The Straits Budget, 3 March 1949

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    33 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED O VER A CENTURY] I v Si s Singapore Thursday, March, 3rd 1949 i_JT Price 40 centa (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      The Heavy Price Of Defiance
      239 2 WHAT the 99 innocent squatters ask is that they be protected from, and not punished for, the misdeeds of one misguided squatter. The existence of Communist propaganda amongst them makes no difference to the point at issue. It is not denied that the duty of
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      Sardar Budh Singh And The Malayan Indians
      468 2 I WONDER if Sardar Budh Singh, the President of the Malayan 1 Indian National Congress is serving the cause of his countrymen in Malaya aright by publicising the fact that during his trip to India he managed to interview some of the great
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      THE CAMERON HIGHLANDS
      361 2 RESIDENTS in Cameron Highlands are getting a little tired of the exaggerated statements that keep on being made about our hill station. Scared gossips should stop to think of the harm they do, and how willingly they play into th e hands of the bandits. The small
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      Taxation For Municipal Back Pay
      263 2 fORRESPONDENTS on the subject of Municipal salaries in the Straits Times have so far confined themselves to discussing whether the Municipality can afford to give or should give such increases in future to their staff. They have laid little emphasis on what, I think, is
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      WHO ARE THE UNOFFICIALS?
      222 2 I SUGGEST it is about time that Government and the various State Councils decided what constitutes an “Unofficial” With the advent of elected Councils and Municipal Boards, surely nominated members should be “unofficial” and in no way connected with the Government or the State or the
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      THE ATLANTIC PACT
      318 2 jyjAY I revert to your leader of Friday Feb. 18 on what you calh ed the “wholly unnecessary fright” in Europe that the U.S.A. was backsliding in her readiness to join the Atlantic Pact. You rightly point out that under the US. system of Government only Congress
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      DESTROYING COMMUNISM
      100 2 fPHE report on the re vised salary scales for Municipal workers is revolutionary in his proposal for the introduction of a social health scheme. Next to a decent salary the most crying need is social security. Although there arc many controversial views on 1 cradle-to-the-grave nea scheme, there
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      ECAFE AGAIN
      714 3 EC AFE AGAIN —Straits Times, Feb. 24. mittee of the Eco- emission for Asia yiV East meets in k» new headquart--U)!uh to survey an guMied past and to u problematical lt Since the last 7C S conference, held in strt ii) November, the tS< i has deserted its t tikes,
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      Malayan Victory
      362 3 —Straits Ttmes. Feb. 24. The roar in Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall was heard throughout Malaya last night, thanks to a broadcast record of how the badminton team of which State, Settlement and Colony are so proud passed into the final of the Thomas Cup. It is a great achievement,
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      MY LORDS AND MALAYA
      662 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 25. Lord Listowel, Minister for Colonial Affairs, was almost at his best in Wednesday’s debate on Malaya in the House of Lords. He gave an assurance that the total strength of the British forces in this country will not be reduced. Unfortunately it
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      Free Vietnam
      445 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 25 It has taken France just thirteen months to close the gap in the negotiations with ex-Emperor Bao Dai for the creation of an autonomous Vietnam Republic. But finally it has been closed, with the concession of every major demand made by Bao Dai for
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      TEN TO ONE ON
      555 3 VIIV VtIWA V. —Straits Times, Feb. 26 It is a fair bet, even before enquiry has begun, that the committee which the Singapore Government is to set up to consider the control of bookmaking will recommend that bookmaking should be legalised, and not run out of
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      Better Days?
      332 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 26. A Wall Street market assurance that the general economic outlook is good unless bigger farm harvests come along to spoil it offers itself as postscript to a United Nations review of the year. We shall be all right unless there is a landslide. Of
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      Czech Mate
      289 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 26. Love notoriously warps the mind a little, but whether it will warp the mind quite so horribly as the new type democrats appear to think it will remains, let us trust, to be seen. Czech girls, it is reported from Prague, are being told
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      CONFERENCE ON BURMA
      878 4 —Straits Times, Feb 28. It was a suggestion by Thakin Nu, the Premier of Burma, which led to the Indian Government extending to Asian countries an invitation to discuss in conference in Delhi the disturbing problem of Indonesia. Ironically, it is the problem of Burma which is
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      World Champions
      228 4 —Straits Tiine.s', 2j Malaya’s firs*# world championship in any sport w-as won most w-orthily at Preston, where Denmark’s badminton best were beaten with the loss of only a single match. Eight to one was a more resounding triumph even than tho semifinal victory over America, and that w-as
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      THE MALAYAN CHINESE
      757 4 -Straits Times, Mar. 1. Political organisation communal lines being inescapable in the present eircumstances, there is no reason why any interests or eoinmun. ity in Malaya should not warmly welcome the forma, tion of the Malayan Chinese Association, an organisation which offers membership all Chinese above the
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      A RED BID IN INDIA
      1030 5 —Straits Times, Mar. 2. months ago India 1 hospitality to a confer--1 of rvprosentatives of the parties of Asia. It gathering, and (:ui ".ot appear to be of mib[ although important enough for the AusCommunist Party to iio* 0 s observer u 'hose misr:;. lt
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    YOUTH’S LAST CHANCE
    76 5 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. Seventeen-year-old Mohd. Yusoff bin Mustapha was yesterday ordered by the First District Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks to live with his step-father. The youth was in court for destroying his identity card. The Judge told him: “This is your last chance. If you appear
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    Big Air-Land Operations On Hide-Out
    531 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 1. ■JROOPS from the First Battalion Devonshire Regiment, combining with the fLAJ?. im yesterday’s operation on suspected bandit territory eight miles south of Triang, in Pahang, arrested over 100 bandit supporters and spies and two known bandits in
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      173 5 At the Bangkok Nursing Home, Slam, on 19th February, 194#. to Nancy, wife of Ouy C. Madoc, First Secretary, British embassy, a daughter. At K.K. Hospital, on 26th February to Margaret, wife of I. R. Mac Lean Kulai. Johore—a daughter. OIVEN-WILSON: On Feb. 27th. 1949, at Kand&ng Kerbau Hospital.
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      167 5 The engagement is announced of Patricia May. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Nolan of Penang, to Charles George, son of Mrs Herrldge of London, England. The engagement Is cnnouncod of Shetiagh D. Hunter, oui, daughter of the late Mr. Mrs A. A. Hunter of Vauchtse, Sydney,, to
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      MARRIAGE
      46 5 KHOO-KHONG: The wedding cook place on Saturday Peb. 34. 1949, at the Wesley Church. Singapore. between Miss Khoo Slang Ee, eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Khoo Keat Hook, and Dr. Khong Ban Tze. only sort of Mr and Mrs. Khong 4h Kea»
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    110 5 DEATHS DICKSON:— At the Oenerai Hospital. Johore Bahru, on Tuesday. 22nd February. 1949. after a long illnesV bravely borne Eleanor, wife of Janus C Dickson. Deputy Officer Commanding, Royal Naval Police H.M. Naval Base, 8inganore MR ABDULLAH F. W. LIEW, wishes to thank ail those who sent congratulatory messages Including
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    PROMISING GOLD FIND IN MUAR
    301 6 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mar. 1. ‘'JpHE Mentri Besar, Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, announced in the Council of State at a meeting yesterday that a promising find of alluvial gold had been made near Asahan and some alluvial tin-ore areas proved in Bakri,
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    Court Told Of $85,000 Haul
    93 6 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. QEARCHING the Kistna on o the vessel’s arrival at Singapore from Bangkok last Monday. Customs officers found 168 lb. of opium valued at about $85,000 concealed in the engine room. Four members of the crew, Amin bin Sarip. All bin Eusofe, Chong
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    “CON” WOMAN CAUGHT IN CHASE
    221 6 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. A CHINESE woman confidence trickster who, accompanied by her 10-year-old daughter, walked into a shop at Jalan Sultan, ordered some rice and 12 tins of milk and tried to abscond with them in a trishaw, was charged in the Fourth Police Court
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    THE POOR WERE FED
    81 6 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. The 114th birthday anniversary of Sri Ramakrishna, a Hindu saint, was celebrated yesterday by the Singapore Ramakrishna Mission with ding of the poor and school children, special prayers and a public meeting. Swami Vamadevananda, :h head of the local Mission, r resided at
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    Malaya Hopes To Sell More Pineapples
    148 6 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. nnHE Federation and Singapore are at present jointly negotiating with the United Kingdom for a contract under which Britain would take 300,000 cases of canned pineapple this year, an increase of 150,000 cases over last year, an authoritative source told the
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    JOHORE ELECTIONS FORECAST
    77 6 Johore Bahru, Mar. 1. DATO Onn told the Johore Council of State today: “I hope that during this year the Government will be in a position to initiate legislation for the election of members in accordance with the desire the Sultan expressed in the citation of the
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    Scout Saved Boy In Sea
    109 6 SINGAPORE, Feo. 26. Hero of the second batch of Malayan Scouts who returned to Singapore yesterday after attending the PanPacific Jamboree in Melbourne was 28-year-old T. N. Sockalingam of the First Perak Rover Crew. While on the way to the Jamboree, Sockalingam rescued a 14-year-old
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    FOUR BOTTLES OF MORPHINE
    61 6 SINGAPORE. Feb. 26. A Chinese who pleaded guilty to having four bottles of morphine told the Singapore First District Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks, that he used it because he had pains all over the body. Fifty-year-old Quek Koh Nai of Angulia Road, was ordered to
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    JUDGED AT H.K.
    44 6 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. Mrs. B. C. Darge of Penang. Vice-President of the Malayan Kennel Association recently Hew to Hong Kong to judge at the Kennel Club’s Dog Show there. The other judge, Mr. W. S. Hunt flew out specially from England.
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    Queen’s Hat Designer In S’pore
    149 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. THE hat designer to the Queen and Princess Elizabeth, Mr. Hugh Beresford, arrived in Singapore last night after a tour of Australia during which time he has exhibited the latest fashions in hats. He will leave the Colony today for England. Mr.
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    Students Ordered Back To Siam
    173 6 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 28. a S a result of the new regulation forbidding aliens to stay in Malaya without proper landing permits, over 20 students in Penang have been sent back to Siam and Medan. A Siamese Consulate spokesman told the Straits
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    Municipal Chief Backs Salaries Revision Report
    513 6 SINGAPORE, Mar n 1. THE Deputy President, Mr. W. L, Blythe. warned Singapore Municipal Commissioner* yesterday that “unless we very quickly introduce a reasonable scale of pay’' the Municipal machinery would break down. Mr. Blythe was commenting on the first interim report of the
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    BIGGEST-EVER T.U. TALKS OPEN
    709 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 26. AT the opening of Malaya’s biggest ever trade union conference here today, the Mentri Bcsar of Johore, Dato Onn bin (a’affar, called upon all who were interested in a democratic trade union movement in Malaya to forget racial, religious and other differences.
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    IGNORED SIGN: $5
    20 7 MUAR, Feb. 26.—Two taxi drivers who ignored the 'Stop, Look, Go’ sign were each fined $5 here.
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    7-YEAR-OLD AT PIANO
    54 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. PRETTY seven-year-old Maureen Buckland won the admiration of the airmen and the airwomen at the R.A.F. Changi yesterday when she played the piano at the farewell concert to Mrs. D. Preston. the wife of SquadronLeader Preston. Mrs. Preston i s returning to England in
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    DISCHARGED
    38 7 TELUK ANSON, Feb. 2(1. Fifty-three year old Pons: Yew Pok was discharged here, the discharge not amounting to an acquittal, on a charge of unlawful possession of a loaded Sten gun at Langkap Village on Feb. 2
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    31 bandits spies arrested
    174 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 26. ■J"HIRTY-ONE bandit spies and a number of persons on the “wanted list.” including five women, were arrested yesterday during a police operation at Ulu Kemasek in Trengganu The operation followed the shooting and killing of two bandits armed with shot guns at
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    SAYS FATHER ASKED $300 FOR CHILD
    211 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. MC Soi Keng, who was charged in the Second Police Court with having sold a three-year-old girl said yesterday that the child was her grandneice. The child's father. Wong Seek Kit sought her help in September last to get someone to
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    DETECTIVES HAVE MUSIC PARTY
    174 7 SINGAPORE. Pfcb. 27. THE newest Malay musical party in Singapore is C.I.D. Minstrels, formed by 50 Malay detectives, special constables, and drivers attached to Singapore C.I.D. Headquarters. The party gives both Malay and English music and has 15 string instruments and seven vocalists. It has already
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    Small-pox in Johore
    56 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 26. A SUDDEN outbreak of smallpox has been reported from lohore. Last week 20 persons were infected and one died, according to a health report. The last big outbreak of small-pox in |ohorc occurred in September and October last year, when over 75 cases
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    Heroine’s Remains On Way Home
    125 7 Heroine ’s Remains On Way Home IPOH, Feb. 25. rE remains of Mrs. Sybil Kathigasu, the only Malayan holder of the George I Medal who died last June in 1 Scotland and was burled there! are on their way to Malaya from Scotland, ac cording to Information recelv ed here
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    LABOUR PARTY
    51 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. The Labour Party of Singapore has been declared a political association by the Governor-in-Council in exercise of the powers conferred by the Societies Ordinance The President of the Party Mr. M. A. Majid, was informed of this ir. a letter from the Colonial Secretariat last
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    SCOUT WELCOME
    62 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 26. Scouts and cubs of the Malay College held a camp tire concert to welcome back from the Pan-Pacific Jamboree in Australia. Group Scoutmaster Inche Salleh bin Hussain, assistant Scoutmaster Azmll bln Daud. Troop Leader Ungku Omar and Assistant Patrol Leader Hamzar bln SelJeh. At
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    GUARDS IN 120 VILLAGES
    269 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 20. A RMED with spears, parangs and staves 6,300 Malays are guarding 120 isolated )ohore kampongs. Organised by Capt. Hussein bin Onn, son of Hie Mentri Besar, and Major Ibrahim bin Ismail, the kampong guards started duty in September last year. The Chief
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    SERVICES WEDDING
    117 7 I SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. MISS Elizabeth Whiteman Greerson of Minehead Somerset, a sergeant In the Waaf, was married to Warrant Officer William J. Flynn yesterday at St. Anthony's Church, R A F. Changi. Group Captain the Rev. A A O’Connor officiated. The bride was given away by Air
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    SILVER KNIFE TO CUT CAKE
    88 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. A FIFTY-YEAR old silver cake knife was used to cut the wedding cake yesterday v/hen Miss Philomena Jayakody was married to Mr Francis Ferera at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. Singapore. The bride is the daughter of the late Mr. D.
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    Fatal Accident During Drill: Instructor Fined
    326 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 27. A FATAL shooting accident at Niyor Estate, Johore, on July 20 of last year, had a sequel in the Sessions Court here today when M. T. Strudwicke, an assistant on the estate, and former Indian Armv
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    C.G. LEAVES FOR TALKS IN INDIA
    102 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. THE Commissioner General for South-East Asia, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, accompanied by the Australian Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Herbert Evatt, left Singapore yesterday for India to attend a conference on the Burma situation. Mrs. Evatt is also travelling with her husband
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    Gazette To Be Printed In Chinese
    164 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. FR the first time, a Chinese copy of the Singapore Government Gazette is to be made available to the public. Containing Government Ordinances, orders and notifications. the copy will be of particular value to Chinese business firms in the Colony. It
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    Weekly Air Service Plan For Borneo
    76 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. Following a survey flight last week to ascertain the possibility of using Kuching aerodrome for a Dakota service to Labuan, Malayan Airways hopes to start a weekly service in May. It is proposed to extend this service to Jesselton and Sandakan
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    DYAKS “JOIN” THE GUARDS
    165 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 27. THIRTY Dyak trackers attached to the Grenadier Guards were each presented with a Battalion cap badge by Lieut.-Col. T. J. S. Wlnnlngton, the Commanding Officer, at a farewell party at Sungei Besl this evening. The “orang iban” who
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    DISTRICT USE OF T.B. FUND
    279 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Feb. 27. IANLY a centralised organiI 1 satton can tackle tuberculosis on a State-wide scale, said Dr. Ismail at an extra-ordinary general meeting of the Johore Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis held at the Royal Johore International Club.
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    Fourteen Jap warships being broken up here
    207 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. FOURTEEN Japanese warships will this year b« leaving Singapore for England—bound for the Ministry of Supply’s melting furnaces. The ships are now being broken-up for scrap at the Singapore Naval Base. This work will probably take betweerf 10 months and
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    LIGHT COMES TO KEMAMAN
    80 8 KEMAMAN, Feb. 26. THE modern age kai at last reached the small town of Chukai in tho Ketnaman area of Pahang. This week electricity was switched on for the first time and the local cinema announced that from next week it would be able to operate
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    Gurkhas’ Fierce Fight In Kedah
    263 8 Fro m Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 27. r THE notorious Badak area in north Kedah was once again the scene of a fierce engagement between bandits and a patrol of the 1/6 Gurkha Rifles. It ended in the killing of one bandit and
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    Secession men to see Gurney
    197 8 PENANG, 26. DEFORE taking their case W to London, Penang's secessionists will send a deputation to meet the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney. The Deputation will be accompanied by the Resident Commissioner, Mr. A. V. Aston. This latest development followed an Invitation from the High
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    TOO OLD FOR WHIPPING
    107 8 From Oar Start l om*'iP'>n(Km JOHORE BAHRU. Feb 27. A 56-year-old Cantonese. Chan Kow, w’ho was sentenced at the Assizes today to four years’ inmprison ment for extortion was told by Mr Jus»ic.e Lavllle that he would have ordered a whipping wp!] but for his age.
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    TAPPER KILLED BY ACID
    64 8 Sunday Times Correspondr* 1 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 26.A verdict of suicide was rc turned after an inquiry in the death of Tan Chin, ru ber tapper, Gelang who died from the effects drinking sulphuric Waking up early on Ch l mas morning, Dia binte A dullah,
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    COMMITTEE TO PROBE COLONY BOOKMAKING
    315 9 SINGAPORE, Feb 24. THK Singapore Government is to set up a I committee under the chairmanship of Mr. C W. A. Sennett to consider the question of the control of bookmaking in the Colony. The committee will inquire into and report upon the extent of
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    No Great Changes, Says Agent
    193 9 No Great Changes Says Agent Labour Condition* KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 23. THERE has been no great improvement in living conditions of the estate workers during the past quarter of a century and It cannot be improved by collective bargaining through organised unions. This is the opinion of the Agent of
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    PLEA FOR SCHOOLS
    123 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24 INCHE Sardon bin Haji Jubir < Legislative Council member for Rural East) wants the Government to provide a school and a mosque for Malays living at Kampong Ayer Gemuroh. This small villace is the result of the moving out of the populanon formerly living
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    Cost Of Petrol Rationing
    54 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. Petrol rationing last year cost the Sineapore Government $42,077 against a budget provision of $5,030. Up to June 24, last year Mie Petrol Rationing Office was operated on behalf of Government by the Municipality. On June 25, a full-time officer Mr. J. A.
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    Caroline (9) Plans Her Future
    90 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. MINE-YEAR-OLD Caroline n Ong, who has been awarded the Tan Chwee Boon Scholarship, wants to be a teacher. She is in Standard II at Pasir Panjang English School. She said she would save up her scholarship money and use it for studying
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    BENHAM ON MALAYAN MISSION TO BRITAIN
    104 9 SINGAPORE, Feb 24. F. C. C. Benham, Economic Adviser to the Commissioner-General, left Singapore by air for London yesterday on a mission on behalf of the Governments of Singapore and the Federation. Dr. Benham will have talks with British Government departments, including the Board
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    HIRE’S FATHER ORDERS APPEAL
    165 9 IGSTICE AT n VIA Feb 23 J dais «iP* p s rtment offlcould not a en»JSS? that they Car DlO1 1 nor den y Sh, n h l n? A Hire s,n iSJHfjoker. had apsentence im ns the seven-year ma ?lBtratl m JJ O 5. ed
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    ‘Homes A Risk To 250 Lives’
    279 9 SINGAPORE, Feb 24.' rpHE Singapore Commissioner of Lands, Mr. C. W. 1 A. Sennett, yesterday said that about 250 people were staying in 14 condemned two-storeyed houses in Palembang Road “at the risk of their lives** —in spite of a Government notice to them
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    Johore Bus Operators Make Pledge
    269 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Feb. 23. ALL bus operators In Jobare, at a meeting at the Road Transport Office, agreed unanimously not to pay protection money to lawless elements. As a token of their resolve, the representatives of the bus companies signed a statutory declaration to this
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    INFORMER GETS A THIRD
    52 9 BINGAPORE, Fetk 24. Fifteen women and a man were fined $lO each in the Second Police Court yesterday for gambling. They were found playing "paikow'* in a house in Fraser Street A third of the total fine was ordered to be paid to the informer in
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    GROWING DEMAND FOR FOOD PARCELS
    151 9 SINGAPORE, Feb 24. npHE demand for food parcels to send to Britain Is 1 expected to increase gradually following the drop in December when it was no longer possible to send parcels for Christmas and the New Year. The demand during February has reached a
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    $16,948 FOR SCHOOLS
    69 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. Of the $10,948.40 collected for the Dry burgh Memorial Fund, Singapore, $11,***** has been handed over to the Kuo Chuan Girls' School and $5,781.45 to the Choon Gaan English SchooL Each of these Presbyterian schools urgently requires $lO,OOO. It estimated that the Girls' Bchool
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    S. T. C. Not Empowered To Charge Ten Cents A Mile
    682 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. THE Municipal Commissioners yesterday agreed by ten votes to nine not to empower the Singapore Traction Company to provide for a maximum fare of 10 cents a mile. A motion by Mr. A. P. Rajah was
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    TIN: NEW RECORD
    109 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 25. DESPITE terrorism, the Federation’s tin mines set another record last month with an output of 5,741 long tons (96,454 piculs), a 50-ton Increase over the December figures, tvhich were the highest for last year. Perak headed production with 3,681
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    LEGION MAN OVERBOARD
    71 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. After jumping overboard from the Marechal JofTre in Singapore Roads yesterday afternoon, a legionnaire of the French Foreign Legion struck out for shore and refused to board the launch of a French shipping comparfy official, M. Tresfe, of Messagerles Maritime. He swam away but
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    EUROPEAN’S KILLER TO HANG
    158 10 IPOH, Feb. 25. Justice Thompson today' sentenced 35-year-old Wong Kim Wah to death for complicity in the murder of Mr.J.M. Allison and Mr. I. n Christian at Phin Soon Estate I Sungel Siput. on June 16 lasti year. I The prosecution, led by Mr. I I
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    ‘Will Planters Return?’ Concern
    289 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 25 DLANTING companies are concerned about the possibility of planters not returning from their jobs after going on leave, said Sir Sydney Palmer, president of the United Planting Association of Malays today. He was commenting on an estimate that
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    Warning To P.C.
    45 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. A Royal Naval Police constable, Balia Singh, who was alleged to have abused an Extra Constable. I. Xavier, at the Naval Base on Thursday, was cautioned and discharged by the Fourth Police Court Magistrate (Mr. M. H, MacOougal) yesterday.
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    La Belle K.L.
    34 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 25. THE Federal capital has achieved Continental glamour at last. A letter from London received here was addressed: “Kuala Lamour, Malaya. Federation of Malaya.**
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    Lawyer To Stand For Labour
    235 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. [UR. Pat Johnson, a Singapore lawyer, who started 1 life in Malaya as a temporary clerk at $24 a month, is to contest the Municipal elections on a Labour Party ticket. He will stand for North Hard. The Progressive Party has entered
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    CHARGE AGAINST MALAY DROPPED
    88 10 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Feb. 25.—The case against Mat Gam bin Sallo was dismissed in the Segamat Sessions Court, when the prosecution decided to offer no evidence against him. Mat, with a Chinese, was charged with having extorted $100 from a Buloh Kasap businessman as
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    FIRST CAMPAIGN MEETING
    223 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26 THE first campaign meeting in the Singapore Muntci pal elections was held by th, Progressive Party at T e i 0 J Kurau Malay School yester, day About 50 persons, mostly Party members, were there Mr. C. C. Tan, the president of the Progressive
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    THINKING DAY
    52 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 25The Tungku Ampuan, President of the Girl Guides Association, Johore, paid a surprise! visit to the Girl Guides when they all assembled for Thinking Day ceremony. Thinking is celebrated by Guides. Rangers and Brownies all over the world in honour of the birthday of the
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    Revaluation Of Property Sought
    1006 11 SINGAPORE, Feb 24. BUILDING values in Singapore had appreciated 300 per cent, during the past few years, it was stated by Mr. F. G. Lundon, senior partner of Swan and McLaren, in the Singapore High Court yesterday. Mr. Lundon was giving evidence in proceedings brought by
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    Will Ask Malaya To Join Health Body
    214 11 SINGAPORE, Feb 24. 11/fR. Budh Singh, President of the Malayan Indian 1 Congress, will urge the Malayan Governments to join the South-East Asia regional set-up of the World Health Organisation in New Delhi. He told the Straits Times yesterday that he had been
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    ‘SAVE SIGHT’ FLIGHT COST SHARED
    131 11 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Feb. 23. IT yesterday’s meeting of the Perak Welfare Committee. it was decided to pay half the travelling expense incurred in rushing a four-year-old Chinese baby girl 5.000 miles by air to Melbourne for an emergency operation in order to
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    Grand Mufti’s Envoy Comes To Singapore
    177 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. VfANY Singapore Muslim leaders yesterday saw the personal representative of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajl Tahir A 1 Fityani, garlanded by the Muslim divine Maulana Mohamed Abdul Aleem Siddique, when he arrived at Kallang Airport from Indonesia. The Haji who
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    SLEPT IN OPEN
    34 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. Nine Malays, who slept in the open at Mohammed Mosque, North Bridge Road, were each fined $lO, or five days simple imprisonment, at the Fourth Police Court' yesterday.
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    MEASURES TO SAVE CROPS
    122 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. A TECHNICAL committee composed of representatives <ji South-East Asia countries met at the CommlssonerGeneral’s office In Singapore m Tuesday and again yester *ay to discuss measures to :ombat the import of plants capable of Infecting crops with serious diseases Another meeting may oe
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    Malayan Indians —New Move
    285 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. Anew citizenship clause, to help Indians who take up Federal citizenship In Malaya to retain their Indian citizenship, is to be Introduced at the next session of the Indian Constituent Assembly In New Delhi. The President of the Malayan Indian Congress. Mr. Budh
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    Colony Man May Go To Russia For Rubber Deal
    193 11 SINGAPORE, Feb 24. /''LOSE on the report that Russian rubber purchases from Malaya may be restricted in future, a leading Singapore rubber exporter yesterday said that a Chinese representative might be sent to Russia to negotiate for larger Soviet rubber pur-
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    466 Bandits Killed So Far
    357 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23. IJOUR hundred and sixty six bandits have been killed in the Federation since the beginning of the emergency on June 19 and up to yesterday. Sixty seven were wounded and captured, while 276 were captured unwounded. Up
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    THEIR HELP RECOGNISED
    97 12 From Our Own Correspondent BENTONG, Feb. 23.—Four Chinese and a Malay yesterday received certificates awarded to them for assisting men of the Allied Armed Forces and prisoners of war during the Japanese campaign and occupation. The presentations were made by the Mentri Besar of Pahang. Dato Mahmud
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    Detective’s Escape In Ambush
    113 12 SEGAMAT Feb. 23. AT the Inquest on 21-year-old Baslr bin Hajl Yunos. an extra police constable who died of gunshot wounds received in an ambush on the main North-South trunk road on Dec. 13 last vear. a Chinese detective. Lawrence Chen, described how he saved himself
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    58 12 BINOAPORE, Feb. 24. Terrible Injuries from which he later died were received by a Singapore labourer who was crushed while cleaning Inside a cement mixer at the Henderson Road works of the Singapore Glass Manufacturers Co., Ltd. yesterday. He was a 43-year-old Sikh, Hokuma Singh, whose presence In the mixer
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    M.P.’s ‘Message’ To The Reds
    142 12 SINGAPORE, Feb 24. MAJOR W. Wyatt, Labour M.P., had a message for the Communists when he spoke yesterday at the Singapore Rotary Club. He wanted them to know, he said, that Socialism was gained in Britain by democratic methods, not by guns and bayonets. *‘We
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    500 MORE SAIL TO CHINA
    290 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 23. qQUATTERS from Hylam 0 Kang, the notorious Johore bandit area, sailed from Port Swettenham this evening on their way back to China. They were among the second big batch of detainees to leave the port this week. Today’s batch totalled 502
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    Arrested 24 months later
    38 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. SINGAPORE C.I.D. have arrested two Chinese, who are alleged to have held up a Chinese cashier of the Happy World Amusement Park and robbed him of $4,000 on Mar. 5. 1947.
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    Sessions President
    20 12 KUALA KANOSAR.Feb. 23. Mr. E A. Burton, President of the Sessions Court, has assumed duties at Kuala Kangsar.
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    GAOL FOR LICENCE RACKET
    142 12 PENANO. Feb. 23. of you have evolved O a method of blackmailing the business community In this town by stealing what is an essential part of their stock In trade and then selling It back to them at your own price.” the Sessions Court President. Mr.
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    More Successes In Anti-Bandit Operations
    233 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23. A YOUNG Chinese girl who defied bandits at- tempting to force her to accompany thorn into the jungle was murdered today in a village in Temerloh, Pahang. Operations against the bandits in the past 24 hours ended
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    Visitor For The Guards
    142 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 23. THE Major General of the Brigade of Guards, Major General J. C. O. Marriott, who is visiting the Second Guards Brigade in Malaya today drove to Sungei Besi to see the Third battalion, Grenadier Guards. He was accompanied
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    NO ACCIDENTS
    28 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, on passenger and troop-carrying, flights flew 3,900,000 miles during December without an accident involving death or injury.
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    SOLVING THE RICE PROBLEM
    124 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 23. ONLY mechanical cultivation and harvesting will solve Malaya’s problems in making itself self-sufficient in rice cultivation, states an editorial in the Malayan Agricultural Journal. It points out that present production, though the highest on record, U still only
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    Press Club Function
    183 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. rE Government Public delations Officer. Mr. G. G Thomson, had succeeded in dispelling whatever suspicion and hostility the public and the Press may have had about the P.R.O. the president, of Singapore International Pres? Club, Mr. Rajaratnam, said yesterday. He was speaking at the
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    Governor Lays Temple Stone
    399 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. mQ accompaniment of Buddhist chants and 1 hymns, the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, laid the foundation-stone of the $200,000 Buddhist temple (Sri Lankaramaya) in St. Michael’s Road, yesterday afternoon. After the stone-laying ceremony, Sir Franklin told a gathering of several hundred people of
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    T.B. Rate In Penang ‘Depressing’
    172 13 T.B. Rate In Penang Depressing’ PENANG, Feb. 24. IF an extensive tuberculosis survey was carried out among Penang’s estimated population of 455,000, it would probably be found that the number of cases requiring treatment and care would be between 7.000 and 10.000, said the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. C. H
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    Funeral Of Mr. J. Redhill
    134 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 25. RELATIVES and friends frorTl Kuala Lumpur and Singapore attended the fune*v;stCTday at the ThomSL Road Jewish Cemetery, of Mr Jack Red--2.1 1' lh e broadcasting pianist. v™ J‘ el ln K «ala Lumpur jesterday morning. cm r b °f dy was flown
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    5 YEARS FOR EXTORTION
    83 13 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 24. Extortion is rampant in this country, said Mr. Justice Laville sentencing Chin Wu Wah. alias. Wong Pan Chai, to five years' rigorous imprisonment and 10 strokes with a heavy rotan for extorting $4O from Ho Tuck, a shopkeeper
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    PAHANG MALAY LANGUAGE VOTE
    160 13 K,;™ 0 S alT c<>rT wpondent LA lumpur, Peb 24 hair at three Pa 5<*tin* tod* J e f l te Council in‘ a and Fr\l t ivh t h Malay or official nr r h be used in tbe State. rres Pondence in I( as
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    Bigger Aid To Chinese Schools
    206 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. ITNDER a new grants-in-aid scheme to Chinese 1 schools, proposed by the Singapore Department of Education, financial assistance to middle schools would be Increased from $48,386 paid to them in 1948, to more than $200,000. The scheme, according to an official statement
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    Woman Bandit Shot Dead
    256 13 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Feb. 24 A WOMAN bandit named Chang Ah Kiew, alias Fak /A Moi, identified as a Communist area representative, was yesterday shot dead by the police at Batu Gajah after a half-mile chase. Another woman who was trying to escape with
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    EXCESS LOAD
    26 13 JOHORE BAHRU. Feb. 24. Chong Min Kong, a lorry driver, was fined $160 today for carrying an excess load of bananas in his lorry.
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    RICE RETAILER LOSES LICENCE
    145 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. A BDUL Majid, proprietor of a rice retail shop in Tanjong Pagar Road, and Samsuddin, the manager of the shop, pleaded guilty before the First District Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks, to a charge of hoarding 1,614 katis of rice. Abdul Majid was
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    Trade Fair For Colony -120 Stalls
    98 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. A TRADE fair, sponsored by two Chinese merchants in Singapore, is expected to open in June or July. Mr. Cheah Kim Bee, one of the sponsors, said yesterday that on 12 acres, at the junction of Joo Chiat Road and Geylang
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    Guards Rewarded
    35 13 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 24. The kampong guards who recently arrested two Chinese smuggling a large quantity of matches into Johore from Singapore have been given a reward of $5OO by the Customs Department.
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    Education Degree Wanted
    162 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. rAT the University of Malaya should establish a Bachelor’s degree in Education is suggested by Mr. Cheong Hock Hai writing In the latest issue of the Orad, monthly bulletin of Raffles graduates. “If far less useful subjects can be raised to the status of
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    Borneo Co. Party
    150 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. PRESENTATIONS w*e r e made last night at a cocktail party in the Adelphi Roof Garden to Mr. Kenneth H. Simpson. Eastern general manager of the Borneo Company and Chairman of Borneo Motors, who is leaving shortly for Britain to take over a directorship
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    INDONESIAN TRADE, 1948
    50 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. Singapore’s share of Indonesian exports last year was about 150,000 tons worth Olds 15,100,000. Total value of Indonesian exports trebled last year to Glds 1,043,900,000. Chief Items were: Oil products, Glds. 260,200,000; rubber Glds. 256.100,000; copra Glds. 155,400,000: and tin and tm-ore Glds. 153,200,000.
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    ‘Without Colour Or Class’—Plea By Delegates
    422 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 27. conference of Federation trade unionists ended this evening with the appointment of a five-man committee to consider action on a series of resolutions and to act as liaison between the body of trade unionists and the
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    LORRY OFFENCES
    28 14 MUAR, Feb. 26.—The Cheng Kim was fined $25, or three weeks gaol for overloading a lorry. See Chi was fined $l5 for carrying passengers in lorry.
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    DEATH OF Mr.CHEONG HOCK CHYE
    120 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. MR. Cheong Hock Chye, Singapore auctioneer and land valuer, died suddenly yesterday morning at the age of 49 He had been In the auctioneering business for mo r e than 25 years, having followed his father, the lato Mr Cheong Koon Seng.
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    Rubber Ban Welcomed
    99 14 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Feb. 27. rE Federation Government’s decision to ban rubber exports to Siam and Burma Is welcomed in rubber circles here. The president of the Penang Rubber Exchange, Mr. Heah Joo Seang, to'd the Straits Times today the ban would eliminate the unfair
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    SINGAPORE WEEK-END WEDDINGS
    204 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. THERE were two weddings at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore, on Saturday. Miss Thalia Alexander Jones, daughter of Mrs B Jones of London, was mar1 ried to Mr. John Alexander Graham, son of Mr. and Mrs F. Oraham of Dundee. i Mrs. Graham is a
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    POLICEMAN FINED $150
    84 14 From Our Staff Corresno-iiG’-t JOHORE BAHRU. Feb. 27. iarnei bin Abdul Raol. ot me Auxiliary Police, was fined $l5O or one month’s imprisonment yesterday for stealing $5O. He and two other auxiliaries arrested three Chinese sampan men at the mouth of "he Sungei Dangar when they found
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    AID TO FAMILIES OF BANISHEES
    38 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. The Singapore Chines* Chamber of Commerce decided Ht a meeting to set up a sub-committee to investigate th* possibilities of giving aid t« families of Chinese banishees from the Colony.
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    COMMISSIONERS & S.T.C. FARES
    300 14 COMMISSIONERS S.T.C. FARES SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. REGARDING the Straits u Times report of Friday’s Municipal Commissioners’ meeting, under the heading ‘‘S.T.C. Not Empowered to Charge Ten Cents a Mile,” the Deputy President, Mr. W. L. Blythe, -points out that the Singapore Traction Company is. and has for over 20 years,
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    Chinees Form Citizenship Association
    716 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 27. THE Malayan Chinese Association embracing all Chinese above the age of 18 who intend to make Malaya their “permanent home/' Vas formally established at a meeting here today. Mr. Tan Cheng Lock, who was loudly cheered by the
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    KNOCKED DOWN
    41 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 27. A 54 -YEAR-OLD trlshj* rider who was k n<jC sf«t down by a European motors at the Orchard Road rouno about at 7.55 p.m. yesterday* was treated at the Gen* 1 Hospital a s an outpatient.
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    SQUATTER SWEEP ON BORDER VILLAGES: JAPS IN AREA
    300 15 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 28. SECURITY Forces went into action this mor ning to clear squatter areas on the kpdah-Siam border around the villages of gintok and Bukit Kachi. The operation is being carried out under Regulation 17D and
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    SAILOR FINED FOR BRAWLING
    80 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. 4 CANADIAN seaman, who that he had been under the influence dt liquor, was lined $6O in the Singapore Third Police Court yesk'rday lor brawling in a ship >n port. He was Patrick Gallivan, •aid was lined $5O for assaulting Sub-Inspector Kinna on
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    NO PAY BUT SHE’S HAPPY
    96 15 Singapore;, Mar. i. Cher^ hagen m usic teaRosendai** aren An derson in sinffi’r nas j ust arrived *itho?i? 5? r <? n a ‘work enjoyiL trip Dut she is ShpF 11 neverthei*-.^ children A° Verness to three Tokyo m h t°K a r e :>oulld
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    $1,000 FINE
    45 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. Charged with assisting in the management of chap ji kee, Lee Kong Hui, was fined $l,OOO in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. Abdul Latiff, of Market Street, was fined $2,000 yesterday for possession of dutiable tobacco.
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    Orchids And Animals
    676 15 Planters Wife 0n.... A MAN we know had a relative who was a member of the Royal Orchid Society. One morning we found a very attractive ground orchid and this man, who was always on the look out for new specimens or good ones of known plants,
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    Mr. Bourdillon Arrives
    261 15 *<JIFT OB LOAN' MISSION SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. A FEW hoars after his arrival in Singapore by air from Britain yesterday, Mr. H, T. Bourdillon, head of the Colonial Office Finance Department, went to Government House for a talk with the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson. Mr. Bourdillon, who
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    Tributes To Dr. Sarban
    103 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. Tributes to the late Dr. Sarban Singh were paid In verse, song and prayer at a condolence meeting in the Central Sikh Temple, Queen Street, Singapore yesterday. Sardar'Balwant Singh, President of Singapore Khalsa Association, spoke of the loss the community had suffered by
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    Red With A White Flag
    85 15 BENTONG, Feb. 28. AT 7.30 this morning, a youug Chinese entered the Kuantan police station carrying a white flag. He told the police officer on duty: “I am a bandit 1 am tired of being one. A surrender myself. My gun is in the jungle.
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    CENSUS REPORT DELAYED
    156 15 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 28. PRINTING difficulties are holding up publication of the official Report on the Malayan Census which was carried out in September 3947. The census chief, Mr. M. V. Del Tufo had expected to issue the report last September. A recent
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    MISUNDERSTANDINGS SAYS ONN
    234 16 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 28. MISUNDERSTANDINGS had arisen during the year which could have been avoided by a better appreciation on the part of the Federal authorities of the rights and jurisdiction of this Government within its territory, said the Mer.tri Besar of Johore
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    TAXI MURDER: CAR FOUND
    201 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. THE mining taxi in the Chang! “spanner” killing was found early yesterday In the Alexandra Road area—about 15 miles from the place where the battered body of the driver wag discovered last Friday. Inside the car was found the victim's identity card and
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    NEW TEMPLE FOR COLONY
    90 16 SINOAPORE, Mar. 1. A Temple of Learning, known as the “Vldya Mand*r is to be built at 5 Chand**r Road by the North Indian Hindu Association of Singapore. This was decided recently at an extraordinary general meeting of the Association. The property at Chander Road was
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    MALAY SOLDIERS GO TO SEA
    135 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26. COR the first time in the history of the Malay Regiment, a company went to sea when it was taken by destroyer from Port Dickson to action stations at, Kota Bahru in Kclantan The trip on H.M.S.
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    THE DIRECTOR of the Singapore Botanical Gardens, Mr. R. E. Holttum (above) and the Director of Raffles Museum, Mr. M. W. F. Tweedie, have just returned from New Zealand after attending a three-week congress of scientists convened by the Pacific Science Association. Mr. Holttum told the Straits Times that botanical subjects discussed at the congress were seaweeds and conservation of plant and animal life.
    64 16 THE DIRECTOR of the Singapore Botanical Gardens, Mr. R. E. Holttum (above) and the Director of Raffles Museum, Mr. M. W. F. Tweedie, have just returned from New Zealand after attending a three-week congress of scientists convened by the Pacific Science Association. Mr. Holttum told the Straits Times that botanical
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    Mr. G. A. Bridgeman
    23 16 SINGAPORE. Mar. 1. Mr. G. A. Bridgeman has been appointed to act as Comptroller-General of Income Tax for Malaya.
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    Big Air Attack On Bandits
    207 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 28. rpHE largest number of RAF aircraft—four 1 Beaufighters and eight Spitfires—today made the most concentrated attack since the Emergency on a bandit camp eight miles south of Triang, in the south-east corner of Pahang. After the attack,
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    $2,500,000 A Year
    57 16 SINGAPORE. Mar. 1. THE revision oi salaries of Municipal servants will cost over $4,000,000 this year—including retrospective payments from January, 1948. The annual cost will be about $2,472,000. This includes $1,052,000 for personal emoluments, $742,000 for cost of living allowances; $143,000 for provident fund donations; $240,500 for
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    HAD OPIUM
    47 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. Yu Yuk Kwong, aged 27, who tvas found in possession of nine pounds of opium on a motor sampan in Singapore River on Feb. 8, wis yesterday sentenced to eight months' rigorous imprisonment by the Second District Judge, Mr. J. L. McFall.
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    “Contempt” Suit Dismissed
    824 16 SINGAPORE, Mir. l. rr»HE application made by Republic Picture A International Corporation of New York, for order for a writ of attachment for contempt of Court against Messrs. Shaw Brothers, trading as tht Eastern Film Agency, was dismissed with costs by Mr. Justice Gordon-Smith in the Singapore
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    T.B. Expert Tells Of “Handicaps”
    92 16 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Feb. 28 MALAYA'S main handicaps 11 in her fight against tuberculosis were shortages In equipment, trained staff and Inadequate housing. Dr A. J. Morland said today in his first Press conference given since his arrival in this country. Dr. Morland.
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    $1500 FINE FOR CORRUPTION
    82 16 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Feb. 27. Convicted on a charge ct corruptly giving Sgt. Moffatt, ot tae 221 Vehicle Coy.. $7O to '.nduce him to deliver six fuel pump injectors valued at $l,OOO each. Seow Teck Meng. who said he was a dealer and
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    “I’M NOT A DON JUAN”
    99 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1 ‘l’m not a Don Juan“ saw Mohamed Ayob. 23. of 3 len bury Road who was sentenced to six weeks* rigorous l m Pj\ sonment in the Third Ponce Court yesterday for havinj attempted to extort $lO ro a coffee shop waitress
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    “Strive For Members’ And Public Good,” C.-G. Tells Union
    394 17 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 24. <,ooD trade union strives not only to protect A its members’ interests, but also to make a constructive contribution to the public good, the ommissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, said last night at the dinner
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    QUALIFIED STAFF SHORTAGE
    167 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. THE Government’s public *orks programmes are neld up because of the shortage of technical staff, esspecialiy engineers. Tne Colonial Secretary, Mr P A B. McKerron, told *ne Straits Times that, “altnoikun this is a limiting lactor, tne position can be xpected to improve from
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    New Check On Illegal Entry
    117 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. T J'RFVENT Indians land- ing m Singapore by the jy ‘°rged entry permits, —ngapore immigration jUt.iorities will in future send Indian Government a L" kTa Ph of every person to r T n an j'ntry permit has D, n issued. r ‘>*'
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    New Annual $50 Tax Voted On Wagons
    129 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. WITH retrospective effect from January, every wagon tyith* four or more wheels and not mechanically propelled will be taxed $5O annually. This decision was approved by the Municipal Commissioners yesterday when the Deputy Municipal President, Mr. W. L. Blythe’s motion
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    GUNMEN’S VICTIMS WERE ASLEEP
    51 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 24. believed to be Ma lays, fired from under the u floor boards of two huts in a kampong in the Mentakab area early yesterday morning and killed a Malay man and a Malay woman sleeping in each. Shotguns were used by the
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    “MORE MARKETS NO SOLUTION”
    115 17 TIIP SINGAPORE Feb 26. I rjf p oty Municipal Pretni M tf r Mr w L Blythe> t'Tdav lh or l lrnis ‘Sioners yesthe rf r h 4t he did not think ot more marf oiu., flolve the hawker He was replying to Mr. Sandy G.
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    MR. E. C. G. BARRETT, newly-appointed Registrar of Federal Citizens. He will register new Federal councillors who are not Federal citizens by right until the organisation is ready to start work at the end of next month. Deputy and assistant registrars are being appointed to assist him.
    51 17 MR. E. C. G. BARRETT, newly-appointed Registrar of Federal Citizens. He will register new Federal coun cillors who are not Federal citizens by right until the organisation is ready to start work at the end of next month. Deputy and assistant registrars are being appointed to assist him. —Straits Times
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    ‘Keep S.V.C. Tradition’
    89 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. OFFICER 3 of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, at a meeting last night at the S.V.C. headquarters, expressed the wish that the proposed Singapore Liaison Regiment should be known as the Singapore Volunteer Corps (Liaison), so that tradition would not be lost. The officers met
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    Nurse Gets 5 Months’ Gaol For Child’s Death
    337 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 25 I OVV Hiang Boon, a 24-year-old Chinese probationary nurse, was today sentenced to five months’ simple imprisonment for a negligent act, not amounting to culpable homicide, which resulted in the death of a child
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    CHINESE SCHOOLS FEAR CONTROL BY GOVERNMENT
    174 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. PROPOSALS for extra financial assistance to eight Singapore Chinese middle schools were rejected because Chinese educationists felt that acceptance might open the door to direct Government control. The proposals were formally turned down by a meeting of the committee of management
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    AID ONLY IF THEY GO TO CHINA
    100 17 I From Our Staff Correspondent j KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 28. ANLY destitute dependants 'f of banishees who wish to be repatriated can hope to receive aid from the Social Welfare Department, a welfare official said today. So far aid has been given to
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    Medical Aid: Council Plea
    112 17 From Our Staff Correvoondcnt JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 28. MEDICAL treatment for children attending private English schools and aided English schools was urged by Mr. J. Ponnam palam, at today’s meeting of the Johore Council of State. Children attending Government schools received free medical treatment but the
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    Stole Pair Of Shoes
    43 17 SINGAPORE, Fob. 25. For stealing a pair of shoes worth $8, Yco Lcng Chuan, of Pegu Road, was sentenced to one day’s simple imprisonment and fined $100 by tiie Singapore Third Police Court Magistrate, Mr. F B OeliJers, yesterday.
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    Cave Bandits Allowed Only ‘Friends’ As Squatters
    620 18 From Our Staff ('orrestMxadeuit KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 24. ANLV bandit sympathisers were permitted to remaim in a squatter area six miles north of Kuala Lumpur, known as Batu Caves North, which the Selangor Police began clearing this morning under the Emergency Regulatings. Bandits
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    Broker Is Bound Over
    129 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 26. ENGLISH-speaking Janl bin Abdullah of Lorong 37, who described himself as a “sort ot broker,” was bouna over in the sum of $5OO two sureties in the Eighth Police Court yesterday. Jani was originally charged with cheating a Malay noodles seller, Ahmad bin
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    COURT WORK HELD UP
    61 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 26 The Registrar of Vehicles, Mr. W. A. M. Watt*, was sick and, therefore, his court work had accumulated, the Deputy Municipal President, Mr. W. L. Blythe said yesterday. Mr. Blythe said he had requested the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, to allow the Deputy
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    Ban-Breakers To Get No Jute
    164 18 SINGAPORE. Feb 24 JNDIAN and Chinese firms in Singapore which have helped South Africa to circumvent India’s ban on jute exports there will be refused Indian export quotas. The ban on the export ol jute to South Airica was imposed as a reprisal for the
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    CIGARETTES: $1,000 FINE
    61 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 24. Llm Guan Seng was fined $l,OOO, or three months’ rigorous Imprisonment, by the Fourth Police Court Magistrate. Mr M. H. MacDougal, tor possessing 29.500 sticks of dutiable cigarettes. The cigarettes were found iii two sacks in ,t taxi in Rorhnre Canal Road on Jan.
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    Batu Caves Area Cleared Out
    336 18 A Bandit Was Looking On From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 24 Vl/’IfILL troops and police were clearing out a squatter area at the foot of the limestone cliffs at Batu Caves, six miles north of Kuala Lumpur this morning, a bandit sentry watched
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    RED AGENT ARRESTED
    115 18 SEREMBAN. Feb. 25. DELIEVED to be the chief collector of the Malayan Communist Party in the Lubu area of Negri Sembilan Loo Chin v-a* arrested in a oolicc raid on the Bukit Tiga area. 18 miles from Seremban at dawn today. Tin* morning. a party of Sakai*
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    5 CENT MISTAKE COSTS HER $80
    64 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. “It is high time you knew the regulation price for a cup of coffee,” the First District Judge told a 31-year-old woman Siew Kum Yoke yesterday. Siew, the proprietress of a coffee shop in Oeylang, was fined $BO for overcharging five
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    FUNDS URGED FOR ANTI-T.B. BODY
    52 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. Mr. Sandy G. Pillay asked the Commissioners meeting yesterday for a contribution to the Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association. He said that the Association was doing good work for the people of Singapore. Now that the Association had actually come into being, it needed
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    Durian Case: $100 Bail
    67 18 SINGAPORE IK,Mi w. Bail of sioo wa* m in the Fourth p 0 lr(l Court yesterday whti, C] 1(!0 Yee Kee and Nc-o Tw, San claimed trial to the theft oi a durian, value*! at cents. The durian, property of Cher Seng Kim. wa.s to have
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    Less Money To China Last Year
    103 18 SINGAPORE. Fcd >G f airily r.:r vances from Slngapor l ini the Federation last, ye 'totalled $15,422,843, ao irding to official statistic*. This means a decrease of s'".' 22:181 compared with id 1947. Of the total reim>\i*icci to China from Malaya iasl year. Singapore
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    White Australia: ‘Economic Need’
    162 18 SINGAPORE, Feb 2b SYED Isa bin Alwi, Johore Boy Scout Commissions who accompanied the Malayan contingent to the Pan-Pacific Jamboree in Australia, told 250 Maiaj teachers at Batu Pahat that the White Australia policy was primarily an economic necessity. the Sultan of Johore, he said, had
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    $2,000 Grant Allowed
    53 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2» THE Vehicles Inspector, Mr R. E. Donough, wbo injured as a roof-spotter during the war, was aHowea an ex-gratia grant of by the Municipal Commissioners yesterday. He has lost a certain amount of his earning capa city, the Deputy President. Mr. W. L. Blythe,
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    FED. POWER DEARER
    88 18 From Our Staff Coftespo™}® 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb 2b Electricity charge* throughout the Federation will be increased by ptv cent from Tuescu Selangor, water rate. aLso been increased electricity increase to all consumers except cast mines and tin drt<i!;w The increased P n effected by raisin,; sent
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    GURKHA BOXER GETS OVATION
    470 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. FIKKV little Gurkha captured the hearts of 5,000 A people who witnessed the FARELF individual ind team boxing championships held at the Happy World stadium last night. Among the crowd were oinmissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. and Mrs. MacDonald and the Governor, Sir r
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    OLD BOYS WIN BY FIVE RUNS
    276 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. IN a Milling cricket match at r i-ville yesterday. St. A rd r t the Old Boys beat the. mtion by five runs ait» r Sinhalese Captain lad allow t* t \tra time. I y. era scored a chanccles? 55 f
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    Victorians Win
    50 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. Tiic Victoria School socc°r capT i:?. i s.illi. scored both goals and nitvcrl n big part In his sideo t '*°*or ictory v sterday over the Ancle- Chinese School on the Victoria School grund Tii Anglo-Chinese School got a P?n;.!:v goal in the first half.
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    TWO-ONE WIN
    35 19 SINGAPORE. Feb. 28. The Cheerful Lads “A” team the Rocklites XI by T n W() to one on the Choon tiuan School ground yesterScorers for the Lads Kw*' \vah* Marican and n S
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    S.C.C. In Top Form, Beat R.A. 25-3
    401 19 n,.., SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. I v C.C. had a very good matre v ye terda y in their HovVi* the Combined croV*!., (Malaya), the r ver six i-inies to beat Poiiv hands down by 25 goa? I goals a penalty (on, V.‘, falr
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    SCC Draw 1-1 With SHB Police
    242 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. MAKING their soccer debut this season, the Singapore Cricket Club shared two goals with the Singapore Harbour 3oard Auxiliary Police In a game played on the Padang yesterday. Play never reached a very high standard, but the teams made amends for
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    Mixed Teams Draw 1—1
    137 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. THE Singapore Cricket Club and the Singapore Recreation Club wound up their hockey program mes for the season yesterday wall a mixed hockey match played on the padang yesterday. The result was a one-all draw. The Rees opened the score through Lceinbruggerr in
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    PENANG PROUD OF THE TEIK HOCKS
    329 19 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 27. DENANG today shared in the general jubilation A over Malaya’s Thomas Cup triumph. The settle* ment took special pride in the fact that its representatives —the two Teik 'Hocks—had played such a notable part in the country’s
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    R.E. WIN 4-1
    27 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. THE Royal Engineers beat the 8.0. D. Civilian Association bv four-one in a game of soccer played at Hillman Barracks yesterday.
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    R.E. OPEN WITH FINE VICTORY
    517 19 Soccer Starts SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. THE ROYAL Engineers won the opening S.A.F.A. 1 Senior League soccer game in no uncertain manner yesterday, beating the Tiger Sports Club by four goals to one at Jalan Besar Stadium. A fairly large crowd saw a robust game in
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    Fancy-Dress Hockey Cups
    147 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. ■pHEItE was plenty of fun and good hockey in the Singapore hockey carnival on the S.C.C ground ytsterday to mark the close of the season. It? the first match, Singapore women put up a valiant fight but went down to the experience and strategy
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    Malayan Markets Feel The Effects Of The Home Press
    686 20 From A Market Correspondent of exchange was maintained but V quotations in the Malayan share market showed losses in all sections over last week. It could hardly have been otherwise in the face of the Press which Malaya has received in
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    OUTPUT OF TIN SOARS
    115 20 Banka Billiton From Our Own Correspondent BATAVIA, Feb. 24. DANKA and Billiton tin mine production last year exi the 1938 output Exports from Banka In 1948 totalled 18,562 tons, valued at 74 300.000 guilders (as against 10.000 tons valued at 40,000,000 guilders in 1947. Exports from
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    LAHAT MINES DIV.
    42 20 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Feb. 24. IAHAT Mines directors have declared an interim dividend of 7$ per cent, less income tax at 9s. It will be payable in London on Mar. 24 to shareholders registered on Fob. 22.
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    The Week In Rubber
    206 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. IN a rubber market which can be regarded as featI ureless, the outlook is very obscure. Although there are several factors which will eventually make themselves felt, none is yet sufficiently definite to influence the trend, says Lewis Peat’s weekly market report. O
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    NO HURRY FOR JAP TRADE
    209 20 SINGAPORE, Feb OINGAPORE merchants are not worried ab ut the delay in announcing Malaya's share of the goods which the sterling area is allowed to import from Japan. They say that the large stocks of cou.jara tively high-priced British and American goods in Malaya would
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    Texas Tin Output
    25 20 'J'HE Longhorn tin smelter at Texas City in January produced 3.250 long tons of tin. The December figure was 3.158 long tons.
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    5% DIVIDEND FOR SEDENAK RUBBER
    107 20 CEDENAK Rubber Estates* accounts for the year to Oct. 31, 1948, show a profit of £14,661. The directors recommend a dividend of five per cent, less tax, pavable on Mar. 29. This would be the first dividend distribution since the interim Payment of six per
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    Federation’s 58,637 Tons
    165 20 Federation’ s 58,637 Tons From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Feb 24 RuBB&K proauciitii in tne Ha* ration of Malaya last month totalled 58,637 tons 6sl t s rnoJ ui4*a ui Decemoer. and the fourth highest figure since the Er.:e:--« began. 1 Estate production totalled 36*07 tons (1,780 tons below
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    LUMUT RUBBER’S FIVE PER CENT.
    99 20 LUMUT RUBBER’ S FIVE PER CENT. LUMUT Kubber announces a n r t profit for the year to S pc. 30 1948. of £19.930, against £9 744 fo- 1946-47. There is added to the former figure £11.093 reserve; and provisions brought back, recov ries in th-' East and profit on
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    806 20 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Atlas Ice 14 00 15 00 Alex Bricks Prcf. 2.87 4 2 92 4 Ord 1 17 4 2 02 4 8.8 Petrol 40/9 41/9 B.M Trustees 7.50 8.50 Con Tin Smelters Pret 23/0 24/0 Ord. 16/0 18/E Utd Assut 40
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