The Straits Budget, 28 August 1947

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    29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF ,THE STRAITS TIMES fBTABLiamn oyer a century] Series No. 66. Thursday, Avgust 28th, 1947 Price 40 cents (SJS. 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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      AN EXPERT ON INCOME TAX
      1339 2 —Straits Times, Aug. 21. Mr. R. B. Heasman’s report on income tax is now available for anybody who cares to put down a dollar for it. It is a very good dollar’s worth, whichever side of this controversy the reader is on, but he should
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      EXPENDITURE AND TAXES
      853 2 —Straits Times, Aug. 22. The Heasman report recommending the introduction of income tax as a matter of urgent necessity has met with a very mixed and critical reception as was only to be expected, for although people may approve of the principle of income tax there can
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      The Voice of Government
      302 2 —Straits Times, Aug. 22l The voice of Govern,*., week was soothing > la the people of Malaya i n ,^B te;CS Straits Times <,uesii„ ns> of how Malaya would u *^B° ver direct representation at 0f berra conference on Empire for the coming peace Japan. aty
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      BEGINNINGS IN SINGAPORE
      1274 2 —Straits Times, Aug. 23. Our heading on this column today is taken from a booklet whic was published in Singapore several weeks ago and which as a special and topical interest t is week, when the internation Social Welfare Conference is meeting in the Cathay Building. This
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      WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
      1236 3 —Straits Times, Ang. 25. The British crisis, which is in fact a world crisis, and suspension of convertibility of sterling represent the two major disasters of 1947, although this is not to say that there may not be even more unfortunate developments before the year is
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      THE CANBERRA CONFERENCE
      1100 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 26. The British Commonwealth conference on the peace terms to be imposed on Japan opens in Canberra today in the knowledge that nine of the eleven nations invited by the United States to take part in the drafting jf the treaty have accepted that
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      REBELS IN THE UNION
      1124 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 27. The attempt by the Governments of the Malayan Union and Singapore to bring about prompt consideration of the Heasman report on income tax by a joint committee has been frustrated. As in 1940, when the Malayan public was asked to pay income
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    SHB CLERKS PETITION
    254 4 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. FIVE hundred and sixty one clerks employed by '-he Singapore Harbour Board yesterday petitioned the acting chairman, Mr. P. A. T Chrimes, to recommend a three months’ salary payment to them at the next meeting of the board and to grant meanwhile a more
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    KUCHING TO AID FLOOD VICTIMS
    96 4 KUCHING, Aug. 23. THE Chinese Chamber of Commerce has sponsored a meeting attended by the various Chinese associations and organisations in Kuching in which the subject of raising funds Ln aid of the flood victims fcn China was discussed. An application has been made to
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    $50 MILLION CLAIM SENT TO LONDON
    99 4 Aug r the Secretary 1 Affairs. M r r ApS° re r Chl 4 the JapanS^" had been includ^ MaUya. made 0n b^K cently made P this S3T5 grounds that the sso n forcibly extracted a" from the Chinese popular?™ mastnfa by Gen eral
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      BIRTHS
      293 4 FULCHER. Heather. Nee Lov< at Kandang Kerbau, Hospital 18-8-47. A son Alistair. SMITH, TO PEGGY, wife of 1 G. Smith at Bungsar hospital, B Lumpur, on 20th August, 1947, a Christopher. BEMBROKE—On the 18th Au| 1947 at Kandang Kerbau Hospital Dorothy Beatrice, wife of C. J. Bembroke, a daughter.
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      MARRIAGES
      81 4 Mr. P. w. D. oleasure ir announcing barn s i his mother. Mrs. F. C. E f A H Randell, to Lt.-Col. Qivisi O.B.E.. Quartermaster. marrl) United States Army. J r D c took place ln t* 3 the 23rd August. 1947. please copy. on Aue 1 WALKER-DUGUID. ?r
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    16 4 DEATH j MERGLER. MARRETT d H t Cab 2 2 e V e J* A«f'« 1
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      How Do The Governments Spend Their Money?
      1028 5 IHeasman Report has published, but no deluded into imagining ♦he compilers of the iehave been considering her or not income tax is icable in this country: r h U s consideration bean to the quickest method troducing it. rjefly, the situation at joment
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      HEASMAN HARD ON FAMILIES?
      474 5 I HAVE written previously regarding the taxation of middle-class incomes and titrates suggested in the Heas man report confirm my fears that middle-class families will once again be soaked while many others will remain undertaxed. The Heasman proposals will have little effect on bachelors or on
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      PRUNING EXPERTS NEEDED
      294 5 WE now learn that Mr. He<tsman may have gone to London to recruit income tax officers for Malaya. During the late war, a tax popularly known as income tax but called War Tax was imposed in the Straits Settlements. To make this possible, an ex pert was
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      “Asian English”
      71 5 rOUSANDS have passed the Senior Cambridge Examination, but many of these have never had the advantage of being under Eri tish teachers, with the tragic result that they write Asian English. What is the use of having an English school without the presence of British teachers? How can
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      Income Tax Opponents Flayed
      437 5 THERE is no doubt that opposition to income lax comes only from those mem bers of the public who have the means and can well afford to contribute a larger share to the expenditure of the country* The pan-Malayan meeting sponsored by the Malayan Association In
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      WHAT WILL CHINESE PARTNERS PAY?
      110 5 rCH has been written on behalf of the wageearners about the proposed income tax, but no one has aired the views of the merchants. The flat rate of 20% recommended for companies ts not equitable and most unfair to t small businessmen. Take a case
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    A VERITABLE WHIPSNADE NEAR MERSING
    1304 6  -  A Malayan Countryman's Diary TUAN DJEK HAD a job as acting manager of an estate very near Mersing in the year 1934. The properly was much overgrown, and walking round of a morning it was usual to meet a herd or two of pigs, which
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    Singapore Cinemas Lose Appeal
    354 6 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. AN appeal by the Estate and Trust Agency, Ltd., againsl an order by the Fourth Police Magistrate for the right of possession of two Singapore theatres—the Alhambra and the Marlborough—was dismissed by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley at the Supreme Court yesterday.
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    SOCIAL AFFAIRS SCOPE DEFINED
    390 6 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. B THE International Social Welfare Conference meeting Singapore yesterday agreed that social affairs should Hi one of the functions of the Government and also defined scope of a department of social affairs in relation to efforts, government departments and the United Organisation. These
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    WOMAN WEEPS AT INQUEST ON SONS
    126 6 SINGAPORE, Aug. 4 A WEEPING mother told Singapore Coroner y^ erd (Q of the futile search she mad her two sons, Cheong Soh H 13, and Cheong Sen whom she had sent to fet a from a water-pipe near a J afl( Lorong 3
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    RIOT AT FUNERAL OF SHOT MAN
    602 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. B’\DS of anti-riot police, armed with batons ■lidcQ with wicker shields, steel helmets and ws respirators, were called to violent scenes ■n? the funeral yesterday of the Indian road ■ken Vengadaselam, who was shot dead by Indian police sentry at Singapore
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    STABBED IN BACK WITH SCISSORS
    156 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. A PAIR of scissors and a wood chisel figured in two hurt charges which came up in the Second Police Court yesterday. A Malay, Osenssa Mahomed Yacob. was charged with voluntarily causing hurt with a pair of scissors to his elder brother,
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    UNION BID
    57 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 22.~5e. lar.gor teachers, whose proposal to reconstitute the Selangor Teachers’ Association as a trade union failed a fortnight are to make a second attempt on Monday. On this occasion, teachers all over the State are being invited to a meeting at which the 4 union
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    TAX TALK
    56 7 PENANG, Aug. 21. —Meetings to discuss the Heasman report on income tax will be held on Tuesday by the Settlement of Penang Association and the Indian Chamber of Commerce. Penang. Both bodies are vigorous opponents of income tax. It is expected that other public bodies here may also
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    Formation Of Malayan R.S.P.C.A.
    106 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. MALAYA’S first Society tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been formed in Kuala Lumpur by 60 people, representing all communities. The Governor, Sir Edward Gent, proposed the resolution, which was unanimously adopted. “The public conscience in
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    DEMANDS ANSWERED
    108 7 Kuala lumpur, Aug. 21. Negotiations between railway administrative officials and members of the worker’s All-Malayan Trade Union, which began on Aug. 11, have been completed. Answers have been provided for all the 59 demands put forward by the workers. Concessions have been made on some of the demands,
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    Mystery Of Jap Deaths In Fire
    149 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. rUR Japanese died in a mysterious fire which gutted a tent in the transit camp in Jurong Road, Singapore, at 2.30 a.m. on Thursday. The Japanese were to have been repatriated or- Monday in the Nippon Mara. Two of the four
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    Census Enumerators Out Tonight
    305 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. STARTING to-day, the census enumerators will go round to each house in Singapore and the Malayan Union. They will take with them a form on which there are sixteen questions. The enumerator will leave the form with the householder and will return a
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    BOY GANGSTER’S LIFE TERM
    229 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 29. CHONG Loy, a youthfu' member of the Grem Dragon Mountain Society, who received the death sentence for carrying arms and whose sentence was commuted by the Governor this week to seven years, will remain in gaol, however, serving
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    OPPOSITION TO INCOME TAX
    152 7 PENANG. Aug. 20.—Opposition to the Federation proposals and to the Introduction of income tax in Malaya was expressed at the annual general meeting of the Pan-Malayan Teochew Association in Penang. The meeting, which was presided over by well-known local miner Mr. Oh Hock Teik and included
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    Heasman Horizon Bounded By Income Tax?
    1146 8 'J’HIS article has been written by a leading member of Singapore’s financial community. It is a critical commentary of Mr. Heasman's recommendations that income tax should be introduced in this country with the least delay. The writer, wko prefers to remain anonymous, says that
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    ACTING RESIDENT
    48 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 23. MR. J. A. Harvey, formerly Chief Social Welfare Officer. Malayar. Union, has gone to Pahang to act as Resident Commissioner during the absence on leave of Mr. A. Sleep. Prior to this appointment. Mr Harvey was temporarily Commissioner of Lands, Malayan Union.
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    Less Rubber, More Tin From Penang
    205 8 Less Rubber More Tin From Penang From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sunday. RUBBER exports from Penang continued to drop sharply but tin shipments rose by over 20 per cent, last month, according to trade statistics available today. Rubber exports of May were valued at $23,000,000. June at $16,487,326, and for
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    HUNDREDS OF CLERKS MAY BE TAXED
    427 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 22. APPROXIMATELY 200 government clerks and half of the Municipal junior staff are drawing salaries and allowances totalling $250 a month and above, according to estimates given yesterday. There is no record what percentage of these staffs are married though a large
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    Green Dragon Youths Still At Large
    90 8 From Our Staff Correal KUALA LUMPLR N i A SEARCH tor Ch*"* <1 A Lim, the GreA'Y'A with H* ST* 1 h.£'5.I Siamese border! 10 1 special look out I maintained by th* S Patrol as it is thought £l that an attempt mieht
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    EXPECTED BACK PAY, SO USED WIDOWS’ MONEY
    209 8 PAHIT BUNTAN, Aug 2H A SUBMISSION that her ell® had misappropriated mo®| due to constables' widow he had anticipated back pa> was put forward® counsel for the cefenee in a c® heard here. Lim Teng Kooi. former cl® clerk in the O.C.P.D oil®
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    TISBURY-LE MERCIERY WEDDING
    76 8 SINGAPORE, Aug- 2* The wedding tcwk place yestf day between Mr. Jack Blan y bury and Miss Charles Mercier at the Church of theHc Family. Katong. hor The service, which was cn^ was taken by the R Girard. na aV 1 The bride was given her brother,
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    PORK PRICES DOWN
    70 8 KUALA LUMPUR. A Kuala Lumpur is also» to from reductions in ~Vn Cr W pork, following a con hel tween the Selang' p ice coi Association and the troller last week. ;ca New prices for lean 9O a n and fat pork are S2«o^ lv 9 p
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    PENANG VIEWS ON TAX PROPOSALS
    609 9 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Aug. 20. Inf' Heasman report, on income tax was accorded a Rniixed reception in Penang today. while a spokesman of the Malay Community welcomed lommeiidatioiis, a leading member of the European mer-R-ile community described the report as “very much like
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    Census Will Cost $1,185,000
    180 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 22. MR* M. V. del Tufo, Superintendent of Census, said yesterday, that the cost tc Government of enumerators reporting and tabulation foi census work will be $1,185,000 Preliminary enumeration will start on Aug. 24 and fur the first 14 days enumerators will go around
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    PARANG ATTACK
    82 9 lOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday.— For cutting Ramalingam. dispart ner w. a firewood business, with a parang. Muthu. a Tamil labourer of Karai Nagar Estate, was sent to prison for three years by Mr. Justice Bostock Hill at the Johore Assizes today. The cutting followed a quarrel between the two.
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    GUARDS KILL JAP LOOTERS
    159 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 22. AN Army sergeant told the Singapore Coroner. Mr W. G. Porter, yesterday, how at great personal risk he took part in a trap to catch Japa ness looters at the Supply Bas e Depot, Alexandra Road, early o n the morning of Aug
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    3 DEPORTED
    109 9 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21. THREE members oi a criminal gang engaged in armed rob- i bery and extortion were deported from Penang in May this year.. the Resident Commissioner. Mr. S. N. King, said today. Mr. King did not give any more 1 details but It may be recalled
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    Heasman Searching For Staff?
    95 9 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 21. —One of the reasons Mr. R. B. lieasman. income lax adviser to the Governments, has gone to London, it is believed, is to recruit income tax officers for Malaya and Singapore, should the two Governments decide to adopt
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    Fewer U.S. Goods To Singapore?
    217 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 22. NO local repercussions, in the exchange rate, ale ex pected in Singapore, following Britain's decision to suspend the convertibility of sterling but ther H may be further restrictions on imports from America. One commentator said that Britain would not do anything wniich
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    Mixed Feelings in KL On Income Tax
    505 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 20. JMMEDIATE reactions on Mr. R. B. Heasman’s incoitie tax report are that opposition #to the scheme will grow stronger, although it is admitted that Malaya cannot hold out for long without income tax. The Government
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    MORPHINE CHARGES
    78 9 SINGAPOE, Aug. 22. SIX Chinese were charged in the second Police Court yesterday with being in a hut in Dickinson Road on Aug. 20 for the purpose of receiving morphine injections and two other Chinese were charged whh using the hut for administering morphine. The six Chinese were
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    CLOSURE OF RESTAURANT ORDERED
    163 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. CLOSURE of lh e Pavilion Restaurant in Orchard Road, Singapore, for t«vo weeks from yesterclay was ordered by the Second District Judge, Mr. J. L. McFall, following conviction of the restaurant’s proprietor and A waiter for contravention of ‘he Meals in Establishments Proclamation.
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    K.L. DISCUSSION ON BUILDING
    193 9 From Our Stall' Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, August, 20. —The Kuala Lumpur Town Board at Its monthly meeting this morning decided to inform Government that restrictions on luxury building could be imposed only I through new legislation and not i through present Town Board J building by-laws.
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    NO MALAYAN FOR CANBERRA
    340 10 SINGAPORE, Au*. 21. SINGAPORE and the Malayan I’nion will have no direct representation at next 1 uesday s UomroonwcaltNjt'onferente in Australia to discuss a common Empire policy on a peace treaty with japan. An olTit-ial statement lasi Tuesday said that the Governor-General. Mr. Malcolm Macl)onal<l. had
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    ARRESTED ON SHB PROPERTY
    141 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21. Eggs, raisir.s and cloth figured in S.H.B. the ft charges heard in the Third Police Court, yesterday. For the theft of four eggs, value 60 cents from the Denbighshire, Chan Bun was fined $lO or two w#eks in gaol. Ong Ah Kian. who
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    BROOKE CAN NOT ATTEND LIBEL CASE
    318 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. Another request by Mr. Anthony Brooke to be allowed to enter Sarawak to attend the hearing of his libel action against Saiawak Attorney General, Mr. K. H. Digby, and the Saiawak Press Company has been refused. The action is set down
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    Singapore Wants Jap From Soviet
    143 10 TOKIO, Aug. 22. EFFORTS are being made by General MacArthur’s H.Q “through diplomatic channels,” to secure extradition from Russia of a Japanese General who was in charge of PoW camps in Malaya in 1943, and is wanted for a war crimes trial in Singapore. The
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    KIDNAPPED; ESCAPED
    129 10 Kuala lumpur, Aug. 21. Chat Fook Hin. a Chinese who was kidnapped by two armed gunmen along Serdang Road a few’ miles outside Kuala Lumpur, last evening arrived at the Sungei Besi police station early this morning after escaping from his captors. Chai who is son of a
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    RETURNED BANISHEE
    93 10 PENANG, Aug. 21.—A Singapore Chinese who was banished from Malaya 17 years ago, is to stand trial at the next Penang Assizes on a charge of returning home from banishment. The man. Poh Seng Hock, was committed after a preliminary inquiry yesterday before Mr. V. E. Dawson sitting
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    “TACTFUL” K.L. SLUM CLEAN-UP PRAISED
    345 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 2J. FOR his “tactful” handling of the demolition of insanitary slum houses in Kuala Lumpur, and his arrangements for the move—over of slum dwellers tv, the housing estate in Sungei Besi Road, Mr. C. O. Jennings, Kuala Lumpur
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    Harbour Board Answers Critics
    691 10 SINGAPORE, Au*'. ■>’ fl [REPLYING to criticisms in the Pros > I v being “still too much clelav at docks,” the acting chairman of the si/ a,)(l Harbour Hoard, Mr P. A. T. Chrimes, in an intoS yesterday, said: Consignees who comoleii,' 1 this delay-arc at
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    SAYS MOTHER WAS MURDERED
    120 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 23. Chinese woman said in tjjfl Singapore Coroner’s Court 3 1 day that she believed her m year-old mother. Ah Choy. was found with a wou^ d jd he J neck and a chopper besidt n«| had been murdered. The woman. Choy Ah Sai.
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    ACCUSED OF MISCHIEF
    86 10 SINGAPORE. Au- ILLEGED to have let J A coconut oil drop ho in 0 il floor of a store on torn < n y 0 the ground floor. Boev p 0 ur| appeared in the Se I Court yesterday. ulfin He was charged w| tn r mischief
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    MALAYAN WAR DAMAGE CLAIMS $1,302,000,000
    568 11 I !V(>m Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug; 21. I piji for war damage and war risks insurance which in viduals and companies in the Malayan L an:? Singapore have presented to the D:i?ri»:ro Claims Commission amounts to Lihiimwo. [jt was announced today that a
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    ‘Europeans Should Blush’ —-Lawyer
    173 11 Lroni Gur Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAIIRu, Aug. 21. "1 HOPE when they read the 1 account of this case in the papers they will blush,’* said the defence counsel, Lt. Col. Mathews-Kiilan ,in a District Court trial lure today. referring to the conduct ox two Europeans
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    BOYS’ MAGAZINE
    79 11 KATONG Boys’ Club. Singapore. has published its first magazine. Entitled The Fore-Runner, the magazine priced at 50 cents consists of 15 pages of reading material written and edited by the boys themselves. Owing to the high cost of printing, the magazine has been cyclostyled. In a foreword the
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    SENT TO K.L. FOR TRIAL
    145 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21. Charged with the criminal breach of trust of 7 :5 4 English gold sovereigns. 150 Ceylon stones, and $9O in cash to the total value of $585. at Broderick Street. Kuala Lumpur, on Tuly 13 a 39 year old Cantonese goldsmith’s. employee.
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    WOUNDED BY SHB POLICE OFFICER
    81 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21. There was no reply when the name of Cheong See Teck was called hi the Third Police Court, yesterday and Inspector Abdul Aziz told the Magistrate. Mr. K. M. Byrive, that Cheong was in hospital having been shot by an S.H.B. auxiliary
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    R.A.F. To Recruit 600 Malays
    212 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 22. RECRUITING for the Royal Air Force Regiment, Malaya, is to begin on August 26, it is officially fr Air Headquarters, Malaya. Three recruiUnjx teams will| leave Kuala Lumpur on August 25 to begin a tour of the whole of Malaya and Sin*
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    Nurse Loses $4,800 Claim For Damages
    178 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. ft for $4,800 damages brought by Miss Linda Vap. a nurse at the Infant Welfare Centre, Seremban, against Mr. Liew Fook Sang, a director of the Tong Fong Omnibus Co Ltd for inquries and damage sustained in a car accident,
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    INDIRECT LEVIES MAY BE REDUCED
    523 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. j’HK question of reducing indirect taxation if and when income tax is introduced is a matter which mist be considered at the appropriate time, said responsible government authorities today. They added that it was the intention whenever
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    ROBBER HELD
    68 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21 The Singapore police arrested a Hokkien on Tuenday. one day short of four months after an armed gang robbery in Singapore, in which he is alleged to have taken part. The robbery took place at a house in Pasir Lane on April 20. when four
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    NEW PROTEST ON API BAN
    108 11 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Aug. 20.- Representatives of 26 local organ isations meeting in Seremban decided to protest to the Government. against the outlawing of API (Malay Youth Organisation* The meeting was presided over by the commander of the MPAJA Ex-Comrades Association. Mr. Teng
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    NEW ZEALANDERS’ WELFARE
    45 11 SINGAPORE. A>'K 21 A broadcast outlining the health ar.d welfare of New Zealanders was given over Radio Malaya last night by Mr. W Parsonage. Mr. Parsonage is the New Zealand Observer at the International Social Welfare Conference now in session In Singapore.
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    brnamen tal Sh rubs And Climbers
    1040 13  -  The Malayan Gardener By R.E. HOLTTUM. Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore cHKUBS are erect 3 busliV I )lants nbers are not strong 'l, to stand alone must have support some kind. The two typically distinct m »h, but there are nts which may
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    2 K.L. THEATRES IN FILM DEAL
    82 13 LONDON, August 11. (By Airmail, The cinema interests with wh„m the J. Arthur Rank Organisation has recently concluded an agreement are Mr. Loke Wan Tho and Mr. Max Baker. The theatres in which an interest has been acquired are the Cathay in Singapore, the
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    “Lobak” Tastes Like Turnips
    558 13  -  Grow Your Own Vegetables By J.N. MILSUM and J.R.P. SOPER, of the Department of Agriculture THE Chinese radish or “lobak” provides a very good substitute for turnips which do not as a rule glow well on the plains. Lobak however, gives excellent results and is not
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    $5 Million Housing Plan
    170 13 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25 The Malayan Union Housing Committee in its final report recommends the establishment of a Government Building Trust with an initial capital of $5,000,000 for large-scale housing in the Malayan Union to alleviate shortage. This money is to be
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    It Wasn’t A Dogs Life With A Tail
    414 13 TA M B Y, the Indian labourer’s dog, sat with a soft little frown of discomfort wrinkling his brow as he waited faithfully for his mistress to collect her latex. Tamby is a lusty dog, but well advanced into middle age. and
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    FROM RUBBER TO PADI
    159 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 23.—Indications that the fall In the rubber price has resulted In greater Interest In rice, by cultivators who have turned to the estates for work, is reported in Johore It Is stated that areas in Johore formerly abandoned are
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    MDU Will Support Income Tax
    365 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. THE Malayan Democratic Union and Singapore Teachers Union yesterday announced their support of income tax, and decided to appoint a sub-committee to go further into the question. The sub-committee will study the problem with a viev' to making recommendations on such aspects
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    SIX CHARGED
    103 14 IfUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. K Six Chinese from Sungei Pelek, a village 14 miles from Kuala Lumpur, were produced in the First Magistrate’s Court today, or. individual charges ranging from gang robbery to extortion alleged to have beer, committed at the same village during May a)id Jure. Among
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    Educate The Girls, Say Indians
    284 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. THE importance of education among Malaya-bor n Indian girls was stressed by Mr. Paul Sammy, presiding at the first post-war general meeting of the Indo-Malayan Association. Singapore. Better education, he said, would prepare them to take their place among their sisters in
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    OFFERED BRIBE
    62 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. A 32-year-old Hokkien, Ong Ah Kim, who offered a bribe of $495 to a police corporal on July 23 at New Bridge Road when the corporal found six pounds of opium on him, sentenced to nine months’ rigorous imprisonment in the First District Court yesterday
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    TEACHERS FORM NEW UNION
    73 14 From Our Own Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 24. SELANGOR teachers at a meeting this morning formed themselves into a trade union to be known as the Union of Selangor Teachers. Delegates from the new union, the Negri Sembilan Teachers’ Union and the Singapore Teachers’ Union will
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    UNION FORMED IN PENANG
    99 14 PENANG, Aug. 22.—Following their meeting last Tuesday. Penang teachers have decided to form a trade union. A preparatory committee has been appointed and discussions are being held with the Penang Trade Union Adviser, Mr. R. Gaddick. This move gained ground last Tuesday when the Trade Union
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    PASSENGERS FOR SINGAPORE
    83 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. The following passengers have arrived in Singapore by the K.P.M. ship Straat Malakka from South American and South and East African parts. Rear Admiral and Mrs. R. D. Oliver from Mombasa. Mr. G. V. Evans from Capetown, and Mrs. G. M. Lewis and two
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    JOHORE STOCK FARM REVIVED
    349 14 JOHORE R-\|IPT I JOHORE has the distinction of having on* (l Au S.a J Government stock farms in the Empire si ,ll! t to supply livestock for cultivation and farmin,. ln l] farm, which has about 5,000 acres on the Klu-ine'!” road, has recovered from wartime
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    Deadline In Bus Dispute
    134 14 From Our Own ComjoJ PEXAXG, Aug. 24.1 AFTER a three-week dJ lock in negotiations. J Central Province WeilJ Transport Company has a ed a 48-hour ultimatum its workers. The ultimatum expires on T day morning. Under the ultimatum the c pany dismisses all workers wh not
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    UNION FOOD PRICES DROP STEADILY
    185 14 From Our Staff Correspondent P KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 24. URCHASES by Muslims for the Hari Raya Puasa celebrations had no effect on the prices of essential foodstuffs and other articles m the Union, the Price Controller states in his latest report. A steady fall in
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    KUALA LUMPUR WEDDING
    189 14 From Our Staff Correspond*! KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday.-* Donald Walter Beeden. ASP* the Malayan Union police, so* Mr. and Mrs. H. Beeden* Southsea, Hampshire, was t* ried at St. Mary’s Church,* terday. to Mrs. Elizabeth Bry* Salmond, of the W V S K* Lumpur, daughter ot Mr. Mrs.
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    REVENUE NEED
    85 14 VUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 22.—The 11 raising of an external loan for the purpose of rehabilitation would r.ot relieve the government of the necessity of securing additional revenue said the Financial Secretary of the Malayan Union, Mr. W. D.*Godsall. The proceeds of the loan would be used for the
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    80-FT. HIGH HILL IN BORNEO SEA
    249 14 From Our Staff Correspondent. BEAUFORT, North Borneo, Aug. 23. ANE night last June Osman bin v Salleh. who lives on the West Coast of the Klias Peninsula, North Borneo, noticed nothing unusual before going to sleep and, heard nothing during the night. Yet when
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    FORCED RIDE IN TAXI ALLEGED
    72 14 1 xYYVI 1 s INGA p ORE. Au pd Ton Kim Sha. 21. C J guilty in the Fouun a J yesterday to criminal inti ntf J by threatening Lim A with injury. e f 0 rj Toh was alleged to i Lim t 0
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    Governor Answers Chinese Criticism
    901 15 I From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25. IsESE in Malaya had probably failed to appreciate Efficiently the considerable modifications to their Stage which now appeared in the final constitu■l agreement as compared with the first report of Eorking committee, declared the Governor, Sir
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    Malay Gang Kill Chinese, Fire House
    114 15 Malay Gang Kill Chinese Fire House From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Aug. 23. A gang of Malay robbers set lire to a house in Kampong Kuan, Kulim, after holding up and seriously wounding the three oeeupants in the early hours of Wednesday morning. One of the victims escaped but lA
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    STRIKE AT UNITEERS
    109 15 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. FO hundred fitters and turners are on strike at th e River Valley Road works of United Engineers Ltd. in Singapore. They demand reinstatement of 15 men the company dismissed at its Tanjong Rhu slipway after a breakdown. The company's main activity is repairing
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    ROYAL BIRTHDAY
    102 15 SEREMBAN, Aug. 24.—Malay chieftains from districts in Negri Sembilan travelled specially to Seremban this morning to pay respects to the Yang di-Pertuan Besar, Sir Abdul Rahman, who celebrated his birthday today. The ceremony took place on the padang after a parade of detachments of the Malay Regiment and
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    Union’s Reserves $150,000,000 Down
    529 15 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25. FINANCIAL reserves of territories comprising the Malayan Union were reduced by nearly $l5O million between December, 1941, and July this year, it was revealed in the Advisory Council meeting this morning. Giving the information in official replies to
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    $50,000 GRANT TO CHINESE SCHOOLS
    87 15 KUCHING, Aug. 23. THE Acting Director of Educa- tion to the Committees of Management of various Chinese schools has announced that a sum of $50,000 has recently been made available by the Government to cover the payment of cxgratia grants to Chinese aided schools in
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    MALAYA’S FOOD CLAIM PRESSED
    575 15 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25. REPRESENTATIONS should be made again immeK diately for Malaya to be directly represented at the International Emergency Food Council meetings next month when allocations of food for 1948 would be considered, Mr. A. W. Wallich told today s
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    Union, S’pore Differ Over Tax Proposal
    942 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. CONFLICTING decisions on income tax proposals were made yesterday by the Malayan Union Advisory Council and the Singapore Advisory Council. In Kuala Lumpur, the Union Advisory Council rejected a Government resolution to appoint a committee to consider jointly with a Singapore
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    BRITISH COUNCIL IN MALAYA
    246 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. rE British Council will start functioning in Singapore at the end of next week. Acting regional representative for South East Asia, is Mr. J. P. Lucas, who arrived In Singapore recently. Mr. Lucas’ chief task will be to fill in the gap in
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    $l0,000 DRAFT SAID FORGED
    89 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. Alleged to have abetted an attempt to send a forged draft for $lO,OOO to Hong Kong, a 41 vear old Hokkien Goh Seek Hoe appeared in the Second Police Court, yesterday. He was charged with abetting Mah Song Yit, in the attempted cheating
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    $700,000 FOOD PROVISION
    39 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25. Under Increased Malayan Union estimates, the Food Production branch is provided with $702,850 for payment of grants of $5O per acre to holders of land cultivating food crops under the 1946 proclamation.
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    S’pore Favoured Joint Inquiry
    632 16 THE Singapore division yesterday to refer the Heasml N income tax to a joint committee of the Sin/ ept l Malayan Union Advisory Councils. nw P#n| I'he Officer Administering tile (10ver...,, I P.A.B. McKerron, announced that th e S’ the committee would be two official and
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    ‘LET IMPORTERS DO IMPORTING’
    284 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25. IT was high time Government retired from the field as a trader, and allowed merchants to handle the import business in ope n competition, said Mr. Khoo Teik Ee at today’s meeting of the Advisory Council in Kuala
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    ALLEGED BRIBE OFFER BY SIKH
    127 16 SINGAPORE. Aug.J A 30-year-old Sikh Darj Singh, was charged in tnegjjl Police Court, yesterday. ferlng a bribe to Meyer, to release him from 1 tody in a truck in Sera n Road on Thursday. J He was also charged with in fraudulent °vj military shirts
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    RUBBER FROM SIAM
    60 16 RUBBER FR O M SIAM DENANG, Aug. 22.--M a apPi I layan dealers "1 for permits to ln^ rt j rU a i r ubl Siam, a Prominent Jocm merchant said today- the e *pi Since the lifting < sh j P J ban on July J Makava and j
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    COMMISSIONERS’ SECRET DEBATE IS PUBLISHED
    755 17 I SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. BREEDINGS at the secret debates of the SingaMunicipal Commissioners on the future conIrn of the Commission —with an explanation by Bnnicipal President, Mr. L. Rayman, on why the I and miblic were excluded from the debates— If officially published last night.
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    U.S. Clipper Flight To Singapore
    200 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. pAN American World AirI ways will probably resume their pre-war Clipper ser/ice from San Francisco to Singapore towards the end of next month if a “proving flight’* now being undertaken by a Douglas D. C. 4 aircraft “Kathay Clipper” is succ< ssful.
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    GIRLS RESCUED
    66 17 PENANG, Aug. 26.—Two Chinese schoolgirls, picnicking with a party, were rescued from drowning at Batu Ferringhi on Monday. The two girls were bathing when they were carried away by a big wave. Or. the alarm being raised, t me members o 5 the Saint John Ambulance Brigade who
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    LACK OF EVIDENCE
    55 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. A Chinese, Cheah Kheng Guan, was acquitted in the Third District Court yesterday because of lack of evidence on a charge of accepting, cn various dates in August, September and October, last year, $350 from Tan Ah Kow to refrain from taking action under
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    Youth Kidnapped At Badminton
    124 17 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Aug. 26. TAN TEI KHOON, son of the manager of Chee Seng Rubber Factory, Taiping, was kidnapped in daring circumstances yesterday. Ta n was playing badmmton with some friends at the factory premises, at the 2*4 mile, Taiping-Simpang ltoad. when a
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    SHOT BUT DIED ‘NATURALLY’
    69 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. The case of a man who was shot but whose death later was from natural causes, the result of a kidney disease, was reported yesterday at the Singapore Coroner’s inquiry. The man was Wee Kim Swee. Midnight intruders fired at him through the
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    2,000 Meet To Mourn S’pore Red
    352 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. OVER 2,000 people last night packed the MPAJA ExService Comrades’ Association hall in Queen Street to pay their resypects to th e Singapore Communist leader, Lin Ah Liang. He lay in state, after his death at the Singapore General Hospital on
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    Fierce K.L. Storm Causes Big Damage
    365 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 26. THE General Hospital was robbed of its electrical power and Klang and Port Swettenham towns were completely without electricity for four hours, as a result of a fierce squall which hit Kuala Lumpur early today. The
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    BURIED GUNS
    48 17 KLUANG, Aug. 26. —While many authorities were cutting lallang and doing excavation work at the Kluang airstrip on Sunday, they discovered 850 dismantled Japanese rifles and a pistol, burled in the earth. Arrangements are being made to dump the guns in the sea ofT Batu Pahat.
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    INQUIRY URGED
    124 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. The Singapore Representative of the M.C.P. Mr. Chang Ming Ching yesterday requested the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. H P. Bryson to hold an lnvestl^a- tion into the death of Lin Ah Liang, which occurred on Sundav morning. In his letter, Mr. Chang alleged that Lin
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    All-Malayan Indians Beat Penang
    239 18 From Our Staff Correspondent. PENANG, Aug. 23. r! All-Malayan Indians sprang a Dig surprise on the Penang State XI by trouncing them flve-one In a soccer match played at the International Club ground today. The Indians came into the picture after Penang had scored first through
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    Greyhound Racing: No Decision
    227 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 20. POLICE and other Government officials have no objection to the introduction of greyhound racing in Kuala Lumpur, members of the Kuala Lumpur Town Board were informed at their monthly meeting this morning. Asked to give their own views,
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    PENANG C.F.A. BEAT INDIANS
    109 18 From Our Staff Correspondent. PENANG, Aug. 24. After trouncing the Penang State team 5-1 yesterday, the AllMalayan Indian eleven surprisingly went down today to the Penang Chinese, local League champions, in a thrilling game by three goals to nothing. The Indians made four changes from the
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    TENGAH BEAT JOHORE C.C.
    108 18 From Our Staff Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 22. Playing yesterday on the Trade School ground, the R.A.F. Tengah beat the Johore C.C. by eight wickets. Batting first, Johore. were all out for 66 runs At one stage, when the total was 49, four wickets fell without
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    Colours XI Win Trial
    170 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 1:6. GOOD goalkeeping was the outstanding feature of today’s State trial held by the Selangor F. A. to pick a team for Sunday’s match against Negri Sembilan. Henry Paul and Won! Kam Tong, the two goalkeepers, gave fine displays.
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    Eurasians In Stonor Final
    369 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 24. THE Selangor Eurasians entered the final of the Stonor Shield competition today with a three wickets victory over the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club. The Chinese fared badly when, after winning the toss, they went in to bat and
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    S.R.A. SHOOT
    79 18 Forty members of the Singapore Rifle Association met on Sunday morning at Seletar Rifle Range for a competition shoot. Opportunity was taken to practise for the Colonial Postal Match. Results of the fortnightly shoot were (figures being for 300, 500 and 600 yards and total respectively) (E) Capt.
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    WAH YEW BEATEN
    67 18 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Aug. 26. The Malacca Chinese Recreation Club beat the Selangor Wah Yew In their soccer match in aid of the South China Relief Fund. The home team won two-nil Kong Chee and Cheng Piat scoring In the first half. Two silver cups
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    SEL v S’PORE ATHLETICS
    111 18 SEL v S’ PORE ATHLETICS From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Auf. 23. rrELANGOR’S State ChampionU ships next weekend will be the start of an interesting programme of athletics which is likely to make this a memorable season. Plans are already afoot for holding a match between Selangor and Negri
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    Perak Rest Win ‘Test’
    225 18 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Aug. 24. THE Rest beat the Europeans by six wickets in the Hennessy Trophy match ended today. The trophy, which was lost during the occupation, was replaced by Dr. A. C. Kathigasu. A devastating spell of bowling by Lt. Col. Amoore.
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    SOCCER DRAWN
    30 18 Embarkation Headquarters and Young Companion A. A. drew two-all in a soccer match played at Pulau Brani during the weekend. Knowles and Cornish scored for ♦he home team.
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    S’pore Racing Dates Changed
    75 18 The Singapore Turf Club will hold its first post-war race meeting on ftov. 15, 19 and 22 instead of Nov. 8. 11 and 15 as originally planned, the president of the Club, Mr. H. C. Reilly, told the Straits Times last night. This change followed alteration
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    RECS DEFEAT S.C.C. IN PADANG GAME
    419 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. i J SANDERSON of th e S.R.C., after scoring 53 including five sixes, was out to a catch by Coleman of ire S.C.C., who was leaning against the ropes, in a match on the Padang yesterday. The Rees won the two-day
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    Airmen Win Easily
    209 18 SINGAPORE All I pIE Combined R A I the S.C.R c u I wickets at Hong YJ? J yesterday. KLm G® The Club batten all out for ns riin? r n aD( il who made a steadv Bjl nior and w Hinni 111 28 runs each. werc
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    J. Lockhart 7 For 15 Runs
    261 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 2® Brilliant bowling by I Lockhart, who took seven fl 15, and good batting by CS® Bovell and Osman K® enabled th e Segamat Cric® Club to beat the Cey® Sports Club by eight wick® at Thomson Road yesterda® The Ceylonese batted
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    R.A.F. TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
    73 18 The annual championship the R.A.F. Malaya La n S ept Association will beg m nis court at the Fairy Point tennis Changi. nHve d e vel Matches will be pl ne n t« day until Sept. 17. finals will be held singles n In addition to men
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    RIGID ECONOMY’ CALL IN UNION
    567 19 h'roin Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25. need for a searching inquiry into the financial nsition of the Malayan Union and for rigid v in Government expenditure was stressed by \y Wallich, Kuala Lumpur, and Mr. Ee Yew Malacca, at today’s meeting of the
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    MALAY VOICE IN IMMIGRATIONS
    211 19 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25. There was no reason to expect that Malay representatives in a future Federal Legislative Council would oppose all and any immigration. declared the Governor, Sir Edward Gent, at the Advisory Council meeting today. He was replying to criticisms
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    STOWAWAYS
    58 19 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. rO Chines-? stowaways were discovered on board the Norwegian vessel, Prosper, on her arrival in Singapore yesterday from Swatow. The men have been handed over to the Immigration authorities and will be returned to China by a later ship. The Prosper carried nearly 900 Chines**' passengers
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    Malaya Stops US Imports
    92 19 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. PENDING clarification of future import policy, the granting of further permits for imports into Malaya from U.S.A., Canada and countries in Central and South America, except Argentine and Brazil, will be temporarily suspended, says an official statement issued last night. Exceptions will only
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    “GAPS” IN STRIKE
    225 19 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25. “PAPS” were reported today U in the country-wide oneday token strike called by Malayan rubber workers in a wages protest. The protest was against the attitude taken towards rubber workers’ demands by the United Planting Association of Malaya. The
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    LENDU RUBBER’S CREDIT BALANCE
    51 19 A credit balance of $6,739 on the 1946 Profit and Loss Account of the Lendu Rubber Company was carried forward. The account included profit on the sale of investments, liquid assets in Malaya previously written off and now recovered, and unrequired reserve for Eastern liabilities written
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    Weekly Rubber Report
    152 19 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. NEW York, after a long interval, took a little of the rubber offering from here this week, but the majority of business done was for ship, ment to other destinations, says Lewis and Peat’s weekly market report. Fluctuations have been narrow, ar.d although the
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    DOCTOR DUPED BY STRANGE GIRL
    118 19 PARIT BUNTAR, Aug. 23. RECENTLY a Chinese girl confidence trickster managed to obtain $3O from a local doctor by a simple ruse. She called herself Annie Wee and said that she was the grand-daughter of the well known Captain Bachee. She visited the doctor’s dispensary
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    Malaya Trophies Found In Java
    250 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 23. ABOUT 100 silver trophies looted from Malayan clubs and homes have come back to this country after having been collected throughout Java by a Dutch searcher organisation, "Come. The silverware includes golf, tennis, turf club and motor racing prizes and many
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    Government Plans Are ‘One-Sided’
    552 19 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25. CRITICISMS of the revised Malayan Constitutional proposals on the ground that they discriminated in favour of a particular race were made by Mr. H. S. Lee and Dr. (Miss) Soo Kim Lan at today's meeting of the Malayan
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    BUSINESS QUIET: S’PORE WAITS
    861 20 BUSINESS QUIET: S’ PORE WAITS Weekly Share Market Review By A Market Correspondent <3O far as Malayan share markets are concerned events in Europe have not yet seriously affected price levels, but many investors and would-be investors have temporarily abandoned the role of player for that of spectator. As a
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    YEAR OF DELAYS
    311 20 Kinta Tin From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 26. A YEAR of constant dis- appointments and delays for Kinta Tin Mines Limited was reported by the chairman, Mr. R. C. Savory, at the company's annual meeting in London. The disappointments referred to both manufacturers’ deliveries and shipping.
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    Rubber Export Down 2,000 Ton
    343 20 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPirn a THE latest rubber statistics for the Vl Ug 21 contrnue to reflect the results of th,! 1 >a the commodity on production and exnnn ow <"> Foreign exports fell by more stocks with dealers increased by ne irK
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    TRADE UNION REGISTERED
    77 20 From Our Staff Coma KUALA LUMPUR, Z The following trade uni been registered in the Union: The Penang Hair Dressing i Waving Employees’ Associate Farmers Union. Province Wellej Penang Farmers Association Perak House Workers Union, ment Printing Department l Trade Union; The Selangc Choong Boiler Makers Union
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    MALAYSIAM TIN
    59 20 Malaysiam Tin is paying and Anal dividend of four cent, on 148,876 Ordinary in respect of the year ended 31. 1947. The last payment was i dividend of five per cent, ft to 1941, making 10 per ces that year. Profit for the year to Mu 1947, is
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    676 20 (By Our Market Correspondent.) Singapore. Aug. 26. A FEATURE of the local share n market was a steadier tone among tin shares and the marking VfP n price of sterling tin issues, following the lead from London. Among the shares marked up were Tronohs, Kamuntings, Pangnga Rivers,
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