The Straits Budget, 21 November 1946

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] New Series No. 16 Singapore, Thursday, November, 21st. 1946, Price 40 cants (8LS. Currency)
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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 old est 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
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    • 969 2 —Straits Times, Nov. 14. The reduction of the export duty on rubber from four cents to 2% cents per pound has met with a mixed reception. Some producers are said to regard the reduction as satisfactory and “as much as can be expected/’ while others express disappointment.
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    • 1056 2 —Straits Times, Nov. 15. A new phase in the discussions directed towards finding a new constitution for Malaya, excluding Singapore, that will be satisfactory to all elements of the genuinely Malayan population will open with the departure of the Governor-General for London within the next few
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    • 814 2 —Straits Times, Nov. 16 No name in the rubber world carries more weight than that or Mr. Eric Miller, both by virtue of his position as chairman of the great planting and merchant firm cf Harrisons and Crosfield. Ltd and his own long
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    • 1030 2 —Straits Times, Nov. 13 Fears that local living costs may be forced still higher by an allround increase in rents have arisen from a report tnat the Singapore Ratepayers' Association contemplates asking Government to amend the Rent Restriction Ordinance. Recommendations made by a sub-committee of the association, but
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    • 1111 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 19. The old grievance of the colour bar in Government service was raised age in in the Singapore Advisory Council last week, and we may be sure that it will be debated many more times before Malaya is finished with it. There ir ed
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    • 1175 3 —Straits Times, Nov. In comment on the Malino conference in this column some works ago it was suggested that the political map of Asia in the future might contain a new name, "the United States of Indonesia Today that name is not yet on the map,
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  • 1404 4  -  BY SIR GEORGE MAXWELL, K.B.E C.MG. In this article one of the most distinguished of the old school of British administrators in the Malay States comments on one of the problems of the new Malaya that has emerged from the occupation. 1 T.-Col.
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  • 458 4 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. THE attention of the Singapore Government has been drawn to the conditions of service for hospital dressers, under which a number of them have been receiving the same salary for the last 13 to 14 years, the Straits Times understands. The number
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  • 83 4 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 18. A TTRACTIVELY designed Malayan welfar e fund stamps have made their appearance in Penang and are finding ready sales at banks ahd business houses. The stamps are in four different colours and denominat ons —one cent in green, five
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  • 26 4 FARRINGTON. On Nov Perth, Western Australia, te t wife of E. G. Farrington of Bahru, Kelantan and North 1 Western Australia, a daughter mary Deborah).
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  • 150 4 SINGAPORE, Nov 19 “T am very glad to oe back and 1 take my share in the interesting tasks that lie ahead for the development and welfare of Malaya,” said the Right Rev. Dr J L. Wilson, C.M.G., the Bishop of Singapore, on his arrival in
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  • 84 4 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 18. EMBERS of the Penans i>J Y-W.C.A. held their fi ral post-war social at Piccadilly on Saturday evening when Ml >. Chea Hinn Kiong, the President, in welcoming all new and o.a members announced that soon as a club
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    • 493 5 ALTHOUGH belated, it is still 1 praiseworthy that the lur.ieipal (ommissioners have last agreed to abolish one f the most degrading sights sir.^ipore —the rickshaws. D, grading and inhuman are appropriate words in describ*L, any society which allowsr"n to earn their
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    • 124 5 English Englishmen A FRIEND visited me the ether day and asked my opinion about the education given by certain Malayan schools. Although my children and his ai> learning in the same class, I was not able to give him my views as I myself am not suiliciently educated in English.
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    • 213 5 ‘Discrimination I WRITE this letter as a Straits-born Chinese. When I was in school we used to hold concerts and plays in aid of tn relief of famine or flood stricken China. It is oar turn to be in want now. I have read recently of the rehabilitation giant given
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    • 107 5 Between 1942-1945 the Jap* introduced H colonization schemes into Negri Scmbilan. and success attended those schema that were predominantly aokimzed by the Chinese, the Indian* ind the Javanese. During that period, the colonjsu with inadequate and hacliv turned-out farming tools were abit: to produce food-stuffs far in
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    • 142 5 IN a recent issue of tin,* Straits Times you slate that Mr. Rajasingam, the Re presentative of the Ceylon Government in Malaya, wa.surprised when some Ceylonese asked him about the.r future safety in Malaya. I see no reason wny Mr. Kajasingham should have been surprised.
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    • 213 5 1WISH to support the appeal made by one of youi corres pondents to tin* Chinese Consul-General in Singapore, on the one hand, and the British administration here, on th< other, for less partial and discriminatory treatment of the Straits born Chinese. When the Chinese powers-that-bc want our
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    • 111 5 jT is proposed to form a i branch of the Royal Air Forces Association in Singapore and I am anxious to get in touch with civilians who have served in the Royal Air Force or its Dominion equivalents. The main object:, of tho Association are to tosier comradeship
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    • 301 5 I HAVE read the letters ap pouring in your columns occasionally on the theme “Malayan for tin* Malayans.’ I strongly support the view that those oar on.s whose permanent j homes are outside Malaya, and v nose political interests ar centred mainly in other countries,
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    • 139 5 F;U) M wiiat »ii" n »(l.s of the l nr> s tuation in Sarawak in your paper, one would expect 1 1 1 position here to he serious Actually it is not so That is I what I d'seovend whi-n I irriv d llm p* from Singat
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    • 159 5 NOT so lon# ago the HritiSii Press was foaming at thr. mouth over tin* alleged injustice to certain mutineers who were awarded two years’ Now the rest of the Army have imprisonment. a'onths service In the Army, which In my case means I have to wait possibly
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    • 90 5 SINCE the liberation the Eurasian volunteers have been patiently nursing then grievances in inspect of di£* crimination in pay, and it is time that such rates of pay were rectified. At the outbreak rf the r a,r Pastern hostilities 'hr 0.0 C. took over rontrol ot all toe
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  • 858 6 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Nov. 18. HKTAILS of the workings of the Malayan Peoples u Anti-Japanese Army during the occupation and in the confused period following the Japanese surrender were given at the trial which has just ended after a four-day hearing in the Perak Assizes
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  • 59 6 Three Chinese armed with pistols, broke into a house in Victoria Street, on Saturday at seven o’clock and got away with $1,400 in cash and jewellery. The head of the house, a cl( rk working in Naafl Stores, and four others, were herded into a ro< m on
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  • 163 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 18. a result of representations made by the Penang Clerical Union a good number of local firms are now providing better working terms for their employees, Mr. N, Ponnudurai, President of the Union, stated here. The Union, he added, had
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  • 452 6 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. THE first group of 25 Malayan Chinese who had seen service on the Burma Road at the outbreak of the war |with Japan, were among 1,340 Singapore and Malayan Chinese to return to Singapore yesterday by the K.P.M. liner Tjihadak from
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  • 58 6 from Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Nov. 17. J\ llu se tiger measuring about six feet and weighing about two piculs was captured by the villagers of Kuala Nerang and brought to Alor Star police station. It was reported that the beast had been terrorising the village
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  • 90 6 TWO tons of school i )IUIL 1 donated by schools in ks ria Australia, have ani v ,.,i Singapore to help rc M> U acute shortage N( dn They were packed and w patched by the Australian Cross. The donation «a gested to Victoria
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  • 160 6 OWNERS of land in tip Malayan Union may apply to the Collector of Land Revenue of their State for a loan not exceeding $lO,OOO in order to enable them to erect houses on their holdings, A communique issued by the Selangor Government stabs the scheme
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  • 151 6 FOR the first time in the histcry of the Indian National Congress Party in India, delegates from overseas Indian bodies •ill attend the forthcoming 54th ses sion of the Congress at Meerut. United Provinces, on Nov. 23 ur.d 24. Malayan Indians will be represented at this
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  • 54 6 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR. No*. THE HANAFI BIN SUKUN. Malay Judge, Kedah. tired after about 38 years' with the Kedah Governmei Che Hanafi, who belon-• respectable family which i connected with the rulin' of Kedah, has been in government offices thr« Kedah. He is an old
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  • 260 7 u i> AMSTERDAM, Nov. 15. rE pilot of a Royal Dutch Airlines Dakota which ■crashed and was destroyed by Hre on Schipol Airfield, Amsterdam. last night was Cap■tain S. Morston, who was born ■in Simla. He was living in ■Amsterdam. Am one. the
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  • 331 7 I SINGAPORE, Nov. 16. Ii VEKY strong plea to the Singapore public to have In themselves vaccinated as soon as possible, especially to the parents of children of tender age who are I most liable to be infected with smallpox, was made byIan official
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  • 37 7 The price of a reputed quart bottle of locally brewed beer sold off the premises has been raised to $1.20. according to a Government notification. Price control on Carlsberg imported beer has been lifted
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  • 149 7 from Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Nov. 15. HE Malacca Boys’ Jubilee Home nt Banda Hilir road officially declared open by Jpe Resident Commissioner, Mr. L O. Day, before a large W’nering of government officials ir -n community representatives Opening the Home Mr. Day in d sp
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  • 81 7 T SINGAPORE. Nov. 16. UK total amount of rice so far shipped at Bangkok for Singapore under the Siamese Government “three per eent” scheme is about 280 ions. The latest information received yesterday evening by Mr K. Tours, Chairman of the Joint Supply
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  • 145 7 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 15. CQUITTING a bus company in Tapah of charges of i carrying passengers for hire I without a permit from the Commissioner of Road Transport, Malayan Union. Che Bahaudin, the Tapah Magistrate, complimented the company for renderj ing siuch
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  • 83 7 MR. K. M. Byrne, in the Third Magistrate’s Court yesterday imposed maximum sentences of $lO each on the parents of two newly-born children who since their birth in April this year had not been vaccinate against smallpox. Mr. S. V. Hogan, Senior Inspector of the Municipal Health
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  • 508 7 THERE is a distinct possibility of a return to unres* 1 tricted commercial import of sugar in Singapore by next year, according to reports from dealers in the sugar trade in the Colony. The Straits Times understands that the goal sought meanwhile is the
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  • 496 7 AMIDST the picturesque surrounding of padi fields, the first Sakai school in Negri Sembilan was declared open at Kampong Tekir, in Labu Mukim, on Nov. 13. The opening ceremony was conducted by the District Officer of Seremban, Mr L. H. N Davis. The school
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  • 59 7 rF.NTY-fonr pounds of Persian opium wort* found by a Customs Search Party which hoarded the Shell Oil Tanker Solarium on her arrival at Pulau Bukom from Aberdeen Part of the drug was hidden in flre-oxtinguishers which had had their contents removed The local value of
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  • 161 7 in Pal* 1 tine. Straits Times ropy* right; From Our Own C orrespondent LONDON, Nov. 15 ALL London evening newspapers give a top front-page prominence to interviews with some of the Kluang paratroopers who arrived at Southampton by tiie Otranto this afternoon. The men, who Ironically
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  • 592 8 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 15. “MAI AY A is in a terrible plight with its diseased population and something must be done about it,' declared Dr. (Miss) Soo Kim Tan at the Rotary dub luncheon on Wednesday when she described tuberculosis
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  • 86 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 16. JEN 38 Smith and Wesson revolvers were seized by the Singaj)ore Police yesterday afternoon. Acting on Information, Mr. F. J. Patton, A S P. in charge of the Hokkien Sub branch, C.1.D., and a party of detectives raided a hut in Zion Road
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  • 58 8 IT is announced by the Colonial Office that the King has been pleased to approve the appointment ot Mr. Edward Francis Twining, C.M.G., M B E., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of North Borneo. Mr. Twining, who is 47, was Director of Labour. Mauritius, before being appointed
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  • 290 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. THE Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday were the busiest for many months when the process *t discharging and loading by dockyard labourers of no fewer than 17 ships was in full swing. Thp busy wharf scenes were in d rect contrast
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  • 361 8 From Our Own Correspondent Fl i nwiMr PENANG, Nov. 15. FLOWING a lengthy discussion on the development of a .„f n nR I* or »»‘keep pace with the steady expansion of trade, the I cnang Settlement Advisory Council at a meeting yesterday agreed that there should
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  • 322 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 16 THE $30,000,000 (Straits) loan granted by the Chin Government to help in the rehabilitation of Chi businesses in the Malayan Union and Singapore will )e available as soon as word is received from the British Clover ment in London, the Straits Times
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  • 108 8 T'HE United Malays National Organisation has established a few scholarships and exhibitions for poor promising Malay students who have been approved admission either into Raffles College or College of Medicine. Applicants or their parents must be members of associations affiliated to UMNO. These scholarships and
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  • 129 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15 THE Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, and Lady Gimson will attend the official ope ran? of the Singapore Cricket Ciu» next Wednesday at G.30 P :n Heads of all three Services ar among the guests who have D f01 invited to the ceremony.
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  • 112 8 TWENTY old rifles, a number of machine guns and a new automatic pistol have been recovered from the depths of the Singapore River by the dredger Mudlark during recent dredging operations. The rifles and machine guns which are believed to have been lying in
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  • 226 8 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 14. FE first cases of concealment of smallpox came up in the Third Magistrate’s Court yesterday when three Indians were fined for failure to report the outbreak of smallpox in their houses. Another Indian. himself a smallpox victim, had his
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  • 59 8 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Nov. 166. TRAGEDY befeTl a Malay family at Gurun on Thursday when, It was alleged, a brother and sister, both In their ’teens, were hacked to death with a parang by a cousin of the victims. This is the second double murder
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  • 318 9 Union Tackles A Problem From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 13. 1 GOVERNMENT plan to grant loans up to a maxiA mum of $lO,OOO to owners of land for building purposes was put before a meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Town Board held today.
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  • 117 9 I rum Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 13. A SHOOTING tragedy, which occurred last December at a publ c bar in Hutton Lane, had s qu 1 in the Ass ze Court yest* rday when a Chinese. Cheah L Cheow.* was charged before h Justice
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  • 146 9 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 13. ‘‘/JRAFT and corruption are unfortunately prevalent througn out Malaya,” declared the Chiei Justice oi the Malayan Union, Mr. Justice Willan, in the Supreme Court. Kuala Lumpur, today whe.i he refused to revise the sentence of four months rigorous
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  • 79 9 HE Singapore Post OfTice now advises that Nov. 2o is the latest date lor posting parcels, letter packets and printed mat ter such as Christmas cards ana calendars, ior despatch by sea mail to the United Kingdom No guarantee can be given tnai
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  • 79 9 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. It. lED by the Garrison Com- mander. Lieut. Col. G. Taylor. D SO. and bar. who was on horseback, the West Yorkshire Regiment carried its regimental colours lor the first tinu since 1937 in an impressive ‘colour march,’ through the
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  • 59 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 17. Remarking that ,t was dangerous to carry a knifp n public. Mr. Paul SiPbrr lined a 21-year old Indian, Kunjoo, $lOO, in default three months’ rigorous imprisonment, at the First District Court yesterday lor carry ng a knife in public during
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  • 472 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 14. THE text of a statement issued by the Secretary of State for the Colonies on reports allegedly circulated in Sarawak by Mr. Anthony Brooke, the exRajah Muda, was officially issued in Singapore last night. This statement had been supplied by the Secretary
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  • 152 9 Straits Times copyright. From Our Own Correspondent London, Nov. j2. In the Court of Appeal today Lord Justice Morton dismissed with costs the appeal of Mr. Anthony Brooke, former Rajah Muda ol Sarawak from the decls on of Mr. Justice Sellers setting as de a subpo
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  • 86 9 1,240 ROBBERY CHARGE SINGAPORE. Nov 14. < .'.arge of armed gang rob'J' lnv °l vi ng cash and jewel- worth $1,240, the property of m ld b in Abas in Jalan Salek, j:n L house in Jalan Eunos on v 4 was explained to a 20'T old Malay, Salleh bin
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  • 411 9 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 13. THE story of a Pudu Gaol break by six British officers during the occupation and the subsequent decapitation of all the officers when they were captured, was told in the Bentong District Court today before Mr. B
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  • 105 9 CINCE the liberation, travelling dispensaries have covered thousands of miles f o treat Innumerable patients Five travelling dispensaries, operating under the Selangor Medical and Health Department, tour Kua'a Lumpur and outskirts. Among the places vlsltea by these dispensaries ar? Mem. Kapar, Batu Tlga, Pulau Ketam, Tdok Jengaram, Bukit
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  • 380 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 11. ONE of the biggest single movements oi shipping since the liberating fleet arrived in Singapore in September, 1945, is proceeding today as ships which have been lying at anchor in the Main Anchorage and in the Roads during the 20-day strike
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  • 511 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 14. FULL details of the agreement signed between representatives of the Singapore Harbour Board and the strikers were made known yesterday. The agreement states: The Chsiinnun of the Slngap >re Harbour Board will agree to give an lnrrea.se of 15 per cent.on the pre-strife i
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  • 65 10 OEPOY MALA RAM, R.I.AS.C. sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment for criminal breach of Irust in rested of 40 of rice, weighing four tons, by the f irst District Judge, Mr. Paul Storr. Sepoy Mala liad taken delivery of the rice from Tcdok Ayer
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  • 177 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 14. Checking up on a case oi smallpox near Geylang Serai yesterday, Singapore sanitary inspectors discovered 11 other similar cases which had been unsuspected in that area. This has raised the number of cases of smallpox in Singapore in the last two
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  • 93 10 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 13. THE smallpox infected area ot Kedah road was*the scene of a big fire, which broke out shortly after 9 o’clock lasf night and completely burnt dowrs-the house occupied by a Malay family. Two buildings adjoining it a ere also
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  • 144 10 SINGAPORE Is short of Post Office “boxes.” A large waiting list exists of persons who have applied for box numbers They have to wait because the supply is dependent on imports from the United Kindom. Post Office boxes are made of pressed steel, which is
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  • 69 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 14. IRWIN Oliver Jones, a 34-ycar-1 old Eurasian, was produced before, Mr. T. T. Russell, Second District Judge yesterday, on a summons to show cause why he should not pay arrears of maintenance to his wife and thiiee children. The maintenance order was
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  • 517 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. lj THE Government of Singapore may be asked Singapore Ratepayers Association to amend IS Rent Restriction Ordinance in order to permit creases in certain rent groups, the Straits Tinn's understands. A special Rent Sub-committee appointed v Ratepayers Association has made certain reeor.nmn dations, and
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  • 182 10 SINGAPORE. Nov 14 ITNGKU Aziz and Mrs. Aziz were th P guests at a tea party at Johore Bahru on Sunday evening given by Che A. Mubin bin Dato Abdullah. officer n-charse Social Welfare Department. Johore. and members of the Johore State Welfar P Committee. Ungku
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  • 80 10 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Nov. 13. DOLICE vigilance against threatening notes delivered hy extortioners has led them to adopt a new method. Instead of sending their demands in person they ore using the post office to forwar the threatening notes. In the latest case reported to
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  • 76 10 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Nov. U THE first union to receive a certiflcate of registratio: Negri Sen• bilan under the n Trade Union legislation Negri Indian Union, which has seven hr; in different parts of the S‘ s The union had 11 n when
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  • 318 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 13. «r() ensure more eftective control of malaria in i( Sin.iit'POi'f' rural areas, anti-malarial measures arc i be carried out with the co-operation of the jyjrvi h the scheme is approved by Government. Tlu* plan, which was drawn up by the Acting
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  • 151 11 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 14. AT ’lie conclusion of the Hutton Line murder cas e the jury a verdict of guilty against Chcah Swee Cheow who *as sentenced to death by Mr. Justify Carey who added the jurv's recommendation to mercy vn i
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  • 58 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. A un G Chinese, Choa Teck in, was sentenced to death a f 1 -ing by Mr. Justice Jobling Singapore Assizes yester,nnn the common jury rea verdict of guilty of f ‘HR arms” under the Public in d Safety Proclamation him. T M.
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  • 60 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. QWNERS of motor vehicles taken on to the British Military Administration register, and subsequently lost or sold at a figure grossly under the market value, are to be compensated. By a provision laid on the table at yesterday’s meeting of the Singapore Advisory
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  • 132 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. The Nikah ceremony of the marriage between Captain Masood Ahmad. Indian Army Public Relations, and Miss Zain Dawood. sister, of Mr. S. Dawood. took place last night at Jubilee Manor, Serangoon Road, the residence of the late Mr. T. K Sheik Dawood and Mrs
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  • 90 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 15. Thirty-two and a naif 1 pounds of onium worth $48,750 were found by a Custom*Search Party in the fore peak tank of m.v. Cowrie, on Saturday, when it dropped anchor al Pulau Bukom from Abadan, Fersia. On Wednesday it was reported that 24 pounds
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  • 521 11 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Nov. 14. SENTENCE of death was passed by Mr. Justice Pretheroe in the Assize Court today on P. C. Domin’c, a Eurasian, who was convicted by a special jury.s unanimous verdict of guilty on two counts of treachery
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  • 553 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. A WARNING that there were changes which seemed to tend, in the legal system, to substitute *wd replace the judgment of the Court with the judgment of some administrative officer or tribunal, was given by Mr. Justice Worley, who is leaving on
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  • 30 11 SINGAPORE Nov 14 Fire broke out in a motor re'pairer’s shop oil Lavender Street 'yesterday evening but was quickly quelled by the Fire Brigade. 1 Daina'-'e was slight
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  • 384 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. [FLUCTUATIONS in the price of rice have beconu noticeable with conflicting reports of rice coming to Singapore from Siam under the Siamese “three* per-cent“ scheme. When the scheme was originally advanced, there was a gradual drop in the price of rice—a
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  • 162 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. THE Services in Singapore are to be asked by the Singapore Rural Hoard to contribute to the cast of maintenance and construction of roads in the rural area At a meeting of the Rural Board yesterday, the chairman, Mr C. W.
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  • 127 12 THE sum of $lOO,OOO has been authorised lor the purchase in 25 light vans as Singapore Police radio vehicles and lor runabout duties involving action in con lined areas. Police transport, it is stated in a memorandum ol the Colony’s Finance Committee, is insuilicient. In many
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  • 68 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. lb. 'HE Singapore Advisory Council yesterday regularised the legal position of persons directed by judgments, orders and decrees made in Singapore by the Japanese during their occupation ol the Colony. They passed the Japanese Judgment, s and Civil Proceedings Ordinance, which was moved b" the
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  • 82 12 THE installation of a pool, bath 1 and other accessories at ot. Andrew’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Singapore, has been authorised It will cost $l,OOO. This service, described as essential, was asked for by the Director of Medical Services. Other Improvements in the Colony’s medical establishment are to cost
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  • 223 12 e SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. THE Singapore Rural Board may shortly consider the I question of whether assessment rates in the rural area should be revised. Mr. C.W.A. Sennctt, the chairman, said yesterday that while the Municipality had a rate ceiling, the Board had no 'i
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  • 137 12 guards are being stationed at Chinese’ banks in Singapore as a precaution aj ainst armed robbery, according to a Sin (/hew Jit I’oh report. The Oversea-Chinese Bank* ini' Corporation in Chulia Street, which was the scene of an attempt by a snatch-and-run thief on Tuesday, lias
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  • 383 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15 THE principle of non-discrimination between men ot different race or colour in both the legal and the medical services in Singapore was re stated at yesterday s Advisory Council meeting when Government answers were made to two questions put by Mr.
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  • 70 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. INGA PORE Advisory Council yesterday passed a bill enabling the Colony to borrow $30,000,000 by the issue of treasury bills. The motion to pass the bill was made by the Financial Secretary. The motion was ‘.‘That this Council approves borrowing by the Government by
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  • 76 12 THE repatriation of Sikh Police and their families from Singapore to India and the fares lor men going-on and returning from leave will, it is estimated, cos $47,186. Repatriation of Sikh Police and families by itself has cost $16,380.80. Seven women who pleaded guilty to a charge of
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  • 171 12 SINGAPORE, Nov 15 A P t ou alloCate *OO,OOO ft to 20 Chinese schools i, Singapore was laid before t Advisory Council vomer, i They are aided schools wfi n nnn 3 pre War enrol ™m 6,000 pupils, and which J fered heavy losses of
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  • 104 12 A CONSIDERABLE amount o! ante-natal work is bei:.g carried out in the Singapore rural districts said the Chiel Health Officer, Dr. R. S Johnston at the Rural Board meeting Milk is being distributed to children as well as expectant mothers, and as much as 750 pounds of
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  • 94 12 From Our Own correspondent PENANG, Nov. 13. CHARGED with robbing a P^ 1 planter at Kepala Betas, Province Weilesley, four Chinese. Leong Cl.in Peng, Cheng Hock Sang, Cheah Chee Meng ana Chan Kam Boon, were found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment by Mr. Justice Carey 2i
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  • 44 12 From Our Own Correspond' PENANG, Nov. H pENANG Municipal peons recently petitioned 1 igher salaries are to be P a revLed scale of $16 pei with an annual increment up to maximum o f $30. a ing to decision approved Municipal Commissioners
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  • 637 13 CAMERON HIGHLANDS, Nov. lfi. GREAT permanent inter-Services leave centre lor A probably 2,000 officers, men and women will arise a t Cameron Highlands within the next two years, with a i5(i-l>ed depot for convalescents and those with skin diseases, if present plans are approved by the
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  • 63 13 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. IG. A suggestion that a museum should be opened in Penang was madp to Sir Angus Gillan, head of the Emp re Div sion oi the British Council, when he met representatives of the var ous communities at a meeting held
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  • 71 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. TOGETHER with the Supplementary Provision laid on the table at yesterday's meeting ol the Singapore Advisory Council, the finaneial provision for the serviee of the Colony this year will now amount to S33.423.730.34. Among the largest single items are the Police
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  • 175 13 SINGAPORE, No/. 16. AS a preliminary to the estab* J lishment of a Chinese Consulate in Kuching, Sarawak, Dr. Wu Paak-shing, Singapore Chinese Consul-General. will he making his first visit to Sarawak next week Although stationed at Singapore, Dr. Wu at present exercise jurisdiction in
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  • 346 13 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Nov. 10. LOOTERS rather than the Japanese took the manuscripts of the Malayan ethnologist, Mr. H. D. Noone, according to Mr. V. D. Kuppusamy, formerly offlcer-in-charge of the Perak Museum who told me that hooligans fiom laipmg and Batu Kurau
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  • 410 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 16. MINE Malay Rulers in the Council Chamber here today had their first look at the draft document which is likely to be the basis of a new federal constitution for the Peninsula. The Rulers met to receive the recommenuati >ns of the
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  • 100 13 From Our Owr Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 13. SEIVEIN charges of causing hurt to labourers at the Japanese naval yard at Glugor during 'he occupation against C El Nelligan, a P W D overseer, were withdrawn in the police court yesterday when the accused with two others
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  • 243 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1G. A FREIGHTER .specially chartered in Manila by the Government of the Malayan Union is discharging in Singapore 110 tractors which will be used in the programme for agricultural rehabilitation. They were brought from the United States Foreign Liquidation Commission bv a British Army
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  • 53 13 f rom Our Own Correspond* »t KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 16 A TOTAL <>r J07 cases of smallpox and 30 deaths Is reported from Nor* h Malaya during the week ending Nov 9, according to a Malayan Union health in* ell g* nc,. report issued at
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  • 425 14 rONTACT is being established with the Holt Radium Institute, Liverpool, with a view to renewing Singapore's supply of radium for hospital use. The Colony’s pre-war supply of radium was removed by the Japanese during their occupation. Nothing is known now of its whereabouts. Since
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  • 105 14 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR. Nov 16A case of attempted bribery came up for hearing the Alor Star District yesterday before Che A Mohamed when a L n Meng Ah Leng, was produc <j a charge of offering mom police officer and fined four months’
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  • 402 14 IN the absence of facilities for shooting pigs, the first experiment in destroying wild pigs with poison was carried out in Jelebu District recently. In order to obviate the possibility that people who eat pork might come upon pig carcases and eat them, and also
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  • 51 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. I\R W M. Clyde, Food Adviser to the Special Commissioner in South East Asia, left Singapore yesterday to attend meetings of the International Emergency Food Council in Washington. Breaking his journey in London for urgent discussions there, he will proceed to
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  • 109 14 THE office of the GovernorGeneral in Penang has announced that the working commit tie which was appointed by agreement between the Rulers and representatives of U.M.N.O. on the one hand and the Governor-General and the Governor of the Malayan Union on the other, has now
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  • 72 14 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Nov. 16. A large gathering, including Major-Gen. Chappel, Commander of the 23rd Indian Division, and Government officials and members of the rubber and inning industries, w'as present at a farewell cocktail party given by Major Miller and officers of C Mess,
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  • 178 14 PENANG Sun. THROUGH the introduction of a “Bond” system, tnc procedure for importation of goods from Singapore, though the mainland of the Malayan Union, has been simplified. According to a circular issued in Penang by the Assistant Comptroller ol Customs, th e duty leviable
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  • 116 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. THREE Malays who were seen carrying a box each across a field behind the S.V.C. Dr 11 Hall in Beach Road, Singapore, to load them in a taxi on Friday morning, were arrested by a constable who discovered that the boxes contained soap
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  • 65 14 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Nov. 16. A YOUNG Chinese, Lam Yuen Chuen, appeared before Tuan Sheikh Abdullah in the Taiping District Court, and a charge of taking away one Foong Ah Lek, lawful wife of another Chinese, Yap Leong Poh, was explained to him. Th P case
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  • 200 14 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Nov. 17. FIVE CHINESE who were involved in a gun battle with the polce at Aboosittee Lane on the morning of Jun e 6. were on Friday sentenced to 10 years each by Mr. Justice Carey, presiding in the Assize
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  • 105 14 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Nov. 16. THIRTY thousand people termed foreigners are in a hopeless condition In Kedah. By birh tnese people are Siamese but the Siamese Government is not recognising them because they were torn in Kedah and at the same time
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  • 398 14 CINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners will eco mend to Government that the 25 per cent. charge on assessment, which is estimated Id add an other million dollars to the Municipal coffers, should be borne by the tenant and not the landlord. d This
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  • 94 14 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Nov. 17. A PETROL wagon carrying 800 gallons of diesel o'l, belonging to the Shell Company, Ltd. at Malacca, ran into a diloh, overturned and caught fire last evening at Duvong, four miles from Malacca Town. The vehicle, which was
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  • 229 15 j|E million dollar Government opium packing plain at I’asir Panjang will be used as a bonded store lor qiior and tobacco until the acute space shortage nprovcs. The buildings and plant will eventually be either D ld or leased to private firms. The plant which
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  • 274 15 From Our Own Correspondent KLANG, Nov. 17. that there was in- sufficient evidence to commit h? accused to the Supreme Court, Jaja Avoub b n Raja Haji Bot, Kagtotrat?, Klang, discharged ndra Singh, former Sergeant'lajor of the F.M.S. Police. who a sub-inspector under the Japanes-
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  • 142 15 from Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 13. HEN the case against the Chinese schoolmistress. Yuen Chee Wan, was resumed in the Assize Court today, before Mr. Justice Carey and a special jury, the Crown Counsel. Mr. C. H Whitton, stated tie did not wish to proceed
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  • 46 15 Singapore Customs officers seized 44 1 o lb. of opium from the Borus, a Shell Company tanker which had come from Abadan via Chittagong The opium was found between the panelling of the crew’s quarters and the side of the ship.
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  • 66 15 Four Japanese who were sentenced to hang for their part in the killing of two Malay policemen on Rangsang Island, have had their sentences commuted to 15 years’ imprisonment. At the conclusion of the trial, the President of the Court said that the Court would be making
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    484 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 17. MR. John Henry James Dredge, who is Singapor manager of Joseph Travers and Sons Ltd., was married at St. Andrew’s Cathedral yesterday to Miss Betty McGregor. Mr. Dredge is the son of Mrs. L. D. Dredge, of Boscombe and the late Capt. J. A. Dredge, I
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  • 286 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. Hi. A MALAY living on a large island a few miles from Singapore was the first man to locate the lighter which disappeared from Singapore with a cargo of $186,000 on Sunday. The crew of four Indians are under arrest and have been brought bark
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  • 78 15 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR. Nov. 17 Japanese civilian, Hlkuchi. who had been hiding m Jungles since the surrender, gave himself up at Ourun police station. He is now In the custody of the Sungel Patanl police. It was stated that Hikuchl shared the Jungle hide-out with
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  • 88 15 SINGAPORE, Nov 10 Tan Cheng Sal, an employee at the Hlakang Matl Naafl canteen was fined $ll5, in the Third Police Court, yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to having 150 packets ot Gold Flake cigarettes mark'd "Naah” In his possession. Searched by a Revenu* OlTlc
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  • 36 15 Mr R P S Bingham has taken up his appointment as Controller <»t Labour in Singapore. Mr R I{ ()ak**l**v who has b«-’n acth g Controller of Labou- has now become Mr. Bingham's deputy
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  • 222 15 SINGAPORE. Nov M WE have had to pay dearly these last lew months for a failure to understand that the .reasonable satisfaction ol human needs is an essential and inescap able function ol management, Mr. S. P Garrett, Singapore Government’s Trade Union Adviser told
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  • 988 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. WHEN Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the Govcrnor-Gene- ral, flies to shortly, he will carry with him, for ministerial discussion, the results of the Kuala Lumpur talks of this week. It is hoped that, soon after the imminent London consultations, the wider
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  • 274 16 “IT would help (he Government and administration of 1 Singapore tremendously if all military vehicles were registered with us,” said Mr. E. G. Staunton, Deputy Registrar of Vehicles, to the Straits Times. At present, military vehicles were not registered with the civilian authorities. This a divergence
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  • 65 16 A decree nisi, to be made absolute within three months, was granted Mrs. Teo Siew Soon in the Singapore Supreme Court Mrs. 'Teo who married her husband. Mr. Tan Soo Wan, a dentist, at the Bethesda Church in October. 1931, alleged adultery. The petition came before Mr.
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  • 498 16 A $40,000,000 scheme, which will provide n (uc J needed extensions to Singapore’s has been partly approved by the Municipal CoimnU sioners, and work on the approved portion of th c p| a j is already in progress. I A large part of the money
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  • 63 16 Mr. C. Fernandes Silva. cellor-in-Charge of the guese Consulate. Singapor-■ has been away from this C since December, 1945, has 11 eel from Goa, PorutgUC and resumed charge of th» s u 1 a t e The Consular Office for tlbeing will continue to fun<" the
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  • 303 16 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 19. AT the annual general meeting of the London Tin Corporation, the Chairman, Mr. J. Van Spens, advised shareholders that immediate improvement of the Corporation’s income could not be expected. It was important, he said, to approach the future with
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  • 118 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. AIR Marshal Sir George Pine, arrived back at Changi airport in his York aircraft yesterday evening after a four-day visit of R A.F. units in Ceylon. He was met at the airport by the .new commander of Seletar R.A.F. base, Air Commodore G.
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  • 1160 17 ■HK (hinese view of the recent rubber negotiation* a nd the part played in them by the R„C r0 „ers Association together with criticism of the oar( of Trade s buying of Malayan rubber are conKilled in this letter from Mr. Lee Kong Chian. i„ an
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  • 174 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. GOVERNMENT control of rubber in the Netherlands East Indies has been relaxed to the extent of allowing private interests to buy in the open market. Previously the Government were the sole buyers ol rubber. Official control is still to bo exorcised
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  • 506 17 HIN ci short time—probably two 01 three months—the Singapore registration authorities will be able to put their finger on every motor car on the road in the Colony. It is expected that the task of tracing cars inquired about by former owners will be mad<
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  • 76 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20 A charge of criminal breach of trust involving a motor-boat worth $lO,OOO. and of other articles worth $O,OOO was preferred against a 25-year old Chinese, Tong Yong Llm in the Second Police Court yesterday Tong was alleged to have committed the
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  • 371 17 ABOUT 226.400 acres of pacli can easily be planted in Kedah and Perlis by the end of November, according to estimates made by the Do partment of Agriculture, M in ay pe n r,h n and North Kedah rainfall was normal or silently helow average
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  • 122 17 From Our Own Correspondent MAiJVCCA, Nov. 10 A memorial to Malacca Chinese I Volunteers and Chinese members of til,. ARP and LD C who died In the last war, will be erected shortly The memorial will be built at the Chinese Voluntee r Headquarters in Kubu Re
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  • 493 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. S.C.C 9 Sultan 5 MEMORABLE chiefly for a last ten minutes of excitement as each side strove hard to score when the S.C.C. were leading by the narrow margin of one point, the Rugby match between the Club and 11.M.5. Sultan
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  • 171 18 wrestling was seen by a large audience at the Great World Arena completing the first anniversary of Highlight of the evening was seen t h i‘ 28 IbK matman B ™ce Doug as >f I/ondon scored another easy win .lom orbetl hv tw »übmtasions in the
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  • 225 18 R A F. (Tengah) ...4 CSA 1 a promising start the Chinese Sports Association faded out of the picture and were beaten by the R A F. (Tengah) by four goals to one jin a friendly football match on the i Padang A fine bout of
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  • 110 18 SEREMBAN, Nov. 15. THE Ceylon Tamil Association scored a convincing win at hockey today at the N.S. padang when they defeated the Police XI by 4 goals to 1. The play was too one-sided to be interesting. The Police opened the scoring curly in the first
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  • 109 18 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPINO. Nov. 14. Playing their first match hero since their arrival, the rugby team of the 1st Lincoln Regiment went down to the King Edward VII School XV in a thrilling tussle by 13 points <2 goals, 1 try» to 6 points
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  • 275 18 Perak Beats Selangor 18 —5 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH Nov. 16. PERAK beat Selangor uy 1 8 points (three goals and one try) to five I (one goal) in a gruelling game today before a record crowd. A cracking pace was set up from the start and during the
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  • 205 18 From Our Own Correspondent. TAIPING, Nov. 16. I TIE Royal Devon Yeomanry rugger team from Ipoh fought a grand tussle with a Taiping Combined XV. the match ending in a draw, six point? 1 two tries) to six points (two tries). The match was played
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  • 315 18 Six-Four Victory For Captain s Team SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. CAPTAIN’S team beat the President’s team six matches to, four in the first post-war polf tournament played at the Royal Singapore Golf Club on Sunday. Scores were: (President’s players mentioned first); Dr. E Laidlaw Thompson* (plus 1) and B W F.
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  • 655 18 From Our Own Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, N ov i fi I TOURTENAY, Mr. S. C. Wong and-“Madame Chun i J Australian gelding, won the Jubilee Bowl, vain* £100, presented by the Selangor Turf Club for Has .1 division one, horses to-day, the Anal dav of
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  • 248 18 IN a fast hockey match played on vfl A ground last week, the S R C befl the Cable Wireless Ltd by thrfl goals to one. I The C. W. team comprised motfl ly of players recently from India aaH their forwards held the spectators afl tention
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  • 48 18 I\. MCKINSTERY (—'5! Penang Turf Club golt I out competit’on on Sunday he beat Ten Khoon Chuar two and one in the final■ wp3 McKinstery had previously the medal competition m I qualifying round of the .out tournament, when hed a gross 73, one undei 1
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  • 90 18 From Our Own Correspond^ kluang. NO'. N, 1 Playing their best game, w ncse brat the Police six jes* here yesterday in the f an cei I rrue. Poth trams had (but the winners mad-' >> them. The Police poa’-K- his side from beinp oute a *-p A
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  • 824 19 K f. 1). ASCOLI, director of Dunlop Malayan I Estates, and chairman of the Rubber Growers ■sociation, London, who arrived in Malacca from Ene recently, comments on the reduction in the ■jjber export duty, the price of Ceylon rubber, recent Kotiations with the United
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  • 278 19 from Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 14. rHE palm oil industry m Malaya is to protest to the Malayan Union Government regarding the imposition of up export duty of $20 per ton. A leading member of the industry said to me: “It is a
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  • 75 19 Total stocks of all grades of rubber in Malayan ports and Singapore totalled 91,211 tons at the end of October as against 105,238 tons at the end of September. The following rubber crops are reported for October: Bukit YkxtW 41.774 lb.. Ayer Molek. 33.998 lb. Another shipment of
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  • 430 19 WHILE welcoming the reduction on the export duty on rubber from four cents to 2 3/4 cents per pound Chinese producers ano dealers in Singapore expresses the view that “lack of strong r r presentation in London is denying an equitable return tor Malayan
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  • 215 19 A.P. San Francisco, Nov. 13. THE United States must not 1 allow its war-built $700,000,000 synthetic rubber industry to lapse, but should continue to produce enough synthetic rubber to meet onefv*ird of the nation’s norma 1 •~ouiremonts and to maintain a stand-by capacity for emor gency
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  • 396 19 Peaang Millers Urge From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 18. POINTING out that “in the interests of Malaya’s copra industry the time has certainly come to lift the present export ban on coconut oil and permit free movement of this commodity to other countries,” Penang's
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  • 139 19 FACILITIES for import* Into Ma- laya of certain foodstuffs In short supply are being granted *o Malayan Importers for the following commodities: chocolate, sugar confectionery and cocoa powder from the United Kingdom and cheese from Australia. New Zealand. France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the
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  • 738 20 By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Nov. 16. IN a week during which the strike at the Singapore Harbour Board wharves did not end until Thursday, good business was reported from Malayan share markets. Industrials furnished the bulk of the provender and the turnover in rubbers
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  • 328 20 Nyalas Rubber Spends 41,500 On Restoration I IP to the end of May this year, U the Nyalas Rubber Estates, Ltd., have spent about $41,500 on restoration work. About 48 OCO lb. of rubber is being tapped monthly. Further details of the company’s work were explained at the annual general
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  • 166 20 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 18. WITH imports at $13,734,778 and exports at $32,122,117, Penang’s trade for October registered a new post-war record. While pleased with this steady return to pre-war prosperity, local merchants, however, warn against overoptimism, pointing out that though high, last month’s figures
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  • 79 20 —UP. WASHINGTON. Mon.—The Agriculture Department said today that the Philippines copra exports which mounted swiftly recently, is expecceu to “exceed greatly” the earlier estimat" of 500,000 tons for 1946. The department said that the e\portr for October were estimated at 132.500 short ton*, which is the largest for
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  • 307 20 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.—StrilH Times Copyright. m From Our Own Correspondent I LONDON, Nov. 1$ I TODAY’S reopening of the London rubber marLl warmly welcomed by the City, which sees hi (to quote the Financial Times) one of the mj welcome signs yet
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  • 682 20 Share quotations as at Nov. 19 according oo «.m Malayan ex neOroker* Association (Singapore) were as follows: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alexandra Brickworks Ords. 1.80 $2.00 Alexandra Brickworks Prefs. 2.90 3.10 Brit Malaya Trustee Sc Executor Go s.OO 9.00 Consolldaiec Tin Smellers Ord. 22/6 25/do Prefs 26/6 28/6
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