The Straits Budget, 31 July 1947

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  • 32 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES 1 ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] lew Series No. 52. Singapore Thursday, July 31st, 1947 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.
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    • 63 1 The SINGAPORE FREE PRESS has the largest nett sale of any afternoon newspaper published in Malaya The Singapore Free Press is the oldest established newspaper in Singapore. It recommenced publication in May last year and its smart presentation of news has made an immediate appeal to the reading public. For
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 1081 2 —Straits Times, July 24. There is bad news about rice. One third of the allocation to Malaya for the second half of 1947 has suddenly gone into the world black market. That is the result of Brazil’s decision to withdraw from the International Emergency Food Committee and thus
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    • 1197 2 THE BIRTH OF A NATION EmpText The new constitution for Malaya, excluding Singapore, is published today. This White Paper is not by any means the last word on the subject from either the political or the historical point of view, but it is the final document in the controversy that
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    • 1143 2 —Straits Times, July 26. -i Malayan public. havm gb ®ui proposed ami W, argued ad musi m urj pasl twelve months. What tfeJHu he really wants know js w there is anything new n White Paper, and is the of this article today 0 a
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    • 969 3 Straits Times, July 28. It is a week ago today that the breaking point was reached in Indonesia and the Dutch look military action against the Republicans after an abrupt annour.eement that it was action of a limited or police nature. The world has
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    • 1106 3 —Straits Times, July 29. Anybody who wants to got a clearer understanding of the financial position of Singapore cannot do better than get a coon of the printed report which was issued by the Singapore Assocln- j tion during the week-end. The committee of this association undertook
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    • 1234 3 —Straits Times, July 30. Today wi* return to the report on the financial position of Singapore which has been prepared by the committee of the Singapore Association. Let us begin by looking at the prospects for next year. The unofficial members of the Advisory Council cut 11)47 expenditure
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  • 1244 4  - Is Penang Better Off l n The Union? By H.E. NIXON The Straits Times asked Mr. H. E. Nixon, as a resident of the Straits Settlements for nearly forty years and one of the leaders of the business community of Penang, whether the northern Settlement would prefer to be back
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    • 161 4 TO AUDREY wife of W. B Richardson on Saturday 19th Ju.y ir. Penang a daughter Nicola Margaret. BROW.si—At Batu Uajar. on Kith July to Margaret Wife 01 K Brown. Chemor. a daughter. TO SUSANNA, wife of E. A. Wild on July 23rd. at Kar.dang Kerbau Hosp.tal, Spore a daughter.
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    • 52 4 OlLVEilV ANDERSEN-ROBEK ISON On Ju* 27th. 1922. at the Citadel t hur Copenhagen. Denmark. Ingenun. Gladys, Mr. Mrs. I. E. Ahdcr.se hn;T miang Renchong Estate. Muai. a TAYLOR—Coleshill. On Juh 1922 at St. Ann’s Parish c > Tottenham. London. John and Mr. Mrs. John A. Taylor Kulai Besar
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  • 83 4 deaths BARKWAY. At Bur.gsar Kuala Lumpur, on 27th J J rl: David infant son of Leila and Barkway. Dungun. Trcngga ar je Barkway. Dungun. 1 ‘fV. U7 of Marie WASON—on 27th July 01 Louise Celine age 21 years Louise Celine age ai ]iind PERCY: on Julv 20. 1947 n George
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
    • 313 5 ■hr T P. F McNiece's reIM ma rk that Chinese. InK,, m and Other Asiatic Rationalists are to a greater or linger degree hostile to the I Europeans is, without quaillocation, sweeping. I Asiatic races do not have any In
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    • 295 5 I WAS pleased to see a letl.r in your paper referring .0 du* inability of Malayan Scouts to send representatives to y:c* World Jamboree. The writer blames Singapore Scouts for this state of affairs. The blame, however, should have ocen directed against the Scout ssociation of Malaya.
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    • 97 5 rE advice of the C.P.O., Selangor, to shopkeepers to throw pepper in the eyes of robbers prompts me to ask this: What would my position be if I were to throw ACID on would-be robbers or extortioners, should they pay a visit to my dispensary? No doubt
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    • 155 5 DURING the occupation when the Jap military scrip became almost worthless paper, I stood around the corners of “Robinson Patang”. I I was -not ashamed to sell a 1 pair of trousers, a shirt or any- thing. If I borrowed $300 or $400 fr marketing, etc., I
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    • 210 5 YOUR editorial headed “Malaya Wants A Fair Deal” gave us the idea that Malaya, amongst the riceconsuming countries, gets the lowest ration. That is quite true, but we have forgotten the fact that people In Malaya, except a few in a thousand, draw more than
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    • 146 5 MAY I take the lead, though not a T.B. patient, in offering three cheers for the Singapore Rotary Club for having launched their plan for a T.B. clinic. In doing so I forward-410, being a poor man’s contribution but one which will help a little to increase
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    • 246 5 lam one of the sub-tenan"s of a house where the chief tenant resides. On occupation, I paid him tea money in addition to a monthly rent. It is now a year ago, and the chief tenant now demands tnat the same amount of tea
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    • 336 5 Chartered Company Concessions WITH reference to the reply of the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Ivor Thomas, to Sir John Barlow and Col. Hutchinson’s speeches on the. breach of faith with North Borneo rubber concession holders’ exemption from export tax on rubber, it is
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    • 192 5 MY heart was wrung when I read the explanation offered by the Governor of the Malayan Union for the £lOO gift from the people of Maiaya for the Lord Mayor of London’s flood distress relief fund. To those who witnessed the neglect and destruction
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    • 294 5 L'ES. Sir, I saw. it with my I own eyes—’Don Quixote charging the windmill on the bank of the Singapore River. A large lorry filled with t section of the Singapore Police Force arrived ait the open space on the riverside approximately behind the
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    • 72 5 IN reply to PUTERA anc 1 PMCJA, I for one shall re fuse to be called “Melayj.” I refuse for the same reasoi that an American national wouli refuse the name of the first na fives of that country, vif Re< Indian. Personally, I think “Malayan is
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    • 52 5 IAM told that gullible ladie.j are paying $lOO upwards ii Singapore for frocks ant dresaes advertised in America! magazines as retailing at U.S $lO and under. Could not some price control tx instituted when the few chosei importers are given preciou; US. currency for importlm luxury clothing? THREADBARE
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  • 1639 6 A Malayan Countrymans Diary |tfOWADAYS there are v*:ry few animals, such as snakes, scorpions, and centipedes, in the dusun. I wonder if our large flock of chickens is a deterrent factor. In prewar days various kraits were -common, and also mangrove snakes. W e should be thankful,
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  • 23 6 From ghosties and ghoulies, And long-leggedy beasties, And things that go bump in the night. Good Lord deliver us.
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  • 87 6 THE Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, has given $250 to the Red Cross for the purchase of medical supplies for Indonesia. It was announced on Sunday that Mr. H. Schweizer, representative in Singapore of the Red Cross, had been
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  • 368 6 j|LL our staff love the very fine cucumbers which grow in our garden but none of us can eat them raw without suffering from violent indigestion. This is in spite of all the tips I have received from various sources, such as to slice
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  • 621 6 THRPF NGAP0RE July 26 I ments who are at Sl° nmOT *l Singapore, ye.steX h l statements policies of their the Following statement Cr l0ns I 5? Alfred Jamuh presi i .m a i 'l the Sarawak Davnir a resl( en t of ‘‘The Dayaks of
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  • 293 8 SINGAPORE, July 24. SIXTEEN political tions meeting at the Singapore premises of 'hi Malayan Democratic Union ur Tuesday decided to send arate protests to the Govern ors ol the Malayan Un. ;n am Singapore about the acton taken by the two Govern.” against the Malay organisation
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  • 81 8 MALACCA, July 26. A well-dressed, middle-aged Chines woman, Lim Boon, stated to be a resident of Bukit China, Malacca, was charged before the District Judge, Che Hamid bin Mustapha, with possession of seven leaf packets of chandu and was bound over for six months
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  • 247 8 SINGAPORE, July 28. THE Netherlands Government, approached by the British Government, has “agreed in principle” to the delivery by air of medical supplies to the Indonesians by the people of Malaya. This agreement follows an appeal which was broadcast from Jogjakarta by the woman
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  • 126 8 Fr.:m Our Stall' Correspondent MALACCA. July 26. AT a regional exhibition of entries in the school posters competition held at the Malacca Public Relations Department premises this morning, four posters were selected by the judges to be entered in the forthcoming Malayan Agrihcticultural Exhibition. Five schools
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  • 175 8 SINGAPORE, July 28. AN editorial in the second issue of Unity, mouthpiece uf the Singapore Municipal Service Union, criticises memueis who want benefits from ooth employers and the union ‘without giving something in return.” The Union lias a membership of 1.100 clerks and technical assistants. Under a
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  • 62 8 IPOH, July 26. A CAMPAIGN for blood donors A if being conducted in Ipoh by women of all communities led by Mrs. A V. Aston, wife of Perak’s Resident Commissioner. Mrs. Aston has been making visits to Malay schools and to many other institutions where
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  • 127 8 Freni Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, July 26. THE Malay Nationalist Party is convening a meeting of all political organisations in Malaya at Malacca on July 31. Mr. M. H. A. Rahman. Secretary of the MNP, announcing this in a statement to the Press today, expressed the
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  • 193 8 SINGAPORE, July 26. THE Army at the end of this month will remove all 1 Japanese surrendered personnel from “non-essen-tial” tasks in Singapore. From Aug. i. all /apaiiese on Singapore Island will work on basic reconstruction tasks. An Army spokesman said yesterday that “non-essential” tasks
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  • 200 8 SINGAPORE, July 24 1 HINDU Bengali watchman was kepi bound to his eharpoy *1 lor one and a half hours yesterday morning when seven Chinese robbers, all dressed in black, broke into a godown at the junction of Cecil Street and Guthrie Lane. The
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  • 121 8 SINGAPORE, July 27. A verdict of murder against a person, or persons unknown waj; returned b\ the Singapore Coroner, W. G. P:rter, at Ihe inquest, yesterday on Lee Ting Moon. Cantonese, who was found dead in Albert Street, on July 11. Lee’s death w
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  • 387 8 THE Technical Adviser to the mIKoVoI? I 1 ments Rice Mills, Mr. N. M. Clark u h' er l his resignation on Saturday, yesterday amS'l charges of maladministration of th<>* f mpllfie d hfl Padi Purchasing Scheme. ,mcr ninent’l Mr. Clark said he estimated
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  • 60 8 SINGAPORE. July 26. When a 33-year -old Budin bin Kamal was charged the Fourth Police Court. > day with voluntarily cauMjU to Mahomed Idros bin U,ang a' poker on Wednesday “Mahomed, a relative J m the in the habit of abusing n Bail was extended and
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  • 63 8 SEREMBAN. TOUR armed Chinese n d p a r shots whon they h l in? van which Wt pri v 4 dgaSeremban after dil rettes to dealers in% One shot grazed the J nd the driver. The robbeis tn ed cash collections amo“tt .j,
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  • 483 9 I SINGAPORE, JLuly 26. I. unanimous vote, Singapore Municipal Coiumis- sioncrs decided, at a meeting yesterday, to ask the 1 ernor-in-Council to make public the recommendaI' 0 f t ie Commissioners on the future constitution. The president, Mr. L. Rayman, said that he had lade
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  • 213 9 t;, SINGAPORE, July 26. r|.. n^ a Pore Municipal presi- •;> jr.; Rayman, will write to the s nial Secretary to Inform pair 0>s that the cost of rePu]‘ r 'Maintenance of Munlclbv thf‘ q s hould be partly borne At n Services. 1
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  • 125 9 SINGAPORE, July 26. SEREMBAN, July 25. About 700 Chinese labourers employed on Tanah Merah Estate. Port Dickson, went on strike today in protest against the cut in tapping rates. The chairman of the Negri Sembilan Rubber Workers Union said the cut imposed on the labourers was between 20
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  • 116 9 SINGAPORE, July 26. An application on behalf of the President of the Rent Assessment Board. Mr. H. E. Kingdom for leave to issue a writ for attachment against a Singapore lawyer, Mr. S. C. Goho, for contempt, was mentioned in the Singapore High Court before Mr. Justice
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  • 212 9 SINGAPORE, July 25. IN the opinion of Sir Udward Gent, Governor of the Malayan Union, the results ol the Union’s short-term food producing campaign so far hav e hern disappointing. Indicating this in a statement In the House of Commons on Tuesday, in reply to
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  • 109 9 SINGAPORE, July 26. The prevailing hot weather is believed to have caused two more lallang fires lr. the outskits of Singapore yesterday. Four to five acres of lallang, beside the Admiralty Oil Farm, at the 41 milestone, Ayer Rajah Road, were burnt out in
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  • 105 9 SINGAPORE, July 25. A CONSIGNMENT of 916 bags of Governmentimported rice which had been lying at the bottom of the Singapore Harbour for nearly a week, has been sold to a Singapore Chinese as pig food for approximately $10,500. The rice was in a Chinese
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  • 113 9 SINGAPORE, Juiy 26. MORE Australian rabbits are on the way to Singapore, stares a report from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. The Australian Rabbit Company have just delivered 4,000 pairs of rabbits for export to Singapore. When trapped, the rabbits are immediately placed in ice boxes and loaded in special
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  • 128 9 SINGAPORE, July 26. A 41-YEAR OLD Cantonese carpenter, who fell about 70 feet from the dome of a Singapore cinema, to which he was cairying out minor repairs, is miraculously alive today, The carpenter is Chin Kin Keng, whose case was described by a
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  • 156 9 SINGAPORE, July 26. A PLAN by General Motors Oversea Corporation for the establishment of an assembly plant for motor vehicles on the site of a former goaown adjoining Katong Park v/as approved in principle by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners after a secret debate lasting more
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  • 319 9 SINGAPORE, July 25. THE final decision on any immigration policy of the the new Federal Government of Malaya will rest entirely with the unofficial members of the Federal Legislative Council and not with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, as proposed by the Working Committee which
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  • 128 9 SINGAPORE. July 25. THREE Chinese yesterday robbed a Singapore Chinese contractor ot $1,000 in cash—and a packet of cigarettes. Another $100 which the contractor carried in another pocket was not found. The contractor, Mr. Goh Chiew Chua, had Just fetched the money from the bank and was
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  • 60 9 PENANG, July 25.—A iullgrown tiger which had killed two cows and caused other havoc in the Selapau District has been shot by two professional hunters at United Patanl Estate. The animal weighed three piculs and it took four men to lift the carcase into a lorry. The tiger
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  • 266 10 SINGAPORE, July 24. rRTY thousand tons of Brazilian rice are now on offer in Singapore. The price u $37 a picul. “This is a firm offer”, the agent told the Straits Times, “but I don’t know whether the Killearn Mission to whom I have
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  • 168 10 SINGAPORE, July 24. In the first five months of this year, Singapore received 22 shipments ol hour, said the Singapore Food Controller, Mr. John Hamer, to the Straits Times yesterday. Altogether 1.128,910 bags arrived. In the first six months of the year
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  • 272 10 SINGAPORE, July 24. THE Singapore Government has agreed that the root cause of tuberculosis in the city is traceable to the housing problem and has indicated that it will give the housing question top priority. This was announced at yesterday’s meeting of the Singapore Rotary
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  • 80 10 SINGAPORE. July 24. Sikh watchmen helped Singapore firemen to fight a fire which destroyed about an acre of lallang at Teluk Ayer Basin, just opposite the sea, yesterday at 11.30 a m. The flames at one time threatened one of the many godowns in this
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  • 38 10 SINGAPORE, July 24. MAJOR A. S. Roman, wellknown in Singapore before the war and during his temporary return to Malaya in 1945 with the Malayan invasion forces, is here again on his way to Australia.
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  • 172 10 SINGAPORE, July 24. SEVERAL thousand dollars worth of magazines have been lost to Singapore in a I newly arrived shipment ol American mail. It has a: rived m a damaged condition ao the result of a collision between two ships in the Gulf of Mexico about
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  • 98 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. —The Chief Inspector of Mines, Malayan Union, in his report on the production of tin ore concentrates in the Malayan Union in June, states that during the month 51.334 piculs of tin ore concentrates were produced in all States in the Malayan
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  • 124 10 SINGAPORE, July 24. rHE chairman of th e Singapore Manufacturers Association, Mr. L. Cresson, was ye*sterday elected Singapora employers’ delegate to the Preparatory Asiatic Zone Conference of the International Labour Organisation. The conference which w r ill discuss social and labour problems, has been fixed
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  • 291 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 23. MR. George Reginald Percy, late Acting Director of Public Works, Malayan Union, died in England on Sunday. He left Malaya last montli on leave before retirement. Born in October 1890, Mr. Percy was educated at Victoria School,
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  • 660 10 From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR j ulv I INDONESIANS in the Malayan Unio’„ hav 'J ferried across the Straits of Malacca duri 1 past few weeks to join armed units for action .1 the Dutch. n “Sainji This was stated by Mr. Abdul Hadi
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  • 119 10 o i pen ail 8 PENANG. Juls L d 'I, r mema is to have a new mod i ef)1 plans for whichhave (o M approved. It is ready by March n The site is in Di Pil lwnl Road at its j ur ’f
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  • 703 11 I SINGAPORE, July 25. I TREK reductions in the percentages of rent I K reuse in Singapore were made yesterday before I ci n)! apore Advisory Council passed the Control of The schedule of increases, which was adopted and lieh was introduced by Mr. P. F.
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  • 146 11 SINGAPORE, July 24. MR. JOHN EBER alleged in the second police court yesterday that the client he was defending on a “very serious” charge was being rushed into court because “the principal witness wanted to go on leave.” Mr. Eber’s client. Chief Inspector C. W.
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  • 48 11 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, July 24. A Siamese travelling in a jeep n r ar Bukit Kayu Itam village on the Kedah-Siam border was kidnapped yesterday by six Chinese armed with pistols and machineguns From other occupants in the jeep the gangsters stole $B9.
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  • 285 11 KUALA LUMPUR, July 23. A LETTER written uy a Malayan schoolteache* on the night before he was hanged by Japanese is published in the Official Review of the Malayan Union. The school-teacher was Mr. P.G. Pamadasa, who was on the staff of St. Francis’ Institution, Malacca.
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  • 115 11 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, July 24. THE Sultan of Johori has filed a claim for $74,000 damages with the War Claims Department. Total claims for war damages ai.a losses now amount to $6,000.000 The War Claims Dept, will close down at the end of this
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  • 38 11 SINGAPORE, July 25. THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. O. Porter, yesterday returned a verdict of accidental death after inquiring into the drowning in the R.A.F. swimming pool at Selctar on July 18 of Aircraftman G. Rennison.
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  • 177 11 SINGAPORE, July 24. COUR French mannequins who arrived unescorted in f Singapore yesterday afternoon found a guide in a young Qantas Airways official who speaks a little French. The girls had never been outside France and could not speak English. The mannequins are Lydia Leplat, 28,
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  • 249 11 SINGAPORE, July 25. (N the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday, Mr. C. C. Tan said the protest against the Leases and Tenancies (Ad ljustment) bill by the Singapore War Prisoners Associaj tion had destroyed much of the harmony and goodwill existing between local people and the war prisoners
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  • 388 11 SINGAPORE, July 25. THE Director of Education, Mr. J. B. Ncilson, told the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday that free primary education should be made universal. He did not favour a suggestion put forward that it should be confined to children boro in this colony or the
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  • 139 11 From Our Own Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, July 24.Kuala Lumpur’s tenth rainless day today was marked by a crop of grass fires which broke out at widely separated points and in one Instance threatened dwelling houses The first fire occurred shortly before noon and involved a
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  • 1273 12 SINGAPORE, July 25. THE White Paper summarising the revised constilu- tional proposals for the Malayan Union as accepted by the British Government approves the creation of a federation of Malaya, with a strong Central Government with considerable financial control. It is hoped that the federation
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  • 53 12 SINGAPORE, July 25. A CHINESE trolley-bus driver was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital last night after a clash between Singapore Traction Company employees and police at the Tanjong Pagar bus terminus. The driver. Lim Bok Kee, suffered head injuries and received stitches in cuts on
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  • 217 12 SINGAPORE, July 25. THE British .Government still holds the view that the question of Singapore joining in a Federation should be considered on its merits and in the light of local opinion at an appropriate time. Explaining this attitude, ihe White Paper on the constitutional proposals
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  • 54 12 SINGAPORE, July 25. Judgment was reserved by the Chief Justice, Mr. Jutsice MurrayAynsley at the Supreme Court yesterday, at the conclusion of the appeal by the Estate and Trust Agency Ltd. against an order by the Fourth Police Magistrate, for the right of possession of tw’o Singapore threat
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  • 151 12 KUALA”uM'fA "“I>J MR-C. d,aS5$»J HI Commissioner on c Jl Damage Claims Commil has resigned the c®*! of his contract and k i,, J Malaya on August 10 for nS land. u ior M Mr. Ahearne came to Milan I the request of the Colonial n J to
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  • 122 12 From Our Staff Correspondent! IPOH, July 24—As a resul of a motor accident in which I Chinese woman cyclist was killed Osman bin Hussain was convict* of negligent drii.'ving and sente! ced by Mr. J. G. Adams at Ti pah today to six months rigorol
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  • 138 12 SINGAPORE. July 24. THE Singapore Ratepayers Association on Tuesday lute ;J the Singapore Municipal Commissioners saying uiaU considers the Commissioners are exaggerating the of supplying Singapore taxis with meters. The association’s letter points out that the Japanese were trying to fit meters during the occupation and
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  • 278 12 SINGAPORE, July 25. IT is believed in Singapore that the Special Commissioner to South-East Asia. Lord Killearn, may accept a Pakistan offer of the Governorship of East Bengal. The belief is strengthened by a cable from London referring to a Dally Telegraph Bombay correspondent’s report
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  • 387 13 I From Our Own Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, July 26. 1 few years time, provided all conditions are favourIhle Kuala Lumpur should have its new central gov- ent offices a Pa r amen tary chamber commenP[ e w ith its dignity and position as
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  • 75 13 Horn Our Own Correspondent. PENANG. July 26. first large-scale experiment 01 its kind carried out in and Province Wellesley. l 'any 2.000 fowls have been in-'■ui;it*-c] in Bukit Mertajam this '£6K. T-tf campaign is directed against o plague epidemics, usually between August and ieptember. 1h V
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  • 88 13 I u-ao SINGAPORE, July 27. "AS drunk.” said Thakar ,7 lr ~b when he pleaded not IVip r? 1 l be Singapore Fourth i n M v° urt yesterday to cheatSingh of $2.30 worth hin bad been served to Julv or iun j^ n
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  • 176 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. July 27. Messrs Wilson omithett and Company, of London, tea experts, have commented favourably on samples of tea sent by the Department of Agriculture from their experimental tea plantations at the Cameron Highlands, says an official release. Speaking of the
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  • 115 13 SINGAPORE, July 27. AN action for libel has been filed bv the former Rajah Muda of Sarawak. Mr. Anthony Brooke, against the AttorneyGenera of Sarawak, Mr. K. H. Difbjr, ana the Saravyak Press Company, publishers of the Sarawak Tribune. Mr. Brooke is claiming damages
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  • 552 13 SINGAPORE, July 28. THE committee oi the Singapore Association has issued a full statement cn its study of the financial position of the colony. Its general conclusions are as follow: Income tax should only oc imposed by the new' Legislative Council: Such Legislative Council, even if it
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  • 249 13 SINGAPORE, July 27. TWENTY-FIVE million dollars have changed hands in 723 real estate deals in Singapore since July bust year $7,000,000 more business than was done over a similar period at the height of the 1927-1928 land boom. Commenting on this record figure, Mr.
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  • 96 13 From Our Own Correspondent. KLANG. July 20. TUNGKU Musa Eddin. the ex- Rajah Muda ot Selangor, said today that the report that he had filed a claim for $1,000,000 damages against the British Government for alleged indignities was entirely without foundation. Expressing distress over publication of
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  • 488 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 27. rO fundamental objections in the original constitutional proposals still remain in the final agreement, declares vlr. R. Ramani, of Braddell and Ramani, advocates and .>oli citors. Mr. Ramani, who was among those who submitted a memorandum to the
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  • 94 13 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. July 27. LOKE AH LAK, the Baling towkay who was abducted by 25r armed bandits early in June has returned home after nearly seven weeks’ captivity He is believed to have escaped from his kidnappers. The gang demanded ransom from Loke’s family
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  • 51 13 JOHORE. July 27. Thu Sikh driver of a military lorry, Tara Singh, was fined $1,300 following a customs discovery of 1.000 tins of cigarettes in the tool boxes and under tin* seat. Tara Singh said a Chinese put tile tins there and asked him to take them to
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  • 559 14 SINGAPORE, July 27. AT least 1,000 workers will be employed by General Motors Corporation in its new assembly plant in Singapore, which will be ready early next year. Five hundred unskilled men will be drawn from Singapore, and in addition to labourers, there will
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  • 184 14 SINGAPORE, July 2o. THE Singapore Harbour Board has issued a statement on the strike of Harbour Board tug crews and boatmen which has now lasted since Tuesday morning. The statement says rates of pay and conditions of service were agreed with the Malay Seamen’s Union on
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  • 86 14 Baby To Prison From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. July 26. MR. Justice C. W. V Carey yesterday granted permission to an Indian woman to take her two-months old bab’y to prison with her. The woman, Letchumy, had been sentenced to 18 months* simple imprisonment for stabbing her
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  • 166 14 SINGAPORE, July 24. A PRIZE scheme, under which $40,000 will oe distr.buted in the Malayan Union and Singapore, is the latest move in the recruitment of census enumerators. The Malayan Census Headquarters is taking every rossible step to r cruit the full number of enum p
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  • 216 14 M SINGAPORE, July 27. RS. ANTHONY BROOKE, wife of the ex-Rajah Muda of Sarawak, who arrived in Singapore on July 14 from Lonion, sailed for Kuching yesterday morning by the s.s. Darvel She expects to be in Sarawak for two months. Accompanying Mrs. Brooke to
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  • 69 14 From Our Own Correspondent. PARIT BUNTAR. July 26. Admitting possession of apparatus tor the manufacture of liquor and also being in possession oi fermented mash, 64-years old Tan Keng, was fined $lOO, or two months’ rigorous imprisonment on the first charge, and $5O, or one
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  • 271 14 MALACCA, July 25. DUTCH naval patrols operating in the Straits of Malacca are alleged to have seized a Chinese motor tongkang on July 21, and confiscated its cargo. This charge has been made by Chwee Kong Cheng, 47-year-old taikong of the boat. Chwee said
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  • 304 14 From Our si ,n BH KUALA i.LAll-UK 1 tHm ARECENn K Ju ly«K o.y c «muni bv Malaya, 1 I j te K l ls unclerstooi, i s TW asked qu.*s.j. 1;s i;i lke ft»1 <>f Cummins. ansimr'JrB Mr. WalliehV It Is also understood
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  • 150 14 SINGAPORE. July 26-■ Five Chinese ay'J and 23. yesterday, .n the A.A.M Police Court, faced three separaj* charges of attempting > $10.80 from three men tn Seong. Hor Kok Kwee and LMoy by putting 11mm in jury at Tyersall M* reB Avenue, on Thursday U! S
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  • 81 14 JOHORE BAHRU. f A civilian car 1 tnK ll run driver of a nim last■ along Jalan o«t| night after the truck n I a man who a J l>r t0 1 The truck, which k iridianl have been driven ri)SS road soldier, turnedoff ’at before the civilian
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  • 676 15 I SINGAPORE, July 29 IlpANESE general in Malaya said yesterday that ■Japanese surrendered troops in South-East Asia liJer oIh!> their officers since General MacArthur Islied the authority of Japanese services officers in Iji by l'is democratic constitutional proclamation of Ijlav 3. mho' general who made
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  • 116 15 (From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, July 26. GOVERNMENT land settlement schemes in Perak are at present restricted, as far as schemes of any size are concerned, to the settlement scheme for Malays, at Stage Four. Sungei Manik. and the settlement scheme for Chinese, at Changkat Jong, also
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  • 201 15 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, July 29. THE need for understanding and sympathy between employers and employees was stressed at a meeting of motor transport owners yesterday afternoon when it was decide to form a North Malaya Tiansport Association. Delegates from Penang. Province Wellesley. Kedah and
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  • 130 15 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, July 29.--A piece of rope, alleged to have been used to strangle a taxi driver in a lonely estate road a few miles outside Kuala Lumpur, was an exhi- bit in the First Magistrate’s Court today at a preliminary inquiry into
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  • 59 15 SEREMBAN, July 28. Two hundred Indians on the Tanah Merah estate. Port Dickson, came out on strike today in protest against a 20 per cent, cut in rates for contract labour, thus following 700 Chinese labourers on the same estate who struck on Friday. Discussions took place
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  • 146 15 SINGAPORE, July 29. FOUR armed robbers entered an Indian textile shop in Arab Street on Sunday, pushed the manager, several shop assistants and six carpenters who were doing repair work into a lavatory, and stole $5,000 in cash, two cheques totalling $3,000 and a $00
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  • 242 15 From Our Staff Correspondent 1POH, July 28. SENTENCE which was deferred on Chew Too Yong, a 13-year-old boy convicted of possession of arms and am munition, was delivered this morning when Mr. Justice Cox Evans ordered the accused to be given six strokes
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  • 54 15 i KUANTAN, July 28. The Kuantan Magistrate, Mr. V. C. de |Crespigny, sentenced eight women on charges of selling flowers and collcoting money from the public, on July 14, without a police licence. The Magistrate directed the sum collected. $240.60, should be sent to the Chinese Consul for the
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  • 79 15 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG. July 20. WHILE the S.S. Wo Sang was on her wav to Penang, a Chinese deck passenger rail amok and attacked the other passengers killing one and seriously wounding two others. The man then jumped into the sea and was lost. The
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  • 181 15 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, July 26. BANDITS operating on the Keduh-Siam boundary have kidnapped a Siamese Immigration Officer, Mr. Pairojna, attached to the immigration department at Sadao. Mr. Pairojna was going to Kedah when half a dozen *trmed Chinese fired on him and held up
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  • 267 15 SINGAPORE, July 29. TWO gunmen carried out a daring robbery at on ye sterday outside the Beach Road Pedice Station, in tull view of scores of people. The thieves escaped em bicycles after robbing $2,670 from 26-ye*ar-old Tan Heick Ke*e, a Chinese fish agent Singapore police inspected Inche
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  • 99 15 SINGAPORE. July 20. MR. Anthony Brooke, the former Raja Muda of Sarawak, last night received a cable from his wife in which she stated she had been enthusiastically welcomed on her return to Sarawak. When the ship on which she is travelling stopped at Pending, Sarawak,
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  • 596 16 —Reuter. U.P. and VP. SINGAPORE, July 30. THK Indian-owned Dakota which left Singapore at f noon yesterday with medical supplies for the Indonesians was shot down in flames at 5.45 p.m. by two Dutch fighters as it was landing at Jogjakarta, says the Republican
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  • 26 16 A nurse explains the importance of blood transfusion to blood donor-to-be at the Blood Tran sfusion Centre at the Great World Trade Fair. —Public Relations photo.
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  • 159 16 SINGAPORE, July 30. IMiE Secretary-General to the Governor General Sir Ralph Hone, told the Straits Times last night that it would have been possible for the Dakota to have applied for safe conduct which could probably have been arranged with the Dutch. It would
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  • 57 16 JOHORE BAHRU. July 29.—Madan Gopal. an Indian bearer orderly In the 221 Vehicle Coy Officers’ Mess at Tebrau was sentenced today to six years” rigorous imprisonment for having unlawful possession of firearms. According to the evidence the soldier sold a revolver to Inspector Dahardi of the local
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  • 189 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 29. THREE thousand dollars were netted for the Malayan Welfare Fund and the Padi Settlers’ Fund through the opening, last night, of Kuala Lumpur’s newest cinema, the Rex, The opening ceremony was performed by the Sultan of Selangor, and
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  • 121 16 SINGAPORE. July 30. A GIFT of $5OO has been sent to the International Red Cross by the Governor-General, Air. MacDonald. and Mrs. MacDonald, in response to the appeal made a few days ago for medical and Red Cross supplies for the Indonesian sick and wounded.
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  • 285 16 SINGAPORE, July TWO employees of a Singapore rice mill were alleged in the Second Police Court, yesterday to have given bribes, totalling $5,200, to Chief Inspector James McPherson* assin tant controller of supplies, attached to the Singapore Food Control Inspectorate to induce him to
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  • 96 16 SINGAPORE, July 30 TflE Chief Justice, Singapore, Mr. Justice Murraj-AynslB| 1- yesterday ordered a retrial after hearing the 38-year-old Irwin Oliver Jones against sentence of death pa*H| on him for tike murder of a Eurasian, Maurice Fox. 31. last year. The Judge said that
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  • 286 16 From Our Own Correspondent PAH1T BUNT A R, July 29. THE story of how $4,000 was allegedly paid as ransom for a son was told at the preliminary inquiry into a charge of abduction at Parit Bur.tar. Two young Chinese were involved in the inquiry, Looj Chooi
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  • 232 16 SINGAPORE, July 28. K A MASKED Chinese, aiiM with a pistol, nibbed Chinese occupants oi a m Emerald Hill Redd «»i lery valued at $3.0)0 and in cash at 5.30 a.m. One ot th< girl occ apants on W ground floor was aw ukoru'C
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  • 83 16 Chinese I APPROVAL has br. c rl A from the <-h\* sdu .me Government for tn t; llu ils Pj registering Chin* sc !:.-ul* pared by the ll11 L i!n p.;! m at Singapore. Kuala Penang. nl h( r \'1 Registration v\ 1 f ;l *.m as the
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  • 289 17 m.; j Correspondent Kla .'*i EK, Juiy 20. u our all-night H, la.'t night lvp- the euom Move-1 passed six H ot which was; u)”kl bo sent m c tilts and poo- d Aus ralia H' o countries to Hi" T nc’on« sian case! H
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  • 339 17 I KUALA LUMPUK, July 2<). II iiiicti Planting Association of Malaya announ■i t()( a that it could not at present recommend an r in Vtihher workers’ wages nor vary its recent inienciaiion of a 20 per cent reduction in con- tapping rates. Is (Uri.'ion is conveyed
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  • 67 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. July 29—At the inaugural meeting of the Technical College Muslim Society held yesterday the following were elected office-bearers for 1947-48 President. Che Ismail bin Abdul Majid; Vice-President, Che Awar-g bin Haji Ya’acob: Hon General Secretary. Che Abdullah bin Ghani: Hon.
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  • 128 17 PENANG, July 'if).— Tht» President of the Kulim Indian Employees’ and Vtorker.s l nion. K. S. Nadarajan. u ipealed unsuccessfully in the Keuuh High Court against the orison and Hogging sentence passe d in him by tlie Kulim liistriet Judge for extorting $4.1)1 Irom a Dublin
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  • 166 17 SINGAPORE, July 30. FIFTY bungalows he ve been built around Alexandra Bar-j ra to a r, ommodat* the families of oUlcers serving with] the Anny in Singapore. Building started in Navemoet last year, and will be completed by the rnd ol this week. The bungalows
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  • 44 17 PENANG, July 28.- For unlawful possession ol a Siamese rifle and eight rounds ol ammunition Saad bin Hanafiah, of Kubang j Siam, was lined $1,000 in the Kedah Assize Court. Saad pleaded guilty and was given three months to pay the* tine.
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  • 66 17 SINGAPORE, July 2!>. opened lire. Police evidence said the JlmiKi continued its course aHer being challenged, and following orders issued to them the| police fired. The master of the junk, Goh Toh, admitted steering the vessel to within 100 feet 01 the wharf, but he aid
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  • 65 17 Kuala lumpur. July 29 Inche Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad, ol the Malayan Union Department ol Education, expects to leave for England .shortly to take up a two-year appointment as lecturer in Malay at tin* London University School of Oriental and African studies. He is at present in
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  • 506 17 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LU MPUK, July 2f>. HIE Technical Adviser on Rice Mills .Malayan Union, Air. 1 N. M. Clark, retutes the Government statement that the l nion p.itii purchasing scheme is operand; saiisfaclorily and to the benefit of the country. He
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  • 308 17 SINGAPORE, July 30. Breaking up of the side Walls, due to the effects of weatia r and age, caused the roof and an attic floor of a house in Teiok Ayer Street, Singapore to collapse on Ju.y IP, I 4 "'!r stated an inquiry ill t\e
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  • 94 17 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, July 28. PERAK Malay League will hold a meeting on Sunday to consider ways and means of sending Red Cross med’Cal equipment t<» the Indonesians. The Lea or'.; j.encnil secretary, Inche Hashim, said he would organise a collection for funds to
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  • 119 17 V' the annual general meeting of the Singapore Buddhist. Association hold on Sunday. July 27. following were elected as officebearers ior the current year Patron. Von. Blkkhu M. M. Mahaweera; president Mr William Sena; vice-presidents. Messrs. S P H do Silva and G. E. Penra; hon. secretary.
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  • 392 18 i ron Our Sf i.T Correspondent PENANG, July 27. THE Penang State team gave a magnificent display today when they defeated the Sing Tao tourists by three goals to nothing in a thrilling game played on the international dub ground Penang should have won by a much
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  • 166 18 I'rom Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Jifly 27. The secretary of the Negri Sembilan Cricket Association, Mr. G. E. Fernandez, stated yesterday that the non-inclusion of Gurdial Singh and B. J. Dionysius in the South cricket side against North and aroused considerable dissatisfaction among local cricket circles.
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  • 295 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUK. July 27. TN an exciting cricket match 1 (ii the Padang today, the R.A.F. be.it the Selangor Club by one run. Their victory was mainly to the efforts of J. Evans and G. Noble. 1 who stopped a
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  • 102 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. Chua Enrr Cheng, the Selangor State player, scored a brilliant cen turv for Harrison* Sports Club in their cricket match against the R AF. at Kampong Attap yesterday. The match ended in an overwhelming victory for Harrisons by six
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  • 25 18 Tlie Singapore Hospital Assistants' Union beat the Medical College Team by 55 runs at the Medical College ground on July 27.
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  • 198 18 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. July 24. jUJALAYA has been invited to 1(1 send leading players to compete in the All-India Badminton Championships be, held at the end of this year The invitation was issued uv the All-India Badminton Association and the Bombay Provincial Badminton Association.
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  • 107 18 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. July 29. Goon Knk Lem. twice Penang triple crown holder before the var. is set for another attempt at he coveted treble. He entered the final of the men’s singles yesterday by defeatng Cheah Wat Swee in straight sets of
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  • 161 18 SINGAPORE, July 27. BW. F. Goodrich won the Royal Singapore Goll Club annual championship yesterday when he beat Dr. E. Laidlaw Thomson two and one in the match play final. Goodrich and Thomson played scratch goll up to pre-war standard i in the afternoon. Goodrich at
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  • 61 18 CABLE WIRELESS WIN NARROWLY SINGAPORE. July 29. Cable and Wireless beat Base HQ by one wicket at cricket on the St. George’s ground yesterday. Batting first. Base HQ made 107. 1 including 35 extras. Topscorer was Chidgey with 23. Cable and Wireless passed their opponents' score with one w’icket in
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  • 238 18 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, July 24. MRS. J. P. de C. Hamilton, who, as Miss Betty Oldfield, was a former Malayan singles champion, is the first post-war holder of the Penang title. She beat Mrs. Low Hooi Seah 6—1, 6—3 in the final at
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  • 165 18 From Our Staff Cornsoondent IPOH, July 23. I OPE ABDUL AZIZ retained k his 1941 titl e by beating N. Caleb in the final of the Perak tennis singies yesterday at the Perak Chinese Recreation Club. Lope won 6 -3. 3—6. G—2 in a match of
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  • 381 18 DISPLAYING defence toTibhU !»*l tactics, Leo Heaney, the Australian wolt made an impressive debut in Sin« auo scoring a technical knock-out over HatHin The referee, Capt. E. Iw"/ f t f. s *J at the end of the fifth round after h e ha (l y.
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  • 77 18 SINGAPORE. July SWIMMING clubs over Malaya ha T e b <ii vited by the Sing^J Amateur Swimming J tion to take part a. J pore swimmiiir, The champion'.uj I at the Singapore I on Oct. 18. t Clubs invited in I gapore Swinmnr. J Singapore c lJl
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  • 817 19 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 28. Hiil.K admitting that there are faults, which are under careful review, in the Padi Purchase Hicme. the Government of the Malayan Union con■L that the scheme has operated satisfactorily Hj t0 the henefit of the country as a
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  • 130 19 From Our Own Correspond°nt KUALA LUMPUR, July 26. A SPECIAL meeting of the Malayan Union Labour Advi- sory Board was held on Thursday j to consider a preparatory draft of a Wages Councils Bill. This draft was based on the United Kingdom Wages Councils Act
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  • 157 19 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, July 23. rHE first employers’ union in Penang is expected to be formed tomorrow, when rubber merchants, both Asiatic and European, will hold a meeting at the Penang Kubber Exchange. The meeting, I understand, will consider a proposal “to organise employers
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  • 125 19 SINGAPORE, July 21. ST. ANDREW’S Old Boys who gathered at Cecil’s Restaurant yesterday for their monthly lunch meeting took part in mock elections staged by Mr. G. H. Hawkins, the Supervisor of Elections, Singapore. Results of the voting which followed saw Mr. Dong Chui Sing (Conservative)
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  • 171 19 SINGAPORE, July 29. TWO Queen's Scholars *ips and one Queen’s Fellowship hav e been awarded in Singapore for the year 1947. The scholarships go to Miss Kwa Geok Choo and Dr. (Miss) Quah Quee Guan. The fellowship goes to Dr. A. C. Sinha. Miss Kwa is a
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  • 259 19 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. July 26. SINCE its inception in May, the Muslim Welfare Committee comprising various Muslim organisations in Kuala Lumpur, has rendered help to destitutes and also to boys of Muslim parenage at the Children’s Home in Klang Road. The organisation hopes to
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  • 184 19 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 26. r r i ER successfully building many bridges and reconstructing many miles of Malayan roads, the 93 (Royal Bombay) Indian Field C.y., Royal Indian F v gineers. has returned to India. They first landed at Morib in September
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  • 368 19 SINGAPORE, July 27. TWO thousand British books —ranging from political A testaments to fairy ta\es —sent from England by sixty firms of publishers will be exhibited in the Victoria Hall, Singapore, for one week from August 16. The exhibition will later go on to Kuala
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  • 171 19 v LONDON, July 25. THE news that the Brazilian Government’s agent in Singapore has offered 40,000 tons of rice to Lord Killearn. British Special Commissioner, has confirmed the impression in trade and official quail* rs here that Brazil’s withdrawal nom the International Emerge ncy Food Council
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  • 590 20 Weekly Share Market Review Ry A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, July 28. MILLIONS of pounds' worth of tropical produce, including many thousands of tons of rubber, have been captured by the Dutch since they opened hostilities in Java a week ago. This produce, from the areas
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  • 159 20 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, July 29. PENANG and Province Wellesley rubber traders, at a three-hour meeting today, decided to form an association to protect the interests of the industry. The meeting was attended by representatives of both Asiatic and European Arms. Mr. Heah Joo Seang, a
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  • 360 20 SINGAPORE. July 25. THE week has been one of considerable activity and wi d e fluctuations, state* Messis. Lewis and Peat’s Weekly Market Report. The predominating feature has been the situation in the Netherlands East Indies. At first this was treated as a bullish factor, on the
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  • 279 20 From Our Staff Correspondent I THE outbreak of hostilities in Java has J Penang's coastal trade with the Dutch R-J, nienting on this today, a leading Penang merei,,",* H Sunday limes that even smugglers had decided W H operations. Vessels, which left recently f,„
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  • 104 20 SINGAPORE. July 30. RUBBER neither gained nor fell in price yesterday and vlosci last night at Monday’s closing price. No. 1 sheet f.o.b. closed at SO* 2 cents per lb., buyers, ana 30 3 8 cents and sellers with spot loose quoted at 3 4 of a
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  • 35 20 WASHINGTON Tuesday.-Bri-tain will receive 59.000 tons o! wheat and 12.000 tons of flour from the United States in September. according to allocations announced by the United States Agriculture Department.
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  • 716 20 SINGAPORE. July 29. THE market continued quiet with industrials reported steady. Inquiries in this section continued for Henry Waugh's. McAlisters, and United Engineers, while Straits Steamships were marked down slightly Tins and rubbers were extremely dull. Quotations given today oy tne Malayan Share Brokers’ Association were as
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