The Straits Budget, 9 January 1947
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Title Section31 1947-01-09 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] New Series No. 28 Singapore, Thursday, January, 9th, 1947, Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) o* i m31 words
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Advertisement63 1947-01-09 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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Article1225 1947-01-09 2 —Straits Times, Jan. 3. Apart from Its literary quality and its intrinsic interest as an historical perspective for the new Federation plan, the address bv Sir Hugh Clilford which the Straits Times reproduced from its file* last Tuesday is relevant to con temporary Malayan publics—Straits Times, Jan. 3. - 1,225 words
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Article949 1947-01-09 2 --Straits Times, Jan. 4. "New Towns: New Life" Is one of the slogans of the Labour Government In Great Britain that should be echoed In Singapore The Labour Government has promised the electorate that It will build a number of completely new towns which will embody the--Straits Times, Jan. 4. - 949 words
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Article1066 1947-01-09 2 peace-nun? h* —Straits Times, Jan. 6. This question is being asked more and more frequently as the public of Malaya becomes conscious of strange new activities on which public money is being spent. The pictorial display at a remote cross-roads in Pahang which was described inpeace-nun? h* ■ —Straits Times, Jan. 6. - 1,066 words
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Article793 1947-01-09 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 7. e group of associations n "as the Pan-Malayan C1 1 of Joint Action has :encd its ci cision to boycott the nittc: which has b:en aped bv S;r Edward Gent to vi A' on the Fed: ration osals bir the extent of—Straits Times, Jan. 7. - 793 words
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Article1024 1947-01-09 3 —Stratis Times, Jan. 8. Last year there was a flutter In international dovecots w’hen President Truman, with his peculiar genius for saying the w r rong thing in the wrong way at the wrong time, declared that the United States was going to hold on to all—Stratis Times, Jan. 8. - 1,024 words
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Article175 1947-01-09 3 MR. Anthony Brooke has sent the following telegram to the President of the Malay National Union of Sarawak on the subject of resignations among Sarawak Government servants: “While deeply grieved that mass resignations should have become necessary among Sarawak Government officials with inevitable administrative disorganisation throughout175 words
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Article111 1947-01-09 3 From Our Own Correspondent Ipoh, Jan. 7.—The inadequacy of their cost-of-living allowances, as published in the local pr'ss, is the subject of a letter the local pensioners have addressed to their central body, the Government Pensioners’ Union, Kuala Lumpur In requesting the Union to take up111 words
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Article93 1947-01-09 3 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Jan. 7.—Koh Eng Choon. a Chinese, was fined $75 in the District Court yesterday for having moved 165 katies* of rice without a written permit of the Assistant Food Controller. The accused in his defence stated that the rice93 words
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Article188 1947-01-09 3 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. rO men who stood bail for V.C.B. Menon, an Indian contractor, who faced corruption charges and who was stated in court to have absconded, were asked to show cause in the Second Magistrate’s Court yesterday why their bail of $5,000 should188 words
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PERSONAL
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Article103 1947-01-09 3 BORN to Mrs. J. L. Marr (nee Dagmar Cashin) a lovely daughter Priscilla Ann on January first at K.K. Hospital. GEBOREN. Peggy Ann, dochter van Q. W. Breed veld en P. BreedveldJans. Singapore, 1 Jan., 1947. PECK —At Penang Maternity Hosp. on December 25th 1946 to Joyce wife of103 words
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Article260 1947-01-09 3 TONG-WONG. The engagement was announced on the 2-1-47 between Mr. Tong Chuan Hoe (Richard) eldest son of Mr. Mrs. Tong Boon Eng of No.' 7 Tiverton Lane, Singapore and Miss Wong Soh Kin (Lily) second daughter of Mr. Mrs. Wong Oy Wan of No. 180 Tanjong Pagar Road. CHUA—CHEONG260 words
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Article32 1947-01-09 3 NG-LOW The marriage took place on 5.1.47 between Mr. Ng Miang Quee. eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Ng Song Phuan. and Miss Low Yuet Sam. daughter of Madam Chan Lam.32 words
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Obituary31 1947-01-09 3 DEATH ETMN, Maria—December 28. 1946. at St. Vincents Private Hospital. Darlinghurst. Maria Etlin of 63a Ramsgate Ave. Bondi, dearly beloved wife of Benjamin Etlin and loving mother of Robert and Ray.31 words
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Article575 1947-01-09 4 IN protest against what they call the Singapoie *s. Government's “shabby treatment" of them with regard to back pay, 7,000 Government employees plan to hold a mass demonstration if Government does not accede to their request for payment by Jan. 10 of a further four months’575 words
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Article117 1947-01-09 4 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. GIVING evidence of character for Myakawa Genzichiro in the War Crimes Court at Ch«*ngi yesterday, a Japanese, Ol. Tokuda, said Myakawa s father had married into the Siamese Royal Family and “was a very rich man.” The accused, an interpreter, was sentenced hy117 words
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Article79 1947-01-09 4 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. A YOUNG Chinese who was arrest* d by a detective immediately alter he had picked a fountain-pen lrom the pocket of c. pedestrian was sentenced to ten weeks’ imprisonment by the Second Police Magistrate. Mr. L C Goh yesterday He was 18-year-old Wong Wai Sun,79 words
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Article112 1947-01-09 4 ALL persons leaving Singapore by sea should possess* evidence of protection against smallpox by recent vaccination, according to a notification issued to the shipping community by the Singapore Master Attendant. This step has been taken because Singapore is, at the moment. declared infected with smallpox. Commencing112 words
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Article65 1947-01-09 4 From Our Own Correspondent Penang, Jan. 6.—Poppy Day collections in Penang and Province Wellesley in 1946 totalled $22,684 including about $6,000 oarried over from the previous year, according to a statement issued by the honorary organiser, Mrs. E. M. Noian. The biggest contribution was realised from65 words
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Article133 1947-01-09 4 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. IN Singapore today is a Ben Line vessel which refused to «?o down in spite of two severe air poundings by the Germans and the Japanese during the war years. She is the 9,250-ton Benledi which is now alongside the Tanjong Pagar wharves133 words
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Article238 1947-01-09 4 A OMMITTEE has been appointed by Government to make recommendations for a revision of the Rent Restriction Ordinance and will hold its first meeting, under the chairmanship of Mr. E. J. Davies, the Attorney-General, Singapore, next week. On Friday the Singapore Ratepayers Association is to238 words
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Article323 1947-01-09 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. RECOMMENDATIONS for wholesale changes in the pay code of the Malayan Union police force on lines suggested hy the special code committee in Singapore under Mr. R. E. Foulger, have been forwarded to the t hief323 words
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Article69 1947-01-09 4 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. A Malay labourer, seen to walk peculiarly near a Singapore Harbour Board gate on Jan. 6, was stopped and asked by a policeman to remove his rubber shoes. In them were found 400 trouserbuckles. As a result, Siron bin Mat tho labourer,69 words
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Article213 1947-01-09 4 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. DECAUSE the after-effects of imprisonment and! ternment during the Japanese occupation hi appeared only recently among a number of Govt] menl officers in Singapore, special medical cxamil tioi.s are being carried out at the General Hos- people believed to be so affected. I The213 words
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Article150 1947-01-09 4 From Our Own Corresponde PENANG, Jan. 7.—Suspens from dealing in price-control goods for six months in addii to a fine of $3,000 was the sentei passed by the Bukit Mortal District Judge, Mr. H R. E yesterday on Goh Hwa Tah. Chinese shopkeeper, who was cj150 words
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Article100 1947-01-09 4 From Our Own Correspond^ Penang, Jan. 7.—An impress array of Jewelry said to have be recovered from an armed robW was exhibited in the police cos yesterday at a preliminary inq» held into a ciharge of commit- 1 armed robbery against tin Chinese, Lee Kim Huat,100 words
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Article33 1947-01-09 4 The five-cent denominator* Malayan Welfare Fund will be placed on sale at General Post Office, on and from Jan. 10. 0.h f r nominations wtfi 'll-' solti supplies are available.33 words
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320 1947-01-09 5 B reC ent report from Ipoh a leading miner" is stated to ve said! would be rather silly, J. )U think, for us miners ,n ;,Vv our heads over a h “complicated piece of ichiut rv. when w? are at our r d as to320 words
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283 1947-01-09 5 01R Flight Lientenant, R A F., is not the only one enk‘d to sign himself “A orried Man”. -ik p many other Service folk io raUe tlioir voices in com- 1 V 1° does not seem to ha t- apart from the283 words
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Article165 1947-01-09 5 SOME of your readers will remember that during World War I many Europeans who were asked to join up pleaded that they were indispensable. And yet as soon as the Armistice was signed in November, 1918. those who pleaded lndisut usability became dispensable almost overnight, and they were165 words
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Article126 1947-01-09 5 THE Governor in his New Year broadcast said that plans are under consideration for the extension of housing accommodation for the public in 1947. Yet the Singapore Improvement Trust has repeatedly declared itself unable to build any new homes during 1947. We are also not aware that126 words
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Article83 1947-01-09 5 I WROTE to you a short time ago on the subject of proposed changes in the law relating to assessment of horsepower of motorcars, and you referred to the matter in a leading article. Government has abandoned its intention of giving a discretion to one of its83 words
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235 1947-01-09 5 f MIGHT head this letter “Baby For Sale but as the child is my own offspring 1 am hardly likely to sell it. Nevertheless I am refused accom* j modation in boarding-houses in Singapore because I have a seven weeks old235 words
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173 1947-01-09 5 |N reply to the remark made by the Municipal President regarding a letter published in your paper on Nov. 30, it was not lack of courage but sure knowledge that a mere squeak from one of the public would be inaudible against the rumbling173 words
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Article128 1947-01-09 5 IT is a common experience for stenographers employed in local European mercantile firms to be called upon to take down letters which have nothing to do whatever with the affairs of the companies they serve. I refer, of course, to the deplorable practice of certain office tuans—and there128 words
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Article148 1947-01-09 5 MR. RAYMAN, answering Straits Times criticism ol compulsory demolition unauthorised attap dwellings while the housing shortage lasts, said that the same prob lc»m arose in Singapore after the last war. I But there was one thing Mr. Rayman forgot to mention. To relieve the acute housing148 words
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Article74 1947-01-09 5 I HAVE just read Mr. John Eber’s contemptuous reply to the harassed miner of Ipoh. May I ask Mr. Eber to try to realise that while some are busy inflicting the curse of politics upon Malaya, with a view to their own aggrandizement, irrespective of the welfare of74 words
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Article99 1947-01-09 5 MY friends and I have discussed the letter by Mr. J. S. Argus, who thinks the Malays all came from Sumatra a century or two before the Chinese and Indians arrived. We would like to inform Mr. Argus that we Malays will return to Sumatra whenever Mr. Argus99 words
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Miscellaneous40 1947-01-09 5 PERSEKUTUAN TANAH MELAYU THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA A r isgfc rez* 325 sc IllNDI** lO«* 60 OF i-Xv! v\ CilV-O* 4 *J\»0 /i) r' ,.vV' raw I W7 i'4 iiSm 3»« 1 SINGAPORE v\UU TH.BfHi tmu if., SINGAPORE CRUSADE, 194740 words
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Article403 1947-01-09 6 A sl*4 million, seven-storey building, which will include a dance hall, a restaurant and a roof garden on the upper floors, and carry 14 offices on each ol the lower floors, will be built in Singapore this year (if plans are approved) for the Asia403 words
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Article124 1947-01-09 6 THE Govemrru nt of Singapore hi's decided to Krant 12 paid holidays txr year to iheii daily paid (.•I'rpioyocs. other Ilian iho.m employed on a temporary h sis for a period not exceeding on month, if they work lor the whole year. This O' rkslon124 words
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Article219 1947-01-09 6 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6. MEMBERS of the P.W.D. Technical Services Association visited the site of Kuala Lumpur’s $10-million water scheme situated in Gombak during an excursion yesterday. The scheme, which includes the fvinstruction of a huge dam in Ufii Gombak219 words
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109 1947-01-09 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. A middle-aged Chinese whose children found a baPket of ammunition and who reported the matter to the police, was yesterday acquitted and discharged by the District Judge Mr. Paul Storr, on a charge of being in possession of 249 rounds of109 words
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Article152 1947-01-09 6 From Our Own Correspondent Klang. Jan. 6.—Alias bin Jajiman, a 29-year-old Javanese former extra police constable, was produced before Mr. M. Neal. the District Judge. Klang, on a charge of abetting the commission of housebreaking and theft of property, from a NAFF! godown at Klang,152 words
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Article65 1947-01-09 6 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 6.—A dinner described as the first oi its kind in P.W.D. premises since the re occupation was held tills evening and provided an oppor tunit.v ol reunion among members of the P W D Technical Services. The function was attended b<65 words
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Article196 1947-01-09 6 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Jan, (j, THE question of protecting Siamese of local extra 1 tion by provision of a protector came up f, discussion before Mr. 0. E. Venables, Resident Cot missioner of Kedah, at a press conference yesterdav, Siamese of local196 words
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Article139 1947-01-09 6 From Our Own Correspondent Penang, Jan. 6. AN assurance that there has been “no real hold-up” in the supply of foodstuffs to Penang was given today in an official statement issued in reply to a declaration from lightermen that they had offered to handle food139 words
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526 1947-01-09 6 gTRANGE air cargoes are coming into Singapore daily from many parts of the world. Not only has an average of six pedigree dogs arrived in Singapore on each Lancastrian from Sydney during the last four months but chickens, pigeons, canaries, cockatoos and parrots too526 words
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Article153 1947-01-09 6 From Our Own Correspondei ALOR STAR, Jan, 6. NEW padi purchase prici have been guaranteed b the Food Controller, Keda and Perlis, for a period of oi year. The increases, which are froi $lO to $2O per picul delivered i the mill and $9.20 to $19.20153 words
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Article66 1947-01-09 6 SINGAPORE. Jan. 7. TWO Japanese PoWs wers pitin the Singapore Four! Court yesterday when they ws charged with vountarily causiai hurt by using two small kn:v« on a Chinese, Foo On, Wort lands Road on Jan. 4. Murachani and Shizu. of t!» PoW camp at Woodlands, der.ie66 words
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Article58 1947-01-09 6 SINGAPORE. Jan. 7. I DALUMTA, an Indian n.. lorry driver, appean d tl the First District Judge. M: 1 -fl Storr. yesterday on a el |r having committed Ir breach oi trust in resn< It cases of Naafl cigarette at $40,000. M Balumia pleaded iipt I the58 words
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Article67 1947-01-09 6 SINGAPORE. J v A CANADIAN seaman. Davies, claimed trial Third Police Court when h? appeared be for M, Byrne on a vagrancy which stated that he \va wandering in the comp* 1 the Marine Hostel wi’lv means of subsistence on J Davies told the Court had67 words
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Article172 1947-01-09 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. I R. B. Heasman, of the British Inland Revenue Ice. who will investigate economies of the Malayan on and Singapore and reintend the most feasible hod and machinery for ecting income tax in lava is expected to arrive Singapore within the next f172 words
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Article126 1947-01-09 7 pa-thm sin GAPORE, Jan. 3. A1 V LH :s nying trom En sB t la c to Rangoon to be preB,. k1 :1,t trial of six Japanese i beheading six R.A.F. K, V I;( .whom was his son. H; J. A. Woodbridge of K»sex. Mr.126 words
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Article53 1947-01-09 7 :i Mr. H. o. EastBe.' rl Onicer. Kuala *v>ii‘ ,“V' S en tertained at a r i ,\l V e 1 the Koala B 011 Sunday last, by 1 .Kuala Selangor B 1 J’ 1 Us departure on Kr i\ l K «ala Lipis. *o,. d M.C.S.,53 words
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447 1947-01-09 7 in w hich a small band of “self-sacrificing xv'ir prisoners” prevented the deathroll of the I vii-im death railway under the Japanese being KThigher than the 15,000 war prisoners and 150,000 labourers whose lives it cost, is described by I a A Bartwell, former Chief447 words
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Article98 1947-01-09 7 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 3. ANOTHER seventeen Malay cadets of the Malay Regiment have been promoted to full and second lieutenancies in continuation *f the policy of bringing the officership up to two battalion strength The Regiment is now busily recruiting men enlisting98 words
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Article61 1947-01-09 7 jy|R. Malcolm MacDonald, the Governor-General, plans to arrive in London from Canada on Jan. 6 and in Singapore on Jan. 14. During the interval in London he will be engaged in consultation with the British Government on official affairs with which he is concerned as Governor-General. Sir61 words
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Article272 1947-01-09 7 INCREASED allowances to widows of war victims and others are expected when the King George V Silver Jubilee Fund begins to operate this month. Until the end of December, war victims received an additional allowance from the Malayan Welfare Fund ranging from $5 to $25 per272 words
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Article358 1947-01-09 7 LABUAN celebrated 100 years of association with the British Crown with three days of Centenary Celebrations last week which were attended by the Acting Governor-General of Malaya, Sir Edward Gent. The island was occupied by arrangement with the Sultan of Brunei by a British Naval force358 words
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Article55 1947-01-09 7 AIR Vice-Marshal uawrence Fleming Pendred. temporary Senior Air Staff Officer to Far East Air Comman'i'v-in-Chief. Air Marshal Sir George Pirie, has been provisionally appointed Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Intelligence). He will leave for the United Kingdom this month Air Vice-Marshal F. F. Inglis, C.55 words
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Article228 1947-01-09 7 —Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 3. MATIVE officers in a score of Sarawak Government departments resigned on Dec. 3C on the ground that they have "consistently opposed any change in the free status of Sarawak.” This news reached London yesterday ir a cable from the President of tfe Malay—Reuter. - 228 words
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Article244 1947-01-09 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. MR. Noor Mohamed, an Indian millionaire from Bangkok, told the War Crimes Court in Singapore yesterday how he had been beaten eight hours a day for 48 days by the Japanese Kempeitai. He was principal witness for the prosecution against five Japanese244 words
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Article91 1947-01-09 7 From Our Own Reporter. KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 3. THREE robbers arrested by the Bentong (Pahang) police on May 28 last year during invest,ga tions into a gang robbery which occurred in Mentakab district two days earlier, had $2(H.50 in their possession. The Chief Police Officer. Pahang,91 words
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Article73 1947-01-09 7 The floods on New Year’s Day halted transport and bus services in various parts ol Johore. On the Gemas-Segamat route two buses which left Gemas early in the mornmg had to return from Batu Annam, and the service was resumed about noon. The service operating between73 words
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Article381 1947-01-09 8 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUK, Jan. 4. rLAYAN Police Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur •ind the Criminal Investigation Departments in all States in the Union arc to he equipped with the latest photographic and finges-printing sets this year, as $60,000 worth of crime-fighting cameras and381 words
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Article104 1947-01-09 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 6. f\ENNIS WILSON, a driver atu tached to R A S C was committed to the ivxt Assizes bv Mr A P Jack in ihe Singapore Seventh Court on Saturday on a charge o! wrongful ixisscssion oi a revolver. Wilson was arrested as a104 words
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Article38 1947-01-09 8 THE ceiling retail price of the following brands of condensed sweetened milk Is now 45 cents, by an order made in the last Singapore Government Gazette supplement: “Farmer.” “Dairy Farm/’ “Three Stars,” "Grassland” and “Bicycle.”38 words
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Article189 1947-01-09 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. yWO of Singapore’s strikes have? been settled with little interference from outside bodies and without concessions being granted to the strikers. The strikers are the workers who downed tools when their wages were cut by ten per cent because bakers found profits189 words
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Article67 1947-01-09 8 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. s.—Owing to a mistake in the official statement the words “the late” were inserted before the name of Mr Liew Weng .Chee, whose son presented eight scholarships to Victoria Institution to perpetuate the name of his father. Mr. Liew67 words
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Article211 1947-01-09 8 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 4. “ijO amateur business’ is how ft the Pahang Police -described the systematic three-bout-long hold-up of the occupants of more than 20 lorries and two motor-cars on the Kuala Lumpiu Bentong Road Inst week. and relieved them of211 words
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Article57 1947-01-09 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. THE strike is a legitimate weapon 1 of the workman, said Sir Franklin Gimson, Singapore’s Governor, to the Press on Saturday. “Our policy,” he said, “is to make the Trade Unions really responsible organisations, so that they can negotiate with employers for any57 words
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Article91 1947-01-09 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. PURDIAL SINGH, a Jamedar (Viceioy Commissioned Officer) attached to the Military Police, appeared before Mr. Paul Storr in the Singapore First District Court yesterday on two charges ot corruption. He was accused of having accepted a sum of $2OO from one Jamna Prasad91 words
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188 1947-01-09 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5 SIR Franklin Gimson, Governor of Singapore, told a ’p r conference yesterday that he hoped to approach Singapore Improvement Trust to see if they could undert a housing programme for the Colony. The Government said, had been considering prefabricated houses suitable188 words
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Article120 1947-01-09 8 THE following were successful in the Teacher’s Training Certificate examination held in Singapore in December last: Nellie Chung, On? Kang Hai, Tan Siak Wall, Tow Soon Ai. Mali Ai Mee, Tan Kok Wan. Diong Let* Sieng. S. C. Thio, Ang Klieng Chiang. Tan Gin Neo.120 words
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Article51 1947-01-09 8 SJNGAPORE, Jan. 6. Three Javanese youths. Kassim bin Mat, Salleh bin Sudin and Yahaya bin Kassim. were sent:nced to two months’ rigorous imprisonment each by the Second District Judge. Mr. T. T. Russell, on Saturday, when thov were convicted of having entered th: Singapore Harbour Board without a51 words
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369 1947-01-09 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. pHE decision to make the entry into Singapore and Malaya of Mr. Anthony iirooke, former Rajah Muda of Sarawak, conditional on his abstention from Sarawak dfairs emanated from the Governments of Malaya and Singapore. It did not come from Whitehall. The decision was369 words
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Article181 1947-01-09 8 SINGAPORE, Jan 5 AT a Press conference yosterq the Governor of Sinaapo Sir Franklin Gimson. said enormous bill would b? forthco ing to meet the staggeriiu di* ence between the real price foodstuffs, like rice, and th p: at which they are'sold to e< sumers.181 words
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Article135 1947-01-09 8 From Our Own Corresponds KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. i THE trial by a Kuala Lump War Crimes Court of Japanese Sergeant. Alik. \va I shiharu, on a charge oi talc part in the killing of 30 Cilia* In Gemas during March. April May 1946. concluded yesterda:135 words
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Article98 1947-01-09 8 CHINESE CHARGED WITH R OBBERY SINGAPORE. 1 5 CHARGES cl carrying ver. ot robbery, and ing hurt, were prcfirivt M." a 30-year old Chinese. 'I J v Teck. in the Second Pf. 1 Singapore yesterday. P At the junction of Min and Bencoolen Street night of Jan. 2. Tan we98 words
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Article, Illustration807 1947-01-09 9 I From Our Own Correspondent I Malacca, Jan. 1. I v\Y things in the federation documents are wrong P uni disappointing but many things are an adI on t he previous constitutional proposals I l l i vigorously point out that the separation of Sin-807 words
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Article93 1947-01-09 9 THE Governor of Singapore has made the following appointments of Justices of the Peace for the Colony of Singapore: Mr. Thomas McKcchnie McLachlan; Mr. Thomas Jarrold Astley Green; Dr. Matthem Campbell Bain; Mr. Eric Gregory Jones. M.C.; Mr. Alfred Corbet; Mr. William Abbelstan Aeria Mr.93 words
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Article72 1947-01-09 9 rE Duke of Gloucester, whose term as Governor-General of Australia will expire soon, is expected to arrive in Singapore on Jan. 16 on his way back to England. The Duke will arrive at Changi airport and will drive to Government House where he will be72 words
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Article116 1947-01-09 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3^ OBSERVING the number, make and calibre of a revolver, Mr. A. P. Jack. Seventh Court remarked yesterday tliat the weapon appeared to be identical to the one he had handed in after the campaign in the Western Desert. In the dock an Indian.116 words
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Article224 1947-01-09 9 From Our Own Correspondent Penang, Jan. 1. DENANG’S fleet of trolley buses is to be supplemented and new services connecting the present routes are to be introduced shortly. This expansion in the town’s transport plans was decided upon by the Municipal Commissioners yesterday when they approved224 words
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Article113 1947-01-09 9 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Jan. 2. TO shouts of Hiriop Mclayu the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan hoisted the U.M.N.O. (lag opposite the premises of the Negri Sembilar. Malay Association yesterday. Tunku Mohamed, President oi the Negri Sembilan Malay Association. before calling upon the113 words
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Article99 1947-01-09 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. BECAUSE his pay was small, and he had a large family to support, was the reason a 22-year-old storekeeper, Danny Foo, gave to the Second Police Magistrate yesterday, for stealing 218 penknives from a military depot. Foo was sentenced to three99 words
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Article94 1947-01-09 9 Prom Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Jan. 2. TOR the first time in local history a teacher has been ap_ pointed to the Municipal Commission. At a meeting of the Eurasian community Mr. Ambrose C. Reutens, a senior member of the tutorial staff of St. Xavier’s Institution94 words
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Article178 1947-01-09 10 THE life* of an Indian soldier who lay stunned and burning to death in a petrol accident near Kota Bahru was recently saved by two Japanese surrendered personnel, who were themselves badly burned and are now under (treatment in Kota Bahru State Hospital. These farts are178 words
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Article85 1947-01-09 10 UAVING received information 11 that contraband had been brought down lrom Bangkok on board s s. Kepong, a party of revenue officers raided the ship in the Inner Roads, Singapore, and discovered 20 pounds of opium hidden in two wooden boxes covered with ducks eggs. A85 words
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Article92 1947-01-09 10 From Our Own Correspondent Klang, Jan. 3.—The Indian labourers ol Dusun Durian estate Banting, who were on strike since Dec 12. iv&umed work on Monday according to information reaching Klang. A section of the labour lorce complained to the Labour Officer Klang, that they were willing92 words
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Article366 1947-01-09 10 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 3. THINESE quarters in Kuala Lumpur are critical of the clause in the proposed federation plan regarding citizenship. They hold that the question ol qualification will bar many Chinese of long residence in Malaya from acquiring citizenship, because of the366 words
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Article54 1947-01-09 10 From Our Own Correspondent Taiping, Jan. 3.—A Chinese, Mr. Ng Chong Ming, who purchased the 100.000 th ticket at the Taiping People’s Restaurant, was awarded 100 cigarettes and a complimenrary coupon for a fortnight’s free meal at the restaurant. The average attendance at the restaurant is54 words
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Article183 1947-01-09 10 From Our Own Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 3. A VIGOROUS campaign to improve road safety ,n Kuala Lumpur has been embark ed upon by both civilian and military police following public indignation over the Batu Road fatality, when six persons were killed. Malaya Command has183 words
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Article154 1947-01-09 10 rHE King has conferred awards in the New Year Honours on the following officers, members of Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service, and airmen of Air Command, Far East: C.B. (Military Division). Acting Air Vice-Marshal L.F. Pendrcd. M.B.E.. D F C.: C B E.154 words
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Article171 1947-01-09 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. Convicted on a charge of murdering his two-year-old adopted daughter, a rickshaw puller, Tang Ah Nong, was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Brown at the Singapore Assizes yesterday. The condemned man received the sentence without a trace of imotiun and left the dock171 words
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Article380 1947-01-09 10 Taiping From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Jan. 3. “THE report is disappointing in some respects, but 1 it is an ingenious document covering a great array of subjects,” said Mr. V. D. Kuppusamy, President of the Taiping Ceylon Association. “It provides a satisfactory solution to the380 words
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Article44 1947-01-09 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. Five Chinese who pleaded guilty o‘ lailing to have their children vaccinated between March and May, 1946, were fined SlO each i n the Third Police Court yesterday. Vaccinations were only done when they were compelled by summons.44 words
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Article324 1947-01-09 10 Ipoh From Our Own Correspond, Ipoh, Jan. 3 MR. S K pass, the well- knoi 111 Ipoh lawyer, givin® opinion of the constitutional™ posals, said they appeared to* the old and familiar F.Ms stitution in ditrerent garb i lacked vision and foresir Curiously enough they324 words
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Article69 1947-01-09 10 SINGAPORE. Jan.i THE Indian proprietor a sundry goods s in Kampong Amber Chiat district. was in the groin by a robber or* Tnn day night. h Four Javanese, two of ATI had pistols, entered the shop 10 p.m. and held up theP* 1 prietor. The man pluckily69 words
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Article74 1947-01-09 10 From Our Own Correspond*-; IPOH, Jan. 3.—Abdul manager of the Paris o®* was finer! $5,000 or in undergo 12 months’ impriso..*-; in the Distnot Court alter* found guilty of selling threeof bread above the conin' 11 price The District Judge. Mr Adams, imposing the fine the74 words
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282 1947-01-09 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. IE Malayan Indian Congress has been invited to send delem he Second Colonial Consponsored by the Indian lonia 1 Society to be held in New hl m March. The Prime iViS-ar of Travancore, Sir C.P. maswaiuy Iyer, will preside. Hie conference, which282 words
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85 1947-01-09 11 'ki'a't? Correspondent) R. LUMPUR, Jan? 2. J Kwo g Hon has lolj:• 4l cish t annual t. utir n 1 Vt, 0 1 le Vic, toria Inrpfti,. T( Ip 3 Lumpur, to ther. r S omo r y of his iff. Mr. Liew Weng u85 words
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242 1947-01-09 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. m W'THONY BROOKE, personally, was offered •linortv in England valued at £23,000 and an anI p 5 Lome of £2,800, on condition that he dissociated Keif from Sarawak affairs, he told pressmen in Brooke 'did’ not disclose the identity242 words
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Article192 1947-01-09 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. AN order for two Chinese to be produced at the Johore Bahru Magistrate’s Court was issued by Mr. K.M. Byrne. Third Singapore Police Magistrate, yesterday. when they appeared before him on a charge of assisting in the disposal of 117 cases192 words
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Article105 1947-01-09 11 THF increased supply of con--1 sumer goods now available in Malaya has made it possible “to afford some further measure of assistance in bridging the gap between wages and prices without incurring the risk ot stimulating inflationary tendencies,” states a Malayan Union Government announcement accompanying the105 words
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Article228 1947-01-09 11 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2. Restriction of the free movement of rice within Malaya is necessary to control the smuggling of rice and the black market, it is officially stated today. The removal of such restrictions will be most unfavourably received by228 words
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Article40 1947-01-09 11 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2. An official announcement today states that the Secretary of State has approved official recognition of Tengku Indra Petra as heir apparent of Kelantan with the title of Raja Muda.40 words
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319 1947-01-09 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. ALTHOUGH 88 cases of smallpox have been reported to the Singapore Municipal Health Department during the past six months —12 in the last week of the year—only 106,645 out of Singapore’s threequarter of a million population have been vaccinated from June till319 words
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Article55 1947-01-09 11 More than 500 patients at Tan Tock Seng hospital were given a New Year’s Day treat when Pastor C. A. Davidson of the Parsonage, Potong Pasir, distributed gifts of fruit, biscuits, milk and books to the patients. The gifts distributed and money spent towards the treat was55 words
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Article46 1947-01-09 11 The Right Rev. Dr. J. L. Wilson C.M.G., The Lord Bishop of Singapore, has appointed the following to be honorary Canons as from Jan. 5, 1947: Rev. D. M. Gnamafihamani, Rev. R. C. Moore, Rev. R. K. S. Adams and Rev. Yip Oho Sang.46 words
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Article236 1947-01-09 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. ANOTHER feeding oentre for the nutritionally deficient children of Singapore will be opened by Lady Gimson in Havelock Road next Tuesday. The New Market Road centre will be transferred to this site. A free meal will also be served on Tuesday from a236 words
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Article250 1947-01-09 11 THE ratification of the proposed 1 Federal Agreement and the Model State Agreement and the reorganisation of the United Malay National Organisation will'be discussed at the General Assembly of U.M.N.0., which will take place at Alor Star on Jan. 10, 11, and 12. The Sultan250 words
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Article120 1947-01-09 11 THE President of the Junior Civil Service Association has received the following letter from the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson: “The members of your Association have had to face difficult times during 1940, and I congratulate you on the manner in which you have120 words
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513 1947-01-09 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 1. THE suggestion that Singapore Public Health au- thorities might usefully employ more direct methods of propaganda in their anti-smallpox drive, was made to the Straits Times yesterday by several doctors. They expressed doubt whether the Municipal Health authorities were utilising fully the means513 words
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Article20 1947-01-09 12 The first Indonesian college for courses on mining will be opened here some time in January. Antara reports.20 words
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Article232 1947-01-09 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. I rHE first charge since the liberal ion of failing to re- port a case of smallpox was j heartj in the Singapore Magistrates’ Court yesterday when a Malay man and woman appeared before Mr. K. M Byrne. Amin i binte JaiT.ir Sid.el:232 words
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Article182 1947-01-09 12 From Our Own Reporter Kuala Lumpur, JUn. 3. Members of the Johore Military Force, subject to atisfactory reports by their commanding officers as to their behaviour prior to and during the occupation, are to receive back pay. The emoluments are only granted in cases of loyal182 words
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Article143 1947-01-09 12 From Our Own Correspondent Penang, Jan. 3.—Penang, which has from all indications proved the principal Malayan holidav centre this Christmas and New Year season is now witnessing the biggest exodus of outslat:on visitors in recent years. The mail train last night was packed and hundreds had to143 words
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Article84 1947-01-09 12 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 3.—Two Chinese, arrested by Food Control inspectors in Rodger Street, Kuala Lumpur, for carrying 39 bags of rice in a lorry were charged in the District Court before the District Judge, Mr. M. Neal, with moving rice without permit.84 words
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Article238 1947-01-09 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. WHILE hundreds of persons in India are clamouring for passages to Malaya, the 22,500-ton Furness Withy liner Queen of Bermuda, onetime pleasure cruiser between New York and Bermuda, has arrived in Singapore from Bombay w’ith only 180 passengers for this port. Capable of238 words
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Article79 1947-01-09 12 From Our Own Correspondent Penang, Jan. 3.—The story of a holiday tragedy was told to the Coroner, Mr. W. Foulsham, when an inquiry was held into the death of a Chinese youth, Chin Ah Kiew, who was drowned at Tar.jong Bungah on Oct. 31. Alter hearing evidence by79 words
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Article222 1947-01-09 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. rHE Singapore port health authorities are investigating conditions aboard the ship Tjibadak which arrived at Singapore on Wednesday with 1,335 Malayan Chinese repatriates on board from Mina. Their report is awaited. No explanation has yet been given how ten men contacted meningitis and died222 words
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244 1947-01-09 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. i. TARGETS on Singapore Island will be ‘•bomi* during exercises—to be known as Operation R( lion and embracing the whole of Air Command, F East—which will begin following the arrival at Chan on a flight of Lancaster bombers from No. 7 p a|244 words
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Article96 1947-01-09 12 LORD Killearn, Special Co missioner for South-E Asia, and Lady Killearn travel to Australia and 1 Zealand in two or three wd time, the Straits Times und stands. Lord Killearn, who is at pres still recovering from a rec attack of appendicitis, will tr when transport96 words
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Article82 1947-01-09 12 From Our Own Correspond* Penang, Jan. 3. —A further Indians will be leaving yefor home this week aboard ships, the Vasna and 'he s viken. With the Immigration ajrities issuing an average 0 permits daily, congestion eased greatly and the bo j* l which in previous82 words
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Article437 1947-01-09 13 I SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. I crnc d are the Singapore Government at the 1,1 nt of goods which is being pilfered wholeI 1 the Singapore Harbour Board godowns that C Z meeting was called on Friday under the Inni'mship of the acting Colonial Secretary,437 words
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Article122 1947-01-09 13 S'- ai re. by an order Just r i \i m a Government mtnt. ceiling reot 50 cigarette# are cTa Hows: sl—Capstan, i; j S':' ice Grey'f. Martin’s, i.ith C iv.. Virginia House CT. G;.Y. r’s de Luxe; 75 cents k'u Ace Pirate, Rough 1122 words
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Article91 1947-01-09 13 I SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. IE s > -i* Coroner. Mr. W. recording an open inquiry into the 01 Harbour Board labour- 1 by an r.a.s.c. 1 stated that on B before him there B° >’•!!. grounds for the padhama; to be B criminal offence, B brought91 words
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Article74 1947-01-09 13 r ni 0, a Own Correspondent sections to Brazi1 co 4 merely me1 opinion quoted [i 1 nient issued 1 v r consider- c fi j e !t had been ex- ft r< garding the t *an rice now bep 'o the country. 174 words
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Article101 1947-01-09 13 THE Singapore Volunteer Corps, pending a decision on •ts future formation and constitution, is to come under an acting Commandant “One of the senior officers ot the Corps,” said the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, to pressmen yesterday, “has been appointed acting Commandant »n order to put101 words
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Article138 1947-01-09 13 From Our Own Correspondent KLANG, Jan. 4. DLANS lor le-settlemcni oi the 2,000 Chinese refugees from Pani Fahan, off the Sumatra coast, at present in the welfare •amps at Port Swettcnham, Pulau Ketam and Kuala Selangor, in .Lsiiing and agricultural undertaking.* in the hoast districts138 words
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Article88 1947-01-09 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. OVER 100 former menubers of A.R.P.. “D” Division. Tanjong £agar were entertained at a reunion tea party given by officers of the Division at Mount Echo yesterday evening. Mr. C.E. Hudson, Divisional Warden, in a speech, paid tribute to the services rendered bv88 words
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Article137 1947-01-09 13 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Jan. 5. A SWOOP on street hawkers mainly dealing in tex- tiles and cosmetics was Conducted today by the Alor Star police under Inspector heng Ah Rahman when a total of 19 hawkers and their goods were hauled up137 words
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Article54 1947-01-09 13 I EONG AH PARK, an R A O C. checker in the Harbour Board who was found guilty of stealing a tin of cigarettes from a case inside a godofm on Oct. 8. was sentenced to one day's simple imprisonment and a fine oi mU() in the54 words
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Article549 1947-01-09 13 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 4. rOMBINED traffic teams of the Corps of Military Police and Malayan Union Police are being formed to move without notice all over Malaya, staying in areas for 48 hours to check traffic and report on the state549 words
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175 1947-01-09 13 S’ pore road deaths were up last month TWENTY THREE persons were killed in December out of a total of 522 street accidents in Singapore. These figures, released oy the Traflio Branch of the Singapore Police, reveal an increase over November’s figures, the total for that month being 488 with175 words
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Article97 1947-01-09 13 From Our Own Correspondent Penang, Jan. 5.—The danger of smallpox epidemic in Penang is practically over-. According to the latest health figures there been very few cases lately and thp incidence can be said to b P under control. But the health authority are taking no97 words
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Article94 1947-01-09 13 From Our Own Correspondent Penang, Jan. s.—On the pretext of looking for some on<' in the house three armed robbers carrying revolvers and knives held up a Chinese familv in Meriean Lane and alter ransacking the house decamped with nearly $OOO in cash The robbery, committed94 words
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Article539 1947-01-09 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. THE Pan-Malayan Council of Joint Action, meeting in Kuala Lumpur today, rejected a plea by the Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, that they should reconsider their intention to boycott the Constitutional Consultative Committee so that public539 words
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Article106 1947-01-09 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. G. CUSTOMS search party seized 156 pounds of I opium, valued at $120,000 on 'the Singapore blackmarket, aboard the motor vessel Loksang when the ship arrived from Calcutta yesterday morning. It was the biggest haul since the seizure of 600 pounds from a106 words
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Article106 1947-01-09 14 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Jan. 4. DOLLOWING their arrest at the 1 Penang races on New Year’s Day. five Chinese—Cheah Tuan Eng. Lim Hong Chun, Tan Kim Lian, Ooi Yew Teng and He Chool Soon—were oroduced in court charged with acting as bookmakers for106 words
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Article183 1947-01-09 14 SINGAPORE, Jan, 6. A GUEST in the Adelphi Hotel, Singapore, was held up by an armed man early yesterday morning and several rooms in the hotel were entered by a burglar. The man, who entered the main door of a room while the guest was awake in183 words
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Article140 1947-01-09 14 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 5. pIGARETTE prices in the Mala* yan Union are :»p this week because tabacoj distributor.*; have for some time that ’hnc will be a world i.-orof tobacco leaf, owing to p; or crops in the most important policin'* coun140 words
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Article77 1947-01-09 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. IN a Singapore Police Court yesur Chinese Tan Ah keng, of Wayang Street, was ed^Soh 1 Sab 1 R a h ing im P ers onatrvi if Sah Bah a member of Dal force, and with attempting ro induce the chairman of the Dalforce committee,77 words
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Article, Illustration220 1947-01-09 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. A president of one of the Slnga- pore War Crimes courts, Lt.Col. Richard Lyle Le Gallais was married at the St. Andrew’s Cathedral yesterday to Miss Juliette Forsythe. Lt. Col. Le Gallais is a barris-ter-at-law attached to the Department of the Judge AdvocateGeneral in India,220 words
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Article72 1947-01-09 14 From Our Own Correspondent ■v TOTinr MUAR, Jan. 4. niSTRICT Judge Hamed bin Mftn Musta Pha fined Goh Cha Kui $2OO or ten weeks’ rigorous imprisonment. for possession of cftandu-smoking apparatus For off ering a $lO bribe ’to a •lublic servant to allow his72 words
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Article306 1947-01-09 14 a i si ngapore. Jan. 6. THE Alumni Association ol .he College of Medicine. Singaporc have demanded, on behal* ot an doctors and dental surgeons in the public services oi Malaya, arrears of their pay in lull for the period of the Japanese occupation. The demand306 words
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Article193 1947-01-09 14 THE North Borneo Chamber 1 Commerce is asking the Goi ernment to make representatm for a regular mail and passed air service between Singa?* and North Borneo extender Sandakan. Airmail between Singapo and North Borneo is almost I irregular as sea mail althou the difference193 words
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Article109 1947-01-09 14 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 5. A NEW educational developing in the Malayan Union is t! opening of classes for adults j as many centres as possibCourses have been planned shorthand typewriting. boot keeping and in technical jects and subjects oi cultural interest. Classes have109 words
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Article38 1947-01-09 14 THE Asiatic staff of the S> Times group of newspw.;; bid farewell to the retiring tor, Mr. G. W. Seabridge. function held in Cecil s Souvenirs for Mr. and Mrs. bridge were presented gathering. v38 words
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Article457 1947-01-09 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. lill lMKS experts and observers from eight ,,\L went for a cruise around some of SingarT| > fishing stakes yesterday and climbed onto t h0 s takes to see how fish are caught by this I a, experts and observers win represent about457 words
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Article171 1947-01-09 15 J SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. TAN KAH KEE, ChairHian i the Singapore Bi'M' Federation for Peace |lDom"Ci'ac\ in China, desHl.nl a cable yesterday to Hue Chinese newspapers in Ha and H»aig Kong, appeal■to the Chinese people to Bolt the Student MoveHt foi the expulsion of Hi171 words
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Article56 1947-01-09 15 |0fc h\PORE. Jan. 7. IK 1,1 nine smokingH bottle of briiH T in a SingaK J ard godown on P* p; labourer. Raza* H convicted and H 1 wcc ks rigorB v't L n the Third Hh' r t0r day. m Razak said he V56 words
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Article47 1947-01-09 15 From Our Own Correspondent Klang, Jan. 6.—The death of Mr. Goh Hock Huat. J.P., leading planter and a leader of th? Chinese community of Klang and Coast, occurred at his residence in Klang. on Friday evening at the age ot 63.47 words
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Article201 1947-01-09 15 I’HE silver scroll of a trophy of bygone Malaya, found in a PO\V camp at Blakang Mati during the war, is in the safe-keeping of a Singapore resident, and will be returned to its rightful owners. The man who found the trophy was Mr. J. Edward201 words
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Article94 1947-01-09 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. A 30-year-old Chinese woman, Lee Choi Sm. who tried to commit suicide by drinking caustic soda on the evening of Dec. 20 at 11 College Road, was produced in the Fourth Court yesterday and was bound over in the sum of $2OO to94 words
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Article45 1947-01-09 15 SINGAPORE. Jan. 7. Sawut bin Hamid was fined sloo.’in default one month’s rigorous imprisonment by Mr. T. Russell In the Second District Court. Singapore, yesterday tor selling a packet of Torchlight cigarettes at 25 cents —ten cents above the control price.45 words
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Article154 1947-01-09 15 From Our Own Correspondent. PENANG, Jan. 6. A warning to Penang labourers that the use of the “terrible strike weapon” would hit not only the capitalist but the public as well as the workers themselves was given by Dr. N.K. Menon today in addressing several thousand154 words
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Article120 1947-01-09 15 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Jan. 6.—“ The field of welfare work is very wide It will therefore be necessary for you to concentrate on the most; pressing problem and noi spread your activities over too wide a field,” said Mr. O. E. Venables, Resident Commissioner120 words
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Article357 1947-01-09 15 MORE than 350 Christian missionaries one of the largest missionary groups to rail from the United Stales in a single ship for Orient stations will he on board the American President l ines ship Marine Adder which arrives in Singapore on Jan. 11. It is357 words
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Article222 1947-01-09 15 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Jan. 6. A SECRET society which had been founded in 1877 and had taken 57 years to suppress, but which had been revived again in January, 1946 and to which was ascribed the “majority of cases of kidnapping, extortion222 words
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Article151 1947-01-09 15 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Jan. 6. A FOURTH People’s Restaurant Is being planned for Penang. With canteens in the town proving a success, the experiment may now be extended to the country with the proposed establishment of a restaurant in Ayer Itam to cover the151 words
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Article159 1947-01-09 15 NEXT-OF-KIN requiring a certificate of death of a person missing from an .evacuation ship which was sunk a oerson who died of sickness as an internee or prisoner of war or a person who died in prison in Singapore during the occupation should apply to the Missing159 words
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Article859 1947-01-09 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. ALTOGETHER 58 locally-appointed medical officers and eitfht dental surgeons have refused to rejoin or have resigned from the Malayan I nion and Singapore Government Medical Services since thi reoccupation in September, 1915. The officers are named in the annual report of the859 words
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Article180 1947-01-09 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. ST. Andrew's Cathedral and the Cavantigh Road resi dence of the Archdeacon of Singapore have been lately the [scenes ot a large numbei ol ourglaries. The Ven. H. D. Rosenthalls nou.se nas beei. visited not than 13 lim*> during which he ,as lost180 words
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Article152 1947-01-09 16 From Our Own Correspondent KLANG, Jan. 4. THE death of Mr. Goh Hock Huat. J.P., a leading planter and pineapple canner and a recognised leader of the (Chinese community at Klang, took place at his residence in Klang last evening. He was 63. Mr. Goh was152 words
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Article251 1947-01-09 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. A MAN who was sent by the British Government and Far Eastern hanks to Malaya in a fast cruiser immediately after the Japanese capitulation to open government and bank vaults is back here after a trip to Hong Kong and Shanghai. He251 words
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Article428 1947-01-09 16 PLASTICS, insulated cables and textiles, three dustries new to Singapore, have come to tfl their place in the rehabilitation and progress of fl Colony. t 1 Their institution marks another step m Sir« pore’s ability to supply for itself, or for expo,i,« dustrial and technological goods428 words
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Article90 1947-01-09 16 ARMY PUT OUT S’ PORE FIRE SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. TV\EMBERS of the Army Fire Service were called out for the first time yesterday since the firemen of the Singapore Fire Brigade went on strike last Tuesday to attend to a small grass fire which occurred at Mount Pleasant Road. One90 words
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Article231 1947-01-09 16 From Our Own CnnvspondeB KUALA LUMPUR Jan. M FOR the first time since B liaeration, regulations fl Queen’s Scholarships ntf i\;:.B ships were published m B Malayan Union yesterday B regulations specily that’or.:B the three scholarships shiB reserved annually ter cardiiB of Raffles College ana al231 words
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Article143 1947-01-09 16 THE Alumni Association oM College of Medicine. S-tf pore, have decided that SinstfPj is the best place in Malaya w University. They feel that time is now ripe for the estao* ment of a University. Referring to the project, annual report of the Assoc»‘ states143 words
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242 1947-01-09 17 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. BriTNSlVE work on Malaya’s East Coast road has M been completed by Army engineers and over 100 t>s and culverts have been reconstructed and over S iioo tons of road-making material spread. Tlio completion242 words
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Article, Illustration85 1947-01-09 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. ■K. William Joseph Mayson Secretary of the Singapore since 1911 and a director of j*g;ies Hotel, died at the wErnni*, os P ltal yesterday W h^’ 0 V Ml Mayson, who was been ill for a week. K‘ clurin g the occupa-85 words
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Article95 1947-01-09 17 HI \P\v ln 'i"ht service from ■tec ‘whirh ,ri n° the United 'j v 1(11 wil1 later include Its m tra and ■ffiK •'*r"*d-nt au ffi ted by *uhTh V\ start about ■land v h e sai!ln e of the s.s. liry Wth Malayan 1 S Francisco,95 words
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Article221 1947-01-09 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. THE first large childfeeding centre under the $30,000-a-month free feeding plan launched by the Social Welfare Department, was opened by Lady Gimson, wife of the Governor of Singapore, at Havelock Road, yesterday. Over 100 under-nourished children, between two and six years of221 words
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Article59 1947-01-09 17 Taiping, Jan. 6.—Residents of Theatre Road, Taiping, were awakened by gun shots at about 2.30 a.m. when a middle-aged Chinese butcher was shot dead by some unknown persons. The Taiping police who immediately reached the scene found an expended bullet. The police suspect the motive as something other59 words
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Article173 1947-01-09 17 Federal Proposals From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6. IN a communique today, the Se- cretary of the Consultative Committee on the Constitutional Proposals emphasises that the Committee does not intend to make decisions. Its object is to receivq and welcome opinions and criticisms of whatever173 words
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Article89 1947-01-09 17 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.—Gangsters in the Kuala Lumpur district are cutting telephone wires so that their victims cannot communicate with the polios. Recently eight masked Chinese cne of them armed with a revolver, raided the quarters of labourers at the Kampong Reservoir and cut89 words
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Article457 1947-01-09 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. APPLICATIONS for Colonial Development and Welfare scholarships under the £1,000,000 scheme provided to enable men or women either within the subordinate grades of the Public Service or not yet appointed to the Service, who are likely to qualify457 words
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Article152 1947-01-09 17 from Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Jan. 7. SINGAPORE and Penang will be linked to Rangoon and possibly Bangkok by a new passenger and freight air service being inaugurated at the end of this month. A newly formed air lino, the Burma National Airways, manag- ed152 words
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Article448 1947-01-09 17 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. A PROJECT for supplying Kuala Lumpur and dis- trict with water from a site on the Gombak river was described to members of the Public Works Department in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday by Mr. S. E. Jewkes.448 words
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Article74 1947-01-09 17 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Jan. 6. Mantin Pass, five miles from Seremban, was the scene of a tragedy when a lorry carrying a party of picnickers from Kuala Lumpur to Port Dickson overturned and killed a child and injured several others. The injured were immediately74 words
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Article390 1947-01-09 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. SINGAPORE Civilians scored a good victory over the Combined Services whom they heat by four goals to two in a hockey match at the padang yesterday. The civilians displayed more understanding and all their goals were obtained from well-distributed feeding from their halves,390 words
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Article238 1947-01-09 18 Reuter LONDON, J;in. 7. important alterations in the rules of cricket are Included In a draft prepared by the Marylebone Cricket Club, which has presented the first complete revision of cricket rules for 63 years. They are: No longer will the wicket be held to be “down”— Reuter - 238 words
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Article46 1947-01-09 18 Aver Raza Engineers f 177 CUE I met 223 ROD in the District Battalion league on Saturday on the BO I) ground, and ran out winners by sevt n roals to nil. Scorers for the Engineers were: Nall (4>, Harrison (2) and Galloway (1).46 words
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Article318 1947-01-09 18 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 4. two-one hockey victory over Perak here was not an inI spiring one, quite apart from the match being scrappy. Perak had the push, and pushed hard, but lacking co-or-dination their forward play was marked by hitches. Selangor's318 words
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Article479 1947-01-09 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. PRESSING home a slight advantage in the loose late in the game the R A F. scored five points of! a goal and forced a draw on the Navy in their Singapore Rugby Tournamenfit tie at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday after the479 words
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Article328 1947-01-09 18 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 4. THE Selangor State rugger XV 1 played their best match of the season on the padang this evening when they defeated Perak by 32 points (four goals and four tries) to 3 fa try). Selangor had thipgs much328 words
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Article344 1947-01-09 18 THE Royal Singapore Flying Club, whose aircraft and equipment were requisitioned by the Malayan Volunteer Air Force in 1941, hopes to resume Hying from Kallang aerodrome in the near future. It now seems likely that at least two good light aircraft of a suitable type344 words
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Article148 1947-01-09 18 from Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Jan. 5. /CONSPICUOUS for their lack of sound defence and good team work, the 555 Sub Area went down to the Muar Malays by four clear goals in the semifinal of the Malacca Victory Cup competition. at Muar Club padang yesterday.148 words
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Article132 1947-01-09 18 DEME met and defeated the RASC Training School on Saturday in a game of soccer on the Polo Ground Thomson Road. REME kicked off and were one goal up in the fourth minute through Hanks RASC rallied and equalised through Briggs in the seventh minute The132 words
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Article201 1947-01-09 18 SINGAPORE. Jan 5. CNAP tries scored almost against the run of play enabled the S.C C. to beat Negri-Malacca 14 points <t,oal, 2 tries penalty) to six (try. penalty) when the teams met on the Pa an? yesterday. Negri-Malacca put up a surprisingly good display in the201 words
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Article193 1947-01-09 18 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Jan. 6. Fine team work more than anything else was responsible for the success of Muar Chinese when they trounced Malacca Indian Sports Club five-nil in the semi-final of Malacca Victory Cup competition played at Muar Club Padang yesterday. The193 words
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Article82 1947-01-09 18 The Special Commissioner's C C. recorded their tenth successive rr: ket win in a game against 4th Wireless Group on Jan. 5. S.C.C.C. 57: 4th S.W.G.. 32 The S.C.C.C. XI to play tlv Colonial C.C. at Thomson Road P around next Sunday will be chi from82 words
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Article59 1947-01-09 18 SEREMBAN. Jan NEGRI defeated the Sin; tP° rP Club Rugger team v< dav bv n (goal. trv and to 3 noints (trvi Rtnganore were f, u a snr-o’Mor nark Gori M,T fbr crorln" for nom cnanbam tben crossed ov Vnir-l Wnrnl 1 rnnvprH* 1 tbo naif Hamlim59 words
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Company Reports
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Article260 1947-01-09 19 arc fortunate in having a rcanjwv snlsfaetory labour force and JJii of the Old employees have their loyalty to the company removing and saving some of the U and machinery from looting for destruction after the Japanese JS abandoned the mine, said the hair man of Jelobu Tin260 words
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Article126 1947-01-09 19 The company may perhaps consider tsdf fortunate in that only 49 acres of fj e P’ ar ‘tecl area were destroyed during he nenod of enemy occupation/' said N T Cummins, chairman of ■'Onnemara Ltd at the 26th annual ■fneral meetine of shareholders of the held in Kuala Lumpur126 words
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Article212 1947-01-09 19 l H aeS°d,' ri,P r and 5talement of 194 1 toFeb ni i- l ,n e period Se Pfc1945. to w ,1 3 942 and Oct. 1, Tin Ltd 1 46 f the Lllkut hp fourteenth ere Presented at ,f thp eomSv hTm a pPneral meeting212 words
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Article232 1947-01-09 19 ted States.—Straits Times Copyright. j-'rom Our Own Correspondent 1 r LONDON, Jan. 2. 1>nV .•«■!> rcsentatives of Malayan tin-mining inwelcome the Ministry of Supply’s deciC I ,V the metal from smelters instead of ion V* n from producers from Jan. 1 as anunicn towards restorationted States.—Straits Times Copyright. - 232 words
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Article65 1947-01-09 19 Reuter BATAVIA, Jan. 6. Java’s sugar production this year is not expected to exceed 25,000 tons compared with 20.000 tons last yeai and over 1,500,000 tons in 1939 a Dutch press report stated. Plans lor greater increase of production are not expected to take eflect this year.Reuter - 65 words
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Article149 1947-01-09 19 The report of the directors of Southern Malayan Tin for the same period says the excess of expenditure over income for the year is £464. After deducting this from the credit balance at June 30. 1945, amounting to £20.079 (after charging the dividend paid on Dec.149 words
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Article132 1947-01-09 19 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Jan. 4. QNE of the prisoners of war v who worked on the “Death Railway,” an Indonesian artist named Che S. A. Ismail, will give an exhibition of his work at the local Information Centre on Monday. Ismail’s unusual pictures made132 words
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Article200 1947-01-09 19 —Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 6. COMMENTING that pay and other conditions for the Civil Service in Malaya have led to a spirit described as “one of extreme discontent/’ Mr. J. Henderson Stewart (Lib. Nat., East Fife), has asked for the urgent attention of Mr. Creech Jones, the Colonial—Reuter. - 200 words
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Article66 1947-01-09 19 —A.P. BATAVIA, Jan. 7.—Reports of new manufacturing enterprises within the Indonesian Republic continue to appear in the Republican press. A ceramic factory with a monthly capacity of 50,000 porcelain articles is said to have begun operation at Malang. At Toeloengagoen, East Java, a pencil factory with a—A.P. - 66 words
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291 1947-01-09 19 S PORE FIRM’S GROW MORE FOOD PLAN IN an effort to provide over 700 employees with a self sufficiency in food, in case of shortage, a Singapore firm has started its own “grow-more*food” campaign, and within two months over 12 acres of land have been cultivated. Early in November last291 words
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Article119 1947-01-09 19 .—Reuter. COLOMBO, Jan. 4. TO protect the interests of the 1 rubber industry on the island, the Ceylon Government has fixed the floor price at 65 cents per pound after the price had slumped to 60 cents in private trading. The Government has undertaken to buy.—Reuter. - 119 words
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33 1947-01-09 19 The Karangan Dredge of Kampong Kamunting Tin Dredging Ltd worked for 571 hours during December 1946, treating 47,000 yards for a production of 141 piculs of tin ore.33 words
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Article320 1947-01-09 19 PEARS expressed by readers of the Straits Times—based on Press advertisements of cars for sale “since the owner is buying a n"w car” and to the effect that some car owners may be in a position to buy a new car “on priority” allthough320 words
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Article225 1947-01-09 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. AS soon as Malaya and Singapore have decided how much radium they want for hospital work, they will be able to get it, immediately, from Canada. This announcement, in view of the present shortage of radium in Malaya and Singapore—caused largely through Japanese225 words
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Article82 1947-01-09 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. MALAYA may soon have a federation of all Chinese Chambers of Commerce if plans now under consideration are agreed upon. This federation is expected to be constituted at the next meeting of representatives of Malayan Chinese Chambers of Commerce to be held at Kuala82 words
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Article130 1947-01-09 19 The annual general meeting of the Brunei United Plantations, Ltd., was held on Dec. 31 at the office of the secretaries, Messrs. Evatt Co., with Mr. Lee Chim Tuan in the chair, when the report and accounts for the period from September 5, 1945, to June 30. 1946,130 words
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Article874 1947-01-09 20 Weekly Market Report By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. THE last days of 1946 and the first of 1947 have been 1 marked by an encouraging amount of activity on Malayan markets with prices firm throughout the list. Business in the industrial quarter874 words
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Article50 1947-01-09 20 The money order service with British North Borneo was restored on Jan. 2. The maximum amount allowed for a single money order is $4OO. Money Orders may be drawn on the following offlejs in British North Borneo: Beaufort Jesselton, Kudat, Labuan, Lahad Datu, Sandakan, Tawau and Tenom50 words
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Article188 1947-01-09 20 —A .P NEW YORK, Jan. 7. rJ4S to build eight “super tin dredges” costing US$2,000,000 each to increase tin production in the Netherlands East Indies :o above prewar levels were announced by the Mining Equipment Corp. on Monday. Simultaneously, the first of the se»a-going dredges—A .P - 188 words
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Article90 1947-01-09 20 October, 1946.—(Straits Times Copyright). From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 7. TIN circles are very interested in the Ministry of Supply's revision of the licensing procedure for the acquisition of tin metal. Licences can only be granted If accompanied by signed declarations that the quantity requested isOctober, 1946.—(Straits Times Copyright). - 90 words
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Article328 1947-01-09 20 From Our Staff Importer KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6. MINING engineers have in the past fortnight tra- veiled to south Siam in jeeps and trucks to carry out a comprehensive inspection of British and Australian tin mines, following the Siamese government’s indication that they are328 words
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Article66 1947-01-09 20 —A P. New York. Jan. 7.—TWe Rul ber Manufacturers’ Association i the United States repot that during the first 10 monti of 1946. a total of 53.987.452 pa senger car tires were made in tl U.S., more than in any previa full year. In addition 12.929.111 tru< and—A P. - 66 words
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75 1947-01-09 20 1 A net profit of $13,441.59 cen is shown in the accounts of tl Indragiri Rubber, Ltd., which w be presented to the annual gei eral meeting to be held on Ja 15, at N.T.S. Building. Slngapor The net profit is derived fras investments and75 words
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Article724 1947-01-09 20 Share quotations as at Jan. 7 according to the Malayan Sharebrokers Association (Singapore) were as foPows INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alexandra -inokworfaOrds 1.80 $2.00 Alexandra Brickwork* Prefs. 2.90 3.10 Brit Malaya rrustee Si Executor Oo 00 9 00 Consolidates Tin Smelters Old. 20/- 22/0 do Prefs. 26/- 28/fcastern724 words