The Straits Budget, 29 January 1948

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  • 31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE’OF THE STRAITS TIMES IESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY 1 L Series No. 78, Sifaparc Tinndaj, January 29th, 1948 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 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
    • 1039 2 Straits Times Jan 22.* From tht* political point <>f view the ceremony which is to take place in Kuala Lumpur on February 1, when the Federation of Malaya will be inaugurated, will he more important than the signing of the Federation Agreement and the State Agreements by
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    • 764 2 —Straits Tirms, Jan. 23. The nine hundred opium smokers in Singapore who sent a petition to the Governor recently have received their reply. They have been told that Government cannot change its policy of the total prohibition of opium, but that a scheme to offer curative treatment
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    • 385 2 —-Straits Times, Jan. 2* We all find so much to grumble about nowadays that we are in danger of forgetting what we had to put up with less than three years ago. A reminder of what public transport was like in Singapore after
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    • 683 2 Strails Times, Jan. 24. Those in Malaya who loo!' at Eastern nationalism from the viewpoint of Western capital will be interested in two pronouncements on economic policy which w ere made by Pandit Nehru when he me’ the Associated Chambers Commerce at the Royal Exchange in
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    • 390 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 24. One example of the Labour Party’s policy of nationalisation in which Singapore takes a special interest is the British Overseas Airways Corporation, and it comes as a shock to learn that this company has presented a report showing a loss of
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    • 1030 3 —Straits Times Jan. 26 One of the chief subjects of controversy in Singapore continues to be the Medical Plan, which calls for a capital expenditure of $5O million and annually recurrent expenditure of $lO million. The Alumni Association of the College of Medicine issued a statement attacking
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    • 775 3 Straits Times, Jan. 27. j The disappointment aroused last week by news of a fresh deadlock between the Dutch and the Republicans in Java has quickly given way to re- lief, the UNO Committee of Good Offices having announced on Sunday that the Republic had accepted unconditionally
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    • 361 4 Strait.s Times, Jan. 27. A further step towards the goal of a Singapore Municipality staffed from top to bottom by people born and bred in this city was taken at the Municipal Commissioners’ meeting last Friday, when a special committee of four Commissioners was set up to
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    • 846 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 28. Malaya should take note of the Overseas Resources Dcvelopmont Act which was passed in the House of Commons last week. It was claimed for this legislation by Mr. Creech Jones that "it will give some assistance in making colonial economies more
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    • 234 4 -Straits Times. Jan. 28. An up-to-date review of the position on Banka and Billiton, published in the January number of Tin magazine, should be noted by the Malayan tin industry. The eight new dredges ordered by the Dutch after the war (six of which were built
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  • 83 4 SINGAPORE. Jan. 28. Three men who attacked a Siing a pore hotel proprietor with aerated water bottles when he refused to pay “protection money” were sentenced to one year’s rigorous imprisonment each yesterday The men, Teddy Yzelman. Virankanco and Perumal. were sentenced in the Second District Court
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  • 169 4 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 27. THE Malayan Union’s Rent Control Ordinance which will allow landlords a restricted scale of increased rents and will outlaw “tea money” racketeering was enacted by the Advisory Council today with two amendments. The Bill will come
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  • PERSONAL
    • 81 4 MORLEY To Patricia w.fe j J A. E. Morley, M.C.3. on Jar. 21st. at Randans; Kerbau. Silicapore a son. GREENWOOD—On 23rd January. 1948 at Bungsar Hosmial. Kuala Lumpur, to Ann, wife Edward M. Greenwood a <>r: <stillborn >. No letters pleas* ANDERSON. At Hand.':.. Kerbau Hospital, on 24th Marion
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    • 84 4 The engagement is announ between Mr. William N. Y. Chen eldest son of Mr. Mrs. S H Chen of Townsville. Aust:v.l: and Miss Betty Vivienne W daughter of Mr. Mrs. S K Wong. Singapore. The engagement is announc'd between Terence E. G. St- k and Eve Huntley. The engagement
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    • 119 4 Mr Francis Lim Cheng H fifth son of Mrs. Lim Took Kir and Miss Rosa So Lai Mena daughter of Mr. A: Mrs. So s?h: Po were married at the Chur' 1 The* Sacred Heart. DONALD-McLEAN. At Andrew's Cathedral Singapor Saturday. 24th January, 19-m the Reverend Kinross Niche' James
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    • 36 4 Quart* rly Hall-Yearly Yi arly STRAITS BUDGET. Sl'KSC.RM’TION KATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCEi I?: I inpirr A Koreifiri Singapore Malaya K.iroln^ 'Inclndln, r, 6.00 J 11.20 12.00 2080 2240 24.00 ,AU T/,A A,IW > are in straits currency
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  • 72 4 DEATHS a. K. L. Pillay. 65. I Manager of Anglo-Tamil 1916-38. at Hindu Rd.. Mui Qrs.. at 9.30 p.m. on Jan Telecraphie news has b« reived of the drath in C Mrs. T. Arumugham wife T. Arumugham. Labour Jnhore Bahru, on 25.1.48. u 1 v/i £3 111 u, Uil I
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    • 728 5 I HAVK just read with much interest the report 1 sir Robert Brooke-Popham upon the Kj t ~n campaign which appeared in the Straits \>t Jan. 23. lam competent to comment jMin r only in one particular, which is, his »U'! Iption of the events
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    • 363 5 ALUMNI MEDICAL PLAN WITH reference to your editorial of Jan. 26, the Alumni Association of King Edward VII College of Medicine, wishes to stress the following points: (1) We agree that an adequate hospital service on European lines is ideal, but we are of the opinion that the first objective
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    • 486 5 •THE Sarawak Gazette. an official publication edited by Sarawak’s At-torney-General, publishes in its January issue an editorial review of the past year in which appears the following striking comment on British policy in that territory:— It is inevitable tnat in due course a real,
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    • 563 5 TT is encouraging to the public to know that there are at least a few men in this country of the Churchill calibre such as John Laycock and E. D. Shearn. The former, by his election manifesto, could be singled out as being the
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    • 36 5 THE Singapore Federation of Trade Unions must be doing something unique in proposing to hold a one-day strike on a Sunday, viz. Feb. 1. Their loaders must be congratulat'd on tllls new brainwave. T.H.G. Singapore.
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  • 2034 6  -  A Malayan Countrymans Diary TITAN DJFK WE are wondering if we shall ever again see a coastal steamer tie up at the wharf. Despite road competition there were still steamers before the war. on the Singapore-Kota Tinggi run. as several villages and a number of Japanese
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  • 259 6 From Our Staff Correspondent T„__ JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 26. HE president of the United Malays National Organisation (Dato Onn bin Ja’afar) yesterday cautioned against “hasty action” on the issue of the Irengganu Sultanate succession until the facts had V v\ been fully investigated. Addressing delegates to
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  • 99 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. A committee to -consider either the formation of a central Muslim body for Singapore, or of strengthening any existing organisation to become the mouthpiece oi Singapore Muslims was elected at a meeting of prominent Muslim Individuals and dele* gates of Singapore Muslim organisations
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  • 718 7 From Our Special Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 21. r P|iE State and Federation treaties were signed here today by eight Malay Rulers and the Malayan Union Governor, Sir Edward (Jont, as the representative of King George VI. More than five hours later, at 8-32 pm., the
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  • 421 7 Front Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 21. SIR Edward Gent, speaking today in Kuala Lumpur after the signing of the Federation agreement, pleaded for tolerance, understanding and co-operation in the Malayan future. “Malaya and its institutions will not stand still,” he said. “Today
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  • 413 7 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 21. I'HE late arrival of the plane from Kuala Lumpur last night with 32 copies of the Federation Agreement and the Johore State Agreement delayed the signing by the Sultan of Johore, (His Highness MajorGeneral Sir Ibrahim). It
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  • 86 7 SINGAPORE. Jan. 22. Forty-five schoolchildren and 10 university students will leave for Australia by the Blue Funnel ship Charon this afternoon, after spending their Christmas vacation with their parents in Singapore and the Malayan Union. Most of the children arrived in Singapore by the same vessel
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  • 284 8 I'ront Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LIJMI’UR, lan. 22. AGRICULTURAL Department investigators estimate that the recent heavy floods caused a total loss on 5.000 acres and a i educed yield on 10,000 acres of Malaya’s padi lands. Latest statistics show, however, that the total area of padi
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  • 340 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. THE alleged dismissal of 21 Cantonese* restaurant and cafe workers is threatening to split the Singapore Cantonese Restaurant Association, Ku So Shan Kong Thong. The association, which has b t*n in existence lor 72 years, has never had any labour trouble before, said
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  • 121 8 SINGAPORE, Jail. 2.5. nine-months old baby, found dead beside a lorry in Nam Lock Street, Singapore, on .lan. 16 alter the driver suddenly applied the brakes, died when its eight-year-old sister droped it on the roadway. Presuming this, tlie Singapore Coroner (Mr. IV. G. Porter) yesterday
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  • 131 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. TWO young Chinese, appeared before the Second Police Court Magistrate, Mr. E. S. de Banzie. yesterday, to answer charges under the passport ordinance. Tin were Gui Chai Keen and Gui Kwee Kuan. Koon was charged with having in his possession an altered permit of entry,
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  • 82 8 a SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. A IIiKNGtiA.,. licrman and his wife, who were desperate with hunger, died alter eating a handlul of cooked rubber seeds during the North-East monsoon last December. < Secretary of tlie Trough ganu Malaya Fishermen’s; Association (Inche Muda 1 Kassim), who
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  • 63 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 22 Reginald Du Toit, a South A trican seaman, who on Jan r> was fined $10 for riotous and disorderly conduct, appeared in the Second Police Court again yesterday. He was charged with not paying the balance of his fine. Du Toit said he did
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  • 164 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. POUR Singapore policel men yesterday used a stretcher to carry a crippled woman into court to have her charged with begging. The Magistrate and the members ol the court moved downstairs from the Second P"licc Court to the ground- floor Third Police Court
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  • 264 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21 MALAYAN airways are planning to train U. va men to be eo-pilots in tlicir air servu.*. After an initial period of training in th,. workshops and with the flying clubs, these copilots will complete their training in England. There are also plans to
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  • 92 8 I rom Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur. Jan. 22. THE Malayan Union exported more rubber than it produced last year, latest figures issued by the Statistics Department reveal. The respective ligurcs were: Production 645.229 tons, and exports 711.601 tons. Last year’s exports more than doubled those of
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  • 178 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 24 rE former Singapore District Judge and First Magistrate (Mr. Paul Storr) has been appointed Custodian of Enemy Property, Official Assignee, and Public Trustee of the Colony. Mr. Storr succeeds Mr. T V A. Brodle who has gom on leave. He Is the
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  • 123 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 22 A finding of suicide was recorded yesterday at the inquest on Craftsman Francis Harvey, a British soldier, who was found shot in a latrine at R.E.M.E. Base Workshop on Jan. 12. The Singapore Coronei (Mi W. G. Porter) said that tin curious
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  • 50 8 SINGAPORE, Jan A presentation to 12 n bers of the Singapore I 1( Force will be made Governor (Sir Franklin son) at a parade to be 1 the Police Training Thomson Road, at 5.4' on Jan. 30. They will receive Police Medals for ga> and meritorious service
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  • 7103 9 Reuter. Jap Convoy Was Sighted But Policy Was—Avoid War rpHE British Commander-in-Chief in the Far East at the time of the Japanese invasion of Malaya, Sir Robert BrookePopham, tells, in a 40,000-word despatch just released, why British forces did not enter Siam when the Japanese began the Pacific
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  • 282 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. rIE Singapore Traction Company carries about 100,000 passengers per day—equivalent to carrying the whole population of Singapore once every week. These figures were given to members of Singapore Rotary Club yesterday by the company’s general manager (Mr. A. A. Ewing). This, said
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  • 171 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. rE Second District Judge, (Mr. A. M. Webb) sentenced Phua Wong Yang, a young Chinese, to four months rigorous imprisonment and six strokes of the rottan yesterday for attempted extortion and assault. The complainant, Neelakan(ian, said that the accused came to him
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  • 112 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. Loo Meng Cheng, a 42-year-old Hylam, was charged in the Second Police Court yesterday with behaving in a disorderly manner in a dispensary at Stamford Hoad. A police constable who was in the dispensary at the time of the incident said that
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  • 199 11 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 21. THE Kuala Lumpur police ambushed four Chinese extortioners near Puchong yesterday and killed one man as the men tried to shoot their way out of the trap. The shooting occurred at what a police officer described as an
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  • 409 11 SIN GAPORE, Jan. 22. THE announcement of a new Malay political party “ready to fight for a new constitution in Malaya” coincided with the signing of the Federation agreement yesterday. The new party, PERAM, the Disc Malay youth political organisation to be formed since API was
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  • 124 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. Approximately $300,000 worth of chemicals, refrigerator equipment and other engineering stores were destroyed in a fire which broke out at ar. army supply depot, four and a half miles outside Kuala Lumpur, this morning. Explosions from
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  • 44 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. Thirteen Chinese deportees leit Singapore yesterday by the Hong Slang. A police statement said that four <>i the deportees were habitual criminals with several convictions, and two were housebreakers. Two were men, who had unlawfully returned from banishment.
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  • 191 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21 CINGAI’ORK Municipal Commissioners save (heir approval yesterday to raising the limit of their recently floated 3'/4 per cent, loan from a figure not exceeding $25,000,00** *<> a sunt not exceeding $.‘10,000,000. The Municipal President (Mr. L. Raynian), told them that the reason for
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  • 172 12 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 21. THE efficiency decoration 1 has been awarded to the following officers of the Straits Settlements Volun-! teer Force: Major John Edward Alan (-lark, and Lieutenant (a/Captain) Sydney Noel King. The efficiency medal has been awarded to the following members
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  • 58 12 IPOH. Jan. 23.—Three has been a great reduction recently in the incidence of smallpox in Perak. Last week there were only eight eases: four in Lower Perak and lour in Kuala Kurau There were no deaths. The previous week there were 20 cases and live deaths, while
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  • 222 12 From Our Staff Correspondent MUAR. Jan. 22. AT the Muar Assizes today. a Chinese tela of how he had been tied up by robbers, how he had pleaded for mercy when they poured kerosene oil on him, and how one of them had lighted
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  • 42 12 Tlte Malayan Association in Perth, Western Australia, has a reading and rest room at 13 Howard Street, at which any visitors from Malaya will be welcome. This association has a membership of about sixty ex-Malayans who have settled in Perth.
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  • 151 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. AFIVE-man committee beaded by the Singa pore Municipal President, (Mr. L. Rayman), was appointed yesterday to make recommendations on the constitution and powers of an Establishments Board to deal with Municipal staff appointments and promotions. Other members of the committee are Mr.
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  • 172 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 24. THE application of tlie Singapore Island Club for a site in the catchment area of Peirce Reservoir on which to build a hew clubhouse was unanimously approved in principle by the Municipal Commissioners at a spec a i meeting yesterday. On two previous
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  • 112 12 SEREMBAN. Jan. 22. “IT is for the public to 1 decide whether they will be ruled bv the Government or the ‘Three Star,’ who ever they may be.’’ said Mr. Justice E. N. Taylor, in the Negri Sembilan assizes todav. The Judge was passing sentence of three
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  • 208 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. TWO executives of the Singapore Regional Indian Congress yesterday resigned from their Con-! gress posts to contest the Singapore Legislative Council elections. They are the secretary of the women’s section of the Congress. Mrs. Malathi Pillai. and Mr. V. P. Abdulla, executive
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  • 125 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. THE Controller of British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service, Mr. Clifford Lawson Reece, left Singapore for London yesterday. He has left as the result of the recent decision by the British Government to restrict the Service. The Head of the service is now
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  • 469 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24 SINGAPORE Anti-Tuberculosis Association announced yesterday that it would open the first T.R. Clinic in the Colony probably at the of June. The SATA clinic will be housed in the former Globe Ituilding. Tanjonjt Pagar Road, on the borders of thickly
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  • 31 12 SINGAPORE, Jan Low Ah Whatt, a 20-' old labourer, was sent' 1 to six weeks’ 1 prisonment by trie S Police Court Magistrate terday for theft. Ho pleaded guilty
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  • 571 13 IPOH, Jan. 24. PIRATE gang of 60 led by a secret society A c hief of “phenomenal power” is using three hi di-speed R.A.F. rescue launches in operations off the Perak Coast, and police need improved ndio equipment and fast craft to fight them. TMo name
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  • 216 13 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 25. NEW sets of postage stamps for the Federation of Malaya and Singapore are expected to be issued in June. Each State and Settlement as well as Singapore will have different designs. The general design and sizes of
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  • 49 13 FOUR returns officers have been appointed by the Singapore Government for the Rlectorial Districts. They are: Mr. G. W. Webb (Municipal Area. South-west), Mr. W. W. Duncan (Municipal Area. North-east). Mr. J. B. Netlson (Rural Board. East). Mr. C. W. A. Sonnett (Rural Board. West).
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  • 133 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25. fpHE president of the United X Sarawak National Association. Inche Slrat bin Ibrahim. has issued a statement supporting the telegram which 15 anti-cession associations in Sarawak sent to Mr Anthony Brooke. former Rajah Muda, concerning statements made to the Press by
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  • 97 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2G. CE\ LONESK Buddhists are interested in establishing a seat of Buddhist learning in Malaya. The president of the Ceylonese Association, Singapore, Mr. V. J. Mendis, who has just returned to the Colony from Colombo, told the Straits Times yesterday that the proposal is
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  • 329 13 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 25. Restricted increases in rents are to be allowed in the Federation of Malava from February 29. A bill to bo introduced at the final meeting of the Malayan Union Advisory Council on Tuesday allows increases ramming from five
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  • 301 13 ONN TELLS MALAYS ‘MAKE NEW FEDERATION A SUCCESS JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 24. I.\ a brief speech at the opening of a two-day session of the general assembly of the United Malays National Organisation, the President, Dato Onn bin Jaafar, called on all .Malays to put their shoulders to the wheel,
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  • 225 13 Bahru, Jan. 25. JNCHE Azahary Taib, delegate of Saberkas, Kedah, brought up the question of the Sultanate of Trengganu when the general assembly of UMNO continued its deliberations today. He said he felt that UMNO should conduct a full Investigation into the matter and publish
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  • 37 13 KUANTAN, Jan. 24.—The District Forest Officer, Mr. E. S. Barker, is going on transfer to Brunei on Jan. 27 to become State Forest Officer there. His successor in Kuantan is Mr. P H. Burghes.
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  • 255 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. DESPITE the fact that nearly $29,000,000 in silver and copper coins have been released to the Singapore public since the liberation, coins continue to be a rarity and are seldom, n ever, found in actual circulation. The actual total as Riven by
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  • 167 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. rlE second in charge of The Borneo Company Ltd., Mr. James Alexander Donald, and Miss John Louise McLean were married at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore, on Saturday. Mr. Donald was appointed second In charge only last week. He has been with the company
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  • 77 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. A fielding of sulcid* was returned yesterday or* a Singapore woman, Ang Kim Sui, Whose husband was stated to have refused to take her to China. The husband, Mok Ah Twee, said ici the Coroner’s Court that he found his wife hanging in Uie
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  • 61 14 SINGAPORE. Jail. 22. Fifteen Sarawak associat ions, have sent a joint telegram to Mr. Anthony Brooke, former Rajah Muda Of Sarawak, expressing their complete confidence in him. They express surprise at Mr Mohamed Kiplis recent •statement, and say they have received no intimation of the conference
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  • 74 14 PENANG, Jan. 23.—A tiger prowling in the Kam pong area of Titi Akar (Kedah) fatally mauled a Siamese boy recently. The boy went out of the house with his elder brother about midnight. They saw an animal moving in the dark, but before his brother could get
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  • 85 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 24. r p\N'T (lime and Talent J. Enterprises) are preparing to send the first hatch of food parcels to Britain as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. Priority will be given to needy wives and dependents of men w’ho lost their lives
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  • 128 14 From Our Staff Corrf-spoiidml KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 25. The Eurasian Union, holding an emergency conference here today, decided, after considerable discussion, to request the Malay Rulers to hold in abeyance for the time being their recent memorandum to be recognised as non-Muslim subjects under the new constitution.
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  • 226 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 26. A PLAQUE, commemorating the loyal and untiring work of Singapore nurses during the occupation, will be unveiled in the General Hospital next month. The cost of the plaque has been met by the “Nurses of Malaya Fund” launched in England by
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  • 108 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. HESERTER from three armies in the last three years, v Roumanian Herbeanx Gabriel is now a prisoner of the Singapore military authorities. Local immigration authorities took Gabriel off the S.S. Marosa in Singapore after he had stowed away in Saigon. On apprehension in
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  • 47 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 22. —Machine tools from a Gorman aeronautical research station will be used to make science laboratory equipment for Malayan schools. This is the result of successful negotiations initiated by the Education Department to obtain materials removed from Germany under the dis- armament programme
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  • 137 14 SINGAPORE. Jan 25. THE Singapore Municipality will* this year, spend nearly $1,000,000 on the construction ol quarters for labourers more money than any single vote allocated for building quarters either for the junior or senior service. For the junior service, a sum of $600,000 will be
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  • 395 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 24. I WILL never believe that niy husband committed suicide. I think someone killed him,” said (he Kaniseah binti Mohamet! All, widow of the late Inehe Maarof bin llajl Zakariah. the Kuala Lumpur bank director. Che Kamseah was giving evidence at th
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  • 154 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25. rE death roll in the fire which raged in a threestorey house in Lavender Street. Singapore, on Friday afternoon rose to six Last night. The dead are four girls, a woman and a manall Chinese. Latest victim is a 15-year-old
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  • 99 14 KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 24 THE Sultan of Selangor's Astana Mahkota at Riant'. Royal residence of Selarnn'! rulers since It was built m 1903, is to be demolished n is unsafe because of ravages of white ants and considered unsuitable modern residence for tin S” tan. A
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  • 1229 15  -  By HEDDA MORRISON DEFORE the war E> pepper was produced abundantly in Sarawak, particularly in the neighbourhood of the little river port of Sarikei on the lower Kejang. The pepper producers were mostly Cantonese gardeners who were very skilful in the culture of
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  • 226 15 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur. Jan. 26. rE Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edeard Gent, will be installed as the first High Commissioner of the Federation of Malaya on Feb. 1. in the presence of other Governors and leading service
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  • 37 15 KOTA BHARU, Jan. 26. Burglars forced an entry through the windows of the General Post Office last week. They ransacked table drawers but failed to break open the strong room. Police are investigating.
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  • 539 15 AT one time ice-cream or other frozen confections were seldom seen in this country except in restaurants, but lately there seems to have been a positive outbreak of ice-cream sellers around here and I daresay elsewhere in Malaya. Although you may wonder just how
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  • 419 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. CINGAPORE police riot .squads went into action yesterday, when outside elements invaded the Geylang I toad factory of 1 1 restone Tyre Rubber Co. Ltd., where rubber packers had been on strike since last Tuesday. Police rounded up 21 Chinese, who had earlier
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  • 75 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan 20. The Malayan Union “Princess Elizabeth Dollar Fund” has closed with a total of $44,497.74. The balance sheet has been placed before the Governor, who has expressed appreciation of the results. The committee has enU, u f) d t 0 tl >e Central
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  • 84 16 IPOH, Jan. 24. HIS Highness the Sultan of Perak. Sir Abdul Aziz, will perform the ceremonial opening of the State Council at 10 a.m. on Monday. Feb. 2, when the Federation and State Agreements signed by the Malay Rulers and the Governor last Thursday will he ratified.
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  • 120 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. I THREE Chinese gunmen boarded a boat moored in Rochore Canal yesterday morning and seized $ll and 25 katties of rice. Six Chinese, all armed with pistols, held up the Chinese proprietor of a shop in Potong Pasir. off Braddell Road, yesterday, and
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  • 86 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27 The first 1948 British cars to reach the Malayan market will be landed in Singapore this morning. They are 16 Hillman Minx models with the synchromatic hnger-tip gear change. They arrived by the Glenartney and are the initial batch of a total of
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  • 159 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. ONE of Singapore’s oldest auctioneers, Mr. Cheong Hock bye, will contest a seat at the coming elections for the new Singapore Legislative Council. Mr. Hock Chye will be the second independent candidate, after Mrs. Malathi Pillai, contesting in the Rural West. The progressive party
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  • 57 16 From Our Own Correspondent Taiping, Jan. 26.—An Indian. Raman who had been allowed to live in his employer’s house, pleaded guilty in the District Court today to stealing $5O from his master Raman was sentenced to six months’ hard labour and w’as ordered to return to
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  • 214 16 a civriDoor SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. A SINGAPORE Chinese, Mr. Quay Teow Yong, gave j 11 hls i'| b <>n a Chinese newspaper some time ago and started to catch prawns instead. lie is now one wh.cif h ta l f hers <>f local prawns, an industry
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  • 260 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 20 FjMRST payments of Malaya’s damage claims bill of j $1,268 million are to be made next year. To finalise details of the scheme, the VVar Damage Commissioner (Mr. J. j st L Carson) Is flying to London
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  • 494 16  - FOOD FOR THOUGH T S. SIVADAS. DO the People’s Restaurants, run by the Social Wei I are Department, serve any useful purpose now? In Singapore they provide 5,000 meals a day. That number has remained constant throughout 1947. Even during the peak period, towards the end of 1946, only 15,000
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  • 100 16 From Our Own Correspondrn; PENANG, Jan. 25. THE father of an eight-year-old boy told the Coroner yesterday how his son had been killed by an explosive which he had mistaken for plaything.” The father, Tan CT. Giap. said his family had retired to bed when the boy
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  • 51 16 SEREMBAN, Jan. 25 A Chinese, Loh Soh transported 70 katties oi n from Kuala Pilah to Sen -mban without the > the Food Controller, fined $100 or, in default month’s rigorous ment, by the District Mr. B. V. Rhodes, yesterday. Loh said he brought rice for his own
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  • 557 18 SIN GAPORE, Jan. 28. AN increase in the rice ration may Ik* announced for Singapore and the Malayan Union this week. It is believed the ration will be restored to the May 1947 level, except in the case of women in Singapore. The new weekly ration
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  • 267 18 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 27. MALAYA’S rice ration scale must be raised from its present position as trie lowest in SouthEast Asia to a level more in line with others, including Japan, said Mr. A. W.' Wallich in the Malayan Union
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  • 153 18 rp|ir> SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. THK Singapore Overseas-Chinese Im|>or(ers and f Exporters Association h;is petitioned (he Lieut Governor-General of the N.E.I. (I)r. II. Van Mookl Indie" ™,Os. ,f1mK f <ht blockade ,,f Netherlands The move represents a lresh bid by local Chinese traders to speed up
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  • 88 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. Major-General Sasa Akira of the Japanese Imperial Army, found guilty of being concerned in the death of four British prisoners of war engaged in the construction of the Burma-Siam Railway, was sentenced to death by iianginji by a British Military Court at (Tiangi
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  • 106 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce will soon hold a committee meeting to discuss its future course of action in regard to representations on the Municipal Commission and nominat on to the future Legislative Council. This was stated to the Straits Times
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  • 72 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 28. Four masked Cninese. three armed with pistols, seized $2OO in cash and $2OO in jewellery when they held up a Chinese family in a house in Jalan Besar early yesterday morning Four Chinese gunmen, all brandishing pistols, robbed a Chinese family in Jalan Raja, a
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  • 130 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. THE Registrar of Vehicles Office, Singapore, may refuse registration of any but new cars for taxis in the near future. Re-registration of old vehicles will depend on their road worthiness. The Registrar of Vehicles (Mr. W. Watts) told the Straits Times yesterday that
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  • 485 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan >7 'UHL Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Eclw a 1 Gent, closed the last meeting of the l njo Advisory Council today with a tribute to th* Council's working history. —.1 Council’s working history. “I think we
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  • 128 18 SINGAPORE. Jan J 8 Most of the prizes in the Princess Elizabeth congratulatory letter competition t..r schools were won by girls The prizes were presented by Mr. L. Rayman. president ol the Wedding Celebration Committee, at the Municipal Building yesterday. The prizes were in the
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  • 108 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan 27 --Mr. A. J. Hunter: a European planter on Strainairln’ Estate. Kepong, was lin' d $2.i and had his driving lii'cnc' endorsed in the S< cond Magistrate’s Court today lor driving a car negligently along Mountbatten Road on Dec. 18 last year. The
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  • 66 18 TAIPING, Jan. 25. District Judge, Perak N 1 (Mr. C. P. Newton) will ne going on leave early nox month and his post h* be taken by Mr. Fl'' :(l1 Rogers During his term <>i here Mr. Newton < himself to the pear public by dealing firm! 1 extortioners
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  • 958 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. L|. S |»HE the North scoring a snap try only six I) minutes after the start of the game, the South Eventually proved victorious by 18 points (three goals End t try) to 9 (three tries), in their annual rugger rlU h at
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  • 304 19 PENANG. Jan. 24. Penang were deserving winners in their return inter-state hockey match against Perak this evening. Penang won by two goals to nil. In the previous match played at Ipoh last month, the team drew two-all Two players were injured in the second half Five
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  • 210 19 SINGAPORE. Jail. 22. I 4 T a meeting of the Singa- pore Olympic and Sports Council (Committee <xf Ma- j nagement > yesterday, it VII decided to ask for monetary contributions from clubs and associations affiliated to the Council, so That Singapore might be represented at
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  • 385 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. rE S.A.F.A. Council meeting last night decided to donate the proceeds of a soccer match between the Services and Civilians to the Singapore Sports Council to enable it to send Lloyd Valberg to participate in the London Olympics. The meeting also considered and
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  • 41 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. AT a meeting of the S.C.R.C cricket section, the following were elected ollicefor the 1948 season. CaptaL Eva*n Woing; vicecaotain, Low Kee Pow; convener, Cheong Thiam Sie*w: representative, Evam Wong. N I’d 1' J
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  • 88 19 MALAYA, being the sole entry in the Pac fic Zone, has entered the semi-finals of the Thomas Cup international badminton tournament, which will be played in London. Neither Australia nor New Zealand has entered the competition. Malaya, therefore automatically gets into the semi-final round together
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  • 126 19 KLUANG. Jan. 24. MEETING of delegates from Johore Bahru. Kluang, Muar and Segamat at Kluang last night, unanimously decided to form the Johore Cricket Association. Major P.G.M. Lee presided and the delegates who attended were Copt. A.E. Oxley (Military Units), S. M. Maniam and V. K.
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  • 83 19 SINGAPORE. Jon. 22 THE meeting of the Singapore Recreation Club sports section held yesterday to elect officebearers for the various games for 1948 resulted as follows: Cricket: captain, V. C. Wcsterhout; vice-captain. R. H. Bains: secretary convenor, F. A. Milne. Football: captain, J. Lawther; vice-captain, A. G.
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  • 44 19 SEREMBAN. Jan. 25. Mrs. V. E. 11. Rhodes, widow of the well-known Negri and all Malayan cricketer, has donated a trophy for InterState competition. This was revealed at the annual general meeting of the Negri Sembllan Cricket. Association, held last night.
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  • 393 20 Market Was Swayed By Rumours SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. WIDE fluctuations in price have been seen each day this week, and the market, already sensitive, has been easily swayed by rumours of all descriptions, says Lewis and Peat in their weekly report. i The alleged negotiation be-1 tween
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  • 119 20 Jobber crop outputs for Dte- < mbcr 1fM7 ure announced as IoIIowk: >p s Alor Gajah Rubber 30.000 Ayn Paims Rubber 95.000 Glenealy Plantations 70.000 KluaiiR Rubber 03,000 Pa Jam Lid 130.500 Tambalak Rubber 35,«oo Teluk Anson Rubber 67.758 lllu Bcnut Consolidated 40,000 Hukit Kali I Rubber 36.403
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  • 1039 20 From A Market Correspondent FERE has been no abatement in the intense activity on local markets. A very large turnover was again recorded, with prices for a number of Tin shares reaching their highest level since the war. The week closed with demand at high
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  • 130 20 SINGAPORE. J;,„ SINGAPORE coconut" 24 f manufacturers have corned the regulations crnlng re-export of impo 6 copra issued yesterday bvV? Registrar of Imports and p* e ports. Under these regulation is understood that copra L porters will have to decSl their copra for as soon as it
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  • 915 20 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. t Quotations given oy the Malayan Sharebrokers’ Association were as follows:INDUSTRIALS Buyer Attn* Ice 13 0( i 4 <M Ales Brick Oras i 80 i Me> Brink Prot 3 45 3.55 B. B Petrol 46/6 47/ii B M Trustee 8.75 9.25 •onMUic.Hteo Hr Smelters
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