The Straits Budget, 29 April 1948

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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
    • 190 1 A FEW days ago, I came across a book called The Income Tax Ordinance, 1947. I took interest in it and began reading it. Alter spending four hours on it, I found that I had only covered twenty sections of this Ordinance, and the meanings of
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    • 295 1 Blackouts give us much time to think since we can do nothing else during “lights out.’* Some system of reducing current must b? on the minds of our City Fathers. Have they oonsidered making a virtue out of necessity? In more democratic coun- j frits Shop
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    • 172 1 JN your leading article on April 23, you enunciate: “The right to strike is a right that must be upheld; neither workers nor their leaders who go on strike are committing a crime, no matter how harmful or foolish the strike may be." Who are striking? Public
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    • 175 1 SOME of your readers will be interested in the following extract from •che “Economist” dated February 28 last: “Rubber is a very important dollar-eamer for the British sterling area. Exports to the United States m 1947, which came largely from Malaya, totalled $266 million, and it
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    • 422 1 YOUR editorials of April 22 and 23 deal admirably with the strike of the Singapore Harbour Labourers’ Union. I would like to suggest to your readers that th? really important thing which has happened so far is not the general strike engineered by the
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    • 380 1 PERMIT me space to pay my tribute to those “ministering angels oi mercy” at whose hands 3 have just recovered. It is not often realised how much they have to go through, pandering to the whims and fancies of very impatient and testy patients in the hospital
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    • 463 1 SEE that the Comptroller of Income Tax is still uttering threats against those people who have not obeyed the Government’s command to trot meekly along to the Post Office, collect forms announcing that they aie liable to tax and send them to the Income
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    • 158 1 IT is a well known fact that since the lioera- tion and up to this day, H bribery and corruption exist on a very large scale jg among Government ser- S vants. This state of affairs has been the target or attack by many prominent pernors w
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  • 66 1 nt pf Alltf' rlE Vice-Prestdem Mr rican Presided L^ cted to M. J. Buckley, is air arrive in Singapo l0 m from Manila on Easte rn the course of a tour associated Mr. Buckley teamS hiP with the D° 11,u lS frelgh* Lines for 16 V r a
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 778 2 —Straits Times. Apr. 22. i.'.vinu been compartu om serious strikmonths. Singapore W t n u>ring upon anothei ■L'of industrial unrest, alt,,h v.e need not yet be so tinu'Oe as 10 suppose that v ill equal the disastrous t i)* U) 40. when a total of KT; forking
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    • 357 2 —Straits Times, Apr. 22. At the end of November, 1947, many hundreds of boys and girls sat for the School Certificate examination in Malayan secondary schools. Those boys and girls are still waiting to know' whether they passed or not. This extraordinary delay in publishing
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    • 1035 2 —Straits Times. Apr. 23. A 24-hour strike called by the Singapore Federation of Trade Unions is due to start this morning. The president of the S.F.T.U., Mr. P. Veerasenan, has stated that this strike is a protest against police raids on union offices, arrest of union officials,
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    • 862 2 Straits Times Apr 24. Nothing has been heard of the University of Malaya for some months past, but this scheme will come to the fore .again at the end of May, when the report of the Chrr-Saund-ers Commission will be published We shall then know what recommendations
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    • 1091 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 26. Another group of Malayan j representatives will take their seats at a conference table in j Washington today. Last week I it was the spokesmen of the tin miners, European and Chinese, and of the smelters. Today it is the spokesmen of the
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    • 1079 3 Strait> Tim -s, Apr. 27. There was a curious illustration of tw’o entirely contrary trends in Malayan labour policy in the Straits Times last Saturday. On the front page was a summary of the final report of the Joint Wages Commission, which makes a strong criticism of
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    • 1060 4 —Straits Times Apr. 28. Ifhf* first annual review of traffic problems in Singapore that we have had since the war was issued last week-end. Jt came from the Traffic Advisory Committee, a body which was first created in 1939 <ind was reconstituted early in 1947. There is
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  • 48 4 SINGAPORE. Apr. 28. Starting today traffic at the intersection of High Street and North Bridge Road will be controlled by light signals. Traffic control light signals are also being installed at the Hill Street-High Street junction and the Hill Street and River Valley Road junction.
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  • 206 4 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 27. r\F the 40 Government students now studying abroad for higher posts, 18 are Malays the Federal Legislative Council was told today. The rest were: 11 Chinese, four Indians, four Eurasians and three Ceylonese. Thirty-four of the students were
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  • 94 4 From Our Own Correspondent KUANTAN, Apr. 21. GAME officers have shot the two bull elephants of a small herd doing damage in the district for several years. They shot the first elephant, and also a tiger, at the 18th Mile, Pekan Road, and the second
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  • 324 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 27. EE ERRING m the Federal Legislative Council today to Lieut.-Gen. Percival’s recommendation that reinforcing units on arr j va in Malaya should have attached to them an intelligence platoon ol local Asians and a team of interpreters,
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  • PERSONAL
    • 81 4 STEPHENS—To Pauline nee Pickersgill) wife of F. W. Stephens, at Kandang Kerbau on 23rd April —Deborah Jane (stillborn). MCBEATH —To Agnes, wife of W. Mcßeath at Bungsar, Kuala Lumpur on 24th April 1948 a son—lan Stuart. ROBERTSON—To Ruby Elis* (nee Cupples). Wife of L. G. Robertson. M B E.
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  • 28 4 DEATH ROBERTSHAW.—At the Middleton Hospital, Singapore, on April 25th., 1948, Hannah Catherine,’ wife of Captain B. I. Robertshaw Royal Navy, and mother of David. Susan, Nicholas and Alice.
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  • 1808 5  -  A Malayan Countryman s Diary n AN UJKK TN over forty years’ expedience as planter in this districi I have never shot a tiger, nor sat up for one, nor met one face to face. The Malays used to chid* me for going alone intn the
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  • 342 5 IF you are a woman K and have “silver hairs among the gold” you cannot do better than to plant a henna tree in the garden. < Methods of using the henna vary, but the Malays in the nearby kampong tell me that a deep dye
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  • 1193 6  - When Living Was Cheap Life Good In Old Sarawak By O. F. In The Sarawak Gazette ■ai-WVAK in 1912 was ,:„1.»vins the end of vciuv. The last had been the W'; south Africa, •f a Melanau -ji-in we all called K.:, Kitchener, on acw |vs acne. ■M :t ntleman who
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  • 319 6 SINGAPORE. Apr. 27. V 16-YEAR-OLD Malay youth, who, it was alleged, was arrested bv the i’olice sitting outside a house in Kosyth Read, with two .38 serviceable revolvers in his possession, was at the Singapore Assizes yesterday sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for carrying arms. The accused,
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  • 36 6 The former Secretary of the Rent Conciliation Board (Mr. M. V. Rajaram) has been transferred to the Income Tax Department as Examiner of Indian Accounts. Mr. Rajaram took up his new appointment on April 19.
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  • 167 6 SINGAPORE, Apr. 25. PRIVATE importation of textiles from Japan will he resumed as soon as official confirmation of payment in sterling is received, the Straits Times learn offiemfiy modiflcd restrictions on millions of yards of Japanese-made coU.m tex,ilea which hitherto could be sold only for
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  • 240 6 SINGAPORE. Apr. 25. RADIO Malaya’s Chinese programme on 225 metres was off the air between noon and 1.15 p.m. yesterday when Singapore experienced one of its longest blackouts. The blackout started at 8.05 a.m. yesterday when the sky was overcast and a heavy shower of rain started.
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  • 123 6 SINGAPORE Apr. 26. The Singapore branch of the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers held a general meeting yesterday at Kallang Airport. The secretary. Mr. Charles Short, spoke of the Society’s work in assisting to train aircraft engineers and improving their status and technical knowledge. He hoped
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  • 75 6 KUALA LUMPUR. April 22. During March 77,418 piculs (4,608 long tons) of tin ore concentrates were produced in the Federation of Malaya. Perak headed the list by producing 51,128 piculs (3,043 long tons). Selangor came second with 19.641 piculs (1.169 long tons). Negri Sembilan produced 2
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  • 257 7 Tree Falls Kills Two Soldiers In Anti-Bandit Party Iron Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LFPUR, Apr. aiH'O British soldiers were killed and an officer 1 injured on Friday when a tree, uprooted during a storm, rolled down a hill into a patrol party which was sheltering during anti-bandit operations in Perak.
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  • 45 7 Singapore Social Welfare Department’ s York Hill settlement, whose occupants are shortly to be transferred to the Nantina Hotel. York Hill has been a haven to hundreds of destitutes and others who, through circumstances beyond their control have taken shelter there. —Straits Times pic- ture.
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  • 196 7 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur Apr. 22. RUBBER production in Ui<* Federation last month increased by nearly 1000 tons and rubber exports by more than 1,000 tons. production 58,437 tcn s °t which •u,k»8 tons came from larger estates. Small-holders increased tiKlr February production Efgjg 01
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  • 158 7 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Apr. 22. MALAYAN Government officers who, having overstayed their *i x months leave in Britain owing to shipping holdups, are now receiving demands for British income tax, can expect no relief from the United Kingdom tax authorities. An official
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  • 95 7 SINGAPORE. Apr. 27. Lying in Singapore dock among the ships that are being unloaded is the Eastern Saga, an 8.000-ton vessel Delonging to the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company. Recently converted at Hong Kong from a ship built in Holland during the German occupation, and sold to
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  • 125 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 24. FOUR shops were damaged and a number of civilians narrowly escaped serious injury when a further affray in which Ceylonese troops of the Royal Pioneer Corps were concerned to-night. Workers in one of the wrecked shops (a restaurant) told the Sunday
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  • 35 7 This season’s padi harvest in Brunei district, which was almost completed by the end of March, is a record one. The area under wet padi cultivation is the largest in the districts history.
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  • 108 7 10 YEARS 10 STROKES SEREMBAN. April 22. Koh Kim Kwee. who was sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment and ten strokes of the rotan for stopping a van armed with a revolver and robbing the salesman, was yesterday again sentenced to ten years and ten strokes of the rotan The
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  • 126 7 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Apr. 23. THREE gangsters forced a boy at pistol point to lead them to $800 belonging to his father and robbed the hoy of his pen and watch before leaving with the money stolen from a kongsi at the
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  • 131 7 SINGAPORE. Apr. >5. N appeal for lrained European nursing sisters to volunteer for work on cases of infantile paralysis at the Middleton Hospital was made by the Singapore Municipal Health authorities yesterday over the Radio Malaya network. Dr. N. A. Canton, Municipal Health Officer,
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  • 34 7 MUAR. Sunday.—An 11-year-old Indian boy. Ramasamy. was sentenced to six strokes of the light rotan by the Muar Magistrate for stealing a bicycle at Tangkak. This was the boy’s second offence.
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  • 174 7 SINGAPORE. Apr. >5. THE Singapore Deputy Commissioner of Police. Mr 1 B. M. B. O’Connell, yesterday told representative* of the Singapore Federation of Trade Unions that his decision to ban their proposed Labour Day (Mav 1) procession was final. Mr. O’Connell told the Sunday Times:
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  • 74 7 SINGAPORE Apr. U A Vehicles inspector. Teo Ee Watt, attached to the Registrar 01 V< nicies Office, was yesterday convict™ of having assaulted Hor.: Teck Ser.g. a taxi driver The magistrate Mr. F. B--nard Oehlers bound Tr over to keep the peace months. Teo. with two others.
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  • 103 7 r n -i Mr The Governo. o n pS Malcolm Macivn -f.. n2 ah pc-cted to arrn y afteraerodrome on so: noon which he This is the da> n mis will assume otlu e Un ued siorer-General f»; Asia. Kingdom in Sou.. y beNo formal r i"’! m
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  • 281 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. 1<HE latest reported vie- tims of poliomyelitis ■infantile paralysis) in ■ineapore are three EurnKeans, two adults and a Bhild. There arc now eight cases the disease in Singapore In ■e>« than a week. I \ianv anxious mothers, wno ■e.r that their
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  • 94 8 o, hni mVv Apr 22 Pon» MnH bln Ali <l3ll, Kamthan (95 an and Saminac°mrnitto f f sk 5 r Road) were A G q, yesterday by Mr. p( >lice CourV‘\yf th Seventh the next a 1 Magistrate to Se\y° n 3 Charge a ?d Samini P t
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  • 415 8 1 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. K hY Singapore Harbour Board does not intend to make any alteration to the replies it Bave on Feb. 28 to the demands made by the Singapore Harbour Labourers’ Union. While workers in the labourers’ quarters in ■aniong Pagar yesterday evening crowded
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  • 219 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. A WOMAN educationist spoke to Raffles Col lege students yesterday on the need to lower school and university fees and abolish any rules that “ei: courage racial or clast discrimination amongst students.” She is Miss Carmel Brickman, 22, a graduate of
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  • 50 8 MISS CARMEL BRICKMAN, 22 year old representative of the International Union of Students and the National Union of Students of Great Britain, is in Singapore. She is on a tour of S.E. Asia to establish contact with its students and encourage them to form their own unions. —Straits Times picture.
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  • 205 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. r PHE Singapore Federation of Trade Unions yester--1 day issued a May Day (May 1) manifesto calling on labourers “to unite more closely with Communist circles in Malaya, to strengthen the labour front, and to be prepared to face the British imperialistic
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  • 207 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. per cent or 213 of the total number of 376 of Raffles College graduates are in the education service of Singapore or the Federation of Malaya, according to the first register of graduates to be compiled in Singapore. Nine graduates are in the Straits
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  • 130 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. rE British Council will open its new headquarters in the old St. Andrew’s School Hall, Stamford Road, in June. “Headquarters will be a focal point for reviving and developing cultural organisations in Singapore," the Council’s Regional Representative (Mr. J. P. Lucas)
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  • 209 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 21. MALAYAN AIRWAYS are planning to extend tlieir services to Taiping, Alor Star, and North Borneo. These services will be started before the end of the year. The airline already ruiw regular services to Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang,
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  • 126 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. “It is cheaper for the War Department to buy firewood in Singapore and have it shipped to Hong Kong than it is to buy supplies in Hong Kong,” an Army spokesman told the Straits Times yesterday. Tenders to supply the Hong Kong War
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  • 233 9 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Apr. 23. DA TO Onn bin Ja afar, President of the UMNO, warned the General Assembly meeting here today: “Various parties in the guise oi nationalism are seeking to break Malay unity. It we do not take care this
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  • 238 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 24. 'TWENTY-SIX passen- gcrs. including two women, walked olf an aircraft that had brought them from Rangoon to Kallang yesterday and refused to continue their journey to Darwin. Mr J. t. Reilly, an Austra-lian-born racing man who has been 27 years in India, told
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  • 77 9 ITUALA LUMPUR. April 22. —‘‘Endeavour with Honour” may become Kuala Lumpur’s Municipal motto if a design for the city’s crest, prepared by the Municipal Architect Mr. C. O. Jennings, is accepted by the Commissioners. Before making their decision. however, the Commissioners will give an opportunity to other
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  • 61 9 SINGAPORE. Apr. 24. The Chinese Navy’s Omel, a 15.000-ton warship built in America, will be in Singapore next, Wednesday. The Omel left Shanghai last Wednesday with a crew of 300. Built in 1914, the vessel was thoroughly reconditioned after World War 11. It was one ol
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  • 163 9 Prom Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 23. |X)UK civilians, one ot 5* them a woman, and two Ceylonese of the Royal Pioneer Corps were injured in a tight which broke out in Sentul Pasar last night. The affray, eye-witnesses said. began in an eating-shop,
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  • 190 9 Blinking Would Blow Station Up SINGAPOKr I THE Singapore Municipal Electrical i 1>r 31 I 1 R. A. Waddle) said yesterday tint i ,eer «k I sible to blink the lights as a war,, „I electricity load was getting: too high s lhat^H To switch on and oil the heavy
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  • 58 9 SINGAPORE. Apr. 24. A supplement to the Singapore Government Gazette published yesterday gives the complete voting results of the recent general election to the Smgapore Legislative Council. The figures show that 46.700 votes were cast in the four constituencies as follows Municipal North-East: 19.800 Municipal South-West: 20.600
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  • 288 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 24. Traffic Advisory Committee support the police proposals for a “ticket” system for traffic offences. This is one of the 22 recommendations made by the Committee between Feb. 5 last year and Jan. 28 this year. In reply the Government suggest that
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  • 174 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 23. pKOM the day the Government banishment powers were used, there has been a very remarkable decrease in the number of crimes of violence. So said Mr. S. u. Palmer at the U P. A. M. meeting “It
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  • 149 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. THE Singapore Police is i offering rewards of $2OO for information lcading to the arrest of per* sons or gangs stealing bicycles and receivers ot stolen bicycles. J he Sinßaporo c.I.D. chief (Mi. j. c. Barry) announced this yesterday. He also said that
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  • 234 9 1mm Ou, Stafl 1 orropondcnt B Kuala Lumpur. Api. 2 2 B K VALA L m Pui V:n:c;.Il al c °num*:<;nm *ill discuss next .uoirJi B cltt* mm a I and practical aspects Ul t a B means of rais.ng 1.1? B public pu:p Notes of
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  • 190 9 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Apr. 21. r PHE five-day rally of tn A All-Malaya Method Youth Fellowship at noon today 1 o) address by the d an the rally, the Re'. n Seng Ong. distrlcl There will be tui rallies next on Mr. Malaya at Tatpmb-
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  • 931 10 Union ’s Claims S.H.B. Replies SINGAPORE, Apr. 24. K; Singapore Harbour Board refuses to pay H i, main wage increases which are the subI. the ‘52-point demands made by the SingaHr !!;iri>(Hir labourers Union, who have now K (»n strike since Saturday, April 17. T i slalemcnl issued to the
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  • 162 10 SINGAPORE, Apr. 24. Preliminary clearing work has now started on the &20,000,()00 Changi Airport development scheme. Bulldozers with small gangs of workmen have begun operations in readiness for large-scale work. The Koyal Air Force und the Government are expected to issue a joint statement on Changi
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  • 96 10 SINGAPORE. Apr. 24. Mr. Rajagopal, the secretary of Singapore Fedetatlon of Trade Unions, has written to the Straits Times t r protest against the remarks of the chief of the Singapore C.I.D. (Mr. J. C, Barry) on the strike. "It Is not justifiable at all to
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  • 175 10 SINGAPORE, Apt. 22. 'PHE Singapore Ratepayers Association has protest- ed against the frequency and extent of blackouts in Singapore. The protest is contained in letters to the Colonial Secretary (Mr. P. A. B. McKerron) and the Municipal President (Mr. L. Rayman). The Association says that more
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  • 255 10 From Our Stall Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 23. A SIANS owned a total of 2,024,587 acres of rubber at the end of 1946 compared with 1,436,536 acres of European-owned estates of 100 acres and over. These figures were given by the president of the United Planting
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  • 715 10 Choose Leaders Well’-Palmer From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 23. TRADL unionism in Malaya is a very youn^ growth and many teething troubles are inevitable. Mr. S. B. Palmer said this during his presidential address at the annual meeting of the United Planting Association of Malava here to-day. “Considerable
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  • 49 10 SINGAPORE. Apr. 22. Koh Boh Liang, 48-year-old widow, was fined $9OO, or in default nine months’ imprisonment at the Eighth Police Court yesterday when she admitted distilling samsu. possessing an unlicensed stall and holding dutiable liquor. She was arrested at Kampong Hylam on April 14.
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  • 1524 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 24. THE final report of the Joint Wag* Commission, released for publica--1 tion yesterday, deals with working hours, housing and general conditions of employment for Government servants. The Commission recommends that the general standard tor hou s work should be regulated, by legislation, for
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  • 178 11 SINGAPORE An DECO MMEN& I\ tor the introdum conciliation and an ArbitraXS to arbitrate in the1?® a deadlock are com"'® in the final report SgSL^ KSK-. “Si not prepared to recomJ 8 any specific form •on machinery .K** feels, should be decided parties directly cone,™ Nevertheless th?
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  • 47 11 PENANG. April 21. The python experiment against rats in Kedah to failed according to Mr. Tan Seng Keat. leading rice miller Ln Alor Star. Mr. Tan says godown labourers o rotes ted acairs; the snakes Rats destroyed 1.000.000 gan tangs of rice in Kedah last year
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  • 199 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 24. |r pwo ships are leaving Singapore today without a 2,000-ton cargo because of the Harbour Board strike. They are the Liverpoolbound ship Titan and the otraits Steamship vessel Kajang which is bound for Borneo ports. The Titan is leaving behind nearly 2.000
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  • 225 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 21. GOVERNMENT is at present considering a proposal by a private company for a land development scheme, which, if adopted, would give Kuala Lumpur a new 200-acre residential area for private building* Site of the proposed land
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  • 272 12 3 MORE S’ PORE POLIO CASES SINGAPORE, Apr. 27. m\\\] Municipal Health Officer* (l)r. N. A. I nton) told the Straits Times yesterday H a iitili-lly measures in Singapore had been ■tenvlicd in view of the outbreak of infantile Bra!} *is. 9 Three new cases, all Chinese children, were ■ported
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  • 178 12 SINGAPORE, Apr. 27. ■he general committee B of the Straits Chinese British Association will Hr the Singapore GovKiment to inquire into Be Australian deportBtion ol Malayan Chin■Tht SC BA ieels that the de■r ns will "disturb the Srdial relations between the Kipi< f Malaya and AustraWa
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  • 67 12 B 1 1 i’ATANI. Ar»r.. 26.— H survey state H... and one revolver k a 'd and one Ma- IX c lor possess- p, ,l acle gun. B Ue decline in H' the report Hr l was quiet at K r ,'v district.) an Hunt X A
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  • 132 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LVPUR, Apr. 2<>. THE pre-war speed of 45 miles an hour for Malayan trains may be re-established within a year. This is revealed in an official communique issued by the Malayan Railway to explain the transfer last week of
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  • 283 12 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. r PHE Food Control Department plan to prevent dishonest Government ration retailers substituting inferior rice for good rice received from the Government will come into operation in Singapore in the first week of May, said Mr. A. I). Butler-Madden (Deputy Food Controller) yesterday.
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  • 71 12 SINGAPORE. Apr. 22. The Seco. d District Court Judge, Mr. A. D. Farrell, yesterday iound Ng Ah Bail guilty of exporting a controlled article without a permit and fined him $2,500. in default three* months’ rigorous imprisonment. It was alleged that Ng Ah Bah on April 13 exported
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  • 288 12 l S 1 GAP ,R E. Apr. 26. H AL/Ua: firms with |w‘nna!.r u JaPim ma y birts their OWn m> If «ki cx Ports with r i rd n (Japanese tv 1 Hide). B Cr>r JJ.hts by letters res', r lln except in B Tb ‘‘-s
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  • 200 12 SINGAPORE, Apr. 27. A SPOKESMAN of the Singapore Federation of Trade Unions yesterday demanded the release of three Chinese workmen, who were arvested by Singapore Police, while posting up Labour Day (May 1) posters. The SFTU, he said, claime d “full responsibility for sending out
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  • 100 12 SINGAPORE. Apr. 24. A Muslim couple who hatf been three times divorced ai d re married lor the fourth time were parties in an appeal in which judgmen* wa iS yesterday reserved by the Singapore Court of Ap peal. The appeal was under the Guardianship of Infants
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  • 360 13 SINGAPORE, Apr. 27. THE new lighthouse equipment to be set up soon at Pulau Angsa, ofT the Selangor coast, will—it is believed —be the first all-electrie installation in the Malay Peninsula. The light gives a peak intensity of 300.000 candle-power of white light. it has triplicate automatic
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  • 72 13 SIMiAI’OKK, Apr. 25. r lUli; sudden power black--1 out in Singapore yesterday morning caught a woman by tile hair. Shortly alter iln* electricity was cut ofT, a switchman at St. James Power Station received an urgent appeal by telephone. The caller, a woman, begged him “please, please, turn
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  • 215 13 SINGAPORE. Apr. 27. CALL to the Government to increase the number of senior posts in the administrative service for the local-born, particularly Rallies College graduates, has been made by the chairman of the Pan-Malayan Council of the Stamford Club (Mr. Lee Siow Mong). This call
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  • 55 13 Cablp and Wireless an* to charter a local craft to carry out cable repairs between Penang and Batavia. This decision has been taken to safeguard the position in the tar hast, pending the arrival at Singapore ot the cable ship Retriever. It will also relieve the
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  • 66 13 SINGAPORE. Apr. 27. Lim Kee, a young woman licence-holder of a second hand metal shop ?it 4, Weld Road, was committed in the Singapore Seventh Police Court yesterday to the next Assizes on a charge of possession of ammunition. Lee Ah Peng, a detective, said that
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  • 283 13 SINGAPORE. Apr. >7. \fORE than 300 striking Singapore telephone i? 1 linesmen and technicians yesterday toki the management of tlie Oriental Telephone Company that they would continue on strike until their demands were met. The general manager of the Company (Mr. R. W. Stainforth) had told
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  • 103 13 SINGAPORE Apr. 26. More than 150 graduates, undergraduates and guests atundod the Rallies College Union annual re-union dinner j and dance at the Lido on Saturday night. The president of the R.C.U. •Mr. J Superamaniam* spoke th< great cultural, economic anu scientific value which the proposed univerMtj
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  • 142 13 SINGAFORE. Apr. 27. THE Governor oi Sing* gaporc. (Sir Franklin Gimson returned tc Singapore yesterday on board the British cruiser Hart, after a fortnights tour of t lie Cocos- Keeling and Christinas Islands Sir Franklin cam*' .iTnrein tho Admirals bare* and disembarked a: Tn- Master Attendant's pier
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  • 181 13 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 26. l/UALA LUMPUR Civil 1Y Police today arrested a Ceylonese member of the Royal Pioneer Corps who had been detained by the military police following Saturday night’s rioting. The mam, it is understood is to be charged in
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  • 235 13 From Our Own Correspondent PEXANT. Apr. the status of Malays could be improved mixed marriages with other races. The res, .5 n of the United Malays National OrganisationDato Onn bin Jaafar, said this at a 5u worth rally yesterday. “This produces stronger characters.’* he said.
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  • 130 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 28. VIINE people were injured, including a woman, when a hand-grenade was thrown into a coffee shop at the corner of Deli and Anson Roads at 9.15 last night. The Straits Times understands that the police arrested a Javanese who was
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  • 133 15 SINGAPORE. Apr. 28. IMFTEEN ships -including live new arrivals—were being worked at Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday. The acting chairman of the Board. Mr. P. A. T. Chrimes. told the Straits Times: "Wt. have sufficient labour to work all ships at the wharves. "Everything is going
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  • 89 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 28. The body of a 30-year-old Hokkien, Goh Kai Ki, with stab wounds on the face and arms, was found yesterday morning two miles from the kampong where he lived off the 13th mile. Woodlands Road The body was found by Capt. Charles G. Hocland.
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  • 76 15 Singapore Chinese will celebrate on May 5. the installation in office of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as China s first constitutional president. The celebrations will begin with a ceremony >n the morning at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce premises. Mass processions and entertainment will bo held in the
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  • 167 15 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 27. THE Federal Government is considering setting up a committee to advise on the general policy re garding land alienation for tin mining. This was disclosed by the Acting Economic Adviser. (Mr. F. S. MacFadzean> in the Federal Legislative
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  • 96 15 From Our Staff Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI. Apr., 27. -A police party last night ambushed a gang of five Malays suspected of having robbed a Chinese at Sungel Toh Pawang last week. The men. one of whom was armed with an axe. did not resist arrest when they
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  • 98 15 From Our Staff Correspondent B v «“>» -a shl£ wer a e r tMa h lay y and f the SCh^* The Council unanimously r >a s s ‘d an alternative proposal. that made it necessary for the students who were eligible for citizenship to give
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  • 58 15 WHILE a villager of Kuala Tayuk, in Kelantan, was graxing his cattle by the roadside on Wednesday a tiger stalked and killed two of them. The shouts of the owner drove off the tiger. Later, while the owner was skinning the dead cows, the tiger returned
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  • 230 15 pfx NG H A P0RE 23 CIX addit onai ca.J\| infant ii,. n aralv reported gapore, bringing th1... for the pas: A The latest victim*Vp scattered Parts of XH area. city I They comprise dip u adult, one Europe™ one Chinese adult I Chinese children
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  • 46 15 SINGAPORE. Apr. 28. Found guilty of postal bills on to government property, a 25-year-old uujj ese. Chew Lai In was fij™ $25 by the Third Police Court Magistrate 'Mr. F Bernal Oehlers) yesterday Chew was found in sion of 45 bills written Chinese.
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  • 768 16 A. Aid In Alee ting Total I Of $475,000,000 I SINGAPORE, Apr. 28. I TOTAL expenditure of $475,00 0,000 (approximately £55,000,000) is B (i .iitemplated for the payment of Total War damage claims in the ■edital ion of Malaya and Singapore. B -In present financial circumstances both
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  • 26 16 Sir Eduard Gent makes over- tures of friendship to three s lightly apprehensive children at the Seremban Children’s Home, which he visited on Saturday.
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  • 74 16 SINGAPORE, Apr. 27. lilIE general committee of the Straits Chinese British Assiciation. Singapore. yesterday derided to defer considering a change of name to the Malayan Chinese Association as proposed hy the Penang S.C.B.A. It decided that the Singapore S.C.B.A. should wait until it was known if non*
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  • 64 16 from Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Apr 27. rhe Federation Government’s decision on the lifting of all restrictions and regulations at present hampering the trade of Penang, and to restore fully the Island of Penang to its pre-war status as a free port, will be tabled at
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  • 47 16 SINGAPORE. Apr. 28. Bail of $l,OOO was offered to a 19-year-old soldier O. Ballard attached to Selarang Barracks when he appeared in the Fourth Police Court, yesterday on a charge of theft of 54 lorry tyres valued at $3,500. The case was adjourned.
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  • 192 16 SINGAPORE, Apr. 28. A GRENADE throwing incident as workers were leaving the Singapore Harbour Board premises on Monday was last night commented on by the Governor of Singapore (Sir Franklin Gimson). He said: “It is a new and disturbing factor in industrial relations in Singapore
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  • 234 16 SINGAPORE, Apr. 28. THE Singapore Federation of Trade Unions say they are going ahead with their plans for a May Day procession. A spokesmen said yesterday that the SFTU resolution was being forwarded to Mr. McKerron by messenger. The SFTU May Day Committee yesterday decided to
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  • 292 16 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 27. A BILL unifying the war risks insurance legislation throughout the Federation and making similar provision in regard to war damage has been prepared and is under consideration, it was re* vealed in the Federal Legislative Council today. Giving
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  • 922 17 Optim ism Despite Singapore Strike From A Market Correspondent MALAYAN markets exhibited marked buo- .yancy and did tfood business during a week when port labour ceased work and there was a one-day general strike with clear Communistic manifestations. But operators financially and vocally expressed their confidence in
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  • 117 17 Tlu following quarterly tin re turns arc announced Kuala Lumpur Tin. N.L.— January, 53G hours. 1-34.552 cubic yards, 281.92 piculs output: Fee ruary. 579 hours. 112,688 cubic yards, 191.69 piculs; March. hours, 109.GG4 cubic yards. 274. piculs. Tcngah Compound N. 1..— January. 521 hours, 104.943 cub’c
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  • 49 17 Following are rubber companies and their March productions in lbs; Malaka Pinda Rubber Estates. 101.025; New Scudai. 40.000: Riverview Rubber Estates. 171.228; Brunei United Plantations. 38.000: Changkat Serdang Estates. 24.702; Haytor Rubber Estates. 13.910: Lunas Rubber Estates. 54.300; Nvalas Rubber Estates 49.560; Tapah Rubber Estates. 82.060.
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  • 89 17 Anglo-oriental < Malaya» Limited announces the following March outputs of tin concentrates. in piculs: Ampat Dredging 875 Batu Selangor Dredging 330 Berjuntai Dredging 144 Jelapang Dredging 579 Kaniunting Dredging 2.707 Klang River Dredging 282 Kramat Dredging 672 Kuala Kampar Tin Fields 363 Kucha i 240 La rut
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  • 55 17 AUSTRAL Malay Tin T.imttcd that the court has confirmed the return of capital authorised by the shareholders of Kampong Kamuaiing Tin Dredging Limited. The distribution ol 4s per share will be made shortlj Any outstanding transfers of shares should be lodged at once with the secretaries.
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  • 61 17 The following March rubber crops are announced: Allenby Rubber Company i.td 45.500 lbs. Benta Rubber Estate Ltd. 84.C00 lbs Jeram Kuantan Rubber Est.. Ltd 59.500 lbs. Kundong Rubber Estate Ltd 40.500 lbs Mentakab Rubber Co.. Ltd 108.400 lbs. Sungel Bagan Rubber Co.. Ltd 110.000 lbs. Sandvcroft Rubber
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  • 31 17 1 In the quarter ending March 31. the output of Southern Malayan Tin Dredging Ltd. totalled 7.883 piculs. In tlie same period. Malayan Tin Dredging Ltd. produced 4.561 piculs.
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  • 282 17 D sales V 0cw «B Ma > shii,,,,,.,,!. 5 f* wi'tli buyinjr bv .N« v 5,t Kept the market <t..;ulv tlimiKh t!'e »> Price has only 5 small, says I c i-i. p w.eklv report Sellers appear Mil!*. mwt lie d mand TnS W level, but
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  • 870 17 S1NGAPORE. Apr.. 27. Prices given by the Malayan Sharebrokers’ Association were INDDSTRIAI Buyei Selin Mia* let 13 01 (4 Of Alex. Brick Ord 1.60 1.70 Pref. 3.20 3.27‘h B. B. Petrol 45/3 46 3 B M Trustee 8 75 9 25 Consolidated Tin Smelters iO> 22/3 23/3
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  • 226 18 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEREMBAN, Apr. 24. WfiOR opened the State soccer season by uointf down, by two goals to one, to Negri bihm at Seremban today. Negri took the ativc from the start and maintained it almost grille closing stages, when they made allttVrnpts to equalise,
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  • 75 18 |H ni <iu! iihiiI orre.spondent W LONDON. Apr., 27. iiiiinrr Singapore play- r. otitschoorn, has bren H f<1 *d to turn out for IMtircesieisIrre against the jBistr.ili.iM' in the tourists’ gaim 1 beginning to- n.kri fans in the counts rv wondering whether tHon Bradman will
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  • 222 18 I SINGAPORE, Apr. 28. OOKING smart in their dark grey flannels, the alayan Chinese con* agent received their Rcial flag, banners and rolls from the Chinese msui-General (Dr. Wu lak-shing) at a ceremony ild at the Consulate yes Dr. Wu wish id the contin■nt the best of
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  • 50 18 Rat-, Sietv i Spletar beat O.H.Q. Seletar 1 ARELF at cricket I 4 'Konv,,! 1 Y re all out for for ;j, x or 10, Rogers H 9 Pilbv ,{5 'Syrott six for M The Aim. l0r 16 >* b- made 109, thus in innings and
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  • 56 18 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Apr. 21. THE Perak Turf Club is proposing to instal photo-finish equipment mt the racecourse here in conjunction with the other associated clubs. The cost to the Club, including share of equipment, building a camera room and alterations to rails, etc., is
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  • 119 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 26. THE absence of a breeze L in the early part of yesterday caused several of the events in the R.A.F. (Seletar) Yacht Club annual regatta to be postponed. The breeze improved in the afternoon. Results: International Star Race: 1. A. C. Searle (Antares); 2.
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  • 318 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 26. jlAORE than 40 competitors, in cars and motor--*-▼1 cycles of various makes and sizes, took part in Singapore’s first hill climb contest since the liberation, held at Bukit Batok yesterday. The climb, which was organised by the Singa- pore Motor Club,
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  • 75 18 PENANG, Apr. 26. T OWEST score in Penang cricket was recorded yesterday, when the Royal Engineers were dismissed for only three runs in the first innings of their match against the Indian Association. The Sappers fared better in their second innings, putting up a total
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  • 211 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. THE President of the Singapore Amateur Football Association (Mr. Frank C. Sands) last night said that if rough play continued in Singapore League football he was prepared to propose the suspension of the offending team. Mr. Sands was speaking at an emergency
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  • 81 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 27. A REFEREE interrupted a soccer match at Geylang Stadium yesterday. called both teams together and advised the players not to shout out to one another as a means of signalling for the ball. Thp game, a Second D vision League fixture, was
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  • 126 18 SINGAPORE. Apr. 27. THE Malayan Chinese table tennis team to the China games beat a Singapore side 5-2 at the Great World last night. Yan Yee Hung. No. 1 player ol the Malayan Chinese team, did not turn up and his place was taken by Koh Soon
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  • 171 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 26. rrHE need for expansion in view of the increasing membership, was mentioned at the annual general meeting of the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club held yesterday Mr. G. H. Kiat, who presided, said that the membership had exceeded 5.000, compared with 3,262 in 1946.
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  • 126 18 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 21. Commercially run greyhound racing will not be introduced into Malaya. The Government has Informed a syndicate which sought to open a track In Kuala Lumpur that It is not prepared to amend the law to petmlt this type
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  • 212 18 SINGAPORE Apr. 20. RAIN caused an abrupt end to the cricket math played at Hong Lim Green yesterJay between the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club and R A.F. Changi. Cheong Thlam Slew topscored i*; the rna-tch. with 39 runs. The Chinese totalled 110 and the Airmen had replied
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  • 62 18 JOHORE BAHRU, Apr. 22. THE first tie in the interdistrict competition for the Cheah Cup will be played at Johore Bahru on the courts of the Royal Johore International Club on April 30. between Johore Bahru and Kluang districts. The following will represent the Johore Bahru District: Wong
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