The Straits Budget, 8 June 1950

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    31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] w Series No. 201. Singapore Thursday, June 8, 1950 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.
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      104 1 The STRAITS BUDGET Published in SINGAPORE on THURSDAY Delivered in LONDON on MONDAY SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION $24.00 Arrangements have been made to 9eod tb e Straits Budget by air to the United Kingdom weekly on Thursdays i.e. on pub lication day in Singapore. Under conditions we should be in a
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      WALKING OUT IN JUNGLE GREEN
      303 2 1 WISH to say a few words on the subject of military uniforms. The British Army tropical kit is the lousiest (to use Barracks language) and most undignified uniform to be seen in Singapore. I am sure no young Tommy likes to walk in the
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      HAVE THE HERALDS APPROVED?
      63 2 NOW that the High Commissioner has publicly hoisted the new Federation Flag, may the public assume, that this design has received the approval of the College i of Heralds and the King In, Council? It so. would it not be appropriate for a colour reprojduction, stating
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      SOON LEE AND THE S.T.C.
      237 2 Reading the letter Holland Road to Town” in your issue of Juno 2. one cannot help being struck by the utter lack of commonsense or sense of fairness on the part of the writer. He is perhaps no: aware that in the matter taken itp
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      Sympathy With M.P.A.J.A.: The Facts
      729 2 (Jiincsc”, whose letter headed “(Jiinese (.mm* lo IV ide. Not To (.oikjuit" was published in the Saturday Forum of May 20, has expressed certain sentiments that I have observed ginning ground in correspondence printed no! only in the Straits Times but elsewhere too. The sentiments
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      THE SINGAPORE ASSOCIATIONS STANDPOINT
      470 2 THE SINGAPORE ASSOCIAT IONS STANDPOINT ATTLEE S PLEDGE TO MAI Roland Braddell’s let lei on Britisl I tions in Malaya, published last Mnnd s Been received with great appreciation tor the first time attention lias l>e**n <h. the l ull report in Hansard of last March While a repetition of
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      Chamber Of Mines Tribute
      232 2 THE Straits Times of 1 May 31 contained a letter under the heading “No Tributes For Miners?’*. complaining that the principals of the tin mining industry did not voice their appreciation of the way in which their staffs are carrying on in the face of great
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      MALAY AS SPOKEN IN FILMS
      82 2 J HAVE seen all the Malay pictures produced in Singapore as well as in Indonesia. Those produced here cannot really be termed Malayan Malay pictures,, because the languages spoken therein are mixed Indonesian and Mala- ’/an Malay. Can’t we hear the language of Malayan Malays
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  • The Straits Budget
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      The Timber Squeeze
      686 3 —Straits Times. June 1. The various kinds of timber which are extracted from the Malayan jungle and the different uses to which these hardwoods and softwoods are put a re technical matters which few people outside the building trade or the timber business understand. But what the
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      A Name For A Nation
      402 3 —Straits Times, June 1. There is much discussion going on in the Malay news--1 papers over the question of I what the name of the new Malayan nationality is to be. I How is the Malayan citizen to be described, apart from his racial or
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      Message To America
      530 3 —Straits Times. June 2. Like the communique issued by the Foreign Ministers of the Atlantic Treaty nations at the end of their London consultations, Mr. Acheson’s address to Congress is noteworthy more for what it suggests than for what it actually says. Mr. A c h e
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      The Case Of The Kian Peng
      504 3 -Straits Times. June 2. Seventeen months ago the blazing guns of three Dutch fighter planes set on fire and sank a little British ship, owned by Mr. Lim Yong Yoke, a Singapore Chinese, and registered in Singapore. Nine of her Chinese and Malay crew
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      Our Tourist Trade
      864 3 —Straits Times. June 3. People in the Federation may be forgiven if they read vith a flicker of ironical amusement the news that a meeting in Singapore last Wednesday recommended the formation of a new body to be called the Malayan Travel Association. At a time when
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      The Good That Comes
      1089 4 —Straits Times. June 5. When the Secretary of State for the Colonies was asked at i a press conference in Kuala! Lumpur whether he considered his visit lo Malava had been worth while, he was emphatic in his estimate of the good that comes from educational
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      The Squeeze That Hurts
      625 4 —Straits Times. June 6 The Malayan Governments’ sharp reply to the charges which American rubber manufacturers have made against Malayan rubber producers is to be commended as much for its promptness as for its content. A statement giving the facts which refute the allegations that producers
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      The Chinese Bus Companies
      493 4 Straits Times. June G. Tin? petition which h.is be» submitted by tlie Singapore Chinese Bus Owners' Association will make »t necessai> for the Municipal Commissioners to reconsider the legislation under which t!i? Singapore Traction ComP iin > operates, it it does not hint else. If a
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      Twenty-Two Towns
      915 5 —Straits Times, June 7. tlirtioiis in Kuala Lumpur h,,(j been promised; elections In Penang had been recommended by a committee of the Sui!, ment Council; and electU)ns >n Malacca, the Federthird municipality xeme.l probable too Pm elections in Ipoh. TaiJohore Bahru, Soremban, an ft Alor Star, Batu Pahat,
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    78,500 TONS OF RUBBER SENT
    43 5 SINGAPORE, June ti. RUBBER shipments from Malaya last month were 18,500 tons, the second highest monthly total this year, and 10.01)0 tons higher than April.. Shipments to America were 29,500 tons and to the United Kingdom 15.000 tons.
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    Big Johore Curfew Starts
    365 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 6. 'THE Briggs’ Plan to exterminate the Communist terrorists has begun. Security forces have been deployed and another step—the clamping of a total curfew on the southern half of the State of Johore —starts tomorrow. The curfew is to
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    SLUR ON S’PORE PEOPLE NAILED
    211 5 SINGAPORE, June 7. F[E president of the Singapoie Association. Dr. C. H. Withers-Payne. denounced as “utterly untrue 1 a London report that “the British citizens of Singapore do not seem to give a damn about the fight which our young: troops are waging against the
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      166 5 WHEELER: At Batu Oajnh, on 30.5/50, to Nancy, wife of J. M. C. Wheeler. Malayan Police, a son. ALLEN: To Sheila and Francis, a son, Christopher John Francis, born May 31, at Penang. A little brother for Angela. BRYANT—At Surlingham Nursing Home on June 1st to Jean wife of
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      231 5 THE ENGAGEMENT is announced between Mr. Tan Chye Seng, eldest son of Mr. Ac Mrs. Tan Thian Soo Ac Miss Sim Jui Ken*?, eldest daughter of Mr. Ac Mrs. Sim Kwan? Lang. THE ENGAGEMENT Ls announced between Stuart Anthony Chalmers, younger son of Mr. A. G. Mitchell and the
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      SILVER WEDDING
      20 5 ItOMNEY BULLOCK: On June 3. 1925, at St. James'* Church, Dover, Perey Hal: Romney to Dorothy Ann Bullock.
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  • Obituary
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    33 5 DEATH L. G. LAPORTE passed away at 6.15 a.m. today at General Hospital, aged 62 years. Cortege will leave 1018-C. Glasgow Road, at 3 p.m. for Good Shephard Cathedral. 4 pm. for Btdadart.
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    A SINGAPORE DIARY
    1857 6  -  Cecil Street A Krlantaii \arn THE paragraph in the J Straits Times the other day about an 84-year-old man in Denver, Colorado, who is cutting his third set of teeth has brought back to Mr. R. J. Farrei a memory of the days when he was an
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    Plan Goes To Govt. For Approval
    987 7 From Our Staff Correspondent J KUALA LUMPUR, June 4. vf l) MCI”AL councils and town boards in the Federation will soon have a majority of elected members if the recommendations of a select committee of the Federal Legislative Council are adopted. Rural boaidv will
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    EXPENSIVE DRINK
    35 7 SEGAMAT, June 3. Possession of a cup of toddy without a licence vv is the charge explained to 38-year-old car driver Rotnam in the Sefcamat Court today. He was offered bail in $25
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    Three months for criminal intimidation
    134 7 SINGAPORE. June 4. DEVI Chand, a Palhan trisha rider, pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal intimidation today.and was sentenced to three months’ tigorous imprisonment by Mr. P Jack, liie First Court M igistrate. Chanii was a.legefi to have threatened Lance Corporal Smith with a
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    MODEST HERO GETS BEER AS REWARD
    83 7 PENANC. June It. IN recognition of "a good job done” a leading European firm in Penang has presented a carton of beer to a British soldier who last week picked up a hand grenade flung by terrorists and hurled it out of a window
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    Fined for obstruction
    42 7 JOHORL BAHRU. Juno 3. W m.; Lim of Layang Laying who was charged in the Johor** Bahru Police Court today with causing obstruction ot the live-footway oppose &gt;* his shop by storing goods on it. was convicted and lined $25.
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    Ted Dawson inquest
    386 7 IPOH, June 3. DEMARKING that it was unfortunate that though the incident occurred in the heart of Ipoh town the perpetrators of the outrage were not caught, Inche Bahaudin bin Yacob, today returned a verdict of ‘‘culpable homicide or murder by person of persons unknown at the
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    NO LICENCE
    28 7 MUAR. June 3 Low Tin m Poh. aged t»3. was cautioned ami discharged by the Mtiar magistrate for selling medi oine w'thoat a liooneo it Tungkak
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    FRESH WAVE OF PIRACY IN PENANG
    452 7 PENANG, June 3. PIRACIES which have broken out anew in Penang in the past few months are the work of several bands, according to a senior C.I.D. spokesman. He discounted a theory that remnants of the notorious See Bah Seng gang had regrouped themselves
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    Briggs Calls For Chinese Help
    151 7 KUALA LUMPUR, June 4. IMIK Director of Operations, I t -General Sir Harold Briggs, called 30 Chinese leaders to a meeting in Kuala Lumpur this afternoon to ask for their co- operation. In an otlieia) stat* *nent i his evening the Fcdcr.Jion Government said that
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    ‘Britain Will See It Through In Malaya' Promise
    527 8 From Our Staff C orrespondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 2. 'JTIE Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, and the Secretary of State for War, Mr. John Strachey, today made a joint promise that the\ will return to the United Kingdom
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    GIFT TO S.A.T.A.
    48 8 -SINGAPORE. June i he Singapore Ves.ik Celebguir.:i Committee is to give !l t he Singapore 1 AntiI iJM-! uioois Associut ion The !noiH 'i 1 the balance? of ihc m »c from .he V.-sak Day &lt; ••leorution held at the VictoII .'/-rial Hall on May 1.
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    5 Die In Two Road Ambushes
    287 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 2. OAND1TS yesterday killed three policemen, includ13 ing a European Sergeant and a game ranger and wounded two policemen in an ambush on the main trunk road, six miles north of Gemas, in Negri Sembilan. The police
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    APPOINTMENTS
    38 8 SINGAPORE. June 3. The following appointments were announced in Singapore yesterdav: Mr. Ong Kian Chong. Assistant Interpreter to act. as Inspector of Immigration. Mr K. W. -Sutton, Assistant Editor, Department of Broadcasting, to act as Chief Editor.
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    SURPRISE CHECKS ON GUNS
    128 8 SINGAPORE. June 3. STATING that there will be surprise check-ups on the holders of licences for firearms, Mr. R. C. B Wiltshire, Deputy Commissioer of Police, Singapore, yesterday made a plea for greater care to be exercised to see that they did not fall into others’
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    Sailor Guests At Capitol
    61 8 SINGAPORE. June 3. Thirty boys from the Mauritius, a training cruiser at present refitting at the Singapore Naval Base were the guests of Messrs Shaw Bros, at a cinema show at the Capitol Theatre last night. The party in uniform was in charge of the ship’s
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    Housing Plans ‘Misunderstood’
    338 8 Housing Plans Misunderstood SINGAPORE, June 3, /CRITICISM of the Singapore Cold Storage Comv panys plans for staff quarters in Kuala Lumpur, made by members of the Municipal Commission’s Buildings and Plans Committee was refuted yesterday by a spokesman for the company who said the criticism must be the result of
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    26 Chinese Join Police
    109 8 SEREMBAN, June 2. TWENTY-six Chinese were selected this morning for recruitment for the Federation of Malaya police force out of 42 at the recruiting. which took place at the Seremban police ground The Mentri Besar, Dato Abdul Malek. the British Adviser, Mr. H. P Bryson, the
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    RAID SEQUEL: SCHOOL MUST EXPLAIN
    372 8 SINGAPORE jn Hu *&gt; ■pHE Acting: Supervisor of the Sing aDO r P Chinese High School is to be called upon t! show cause to the Registrar of Schools w h, the school should not be declared unlawful said the Assistant Director of Education (Chinese),
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    Dance Book Is Banned
    105 8 SINGAPORE. June 3. A CHINESE boo*, publish in Singapore, which cribes the actions of a dan which has swept through Communist China Yangko was yestejdg banned from use in ie tered schools in the Coi« by an order of the Govern in-Council. The “Yangko" was hrst
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    Hunt on for beer-drinking burglars
    563 9 SINGAPORE, June 1. A SPECIAL police squad, hand-picked for n exclusively anti-house-breaking duties, has been organised by Singapore Police to counterI ad a serious increase in the number of burglaries which have taken place in May. Hie squad, similar to cne organised some months ago
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    REJECTED
    20 9 A MAT, May 3 1.- Tho ,i v Chinese Mutual J‘ rJp Association of Segamat. SIS refused registration •♦K'iety.
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    Bobby Will Have To Go To Gaol
    311 9 JUDGE CURES' IRREGULARITY, SO.... SINGAPORE, June 1. MOLDING that there had been an irregularity on the part of the Magistrate, which w as however “curable”, the Chief Justice. Mr. Justice MurrayAynsley, in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday convicted a Chinese woman on two
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    School Quiz Victors
    111 9 SINGAPORE. June 1. t r PHE Johore English College 1 team won the finals of the school quiz last night organised by Radio Malaya when it defeated the team from St. Joheph’s Institution. Singapore, by a narrow U points The competition was held in the British Council
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    HE HELPED THE BANDITS: 15 YRS.
    63 9 From Our Siaff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mav 31. A ONE-LEGGED 19-year-old Malay, Sidek bin Yaman, was sentenced to 15 years’ penal servitude by Mr. Justice E. N. Taylor in the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court today, after he had been found guilty of consorting with
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    12 DISCHARGED
    27 9 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. May 31. The Segamat Sessions Court President acquitted anil discharged 12 Chinese, among them a woman, charged with smoking opium.
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    G.O.C. praises 450 Gurkha recruits
    160 9 SINGAPORE. June 4. COUR hundred and fifty young Gurkha recruits of the 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles were complimented on their steadiness and turn out yesterday at a passing out parade in Kluang. The praise came from the commander of the Brigade of Gurkhas,
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    NO LICENCE
    36 9 JOHORE BAHRU, June 1. Tay Boon Peng, who sold fruit in an area prohibited to hawkers, and who also had no licence, wds fined $l5 and $2O in the Johore Bahru Police Court today.
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    BOY, 11 GIRLS UP TREES
    82 9 BOY 11 GIRLS UP TREES From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA. May 31. ELEVEN young; Chinese girls and a hoy who had gone to pick barnacles at Ptilati Pisang, seven miles from Malacca river, yesterday had to climb trees on the island when a storm broke and the unusually high tide
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    POLICE J. P.
    27 9 SINGAPORE. June 1. Mr. Richard Byrne Corriden, Assistant Superintendent of Police, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Singapore
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    TAIPING DINNER
    34 9 TAIPING, May 31, Sergeant majors ana sergeants of the Taiping Police Force were hosts at a dinner to warrant officers and sergeants of the 2nd Battalion Malaya Regiment at the police canteen.
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    Strachey, With Rifle, On Two-Hour Jungle Patrol
    379 9 From Our Special Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN PAHANG: May 31. /GRIPPING a loaded rifle and clad in jungle green uniform with a crossed kukri sign on his cap, the Secretary fo State for War, Mr. John Strachey, went into the bandit infested jungle this
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    STUDENTS HELD IN SCHOOL RAID
    204 9 SINGAPORE. June 1. NINETEEN male students, aged between 18 and 22, and one teacher, were detained yesterday, after a largescale search of Singapore Chinese High School, Bukit Timah Road, in which hundreds of police and members of the Department of Educatoin took part. Six of
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    Full Board To Decide Promotion
    133 9 SINGAPORE. Juno 1. THE deadlock in the Esta- blishments Board over the appointment of a Deputy Municipal Treasurer to fill th# vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. K G. O’Dell, will be decided by the full board of Commissioners at a spe cial meeting.
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    Court refuses bail to Westerling
    673 10 SINGAPORE, June 2. THE Singapore First Distrirt Court Judge, Mr. 1 H. E. Kingdon, yesterday rejected an application by Mr. F. R. Massey for bail for Capt. Raymond Paul Pierre Westerling. He ruled that as Westerling was detained under a deportation order, bail would serve
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    ACCUSED OF RUBBER THEFT
    77 10 From Our Own (.’orrcsporU^nt SEGAMAT. June 1. Yap Low, aged 20. was charged in the Segamnt Sessions Court with theft of 16 sheets of rubber from a Chineseowned estate at Kaftipong Tasek. He said: ‘I tap the estate on a fifty-fifty basis, and as I was
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    GRIFFITHS FLIES TO KOTA BAHRU
    268 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. June 1. T*HE Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, returned to Kuala Lumpur this evening after a busy day in which he flew 450 miles and visited Kota Bahru. The Minister, accompanied by the acting Chief
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    OFFENCE TO KEEP BANNED BOOKS
    244 10 SINGAPORE, June 2. pEOPLE in Singapore who have copies of the sex magazines banned by the Government last month are liable to be prosecuted if they do not turn them in at the nearest police station, a spokesman of the C.I.D. told the Straits Times.
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    TIN STOCKS IN MALAYA
    65 10 SINGAPORE. June 2. Malaya had 16,670 tons of tin metal and ore in stock at the end of April against 19.124 tons in March. Production of tin ore amounted to 4.760 tons in April against 4,729 tons in March. In the first four months of the
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    DIED LAST MONTH
    27 10 SINGAPORE. June 2. Eight persons died of beriberi in Singapore in the \ve?k ending May 27. The total number of deaths in the week
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    NO LICENCE
    26 10 From Our Own Corresponded MUAR, June I.—Pleading guilty t,o driving a car without a driving licence at Grisek, Slow Kim Ngow was fined $lB
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    FEW REGISTER AS VOTERS: 50 IN 7 HOURS
    172 10 SINGAPORE, June REGISTRATION of voters for the Singapore Legislative Council and Municipal election got off to a slow start at the main centre in iu General Post Office yesterday, when h electoral rolls opened for annual revision About 50 people had registered
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    P.C. Jamil’s Evidence: His Pants
    207 10 7 WAS KICKED' SINGAPORE. June 2. A POLICEMAN'S pants, said by the prosecution to bear “a perfect outline of a shoe imprint”, were produced in the Second Police Court yesterday as evidence in an assault case figuring a cinema-goer and a traffic constable. The cinema-goer.
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    DID NOT TAKE HIS CHANCES
    77 10 SINGAPORE. June 2. Telling accused that he had failed to take good two chances given him at the Salvation Army Boys’ Home. Mr. C. H. F. Blake. Third Police Court Magistrate, sentenced Soh Meng Gap. a 20-vear-old labourer —employed by the Singapore Harbour Board, to
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    A Former Magistrate Accused
    281 10 KUALA LUMPUR. May 31. Mohamad Yusof biu i; a u 1 Mohamad, a former Seremoan Magistrate, todav appeared before Mr. A p •Jack, the Kuala Lumpur First Court Magistrate charged with criminal breach of trust of a car. The Magistrate reserved judgment until June 7 At
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    NEW LECTURER ARRIVES
    75 10 SINGAPORE. June 2. A new lecturer ioi 11 University of Malaya u iri e by air in Singapore day frem London. t Dr R. J. S. Tickle. v:ho u&gt; work under Professoi Tratman in the Dental i P^r men Tickle was lecturer in dental surgery a the
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    LESS TAPPING
    36 10 SINGAPORE. JurLess rubber was tap!&gt; the Federation of Mala April than in March In April 1.291,16/ ac. ordinary rubber and acres of high-yieldma 1 were tapped. The ponding figures f0 were 1.297.679 and 35h.K
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    More Police, Rifles For Kampong Men
    275 11 More Police Rifles For Kampong Men From Our Staff Correspondent KIJALA LUMPUR, June 1. INTENSIVE Federation Government plans J for intensifying the campaign against the bandits and for bringing greater security to populated areas were detailed in an official statement today. The Auxiliary Police Force is being strengthened in towns,
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    Salesman Sentenced To Death
    217 11 I rom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. June 1. SALESMAN. 37-year-old Wong Soon Cheng, alias Low Wong, was today sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson in the Supreme Court for illegal possession of a Japanese hand grenade at a house in tiie Suleiman Golf
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    “OPIUM ADDICT FOR YEARS”
    61 11 rom Our Staff rorrospondenl JOHORE BAHRU, Juno 1. ljow Hong, a temple attendee of Plentong, charged in he Johore Bahru Police Court today with being in Possession of two chandu 'looking pipes and two pockets of chandu dross, beaded guilty. He said he oud been an
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    DRIVER FINED $100
    34 11 rom Our Staff v orrjspon(l' nt JOHORE BAHRU. June 1. lai Chiang Tai of Singapore, no was found carrying pas■ngers for hire in an uncensed taxi, was fined $lOO Johore Bahru.
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    Wesley Hall Variety
    95 11 SINGAPORE. June 2. rpHE Wesley Church Hall was 1 packed last night when the Women Society of Christian Service presented a variety programme. The items included songs by the Senior Choir, a violin trio by the three Koh’s and songs by Miss Lilian Ang, accompanied by Mr.
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    REPERTORY BACK FROM TOUR
    139 11 SINGAPORE. June 2. QIX members of the Singapore Repertory Theatre returned by air yesterday after completing a tour of Penang, Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur, where they gave performances of “On Approval’' and “Othello”. The theatre’s manager. Mr. John Forbes-Sempill, told the Straits Times that although the
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    CENSOR’S BAN REVOKED
    170 11 “SAPUTANGAN” SINGAPORE. June 2. SAPUTANGAN,’ the Malay film which wu banned j by the Film Censor, has been approved for public exhibition by the Appeal Board. A Singapore Government statement yesterday said that any person aggrieved by •he decision of the official Film Censor could appeal to
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    3 MEN HAD NO PASSES
    69 11 SINGAPORE June 2. Remarking that it was time that everybody should know that they should have a pass. Mr. C. H. E. Blake. Singapore Third Police Court Magistrate, fined Thuraisamy. a shop-assistant. $l5 and Nagamuthu and Saminathan. two Municipal labourers. $5 »*ach for entering the
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    FOR AUSTRALIA
    33 11 SINGAPORE. June 2. Mr. J. H. C. Read. Chief Surveyor. P**rak. and Mrs. Read left Singapore yesterday on retirement to Australia. Mr Read joined the Malayan Government in 1924 at Kedah
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    Sambasivam Goes Back To India
    195 11 SINGAPORE, June 2. SAMBASIVAM, the 27-year-old South Indian trade unionist who was reprieved by the Privy Council, has left the Federation for Madras. He was put on board the steamship Rajula at Port Swettenham yesterday afternoon. The Federation Government announced yesterday .‘hat his departure was
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    PENANG BAND’S FAREWELL
    144 11 PENANG. June 1. MORE than 1,000 people* crowded the esplanade last night to hear Penang’s retiring bandmaster, Mr. Cecil Scott play his swan song “Farewell to Penang” on the bagpipe. It was the Anal performance of Malaya’s only surviving town band ..nd the players who are being
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    STOLE MOTOR CYCLE
    66 11 SINGAPORE. June 2. Ko Tong Chiu, convicted in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday of theft of a motor-cycle, was said to belong to a “good family.” Ko was bound over to be of good behaviour for 12 months in a surety of $5OO. The motor-cycle was
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    STOLEN TRISHA AS EXHIBIT
    53 11 SINGAPORE. June 2. A dismantled trisha was produced in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday when Tan Ah Chye, Law Fook Thin and Ong Kok Lum were charged with stealing the vehicle on March 30. Law and Ong vere acquitted and Tan was sentenced to three
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    COMMISSIONERS IN BIG CLASH WITH PRESIDENT
    742 12 SINGAPORE, June 1. CINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners yes°terday clashed with the acting President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice over a Committee recommendation to pass plans for a proposed swimming pool on Crown land at the Beach Road Reclamation. Against an overwhelming majority who voted with
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    Bouquet For Gas Dept.
    102 12 Bouquet For Gas Dept SINGAPOR, June 1. A "BOUQUET" for the Municipal Gas Department was offered yesterday by the acting President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice. Mr. McNeice told the Commissioners, assembled in ordinary meeting, that the Gas Department had completed pipe laying at Kallang Road in three weeks, instead
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    POLICE KILL $15,000 MAN
    382 12 ACTION FOUR MILES FROM K.L. From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. May 31. A CHINESE terrorist, for whom the police had offered a reward of $15,000 was shot and killed by a police and 2nd Scots Guards party within four miles of the Federal capital \esterday
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    Griffiths Tackled On Secession
    208 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, May 31. ’’PHIS morning Penang and Province businessmen, K traders and members of tht Penang Secession Committee all tackled the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, about the need for Penang to revert to its previous status as
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    Welfare Posts Discussion
    63 12 SINGAPORE. June 1. A decision of the Municipal Establishment Board appointing Mr. B. L. Dunsford Assistant Secretary (Welfare) was deferred by the Commissioners yesterday on a motion moved by Mr. E. V. Davies &lt;Labour North). The appointment of Miss M Baker as Lady Assistant Weliare Officer, however,
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    5 Soldiers Accused Of Mischief
    145 12 JOHORE BAHRU. May 31. FIVE soldiers of the Seaforth Highlanders, Robert Craig. John MacLeod. John Fitzerald. Albert Callender and Thomas Cassidy, were charged today with committing house trespass in order to do mischief at the airstrip at Kluang, on Feb. 17. Alternatively, they were charged
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    APPEAL ALLOWED
    45 12 SINGAPORE. June 1. The Chief Justice Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley, yesterday allowed an appeal bv Rahamat bin Sariman against a fine of $3O for alleged fraudulent possession of 13 Osram electric bulbs suspected to be stolen. Mr. M. H. MacDougal appeared for the appellant,
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    Imposture Charge
    42 12 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. May 31. Salihan bin Ali, a rubber tapper, claimed trial at Kluang when he was charged with pretending to be detective and attempting to arrest a Chinese woman. He was allowed bail of $2OO.
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    TRAVEL ASSN. TO GET GOVT. HELP
    277 12 SINGAPORE, June 1 A f M^A^ h Travel Association to develop’tourist n traffic to the country is to be formed Thi 11 decided at an informal meeting at the Eenn, Was Secretariat yesterday of representatives of C\Tm bers of Commerce, shipping companies air in
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    HAWKERS FINED
    32 12 JOHORE BAHRU. May 31. For hawking groundnuts in Jalan Seggett, Ng Ah Tee was fined Sl5 at Johore Bahru and Ng Yee Ann. for a second offence, was fined $35.
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    15 SILENT MEN....
    98 12 LPOH, May 31. NOT one of the 15 persons present at the shoo‘ing of a detective police constable by an unknown number of bandits at the Chinese Club at Batu Gajah last night would admit seeing the armed intruders. Shortly after eight o’clock last night the bandits
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    OPIUM CHARGE: $2,000 BAIL
    51 12 SINGAPORE. Juno 1. A $2,000 bail in two su»«ties was offered in the gapore Second District Cou't yesterday to Teo Yip ho. aged 37. who was charged with possessing opium apparatus, 24 tahils of chan cm and 4 lb. of opium. Thedas' was postponed to June
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    1 CARD, 2 FINES
    57 12 JOHORE BAHRU. May 31. Lim Hoo Huang of Pas Plangie failed to produce identity card for a P 0ll( officer and was fined $3 Johore Bahru. However, tty card which was later pr duced was defaced and he v&gt; fined another $10. Lim said he was
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    ‘GREATER CHECK ON SCHOOLS’ S’PORE C.I.D. CHIEF WARNS
    302 13 GREATER CHECK ON SCHOOLS’ S’PORE C.I.D. CHIEF WARNS SINGAPORE, June 3. &lt; OXSIDERABLY greater control is going to he exercised over Singapore schools in future, following new legislation, Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, Deputy Commissioner, C.I.D., ,aid at a Press conference yesterday. Evidence that a Malayan Communist Party cell had
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    University Fund
    138 13 SINGAPORE. June 2. |'HL University ot Malaya A Endowment Fund total at 20 was $2,722,042.68 Denations received between ''Et\ 13 and May 20 totalled H.H13 11 v Banks: Staff. District Kroh $8.70. Staff. Game P f Batu Gajah $13.80. Ekrain A )U Talib, Social Welfare Office, Anson. $1.00;
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    PROMOTION
    20 13 SINGAPORE. June 3. A. W. Hayes, Signals at in the Malayan Deffient of Civil Aviation, been promoted Senior Officer.
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    M.I.C. Plea To Griffiths On Police
    213 13 From Oar Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. June 2. A DELEGATION from the i Malayan Indian Congress! today told the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, that they wanted the .ranks of the police force opened to all Indians and not confined
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    For Mental Observation
    118 13 SINGAPORE. June 3. THE Malayalee who was detained by the police after the $700,000 rubber fire at the godown of Louis Dreyfus and Co. at Outram Road. Singapore, has been sent for mental observation, it was stated yesterday by the C.I.D. Deputy Commissioner, Mr. R. C. B
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    ‘SKYSCRAPER’ SETS PROBLEM
    241 13 SINGAPORE, June 3. gINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners have i yet another problem to solve for the builders of the new 18-storey Asia Insurance Company building at Finlayson Green. The problem is a propo.sal to erect a beacon tower on the new building, which will increase its height by
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    ‘JOBS-FOR-$20’ MAN GETS GAOL TERM
    112 13 SINGAPORE, Juno 3. rpo women in need of emX ployment, “Mr. Lee” was a good friend a very influential man. He could, so he told them, use his Influence to get jobs for them in an amusement park. He even took them to a tailor
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    Power Station Orders Passed
    226 13 SINGAPORE, June 3. Municipal Commissioners have authorised the first major orders for equipment from the United Kingdom for the Colony's new $80,000,000 power station at Paslr Panjang. initial expenditure on which has been approved up to $27,000,000. The latest orders for equipment approved by the Commissioners
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    TWO MEN WITH ELEVEN CENTS
    183 13 Their food bill: -$9.40 SINGAPORE, June 2. TWO English-speaking Chinese who entered a restaurant at Dhoby Ghaut, Singapore, with only 11 cents between them but called for beer, food and cigarettes to the value of $9.40, were sentenced to two months rigorous imprisonment and one
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    NEW JUSTICE
    32 13 SINGAPORE. June 3. Mr. L. Cresson was elected a member of the Board of Licensing Justices for Singapore at a meeting of the Justices of the Peace on May 10.
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    On Leave
    52 13 SINGAPORE. Juno 3. Mr. F S. MacFadzean, a director of the Colonial Development Corporation in the Far East, is leaving Singapore bv air on Monday for a three-months holiday in England. In London. Mr. MacFadzean is expected to discuss Far Eastern projects with the headquarters of the Colonial
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    STRACHEY’S PROMISE TO A.C.S.U.
    349 14 SINGAPORE. June 4. WAR Minister Mr. John Strachey yesterday promised the Singapore Army Civil Service Union that their two-year-old claim for housing allowance will be settled by July 1. Mr. Strachey made this promise during a one-and-half-hours discussion with the Union’s six-man delegation, headed by its
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    $500 RAISED FOR GUIDES
    116 14 SINGAPORE June 4 THE cnarity show, sponsor--1 ed by Daco Syeci A M AlsagofT in aid of the I\vo Maiay Giri Guides who are lo attend the Giri Guide Gam]) m Auslranu this year, played to a packed house iast night at the Deun-Tijn Odera in
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    300 STRIKE ON RUBBER ESTATES
    73 14 BEN TONG. June 3. i T HKKE h '»n(1r&lt;‘d labourers ;m involved in a strike vh,rh started yesterday on three Chinese rubber estates in Pahang. The labourers are asking Jor an increase in wages it is learned. The estates are Sang Lee Estate. Tong Lee
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    PNEUMONIA WAVE IN FEDERATION
    39 14 KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 The pneumonia wave in the Federation came higher during the week-ending May 20 with 107 cases reported, and 26 deaths, compared with 81 cases and 14 deaths in the previous week.
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    More Chinese join up
    179 14 KUALA LUMPUR. June 3. THE Federation of Malaya police recruiting team under the Commandant of the Police Depot, Mr. F. K. McNamara, selected 29 Chinese recruits at the State police headquarters, Seremban, yesterday. This was the second visit of I the team to Seremban for this
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    No Yangko ban in Colony, but...
    248 14 SINGAPORE, June 4. ban is being imposed on the Yangko Dance in Singapore, but public performances coming under the Theatres Ordinance will not be permitted except under licence issued bv the police. Mr N C Morris. Assistant Commissioner. Special Branch, told me yesterday, however,
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    NO LICENCE FINED
    28 14 PARIT BUNTAR. June 3. Pleading guilty to hawking without a licence at Titi Scrong, Eng See Kooi was lin(»d $lO in the Parit Buntar Court
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    HAD 19Ib OPIUM —18 MONTHS
    116 14 SINGAPORE June 4. I EE KENG 3Uf. a young Chinese motor boat labourer pleaded guilty to Mr. Tan All Tail. Singapore Second District Judge, to u charge of bein'*, m the possession of nine packets of opium weighing i9 lb., and was sentenced to 1&lt;&gt;
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    23, killed $15,000 bandit leader
    159 14 KUALA LUMPUR, June 3. Corporal Charles Catling, of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, shot dead the Communist Min Yuer leader, for whom there was a $15,000 reward dead or 3live. in the Sctapak area of Kuala Lumpur. But Lance Corporal Catling who is 23. will
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    GAOLED FOR LOTTERY
    76 14 KUALA LUMPUR June 3. A young Malay. Hassan bin Yob, was found guilty of iotciing and was sentenced to six months' rigorous immisonment by Mr. D. M. K. Grant in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court. Hassan was originally charged with house breaking and theft of a casli
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    Two fighter squadrons leave K.L.
    276 14 Two fighter squadrons leave K.L SINGAPORE Junr 4 T w O squadr° n s of R.A.F fighters used conhnJilv the fight against the bandits have been wifka Y from their base at Kuala Lumpur airfield because bad state of the runway. the The withdrawal, said a R.A.F. spokesman yesterm would
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    “U.K. Govt. Shows More Interest”
    217 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Junt THE overall situation m ‘a, F.*i East is a mutter o* some concern to sharehoka m tin producing companies V Malaya Mr. W. M. Warier* Chairman of Larut Tin Fuick Lid., told shareholders a: the annual meeting in Krl, Lumpur today. Mr.
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    Russian ship takes 7,000 tons rubber
    82 14 SINGAPORE. Ju&gt;. i. THE Russian freighter du:'ikev sailed yesterday loading nearly 7.000 t a rubber from Singapor. Russia. She will call at th” ii. i. &lt; oasta’ ports of M i Svt »r;enham to take in more rubber Two more Red ships, n* Krasnogorsk
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    Police mistake—case withdrawn
    42 14 Police mistake —case withdrawn KAJANG. June s. The jang police withdrew charge against Yuen Chik who was to have failed to o port an accident. mile on the Semenyili-H' nang Road within 24 The police explainer) Yuen had made a report telephone
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    ONLY 8 GIRLS TURNED UP TO SEE Mr. REED
    347 15 SINGAPORE, June 6. By Our Woman C orrespondent u HEN Shaw Brothers arranged for would-be film stars to meet Mr Carol Reed, the wellknown British film director, for a special audition yesterday morning, they thought that their office would be swamped
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    KNOCKED AT DOOR, THEN FLED
    144 15 SINGAPORE. June 6. FOUR men wno Knocked at •he door of a house in K. mpong Potong Pasir shout*r/: Open the door Identity card check.” tied !&gt; h' T. die suspicious occupants Parted banging kerosene tins attract the attention of neighbours, the Singapore Court was
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    Missing Man’s Estate
    140 15 SINGAPORE. June 3. MRS. Sophie Solomon, of 446. Serangoon Road, appeared before Mr. Justice Evans in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday in support of an application made »y her for permission to take ut letters of administration ■n regard to monies left by her iiuiband in the
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    INNER WHEEL OFFICIALS
    81 15 SINGAPORE. June 3. h s. R. k. S. Adams is the president of the Singa- Inner Wheel. She was ,f icd at a meeting which held on Thursday. iar rest of the new committee he year 1950-51 will be: Viceulent; Mrs. J. Loder Waters, treasurer; Mrs. J.
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    2 ACCUSED OF CHEATING
    71 15 SINGAPORE. June 6. TVO men who were alleged to have offered licences to three hawkers to operate coffee stalls in prohibited places, yesterday claimed trial in the Singapore First District Court to three charges of cheating, involving $570. The two men, Mohamod Khan and Webster Smarten
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    TROOPSHIP ARRIVES
    40 15 SINGAPORE. June 6. The British troopship Empire Trooper arrived in the Singapore Outer Roads yesterdav lrom Hong Kong with about 290 military personnel for Singapore. The vessel also carried 277 other Servicemen in transit to the United Kingdom.
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    VESAK DONATION TO SATA
    39 15 SINGAPORE. June 6. The Singapore Vesak Celebration committee have given $1,500 to SATA from contributions received from Buddhist associations. organisations, temples and individuals on Vesak Day held at the Victoria Memorial Hall on May 1.
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    STRACHEY PROMISES MORE DOCTORS
    234 15 SINGAPORE. June 6. WHEN Mr. John Strachey, the Minister of War, visited the British Military Hospital in Singapore yesterday afternoon, he was told by the C.O.. Col. Charles Chambers, that, due to feeding upcountry stations where the need was more immediate, Singapore’s military hospital was under-staffed.
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    Children Beat Up Mother
    211 15 —STORE COURT IS TOLD SINGAPORE. June 6. A MIDDLE-AGED Chinese woman who claimed that she was assaulted by Her two sons, daughter and son-in-law, was yesterday awarded $200 compensation in the Fourth Police Court. The two sons, Toh Seowi Chai and Toh Hwa Huat, the daughter,
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    Red Tape Blamed For Suicide Bid
    136 15 SINGAPORE. June 6. LOW NGO MUI said in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday that he attempted suicide because of delay by the Vehicles Department in renewing his trishaw licence. Low was found hanging at Craig Road on May 28. The Magistrate, Mr. S.
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    PROGRAMME “LAGS FAR BEHIND,” SAYS FRASER
    324 15 SINGAPORE, June 6. 'pHE Manager of the Singapore Improvement Trust, Mr. J. M. Fraser, In his annual report for 1949, says that the housing programmes, as at present conceived, are a long way from solving the housing shortage in the Colony, although they make
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    IPOH DOCTOR ON BRIBE CHARGE
    109 15 From Our Stuff Correspondent IPOH, June 5. QR. C. Murugiah, a 53-year-old Government doctor attached to the Ipoh District Hospital, appeared today before Mr. M. Garton, President of th e Sessions Court. three charges of accepting illegal gratification. The charges were: Accepting $lO in cash
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    NO PERMIT TO CARRY LATEX
    52 15 JOHORE BAHRU, June 5. Gamin bin Amman and Kadir, two Singapore drivers, were fined $4O each in the Johore Bahru Police Court today for carrying latex in their lorries without a haulage permit. In addition they were each fined $2O for not having a goods
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    OPIUM OFFENCE
    49 15 JOHORF BAHRU, Juno 5. Chia Ah Chiew was fined $2OO, in default 2$ months’ simple imprisonment, in the Johore Bahru Police Court today for permitting his room in Jalan Meldrum to be used for the consumption of chandu. Two complete smoking outfits were ordered to be confiscated.
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    DECREE NISI
    45 15 SINGAPORE. June 6. A decree nisi to be made absolute in three months was granted yesterday by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley, to Constance Winifred Orr, who petitioned for a divorce from her husband, Edward Malcolm OTr, on the grounds of desertion.
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    ‘No Evidence Of Alien Political Doctrines ’
    291 16 No Evidence Of Alien Political Doctrines From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, June 6. THERE is no evidence that alien political doctrines are spread in Chinese schools, the Kwong Wah Yit Poh, one of Penang’s leading vernacular papers, states in p. leading article on a recent speech by Dr. Ho Seng
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    5 Hurt In Attack On Mail Train
    247 16 SINGAPORE, June 7. A ETROPEAN who had completed his contract in Rlalaya and was about to sail for South Africa, and the wife of a British Army officer, were both wounded yesterday when the Singapore-bound night mail train was “splattered with bullets from
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    Promotion For Consul-General
    113 16 SINGAPORE, June 7. NETHERLANDS Consul-Ge-neral in Singapore for the past three years, Mr. A. M. L. Winkelman, leaves Singapore on June 21 for Holland and then promotion to a high foreign post. The nature of the promotion has not yet been made public. Taking over his duties
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    FRENCH SLOOP IN SINGAPORE
    54 16 SINGAPORE, June 6. AFRESH contingent of “matelots” or French naval ratings, came ashore at Singapore on Monday following the arrival of the twin-funnelled, 2,600ton sloop La Grandiere. La Grandiere is returning to the French Navy’s South-East Asia station after refitting at Toulon. She will leave for
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    GUITAR RECITAL
    25 16 SINGAPORE. June 7. Jean Fuller, a French guitarist, gave a recitai in the Victoria Theatre last night under the auspices of Alliance Francaise.
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    Sultan’s Brother Proclaimed
    209 16 From Our Own Correspondent BRUNEI, June 6. OMAR Ali Saifudin, Duli Pengeran Bendahara and younger brother of the late Sultan, was today formally proclaimed Sultan of Brunei. This followed a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Brunei yesterday evening, when, by an unanimous decision, the Bendahara
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    CHINESE STOLE WOODEN LIONS
    94 16 SINGAPORE. June 7. "I will give you one chance to make good,” said the Singapore Second Police Court Magistrate. Mr. S. E. Teh. to Lim Soo Hor who pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing two wooden images of Chinese lions. Lim, whose last conviction was in 1941,
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    $18 MILLION MORE FOR MALAYA WAR DAMAGE FUND
    357 16 SINGAPORE, June 7. THE Malayan War Damage Fund will soon benefit by about $18,465,000, realised through the sale of tin, rubber, diamonds, and gold looted in Malaya by the Japanese and recovered in Japan by the Allied Liaison Commission, a Singapore Government
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    Staff-Sergeant Was Out Of Bounds
    162 16 SINGAPORE, June 7. POUND guilty of being in Lavender Street, Singa--1 pure, an “out-of-bounds” area for servicemen, George Porter, a 3b-year-old staff sergeant in the R.A.M.C., was sentenced by a military court-mar-tial in Singapore yesterday to be reduced to the rank of corporal. The sentence
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    COMPOUNDED
    41 16 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. June 6. Brought before the police court today on a charge of committing house trespass, Allagappan told the magistrate that the complainant, a woman, was willing to compound the case. He was accordingly discharged.
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    ‘Shape Your Destiny Now’
    268 16 SINGAPORE. June 7 DCVYS of Rallies institu- tion were told by their Principal, Mr. E. H vVilson, at their Founder's Day Prize Distribution yesterday, that they must begin now to shoulder responsibility and shape their own destiny. Mr Wilson said: "It is all very well for
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    ’VARSITY FUND
    47 16 SINGAPORE. June 6. The University of Malaya F; dowment Fund totalled s2.m&lt; 1 373.21 on May 27. Donations received betue&lt; Mav 20 and May 27 totally $7,430.63: Singapore Banks. $25. &lt;&gt; Kedah Banks. $4,230.87. Kelant. Banks. $1,908.40. Johore Bam." $l2. Pahang Banks. $998.50 langor Banks, $23.25.
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    90 Leaders In Two-Hour Discussions
    236 17 SINGAPORE, June 6. i KADERS of more than 90 Trade Unions, J representing an almost complete cross section of organised labour in Singapore, yesterday met the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr James Griffiths, at a tea party at Government House. They ranged from
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    TOOK NETS
    42 17 SINGAPORE. June 6. A Naval rating. Leslie Raymond Saunders, 24. was bound over for six months on a jurety of S100. by Mr G H. F Blake, the Third Police Magistrate. on a charge of theft of Two mosquito nets.
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    $750,000 Building For K.L.
    169 17 KUALA LUMPUR. June 5. A START is being made this week in Pudu Road. Kuala Lumpur, on the building of new $750,000 premises for Wearne Brothers. Ltd. motor car and vehicle importers and used car dealers. An additional $200,000 is to be spent on expansions by
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    230 WERE DEPORTED IN MAY
    163 17 From Out Staff Correspond*; nt KUALA LUMPUR. June 5. IN MAY, approval was given 1 to deport 222 aliens and eighj, British subjects under the Emergency Regulations This brings the total number of deportations to 6,639 aliens and 135 British subjects. The total number of
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    WAITRESS FINED
    31 17 SINGAPORE. June &lt;5 A waitress, Lam Ah Kam, was fined $5O in the Second Police Court yesterday for criminal breach of triu&lt; of a wristwatch belonging to her employer.
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    GIRLS’ SCHOOL GETS 7-DAY ULTIMATUM
    338 17 GIRLS SCHOOL GETS 7-DAY ULTIMATUM This section authorises the Registrar of Schools to serve notice on the supervisor of any school If It appears to him that such school Is being used for the purpose of political propaganda detrimental to the interests of the Colgny or of the public or
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    SIX EX-DETAINEES ARE GRATEFUL
    90 17 KUALA LUMPUR. June 5. THE Taiping Rrhabilitu- tion Camp has received a donation of $100 from six Johore Chinese who were recently released from «he camp and resettled. The Assistant Secretary for Chinese' Affairs in charge of the camp stated that the gift was an expression
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    $10,000 DAMAGES FOR INJURED WOMAN
    109 17 SINGAPORE, June 6. DAMAGES in $lO,OOO, with costs, were awarded by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday, to Mrs. M. E. Waters, wife of Mr. A. G. Waters, of Blakan Mati, against Mr. E. K. H. Lindeboom. The claim
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    INJURED IN CAR CRASH
    41 17 KIIAI.A M'MPIJR. June 5. MR. C. V. Allen, Assistant- in-Charge of SOCFIN and Co, Tort Swettenham, was seriously injured in a motor car crash near Klang on Saturday night and Ls now in Bungsar Hospital, Kuala Lumpur.
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    The old club's pool was useful lure
    661 17 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW BECAUSE of the erstwhile hiis\ European Club hne we are blessed with a swimming In this wav, althe club itself s now abandoned, we nianage to gel quite a number of people to &lt;&gt;nie and see us, for v
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    6 Guides To Go To Perth
    81 17 l rom Our Staff Corresuuiident PENANG, June 5. SIX Penang Girl Guides Who hold First Class badges have been chosen to go to Australia next month for the Perth jamboree. They are Marjorie Lee Sally Ong, Maureen O’ Keefe, Banian binte Ali, Yiap Salk
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    PARK ATTACK ALLEGED
    65 17 SINGAPORE, June 6 A dagger was stated to have been used by two Chinese, Sonny Tan and Robert Tan. both ol Geylang, in the alleged a&suult on a Malay on June 3 night at the Happy World Park. They claimed trial to the charge of causing hurt,
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    SAFA to build 6-ft. fence in stadium
    268 18 SINGAPORE, June 2. SINGAPORE Amateur Football Association, at its Council meeting held at Singapore Recreation Club yesterday, decided to erect a fence six feet high, surmounted by three strands of barbed wire on metal supports bent inwards, in front of the cheaper accommodation
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    Lim Bong Soo Clears His First Hurdle
    138 18 SINGAPORE. June 6. LIM BONG SOO, in his 50th year, cleared his first obstacle in his tennis “comeback” attempt when he beat M. K. San by the convincing score of 6-3, 6-2 when the Singapore lawn tennis championships started on the S.C.C courts
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    GAW CUP TO R. MUMFORD
    70 18 SINGAPORE, Juno 5. THE following are the results of the Oaw Khek Khlam Golf Cup competition played at Island Club yesterday. Tiie winner was R. Mumford 18) 167 —28~r 139, and runner-up was F Sadka (6) 178—36=; 142. Next best scores were by: u u
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    VAN B. BUYS HORSE BY RADIO-PHONE
    85 18 By EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE. June 2. TRAINER Marinus van Breukelen radio-tele-phoned Mr. raik More O’Ferrall, managing director of the Anglo-Irish Bloodstock Agency in Eondon, from Ipoh yesterday to purchase a new horse. Lightning Boy. The Ipoh trainer spoke for five minutes. Reception was very
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    JOHORE GR. PRIX AGAIN IN AUGUST
    278 18 SINGAPORE, June 3. THE SINGAPORE Motor Club, organisers of last year’s mammoth motoring event the Johore Grand Prix, are planning to hold the event this year on Sunday, August 6. It is hoped to run the race on the same course as last year.
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    RSGC WOMEN WIN
    37 18 SINGAPORE. June 6. The women’s match Detweer Royal Singapore Golf Club anc the Island Club played at tfukii Timah yesterday afternoon resulted in a close win for R.S.G C by 11 points to 10*4.
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    S’PORE GUN CLUB A.G.M.
    98 18 SINGAPORE June 1 »PHE Singapore Gun Club has now a total of 89 members of whom 50 are Life members. This wras stated at Monday’s annual general meeting. A sound financial position w f as reported on by Lt. Col. Seston, the retiring secretary and treasurer.
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    JAFFAR BIN AMRAN LIFTS 535 LBS.
    48 18 SINGAPORE. June 4. JAFAAR bin Amran won the bantamweight championship of the Singapore Amateur Weight Lifting Federation at -Great World last night with a lift of 535 lbs. In the flyweight section Mohd. Noor bin Abaas became the champion with 475 lb.
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    Noon Scores 47, Pierce Takes 6—28
    223 18 SINGAPORE. June 5. JN a friendly cricket match played on the S.C.C. Pahang yesterday. S.C.C. •‘A” team beat the Navy by 23 runs. Top scorer for the S C C. and the day was Noon with 47 runs, while Phillips made 24 not out
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    CEYLONESE LOSE ON 1st. INNS.
    407 18 SINGAPORE, June 5. SINGAPORE Cricket Club did the day's best performance yesterday in the Singapore Cricket Association's senior tournament when they took first innings points from the formidable Ceylon Sports Club. This was very largely due to the Club’s stock bowler Jack Smith who took
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    Sgt. Dowdeswell Wins 3 Events
    235 18 SINGAPORE, June l EQUIPMENT Wing of Royal Air Force sei'.i. with a total of 46 points—eight points more th»» their own Technical Wing—won the inter-staii«« team sports championship of Royal r f 0 Malaya held at the Changi sports Held yesterday F/O Leviseur of R.A.F.
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    Shorter And Longer Races At Singapore Favoured
    207 18 SINGAPORE. June 1 (SINGAPORE racehorse owners have provisionally decided to recommend to the Singapore Turf Club that future programmes include runs over 5J furlongs and one mile and five furlongs. This recommendation, which has the backing of the owners association in the Federation,
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    S’pore CSA Win Cricket
    213 18 SINGAPORF June 6. pLAYINO their first nntrn since the liberation Singapore Civil Service Association defeated the Singapore Wanderers by 72 rum* w a friendly cricket match played ai St. Joseph’s Institution ground on Sunday. Scores were: S.C.S.A.: K. Balasundram o da Silva 0; A. Frugtneit c
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    RUBBER WAS CENTRE OF INTEREST
    288 19 From A Market ('orrespondent i iEERFULLY expansive week has to be reported A ,tn the Malayan share markets. Main interest ai ictivity centred in rubbei which commodity it'd 95J cents per lb. on Thursday. Not since l&lt;i has such a price been realised, but 24
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    APRIL RUBBER HARVESTS
    44 19 PYA'I"1 company announce the kl in.,owing April rubber harvest. in lbs H -.ii.: Utd Plant. 28.000 t'i.aru'kat Serdang Est. 25.700 ng Develop 120.000 H ‘&gt;tor Est. 11,162 1 in.iv Est. 59.000 N alas Est. 43,700 firm-iew Est. 151.000 pah Est. 79.422
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    RUBBER: 24-YEAR RECORD
    277 19 SINGAPORE. June 3. THE highest price tor luboer since 1926 was reached on Thursday afternoon with No. 1 sheet f.o.b. June at 96 cents per ib.. business done and buyers. There were a lew minor factions during the week on nrofi:-ta..ing says Lewis Peat’s weekly inaiket report,
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    Takuapa Valley Tin
    27 19 UPAKUAPA Valley Tin Dreaging announces that in May two dredges worked 1.284 r*ours, covering 300,000 cubic ya id* to produce 974 piculs of tin-ore
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    A PROFIT FOR 1949
    340 19 CONNEMARA LIMITED. Profit for 1949 was $45,750. or 9.2% Replanting expendl- ture precludes declaration of 1 a dividend so long as the 1 Company awaits compensa-; tion for War Damage. Net liquid assets in balance sheet, $23,667, are equal to 4.7 cents per share. All-in costs
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    TAIPING PLANTATIONS
    83 19 TAIPING Rubber Plantations have already .earned about C 10,000 for fubber they will produce during the vear to September 1951. The chairman. Mr. F.O. Laughland. in his annual statement, savs the company has sold 168,000 lbs. out of next year’s output at an average price of about 1
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    Suloh Rubber Crop
    16 19 OULOH Rubber Estates in April produced 21,212 lbs. if rubber of all grades.
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    No Hold-Back For Prices
    432 19 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 4. charges that rubber producers in Malaya are holding back shipments of rubber in anticipation of higher prices is absolutely without foundation. This is the consensus of opinion of producers and it is amply confirmed by statistics. There has
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    MILLION FREE SWEETS
    181 19 NEW INDUSTRY SINGAPORE, June 7. ONE million free sweets will be distributed in Singapore today by Fraser and Neave (Confectionery) Ltd., to introduce their new products, “Torch” Brand sweets. With each packet containing five different flavours, the Singapore public will b&lt; Invited to try out the first
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    975 19 SINGAPORE. June 6. industrials Rarer seller i. k. i" i IT m 3b 2 20 2 30 M 90 i2 26 H 1 33/6 34/6 xo 7 or J 50 10/i 41 ”t t 15 6 16 3 c M /"li &lt;8 76 19 76 lean x
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    Traders’ Tin Properties
    240 19 FE policy and position ol the Straits Trading Company’s mining properties were described by the chairman. Mr E. M P* Fergusson. when he addressed the company’s annual meeting In Singapore. "War damage compensation l» a matter ol great importance to &lt; liable us to proceed with t*u
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