The Straits Budget, 30 December 1948

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    32 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [NTABUIHD O VKB A CKHTUHT] ■ew Series No. 126. Singapore Thursday, December, 30th 1948 Price 40 cents (g.S. Currency) Or. i ab.
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      101 1 The STRAITS BUDGET Published in SINGAPORE Oft THURSDAY Delivered in LONDON MONDAY SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION $24.00 Arrangements have been made to send the “Straits Kingdom weekly on Thursdays i.e. on publication day conditions we should be in a position to post copies Budget” by air to the United in Singapore.
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      The Ban On Mr. Brooke: How Much Longer?
      684 2 IT is more than two years since the British Government showed doubts about the popularity and effectiveness of its cession policy by invoking against me the Undesirable Persons Ordinance, thereby banning me from a country where. I may fairly claim, the Brooke
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      POLITICS AND MRS. THIVY
      234 2 ALL right-thinking and unbiassed Indians should feel thankful to Mr. Laycock for drawing the attention of the Government of Singapore to the position of Mrs. J. A. Thivy in relation to the Singapore Regional Indian Congress. I am not cj'.cernel with his plea for ‘.he withdrawal
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      CONGRESS AND THE ELECTION
      191 2 f IHE public is aware by A now that there is a strong feeling among Indians themselves against the decision of the Singapore Regional Indian Congress to participate in the coming Municipal elections. The matter was first put to the vote in a general meeting in
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      SUMMONSES WITHDRAWN
      132 2 W E read that at Butterworth 73 summonses against a well known transport company of Province Wellesley were withdrawn by the prosecution. Does not this sort of thing bring the law into contempt? Surely the Inspector and Registrar of Motor Vehicles. Penang, at whose instigation these prosecutions were
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      The Singapore Municipal Elections
      208 2 COME Indians hold the view that the Singapore Regional Indian Congress should put up candidates with communal labels for the forth- coming Municipal e i* tions. ec In this conn? Miar t like to quote av 7 -There is onlv one T**' nity in Sin~ap, rPan(|
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      Batang Kali: The Need For Judicious Thinking
      340 2 f |'HE Batang Kali inx cident has invoked much comment, which unfortunately has not been confined to those capable of unbiased reasoning. The result of this is police enquiry into the matter and pending the publication J the findings of the Board of
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      STAMP DUTY UNPAID
      93 2 pOR an example of in--1 furiating stupidity I think this takes some beating. A Singapore cheque bearing the legend “STAMP DUTY PAID.” when cashed in the Federation, is considered as not having had the stamp duty paid because the Federation does not recognise the Singapore stamp. Thus
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      LONG CARS IN THE SQUARE
      194 2 'J'HE congestion in th( parking space ii Raffles Place gets dailj greater. One cause is tto increasing number o cars, with long wheel bases, two of which or each side of the park, ai constantly happens. wU reduce the central areatc such an extent that
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      THE MUNICIPAL REVENUE
      974 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 23. Problems of finance which jou confront Singapore Munc oality with difficulty unforunately arc not peculiar to }>, Colony, and the manner of th, ir solution will be of interest to two at least of the three Jiiunicipalities in the FederaYet in one respect
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      BATANG KALI SHOOTING
      251 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 24 We had hoped today to be able to publish an official statement by the military authorities on the attitude they are taking regarding the Batang Kali incident, in which 24 Chinese, suspected of com- plicity with the bandits, were shot dead when they
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      Japan Over Asia
      767 3 —Straits Times, Dec 24 We may not altogether ignore the possibility that perhaps responsibility for the war did not lie with the defeated leaders alone, remarked a member of the international War Crimes Tribunal, in a dissenting judgment at the end of the trial of Japan’s war
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      GOODWILL TO MEN
      314 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 25. It w’as the gallant Sir Roger de Coverley who remarked, with the keen insight which so often refreshed his wit, that it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter. But Sir Roger never travelled east, where the
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      Warning To Holland
      387 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 25. It is to be hoped that Dr. Herman Fridericy’s prediction that Holland will disregard any Security Council resolution ordering the return of Dutch and Indonesian forces to positions held under the Renville truce agreement does not correctly represent the Dueh attitude. Dr. Fridericy
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      Pumpkin Spy
      262 4 Straits Times, Dec. 25. It is a little late in the calendar for Hallow’e'en spectres, but out of a pumpkin on a New England farm has come a real American bogeyman. Hidden in its hollowed heart was a microfilm of State Department documents, confidential letters and pungent notes
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      LABOUR IN THE FEDERATION
      1032 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 27. There have been such considerable changes in the labour 1 picture in the last twelve months that the annual report just published by the Commissioner for Labour, Mr. R. G. D. Houghton, already is intolerably out of date. It is a great
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      THE B.B.C. IN MALAYA
      815 4 ire ol tne -Straits Tlmes.jw- A Command Paper on broadcasting in the Far East in which are the terms of the agreement between the B BC. and H.M. Postmaster General contains a surprise or two of significance to Malaya. The agreement concerns the radio station already
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      The Lull In China
      286 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 28 For ten days now. munist armies have bt <■ ed in their advance Yangtze and Nanking. Two Kplanations have been offerm. There is the possibility Kit the Communists have Bitched their strategy. They Kvc begun an offensive in ■upeh, which may develop
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      FOUR YEAR TARGETS
      745 5 Straits Times, Dec. 29. It has already been remarkrl that the British Govern- nt’s White Paper on its four par targets under the Eur- an Economic Co-Operation a holds out a grim preset despite the confidence it :< veals in British ability to rease industrial production •tween
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      A Test For UNO
      416 5 —Straits Times, Dec. 29. The Security Council will have done the best day’s work in its life if at today's meeting it reaches a satisfactory decision on the action to he taken in the Indonesian and Palestine wars. In each case a truce brought about by
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    FAREWELL TO PASTOR
    67 5 From Our StafT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 28. On the eve o f his departure on transfer to Kiaru, the Rev. J. W A. Kadi it, amor, pastor of the Methodist Tamil Church, Kuala Lumpur, was given a farewell party by his con;*reunion ves ter day. Mr.
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    QUEER THINGS’ IN SINGAPORE EARTH TREMOR
    315 5 SINGAPORE Dec. 29. JUST before 10.20 last night “queer things" happened on Singapore Island, and soon afterwards the telephones in the Straits Times office began to ring as curious readers came through with their inquiries. Strong earth tremors lasting for about 30 seconds were
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    Cigar Men To Strike
    178 5 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. THE Secretary of the Singapore Cigar Workers’ Union (Mr. T M. Nadarujahi yesterday notified the Labour Department that the unions’ 38 members—workers in three cigar factories in the Colony will go on strike on Dec. 31 The strike is a sequel to a
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  • PERSONAL
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      ENGAGEMENT
      174 5 LEE—CHOO. Tin* engage m< m is announced to-day between Kok Khlam. 2nd son of tin late Mr. A: Mrs. Lee Khepg Seng v Miss Peggy Choo Yin Fong, the only daughter of Mr Mrs cho Slew Hong. TUB ENGAGEMENT w», announced on 25th I>eC. between Mr. Goh Kian S
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      MARRIAGE
      88 5 MARRIED: I.lm Loon Teong <v Oil Choon Lee at Civil Murri ige Regt-try, Malacca, on Oct. 30. 194t KWEfc-SUM T1\e marriage latw en Kwet Thiam Teck and Choy fin Nancy > s cond daughter ol Mr «v Mrs sum Ail Wing o place on 25-12-1948. At St. Marys Church,
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      BIRTH
      40 5 YEOH —A son to Hau Ding, wife of Yeoh. Tat Thong, on 20 12 48 at Maternity Hospital. Penang Moth well PERSON \l, TO GRANNY i wUh you a Happy X’mas and a Prosperous New Year. From K.K Spor*
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    BARIUMS’ NEW UNION
    57 5 SINGAPORE. Dec. 29. Tlic recently re-organised Sinniijx »r<* Barber Assistant Union (Chinese section» had enlisted more than 1.000 mem hers in a membership drive up to yesterday The union, which sit pended activities when the emergency regulations were **n forced in June, tormerly had 2.000 members. It
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    177 5 DEATHS Andrew Erred Lim Jua> Iv i i. aged ft years son <>1 Mr A: Mr Arthur lam Yang Ouan, of No 153. Pa c lr Panjuhg ltd. died the General Hospital, at 3 a m on 23.12 48. Tli cortege will be having the housi at 4 p.*n to-day.
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    LOCAL NURSES PROMOTED
    294 6 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. MINE more Singapore staff ami health nurses will become nursing sisters on Saturday. They have been chosen by the tirst Selection Board of its kind to sit in the Colony. The Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers, told the Straits Times last
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    Indian Was ‘Chinese’
    76 6 SINGAPORE. Dec. 29. A YOUNG Inihan ans we- red to ihe name of Seah Trek Kok in the Second Police Court yesterday. In perfect Hokkien dialect he explained to a surprised court that he had been adopted by a Chinese family since he was three years out.
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    ORPHANS AT XMAS PARTY
    65 6 SINGAPORE. Dec. 29. Orphans in the Salvation Army Children’s Home at Pasir Panjang were given by Christmas treat yesterday ny the Pasir Panjang Rural District Committee. The 64 girls between he oges of four and 14 and the five boys under seven years of rge w’ere
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    ROBBERY CHARGE
    40 6 SEGAMAT, Dec. 25.—Charged with armed robbery, 48-year-old Goh Toll was produced in the Segamat Court today and remanded in police custody. He is alleged to have taken bales of cloth from a Chinese shop at Simpang Jabi, Segamat.
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    STILL DIGGING “TREASURE”
    57 6 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. After more than three weeks’ digging there is still no sign of the Singapore “treasure” at the junction of Stamford and North Bridge Roads. Operations have been hampered during the past week by water flooding the excavation. Pumps have been used to take out
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    Malacca Party
    52 6 MALACCA. Dec. 28. .—Three hundred and thirty children of poor parents attended a Christmas treat held at the Secred Heart Convent yester(lay. While they were enjoythemselves at the sports. Mr. Mathew Carvalho arrived in role of Father Christmas mounted on a buffalo, rhe film. “My Pal the Wolf”
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    Serendah Orphans Get Their Christmas Party
    164 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 28 ANE hundred and fifty Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian hoys at Serendah Boys’ Home held their Christmas party today, organising all details on their own as had been the wish of their late headmaster, Mr. A.
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    Federation Soap Production Goes Down
    83 6 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. SOAP production in the Federation decreased from 1,469 987 lbs. in October to 1,315.022 lbs. last month. A total of 43 factories produced the soap. Penang’s 17 factories turned out 881,369 lbs. which made Penang the leading producer Overseas countries took 289,700
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    Thanks To Nehru From Penang
    156 6 PENANG. Dec. 28. THE local Indonesian community today sent’ the following telegram to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru signed by 63-year-old Thamin Sutan Deman. local Indonesian leader. “Indonesians in Malaya express deepest gratitude and thankfulness for the moral support given by you and your people towards the
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    WOMAN’S APPEAL FAILS
    130 6 WOMAN’ S APPEAL FAILS KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 28. I'HE decision of the District Judge was correct Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson said in the Selangor Court of Appeal today when he dismissed the appeal of S. Valliammal. an Indian woman against a $250 fine imposed on her for using as genuine
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    PRISON FOR BOATMAN
    93 6 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. SENTENCE of three weeks’ rigorous imprisonment was yesterday imposed on a boatman, Tnn San Chuk by the Singapore First District Judge. Mr. E. P. Shanks, for being in a protected area on Dec. 17. Tan was arrested by a Revenue Officer when he boarded
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    Troops & Police Capture Two Bandit Leaders
    419 6 Troops Police Capture Two Bandit Leaders From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Dei*. 2S. TWO more Perak bandit leaders were capture today and a kidnapped Chinese minim kepala escaped from his captors. A few miles from Ipoh on the road to Batu Gajah early this morning, “C” Company of the Kings
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    RECORD XMAS SALES
    201 6 SINGAPORE Dee y MANY Singapore shops" re. 1T port record Christina* sales. Individual spending was high as ever known The most popular buvs' were neckties and bows f or men and perfume and $<y-r for women Shortest in supply was whisky. In consequence brandy sales were high
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    BIGGER PADI PLANTINGS
    69 6 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 28 The planted acreage in pad' for this season exceeds tna of the 1947-48 season by approximately 60.000 acres, states the November report of the Department of Agriculture. The Department’s work this year in conjunction with the Drainage and Inm*
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    452 BIRDS IN 20 BASKETS
    46 6 SINGAPORE. Dec. 29. Lim Wan Plan carried fowls and nine ducks to ma ket in 20 small basket Lim Chu Kang Road Dec. 27. Yesterday he was $lOO by the Fourth P; Court Magistrate (Mr. M MacDougall) for causm necessary suffering.
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    H.C.’s Greetings To Police And Armed Services
    285 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 24. CHRISTMAS in the Federation will not be a happy carefree occasion for festivity. On estates and at mines special precautions are king: taken against possible attacks tonight. In the towns special* patrols will tour prescribed
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    ‘LEARN CHINESE’ DRIVE
    114 7 LEARN CHINESE’ DRIVE SEREMBAN. Dec. 25. THE Seremban Chinese Reading Circle is to make a drive next year to get more members to learn Chinese at its evening class. The Circle also plans to hold i stamp exhibition. Started towards the end of 1945 by 20 book-starved enthusiasts who pooled
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    BOYS’ CLUB IN MALACCA
    87 7 MALACCA, Dec. 25. MALACCA Boys’ Jubilee Club committee has decided to use the Club’s endowment fund to erect a building capable accommodating up to 200 boys. The club will hand the completed building over to the Government, says the secretary <Mr. K. T. Joseph.) The club
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    Fell in front of car
    44 7 C? GAMAT, Sat. —Ismail bin Osman, a young Malay who fell off his bicycle in In nt of a car on the Muar road. was run over and killed. Tht' Segamat Coroner returned a verdict of death by misadventure.
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    BARTER SHIPS MAY LEAVE
    113 7 SINGAPORE. Dec. 25. The warning issued to Singapore merchants to assess the safety of shipping in East Sumatra waters before carrying on their barter trade with Republican ports there was called off yesterday. The Singapore Secretariat for Economic Affairs stated that with the exception of Sibolga.
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    CIGAR WORKS WAGE TALKS FAIL
    160 7 SINGAPORE. Dec. 25. VI GOTIATIONS broke down yesterday between Jh*‘ Singapore Cigar Workers’ Ur! ion and the Colony’s three 0 r-manufacturing factories °’*°r proposed wage cuts ailr-ctlng 38 cigar rollers. The Singapore Assistant i >mmls6loner for Labour C. R. D. Danby). who ided at the
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    PERAK COUNCIL of State Budget meeting.
    68 7 Picture shows members and guests waiting for the Sultan From left is Mr. Cheah Ghim Lenjf, the Raja Muda of Perak, (Raja Yusof), Mr. J. V. Morais, the Raja di llilir (Raja Abdul Rashid), the Assistant State Secretary (Inche Albakri), Raja Shariman, and the
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    Collected Money For Sick Reds
    145 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. 24. 4 RRESTED while soliciting for donations on behalf of sick Communists in Kulai, Gan Teng Liang was yesterday sentenced to 15 month’s rigorous imprisonment for putting people in fear of injury in order to commit extortion. Prosecution evidence was that, after
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    K.L. VICAR LEAVING
    94 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 25. CANON R. C. Moore, retiring vicar of Selangor, is leaving for England on Jan. 28. Canon Moore, who is 57, was ordained in 1915, just before he served in the army. He first came out to the East in 1932, serving as British
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    NEW RAIL COACHES ON ORDER
    77 7 SINGAPORE, Doc. 25. OAILWAY waggons and coaches of the latest design for Malaya will go Into rroductron within the next low weeks at one of Britain*;; largest rolling stock works. Some cars will be air conditioned. Both the biggest rolling stock factories In Britain, the
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    $25,000 Ganja Stock Seized
    101 7 SINGAPORE. Doc. 24. SINGAPORE police yesterday police seized a stock of ganja (Indian hemp,, valued at $25,0.50, from a house In Cecil Ftrcet The stock, weighin' approximately 5001 b., was he largest seizure for many years, according *o the police. The hemp was found packed in
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    Playful Act Ends In Special’s Death
    81 7 From Our Staff Correspondent SEGAMAT Dec 23.—At the inquest on 32-year-old Ahmad bin Samsudin, a member of the vigilante force on Pogoh Estate, the Segamat coroner (Incho Bldln bin Login) returned a verdict of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. He blamed Sahi bin
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    U.K. To Import Malayan Pearl Sago Again
    125 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 25. UNITED Kingdom import licences for pearl sago from Malaya will be re-issued early next year, the Singapore Secretariat for Economic All airs tinue, it Ls understood. Singapore's pearl sago producers, who suspended operations a fortnight ago. said workmen who had
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    I.A. REPLY TO JUMABHOY
    75 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 25. Mr. R. Jumabhoy has no right to speak on behalf ol the Indian Association, said the Association President Dr. M. Abraham) yesterday Dr. Abraham was commenting on Mr. Jumabhoy’s statement that the Indian Association was encouraging Indians to register for Municipal cit e-
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    CAR CASE MAJOR NOT GUILTY
    277 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. MAJOR s. J. M. Gregory, Ordnance Officer, No. 2, Sub-Depot, B.O.D. Keat Hong, was acquitted yesterday by the Singapore First District Judge (Mr. E. P. Shanks) on a charge of corruption. The Judge said he was not prepared to say that Major
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    T.B. Wards Lack Beds
    155 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. TA\ Took Seng Hospital's grave lack of accommodation for tuberculosis patients is stressed in the annual report of the M.O. in charge (Dr. R. J. GroveWhite'. Vacancies for new admissions to the T.B. wards of this Singapore hospital, he says occur only “as
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    Better Wages Blamed For Poorer Health
    205 9 SINGAPORE, Dec 24 oF.TTEB wages are indirectly blamed for an u increase in the proportion of Singapore families subsisting on unsatisfactory diets The Colony’s diet expert. Dr. C. J. Oliveiro, in the annual report of the Medical Department, says that because of higher wages
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    He Ran Away And Left His Card Behind
    100 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. Fifteen year old g. Gopal of Kuala Lumpur quarrelled with his father and left for Singapore. The Singapore hawker with whom he sought a job asked for his identity card. He did not have one and was arrested Gopal
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    ROBBED ON PAY-DAY
    45 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 24. Abdul Kadir bin Wadiman, an Indian, had just drawn his pay and was going home along Paya Lebar Road, Singapore, on Wednesday night, when two Chinese robbed him of the money <s7o) The robbers tore up his identity card.
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    NEW PROFESSOR
    29 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 23. Dr. N. K. Sen, tutor bacteriology. College of Medicine. has been appointed to act as Professor of Bacteriology, in addition to his own duties
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    ARMS FIND IN KEDAH
    63 9 rom Our StaiT Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI, Dec. 23. A POLICE patrol in the Tassek Kroh arex. of Kedah made a surprise find in a cave yesterday evening of one iron case containing Bren gun, magazines and 100 rounds of ammunition. Meanwhile a gardener, while working in
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    SELANGOR MINERS’ ADVICE
    96 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 23. pHINESE miners in Selangor, commenting on the action of Perak miners in announcing their intention to stop further payments of extortion money to bandits, said today that the Government should adopt in Selangor security measures similar to those operating
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    ‘D-DAY’ FOR COLONY MARKET PRICES
    235 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. SINGAPORE’S market retailers have been given another month in which to bring the prices of their produce down to a reasonable level. “D-Day” will be January 25. Twenty representatives from the market met the Food Control Officer (Mr. A. Butler Madden) yesterday
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    ASSIZE SESSION
    25 9 A SSIZE SESSION SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. An Assize session will be held in the Singapore Supreme Court on Monday, Jan. 10 at 10.15 a m.
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    Estate Output More In 11 Months Than In 1947
    378 9 From Our Staff Correspondent rwATl SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. LSI Alb rubber production during November totalled 34,149 tons, the third highest monthly total this year. It was 120 tons more than for October and only 1,044 tons short of the record July
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    NEW POST FOR M.C.S. MAN
    107 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 24. ]t/|R- w J- Peel. M.C.S., of the Singapore Secretariat, will be leaving Singapore for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands lr» the South-West Pacific towards the middle of January to become Resident Commissioner there Mr Peel, who is the son of a former
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    MODERN SERVICE STATION PLAN
    65 9 From Our Staff Correspondent BEREMBAN, Dec. 23. The Town Board, meeting for the last time this year, yesterday considered a request from the Shell Company to erect a modern service station in Birch Road. It was stated that this would be the first of its type
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    152,000 Registered In Negri
    46 9 From Our Staff Correspondent 6EREMBAN, —Security registration in Negri Sembilan is progressing according to schedule, the Registration Officer <Mr. J. D. G. Morice) said this morning. Up to date, approximately 152.000 people have registered, and over 20.000 identity cards have been issued.
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    Detectives Arrest ‘Bicycle Gangster’
    138 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. TWO Singapore detectives chased and arrested one of two Chinese who attempted a hold-up at the Junction of Loke Yew and Armenian Streets on Wednesday night The two Chinese had Just held up a trisha. One man assaulted the trisha- rider while the
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    Doctor Wades Two Miles To Aid Hurt Bandit
    446 10 From Our StafT Correspondent IPOH, Dec. 22. AN Army doctor waded two miles up a stream to render medical assistance to a hadlv wounded bandit after the R.A.F.4th Hussars strike on terrorist camps in the area of the 21st milestone on the
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    Malayan Tin Output Up
    76 10 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 22. Tin ore production in tile Federation for November amounted to 5,543 tons (93,119 piculs), as compared with 5.355 tons (89,958 piculs) in October. Perak was the biff jest producer again, with 3,485 tons. Selangor was next with 1,492
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    Afternoon School For Over-Age
    157 10 SINGAPORE. Dqc. 23. WHEN there Is no room in schools for over-age children who have shown no progress in their studies or aptitude for further study, they are admitted to afternoon schools. The Department of Education does not know of a single instance where such admission
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    POLICE CHECK FOR TWO CARS
    93 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. SINGAPORE police patrols made checks in different parts of the city yesterday in a search for two motor cars and a motor cycle stolen on Tuesday. The cars were a black Ford Ten private car, belonging to a European employee of William
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    JUBILEE FUND MEMBER
    37 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. The Archdeacon of Singapore C,he Ven. Maxwell Gregory > has been appointed to be a member of the commitee of management of the Silver Jubilee Fund, in place of Rev. Kinross Nicholson.
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    Chinese To Buy Historic Designs For Singapore
    180 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. /CHINESE leaders in Singapore have formed a committee to raise funds to buy for the city the decorative designs, copied by Prof. Lim Choon Teck from imperial palaces at Peking and other historical places in China. The pictures are exhibited
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    ICES AND HEALTH
    56 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. A sub-committee of Singapore Municipal Commissioners will be set up to consider by-laws for the control of the manufacture and sale of icecream. Subject to confirmation, the sub-committee will consist of the Municipal Health Officer (Dr. N. A. Canton) as chairman, Dr. C. L.
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    POLICE ON CHARGE
    83 10 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. 21. Baba bin Arshad and Ismail b.n Abdul Raof. tw’o special constables, were today chargtd with stealing $lOO in cash from Tay Ai. The case was postponed for hearing and accused were allowed ball of $5O. At the same Ume.
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    SHOT FIRED BY ROBBERS
    75 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 27. A shot was fired in the air by three armed Chinese while they were fleeing from a house in Yio Chu Kang Road, Singapore, which they had unsuccessfully attempted to rob on Saturday night. Masked and armed with pistols they interrupted a midnight
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    Bank to housing finance
    343 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Doc ■>, |'HE Hongkong a nrt Shanghai Bank nuance the Kuala Lum pur Municipality's houl mg and public utilities expansion plans to h! extent of $2,000,000. This, was announced bv m,. Municmal Preside,,r. w. Os well) n* m eetlnKot theCommUs^ 5 The Commissioners de.ml!.
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    Two New JP’s
    29 10 Two New JP’ s SINGAPORE. Dec. 23. The Governor has appointed Mr. Alfred Trevor Be van and Mr. Malcolm Andre' Holdstock to be Justices the Peace for the Colon).
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    Barter Trade Carries On
    197 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. SINGAPORE barter traders with East Sumatran Republican ports are going ahead in spite of the uncertain conditions which have resulted since the resumption of the Dutch “police action.” The Singapore Secretariat for Economic Affairs announ** ced that ships were cleared yesterday for Telok
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    SHELL DUMP EXPLOSION: FOUR KILLED
    161 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. THREE Chinese men were killed, one died in 1 hospital and two were Kravely injured when shells dumped in the grass near the 12 milestone, Sembawang Road exploded yesterday evening. Police found the six men lying in a, clearing about eight p.m.
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    Honour For Pahang Penghulu
    94 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 23. THE King has awarded the 1 Imperial Service Medal to Dato Muda Awang Kechik bin Chik, late Penghulifl Mukim of Endau. Pahang. Dato Muda Awang Kecnik bin Chik has had long service the Government, marked, says the citation,
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    Education On Estates
    185 11 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. 22 CAPTAIN Ahmad bin Mohameden. addressing the Johore State Council on the adjournment today, asked for provision to be made for the education of the children of 16.000 Malay labourers now on plantations. he said. He also suggested that, in
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    Women Police Are Hard To Find
    333 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. THERE are still no women police in Singapore. Only 2B replies were received to the last appeal a few weeks ago. Of these, only 18 turned up for interviews, and only three or four may be suitable. Mr. G. R. Livett.
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    New Salary Rates For Penghulus
    246 11 I rom Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 22. THE long-awaited new sal- ary scale for penghulus in Johore was tabled at today’s Council meeting and approved by the State Council. All candidates for appointment as naib (assistant) penghulu must be men of the local
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    JOHORE T.B. DONATIONS
    139 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 24. Following are further donations (51.225.37 already acknowledged* to the Johore Assoc.atlon for the Preventiur. oi T.B. Fund: Dr. S. Appudurai. $11: Tc;b« rtBahru Lands Mines Officr* &:afl. sfi; Johore Bahru Road Trin.nort Stall. Sl5; Tilt* Hon’ble Dato Wan Idris bin Ibrahim. $5O; Johcrc Bahru
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    LIGHT FIT & WATER
    31 11 LIGHT FIT WATER SINGAPORE. Dec. 23. The Singapore Improvement Trust Is studying a proposal to instal electric light and water services in all new artisans’ quarters which -t. Intends to erect.
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    Troops Will Be Alert At X’mas
    275 11 wsri-rS? 23 sS£s This is how some of the units will celebrate the festive season: First Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry* Only a few men will be able to return to Penang for a Christmas which will include! a dance in the Town
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    Another Bank For Butterworth
    51 11 From Our Own Correspondent BUTTER WORTH. Dec. 2J. Butterworth is to have its second bank early next year. The Chartered Bank has secured a temporary building in Pantel Road for its branch here Last May the Eastern Bank started a branch in the Khoo Sian Ewe
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    23 ACCIDENTS
    20 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 26. Twenty three accidents were reported to the Singapore police on Christmas Eve. None was fatal.
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    O.C.P.D. Kills Tiger
    87 11 I roni Our Staff Correspondent a Tirt» LACCA I)ec 23 A n(jfcß was shot last rL evening by the Officer C ommanding Police District Tan!!) <lnchc Basha bin The tiger had caught its leg in a wild boar trap, but lm.h Pe u‘ th the noos J^
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    Blake Death: 2 Suspects Arrested
    199 11 From Our Staff Correspondent LUMPUR. Dec. 24. I WO Chinese were arrested in Serendah yesterday suspected of having been In the party which murdered Mr. A. M. Blake, the superintendent of the Selangor Boys’ Home, on Dec. 13. Meanwhile the Blake Fund today reached a
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    Dangerous Tree Warning
    194 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 24. THE fall of large albizzia trees caused at least two serious accidents in Singapore during the past two years and there are still old trees dangerously near roads and buildings. Mr. R. E. Holttum, Director of tlie Botanic Gardens, said this in an interview
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    MARRIED A MONTH, BRIDE SHOT
    120 11 From Our Staff Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI. Dec. 22. BRIDE of only one month was fatally wounded when her husband, a Malay special constable, shot her accidentally while cleaning h's rifle. He had forgotten to unload it the previous night. The tragedy was describ' d when
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    Malay Kills Red But Is Murdered By Rest Of Gang
    560 12 From Oar Staff Correspondent LPOH, Dec. 22 A MALAY youth, abducted by bandits from his home in the Paku area of Paku Tapah, killed the leader of a bandit killer squad before he was murdered. Tills was revealed by the
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    Shell Dump Explosion: Fifth Death
    135 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 25. r 1 HE death roll in the shell A dump explosion near the 12 milestone, Sembawang Road, Singapore, reached five yesterday with the death in Hospital of 19-year-oltt Toh Thain Huat. Only Llm Heay Seng (24) of six Chinese whom police found
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    Seremban Inquest
    25 12 SEREMBAN, Dec. 24—After Lee Kok Kee, a Shell Company (Malacca) driver, gave evidence,* an inquest on 6-year-old Joseph was postponed till Dec. 29.
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    Johore Strait Fishing Ban Re-imposed
    113 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. CPECIAL permits issued to fishermen to allow them to use the Strait, of Johore during hours of darkness have been withdrawn for security reasons These permits had been Issued soon after the curfew had been lm nosed in the Strait. The operation
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    MILLIONS MORE IN TRADE
    147 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 25. MALAYA’S trade last month rose by $33,200 000 over the October figure to reach i a total of $305,100,000. but the favourable balance of $11,100,000 in October fell to $7,100,000 last month, according to official figures. November exports amounted to $156,130,790 ($146,506,722 In
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    Malay Magic Misfired
    91 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 25. HOW a Malay induced a sudden pain in the stomach of a Javanese by saying he was rubbing chili seeds between his hands was told in the Singapore First District Court yesterday when the Javanese (Kassim bin Salami) appeared on a charge of causing
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    Postal Workers For U.K. In Jan.
    225 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24 T'HE first members of the Singapore Postal Ser vic 1 Department to be sent to England under th* Singapore Government Departmental Scholarship scheme. Mr. D. Clunies-Ross and Mr. M Rah Subramanion. will leave for England on January in the Willem Ruys
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    GRENADE THROWN INTO SHOP
    40 12 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Dec. 24. An unknown Chinese last night threw a hand grenade Into a cycle shop In Birch Road, one nf Seremban’s busy throughfaros. The grenade failed to explode. Police are investigating.
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    C.I.D. Informer Cleared Of Bribery Charges
    267 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 25. IM Tian Hong, described as an “agent” of the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Singapore C.1.D., was in the Second District Court yesterday acquitted on two charges of bribery. Lim was alleged to have received $2OO on Oct. 10 and $4OO on
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    PRESENTS FOR 500 BABIES
    62 12 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA. Dec. 23. Five hundred babies with their mothers crowded the Infant Welfare Clinic here today, when each child received a towel, blanket, baju and orange. The occasion was the last of the Christmas parties carried out in 11 clinics throughout Malacca
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    GIMSON THANKS POLICE
    144 12 SINGAPORE. Die. 25. r I TRIBUTE to the efforts ol A the Singapore Police Force are paid by the Governor (Sir Franklin Gimson) in Christmas message “This Christmas I particularly wish to extend to all officers and men of the Singapore Police Force mv greetings. ny good
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    Speed Limit For Colony Traffic
    104 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 25. A SPEED limit ol 30 mile? an hour in certain areas of Singapore for passenger cars and certain other types of vehicles, together with pre-war powers of enforcing traffic control, will come into operation for the first time since the liberation on
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    SAILORS SPENT $100,000
    66 12 SAILORS SPEN T $100,000 SINGAPORE, Dec. 25. The visit of the US. ai r craft-carrier Tarawa and nor escorting destroyers has enriched Singapore by about U.S. $50,000 ($lOO,OOO Malayan), it is estimated The 3.000 officers and men all had shore leave during their four-day visit, and eacn spent an average
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    TWO GAOLED FOR NOT REGISTERING
    49 12 PENANG. Dec. 24. Remark! ns that there might be some cuse for not registerin'none for giving a dress, the District Jud/' A. M. Webb) today sentem/'; Lim Koh Juan to months’ gaol. Koy Hock San was one week’s simple impment for failing to regi^*
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    Lord Rowallan At Rally And Dinner
    408 13 nl SHED around in a trishaw foot 1 the Chief Scout for the Commonwealth and the ISritish Empire (Lord Rowallan) met over 2 000 Singapore Scouts, Rovers and Cubs at a rally held in his honour on the Victoria School ground at Jalan Besar
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    MUAR CONCERT
    57 13 from Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. 23. ‘bie Kaum Premnuan of the ,lu .ar branch pf U.M.N.O. are n 'hig a concert at the Asia.lc Hall, Miur. on Jan. 6 and 1 to provide relief for ‘amiiies of special constables •‘lied on duty. There wi-1 a matinee
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    “Not Even A Chicken”
    60 13 JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 23. AFTER he was sentenced to death under the Emergency Regulations today for being in unlawful possession of a hand grenade at Tenang on Nov. 7, 3a-year-old Lee Hoong asked Mr. Justice Laville. “Couldn’t I be sentenced to life imprisonment instead? In all
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    Beat Up Man With Legal Gun, Fined
    148 13 Beat Up Man With Legal Gun Fined From Our Own Correspondent KLUANG, Dec. 23. BRAWL in a train at Kulai railway station involving two soldiers and a third person resulted :n Haron bln Arif and Fang Wong Loi, of the R.A.S.C.. Singapore, being fined $75 each or six weeks’ imprisonment
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    WILL CUT EXPENSES
    79 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 22: A saving in the expense incurred by applicants for permits to use vehicles on public roads for commercial purposes will be effected by an amendment to the Motor Vehicles Commercial Use (amendment) Regulations. It has been found, says an
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    NEW J.P.
    22 13 SINGAPORE. Dec. 24. Haji Ali bin Haji Mohamed Said Salleh has been appointed a Justice of the Peace for Singapore.
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    GIFTS FOR LEPER CHILDREN
    129 13 Horn Our Staff Correspondent SUNGEI BULOH. Dec. 23. f WING machine, an elec- S k ic iron, clothes and thn!’t^ ere amon K the gifts, V Kuala Lumpur Rotarjs.V K a ve to children of the mV," 01 Leper SettleT n h l yesterday. Rotarians travelled
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    Promotion for local police
    303 13 SINGAPORE. Dec. 24. THE number of locally-domi- I cilert officers of Assistant Superintendent rank in Sin- 1 gapore is now nine. Two other local officers have just been recommended for promotion by a Selection Board whose recommendations are under consideration. Vacancies in Assistant Superintendent posts are
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    ARMY PAYS OUT $18 MILLION IN CLAIMS
    211 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. /CLAIMS amounting to over $18,000,000 for War Department liabilities in Singapore and the Federation left outstanding at the capitulation have now been settled. Still to be settled are claims amounting to about $7,000,000. “These.” said a FARELF communique issued last
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    5,000 Greetings Come Every Day
    228 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. £HRISTMAS and New Year greetings by telegram are coming into the Cable and Wireless office at the rate of about 5,000 a day, Mr. Lim Quee Kay Traffic representative, told me yesterday The peak period for overseas telegrams, which are being sent
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    PNEUMATIC TYRE. TO SAVE ROADS
    72 13 From Our Own Correspondent BATU PAHAT. Dec. 23. Batu Pahat will within the next four years have bullock carts with pneumatic tyres. It was decided at the last meeting of the Town Board that this change was necessary to save roads and reduce nolce to
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    Pots And Pans Of Our Own
    153 13 SINOAPORE. Dec. 24. EMPLOYING an expert staff and about 200 workers, a new Singapore factory is expected to make Malaya selfsufficient in aluminium household goods. When the factory starts Eroduction next March it will e the largest of Its kind in this part of
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    Played With Gun-Shot
    85 13 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. 23 A SMALL boy was seriously wounded in a shooting accident at Muar yesterday. The boy, aged six, son of a police constable was playing with the son of the O.C.P D. When the gun was in the hands of
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    DEPOSITS FOR ELECTRICITY
    81 13 MALACCA. Dec. 23,—An ordinance is expected to become law early next year regularising the demand for deposits before electricity is supplied, the acting superintending electrical engineer (Mr. .1. Sharpies) has replied to Mr. Ee Yew Kim. Federal Councillor. Meantime the electrical department is in the same position
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    AT KNIFE-POINT
    34 13 SINGAPORE Doc. 24 A Malay-speaking Chinese held a knife at, the breast of a Chinese woman and robbed her of 5152 in cash and jewellery In Aliunied Road, Singapore, on Wednesday night
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    Contractor Dies In Ambush
    185 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 24. A CHINESE contractor, Hiew Fook Long:, was shot dead yesterday by bandits a mile outside Selayang village, about seven miles north of Kuala Lumpur. The contractor, who was employed by Highway Estate, was riding on a motor cycle
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    PEOPLE STOPPED AT HOME
    334 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 27. OINGAPORE spent its quietest Christmas since the liberation. In the rainy weather, many people preferred to cele- brate at home. Christmas Day was practically crime free. Many began the day by going to church and more than 1.000 people packed the Cathedral of
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    MALAYAN FAIR SITE APPROVED
    131 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 27. PLANS have been approved for holding the Malayan Fair of Trade and Industries of a 10acre site at the junction of Changi Road and Joo Chiat Road, Singapore. Building of semi-permanent structures for some 200 stalls and exhibition halls will begin soon. Apart
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    289 UNIONS REGISTERED
    95 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 2&. The Federation had 289 registered trade unions at the end of last year, with a total membership of 198,717. The largest single union was the Negri Sembilan Rubber Estate Workers’ Union, with a membership of 12,072, with the All-Malayan Railway Workers’ Union next
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    MALAYANS at the fourth Commission for Asia and the session of the U.N. Economic Far East. They are (from left) Mr. Andrew Gilmour, delegate for Malaya and North Borneo; Mr. P. S. Scrivener. Deputy Commissioner-General In South-East Asia; Tuan Haji Mohamed Eusoff, delegate for Malaya and North Borneo. The session ended near Sydney, N.S.W., this month.
    56 14 MALAYANS at the fourth Commission for Asia and the session of the U.N. Economic Far East. They are (from left) Mr. Andrew Gilmour, delegate for Malaya and North Borneo; Mr. P. S. Scrivener. Deputy Commissioner-General In South-East Asia; Tuan Haji Mohamed Eusoff, delegate for Malaya and North Borneo. The session
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    WOMEN WARD OFF THE SUN
    190 14 SINCAPORE, Dec. 26. VyOMEN workers in Malaya have improved in health —and are dressing themselves better, thinks Mr. R. C. D. Houghton, the Commissioner for Labour in the Federation. Many of them, he says in his annual report, possess bicycles and appear to be independent
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    Malayan In China Govt.
    90 14 Malayan In China Govt SINGAPORE. Dec. 27. IN the new Chinese Cabinet approved on Friday is Singa-pore-born Dr. Robert Lim, son of Dr. Lim Boon Keng. He becomes Minister of Healih He is 51, last visited Singapore in 1937. He was educated in Britain and obtained high medical degrees in
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    $2,400 TENDER
    38 14 SINGAPORE, Doc. 27. A tender of $2,400 for the printing of 10,000 trishaw registers, to be retailed to trishaw owners by the Registrar f Vehicles, has been approved by a committee of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners.
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    370 GOING BACK TO CHINA
    105 14 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Dec. 23. ‘T'HREE hundred and seventy Chinese squatters from Perak, including men. women and children, will arrive here tonight by train on the first leg of their journey to China on voluntary repatriation. This constitutes the biggest number yet to
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    “TEACH OUR CHILDREN”
    117 14 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN. Sun.—Some of the tuberculosis patients in the Seremban General Hospital require aid from the State Welfare Department in the form of free education for their children. So says a report submitted to the committee of the Negri Sembilan branch of the Malayan
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    ADDITIONS TO THE STADIUM
    58 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 27. Singapore Commissioners at their meeting on Friday will be asked to approve an expenditure of $31,775 on Jalan Besar Stadium. This is made up as follows: $18,250 for the erection and completion of an open shed over the gallery at the stadium: $7,625
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    COLLIDES
    49 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. Mr. E. R. Nonweiler, an accountant of the Shell Company was admitted to hospital with a suspected broken arm last night after a collision between the car in which he was travelling and a military truck at the junction of Holland Road and Farrer Road.
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    Malayan Housewife’s Broadcast
    321 14 Malayan Housewife’ s Broadcast SINGAPORE. Doe. C7 r |'HE stall of a J chore rub- ber estate broadcast frcrr. Radio Malaya on Christina" afternoon and the broadcast was included by the British Broadcasting Corporation in its round-the-world program.me before the King’s speech The manager of the estate emphasised the good
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    BAD BOYS AMONG THE REDS
    215 15 From Our Staff KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 27. B UT for the numbers of juveniles found among (A mmunists and Communist sympathisers detained by the ih :ce, Federation Welfare OAicers would be prepared to •’.port a definite easing of Malaya’s juvenile delinquency problem, says the Chief
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    Case Adjourned
    46 15 SINGAPORE. Dec. 28. Pleading guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to attempting to enter the house of Margaret Chen, in East Coast Road, early on Boxing Day, H. R Maxwell was granted bail anci the case was adjourned till n,, xt Monday.
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    REPORT ON MALAYAN CHINESE
    159 15 SINGAPORE. Dec. 28. 4 jREAT deal of the future stability of Chinese $oC; ety i n Malaya may depend r ’he processes which are r ;0w at work in the Chinese tamiiy savs Professor Raymond Firth in his report on social science research in Malava. hi
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    SCHOOL WILL RISE FROM RUBBLE
    481 15 $500,000 plan for St. Xavier’s PENANG, Dec. 25. ()UT of the ruins and rubble lying heaped up along Farquhar-street for the past four years —the result of blasting opt of existence the living quarters of Hirohito’s much-vaunted marines by Allied long-range bombers—will rise a modern,
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    Medical College Staff Promotion
    170 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. PVR. Nripendra Kumar Sen, who has been appointed acting Professor of Bacteriology at the King Edward VII College of Medicine, has conducted researches into leprosy, tuberculosis, typhoid-like fevers and Malayan jungle fevers He has submitted the results of his researches to the Pathological
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    MUTE STILL MISSING
    119 15 SINGAPORE. Dec. 28. Two weeks’ search by police and sympathisers has failed to locate the dumb. Penang ex-volunteer, Tan Sine Choon. who begged for alms by writing on pavements in Singapore. Mr. F. E. Bent, managing partner of the Wheat Sheaf Bakery, who has offered Tan a
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    Breaking Up ‘Youth Corps’
    168 15 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 27. DETAILED description of the “Youth Corps.” which was formed on Kedah estates last year and contributed to labour unrest there is given by the Commissioner for Labour in the Federation (Mr. R. G. H. Houghton) in his report
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    THREE ROBBERIES ALLEGED
    88 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. Said to have committed three robberies, one of which was at a church between Dec 6 and Christmas Day. Um Ho Koh 17. was remanded in police custody for 18 notirs when he appeared in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. The proceeds of
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    “Gambling An Unholy Pastime”
    317 15 “Gambling An Unholy Pastime From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Doc. 28 AMBLING at the races was described as “an unholy pastime” by the President of the Penang Clerical and Administrative Stair Union (Mr N. Ponnudurai) at a dinner given last night to delegates of the Pan-Malayan Conference of clerical unions
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    Protest By Pakistanis
    116 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28 IMIE Overseas Pakistan League will make representations to the Government of Singapore on alleged nonrecognition of Pakistan The President of the Pakistan League (Mr. M A. Khan> told the Straits Times yesterday that many Pakistanis In Singapore had their nationality entered as “Indian” in
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    LABOUR DISPUTES MADE 1947 BLACK YEAR EXCEPT IN TIN
    381 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 27. IWIR. R.G.I), Houghton, writing his report for 1947 as labour Commissioner, shows how an active employers’ association, working towards uniformity in wage levels, was able to restrain labour disputes in the tin industry
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    Plea for sacked pupils
    214 16 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH. Doc. 27." r |*HE Federation of Malay Students’ Unions yesterday called upon the Senior Inspector of Schools. Johore. to reconsider the dismissal of about 200 over-age Malay pupils from schools in the State The Federation is holding its second congress here
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    HAD A STILL: FINED $565
    59 16 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN. Dec. 26.-A total line of $565. or in default six months’ rigorous imprisonment. was imposed on Chay Hong, an elderly man. when he pleaded guilty to three charges of possessing a complete still, mashed rice and samsu at the lifth
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    INDIAN VIEW: “DEPLORABLE”
    154 16 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH. Dec. 24. •J'HE president of the Perak A Regional Indian Congress (Mr. J Emmanuel) today condemned the Dutch “police action” against the Indonesian Republic, in a letter to the Press. He said: “Eyes from all parts of the globe are today focussed
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    POLICE OFFICERS WEDS:
    37 16 Mr. J. >l. Gtaclwcll, A.S.P., Offieer-in-Cbarge o, ilie Kuala Lumpur Flying Squ.itl. with his bride, formerly Miss Siow Tii, after their marriage at St. Mary's Church. Kuala Lumpur, on Dec. 23.- —Straits 'limes picture.
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    He Beat Bandits To The Draw
    435 16 From Our StafT Correspondent KUALA LCMPCR, Dec. 27 4 MALAY corporal in the Special Constabulary x fought back when two terrorists attacked him during the week-end. two friends on a motor-cycle on the Muar-S?gamat Road on Sunday. Ho> two companions. Lam t;n Buntong. draper
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    ARRESTED IN THE STRAITS
    69 16 SINGAPORE. Doc. 28. Singapore customs officers arrested a Chinese boatman Ang Hway Choo in the Straits of Johore on Chris as Day. He is allseed to nav» oeen transporting two bags containing 130 lbs. of Chinese tobacco on which rlutv had not been paid. Charged yesterday
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    TO RUSSIA
    32 16 SINGAPORE. Dec. 28. A shipment of 4.200 tons of Malayan rubber is now being j loaded on to a Russian freighter. the Mechanik Aphanaslev. at the Singapore Harbour Board wharves.
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    More Malays, Working In Industry
    202 16 From Our Staff r- 0rill KUALA LUMPUR. C""" Between 1938 ami i ast t' the number of ployed in indu.v 7?' country bv on n ll> cent, reports Mr h Tf Der ton. Commissioner t )r Wf*. The compare .:\t fi b Ur are: 1938.
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    Xmas Party At Siglap
    150 16 SINGAPORE Dec. 28. MORE th." one hundred Malay. Indian. Chinese and Eurasian children of Siglap took part in the Christinastide sports yesterday organised by the Siglap Children's Social* Centre This was ’he first Chris'mas gathering arranged by the Centre. The sports were held ill drizzling rain
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    GIRL ACCUSED “STOLE BOY”
    74 16 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN. Doc. 27 Ammah binti Raja K i:r 1 l 1 .zaman, 18-year-old girl, was in court v, sl charged with kidnapp- 1 and-a-half-years-ola Roberts from the 1 i: ship of Mrs. Rober hang on Dec. 10. She was" allowed S5OO in
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    COLONY NOT LIKELY TO BE ECAFE HQ.
    359 17 COLONY NOT LIKELY TO BE ECAFE HQ nu SINGAPORE, Dec*. 28. |hGH cost of living and accommodation difficutties in Singapore might be the deciding fac tor in Bangkok being selected as temporary headquarters for ECAFE, instead of Singapore. The Executive Secretary of ECAFE (Dr P S LoKanathan yesterday told this
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    Blind Read Braille
    205 17 SINGAPORE. Dec. 29. A 34-YEAR-OLD Singa- pore Jew, who went blind at the age of 17 i while at St. Joseph’s Institution, is today teaching other blind people to read Braille. He is Mr. Reuben Jacob of Bencoolen Street. Mr. Jacob went blind in both eyes after
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    FANCY DRESS SOCIAL
    58 17 SINGAPORE. Dec. 28. More than 200 people last night attended a Christmas social arranged by the Ist Singapore Company Boys Brigade, in the Straits Chinese Presbyterian Church premises in Prinsep Street. Corporal Lim Som Liang won first prize in a fancy dress competition. Private Tan Kek Wah
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    Radio Malaya Man Off For Studies In U.S.
    129 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. Radio Malaya’s programme organiser for the 11 Chinese schools section (Mr. Samuel Y. W. Shen) "ill leave today for the t T nited States to study for a 1). degree at Columbia University. Mt Shen took his M.A deat
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    ACSU WANTS TO KNOW
    405 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. IN a reply to an Army Public Relations release yesterday on civilian employees’ salary scales the President of the Armv q 1vi1 ervice Union, Mr. S Maniam said last mght: “W e are still anxious to know the proposed recommendations oi our employers.’’
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    From An Estate Bungalow
    499 17 WE go out so rarely for real “evenings i out” these days that a party is something to get excited about. Upcountry parties don’t call for evening dress, for, as someone rein arked, “Evening clothes don’t seem to go with Sten guns.” I think that most
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    CLERKS’ UNIONS FEDERATE
    214 17 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Dec. 27. A MALAYAN Federation of Clerical and Administrative Staff Unions is to be formed with headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. This decision was reached at yesterday’s Pan-Malayan conference of clerical unions held here. Other resolutions passed were that: Schemes of working conditions
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    THREE HURT
    39 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29 A Chinese man, boy and woman all sustained knife cuts as the result of what is alleged to be a struggle for a knife in an attap farm house in King’s Road yesterday morning.
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    Clerks Discuss Salaries
    102 17 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Dec. 26. Questions on equitable salaries, unemployment insurance and working conditions of bank employees and mining clerical staff were brought up today at the panMalayan Clerical Unions conference here. Fifty delegates, representing Singapore, Malacca, Selangor, Perak and Penang met under the chairmanship
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    New Proposals Sent To London For Approval
    394 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. DECOMMENDATIONS on the revised scales of salaries for monthly-paid civilian employees of the three fighting Services in Malaya and Singapore will be submitted to London early next month. An Army Public Relations release said yesterday that any decision would rest
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    Property Owners Will Pay More
    162 18 SINGAPORE. Dec. 29. THOUGH the 1949 rate of 1 the Singapore Municipal assessment has not been increased, owners of several thousand properties, including dwelling houses, business premises and vacant lands, will be paying more in the New Year. The reason Is that these properties have
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    HOSPITALS NO LONGER FEARED
    264 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. FEAR of hospitals seems to have largely disappeared, reports the Singapore Director of Medical Services (Dr. W. J. Vickers). Ris annual report refers to an enormous increase in attendance at clinics. Last year there were 24,000 attendances for ante-natal supervision. The mortality rate
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    KLUANG TROOPS CLASH
    227 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. KLUANG Tues. SEVERAL peopie were *tiJured and several stalls wrecked last night in a clash i between Ceylonese troops and Malay Locally Enlisted Personnel. Gurkhas led by Military and the Kluang civil police restored order. The tight started after two i Malay L.E.P.s beat
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    New SATA Council
    146 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. SINGAPORE Anti-Tubercu-losis Association Council for next year will consist of: Mr. C. L. Edwards iChairman), the Bishop of Singapore. Dr. P. S. Hunter. Mr. S. H. Peek. Dr. (Mrs.) Danaraj, Dr. Khoo Peng Seng. Mr. L. Cresson, Mrs. Tay Lian Teck. Dr. B. Chew.
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    Hussars In Accident
    28 18 From Our Own Correspondent KUANTAN, Dec. 28. Two men of the 4th Hussars were knocked down by a military lorry near the Wharf Road Junction.
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    School Opening Postponed
    407 18 SINGAPORE, De c >q VIISS A. L. Griffith Jones, principal of the Cam Highlands* school, told the Straits Times? 011 night that the re-opening of the school will be n poned to an indefinite date. She stated that the question of the school had been discussed at
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    Council Meeting
    21 18 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 28. The Federal Legislative Council will meet again on Thursday, February 17.
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    Does Anyone Own This?
    45 18 From Our staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRI IW •>„ DOUCE recently*’(i possession of 19 article -including a piano-in* they visited the deserted premises of the x or th Johore Rubber WorkmCnion. Segamat. Anyone with the rieht must claim the article within six months.
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    HE WORE UNIFORM IN COURT
    95 18 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Dec. 28 THE gun battle between a security force and a band of terrorists who were ambushed in a jungle clearing near Batu Anam last week had its sequel in the Segamat Court today. Yong Choon. aged 36 apteared before
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    Six People Arrested
    94 18 SINGAPORE. Dec. 28. SIX people were arrested and 33 colls of telephone wires seized by a Singapore police patrol, at a military depot in Jervois Road on Sunday morning. t a On rounds at 6.20 a.m.. the patrol came upon a parked near the depot and noticed
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    STOLE JEWELS
    45 18 From Our Own Correspondenj TELUK, ANSON. Dec. 0 stealing $649 worth of lery belonging to his 1U r Dec. 5. Abas bin Hal of Sungei Manik Teluk A son. w r as sentenced to months’ rigorous lnpri ment in the M^ ls,rate Court.
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    NOT ENOUGH MENTAL NURSES
    142 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. r pHE question of nursing In the Singapore Mental Hospital has been a cause of concern, says the Director of Medical Services (Dr. W. J. Vickers). "Apart from a small trained staff reliance has always been placed In the past on selected hospital
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    ‘Shamateurism Is Prevalent’-DE SOUZA
    337 19 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. rWO points of major Importance in Singapore I soccer, shamateurism, and a stadium, were touched on by Mr. P. F. de Souza, a retiring vicepresident, at the annual general meeting of the Singapore Amateur Football Association yesterday Speaking on shamateurism Mr. de Souza
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    Selangor Eurasians Win 5-0
    198 19 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 23. SPLENDID goalkeeping by Akhurst of the Selangor Club was a feature of the hockey match played on the padang this evening between the Club and the Selangor Eurasian Association. The Eurasians won by five goals to nil after
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    BADMINTON IN KLUANG
    153 19 from Our Own Correspondent KLUANG. Dec. 26. THE finals of the Kluang District open championship badminton tournament were played yesterday In the Kluang Government English School hall. After the tournament Mrs. Koe Ewe Teik, wife of the headmaster of the School gave away the prizes to the
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    MALAYS WIN 6-0
    52 19 MUAR. EK*C. 24. j [)iSPLAYING superiority in all the Muar Malays ‘h.unced the Malacca Muslims at soccer cn the Muar Club padang on Friday. Mohd. Mahat. the Muar centrc•f rward played a great game and r "tt<d three times for his side. scorers were Jalil Majid 2l
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    SAFA HAVE PAID POLICE $17,000
    155 19 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. T'HE Working Account of the Singapore Amateur 1 Football Association which was tabled at yesterday’s annual general meeting showed that payments to the Police alone for the 15-month period from July 1947 to October 1948 had amounted to $17,022.00. The retiring President
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    Singh Wins Two Events
    79 19 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 27. AWTHAR Singh. All-Mala-yan 100 miles champion, won the one mile and two miles cycling championships yesterday on the Sentul Sports Club padang. Singapore cyclists, did not narticinate in the events. Awthar Singh came in second in the half
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    Among those who attended the annual general meeting of the S.A.F.A. on Dec. 23 were (from left to right) Mr. A. Watt (new president), Mr. G. Verral, A.S.P. Mr. M. Boyle, Mr. T. W. Ong and Dr. S. H. Al-junied. Others in the picture are Messrs. E. Strickland, K. C. Gillett, Maj. (Rev.) Johnston, R. J. Fennie and Soh Ghee Soon.
    64 19 Among those who attended the annual general meeting of the S.A.F.A. on Dec. 23 were (from left to right) Mr. A. Watt (new president), Mr. G. Verral, A.S.P. Mr. M. Boyle, Mr. T. W. Ong and Dr. S. H. Al-junied. Others in the picture are Messrs. E. Strickland, K. C.
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    Negri has strong XV
    138 19 SINGAPORE. Dec. 26. YTEGRI’S rugger performance this year has been a great improvement on Jie past season. After going through a series of overwhelming defeats last year, the Negri State rugger fifteen has a side which U today i capable of giving p good game to
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    Negri Owed Success To Three Factors
    381 19 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. SINGAPORE’S three-nil defeat by Negri Sembilan last Sunday in their inter-State hockey fixture has once again proved that a team’s collective brilliance is not always a prerequisite of victory. Neither did Negri owe their success to superior teamwork. Singapore matched them
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    S’GOR MALAYS WIN
    45 19 JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. 24 THE Selangor Malays defeated the Johore Malays by five goals to one In a hockey match played ht.< this evening. Scorers for Selangor were: Noor Yunos (2k Razalll. Yusop and Hamid. Arts scored the only goal lor Johore.
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    PCFA Save Game On Time
    281 19 SINGAPORE. Dec. 25. SCORING a goal In the last few minutes, the Penang Chinese Football Association held the Singapore Chinese F.A. to a two-all draw at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday before a crowd of 5,000 spectators. Although Singapore had the better of the game, the
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    NS Has Done Well In Sport
    154 19 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Dec. 26 THE commencement of a knockout cricket competition for a trophy by Dr. J. Strahan. a loimer president of the Negri tVmbilan Cricket Association, for the first time this year and the introduction of the Rhode: Memorial Cup
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    Raub Gold: Policy Restrains Metal Price Despite Costs
    364 20 pOLD mining is in the peculiarly unfortunate position of being one, if not the only, industry which has to face the normal high production cost with practically no increase in the product’s sale price, according to the chairman of Raub Gold (Mr.
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    RUBBER REVIEW
    200 20 THE week’s trading has been featureless and on rather a reduced scaie with' fluctuations narrow and little change in values over the! period, says Lewis and Peat’s weekly rubber report. The new situation tn in- j donesia is creating uncer-1 tainty, and developments there in the near future
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    K.M.S. RUBBER DIVIDEND
    50 20 J£.M.S. (Malay States) Rubber Plantations’ dividend In respect of the year ended June 30 was lOd <Bd the previous year) net per £1 unit wi h tax at 97Net profit £9.334 after charging rehabilitation. depreciation, provision for replanting and taxation (£10,294). (Meeting in London on Dec. 29).
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    Lukut Tin’s $5,130 Loss
    225 20 l J IUKUT Tin Dredging suffered a loss of $5,130 in the year to Aug. 31. 1948. The directors report that the balance on profit and loss account brought forward at Sept. 1. 1947, was $11,799. Other working details were directors’ fees $2,590, ex gratia payment
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    Sungei Besi Sales Were £185,000
    117 20 OUNGEI Besl Mines’ sales of tin i ore to March 31 amount to £185.109 (£32.909 the previous year), plus tribute £4,225 (£1.492), Interest and dividends £1.089 (£658). fees £43 (£45) making £190.466 (£35.104); Less mining costs. Including 10.000 provision for dredge replacements. £104.325 (£20.607). expenditure
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    Telok Kruin Tin Div.
    48 20 Telok Kruin Tin Div r 1 ELOK Kruin Tin sharehold- ers will receive a Anal' dividend of 10 per cent, less income tax at 20 per cent., for ihe year to Oct. 31, 1948. ft will be payable on Jan. 10. 1949. to shareholders registered on Jan. 3.
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    Perak R.V. Rubber
    53 20 pERAK Ri\er Valley Rubber earned a profit of $72,800 In the year to Sept. 30. 1948. subject to Malayan income tax for which $12,000 has been reserved. An Interim dividend of 74 per cent, leas tax was declared. .»j final dividend of 74 per cent, less tax
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    Jelebu Tin Dredging
    374 20 JELEBU Tin DredRtotf ie* ports a profit for the year to Aug. 31, 943. of $57,480. The balance on profit and loss account brought forward at Sept. 1. 1947, amounted to $34,358, less directors’ fees 1946-47 $6,000. With the profit and Quit rent for J946 and 1947
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    Molek Rubber Shows Profit Of $36,000
    105 20 AVER Molek Rubber cw, profit for the y-ar io oct 1948. amounted t > ?3620l With the balance or OUshl ward from the last $93,367, this makes a $129,568 from which rehabilitation e.\p eW tti l $15,789. lea vln silS" 01 able. u, B
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    Dredge Will Start Soon
    147 20 jgIAMESE Tin Syndicate directors hope that one of their fata will be In opera ion almcet immediately at Kot a Bahru The company has a large, nemy-ac-quired area for exploitation thtre. la his statemen: at annual meeting the chairman <Mr. K a r.ne h O. Hunter)
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    808 20 SINGAPORE. Dec. 29. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association today were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seiler Atlas Ice 14.00 15.00 xd Alex Bricks Prel. 2 77 Vs 2 85 Ord 1.90 2 00 8.8. Petrol 39/9 40/9 B M rv us lent I 50 4 60 Con Tin
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