The Straits Budget, 9 October 1947
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Title Section31 1947-10-09 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES fESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] (jew Series No. 62. Singapore Thursday, October 9th, 1947 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.31 words
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Advertisement63 1947-10-09 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. For63 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article1104 1947-10-09 2 —Straits Times, Oct. 2. It is over a month since Sir Edward Gent announced that an unofficial committee would be appointed to inquire into Malayan Union finances, as part of the compromise reached after a majority of the unofficial members of the Union Advisory Council voted in—Straits Times, Oct. 2. - 1,104 words
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Article1089 1947-10-09 2 —Straits Times, Oct. 3. In all pronouncements on the new austerity policy that is being introduced in this country the Malayan Union and Singapore Governments have never admitted that they are acting under instructions from London, but have let it be supposed that their action—Straits Times, Oct. 3. - 1,089 words
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Article1035 1947-10-09 2 —Straits Times, Oct. 4 The recent election ,h r u. h,i to tho pe<,|>!,. ,,f i tsptc. It was Marilipig’f W U>a ,f- U > "f Polmcali w,th names such fl Part in the elections m ful island which \\e h av I regarded as—Straits Times, Oct. 4 - 1,035 words
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Article1020 1947-10-09 3 -Straits Times, Oct. 6. The President of the Malayan Association, Mr. E. D. Shearn, last week drew the attention of the Association to corruption in Government departments and the failure of Government to dispel the widespread feeling of distrust and suspicion that exists in the public-Straits Times, Oct. 6. - 1,020 words
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Article896 1947-10-09 3 Straits Times, Oct. 7. It was a relief to listen to Mr. Malcolm MacDonald’s sensible and practical comments on the Federation of Malaya in his broadcast on Sunday night, after ja spate of fire-eating oratory and slogans and clenched-fist salutes from the people who want to convert MalayaStraits Times, Oct. 7. - 896 words
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396 1947-10-09 3 --Straits Times, Oct. 7. In the latest number of “Cooperator”, the monthly magazine of the Singapore Co-operative Stores Society, there is an amusingly cynical editorial note on the Price-Tag Shops which are making a gallant and long-overdue challenge to that ancient custom, pastime, art--Straits Times, Oct. 7. - 396 words
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Article1343 1947-10-09 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 8. And so the bandits have killed a Johore planter. The shocking news of the death of Mr. Archibald Nicolson in an ambush on the Pontian road on Monday night follows repeated and insistent warnings by the planting community of Johore to—Straits Times, Oct. 8. - 1,343 words
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Article94 1947-10-09 4 SINGAPORE, Oct. 8. A 25-year-old Malay seaman on board the Straits Steamship Company vessel. Mentakab. was found to be suffering from smallpox on the ship’s arrival in Singapore from Malacca yesterday. He was immediately taken to St. John’s Island and quarantined by the port health authorities.94 words
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Article146 1947-10-09 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 7. THREE armed Chinese gunmen raided the Tang Lee mining kongsi at Ampang, a few miles from Kuala Lumpur, yesterday and escaped with $3,500 which was part of the labourers* pay roll drawn from the Overseas Chinese Bank earlier146 words
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Article167 1947-10-09 4 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Oct. 7. A CONTRACTOR who refused to be intimidated into stopping work on Ladang Geddes Estate was congra'ulated by the District Judge, Mr. B. V. Rhodes, today, on his public spirited action. The judge sent the leader of a gang167 words
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357 1947-10-09 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPtjr a I THE appointment of a Royal Commission I the new constitution for Malaya fl r( “perpetuate that state of uncertainty from “S I country is now being relieved.” m The Secretary of State for the Colonies357 words
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Article105 1947-10-09 4 WILLIS. At Kandang Kerbaul oital on 4th. October, to iH Katherine, wife of I R. M W* son (Michael Brvarn. I SMEDLEY. To Joan, wiffl Kenneth Smedlev. on 29th Sec* at Kandang Kerbau HosDittl iH On October 1st. at the Genera* pital. Johore Bahru, to Phyllis, G. L. Bavliss.105 words
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Article135 1947-10-09 4 The engagement is between Miss Rita Loraine Duns* Singapore daughter of Mr. an<M A. Dunstan of Svdney. Austral* Mr. Raymond Hitchcock of Bahru, son of Mr. and Mrs. <* Hitchcock of Dundee Scotland,* The engagement is announc** ween Edward James Cha: field- son of Mr. A. E. Gardner and135 words
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Obituary120 1947-10-09 4 DEATHS RUSHTON Douglas J Sept. ’47 British M i mar\ f q lali India. English m 933 MEYER George M Serangoon Road p vear s. I 2/10/1947. Aeed rj .iur Alexander William y nlliet ir J suddenly passed a 79 cm peacefully at his 1, '\v cvenine J Road, at120 words
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605 1947-10-09 5 BmTLESS it lias already Bi n-in'i'ted in y»ur WL that as a result of K unofficial strikes of B muHt- i'«, Yorkshire, BJmatolv half a million u ,-._-fi:t lv needed Coal B„ ct H„, Ha- been lost; also result el this loss, it Will605 words
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Article333 1947-10-09 5 rANK you for your leader on petrol rationing. Your leaders and my morning pisang inspire m e with the urge to get through a weary day’s work. This morning you incite m e to this, for the benefit of the Competent Authority, by which I mean333 words
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Article364 1947-10-09 5 THERE is a prevalent tendency in the world today to regard the worker as downtrodden and the administrative classes as standing on him. A very large proportion of your excellent paper ia daily devoted to the reporting ol the wage increases granted to the workers and364 words
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Article36 1947-10-09 5 AIR CHIEF’ S TOUR Air Marshal Sir George Pirie. Air Commander-in-Chief. Far East, will leave Changi in an RAF York aircraft for Ceylon on Oct. 20 for a three-week inspection of RAF units on the Island.36 words
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Article342 1947-10-09 5 TN th e editorial of Sept. 30 1 you wrote that the strike proposed by the Pan-Malayan Council of Government W<>rKers must fail. It must be admitted that a strike of this magnitude will never go through, and if it does it will only end in defeat.342 words
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Article498 1947-10-09 5 Some Observations On 7 he Kuala Lumpur Padang VARIOUS papers have reported a “mass rally” organised by the AMCJA and PUTERA, held in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, Sept. 28. One paper reported that 3,000 people attended this rally. Considering the population of Kuala Lumpur, even 3,000 people could498 words
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Article165 1947-10-09 5 THE Anglican Church in Malaya may bo the next to bo given up by the British. That the Bishop has made up his mind on it is evident from his deliberate and repeated flouting of the Church’s principles. He has been receiving Communion at Methodist and165 words
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Article136 1947-10-09 5 UY inclinations are neithei yet to the ‘Right’ nor to the ‘Left’ in th e adolescence of civic consciousness in Malaya. Neither can I be sitting on the fence long as the day is fast dawning for one to decide. But your two leaders136 words
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1680 1947-10-09 6 TUAN DJEK - A Malayan Countryman’s Diary TUAN DJEK. W. w. 1 CALLED in the other day at the shop built at the roadside of our squatters’ area. The owner seems to be doing well, as I notice he has cut wood for an extension. It is1,680 words
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150 1947-10-09 6 There was a second explosion on the night of Oct. 5 on the carbide tongkang that blew up with Idss of two lives in Singapore River a fortnight ago. This Straits Times picture shows firemen playing extinguishers on the wreck, hast night’s explosion occurred when Chinese coolies—each with a life.—Straits Times photo. - 150 words
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Article141 1947-10-09 6 SINGAPORE Or.t I M R £5J trade ‘•‘•‘Presentat ,f| been given permission J main m Singa Por to l week. 0 1 le Mr. Plakhin yesterdav v I finalised a *oM a plane had not cancelled it un t hour last night. U P to aV141 words
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Article171 1947-10-09 6 From Our Own orre^pondei PENANG, Oct. 6.—Since lifting of the export ban on, 1 this year rubber ship® from Siam have been arrivin North Malaya in "increa quantities.” a loading rubber n chant said yesterday. He said he expected that the monsoon setting in. Am can171 words
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Article197 1947-10-09 6 SINGAPORE. Oct. SIR John and Lady Bagnall among 68 passengers on oj the Blue Funnel ship tna which arrives in Sinsapcr* Friday from Fremantle. Other Charon passengers ar Mr. A.G. Barron Toop. Bowden, Mr. and Mi?. A ford, Mr. W.J. Chatei. i j aci197 words
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Article750 1947-10-09 7 SINGAPORE, Oct. 4. r Chinese gangsters yesterday morning held up a nnev escort party in the doorway of the Lee Wah Singapore, and escaped in a taxi with $35,000 sikli jaga at the bank defied the gunmen and I, in containing $100,000 from (lie750 words
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469 1947-10-09 7 SINGAPORE, Oct. 4. AN increased supply of rice to Malaya, the staple food of the masses, should be Riven top priority in any assistance which the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East can extend to this country, says469 words
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Article143 1947-10-09 7 SINGAPORE. Oct. 4. For making a false statement to the Rent Assessment Board last April, a middle-aged woman. Wong Ah Yeng. was fined $5OO or three months in prison in the Singapore Third Police Court, on Thursday. Inspector Abdul Aziz said that Wong deliberately made a143 words
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Article138 1947-10-09 7 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 3. PENANG is to have a new bank shorti>. It will oe a branch of the Eastern Bank Ltd., which is incorporated in London. With its office at Weld Quay opposite the Church Street Pier, the bank will138 words
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Article141 1947-10-09 7 I From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, October 2.—The action taken by employers to reduce high labour charges in Penang is meeting with response from the labourers themselves. The Chinese and Indian sections of the Harbour Labour Union, it is understood, are now revising their scale141 words
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175 1947-10-09 7 M SINGAPORE, ”1. 4. T HE Principal of Raffles College, Singapore, p f^ or V lx zxt&s»% sssusa ing in it. All students who attended at the college yesterday for the start of the academic year were handed a mimeographed notice signed by Prolessor Dyer.175 words
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Article164 1947-10-09 7 SINGAPORE, Oct. 4. A 13-YEAR-OLD Chinese girl, Lim Joo Eng, played ail important part in the arrest of a member of an armed gang of four Chinese wno attempted to rob her lamily at their home at Clyde Terrace on the morning of! April 14. While164 words
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Article205 1947-10-09 7 SINGAPORE, Oct. 4. THE Singapore Third Magistrate, Mr. F. Bernard Oehlers, told a young Chinese yesterday that dogs also had a right to live and imposed a fine of $100 or four weeks’ rigorous imprisonment. The Chinese, Wee Seng Soo, a licensed animal205 words
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Article93 1947-10-09 7 PENANG, October 3.—A Siamese woman who boarded a midnight. ferry and Instated on the boat sailing immediately was cautioned by the Third Magistrate, Mr. J. P. Blackledge, for being drunk and disorderly. It was stated In evidence that thn woman Choo See, boarded the last launch at93 words
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Article749 1947-10-09 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4. DRESH deportation powers for the authorities are being considered by the Government, declared the Governor, Sir Edward Gent, today after seven speakers at the Malayan Union Advisory Council had urged swifter banishment procedure and the inclusion of corporal punshment as a749 words
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Article198 1947-10-09 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 5. AT a meeting of the Associated Chinese ChamJ bars of Commerce of the (Malayan Union and Smga pore, held in Kuala Lumpur today, it was decided to hold a Maiaya-wide hartal on October 20 as a protest against the revised constitutional proposals.198 words
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Article299 1947-10-09 8 S’ pore Bans Race Horse Imports SINGAPORE, Oct. 5. THE Singapore Government has placed a ban on the importation of race horses into tne Colony from all sources, including the sterling area. This news was described by racing circles as “a shattering blow,” especially as the Singapore Turf Club is299 words
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Article53 1947-10-09 8 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR.- Oct. 5. G D. A FLETCHER has been elected president of the council of the newly-formed Malayan Planting Employers’ Industries Association. Mr. C. Thornton is vice-presid-ent, and the board of trustees comprises the president; vice-president, Mr. Khoo Teik Ee, and53 words
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Article442 1947-10-09 8 DLANS are under way for the proposed 'h.! °ct. J I clubhouse to be the future home of I. u «f a I Club on high ground overlooking the Peirce n ln8a P* r t J surrounding countryside. n< **rv 0 i r J The442 words
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Article77 1947-10-09 8 Malaya-born Group-Captain M. Donaldson, who increased the air speed record to 616 miles an hour last year, has been presented with one of the De la Vaux medals, which are awarded by the International Aeronautical Federation (FAD to winners of world records. The presentation was made77 words
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Article142 1947-10-09 8 j Fr Our Staff rw 1 penanoFoSH AS a first Step toward! I"unirv re,iS °t d imovementoincvshSJ I allowed m Malaya 11 1 leading importers l today. e I i f t tPga P°^ tr< Em-'1viT*J Nations' Economic ComiHl Asia and the Far Ea« 1 The society142 words
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Article80 1947-10-09 8 SINGAPORE. Get. 4 ONE hundred and fifty pe are homeless as a re of a fire which destroyed zinc and wood shoplmuses Kulai, 20 miles from JoJ Bahru, yesterday. The fire started in the s'.ov a Chinese food shop at 1 pm. was extinguished by a comp80 words
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Article149 1947-10-09 8 From Our Staff Correspond KUALA LUMPUR. Oct Two speakers at the Mala Union Advisory Council, yestd urged that social services by Public Relations Departn should not be curtailed. Mr. V. M. N. Me non. referrm cuts In the department rec mended by the Es'imates149 words
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155 1947-10-09 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 5. EIGHT Chinese wore painted masks when they robbed the Queen’s Bar and Restaurant in Tanjong Katong Road. Singapore, of $2OO at 1.15 a.m. yesterday. While five of the men waited outside the back door of the shop, three with»plstols climbed into the155 words
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Article200 1947-10-09 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. .g hundred workers of the Aik Hoe Rubber Fartorv. Singapore, yesterday decided to call off r l.j-(l:iv-oid strike. Only about half that number return to work today, however. a nu'oting between-representatives of the faciiwl the workers yesterday, the workers accepted imimi'-vincnt’s statement200 words
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Article141 1947-10-09 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. Epr.ipnstd Malayan trade and i:.du>trU's exhibition. k held next Easter on fctier Plain, has met with ii iv>pun<e from local and rseas traders. >e organiser*. Messrs. Cheah B. Co., are planning the bition. test achievements in motor electrical engineering will k a141 words
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Article96 1947-10-09 9 Ch n,v‘ SINGA PO RE Oct. 2. y Passenger on the 1 rjj-. lm Pur-Penang day v y’. from injuries n. Hn he fell from the L r n day night, ran v,l s Passing Bukit Urrf-d w ht’ n the accident fp,n tier/,,'. 1 ‘d 096 words
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Article356 1947-10-09 9 From Our Own Correspondent SITIAWAN, Oct. 1. HOW a police effort to hoodwink a gang of alleged kidnappers with Jap “banana” currency failed, was told in th e Sitiawan magistrates' court today. The magistrate, Y.M. Raja Chik Jaftlr ibni Sultan Abdullah, committed for trial at the356 words
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Article266 1947-10-09 9 I’lom Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Oct. 1. WITH tongues and cheeks Tf pierced by steel spikes, men and women—one a C0y ear-old woman—some carrying children, ran over burning coals m th 0 annual file-walk-ing ceremony at the Thirobalhai Amman temple, Malacca, on Monday. Thousands flocked to266 words
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283 1947-10-09 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. WHILE the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca has been banned owing to a cholera epidemic in Cairo, news has reached Singapore that Malaya’s pilgrims have already arrived safely at Jeddah, and will undertake the pilgrimage. Those who have gone on283 words
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Article186 1947-10-09 9 SINGAPORE. Oct. 2. THE front portions of twoi two-storey shop-houses were wrecked and another slightly damaged when an Army jeep, crashed into the five-foot way opposite Bukit Timah police station, along the Singapore-Johore main road at 8.25 a.m. yesterday. Nobody was hurt. Falling beams, concrete, sign- boards,186 words
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Article820 1947-10-09 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 1. £RITICISM of Government's heavy taxation of tin and the need to safeguard against over production o! this commodity in Malaya were two points stressed here yesterday by Mr. W. M. Warren, the head of Anglo-Oriental (Malaya) Ltd.820 words
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Article83 1947-10-09 9 PENANG, October 1. A young king cobra which paid a visit to the Survey Otlice. Kulim. was trapped by an amateur taxidermist, member of the stair, yesterday. The man who caught the cobra Us Mr. him Theait Son. He traced it to a cabinet and trapped It. Mr.83 words
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542 1947-10-09 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 3. MORE than 6,000 were present at three public meetings in Singapore yesterday to celebrate the 79th birthday of the great Indian leader and world figure, Mahatma Gandhi. The biggest gathering, about 6,000, was at Jalan Besar Stadium for a meeting organised by542 words
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Article117 1947-10-09 10 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 2. A THREE-DAY Pan-Malayan Muslim conference is to be held in Penang next month. At a meeting at the Penang Indian Muslim League, the dates for the conference were fixed for Nov. 14-16 The meeting also decided that the chairman of117 words
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Article136 1947-10-09 10 PENANG, October 2.—A protest meeting against the constitutional proposals for Malaya is to be called in Penang shortly. The date for this mass rally wull b? fixed at a meeting to be held Cl* Sunday at the headquarters of the Penang Federation of Trade Unions. Various136 words
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Article175 1947-10-09 10 From Our Stall Correspondent MALACCA, Thursday. THE newly-formed SinoMalay Socialist Party, at a public meeting at Pulau Sebang, declared its solid determination to resist ‘‘by active campaigning among tne people” the staging of the Malayan-wide “hartal” by “the ‘leftist political parties of Malaya.” Two party leaders,175 words
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71 1947-10-09 10 IPOH. Oct. 2. Indian hom:s and business houses in all parts of Ipoh were decorated with Indian Hags to mark the 79th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi today. Many Indians, including women and children, attended the celebrations at the Kinta ‘lndian Association this evening. School71 words
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139 1947-10-09 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 1. TTIE office of the Superintending Electrical Engineer, 1 Malayan Union, said in a note today that the Electricity Department was perturbed at the large number of instances of consumers stealing electrical energy and tampering with meters on139 words
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84 1947-10-09 10 From Our Own Correspondent. TELOK ANSON, October 2.— Police this morning found a sack floating; on the Perak river in which here was a bloated body of a Malay, with hands and feet bound, and a two-and-a-half-foot-long iron weight. The body was84 words
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Article85 1947-10-09 10 KLANG. Oot. 2.—The teaching staffs of the Anglo Chinese School and the Methodist Girls School. Klang. entertained three students, Miss Charlotte Sinnathamby and Messrs. C. Maheswaran and K. Purushothman. who are going no to Raffles College. Singapore. Mr Maheswaran has been awarded a Malayan Unio/i scholarship.85 words
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Article269 1947-10-09 10 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON (By Air Mail). A COMPLETELY new addition to Malaya's agricultural activities seems likely to arise out of the decision of the Colonial Office to send an expert out to Malaya to advise on cocoa growing. There is an over-all269 words
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Article529 1947-10-09 10 From Our Staff I EIGHT former leaders of the A^ X Jj- t '°JJ- 2 Penang arc now serving prison sent..’,. 1 y l They will be banished for life when their sc'ii'T "l Announcing this today, the Penan* ni?l the co-operation of the Siamese529 words
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Article, Illustration385 1947-10-09 11 B SINGAPORE, Oct. 3. iv rubber roadway in Singapore* Chinatown, l j 1 years ago, may one clay have a pronounced V ,1 po-perity of Malaya’s rubber industry, accord- i V \V. Cowling, a Singapore construction engineer. A pioneer of rubber roads I Mr. Cowling laid385 words
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Article158 1947-10-09 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 3. ■'ERXMEXT padi purchase I: :ht Malayan Union had m satisfactory lr. approximately three I a I've as last year’s it was reported at ■oci: y'> me ting of the A<ia Liaison ofTL CO: iCl t'llCo. was held In the r:, -iontr's office. o158 words
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Article63 1947-10-09 11 S’ PORE GOVERNOR RETURNING s 'TNGAPORE, Oct. 4. <r of Singapore, Si» V with Lady.Gim- f i; two daughters !°it i'tember ?4 on board •a:/,:,. 1 ll r,v t0 re turn to *y v Ku. nh n expected at Port on October 14. HaLnJl' ;sta y that night in to63 words
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Article32 1947-10-09 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 3. Three thousand rupees were yesterday rcmiKcd t *he Pa kistnn Relief Pur.d. Karachi, from Singapore. The money was remitted in the name of the Indian Muslim'Welfare Association.32 words
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Article154 1947-10-09 11 Death Sentence On S’ pore Gunman 3 SINGAPORE. Oct. 3. A 28-YEAR-OLD AnS Sire" ay sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Jobling at Singapore Ass.zo. Cheong was found guilty by a common jury of carrying a revolver at Arab S.tioet on afternoon Qf Feb. 10. In mother of whom' he154 words
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Article278 1947-10-09 11 1 nun Our Stall’ Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Gel. i. j J O .V prices for rubber and a poor nee crop early tin? year Were partly responsible lor the recent distress among: kampong folk in Labok, Kelantan, states an ollicial press release. “The condition of the278 words
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Article59 1947-10-09 11 KUALA LUMPUR. October 2. Twenty-two cases of smallpox, compart'd with 126 the previous week, were reported in the Malayan Union for the week ending Sept. 27. No cases were reported from Pahang where the previous week an epidemic discovered in the Ulu Rom pin district resulted in59 words
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Article122 1947-10-09 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. QQUATTEKS in Ayer Rajah Road, off Alexandra Road, who have been asked to quit since April this year, have been offered alternative sites in WoodlaneV approximating iibout 400 acres. More than half of the 200 families in Ayer Rajah Road have already received122 words
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Article59 1947-10-09 11 IPOIL October, 1. A card of I commendation has been awarded to Lirn Kean Ilooi, a teacher in St.. Michael’s Institution here, for the good work he did in the medical auxiliary services during the Malayan campaign. The Resident Commissioner ot Perak. Mr. A. C Jomaron, will59 words
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211 1947-10-09 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 3. i TELEGRAM to Indian and Pakistan leaders urging; them A to stop the communal bloodshed has been sent by the president of the Indian Muslim Welfare Association and Indian Seamen’s Union. Mr. Majid describes himself in the telegram as ”a scion211 words
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409 1947-10-09 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. (ULCr LATINO on a minimum basis of one warder to five prisoners, Outram Road (Jaol is understaffed, said the Singapore acting Commissioner of Prisons, Mr. W. 15. Oliver, yesterday. The position would be improved next week, however, when a hatch of 20409 words
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Article118 1947-10-09 11 From Our StalT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Got. 1.— Tin* Malayan Association may appoint parliamentary “agents” in London so that “lull and propi r” answers to questions eon. corning Maiaya may be given in Parliament The Association states that it has been obvious, from the r« plies given118 words
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Article423 1947-10-09 12 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. THE news that control of the sales of new cars had 1 been lifted kept the inquiries departments of the bigger motor dealers in Kuala Lumpur busy yesterday. In Singapore, where de-control freed about makes of high powered and high-priced423 words
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Article215 1947-10-09 12 PENANG, Oct. 1. 'J’HE Penang Municipal Commissioners have decided to support the interim report] of the Joint Wages Commission. The decision was reached at a meeting in committee following a lengthy discussion. The Commissioners agreed, however, to point out to the Government that if the215 words
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Article107 1947-10-09 12 PENANG, October 1. The Municipal budget estimates for 1948 will include a provision of $70,000 for the purchase of meters and other water expenditure. This decision in committee was confirmed by the Municipal Commissioners at their ordinary meeting yesterday afternoon. The Commissioners decided that the107 words
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Article106 1947-10-09 12 SINGAPORE. Oct. 2. Tweuty_nine passengers left Singapore on Tuesday for South Africa by the K P M. ship Ruys. They are: Mr. and Mrs. H.D. Mundoll. Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Griffiths, Mr. B.M. P O’Hea, Mr. L.J. Fry. Mr. A.M. Stevenson, Mrs. P.M. MacDougall and child. Miss106 words
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Article44 1947-10-09 12 SINGAPORE. Oct. 2. A dinner was held last might at the Empress Hotel to mark the engagement oi Mr. Joseph Yan. secretary of the Singapore Table Tennis Association, amd Miss Tan Yoke Meng, a nurse at the Kwonp Wai Sui Free Hospital.44 words
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Article252 1947-10-09 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 1. AS a result of the rigid control of imports by the local customs, several rubber firms are arranging to transfer their packing godowns to Butterworth. If this is continued, Penang would eventually lose its importance to Province Wellesley.252 words
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Article205 1947-10-09 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 1. IT is officially stated *>y the 1 Road Transport Department of the Malayan Union that the price of petrol has not been increased. It remains at $1.40 a gallon. It has been discovered however that a small205 words
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Article190 1947-10-09 12 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. I 'HE Commander-in-chief of the Royal Siamese Air Force, Air Marshal Luang Devaridhi Fanluk, and a representative mission from the Royal Siamese Air Force, will arrive *in Singapore on Oct. 8 on a visit to Headquarters, Air Command, Far East. They are190 words
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Article67 1947-10-09 12 IT was stated at a meeting of Chinese volunteers at the S.V.C, Mess in Singapore yesterday that payments in accordance with the Worley recommendations would probably be made before December. Capt. Yap Pheng Geek, whj presided at the meeting, said that if volunteering w r ere67 words
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Article329 1947-10-09 12 EXPORTS from Malaya at $85,135,H u registered a record low this year f a nJ n Au million from July, as trade declined forth* >P, H in three months. Following the downward trend \h. I imports of $105,799,985 represented a deercL*® million from July and were329 words
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Article167 1947-10-09 12 PENANG. October 1. Gov-1 eminent and municipal employees in Penang are disappointed in the decision by the Secretary of State for l he Colonies that ther P will be no back pay grant beyond the terms of the recent award. Th e president of the167 words
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Article86 1947-10-09 12 SINGAPORE. Oct.B The Singapore Coroner. M'B G. Porter yesterday returneB open verdict at an iaQ'-J-*' the aeath of 42-year-old Ton* Bee, who died of a aunsnoi B in the head. fl Teh’s body was found b*-fl a boat by the side of a the86 words
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Article61 1947-10-09 12 rorresP® nd B From Our Stan B KUALA -A staff- eractment g Selangor Sln 1( December 9. 1 n I “for general n -'B yesterday's Govern: It incorporate* u on fl enactments the 'ti u B management o» 1 B ran Temple. in Kuala Lumpur j61 words
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Article1115 1947-10-09 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. PLEDGE that the process of constitutional development in Malaya would not end until irovernment was complete was made last I in a broadcast by the Governor-General lava, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. II,. 'said. "I g' v e >'° 11 the word not only1,115 words
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Article151 1947-10-09 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 3. ANE of six masked Chinese gangsters who raided a house 0 150 yards from a police station in Singapore at dawn yesterday "tried to intimidate a victim by scratching h.s chest with a Japanese bayonet. When the gangsters departed, they told151 words
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Article395 1947-10-09 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 5. IN the heart of Singapore in a building at the corner of Robinson Road and Boon Tat Street, 2,000 birffs of the swift family whose nests are used for making the Chinese delicacy, birds nest soup, are living in an upper395 words
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Article69 1947-10-09 13 From Our Staff Correspondent T KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 5. Hr. Malayan Union Advisory ouncil yesterday approved a supplementary provision of $98,101 to provide for a bodyguard of 100 men for the Sultan of Johore. It was explained that when the 1947 estimates were prepared (and when a69 words
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836 1947-10-09 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. THE United Planting Association of Malaya, in a statement issued to estate labourers, appeals to the labourers to “get on with the good work, be loyal to those who have provided and still will provide you with work and think twice836 words
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Article105 1947-10-09 13 PARIT BUNTAR, October 3.— Reports from outlying areas In Krian reveal that extensive damage was caused by the heavy deluge last week The heaviest damage was on Kalompang Estate where 14,000 rubber trees were uprooted and 300 to 400 a ores were under water. The drying yard of105 words
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Article344 1947-10-09 14 PENANG, Oct 4. WAR damage claims estimated at one hundred million Siamese ticals, or about twenty million dollars in Malayan currency, are to be filed with the Siamese Government by Malayan tin-mining companies with interests in Siam, it is understood. At the request of the344 words
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Article317 1947-10-09 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 4. IMMEDIATE consideration is to be given by the Government to impose flogging on armed gaingsters In Malaya, following demands by seven members of the Matayan Union Advisory Council today that punishment should be in'cludea as a penalty. The new Carrying of Arms317 words
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Article119 1947-10-09 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 3. Sixth standard boys of an elementary school run by the Central University, Nanking; havp sent greeting to boys of the same standard in Malayan schools. The greetings were brought by Mr. j b. Neilson; Director of Education, and Mr E. C. S Adkins, Secretary for119 words
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Article229 1947-10-09 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 5. WORK on reconditioning Singapore’s Farrer Park has begun, and it is expected that the public will once again be enjoying its amenities early next year. With the help of six bulldozers and other mechanised equipment the initial levelling of the main field229 words
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Article34 1947-10-09 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. A police patrol arrested an unarmed Chinese who was In the act of robbing another Chinese of his coat in South Bridge Road, Singapore, shortly after midnight on Saturday.34 words
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Article185 1947-10-09 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUAI4 LUMPUR, Sunday. AT a meeting held in Kuala Lumpur today representatives of Singapore and the Malayan Postal Department Uniformed Staff Trade Unions decided to recommend a strike and to take a ballot among members of their union. The object of the strike185 words
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Article183 1947-10-09 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR ft. I ITUALA LUMPUR is to become W| before the end of this year and the neitt?'"* lation is to be introduced shortly into the u* Announcing this to the Straits Time, M the Resident Commissioner of Selano.... A.183 words
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Article268 1947-10-09 14 From Our StalT CorrespJ KUALA LUMPUR, oj SECRET society gang! intimidators, extortij robbers and thieves are ail 20 men, convicted and I convicted, who have I banished from the Mall Union. I Malayan Police said todayl seven of the men had ac| served their sentences. I268 words
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Article93 1947-10-09 14 KUALA LUMPU R hours r arrival in Ma v ‘service 4 Women’s Voirintarv s N in the Union capital. I Tate found romanc f olic A young snel offered her a lh tra nsP ort stranded by l ar *V c j u jj I93 words
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Article381 1947-10-09 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 5. PLANS for the erection of a modern crematorium for Singapore are held up pending replies from three local associations to the questionnaire sent out by the Municipality on the subject. A spokesman of the Municipal Secretariat who gave this information, stated that381 words
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1134 1947-10-09 15 R.E. HOLTTUM - Malayan Crardpnpr By R.E. HOLTTUM lirector of The Botanic Gardens I Singapore ■tdGE IS It living fence screen, tnll or low, Ini or informal, for use lament, or for both. Malaya few kinds of |s aiv ‘commonly used ledges and much more |tv1,134 words
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Article476 1947-10-09 15 WHEN I see a humpbacked bridge I always think what a terrific strain it must- be on trishaw riders’ muscles and on the poor animals who have to pull heavy loads. It is surprising what an amount of carefully cut wood can .be leaded onto a476 words
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Article266 1947-10-09 15 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 6. HIGH police officers today welcomed the news that Government would adopt a new “get tough” policy against gangsters. Referring to the debate on crime in the Malayan Uhlon Advisory Council last Saturday, one senior officer said gangsters had askod266 words
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Article213 1947-10-09 15 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 6. V EFT-WING organisations at Penang yesterday decided to cable a protest against the Constitutional Proposals for Malaya to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. A four-hour meeting, held at the Federation of Trade Unions; decided to support the213 words
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Article166 1947-10-09 15 SINGAPORE, Oct. 7. Relatives and friends of the late Mr. Alexander William Cashin, veteran Singapore land and estate owner, attended his funeral at Bukit Timah Cemetery yesterday afternoon. Mr. Kenneth Seth read the burial service. Mr. Cashin, aged *71, died peacefully in his sleep at166 words
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Article52 1947-10-09 15 From Our Staff Correspondent. PENANG, October G.-Sungei Patani police suspect that border bandits have murdered Mr. Ee Kim Tee, manager of a tin mine on the outskirts of Kakl Bukit village in Perils. Mr. Ee was found yesterday evening shot dead. He had been missing for52 words
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820 1947-10-09 16 SINGAPORE, Oct. 7. THE Malayan Union Government’s reply to the postal workers’ threat of a 1 strike which is expected to affect the whole of Malaya tomorrow will be This decision was made known to the Postal Uniformed Staffs terday by the Deputy820 words
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Article436 1947-10-09 16 SINGAPORE, Oct. 4. THE recommendations mad* by a special tribune.] which was set up in May th.s year to go into the question of back pay for non-internet! Government servants have, been accepted by the Governments of the Malayan Union and Singapore, but a few cases are436 words
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Article278 1947-10-09 16 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Oct. 6. MR. Tan Cheng Lock, president of the All-Malaya Council of Joint Action, described the Manchester Guardian’s interpretation of a letter criticising the new Malayan constitutional proposals, sent to the British press on behalf of 68 public bodies and 53 Chinese278 words
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Article303 1947-10-09 16 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 6. LAST night’s broadcast by the Governor-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, was well received in Penang and Kedah. The chairman of the Penang Chamber of Commerce, Mr. D. A. Mackay, described the broadcast as “a very eloquent plea for acceptance303 words
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468 1947-10-09 16 5 ½-Ton Shaft Safe Flown To S’pore SINGAPORE a CEVEN former Royal Air Forte men fl at Kaliang airport last night a Halifa, Afl with a five-and-a-half-ton ship’s )rope ,f slung in the bomb bay and a threeh M weight steel nut housed in the fuselage nun( B The shaft468 words
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Article83 1947-10-09 16 KUALA LUMI Iti. o rf Money is to be theCub hut op< s in 1934 by th 1 1 till Lord Baden PoU .V* in V m would become a y g t .,>ut rial to him, said y- y{t mtssioner for s outs Sands, to 450 R-83 words
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Article689 1947-10-09 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 7. discovery in Outram Road prison of “enough ien ite to blow down the walls of the prison,” the subsequent stoppage of prisoners’ privileges h precipitated disobedience and disturbance among tiers, "'ere described in the Singapore Coroner’s a yesterday. i: 0 officers told689 words
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Article72 1947-10-09 17 MALACCA, Cct. 6. Malacca Government pensioners have decided to form themselves into an association as a forerunner to a Pan-Malayan Association of Government Pensioners which is expected to be formed at Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 19. The filtering committee Is as follows: Chairman, Mr. V. E. Dias, secretary,72 words
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Article152 1947-10-09 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 7. rE “Executive Committee (Special)” of the Municipal Town Cleansing Labour Union, Singapore, will recommend a one-day sympathy strike on Oct. 15 if nine dismissed labourers ar e not immediately reinstated. The Municipality employs about 800 labourers, most of whom clean streets ard152 words
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Article78 1947-10-09 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 4. About 230 local recruits are urgently needed to be trained as nursing and general-duty orderlies in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Men of good education may be considered for training in the more skilled trades such as laboratory assistant, operating room assistant, special treatment78 words
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358 1947-10-09 17 ADVISORY COUNCIL IN BRIEF KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 5. rO motor cycles costing $2,600 are to be used for policing and patrolling the border of Kedah and Siam in order to prevent illegal entry into Malaya. This among a number of items of supplementary358 words
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Article245 1947-10-09 17 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Oct. 6. 110 Boon Leong, a Chinese who boasted of being a 1 “Sam Seng*’ leader and a member of the Ang Bin Huay triad society, then assaulted a detective constable, was sentenced to six weeks’ rigorous imprisonment in the245 words
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200 1947-10-09 17 PENANG, Oct. 4. A BLIND villager of Sungel Nibong who managed to earn a good Income as a treeclimber was mentioned when the Penang Rural District Council discussed a questionnaire on blindness. The Council, meeting in Bank Pulau. was told that the blind climber200 words
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Article66 1947-10-09 17 PENANG, Oct. 6—A considerable decrease in the number of road accidents during September is shown in figures issued by the Traffic Branch today. Accidents totalled 58 representing a reduction of nearly 50 per cent, over th 0 previous month’s figure. There was only one death due to an66 words
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Article161 1947-10-09 17 From Our Staff Correspondent SUNQEI PATANI, Oct. 5. rO Chinese gunmen last night held up the manager of the Choong Wha Theatre in his office, demanded a “loan of $1,000“ and, when they failed to get it, helped themselves to $455 in the safe and161 words
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Article151 1947-10-09 17 KUANTAN, Oct. 4. DELAY in installing electricity In Pekan Bahru Is causing much disappointment. Earlier this year the Inhabitants were told a plant would be in operation by July or August and In anticipation of this they were planning on buying radios, fans, refrigerators, and151 words
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Article38 1947-10-09 17 SINGAPORE. Oct. 7. A 36-year-old Chinese carpentei. Goh Seng was sentenced to three years’ rigorous imprisonment at the Assize Court yesterday when he was fouind guilty f stealing a bicycle at Senngoon Road on May 15.38 words
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1011 1947-10-09 18 SINGAPORE, Oct 8. A EUROPEAN planter, Mr. Archibald Nicolson,4o, was killed and his wife was injured in the head by four Chinese bandits in Johore on Monday night. Mr. Nicolson was driving his car at the Mile on the Johore Bahru— Pontian road1,011 words
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Article303 1947-10-09 18 UNIFORMED men of the u cations Department have decided k,,.! 0 11 Malayan Union and in Singapore to call which was scheduled for today. The Singapore decision was taken vestci-H. following news of the withdrawal of the strike noL'’" Malayan Union. I 0ll( Three hundred men303 words
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Article313 1947-10-09 18 PENANG, Oct. 7. THE view that a free market in tin should be declared from Jan. 1, 1948, was expressed today by the general manager of the Eastern Smel ting Company, Mr. D. A Mackay. Mr. Mackay, who is chairman of the Penang Chamber313 words
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Article31 1947-10-09 18 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 7.—-An 80-foot coconut tree fell on an attap house in Tupai on Friday and killed a 34-year-old Chinese woman named Ho Yoke.31 words
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Article300 1947-10-09 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 8. rILE the Principal of Raffles College, Singapore, has banned “ragging’* between students under -penalty of expulsion from the College, the Medical College, Singapore, will permit “mild ragging” to continue. The Principal of the Medical College, Dr. D. W. G. Farris, told a St300 words
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Article130 1947-10-09 18 SINGAPORE Oct HUTCH consular author V in Singapore yestei paid to five Chinese trai firms $77,000 (Malayan) compensation for the sei ef Chinese cargoes by Netherlands Indies Go* ment in Indonesian areas January. The Dutch Consulate-Gen yesterday announced: 1 amounts paid represent a vo tary130 words
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Article50 1947-10-09 18 PENANG. October IN conformity with the decisio the Associated Chambers. Penanj Chinese Chamber Commerce will hold a ha from 6 a.m. to 12 midnight Monday. Oct. 20. It Is understood that the Ch bsr will also refuse nominatio its members to the Federal L< latlve Council.50 words
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Article222 1947-10-09 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 8. THE Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association threatens a strike of 1,000 clerks next month if the Board does not pay membefs three months’ salary as was done in the case of Government servants and increase their cost of living allowance. The222 words
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286 1947-10-09 19 EPSOM JEEP - By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 6. Straits Racing Association was on the point of ■deciding to limit the registration of new horses, to the unprecedented flood of new importations ■the country since the liberation, when the Govern- farn c out with the286 words
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Article155 1947-10-09 19 n Our Staff Correspondent. ala LUMPUR, October 2.— Selangor Asiatics sustained first defeat of the season Evening, when the Combined XV beat them by 11 points ial and two tries) to five (a 1 on the padang. I Asiatics led 5-3 until the «e minutes f155 words
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Article67 1947-10-09 19 IJlOur staff Correspondent s?5 bahru, Oct. 5— M ?f ,lp( T ir Hockey Colts deh r' Jr y ;f, re C.C. yesterday Rrakt ,s C() Bege ground by 9 ai! > to one. vU P r mcl f he scoring for ta&or, T£* :tn,i later67 words
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Article68 1947-10-09 19 From Our Staff Correspondent. IPOII, Oct. 5.—In the Gold Cup match played yesterday in the royal town of Kuala Kangsar before a record crowd of Malays, the Selangor Malays had it all their own way to beat the Perak Malays by four goals to nothing. The68 words
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Article205 1947-10-09 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 7. ‘ypHE strong position of the X Singapore Recreation Club is. without doubt, due to the grand manner in which members have rallied to the call for assistance and increased membership and to the support given to the social activities arranged by the205 words
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Article42 1947-10-09 19 TELUK ANSON. Oct. 5. IN a hockey league fixture here, the Ansonians (a Chinese team) beat the Anglo-Chinese School by four goals to nil. NotabLe ammng the players was Guan Hun, wiho was staging a comeback after eight years.42 words
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Article239 1947-10-09 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 3. SINGAPORE will not participate in th e World Olympiad next year, but preparations are being made for participation in the 1952 games. It is proposed to hold a Malayan Olympic meet in 1949, when talent will be scouted, and training facilities streamlined239 words
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220 1947-10-09 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 4. THE committee of the Straits Racing Association, the ruling body for racing in this country, has unanimously opposed any proposal for the licensing oi bookmakers. Disclosing this at the Malayan Union Advisory Council meeting today, the Governor. Sir Edward Gent,220 words
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Article186 1947-10-09 19 trom Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Oct. 5. pERAK’S poor rugger dis- play against Penang yesterday to lose by the widf margin of 16—3 was a great disappointment to their sup porters. Perak had the heavier pack and in the first half dominated exchanges but lacked186 words
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Article95 1947-10-09 19 SEREMBAN. Oct. 4. ONE Negri Sembilan record was oroker. today in the second day’s events oi the first post-war State Athletic sports when Wong Kee Siong pole-vaulted 9ft. lOln. The championship unit shield was won by the Ceylonese with 26 points and the second95 words
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Article407 1947-10-09 19 From Our Staff Correspondent *UALA LUMPUR, Oct. 5. A SINGLE goal scored by A. L. Henry with a beautiful header off a free kick taken by Poh Chiew gave Selangor victory over Negri Sembilan in an inter-state “friendly” soccer match played here today. That single407 words
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Article85 1947-10-09 19 TAIPING, Oct. 4. PENANG boat Perak by 1G points (two goals, one try and one penalty) to three (penalty goal) in an Inter-State rugger match played here this evening. M. Pestana, the Penang skipper, played an outstanding game at the base of the scrum, making numerous85 words
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Article73 1947-10-09 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 4. Following is the stipendiary Steward’s report on today’s Selangor races: RACE ONE: Norton was checked at the four furlongs, when his rider of Norton, was reprimanded, by horses on the outside. Jeffers, rider or Norton, was reprimanded. RACE FOUR: Prince Avon fell out at73 words
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Article102 1947-10-09 19 tv G. StaiiTUcio won the October Medal competition of the h yal Singapore Golf Club with a nett score of 70. The following figures were returned: E. G. Staunton B 4 —l4) =7O J. H. Purrler 88 (—l4) =74 N O. Morris 93 (—l7)-76 J. Crichton102 words
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Article132 1947-10-09 19 Itrn Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 0 JOCKEY ALBERT SPENCER has been suspended from riding f r three months by the Selangor Turf Club racing stewards for “misconduct ir. connection with his handling of Hunters Call,” in the third race on Saturday Hunter’s Call, owned and132 words
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1226 1947-10-09 20 Weekly Share Market Review By A Market Correspondent ACTIVE conditions, increased volume of business and rising prices have to be reported from Malayan markets. The week closed with keenness undiminished and with many stocks at the highest level for many moons. Tins were predominant, and1,226 words
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Article167 1947-10-09 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 4. PRICES have steadily advanced throughout the week, and ther e has been a considerable turnover in the rubber market, says Lewi? and Peat’s weekly market re port. The main demand has been for near shipment and with producers ottering more freely for next year's167 words
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Article159 1947-10-09 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 4. METHODS to increase the consumption of natural rubber are at present being considered as part of the broader economic discussions being conducted with other European countries and America This forms part of the Governernment or tne Malayan Union’s reply to159 words
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Article303 1947-10-09 20 From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR n o I CHINESE Chambers of Commerce 'i, 6 I v Malaya will not nominate any name. i Federal Legislative Council until “the ouest” h( new constitutional proposals is finally settled®" ot l This resolution was adopted at a303 words
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Article738 1947-10-09 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 7. Industrials were quiet. Hongkong Banks being a notable exception with further rises in price recorded. Quotations given today by the Malayan Shar jbrokrrs’ Association ware as follows:INDUSTRIALS ftuvei Sellei Atlas Ice 13 00 14 00 A.ex Brick Ords 85 l 95 Alex Brick Prefs.738 words