The Straits Budget, 24 April 1947

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    31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] 'Mw Series No. 38 Singapore, Thursday, April 24th, 1947 Price 40 cents (SS. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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      299 1 It* (onG' J?ROM 1793 to 1947 is a long time whichever way you look at it and to be in business such as ours for over 150 years needs more than luck. Our success is based on the quality of our service in supplying just the books you want to
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    MEMORIES OF OLD SINGAPORE
    2014 2  -  By By DATO ROLAND BRADDELL DEFORE the first World War, the German community was one of the centres of social life in Singapore, led by Mr. and Mrs. Hans Becker, who lived at Spring Grove, where the American Consuls-General later came to live. It wa* the
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    Che Ahmad Appointed Law Lecturer
    235 2 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. A 30-YEAR-OLD Malay, Che Ahmad bin Mohamed Ibrahim, at present Fourth Police Magistrate and Third District Judge. Singapore, has been appointed Lecturer in Law at Raffles College. Che Ahmad fills the vacancy created by the death during the occupation of Raja Musa
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      76 2 HARD AKER To S:e .o neth Hardaker. a: Kar.aJr. 4 Hospital. or. April I«A m daughter. TALBOT. At Bungsar bjt Kuala Lumpur, cr. A r Violet (nee Blaekvaxi-S^ A. E. S. Talbot a son < BATTERSBY. At Kgggi the 14th Apr:, to **•“*10 GWYNNE i Wife cf pp c
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      ENGAGEMENT
      42 2 ENC.Ar.FMFM The engagement the marriage *‘iT. V’.VJ-'j k* 3 between Harold c, -^y'.>, e use' M.c.s.. younger A. H. Hammett r '"‘j-i >'•* of Wembley Mid -tfi Moira Sherratt. cr. y B^! E. R Sherratt of Edmunds. Suffolk Horelands Cottar Billingshurst. Sn--
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    11 2 Billlngshurst. LISTERMAN Kav v Listerman of passed away Parade. Deep’.;- t
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      Government prefers an easy rake-off
      156 3 ■is in reply to the re|nt inquiries in youi Indence columns as to lovernment does not Hy e nu<» li'om lotteiies. litteries cannot be run in firstly, if this is let* could be bought and licly by any one without Bng an ollence. Bould aili'id
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      Port From Kuala Selangor
      181 3 ■■JG boon long resident in Hiala Selangor. I cannot fHpress regret at the deIHe state into which this He town has fallen. |B after this long period of jHatior. the Town Board has Ht restored street lighting. HtiU have ‘.lit. blackout here H the water stand-pipes
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      Beggars Everywhere
      130 3 STREET begging is becoming a serious menace in Singapore. Anyone who dares to point out its real character is in danger of being accused of meanness and selfishness and even disrespect to religion. But the question is first, are all beggars really poor? And secondly is alms-giving the
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      Pigeon-holded In Empress Place?
      139 3 TT is now nearly six months since the Government decided to pay something on ac count of back pay to Volunteers and L.D.C. personnel who were not interned. Si J lce then we have had the Worley Report, and althougn the Government ol the Malayan union
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      Aw Boon Haw Hotel
      100 3 BEING one of the homeless sufferers, I cannot help writing in support of a suggestion put forward by one of your correspondents, “Not Taken In”, in your Saturday issue. Everyone who really suffers under the present housing shortage in this city will join with me in
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      With Newsreels
      65 3 I WISH to support “Ars l Gratia Artis” in his Hews on Singapore cinema* programmes which appeared in your issue of Apr. 17. The picture-houses, for reasons best known to themselves, usually show interesting newsreels along with second-rate and thirdrate pictures. I am sure the public will be
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      Can Malaya recover occupation losses?
      584 3 £XCEPT to the black-market and smuggling fraternity the reorganisation of business and the rebuilding of one’s pre-war assets (to such degree as this may be possible) presents a very serious problem indeed. The early solution of that problem, on which the future prosperity of all
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      Tea and tablecloths for Tamil coolies
      224 3 r[E Kedah correspondent who contributed your leader-page article comparing the lot of a married Tamil labourer on a rubber estate with that of an English farm labourer must be congratulated for the painstaking way in which he has successfully indicated a solution of the
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      Whose Chinese?
      168 3 IT is disgusting to see the controversy on WHOSE CHINESE? appearing daily in your columns. Be it the King’s, Queen’s or the Devil’s Chinese—we are all supposed to be one form of people living in one world and working for one cause. It is the main Job of
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      20 3 MAPRO’S CHICKEN CURRY Now available at: Sole Agents: K. LEE SAN CO., LTD. Z Market Street, Penang. Telephone No. 10N0.
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    FRUIT TREES IN THE RUBBER
    1197 4  -  A Malayan Countryman Diary TUAN DJEK. f WAS interested to read that Singapore has not had such a prolonged and heavy rainy season for fifty years. I can only hark back for 41 years and cannot recollect such a long spell in the Kota Tinggi
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    S’pore Teachers’ Union On University Plans
    331 4 teachers are not in favour of the “fusing” into J one university college the College of Medicine and Raffles College, nor of any connection between a university of Malaya and London University 8,000 miles away. In a memorandum to the Commission on Higher Education,
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    GODOWN WORKERS DEMAND $585
    85 4 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. EIGHTY Singapore godown workers receiving Slo a day on piecework are demanding a 50 per cent, increase. This would hiing their earnings to $585 a month if they worked every day. The men. all Chinese, are employed by two European merchant firms, through
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    War Crimes Suspects In Singapore
    285 4 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. FIFTY-ONE Japanese, suspected of atrocities on the Burma-Siam railway and elsewhere, disembarked at Singapore yesterday from the troop transport Dilwara. They included six senior officers, one of them a naval captain. The suspects have all been picked up in Japan by the
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    POLICE RAID ON HAWKERS
    67 4 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. Hundreds of office workers w(ho turned up at Boa£ Quay for their tiffin yesterday afternoon, were disappointed to find that the hawkers there had a few minutes before been cleared by a munici>al raid. At ten minutes to one, Municipal Health Department officials,
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    18 Couples In Mass Chinese Wedding
    233 4 SINGAPORE a 01 THE biggest Chinese mass wedding to fo'S,! 1 Singapore since the re-occupation timL 7*1 the Mayfair Musical and Dramatic yesterday, when 18 couples were married Singapore Chinese Consul, Mr. Arthur T r'1 An hour before the ceremony, the hall relatives and
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    264 4 ly new imp 1 —Straits 'l* 1 1 (Continued from page 3igl the memory of shortages. certainly we shall never go g| to the pre-war price of nce,H| present rice values will fiHgj some extent, and the remove the present lnduco®! to the Malayan cultivator, g| inducement will remain ozgH
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    Union Makes Last Minute Amendment
    512 5 I SINGAPORE, Apr. 19. Lublic inquiry into the Singapore Traction Ennany dispute, which began sitting on March ■Tiled yesterday. Mr. Justice Jobling who Bed the inquiry is now considering his report Bommcndations ready for presentation to the Be Union's counsel, Mr. S. C. Goho, sprang
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    Japs Shot During Looting
    191 5 SINGAPORE, Apr. 19 THE death of a 27-year-old Jap- anese surrendered personnel, Ikeda, who was shot by Indian sentries guarding the Engineers’ Store Base Depot, Aliccandra, Singapore, while looting rolls of wire netting in the early naurs of Feb. 7 was inquired into by the Singapore
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    RESPONSE TO S.I.T. PLAN
    80 5 MANY prospective home and shop builders have already approached the Singapore Improvement Trust for blocks on the seven-acre Serangoon estate the Trust offered to the public two days ago. The 33 shophouses and 25 bungalow blocks are available to individual citizens without payment of a premium.
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    GAOL AND ROTAN FOR ROBBER
    191 5 SINGAPORE, Apr. 19. A SENTENCE of seven years’ n rigorous imprisonment and twelve strokes of the rotan was imposed on Lee Soo Tai, at the Singapore Assizes yesterday, when he was found RUilty of having committed robbery of clothing to the value of $6OO, which
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    $3,600 FINE FOR LIQUOR
    45 5 SINGAPORE, Apr. 19. A fine of $3,600 or 12 months’ rigorous imprisonment was imposed by Mr. K.M. Byrne, the Third Police Magistrate, yesterday on a Chinese. Ong Pang Joo, who pleaded guilty to a charge of importing liquor without a licence
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    SARAWAK-BORN BRITISH SUBJECTS
    172 5 pARENTS In Sarawak who neglected to ensure that their children should be Britis(h subjects, have an opportunity ol putting the matter right, states an announcement in the April issue of the Sarawak Gazette. “Before Sarawak became a Crown Colony on July 1, 1946 children born in that
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    PUBLIC AND THE SOCIE TIES LAW
    254 5 SINGAPORE, Apr. 19. Fthe Singapore Police could prove that certain people were members of an illegal society under the provisions of the Societies Ordinance, they would be saved the trouble of having to prove, as they did now, acts of crime and extortion by
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    RATE OF UNION REGISTRATION
    250 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 18. THE Registrar of Trade Unions, Mr. J. B. Prentis, in a statement on the progress of registration of trade unions in the Malayan Union up to April 13, says that out of 338 applications received from non-Government trade
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    Indian’s Offer To Malay Students
    182 5 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Apr. 18. THE President of the Negri Sembilan Indian Cham--1 her of Commerce, Mr. S. O. K. Übaidullah, has offered to provide a university course in India to any deserving Malay student. The offer will be effective next year, and
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    OFFICIAL QUERY ON TEA MONEY
    155 5 SINGAPORE, Apr. 19. rE Singapore Municipal Assessor, Mr. A. W. Ellison, is asking occupiers of premises in Singapore whether they have been made to pay “tea money.” This is one of the questions in a form which is being sent out by the Municipal Assessment
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    NEW D.M.S. FOR SINGAPORE
    101 5 SINGAPORE, Apr. 19. DR. M. P. O’Connor, formerly Principal Med'cal Officer, Sarawak, has arrived In Singapore to act as Director of Medical Services, in plac e of Dr. W. Vickers, wh > left by the Strathmore on Thursday on six months’ furl mgh. Dr. O’Connor was
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    POLICE TO DEAL WITH BEGGARS
    226 6 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. THE Chairman of the Singapore Silver Jubilee Fund, Mr. T. P. F. McNiece, who is also Secretary of the Social Welfare Department, has asked the police to deal with the beggar nuisance in Singapore, which he considers is assuming serious proportions. Mr.
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    NURSES TO FORM UNION
    263 6 SINGAPORE, Apr. 10. SINGAPORE nurses intend to form a union to improve their conditions of service. A .senior staff nurse at the General Hospital said last night that representatives o! the nursing staffs of t.hc five Government hospitals would seek the advice ol the Assistant Trade
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    DEFIED PISTOLS WITH CUDGEL
    70 6 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, April 17. -The courage of 65-year-old cuttle wner, Kirpar Singh, defeated two armed Chinese who attempted to rob him in Kampong Boyan. One man entered the house but Kirpar S'ngh rushed at him with a stick. The Chinese tied whereupon his
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    GAOL FOR JAP
    50 6 A Japanese, Jido Ushlo, who pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful possession of a sack of 500 .screws worth $30 belonging to the Engineers’ Store Base Depot. Alexandra, Singapore, on Thursday, was sentenced to two months’ rigorous imprisonment 0>y Che Ahmad bin Ibrahim, the Police Mugstrate,
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    Awards For Lepers Who Aided Troops
    295 6 1‘rom Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur. Apr. 17. LEPERS from Sungei Buloh Leper Settlement who assisted the British forces dur- 1 ing the Malayan campaign were yesterday presented with certificates signed bv Viscount Mountbatten and with monetary awards. The presentations were made by the
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    Big Taiping Arms Haul
    49 6 Prom Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Apr. 17. B ETTWEEN March 7 and April 7 Taiping police recovered four Sten guns, three revolvers, one pistol, 61 rounds of Sten gun ammunition and 53 assorted rounds, numerous daggers and two dummy pistols, says an official police report.
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    Indian Views On University
    354 6 SINGAPORE, Apr. 19. HINDI or Tamil, if not both, should bo included in the courses of study in the future university, since Malay and Chinese “chairs” are proposed, declares the Singapore Indian Clumber of Commerce in a memorandum to the Commison Higher Education. The Indian Chamber
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    REFUGEES MUST REBUILD HOMES
    143 6 From Our Own Correspondent THREE Sumatran Chinese refugees 1 Malaya to report on conditions j’„ p?- V have told 2,000 compatriots waiting i n Mala* Panipahan is completely destroyed and ii'B to return should be young men al»| c to V building. The 2.000 refugees are
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    GOVT. ASKED AID IN ROAD REPAIRS
    148 6 SINGAPORE. Apr. 18. AN urgent request to Govern- ment to release funds to enable the Singapore Rural Board t> carry on with its road reconstruction programme, has been made by the Engineering Branch of the Board. A rep rt of the Engineering Branch which
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    ALLEGED TO HAVE CARRIED ARMS
    54 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Friday.—Yin Fong was committed to the Assizies by Tuan Shaik Abu Bakar, Magistrate, yesterday on a charg p of being found in unlawful possession of firearms, ammunition and two hand grenades. Accused, who said that h P lived m Singapore, was found in
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    ANOTHER MAN FOR I.E.F.C. URGED
    181 6 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 17. AN appeal to responsible trade unions to assist the community i n combatting racketeering, black marketing a?ai activities of persons who, T' 1 tho PUise of trade unionism, were “growing fat on contributions of members,” was made
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    S’PORE TO BUILD HOMES
    272 6 SINGAFORE. Aor fl A COMMITTEE :u yM housing in SingapoJB draw up a preliminary® lor buildinvr :o relieve *j® muu housing shortageis|B appointed by the GjtvnK Franklin Gim>on. B The Commissioner o! 1®§ and co curr*. mly Chain®--! the Singapore Rural BottBl C W Scmuett. willx®!
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    ACTRESS ROBBER
    48 6 SINGAPORE A young iT r\^ Wui Tip Lai, Hong Kong a l casn robbed of $2.50-) jr al nilMt men in her flat 1 ste rdV off Jalan Besa noon. $500 was W currency. with 1 Three men. oa j s ei* entered her t‘ handbag.
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    N. Base Dismissals Cause ‘Discontent’
    347 7 SINGAPORE, Apr. 17. discontent prevails among Asiatic emR vees of the Singapore Naval Base, according of the S.N.B. Labour Union, Mr. S. R,,. skilled tradesmen are being dismissed R Base' in conformity with Admiralty instrucR„ nduce expenditure. m |:cd and fifty leave on Saturday, 200
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    REVIVAL OF ST. JOHN AMBULANCE.
    60 7 m* ’he 1941 memB Committee of w'Hl nee Asso-cia-c was agreed should be B C'* unanimously R al that the R'' Medical Services d 4 o be the PreR and Mrs. joint secretari’“L* D. \v. D. Nicholas i a surer. Association is B -iny nationality
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    LABOUR MEN FINED $100
    52 7 Hv' 1 v respondent. 0 -?r. April 16.K.y '•“Iloro. Raju and f Han Yang *’h ordered to bond of $100 lor a period Che Ali, the K found them Of wrongfully v labourer. I re members H objected to "'bo was a non- beer and tied
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    PERAK DRIVE ON SMALLPOX
    75 7 I’l'F Correspondent April 16.— B -ualipox cases in B increased to 26 °n Thursday ■l Konipong. m ‘ve been moved B xc* ept for one. B died at the B is now under f local health m 1 frying out an B ion campaign i n
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    BACK PAY CRISIS IN PENANG
    235 7 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Apr. 16. THE Penang Municipal Commissioners will not be able to adopt the Government’s back pay decision unless the Government is prepared to make a financial grant. This was revealed at a full meeting of the Commissioners yesterday, when a
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    POLICE CHANGES
    50 7 Mr. F. J. Fat ton. A. S. P., in charge of the Hokkien subbrunch. C. I. D. Singapore, leaves by the P. and O. liner Strathmore t'oday lor the United Kingdom, on six months’ leave. Mr G. C. Ripley, A.S.P.. has taken over charge of the Hokkien sub-branch.
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    Six Shot In S’pore Street Battle
    395 7 SINGAPORE, Apr. 17. CIX were injured when members of two Singapore d secret societies foujrht a revolver battle in Maude Road, off Jalan Besar, on Tuesday night. One man, a Shanghai Chinese, died in hospital from his wounds a few Hours later. The shooting
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    Warning To Unions
    159 7 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 17. A NUMBER of cases have recently been reported of Trade Union ofllcials and members acting as judges in disputes among members of the Trade Union and between Union members and outsiders, states an official communique issued in Kuala Lumpur
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    HOUSING PLANS FOR PENANG
    150 7 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, April 16 —The Settlement Housing Committee is now studying the extent of the housing problem in Penang ancl Province Wellesley, particularly with regard to wheth?r a lor.g term or a short term policy should be recommended. This was indicated by the
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    8 Months’ Looting Cost $4½ Million
    728 7 Major Charged With Sikh's Death SINGAPORE, Apr. 17. THE fact that over $4,500,000 worth of property had been lost or looted from Army Ordnance dumps in Singapore during the last eight months of last year was stated in evidence at yesterday’s continuation of the
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    MALAYS AND UNIVERSITY
    66 7 From Our Own Correspondent IPOII, Apr. 16. THE Executive Committee or the United Malays National Organisation meeting here today, confirmed a decision that the organisation is unable to give any views concerning the proposed university college until the ration of Malaya is established. This follows the original
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    Train Looters Throw Out Cloth
    146 8 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 17. If UA LA Lumpur police have recovered 2ti bales ot cloth which were thrown out of a tfoods train 27 miles north of Kuala Lumpur early tliis mornina. A few hours after its departure, the police aceived
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    Power Men Consider Company’s Letter
    220 8 From Our Own Cor respondent IPOH, Apr. 17. THL P« rak River Hydro-Electric Power Company’s Employees Union called a general meeting this att-rno n to “consider a lctter rec< ived last night from the Company and ij draft a su’table reply to it.” Nearly 200
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    TAXI MURDER: $1,000 REWARD
    114 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. THE police are offering a re- ward or $l,OOO for information leading to the arrest of two suspected to have been concerned in the death of a Chinese taxi driver, Lim Mong Leong. on Feb. 4. At a Coroner’s inquiry yesterday it was
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    JAP GENERALS HANGED
    46 8 Major-Gen. Otsuka Misao and Major-Gen. Hidaka Mihoo, found guilty ol causing the deaths of 13 prisoners-of-war ar.d 22 civilians at Out ram Road Gaol, and Rgt. Kimura Takao, found guilty ot crimes on the Eurma-Siam Railway, were executed at Gaol on Apr. 17.
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    $80,000 STORE FOR MALACCA
    113 8 Front Our Own Correspondent MALACCA. Apr. 17. AT a cost of $BO,OOO, the Malacca branch of the Lee Rubber Company are building a new rubber godown on the bank of the Malacca River at South Reclamation. Plans which show that the new godown will be 200
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    SHOT JAGA DIES
    65 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. The Sikh jaga who was shot in the abdomen by a Chinese who held up the accountant of United Engineers and robbed a Malay peon of $8,500 belonging to the Company last Friday, died in the General Hospital yesterday morn ing. The jaga, Madora
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    No Hoardings
    43 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. THE Rural Board wishes to reserve the scenic beauty of Singapore's countryside. At a meeting yesterday, the Board refused permission for the erection of a commercial hoarding which it considered would mar the natural beauty of the suburbs.
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    Governor’s Wife leaves For U.K.
    116 8 SINGAPORE. Apr. LADY Gimson. wife e: S: i i Govern >r. Sir F n Ginicoa. \va> am nr. several v iiknowr. people \\h leit Sm-.v v :*e yesterday by the H3.42V-; u P. and 6. liner Strathmor ax* the United Kingdom. Amcng the passengers who
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    ROBBERY CHARGE
    88 8 SINGAPORE. Apr. 18. TWO Chinese, Lim Wah Seng and Chong Lee Yuen, appeared betore the Third Police Magistrate. Mr. K- M. Byrne, yesterday, on a charge of armed gang robbery of jewellery worth about S62.160. belonging to the High Street jewellers, Kwong Cheong Loong. on March 17. Lim
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    GOVT. CLERKS URGE NEW HOUSE SYSTEM
    237 8 THE Singapore General Clerical Service Association has asked the Government to alleviate the housing problem among the subordinate staff by abolishing the present system of allocating quarters, paying a rent allowance to those not provided with quarters, and including bachelors in housing allocation. The
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    AWARDS TO S’PORE CITIZENS
    604 8 SINGAPORE. Apr. 18. pARDS of Commendation will be presented by the Government to the following citizens of Singapore for their services to the community during the Malayan campaign, during the Japanese occupation and in the B.M.A. period:— Dr. C..J. Olivlero, Dr. C.E. Smith. Dr. K. Vellasamy,
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    FOOD RUSH TO EAST COAST
    288 8 From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, i I ANSWERING an urgent report by medical tl in Kclantan and Trengganu who spoke of°!i tions of serious malnutrition in certain area two States, the Malayan Union Welfare Cou!l taking immediate steps to set up feeding centrl
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    NEW CONSUL FOR K.L
    86 8 THE Chinese Consul at pore, Mr. Arthur C. T. WJ to be transferred to m Lumpur to take the Hsu Meng Shiung. who -‘*1 appointed First Secretary -I Chinese Embassy in India- I Mr. Kwoc.g leaves :or K Lumpur soon. He has be 1 nected with
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    HELP FOR N.S. ABORIGINES
    77 8 From Our <>" n SEREMBAN. 0Ilc r. M Resident Con weekly j Sembilan, told that conference vt s v xploi* harl been t nsta :t State of aborigines t0 1 steps had bet I them. i.-rit'-l Pe pie hi c, I persuaded the a-; I their
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    Headline For Hydro Men
    77 9 0ur On n C>i respondent 11*011. Apr. 10. ■perak Kncr llydro-Elec-■i, I'nurr Company' is gi\K vtrikiru employees until ■ci oi Moil to return to gK n tin- ti nns oi the award \rbitnition Board. Company in a letter to ita\e notice that eniK. who jlesired to
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    ULU TIRAM MASSACRE ECHO
    135 9 |B Our Own Correspondent ■OHOHF BAHRU. Apr 16. SBlCAIION a as made in the (Van to r letters of [[■!>'i\t: m th 0 estates -f I. nv'. a tormer teaof the Engl sh C liege, Bahru, and his wife. Hm > made iho applicabehalf of Mr.
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    NEW TYPE OF FILM FOR MALAYA
    133 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 17 Mr" approach to film entertainment will be see n in ■apnro soor. when a three picture, which ti ,n "come out” at the au- exhibited, Mr. Merritt »vp.n. newly arrived Mala- manager to r Metro-Gold-■-Maycr. told the Straits es yesierdav. B
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    ALLEGED GUNMAN DIES
    35 9 ''*1 iU b.'A\(- ,n >Un Correspondent Chin..., inosday.—a 45-year-N in So 0 Hong, de- > i( v 10 n an armed i -j 1,l b border village of I Butterworth v i cniy.
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    CUSTODIAN IS MADE JUDGE
    230 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 17. I custodian of Property in Singapore, Mr. E. N. L has been appointed a Judge of the r u c' our t of the Malayan Union. f T r will be leaving at the end of the week tor t'l-u wlu i-e he
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    LOST PLANE VICTIMS
    87 9 SINGAPORE. Apr. 17. The Air Ministry announces that the passengers and crew ;f the EVakota aircraft which was reported missing on a flight between Changi and Saigon on February 26 are missing. Passengers were:—Mr. J K. Johnston; Mr. Eumitrescu; Brigadier J. H. Alms; Flight Lieut. T. C.
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    Road Work Costs Shops ‘Thousands’
    230 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 17. iUORK on the laying of a new sewer connection in Cross Street, Singapore, near its junction with South Bridge Road, is costing shopkeepers in the area thousands of dol--Ims in business lost through the road being blocked, accord ing to estimates by
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    S.H.B. UNION REGISTERS
    80 9 The Singapore Harbour Board Engineering Workmen’s Union has been registered. The following are office bearers: president. Mr. A. Krishnasamy; secretary, Mr. N S. P. Samy; treasurer, Mr. G. R&siah; committee, Messrs. E. Matthews, V. Peters, S. A. Jabbar, Mothamed Noir. Syed Hussain, Hamed bin Kader, Syed Ali
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    50-Foot Column Of Water When Ship Hit Mine
    295 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 17. A 50-FOOT column of water which spurted upwards alter the 974-ton Straits Steamship vessel Empire had struck a mine 40 miles east of Singapore on Tuesday, tore the ship’s awnings on the top deck to shieds “It all happened
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    TRUST OFFER OF LAND TO PUBLIC
    232 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 17. THE Singapore Improvement Trust will offer for 1 sale to prospective home and shop builders a seven-acre estate in Serangoon Road. If the response by individual citizens wanting to build but without land is satisfactory the Board of Trustees will be
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    No Force In Detaining Lepers
    257 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. Replying to a suggestio a by Mr. Cheong Hock Chye at a previous meeting of the Singapore Rural Board that appropriate action should be taken for the detention of lepers, Dr. R. S. Johnston, Chief Health Officer, Singapore, in a letter to
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    $1 BRIBE COSTS MAN $200
    77 9 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, April 16 Arjan Singh, driver of a Royal Navy lorry, was convicted on a charge of ofTering a bribe of $1 to a constable and fined $2OO or two months’ rigorous imprisonment. Accused, it was stated, drove h:s lorry
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    A YEAR’S GAOL FOR THREAT
    81 9 SINGAPORE. Apr. 17. Yesterday a Chinese youth who told a laundry worker In Amber Road that “if protection money was not forthcoming bad men would come to his shop” was sentenced to a year’s rigorous imprisonment by the Singapore District Judge, Mr. Paul Storr. The
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    Thanks From The Services
    125 9 Major c. l. Proudfoot, of the Army Public Relations Service, writes:— “It is my privilege to publicly express the thanks and appreciation of the Service audience which was so completely captivated by the Singapore Children’s Orchestra at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Wednesday night—thanks to Army
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    AGRICULTURE IN SARAWAK
    66 9 THE importance of agriculture ir. th P future economy of Sarawak was stressed at a meeting of the Kuching section of the newly formed Sarawak Agricultural Department Board held at Kuching recently. The Board had been formed to organise liaison between the Sarawak Department of Agriculture, leaders
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    TRIED TO SMUGGLE
    50 9 From Our Own Correspondr.i. JOHORE BAHRU. Thursday Caught with 136 tins of Craven A and 32 cartons of Pirate cigarettes unde r the seat, Long Poon Kiew. a lorry driver of Kuala Lumpur was fined $22 on a charge of trying to smuggle the cigarettes into Singapore.
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    INQUIRIES INTO WAGE SCALES
    589 10 SINGAPORE, Apr. ii). THE establishment of two separate Commissions 10 inquire into the question of wages and conditions of employment for daily paid labourers in Government and Municipal service and of all public officers in Singapore and the Malayan ITiion was announced yesterday. The Commission to
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    9,000 Japs To Leave In May
    63 10 MINE thousand Japanese sur- rendered personnel are expected to be repatriated from Singapore and Malaya in May, an Army spokesman announced During the same period, a further batch of 12,500 Japanese will be sent back to Japan from Rangoon. “For the moment there is
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    TALKS ON FILM CENSORSHIP
    76 10 SINGAPORE, Apr. IV. HE Kincmato'jruph Renters Scci' ty (with which Eagleh/' Film Distributors wore ass' l"r this purpose) and the Ci)."roatonraph Exhibitors Asso<:ia "mi met the Colonial Secretary \e i day to put before him their view (>n him censorship. Tii; M was a irank exchange
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    Planters Told To Arm
    176 10 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 17. TWO hundred planters in Selangor have been provided w’ith guns as protection against ••oohers Until recently the police did aot have sufficient small arms whicn could be issued on licence to responsible people, but the recent receipt of
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    Malayan Delegate On Delhi Talks
    265 10 THE Asian Conference has decided that the countries which 1 wore represented at the Delhi conference will not be made a pawn in the power politics of Western countries and that they will not tfive any assistance to these Western countries by the supply of
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    Geylang Children Get Free Meals
    248 10 SINGAPORE, Apr. 19. IX line with plans for a network of child feeding centres in Singapore, the Social Welfare Department opened another centre at Geylang Serai yesterday morning. It was the eleventh centre of its kind to be started since the beginning of this year.
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    SINGAPORE MAN FINED $10,000
    170 10 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 18. k Singapore Chinese, Chang Kim Guan. who said ho had spent all his m ney in purchasing Siamese tobacco on which $34,814 Customs duty had n:t been paid, was fined $lO,OOO Or two months’ rig:rous imprisonment by the
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    TAX: OFFICIAL DENIAL
    280 10 SINGAPORE i I ALL income tax speculations which hav k! l! l lished in the past two days arc comnJ i 1 official foundation, the Income Tax Singapore and Malayan Union Govern mom?* 1 B. Heasman, told the Straits Times lu>!niliV^I “As far as I know nothing
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    WORKER’S PLEA OF SHOCK
    78 10 From Our Own Correspond^! JOHORE BAHRU. Apr. A railway labourer toU V District Judge today that HI covered fr m tile shock of lightning to find i of Christ in his hands. The lab urer P. rumal. ap« cd before Mr- U Rcharged with r v
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    CHINESE APPEAL TO GOVERNOR
    52 10 SIN'O.iPOPE. A»r. THE chairman w Appeal C< tion with the trial. Mr. Tay K .oS he Governor, S 1 son. to take securing cn the five J were sentence H ment in the Conies of f the Gover n the C-in-C.. c Ritchie, and pore Disttif'
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    TELECOMS UNION
    29 10 I IJI JU' vC0ffl> .H The Selangor Union has n ,r y The head ofl at 18. Scot- R I The Union now struction H basis. H
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    TIN STUDY GROUP ON PROBLEMS
    449 11 1 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 19. ■World Tin Study Group meeting in Brussels has jdo( l 0 establish a permanent secretariat, ■hvill he located at The Hague, and a manage■committee which will meet alternately at Brus■1(1 at The Hague. Grout) will have
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    Malays can supply all labour needs’
    248 11 IV n> Ur "«n Cor respondent PENANG. Apr. 19. a r '-Hough Mala vs in che g" 11 meet all labour re- und r hi*»'e is no reason HirtP msnr 1 Iabour should be Hoi Malaya, said Mr p’’ Ak Po, lS0 secretary of
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    Looting gang leader shot dead at depot
    263 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 20. A VERDICT of justifiable honie- cide was recorded by the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday at an inquiry into the death of the leader of a gang of looters w r ho was shot by sentries V/hile removing
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    MALACCA CENSUS
    46 11 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA. Apr. 19. INITIAL work regarding tuc census in Malacca has already started. The numbering of houses in the Jasin and Alor Gajah districts began some days ago, while in the Malacca Municipal district numbering will begin on April 21.
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    CLEAN-UP OF GOVT OFFICES LIKELY TO TAKE YEARS
    297 11 PUBLIC Works Department officials expect many of Singapore’s Government buildings to remain dilapidated for some years. Officials asked when it would be possible to spruce up such buildings as the Government Offices in Empress Place pointed lo meagre finances, the cost and
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    EX- SERVICES ASSN SEEKS NEW MEMBERS
    157 11 THE Singapore branch of the ExServices Association of Malaya is making a recruiting drive for new members from among exServicemen of World War 1L The association which is open to ex-Servicemen of all nationalities, who have campaign medals, began its drive at a successful
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    JONES APPEALS AGAINST HIS DEATH SENTENCE
    130 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 20IRWIN Oliver Jones, 36-year-old Singapore businessman who was sentenced to death at the Assizes on Apr. 2 for the murder of Maurice Fox, has lodged an appeal against his sentence and conviction. Hearing of the case took seven days and a special
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    13 MONTHS’ GAOL FOR TRADER
    87 11 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Apr. 19. A Chinese, Quek Boon Kim, who sa*d he was a trader during the occupation and had wanted capital to start a new business, was today sentenced to a total of 13 months’ rigorous imprisonment. Quek was convicted on
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    NEW PLANES FOR FLYING CLUB
    454 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 20. THE Royal Singapore Flying Club is to resume flying at Kallang Airport in the near future with three Auster light aircraft—the type that was used evacuating wounded and spotting for the guns in the Burma campaign. The club, which played a leading
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    DORSET HUNTERS BAG WILD BOARS
    87 11 From Our Own Correspondent BATU PAHAT. Apr. 19 MEIN of the Dorestshire Regiment bagged four large wild boars at Parlt Perpat. Bat Pahat, in a drive organised by tl Senior Agricultural Off Veer. Inc Abubakar bin Haji Manan. The largest tusker weighed katls and the
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    CO-ED. TREND IN CITY SCHOOLS
    368 12 SINGAPORE. Apr. 20. THERE has been a marked trend towards co-educa- tion in Chinese schools in Singapore since the war, the Assistant Director of Education (Chinese) Mr. R. W. Watson-Hyatt told me yesterday. Out of 124 registered Chinese schools, with an enrolment of 32,000 boys
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    AUSSIE GRAVES GROUP CLOSES
    67 12 THE Australian War Graves 1 Group, S.E.A.C., has closed down and will be returning to Australia in the very near future. The Group, in a farewell message, referred to the assistance and co-operation which had been extended to them they arrived in Singapore early in September,
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    GANG ROBBERS CAME A DAY LATE
    63 12 From Our Own Correspondent ATAIPING, Apr. 19. LABOUR contractor, who had paid $4,000 to his 200 labourers yesterday, was threatened with a revolver when three Chinese entered his house in Taiping today. The contractor, Teh Sim Kiat. was held up and his house searched
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    Singapore Wedding
    217 12 SINGAPORE, Apr. 20 THE wedding took place yesterday at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd of Mr. Ronald Milne, son of the late Capt. J. A. Milne and Mrs. L. Milne of Singapore and Miss Audrey van Tooren, youngest daughter of Mr. R. van Tooren and the late
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    JUMP IN FOOD CONTROL FINES
    158 12 CINGAPORE prosecutions for v black market activities took a sudden upward bound in March as the recently reconstituted Price Control Inspectorate got into its stride. The amount of fines levied in March for Food Control offences came to $57,680, of which $50,930 was paid, as
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    No offers for Governor’s steam yacht
    262 12 NO offers have beer, made either in Singapore or the United Kingdom for the 19-year-old steam yacht Sea Belle 11, specially built for the use of the Governors and High Commissioners of Malaya. The vessel was put up for sale by the Crown Agents
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    206-FOOT MAST IS OFFERED FOR SALE
    79 12 HISMANTLED before the war to prevent their use as possible Jap bombing targets, the 206-foot long Fort Canning flag mast and the 86 1 2-foot long time ball mast a#e not being put back. The masts, now lying in pieces or. the road side
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    Japanese Textiles Arriving
    183 12 SINGAPORE, Apr. 21. A LARGE consignment of Japanese textiles is expected in Singapore this week. The quality Is understood to be excellent—if anything, better than before the war. The import trade from Japan as a whole should soon be on an increasing scale, the Straits Times was
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    DUTCH SHIP BACK ON MALAYA-AFRICA RUN
    204 12 fOMPLETELY reconverted and v reconditioned in Hong Kong from a troop transport into a passenger ship, the 21,700-ton K.P.M. liner Ruys, pride of the K.P.M. fleet of ships, which passed through Singapore this week, is now on her first peace-time run on her old
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    K.L. FREE FROM GANG ROBBERIES IN MARCH
    243 12 From Our Own Correspondent N KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 19. O murders or gang robberies were committed in Kuala Lumpur in March, and the fact that only five armed robberies and one armed gang robbery were brought to the notice of the police, gives
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    TEMPORARY JUDGE
    20 12 Mr. W. G. W. Hastings has been appointed to act temporarily as a judge in the Malayan Union.
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    PLAN TO REPAIR PERAK BRIDGE
    327 12 From Our Own Corresponded I KUALA LUMPUR An I DLOVVN up during the 1941 retreat, two I D 1,000-foot long Iskandar Bridge ovpmi!I 1 River, near Kuala Kangsar, are to i* r i P «l parts supplied by the original designers Repairs to the Iskandar
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    INTERNAL AIR MAIL 15 CTS
    95 12 From Our Own Correspond#* KUALA LUMPUR. Apr M rE postage rate for air fl* within the Malayan ft* and Singapore will be 15 cents* the first ounce and eight cs* for each additional ounce. The air mail service begins* May 1 with the inauguration the
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    GANGS WAYLAY OFFICE MEN
    59 12 SINGAPORE. CINGAPORE workers nt ‘M home from offices m on pay day have been •‘JM and robbed by gangs H studied their movementsA warning was J by the Chief of the C jl vestigation Depart me C. B: Wiltshire, that oW .J ers returning home J
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    BRIDGE REPAIRS
    40 12 BRIPCifc Fro m Our mu.Co.ro r THE Kim Sens' Brldfie p0S itt Malacca Riy fr p ?ic*ed clock tower, will M two weeks to oil .j e rePgB Thursday, April 2 r ried 1 to the structure are
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    MALAYAN ASSN PLAN PROGRESS
    278 13 *1 From Our Staff Correspondent gl KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 20. aniyinK committee has been formed to build ncNV Malayan Association which will fill in m i nion a place similar to that of the Kc Association in Singapore. W committee consists of Che Ma’arof bin Haji
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    DRIVE FOR IPOH WOMEN’S CLUB
    101 13 ™°4n <>U a orre sPondent K; pr 20 -—The fund for ■clSh in t ln^ ernati °nal woKst.vi Ipoh r eceive d a fine Be Com y W U n the I P° h m^T mn]{ y fair netted Biy in Hi v SUn 1
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    OWNER KILLED BY SHIP’S PROPELLER?
    96 13 OWNER KIL LED BY SHIP’S PROPELLER? »AXg n orr ?BP»nden.t B) 1 was kii'i„rt°T The theory ■>er when n. in by a shi P’ s ■as advinof n 5 ree a fm d n?t. an in QUest The “no,, f Mat Saman, a B ollp asiue 't'L Wa tl adjourned.
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    European Killed In K.L. Road Smash
    212 13 —Reuter. From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 20. rUND unconscious on the roadside in Kuala Lumpur early this morning, Mr. R. U. Jones, of McAlister and Company, died in the Bungsar hospital a few hours later. Mr. Jones was found at the junction
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    WAGES COMMISSION CALLS FOR DATA
    184 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. MONTHLY paid Government employees and Government servants* associations are invited to submit representations and memoranda on the subject of salaries, emoluments and conditions of service for consideration of the Public Services Salaries Commission. A circular has been sent
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    Bishop Felicitated By Parishioners
    314 13 1 SINGAPORE, Apr, 21. AT the front porch of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore, yesterday, parishioners offered their felicitations to the Rev. Father Michael Olcomendy on his appointment as Bishop of Malacca. The ceremony, which coincided with the Titular Feast of the Cathedral, marked
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    ISLAND HOLIDAY FOR S’PORE BOYS
    140 13 SINGAPORE. Apr. 21. A hundred boys picked from the various boys’ homes, the Salvation Army centre, the Y.M.C.A. and Boy Scouts troops, left Singapore today to spend a week’s vacation on Pulau Sudong, a small island off Singapore. The vacation which has been arranged by
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    Case For Pre-war Tenant
    404 13 SINGAPORE, Apr. 21. THE provisions of the proposed Leases and Tenancies Bill which give a right to a pre-occupation tenant or lessee to take action to recover possession of premises, has met with strong criticism from landlords generally as tending to disturb a position which has
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    DRANK CLOVE OIL AND DIED
    87 13 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Apr. 22.—Said to have drunk a bottle of clove oil in mistake for liquor, an Indian handcart puller collapsed and died. At the inquest yesterday, Dr. (Miss) J. Millet, who performed the post-mortem examination, said that death was due to
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    M.D.U. On Higher Education Costs
    487 14 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. fOVERNMENT must bear the preponderant share of the financial burden incurred in establishing a university of Malaya—if it is the genuine desire ol the (lOvernnient actively to develop higher education, says the Malayan Democratic Union, in a memorandum to the Commission on
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    “FRIENDS OF SINGAPORE” REVIVAL
    268 14 A move is afoot to re-start the Friends of Singapore. The aims of this body are explained in the following letter from its former vice-president, Mr. 1. H. Stone: “The association known as the ‘Friends of Singapore’ was formed some years ago on the initiative of
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    Robbery By Green-Clad Men Masked
    149 14 From Our Own Correspondent Johore Bahru, Apr. 21. THREE masked men, clad in jungle green, entered the manager’s house on a Chet* tiar-owned rubber estate at Bekok and stole gold and silver ornaments worth $1,421 and $lOO i n cash. Johore Bahru C.I.D. have received
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    MALAYAN GOVT. APPOINTMENTS
    83 14 Miss M. E. Keymer has been appointed European Mistress in the Malayan Educational Service. Mr. G. H. Jollye, Mr. J. D. Haskins and Mr. J. A. Aitken have been appointed Cadets in the Malayan Civil Service. Mr. E. J. Selby has been appointee a Cadet in the
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    BIG GANG LEADER SENT TO PRISON
    240 14 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPim A CHINESE widow after hearing Selangor's gangster. Low Ngit Sing, leader of the’* n 1, B [Mountain Society, sentenced to seven ycaiv n hfl sonment for the abduction of her husband I in S t r0USl B during
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    SAFER ROADS
    54 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Monday:— There has been an appreciable decrease in the number of cases of motor drivers In Kuala Lumpur being prosecuted fan- inconsiderate driving. In January. 46 cases were reported. In February, the figures dropped to half that number while in March there were two fewer than
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    GOVT BANS MALAYAN PRO-VIETNAM ‘ARMY’
    231 14 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 19. A “little army” of 1,318 former members of the Malayan Peoples’ Anti-Japanese Army, including 68 women, have been forbidden to travel to Indo-China to fight for the Vietnamese against the French This ban comes from the Chief
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    PLANES TO U.K. FULL FOR FOUR MONTHS
    271 14 SINGAPORE, Apr. 20. PLANE seats on the B.O.A.C.-QANTAS. service from Singapore to the United Kingdom are booked up to the hilt for four months ahead. The earliest date for which a traveller is able to book a normal passage on a B.O.A.C. plane
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    New S’pore Building Planned
    145 14 SINGAPORE. Apr. 21 1 ALANS have been the construction of a J storey building in the 3 part of North Bridge 9 which will be used paitM business premises and J as residential quarters. 3 On the site of the proposed* building stands a rubber :-M
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    S’PORE PETROL PUMP BLAZE
    80 14 SINGAPORE. AprJ&B Flames shot up to a heigttB eighty feet from a benzin* in front of St. Michaels Serangoon, which caught J shortly after 7.30 p m. last The fire was for a serious threat to about lorries belonging to an army tractor who had his
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    HYDRO MEN STAND FIRM
    100 14 From Our Own Corr KUALA LUMPUR- AP r n£ fll a visit to Kuala LumRur nection with the P 3 Su ppiM Electric strike. Mr. General Secretary of* Electric Employees Uniom^j pressmen today t a vor k would not go bacN Jjm their grievances haa reaC
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    Ips Dressed For Royal Birthday
    105 15 SINGAPORE. Apr. 22. BH jn Singapore Harbour §HsU*rday dressed on the RE ot the 21st birthday of telegram was |K the Governor of the IVUnion. Sir Edward Gent: RR Commissioner for Unit|Hngdom. Cape Town— if you will convey to Princess Elizabeth loyal on behalf of
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    CRASH VICTIM TELLS NAME
    47 15 Own Correspondent ■A LUMPUR. April 21.— SMshawman and the caba- wore involved in the morning accident in European motor-cyclist. Jones, lost his life, are Imported to be scmi-consei-§B} rl gave her name as Swee |V^ e is sultering from nuonuses, apart from severe
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    ANTHONY BROOKE GETS UP HOUSE
    68 15 fxl? G J P RE Apr. 22. 4r R Ant\ h Muda of SaraAnthony Brooke, yesSiS tn,m tRe Seaview Smgaporc, to Sarawak lanicri Road He is Muda by 115 mother th e n^Uv'h 11 b >‘ joined P r0 ar-o]fi y i by ls and
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    GAOLED FOR EXTORTION
    24 15 K 29 ~y ear -°id h Y °h n I" 'hr..^r t ?r m :ney I "> M? te c r 0™
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    JAPS TO STAY IN MALAYA
    380 15 I I'min Our staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 22. ■ry-ONK Japanese women, two Japanese men ft f«ur Formosans, all former residents of I,no been permitted by the Malayan Union ft, ie ,,t io return and stay in the country. ftv have been informed, however, that
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    Dayak Protest For The Prime Minister
    118 15 'J'HE President of the Sarawak Dayak Association has sent a protest to the Prime Minister Mr. Clement Attlee, i n connection with the recent statement by the Governor-General Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, that Sa<-a-war is content with its new status as a British Crown colony.
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    MUNICIPAL MEN GET NEW SCALE
    311 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. WHEN Municipal employees get their salaries next month, they are likely to receive in addition an accumulation of the difference of eight months’ cost of living allowance between the Pyke scale and the newly approved MunicipalImprovement Trust scale. The new scale is
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    Indonesian Airline Begins Service
    265 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. a. THE First Indonesian airline begins operations with a from Singapore to Jogjakarta, provisional capital of the Republic, in the interior of Java, this morning. The airline has been sponsored by the Republican Gov ernment and will be known as Indonesia Aiiways. A Dakota
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    Raffles Graduates Ask For Safeguards
    265 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. ADEQUATE safeguards against inferior educational standards can be adopted in a university of Malaya which this country should have in the immediate future, the Stamford Club suggests in a memorandum to the Commission on Higher Education. The Club is an association of
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    POSTERS TO FIGHT CRIME
    84 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. THE Chinese Association will ask the Government to fight crime by psychological methods. At a meeting of the Puolic Affairs Committee of the Association. it was suggested that the Government be asked to display posters and similar propaganda to show lawless elements that
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    Jap Diet Causes Bad Eyes
    162 15 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Apr. 22. Malnutrition during the Japanese regime has so badly affected the eyesight of clerks in the Malayan Union that a scheme has been started in Negri Sembilan to provide glasses to all who need them. The scheme is primarily
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    British Ships For Siam
    83 15 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 22. INFORMATION has been receiv- e<J that the Siamese naval sloop Mae Klong, under the command of Capt. That Kra Nloct, will be proceeding to Trincomalee, Ceylon, in the first part of May for the purpose of taking over
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    MR.MICHAEL WRIGHT IN SEREMBAN
    76 15 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, April 22. Mr. Michael Wright, Lord Killearn's deputy, has visited Seremban and together with Resident Commissioner. Mr. W. A. Gordon Hall, saw for himself the progress of pad! growing in Negri Sembilan. They visited Kuala Pilah. Pertang and Jelebu in the
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    Non Benders And Club Draw
    412 16 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 20. rE Non Benders Cricket Club of Malaya held the more youthful team from the Selangor Club to a draw in their first match, today, played on the padang. Tile result was well against the Non Benders, who,
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    BOWLER TAKES 7 FOR 6
    65 16 SINGAPORE, ApT. 21. A brilliant bowling performance by Chapmann who took seven wickets tor 6 runs, was responsible for H.M.S. Terror beating the Indian Association by 13 runs in a cricket match olayed at the Naval Base, yesterday. Terror batted first and declared their innings
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    RAILWAY INST. WIN BY FOUR WICKETS
    77 16 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 19. THE Railway Institute beat the T.P.C.A. by four wickets in a low-scoring cricket match on the latter’s ground today. The home team were all out for 71, with Mahadevan scoring 28. Loh Ah Lum was the
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    TWO 100’S SCORED
    282 16 SINGAPORE. Apr. 21. PASSING their opponents’ score with five wickets in hand 'he Public Works Department. Singapore. scored a creditable victory over the Johore Cricket Club in a cricket match at Johore Bahru yesterday Yogarajah (117 retired* and Roberts (104> were the most successful bntsmen while V.
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    S.C.C. WIN
    68 16 SINGAPORE, April. 17 After a goalless first half, the S.C.C. rallied spiritedly to score four goals in the second to beat the Borneo Company soccer team by four goals to nil in a friendly match on the Padang yesterday. McKean performed a hat trick for the S.C.C. while
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    GORBEX SINGH IN GOOD FORM
    118 16 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 19. THE Y.M.C.A. forced a draw against the Selangor Indian Association in a cricket match at Kampong Attap today The Indians knocked up 113, Lall Singih and Gorbex Singh being the highest scorers with 31 and 25 runs
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    SELANGOR CLUB & V.I. DRAW
    174 16 SELANGOR CLUB V.I. DRAW From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 19. TIME forced a draw in to-day s padang cricket match between the Selangor Club and the Victoria Institution. The club batted first and declared at 118 for nine, giving the schoolboys a little less than two hours to
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    Anson-Rd. Stadium Derequisitioned
    266 16 SINGAPORE, Apr. 17. THE Anson Road Stadium has been derequisitioned by the Services, but approaches to the stadium are still closed to the public. As soon as the approaches are released, the Singapore Amateur Football Association will put up a scheme to rehabilitate the stadium. No date
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    Ipoh To Have New Sports Club
    276 16 IPOH, April 16.—The exclusive Ipoh Golf Club, social preserve of the local European community, will become the property of the Perak Turf Club if approval of ordinary members is obtained at the annual general meeting of the Turf Club to be held on April
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    PADANG CLUBS BEATEN
    475 16 PADANG C LUBS BEATEN BOTH the Padang Clubs—the S.C.c! and fh e R 5„V. *1 big defeats when they met the 223 Bon Commissioners Cricket Club, resnedi, i an d$iB yesterday. Finely at m On the S.C.C. ground, the Cricket Club h„. 1 were dismissed for 55 runs; .Bowmer of
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    NEW STIPENDIARY FOR S.R.A.
    274 16 IPOH. Apr R. J. Norton, who has over as G.R.A stipendiary Mg ward in place ot Mr. R C B settled the controversial mm sue of local riding hoys .fig has set a precedent by (Mg riding permits to some o! boys at professional Meh and
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    R.G.A. REPORT URGES GOVT. ACTION
    330 17 Kroin Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Apr. 17. ,h a t the Malayan Union Government “will K action to enable the rubber industry to re■L j( sr |f in more orderly and peaceful condi■is expressed in the report of the Rubber SS ociation, to be presented
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    KING HAD INTERESTS ON MALAYA
    171 17 SINGAPORE. Apr. 23. PATINO, who started ■u> a Bolivian peasant and |a tin fortune reputed to WO.OOO. and died of a Bt..ck on Sunday had large Bests in Malaya through ■dated companies. Associated Press message ■enos Aires states that ■as buried on Monday in Cemetery.
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    TIN-PLATE FOR MALAYA
    67 17 KL*»- P —The PreHd Crin,,?"' 1 1 Trade, Sir of stat ed in the “St Bd to Mahvj n‘ pl ate were Bd Ff'brinrv t i U nng Jan ruar y this year. m k i fin m Of V, 800 ***** for Be period 01 and
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    Unilevers To Build Factory
    111 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. MEGOTIATIONB are proceeding n between Messrs. Unilevers Export Ltd., and the Government of the Malayan Union for a 13-acre site in Teluk Anson for the building of a soap factory. A representative of the Company told the Straits Times yesterday that this will
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    More Padi Land In Kedah
    105 17 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 22 A LARGE increase in the area n under padi cultivation is anticipated this season as a result in the drive for increased padi production and the guaranteed Government padi-purchase price. In some localities there is a shortage
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    RUBBER DUTY PRICE
    40 17 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 19. THE value of rubber for the purpose of assessing the customs duty hae been fixed at 42-3/4 cents a pound Tor the eriod from Apr. 17 to Apr. 23.
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    RECORD RUBBER PRODUCTION
    301 17 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 22. A RECORD production of 58,782 tons of rubber in March is reported in statistics issued today by Mr. H. L. Barnett, Acting Registrar of Statistics for the Malayan Union. Rubber exports in March from the Union to Singapore and
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    OWNERS MAY GET JAVA ESTATES
    503 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 19. THE possibility of rubber estates in certain parts of Java being returned to their owners within k .he next two months, was disclosed by Dr. P. Honig, General Adviser on Economic Affairs in the N.E.I., at a press conference in Singapore yesterday.
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    $1,832 FOR BLIND
    66 17 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 22. —The sum of $1,832 has been received by the Central Welfare Council, Malayan Union, from Dr. H M Soo, President of the Kuala Lumpur Symphony Orchestra, representing the proceeds of orchts tral concerts held at the Town Hall, Kuala
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    Demands On S’pore Builders
    196 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. A CHINESE builder wanting to sack an employee would have to get the permission of the Singapore Federation of Trade Unions under one of several union demands recently served on the Singapore Chinese Contractors’ Association. He would also be obliged to refer any
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    Plenary Conference
    115 17 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 23. rHE Plenary Conference of the Governor General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the Governor, Sir Edward Gent, and the Malay Rulers and the constitutional Working Committee has been postponed to Thursday. It was to have gathered tomorrow but the Working Committee which
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    LESS ACTIVITY IN ALL SECTIONS
    1016 18 Weekly Market Report |{y A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Saturday. TILE trend of Malayan markets has continued I during this week with much less activity in all sections. Industrials, moving irregularly, have again provided most of the business. Tin shares with few exceptions have again sagged
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    RESERVES HIT BY THE JAPS
    76 18 Rambutan Co. From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Apr. 19. THE life of the Rambutan Company’s reserves has beer, reduced to approximately flv* years, Mr. Stanley Wickett, chairman of the company, told the annual meeting of shareholders at Redruth, Cornwall. This, he said, was due to
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    RUBBER CROPS
    71 18 Rubber crop figures for March of companies for which Turquand. Youngs McAuiiff e and Co act as secretaries were:— Alor Gajah Rubber Estate Ltd. 16.000 lb. Ayer Panas Rubber Estate Ltd. 70.000 lb. Glenealy Plantations Limited 65.300 lb. Kluang Rubber Company Limited 63,000 lb. Pajam Limited 182,000 lb.
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    Big March rubber shipments
    187 18 'SINGAPORE, Apr. 19.' FAIR support ‘tories througho«t\the week has* prevented a further decline"' jn* rubber prices, and a fair voludife/ of business has been trap-., sacked* says Lew is feat’s weekly mftrW report issued yesterday. The main enquiry has been for the three top grades of
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    World Tin Shortage Not Over
    275 18 F,om M oVo Apr M t he l*m belief that the ,Jy shortage of tin WUI .V largely *fisgppea,efi end of this year i, optimistic —lor urlcsi. Uons in Malaya remarkable speed, tne *hcy is.likely to tjran that 1 tioh would lie siibsta-iSM higher if
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    TIN OUTPUT
    10 18 Talam Mines’ output w March was 447 piculs.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    686 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. SINGAPORE share quotations today. as given by the Malayan Shareholders’ Association, were as follows: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alex. Brick (O) 2.00 2.15 Alex. Brick (P) 3.15 3.30 B. M. Trustee 8.25 9.00 Consolidated Tin Smelters (O) 20/6 22/do (P) 26/6 28/Eastera United Assurance 42.00
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