The Straits Budget, 5 August 1948

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    5 1 THE STRAITS BUDGET 5. J
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      UPAM On Representations By Malayan Bodies In London
      845 1 IN common I think with many other of your J readers, I read with astonishment your very misleading article under the heading “RUBBER WHY WORRY?.” I describe it as misleading, fjr it in no way represents a true account of what has
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      S.M.C. LEAVE ON MERITS
      46 1 SINGAPOE. August 4. Vacation leave due during the Japanese occupation but not taken will not be given as a matter of right to Singapore Municipal employees on resignation. However. Municipal Commissioners have decided that each case will be considered on Its merits.
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      PRIORITY ARMS FOR MALAYA
      122 1 ON July 19, you published an article about supplying arms to planters and miners, and pointed out the difficulties that were being encountered in finding supplies. It might interest you to know that on July 25, I contacted my London and Belgian agents, and in the
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      UK TRAINING FOR CLERKS
      171 1 IT is encouraging to read in your issue of July 29, that a firm in Singapore is sending an Asiatic member of its staff to London “to get further experience and facilities for more advanced study.” There is no better way of showing appreciation to an
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      P.C. PENSIONS
      91 1 THE letter from “Volunteer P.C.” in your issue of August 1, should not be allowed to pass without protest from at least one other. Surely if your correspondent accepts the rank and responsibilities of a P.C. he does not expect postumous remuneration on the scale of an officer?
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      Expat Pay And Lower Standards
      363 1 IN your report of July 27, under the heading “COLONIES SHORT OF STAFF”, you say, “The Committee on the Colonial Estimates considers it may be necessary to accept a limited number of European staff with reduced standards of qualified ions as has already been done
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      SUPER-GRADERS
      42 1 THE revised scales of pay for Government clerks, as approved by the Singapore Legislative Council a few weeks ago, mentioned clerks of Super Grade, Grades 1, 2 and 3. Can any reader enlighten me about these grades? STILL IN THE DARK.
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      Volunteer Police Pensions
      143 1 [T would .seem >■ b «t my® peop'o 11.. r lr *g Volunteer g I-j recent ann-u. «-rnen* H pensions u win able to vnlu s whi injured oi killed that the maximum pen^| available Is to bo baspd monthly salary S600 W It is the responsibility
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      THE CHINESE POSITION
      242 1 rASE allow me to gratulate you on excellent leadi: "FEB RATION REK'KT" which inter alia. pointed out t ii»* 1irli(B| position of the population in 1:, nivsBl crisis. The present situ;* r. :B| necessarily be ot t!i«■ concern to the C’r.: whole, simply be-' 9$ their means
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      THE G.O.C. ON THE WAR
      928 2 —Straits Times, July 29. Ijencral Boucher had I new, (or the Legisneilof the Federation ,v. when he reviewed enc.v from the Army w which i )C,hap be stressed, is not point ot view m this iness. The soldiers confidence, but that not yet shared by
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      UMNO DEMANDS STRENGTH
      1161 2 —Straits Times. July 30 Nobody should miss the significance of a warning uttered in the Federation Council on Tuesday by Inche Zainal Abidin. Secretary-General of UMNO. He said There are many provisions in this constitution (the new Federal constitution) which *e Malays would not have accepted but
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      DEAD LINE
      419 2 -StruiUs Times, July 31 In his speech to the Legislative Council of the Federation last Tuesday Major-General Boucher gave a rather startling warning of the sort of propaganda claims that we must expect to be hearing from the Chinese insurgents in the Federation in a month or so.
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      Asian Spectacles
      389 3 Straits Times, July 31 The Malayan Press has come in for some criticism for its presentation of news of terrorist activities during the past few weeks. So far as the Straits Times is concerned, we have not hesitated to agree that this is a matter in which outsiders
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      The Comrades
      187 3 Straits Times. July 31 In the House oi Commons last Tuesday there was a scene because the Speaker insisted that Mr Piratin. the Com- munist M.P., withdraw a suggestion that the authorities in Malaya are “murderers.” The other Communist M.P., Mr. William Gallagher, said to the Speaker: I
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      The Lambeth Talk
      138 3 Straits Times. July 31 One of the secrets of good journalism is to ring the gong in the first sentence. Irritate, outrage, astonish, puzzle or 1 amuse the unfortunate victim, and you’ve got him hooked. As a masterly example of this technique we quote the opening sentence
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      THE PORT OF MALACCA
      1092 3 Straits Times. August 2 A most perturbing report on the decline and threatened decay of the oldest town in Malaya has been presented by the British, Chinese and Indian Chambers of Commerce in Malacca. This report takes the form of a memorandum on the post-war state
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      MR. MARSHALL AND YOU
      636 3 About a month ago the people of Malaya were surprised to learn that this country was supposed to be one of the signatories to the Marshall Plan for Europe. To be precise, the bilateral agreement concluded between the British and American Governments to give effect to
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      On Suspicion
      372 4 —Straits Times August 3. TJj 0 <o who are responsible or polite-.:! and psychological jjjfart iuai.nst government by egiin m Malaya today should fa note of the recent warn- voiced b\ Asian leaders boa: the uneasiness that has ten aroused in the public ur.d by some of the
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      AID FOR THE FEDERATION
      725 4 Straits Times August 4. Yesterday we reminded our readers of a recent act of the Governments of the Federation and Singapore that has passed almost unnoticed by the Malayan public namely the formal adherence by these two Governments to the bilateral agreement between the British and
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      The Old Look
      363 4 Straits Times August 4. We in Cecil Street have been gaping enviously and incredulously at a copy of the Hong Kong Sunday Herald. Those of our colleagues who have recently come from Fleet Street or from provincial newspapers at Home have done more than gape: they have
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      204 4 To June, wife of D. R din an, at Kandang Kerbau, on 25tn July. a daughter. KERR.—OiI 26th July, at Johore Bahru Hospital. a bonny son to Elizabeth Mary, wife of John W. Q. K*rr. Both well. At Kandang Kerbau Hospital 2‘th July, 1948. to Zoe wife of J.
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      ENGAGEMENT
      202 4 NEO-GOH. On 29.7.48 at K.L between Mr. Neo Poh Cheng, third son of Mr. Neo Pee Wan and the late Mrs. Neo Pee Wan. of Singapore, to Miss Nonnle Gob Kim Heh. the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Goh Cheng Chy** of K.L. The engagement was announced yesterday
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      MARRIAGE
      51 4 RICHARDSON-WAIT On Saturday Juno 26th at St. Mary's Church, Old Alresford. Major W. Richardson. The Royal Ulster Rifles, to Miss Ursula Wait of White Railings. Swarraton, ALrc.sford. Hants. RAMSAY-LA NAUZE. At St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Kuala Lumpur, on 27th July, 1948. Alexander John McGregor Ramsay to Beatrice Kent La
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    From an estate bungalow
    455 4 WE went off to get our stores and because this estate is not far from the shop where we often bought stores we thought we would give our first order to our old grocer and let Cookie visit his wife, who as yet hasn’t joined us
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    RECOVERY ON THE ROAD
    1763 5  -  A Malayan Countryman’s Diary has i>" 'PHE amount of ac- tivity and industry to be observed on our road is really remarkable when one remembers conditions two years ago. A few days ago a fish hawker on a bicycle was seen selling his wares to a
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    ‘SURE OF THEIR AID’
    189 6 from ()UI Cor»t*si>ondent H„,i a Lumpur. July J8. K o.niR'.issu'niT Gene- Mi Malcolm MaCmji talked to planters KU-" 1 Ki neS e hero today. He difficulties and mg with re- o- :!'.«'>»• loader the way tn I could uso- in the cam’lie terrorists m: \l.uP mild
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    Dock Passes At Penang
    128 6 fl f rom Our Staff fl Lp v ,5® rres P»ndem J :i v -O. The Harb »ur board’s seoffice has m- 4 n entrance Hfe?an n;v ir[ aiva and the K D ljn slipway. aa a e n e n f u r c e
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    Chinese Are Urged To Join The Auxiliaries
    301 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 28. THE Selangor Chinese Chamber of Commerce has thrown its resources into the drive for Chinese members for the Auxiliary Police. Similar action is being taken by sister chambers in the other states. Following meetings held
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    US Warships For Colony
    137 6 SINGAPORE, July 31. SINGAPORE will be visited by ships of the United States Navy next week with the arrival of the 16,500-ton heavy cruiser Toledo and the destroyers, Chevalier and Higbee. The vessels are expected to arrive in Singapore on a twoday visit on Aug. 6,
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    5 DIPTHERIA CASES
    27 6 SINGAPORE. July 31. Five cases of diptheria were reported, one of which was fatal, in the Singapore Municipality during the week ended Jiffy 24.
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    Preparations For By-Election
    144 6 KUALA LUMPUR, July 29. pOLITICAL parties in Singapore are preparing tor I the by-election to fill the vacancy in the legislative Council caused by the death of Mr. S C. Goho The Progressive Party has I discussed the question of I nominations but has come to j
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    Seven Years For Killing
    170 6 SINGAPORE. July 31. KUNJU. a Malayalee work-1 man of the Seletar Naval Base, was sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment yesterday by Mr. Justice W. J. Thorogood. in the Singapore Assize Court, after the jury had found him guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
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    Better Rice Next Week
    79 6 SINGAPORE. July 31. SINGAPORE is to get a better quality rice. From next week ration card holders will get 80 per cent white rice and 20 per cent broken rice. Siam has been supplying most of the broken rice but her allocation has now been fulfilled.
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    ‘Money Down Drain,’ Says Mr. Tan
    220 6 SINGAPORE, July 2<). TWO posts for the Singapore Municipality and the Singapore Improvement Trust which were advertised in the London press a fortnight ago but not in the local press, were yesterday characterised by Mr. C. C. Tan as “money down the drain.” The
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    Scholarship Winner Back
    132 6 SINGAPORE, July 31. MR. Chan Kah Hock, general secretary of the Peoples’ Education Association in Singapore, returned to the Colony yesterday by the Canton after a four-month tour ot England, Scotland and Wales. He was awarded a British Council scholarship early this year, and has spent his
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    Britain Sends Expert
    241 6 SINGAPORE, July 30. AN efficiency expert from the Organisation and Methods branch of the British Treasury has been invited by the Federation Government <to survey administrative procedure in the Secretariat. He is expected to arrive in Kuala Lumpur during October. Mr. Ross, the expert, will probably spend
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    THIRD CUT IN TAXI STAFF
    79 6 SINGAPORE. July 31. Because the petrol ration for taxis only allows an average of seven-ninths of a gallon a day for each cab, Yellow Top Cab Company has discharged 40 drivers —about 30 per cent of the driving staff A director of the firm Mr.
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    $1,500 BAIL IN GAMING CASE
    79 6 SINGAPORE. July 31. Bail of $1,500 was allowed to Goh Peng Cheng, a middleaged Chinese who was charged in the Second Police Court, Singapore, with permitting his house to be used as a common gaming house. Nine Chinese who pleaded guilty to a charge of
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    Says He Was Forced To Join Terrorists
    559 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 3«>. A plea that he had been forced to join a “terrorist organisation” under compulsion, did not save a 27-year-old Indonesian, Abdul Manan bin Haji Latif, from being sentenced to death at the Selangor Assizes today,
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    100 STENS ARRIVE IN COLONY
    113 7 SINGAPORE. July 31. ONE hundred sten guns, with ammunition, arrived in Singapoie from Australia by air yesterday and were immediately unloaded and despatched to their destinations. This followed a request by the Federation Government to the British Government for the early delivery of the guns,
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    Bandits Murder 5 Men
    149 7 From Out Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur July HO. FIVE murders were reported in the Federation yesterday. They were: Negri Sembilan: Fifteen terrorists in M.P.A.J.A. uniforms entered Sungei Lui village in Bahau last night, tied up a local Kuonuntang oificial Toh Tee Lai and a Chinese shop
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    Sentenced To Death
    46 7 KUALA LUMPUR July 304 MALAY Pamarah Zaman bin Teh. was sentenced to death at the Selangor Assizes today for possessing a revolver and 16 rounds of ammunition at Temerloh. Pahang, on June 21. this year. He was convicted under the new emergency regulations.
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    DOCTOR CHARGED
    48 7 Dr. John D. Dennehy was charged in the Fourth Police Court yesterday with disorderly behaviour at 12.30 a.m. yesterday in the charge room of Orchard Road oolice station. Dr. Dennehy said he wanted to engage counsel and the ease was postponed to Aug. 8 for mention
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    SUGAR CHEAPER
    41 7 The retail price of Government rationed sugar is to be decreased by four cents per kati, or from 32 aents per kati to 28 cents per kati it was officially announced ‘'estcrdav. The reduction will take effect on Monday.
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    Police Search 500 Cars In Singapore
    117 7 MORE than 500 motor cars were searched and over 1,000 persons screened yesterday when road blocks were erected at four places in the Chinatown area by the “A” Division of the Singapore Police. One Chinese from Kluang who could not give a satisfacory account
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    WOMAN IN TAXI CHASED THIEF, RECOVERED JEWELS
    77 7 r:r n i n “w* B jm AIL of an hour later. re< ov «r«*d her belongings a quarter KaUnur* m. Wa i li n at the Junction of Tanjong jg? ftnif r. h f. n “an^S hurrM station?*** taxi caueht Im®?. 1
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    Guiders Return
    48 7 SINGAPORE July 31. Alter spending six months learning the latest methods of Guide training in the United Kingdom. two Malayan Guiders, Miss Ng El Chan, of Taiping, and Miss Lily Majeed of Kuala Lumpur, disembarked In Singapore yesterday morning by the P and O ship Canton.
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    S,PORE TO HAVE CREMATORIUM
    652 7 SINGAPORE. July CINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners I at a meeting yesterday to the erecti„V rV crematorium in the Colony, and assigned til work of drawing up a scheme to a M,„ i,i!H committee. '"'P® The decision was reached after a debate in which Muslim Commissioners ed strong
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    Mannequins Here—For 1 Day Only
    132 7 SINGAPORE. July SINGAPORE caught a br| glimpse of Parisiei® beauty last night when ;X§ young French m.mn.quM arrived from London en way to Australia, where will make a two-month of the capital cities. moddliH dresses by iam<>u.s Ft- i.eh Hj signers. H They are all
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    Alleged False Certificates
    84 7 SINGAPORE July Two Indians. P. nan and P. Govindas.\m\. alleged yesterday to dj*| forged ficates to the Comptroller 1*1 Posts. Singapore, in irdcr Sq get work as clerks. j Br.lakrishnan claimed end Govindasamy guilty. The Second Police magistrate. Mr. L. C. L 9| ’’ccorded the pleas and
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    FOOD CONTROL OFFENCE
    82 7 SINGAPORE: Jw y >« For selling a 1butter 90 cents {controlled price and 2] i possession of loin :1> butter when he v. 1 dealer in butter. H 2» manager of a prov; i at 10, Calrnhill yesterday lined a 1 $2,400 by the Second u jJudge
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    Wounded Soldier Feigned Death
    415 8 I n>m Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 28. T \U of endurance in the present campaign 1 merged to-day with the report that a Malay f r seriously wounded during an ambush hail r 1 “ri for eight days on water only. Ifii>te l The
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    PHILIPPINE VISITORS:
    44 8 Captain and officers of the Philippines naval patrol ship LST 842 were entertained at Singapore at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Anciano. The captain (Lt. Jose Ordonez) is fourth from right seated between Dr. and Mrs. C. J. Paglar.
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    Attendants To 45,000 Fancy Fish
    204 8 I SINGAPORE, July 29. Boermission can be ob- .led. two Singapore ■Ifjse. Harris Teo, 22. Hid Tan Rcng Eng, 28, E leave Singapore on Krday 'v«h «.000 troEl li.'U for the United ■staffs* ■>„, v r« ;!'< >on and adoption respectively of SingaKL-« onlv tropical
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    New Cadets For Police
    199 8 Our stall Correspondent ■OHORE BAHRU. Thurs. •'0 police cadets from fr-land have been posted one at Johore BahL a tlle other at Segamat >2 ore are exshortly. Chief Police Officer, w Mr L F Knight) ir e urne d from leave and :n 4 J ohore
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    SHOTS AT PATROL
    63 8 SINGAPORE July 30. Bandits fired on a police patrol at the 23rd mile. Pontian Road, Johore. last night. The Chief Police Officer. Johore (Mr. L. F. Knight), told the Straits Times later: “A few shots were fired from a side road on a police patrol. Nobody was
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    Pre-War Insurance Policy Judgment
    523 8 SINGAPORE, July 29. JUDGMENT was entered with costs for China J Underwriters yesterday in the Singapore Supreme Court, by the acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Gordon Smith) in a suit brought against them by Lai Ah Heng, (widow) and Ching Kwong Lum for a declaration that
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    2 TO DIE —HAD GUN ‘DUMPS'
    190 8 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, July 23. SENTENCE of dearth was passed to-day at tbi Selangor Assizes on two men, Teo Ah Long and Cheong Hon Peng, under the new Emergency Regu lations. They were both found guilty of unlawful possession of firearms.
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    Banishees Leave
    12 8 Eight Chinese left Singapore on banishment warrants on July 29.
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    MALAYAN TIMBER TRADE WITH U.K.
    150 8 SINGAPORE, July 29. THE United Kingdom is taking a great interest in Malayan timber, but the export trade is small, though regular. Freight of more than $60 a ton is considered high. This was stated yesterday bv the Forestry Officer. SingaDore (Mr. C. 6 Flemmich)
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    T.B. Clinic By November
    146 8 FINAL plans have now been approved for the Singapore Rotary Club’s $200,000 TB clinic, which will be built in the grounds of Tan Tock Seng Hospital. The clinic will be ready for patients in Singapore by the end of November. Tenders have been invited and building
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    PARTY TO DUTCH TRADE CHIEF
    39 8 SINGAPORE July 30. Executives of the Singapore Chinese Importers and Exporters Association gave a farewell dinner party to the Dutch Trade Commissioner (Mr. P Mijnarends) at the Tai Tong Restaurant, Happy World, on Wednesday.
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    1,500 COLONY PROPERTIES RECOVERED BY GOVERNMENT
    297 9 MORE than 1,500 Singapore 99-year leases, on M expiry, have not been renewed by the Government who have thus recovered properties worth $20,000,000. An official statement on the question of expired leases, given yesterday, briefly explained the situation: “All applications for the. renewal of
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    ‘CONGRATS ON BATU ARANG’
    61 9 CONGRATS ON BATU ARANG’ SINGAPORE, August 1. rHE Governor ot Singapore, Sir Franklin Ginison, yesterday sent a telegram to the Officer Administering the Government of the Federation, which read: “Congratulations to your police force, in conjunction with the Army, on their success at Batu Arang.” SINGAPORE. August 1. One Malay
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    TO STUDY IN AMERICA
    83 9 PENANG. Friday. Miss Lily Ng Yook Thong, second daughter of the Federal Legislative Councillor, Mr. Ng Sui Cam will be leaving shortly for higher studies in America. She is joining the Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and will take a general training course. Miss Ng’s elder sister, Miss
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    Screamed for hour: Charged
    114 9 SEREMBAN July 31. “T’HE woman raised her A voice to such an extent that one would have thought that a riot was going on said Inspector M. Krishnan in court yesterday wdKn Ng Ah Chee. a woman, ar.d Ng Wai Checng appeared before the Magistrate. Che
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    Graham White memorial hall
    95 9 SINGAPORE- August 1. MEMORIAL in the form of a Church Hall is being planned to commemorate the work of the late Archdeacon and Mrs. Graham White in Singapore. Both died in internment camp during the Japanese occupation of Singapore. The estimated cost of the hall will
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    A young man left Malaya
    375 9 SINGAPORE, August 1. l/'LADIMIR TretehikofT, a young Russian artist who was well-known in Singapore until the city fell to the Japanese, is having remarkable success in South Africa, where 28,000 people went to two exhibitions of his paintings. Twenty five years ago, in Harbin, a
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    Govt. looks after rebels children
    141 9 KUALA LUMPUR. July, 31. INSURGENTS who were killI ed or captured in yesterday's big combined MilitaryPolice strike near Batu Arang coal mine left behind them their women and children—s 3 in all—and a job for the Federation’s Department of Social Welfare. The Department came into
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    CHARGED WITH ESTATE THEFT
    82 9 SEGAMAT. July. 31. TWO employees of Eldred Estate. Bekok. were each allowed $lOO bail by the Magistrate. Che Bidin bin Login, when charged in the Police Court at Segamat with theft. Chong Thai, a woman, was stated to have stolen two buckets of latex while the
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    NEW BAN ON “HARD” IMPORTS
    218 9 SINGAPORE. j lllV imports 1 tial goods into Sm Mpu from currency area* wH lium today bo strit'i!v off under f he Prohibftfl ot Imports Older i yesterday. V The order provides Ikuv B punishment for s Importers had been takiiH advantage of the ■•’oosim-.M
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    FEW NURSES FOR TB SANATORIUM
    54 9 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, July 30.: The tuberculosis sanatorium at Malacca will function as soon as sufficient nursing stall is secured. said the Chief Medical Officer (Dr J. E. McMahon) today. The supplementary grant of $25,000 will be for equipping the four-storey block. The
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    HIT WOMAN, GAOLED
    87 9 SEGAMAT. July 31. Batthiah, Tamil labourer, was sentenced to six monihs bv the District Judge. Mr A. Webb, on being convicted on a charge of having caused grievous hurt to a woman named Patchai. The woman, according to the prosecution, was struck with the handle of a
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    Lily missed her welcome party
    236 9 SINGAPORE, August 1. jM NEARLY sixty Guiders from all the Singapore panies celebrated the return from the C.K >Iiss Ng Oi Chan and Che Lily Majeed at a at the Girl Guide H.Q. in Buyong Road yesterday. Lily did not turn up. Miss Ng and
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    New Quarters For Municipal Staff
    124 9 SINGAPORE, July 31. Road has been chosen as the location of a new Singapore Municipal staff housing estate to be opened up. It will have quarters for senior, junior and labour employees of the Municipality, respectively, on different sides of the extensive, hilly estate at
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    FRESH FLOWERS
    19 9 SINGAPORE J u v Fresh flowers from Ba« are now being A°- W gapore by K L.M
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    Assurance By Mr. MacDonald
    711 10 SINGAPORE, July 30. urante that the Government would get Efficient troops from outside Malaya and uiu' campaign against the Communist terat an early date was given by Mr. Malf MacDonald at a conference with Chinese JJ at (he Kuala Lumpur Secretariat on Llnesdav night. nu question
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    GUIDING TRADE UNIONS
    150 10 From Our Staff Correspondent Johore Bahru. 29. IR. C. Tharmalingam, •1 Senior Trade Union fficer with Mr. Abiihegam. Trade Union Ofil* K Federation of Malaya Re arrived here in the Mtse 0 f a tour which has fceady covered MuaT, Cuang. Batu Pahat and fcrsing. The ooject
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    Bandits Met Bus, Killed Contractor
    400 10 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. A 60-YEAR-OLD tapping contractor, Mr. Lee Sim, was murdered by bandits in the Sungei Si put district this morning. As he alighted from a bus at the eighth mile Jalong Road, to get to his kedai, he saw four
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    HAD GOOD TIME
    198 10 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, July 29. “A MOST wonderful time” was how the two Malayan Guiders, who have just returned home after a tour of England, summed up their trip. As reported yesterday, they arrived at Penang by the P. and O. ship Canton last night.
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    CREMATORIUM TO ‘CONSERVE LAND’
    78 10 CREMATORIUM TO CONSERVE LAND’ Municipal ty goners will be asked. ‘■Ue i mm S(i n Choy to <Tf dlate st( 'Ps for the JHervi a cr cmatorium to *5*HSSSt land for %ion P r i* 1 ir ge the comimplement the ir °f a nnvS? d t0 before the •hothf.
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    Singapore Should Advertise
    261 10 SINGAPORE, July oC. SINGAPORE has greater possibilities as a tourist centre than any other place in the world and yet it does not possess a tourist bureau. Mr. J M. Conway, passage chief of the American President Lines of Singapore, who is leaving the Colony for San
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    3 Men For U.K.
    132 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 28. rpHE British Council has awarded visitorships to Mr. T. Sivapragasam, senior co-operative officer of Kuala Lumpur, and to Mr. Utam Singh of the King Edward VII School, Taiping. The two men are expected to leave for England late
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    Plane assists in operation
    327 12 <iincla v Times Staff Correspondents KUALA LUMPUR, July 31. M\KKSMAN firing an automatic weapon from nn Auster aircraft helped in a comnfd Military and Police attack on bandits •covered among the limestone caves on fL n jr Road, only three miles outside Ipoh, Lterdav. The ground
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    FEW ACCIDENTS
    108 12 August 3. deration tinie since the it, in c;, ;li daily acciSn tour n ipore Were fewer ),!r yesterday UI}p r.f fu Sirred n \v u re Ported oc!i nt 01 the Capitol -motor,-;; n ,l n om nibus and Jolved The other evei» n ear and a
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    54 PERAK BANDITS: JULY TOLL
    87 12 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, August 1. TWENTY insurgents wer e killed, 17 captured and another 17 seriously wounded in Perak during July. Ten revolvers and pistols, six sten and bren guns, nine lifles and carbines. 11 hand grenades and 2.049 rounds of ammunition were
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    BANDITS KILL BUS OFFICIAL
    279 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KAJANG, August 1. KA JANG was the scene last night of a murder and an attempted murder and arson. The body of the bus stand master of Foh Hup Company in Kajang was found 100 yards from his house this morning. The
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    INTO THE ARMS OF THE POLICE
    235 12 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE, August 1. AS 1 HEY stepped from two sampans onto Siglap beach at 6 a.m. yesterday, 14 Chinese* illegal immigrants were arrested by Singapore Police. The immigrants were handed over to the Immigration Department. Informed that a number of
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    PERAK CHINESE BACK GOVT.
    383 12 Sunday Times Staff Reporter 11*011, July 31. T**E Perak C hinese Chamber of Commerce in a letter to the Officer Administering the Oovernment in the Federation of Malay i said that it “fully endorses the policy pursued by ihe Oovernment and Military” in “exterminating banditry.” The
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    Manager fired one shot: 3 men fled
    106 12 Sunday Times Start Correspondent SUNGEI PATAM, July 31. THREE or four Chinese, who attempted to cut some telephone wires, fled from Sungei I ukang estate last night when the manager, Mr D. W. Briengen, fired one shot at them. It appears that one
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    CHEATED RELATIVE
    42 12 SEHEMBAN. Aug. 1.- District Judge Rhodes yesterday ordered V. Arumugam. 34. to enter into a bond of $l,OOO for 12 months to come for sentence lor cheating his relative P. M. Thalithamby of r motor car registration book last, year
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    Police Seek Source Of Radio Sets
    150 12 SINGAPORE, August 2. SINGAPORE police are investigating the source of supply of 11 portable radio transmit-ter-receivers, offered for sale by a dealer. “Except for the batteries, the sets are in brand new condition and ideal for the type of jungle communication vhich would aid
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    Trishawman Killed
    125 12 SINGAPORE August 2. A MALAY trishaman, Hassan bin Osman, wap killed in a collision with a military station wagon at the 7th mile. East Coast Road early yesterday. The European driver of the* wagon took the Malay to the British Military Hospital, where he died soon afterwards. An
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    RETURN AFTER 30 YEARS
    52 12 SINGAPORE. August t An American who was General agent lor American Pre.si dent Lines in Singapore 30 years ago. returned to Singapore vesterdav by air from Hong Kong. He is Mr. T. J. Cokelv former vice-president of American President Lines, who is on a holiday to
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    22 Insurgents Killed, 47 Taken Prisoner, Many Badly Wounded
    875 13 22 Insurgents Killed, 47 Taken Prisoner Many Badly Wounded From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 30. F r ENTY-TWO insurgents killed, many badly wounded, and 47 captured —this was to-night’s known “bag” by a large combined Army-police party which to-day descended suddenly on a strong guerilla hideout at Batu
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    SENTENCE INCREASED
    34 13 MALACCA, July 31.—UJagar Sinch. in an appeal before Mr. Justice Callow yesterday, had his sentence increased from five months to six months’ hard labour for asslsting in the disposal of stolen property.
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    PENANG IS ‘INVADED’
    91 13 PENANG IS INVADED’ PENANG, July 31. Terrorists have not stopped large out-station contingents from “invading” Penang for the August Bank Holiday week-end. Because of the possibility of being ambushed, there were less cars making the trip hefe from the Federal mainland, but trains and planes brought many outstation visitors over
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    Govt, stops ‘rebel’ Unions pay
    188 13 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 31. T'HL Federation of Malaya Government has authorised the Registrar of Trade Unions to stop payments from the banking accounts of trade unions whose officers have gone underground An official statement says that as soon as these unions
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    Dawn raid in Kampar area
    478 13 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent I IPOH, July •>, 1 WITHIN 24 hours of Major-General li.,,1 ‘filing the Federal Legislative CouS 1 Tuesday of his intention to deprive all i,, V surgents of food, the Kampar Police and lniiL'l had swung into action and scored a
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    UK press puts it ‘heavily’
    182 13 UK press put s it heavily Sunday Times Staff Reporter M SINGAPORE, August 1. M "THE activities of Malaya’s Communist are being “heavily” reported in British papers, Mr. K. W. Blackburne, Director of In for m** tion Services at the Colonial Office told a Press conference yesterday. “The average person
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    CRANE BREAKS: THREE KILLED
    41 13 SINGAPORE, July 31. THREE Malays were killed last night when a crane broke ..nd a heavy load of crates fell on them. They were working at Godown 32, in the Singapore Harbour Board, when the accident occurred.
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    AUXILIARIES MAKE THREE PLATOONS
    65 13 KUALA LUMPUR, July, 31. THREE platoons of auxiliary police have already been recruited by the Bentong Pahang District Officer. They will assist the police by patrolling the town board area during the night. The platoon commanders of this auxiliary force are exArmy and RAF officers, platoon
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    EMERGENCY ARREST
    40 13 KUALA LUMPUR 1 An Indonesian Mala> rested at Kuala Nt n dah) under the Emer^— Regulations yesterda,. 1 announced today. He is alleged to h*' H tempted to induct pie not to undertak W guarding their kain. i
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    Insurgents Killed In Police Raids
    602 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, August 1. H r£ troops and aircraft continued their BP° U t t uks on insurgents throughout the FederaH during the week-end. A Chinese terrorist and Bother were killed today near Rengam, Johore, was killed about five miles from
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    Alumni Meet In Penang
    117 14 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. August 1. ABOUT 40 delegates from Singapore and the Federation attended the pan-Malay-an conference of the King Edward VII College of Medicine Alumni Association today at the Penang General Hospital. The retiring president (Dr. Loh Phoon Lip) welcomed the delegates. The
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    $20,288 RAISED
    58 14 SEREMBAN Aug. 1.—Nengri Welfare Week gross collections. excluding collections from Port Dickson district, totalled $20,288. The highest contributions were: Welfare Week Fair at Seremban $10,209: Variety Concert $953; All-Commun-ity Dance $1 362; Football $706; Flag Day $700: Special Donations $3,649 and Souvenir Pamphlets $465. Jelebu District raised $1,315:
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    MURDER OF 2 OLD PEOPLE
    213 14 From Our Staff Correspondent SERE MB AN, August 2. Terrorists murdered A an old Chinese man and an old Chinese woman in the Bahau area of Negri Sembilan last night. They tried to murder another man. The bandits left posters in Chinese. They first murdered
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    Malaya Needs Modern Methods
    360 14 thf u SINGAPORE, Aur. 3. |Hh Malayan pineapple industry must begin to ®P en new markets in countries like C hina, Arabia and India where there is need of the “refreshing luxury.” This suggestion was made in a lecture yesterday by the Canning Officer for the
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    POISON FOR HEADACHE
    42 14 PENANG. July 30, -NL*.teen-year-old Chew Ah Lan told the Third Magistrate (Mr. J. P. Blackledge) today that she had a headache and mistook poison for medicine. Chew was bound over for six months on a charge of attempted suicide.
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    Indian Organisation Revived In Selangor
    167 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, August 1. ‘THE Malayan Indian Association (Selangor), a body 1 formed before the war, was resuscitated at a meeting held in Kuala Lumpur today. Its principal obiect will be to protect and further the political, economic, social and cultural
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    Mr. E. Payne As New Chief Scout
    125 14 SINGAPORE, August 2. Sept. 1, the Chief Scout Commissioner for the Federation will be Mr. E. M. F. Payne, of the Education Office Seremban, an active scouter in this country for many years. Canon R. K. S. Adams will be Commissioner for Singapore.
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    New Colony Magistrate
    216 14 SINGAPORE, August 3. lIR. E. V. A. Peers, 0.8. E., who held many administrative positions in India from 1920 onwards, has been appointed a Singapore Police Magistrate, and will probably take over the Singapore ninth police court. Mr. Peers, who arrived In Singapore at the end of
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    Miss Quitzow Gets 6 Weeks, Fined
    337 15 SINGAPORE, August 4. SIX weeks’ simple imprisonment and a $6OO fine were imposed on Miss Inez Arisa Quitzow by the District Judge (Mr. E. P. Shanks) yesterday after she had been found guilty on three charges of cheating the Naafi Corporation. It was alleged
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    SINGAPORE WEDDING
    170 15 SINGAPORE. August 4. MISS Jean Cathcrin Peterson. youngest daughter of Mr.; F. H. Peterson of East Kew., Melbourne, was married at St. j Andrew’s yesterday I to Mr. Jack R. iCelalier. The groom, who is on the staff of Sarawak Oilfields, Seria, Brunei, Ls the only son of
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    5 YEARS FOR MAN IN BLACK
    154 15 Johore Bahru, August 1. FIVE years’ sentence was passed on Wong Seong, a 29-year-old Hakka, who was convicted at the Assizes today of assembling with five others not in custody to commit a gang robbery. Wong, who pleaded guilty admitted that he went to
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    TO LEARN MORE OF MALAYA
    148 15 SINGAPORE* August 1. MR. K. W Blackburne, Director of Information Services at the Colonial Office, who is at present on a visit to South-East Asia, said that school children in Britain are going to learn a lot more about Malaya and the rest of the
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    PAKISTAN SAYS ‘THANK YOU’
    45 15 PAKISTAN SAYS THANK YOU THE secretary oi the Quaid--1 i-Azam’s relief fund in Karachi has thanked tne Oversea Pakistan League of Singapore for a Rs. 18.000 donation. He wrote to say that the donation was a practical elfort "to reduce the sufferings of helpless brothers
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    He had a gun: death verdict
    362 15 KUALA LUMPUR. August 1. A KUALA LUMPUR postal clerk, Tan Seng Ann, was today sentenced to death under the Emergency Regulations at the Selangor Assizes, for possessing a loaded .38 revolver on July 18. The gun was found in a cupboard in Tan’s house
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    Mr. Braga Gets Decree
    118 15 SINGAPORE. August 4. Mr. Justice T. A. Brown delivered judgment yesterday in the Singapore High Court in the Braga divorce action. The judge dismissed Mrs. Mona Patricia Braga’s petition and. holding that no interest would be served by maintaining the union. ed his discretion in favour
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    INDIAN PROTEST OVER ARRESTS
    597 15 SINGAPORE \uinw4 o 9 THE president ot the Malayan India", rl 1 1 (Mr. Budh Slush) at a press c.„r r '"l Singapore yesterday said that the M I r W reason to believe that mere suspicion h'„i a long way in the arrest and detention
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    Russia Charters 2 Ships
    106 15 SINGAPORE. August THE Russian (ime 9| ment has two ships to lift 1 tons of high-graH Malayan rubber troM Singapore. H The Italian Giam :> already :n port and M Kaston now in Pi-nan; pected in a week. The two ships will R.S.S. 1 2 and
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    Suspense at Kallang
    106 15 Ii i■ l/■ SINGAPORE* August 1. k n* ine 1 from the Cc »tral Station stood by at tne Kallang Airport at 1 p.m, vesterdav whiln a Dako ii circ,ed th aerodrome with only feet landing W rkinff rhe p,ane pven tually made a perTimes" °^lt i
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    Supply Of Men And Arms ‘Immensely Improved’-MacDonald
    1864 16 Supply Of Men And Arms Immensely Improved’ -MacDonald SINGAPORE, Aug. 4. BilOKK than four fully manned b attalions-worth of reinforcements HI tt ill soon be helping the existing fighting troops to crush the terroEttcin Malaya, said the Commissioner General (Mr. Malcolm Mac- ■nonald) a broadcast talk last night. W advance
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    M.R.N.V.R. SHIP’S NEW PAINT
    273 16 M.R.N.V.R. SHIP’ S NEW PAINT SINCiAFORE, August I. THE 1,890-ton former Japanese minelayer, j Wakatake, which will replace H.M.S. Laburnum *as the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Headcpiarters ship, is now I in the Singapore Harbour Board’s Albert Dock, She is being cleaned and painted. She will be towed out
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    MALAYAN SHARES SUFFER OVER THE WEEK
    709 17 From A Market Correspondent MALAYAN markets opened last week with a burst of confidence and continued firm till mid-week, when the Berlin situation caused sufficient misgiving to bring sellers out. There was a general marking down in prices. At the end practically all Quotations
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    The Week’s Rubber
    176 17 SINGAPORE. July 31. THE rubder market this week has again run rrue to a Dattem which ha nersis'ed for manv weeks—firm in the early oart easing Eighth towards the middle, suvs Lewis Peat’s weekly report. During the last two days there lias be*’n a certain amount ol
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    FREIGHT RATES UP
    97 17 FREIGHT rates for cargoes from Malaya to America will go up on Oct. I. The new rates decided upon by the Straits New York Conference and British Malaya/ East Canada Conference will be as follows: Rubber in cases (or bales) US$3O per 50 cubic feet; Latex in
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    K. Kampar's £50,000
    204 17 KUALA Kampar Tin Fields made a profit of £50,117 in the company's last financial year after providing or depreciation and depletion. The directors propose to add this sum to the balance of .£94,803 brought forward from the previous year. From the total available. £ll,OOO has been appropriated
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    Rawang Tin Fields £22,000 Profit
    230 17 RAWANG Tin Fields showed March 31. 1948, of £22.4 balance of £63.012 brough year. For Malayan income tax, £6,000 has been appropriated, leaving a credit balance of £79,471 which amount it is proposed to carry forward. Operations during the year ended March 31. 1948 are
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    Badenoch Sales Of Rubber
    114 17 gADENOCH Rubber Estates accounts show that rubber sales for 1947 realised £90.979 17 673 in 1946), making with sundry’ receipt® <£81) a total of £91.060 To estate expenditure £72.599 (£34.771). depreciation £4.583. selling charges £7 879. leaving trading balance 5.999. To this i* added income irom
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    N.E.I.-Malaya Trade
    273 17 Anew monthi, ,1 record between \lii k vl and the Netherlands* Indies was established June. The value of jgg imports and export tsn* «um* oeat the record set March this V ear £45,600,000. M June imports from the n p| totalling $32,000,000, ..M $3,000,000 more than in more
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    KHOTA TAMPAN
    42 17 Tampan Rubber reports a profit of 2 fi74 for the year to Jan. 31 (£347 the previous year). Brought, irr £250 f£7Bfi), group profit £3l, making available £2.955. To rehabilitation £457, tax £B5l. 2Mj per cent, dividend £825; forward £822.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    849 17 SINGAPOE. August 4. Prices quoted oy the Malayan Sharebrokers’ Association today were: INDUSTRIALS Buyev Seller Atlas Ice 14.00 15.00 Alex Brick Gra 1.60 l. 10 Pref. 3.00 3.10 8.8. Pet.rol 40/6 41/6 B \l. Trustees 9.00 9.50 Consolidated Tin 0> 21/6 22'6 cd Con Tin Smelter? do
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    Bin Keng Takes 8 Wickets For 21
    587 18 I SINGAPORE, Aug. 2. mflNG to bad weather in Singapore for a day I) and half, only one innings was possible KLjng the week-end in the North v. South Euet li'- |;ire on the padang. P There was no play on Saturday and
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    NORTH HIT 115 FOR 4
    219 18 SINGAPORE, August 3. OAIN in Singapore curtailed play to only four hours in the annual North v. South cricket match on the S.C.C. Padang. There was no play on Saturday, and on Sunday rain interrupted play after the tiffin interval. In the morning session the
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    Omar Wins Cycle Race
    132 18 Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 1 4 R. Omar of Selangor won the 50 miles Malayan cycling championship here today. Omar’s winning time was 2 hrs. 35 min., 2 min. 10 sec. better than that put up by Kwa Chin Swee of Singapore, when he won last year’s
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    Golf Title Goes To McMullan
    178 18 pLAYING a very steady 1 g me, W. McMullan beat F. Tooke four and in the Anal of the Singapore golf championship played at the R.S.G.C. course at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. Tooke started oft very well, but fell away over the second nine holes,
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    R.A.F. Crackshot Wins 15 Prizes
    448 18 WITH a remarkable display of marksmanship, young Sergeant V. Kidson of the RAF, Seletar, yesterday “swept the board” at the Singapore Rifle Association’s two-day meeting, and presented his wife with a collection of silver trophies. Using a standard service rifle, without any extra sling, or
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    BIGGEST RACING PRIZE EVER
    104 18  -  From EPSOM JEEP. PENANG. Tuesday. RACING circles here are pleasantly surprised at the “generous” stakes offered bv the Singapore Turf Club for the Gold Cup race next month. Owners are expressing ihe hope that other turf clubs will follow Singapore’s lead. The Singapore Gold Cup will
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    Beaty Takes 2 Malayan Tennis Titles
    712 18 From Our Special Tennis Correspondent s. c *n-uE “s.srr n f sent Perak singles title-holder, displayed terrific form to score a double triumph in the Malayan tennis championships, which were completed this evening on the International Club courts. Beaty beat the Penang champion, Goon
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    DEVONS WIN 2-1
    77 18 The Devons beat the Singapore Chinese Engineering Association hv 2—l in an S.A.F.A second division! league game played at, Geylang Stadium, vasterday. There was no .core .n the first half. The Devons opened the scoring early in the second half through Sapwel!. Shortly afterwards. Ellern. the left
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    Customs Beaten
    53 18 The Singapore District WorkU.E.M.E. beat the Cust m Sports Club 4-2 in a Division 111 game at McNair Road yesterday The game was contest* d at a fast pace despite the muddy pl f ch At half-time the score was twoall. but the REM E. forged ahead in
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