The Straits Budget, 8 April 1948

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    27 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] lies No. 88. &Vfire TbwuUy, April Bth, 1948 Price 41 easts (B.S. Currency)
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      Right Or Left For The Common Man In Malaya Today
      588 2 IN your issue of March 27 there appeared two items which might well represent, to thoughtful readers, an indication of the great need for some objective appraisal by a competent administration of those matters which, if not dealt with in
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      MR. HAWKINS: ATOMIC ARP
      216 2 I COULD hardly believe my eyes when I saw your bold headline, “HAW KINS AS SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE.” What!; is the Government again going to gamble with the lives of the people by having inexperienced men to prepare the defence of Malaya? Has it forgotten so
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      LABOUR PAY IN MALAYA AND U.K.
      231 2 IN your issue of March 31, 1 read that the British two-man trade union mission had stated that wages in Malaya would have to be raised considerably before they could approach rates paid in the United Kingdom. This seems to me to be a
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      Return To Temerloh-And A Lesson In Politics
      658 2 I WAS able to witness tnc procession of th»» much-publicised All-Mala-yan Congress of PETA, the Malay Nationalist Party aid allied organisations during the Easter holidays. As a Temerloh man back to my own kampong for the holidays. I expected to see a mammoth
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      ART HAD SECOND PLACE
      425 2 I AM a new-comer to this country; which no doubt explains why 1 have just come back from the first exhibition of European painting to be held in Kuala Lumpur (and, indeed, in Malaya) angry and ashamed. II I had been here longer I should no
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      BOOMERANG FROM PERAK
      90 2 IN the Straits Times 1 March 24. there peared an alt,cle <<qF v0( the heading f AUSTRALIAN TAX < PERTS ENGAGEDIs it necessary that A ltan tax experts sh engaged rather than from other parte 0 tish Commonwealth stance, Canada? n GOj*' Since the Austral emment is
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      EXPATRIATION REVOLT
      1036 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 1. K m w Legislative Council K Federation has lost no i„ fulfilling predictions K would prove to be not ■a much larger mirror of K opinion than had ever ■seen in this country’ be- but also an inherently ■ent one, and. further, that Kov
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      THE WEDGE OF DEMOCRACY
      1119 3 —Saroits Times, Apr. 2. An unofficial majority, an Asian majority and a minority elected by popular ballot those were the reforms that were written into the history of Singapore yesterday, when the new Legislative Council met for the first time. The domiciled communities are not as
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      FROM A WOMAN DOCTOR
      1057 3 —Straits Times. Apr. 3. The need for birth control in Malaya, and the racial and religious objections to it, were debated from time to time before the war, and gave rise to a considerable amount of correspondence in our own columns and elsewhere, but a letter
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      THE MART OF MALAYSIA
      1055 4 —Straits Times Apr. 5. A very remarkable fact was brought out by Mr. E. M. F. i Fergusson in the speech which he made as chairman of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting last week. That was that the value of Singapore trade
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      WOODLANDS RIOTS
      726 4 ?oming. r j -Straits The outbreak of further trouble among members of the comparatively recently arrived Ceylon Pioneer Corps in the past week has aroused more than passing public interest in the conditions and grievances of these men. The riots which occurred at the Woodlands Camp. Singapore, on
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      From Segu to Munggu
      386 4 Sti-ait-s Timrs. Apr. 6. 1 T I I I y I fit Since the p'i K 1 Q :0 p Brooke rule vitn g a raColony governn*< !1 WZ. have all supposed ft, vaguely that things ft,,/ but the Hansard reftLV March 17 raises doubt ft
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      TEN THOUSAND CLAIMS
      1049 5 —Straits Times. Apr. 7. 1 last few months has been rising F 1 >!*• Singapore mercanh(ir l rinil i U,M ’y over Governi 11 111 honouring its Lr" l !l u,u l r hs own War i] Il n **nc*f scheme, and Ml v h'lay in reaching
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    RAFFLES BOY FOR U.S.A.
    89 5 NEWS has been received from America that Mr. Chan Fu Ho has been awarded a scholarship to study in the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chan Fu Ho is the son of Mr. Chan Ping Kee. Chinese interpreter of the Supreme Court. Seremban. M-. Chan Fu Ho
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    UMNO OFFERS SCHOLARSHIPS
    160 5 PENANG, Apr. 3. TO enable promising Malay students to go abroad for higher studies, the United Malay National Organisation will be offering three or lour scholarships this year, an U.M.N.O. spokesman told the Sunday Times this morning. The scholarship fund started by U.M.N.O. had met with a
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    Bishop To Preach At St. Paul’s
    244 5 SINGAPORE, Apr. 6. THE Bishop of SingaL pore (the Rt. Rev. J. L. Wilson) who left Singapore for a seven months’ tour of Britain and Holland, will begin his many engagement? while abroad by officiating at two weddings of ex Malayans in London. T
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    COFFEE DOWN
    66 5 PENANG. April 5. A three cent reduction in the price of a cup of coffee with milk has been announced by the Penang Coffee Shop-keepers’ Association. The new price. 17 cents instead of 20. was enforced from April 1. The revision followed negotiations started by the Assistant Controller
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      134 5 At Kandang Kerbau Hospital, to Willy, wife of Lt.-Cdr. Simon de Boer, R.N.N., a son Erik Simon, sth April. 1948. A. B ALASINGAM —On Friday, the 2nd of April, to Elsie Geevamany, wife of A. Balasingam blessed with a son D ANT.— At K.K. Hospital. S’pore, on sth Apr..
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      128 5 TAGG-CAMPBELL: The an gagement is announced between George, younger son of Mr. and Mrs R M. Tagg of Rayleigh. Essex, and Roberta (Bobbie), daughter of Mrs. Campbell and of the late Mr. Donald Campbell of Durness. Sutherland. The engagement is announced between David Cecil, only son of the late
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  • Obituary
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    46 5 DEATHS Wontr Mun Seek arce f>7. of Aik Hoe Kian Guan Hin. passed away peacefully at 94 Tras St., Mrs. Chua Clieow Tlcn nee Madam Yap Kim Heok age 50 years passed away peacefully at her residence, 98 Branksome Road at 10.30 p.m. on 4.4 48
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    FEATHERS LIKE PETALS
    1307 6  -  A Malayan Countryman s Diary *t\n diek rDAY I think 1 saw a Raffles SunbTrei for a brief moment in my “forestry” on the estate. Of this bird, Robinson writes: “It is hardly known away from the sea on Penang Island it ascends the Hill to a
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    From An Estate Bungalow
    566 6 Recently i paid a visit to an old bungalow which I used to live in when 1 first came to the country. It is deserted now but I understand will soon be put in order again. How silent everything was. A small squirrel ran out and
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    NEW EQUIPMENT FOR BRIGADE
    52 6 *UK Ifu-.-The Singapi' will receive a nert ladder from lana month. (1 f steel The ladder n.ui* will be mount 1 ,.j,rine°* truck chassis 4 thj the chassis elevation of m s;de the swing fr< is wjj The old tu years.? in service for woo®* ladder
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    Tin Miners Put Case In Council
    823 7 I rom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 31. IN mining representatives on the Federal legislative Council yesterday asked the ivernment to review the export duty on tin-ore. traduction of income tax enabled such a re* ew, they said. Mr. D. T. Waring described
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    Perak’s New Sultan Proclaimed
    690 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA KANGSAK, Mar. 31. THE Raja Muda of Perak, Raja \ussuf Ibnl Almarhum Sultan Abdul JaJil, became Sultan of Perak tnis afternoon. He was proclaimed Sultan shortly before the late Sultan’s funeral cortege was timed to leave the Astana Iskandriah at 4
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    The King's Sympathy
    120 7 TWO telegrams from the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Creech Jones) were received by the High Commissioner. Federation of Malaya (Sir Edward Gent), yesterday. The first said: “His Majesty the King commands me to inform you that he has learned with much regret of the
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    NEW PORT CHIEF
    20 7 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON Apr. 2—Mr. H. J. Shailes has been appointed Port Manager, Port Swettenham.
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    ‘Slow Progress On War Claims’
    487 8 Slow Progress On War Claims’ SINGAPORE, Apr. 1. THE chairman of the Singapore Chamber ot Commerce (Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson) yesterday gave an assurance to the Government that “it is only because of our appreciation of the immensity of the claims problem that our impatience for a settlement has
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    Association In Sound Position
    253 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 1. THE War Prisoners 1 (Singapore) Assoc ia- I t iun is in such a good, financial position tijat it was possible at last evening's annual general meeting to do away with the annual subscription of $lO. Too president of the Association <Mr. S.
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    30 Years As Court Interpreter
    157 8 SINGAPORE. Apr. 1. AFTER 30 years with the Government as Malay interpreter, Mr. Abdul Latiff bin Mohamed Ar.tfi retires from service today as senior interpreter ol the Singapore Supreme i Court. Mr Abdul Latiff. who is 50. was one of the first Malay intepreters to
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    ON PILGRIMAGE
    99 8 j pENANG Apr. 2 —The first batch of Malayan pilgrims f>r Mecca this y ar is expected to sail trom Penang early, in June. Although the actual Haji cert many is scheduled to tuko. Pl-ce only in October, many pilgrims are leaving tour j months earlier so that
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    $700,000 SAVED
    24 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 2. Sales of victory savings certiheates up to March 30. 1948 amounted to $714,392, in the! Federation of Malaya
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    SINGAPORE TO STAGE PAGEANT
    313 8 SINGAPORE. Dr WORLD-WIDE publicity i 8 to bo pageant which is to show Singapore 1 working example of international co-ownL' Boys and girls of all nationalities wUhT part in the pageant, which will be held J r 26, the anniversary of the Atlantic Chart* 1 The
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    Appointed To Council
    146 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 1. IT was officially announc1 ed last night that the Governor of Singapore.. (Sir Franklin Gimson) has appointed two Official and four Unofficial members of the Executive Council of the Colony. The two Official nominees are: Major General L. H. P?*’ 'GOC, Singapore Distrcti and
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    Death Rate Lowest Yet
    206 8 SINGAPORE, Apr 1 SINGAPORE last year on the lowest over J death rate and tile death rate from tuberculoshs ever recorded r t h Colony, said the Municipal President, (Mr. L R f7 man yesterday. Quoting to Municipal Commlssioners from a report by the Health Officer
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    Technical Plan For Planters
    229 8 SINGAPORE. Apr. ONE uf the immetfe aims ci the Incorponi, ed Society .,f Planter, to develop a education scheme. The aim is to set a pr.fa. sional qualification stlate i for all planting »-xecutlv< Malayan plantati n tries. The chairman o. fc society i Mr. C.
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    MR. L. BLYTHE FOR COLONY
    83 8 SINGAPORE AW- l The Secretary Affairs. Federate >n a* L« (Mr W. L. Blythei Haf vJ appointed deputy the Singapore Municipal*" missioners and will act .n of the president (Mr. i i man) when he goes on ie‘ Mr. Blythe, who «'as P at the
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    APPOINTED TO COMMITTEE
    39 8 KUALA LUMPl'R 31 Th 1 V vesterdav a'oi?< u- p f :W T. Waring a :n- mD :in jtt«e Council's select ;;.‘.c:edinow considerin d legislation He replaces M- d .n nott who rofnw appointment tax committei
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    HUGE’ TRADE INCREASE
    1229 9 1 liilaycifiri^xiTcs \etterThanEver I SINGAPORE, Apr. 1. n hairman of the Singapore Chamber of 1 Commerce (Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson) said fcterday that the total Malayan trade figures E last year showed a huge increase over the Kde of the best pre-war years. 1 Mr. Fergusson
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    Gurkhas Land At Penang
    189 9 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Mar. 31. A DETACHMENT of Gurkha troops and boys arrived in Penang by the Sirdhana yesterday. One contingent of about 150 men and 40 boys, together with 16 families, disembarked for Prai and left by train for Sungei Patani. Another batch
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    ACTION IS PROMISED
    112 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 1. THE Town Cleansing Department of the Municipality would take more action than in the past against hawkers who made improper use of the area near the Cenotaph, said the Municipal President (Mr. L. Rayman) replying to Mr. Yap Pheng Geek yesterday. Mr. Yap spoke
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    Custodian Has 60,000 Pieces
    369 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 1. THE Custodian of Property, Singapore (Mr. Paul Storr) wants to know what to do with nearly 60,000 pieces of unidentified furniture which he has on his books. He said yesterday that he would welcome suggestions on how to dispose of it. The furniture
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    Municipal Staff Board Formed
    409 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 1. AN Establishments Board was set up for the lirst time by Singapore Municipal Commissioners yesterday with powers to make recommendation to the full Board regarding appointments, promotion* and dismissals in certain classes of the junior and senior service. Any member of the statT
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    WOMEN’S PARTY
    51 9 SINGAPORE Apr. 2. ANEW Malay women's organisation has been formed in Singapore with headquarters in East Coast Road. Ir.che Zaharah binti Abdul lah Kuar.g heads the new set-up. dalled “'Fin' Mnlay Women’s Progressive Party.” Membership is open to all Malay women between the a- s of 15 and
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    COUNCIL IS SWORN IN
    1154 10 SINGAPORE, Apr. 2. THE legislative Council of Singapore, at the first meeting ever attended by popularly elected members, was sworn in at the ictoria Memorial Hall yesterday. The Council heard messages of congratulation and hope from the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Arthur Creech
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    Old Traffic Law Advocated
    214 10 Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 31. THE necessity of re-in-A troducing the pre-war police system of compounding minor traffic offences, was emphasised by Mr. J. L. Ross, last night. He was making his presidential aduress at the annual general meeting of the Selangor and Pahang branch of the
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    Paya Lebar Plans Centre
    197 10 SINGAPORE, Apr. 2. Y9 U^ G People of Paya Lebar district are planning to build a children s playground and community centre in Upper Serangoon Road. Plans for the centre have MeUiodkt* v U ,k l aya L bar i inodlst Youth Fellowshin llave the support
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    Road Scout Service For A.A.M. Members
    328 10 SINGAPORE, Apr. 2. 4 N Automobile Association of Malaya Road Scoot will soon be patrolling the main roads to provide a 24-hour aid service to A.A.M. members. i A motor cycle and sidecar outfit has been ordered from England for the Singapore brand of
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    CONCERT FOR RAILWAYMEN
    68 10 The Bright star ncer t W Club will stage a L kers or Singapore railway 7 D .m Saturday. April 1 1 j ie jd .n The concert will q[ the open air in 1 a nip° n Selangor Flats. Bahru Road. fhe Brign 1 The secretary
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    Mechanised Padi Prospects Dim
    532 11 Mechanised Padi P rospects Dim I From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 2. B|| j: immediate increase in home-grown Kadi production can be expected from mechaK cultivation methods, says the Federation Rcultural Officer (Mr. E. J. H. Berwick.) Giving his reasons for this statement, Mr. ■wick says, in
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    Colony Road Toll Rises
    109 11 PAFn’r APORE rrl( accidents in during Barer] llVes comPd six 2 in February |Thk X m J »nuary. r'’w"rcpon at f ed ,i n the ♦attc r lf 1 for the first Tiut.." ,e *:<«• Baths he-,'' :l total of 03 1 ftbril-trv mi n th
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    “Malay Seamen Taking It Easy”
    194 11 SINGAPORE,. Apr. 3. THE 30 Malay seamen recently repatriated from Australia to Singapore are “taking it easy,” the president of the Malay Seamen’s Union of Singapore (Mr. S. Adams) told the Straits Times yesterday. One of the seamen had gone to Malaya to live there
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    The Governor (Sir Franklin Gimson) pinning the ribbon of the Defence Medal on the dress of Miss Chan Shu May, formerly of the Medical Auxiliary Service, during a presentation of decorations and medal ribbons at Govern- ment House, Singapore, on Apr. 1.
    46 11 The Governor (Sir Franklin Gimson) pinning th e ribbon of the Defence Medal on the dress of Miss Chan Shu May, formerly of the Medical Auxiliary Service, during a presentation of decorations and medal ribbons at Govern- ment House, Singapore, on Apr. 1. —Straits Times picture
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    COMMITTEE ON PARKING
    78 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 1. Mr. L. Clesson was appointed by the Singapore Municipal Commissio'..ers yesterday to represent them on the special committee which is being lormed by the Government to advise on parking problems in the Colony. The committee will investigate the present and future needs for motor
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    Indonesians Held On Arms Charge
    136 11 From Our Stall Correspondent PENANG, Apr. 2. DURING arms raids in Kedah early yesterday, two police parties arrested nine Indonesians alleged to have attempted to export from Malaya 154 Japanese rifles and 3,000 rounds of ammunition. Police believe that the arms were intended for Indonesia.
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    ACQUITTED OF HOLD UP
    106 11 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Apr. 2 Chin Kim Fook. a Hakka. age- 24. was acquitted and discharged by Mr. Justice L. V. J. Lavilie, in the Assiz? Court yesterday on a charge ot staging an armed hold-up of a business van on the Johore
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    Big Colony Building Deal
    118 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 3. THE South British In* surance Co., Ltd. have purchased the United Engineers building in Battery Road for a sum understood to be in tke vicinity of $280,000. real estate deals ip the citv area of Singapore since the liberation. South British will not
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    Singapore ‘Turning To Future'
    254 11 SINGAPORE, Apr 2. A MESSAGE of good wishes to the Singapore Legislative Council from the Secretary of State for Colonies was read by the Governor (Sir Franklin Gimson) yesterday. Mr. Creech Jones said that the second anniversary of the restoration of civil government in Singapore was
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    PRICE OF TIN CRITICISED
    159 11 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Apr. I.—The .£4 increase in the price of Malayan tin was unsatisfactory, the president of the F.M.S Chamber of Mines (Mr. J. D. Mead) declared yesterday. Mr. Mead said it failed to recognise the high quality, of Straits tin for which
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    SIR CECIL CLEMENTI
    80 11 SINGAPORE Apr. 2. EFFORTS are being made by the Friends of Singapore to complete the gallery of portraits of past Singapore Governors hanging at the Victoria Memorial Hall. They want to secure a new painting of the only Governor’s portrait missing-that of Sir Cecil Clementi. A portrait
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    FLYING CLUB TO EXPAND
    383 12 SINGAPORE. Apr. 3. A IMG expansion of the Royal Singapore Flying ft Club was forecast by the vice-president (Mr. J. C. Cooke) at the annual general meeting of the Club on Thursday night. Mr. Cooke told members that by August the Club should have six aircraft
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    Million More Rice Acres
    289 12 SINGAPORE. Apr. 3. MALAYA has another 1.000,000 acres of newj land available for i ice pro- dud ion. The Agricultural Adviser to the Special Commissioner (Or H W. Jack* said yesterdav that at the recent Food and Agriculture Organisation Conference at Baguio it was «,st mated
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    TRAIN HOLD UP SEQUEL
    127 12 I rom Our StafT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 2 The Siamese police have made an arrest In connection with the train hold-up on March 12. As a result of the arrest they have recovered a brown Pnrkrr !>1 fountain pen with the name A. o. Shaikh
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    FOOD CONTROL
    32 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr 2. —Prosecutions in court for infringements of food control proclamations in the Federation for February totalled 218 M which 126 obtained convictions. Fines imposed amounted to $11,693.50.
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    BANK MAKES $25,000 GIFT
    26 12 f FHK Singapore Anti 1 Tuberculosis Association on Apr. 1 announced that the Chartered Bank has donated 525.000 to the Association's fund.
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    $4,000 CLAIM SETTLED
    84 12 SINGAPORE Apr. 2. In the Singapore High Court yesterday, the Singapore Traction Company. Ltd., settled a claim fo“ $4,000 damages, with costs, brought by Chief Inspector of Police Mr. Daniel Ross Cowie. The matter was mentioned before Mr. Justice Thorogood. Mr. Cowie brought his claim on the
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    Mercy Plea For Sick Mother
    171 12 SINGAPORE. Apr. 3. nOVT scare my sick mother, whatever you do," U Chinese woman pleaded with three robber* wb robbed her of $3,000 in cash and jewellery in tie house in Craig Rond in broad daylight yesterday. The robbers, two of whom were masked and
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    Malayan Anti-Red Front Urged
    131 12 rom ,r Staff Correspondent A K V AL V LUMPlJR > Apr. 1. A that law-abiding citizen** of all j nationalities should unite and form a common front against Communism in Malava was made at '"The sLakT P *5* Malaya The speaker, Mr. P. a. Rogers,
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    Will Have To Pay Taxes
    230 12 SINGAPORE, Apr 2 ASSESSMENT will be levied on unauthorised buildings in the Singapore Municipal area, which were erected during the Japanese occupation 0 r in VJ?, P ri()d of the British Military Administration. in J c ho i e authorised buildW lR, h no assessment
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    PAY REPORT DEBATED
    104 12 From Our Staff orrcspondW KUALA LUMPUR Apr. 2THE Selangor State Com at an emergency rowing today unanimously P** eci a resolution giving its approval to resolutions on Trusted recommendation passed at Tuesday’s of the Federal Legislate Council. Before the State Council* resolution was put to vote. Unofficial
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    RIBBONS FOR 16,000
    88 12 SINGAPORE. Over 16.000 Defenct J M ribbons are being i^ea p members of Singa* g^nti* 1 sive Defence and .be Services who. fore and during thi Invasion of M l ]J- m by Pjf They are being J meitito tile addresses of tnc hers. ri .,>n itl
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    Singapore Govt to aid seamen
    431 13 SINGAPORE, Apr. 4. IpMASTERS in future will have to engage fcrews in Singapore through a Governmentl ate d seamen’s bureau—described by a Lur Department official as the most demote institution of its kind in Asia. I The bureau, which will be established in lerton Building,
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    MAJOR E. A. Billett. who has arrived in Singapore from the War Office to take over the post of Army Public Relations Officer, FARELF. from Lt.-Col. Roy Oliver, who is retiring from the army. Major Billett has been with the trim Public Relations organisation since the outbreak of the war in 1939, and was in France with the Army before going to North Africa.
    64 13 MAJOR E. A. Billett. who has arrived in Singapore from the War Office to take over the post of Army Public Relations Officer, FARELF. from Lt.-Col. Roy Oliver, who is retiring from the army. Major Billett has been with the trim Public Relations organisation since the outbreak of the war
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    Decontrol Of Meal Prices Expected
    184 13 SINGAPORE, Apr. 2. RELAXATION in the p;'i;v control of meals' is forecast an report of lut-) !1V :l )ore Swimming T )p:>' r s;iys tba t price Sxir:;: vn ,,d a sreater iitif-s 1 nt l ,hp Club s fa r'comr/,! :pa tPd relaxation Kt(.
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    WEDDING
    49 13 JOHORE BAHRU April 3. AT St. Christopher's Church Johore Bahru, on Easter Monday, Mr. Thomas K. P. Dawson of the office of the Controller of Supplies. Federation of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. was married to Miss Chandramathy Dorothy, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Victor of Johore Bahru.
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    ‘Chinese support unity move’
    158 13 Chinese support unity move’ MALACCA, Apr. 3. rilE move to unite Malayan Chinese under a single political organisation called the Malayan Chinese League has been received with acclamation by Chinese throughout the peninsula, according to Mr. Tan Cheng Lock, president of A.M.C.J.A. He told the Sunday Times he had received
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    7,400 BOGUS RICE CARDS GIVEN UP
    114 13 SINGAPORE, Apr. 4. ■QOGUS rice ration cards covering 7.400 persons have so far been cancelled bv the Singapore Food Control Department. The cancellation started last March when Government .published regulations requir- ing the public to surrender any excess ration cards. iterdav was the last
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    S’pore jobs for S’pore men
    109 13 SINGAPORE, Apr. 4. TOTAL figures of un;m--1 Ployed in Singapore have not changed much since the end of 1947 when 28,170 had registered for employment with the Labour Department in Havelock Road. Of this number 13,012 have been found jobs. Unemployment in Singapore is viewed
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    Three Held In Killing
    125 13 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpin’, Apr. 4. THREE young Chinese suspected of being concerned in the murder of a 60-year-old vegetable gardener on Wednesday were arrested by Kuala Lumpur detectives last night. The gardener, Mook Koon. wa< killed by a gunman In Kampong Pandan a
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    Young Planters And Temptations
    309 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 2. THE “terrible wastage of the youth of our 1 home lands” in Malaya is referred to in a letter to The Planter, official organ of the Incorporated Society of Planters. The writer is Mr. C. R. Harrison, councillor
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    ‘Malaya Must Fight Very Hard’
    209 13 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 2. new price for Malayan tin was criticised today by Mr. H. S. Lee, president of the AllMalaya Chinese Miners’ Association, who leaves Kuala Lumpur tonight on the first stage of his journey to Washington to attend the
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    LAND BANK IS ADVOCATED
    177 13 SEREMBAN, Apr. 1. j The formation of a Land j Bank in Malaya was a matter of vital Importance to the I rubber Industry and to all other agricultural enterprises i in the country. Mr. Donald J Farquharson said yesterday. Mr. Farquharson. chairman i of the
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    EAST COAST RAIL SERVICE ON APRIL 15
    232 14 SINGAPORE, Apr. 4. THE rehabilitation of the East Coast railway will reach approximately the half-way point on April 15, when the Malayan Railway begins through services between Gemas and Kuala Kiau. Th<* day will mark the completion of work started last year in
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    Skyscrapers And Parking Problem
    238 14 SINGAPORE, Apr. 3. rHE Singapore Traflic Advisory Committee says that the building of “skyscrapers” in Singapore should not be allowed unless the owners are required to make adequate provision for parking. lii a protest to Government, t;u* Committee says that the, passing of plans for multi->
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    POLICE ARREST UNION CHIEF
    113 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Apr. 3. THE six Chinese arrested in connection with the kidnapping of Lee Kim Meng. son of a wealthy contractor of Kulai. Include Lim Kong, the president of the Rubber Workers’ Union of that place. The other five are Pang Rian Chin. Wong Peng
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    SIX RIOTERS SENTENCED
    156 14 TELUK ANSON. Apr. 3. Sentences of six months* rigorous imprisonment ana lines of $5OO each were imposed by the District Judge (Mr. J. G. Adams) on six Chinese tound guilty of rioting in Teluk Anson last month. The riot arose from a dispute in one of the
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    Penang Lacks Copra, Blames S’pore
    223 14 PENANG Apr. 3. THE shortage of copra has 1 reached such a stage that um less more supplies are available, Penang oil mills mav have to close down shortly. A prominent oil miller told tn e Sunday Times today that some mills were at present
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    SCENE of the riot at the Ceylonese troops' camp at Woodlands. The picture shows the main road of the “E” Company lines which was the centre of the riot.
    138 14 On the is the burned-out car of A. S. P. Coooer. the first police officer on the scene. He was attacked
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    JOHORE TAKES S’PORE TRADE
    344 14 JOHORE BAHRl\ Apr. 3. ITXTIL recently Johore’s need of sawn timber was met by sawmills in Singapore from logs supplied out of Johore’s forests. Today the State not only supplies her own needs, but is challenging the supremacy of Singapore sawmills in their own domestic market.
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    PENANG DOCK CHARGES CUT
    82 14 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Apr. 4. Dock workers belonging to the Harbour Labour Union have agreed to reduce Penang handling charges. This follows months of negotiations. The Union is expected to submit a revised list of rates tomorrow to the Employers’ Association and other trading
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    Won't Call An Island A Roundabout
    381 14 SINGAPORE. Apr 5 I S Chef M J Traffic Police (Mr.CiB R. Bembroke» -till m:U tains that the sirnp&B solution of congestion iB the Orci aid Road traftB island would be u remcS the island altogether.' B “If the Municipality ril remove it.” Mr.
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    A MALAYAN CIVIL SERVANT LOOKS BACK
    1402 15 |y Oar Staff Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur A]] future of the cooperative moveA, lies entirely in m hands of the people ]B?inst‘lvt*> —hut the Avement should not jKomr embroiled in ■itics. This is part Jjtht 1 summing up of Aian who has spent Aeticallv
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    Home moves: 50 to quit
    190 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 4. THE York Hill Home, the Singapore Social Welfare Department’s institution for accommodating distressed and displaced people, will be transferred to a new building on July 1. The Secretary of the Social Welfare Department. Mr. T. P. F. McNiece, said yesterday that his
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    BACK TO IPOH
    42 15 11HE Rev. and Mrs. Ralph Kesselring and their two daughters have returned for duty in the Methodist Mission of Ipoh, where they were before the war They have jusi completed a tour of service iin Costa Rica. Central America
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    Precautions taken for old houses
    148 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 4. rE Singapore Municipality has ordered some houses in Chinatown to be shored up with temporary wooden structures. A Municipal spokesman said yesterday that shorings were a safeguard against the danger of D possible collapse. Municipal building lnspec- tors on their rounds report
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    ‘Live In Harmony’, Muslims Told
    204 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 5. |\/IR. M. J. Namazie, IVI Unofficial Legislative Councillor, yesterday told the Muslims of Singapore to live in harmony with members of other religious faiths in the Colony. Mr. Namazie was addressing the Indian Muslim League which entertained him at a function to
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    200 Entrants In Successful Show
    259 16 SINGAPORE, Apr. 5. rO hundred howling babies and about 600 excited and perspiring parents and relatives packed at the Singapore Seamen’s Union in Seah Street yesterday, where the Women’s Federation held their baby show*. The show itself was a great success, competing babies representing all
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    Thousands Of Children Celebrate
    284 16 SINGAPORE, Apr. 5. CHILDREN'S Day was celebrated yesterday oy scores of thousands of Singapore Chinese boys and Kiris, for whom an extensive programme of entertainment was arranged. Chief item on the day’s programme was a rally and concert at the Happy World covered stadium which was
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    ‘BUYER’ WAS GUNMAN
    92 16 BUYER’ WAS GUNMAN SINGAPORE. Apr 5. A Chinese gunman robbed in North Bridge Road <u o. 4.0 a.m. yesterday of a gold ring valued at $lO5 An assistant i n the shop said that the gunman posed as a customer. Before leaving the shop the gunman drew a revolver and
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    SOLD PORK, RAN FROM POLICE
    58 16 KLUANG, Apr. s.—Ng Sa< Bee charged with selling pork without a licence and with running away from the police, was fined $lOO today with the option of six weeks’ hard labour. Ng, w ho bad two previous convictions, said he had failed after several attempts
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    POLICE FOUND A DUMMY PISTOL
    67 16 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, April H.—Mr. Justice Laville in the Assizes yesterday acquitted and discharged 22-year-old Hakka Chin Teck Loon, charged with being in unlawful possession of a. firearm and ammunition. The prosecution called evidence that after Chin was arrested in Scudai police
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    In Memory Of Jap Victims
    197 16 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Apr. 5. PIE High Commissioner (Sir Edward Gent) at the foot of Bukit China this morning unveiled a memorial to Chinese the Japanese massacred in Malacca. Sir Edward, before hundreds of relatives of the victims. community leaders, and heads of
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    Big New Buoy Barge Tried Out
    120 16 lftn SINGAPORE, Apr 6 A b “°y especially built f or t he Federation Marine Department hv n... cHarbour Board, was successfniiv i„' < M ,e Sln Rapore Keppel Harbour dockyards 'estcrday at Tf ix.varu Harbour Board artisans took six months to build the
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    Cave collapses: 5 buried alive
    132 16 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Apr. 5, CIVE labourers were buried alive and tt r others injured when the Chuping caves in Peril's collapsed following a mysteZ blast during digging operations on Saturdn afternoon. Despite intensive rescue efforts, which s# still continuing, the men had
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    ‘Reparations’ Arrive In Singapore
    199 16 SINGAPORE, Apr. 6. SINGAPORE has received for her post-war industrial rehabilitation her first “reparations” shipment of 35 pieces of heavy and light machine tools from Japan. The machines, some of 1 which range from six to 30 years old. arrived on the Loksang last Saturday. A
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    Food Inspector Gaoled
    183 16 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Apr. 5. A CHINESE Food ConQ tro J,. inspector, Wee Swee Siang, aged 24, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years’ rigorous imprisonment in the District Court today for extortion and intimidation. Wee I/c Mens, a pad! grower. of Lorong Pandan. said that the
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    K.L. Fire Destroys 60 Homes
    239 16 Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 5. MORE than 500 peopis were made homele* when about 60 house were destroyed in a fa which swept a squatters village a mile out oi Kuala Lumpur this after noon. Many people lost all the! possessions in the tire, which raged
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    NO DEFENCE SECRETARY
    61 16 From Our Own (orrT>,)< w j KUALA LUMPUR. —The Federation oi ;of will not for the tne* an d the example ol s 0 r Do appoint a Seen tan fence, it was learned day. ,hat tb* It is understood hj; GoV matter has been u bllt
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    POISONED WOMEN IN HOSPITAL
    33 16 IlM Il' j f iit From Our Stall r I f!>P C*J' PENANG. nese woman v u H osP ital the Genera 1 1 from P‘ Saturday suffer .1soring.
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    ‘SERIOUS TRADE CRISIS’ AVERTED IN PENANG
    1145 17 SERIOUS TRADE CRISIS’ AVERTED IN PENANG From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Apr. 6. KEKIOUS crisis” in Penang trade was narrowly averted last May then the price of rubber slumped, the chairman of the Penang Inbtr of Commerce (Mr. D. A. Mac Kay) revealed today. iji-. MacKay was giving his 1947
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    EVICTED
    49 17 SINGAPORE Apr. 7. THE Department of Civil Aviation has boarded up the Malayan Air Cadet Corps’ headquarters at Kallang Airport, Singapore, following a notice to the corps to quit the premises—a Japanesebuilt hut. An official spokesman said yesterday the Government was not yet prepared to make a statement.
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    Telephone Strike Goes On
    461 17 SINGAPORE. Apr. 7. EUROPEAN engineers and Eurasian technicians worked outside their normal hours yesterday when about 300 labourers of the Oriental Telephone Company went on strike. While strike pickets stood outside Telephone House (headquarters of the Oriental Telephone Company) in Hill Street yesterday morning, the telephone
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    More Tax Exemption Request By Chinese
    271 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 7. THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce will shortly request the Government to widen the provision, under the Income Tax Ordinance, lor exemption given to non-residents, who derive their incomes through consigning goods to the Colony. The existing regulations only give exemption
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    G-G’s Johore Residence
    149 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 7. WHEN the GovernorGeneral (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) returns to Singapore at the end of this month he will live at Bukit Serene, Johore. Bukit Serene, the property of the Sultan of Johore, was recently vacated by Lord and Lady Killearn. who have returned to England
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    RIOT INVESTIGATORS:
    58 17 Two representatives of the Prime Minister of Ceylon who arrived in Singapore by R.A.F. aircraft from Colombo on Apr. 6 to investigate reported discontent among Ceylon troops in Singapore: Ven. Kassapa (left) a Buddhist monk, and Lt.Col. A. Muttukumaru, O.C. of the Ceylon Light Infantry. Ven. Kassapa was
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    Quiet Week In Tin Shares
    799 18 From A Market Correspondent MALAYAN markets resumed in good heart after the holidays. In four days’ trading last week a fair measure of business was written despite mounting international tension in Berlin. Save for Petaling and Sungei Way, which saw’ a fair exchange, turn over
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    U.S. Rubber Legislation Unfortunate
    131 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 3. 4R. G. D. A. FLETCHER, j .VI of Harrisons and Cros'field, said yesterday that it was unfortunate that the U.S. had decided tc extend Government con trol of the synthetic rub Dor industry before the Rubber Study Group had a chance to express
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    CHEMBONG MALAY RUBBER CROP
    116 18 In the six months to Mar. 31, i 1947. the crop of thi* Chum bong I Malay Rubber Company (1920* was 732.700 lbs. Other details I given for the annual meeting on Mar. 31 were: Profit balance for the year to Mar. 31. 1947, after London
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    Strong Case For Rubber Urged
    395 18 Strong Case F or Rubber Urged From Our Staff Corresponds, I KUALA LUMPUR i PRODUCERS of natural rubber I forceful and clear presentation ,1®. i assist the Rubber Study Group’s nerntilV 0 I Washington, a rubber authority said here t It was regretted, he added, that th* rubber industry had
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    Plantation Trust’s 3¾ Per Cent Div.
    41 18 Details given for thr Ralfc Plantations Investment Trail during 1947 were: n«t r-’V« (excluding taxation* £WI (previous year £51.040); aw able balance £204 90* 689). Dividend 3f p< r cent previous year*: forward £15® (£154.123).
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    818 18 SINGAPORE. Apr 6Prices given by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Atiar Ice 13. Of t 4 Of Alex. BricK Ords. 1.80 1.90 Prof. 3.45 3.50 B. B. Petrol 43/9 44/6 B M Trustee 8.75 9.25 Consolidated Tin Smelters <o> 22/3 23/3 do (P) 26/-
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    Poor Response To Call For Olympic Funds
    395 19 < SINGAPORE, Apr. S. fiTorts of the Singapore Olympic and Sports ,uiu'il to raise funds with which to send a team oivmpic Games are not getting the r t (hey deserve. ,.s!M»nse since the ior funds was I'K'd fius not raging. ►ason appears
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    GH GROUND ES: PROTEST BY CLUBS
    160 19 Mxaa'a Air.ateur Poocball ociation. at iheif' annuli on Apr 2 decided to adhe Municipal (.\*r.miaskmers discouragement caused to clubs by the increased fees now levied ral club representatives extheir inability to pay the larges. A suggestion by the representative that the ssioners be made
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    R.A.F. CAPTURE INDIA CUP
    278 19 »“»*i t u» hw Ifi R A r> okin it., ie R 7 ri 1 n, Kni. v 4?’ A F and the le J three aw M h,^ Duti the trophy tW ed t0 ihe R A.P\ erw u Vlct >l y. in the ei
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    NEW FACILITIES FOR BETTING
    93 19 PENANO, Mar. 31. Outstation member* of the Penang Turf Club who wiah to place tote bet* at the forthcoming Spring meeting may do ao through the secretary of the club. This service •I* offered, a* in the case of the Perak Turf Club, subject to four
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    CUTS IN TEAMS FOR SHANGHAI
    439 19 SINGAPORE, Apr. 6. HUE to poor financial support, drastic cuts will be made in the final selection of Malayan Chinese representatives for the China National Meet at Shanghai next month. It was decided at a meeting of the Malayan Chinese Organising Committee at the Goh
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    RECS WIN 3-1
    40 19 SINGAPORE, Apr. 7. A SINGAPORE Recreation Club XI gained a three-one victory over La Salle (St. Joseph's Old Boys’) when they met at soccer on the Padang yesterday. All the goals were scored in the first half.
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    Penang swimmers best at trials
    460 19 SINGAPORE, Apr. 4. PONG Seow Yoke, the Penang schoolboy champion, r gave an outstanding performance at the Malayan Chinese aquatic trials, which began at the Chinese Swimming Club pool in Kaiong yesterday. He won the 100 metres back-stroke final in 75 1, 5 seconds, which
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