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Title Section31 1946-12-05 1 The Straits Budget New Series No. 18 [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES Singapore, Thursday, December, sth, 1946, Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 a*.31 words
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Advertisement63 1946-12-05 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. For63 words
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Article902 1946-12-05 2 —Straits Times, Nov. 28. In the light of the history of the efforts to bring about limitation of armaments by international agreement, it is hardly surprising that comment on the debate which opened in the United Nations General Assembly this wef: has been very cautious. Britain ir. particular has—Straits Times, Nov. 28. - 902 words
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Article524 1946-12-05 2 We announced yesterday the salient points in an arrangement whereby the news and special articl? services of The Times, London, are made available to the Malayan public through the Straits Times. Today we propose to describe more fully what we think we may claim, without immodesty,524 words
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Article285 1946-12-05 2 Foou Inspectors in Malacca have addressed a petition to the Assistant Food Controller protesting against a ruling to the effect that each inspector should “bring up at least nree cases per month.” It is claimed that it has been mad? a condition of service that the statec285 words
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Article297 1946-12-05 2 —Straits Times, Nov. 29. As a postscript to the comments in these columns last week on the a.-ufleial barriers which divide Singapore from the mainland, this little story is worth telling: In 1939 a resident in Johore bought a watch from a department store in—Straits Times, Nov. 29. - 297 words
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Article1158 1946-12-05 2 A S -Straits Times, Nov. 30. Recent news from India indicates that the interim government. the first purely Indian administration which has held power in the country since the days of the Mogul Emperors, is finding th-3 cares of office by no means congenial. Reports thatA S -Straits Times, Nov. 30. - 1,158 words
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Article793 1946-12-05 3 I Replying to a communication I addressed to him by the SingaI pore Ratepayers' Association in August last, the Colonial Secretary Mr P. A. B. McK-erron. I outlined the policy ol the GovernI ment in regard to the release of I requisitioned premises. In 'he I matter793 words
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Article211 1946-12-05 3 _Strai’s T'mcs. D< c 2 In one respect. Malayan manners show no sign of improvement. Indeed, with tne passage of time they seem to get worse. We refer to the discourteous behaviour of many users of the telephone. The habit of telling an operator to get Mr. Blank on_Strai’s T'mcs. D< c 2 - 211 words
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Article856 1946-12-05 3 straits Times, Dee. 3. Those who ’•esent the part played in Malaya’s economy oy the international Emergency Food Council in Washington, with its rice sub-committee in Singapore, will be glad to hear that speculation is now being voiced as to whether the Council can continue tostraits Times, Dee. 3. - 856 words
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Article1304 1946-12-05 3 —Straits Times. Dec 4 Some days ago reference was made in this column to the fact „hat the United Malays National Organisa‘ion now lias a rival, the Malay Nationalist Party, and the latter was described as “tinged with Communist ideology and radical In every sense That—Straits Times. Dec 4 - 1,304 words
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Article147 1946-12-05 4 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Dec. 3. A former teacher of the Penang Free School, Capt. Yeoh Teik Ee, has been awaided the M.B.E. for special work in connection w;tn military services in the Far East Capt. Yeoh received his early education in the Free School147 words
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Article81 1946-12-05 4 Mr. G. W. Seabridge, editor oi the Straits Tlm.s since 1928, is retiring on Dec. 31 and expects to leave Malaya early in the New Year. Mr. Seabridge began his newspaper career in Birmingham in 1907 and worked subsequently In London, Berlin, Paris and Calcutta. He81 words
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Article80 1946-12-05 4 UR E. H. Wilson has returned from long leave and assumed duty as acting Senior Inspector of Schools, Selangor, replacing Mr. A. W. Pinnick who has assumed duty as Organiser ol Commercial Schools and Classes, Malayan Union. Arrangements have been made for a government commercial school to80 words
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1686 1946-12-05 4 By THE BISHOP OF SINGAPORE WHEN the Japanese f captured the city of Singapore early in 1942, they ordered all Europeans except neutrals to parade and be ready for internment. Certain people were exempted because they belonged to essential services such as telephones,1,686 words
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216 1946-12-05 4 SINGAPORE, Dec. 4. ABOUT a quarter of a million dollars will have to be sp^ l on the Chinese High School at Bukit Timah in order to bring it to its pre-war standard. The Chinese High School was the centre for the high?'' l standard216 words
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522 1946-12-05 5 Kt seems to one who has I known Malaya and its poll■tical movements for several Real’s, that the present differIces in the political activities Rf the several nationalities in ■Malaya are quite remarkable lard might well be borne in Rnind when the constitution of522 words
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Article260 1946-12-05 5 IT is amusing to recall the Municipal President’s reference to initiative in the Municipal services. It would be setting a good example if the senior officers were to use this “initiative to remedy the really hopeless situation the Asiatic members of the staff are in. After six to260 words
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190 1946-12-05 5 ON behalf of all the nurses, I wish to thank Dr. Vickers for his promises of better treatment for nurses. However, I would like to point out a mistake he has made in the comparison of our salary scheme with that of the sisters. It190 words
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233 1946-12-05 5 YOUR S.T. editorial ‘The Labourer And His Hire” was splendid representation of the point of view of fair play from a usually anti-Government biassed newspaper. If the $BOO-per-month civil servant finds hardship in supporting a wife in Malaya and two children in England233 words
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Article211 1946-12-05 5 THE once well-known “Sleepy Hollow” that was Malacca is no more. The only thing that is “sleepy” here now is the Police Department. Malacca has become a place of refuge for wanted gangsters from Singapore, who can be found living in grand style iti one hotel or211 words
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Article137 1946-12-05 5 IT is most surprising to learn from the Straits Times that the former Japanese school at Waterloo Street is to be handed over to the military authorities. While the general public, and perhaps the Education Department. is fighting hard for the release of school premises, Government —or137 words
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135 1946-12-05 5 Not An Insult In Local-Born Eyes 1NOTE that there Is “general dissatisfaction,” among senior Government Officers in K.L. regarding the $60 cost-of-living allowance. This offei was considered as an “insult.” Of course, this was good enough to oITcr the local man, but the foreigners should receive thret times that which135 words
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Article109 1946-12-05 5 I LEFT my car In Singapore In February 1942. On my return to Singapore in July this year I saw the Mechanical Engineer, Public Works Department, Kandang Kerbau, and gave him details of my car. He said he would lo his best, but advised me also to m109 words
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Article255 1946-12-05 5 “Colour Bar Costs YOUR leader “Colour Bar Coats” is to be highly commended as being very much on the side of the local man and sounding a proper warning to certain persons in official circles who might be prejudiced against the lifting of the bar. Your proposed goal of "Malayan255 words
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Article96 1946-12-05 5 VY/ITH reference to “A Labour W er’s” letter, may I inform your correspondent that clerical and non-clerical civilian employees of REME Base Workshops, Balcstler Road, are being provided with 35-cent meals obtained trom People’s Kitchens, every Monday to Friday excepting holidays. This has been done since Oct. 10.96 words
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257 1946-12-05 5 Morning Afternoon Schools: A Suggestion A FEW Government schools j whose buildings were Com pletely destroyed during trie var are functioning in other school buildings in the afternoon. Owing to the pretent prohibitive cast of building materials and olher problems Government will definitely not put up any new schrxjl bn.ldings257 words
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Article544 1946-12-05 6 pRIVATE imports of textiles into Singapore alone during the three months, August, September and October, total over 20,638,000 yards, while many more million yards ordered as relief supplies are on their way further to improve the stock position. Setting out the textile position locally, the544 words
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Article85 1946-12-05 6 SINGAPORE, Dec. 2 A jeep patrol in charge of Mr 11. Hall, A.S.P. attached to Reach Road division, arrested three Chinese in North Uridgc Road about 10.30 p.m. on Saturday. Two men were armed with two fully loaded .38 revolvers, a Smith and Wessen and a Colt.85 words
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176 1946-12-05 6 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Sunday. ONE of the senior Indian military officers, who since hi 3 arrival in Taiping with the 7th Indian Division has identified himself with the social and sporting life here, Lt.-Col. Mohd. Usman, is shortly leaving for India. Educated at176 words
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Article373 1946-12-05 6 SINGAPORE?, jDec. 2. ALL civilian properties except those for which leases have been obtained and “a few which will be retained as long as powers of requisitioning last” will be vacated within the next few months, Singapore District HQ said yesterday. Latest figures show that373 words
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Article324 1946-12-05 6 .—A. P. TOKIO, De,c. 2. THE Japanese subjected the Governor of the Straits 1 Settlements, Sir Shenton Thomas, the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, and other high-rank-ing Allied officers and civilian internees to daily beatings with rifle butts and clubs in a Formosa camp,.—A. P. - 324 words
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Article101 1946-12-05 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Dec. 1. AS a result of congestion of cases and delay in hearing them, the Penang Rent Board may soon have to be enlarged, Mr. C. H. Whitton, President of the Board, indicated in an interview yesterday. The pressure of101 words
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Article76 1946-12-05 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Dec. 1. A Women’s Service League for Province Wellesley was formed yesterday at a meeting held in the District Court. Butterworth, with Mrs. S. N. King, wife of the Resident Commissioner, in the chair. Representatives of all communities were present and76 words
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Article392 1946-12-05 6 THE END OF SEA C ON the disbandment on Nov. 30 of the Supreme Allied q M mander’s Headquarters for South-East Asia, in Sm J pore, Sir Edward Gent, in his capacity as Acting Govern rl General of Malaya, has sent personal messages of thank Admiral392 words
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Article96 1946-12-05 6 SINGAPORE, Dec. 3. PLEADING guilty to a charge ol house-breaking and ’heft, two Javanese Kardi bin Bangsa and Jalal bin Karsi, were sentenced to 18 months’ rigorous imprisonment each by Mr_ 7 Thoon Lip at the First Distri Court yesterday. The prosecution alleged that on96 words
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Article110 1946-12-05 6 BATAVIA, Dec^2, r TWELVE thousand 1 forced labourers of the J *P, nese were repatria tec |MetherMalayan homes from the j lands East Indies during the B tish occupation of Indo the A final report Issued up0^ rceS dissolution of disclo.'* Netherlands East Indies. ir ed110 words
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Article218 1946-12-05 7 FREE MEALS FOR S’ PORE CHILDREN SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. THE Singapore Government has decided to provide I $30,000 a month for the scheme to provide free meals for children of pre-school age. The decision was reached yesterday after it had earlier been decided to postpone the scheme until it was218 words
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Article217 1946-12-05 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 3D. I AND which the Municipal ComL missioners say is urgently needed for extension of the Bidadnri Cemetery will not be released by the Army until a new location for a transport company r.ow on the site has been prepared. The Army217 words
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Article101 1946-12-05 7 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 29. THE Municipal Commissioners at a special meeting on Wednesday passed the budget for 134 i ana approved increases in several revenue items as from next year The budget provides for estimated deficit of $1,202,787 attributable mainly to special expenditure of $2,341,355101 words
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Article174 1946-12-05 7 From Our Own Correspondent. PENANG, Nov. 29. IIEU T .-COMDR. F. E. Martin, L D S 0., R.N.R., who has been acting Harbour Master, Penang, since December last year, is leaving shortly for the United Kingdom to take up a permanent appointment there. Lieut. -Comdr.174 words
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Article128 1946-12-05 7 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 29. A PUNJABI, Omar Khatab bin Abdul Jabbar, was today produced in the Third Magistrate's Court and charged with escaping from Outram Road Gaol, Singapore. He was remanded in police custody ior 48 hours The man was caught by Mr. J.128 words
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Article151 1946-12-05 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. CASH In the Singapore Municipal Treasurer’s strong room amounting to a maximum sum of $50,000 at a time is to b 3 protected by an outside insurance cover against risk “under present unsettled conditions.” Similar protection will also be taken against the risk to cash151 words
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Article52 1946-12-05 7 From Our Own Correspondent. PENANG, Nov. 29. NOW in Penang for three days’ stay Maj.-Gen. B. H. Chappell, G.0.C., 23rd Division, is inspecting all units on Penang island including the holiday homes and officers’ leave hostel. He is visiting the 2nd battalion West Yorks at Glugor before leaving52 words
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Article319 1946-12-05 7 SCOTS CELEBRATE ST. ANDREW‘ S EVE SINGAPORE, Nov, 30. SIR Franklin Gimson, Governor of Singapore, and Lady Gimson were met on their arrival at Raffle* Hotel by the two Royal Scots pipers, and were piped to their table last night when Singapore Scots celebrated the eve of St. Andrew's Day319 words
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Article50 1946-12-05 7 SINGAPORE. Nov. 30. AN R.A.S.C, serviceman, Kenneth Haynes pleaded guilty yesterday in the Third Police Court to stealing four bottles :>f brandy from a Singapore Harbour Board godown on Thursday. He was sentenced to six weeks’ rigorous imprisonment by the Magistrate, Mr. K. M. Byrne.50 words
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416 1946-12-05 7 S’ PORE “COMMISSIONER FOR A GENERATION” SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. SINGAPORE is the natural capital not only of Malaya but of the whole Archipelago, and as such should place itself firmly in the forefront of social progress and set an example to the older cities of South-East Asia, declared Mr. John416 words
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103 1946-12-05 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. LL movements of rice to the Malayan Union, imported under the three per cent export scheme from Siam, should he accompanied by a movement permit endorsed by an Assistant Food Controller of both the .Malayan Union and Singapore, states an103 words
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123 1946-12-05 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. MASKED robbers staged two armed holdups in Singapore yesterday in which $19,000 in gold, jewellery and cash are reported to have been stolen. Four Chinese, all masked anJ armed with revolvers entered a goldsmith’s shop in South Bridge Read by the123 words
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Article140 1946-12-05 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. FOR his atrocities while commandant of the 45 Kilo PoW camp on the Burma-Slam Railway, Sgt. MaJ Shimojo Haruki chi was yesterday sentenced to death by hanging at the Australian War Crimes Court bv Lt. Coi C. R. E. Jennings He forced PoWs140 words
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Article453 1946-12-05 8 OEVERAL Indian soldiers are still being nought for complicity in a mutiny which took place on Christmas Island in March, 1942. Seven men, including three N.C.O.S, have been brought to Singapore from Batavia for trial by courtmartial in connection with the mutiny. One British officer and453 words
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Article65 1946-12-05 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. WILLIAM COE, a British charge- hand employed at a Naafl warehouse in Palmer Road, Singapore, admitted in the Fourth Police Court yesterday that he stole 1,114 cigarettes, valued at *l6, on Nov. 26 He was sentenced to six weeks’ rigorous imprisonment. A tin of65 words
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173 1946-12-05 8 IT is proposed to reco.nmence 1 publication in January. 1947, of the Malayan Agricultural Journal and of the Agricultural Department’s three vernacular journals, Warta Perusana-an Tanah, the Chinese Agricultural journal and the Tamil -*r uLural Journal. The Malayan Agricultural Journal will be sold at 50173 words
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Article146 1946-12-05 8 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Nov. 27. BANTA SINGH and Gurcharan Singh, watchman and bullock-cart driver, respectively, received death sentences at the end of a three day trial in the Supreme Court on Monday when they, together with two Chinese, were convicted of a146 words
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Article109 1946-12-05 8 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Nov. 27. A three-man delegation representing Penang Municipal Commissioners which proceeded to Kuala Lumpur to negotiate with the Malayan Union Government for a $7 million loan, has returned to Penang. The Commissioners at a meeting yesterday confirmed a decision In109 words
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325 1946-12-05 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. STUDENTS of the King Edward VII College of Medicine who pass their final professional examinations, which begin on Dec. 10, will be given the opportunity of filling the many vacancies which occur on the medical staff of the Singapore hospitals, the Straits325 words
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Article285 1946-12-05 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 28. THE rice crop, in rotation with other cereals, has done an excellent job in developing parts ot the Murrumbidgee irrigation area of New South Wales, Australia Water demands in dry Australia are the limiting factor in determining the amount of rice under crop.285 words
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Article83 1946-12-05 8 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 27. THE Penang Municipal President, Mr. W. C. Taylor, will be proceeding on four, months’ leave on Dec. 15 and during his absence Dr. W. M. Brodie will be acting as Deputy Municipal President. This decision, agreed to by83 words
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Article46 1946-12-05 8 —A.P. NEW YORK, Wed.—Singapore’s Sir Stamford Raffles has once more been written about, this time a 608-page biography by Emily Hahn, the wife of Major Charles Boxer of the British Army, who was well-known in Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokio before the war.—A.P.—A.P. - 46 words
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227 1946-12-05 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. I AIR Marshal Sir George Pirie, Air Commander in Chief, has! ordered an immediate investigation into the circum I stances surrounding the reported delay in allowing a 8.0.A.C. Lancastrian plane to land at Changi airfield in Tuesday. "I The delay, as reported yesterday227 words
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Article181 1946-12-05 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28 NEARLY 160 new applications and renewals were dealt with by the Board of Licensing Justices held in the District Court during the last two days. Practically all the applications for renewal, numbering 88. vet-: granted. Forty-five out of 69 new applications were refused181 words
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Article91 1946-12-05 8 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 27. THE formation of a trade un J. did not mean that u t ine members must adopt “a fi°j? l attitude,” Mr. R. Caddick. Tram Union Adviser, told 500 P< y notice and process sen hospital attendants and91 words
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Article710 1946-12-05 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 2!>. Navy divers will conduct an immediate survey of the giant £1,200,000 floating dock at Singapore’s A' a val Base to ascertain the extent of the damage sustained by the dock and whether it s possible or worthwhile to float her again. This710 words
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Article105 1946-12-05 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 29. A CHASE in which a Singapore police officer followed a threeton motor lorry through Singapore streets but had to give up when his jeep registered 55 m.p.h., had a sequel in the Fifth Police Court yesterday when the driver of the lorry,105 words
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Article86 1946-12-05 9 From Our Own Correspondent KUCHING, Nov. 28. SIR Angus Gillan, representative of the British Council, leaves Kuching today. During his stay Sir Angus had opportunity tJ meet representatives of schools and other educational bodies for exchange of views as to tne best means of promoting86 words
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Article113 1946-12-05 9 of certain co-operative societies in Malaya had been lost with the result that it was not possible to say who had a claim to the societies assets, Mr. R. Boyd, Director of Co-operation, Malaya, stated at a meeting in Singapore. At the same time, it was113 words
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131 1946-12-05 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 29. CCHOLARSHIPS awarded by the u Singapore Urban Co-opera-tive Union Ltd. should include deserving students of the College of Medicine and Raffles College, suggested Dr. A. A. Sandosham at the committee meeting of the Union yesterday. With the receipt of contributions from member societies, the131 words
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Article109 1946-12-05 9 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Nov. 27. THE Malayan Mining Employers Association has been inaugurated at a meeting in Ipoh at which Mr. W. M. Warren presided over a very representative gathering. The election of office-bearer resulted as follows: President Mr. W M Warren. Vice President: Mr.109 words
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Article369 1946-12-05 9 MODERN BUILDINGS IN NEW S’ PORE SINGAPORE, Nov. 29. A PROMINENT Singapore landowner is planning to build a large new modern hotel and cinema on a central site in North Bridge Road, which will have a many-storied garage for cars, after the London style. In Coleman Street, another modern cinema369 words
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Article47 1946-12-05 9 2 YEARS FOR ARMS CHARGE SINGAPORE. Nov. 29. A 19-year-old Chinese, Ong Kim Ohiew, was sentenced to two years and six months’ rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Paul St orr in the First District Court yesterday when in* was found guilty of being in possession of a revolver47 words
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Article304 1946-12-05 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 20. CO-OPERATION between the Military Police, the Singapore police and the Customs Department resulted in the arrest > f tour men and the recovery ot two loaded revolvers and a quantity of ammunition on the night of Sept. 4. The incident was relat'd yesterday304 words
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Article81 1946-12-05 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 29. A 21 year-old R.A.S.C serviceman, Dennis Wilson, had two charges explained to him in the Fourth Police Court yesterday. The first was of unlawful possession of a Smith and Wessen revolver and the other of having ten rounds of 3K ammunition on81 words
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Article187 1946-12-05 9 CARAWAK has been allocated $5,000,000 which will be spent on local development and welfare schemes under the provisions of the Colonial Development and Weifar* Acts. The schemes which have not yet been prepared will require the approval of the British Government. Under the provisions of187 words
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Article84 1946-12-05 9 I* mm Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Nov 27. WITH smallpox cases here now totalling 9d the Malayan Union Gazette has published a notification stating that all persons within the area of Georgetown Municipality as well as rural a-“as in IVneng and Province Wellesley who are unable84 words
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Article216 1946-12-05 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. :tO. WITH the withdrawal ol British and Indian troops Irom the Netherlands East Indies—scheduled to have been completed before tomorrow —the final estimate of British-Indian casualties duiing our troops’ tenure there 's well over 2.000. Of that 2,000, over 000 have been killed216 words
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Article114 1946-12-05 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. A MOTION by the Municipal President, Mr. L. Rayman, to extend the service of Mr. J. Gibson, Roads Foreman, Municipal Engineer's Department, tor six months, was unanimously approved at the Commissioners’ meeting yesterday. Mr. Rayman said that it was desirable that the Commissioners should114 words
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Article48 1946-12-05 10 New York, Nov. 29. Bishop W. Smith who directs the activities of the Methodist Church in Oklahoma and New Mexico left here by plane for India. Burma and Malaya today where he will study the effects of the war on the cnurch’s missions.- U P48 words
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Article379 1946-12-05 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. THE Commissioner of Police, Singapore, has given ihe assurance that it is not his intention to withdraw police control from football matches at Jalan Besar Stadium. “I accept that assurance and I can safely recommend this Board as a whole to accept it,”379 words
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Article58 1946-12-05 10 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Nov. 29. AN appreciable easing in the Indian repatriation situation in Penang is indicated bv the orderly scene at the lo; al embarkation olllce for passages to Madras. Another evacuation ship, S.S. Sandviken, is due here on Dec. 10 when a further58 words
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Article204 1946-12-05 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 30. IyiOKSIN bin Asin, Javanese mandore employed at Pulau Bukom, was sentenced to five years’ rigorous imprisonment at the Singapore Assizes yesterday on being found guilty by a common jury of culpable homicide not amounting to murdtr. On a second charge of murder,204 words
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Article191 1946-12-05 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. A STATEMENT will be prepared for presentation to Singapore Municipal Commissioners as to the causes of the increase of tuberculosis in Singapore and what, if anything, can be done to remedy the position. This was the reply which Mr. L. Rayman, the191 words
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Article94 1946-12-05 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. THE Home Agents have written to the Singapore Municipal Commissioners expressing appreciation for being included in the vote of thanks passed to the Colonial Office and Crown Agents by the Municipality for the g9od services rendered to the Municipality during the interrugnnm period94 words
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Article302 1946-12-05 10 THE question of private markets is to be discussed by Singapore Municipal Commissioners again. At a meeting of the Commissioners on Nov. 29, Mr. D. K. Walters said that private markets were undesirable because they tended to force prices up and they gave opportunity for a302 words
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Article114 1946-12-05 10 From Our Own Correspondent. PENANG, Nov. 29. STATING that Penang harbour as well as Prai could now handle an increased flow of goods, the Resident Commissioner. Mr S. N. King at a press conference expressed the hope that, there would be no strikes to stop the114 words
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276 1946-12-05 10 From Our Own Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 29. I CERIOUS attention to the provision of an institutioj 0 for juvenile delinquents is being given by thj Governor of the Malayan Union, the Chief Justiecl and the Commissioner of Prisons, said .Mr. W. \l Ward, Resident276 words
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Article164 1946-12-05 10 From Our Own Correspondent. PENANG, Nov. 29. REJECTING the Govern* A ment’s offer*of $24 as "a mere pittance representatives of Penang and Province Wellesley medical auxiliary services unanimously decides at a meeting yesterday 10 follow the recent action 1 A.R.P. wardens and bring their164 words
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Article45 1946-12-05 10 From Our Own Correspond; nt SEREMBAN. No’ THE following persons Negri Sembilan hav< appointed to the Malaria Ac Eoard, Malayan Union: Mr. W. A. Gordon-Hall. Commissioner, Dr. C. H acting State Medical and oflicer, Dr. S. C. Howard. Sulaiman bin Mohamcd Atas45 words
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Article389 1946-12-05 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 2*L iENFKAL dissatisfaction of Government and MuniJ cipal employed members of the Association of Engineers in Singapore may lead to resignations if heir pay and working conditions are not improved soon. A number of these men hold key engineering positions in public utilities such389 words
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Article116 1946-12-05 11 Death Railway’ Memorial TIIK Burma Government is planning a memorial ceremony to commemorate the men w ho died working on the Burma-Siam railway. This will take place on Dec. 18 at Thanhyuzayat, Burma terminus of ti.e line 45 miles south of .Monltnein. The Governor of Burma will lay a wreath116 words
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Article163 1946-12-05 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. THIS particular place is used by a number of looters, and a D'llice constable has to be kept th'Ti daily,” said Mr. F.G. Minus. AS P. of the Singapore Harbour Board Police, when prosecuting ’W) trespassers who had gained entry into the163 words
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Article117 1946-12-05 11 •"on Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 27. Chinese gangster, who escaped from Pudu Gaol, Kuala 1 Pur. during a Run battle outf /he gaol about a month ago. i, lloged to have been responsi- j: if) r another shooting at SunBesi last night when a117 words
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Article, Illustration134 1946-12-05 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 30. THE award of the King s Police Medal, presented to Divisional Officer L. F. Phipps, of the Singapore Fire Brigade, by the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, this week, is the highest award ever made to a member ol any Fire Brigade in the British134 words
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Article57 1946-12-05 11 A 22 year-old R A.SC. serviceman P. J. G. Baker, had a charge of being in unlawful possession of a pistol on Nov. 29 at nr. R.A.S C training camp in Bukit Tinr*h Road explained lo him in the Fourth Police Court The case was57 words
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Article127 1946-12-05 11 THE Boys’ Brigade in Singapore has been reorganised to the task of moral and spiritual rehabilitation of the youtn of this country. Hundreds <>: boys have passed through the seven companies in the Singa pore battalion of the Boys Brigade and have carried with them the mark127 words
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Article32 1946-12-05 11 From Our Own’ Correspondent PENANG, Nov 29. THE third People’s Restaurant 1 in Penang was opened ut. Weld Quay by the Deputy Labour Commissioner. Mr R. W I Hand yesterday.32 words
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Article201 1946-12-05 11 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 28. OMAR bin Abdul Jabbar, who made a successful jail break from Out ram Road prison, Singapore, last Sunday night, was recaptured in Penang at 10.15 this morning by Mr. J. W. Prescott, Assistant Price Controller, Penang, and formerly a prison201 words
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Article186 1946-12-05 11 THE far-reaching effects of the coal miners’ strike in the United States is being felt in Malaya which is experiencing a “hand to mouth” existence so far as coal is concerned. This, coupled w M h ’he civil disturbances in India —a count.v on which Malaya186 words
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458 1946-12-05 11 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 28. WHEN Mr. Khoo Teik Ee urged a campaign against tuberculosis in Selangor at the meeting of the Selangor Advisory Council today. I)r. D. M. Swan, State Medical and Health Officer, revealed that the first tuberculosis hospital458 words
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Article84 1946-12-05 11 SINGAPORE, Nov :t<). THE wives of Army personnel m Singapore and Malaya, Including Mrs. Galloway, v of Malaya’s General Officer Com-mander-In-Chief. Lieut General Alexander Galloway, v n* .»n board tin- Arundel Cast which arrived In Singapore \esterday from the United Kingdom. P* r.sound disemb.u .:.pg ireluded Army84 words
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Article537 1946-12-05 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 29. A SCHEME for the erection of rest houses, tonvales- cent homes and holiday bungalows for members of Singapore’s Urban Co-operative Union, Ltd., was mentioned by Mr. W, H. Ponniah, chairman of the Union, at a committee meeting, at which Mr. R. Itoyd, Director537 words
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Article68 1946-12-05 12 ■SINGAPORE, Nov. 29. Bail of $4,000 was offered Webster Noordin, who appeared before Inche Ahmad bin Ibrahim in the Fourth Police Court yesterday when he claimed trial to a criminal breach of trust charge of $3,000 entrusted to him on Nov. 6 In his capacity68 words
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Article279 1946-12-05 12 “SKY-HIKE” FOR S’ PORE AIR SCOUTS SINGAPORE, Nov. 29. T*EN of Singapore’s Air Scouts 1 tent “.sky-hiking” last week. They were the first Air Scouts in Singapore to have air experience and they were given two hours of excitement in an RAF Dakota of 48 Squadron. Three times they went279 words
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Article116 1946-12-05 12 Arrangements have now been completed between The Times, London, and the Straits Times whereby this newspaper acquires the exclusive right to publish in Malaya the news and special article services of The Times. The Straits Times is now represented in The Times Office in London,116 words
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199 1946-12-05 12 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Nov. 27. ABOUT a week after she had been held up at the point of a revolver in her house by three men and robbed of cash and jewellery worth over $6OO a Chinese nonya walked into the Central199 words
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157 1946-12-05 12 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Nov. 28. HOW a Bombay merchant travelling from Tampm to Malacca in a taxi on the night of Oct. 15 was held up by three Chinese fellow passengers at the point of a revolver and robbed of $6O, a157 words
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Article128 1946-12-05 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 29. I OH Ah San alias Kit Ling Chai. aged 23, who was convicted of assisting in the management of an unlawful society, the Heng Woh Secret Society, was sentenced to three years’ rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Paul Storr at the First District Court128 words
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293 1946-12-05 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 29. CTATEMENTS which have been made in Singapore, that higher bank deposits will be called for from importers when opening letters of credit in favour of consignors, are to a large extent discounted by leading banking representatives in the Colony. “Reports293 words
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Article265 1946-12-05 12 From Our Own Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 28. WHEN the Selangor State Agricultural Officer reported t the Selangor State Advisory Council today that! cultivation of crops on estates was generally unsatisfactory Mr. S. B. Palmer took the opportunity to press again Q relief of265 words
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Article156 1946-12-05 12 THE following message of congratulations from Gen. Sir Montagu Stopford. C-in*C., ALFSEA, has been sent to Majo f General O. de T. Lovett, commanding the 7th Indian Div. on its departure from Malaya 1 “On the final departure of 7tn Indian Division from Allied Land156 words
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Article123 1946-12-05 12 VESSEL RICE CONFISCATED From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 2i). ONE motor vessel was ordered t° be seized and 150 bags of rice confiscated wh- n eight Chint.'V were convicted by the Disti’c Judge, Mr. B. J. Jenning. were fined a total of $7,600 on a charge of importing prohibit*123 words
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673 1946-12-05 13 I Sunday Times Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 30. I PLEDGE that he would devote his efforts “to promote sensible and practical co-operation between [he Malayan Union and Singapore in all the interlocking business in which we are necessarily engaged” i L a s673 words
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Article152 1946-12-05 13 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. i. THE acting Governor-General, Sir Edward Gent, and Singapore Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, were present last night at the festivities of the Selangor St. Andrew’s Society at the Selangor Club when about 60. J people were guests of152 words
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Article58 1946-12-05 13 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Dec. 1. A Province Wellesley Chinese, who had just sold his possessions in order to buy passage tickets to China for himself and his family, was robbed of all his money when four armed men broke into his house at Bukit58 words
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200 1946-12-05 13 From Our Own Corsespondent LONDON. Nov. 30. IORI> Marchwood, former Sin- gapore broker and lor many “Member lor Malaya” in the House ot Commons, is resigning lrom the treasurership of the Conservative Party after eight years service. The Daily Telegraph pays him I this tribute: “No200 words
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Article124 1946-12-05 13 THE following appointments are announced in the Singapore Government Gazette for Nov. 29: Mr. R. E. Pitt, to be Senior Executive Engineer, P.W.D., m place of Mr. Allan Inglis. Mr. R A. B. Stanhope to be Chief Veterinary Officer, Singapore, in place of Mr. R. A. Wright.124 words
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Article59 1946-12-05 13 IN the week ending Nov 23 695 babies were born in Singapore, while there were 187 deaths. The previous week’s deaths were 212. Only one case of smallpox was reported in the week ending Nov. 23—there were 15 cases reported the previous week. Cases of tuberculosis reported59 words
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Article267 1946-12-05 13 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 30. THE Malacca General Hospital, one of the finest in the country, is to become Malaya s first tuberculosis hospital, when it has been evacuated by the Army and as soon as the Malayan Medical Department can provide267 words
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173 1946-12-05 13 rONSULTATIONS on Malaya: Union questions are bein', held In Singapore—on an U formal basis at present between Mr. Tan Cheng Lock, well-i.iK.wn Malacca Chinese and former Legislative Councillor, the Malay an Democratic Union, and representatives of other local political parties, with a view to173 words
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Article94 1946-12-05 13 From Our Own Correspondent. PENANG, Dec. 1. THE question of back pay for government servants having crystallised, mercantile employees are awaiting move by mercantile firms in granting them a similar payment. Mr. N. Ponnudural. President of the Penang Clerical and Administrative Staff Union, said today.94 words
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Article540 1946-12-05 13 THE British Treasury has now tfiven authority for 1 contractors to tender for work in connection with the £3,000,000 scheme to make Changi airfield—shared jointly by the R.A.F. and civilian aviation—the largest and most up-to-date aerodrome in South East Asia. Ropresent at iv#\s of540 words
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Article66 1946-12-05 13 The Committee of Management of the Silver Jubilee Fund < Singapore) is nominated In the Singapore Government Gazette for Nov. 29 It Includes Lieut. Col J. Walnwrlght, Mr. Urn Chuan Oeok, Col. Chuang Hul Tsuan, Mr. C. M. Lee, Mr M J. Namazie, the Secretary for Social66 words
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421 1946-12-05 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. CCATHING comments on monopolists and black market operators who had held honest Singapore citizens to ransom "at a time when the mass of the people were under-nourished if not starving” were made by Mr. R. Boyd, Director of Co-operation, Malaya, when he421 words
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Article89 1946-12-05 14 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Nov. 30. FOLLOWING the dee is. or. ,jtOi1: Municipal Commissioners not to grand the 12 days full pay leave which Municipal labourers had asked for. the Penang Municipal and Government Labour Union held a protest meeting last night. Several89 words
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114 1946-12-05 14 SINGAPORE, Dec 1. A JOHORE gang leader was shot dead with a sten gun near Johore Bahru in a brush during which Mr L. D. E. Cullen, of the Johore Police, and a police squad rounded up five men believed to have been114 words
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Article61 1946-12-05 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 2 FOR the first time since the Japanese occupation, Mountbatten Road was open to the public yesterday. Popularity of the opening was evidenced by the flow of traffic over the road yesterday. Closed when the Japanese occupation of Singapore took place, Mountbatten Road—then known as61 words
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Article83 1946-12-05 14 AND SOLD From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 30. IN an abduction case in the Bul--1 terworth court the District Judge, Mr. B. J. Jennings sentenced two women, Ong Oh Nya and Yeap Siew Eng to one year’s rigorous imp;isnnment each on a charge of abduction of83 words
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151 1946-12-05 14 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 30. A RMED gangsters held up a bus travelling towards Kuala Lumpur yesterday near tn*» ninth mile in the Kajang District. Three Chinese armed with revolvers approached the driver the bus when he stopped to pick up151 words
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Article207 1946-12-05 14 AMONG the proposals in connection with the million dollar rehabilitation of the Singapore Harbour Board which are now being considered is one, submitted by police authorities, to build a 20-foot high wall around the entire SHB premises, and considerably check the enormous quantity of cargo207 words
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Article80 1946-12-05 14 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 29. A FLEET of Burmese junks en route to Sumatra, which stopped at Penang harbour to purchase provisions for crews, have been detained here pending court proceedings it is understood The taikongs were charged yesterday in the Third Magistrate’s Court with80 words
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Article23 1946-12-05 14 Victory Savings Certificates worth $14,361 have been sold during the past week bringing the total to $177,261 up to Nov. 29.23 words
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Article339 1946-12-05 14 pOST and telc-commumca tion workers in both the Malayan Union and Singapore are to form a Union on the lines of similar organisations in the United Kingdom. Draft rules and regulations are at the moment being drawn up by the committee set up for this339 words
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Article398 1946-12-05 14 SINGAPORE, Dec 2 I CIXTY Malayans were among 525 civilians f or J Far East who arrived in Singapore from Em J on the aircraft carrier Victorious yesterday moi Jl Malayans and passengers who wished to \1 hurried visits to relatives and friends in Singaoorl398 words
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Article97 1946-12-05 14 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 30. PENANG residents stood out in the drizzle last evening as garrison troops, the West Yorks, led by their commanding officer riding a brown charger, paraded through the town to the strains o! rousing marches played b> the band of97 words
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Article96 1946-12-05 14 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 30. TO stimulate interest in eonimercial education. talks on the possibilities of J r siness training have been f?» to students of higher in local schools by Mr t u p Pinnick. former principal ot Government Commercial S< in Penang.96 words
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Article626 1946-12-05 15 i SOCIAL event of great interest to the peoples of ft Singapore and the Malayan Union will take place in Ottawa, Canada, on Dec. 9. On that date, Mrs. Audrey Fellowes Rowley will ma rry Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Governor General of the Malayan Union. The wedding, which626 words
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Article81 1946-12-05 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 3. The staff of the Rubber Re search Institute, Malaya, gave a farewell tea party to the Director. Mr H. J. Page, and Mrs Page sit Wong Kee Cafe, Kuala Lumpur, last week Speeches were made by Mr. C E T. Mann and81 words
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Article59 1946-12-05 15 Stopped and searched by a constable on duty at a gate in the Singapore Harbour Board, and found tc have 17 tins oi Eumcnthyol jujubes strapped to his legs m Nov 30. a Chinese, Lau Pan Yan, who pleaded guilty in the Third Police Court, was sentenced to59 words
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Article270 1946-12-05 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 3. lESS than three month' after the termination ot their last strike, when a 15 per cent, over-all increase wa> granted five demands, in eluding one for a 50 per cem increase in pay, have beei. made to the Singapore Traction Company, Ltd., by a270 words
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Article67 1946-12-05 15 The Second District Judge. Mi T. T. Russell, on Dec. 2, found a Chinese, Choo Liang Ohe»:i.;, guilty of the wrongful possession of 15 bags of rice on Nov. 18 He was fined $l,OOO or four months’ imprisonment in default. The rice, 66967 words
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Article283 1946-12-05 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 3. rkFPAIJSE of the “unsafe” conditions existing at the airfield B in Medan, the Sumatran east coast port, a Medan-bound Dakota aircraft belonging to the 19th Squadron of the Netherlands East Indies Army, was forced to return to Singapore half an hour after taking283 words
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Article253 1946-12-05 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 3. NEWS has been received from England of the death 01 Mr A. H. Todd. who. as secretary of the Singapore Turf Club, worked for and saw the change over from the old to the new race course. Mr. Todd, who Is remembered253 words
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Article112 1946-12-05 15 From Our Own Correspond* nt SEREBAN, Dec. 2. Representatives of Chinese Malay and Indian communities were present at a tea party on Saturday held In celebration of the first anniversary ot the establishment of the Ex-Service Comrades Association of the MPA J A Mr Theng Fook112 words
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Article50 1946-12-05 15 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN. Nov, 30. The Chinese and Indian Chambers of Commerce in Negri Sembilan have sent a join’ protest against the Textile Prl'-e Control Ordinance to the Governor of the Malayan Union. The decision to send the protest was taken at a Joint meeting here.50 words
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473 1946-12-05 15 THE selection of five Malayans to visit England early 1 next year under the auspices of the British Council will be made this month. The whole of the cost of the trip will be borne by the British Council. Sir Angus Gillan, chief of473 words
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Article75 1946-12-05 15 .SINGAPORE. Dec. 3. Allegation of being in jiosses.slon of a 38 revolver, a 32 pistol, and six rounds of ammunition a; North Bridge Road on Nov were explained to three Chinese ir> the Second Police Court y***terday The men, Chan Ah Hong, ugta 18. Org75 words
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Article411 1946-12-05 16 RADIO MALAYA ’S FUTURE PLANS SINGAPORE, Dec. 4. WITH the installation of six wireless transmitters which await unloading at Singapore, the Malayan Union and Singapore will have taken the first step towards having one of the finest broadcasting systems in the Colonial Empire. Mr. J. S. Dumeresque, Director of Broadcasting,411 words
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Article118 1946-12-05 16 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Dec. 3. pETTY car thefts was of the subjects discussed at a meetof the N.B. and Malacca branch of the Automobile Association of Malaya held at the N.B. Club. A sub-committee consisting of Messrs. J. Wlshart and W. Stevenson was formed118 words
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211 1946-12-05 16 SINGAPORE. Dec. 4. DONALD Allred Levy and Edward Charles Hampton, two Australians who were convicted of being in possession of firearms and ammunition (two revolvers and 36 rounds in the case of Levy, and one revolver and five rounds in the case of Hampton),211 words
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Article72 1946-12-05 16 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 3. pHINESE and Indian Barbers’ Association in Selangor have agreed to charge a dollar for a hair cut as a result of friendly discussions between them and the Price Controller. The barbers will display these rates in shops72 words
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57 1946-12-05 16 Sir Franklin Gimson, Governor of Singapore, is piped into dinner at the celebration in Raffles Hotel of St. Andrew’s Eve by the Singapore St. Andrew’ Society. With the Governor is Mr. C. F. Smith, chieftain of the Society. Mr. A. Dick, a member of the Society committee, was one of57 words
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Article84 1946-12-05 16 SINGAPORE. Dec. 4. The criminal intimidation oi a Malay guard at a Naafl warehouse was the subject of the charge preferred against a Malay. Ismail bin Taha, in the Second Police Court on Monday. Ismail is alleged to have caused alarm to Abu Bakar bin Abdul Kadir,84 words
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335 1946-12-05 16 SINGAPORE. Dec. 4. allegation that he had taken 120 cases of wine worth $7,200 from the Singapore Harbour Board to a ‘jungle-like place' under the directions of an officer was made at the trial of Sepoy Dayal Masil, attached to the 28 Indian335 words
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273 1946-12-05 16 SINGAPORE, Dec 4 TWO Japanese colonels N a h mura and Ishii, wore sentence to death by hanging, anothtt Japanese colonel to 20 years’in prisonment a general to 10 v Si and a major to 10 years at end of a trial, described by273 words
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Article116 1946-12-05 16 SINGAPORE. Dec. 4. TWO young Chinese. Lew Koon Seng and Lim Gee, were sentenced to 18 months’ rigorous imprisonment each by Mr. Tan Thoon Lip at the First District Court yesterday when they were convicted of house-breaking and theft. Giving evidence for the pnvtf* cution, L/Cpl.116 words
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Article104 1946-12-05 16 SINGAPORE. Dec 4. F' OR the first time in w history’ of Malaya, an J* n |v lish school was represent* a the Chinese inter-school exam* nation sponsored by the w tion Department held on M<>n and Tuesday. Among the total of 15b P U104 words
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197 1946-12-05 17 SINGAPORE’S DEFICIT TO BE 700,000 SINGAPORE, Dec. 4. HEN Mr. Nelson Jones, the Financial Secretary, presents the 1947 budget of the Singapore Govern,„t at the Advisory Council tomorrow it IS PY. tied that he will announce an estimated deficit of proximately $700,000, with expenditure estimated more than $6O million and197 words
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Article169 1946-12-05 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 4. eng.neer of a motor tongkang, 26-year-old Mok Whye ii. who pleaded guilty to a iarc of carrying a loaded volver in North Bridge Road i Oct. 3. was sentenced to three ars’ rigorous imprisonment by r Justice Brown at the Fifth r.2.ipore169 words
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Article126 1946-12-05 17 SEREMBAN, Dec. 3. [OtJND carrying a revolver in his hip pocket at Tanjong Pagar n Au S 8. 25-year-old Tan Tian 2 was sentenced to a year’s porous imprisonment by Mr. ustice Brown at the Fifth Sinapore Assizes yesterday. In passing sentence, Mr. Juslce Brown126 words
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Article66 1946-12-05 17 SINGAPORE. Dec. 3. vo Europeans, Robert William ‘/'hows and Arthur John Crouch- claimed trial to a charge of f /t of 13 bales of military cloth r aluc h at about $2,106 before Mr Thoon Lip at the First DisCourt yesterday. Nail was offered in the66 words
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Article99 1946-12-05 17 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Dec. 3. A SPECIAL training school on A the lines of modern hospital organisations in Britain Is to set up shortly in Penang, it is “"“"school win provide classes for prospective nurses and also refresher courses for those wishing to take99 words
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Article42 1946-12-05 17 SINGAPORE. D«‘C. 4 A Eurasian Food Control Inspector. B. Hogan was acquitted and discharged by the Second Police Magistrate. Mr L. C. Goh on Monday on a charge attempting to extort $6O from Bengali coffee shop-keeper at Serangoon Road42 words
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Article257 1946-12-05 17 From Our Own Correspondent KUCHING, Dec. 3. THE road to eventual self* government” and the question of the Sarawak cession were mentioned at the first meeting of the Council Negri since the state became a colony, which opened Here yesterday, presided over by the Governor. Sir257 words
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299 1946-12-05 17 A FTER being completely o*er A hauled and converted n-o a comfortable passenger shi F for ikn Qin°anore-China port s £1 the 3.700-ton Ho Hong steamship Hong Siang will icave Singapore on Dec. 5 on her fl post-war voyage. Hong Siang which has undergone299 words
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Article, Illustration455 1946-12-05 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 4. AT a simple ceremony held yesterday at the office of the United Sfates Military Observer, Major R. E. Iloey, U. S. Military Liaison Officer, presented four British officers with U.S. military decorations in recognition of the services rendered by these men duringStraits Times picture - 455 words
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226 1946-12-05 17 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Dec. 3. CEVEN Chinese and a Malay, woodcutters in the J north-western Penang village of Tcluk liahang, received the Supremo’s certificate of thanks yesterday from the Resident Commissioner, Mr. S. N. King, for feeding Allied troops during the Japanese226 words
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Article31 1946-12-05 17 SINGAPORE. Dec. 4. A small lire which broke out m a battery shop In Victoria Street at noon yesterday was put out by 1 the Singapore Fire Brigade31 words
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Article757 1946-12-05 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. AFTER 50 minutes of merely interesting Rugby, yesterday’s annual Padang match between Scotland and the Rest ended in a last ten minutes of thrills and a climax which gave Scotland victory by eight points (try, goal) to six (try, penalty) just757 words
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Article199 1946-12-05 18 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA. Dec. 1. PLAYING In a continuous drizzle the Negri hockey team, with four reserves, were lucky to share honours in a goalless draw with Malacca, here yesterday. Malacca forwards enjoyed territorial advantage for two thirds of the game but wet surface199 words
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345 1946-12-05 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. Fielding four first team players, the S.R.C. did well to hold a strong representative Indian Army XI to a 1—1 draw in a hockey match played on the padang yesterday. The result is in every way a credit to the Rees345 words
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Article405 1946-12-05 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. r STING out a practically new team on the Padang yesterday against H.M.S. Terror, the S.C.C. took their heaviest Rugby defeat so far losing 20 points (five tries, goal) to nil. The game provided the Terror threes with plenty of opportunities405 words
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Article420 1946-12-05 18 Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH, Nov. 30. JOCKEY Clifford, a newcomer to the Malayan Turf, scored his first victory in this country when he brought home Distinguished, a four-length winner and the day’s biggest outsider, here to-day, the opening day of the Perak Nov.-Dec. race meeting.420 words
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Article81 1946-12-05 18 SINGAPORE. Dec. 3. IN a fast and interesting game of hookey played between the S.R.C. team and the Naval Police on the padang yesterday, each side scored one goal. There was no scoring during the first half of the game, throughout which the Naval Police attacked81 words
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Article393 1946-12-05 18 SINGAPORE, Dei v I I'HE S.R.C. (Eurasians) qualified for the Victory (j Un J when they beat RNAS (Sembawang) by al jt| Besar Stadium yesterday. A replay, the game fell iJj expectations, The cup-tie atmosphere was present 9 thrills were scarce. The conditions were*393 words
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134 1946-12-05 18 Sunday Times Correspondent SEREMBAN. Nov. 30. NEGRI Sembilan All Blues visit Singapore next mon' to play the Singapore Asiatics the All-Blues Cup Competition What sort of a team the Neg All Blues will be able to field Singapore remains uncertain a travelling team134 words
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Article34 1946-12-05 18 From Our Own SEGAMAT. N Missed chances and P o v o’i brought about the down fa Boys’ Association at the i Education Department nj the town padang yesterda* score being two-one.34 words
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Article250 1946-12-05 19 I From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 2. mi S understood that an income-tax expert from Britain’s Inland Revenue Department is definitely ■riving in Malaya this month by sea to advise the ■alayan Union and Singapore Governments on the ■es’of the post-war tax250 words
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Article313 1946-12-05 19 farmers throughout l Malaya should be con ;ra tula ted on the splendid forts they have made anc ire still making to plant up an vailable sawah land in the ountry and for the genera' uppoi't they have given in he Grow More Food Cam>aign”. rh:>313 words
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Article72 1946-12-05 19 Ihe Perak Chinese Miners' f 'ciation have decided to 1 r m a Chinese Minei\> Industrial among Chinese miners in f ra k with a view to providing [J 1 derials necessary for the renabilitation of the tin mines. is said that the preparatory rk for .tw co72 words
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210 1946-12-05 19 SINGAPORE, Dec. 4. COAL-MINERS at Bat'd Arang, the only coal miners in Malaya, yesterday started a two-day token strike This atTected the pump operators as well, and to prevent the mine from flooding a detachment of military engineers is ready to take over210 words
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354 1946-12-05 19 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 2. DRITAIN’S economic policy, which, it was claimed. aimed at monopolising Malaya's post-war market, and placing European firms in a privileged position, was attacked by Mr. Yap Bean Khay, President of the Selangor Rice Merchants Association, last night.354 words
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Article106 1946-12-05 19 From Our Ova < arreapawdi wl A LOR KTAR Let rls not proposed to *»*t up *r Advisory Council f *f K»dui, said Mr O K Vcnablra Nra*drnt Commissioner K*d*fi a* tr.* first pres* conference The publw tt w-uld b» ■Trd had fipmwd u« tt106 words
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Article149 1946-12-05 19 A' l»« Mf U I d«M <4 ll» fll'-M# <*. Il«* m 11»* (4 rotdtlil <<• liar h<i r Amtfdlm l*. M I#)U*t lfl< at ton f- i quirk rrro%«t> u| II t> > >• <Jusf rv m litliraiv been in n atat rtf rum149 words
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172 1946-12-05 19 THE opinion that Malaya and Singapore should not be separate was reflected at a meeting of the Chinese Chamber of commerce in Singapore recently to consider an invitation from upcountry chambers of to organise nn All-Mala.»an Chinese Chamber of Commerce The proposal was unanimously favoured and172 words
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Article309 1946-12-05 19 SINGAPORE, life. 3. AFTER writing off a capital lon* sustained some years ago of $323,190.47 of the Company's assets in Penang, Raffles Hotel Ltd. were able to carry for* ward a sum of $22,108.17 from their profit and loss account. The balance sheet which was available309 words
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Article134 1946-12-05 19 Hid Lancashire cotton firm In. tends to withdraw Its cottongrowing industry from Egypt and re establish it in Central Aus’ral.a A subsidiary company. British Australia Development Property Ltd. with a capital of CIO.OOO has lx- n form' d in Sydney The company Intends to grow134 words
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Article739 1946-12-05 20 Singapore Market Review From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. LAST week marked the completion of the Malayan share markets first year’s business since the nMicgcrpation. Looking back it is pleasing to note the progress made in the restoration of business with all the othec739 words
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Article115 1946-12-05 20 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Dec. 3. THREE thousand tons of sugar from Mauritius and 2,000 tons of general cargo from the United Kingdom have arrived and are at present being unloaded in Penang. The sugar, which is for the northern area, arrived by115 words
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Article30 1946-12-05 20 Permits will now be granted for the export of pepper to private firms in the United Kingdom against proof of import licence issued in the United Kingdom.30 words
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Article117 1946-12-05 20 pOSTAGE and revenue stamps over-printed with the letters and word “B.M.A. Malaya” are to remain in lorce next year, according to rules published in the Singapore Government Gazette. “Any stamps issued in any part of Malaya not overprinted with the initials and word ‘B.M.A. Malaya/117 words
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Article122 1946-12-05 20 INDICATIVE of Malaya’s near--1 sufficiency in certain goods, figures of imports and exports for last month were almost level, while imports of manufactured articles exceeded those of foodstuffs and drinks. The value of imports into Malaya in October amounted to $117,938,602, and of exports from this country,122 words
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Article500 1946-12-05 20 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec i IN order to provide money for its domestic affairs th r ernment has taxed the population beyond all when what is required is relief from taxation and tunity for recovery, declared Mr. B. J. P. Joaquim, pre?500 words
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Article142 1946-12-05 20 THE report of the directors of tn British Malaya Trustee Executa Co., Ltd. for the period from July] 1941 to June 30, 1946 shows that tho Is a sum of $7,920.73 standing as cred balance on profit and loss accoofl which it is proposed to carry142 words
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Article740 1946-12-05 20 Share quotations as at Dec. 3 .0 ordin? m ,.m Malayan i aicOrokers Aisoelalioi (Bmgaporc) were as O.'UWS INDUSTRIALS Buyei Sellet Aleximdrh dr?;kwork> °rds 1.80 $2.00 Alexandra ■A.ok work/ Prefs. 2.90 3.10 l lrn Maiay 0 i rustet Xi Executor Co s 00 0 0( J* nsoltdatec740 words