submission made by counsel. Mr. Morris Edgar, that an appellant whom
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  • 77 16 THE Singapore Island Cluo which announced its intention of closing down owing to a strike by the Club’s ground stall will not be closed because a sottlement has been reached with tiie strikers. Tlie strike ended the day it be gun alter coolies agreed to
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  • 58 16 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA. Oct. 20 THE body of a twelve-year-old Chinese schoolboy was recovered from a pond in Ha chang Itoad yesterday. It is believed that the boy stayed away from school, and was drowned while swimming in thi* pond. ||«> was a nephew
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  • 93 16 IT tuoK the Singapore Harbour Boaro Fire Brigade exactly four hours to put out a tire on board the s.s. Toshi No. 1. a small motoi vessel, anchored orf Clifford Pier on Saturday night The vessel was very badly damaged The fire originated in the
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  • 209 16 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 27. MAINTAINING that the proposed payment of $24 years’ work was ki disgraceful and disgusting the Penang A-R.P. group wardens at a protest meeting held on Wednesday decided to call a mass meeting of all A.R.P. wardens in
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  • 90 16 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 26. RAGING lo r almost one hour, a big fire razed the smokehouse of a rubber factory at 7th milestone Batu Uban on Thursday afternoon. Three engines of the Fire Brigade rushed to the scene and. as there was no hydrant
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  • 414 16 are your chances ol recovering th car you lost i.. 1H42? Still fairly good if it was running after the liberation and was taken over by the B.M.A. Files have been made up,and it possible today to quicklv trace the location or. at least
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  • 399 16 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 25. TEAM spirit is essential to the growth of a democratic society and games and sports matches are a great nation building factor, declared Sir Edward Gent, Governor of the Malayan Union, in a speech at
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  • 118 16 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 27. Representatives of the three Chambers of Commerce and other trading bodie. met delegates of the Penang Harbour Labourer and Lorry Drivers Association >»n Thursday. After nearly three hours’ dj-j' cussion it was decided that tn< harbour labourers
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  • 68 16 SINGAPORE, Oci. 2> rRTY-SIX Punjabi recruits for the Singapore Police Fr v were among the 262 passer*r rs which arrived by the Ascar.. from Madras on Thu: f do v majority of the pass ngers u (r Indian businessmen. The newcomers to the local poll force
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  • 278 17 riXGAPORE S fight against black market hawkers who are upsetting every rationing scheme, and unlicensed vegetable vendors, who are causing a serious health problem in crowded areas of the city, has entered a new phase. Food Control Department inspectors and the Police are to step-up the
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  • 94 17 SINGAPORE. Oct. 29. Government notification pub- lished yesterday gives the allowiny list of public and bank Holidays for 1947: Public* Holidays: New Year’s pay. Good Friday and the following day (April 4 and 5), K ln^'*s Birthday (June 12), •Saturday before August Bank holiday <Aug. 2», Hari
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  • 138 17 Oswald Wynd, a former resident ol Kuala Lumpur who was taken prisoner of war in Malaya, has won a C 2.500 prize awarded annually lor the winner of the Doubleday novel competition. Mr. Wynd was interpreter attached to a party of 400 PoWs sent to
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  • 237 17 Colonel’ s Boat Found Abandoned SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. rE yacht Saucy Sue, n, which Col. W. H. B. Wheeler, Deputy Director of Transportation m HQ ALFSEA, left the Singapore Yacht Club on Sunday morning, has been found abandoned off the entrance to the Kallang River, Singapore Island. So far no
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  • 212 17 Father (17) Mother (15) Left Child In Pit From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Oct. 29. ASeremban Malay and his wife, Yusof bin Hassan and Indon binte Ujang, who gave their ages as 17 and 15 respectively, were found guilty of abandoning their sixweeks old daughter in a disused pit-latrine at
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  • 342 17 SINGAPORE. Oct 30. JjlNETY-EIGHT Allied PoWs were killed and over 200 ded. many severely, when A l 'd aircraft bombed a railway J m Nong Pladuk. Siam, on -'ht 6, 1944. hitting the PoW r a mp itself. w*as disclosed in the aifi>(aavi.t of Lt.-Col.
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  • 93 17 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 29. THE decision to reduce their charges for handling four essential foodstulTs, rice, sugar, salt and flour, was reached by the Penang Harbour Labourers Association at a meeting hi id on Monday to consider th*. present dispute witii local
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  • 135 17 panose ocoupation. (Translation copyright by Strait*; Times> Chinese Bovs y CINGAPORE Chinese students have not fully recovered from the efTect of the Japanese occupation, reports the Chungnun Jit Pao. At a discussion meeting of »ne Singapore Chinese Teachers’ Association. recently, it was pointed out that the present
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  • 156 17 MR II N Balhctchct. has been ejected prc sidcnt, and Mr Yapp I h<-;m Chvc. vice-president, of the newly formed Singapore Teachers' Un.on Mr I* V Surma :.s general secretary The Union was formed following a meeting of mor f > than 200 Oovcn innii and
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  • 272 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 29. C OMPARISON between the Japanese treatment of PoWs employed on the Burma-Siam Railway and slave labour at the time of the building of the pyramids and galley slaves was made by a witness yesterday in the War Crimes
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  • 195 17 SINGAPORE. Oct. JO SOT Major Hussain nin Ihta him and Sgt Mohamed Saman of th< Singapore Police, apfK»ared again before Mr. T T Russell. Second District Judge, when hearing was resumed into /harg» > against them of causing hurt to various people during the Jap (K-eupation. JafTar bin
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  • 71 17 NKW Zealanders who served with th«* Colonial Volunteer Forces outside New Zealand ar" now entitled to claim from the New Zealand Government the dilTerence between the gratuity to which they are entitled al t/ K At my rates and the gratuity laid down for the New
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  • 311 18 ENTERPRISING work by forwards enabled Singapore District to beat the S.C.C. by eight points (gfMil and try) to nil when they met on the Padang yesterday. Iwo tf/noes a week for three? weeks in succession took their inevitable toll of the S.C.C. player*. They
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  • 197 18 Th* smgapon Killt As»wl»t»'>n shoot on Sundry took place under rather difficult rondltlons. as the lrm vuu> dull and thr tarots seemed to oe obscured by a Uuh1 bn/o. However the usual number 1 members turned up for their morning's shooting. This week the practices wen two slRhter.s
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  • 103 18 Sunday Times Reporter REG AM AT. QCT. 26 IOHORK RAHUL beat Segamat I nil when tin two sides met at socevr at J oh ore Bahru over the week end S<-i>sm;;t were unfortunate to lose one of their backs a few minute*! from the start
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  • 37 18 BEG A MAT. OCT 26. \/I Kirn NO the G.E.8. on the school padang ovc i the* weekend tn« Si •gamut Sportf Club hockey team scored a de>M> victory by the odd seal kr. ft’.e
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  • 151 18 I rom Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 24. EXCESS income ovn expenditure lor the year endin', An«. 31. is shown in the Tuif Club’s report as &7J,M p *29. To this has been adJ' 1 $5,21!).K2 rents. Depreeiation on buildings, totalisator. furniture a lutings lias
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  • 138 18 From Out Own Correspondent Batu Pahat. A definite step has at last been taken in Batu Pahat towards putting football on a proper organised footing. At a meeting recently it was derided to revise the Association and office-bearers were elected. It was decided also
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  • 80 18 A service and civilian athletic meeting will bo hold at. the Police ground on Saturday. Nov t) Teams will be entered from the various Services’ units and from the Police and Singapore Amateur Athletic Association. It is understood that invitations to the civilian bodies have been sent out
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  • 105 18 Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 2b. TWO goals scored within the last live minutes of the game enabled the Selangor Malays 'll' team to defeat the T.P.C.A. “B team in the final 01 the junior knockout football competition played on the T.P.C.A. grounu this evening. The Malays won
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  • 229 18 From Our Own Correspondent SEKEMBAN. OCT. 24 GOOD soccer was played on tlx station padang this evening when the Chinese, winners of the Shield competition, won 8-4 against ComL.i.n XI drawn from the rest of iho teams that had taken part in the league competition. Showing
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  • 271 18 Singapore, Oct. 25. WITH the return of old members, and the large influx of service members. Sunday morning was something like old times at the Royal Singapore Yacht Club and eleven boats faced the started in very light airs for the two races arranged, but owing
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  • 151 18 |T is understood that there will be a rugby match on the last Saturday in January between a Combined Services’ team and the Rest of Malaya. This game will be played in Singapore on the day normally given to the North vs.
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  • 322 18 “|F I were to be absolutely strict I would bar every horse that raced in Malaya pre-war, with the exception of one from racing,” the local Veterinary official of the Ipoh Turf Club told the Straits Times correspondent at Ipoh. “I have to draw
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  • 424 18 Sunday Times Reporter IF*OH OTr CPENCER m, the 0 jockey at todays races. whiners in the second, third and ,’i? races and being concerned <n heat for first in the fifth l(t I he going was good and tin-*-, a laj*ge attendance. The b
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  • 169 18 A GOOD crowd saw Jell Ccnd'c 2nd. Division RASC, retains his SEAC gold belt, I*P Goldstone of Mile End. Great World Arena, on Oct. M The fight was thrilling tmm finish, with the dramatic tii cu-’ in the 6th round. Conria st > knock-out victory The
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  • 52 18 Following their win ag^;!!'r s the 2nd. Battalion of the■ on Saturday of four-nil, Jj■ Co. R.A.S.C., beat the 61 R.AJS.C. by eight goals to at soccer on Oct. 28 at Brani. Goal scorers for winners today were Robson Hincclwood <2), Fin lay son Berthwick fl> and
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  • 409 19 L ra its Trading Co. Report IrilK Straits Trading Company has resumed smelting on a ■I small-scale with a plant at Pulau Brani which will be l, 0 re than sufficient to deal with ore likely to be received in Boniinir months, according to
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  • 126 19 -Reuter. London, Oct. 23.—The official i- nouncement of the restoration of free rubber trading, which na.s b en long awaited, has now ber ;n made Board of Trade has agreed :ai from today London rubber aciers may make contracts for (f JVin or selling physical rubber c
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  • 148 19 IN a recent Parliamentary statement it was announce! that war gratuities of serving members of the British Forces would shortly be released for payment based on reckonable service up to Aug. 15, 1946. Payments will be made as early as possible by credits to Post Office
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  • 78 19 —U.P. Mr. Fred J. Barretto, representative in Singapore for Rycena Food Products, writes that in addition to the import permit secured by the Fourpoints Ltd., the Singapore agents for the product, Cheng Chiang Trading Co., the Kuala Lumpur agents for Rycena. have also secured an import permit r
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  • 127 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. THE loss of a large quantity 1 of pepper understood to be worth about $40,000 from a warehouse in Singapore is being investigated by the Police. It appears that the pepper, owned by produce merchants, had beer, stored in a godown In Havelock Road.
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  • 76 19 From Our Own Correspondent PENANO, Oct. 26. T*HE news that the Government may shortly be releasing half a million yards of khaki drill for open sale in Penang has sent black marketeers scrambling to dispose of their stocks. Although not officially confirmed, it is stated
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  • 162 19 —A P. WASHINGTON. OCT. 29. Mr. Charles G Ross, secretary to President Truman, to-day denied knowledge of a report that the Government might change the $35 an ounce gold vuluation. A treasury official also threw cold water on the Idea, saying that the Treasury Secretary. Mr.
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  • 284 19 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumjpur, Oct. 24. DEMANDS for quit rent, high duty, and other expenditure, combined with the recent inability of the market to dispose of their product, had rendered it necessary for Allenby Rubber Company to proceed with extreme caution
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  • 298 19 PUBS IN S’ PORE MAY DOUBLE IN spite of the shortage of beer and spirits Singapore may have in the New Year—if the Licensing Justices allow it nearly twice as many “pubs’* as there were before the war. The number of licensed houses today is already fifty per cent above
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  • 337 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 21. EACTORS which made it impossible to lay before the shareholders a clear-cut programme for the future operations of the lllu Klang Tin Limited were described by the chairman of Ihe company, Mr. T. 1). Ensor, in a review of
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  • 214 19 •pHE report of the directors of Karmen Rubber. l td for the year ended May 31. 194fl. pre.vnted at the annua) meeting of shareholders In London on Friday, says the Asiatic subordumte staff are mostly back on the estate out the labour force has been sadly
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  • 92 19 AP NPJW YORK. Oct. 29-The domestic consumption of natural rubber increased 28.82 per cent in August over July, totalling 28 336 tons, the Rubber Manufacturers’ Association reports. Overall consumption of all types of rubber soared in August to 18.122 t<ms a gain of 15.1 >jc
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  • 538 20 Rubber Agreement Hy Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. Fis now reasonably certain that Malaya will be unable to supply 50,000 to 00,000 tons of the amount of 200,000 tons of rubber that America has undertaken to purchase up to the end of
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  • 129 20 WASHINGTON, Oct, 23. AMERICAN motor-car tyre.' and other rubber commodities produced in the fir.>t quarter of 1947 will contain about one-half of natural rubber. The Civilian Production Administration announced today that at present about 30 per cent of natural rubber was used and that
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  • 348 20 By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct. 28. Quotations were tairiy wen maintained and there was an improved turnover in Malayan share markets during the week Industrials provided the bulk of the business. Australian tins were lairly active but in rubbers and dollar and sterling tins business
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  • 227 20 The report of the directors of River* view Rubber Estates. Ltd., for the ptnod from April 1, 1941, to March 31. 1946. presented to the annual 1946. presented to the annual meeting of shareholders says all the statutory and financial books and records of the company
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  • 255 20 MR. F. G. LUNDON, chairman of Glenealy an( ations, Ltd., told the annual meeting of shari holders in Singapore on Oct. 23 that Governniw had treated the rubber industry very badly at a tin when it most needed assistance. “Not only has no assistance
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  • 87 20 The report of directors of the Alien by Rubber Co Ltd., presented at annual meeting of shareholders at Kual Lumpur on Wednesday, says unpin commenced on Feb. 24 over 400 acre which has since been extended t 1.310 acres. An> expenditure which will be :c in connection with
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  • 708 20 Share quotations, as at Oct. -i? according to tm Malayan c 1 arebrokerx Association (Singapore) were as follows: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alexandra Brjkworks Ords SI.70 $1.90 Alexandra Brickwork? Prefs 2.60 i 85 Brit Malaya rrustee Executor Co a.00 9.00 Consolidated Tin Smelters Old. 22/6 25/do Prefs. 26/6
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