The Straits Budget, 10 March 1949

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  • 30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED O VER A CENTURY] No. 136. Singapore Thursday, March, 10th 1949 Price 40 centa (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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    • 218 2 IT is interesting to note that the All-Malaya Chettiar Chamber of Commerce has promised co-operation with the Government by refusing assistance, help or protection money to terrorists, in response to Sir Henry Gurney’s appeal. Chinese associations have given the same assurance to the Government. But it
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    • 235 2 IF our reactionary capitalists were looking to efficient spokesmen they could not find better ones than your two correspondents, “Taxpayer” and “Barker Street.” It may interest them to know that Municipal employees would be only too glad to receive their pre-war salaries if only
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    • 122 2 Please Don’ t Make US Millionaires.... MAY I draw the attention of the various turf clubs to the evil of swelling the sweeps by hundreds of thousands of dollars subscribed by thousands of members and distributing them to just a handful of members. Fo ,n stAnce. the big sweep of
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    • 336 2 SIGNIFICANT feature of the recent inaugural meeting of the Malayan Chinese Association is the one-nation theory which Mr. Tan Cheng Lock has introduced. In propounding such a theory Mr. Tan has no doubt in mind the gradual evolution of a Malayan nationalism, as distinct from
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    • 153 2 Mancroft’s speech in the House of Lords last week must have been read with interest both in the Colony and the Federation. Many will agree with him when he says that there are too many police checking do 4 licences instead of causing tht bandits
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    • 135 2 Recently the local Press has been reporting proposals for the settlement of claims for compensation due to the war. In various directions, governments have reciprocal arrangements between themselves. Might these not be extended to include War Compensation Claims? This would mean that the Malayan Governments would compensate
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    • 81 2 VIR Sen Choy’s suggestion of an increase of one cent on every unV of electricity used to meet the new revised Mj. nicipal salaries scheme is a brainwave. Mr. Ng must have several more of these wonderful ideas of getting mon monev to meet this kind
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    • 79 2 II WHILST we appreciate 1 very much the issue of the little extra things over and above the ration, such as the tins o! butter recently, why must the issue be left too late? Some of these tins 1 1 butter were rancid, and had
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    • 265 2 rpHE recent gesture by A the Malayan Chinese Association to co-operate with all communities to establish a “one nation in Malaya” is very timely and of great significance. The emergency has struck home to all peace loving peoples of Malaya that a united
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    • 96 2 WRITE in defence o' the Singapore Police, particularly the Security Branch They are defenceless themselves in this instance against your correspondent “Pestered,” whose letter appeared in the Straits Times last Saturday Since when has tnere bees banditry in Singapore? Has “Pestered” been robbed. shot at, or been
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    • 91 2 IAM curious to why police doi bloodhounds have no been used to trace bandits who sho an run. I suppose the an that there arc no > available, or that tl. not survive the jung tions, or that they v be favoured from scr pies, but would
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    • 665 3 —Straits Times. Mar. 3. Christopher Mayhew's antic blunder at Lake va seems to have done no ,r:a and perhaps even some (H j Goaded by Russian the Under-Secretary f.’,,:k-irii Affairs committed r to the statement that y. n. is at last approaching rail balance of overseas :vV
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    • 401 3 —Straits Times. Mar. 3. 'Singapore’s Municipal Commissioners have approved, with only one amendment, the interim report of the salaries revision committee. It is an approval which requires the consent of the colonial Government, but although this will be something more than a formality, it is not anticipated that
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    • 784 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 4. It is a little tiresome to be told in and out of season how “trivial” is Malayan taxation. Most visiting firemen make the observation, without knowing much about it and certainly without knowing how' ninetenths of the people of this country struggle
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    • 329 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 4. General MacArthur’s discussion with Mr. G. Ward Price of Japan’s place in Anglo-American strategy in the Pacific presumably ends the Royall incident. The lesson, however, remains. Either high American officials should talk less, or reporters should be diplomats. It was an undesirable episode,
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    • 642 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 5. Nothing has emerged yet from the debate on British defence preparations which gives the slightest support for the Russian charge that Britain and the West are planning a war of aggression. Parliamentary discussion of the defence estimates, which began yesterday, indeed is
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    • 268 4 —Strains Times, Mar. 5. The introduction by United Engineers of a “profit sharing’’ scheme for their artisans is an experiment which other large employers of industrial labour will watch with interest. It is not, of course, a novel inducement, but it differs from most bonus schemes in
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    • 156 4 —Straits Times, Mar. 5 Moving with the tide, my Lords of the Admiralty have decided that band boys in the Royal Navy will be known in future as “boy musicians.” The magic of a name is undeniable, though whether “boy musicians” improves upon the other is
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    • 683 4 —Straits Times, Mar. 7. In the Soviet system of government important changes in Ministerial posts are so rare that usually there is temptation to read more into any change than is justified by the circumstances. It is a temptai tion which is encouraged by the curious democratic
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    • 398 4 —Straits Times, M ar The Viceregal tradition which made the annual meeting of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce an occasion for a statement of policy has been adopted by India’s Premier, and never has the Federation listened to a more earnest warning than that which Pandit
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    • 683 4 —Straits Times. Mar. 8. South Hammersmith, wht’n Labour held against, a strorl Conservative challenge, brought the affairs of the servative Party to crisis. Trclue is found in an ir.cor. spicuous item in the week-end news. At a meeting of Cor. servative Members of Parks, ment, Mr. Churchill
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    • 305 5 —Straits Times, Mar. 8. There will be contests for all eighteen elected seats on Singapore’s new Municipal Commission, the polling for vhich takes place on April 2. Sixteen of the candidates are oeing put up by the Progressive Party, five by the newly formed Labour Party and seven
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    • 756 5 —Straits Times, Mar. 9. An innocuous provision in a new bill to amend the Telegraph Ordinance will give the Singapore Legislative Council at its meeting next week an opportunity, if it cares to, to discuss radio-diffusion. The bill is for the “protection of persons to whom a
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    • 378 5 —Straits Times, Mar. 9. Some remarkable figures of Hong Kong’s trade boom were given by Mr. A. Morse, chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, in his statement to the annual meeting of shareholders. In 1946, the Clearing House figures totalled H.K. $3,000 million, in 1947
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  • 158 5 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH.Mar. 8. INCREASING instances where 1 young women and girls were found to be assisting bandits were referred to by Mr. M. G. Neal, Federal Counsel, Perak, in the Assizes today. Two young, attractive Chinese women, Chang Keow. aged 20, and Yong
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  • 234 5 SINGAPORE, Mar. 9. A BID to fly to the side of her husband lying ill in a London hospital i s being made by Mrs. Lim Chuan Geok, wife of the Malayan Thomas Cup captain and manager. As soon as news of Mr. Chuan
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  • 108 5 SINGAPORE, Mar. 9. “You knew perfectly well you were sworn to tell the truth and you deliberately told a lie,” said the First District Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks, sentencing Ang Chuan, a labourer, to three months’ rigorous imprisonment. Ang had told the Coroner that
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  • PERSONAL
    • 128 5 TO EMMA, wife of Eric Mathieu, the gift of a daughter, at K.K Hospital. 1.3.49. BATES: On 3rd March. 1949, at Bungsar Hospital, to Jean and Peter Bates, a son. RAPSEY: To Grace, wife of Fred Rapsey, the gift of a son. Frederick, at Hendon, on 23rd January. MUNRO—On
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    • 19 5 THE MARRIAGE between Elizabeth Irene Hume A Henry Bennett Shaw, took place in B’pore on Feb. 28th, 1949.
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    • 22 5 CLARKE LLOYD. At St. Mary’s Church, Kuala Lumpur, on 3rd. March, 1924, Leslie Hughes Clarke to Annie Ruby Millicent Lloyd.
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  • 135 5 nriTIK MR. O. S. JITTS, father of Septsun Oh Cheng Chua and Octorine Oh Joo Llan, passed away peacefully In Australia on 9.1.49. Penang papers please copy. MRS. LEE TAN YING (nee Kum Swee Mun) parsed away peacefully yesterday at the General Hospital leaving behind four sons and two daughters
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  • 1475 6  -  By TUAN DJEK OUNDAY, Feb. 27—As it is now possible to restart the Diary it is proposed to take up the threads as from Jan. 9, so here goes: The Lord of the Dusun is still in exile vile, but at his age dares not think of
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  • 212 6 SINGAPORE, Mar 8 Differences between labour unions was given by the Deputy Public Proee •utor. Mr. A. H. Simpson the Singapore Assize Court yesterday a s the reason f or the alleged murder of an En gineering Union worker Gon Tiow Yong, at the Aik
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  • 101 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Mar. 5 rE first locally trained nurse to be promoted Sister in Johore is Miss Chong Ah Foo, who joined the service on Jan. 1. 1936. when she was 19 years of age. Previously a Health nurse in Johore she was promoted Hearth Sister.
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  • 262 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 3. THKM Hills, the enactment of which must precede the complete lifting of the Moratorium are expected to be published in Singapore ncx month. 'j'he Bills are: The Moratorium Proclamation Repeal l?ill the Dealings in Land Occupation Wriod Kill: and the Limitation Amendment Bill.
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  • 60 7 From Oor Staff Correspondent Kl ALA LUMPUR, Mar. 3. rpIIERL were $400,776,I ***** in currency notes in circulation in Malaya on Keb. 1 this year. The average amount in circulation in January this year was $400,331,778.26. The figures exclude the pre-invasion note issues amounting to 5238.804.936.95 which
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  • 100 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. SINGAPORE will have a new animal infirmary costing about $300,000, if plans now under consideration are approved. r The new infirmary*will be tn Henderson Road and, when completed, will be comparable to the best In Britain with facilities for coping with more
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  • 138 7 SBHOiiPOHB, Mar. 4. NC S F in melted tin, iJDber and palm oil ex«sB*>4 9M ade M up for i 4 lfja„X ayan OXPOrt 525 439 cS lted States taking United k n 1 ore an d the more £®f, K $13.308.311 tho ni m Mala
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  • 59 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar, 3. When the sixth meeting of the Rubber Study Group is held in London beginning on Mar. 28, in addition to those announced yesterday, Malaya will be represented on the British Colonial delegation by Sir John Hay. Mr. I. G. Salmond is
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  • 53 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. Mr. A. P. K. Krisnna was elected President at the second annual general meeting of the Technical College Lecturers’ Association. Other new officers are, Vice-President, Mr. Foo Eng Keng; Hon. Sec. and Treasurer. Mr. A. F. R. D’Souza; and Committee, Mr. Ung Cheng Pee and
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  • 79 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. THE full force oi wide technical experience—from India, Indo-China and Indonesia, the Federation and Singapore had been brought to bear to combat the importation of plants capable of infecting rubber crops in South-East Asia, said the Deputy Commissioner General (Foreign), Mr. P. S. Scrivener, yesterday.
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  • 114 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. COMPOSITION of the SingaV Dore Government Committee appointed last week to inquire into the question A controlling bookmaking in t v Colony was announced last night. Members are*; Mr. P. F. de Souza and Mr. Lim Yew Hock, who -ire Nominated Unofficial
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  • 37 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. The personal representative of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haji Tahir A 1 Fityani, who left Singapore on Tuesday collected $12,000 from Muslims in the Colony for relief work among Palestine Arabs.
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  • 108 7 IPOH, Mar. 3. COR ten days during which he was a captive of ban dits, a Chinese kepala had his head covered with a gunny sack. There was a hole in the sack, however, and peeping through this, the kepala
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  • 90 7 "TP t t N APORE Mar. 4. t! hall trouble your L h 'Plrst d cancelled L P Shank. Judge. Mr. thfQ^ M %5 et ca& of Smartly dressed in a red, white and blue frock, Margaret was charged with criminal intimidation by threatening Annie binte
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  • 185 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. THE Singapore Police »*adio 1 communications system is j now one of the most UD-to- date and efficient in the Far East, the Officer-in-Charge of 1 the Radio Division. Mr. J. R. C. Denny told the Straits Times yesterday. A V.H.F. (very high frequency)
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  • 153 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. WHILE trade union representatives in the Federation of Malaya have adopted the title of Malayan Trades Union Congress, unions in Singapore are not following suit. The acting Commissioner for Labour, Mr. G. W. Davis, said yesterday that he was not aware of
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  • 46 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. Because the Federation Government will not permit the Home Missionary Society of the Malayan Methodist Mission to work among the Sakais, it has shifted its work to the Dyaks, state the report at the annual conference of the mission here yesterday.
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  • 286 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. FOLLOWING a wage dispute, the majority of 600 Chinese women workers at two rubl/er packing plants in Singapore went on strike yesterday. The striking workers are employees of the Malayan Rubber Trading Co., Ltd., at its plant in the Singapore Harbour Board, and
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  • 129 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. The official publication of j the Singapore Municipal Services Union, The Bulletin, commenting on the salary revisions approved by the Commissioners, attacks the “capitalist attitude” of some employers. It states that Municipal employees have been drawing a pre war scale of salary plus a
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  • 93 7 From Our StafY Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 3. Killed on Monday in the first operation in which he was participating in Malaya, Corporal Herbert Glass, of the first Devons, was buried at Cheras Road cemetery yesterday. He was shot dead in the operations following the air strike
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  • 104 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. ONE of the two Australian Government (Fellowship) Scholarship holders for advance- siudv in Australia. Che Nuruddln bin Mohamed Balleh of Kuala Lipls. will leave for Melbourne on Monday Che Nuruddln will take ur a one-year post-graduate Co tine In advanced dentistry at Melbourne
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  • 134 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. rIE Methodist Mission Health Centre and Clinic at Sitiawan—the only one of its kind run by the Mission In Malaya—ga e treatment to 4,000 and examined 1,500 school children last year. Miss M. Dirksen, the American missionary In charge of the Institution,
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  • 66 8 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Mar. 7. THE manager oi dradwal! Estate in the Port Dickson area, Mr. Burns, came on two armed bandits while on his inspection yesterday. The bandits seemed to be receiving supplies from a Chinese woman. On seeing Mr. Burns, all three
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  • 103 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 6* SEVERAL thousand Chinese living in the Indragiri area of Sumatra, are being harass- ed by destitute villagers esti- mated to number 2,000. I Many raids on Chinese have been reported in recent weeks, resulting in the loss of life, property, and business.
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  • 80 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8 There was a decrease in the number oi taxis and buses licensed and registered in Singapore up to the end of February'. compared with figures at the end of 1948, records compiled by the Registrar of Vehicles show. While the number of motor
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  • 312 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 5., £RITICISM of the '‘apparent slowness” of the Federation's campaign against tuberculosis arises from a lack of knowledge of the true facts, states Mr. A. L. Shield in a foreword to his report on tuberculosis tabled at to-day’s meeting of the Tuberculosis
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  • 201 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. VISITING Malaya to make a 20-minute film of conditions here is a two-man film unit of “This Modern Age”, a unit of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. It arrived in Singapore on Thursday. The unit consists of,
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  • 115 8 SINGAPORE. Mar. 5. THE Chinese art of painting with the fingers is being revived in Singapore, and shortly an exhibition of such work by an artist, Wu Tsai Yen, will be opened by the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. Mr. Wu, who is attached to the
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  • 88 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. Fewer blackouts should occur in Singapore in future, the Straits Time* was told yesterday. The increase In blackouts in the past week has been due to on? boiler undergoing its annual overhaul and furnace trouble developing in one of the boilers at the
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  • 88 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mar. 5. REPRESENTATIVES of the Malay business community from all over the State decided at a meeting held in Johore Bahru yesterday to form a business association to be known as the Perskatuan Perniagaan dan Persuahaan Melayu. Johore. It Is hoped that by means of
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  • 158 8 SINGAPORE, Mifr. 6 BISHOP Arthur J. Moore of Atlanta, will c>me to Singapore in January, to preside over a ScuMi-eS Asia Conference of Method ists at which the delegate will elect their own bishoo for the area. This was announced yes. terday at the annual
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  • 44 8 PARIT BUNTAR Mar 5. Tan Kooi Liang hoiaer of a provlsicnal driving licence, was fined $lO when he pleaded guilty to two charges of driving without a competent driver beside him and failing to display the letter "L” on his car.
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  • 258 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. A HIGHWAY Code for Singapore was published by Government yesterday. The Safety First Committee has prepared a specially-planned and illustrated edition in four languages for the guidance and safety of all road-users. The code, as gazetted, is divided into 40 sections,
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  • 156 8 Seafarers Meeting Walk-Out SINGAPORE, Mar. 5 rE two representatives of the Seafarers’ Federation. Mr. M. A Majid and Mr. S.G King, walked out of the third meeting of the Seafarers Administration Board which was held in the Labour Department yesterday afternoon The Chairman of the Board. Mr. G. W. Davis,
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  • 197 9 BRIBERY’ SENTENCE QUASHED SINGAPORE. Mar. 5. 171- -Us'K William Norris, of t' "the Municipal Architect’s Department, who was senrenc?d to four months’ rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore Second Police Court on a charge of bribery. S cr free on appeal vesteriae before the Chief Justice <M: Justice Murray Aynslev* v
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  • 162 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. rUE Malayan Naval Force Regulations, 1949, 1 containing nine chapters and 34 articles ueie published yesterday. The following rales of daily pay have been announced. Basic pay: Ordinary rates on entry $1; when trained $1.20; able seaman rates $1.60; leading seaman
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  • 49 9 From Our Staff Corre?mmdent MALACCA, Mar. 4. RESTORATION of Ma- lacca’s free port status was discussed today by representatives of the Chinese and Indian Chambers of Commerce. This follows a petition by 'l4O Chinese businessmen and also a resolution of the Indian Chamber of Commerce.
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  • 69 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 4. ORDERS have been issued to the Food Control Department to begin issuing individual rice cards to all adults holding natiohal registration cards. By this step, it is expected that more holders of illegal rice cards or national registration certificates
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  • 140 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 4. THREE more bandits have been shot dead in the Federation. In the Kajang area of Selangor a Security Force patrol found a 10-man bandit camp after shooting a sentry dead Three tther bandits in the camp ran 'lf. In the Kuantan area of
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  • 124 9 35 YEARS MISSION WORK IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. A FTER 35 years’ service in Malaya furthering the cause of Methodist education,, the Rev. Preston L.Peach and Mrs. Peach will leave for America this year on retirement. Mr. Peach, as the educational secretary of the Methodist Mission, has been responsible
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  • 337 9 m SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. 'J’Hfei import of textiles from Japan is expected to begin next month following an announcement yesterday by the Singapore and Federation Governments on the basis on which import quotas will be divided. It is understood that a total of $7,000,000
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  • 161 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. THE life of Mrs. Sarojlni Naidu, the Governor of United Province, who died suddenly at Lucknow last Tuesday, had been an Inspiration to Indian women, said Mrs E. V Davies, presiding at a condolence meeting In oingapore yesterday. Mrs Davies said that she.
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  • 73 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 4. A ROUND-UP of small boys selling cigarettes in Klang was suggested by members of the Town Board at its meeting yesterday. The District Officer (Mr. M. S. ff. Sheppard) said the number of young vagrants selling cigarettes had
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  • 106 9 THE n! N AP0RE Mar. 5. 1 sumtrr'» f rity of the People Palitv th e MuntciHon ,f biii-, i? authorlved erechousino 1 lltl Ks claimed that pf >re com>i l jr ta se in SingathU com Pelied them to do The illiterate and poorer classes of
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  • 127 9 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mar. 4. V'ARAY ANAS AMY Sambasivam, a Tamil, was at the end of an emergency trial found not guilty by the assessors of two charges. First, of carrying arms; secondly, of being in possession of ten rounds of ammunition. Mr.
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  • 32 9 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mar. 4. The Johore Convent has launched an appeal to the public for funds to t nf n more class-rooms to be built.
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  • 247 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. THE annual value of a house In Thiam Slew Avenue had been Increased from $2,160 last year to $4,800 this year it wa s stated in the Singapore Rent Conciliation Board yesterday. The evidence arose In connection with a case brought by
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  • 76 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. SINGAPORE Buddhists have appealed to Government to declare Wesak, the birthday of the Buddha, which falls on the full moon day of May, “a public holiday for Buddhists at least, if not for all in the Colony.” A committee for this purpose was formed
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  • 68 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. The Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday recorded a finding of death by misadventure at an inquiry into the death of Yahaya bin Idris following an explosion at 443 B. O. D. Kranjl on Feb. 25. Mr. Porter said the cause of the
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  • 817 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. ITNITED Engineers’ directors have decided to introduce a profit-sharing scheme whereby their artisans will receive an ex gratia annual bonus, says the chairman, Mr. F. G. Ritchie, in his statement for the annual meeting in Singapore next Friday. The directors recommend a
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  • 220 10 Teachers College Planned For S’pore SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. nLANS lor a teachers' college tin Singapore are being prepared by the education authorities. This was stated by the acting Director of Education, Mr. A W. Frisby. when he addressed the Malaya annual conference of the Methodist Church yesterday. Mr. Frisby said
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  • 274 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. rrHE Singapore Labour Party last night named five more candidates who will stand for the Municipal elections. Thi s means the Party have now six candidates in the Held. “Nominations have not yet been closed” a Party official told the Straits
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  • 73 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. A 41-year-old European. Thomas Franklin was directed tp the Social W-Maie Department by the Second Police Court Magistrate. E V A. Peers, yesterday Franklin pleaded gul’ty to a eharge of vagrancy He said he had he*v a seaman far 25 years and was now unemployed
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  • 190 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. *TEN days after joining the 1L 4th Hussars in Malaya 19-year-old 2nd Lt. Jon Leopold Sutro fought an action against the bandits which resulted in him being awarded the Military Cross for gallantry This was announced in the London Gazette yesterday together with
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  • 291 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 4. LM)RMER Japanese estates in the Federation are earning incomes which, depending on the terms of any peace treaty between Japan and the Allies, will eventually set oft Japanese reparations to this country, states the Custodian of Enemy Property.
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  • 33 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. More than 350 tons at Australian onions were brought to Singapore yesterlay by the Tjinondok. Included in the snip’s cargo were 1,000 cases of apples.
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  • 266 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. TWENTY NINE YEAR old 1 Ng Gwek Meng, of Queen Street, wfco allegedly used photographs belonging to another person to obtain work with the Singapore Traction Company, was acquitted yesterday on a charge of cheating by impersonation. Ng had pleaded guilty, but his plea
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  • 79 10 KILLER’ S WIFE WEPT IN COURT SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. Convicted of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Lang Tai Long a young barber. was s°nteneed in r he Singapore Assize Court vesterdav by Mr. Justice Tavhr to six vears’ rigorous imprisonment. Lang’s wife, whom ho had recently married in China,
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  • 57 10 SINGAPORE. Mar. 5 The acreage of rubber tanned in the Federation u» January (1.631.941 acres) remained practically unchanged compared with December last year Of the 196.050 acres of rubber not tapped in January. 22 933 acres were on estates which ceased tapping. The area of rubber
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  • 67 11 Troops Fled ...El ephants v-rom Our Staff Correspondent K.IAU LI MPUR. Mar. 2. Hostile elephants forced patrol of the 2nd battalion of the Malay Regiment retreat in haste near Kuantan yesterday. The soldiers came on the elephants while advaneinr. h-t the elephants decided that they had no part in Malaya
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  • 221 11 From Our Staff (Correspondent PENANG, Mar. 2. hundred Buddhists from 31 Penang and Province Wellesley temples and associations decided yesterday afternoon to ask the Government to declare a public holiday on Buddha’s birthday. A committee appointed by th e meeting will draw
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  • 180 11 TB CLINIC IN EVERY DISTRICT’ From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 2. MALAYA needs a tuberculosis clinic in every district, and travelling radiography teams, said Dr. Andrew Morland, an expert on the disease, when he met council members of the Malayan Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in Kuala
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  • 278 11 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. BISHOP Ralph S. Cushman, Resident Bishop of the Methodist Church at St. Paul’s Minnesota, was gj ve n a great welcome yesterday by Malayan Methodists and others at a reception in Singapore’s Wesley Hall. Ministerial and lay leaders from every Methodist church
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  • 58 11 Mr a‘? G PORE Mar. 3. toine’d 4 Gurnn was enter“ents J’/' l >e staff of the InPot tim cf,lon 55 Supply Dehis dcnfSM° rf on the eva of P Mr r J t0 T B S ita i n for chairmnn 'Ji T ;Rocky, the branch Yr Jtt°
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  • 176 11 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. THE second Willem Ruys bride to be married in Singapore within two days was Miss Mary Winifred Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Williams of South Wales. Her bridegroom wa s Mr. Roland* Lovett of Yorkshire, now on the staff of Gammon Malaya.
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  • 153 11 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. /CERTAIN benefits to health are produced by Xj vitamin-reinforced rice according to feeding experiments on som e Singapore school children. Under the direction of Dr. C. J. Oliviero of the Biochemistry Department of King Edward VII Medical College, and in conjunction
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  • 84 11 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Mar. 2. CURIOSITY cost a P.W.D. labourer. Daud bin Mohd. ArifT, a $10 Fine, in default a week’s imprisonment, for contravening the ban on crackers under the Emergency Regulations. He told the First Magistrate, Mr. C. E. Rohless, that he found
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  • 188 11 JJUALA LllMP 1 S l POndenl THE Ocpn B U R Mar. 2. J A Rii Ta pln8 Mr. Ac® r Poral worrci u^ d a Sikh a‘r./?i 1Rht y woun dcamn e attark on a yesterday' near Taiping narty was folf am rxiCt J i
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  • 94 11 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mar. 2. J'he emergency has greatly interfered with the work of the Forest Department which, in some respects, is seriously in arrears, states an official report. The policy of encouraging the Johore sawmill industry has been continued, and 15 major and
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  • 155 11 SALARIES REPORT HISTORIC SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. rE current issue of Bulletin, journal of the Singapore Municipal Services Union, editorially describes the Report of the Municipal Salaries Revision Committee as a historic document Replying to a letter in the Straits Times, which pointed out that "statistics indicate that the trade boom
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  • 86 11 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. Formation of a Malayan Indian Federation will be discussed by representatives from the States and Settlements, Legislative Council members of the Federation and Singapore, lawyers, doctors, trade unionists and businessmen at Kuala Lumpur, next Saturday. The Malayan Indian Congress and some of the Regional
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  • 26 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 3. Two Chinese bandits were hanged today, one at Penang and the other at Johowe Bahru.
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  • 108 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 3. MRS. E. Stewart, publicity officer for the British Leather Export Corporation, describes the leather goods styles to he seen in Singapore shops as appalling. She has just spent 36 hours in the Colony on her way from Britain to Australia and New Zealand on
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  • 148 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 2. THE 16th anniversary of the raising of the Malay Regiment was celebrated by men of the First Battalion in Talping yesterday. It was the first time the whole battalion had been together since the start of the Emergency. But the battalion was not
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  • 71 12 SINGAPORE. Mar. 3. About 100 members of Singapore shipping firms and their friends attended a cocktail party and buffet supper on board the motor vcssol Tomar of the Wil Wilhelmson line which is homeward bound to Oslo from Hong Kong on her maiden voyage. The Tomar (10,000 to
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  • 627 12 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Mar. 2. ‘TO MAINTAIN a reasonable standard of life and amenities for our labourers and to Rive shareholders some small return on their capital, we need a round figure of 50 cents a pound for our rubber,” Mr. J. S.
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    48 12 A hut in a ko ngsi which received a direct hit from a 500-lb. bomb and several cannon shells when the R.A.F. on Mar. 1 made the biggest air attack since the emergency began on a bandit it hide-out in South Pa- hang.- -Straits Times picture.
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  • 94 12 “Chance In Admiralty Promotio SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. PROMOTIONS and dbmh>sals In tne Admiralty Service at Singapore depend on chance and not on merits, the temperament of the supervising officer playing an Important part In the lottery, according to the annual report of the executive com mlttee of the Singapore Admiralty
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  • 173 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 2. PRESENT conditions in the Federation have prevented Kuala Lumpur, the centre of the rubber-producing world, from being the meeting place of the forthcoming session of the International Rubber Study Group. The meeting will be in London. The
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  • 145 12 ‘Co-operate— Or Isolation’ SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. A VISITING Australian businessman, Mr. d. A. Davies, told Singapore Rotarians at their luncheon meeting yesterday that Australians believed that the future of Malaya and Australia were tied together. “In every phase of Australian life,” Mr. Davies said, “we welcome you people from the
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  • 202 12 Shark Catcher Is Back SINGAPORE. Mar 3 A WELL-KNOWN British t\ passenger liner which played the role of a “shark catcher in Singapore waters in pre-war days, berthed alongside the Harbour Board wharves yesterday after an absence of nearly nine years The ship is the 14,300-ton P and O Corfu,
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  • 94 12 SINGAPORE. Mar. 3. NO blame can be attached to anybody for the plane crash in a rubber estate oil Lim Chu Kang Road on Feb 12 when two members of the RA.F. were killed This was stated by Ft./Lt. Lionel Richard May at the Singapore coroner’s
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  • 177 12 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. nnHE President of th e Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Yong Yit Lin, yesterday appealed to Chinese businessmen to “wake up an fortify their interests against increasingly competition. Making the appeal at the monthly meeting of committee members of the Chamber,
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  • 92 12 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3CAUGHT after a chase w angry villagers at the w mile, Thomson Road, a >outn ful robber, Tan Tua Tei"£ sentenced to five years ru ous imprisonment yesnr at the Singapore Assizes. The charges were rotmi and unlawful possession arms. frnTn Tan was seen emerging
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  • 24 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 3* An Indian clerk y^ 1 a found a hand grenade shell—both rusty— on u land Estate, Bukit Tima* Singapore.
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  • 261 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 6. Outvoting the opposition, which consisted chiefly of Malayan Indian Congress representatives. 22 of 36 delegates from Indian organisations at a meeting last night decided to form a "Federation of Malayan Indian Associations'* confined to local born and locally domiciled Indians. Answering criticisms
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  • 315 13 JA P BANDITS MUST TAKE ORDERS KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 5. THOUGH there were reports from various parts of the country of Japanese operating with the bandits, no proof had been found, the Sunday Times was told today. Those with them must be the “lesser fry” capable only of taking orders
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  • 196 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 5. g AND ITS near Gambang in the Kuantan district Pahang were manufacturing their own bullets until yesterday when a patrol of the Fourth Hussars and oolice found their camp with a small workshop fully equipped for making ammunition. A dishevelled and almost
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  • 68 13 RtOw™ < ff I ,KE 5- Sin'll JI J several parts h f numbi r'’ an increase in n °> co*-«m m °squitoes are by anl >' A HeV w °rkers. said m Apartment offiJ>mad complaints f lv :r. Jj e department fjr *£u!rj b f ui
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  • 92 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 6. THE staff of the Statistics Department gave a farewell party to Mr. L. A Josepn assistant registrar of Malayan Statistics who leaves on furlough to England this week. The party was held at the residence of Mr. P. L. Tan in Tanglin. Mr.
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  • 168 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 6. |U|RS. |ean Kinlochs Smith’s floral botanical drawings, painted with artistry and remarkable accuracy for growth and colour, attracted a lot of favourable comment from early morning visitors to her exhibition of paintings at Robinson’s yesterday. Mrs. Smith is a Singapore artist who has
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  • 128 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 7. A FEDERATION Malay police sub-Inspector. 46-year-old Abdul Rahman, has been awarded the Colonial Police Medal for gallantry states the London Gazette. The citation states that Sub-Inspector Rahman earned the award on Boxing Day when a raft on which he was travelling down the
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  • 189 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 6. I AST year, 155 homeless girls and 50 homeless infants were given shelter in the Singapore Army Women’s Industrial Home* at Oxley Road. The girls in the Home, whose ages range from 12 to 20, are taught sewing, knitting, tailoring, toymaking and
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  • 46 13 LUTTERWORTH, Mar. 5. One "haji” and two other Malays were sentenced yesterday to a year's rigorous Imprisonment ~r.cFl. The accused V. Haji Salleh, Mat Un Shaft and Ism' 1 bin All. wrro -**d of retaining stolen clothes belonging to a Chinese.
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  • 248 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. i A WOMAN, believed to be a bandit leader in the Jelendong area of Jelebu in Negri Sembilan, was shot dead by police and Gurkhas yesterday The incident occurred at 4.30 pm. when a party of
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  • 149 13 From Oir Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 6. THE Custodian of Enemy 1 Property, Federation of Malaya, Mr. J. P. Mowat, stated today In connection with yesterday’s report in the Straits Times on the future of ex-enemy estates in Malaya, that the question as to whether
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  • 67 13 KUANTAN. Mar. s.—An elderly Chinese who was sitting at an eating stall here in the market place suddenly fell down and died. A passing military truck took the body to the mortuary. SINGAPORE. Mar. 8. A son was born at midnight at Kandang Kerbau Hospital last night, to
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  • 1517 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 3. A DOCUMENT captured from a bandit canip by Security Forces during operations in January and giving the Communist opinion of the present “battle,” declares that the executives of the Malayan Communist Party are “disheartened* at the way
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  • 226 14 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. J THE Singapore Labour i Party’s election manifes- 5 to which was approved last i n:ght at an Executive Coun- c c'i meeting put fi forward “five first 8tep s for immediate action by all Labour mem- r rer„ elected to the
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  • 52 14 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. GOH Ong Lye, 22, of Siiat Road, pleaded guilty in the Third Police Court yesterday to theft of a puppy at Tiong Bahru on Wednesday. The puppy belonged to a detective, Ngo Keng Wah. Goh was granted bail oi $2OO pending sentence on
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  • 104 14 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. AN urgent appeal for representations to be made to the Indonesian Government to obtain permission for about 100 Chinese to evacuate from Sapat, lndragiri (Sumatra) to either Singapore or Rhio, has been received by the Singapore Committee for the Relief of Chinese Refugees
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  • 49 14 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. Charged yesterday in the Singapore Second Police Court with having afcted a a bookmaker at the Singapore Turl Club. Lee Thean Ewe. of Burman Road pleaded not guilty. The case was adjourned for h week and bail of $3,000, granted him earlier was extended.
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  • 375 14 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4 Methodist grant-in-aid schools throughout the Federation and Singapore were faced with a responsibi lity and opportunity unlike anything they had ever had the Rev. Preston L. Peach Educational Secretary of the Methodist Mission, said yes terday in his report to the annual conference
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  • 181 14 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. 'JOTAL exports of sawn timber for 1948 36,149 tons —were the highest ever recorded in the history of Malaya’s timber export trade, just beating the former best year, 1940, when 35,536 tons were shipped, says the latest issue of The Malayan Forester. Of
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  • 78 14 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. IT is estimated that Muni' cipal road railings lost or damaged during the Japanese occupation period rest $114,000. The programme of restoration of these railings has been held up because of the shortage of galvanised 1 ro n pipes, says a Municipal i»nicial. Substitutes, however,
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  • 118 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. THE $51,000 retained in Singapore from the funds raised in the Colony in the I’nited Nations Appeal for Children has been allocated to the following 16 institutions. Handicapped Children’s Society ($20,000); St. Andrew’s Mission Hospital for Children, the Ramakrlshna Mission and the Salvation
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  • 429 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. u anDICAPPED boys and girls—“Singapore’s tl forgotten children” —will benefit by $20,000 from the f unds collected in the Colony last year during the United Nations’ Appeal for Children campaign. This was announced last night when the cinfranorp committee of the UNAC held its
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  • 83 15 “FAGIN” GETS GAOL FINE From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORS BAHRU, Mar. 6.— Described as "the local Fagin," Yap Hong Peng was yesterday sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for being in possession of stolen Property, and fined $50, in default another month’s imprisonment, to be followed by six months Police supervision.
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  • 60 15 SINGAPORE. Mar. 8. Rin' w' he port of !ndrato b'irt llalra W U1 be closed bvS r n April 1. when ratable. ClllU<>S WiU bc Ban°nqf. S umatra Port, stood m iv P 'i Api, u lt ls und, r Sin K a an ?J* y
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  • 46 15 MALACCA, Mar. 6.—Mr. F. D. Ascoli, managing director of Dunlop Plantations Ltd., London, was guest of honour at a pahit party given by Mr. Tan Cheng Lock last night. The Resident Commissioner, Mr. Falconer and Mrs. Falconer were among the many guests present.
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  • 74 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. Pleading guilty to having attempted to commit suicide, 18-year-old Tan Siew Eng yesterday told the Third Police Court Magistrate, Mr D. A. Fyfe, that she did so because her would-be husband failed twice to turn uir for the wedding. Tan was found unconscious
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  • 111 15 wx hm A f°RE, Mar. 8. r f m packers Co. and tho ayan Rubber Jactnry in \,b'ia Guan Hong Jf Vfi been fi^ lnpa P°re, who March i strike since arn,, d that W y pstp rday natl il they did not return to work
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  • 34 15 The Soci&l Relations secretary. Mrs. Oodsworth, addressing the women's conference held in connection with the recently concluded Malaya annual conference of the Methodist mission. About 100 women were present.- -Straits Times picture.
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  • 253 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. IyiONEY for Singapore from the United Nations Appeal for Children Fund would be devoted to the training of staffs in children’s social welfare and health projects, said the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, in his speech of thanks to the Singapore UNAC Fund Committee
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  • 97 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 7. THE main electric overhead, transmission lines supplying Seremban with power j from Kuala Lumpur were sabotaged today. Seremban will be without its full supply of current for two or three days. An official statement asks Seremban consumers to restrict drastically their use
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  • 111 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. MEMBERS of the Volunteer Special Constabulary in Pasir Panjang district hope to take part in actual Police operations towards the end of this month, after months of intensive training. The Chairman of the Pasir Panjang Rural District Committee, Mr. H. J. C.
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  • 42 15 SINGAPORE. Mar. 8. In the First District Court yesterday, Mr. E. P. Shanks, sentenced Leong Ah Pong to two weeks’ rigorous imprisonment for not having an identity card. “I was told it was not necessary.” Leong said.
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  • 215 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. A BILL, to establish the Princess Elizabeth Fund and vest it in the Singapore Improvement Trust for building workmen’s dwellings, will be introduced in the Singapore Legislative Council meeting next week. The Fund, amounting to $795,673, is part of the amount raised
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  • 76 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. An Ipoh Chinese. 32-year-old Mr. S. E. Teh. has been appointed Singapore Sixth Police Court Magistrate. Mr. Teh assumed duties yesterday, relieving Mr. B. A. Fyie who has been transferred to the Fifth Police Court. After studying at AngloChinese School, Ipoh, Mr. Teh went
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  • 43 15 JOHORE BAHRU, Mar 2. The acting Director of Education, Federation of Malaya. Mr. M. R. Holgate visited the Domestic Science School and the Junior Technical (Trade) School on Tuesday accompanied by the acting Superintendent of Education. Johore, Mr. O. Woods.
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  • 311 16 Taxes Should be Increased M.P. SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. WHEN the British people—the highest-taxed in the world—found out how “trivial” Malayan taxation was compared with theirs, they were going to be very unwilling to contribute money to aid in the fight against terrorism, Mr. Woodrow Wyatt, M.P.,
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  • 181 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. CHARGED with robbery and voluntarily causing hurt to a taxi driver, a British soldier, Lance-corporal Henry llollard, was acquitted and discharged in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. Before discharging Hollard, Mr. Justice Taylor remarked that offences of the nature alleged in the charge were too
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  • 61 16 back row Datu pcr-dana Wangsa Stia di Rajah (left) and Pengiran Janil Moden Ismail. (Right) On Chair Pengiran Abu Bakar D. O. and Pengiran Mat Salleh Abnu Alanahrom Pengiran Biyang. The picture was taken on the occasion of Pengiran Abu Bakar Abnu Almahron Dull Pengiran Pemancha, D.
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  • 43 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 9. A large congregation attended a thanksgiving service at St. Hilda’s Church, Katong, yesterday evening in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The preacher was the Archdeacon of Singapore, the Ven. Max Gregory.
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  • 49 16 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mar. 2. Inche Elias bin Akbar, Assistant Inspector of Malay Schools, Segamat, has gone on leave prior to retirement. He was on the staff of the Government English School, Batu Pahat, and later was appointed Group Teacher, Batu Pahat.
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  • 88 16 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Mar. 2: Mr. J. B. Ramsay, the managei of the feluk Anson branch of Messrs. Harrisons and Crosfieij (Malaya) Ltd., accomDanied bv his wife and child, will be leaving this week-end for Australia on leave SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. A Tamil, M.
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  • 116 16 From Our Own Correspondent BENTONG, Mar. 2. TWO Malays, two Chinese and three buffaloes were 1 killed as a resut of a motor accident at the 9£ mile Kuala Lipis-Raub Road yesterday. A converted 15-cwt. Army truck belonging to a Chinese buffalo transporter
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  • 23 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3.* Low N*ik Chin was fined $2 in the Third Police Cou*t yesterday for cruelty to seven Reese.
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  • 85 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. UALUED at $700,000, the last barter shipment for Telok Betong left Singapore yesterday on the Ban Ho Wan after a delay of more than a week. The Ban Ho Wan will, however, be given a return cargo of only $300,000, which is the
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  • 80 16 Tossed Coins— 15 Pay $897 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. POR tossing coins and bet- ting, 21 Chinese yesterday paid a total of $897 in the Second Police Court. They were found spinning the coins in a house in Rochore Canal Road on Tuesday night. All pleaded guilty to gambling. Each was
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  • 324 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. VIR. O. H. R. Beadles, representing the Federation Singapore, said at the 25th meeting of the South East Asia Liaison Officers at Phoenix Park yesterday that arrivals of rice into Singapore and the Federation were satisfactory and had led to an increase in
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  • 120 16 Fran Out Own Corr™j>„nd, n BENTONG, Mar 3 PE headman of Kampon* Skoti in the Jerantut are? Pahang, Inche Amin a S another Malay, Kadir,' S killed when ten armed Mali bandits raided the village ii. night. b last Another Malay is missinp The attack, which started
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  • 117 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. TWENTY TWO year-ole Cpl. David Barrymore Jones, Embarkation Unit, RAF., was acquitted in the First District Court yesterday on a charge of causing the death of Cpl. Salim bin Salam, 223 BOD, by a negligent act. The case was a sequel to a collision
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  • 116 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 9 SEAH JOO HENG, rubber worker of the Aik Ho Rubber Factory, Paya Lebar, was acquitted yesterday in the Assize Court of the murder of an engineering worker of the factory. It was said that the man. Goh Siow Yong, had died during an attack
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  • 85 16 SINGAPORE. Mar. 4. Thirty-three-year-old Tex'’ Ming Wong, an unemployf o seaman, was sentenced by tiv First District Judge. Mr. E.J Shanks yesterday to years’ rigorous imprisonment to be followed by two years police supervision for cheat inp three people. Tool obtained a total $l,BOO on the pretext
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  • 575 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. INHERE will be a contest for every one of II 1 the IS popularly elected seats for the new Lwanore Municipal Commission on April 2. Ut vesterday’s formalities at the Victoria Memorial Hall, 28 candidates were nominated for the 18 seats— 16 Progressives,
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  • 104 17 SINGAPORE. Mar. 5. The United States Information Service in Singapore, closed down more than a year ago following cuts in expenditure by the U.S. Congress, will re-open under a new name: “The United States Offices of Information and Educational Exchange.” Equipment and material are already on
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  • 578 17 A ROOM OF ONE’ S OWN Planter's Wife Writes 0n.... T H E Breadwinner’s 1 personal bodyguard has to walk quite a long distance to arrive early enough to be on duty in the morning. He nas never grumbled although it means that he really has to do extra duty.
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  • 179 17 |>umS 0R Mar I iUN has been Cl;.;r!\ S!ngapore o include more tanvp°?4>iiJ r ;7 c al re Presen,hr the Col on v ,n portion of the II the v.' l n ,a d^l#»gation J, -!dy Phonal Rubber Und. n r l p in r -*n
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  • 134 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. Allegations that a waitress was wounded with a revolver obtained from a police station by un extraconstable, who had resigned several weeks previously, were made in the Singapore Eighth Police Magistrate’s Court yesterday The following day, it was stated, the ex-constable went to the Central
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  • 141 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. AT about 2.30 a.m. on Janu- ary 4, the burglar alarm at the Singapore Cold Storage grocery stores at Teluk Blanga caused a house-brea-ker to flee. The alarm awakened the Chinese manager living on the first floor. He immediately dialled 999. Within
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  • 107 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. rpHL Methodist Church of J. Malaya is planning a nur-year programme of advancement. A report submitted by a special committee at the annual conference of the Methodist Church suggests that the period until August this year should be a period of preparation. Conferences
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  • 42 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. Two Chinese boys, Loh Pok Yee and Teoh Teng Siong 15 and 16 respectively, werfined $10 each in the Fourth Police Magistrate’s Court y*\cterday for having flown kite? on a public road and interfering with traffic.
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  • 142 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 7. Shipments of rubber frtm Malaya last month HI .207 tons—were 12,266 tons less than the amount exported in January. In February. 44,709 tons were 1. adcd in Singapore harbour for export compared with 46.162 tom in January, a different’* of 1,453 tons. The drop
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  • 178 18 from Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, M:tr C. TIWENTY-one-year old Lieut. John Farrer of the Tliird Battalion. Grenadier Guards, was shot dead while patrolling the Kajang area of Selangor on F’riday. The funeral with full military honours took place at Cheras Road Cemetery this morning. Lieut.
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  • 417 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 6. 4 SCHEME for the resettlement and employment of squatters living on estate areas required for replanting has been suggested by The Planter, ofhcial organ of the Incorporated Society of Planters. The magazine says that a solution of the
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  • 227 18 y rom Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mar 6 OVER 100 children in the Sungei Buloh Leper Settlement. 16 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, have been •’adopted" by people and organisations in the United Kingdom. The "adoptions," which were arranged by the British Empire Leprosy Relief
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  • 50 18 SEGAMAT, Mar. 5.—Pro'lured in the Segamat Court, 30-year-old Ramasamy, said he did not know his father’s name. He was alleged to have been found walking on Melville Estate duong curfew hours and when examined failed to ‘Show an Identity card. He was offered ball In $100.
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  • 131 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 7. ONLY real Christians could face the Communists, said Bishop Ralph S. Cushman, speaking at a dinner given by the Tamil Methodist Youth Fellowship in Singapore. Bishop Cushman said: "I Lave been to Russia. I have seen the Communists at work. In this
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  • 167 18 SINGAPORE, Mar. 7. ORD Milverton arrived in Singapore yesterday en-route for North Borneo and Sarawak in connection with the work of the Colonial Develop- ment Corporation. The Corporation was fumed by the British Government a year ago with power to borrow .£110,000,000 for the purpose
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  • 33 18 BUTTER WORTH, Mar. !5 taxi driver who overtook a police inspector at over 50 miles an hour paid $5O yesterday. The driver, Man Seong Noh, was convicted of speeding.
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  • 81 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 7 METHODISTS from Singapore and the Federation attended the United Service of Worship held yesterday at the Victoria Memorial Hall to mark the close of the t a y M A n a Confercnce Of the Methodist Church. < Tr n ty Colleee choir
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  • 135 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 7 Mt mbership of the Malayan branch of the Royal Asiatic Society has nearly reached the pre-war figure, says the annual report which was adopted by the annual meeting at the Raffles Museum. At the end of last year, membership was 499 compared with 407
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  • 76 18 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. An old Chinese woman, Lim Hong Kiaw, who had 7L> quarts of samsu in four rubber tubes wound round her waist, was sentenced to a fine of $l5O, in default one month’s imprisonment, in the Fourth Police Magistrate’s Court, Singapore, yesterday. SINGAPORE,
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  • 496 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 7. jUJORE successes by Security Forces bandits were reported today. In the Siput area of Perak, two armed terrorists w« M killed. A big arms dump was uncovered in th e Bata Pahat area of Johore. A large bandit
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  • 50 18 SINGAPORE. Mar I Flight-Lieut. “Kiwi” cis, piloting Singapore s k jet Vampire returned Colony yesterday after c< ing the 800 miles tripJf Labuan, Borneo, in two no and 35 minutes. The Vampire has been ing a series of demon- *at flights in Saigon. Hoop and Manila.
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  • 477 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. college Union 1; Raffles College Union 0. Kuf Medical College won the Purdie-Owen soccer T Jrmiliv for the first time yesterday, beating their ivaV H i tiles, by the only goal on the Raffles College a me was witnessed by hundreds of of
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  • 287 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 7. T UF s ipore Chinese Recrca- 0 r:ub beat the Singapore ncket nu'. h on the Police Train t ,-round yesterday. first, the S.C.R.C. put r»* Khoo ong Lee 38. UP V Chcong 191. un i replied with 63 all p
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  • 135 19 SINGAPORE. Mar. 3. TS« vie s personnel of '(rung. boom defence 1 R A F. < Changi), this w< ;> »r f oon was a me’.’•or.t occasion. E a’ am the first round on th“ tv instructed 9-hole golf «_our C-i.i-C <Air Command) Marshal Sir Hugh
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  • 37 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. tpHE Prison Sub-Warders Association Singapore beat the General Hospital Youngsters twonil in a friendly soccer mate* played on the Outram School ground on Wednesday. Lagim, the left winger, scored both goals.
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  • 298 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 7. THE Singapore Recreation 1 Club opened their cricket season with a splendid vietory over Raffles College on the padang yesterday. The College, batting first, were all out for 103. C Collings, the State bowler took six wickets for 21 runs. The Rees
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  • 105 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 7. rpHE Ceylon Sports Club in a cricket match at Changi yesterday dismissed R. A. F. Changi for 82. passed this total with nine wickets in hand and went on to make 183 for seven. The Changi innings was remarkable for the number of
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  • 253 19 KO TA RAJA ‘B’ SCORE 2-1 WIN a E A APORE, Mar. 8. ,p ci int 0 his own Lr ?a*oo. the Tamil K.ot ;i r t back, gave vie.,: v ir fi-vt League hv:,. 0 the Tamils "A" T A. Junior Div SUir: ur at Gevlang ’tv* T r
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  • 320 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. r MURRAY, a newcomer to Singapore soccer who has figured in amateur international games in the United Kingdom, held the interest of the crowd that watched the Singapore Cricket Club beat the Singapore Recreation by two goals to nil on the
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  • 324 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 4. rpwo snap goals scored by Peter de Souza for St. Anthony’s Boys School enabled his side to teat St. Andrew's School by the odd in three in a first team football match played on St. Joseph's Institution ground yesterday. St. Andrew’s, however, had
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  • 129 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 7. Indian Association skipper, Lall Singh, openrd the cricket s.ason with a hurricane, unbeaten century in his team's match with R.A.F. Sembawang yesterday which ended in a draw. Lall hit 16 fours and a six in his 103 not out. It was
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  • 223 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. IN an inter-house cricket match played at St. Andrew’s School on Saturday. Gomes House beat Loyfat Hou*_e by an Innings and 33 runs. Gomes House declared at 128 runs for five wickets, with Ro>* coring 82 not out. Later Ross
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  • 97 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 6. H. O. BENNETT, the Selangor State cricketer, opened season today with a brilliant 76 runs playing for the S'dnmror Club against the Victoria Institution. Ho oaved the way for an easv Club victory. The Club scored 176. Bennett’s knock included eight boundaries.
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  • 413 20 From A MarKet Correspondent npHE week’s slide on the London Stock Exchange was nowhere so marked as in Sterling Tins and it was not long before Malayan markets were also atTected. Dollar Tins led by Fetaling registered progressive daily declines. Sydney
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  • 275 20 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. ALTHOUGH there has been no unusual buying power In the market, prices have shown a gradual improvement throughout the week, says Lewis Peat’s weekly rubber market report. It Is evident that Immediate supplies in this country are at a low ebb no doubt
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  • 60 20 SINGAPORE, Mar. 9. TIN metal exports of tons from the Federation and Singapore in February were an increase of nearly 1.400 tons over January. This is a post-war record A total of 6.350 tons «>f the February shipment went lo the United States. European countries took 590
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  • 93 20 AUSTRAL Malay Tin announces the following output returns for the month of j February: Kampong Kamunting Tin i Dredging—s 46 hours run, 138.000 cubic yards dug. 455 piculs of ore recovered. Thabawleik Tin Dredging--466 hours. 89.000 cubic yards. 1,159 piculs. Austral Amalgamated Tin— Asam Kumbang section. 485
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  • 252 20 From A Market Correspondent BATII Selangor Tin Dredging encountered low value* during the year ended Sept 30. 1948. and profit for a full year’s dredging was only $*****1 (7.1K4). Net liquid assets in balance sheet work out at $333,018. equivalent to 25.2 cents per share,
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  • 348 20 Talam Mines: 27½% For The Year rrALAM Mines directors recommend a fina, vide of 15 per cent., les s tax, to absorb s7l> o m would make a total of 27$ per cent, less ta forth! year to Dec. 31, 1948. Interims of 10 and 21 r cm have already
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  • 116 20 SINGAPORE, M ir 9 RUSSIA has placed an order of 10.000 tons of M tiayao rubber for shipment laterthb month. This wtll place Malayan rubber shipments to Russia this vear to about 45.000 ton* before April orders are received. The Baku which has completed loading 9.250 tons
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  • 21 20 BENTA Rubber Estates’ dmdfci for last year is 3% p<r cent and not 3Vi per cent, as statH yesterday.
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  • 824 20 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers’ Association today were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seiler Atlas Ice 15.00 16.00 Alex. Bricks Pref. 2.77% 2.85 Ord 1.37% 2 02% 8.8. Petrol 38 9 39/9 BM Trustees 7 50 8.50 Con Tin Smelters Pref 23/6 24/6 Ord. 16/6 18/b.
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