The Straits Budget, 6 November 1947

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    31 1 The Straits Budget L Series No. 66. [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF Tiffi STRAITS* TIMES Singapore TTmnday, November 6th, 1947 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or I m.
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      63 1 The SINGAPORE FREE PRESS has the largest nett sale of any afternoon newspaper published in Malaya The Singapore Free Press is the oldest established newspaper in Singapore. It recommenced publication in May last year and its smart presentation of news has made an immediate appeal to the reading public. For
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  • The Straits Budget
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      THE PARTY LINE IN MALAYA
      1222 2 —Straits Times, Oct. 30. A statement which we received last week from Mr. Chang Ming Ching, Singapore representative of the Malayan Communist Party, was a very interesting document for more reasons than one. Not only was it written in good English for the public which
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      THE CEYLONESE TROOPS
      988 2 EmpText There was some trouble recently among the Ceylonese troops stationed on Singapore Island, and that is being magnified and distorted by Leftist politicians in Ceylon, who are painting a picture of hapless fellow-countrymen having a terrible time at the hands of the British Army. Echoes of
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      PLUMS FOR THE LOCAL-BORN
      915 2 —Straits Times, Nov. l. The public Semites of ,9 ,omes m be adapt e 9 conditions and must /H greatest possible extent hS fed b V lo ™l People, it jj a fully accepted pr m *M there should be no barrel appointment of Q ColonM
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      THE SFTU WANTS A BASIC WAGE
      1158 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 3. One of the resolutions passed at the annual delegates’ conference of the Singapore Federation of Trade Unions last week-end called for adjustment of wages m accordance with price levels. At this same conference it was announced with considerable pride that
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      SINGAPORE AND THE PRINCESS
      1118 3 —Straits Times. Nov. 4. The main objective of the Princess Elizabeth Wedding Celebration Fund in Singapore has now taken definite shape. It is a block of model workmen’s flats, and for that purpose it is hoped to raise half a million dollars or more, over and
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      SCAPEGOATS IN DISPATCHES
      1152 4 —Straits Times, Nov. 5. A news-agency message from London published in the Straits Times yesterday stated that the official dispatches on the Malayan campaign are now in the hands of the printers and will be published early next year. After General Percival, G.O.C. in Malaya during the
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    Made Radio Under Jap Noses
    191 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 4. THE King nas approved the bestowal of the following honours for the Malayan Union: British Empir e Medal to Sergeant Thomas Alfred Dineen of the F.M.S.V.F. and to Mr. Lloyd Beresford Chin Fen, W T operator, Force
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    NEW PARKING RULES TABLED
    124 4 SINGAPORE. Oct. 31. Parking is prohibited at all times in Fullerton Road and certain sections of Orchard Road. Particulars of revised parking rules, tabled in the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday, show that no parking is allowed on the south side of Orchard Road extending from Kiliiney
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    APPOINTMENTS IN MALAYA
    113 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 4. Mr. J. G J. Samuels, M.B?E., of Broomfielld Lodge, Broomfield Road, Chelmford. Essex, has been appointed to the Colonial Service as an Assistant Controller of Telecommunications (Wireless) in Malaya. Bom in Malaya. Mr. Michael Kiilick of 3 Hereford House.
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    SECRET REPORT ON CHINA
    511 4 —AP. SINGAPORE v f(AN Chiau Jit Pao, ,h. China Singapore newspaper, published Tellers ‘I claimed was an authentic outline of Lt .f 5 "V VVedemeyer’s secret report calling f,.r Cl1, !W American-financed industrial and rail devi9 programme for south and west China a' preparation against Russia.
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    RETIRING AFTER 39 YEARS
    86 4 SINGAPORE. XovH ]Y|R. J. J. Pereira, a fouH ifl member of the MalaM Association, who i s after 39 years in was entertained on night at a party held aH home of Mrs. A. GomezH Mr Pereira and his w!teH| to Singapore in 1908 Mr. Pereira
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      142 4 DEAN —to Marion* v if* a! D<'”n of 7 B’.'ho'V' Ore i ?*n H| BATCHELt ER To «IMA M Sheridan* wife of N G Kandon? Ke*-bau M HorcMj r f ip47. a darker IH irt r*y .v f irdw? Hosoital on Nov mV4th M Havwflrti, wif*-> M Rvi’.ir.d Otn^B
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      94 4 ENr rnour^i The eneaeem-nt 1 v ene r M tween Fwnklvr H HerpVgr j« son of Mr. a j, k \f a iaran ra® ner of Tnoh P ohra? m Miss Gunvor Anna oM daughter of 0 Ohros rddet-alla Su op The PODRIPTTES— J jJ. tvPf n go'T'mert is
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      MARRIAGE
      36 4 man-peis-t 1M > I nlace on Mt* W*'■ ChllTli of St n< J of Frank Mad d \<r- t* J® Mr H M S Mi- V M'vvrnrf Ashtead Surdcva'.d s B(ls .ro| E«>£s~‘ s vince Welleslev
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    52 4 Vince wcuesir' VTI ,i v Edinh’.ir- MACDONALD <!«»*■ denlv. on dM: 2: ‘tJ 14 dearlv lover. M ard Mr nf wStri n ;jll r 1 formerlv of N p Twante Burm.r r,p t ''L r I formerlv ot Twante Burma rr j r. fl row-smith I nital. Sinaftoore o ,4
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      WHY IS PUTERA ALLIED WITH ALIENS?
      690 5 A Puzzled Malay By “ANAK NEGRI” H Malay, I do not underBand why the PUTERA, H claims to be a Malay Hisation, should so willing■ppuii the Chinese ChamK f Commerce in organ- the hartal on Oct. 20. the members of Hra trying to support
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      IS IT A STEP FORWARD?
      184 5 I WAS very interested to hear Mr. Malcolm MacDonald express the view in his recent broadcast that universal suffrage without qualification (provided in the new Singapore constitution) was a notable step forward in the political advancement of this country. I feel that the effect of
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      RICE SWEEPINGS FOR RATIONS
      59 5 IN the district in which I live, all the poor inhabitants have been issued with rice sweepings and pulot for their week s ration. This I think is scandalous. Do the Food Control expect human beings to consume such f don t think they themselves would
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      WHO ARE THE REAL & TRUE MALAYANS?
      313 5 WHO ARE THE REAL TRUE MALAYANS? VARIOUS opinions have been expressed by your readers with regard to the question of Malayan citizenship. 1 would also like to state here my opinion of what constitutes an “ideal Malayan.” The Malays are Malayans by birth and by right, and let nobody usurp
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      MR. HEASMAN’S STAFF
      231 5 IWAS interested to observe that Mr. Heasman has returned to Malaya, as I would like him to disclose whence he will obtain staff of the requisite calibre at the salary figures shown in his draft report on income tax. I do not know on what these figures
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      THE CEYLONESE TROOPS
      261 5 IT was gratifying to read your editorial on the Ceylonese troops on Oct. 31. What has taken place recently is nothing compared to what has taken place in military camps of other units at other times. It was a storm in a tea-cup. Ceylonese are no strangers
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      $50 RENT FOR ONE ROOM
      161 5 SEVERAL people have inquired from me the rent I am paying for the room which I have been occupying for the last 2'/> months. When I told them it was, $5O per month, they shook their heads remarking that it was hard to believe. Unfortunately
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      NO HARTALS IN A CLENCHED-FIST MALAYA
      216 5 “I’HE Communist Party of 1 Malaya is not preparing to seize power by the clenched fist,” says Mr. Chang Ming Ching. Actually the Communist Party, in any country, is prepared, if the opportunity arises, to seize power by any and all means available. By
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      T.B. TESTS FOR TEACHERS
      110 5 MR. J. R. Vethavanam has suggested a certificate of health for children before they are admitted to schools. Several other suggestions were also put forward by him, but he has completely ignored the teachers. I know of several teachers suffering from T.B. and they are allowed
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      SIR JOHN BAGNALL: A TRIBUTE
      128 5 rUR leaderette on the departure of Sir John Bagnall does you no credit. Sir John did much for Malaya which you could have remembered. His labours over many years on the Legislative Council were Immense and his opinions always valuable. They were not always necessarily
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    THE KEPALA DOESN’T ENVY SUBURBAN SLAVES
    1658 6  -  A Malayan Countryman’s Diary ii" ||J I 'THREE weeks ago I men- tioned in the Diary that the kepala o n 'the estate was building himself a large chicken-house and that rumours had reached my ears that he contemplated going in for pig-rearing. The
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    Sultan Signs Letter To Princess
    137 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. SITTING at a table in the control tower of the Kota Bharu aerodrome, the Sultan of Pahang this morning signed his name to the letter from nine Malayan Rulers which will accompany their wedding gift to Princess
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    BURGLAR HAUL OF $12,000
    59 6 SINGAPORE, v„, I ?2S15U?| Magazine goods to the value Of 1 J ♦«wn e E0 °ds were inn k textiles v a i uod at enamelware valued at A member of the the theft was dlscovJSJ* 5 dav mornine ered v*l The burglars left I and
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    CHINESE ACQUITTED
    79 6 SINGAPORE, Novi A Chinese. Quek Siong I was acquitted of unlawful M sion of 1.216 rounds of Jawl ammunition, at the Sinul Assizes Court yesterday vM his deience b-:ng called I The prosecution alleged thl party of police raided Quek's! at Ang Siar.g Hill on Mav 15! found
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    BED BUGS AND BEAUTY
    1006 7 In Changi Gaol And Sime Road r»^I !i..l hO!se .u Wh0 vere in Chansi Gao1 and Sime Road Camp during the internment, the preface which Mr. L. A S. Jermyn has written for his newly published translation of s Geor K»cs (“The Singing Farmer,” Blackwell, 12s.
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    THE PLACE OF SKULLS
    791 7 DAN Djek*’ and I set out from Kota Tinggi along Lumbong Road, so called ause it was first made give access to the tin its of the Pelepah walley ot the mine now worked the dredging company that name but the opent mines ot bygone days
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    BANISHMENT POWERS OF THE GOVERNOR
    81 7 Reuter LONDON, Oct. 31.—The Parliamentary Secretary for the Colonies Mr. David Rees- Williams, told the House of Commons yesterday that he was satisfied that the maintenance of power of the Governor of the Federated Malay States to make the order for banishment was necessary in
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    M-U. EXPORTS TO SINGAPORE
    112 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 31. Exports of Johore-grown lood crops, including fruits, to Singapore in September amounted to 14,041 piculs, states an Agricultural Department report. The M. U. exports to Singapore across the Johore causeway for file month of September were: Vegetables 13,554
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    New Bank Has No Cheques
    260 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 30. MALAYA’S first Malay National Bank has started business in Kuala Lumpur. It is still without cheque books and other banking documents ordered in the United Kingdom. Business, said the managing director Che Maarof bln Hajl Zacharlah. is
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    TRIED TO BEAT THE CUSTOMS
    161 7 JOHORE BAHRU. October 2ft.—Removing the batteries from four torchlights Wong Lim Fah stuffed the barrels with 24 handkerchiefs and four packets of razor blades and tried to get past the Causeway Customs. The ruse failed and he was charged before the Magistrate today with evasion
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    PRISONERS MAY CHOOSE DIET
    119 7 SINGAPORE. Oct 31. Special diet will be available in future for Brahmin vegetarian prisoners in Singapore gaols. The schedule to the prison regulations has been amended, according to a paper tabled in the Singapore Advisorv Council yesterday to provide Brahmin prisoners with eight and a quarter
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    QUIZ FOR 5,000 S’PORE HOMES
    521 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 2. EARLY next month will begin the Singapore Depart- tnent of Social Welfare’s survey into social conditions in the city. A party of volunteer students from Raffles College and the Medical College will visit 5,000 households, interviewing them and entering their answers into
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    FLOODS IN T. ANSON
    62 8 TELUK ANSON, Nov. 1. HIGHEST floods for many years caused by last week’s heavy rains flooded Teluk Anson on Thursday and Friday, causing damage to goods stored on the ground floors of shops. The flood coincided with the 18th day of the ninth moon of the
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    Income Tax Report For Council
    231 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. A REPORT on incom e and the financial position of Singapore would shortly be placed before the Advisory Council, said the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, in the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday. He was replying to a speech of welcome bv Sir Han
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    JAP MUSHROOMS IN SINGAPORE
    70 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 2. THIRTY-FIVE thousand kilogrammes of Japanese mushrooms arrived in Singapore yesterday by the Indo-China Steam Navigation vessel Hansang. The consignment was the largest to arrive in Singapore since the re-opening of trade between Singapore and Japan. The cargo is to be unloaded in the
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    Secular Cenotaph Ceremony
    269 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. THE Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Cenotaph on November 11, Remembrance Day for the two World Wars, will be purely secular in character. The Christian nature of the ceremony, which, in pre-occupation days, took the form of a religious service, has been abolished because
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    MALAYAN I.S.S IS AUGURATED
    180 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 2. SEVENTY people attended the inaugural meeting of the Malayan Co-operating Committee of the International Student Service, which was held in the Medical College Union hall yesterday afternoon. Dr. A A. Sandosham. the chairman of the interim committee, who presided, supported by the secretary.
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    ***** KW. Turbine For Singapore
    238 8 SINGAPORE, Nov 2. ORDERS have been placed in the United Kingdom for one 25,000 kilowatt turbo-alternator and two 187,000-lb. boilers for the Singapore power station, but this new plant will not be in commercial operation until July 1951, says the Municipal Electrical Engineer, Mr. C.
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    BIG BEN IN S’PORE TICKS ON
    211 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 2. I7ROM today, Singapore’s Big Ben on the top of the Victoria Memorial Hall is expected to work smoothly again. The clock stopped one day last week, when rain dripped into its mechanism. It was immediately put right again b,y Motion Smith
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    MALAY GIRLS COLLEGE OPEN
    422 8 KUALA LUMPitd I THE Malay Girls’ College, (he first resid™uft,** i I I school in Malaya, established on the linL J Boys’ College at Kuala Kangsar, wa s iwmM h *1 Kuala Lumpur this morning by Lady Gent in i of the Governor, Sir Edward Gent,
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    NEW APPOINTMENT TO GOVT. POSTS
    154 8 SINGAPORE. Nov.' THE Secretary 01 State tort Colonies has approved following appointments:— J ie D. A. Maby and S. R L Bell to be cadets, toms Service; the second, of Mr. E. L. Lawley, an of the Home Civil Service, w Assistant Controller. M Postal
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    JAP TO HANG FOR MASSACRE
    500 9 I'rom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29. Hashimoto Tadashi, a ■jutenant in the former Japanese 11th Regiment Rla. va > was sentenced to death by hanging by a ■t'rimes Court in Kuala Lumpur today for his Ijn the Sungei Lui massacre of August, 1942.
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    Inter-Gang Warfare In Selangor
    286 9 Hour Staff Correspondent ;.A LUMPUR, Oct. 29. Hof vi vicious inter-gang Ku-faiv in Selangor, an of murders and Ho.v'i->-uon ol thousands of K of ammunition and M cases 01 hand grenades Hdetailed in a manifesto Hi tlu* Malayan Chinese Hes Self-Defence Corps Hi o n a
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    RAUB GOLD MINE STRIKE ENDS
    61 9 A I° A ur T Staff Correspondent. le striv Ll i MPUR October 29. b A 250 miners at the ed lan Oold Mine was to rVt„- y with the men agreei. urn to work this afterobJSI? resulted from the i? S tr, n !>
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    Malayan Delegates To ECAFE
    256 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. IN accordance with the de- cision that any part or group of any Colonial territoiies in South East Asia may be admitted to associate membership of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East a joint application for associate membership has been
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    INJURED MAN IN DOCK
    161 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. With face badly bruised and swollen eyes, a young Javanese. Seswa bin Semoto, appeared in the Second Police Court yester. day charged with theft of wallets, a watch, a fountain pen and a pair of shorts from four persons at Changi barracks, in
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    Gunman Gives Victim Newspaper To Read
    230 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. .‘JO. ANE of three Chinese gunmen who held up a family in Winmore Road, off Mountbatten Road, on Tuesday night, pulled up a stool for the head of the household and gave him a newspaper to read. He robbed him of a
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    APPOINTMENTS BY GOVERNOR
    84 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. The Governor of Singapore has made the following staff appointments:— Private Secretary to the Governor. Mr. W. H» Walker; Capt. D. C. Snowden of the Queen’s Royal Regiment, Aide-de-Camp to the Governor and Lieut.-Cdr. E. H. Lee, D S C., Royal Navy, Capt. R.
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    FIVE YEARS FOR ARMS OFFENCE
    157 9 ?rom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29. LEE Chee Min alias Lee Chaim, a young Chinese, was sentenced to five y c s rigorous imprisonment by 1 Justice Spenser Wilkinson at the Selangor Assizes today. He was charged with being in unlawful possession of
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    4,000 Wait For Driving Licences
    161 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. Applications for driving licences in Singapore are so heavy that unless the number of driving testers is increased it may be necessary to shut down on the issue of provisional driving licences for at least three months. There ar e 4,000 still
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    ‘TRADE WAS BAD’ SO CUT HIS THROAT
    71 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30 Because trade was bad and he feared he could not support his family, a 42-year-old Chinese fruit-seller, Tay Cheng Soy. cut his throat with a knife. In the Second Police Court on Monday, Tay. father of several young children, was
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    PENANG STAFF CUTS OPPOSED
    355 10 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Oct. 29. STRONG opposition to the proposed retrenchment policy of the Municipal Commissioners was expressed by the Eurasian member, Mr. A. C. Reutens, at a meeting of the commissioners yesterday. Mr. Reutens urged that the “axe be applied as sparingly as
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    Gaol For Prison Sub-Warder
    220 10 Gaol For Prison Sub- Warder SINGAPORE. Oct. 30. A SUB-WARDER of Outram Road prison, 23-year-old Mat Din bin Tan, was sentenced to three months’ r gorous imprisonment by the Fourth Police Magistrate, Mr. R. J. C. Wait, yesterday, for cheating Esah, the wife of a Malay prisoner. According to A.S.P.
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    NEW POSTAL BILL PASSED
    106 10 SINGAPORE!, Oct. 31. A new Post Office Ordinance was passed in the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday. The objects and reasons of the Bill state that, due to constitutional changes and the establishment of a Postmaster-General. Malaya, numerous alterations and adjustments have been rendered necessary to the
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    RICE DEALER FINED
    87 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. A Singapore Government rice retailer in Kdm Chuan Road, Lee Yiu Peng, was fined $l5O in the Second District Court yesterday for omitting to make an entry relating to the movement of 17 pikuls of government issue rice from his premises on Oct. 20.
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    PASSENGERS BY AIR
    98 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. 31. The following passengers left Singapore yesterady by plane for the United Kingdom. Calcutta, and Rangoon. United Kingdom: Capt. J. Bosw’ell. Mr. Melville, Mr. E. Cairns. Mr. L. A. Madelaine. Mr. D. A. W. Robinson. Mr. F. Dexter. Calcutta: Mr. Atherton. Mr. J. B. Clark.
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    CONTRABAND ON BOAT
    70 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. 31. Lim Boon Hong, a Chinese boatman. was fined a total of $285. in default. 10 weeks’ rigorous imprisonment. when he pleaded guilty in the Third Police Court, yesterday. to possession of 26 cartons of cigarettes and five quarts of brandy, the duty for which
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    Bagnall’s Advice To Malaya
    355 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. Advice to the people of Malaya to tak e a leaf out of the United Kingdom’s book and work harder than they had ever worked before was given yesterday by Sir John Bagnall, before he left Singapore for retirement. Sir John, who has
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    CHINESE SAILOR HEAVILY FINED
    116 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. A Chinese, Lee Heng Kow, was fined $9,250 or two years’ rigorous imprisonment by the Third Police Magistrate, Mr. F. B. Oehlers, yesterday for possession of 370 pounds of dutiable cigarettes on board a ship moored at the inner roads on Oct. 21.
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    MALAYAN INDUSTRIES ON SHOW IN CANADA
    130 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29. THE two major Malayan industries. rubber and tin, will be represented at the Canadian International Trade Fair to be held in Toronto from May 31 to June 12, 1948, by the All-Malayan Chinese Mining Association and
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    Singapore Trade Profits Inquiry
    245 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. THE attention of the committee investigating the finances and revenue of Singapore would be invited to the question of large and possibly extravagant profits made by firms, said the acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. J. D. M. Smith, in the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday.
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    Court Was Vaccinated
    76 10 taipinc 0 l» ln District iv’ 8.J suspended **A POX SUSppct Was n J the dock. 4s discotj Malay. Otlum n *K^ a,a ij had been detained a dangerous w e i n for «d Immediately J5“; 1 hea, th inspeeto r a s ,pox 4 everyone
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    Hospital Ward Move Criticised
    190 10 P SINGAPORE. Oct M UBLIC funds should SB used to provide IJ for the people simply befl they were able and wi* pay for them, declared* Tan Chin Tuan i n the S* pore Advisory Council v* day. He was deprecating the nr* ed conversion, as
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    STADIUM FOR NEW WORLD
    130 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. ANEW open air stadium shortly be built in the World Amusement Park. It will cost $30,000 and take months to complete. Plans been submitted to the MM Commissioners. The proposed stadium J feet by 145 feet and will« about '4.500 spectators The outer rink
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    INDIAN BANKER’S MALAYAN TOUR
    60 10 The deputy se"' 1 Ba r.» the Indian T 1 p Veda®' Rao Sabib D. t has just compief^ 1 tour of Malaya wal tra He has studlK bef0 rt and banking cond 0 r* turning to 1 ,rt J, ,i,lislung« mendations tor in k bran
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    Textile Re-Export Permitted
    431 11 I From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 30. LhIBITIONS on the re-export of textiles will be lifted tomorrow to ease the Malayan Union’s reledly over-stocked textile market which is forcing Chants to sell under cost. Re-export of all textiles, including those from I u.K. and
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    NEW COMPANY
    80 11 N EW COMPANY SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. Inscriptions for the Indian imnt* Steam Navigation itiS 7 f re not coming in very said Mr K A■rrrfnntlan' Partner in the *hv P k p Company, yesir'^'h£’ Company are agents hioh‘ !L India Lanka Company. Itr.K as discussed in the Straits Mr in
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    TRIED TO SELL ARMS TO POLICE
    181 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. rO Javanese and two Chinese were given prison terms at the Singapore Assizes yesterday for trying to sell arms. Ng Teng Heng and Lim Huay Quee, who attempted to sell a revolver to a police inspector who posed as a gang
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    $400,000 CLEAN-UP
    41 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 30. UNION Building is being cleaned and renovated at an estimated cost of $400,000. This estimate includes the cost of three new highspeed lifts to replace those now in use. The lifts are expected from England shortly.
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    Photograph taken at the dinner party given by the Sultan of Selangor and the Tengku Ampuan to the retiring Resident Commissioner of Selangor, Mr. W. A. Ward. In the front row, from the left, are : Mrs. Ward, the Sultan, the Tengku Ampuan and Mr. Ward.
    47 11 Photograph taken at the dinner party given by the Sultan of Selangor and the Tengku Ampuan to the retiring Resident Commissioner of Selangor, Mr. W. A. Ward. In the front row, from the left, are Mrs. Ward, the Sultan, the Tengku Ampuan and Mr. Ward. ,—P.R. photo.
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    PMFTU’s Protest On Strike Ruling
    218 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29. THE Pan-Malayan Federation of Trade Unions this evening sent a letter to the Chief Secretary of the Malayan Union requesting a “clea” statement” on the Labour Code and the F.M.S. Trade Union Enactment law in reference to
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    ROTARY FUND NOW $75,000
    63 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. The President of the Singapore Rotary Club, Mr. S. S. Franklin, announced at the weekly luncheon yesterday, that the Rotary T.B. Fund had reached $75,300. This sum, he said, did not include the $732 raised from the stamp auction. Dr. Chen Su Lan,
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    PLEA FOR MORE BUILDING MATERIALS
    513 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. 'THE Singapore Government should facilitate the importation of building materials at reasonable prices and ensure that the country gets a fair allocation, the president of the Singapore Ratepayers’ Association, Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, told the annual general meeting last night. “The housing
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    Govt. Assurance On Education Policy
    491 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. AN assurance that the Singapore Government would follow the policy on education which had been approved waa given by the acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. J. D. M. Smith, in the Advisory Council yesterday. Mr. Smith was replying to Mr. C. C. Tan,
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    STOLE RARE SEEDS
    55 11 PENANG. October 29—A Chinese, Wong Yin Siew was charged in the Third Magistrate’s Court yesterday with having stolen 3.000 rare flower seeds, valued at $lBO, from u Penang Hill garden. Alternatively, Wong who claimed that he bought the seeds, was charged with receiving stolen property The case
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    Public Services And The Hartal
    1109 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. THE Singapore Municipal president, Mr. L. Rayman, at a Municipal Commissioners’ meeting yesterday called on the authors and sponsors of political agitation to leave the Municipality and its essential public services out of any future hartals that might be held. Reporting on
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    STATE LOTTERY
    43 12 THE Government was giving “active consideration” to the question of running a State lottery as a means of raising funds to fight tuberculosis in Singapore, said the Municipal President. Mr. L. Rayman, on Oct. 31 at a meeting of the Commissioners.
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    Alleged Amok Sent To Asylum
    48 12 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29. Mat Taram bin Sa’al, alleged to be the amok who killed 11 people and injured eight others at Kajang on October 9, has been sent to Tanjong Rambutan Mental Hospital for observation for a month.
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    Warning Of Forged Notes
    127 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. rRGED ten cent notes have appeared in circulation in Singapore. Up to a few days ago, it is believed. about five such notes had been reported to the Currency Commissioners’ Office. The notes which are described as clumsy forgeries are badly printed on
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    GHARRY MAN FINED $l00
    82 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. The driver of one of the few gharries remaining in Singapore was yesterday fined $lOO by the Second Magistrate, Mr. L. C. Goh. for cruelty to his horse. The gharry i s used to take children to school. It was stopped at the
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    Siamese Mine Offer Welcome
    300 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR L I COMPANIES with mining interests in sfijj the Siamese Government offer of vi'-nrB damages for operating profits lost during This oDV,- of Ihc Siamese GowSfel understood, be considered next week it -> MB the Committee of the Association of
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    Higher Posts For Graduates Urged
    184 12 r SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. E Singapore Municipality should in future give employrnent to Raffles College graduates in filling responsible positions, Mr. T. W. Ong suggested at a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners yesterday. If a high standard of academic attainments was required, recruitments should follow
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    Children Forced To Work
    237 12 From Our Staff Correspond! PENANG, Oct.j! ILLITERACY among IndH 1 children who are forced! parents to work from a! der age was criticised by! Indian community lea! Dr. N. K. Menon, in a >t! ment to the Straits l! today. H Declaring that the Indian! munity
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    ACCIDENTAL DEATH
    44 12 SINGAPORE, 0€'Ji An Indian wno crossed^ goon Road_"in a has y_ wocl in front o, a taxi d j doxir. by the vehicl nneuin oa two days later r k Mr. The Singapore Corco£ ed K Oon, yesterday r^o Siding of deathbym^
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    S’PORE VOICE IN NEW DELHI
    195 12 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Oot. 31. A WORKERS’ delegate from Singapore, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, spoke at yesterday’s plenary session of the ILO Asian Regional Conference. He criticised the attitude of Sir Shri Ram, Indian industrialist and leader of the workers’ group, towards the Government of
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    CID CHIEF HURT IN GUN BATTLE
    563 13 I From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 2. I t. Dobree, Chief of the Selangor Criminal Ivestigation Department, was seriously wounded Id grenade splinters during a gun batt'e between Eire and remnants of the Lee Loy gang of Ihe an t’hinese People’s
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    Six Years’ Prison For Gunman
    129 13 JOHORE BAHRU, 3l. OENTENCE of six years’ rigorous imprisonment was passed on a 21-year-old Singapore Chinese, Tang Ah Huat, at the Johore Assizes yesterday for unlawful possession of a Browning automatic and six rounds of ammunition. Mr. Justice A. J Bostock Hill, before passing sentence,
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    BISHOP VISITS 'ORANG BUKIT
    129 13 SEREMBAN. Nov. 1. THE Bishop of Malaya. Monsignor Olcomendy, yesterday paid a visit to the aboriginal settlement at Labu, where about 150 “Oranu Bukit” Catholics, better known as ‘‘Orang Mentara,” live and nave a chapel of attap and wood of their own. The visit was part
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    JAVANESE HELD UP IN STREET
    32 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 3. Three Chinese, one armed, held up a Javanese in Cavanagh Road. Singapore, at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday, and robbed him of $57 in cash
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    Salvation Army Chief Leaving
    270 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 3. AXE of the men in Singapore 7 who played an important i’ole in treating juvenile delinquency, Lieut.-Col. John Wainwright, chief of the Salvation Army in Malaya, is leaving for Britain on Wednesday on the Oranje. Col Wainwright will be stationed at headquarters in
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    S’PORE CORONER ISSUES WRIT FOR DRIVER
    217 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 2. ASSISTED into the Singapore Coror.ers Court because of a leg injury, a Chinese woman, Ng Ah Yen. alleged yesterday that she and her husband were knocker down by a jeep driven by a man from whom her husband had run away
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    $-Million Target To Wedding Fund
    268 13 -Million Target To Wedding Fund SINGAPORE, Nov 2. rE Singapore Princess Elizabeth Wedding Central Celebrations Fund, originally set for a target of $600,000 with which to build a block of model workmen's dwellings, has raised the target to $1,000,000. The chairman of the Princess’ Wedding Central Celebrations Committee, Mr. L.
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    PMGWC URGE LABOUR CODE REVISION
    177 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 1. THE Pan-Malayan Government Workers’ Council this morning sent a letter to the Chief Secretary of the Malayan Union requesting the Government to take immediate steps to include provisions in the Labour Code that will make “a lawful strike a reasonable excuse
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    ‘CITY FATHERS’ STILL WAITING
    267 13 SINGAPORE, Nov 2. SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners are still awaiting a proper reply to the request they sent to the British Council for a monetary gTant to help restore the Victoria Memorial Uall organ, ruined by the Japanese during the occupation. only reply received so far to
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    Awards For Volunteers
    352 13 From Our StafY Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 31. Efficiency Decorations and the Efficiency Medal have been awarded to a number of officers and men in the F.M.S.V.F., the S.S.V.F. and the Johore Volunteer Engineers. The following officers of the F.M.S.V.F. have been awarded the Efficiency Decoration: Major
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    NO STATEMENT ON WAR CLAIMS
    182 14 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 2. THE Commissioner for War Damage Claims, Mr. J. Carson, who returned from discussions in England with the British Government would not make any statement on his talks. He will report to the Governor of the Malayan Union,
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    Why Banks Opened On Hartal Day
    296 14 SINGAPORE, Nov 3. AN “unfortunate misunderstanding” was how Mr. Lee Kong Chian described the remarks made by the Municipal President, Mr. L. Rayman, at the Commissioners’ meeting last Friday in commenting upon the recent hartal in Singapore. Replying to the charge that “the authors
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    R.C. COUNCIL SEAT FOR GRADUATE
    111 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 2. ONE graduate of Rattles College nominated by the Stamford Club, the Association of the Raffles College, will be given a seat in the Council of Raffles College if a Bill about to be introduced in the Advisory Council of the Colony of
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    DISCLAIMER BY THE M.P.A.J.A.
    145 14 Mr. Lieu Yau. president of the Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army Ex-Service Comrades’ Central Association, Malaya, writes: “I wish to correct a statement made in the Straits Times on Tuesday. Oct. 28. in a front-page story about the shooting of a gangster called Lee Loy. in Serdang.
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    800 Want To Quit Cocos For Malaya
    247 14 SINGAPORE, Nov 2. rUR natives from the Cocos Islands, about 700 miles from Malaya, are now visiting Singapore to examine the possibility of 800 Cocos Islanders emigrating from the Cocos group to Singapore and the Malayan Union. One of the visiting islanders, named
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    Malayan China League To Carry On
    180 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. THE decision to carry on in Malaya the activities of the China Democratic League was unanimously agreed upon at an emergency meeting of the standing committee of the Malayan Branch Headquarters of the League on Thursday. The meeting was called following
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    HARD WORK FOR SARAWAK DOC'S
    111 14 LONDON. Nov. 1. DOCTORS who apply for the posts which are advertised in “The Times” today are promised arduous work in Sarawak. They are being invited to fill vacancies in the Colonial Medical Service for travelling medical officers in Sarawak. They must be of British
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    Survivors Tells Of Sewer Rescue Bid
    407 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 1. A SEWERAGE maintenance inspector employed by the Singapore Municipality, Jack Carol Silberman, described in the Singapore Coroner's Court yesterday his attempt to rescue two colleagues trapped in a sewer manhole at Tanjong Rhu on Oct. 16. Of four men, including Silberman,
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    A.C.C.C. WRITE TO WHITEHALL
    392 14 SINGAPORF x THE Associated Chinese Chambers of r 1 I Malaya have made available for letter of Oct. 25, to the Secretary ,,r o, lcatil J Colonies in which the Chambers exDl iin !k f#r l for having called for a hartal on Oct 20 e
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    PHILIPPINES RICE FOR MALAYA
    95 14 MANILA, October 30. Philippines is understood lovm asked the Internationa gency Food Council ptrm* ship. 90.000 tons ot surplus r a number of Far Eastern count* including Malaya. Japa nro r ve d If the proposal is app W0 B the Council, the Re P^! lc
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    S’PORE’S SKYLINE
    83 14 T HE sta.Tv'bui'n 1 proposed 18-- s1 c a t Fi t e Asia insurance i fflej Qi layson Green and f rmit ted corner should bi 1 re ieva be reconsidered b> omnV ;ttee. Singapore Munu iP a A On the motion of li5Si on< Rajah, Municipal
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    Trees Will Reward You For Your Care
    802 15  -  THE MALAYAN GARDENER By R.E. HOLTTUM 1/ rector of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore should live and K,>main an object of Htv for many years; .pent in giving it a H s tart is therefore a investment, and mfailure to tak e the Bsarv
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    Immigrants Decide To Break Fast
    270 15 onivrsp SINGAPORE, Nov. 5. J’Hl.Nr.St immigrants on a hunger strike at St. John's v Island, Singapore, broke their fast yesterday. They did so after a re-visit bv the Chinese Consul General. Dr Wu Paak-shing. The hunger strike began thre e days ago when immigrants were
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    Gaol And Rotan For Extortion
    128 15 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 4. MANY’ people paid money to extortioners in the village and I did likewise for my own safety,” said Mr. Tan Tiong Hong, a Chinese rubber dealer, at the Selangor Assizes, today, when he accused a young Chinese
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    THREE YEARS’ GAOL
    51 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. A 16-year old Hokkien, Ns Ee Tcck, was yesterday sentenced to three years’ rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Jobling at the Singapore Assizes, when he was found guilty of stealing a hood lamp rim and glass from a taxi at Prinsep Street on July
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    ‘USE JUBILEE FUND FOR CLINIC’
    290 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 5. TOE Singapore Progressive Party, in a statement issued yesterday, urged Government amendment of tbe Ordinance governing the Silver Jubilee Fund so that tne money involved could be used to establish a T. B. clinic. “The Progressive Party.’ says thp statement, “advocates the
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    BITTER CUCUMBER IS A POPULAR DISH
    717 15  -  Grow Your Own Vegetables By J.N. MILSUM and J.R.P. SOPER of the Department of Agriculture 1 LARGE number of cucurbitaceous vegetables, i.e. gourds, pumpkins, cucumbers and marrows are j*rown in Malaya, but have received scant attention so far in this series of articles. Several
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    LADY GENT ON SERVICE
    133 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 5. LADY Gent last night appealed to the women of Malaya to enrol with the Women’s Service League. In a broadcast address Lady Gent said even a short time devoted each week to the work of the Service was of value. Already voluntary work
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    SIAM’S WAR DAMAGE PAYMENTS
    135 15 From Our Staff Correspondent. PENANG, Nov. 4... Individual amounts to be received by British mining companies under Slam’s $1,250,000 otter of war-damage compensation might be published In due course by the companies concerned, the Association of British Commonwealth Mining Interests in Siam announced In a statement
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    Thousands Inspect Gift To Princess
    380 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 3. THE golden casket which Singapore is to give as a wedding present to Princess Elizabeth was yesterday inspected at Raffles Museum by 8,320 people. This is the largest number which has ever visited the museum in a single day. Yesterday and on
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    U.S. NAVY VISIT TO SINGAPORE
    100 16 .—Reuter. SHANGHAI, Nov. 3.—Admiral M. Cooke, commander of the United States naval forces In the Western Pacific, will make an informal visit to Hong Kong from November 12 to 17 and Singapore from 21 to 25, it was officially tonight. The flagship of Admiral Cooke
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    S’pore To Get New Ambulances
    175 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. THE Singapore General Hospital is expecting two new ambulances before the end of the year, and another two next year, the Singapore Chief Medical Officer, Dr. T. F. Strang, told the Straits Times yesterday. The new ambulances, which will be of the
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    ALLEGED CHEATING
    65 16 "SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. Two Cantonese, Khong Teng Choon and Chan Lai Wah, both aged 30. were yesterday charged in the Second Police Court with abetting Kong Heng Pang in cheating another Chinese, Ong Liang, by giving him a false cheque for $2,400 in respect of 165 reams of
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    CID CHIEF BETTER: MAN CHARGED
    352 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. SELANGOR’S Criminal In vestigation Department chief, Mr. C. T. Dobree, who was seriously wounded yesterday during a fight with gangsters at Salak South, was reported today to have made a satisfactory recovery, following a blood transfusion administered
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    REGISTRATION OF CHINESE BEGUN
    205 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. Registration of Malayan Chinese was started on Saturday at the Singapore Consulate, and at about 170 voluntary organisations of various sorts, including local and up-country schools, and public bodies of the Chinese community. The particulars contained in the application forms will enable the
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    Sultan Shares In Estate
    282 16 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Nov 3. HIS Highness the Sultan of Johore will share in the estate of his half-sister, the late Tungku Besar Putrie, daughter of th e late Sultan Abubakar, of Johore. Yesterday, the last of her properties was sold by public
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    PARK HOLD-UP ALLEGED
    106 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. Two Chinese youths held up a bank clerk and a girl sitting on a public park bench near Jalan Besar Stadium robbed the man of $6O, it was alleged in the Singapore Seventh Police Court yesterday. According to the prosecution, Yong Ah Fatt and
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    Two Men Faced Extortion Charged
    263 16 From Our Staff Correspondent 1 KUALA LUiVIPUR v I A NOTE demanding $5,000 on which wasll n hand grenade, a gun, and a knife u dr *l in Selangor Assizes today when two Chin.!* estli Kow and Tan Hock Beng, were cSar g e d
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    JUDGMENT FOR ARCHITECT
    158 16 From Our Own Correspond KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. ■1 Judgment in the sum of $1,521 MB of a claim for S2.742. was given* Sir Harold C. Willan. the CM Justice, in the Supreme Court day in favour of Mr. William son-Hlng. an architect. The claim was against Mr.
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    AHEARNE RETURNING
    104 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov.■ 3-jjjjB C. D. Ahearne. former Ma Joint Commissioner v Damage Claims. w.ll ber land for Malaya on Nove®J to become secretary piantM cently formed Mata}* n Industries Employers Agx M Offices of the tesocM U be to the MercantileJ» M Before the had been in
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    $5,000 REWARD FOR BOY BANDIT
    254 17 5,000 REWARD FOR BOY BANDIT From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. of $5,000 —increased from $500—is now Hein.i; offered by the Selangor Police for information to the arrest of Cham Tham Lip, a 16-year-old ■l H 'r of the Green Dragon Mountain Society, who H«j from the Selangor
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    Siam To Pay £500,000 Immediately
    232 17 Siam To Pay 500,000 Immediately |Hi Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 3. Uinld.timii to an offer to pay U.250.000 as comjHatio’.i fi»r war damage, s'anv -c Government has agreed to make reBlitat m;: advances amountItn 22,000,000 ticals to mines in Siam. HHh announced today by IHbsor.atinn of British ComMining Interests
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    JAP SUSPECTS ARRIVE HERE
    64 17 >et SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. t s n war crime sus!npp.an ecl in connection with ,o.rhjJ ::omm itted in French thp L‘ a ur nved in Singapore m Dilwara yesterday in an!! 1 kept ln Changi rich v. se nt to Sa *gon by the the month
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    NEW PLANES FOR E. COAST
    106 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 3.—To ensure regularity of service during the monsoon months and also to passenger traffic from the East Coast. Malayan Airways are r eolacing the Consuls witn Douglas DC3’s on the Singapore-Kuala Lumpur Kuantan Kota Bahru route. The first
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    S. ARMY PARTY
    38 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 4. A farewell party was given last night at the Women's Industrial Home. Oxley Road. Singapore, in honour of Lieut. Col. J. Wainwright. chief of the Salvation Army in Malaya, and Mrs. WainwTight.
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    Gaol For Hartal Day Offenders
    225 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. I*WO Hokkien youths who were arrested when a Tay Koh Yat bus was stoned I on hartal day, Oct. 20, were sentenced to six weeks’ simple imprisonment yesterday by th e Singapore Second Court Magistrate, Mr. L. C. Goh. Yap Seng Leong
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    TAIPING CO-OP
    63 17 From Our Own Correspondent Taiping. Nov. 3—The Taiping Co-operatire Stores Society. Ltd., opened in January this year, made a net profit of $1,218.20 in six months' trading according to the half-yearly report just Issued. The store was opened to assist the clerical classes to combat high living costs.
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    Broken Homes Blamed For Youth Crime
    191 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. HROKEN homes are one of the main causes of juvenile delinquency, the Singapore Juvenile Court Magistrate, Mr. B. L. Chua, said yesterday. Mr. Chua was explaining the general principles and practice of Juvenile courts at a meeting of social workers sponsored
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    Civil Servants Call Mass Meeting
    187 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. MEMBERS of the Government Junior Civil Servants’ Association are to make a final decision on their attitude to Government’s back pay award at a mass meeting in Kuala Lumpur on November 14. The meeting has called by
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    Royal Wedding In Kota Bharu
    168 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. KOTA BHARU is celebrating for the third day in succession in anticipation o the wedding tonight of the younger brother of the Su tan of PahanK. Tungku Mohamed Khahd, and t daughter of Sultan Ibrahim of Kelantan,
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    100 FIRE-WALK IN SINGAPORE
    291 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. HUNDRED bale-footed Tamil devotees crossed a pit of red hot wood embers in the courtyard of the Mariamman Temple, Singapore, last night in one of th e city’s most colourful religious ceremonies. Crowds, which included many Europeans, watched incredible scenes as the devotees,
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    SCHOOL IS NOW 30 YEARS’ OLD
    79 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 3. THE Chinese Consul-General, Dr. Wu Paak-shlng. and Madam Wu were among 800 present at an entertainment given by the Yeung Cheng Old Students’ Brass Band at the Yeung Cheng School Hall, Singapore, on Saturday evening. The entertainment was given in honour
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    WELFARE GIFT
    41 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 3. At the meeting of the Selangor Welfare Committee, held last week in Kuala Lumpur, it was announced that a donation of $1,514.75 had been received from NAAFI for tile Selangor Boys’ Home in Kuala Lumpur.
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    ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF CONSTABLE
    96 17 SINOAPORE. Nov. 4. The Singapore Coroner. Mr. K K. Oon, yesterday returned a verdict of accidental death at an inquiry into the tragedy at a coffee stall in Henderson Road on Oct. 28, when a special constable. Teo Kim Suan. was killed by a rifle bullet.
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    New Rolling Stock For Malaya
    430 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 4. TO speed up rehabilitation of Malaya’s railways, de--1 layed by material and other shortages, 965 goods wagons of various types have been ordered from the United Kingdom. Some of the new wagons are already arriving but the
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    SHOOTING BAN IN JOHORE
    67 18 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU, Nov. 4. From the first of this month the shooting of all kinds of game birds, deer, rusa and kijang. within the State is prohibited. The prohibition will be effective until the end of the year. The restriction has been
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    Malay Fishermen Caught By Crocodile
    58 18 From Our Own Correspondent ENDAU, Nov. 4.—Talib bin Duamin, an 18-year-old Malay fisherman, was caught and killed by a crocodile at Sungei Anak. Endau. Using a casting net he was out m his boat with a friend. The crocodile lashed out with its tail f"
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    CRIMELESS MONTH IN HARBOUR
    144 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 5. FROUGHOUT last month, no cases of rice looting or pilfering in the Singapore Harbour were reported, the Superintendent of Port Police. Mr. H. F. C. Rodda said yesterday. Mr. Rodda said October’s “mil" crime sheet was the most encouraging for some months. During
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    SHB Chief Back
    112 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 5. THE chairman of the Singapore Harbour Board, Mr. Henry Basten, is expected to arrive in Singapore today or tomorrow after spending four months’ leave in England. Mr! Basten will be able to make a comprehensive statement on port rehabilitation. In London he has had
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    Gunman Uses Soap To Remove Bracelets
    120 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 5. A SINGAPORE gunman yesterday rubbed soap into a woman’s wrists in order \o pull off a pair of gold bracelets. The house in which she lived in Siong Lim Park was entered by two gunmen last January and $l,OOO in cash
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    Gaoled For Attempt To Sell Grenades
    129 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 5. rREE Indians, Mydin bin Yarasai, Kumaran and Razak Kachu bin Mydin, were yesterday found* guilty of being in unlawful possession of 1,094 hand grenades and 1,080 hand grenade detonators at the Singapore Assize Court. The first accused was sentenced to five
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    Boy Attacked By Python
    82 18 From Our Own Correspondent. KUALA TRENGGANU, Nov. 4.—A Malay boy looking after a herd of cattle was attacked by a 14-foot python at Kampong Tian Bahru. The python coiled itself round the bokfs leg and tried to drag him to its lair. The boy clung to
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    10 Policemen Catch 15-Foot Python
    71 18 i 4 k PENANG, Nov 2. A 15ft. python was caught alive by 10 Malay constables n near the Beach Street police station yesterday. The capture followed a hectic chas e in the early hours of the morning, ending in the snake being ‘lassoed’ by
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    FINED FOR SAMSU
    41 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 5. Pon g» a Chinese, was fined $150 or three months' rigorous imprisonment when he pleaded guilty in the Third Police Court yesterday to possession of two gallons of samsu at Sembawang Road on Oct. 27
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    Prices For Land Too High?
    136 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 5. BUYERS of land in Singapore appear to be few. The reason given by “land-hun-ters” is that sellers still demand boom prices. Nine lots of land were offered for sale by public auction yesterday by the Singapore Arm of Nassim and Co., auctioneers,
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    CONTROL OVER TOBACCO ENDS
    78 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 5. Control over the prices for cigarettes and tobacco of stll brands have been officially removed in Singapore but remain in force in the Malayan Union. The removal of cigarette and tobacco price control adds another item to the lengthening list of commodities which
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    ELECTRIC PIG TRAPS ALSO KILL MEN
    298 18 THE Electricity Department of vl 1 sought an increase in the severity ~f ,1? an l S I for the setting of illegal electric pig tnirw l<? Kal pj These traps are known to have alivadv" l* ,a iu«i| and possibly killed others whose
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    $30 For Shooting Protected Birds
    69 18 TWO Chine*'?* u, V 1 and Lee Mene n in fined S30 each or imprisonment uhen Vs ed ruilty in .he Vhnd* Court yesterday l' 1 Protected birds Jang on Oct 1 asir h®jgj Gibson-HU,; •pSffAM Museum, who were both ai^l SC T n h
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    TINS FOR TIGERS
    165 18 From Our Own I Correspondent KUANTAN. Nov. M A CHINESE. Foong Keel n Tanah Puteh. is buying! brand new kerosene ‘tins I bang—to ward off prowlil tigers. He is not interested! old tins. He says they nil too little noise. I Foong is taking this pi caution
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    MALAYA FEARS SMALLPOX
    80 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 5. Mass vaccination against ®aJ pox is in progress in the Union. In the week ended Octobers 4Q cases of smallpox were rep of which six were fatal. The corresponding ngures the previous week were and six deaths. j There was one death au smallpox
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    INQUIRY INTO DEATH FALL
    81 18 SINGAPORE. N/O Police have r|, Q"'' s, <l j 'port# gapore Coroner. Mr. rs Mar to defer the inquest 1 Cu rr.;r garet Patricia AttS until her sister at rlv«?> tralia. -.gi'd 3]- 1 Mrs. Burns Cumin- up 40 fee social welfare work<r. win do* CI
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    JUST ONE-POINT DECIDES RUGGER
    337 19 Singapore, Nov 2. ini d Services 6 pts. Singapore Civilian* 5 Dts )1SG by a penalty goal in the first half, the Combined er viccs beat the Singapore Civilians in a hard-fought of rugger on the Padang yesterday by a try and a y goal (six
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    INTER-SCHOOL CHESS
    28 19 In a return chess match of nine boards the Victoria School. Singapore, beat St. Andrew's School by 12| points to SJ. The first encounter was drawn.
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    JOHORE BEAT NEGRI
    180 19 RENGAM, Nov. 1. JOHORE defeated Negri in the first inter-state H.M.S. Malaya rugger series bv 30 points to nil. The match which was played at Rengam did not commence until 5.45 p.n*. owing to the Negri team arriving late. Johore had the best of the came throughout,
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    S.R.A. SHOOT
    78 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. Following are the results of the Singapore Rifle Association’s spoon shoot held at Seletar range last Sunday. EXPERTS 200 500 600 Tot 1. F.A. Bickerdike 31 32 31 94 2. J.B. Best Expert 31 33 30 94 TYROS 1. Dr. A. W. S. Thevathasan 27
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    DENTALS LOSE TO MEDICALS
    119 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. Medical Students Deat uie [■I 'final Students by three goals ■l in their annual hockey match |Hd at the Medical College Union yesterday. Hje game was played on a sodden which slowed down play, scorers were Kuldip Singh Hind Tan Yok Kwang. Hssrs.
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    R.S.G.C. GOLF
    77 19 I SINGAPORE, Nov. 3. Rl? nsapore R°yal Golf Club ■™r M»dal (Bogey) competi- *a.s won by I.L.G. Wheeler, all ■re. following were the next s Corf s returned: JicMullan, two down. r u 0 s two down. In J deckle, two down. I tv V:f s two down,
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    CHANGI AIRMEN SCORE 21-0 WIN
    72 19 ■ith n, n SINGAPORE. Oct. 30. R A t' r side at full strength, ■an' Cbaugl and the R.A. ■erdav '.V ,)layed good, open rugger Bu ‘(i,' 1 Airmen winning by 21 Bltv Cf J,' r t Roals a try and a PcL, t0 nil.
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    S.C.F.A. DINNER
    53 19 SINGAPORE. Oct. 30. The Singapore Chinese Football Association bade bon voyage to their president. Mr. T.W. Ong. and Mrs. Ong at a dinner held at the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club last night. Mr. Ong, accompanied by his wife, will be proceeding on leave to Europe on Nov. 5
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    LIEN HWA WIN AGAIN
    66 19 i rom Our Own Correspondent. rr»nr vi BANGK «K, Nov. 3. r HL Malayan Chinese footX bailers, Lien Hwa, won the second match of their tour when they defeated the Assumption -XI --1 here on Sunday. After a scoreless first half Tee Mang and Boon Leong
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    S.R.C. 2nd XI Defeated
    198 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. rpHE Police second eleven beat X the Singapore Recreation Clubs second string 2-1 in a colourless hockey match played on the S.R.C. padang yesterday. The Police showed better combination and were faster than the Rees. Milne and Armstrong, the fullbacks were prominent in
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    RAFFLES COLLEGE BEAT 223 B.O.D.
    85 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. The Raffles College had little difficulty in defeating 223 BOD Alexandra 4-1 at hockey yesterday at Alexandra. The Collegians dominated play throughout the game. Salleh opened the score soon after the start, and T. Retnam added another to give the College a
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    Som Pong Wins In Two Rounds
    243 19 SINGAPORE, Nov 3. COM PONG (147 lbs.) cleared all doubts of his superiority ESw hnwhloui in III, «~J r.n„d ,,i ih.i, l.-,onnd fight last night at the Happy World. ia.a Koht finm K,' if nr>r kcri down again. This was a return fight. Som
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    Services Win Tay Lian Teck Shield
    387 19 SINGAPORE, Nov 2. Services 2 Civilians 1 IN a fast hut unattractive game of soccer for th e Tay Lian i Teck Shield played yesterday at Jalan Besar, the Combined Services defeated the Combined Civilians by two goals to one. Only 2,000 watched the
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    Island Club Plan To Be Reconsidered
    158 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. rE application of the Singapore Island Club to build a new clubhouse in the catchment area of Peirce Reservoir will be reconsidered by a Municipal committee. At a meeting of Municipal Commissioners yesterday, Mr. N. A. Mallal moved reference back of
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    R.A.F. SELETAR WIN
    36 19 SINGAPORE. Oct. 30. The R. A. F. Seletar beat the Naval Dockyard XI 4-1 at hockey yesterday Scorers for the R.A.F. were Copcutt (2) and Martingell (2). Moore scored for the Dockyard XI.
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    Chong Tee & Poh Lim Win
    172 19 Chong Tee Poh Lim Win SINGAPORE. Nov. 3. Ong Poh Llm and Tan Chong Tee (Marigold) provided all the thrills In yesterday’s Singapore Badminton Championships when they overwhelmed Ismail Marjan and Pat Neubronner (Devonshire) In the first round of the Men’s Open Doubles. Their fast, hard play was too much
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    Nelson Scores Four Tries
    135 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. NEIJSON took the honours in yesterday’s padang rugger, scoring all four tries by which the Singapore Cricket Club “B” defeated the s.s. Diomed XV, who replied with a solitary try. The club led 12-nll until the closing stages of the game when Hamell
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    SCC FORWARDS MISS CHANCES
    107 19 SINGAPORE Nov. 3 r fHE Royal Naval Police beat tne Singapore Cricket Club by the only goal scored in the hockey match played on the padang Just before the interval A. Singh emerged from a melee to beat Baines from close range. The club forwards were
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    Malaya Encouraged By Trade Accord
    1228 20 Weekly Share Market Review From A Market Correspondent MALAYAN markets were greatly encouraged by the announcement of an agreement providing for increased imports by America of Empire Colonial produce. Practical confirmation of this fact was evident in great buying strength in the Singapore rubber market.
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    CONSUMERS SHORT OF RUBBER
    313 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. LAST Monday the market developed a somewhat unexpected easiness and a cons.derable volume of rubber was thrown on the market. This, however, was well absorbed by the trade, since w r hen prices have steadily advanced, states Lewis and Peat’s weekly market report.
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    KAMUNING’S DIVIDEND
    72 20 'pHE Kamuning (Peiak) Rubber and Tin Company returns to the dividend list after an absence of five years. An interim payment of 3$ ptr cent tax free was payable on Saturuay, Nov. i. This was on the 210.00 c capital for the year to June 30 The previous
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    DUNLOP MALAYA APPOINTMENT
    82 20 After three years in England. Mr. F. F. Sullivan comes to Sngapore to take up an appointment as Dunlop district manager in Southern Malaya. Mr. Sullivan joined the Shanghai branch in 1931 on the sales side and was captured there by the Japanese at the end of
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    742 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. Quotations given today by the Malayan Sharebrokers’ Association were as follows: INDUSTRIALS Buyer 9eOei Atlas Ice 13 00 14 00 Aiex Brick Ords. 1.80 1.90 Aiex Brick Prefs 3 10 3.20 B.M. Trustee 8.75 9.50 nn-nuuateq Tlr Smejter 5 (O) 21/- 227do (P» 24/-
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