The Straits Budget, 27 January 1949

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  • 31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] I\v Series No. 130. Singapore Thursday, January, 27th 1949 Price 40 cent* (S.S. Currency) Or. I ah.
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    • 107 1 The STRAITS BUDGET 1 Published in SINGAPORE on THURSDAY Delivered in LONDON on MONDAY SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION $24.00 t i Arrangements have been made to send the ‘‘Straits Budget hy air to the United Kingdom weekly on Thursdays i.e. on publication day in Singapore. Under normal conditions we should be
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
    • 276 2 ra new arrival in this beautiful city the housing shortage seems as acute as in most places in the world, but as one settles down and sees and studies things around him, one finds that the acuteness of the shortage is more artificial than
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    • 51 2 “TREASURE” THE COST IT would be interesting to know what was the total cost incurred on the "Treasure Hunt" at the Junction of North Bridge Road and Stamford Road. Perhaps Mr. C. C. Tan would ask for this information at the next meeting of the Legislative Council. X. Y. Z.
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    • 94 2 THERE are many in A Government service who are forced on transfer to God-forsaken places. When these unlucky ones ask for a re-transfer after a reasonable period the authorities present a deaf ear, and talk vainly of mutual transfers. How Government expects these mutual transfers to
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    • 110 2 WHETHER Gandhi did or didn’t coin the wisecrack describing the 1942 British offer of independence to India as “a post-dated cheque on a crashing bank” is something we shall never know. But while Mr. Kalelkar says that the crack was coined by a Parliamentary wag after Gandhi
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    • 114 2 DO the dog owners of Tanglin live in soundproof rooms, are they stone deaf, or is it that they simply have no nerves or just don’t care? Night after night one is wakened up and kept awake for long periods by the incessant nerveracking barking of
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    • 129 2 ITITH reference to the article on cruelty to horses In the Straits Times of Jan. 8, may I say that it seems very strange that the “experienced grooms” who, according to the Managing Director of Malayan Bloodstock Ltd., are sent up with every consignment of horses, apI
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    • 409 2 IAM indebted to Mr. M. Abraham for drawing my attention to "the several differences” (n addition to the ones I mentioned in my letter published on Jan. 10 on the subject of India and Indonesia. I am aware that these differences do exist. It would appear, however
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    • 279 2 T THINK everyone with any conscience as appalled to read the report about cruelt to horses being brought from Australia to Mai ya. In this world there are many people who thoughtlessly ill-treat animals. I would like to see the proper handling of animals taught in
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    • 163 2 APROPOS your second leader entitled “A PROMISSORY NOTE” in your issue of Jan. 20, you say: “The jibe is not new. Gandhi coined it in 1942, when the Congress Party refused a post-dated cheque drawn on a crashing bank.” Your statement doe* great tnjustlce to the great Mahatma
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    • 187 2 1, AS the President of t he United Sarawak National Association have no knowledge, nor have the members of my Association any knowledge of the ultimatum sent to the Raja Muda of Sarawak. We therefore believe that the ultimatum must have been sent by a
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    • 125 2 I THINK flats as tall as x the Municipal bye-laws would allow should have been built on the valuabe piece of Crown Land at the junction of Neil Road and Cantonment Road. To build one-floor quarters on such a site is like building attap houses in
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    • 89 2 WE are glad that the oM Ghat Serang system ha'been abolished and the Govment Seamen’s Registratiof Beareau established in* it place to look after the intt* rests of seamen. With the introduction c. the new department, th< seamen will not only be ablto save unnecessary and ille
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    • 725 3 —Straits Times Jan. 20. Most of the uneasiness originally aroused by the summor.in? by Pandit Nehru of lhe Asian conference on Indonesia. which meets in Delhi today, has been removed by the disclaimer that the conveners have any intention of competing with the work of the United
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    • 364 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 20. In a comment on the Commissioner General’s broadcast, the Utusan Melayu presents a point of view which perhaps is more widely held than Whitehall realises. Referring to Mr. MacDonald’s statement that the British Government looks forward to the day when Malaya will take
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    • 755 3 —Straits Times Jan. 21. In just under three weeks of the new year, over ninety more lives have been added to the toll of terrorism and its suppression. Of itself, this figure contradicts recent official assurances that the security forces continue to make steady progress towards ending
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    • 355 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 21. There is an item in the Anglo-Polish trade pact, signed in Warsaw last week, which does not seem to have attracted the attention it deserves. Among the principal British exports to Poland listed in the pact is rubber. This year Poland will take
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    • 668 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 22. The Colonial Office survey of public opinion on colonial affairs is an almost inexhaustible mine of little jewels. The best of them have already been cut and mounted —three per cent, of the people of England believe the United States to be a
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    • 222 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 22. The Under-Secretary for the* Colonies, Mr. David ReesWilliams, was polite if nothing else at the Cardiff meeting of the Coloured and Colonial Peoples’ Organization at which he paid a tribute to Malaya. Britain and the whole of the Commonwealth, he said, owe a
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    • 243 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 22. Sir Donald Bradman is not the only new name to conjure with where cricket is spoken. There is also Jack Iverson, 33-year old Melbourne bowler, who has set Australian tongues wagging in a season in which bowlers have done little indeed worth talking about
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    • 964 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 24. A situation which clearly was most unsatisfactory has been remedied with the gazetting by the Federation Government of amending legislation governing the use of force by the police and military against persons attempting to escape arrest or from custody. The new regulations make
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    • 983 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 25.1 Amid the rises and falls of generals and factions in China in the last nearly thirty years, Chiang Kai-shek alone has never ceased to count. His influence has been second only to that of the founder of the Republic, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and
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    • 837 5 —Straits Times, Jan. 26. Tho demand by the PanAsian conference for acUon by l U‘<\ Nations in the In°nosian dispute will strength- 1 Security Council’s hand 0 c.ist through the moderj l0n nc course it proposes. t tance the resolution v x ky the Delhi confer^
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    • 293 5 —Straits Times, Jan. 26. As a senior army officer explained to the press yesterday, it is quite true that officers of military units stationed in Malaya must be accommodated somewhere. The question is whether it is right—it certainly is not wise—to make accommodation by throwing a
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  • 278 5 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2ft. HR. E. Stanley Jones, the American evangelist and author, who arrived in Singapore by air from Rangoon yesterday afternoon is on his way to Japan in response to a call for help from Kagawa, the famous Japanese Christian leader. Dr.
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  • 105 5 ‘Let Me Pay Fine By 1967 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Jan. 25. A CHINESE today asked the President of the Sessions Court to allow him to pay a fine of 000 in instalments. His “terms” were—s3oo on the spot and monthly. It would take him approximately 18 years
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  • 103 5 $25,000 For Over-60 ’s SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. MESSRS Runme and Run Run Shaw will give $25,000 in gifts to 4,500 people, over the age of 60 in Malaya, on the occasion of the Chinese Now Year. In Singapore, 2,000 will each receive gifts of five katties of rice, one katty
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  • 132 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Jan. 24. MR. Anthony Eden, who will arrive in Singapore in March, will be invited by the Penang Secession Committee to come to the Settlement to get first-hand information about the secession issue. The Committee decided at its meeting last week to
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  • PERSONAL
    • 165 5 TO MARIE HASTIE (nee Moerman). wife of Dennis Rastie, a daughter, Dianne Marie, at Franborough Hospital. Kent, on 9th Jan., 1949. MORGAN: At Bungsar Hospital. 8 p m.. 16th Jan., to Doris, wife of Capt. T. S. Morgan—a daughter, Gail Veronica. JEFFERSON: On Jan. 5, 1949. in Hong Kong,
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    • 27 5 The engagement is announced between Michael, son d Mr Mrs Marks of Hounslow. Middlesex and Lucy daughter of Mr. Mrs. Gordon Tarmer. North Labis Estate, Johore.
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  • 154 5 DEATHS. TEO: On Jan. 20. Teo Wab Kwee, 741-B Telok Mata Ikan, aged 82. leaving his beloved wife, only son Teo Chwee Chua of Land Office, Singapore, me daughter-in-law, six grandchildren and two great grand children to mourn his loss. Funeral cortego leaves residence for Tanah Merab Kechil Teochew Cemetery
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  • 167 6 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Jan. 25. THE chairman of the Penang Chamber of Commerce (Mr. D. A. Mac Kay) will formally move at the next meeting of the Settlement Council that Penang should secede from the Federation and revert to hep pre-war Colony status. Dr.
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  • 9 6 —Photograph by C. A. Gibson-Hill.
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  • 50 6 FARKUFLI- PARTY: The Bishop of Singapore (the let. Rev. J. L. Wilson) seen addressing a gathering of English, Chinese and Tamil congregations at a f arewe!l tea party given in his honour at St. George’s Paisonape, Penang, on Jan. 23.— Straits Times picture. •Straits Times picture.
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  • 124 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. A 38-YEAR-OLD woman rubber worker, Lai Ah Foon, fell 50 feet to her death from the second storey of a house In Sago Street at 12.40 am. yesterday. People living on the same lloor as the woman were not aware ol
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  • 77 6 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Jan. 25. fIMIK Malacca Indian J. Chamber of Commerce at its annual general meeting on Sunday passed a resolution calling for the return to Malacca of her pre-war status as a free port. It was stated that, owing to heavy
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  • 57 6 From Our Slaff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 25. The Johore Education Department has provided for 17 Saturday classes in English for selected Malay pupils to begin on Feb. 5. Instruction will co ntlnue until the end of October, when an examination will be held to select
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  • 145 6 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOII, Jan. 25. yiIREE Chinese schoolboys sitting outside a house in Kampar laughed when two soldiers asked them whether there was a woman in the house. Then two shots rang out. One of the boys, Wan Kim Soon, crumbled on the
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  • 104 6 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 25. ‘I'HE site for the recentlyapproved BBC station in Johore covers an area of 552 acres, which forms part of a block of land acquired by the War Department before the war. It Is situated seven miles from
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  • 535 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 25. A HAIL of close-range terrorist fire today killed an Australian, a Scotsman and a Malay special constable in a valley two miles Irom Serendah, 21 miles north of Kuala Lumpur. The dead
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  • 75 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. The C.Y.M.A. (Cathedral j Section), Singapore, has elected the following officers for this year. Mr. W. H. Mosbergen. JP. (president): Mr. C. V. Reutens (vice-president); Mr. W. G. Oor* I loof (hon. secretary); Mr. B. W. Mosbergen (as t. secy. Discus* sional Group Sec.); Mr.
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  • 918 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. Mil. L. I>. Gammans, Conservative M.P., said in Singapore yesterday that he did not think the war against terrorism was being won the rate people would like it to be. Mr Gummans, who left for Hong Kong this ning a fter a
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  • 134 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. A FTER sipping tea for half an hour in the roofffarden restaurant of the Southern Hotel, Singapore, yesterday afternoon, a Chinese man climbed on to the railings and fell 100 ft. to his death. He is believed to be 53-year-
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  • 127 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. L r NRiap, the principal il Chinese School, who •a chow for his Nrw Year’s eve, was IM lhe Second Dist erday, for mkuo entertainment He was also ordered to pay the tax due. Lee issued admittance tickets marked “Complementary” for the show.
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  • 291 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 21. A BUILDING boom has begun at Kuala Lumpur which architects, bankers, and contractors expect to see accelerated when the moratorium is lifted and land deals made during the occupation are completed. Several architects are planning housing estates, some
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  • 124 7 From Our Stall Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI, Jan. 21. A POLICE officer who iiolds the Colonial Police Medal for meritorious services was sentenced to five months’ simple imprisonment at Alor Star yesterday. Inspector Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman, former 0.C.P.D., Kota Sarang Semut, according to the prosecution, obtained $4OO
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  • 31 7 SINGAPORE. JAN. 21. Dr. H. T. Wee. J.P., nas been elected a member of the Board of Licensing Justices in place of Mr. Chin Chye Fong, J.P. who has resigned.
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  • 223 7 Bought School Certificate Postal Clerk Fined $100 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. SEVERAL clerks with school leaving certificates issued from a school in Kluang, Johore, were dismissed from the Postal Service last year when it was found that their certificates were forged. All of them had certificates which stated that they had
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  • 115 7 SINGAPORE, JAN. 21. Electoral rolls of 8,680 voters for the Singapore Municipal election, in April, show that Indians and Malays in certain parts of the town registered almost en bloc, with Indians predominating in some districts. With the exception of the Tiong Bahru Improvement Trust
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  • 202 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 23 TO control heavy traflic from the Singapore dockyards along Cantonment Road, Traffic Police are erecting traffic lights at the Junctions with New Bridge Road and Nell Road. The Cantonment Road New Bridge Road lights are already operating, the final tests having been completed
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  • 105 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. FROM April 1, certain naw- kers, bread and provision sellers and money-changers in Singapore markets must trade elsewhere. This will follow a re-clas-sification of market stalls by Municipal Commissioners. The Municipal policy aims at reserving markets principally for the sale of perishable foodstuffs.
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  • 416 8 KIIALA LUMPUR, Jan. 22 AN important amending legislation covering the procedure to be adopted concerning captured persons and persons attempting to escape from arrest, was gazetted today. The new regulations make it lawful for officers and men of the security forces to
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  • 54 8 A black panther on Jan. 22 left Singapore for Egypt. It was taken aboard a Lancastrian aeroplane in a specially constructed flexible cage. The animal was bought from a Singapore circus by Mr. M. Talib of Singapore and is destined for the Cairo Zoological Cardens. With it went a supply
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  • 85 8 S’PORE TRADER IS FINED 1,500 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. A MANAGING partner of the Malaya Siam Trading Co., Manoharlal was fined a total of $1,500 by the Second District Judge (Mr. J. L. McFall) yesterday for having made three false declarations relating to the importation of cloth on Oct. 15 last.
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  • 162 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. TO keep pace with its rapid growth, the Anglo-Chinese School is forging ahead successfully with its new $525,000 building project on the Barker Road site. Two buildings, one costing $400,000 and the other $125,000, are going up on the 14-acre site made
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  • 98 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. ONE hundred bags of rice included in cargoes for the relief of Sumatran Chinese, has been disallowed for shipment to Pakan Bahru. The relief supplies were to have left in the Singapore ship, Hong Tat, three days ago. The ship will only sail
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  • 113 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. OKVENTY-TWO batteries. £5 with opium cleverly concealed In each cell, featured in a Customs case in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday. Convicted on a charge of possession of six lb. of opium. valued between $2,000 and $3,000, Qu Eng Guan was sentenced
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  • 90 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 22. A FREE radio doctor service for ships of any nationality is now available from the coast stations at Singapore, Penang and Kuala Trengganu. Ships seeking medical advice by radio telegram are asked to state briefly and clearly the symptoms of the illness of
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  • 179 8 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Jan. 20 ALEXANDER Archibald, a European engineer or. Bahau Estate, was today sentenced to 18 months’ hard labour after he was founc. guilty of causing grievous hurt to another European. Hugh Ritchie Woolmer. with a revolver. It was stated that
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  • 139 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. THE Singapore Federation of Asian Seafarers* Unions is holding a preliminary meeting on Thursday with a view to calling a mass meeting of all Asian seafarers in the Colony soon. The mass meeting will oe the first of kind since the Ghaut
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  • 62 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 24 Rais bin Mohamed, private in the R.A.O.C. Locally Enlisted Personnel, was sentenced to three months rigorous imprisonment and a fine of $lOO, in default another month’s imprisonment, by Inche Nasir, for giving false information about his name* address and occupation
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  • 681 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. \-JON TOR, Ltd. and two of its directors, William i'l Vincent Saussotte and Giovanni Aurelv, were fined a total of $7,845 when the case against them for infringing the Finance Regulations, came up for sentence yesterday in the First District Court. Individual
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  • 44 9 The Sultan of Selangor talks with the Police Commissioner (Mr. W. M. Gray) and Deputy Commissioner (Mr. H. G. Shaw, behind) in Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 18. His Highness took the salute at a march-past of 700 police recruits.- —Straits Times picture.
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  • 78 9 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Jan. 20.—Police have offered $2,5g0 reward for the capture of 25-year-old Hoe Lian Chye, alias Liew Hoe Lien, a Kheh, who is believed to be the murderer of a waitress, Chew Ah Lan, shot dead in Cha’ah Village on Nov. 11.
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  • 43 9 SINGAPORE, JAN. 21. '/wo Malayan nurses have seen selected for training in Australia under the A.I.F. Malayan Nursing Scholarship Scheme, it was announced yesterday. As soon as they are found to be medically fit, their names will be announced.
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  • 88 9 SINGAPORE Jan. 21. ARTISTICALLY inclined Ibrahim bin Daud of Pulau Bukom did not like his prosaic ident.ty card. He thought it looked better with some flowery designs which he drew on it. Ibrahim w’as also dissa tisfled with his photograph. He used some red ink
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  • 108 9 From Our Staff Corresoondent JOHORE BAHRU Jan. 19. Fifteen Johore probationary teachers have been accepted for admission to the Sultan Idris Training College Tanlong Malim. in Februarv for a three-year course. They are Md. Ja’afar bin Sujak Sharif bin Sumadi. Kalam bin Ha.ji Taib. Reslan bin Buanas.
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  • 161 9 Kua u r nnfpsiD respondent Tmp r LUMPUR, Jan 20 I of l VrT obile Ass 9ciation n< ro c ,nS a P will discuss •nt inen>aci m V uspfJ 150 Dfr in driving li- p Hin )f wa f( *s at a •x ij‘
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  • 232 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 19 TERRORISTS, making their first attack in Selang:or A for some time, this morning: ambushed a five-man police foot patrol six miles from Kuala Lumpur Three of the police died later in hospital, the other two escaped
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  • 289 9 From Our Own Correspondent BENTONG, Jan. 20. MILITARY operations have begun in the Mentakab area of Pahang following yesterday’s killing of 12 out of 13 people ambushed when returning to Temerloh after National Registration work at Lanchang, a village 20 miles from Temerloh. Police believe
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  • 67 9 SINGAPORE. JAN. 21. THE Singapore Rural Board yesterday formally registered its protest at the continued occupation by the military of the Pasir Panjang Park, but decided to allow the Army to use it until the end of 1950. The Chairman. Mr. C. W. A
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  • 120 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 19 HPHE Secretary of State for the Colonies is to be asked to provide the Kuala Lumpur Municipality with a copy of a ten-year-old petition regarding assessment rates, sent by the Selangor Property Owners’ and Ratepayers’
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  • 61 9 SINGAPORE. JAN. 21. Residents in the Bukit Tlmah area will no longer be disturbed by the heavy explosions which have been heard there recently. An army communique last night said that demolition work carried out by the R.A. O.C at the P.W.D. Rural Depot near the 9j
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  • 312 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. pvEVEIX)PMENT of the rural area of SingaU pore, 2(H) square miles in extent, with a population of 500,000 and with 20,000 houses and many factories, is being retarded because of the lack of proper Rural Hoard staff. The Chairman of the
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  • 100 10 I rom Our Stuff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THEATRE and cinema owners in Kuala Lumpur will in future have to make full provision for car parks in their building plans befoie they obtain certificates of fitness for their theatres or cinemas from the Kuala Lumpur
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  • 94 10 SINGAPORE. JAN. 20. THE Municipal Architect and Building Surveyor, Mr. Hugh Hawson. said yesterday that the house in Upper Chin Chew Street, which collapsed on Dec 20, killing two people, was no concern of the Municipality. Mr. Hawson said that he visited the scene soon after the
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  • 82 10 SINGAPORE. JAN. 20. A CHINESE, Tang Peng Yew, pleaded not guilty yesterday In the First District Court to a charge of having corruptly given to Major Samuel James Gregory, R.A.0.C., an Inducement for showing favour in relation to his principal affairs by selling him a car valued at
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  • 154 10 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Jan. 20. ITHE Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya (Mr. W. N. Gray) today told 700 Police recruits of the Tanjong Rambutan depot, at their passingout parade: “It is to you that the people of Malaya are looking forward
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  • 137 10 SINGAPORE. JAN. 20. AFTER four months of operations against bandits in Johore, No. 91 Squa- j dron. R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) has returned to Changi. for aerodrome defence duties, j The squadron operated in the Segamat. Kota Tinggl and Mersing areas, travelling some 1,500 miles over
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  • 73 10 SINGAPORE, JAN. 21. Closer liaison between Singapore merchants, the Secretariat for Economic Affairs and the Netherlands Consulate-General, is to be established In the near future. In order to facilitate and Increase Slngapore-Sumatra trade a meeting between representatives of the Singapore Overseas Chinese Importers and Exporters
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  • 147 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. SINGAPORE has dominated the world rubber market for the last two months, according to Mr. Lee Kong Chian, leading Chinese rubber merchant and industrialist. Trading in the Colony, he says, has recently been more active even than in New York. Proof of
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  • 148 10 SINGAPORE. JAN. 20. 'I'HE Sultans of Selangor A and Perak and the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan were present at a luncheon party in honour of Mr. L. D. Gammans, M.P., held at the residence of the Sultan of Johore, in Tyersail, Singapore, yesterday. The Sultan
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  • 284 10 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH. Jan. 20. PLANS to transfer the Malayan Film Unit studios from Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh were disclosed at the meeting of the Kinta Town Board today. They were contained in a letter from the Director of the Malayan Film
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  • 64 10 SINGAPORE, JAN. 20. Bail of $lO,OOO was granted to a Chinese, Low Sik Heng. aged 36, of Narciss Street, in the Second District Court yesterday. when he pleaded not guilty to a charge of havin'-’ been in possession of 20$ lb of opium and five opium pipes in
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  • 77 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19. THE new regulation restricting the movement of all persons entering the Federation. by requiring them to hold entry permits, will apply equally in the Colony as from Feb. 1, it was announced yesterday. These regulations do not, however, affect people already resident in
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  • 215 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. THE Assistant Under--1 Secretary of State for the Eastern Division of the Colonial Office, Mr. J. J. Paskin, arrived in Singapore yesterday for a conference with the Com-missioner-General (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) and other chiefs of* British South-East Asia territories. Mr. Paskin was Principal
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  • 577 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. THE Children and Young Person’s Ordinance, l upon which Singapore Social Welfare and law officers have been at work for more than two \ears, was gazetted yesterday. This children’s “bill of rights” consolidates the provisions of five existing ordinances, gives wider powers to
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  • 30 11 Mr. A. R. Anderson, A.S.P., who has been appointed head of the Singapore Traffic Police Branch for the third timf in his Police career.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 248 11 SINGAPORE, JAN. 20. THE Singapore Malay news- paper, Utusan Melavu, commenting on the recent broadcast by the Commissioner General (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald*, described it as “a promissory note on which the date for repayment of the loan has been omitted.” Utusan Melayu stated that it might be
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  • 127 11 <>Ur (>Wn Correspondent A RWORTH Ja 21. A k officer faho atGVade duty on fined $933 84 IC f a f l u Prai WaS w °rth Sessioni n n the Butter Cantrell> said that the officer, V. Letchuman, off duty at the time, crossed over
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  • 226 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 22. IN view of the abortive talks with the Commis-sioner-General early this month, that Penang Session Committee has drawn up a “definite plan of action” to work for Penang’s secession from the Federation. The
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  • 184 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. TO stimulate Interest in trade, closer liaison will be established in the near future between Singapore merchants, the Secretariat for Economic Affairs and the Netherlands Consulate-Gene-ral. It is thought that in view of the reluctance of Singapore to barter since the
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  • 56 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. A FULLY-GROWN tiger and a panther will be weighed at the Singapore Registrar of Vehicles Office this morning before being sent by air to Cairo. They leave Singapore tomorrow by the Lancastrian for the Cairo Zoological Gardens. The animals are being sent by
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  • 208 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. 'ITIE Straits Chinese British Association (Singapore) at a committee meeting yesterday, pledged full support to the movement in Penang and Malacca for the secession of Penang. Province Wellesley and Malacca from the Federation and the restoration of the former Straits Settlements. It was
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  • 149 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. r HREE hundred Chinese A- children studying in a ramshakle attap shed at Lorong 27, Geylang, are to have a modern school building next year. An appeal for help to build the new school capable of accommodating 600 pupils, will be
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  • 1133 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. VIORE than 500 Chinese squatters in the Hylam IYI Kang area of South Johore were yesterday evicted from their homes by the Federation and Singapore Police acting in close co-operation with the military. The squatters were mainly old men, women and children. This
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  • 25 12 Elepha nt Damage From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, J:in. 20.—Five acres of pad! in Ulu Pondoi in Tampin district were destroyed by elephants last month
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  • 121 12 SINGAPORE. JAN. 20. Emulation of "so-called western society” is condemned by a contributor to the Malayan Orchid, a Singapore Medical College publication. "By all means we should adopt and adapt ourselves to all that is good which others can offer, but free ourselves from corrupt and degraded
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  • 105 12 SINGAPORE. JAN. 21. •'■'HE motion "that marriages between the different races of Malaya are essential in order to produce true Malayans’ wa« defeated by 94 votes to 77 in a debate between the East-West Society and Raffles College in the British Council Hall last night. Mr
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  • 202 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 19 THE Municipal Commissioners are considering proposals to extend the Municipal limits. This follows difficulties in collecting bills for antimalarial work done by the Municipality in “outer areas” in which landowners are not liable to pay for the
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  • 111 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. INDONESIAN trade with Singapore, both import and export, set a new record last year. Of the Colony’s trade with more than 75 countries, Indonesia accounted for more than one-quarter. Imports from Indonesia last year were valued at about $370,000,000, compared
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  • 33 12 SINGAPORE. JAN. 21. Members of the Rural Board yesterday congratulated Mr. H. A. De Silva, the Board’s Secretary who was made an M.B.E. in the New Year Honours List.
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  • 98 12 SINGAPORE, JAN. 20. FEWER people were placed in jobs through the Singapore Labour Exchange last year tnan in 1947. According to official statistics, 20,585 persons—l7,2l6 males and 3 369 females—sought employment through the Exchange last year, but only 7,505, or about 36 per cent of the
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  • 249 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 19. ‘*T>Y THEIR escapades, the O four accused have put the name of the Scots Guards in the mud.” said the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court Prosecuting Officer, Mr. R. J. P Rycroft, when he asked for a deterrent
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  • 38 12 SINGAPORE. JAN. 20. A Cantonese pall bearer one of four officiating at a Chinese funeral in Singapore yesterday afternoon, collapsed and died u«der the colli’ 1 he was carrying into Hollar 11 Road Cemetery.
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  • 110 13 I nun Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Ian. 19. 1'\VO Malays, Mohammed Nor bin Abdul Kadir and Da bin Abdul Kadir, ot Jerantut. Pahang, were charged at Kuala Llpis re-t-entiv with teaching false religious doctrines and with not holding a written authority from the Sultan of Pahang.
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  • 104 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 21. TIN-IN-ORE moved Irom the Federation mainland to Singapore and Penang In 1948 totalled 45.739 tons, compared with 26,927 tons the previous year. The last pre-war figure available for comparison was 84.751 tons in 1940. To last year’s total, Perak, with 29,695
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  • 70 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. (infantn Cases f poliomyelitis e paralysis) were reSl n sapore during n?L Week en ded Jan. 19. The nrit°L notlflat,le diseases reffi l Were: tuberculosis 71. S n pox l l diphtheria 6. 2 an d leprosy 2. agSS JP* 160 deaths
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  • 164 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. i/ALLANG Airport had a boom year in 1948. A total of 28.937 people landed at the airstrip last year and 28,977 took off. Over 7,000 stopped over in transit. These figures, said the manager of the airport, Croup Captain E. A Healey,
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  • 146 13 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH. Jan. 21: The Bishop of Singapore (the Rt. Rev. J u Wilson) ended his three-day farewell visit to Ipoh today. During his stay, he inducted the Rev. Mr. Paul Daniel, as priest in charge of Tamil work, and confirmed about 40
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  • 91 13 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 21. Chang Boon Thiam, who was yesterday charged in the Sessions Court with possession of 57 packets of chandu, admitted ownership and said that the chandu was not for sale but for his own consumption. On this charge
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  • 103 13 THE Mil™ KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 22. October omcns hockey team, formed in Kuala Lumpur in cycles l1n ,j ra c d a storm of protest in Muslim religious Nimbly of n *A e su hjcct of a motion at the next Cencral The ore! a N0
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  • 74 13 t rom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 19. MUNICIPAL Oommlssio--ITI ners acting as national registration authenticators have protested against official action in returning whole batches of cards to authenticators when only a few cards in the batch were wrongly filled in. Mr. Cheah Ewe Kiat
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  • 220 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 23. THE China Society oi Singa- pore, which has 70 mem--1 bers of all nationalities, held its first general meeting at Katong yesterday. The Society will try to promote an interest and appreciation of all things Chinese and by various social functions will
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  • 349 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. QNt Chinese fisherman was killed and three badly wounded when they were attacked at night by Indonesian pirates in Sumatran waters. The survivors who arrived in Singapore in tow early yesterday suffering from multiple knife wounds, were taken off their motor vessel
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  • 275 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. DADIO MALAYA wants new local variety talent —and to find it proposes to start a fortnightly variety show by the public for the public in the British Council Hall in Stamford Road. First show will be on February 14. Admission to the shows
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  • 121 13 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Jan. 19. IN the interests of public I safety, the ban on crackerfiring in Penang will not be lifted during the Chinese New Year, an official told the Straits Times today. “If any crackers are let off near them, armed police
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  • 123 13 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 21. At the feast on the occasion of the anniversary of the funeral of Sultan Abu Bakar. a presentation of a sliver cigarette box was made to Dato Onn bln Ja’afar by the Malay Government officials In Johore
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  • 92 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. MR. K. Mannan, senior local recorder in the Expense Accounts Department of the Singapore Naval Base, who was awarded the British Empire Medal in the New Year Honours, was given a dinner last night by members of his department. Mr. K. M.
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  • 497 14 From Our StafT Correspondent FORT DICKSON, Jan. 23. ITOE establishment of a second brigade of th e Malay Regiment was forecast by the General Officer Commanding, Malaya District (Maj.-Gen. C. H. Boucher) when he addressed 500 men of the Malay Regiment at a passing-out parade at
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  • 27 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 24. Five bilking fires which broke out within four hours in Singapore yesterday were believed to have been caused by the hot weather.
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  • 167 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. r |'WO terrorists, Cheng 1 Ming Keong and Cheng Kol were hanged at Johore Bahru on Saturday. Cheng Ming Keong was seen by police coming out of the blukar early on Oct. 8 In the Seelong area near Senai. They chased him and caught
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  • 98 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 22. Mr. D Bruce Smith. Executive Engineer in charge of Singapore rural areas, has been appointed Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering at Canterbury Univnsity College in New Zealand. Mr. Bruce Smi'h leaves for New' Zealand next Friday A New’ Zealander, Mr. Smith joined the
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  • 56 14 From Our StafT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 23. Abubakar bin Tahir was sentenced to 10 mcnths’ rigorous Imprisonment, to i\e followed by nine months’ police supervision, when he was found guilty cf intimidating a Chinese boy. He was sentenced to nine months’ hard labour on two other
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  • 50 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. Miss Lourdumary. daughter of the late Mr. M. Anthony. Town Board Office. Johore Bahru, and Madam S. Anthony, was married to Mr. Frederick Doray at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. yesterday. The bridegroom Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Doray.
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  • 264 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 23. A EUROPEAN estate manager had a narrow escape yesterday morning when his car was ambushed by bandits and broke down during the escape. Mr. E. D Harding, managi er of Lothian Estate, Nilai. in the Sepang district
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  • 283 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 23 LAST year’s rubber production in the Federation—--696,978 tons —was the highest ever recorded This figure wa s possibly exceeded only in 1941, a year of all-out production for which, unfortunately, statistics are not available. In December, last
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  • 281 14 Jan. 24. JI/lISS Tessie Cornelius, woman correspondent of the Straits Times, was married on Saturday at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd to Fl-Lieut. Desmond M. Leahy, a R.A.F. doctor. Miss Cornelius is the eldest of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs C. P. Cornelius,
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  • 138 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. MR. Claude Robert Michels, managing director of the Ford Motor Company in Malava. died suddenly from a heart, attack in his home at Draycot Drive Singapore, yesterday morning. Mr. Michels was born at Waukesha. Wisconsin U S A., in 1896 and joined
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  • 158 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24 THE Singapore Association has started a campaign to recruit members with the object of creating as larpe and as representative a body of local civilian opinion as possible*. The organisation began its existence as the Straits Settlements (Singapore* Association 60 years ago.
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  • 85 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 24 The Representative of th< Government of India in Malaya, Mr. J. A. Thivy speaking in Singapore yesterday, urged Indian “crusaders’' not to waste their energies by airing community matters ir. public forums. “By persisting in such harmful controversies, we are only drawing pointed attention
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  • 129 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. FORMER Chief Engineer SEAC under Earl Mount batten, Brigadier M. Pearce now manager of the overseas branches of George Wimpcy and Company, arrived in Singapore by air yesterday Brigadier Pearce, who is on a visit to the Far East will remain in
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  • 329 15 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 24 CHINESE leaders and the planting community told ,h Straits Times today that they welcomed the •<hout before you shoot” Emergency Regulaas they made th e position clear. G,noral reaction was that tht r Government, in publish the regulations,
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  • 96 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. CHANGES of designation in Marine Department J.; r announced by the Master Attendant. 0 Senior Certificated uig Officer will be n v the Senior Assisuin; Port Otficer and the v 1 two o! fleers as rp, s :uit p ort Officers, ti; office
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  • 194 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. THE Singapore Deputy Police Commissioner (Mr. G. R. Livett) yesterday explained the ban on sand crackers over the Chinese New Year. “These home-made crackers are like bombs and are very dangerous,” he said. “People who explode them under cigarette tins might have their
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  • 51 15 Valley T, n Dredging announces that In the firs half of January the No. 1 dredge worked 311 hours, covered 75 030 cubic yards and won 117 piculs of ore. The No. 2 dredge worked 295 hours, covered 65 000 crbic yards and won 176 piculs of
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  • 85 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. SIX of Singapore's biggest firms are to have their employees X-rayed at the Singapore Anti-Tuberculo-sis Clinic. One of the firms has over 1.000 employees, and the number employed by each of the others varies between 100 and 500. Dr G. 11. Garlick,
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  • 144 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. A CHINESE seaman who walked with a peculiar gait on Clifford Pier was stopped and searched by a Customs officer. In fiis waistcoat, the officer found 24 lb. of gold. Yesterday, the seaman. Foo Sing Tung, a greaser on board the
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  • 59 15 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 2i. verdict of murder against persons unknown was returned after an inquiry yesterday into the death of Yew Tan, owner of a small estate near Jeram Choh. It was stated that on the night of Aug. 17 last, four men dragged Yew Tan
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  • 124 15 VUVF I pon<?° RE Jan 25. A b;,: n v^ s C0I JPlaints have' Eaporp M l «;ter V the Sinnvistr”'; Attendant from Wo rf L Ssels berthed at in Hns b0U ii? e speed of r4ps which often, 1 arrive! away! ng lines <»b5
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  • 209 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce A yesterday approved the set-up of the trade liaison committee to promote better understanding between Chinese traders, the Secretariat for Economic Affairs and the Netherlands Consulate-General. The Chamber has named Its three delegates to sit on
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  • 283 15 SINGAPORE. Jan. 24. THE detence of British territories in South-East Asia was the topic at yesterday's discussions by administrative chiefs at Bukit, Serene. Meeting there were the Commissioner General (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald). the High Commissioner. Federation of Malaya (Sir Henry Gurney), the Governor of Hong Kong
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  • 57 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. TAN Ser Meng, a salesman employed by Chop Tan Guan Lee of Boat Quay, Singapore was yesterday charged in the First District Court, with having committed between March and December, criminal breach of trust of $21,304 worth of goods belonging to the
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  • 123 15 Women Cried Out Scared Masked Raiders SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. A .45 REVOLVER loaded with six rounds of ammunition was thrown away by three masked Chinese who unsuccessfully tried to rob a house in Everton Road yesterday The escaping robbers were said to have thing the revolver over a lorry, which
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  • 70 15 SINGAPORE. JAN. 20. A large lallang fire in the Sime Road area kept the Singapore Fire Brigade in action for nearly three hours yesterday. It was one of five grass fires notified in the Colony between 11 a.m. and three p.m., and put out by
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  • 444 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. TWO women were among the 15 candidates chosen by the Progressive Party last night to contest the first popular election for Singapore Municipal Commissioners on April 2. The two women are Miss Amy Laycock, daughter of Mr John Laycock, vice-president
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  • 57 16 The G.O.C. Malaya District (Maj.-Gen. C. II. Boucher) taking the satute at the march-past of the 540 Malay Regiment recruits at their passing-out parade at Port Dickson on Suncruits at their passing-out parade at Port Dickson on Jan. 23. Four Malay Rulers attended the parade. In
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  • 130 16 SINGAPORE, Jan, 25 r'HE United Nations World Health Organisation plans to Inoculate 50,000,000 people throughout the world with BCG, the anti-tuberculosis serum, within two years. Tnls. sard the Director of W.H.O.’s South-East Asia Bureau (Dr. P. N. Haul). w'as the first step in a
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  • 49 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. Twenty-year-old Chong Kam Fook was yesterday sentenced to six months’ hard labour 10 strokes of the rattan and a year police supervision by the Singapore Third Police Court Magistrate (Mr. F. B. Oehlers). Chong pleaded guilty to stealing an alarm clock.
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  • 45 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. The Superintendent of Education, Johore. states that the school in Kluang referred to in a report headed Bought School Certificate, Postal Clerk Fined $100” in the Straits Times of Jan. 22 was not a Government or Govern-ment-aided school.
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  • 104 16 From Our Own Correspondent A 99 vi-*p ltl SEGAMAT, Jan. 24. 42-YEAR-OLD Hokkien woman, Khoo Kim Hong, who said she found life not worth living, was charged here today with attempted suicide. “My husband is being held by the police in Singapore,” she told the court.
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  • 129 16 from Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 24. I PRODUCTION of tin ore concentrates in the Federation during December totalled 5.698 long tons, an increase. compar«*d with the previous month’s output, of 5.543 long tons. The i ncreased production (was registered in Perak. Pahang Trengganu, Kedah.
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  • 490 16 gVERYONE it seems has a passion in life. Sometimes this is well hidden but Cookie’s is easy to see. He loves all animals but his passion is the kitchen cat. He is never without at least one and usually there is a specially favoured animal which
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  • 317 16 From Our Staff Correspondent SEQAMAT, Jan. 24. SEOAMAT Police shot dead three bandits yesterdaytwo near Jementah village and the third a mile out of Segamat town. On a cross-country exercise, a batch of special constables under training came across a Chinese in a rubber plantation.
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  • 64 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. Four lallang fires broke onf In the snare of three U nur? in Singapore vesterdav The first was in Kiat Hon'-', at midday This was follow i by others at Tengah. the ill mile. Bukit Timah and Sen:* bawang Road Two other small
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  • 68 18 THIS PICTURE was taken at the farewell tea-party given to the magistrate, Mr. R. W. P. Rule, by the Second Police Court Staff, on the eve of Mr. Rule’s departure to Sarawak. From left to right: Mr. Chan Hit Siang, Inspector Noordin bin Talib, and Messrs. Othman H. Ali, R.
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  • 285 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. A PLEA that Raffles College graduates be awarded degrees instead of diplomas when they graduate next June, thus enabling them to become the first B.As and B.Sc. s of the University of Malaya, is made in the latest issue of Bulletin, official organ
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  • 79 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. AWELL-urcssed European, with a big lighted cigar in his mouth, walked into the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday. He went up to the prosecuting officer and was about to make an inquiry when the Magistrate (Mr. F. R. Oehlers) noticed him. Mr. Oehlers:
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  • 135 18 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 24. Mr. L. A. Smith, of Donaldson, Burklnshaw. made an application before Mr. Justice Lavllle for a receiver and manager to be appointed for the estate of Kuok Keng Kang, of Tong Seng Co. The application was opposed by Mr.
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  • 193 18 From Our Staff Correspondent Penang, Jan. 24. THE University of Malaya will be established this year if and when the necessary legislation is passed by both the Singapore and Federal Legislative Councils. The public will then be invited to contribute to
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  • 65 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 20. The Singapore Government is not prepared to provide funds for the teaching of over-age children until 1950. At a meeting of the Rural Board yesterday it was stated that this reply had been received from the Director of Education to a proposal by
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  • 136 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 24. THE Automobile Association of Malaya Is to make representations to the Singapore and Federal Governments requesting a change in the law regarding confiscation of motor vehicles in which contraband is discovered. Under the present law the
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  • 66 18 SINGAPORE Jan. 25. For cheating F. Sena of the Rallies Hotel of a diamond ring, Peng Hian Wan. was sentenced yesterday by the Fourth Police Court Magistrate (Mr. M. H. MacDougal) to two months’ rigorous Imprisonment. Peng obtained the ring valued at $375 from Sena
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  • 153 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. A YOUNG Indian clerk who scaled a ten-foot wall A to take a peep at a woman bathing, was sentenced in Singapore yesterday to two months' rigorous imprisonment. The man, M. Raja Dorai, 24, formerly employed at the National Registration centre
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  • 273 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. A SENIOR British Treasury official and an officer of the Bank of England have been discussing the financial aspect of trade with Japan with the Secretariat for Economic Affairs in Singapore in the past few days. The Treasury official is Mr.
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  • 59 18 From Our Staff Corresponds KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 A N RA /laircraft has been missing in a flight over Kedah sine? approximately ten o’clock this morning. Two crew an? believed to have abandoned the aircraft by parachute Any person having anv information is asked to con*, tact
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  • 186 18 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Jan. 24 •THE Bishop of Singapore A (the Rt Rev. J. L. Wilson' on a farewell visit to Penang yesterday confirmed 48 candidates at a service at St George’s Curch. He was later entertained a* a joint tea-party at the parsonage
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  • 126 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25. A FIRE brigade driver, Abdul n Hamid bin Ahmad, pleaded guilty yesterday in the First District Court to having attempted to extort $l2O from Yeoh Yew Koon, on Dec. 15. Mr. A. H. Frew, A.S.P., prosecuting, said Abdul Hamid handed Yeoh two letters purporting
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  • 73 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. Neither the police nor the five Singapore people who offered jobs to Tan Sing Choon, a dumb Penang exVolunteer, more than six weeks ago have been able to find him. Tan. who was reported to have spent the last, six years writing for
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  • 610 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. T.bined Services 10; Combined Civilians PTER fluctuating fortunes in which the issue l was undecided until the very end, the Combined Services beat the Singapore Civilians at ruviei yesterday at Jalan Besar stadium by two goals to two penalty goals. The victory
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  • 123 19 Basketball ‘Invasion *1N(> AFORE. Jan. 22. Mi: (ioh Chye Hin, president of the Singapapore Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation, said yesterday that there would be an “invasion’* of basketball teams to Singapore during the next few months. Early next month, a women’s basketball team from Medan will be viisitine Singapore. This
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  • 244 19 fr m Our Staff Correspondent PIPOH. Jail. 23. RAK defeated Selangor by •i. e eoals to ore In an interst‘‘ ''key match played here tedpy. Por k had the better of -ex-ch-’n- ?j n the ha but ‘‘rrat'.c shooting by their forwards ara good gonlkeeping by
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  • 53 19 QF: MFUH, Jan. 23. 0 H stained revenge for o f j.; u. reverse at nands jw s v only de}V settlement at in Inter State Cl v' r U h V* Inter aational *'W. c y ps ter<lay. fr r o r,( '\g iSL th nly e0Rl
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  • 330 19 SEREMBAN. Jan. 22 IN spit* of resolute tackling and fine threequarter 1 movements, the Negri Sembilan State rugger fifteen were unlucky to lose to Selangor by eight points (a goal and a try) to six points (two tries) in a return inter-State fixture here today.
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  • 44 19 SINGAPORE. Jan. 21. The Singapore Municipal Services Union defeated the Banka Billiton Sports Club by two goals to one ,'n a soccer mat h played at Farrer Park. Ah Soo scored both goals for the winners, while Thiam Fong scored for Banta.
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  • 284 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. '■TOE Singapore Chinese -A Swimming Club’s new $500,000 pool was yesterday described by Its president (Mr. Lee Kong Chian) as only part of a big scheme for the Club’s improvement. Mr. Lee, who was addressing an extraordinary general meeting, said: “Our
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  • 160 19 SINGAPORE. JAN. 21. THE Girls’ Sports Club "A” team defeated the Naval Base Ladles’ Hockey Club by three goals to one on the S.R.C. padang yesterday. While the Naval Base were more forceful In the attack, the G.S.C. were inclined to take their time about their
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  • 329 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. AN only goal scored by Kirpal Singh in the second half enabled the 8.0. D. Civilians to annex Tobin Challenge Cup for hockey when they met the Military (30 Bn. XI) in the final round on the 8.0. D. ground, yesterday.
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  • 623 20 TIN RUBBER SHARES DROP ON MALAYAN MARKETS From A Market Correspondent 'J'HE Thaipusam holiday limited the week’s business to five days in a month which the incidence of Chinese New Year will make shortest working month of the year. Nevertheless a reasonable amount of business was written. Industrial shares on
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  • 152 20 From A Market Correspondent UNITED Kingdom import licences for pearl sago from Malaya have yet to be issued, although an earlier communication to the Singapore Secretariat for Economic Affairs indicated that imports would be re-licensed early this month. The Singapore agents for pearl sago importers
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  • 221 20 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 24 REPLACEMENT of smallholders’ rubber trees, gx 90 per cent of which are over-age, is a matter of urgency, according to a report Just issued by the Rubber Research Institute. The report says that the three years’ enforced
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  • 92 20 DIVIDEND PAYERS UNITED Temlang (P.M.S.) Rubber Esta es, after a lapse of six years, Is resuming dividend payments on tne £250,000 capital by he distribution of five per cent, for the year to last July 31. The previous payment was six per cent, in respect of
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  • 58 20 APA L A Rubber Estates of Malaya directors recommend payment of the year's dividend to last Sept. 30 on the £147.472 7 per cent. Cumulative Preference shares, payable Feb. 22. Last August a payment of 45 per cent, less tax, was made, being six years' arrears for the
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  • 34 20 pENGKALEN directors have declared a dividend of 10 per cent (6d. per share) on the Preferred Ordinary shares less tax on account of profit for the year to Sept. 30, 1049.
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  • 220 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. PRICES in this rubber market have been well above the London and New y levels throughout the vu.\k, says Lewis and Peat’s maiket report. They have been maintained t>v buying to fulfil some Russian 'u 0 meats taking place In January and February. Any
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  • 24 20 ]yjALAKA Pin da Rubber Estates in December harvested 121,410 lbs. ef rubber. 7 EW Scudai's December rubber crop amounted to 50.500 lbs.
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  • 36 20 pENOKALEN directors have de I clared an Interim dividend of 6d. per share on the Preferred Ordinary share, payable today. RAMBUTAN has declared an interim dividend of 9d. per share, payable on Jan. 31.
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  • 824 20 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25. INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Atlas Ice 14 00 15.00 xd Alex Bricks Href. 2.80 2 90 Ord. 1.97*4 2.02% 8.8. Petrol 44/- 44/9 B M Prusteea f 50 50 Con. Tin Smelters Pref 23/S 24/8 Orel. 17/9 18/6 E Utd Assur. 40.75 41.75 Est to
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