The Straits Budget, 13 November 1947

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES 1 ESTABLISHED OVER a CENTURY] No. 67 S«og»p»re Thanday, November 13th, 1947 Price 40 cents (S.S. 'Currency) Or l Si.
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      65 1 The SIN G APORE 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
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  • The Straits Budget
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      GOODYEAR ON SYNTHETIC
      734 2 —Straits Times, Nov. 6. One of American rubber’s big four, the chairman of Goodyear, Mr. P. W. Litchfield, has at last published his promised pamphlet in which he gives the synthetic product quite a drubbing. Not all of Mr. Litchfield’s pamphlet is new as some of the
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      A Windfall For The Jubilee Fund
      272 2 —Straits Times, Nov. 6. A statement by the Progressive Party on a windfall of $317,000 which has accrued to the Silver Jubilee Fund in Singapore, being accumulated interest on the fund’s capital during the occupation, was published in our columns yesterday. The position, however,
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      Chinese Blood For Chinese Patients
      213 2 —Straits Times. Nov. 6. One of the latest donors to the Blood Transfusion Service at the General Hospital, Singapore, is Mr. Lee Kong Chian, chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. This is good news because there is a peculiar prejudice against donating blood among
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      PULAU BRANI AND TEXAS
      1002 2 S:rai1 T me5i ]M Malaya's basic industries—tin and rubber—appear to be getting more than their fair share of highly unwelcome and unhappy American attention at the moment. The latest is the American assault against the Malayan smelting industry. Briefly, the position is that the American Government
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      ANYBODY CAN BE A “MELAYU”
      1090 2 —Straits Times. Nov. 8. .lu lec J ,ure on ThurskH at the headquarters of theu|l Democratic Union m N ortk Koad, Singapore, the firjB series of lectures on the caH tional controversy in |B| which has been organic MDU, Mr. John Eber M remark on
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      A CITY OF VAST ARREARS
      1186 3 —Straits Times. Nov. 10. The melancholy satisfaction tc which Mr. L. Rayman, president of the Singapore Municipality, confessed in his budget speech last Friday will be shared by the Singapore citizen. It is indeed a creditable performance to have produced a municipal budget that is
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      THE TURF CLUB’S EXAMPLE
      999 3 —Straits Times. Nov n. Singapore Turf Club, even before its first post-war meeting has opened, has given an eyeopening demonstration of how much money there is in this country and how easy it is to attract that money if only the right bait is offered. The
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      Our Armistice Day
      216 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 11. Singapore today will be the only place in Malaya and also the only place in the British Empire, so far as we know*, that will hold an Armistice Day ceremony. For the rest of the Empire, Armistice Day is now the Sunday nearest
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      IMPROVING UPON MR. HEASMAN
      1164 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 12. The Malayan public has some heavy reading ahead of it, if it is to digest all the new material that will be laid before it in pr* paration for the debates on income tax that are to be held simultaneously in the
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      Second-Class Train: They Paid The Difference
      265 5 members of the in (T a poiv Teachers’ Union |®annot allow the insinua- 0 f A Johore Teacher” jHo lS on t lie minds of the HE, a nd of the teachers H, n Singapore and Johore. Committee has rightly it lit not to
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      ALL MY EYE AND “BETTY MARTIN”
      102 5 Ha leading article recently you used the expression my eve and Betty Mar- and said you did not know origin. H lost all books of ■ence (together with every- else i, but I think Brewer in Dictionary of Phrase and says that a British
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      WHITE RICE AND POWDERED RICE
      62 5 BthJ CPnt edi torial, you state ■L r 1Ce of excellent quality being served to the Cey- lr °op6 in Singapore. Hu 1 being so, why should the niiot. inga P° re have to get Quality rice? ■_P? p^h°n the Gey■g district have been f
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      LABOUR CODE OUTDATED
      330 5 rE labour code, as we all know, is an outdated piece of legislation framed to regularise the relationship between employers (such as labour contractors) and their respective employees. Its other function was to control immigrant labour from China and India. This Code was applicable during 'he days
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      NO TUXEDOS AT THE BALAI BESAR
      114 5 AS a witness of the wedding ceremony of the Sultan of Kelantan’s daughter recently at the Istana Balai Besar, I was greatly impressed and felt a certain amount of joy at seeing the members of the Malay community presenting themselves in their complete national
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      WOULD TEXAS PAY MORE?
      176 5 f DO agree with the A Straits Times editorial headed “Pulau Brani and Texas.” 1 concede that you have stated your case admirably, underlining, especially, the advantage to the local miners in the way of cash advances against ore delivery. I cannot believe, however, that It
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      TRAFFIC LAPSES AT THE ROUND-ABOUTS
      150 5 AS a motorist, I take off my hat to the Traffic Police for the splendid work done since the surrender. However. I am surprised that nothing has been done to enforce the traffic code at round-abouts in the city. Every driver should know that they
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      ACTING REGISTRAR
      28 5 Mr. Tan Thoon Lip. who was recently admitted to the Colonial Legal Service, has been appointed to act as the Registrar of the Supreme Court. Singapore.
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      A Malay Answer To Mr. John Eber
      304 5 MR. John Eber, in his reply to the Governor-General’s recent broadcast, stated that th e proposed constitution would die because it had no roots in the soil of Malaya. I would point out that there are many things now thriving in Malaya which
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      EUROPEANS IN THE 1942 EVACUATION
      336 5 IN a foot note to a letter signed by “K.P.” which appeared in the Straits Times recently, you say: Government’s orders to the British European community during the Malayan campaign were that no able bodied man under sixty was to leave the country. Official evacuation
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      SINGAPORE GIRL ON THE “BUS FACE”
      77 5 I WISH to point out to “Mere Male” that he is talking through the back of his neck. If a girl in Singapore happens to ‘anile at a stranger he, no macter what the nationality, is bound to take it amiss; the result is
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      A Straits-Born Chinese Replies To Mr. Eu Chooi Yip
      442 5 JT does not require any special talent for observation to note the deceptive natur e of the remarks made bv Mr. Eu Chooi Yip, Secretary of the Malayan Democratic Union, by way of reply on behalf of Mr. Tan Cheng Loc
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    HOW HIGH CAN A SAMBHUR DEER JUMP?
    1805 6  -  A Malayan Countryman’s Diary ,i 1,,t EARLY Saturday morning I was awakened by the bark of a sambhur stag. The bark was repeated at intervals until daylight. Do deer bark only when alarmed? Or is it a call to their mates, defiance of
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    PENANG TURF CLUB RECORD
    342 6 PENANG, Nov 8. PENANG Turf Club last year nearly doubled its revenue. Total income was $461,860 against $235,605 the year before. Announcing this at the Club's annual general meeting last night, Mr. Lee Toon Poon, the President, said: “I think this is a record, or very
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    Lost Jungle Climbers In Hospital
    152 6 f>«*m Our Staff Corr(SIW K LL A L h A n MPUR N^l ALL the 11 people wh H lost in the junsujB Gunong Brinchang S feet) m Cameron HihS or “ore than 48 hoM ■n hospital recovering hi cuts, bites, and exhausl Th<“ member
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    NATIONAL FLAG FOR MALAYA
    169 6 SINGAPORE. Not The Malayan Left-Wing 01H isations. AMCJA and PUtB have decided on a design flj national flag for Malaya. The organisations plantcfl the flag at mass meetingiM several parts of Malaya onfl ember 10 when speeches rifl| delivered in support oi the pie's Constitutional Proposal™
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    ROTAN AND GAOL
    36 6 SINGAPORE. Nov. Ang Kam Wal. a Hockchew. was yesterday^* fenced to eight years' t W imprisonment and 12 e: the rotan by Mr. Justice °V| robbery. ar H in the High Court for
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    10,000 REWARDS FOR GANGSTERS
    478 7 B KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8. H.\i;l)S totalling $10,000 are being offered by the Selangor for the arrest of five Chinese and a Bengali, who H, lt hp remnants of the “Malayan Chines e Peoples’ Self* HL (dips,” whose leader, Lee Loy, and a lieutenant of l|n
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    K Bureau For Putera, AMCJA
    135 7 K^' A LUMPUR. Nov. 8. B> tu i'Ta and All-Malaya i! ‘f Joint Action anH stablishment of a H fmation bureau on B- nrs in London under I, ntative, Mr. Llm Bi'7 i Ouoon’s scholar, now law studies. He Im' <>neral secretary of K: Democratic
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    S’PORE WEDDING
    85 7 SINGAPORE Nov 9 THE wedding took place at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. Singapore, between Miss Bridget Josephine Pereira and Mr. H. Alfonse. a technical assistant attached to Radio Malaya. The bride is the daughter of Mr F. M. Pereira. Assistant Veterinary Officer. Singapore. She was given
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    Shop-Window For Malay Handwork
    247 7 Shop-Window For Malay Hand work SINGAPORE. Nov Ma!u\an Arts and (rafts Society expects to re-open within a fortnight its depot for the sale of Malay handicrafts from kampongs at its old site in the Post Office section of Fullerton Building. The Society itself is to be revived in one or
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    Engaged
    52 7 THE engagement was announced in London on Nov. 1, between Peter William Burton. <>l the Harbour Board. Singapore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Burton, of 1 Court Lane Gardens. Dulwich, and lately of Malaya, and Barbara Jane, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs. T. A. Webster, of 39. Hilltop.
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    LANDSLIDE SAVES 3
    89 7 iroil. Nov. 8. A SECOND and heavier landslide in one of the mines here saved the lives of three mining labourers. The three men were engaged in a lob of fixing piiv*s at the bottom of an excavation at mine in Lahat when a landslide covered them.
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    New KPM Ships For Far East
    89 7 SINGAPORE. Nov 0. mHE K.P.M. Line announce that J[ new vessels lor the BelawanD* li-Straits-China service ;ire now under construction in Holland and will be put into service next, year. Meanwhile, the 8.000-ton Heinrich Jessen and the Van Ileutsz will run a regular service
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    S’pore Buses Block Traffic In Protest
    336 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. TRAFFIC in the heart of Singapore was held up for 15 minutes yesterday, when about 20 Singapore Traction Company buses and trolley buses full ot passengers stopped in front of the Capitol Theatre, North Rridge Road, their drivers and conductors joining in
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    Warning Shots By Masked Men
    157 7 w SINGAPORE, Nov. 10. inv from the homo of a Chinese business man NINE masked v( s( erdav with jewellery worth 84,000 and 8300 in cash. ThS °;S y I* EV house and fired warning shots in the air as th< > h Four of
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    METHODIST COLLEGE TO RE-OPEN
    273 7 SINGAPORE. Nov 9. “/\UR Theological College in Slnt/gapore will be fully n*organised by the end of the year and a regular programme of classes will commence in early 1948,” Bishop Edwin F. Lee, head of tin* Methodist Mission in Malaysia, told the Sunday Times yesterday. Anglicans
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    ANOTHER FISH TRADE MURDER
    143 8 IPOH. Nov. 8. THE body of a well-to-do Chinese fish dealer, with seven bullet wounds in it. was found early this morning at Pantai Remis, a fishing village in Sitiawan District. There was a rope round the neck and the legs w'ere bound together at the
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    NEW MEDICAL COLLEGE BODY
    133 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 10. The Principal of the College of Medicine. Dr. D. W. Faris, and the Director of Chemistry. (Singapore and Malayan Union). Prof. M. Jamieson, were among the guests at a dinner on Friday night to celebrate the inauguration of the Junior Scientific Officers’ Association.
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    ESTATE HOLD-UP IN JOHORE
    242 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 8. ARMED gangsters yesterday afternoon held up a ear occupied by the manager of Tangkah Estate, North Johore, and his wife, daughter and supervisor, and robbed them of an $8,500 payroll. The gangsters, armed with sawn-oft Army .d()d calibre rilles. stopped the manager, Mr.
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    BISHOP FETED
    68 8 DATU PAHAT. Nov. 9.—The D parishioners of St. Louis church. Kluang, gave a reception to the Bishop of Malacca, the Rt. Rev. M. Olcomendy, yesterday. Bishop Olcomendy was the Vicar of this parish from 1936 to 1941. The present parish priest is the Rev. Fr. I. Fernandez An
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    Union Leaders On Theft Charge
    125 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 8. THE pres cient of the Singapore Harbour Board Labour Union, Amuthulinggam, the treasurer, P. Govindasamy and three committee members, Veerasenan, Somoo and Barthapan, were charged in the Fourth Police Court yesterday with house-breaking and theft. Amuthulinggam was further charged with carrying a
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    MALAYAN PLANTER DIVORCED
    71 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 9. A decree nisi granted in July to Mrs. Violet Marjorie Ainger. who petitioned for divorce from her husband. Mr Douglas Slade Ainrer was made absolute in the Singapore High Court before the Chief Justice. Mr. C. M. Murray Aynsley. on Friday. Mrs. Ainger petitioned
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    New Office Space For Singapore
    101 8 Siytv SINGAPORE, Nov. 8. ixn thotisand square feet of extra office space will be available in Singapore when the new building to house f?)uiH >^ anCh <>f Hon kon S and Shanghai Bank in Orchard Road is completed towards the end of next year Mrs.
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    SPORE SOAP QUOTAS
    318 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 10. Because of the growing demand from overseas for Malayan soap, the Singapore Government has decided to allocate soap export quotas to intending exporters who have satisfied the authorities of recent inquiries. A Government spokesman said yest rday that the problem of allocating quotas for
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    Text Of New Arms Bill Published
    430 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 8. J'HE text of the bill to amend the law relating to the carrying and using of arms, which is to be introduced in the Advisory Council shortly, was published in a supplement to the Singapore Government Gazette last night. The bill
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    SPICEBOATS FINE TRADE BOOM
    531 8 SINGAPORE v MORE native boats from Celebes .Mw/’. v> fl i North Borneo are coining many years. They are reviving the sailing boat trade that '-as killed In fi? ni,er- i® steamships in the days before the war making good profits. n(l More boats are being
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    Engineers Fined For Mischief
    151 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 6. Bo >h:p's engineers who I the belongings of Thigineer overboard B‘ fi: too each by the Second District J. P. Merson, yesKta\. H Charles Frederick H Grogg. who were v of housebreaking K t engineer’s cabin to H el iief and causing m
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    Smelters Attack U.S. Policy
    646 9 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 3. Would better, strategically, for the United States lay up stocks of tin than to keep the uneconoIH Texas smelter in operation, the Eastern Manager ■he Eastern Smelting Co., Mr. D. A. Mackay, told ■Straits Times today. ■Malaya, he said,
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    HEAVY BAIL IN TOBACCO CASE
    103 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 6. R AIL of $30,000 was I* granted to Tay Lian, a Chinese who claimed trial in the Third Police Court yesterday on a charge of posseslon of 2,571 pounds of dutiable Siamese tobacco and 57,000 dutiable cigarettes. It is alleged that the
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    HONOURS FOR MALAYANS
    52 9 from Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 5. The King has approved the bestowal of tiie following honours for the Malayan Union: Officers of the Most Excellent O.der i 1 the British Empire: Mr. Man Wai Wong, of Sit ia wan. Perak, and Mr. Chve Sin Wu.
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    OFFICERS LEAVING
    125 9 ALOR STAR. Nov. ft. Two popular police officers will leave Kedah shortly. They are the Chief Police Officer. Mr. lan MacMillan, who is proceeding to Kuala Lumpur to return to his former appointment as Deputy Police Commissioner, Malayan Union, and the Oilicer Superintending Police Centre, North Kedah. Mr.
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    Land Forfeit Plan Angers Owners
    135 9 From Our Staff Correspondent Kt ALA LUMPUR, Nov. 5. SELANGOR Property Owners and Ratepayers’ Association will protest strongly against the Malayan Union Housing Committee’s proposal that owners of vacant land who do not build on it should forfeit their land. A report of a recent
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    INCOME-TAX SUBMISSIONS
    200 9 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 5. Representatives of the committee of the Selangor Property Owners and Ratepayers’ Association who interviewed Mr. R. B. Heasman on income tax recently, requested enhanced deductable allowance in view ol the piesent heavy costs of repairs, insurance, and rent coil' d
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    Malayan Miners Fear Tin Decision
    563 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 5. MALA YAN tin producers whom 1 interviewed today say they fear that the strong views the* expressed at a meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Aug. l\ against the removal of the export duty on tin ore, proposed
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    Gaol For Gunmen
    118 9 SINGAPORE. Nov 7. A SHOOTING and handgrenade incident which took place at the junction of Owen and Race Course Roads on the night of May (5, had a sequel in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, when Jimen bin Simcn and Yeo Ah Meng were charged with conspiring
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    WIRELESS ENGINEER
    86 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 6. Mr. c. f. isherwood. of s, Ncrton Road. Cheshire. Is takup an appointment in the Colonial Service as an Assistant ConWireless in the Telecommunications Department of Malaya. Mr Isherwood is a graduate of the Institution- of Electrical Engineers and an Associate of Manchester College of
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    FREE PORT STATUS OF PENANG
    168 11 s -il orrespondent jg PENANG, Nov 6. rocommendai, i iu 1 Government n o l> nang’s status as §1 port are expected to I twi hour meeting iM.- p. .any merchants A".'-ant Comptroller Mr. J. S. A. H Tin• meeting was preYlovti' Tuesday by the
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    OBJECTION TO QUARANTINE
    131 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 6. H-a);h Officer, Singapore, V R s Johnston, in a state- .vest ('relay concerning immigrants detained quarantine regulations, at n< ould do his best to V 1 1 of any hardship might be. in no < -ircumstances would no regulations be If. u al; »\v
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    APPOINTED ADC
    26 11 Air p f 11 tenant Ross. DFC ■Borarv r !;Vrt ha J been a PP° lnt Knor ude-de-camp to the 1 Slr Franklin Gimson.
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    MORE STEEL FOR S’PORE IS LIKELY
    134 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 7. |9 m representation to the authorities in Ihilain more steel for the port of Singapore has b?en the chairman of the Singapore Harbour Hr. Henry Basten. ■■Hasten who returned to Singapore yesterday ne from England said the authorities mm given hearing
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    LABOUR POST FOR CHINESE
    86 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 6. Forty-three-year-old Mr. Chang Chuan Foo, an inspector of the Singapore Labour Department, has been appointed acting assistant Commissioner for Labour. He fills a position vacant since Mr. Un Hon Kun left for England for a course in labour administration. Mr. Chang, who was
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    PADI PRIZES
    161 11 JOHORF BAHRU. Nov. 6.—ln order to commemorate the 74th birthday of Major-General Sir Ibrahim. Sultan of Johore. the Federation of Chinese Associations. Johore Bahru, has donated a sum of money for the encouragement of padi planting in Johore. The gift was handed to the Resident Commissioner. Johore. and
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    No Decision On Jubilee Fund Yet
    228 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 6. THE question of amending A the legislation governing the Singapore Silver Jubilee Fund “is under consideration,” an official of the Government Secretariat told the Straits Times yesterday. The chairman of the Silver Jubilee Fund Committee. Mr. 1. Eames Hughes, said that
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    Mr EBER ATTACKS G.-G.’s TALKS
    341 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 7. THE vice-president of the Malayan Democratic Union, Mr. John Eber, yesterday attacked the constitutional proposals for Malaya and the GovernorGeneral’s broadcasts on those proposals. Mr. Eber said: “The Governor-General says that the constitution is a bud. But we say it is weed.
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    ROBBERY CHARGE
    121 11 IOHORE BAHRU, November 5.- Seoh Ah Oh. a Singapore tongkang man. was committed for trial at the Assizes on a charge of robbery when armed with a revolver. He was committed after a preliminary inquiry before the Magistrate. He was arrested in Singapore after a report has been
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    U.S. $6,000,000 WORTH OF EXCHANGE IN ONE CARGO
    156 11 U.S. $6 ,000,000 WORTH OF EXCHANGE IN ONE CARGO SINGAPORE, Nov. 6. THE Steel Architect, 13,000-tonner of the Isthmian Line’s new fleet engaged in the Straits-America trade, will leave Penang next week with what is claimed to be a record cargo for a ship loading solely at Malayan ports. She
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    $5-Million Grant For Singapore Housing
    195 11 SINGAPORE, Nov 7. A GRANT of $5,000,000 for housing projects to bo carried out by the Singapore Improvement Trust has been made in the Government’s 1048 budget. The acting Financial Secre-thal this provision was not a tary, Mr. J. D. M. Smith, said loan. The
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    Gunmen In Beauty Parlour
    234 11 SINGAPORE, Nov 7. SEVERAL Chinese women having their hair “done’* in a Chinese hairdressing saloon in Dhoby Ghaut were forced into a room with their attendants by two Chinese gunmen at 3.30 p.m. yesterday. Attendants disengaged frightened women clients from electrical apparatus to which their hair
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    EUROPEAN FINED
    123 11 PARIT BUNTAR. Thursday. The Deputy Commissioner, Perak North, Mr. G. S. Rawlings, was the complainant in a case in which a European, Frank Rogers, was fined bv Ir.chc B.rtiaudin bin Yaoob ior dangerous driving. Mr. Rawlings who was in Bagan Serai yesterday morning, saw a car swerve to
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    CHARITY SALE
    64 11 SINGAPORE. Nov 7. Over SH,OOO was realised by the charity sale held on Tuesday and Wednesday in the school hall of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, Singapore. The sale was in aid of the Chinese School Building Fund. The Lady Superior wishes to thank sincerely the
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    5-Year Programme For Singapore
    1110 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 8. THE Singapore Municipality had a five-year plan for the future development of Singapore, said the Municipal President, Mr. L. Rayman, at a special budget meeting of the Municipal Commissioners yesterday. At the meeting, the Commissioners approved the 1948 budget showing a revenue increase
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    CYCLIST HELD UP, SHOT
    97 12 rom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 5. TWO armed Chinese held up a Malay cyclist on Pahang Road last night and finding no money on him, shot him twic e in the thigh and the back. Passers-by found the man later and took him to
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    CHARGES FOR WATER RAISED
    160 12 SINGAPORE Nov. 8. Charges for water consumption in Singapore will be increased from January next year. The annual licence fee for itinerant hawkers will bv' increased from $l2 to $24. A charge cancelled during the slump and to be reinstated from January next is for water
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    Killearn’s Expenses £424,300
    126 12 Reuter. LONDON, Nov. 7. THE total cost of Lord Killearn's organisation was £424.300 up to June 30, stated Mr. Christopher Mayhew. Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, in a Parliamentary reply yesterday. There was no question of doing away with the organisation, he added. But it had been decided
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    Drama Festival For Schools Planned
    188 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 8. THE Teachers’ Repertory of the Singapore Teachers* Union is planning to hold an Inter-School Drama Festival in (he middle of next year. Singapore schools will bo invited to send in as many teams as possible. Schools may enter teams under three categories.
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    Round-The-World Yacht Arrives In S’pore
    262 12 Round-The-World Yacht Arrives In S ’pore SINGAPORE, Nov. 8. AWEATHER-beaten Dutch ketch, the 42-foot Aik. has arrived in Singapore on a round-the-world voyage after taking 16 months to reach here from Rotterdam. The yacht is owned and commandorod by a veteran Dutch merchant Capt A. van Nieuwkoop. Capt. van Nieuwkoop
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    New Proposal For Pineapple Industry
    275 12 From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR v THE Malayan pineapple industry hum k #v 1 ted according: to a new design, savs th reiort BB adviser, Mr. C. E. Courtenay. l In the first of a series of articles j n t i,. Agricultural
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    49 BANISHED FROM UNION
    95 12 From Our Stair orrespon*! KUALA LUMPUR During October 9' order® Edward Gent. mad fpnv jM banishment auni irpd persons and <> i u-sfl tier the banishing cially announced This compart s wttlj t.v U 20 banished iruin. 1 lvfl <H Union from h* da> o [he
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    DUNLOP FAREWELL
    36 12 cT\'(r-\POPE S1 Europ Fifty a p b employees 1 ,ht l n bcr Compa; v rict rr*a tained the m; ]L Morn* ger. south. farewell tea-1 ,toB Mr. Morris itiF kok to re-o]' branch.
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    “Touch And Go” With Electricity
    144 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 6. Singapore Municipal fcvtrcal Engineer, Mr. Hv!isaid last night it and go*’ with the ■M'., G, atricity supply. s. n a pore until 11 jljjj a V morning was power. IB: a load subsided on v .ai. engineers dis■H.d one a I the
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    ENGINEER’S FUNERAL
    92 13 Nu 1 7.-The turn ra/r of U c Stuckey. 26-year-old IB -ineer who was killed I '.'j: acid-nt yesterday, took B h:> afternoon at Batu Bj*-b unis were Messrs R. W B r J- Barnard. F. C. S. TillH* P A W. Thuell. J. c. London Bp E
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    TOWN PLANNING
    127 13 R SINGAPORE. Nov. 11. RChurch, the Chief RV!!‘V tural and Town Planunt of the Singapore ftf 11 Trust said in SingaRa r n ,2:hti “unfortunately, Rta- h aml municipalities are ■of th' n ’ri ld l he thinkin S Peo- m the ™tter of 11 was s Peaklng
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    Penang Saves In Budget Revision
    292 13 H From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Nov. U. ■eVISEP budget which proposed “a complete 1 of the munici”. fir.i.:ices was presented t Municipal President, Mr. W. C. Taylor, at a meeting of the commissioners yesterday. owi'htffil wss necessary, said Mr, Taylor, to enable to pay
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    Lowrie Is New RSGC President
    200 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 9. MR. S. LOWRIE was elected president of the Royal Singapore Golf Club at the annual meeting of the club, which was held at the clubhouse last night. The vice-captain. Mr. R. J. Isherw’ood. was elected captain and Mr. H. M. Alexander vicecaptain
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    Sarawak Dyaks Want Reply
    205 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 9. 11HE Sarawak Dyak Association and the Malay National Union of Sarawak have sent the British Prime Minister a telegram expressing regret at r< ceiving no reply to their joint telegram sent on last July. The message adds that their reason for not since
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    $750,000 To Build Tenements
    242 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 8. THE Singapore Improvement Trust will build next year two blocks of tenements in Sago and Smith Streets at an estimated cost of $750,000. The four-storey tenements are the first of a series of buildings which the Trust plans to construct in 1948 fa
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    Guy Fawkes Blaze Brings Fire Engines
    154 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 6. ENGINES of the Singapore Fire Brigade and a police car rushed to a blaze in Oxley Rise last night, but when they arrived they found it was a false alarm and that the officers of Singapore District were giving their children
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    Pirates Seize $14,500 Rubber Cargo
    178 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 9. ARMED Chinese pirates in a motor sampan seized a $14,500 cargo oi rubber from a Chinese-owned tongkang in tl < Straits of Malacca on Thursday morning, the tongkang s talkong reported to Singapore Marini Police yesterday. The tongkang—bound for Singapore from Borneo
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    Two Round-World Yachts In S’pore
    239 13 SINGAPORE, Nov 9. I HE Hags of Holland and Denmark fly side by side on two round-the-world yachts which are now riding at anchor inside the Singapore breakwater. The masters of these two weather-beaten craft are old friends—for they met in Tahiti eight months ago.
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    REFUNDS FOR LANDLORDS
    155 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 1,0. Landlords who had signed agreements accepting a 24 per cent, deduction for rates in respect of 1945 from compensation due to them for requisitioned property will be allowed refund of such deductions. The Assistant Director, Clalnrui and Hirings, has taken this decision following upon
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    CONCERT AT RAFFLES
    69 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 10. Three hundred and fifty people including the Governor and Lady Glmson last night attended a special Remembrance Day Orchestral Concert In the floodlit, flag-decor-ated palm court of Raffles Hotel. Proceeds from tickets was nearly $l,OOO. subject to entertainment tax. Tiie concert was in aid
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    MURDERED
    64 13 PENANG. Nov. 7.- A Chinese whom police believe to be a ‘‘cell lender” of tiie Ang Bln Hoay Triad Society was found murdered here tills morning In a lane leading to Armenian Street. Tin* body, in bloodstained green shirt and grey trousers, was lying face downwards. There were stab
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    The Best Varieties For Screening
    1096 14  -  NOTES ON GARDEN TREES By R.E. HOLTTUM Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore fASUARINA: In a well-drained soil, there are few quickergrowing trees than the c o m m o n Casuarina, which is therefore often used to produce a screen. For this purpose, the
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    A ‘GOALIE’ WITHOUT PREJUDICE
    581 14 TH E extremely small Malay boy had obviously been told that he was to be goal-keeper. The village lads had a fine game of football going but none of them was as small as goalie and the poor little chap looked a bit out of it.
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    Tomatoes—Part
    706 14  - Tomatoes Part GROW YOUR OWN VECET*^ By J.N. Milsum and J.R p c tu. r, S °l*r of the Department of A g ri cn |J THERE is probably no mor e popular garden crop than the tomato, and yet so many failures occur in this country that a number
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    WAGES BOARD REPORT
    109 14 SINGAPORE. Nor Jo The r Wagt s C n d a* mitted :•> r ,iease. upon. says ;.:i K l The Comm\ ina rep cess ci m piovrn< on condir r..s j j n vesti This involv-s rin gt tion and <n v wide field. c; n
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    JOINT COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT TAX BILL
    4327 15 J OINT COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT TAX BILL lull report of the Malayan Union and JoSf'Committi*' apKinted to consider Mr. R. B. Heasmans recommendations for the instituI income tax wa$ published last night. e slHU he Committee expresses the opinion that, if income tax is adopted the L of the draft
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    S’pore May Have Jap Toys For Christmas
    190 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 11. A SINGAPORE business man, Mr. Inder Singh, of Gian Singh and Co., left for Japan by plane on Sunday to try to arrange for supplies of Japanese toys, crockery and textiles to be delivered here by Chrstmas or the New
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    CHIEF SECRETARY RETURNS
    362 17 Feom Our Staff Correspondent B PENANG, Nov. 11. Jan. 1, 1948, had been set as the date for B inauguration of the Malayan Federation, he e t gav whether this schedule would be possible B n >y the Chief Secretary of the Malayan ■°\i r 1 m
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    8 Death Sentences To Stand
    166 17 ■out Mart Correspondent I 1POH, Nov 11. He Malays who were to death J for ■uidt! «.f a Chinese whom ■vbb'd. killed and then had their sentences bv the Court of Appeal Hdav. Civ.cf Justice, My- Union. Mr. Justice Prepresided. He was assistHi: J usurp
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    Teachers’ Union
    59 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Sunday. Johore came into line yesterday with the rest of the States in the Malayan Union by forming a Teachers’ Union. Mr. Soo Ho Kum Chin presided at the inaugural meeting which was attended by 30 teachers and by Mr. L. Van Geyzel, president of the
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    Toe H’s Memento For Mother
    266 17 SINGAPORE, Nov 12. BECAUSE el the remembrance of Toe H representatives in Singapore, an English mother will soo n receive a picture ol a wreath of flowers and a small cross which two T< c H men yesterday placed on an unmarked communal grave in
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    Long-Range Medical Plan For Singapore
    250 17 SINGAPORE, Nov 12. DIRECTOR of Medical Services, Singapore, Dr. W. J. Vickers, said that he was convinced that Singapore should spend $100,000,000 in a five to 10 year plan for the modernisation of Singapore's hospital and public services. Dr. Vickers returned to Singapore yesterday On
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    SFTU QUIZ ON CITIZENSHIP
    87 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 11. The Singapore Federation of Trade Unions is investigating the citizenship status of members of all affiliated unions. The SFTU has sent to union secretaries copies of a form in the Chinese language listing questions for individual unionists to answer. Questions on the form
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    $8,000 FOR RELIEF
    36 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 11. The Pergetruk.'vn Melayu nanjorvg, Johore, had collected up to Nov 1 a total of $8,154 98 for the Indonesian Relief Fund, tihe treasurer, Ibrahim bin Abu Bikiur, announced yesterday
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    JOHORE SULTAN IN K.L.
    160 17 Our Stall Correspondent »A LUMPUR, Nov. 11.— a n of Johore. who arrivLumpur today, will be c by the Governor. Sir Hu-wPu and other Malay «l’ n 10 attends tomorrow E nl\u tlme a Penary con- phi h( L new constitution, luit f u Sec retary,
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    $1 Million A Month From Army Disposals
    348 17 SINGAPORE, Nov 12. THE British Stores Disposal Board, which has a staff of 19 in Singapore’s Cathay Building is netting $1,000,000 a month to relieve the overburdened British taxpayer. The chairman of the Board, Mr. H Martin Smith, a British civil servant from
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    JAPANESE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
    151 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11. YAMADA KAZO, a Japanese civilian facing trial at the War Crimes Court in Kuala Lumpur in connection with the beheading of a Malay Haji during the occupation, attempted to commit suicide in Pudu Gaol on Sunday. A European prison
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    BACK PAY MEETING
    103 17 MUAR. Nov., 9.—A oammlttee meeting of the Muar Junior Civil Service Association was held here yesterday to discuss the circular letter from the president of the Government Junior Civil Service Association. Malayan Union, regarding the proposal to reject the ’final* Instalment of the back pay award. The
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    S'PORE DEFEAT SELANGOR 3-1
    488 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 10. HISPLAYING a more resolute defence, and a more thrustful forward line, Singapore yesterday won a well-earned victory over Selangor by three goals to one at Jalan Besar in an inter-state soccer match arranged by the S.A.F.A. in aid of the Princess Elizabeth Wedding
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    SWIMMING CUP FOR JOHNSON
    90 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 10. M. L. Johnson won the 100 metres free style in 71 seconds In the Jackson Miller Cup competition for men at the Singapore Swimming Club yesterday. A. Moody was a close second, and C C. Lamb third. The 150 metres free style will
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    CYCLING GALA FOR JOHORE
    116 18 From Our Own Correspondent KLUANG, Nov. 5. A CYCLING meet will be held in Kluang, under the auspicies of the Kluang International Club, in honour of Princess Elizabeth’s wed ding on Nov. 20. It will be known as the aliJohore grass-track cycling championship. The programme will
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    Ooi Teik Hock Keeps Title
    112 18 From Our Staff Correspondent. PENANG. Nov. 9. 001 TEIK HOCK, the 1941 Penang open badminton cnampion, retained his singles title yesterday against the junior runner-up. Lim Chong 00. Teik Hock gave away onlv four points and won in straight sets of 15-1, 15-3. The champion
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    Island Club Golf
    53 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 6. The Island Club (Singapore) women’s October monthly bogey competition resulted in a win for Mrs. A. Nassim. with a score of 3 down. The following were some of tl'e best cards returned: Mrs A Nassim 3 down, Mrs. R. Meyer 4 down, Mrs. Percy
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    A TEST FOR MALAYAN CRICKET?
    202 18 To The Sports Editor, Straits Times WE support the suggestion that a match be arranged with the Indian tourists on their way back to India. The suggestion is not so formidable as it looks, provided the persons concerned start the ball rolling in earnest. Such
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    LATE RALLY BEAT S’PORE
    442 18 SINGAPORE, Nov 9. Selangor Asians 6 pts. Singapore Asians 3 pts. ALAST-minute rally gave the Selangor Combined Asians their winning try when they met the Singapore Combined Asians yesterday on the padang in the first All-Blues Cup match this season, the score being 6 points (a
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    Malayans Leave For India
    205 18 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 10. THREE Malayan badminton players left Penang by the Raj ula yesterday carrying with them the good wishes of th e Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent. Sir Edward. in a message addressed to the Malayan Bad- minton
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    S’PORE SCORE 42 pts. v NEGRI
    386 18 JHE Singapore Civilians completely nSBW- Man this evening in a H.M.S. Malav'. r SS d N ‘wB winning by 42 points (six goals and four (three penalty goals). es l The superior speed and weight of the with their perfect combination, proved Negri could
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    BIG SWEEP WILL PASS RECORD
    133 18  -  By Epsom jmm IT is confidently eifl that Singapore Tufl i Big Sweep sales will the record of $913.000 1 1 meeting established Selangor Turf Club ini this year. I The latest check reveal* Singapore Turf Club ofl have bought more than Ml worth, and
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    Tratman Cup To Medical
    134 18 SINGAPORE. Nfl THE Medical College Tratman Cup the Raffles College 9-0 ton played at the tion hall yesterday. Results of the ties Med players mentioned first) a Single,: Lau Teik Hoc* iak Lam. lb-o. 15 7T 3 15— beat Tve Cho \<ook Tju Chee Phui Hum
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    I.S.— MALAYA TRADE SEEN
    606 19 W maae a ffros-s With\ Straits Times From Our Own Correspondent I LONDON, Nov. 9. ■dUI’TION in the tin export duty might go hand hand with provisions for larger imports of Kan rubber to the United States, says the City K 0 f the News Chronicle,
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    $800,000 LOAN
    94 19 Kedah Rubber THE Kedah Rubber Company has raised a loan of $BOO,OOO from the Industrial Rehabilitation Finance Board to meet rehabilitation expenditure. This was announced at the annual meeting held in Penang after an general meeting of the company had jiven the directors power to raise the loan.
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    DINDINGS RUBBER
    83 19 A profit of £6B was made on the year up to Dec. 31 last year by Dindings Rubber Estates, after charging rehabilitation expenditure and deducting recoveries of assets previously written off. This was shown in the accounts of the company, which were approved at the annual meeting held
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    SUNGEI KINTA TIN
    25 19 The output of the mine of Sungei Kinta Tin Dredging LUL for the month of October was 552 piculs of tin ore.
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    Relief Fund For India Appeal
    219 19 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11. T'HE president of the A Malayan Indian Congress, Sardar Budh Singh, yesterday issued an appeal to all Indians in Malaya to support a relief drive for the victims of the fighting and rioting in India. Mr. Singh
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    Mentakab Rubber
    47 19 A report which appeared in yesterday’s Straits Times concerning the annual meeting of the Mentakab Rubber Company conveyed the impression that the meeting would take place at the end of November. The meeting in fact took place at the end of last month, in Singapore.
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    RUBBER ESTATES’ MERGER MEETING
    336 19 AIONDON meeting of the companies involved approved me merging of the L anadron Rubber Estates, the Cluny o Fctates thi* Ledbury Rubber Estates and the Rub b« Estatas with all four companies under- takings. The directors of each company considered that in addition to economies in
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    ‘Labour Elsewhere Worse Off Than In Malaya’
    171 19 I Akoitp n/ n j:i• SINGAPORE*, Nov. 12. LABOUR conditions in Malaya are better than in moot other countries in Asia, the Malayan Union Commissioner of Labour, Mr. R. G. Houghton, said in Singapore yesterday. Mi. Houghton had returned from New Delhi with
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    LEE WAH BANK
    165 19 k NET profit of $153,213 was shown in the annual accounts of the Lee Afah Bank Limited. They were presented to the annual meeting of shareholders in Singapore. This sum added to $125,007 Drought forward from last year made available a balance of $278,220 In the Profit
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    NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE
    64 19 A balance of £362.189 was shown in the annual accounts of the New Zealand Insurance Co. Ltd. The annual meeting agreed to pay a dividend of 2s. 6d. per share for the year (less Is. pershare Interim dividend paid in February) absorbing £112,500. A balance of £249,689
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    LUKUT TIN LOSS
    98 19 A loss of $4,210 on the year’s working Is shown In the accounts of Lukut Tin Dredging Ltd., which will be submitted to the annual meeting In Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 21. A balance of $11,799. resulting from the deduction of the loss from last year’s balance
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    COSTLY LABOUR
    239 19 Nyalas Rubber DEVIEWING the year's working of the Nyalas Rubber Estates Limited, at the annual meeting in Singapore last Saturday, the chairman, Mr. Lee Chin Tuan, said the resulta for the year had been disappointing. The principal adverse factor was nigh labour costs. Of the all-in cost of
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    KRAMAT PULAI
    91 19 In the report for the year to March 31 1947 Issued on Nov. 3. the directors of Kramat Pulal. Ltd. recommend the payment of a dividend of 3d per share, less tax at 9s In the The excess of Income over expenditure for the year Is £552 before
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    Sungei Gettah Estates
    92 19 Bungei Gettah Rubber Estates report that the proceeds from sales to Mar. 31 amounted to £20.639. as against the previous year’s £1,743. This, with investment and banking interest £341 (as against the previous £564) and fees £2O (£18) made £21,000. Less estate expenses and rehabilitation expenses £18,884
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    Rubber Sets Pace For A Splendid Week
    1032 20 Share Market Review From A Market Correspondent IN the train of a further rise in the rubber price to 41 1 cents, and of rubber shipments aggregating 96,584 tons during October, a spendid volume of business was written in the last week, with
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    July-Dec. Final Tin Allocation
    87 20 FINAL tin allocation for the second half of 1947 announced on Oct. 2 by the Combined Tin Committee includes 'in tons' Argentina 75. Australia 100. Austria 51. Canada 525. Ceylon 22. Czechoslovakia 224. Denmark 60. Egypt 40. Finland 31. France 1.210. Germany 99. Hong Kong 61.
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    TALAM MINES
    18 20 Evatt 8: Co. announce that the October tin output of Talam Minas Ltd. was 472 piculs.
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    Weekly Report On Rubber
    295 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. 8. THE upward movement in the rubber market has continued. No marked reaction has been seen this week, although on Monday it appeared as if a temporary set-back might be seen, says Lewis Peat’s weekly market report. The trade buying has decreased i.n volume
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    ECAFE LINE ESTABLISHED
    92 20 have b.vn v b!|^ r ulp JH| L° th(> Special Comm ssir? e «t Asia's office 1"/ "*fl| nomu- CommiasioJ l N 0 »B the Far East. 0r AsiJjBBj P S. Luka M tha n 0| °f Ills departure afu>r w.u, Mr u hokanathan Sli( small survey
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    MALAYAN OCTOBER TIN SHIPMENTS
    95 20 r pHE Straits Trading Company announces the followinj tin shipments for the month of October and for thr first months of 1947: H Conti- Else Austral- H 17.K. I’.S.A. nent Canada Pacific India where asia Singapore 750 75 200 Penan? 1,250 390 145 UftH Total. Oct.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    798 20 Singapore, Nov. 8. Prices given today by the Malayan Sharebrokers’ Association were: INDUSTRIALS Hutw Sells* Atlas Ice 13 00 14 00 Alex Brick Ords. 1.80 1.90 Aiex Brick Prefs 3.10 3.20 B.M. Trustee 8.75 9.50 Consolidated Tlr Smelters <Oi 22/- 22/do (P) 24/- 26/Rasterx Oniteo Assurance 43.00
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