The Straits Budget, 15 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. 202. Singapore Thursday, June 15, 1950 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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    • 104 1 The STRAITS BUDGET Published in SINGAPORE on THURSDAY Delivered in LONDON on MONDAY SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION 824.00 Arrangements have been made to send th e Straits Budget 99 by air to the United Kingdom weekly on Thursdays i.e. on pub lication day in Singapore. Under conditions we should be in
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    • 339 2 MR. Dutton s letter, published on June 2 under the heading “Sympathy With M.P.A.J.A.: The Facts”, explodes the M.P.A.Jmyth. It deserves to be published in all the languages of Malaya. It brought back painful memories of the reoccupation, when the manner in which certain members
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    • 162 2 A FTER having seen both “Secrets of Life” and “Sins of the Fathers”, I have come to the conclusion that, instead of having been earlier i banned both these films should have been shown free to adults by the PR Department. Why? For the simple reason'
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    • 66 2 WOULD you explain for the benefit of Messrs. Griffiths and Strachey and myself why so few of your correspondents with ideals to propound, or suggestions to make, fail to take the opportunity of having their names in the papers? ROBERT WARD. Uhangi. Singapore. P.S.-*- The clarion
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    • 44 2 1 SUGGEST that for every bandit killed or captured an award of $l,OOO should be given. Some-one has worked out that It costs $1,000,000 to kill one bandit so an extra thousand would not make much difference. J.M.R. Johore.
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    • 895 2 WITHOUT wishing to stir up a hornet’s nest, I should like to endorse very strongly Dr. Withers-Payne’s letter, which you published in the Saturday Forum of June 3. There is far too much emphasis laid by inexperienced “know-alls” on the desire for self-government, both
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    • 64 2 MR. W J. Brown, in the Straits Times of June 6. describes Mr nneurin Bevan I as “the bad tempered failure." Perhaps Mr Brown is an em- bittered man. for while the “failure” was recently returned to Parliament with a thumping majority at Ebbw Vale, the voters
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    • 429 2 “Some Artifical Citizenship” A Colony V iew I SHALL be glad if you will allow me us 1 of this little sister of Hong Kontr i„'i ver Tan and the Progressive Party 0 s C. support Dr. Withers-Payne and the sin'- F e t0 ciation in their efforts to keep
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    • 113 2 rlE picture “Se '-'e ts ot Life*’ is essenu '1>' an educational and 'stnictive film Its main s tre is on the impor .nee■ oi our livine: mor; and continent \v s It reveals the sr. s c disgraceful and f' 1 oral consequences of ot j living
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    • 806 3 Straits Times. June 8. p, cause of the allegations of B I A t m rubber manufactur- >r the May rubber export j|| s have been awaited with U!:i .a.-I interest. They confirm t H market’s expectation that cX p 0 rts in May would show a
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    • 332 3 Mac A The Reds —Straits Times. June 8. No doubt it was the shorter arm of coincidence which brought General Douglas MacArt hur’s purge of Japanese Communist leaders so closely on the heels of Communist losses in the Upper House elections. It is .it any rat*' a convenient coincidence for
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    • 1053 3 Straits Times. June 9. For some years past the Singapore Improvement Trust has been the largest landlord in the Colony, but, unlike private landlords, it makes an annual report on the administration of its estates to the Government and the public. As the estates grow, so does
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    • 919 3 —Straits Times, June 10. The General Assembly of UMNO will meet again in Kuala Lumpur today to resume the deliberations on nonMalay citizenship which it began threa weeks af;o. At that meeting Dato Onn put forward on behalf of the executive committee of UMNO what were described
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    • 759 4 —Straits Times. June 12. By design, not accident, the Secretary of State for the Colonies spoke at his last press conference of Malaya’s “war” against the Communist terrorists. “War” is a word which the Federation Government carefully avoids, and not even Mr. Griffiths’ distinguished example is
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    • 348 4 —Straits Times. June 12. No government is going to disagree with Mr. Trygve Lie when he says that the work of the United Nations is a primary factor in maintaining peace. No government wants the United Nations to fail. But when the Secretary General goes
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    • 674 4 1 cl l(t v ui gau»owv»v/»* —Straits Times. Jun*' 13. The resignation of Dato Onn from the presidency cf UMNO at the meeting of the General Assembly in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, together with the entire executive committee, is a matter of great regret, and it
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    • 501 4 Straits Times. June 13. Neither the Federation government nor rubber prodve 4 1 will dispute the argunv’i by the U.S. State Depart men' in its statement calling < ion to the “wide spec a 1 swings” in the price of t rubber. It was common e
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    • 851 5 —Straits Times. June 14. 1 doubt the President of S; ngapore Municipal Comers, Mr. T P. F. Mc- stated the correct legal institutional position ao warned the Commis- that they had no power to withhold approval of the plans for a swimming pool on the Beach
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  • 106 5 SINGAPORe. June 14. AFTER 15 years as Medical Superintendent of the Mental Hospital. Singapore, Dr. B. F Home, has gone on leave to England prior to retirement. Joining the Malayan Medical Service in 1931 after four years in Nigeria as Alienist Medical Officer. Dr. Home was
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  • 64 5 SINGAPORo. June 14. A 56-year-old Cantonese. Chan Seng, admitted in the Second District Court yesterday to owning 21 packets of chandu. found in a match box in his trouser pocket, during a Customs raid on a house in North Bridge Road. He also admitted owning two
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  • 427 5 $7,802,400 For Colony He alth, Social Projects SINGAPORE, June 14. THE Singapore Government has received a grant of $7,802,400 from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund for financing social and health projects, a Government official told the Straits Times. This grant is in addition to several million dollars ear-marked for
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  • 80 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, June 13. NOW in Penang on a short visit, General Sir Harold Briggs, Director of AntiBandit Operations, held informal discussions at a Residency tea party yesterday afternoon with Settlement councillors and other community leaders. “The general made a deep impression on us.
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  • PERSONAL
    • 182 5 JENSEN; To Adeline Nancy wife of J.P. Jensen, a daughter. General Hospital, Malacca, on 5th June. DENT. To Mildred, wife of G. E. Dent, A daughter, at Surilngham Nursing Home, on 8th June. MUNRO SCOTT. At Kuala Lumpur, on 9th June, to Enid, wife of H. Munro Scott, a
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    • 149 5 THE ENGAGEMENT is announced between Malcolm, only son of Mr. Sc Mrs. K. L. Johnson, Singapore. and Lily, eldest daughter of Mr. Sc Mrs. L. D. Dymond of Singapore. THE engagement Is announced between Rolf, son of Mr. Sc Mrs. Koren of Edinburgh and Bunty, daughter of Mrs. McDonald
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    • 133 5 COOPER LEWIS: Leonard Lawton Cooper of Sir.gaoore to Vera Caroline Lewis of Bristol, on June 12th, at Singapore. HUNTER-PAXTON HARDING: At St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Kuala Lumpur, on June 12th, Arthur John Hunter, son of tlje late John Hunter and Mrs. Hunter of Angus, Scotland and Malaya, to Joy
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  • 25 5 DEATH TAN AH HENG of U.E. Ltd.. K.L.. at 1.10 p.m., on 12.6.’50. at Fourth Mile Cheras Road. Funeral 2.30 p.m. on 13. 6. ’50.
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  • 1910 6  -  Cecil Street. Gcmmiirs Hill IF you recall the recent musings in this column on John Gemmill, who lived in Singapore during the first halicentury of its history, you may be interested in the pictures which we publish in Page Twelve today. I had these pictures taken because,
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  • 168 7 SINGAPORE. June 9. imrsi prize-winner at f the last Singapore dower show, Mr. Ernest Klaas of the Singapore Land Office, is a very disappointed man today. Two of his prize-winning orchid plants were stolen from his house last week. Members of the Spathoglottis orchid
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  • 74 7 SINGAPORE. June 10. A CONCERT in aid of the Canterbury Cathedral Reva'ion Fund was held last at the Singapore YMCA last night. JVx programme included an sung by Ena Murray, w. rtaret Vincent, Peggy son. Sheila Foster, SuzWalker. Audrey Boyer Goodland and Ethel y and a play.
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  • 19 7 JVAR. June 9.—Five trisha who obstructed the ‘horoughfare with their s were each fined $3 Muar. ‘Magistrate
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  • 446 7 SINGAPORE, June 9. rllE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin 1 Gimson, yesterday officially opened part of Princess Elizabeth Housing Estate—72 workers’ flats in Farrer Park. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, who also attended the ceremony, described them as “splendid
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  • 27 7 MUAR. June 7. Gail ol Sl5O was allowed Dodah Pin Mat. who was charged in the Muar Magistrate’s Court with committing house trespass at Tangkak.
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  • 59 7 MR. JAMES GRIFFITHS, Secretary for the Colonies, on June 8 laid a wreath on the grave in Bidadari Cemetery, of Mr. Duncan Stewart, the assassinated Governor of Sarawak. On the wreath were the words “In honourable memory of a fine and devoted officer, who gave his life in the service
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  • 282 7 SINGAPORE, June 9. SINGAPORE food purveyors tear a rise in tne cost of some foodstuffs as a result of a reduction in the amount of market produce arriving in Singapore yesterday, following the clamping down of the curfew from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. in
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  • 190 7 U SINGAPORE. June 10. inspecting the roof T *ace of Virginia House, mjong Pagar Road, Sinr(\ on June 1. A V. Spoor. 1 1 ;"<>Pean sanitary engineer, ‘through the thin asbestos •,and landed on a contour 16 feet below, re- fatal injuries. ■P relay, the
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  • 46 7 SINGAPORE. June 10. Six-hundred and five babies were born in Singapore during the week ending June 3 There were 175 deaths during the same period, chiefly from tuberculosis *27). pneumonia (25) and enteritis (22). Last week 178 deaths were recorded
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  • 231 7 SINGAPORE. June 10. T»HE sealing off from 1 bandits of major sources of supplies and intelligence now generally obtained from squatter areas is expected from far-reaching plans drawn up by the Director of Operations, Lieut-Gen. Sir Harold Briggs. Squatters in extensive areas will be brought
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  • 80 7 SINGAPORE, June 10. LjOSING as a re i 'sentalive of Gammon MaJaya Me! V. Subjamaniam induced a Borneo Co store-keeper Sin Ah Koe. to deliver him on June 2 and 5 a total of 175 tins of paint, worth :>2,750. On June 7 he tried to ;et
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  • 42 7 SINGAPORE, June 10. A motor-Urngkang owner, Wang Wen Ha, was fined S5OO by Mr. H. E. Kingdon, in the Singapore First District Court yesterday, for allowing his vessel to ply without carrying sufficient and effective lifesaving gear and fire-fighting appliances.
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  • 144 7 PENANG, June 9. 'PUREE Indian warships, Jumna, Kistna and Tir, comprising: the 12th Frigate Flotilla of the Indian naval squadron now on a summer cruise of SouthEast Asia arrived in Penang today on a three-day visit to the Settlement. A large crowd of Indian labourers lined
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  • 64 7 SINGAPORE. Juno 10 Further awards to Royal Air Force personnel in the King's Birthday Honours List, for 1050 are announced Squadron Loader Peter Smith. DFC is awarded the Air Force Cross for his service on the British Service Mission vn Burma. Sergeant P. Harridge now
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  • 332 8 KUALA LUMPUR, June 10. “A LL The King's Men/* the film about a corrupt American governor which won three Academy Awards and was banned by the Film Censor, Mr. Jack Evans, is to be freed for public exhibition in the Federation. This makes
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  • 178 8 SINGAPORE. June 12. [VRECT appointments to, the rank of Assistant Superintendent Police are now open to British subjects —persons born m the Fede- ration of Malaya, or the f colon.es of Sarawak and j North Borneo, the State of j Brunei, and Singapore This
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  • 208 8 SINGAPORE, June 11. RESPITE the 30 mile speed limit and Police speed traps, Singapore's accident rate continues to rise month by month. But figures obtained indicate that the week-end is no longer a black spot for serious accidents, which for the past five months totalled
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  • 106 8 SINGAPORE. June 11. /CHARGED In the Singapore First District Court yesterday with giving false particulars in his identity card, a young Eurasian said he had changed his name because he had been converted to the Muslim taith. The man. Mohammed Kassim bin Mohammed Esarhup :<iias Edward
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  • 61 8 SINGAPORE. June 12. IN ONE of the biggest operations carried out in Penang since the Emergency, the Settlement Police captured five important members of the Malayan Communist Party and seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition. Those arrested—four women and one man—offered no resistance.
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  • 175 8 SINGAPORE. June 12. FE Ex-Service Association of Singapore has advised a great many of its members on problems of moneylending and helped to get them out of the clutches of moneylenders. It has paid between $1,500 to $2 000 a month to those in need
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  • 92 8 SINGAPORE June 11. MR. C F. Seston. M.8.E.. Singapore Relief Court Magistrate, bade his many friends at the police courts goodbye yesterday, on the eve of his departure to take up the managership of a wellknown British firm in Colombo At the beginning of the emergency Mr.
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  • 58 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 10. Yesterday, bandits entered Nam Heng Estate at the 58th mile Tras-Bentong Road and took from the labourers lines and adjacent houses two male Chinese. The gang took them some 200 yards from the kongsi building. Their hands were tied
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  • 1251 8 Gurney on P re ss task in emergency From Our Staff Corresuondonf KUALA LUMPUR, P j° u „e n A N ?PP eal for assessment of he v »l„ of news and its presentation for nnhi; Ue sumption in its proper balance and .w ((M wa, made b, the Hi?h
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  • 941 9 “All Steps To Win Battle Quickly SINGAPORE, June 9. YIR. Jamies Griffiths, Secretary of State for the Colonies, said yesterday he would return to Hritain fully informed as to what more was required in Malaya from Britain. “I am confident we shall be able to fulfil your needs”, he said.
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  • 41 9 I rom Our Staff Corresumnirnt JOHORE BAHRU. Juno 8. Mr F. Marrable. a former Commandant of the Police Depot. Johore Bahru, on his return from leave will take up the post of Oliieer Superintending the Police Circle. Kluang
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  • 72 9 SINGAPORE. June 9. is to have a school for blind children, as part of the handicapped children’s home to be built at Bukit Timah under the Five-Year Social Welfare Plan and a British Red Cross scheme. There will also be a ward for blind adults in
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  • 147 9 hrom Our Staff Correspondent KOTA BAHRU, June 8. THE Trengganu Council of State met yesterday at the Istana Maziah. Kuala Trengganu. Mr. H. G. Beverley, Chief Police Officer, was sworn in as a new member. The following members were le-appointed for a further period of
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  • 680 9 The King Would Have Been Proud Of This Singapore Parade. SINGAPORE, June 9. JJIS MAJESTY the King would have been proud had he been present yesterday at Singapore’s Parade in honour of his birthday. He will be proud when told of the Colony’s demonstration of loyalty, by the Secretary of
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  • 118 9 From Out Stall Correspondent PENANG. June 8. FOR rescuing a drowning man at Kedah Pier, off the Penang Esplanade, in November last year, constable Bakar bin Abdullah today received a “gallantry” award from the acting Resident Commissioner, Mr. R. P. Bingham. The award, in the form of i
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  • 361 10 C.M.G. For Del Tufo Vickers And Benham SINGAPORE, June 8. SINGAPORE'S Chief Justice, Mr. Justice C. M. Murray-Aynsley and the Commander-in-Chief, Far East Air Force. Air Marshal F. J. Fogarty, are both knighted in the King’s Birthday Honours list announced today. Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley becomes a Knight Bachelor and Air
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  • 49 10 SINGAPORE. Juno 8 A finding of “sucide by hanging" was returned by Mr. Choor Singh. Singapore Assistant Coroner, yesterday, at the end of an inquest on 00-year-oid Tan Ah Doh. Tan’s widow said her husband had been very worried because both he and his son were unemployed
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  • 43 10 SINGAPORE. June 8. for 4 rying to sell obscene Photographs in North Bridge Road, two Indians. Abdul v,ne lr an( Mud i(1 were fined u' rri i,n or 0110 month’s i; l bHu y ‘n the Fourth rollc Cf Airt yesterday
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  • 131 10 SINGAPORE. June 8. 4 FINDING of death by drowning was returned at the end of the inquest on Bek Hwee Cheng. 16. a pupil of the Methodist Girls’ School, Paya Lebar. Three school-girls told the Coroner that Hwee Cheng, while collecting shells at Ponggol beach, waded
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  • 36 10 SINGAPORE. June 8. The Governor has awarded Singapore Certificates of Honour to the following: Mr. Ong Piah Teng. Mr. Yeo Chan Boon, Mr. Alfred Charles Willis, Mr. Leonig Hou Chou and Mr. V. Pakrisamy JP.
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  • 246 10 SINGAPORE. June 8. MR. Gerard MacBryan, former political adviser to the Rajah of Sarawak, yesterday sent a telegram to the King protesting against the proclamation of Omar Ali Saifudin, Dull Pengeran Bendahara, as Sultan of Brunei. Mr. Macßryan signed the telegram as guardian of
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  • 61 10 SINGAPORE. June 8. The following residents of North Borneo are included in the lung's Birthday Honours List: Miss Hilda Eleanor Bute.s, Health Officer. Keningua; Orang Kaya Kay a SidelLs Tcnbakau. Deputy Assistant District Ollicer, Tambunan. King’s Police and Fire Services Medal: John Bartholomew Atkinson. Commissoiner of Police.
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  • 21 10 SINGAPORE. June 8. Lee Hee Moay. a trisha pedaller, was yesterday bound over for fraudulent possession of scrap iron.
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  • 130 10 SINGAPORE. June 8. A RETRIAL was ordered by the Chief Justice. Mr! Justice Murray-Aynsley, in an appeal by Syed Anwar bin Nadar Shah against his conviction and sentence of two months imprisonment for alleged breach of trust of $347, being subscriptions collected by him on behalf of
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  • 255 10 SINGAPORE, June 8 MORE than 500,000 people living in .u southern half of Johor,- last nieht under curfew which started at 7 p.m. and last every night until 6 a.m. This is the biggest area to be placed under curfew since the emergency began two
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  • 139 10 SINGAPORE. June 8. A IR Vice-Marshal J. P. J McCauley, Australia’s Air Officer Commanding the Eastern Area, told the Straits Times yesterday, just before he flew back, that he was very pleased with his visit because “I have accomplished what I came to do.” He flew
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  • 69 10 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, June 7. After screening operations in the Pientong area yesterday, 54 Chinese and three Indians were charged in the Johore Bahru Police Court today with failing to notify the Registration Officer of their change of address. The accused, most of
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  • 253 10 SINGAPORE. June 8 »T*0 train pupils “here ana A now” for leadership is an important part of a schoot master’s work. Mr E. H Wil son. Principal of Raffles Institution. declared yesterdav was speaking at the Singapore Rotary Club lunch at the Capitol Blue Room
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  • 89 10 SINGAPORE. June 8. A dispute over the nondelivery of two 10.000 ho:> power diesel engines, from a former Japanese warship i the Singapore Naval Ease and which formed the subject of a claim in the Supreme Court, was cieeicnn yesterday by the Chief J us ice, Mr.
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  • 39 10 SINGAPORE. June 8 Bail in $2,000 was often 'U the Singapore Third 1 011 Court yesterday to Lini Tow, who claimed trial i charge of being found 81 lb of dutiable tobacco. The case was postponed i
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  • 317 11 SINGAPORE, June 8. mREACHING to heav>ly armed rubber planters and i their staffs, and with Tamils and Europeans travelling for four hours by boat and road to hear him, the Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, has just concluded a
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  • 20 11 SINGAPORE. June 8. •r G. D. A. Fox has been punted an Assistant Con- r of Immigration. Singa- > Ft-
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  • 199 11 SINGAPORE. June 8. CTAINED-glass panes depicting peoples of the world which were a feature of the interior decoration of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Collyer Quay, Singapore, have recently been removed. The stained-glass is being offered to the University of Malaya, and instead the bank
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  • 162 11 From Our Stall’ Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. [HREE “joget modern” dancers started fighting utter the throwing of a cigarette stub, the First Magistrate’s Court was told today, during the fight one girl dancer stabbed the 0 er with a penknife, -amleh binte Darus was encec
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  • 37 11 SINGAPORE. June 8. A 45-year-old Indian, Kuppiasamy, who knifed two men at the naval base, was sentenced to six weeks’ rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday on two charges of causing hurt.
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  • 57 11 SINGAPORE. June 8. Two members of the Singapore staff of the United States Information Service Mr. Matthew Chandy and Mr. Cheng Tsi Yan, are starting this week on separate trips across America after attending a series of conferences in Washington. D. C They will return
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  • 195 11 SINGAPORE, June 8. HPHE Singapore First Traffic Court magistrate, Mr. A E. V. A. Peers, yesterday acquitted a Singapore bus driver, Tay Chin Cliye, of a charge of speeding along the Bukit Timah Road on Feb. 13. Two police officers who gave evidence, alleged that
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  • 288 11 SINGAPORE, June 8. \yORK on a master plan for housing in Singapore is expected to be begun this year, the Manager of the Singapore Improvement Trust, Mr. J. M. Fraser, indicates in his annual report for 1949. Mr. Fraser states that proposals for the
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  • 201 11 SINGAPORE. June 8. TiIIE $10,000,000 fund given to the Singapore A Improvement Trust on its formation in 1927, for slum clearance, Is for ail practical purposes exhausted and is now being wound up. This is stated by the manager of the Trust, Mr. J. M. Fraser,
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  • 40 11 JOHORE BAHRU, June 7. Mr. W. Drapkin, on his return from leave, will succeed ASP Ahmad as Officer—in-charge of Police District, Johore Bahru. ASP Ahmad is going to Kuala Lumpur to become Assistant Adjutant at the Police Depot.
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  • 90 11 SINGAPORE. June 8. PANG WEE JEE and Lee Wah Seng, charged at the Singapore June Assizes with voluntarily causing hurt while robbing Abdul Mutaliph at a public lavatory in Liang Seah Street on April 8 last, were unanimously found guilty by the jury yesterday. Mr. Justice
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  • 47 11 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.—R. Singaram. a taxi driver, was fined $5O in the Johore Bahru Police Court today for carrying for hire two passengers in an unlicensed taxi. In addition, he was fined $3O for not having a public service licence.
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  • 191 11 Schools Draft Replies To Govt SINGAPORE, June 8. OOTH manage ment committees of the Chinese High School and the Nanyang Girls’ School in Singapore have met to draft replies to Government, which has asked them to show cause why the schools should not be declared unlawful. Mr. R. W. Watson-Hyatt,
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  • 69 11 SINGAPORE. June 8. Smarten Noordin, who cheated three Indian hawkers of $570, by promising them coffee stall licences, was sentenced to a total of three months’ rigorous imprisonment bv Mr. H. E. Kingdon, the Singapore First District Judge, yesterday. Noordin. who had a previous conviction, pleaded for
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  • 42 11 JOHORE BAHRU. June 7. Found out of doors at Kulai yesterday during curfew hours, Lee Kin. In the Johore Bahru Police Court today said that he was visiting a friend who lived a few doors away. Lee was lined $6.
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  • 60 12 From Our Own Corres|»ondent KOTA BAHRU. FIVE witnesses were sent to prison today for perjury after the Sessions Court Judge. Mr. J. G. Adams, had acquitted Hassan bin Yunus, Penggawa Bachok, Kelantan. on charges of cheating. Hassan was alleged to have cheated six people of
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  • 189 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Juno 8. THE progress with curing lepers at Sungei Buloh Leper settlement and the resettlement of squatters is praised by the Bishop of Singapore, the Right Rev. H. J. Baines in his letter to the Parishioners of Selangor, w'hich appears in the Selangor Parish
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  • 94 12 trom Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, June 8. Judgment was reserved in the Police Court yesterday in case in which Goh Chock Kim, Cheong Tiam Leoong and Baba were charged with carrying 20 bags of tobacco •>n which it was alleged duty had not been paid Goh
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  • 281 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 8. MEN fainted and had to be revived by first 11 aid workers during the showing of the sex hygiene film “Secrets of Life” at the Pavilion Cinema, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday and
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  • 112 12 From Our Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, June 8. Saying he was unable to detect any negligence of the defendant’s part and that a man s death was due to his own fault, Mr. M. R. F. Rogers, President of the Sessions Court. Parit Buntar, acquitted Loh Ah
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  • 64 12 l-rom Our Staff CorresfMuideut JOHORE BAHRU June 8 Pleading guilty to a charge of tailing to obtain an identity card. 62-year-old Tong Mnk Bong told the Court t Oat. he did not apply because he had been told that old people were exempted. Tong’s plea was
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  • 57 12 t rnm Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR June 8 Eighty Scouts from ten Malay schools in the Kuala Lumpur area are at Castle Camp. Kuala Lumpur, for two days to learn signalling, tracking and swimming. Group Scoutmaster Abdul Hamid bin Abdul Latif is tn
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  • 223 12 SINGAPORE, June 9. 4 N attempt was made last night to burn down the Queen Street Boys* Club, former headquarters of the Singapore Branch of the Malayan Communist Party. Two burning bottles and a tin containing kerosene oil were found at the entrance of the
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  • 112 12 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, June 8. MRS. Loh Hung Loon aged 45, principal of the Methodist Girls’ School since the liberation, became Malacca’s first woman Justice of the Peace on the occasion of the King’s birthday today. Mrs. Loii has served 28 years towards the advancement
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  • 83 12 KUALA LUMPUR. June 7. TWO Malays, Salehan bin Daj-sin and Supardi bin Sakawi, were yesterday acquitted in the Singapore Assizes on a charge of causing hurt in committing robbery. They were found not guilty by six-to-one verdict of the jury. The two men were alleged to
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  • 327 12 ‘Starve Out Johore Bandits SINGAPORE. June 9 A 1 Arm y spokesman last night said it was ye t t t° Jiidge the result of the increased operational activity in south Johore. 1 “It may be as much a ink i of starving out the bandits S It is of
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  • 93 12 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, June 8. 4 T a ceremony at Arau, Perlis, yesterday. I" Malays, ex-members of the Communist Partyformally declared their repentance before the Ra.1 a of Perlis. This "Bertobat” ceremony was conducted by the State Kathi, Tuan Sheikh Mahamood and was
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  • 38 12 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE. BAHRU. June 8. V Raman and Kandasamy, two labourers, wno were found out of doors in Kulai during curfew hours were <*ach fined $6 in the Johore Bahru Police Court yesterday.
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  • 46 12 SINGAPORE. June 9. The University ot Mala.--Endow-nment Fund toU‘' $2,735,234.87 on June 3. Donations received bet May 29 and June 3 t(jta t $4,861.56: Singapore $11,163.45. Johore $2,041.27. Kedah Banks Kelantan Banks Penang Banks $1,013. kj gor Banks $24. Perak Bam. $191.54.
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  • 26 12 KUALA LUMPUR• Mr. F. H. Landon. Senioi sistant Conservator, Ma a. Forest Service, has been pointed State Forest O in Kedah with cftcci May 20.
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  • 375 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 11. tvVTO Onn bin Ja’afar today resigned as President of the United Malays’ National Organisation and also announced the resignation of the entire Executive Committee. This took place at the second day’s sitting in Kuala Lumpur of the
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  • 57 13 MAJOR Peter Eric Beaumont of the Royal Leicester Regiment, helps his bride, the former Captain Joan Maude Rudge of the WRAC, to cut the wedding cake at the reception in Cluny Road. They were married on June 10 at the Tanglin Carries n Church. She is the daughter of the
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  • 33 13 KUALA LUMPUR. June 10. f irly this morning shots fired by the sentries at Rompin police station. The was returned by bandits, spasmodic firing continued !or 45 minutes.
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  • 216 13 TN an exclusive statement tonight to the Straits Tunes. Dato Onn said that the situation that had developed was one that he regretted very much but “I consider that anybody holding the position ot President of the United Malays National Organisation and therefore leadership of the Malays
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  • 133 13 SINGAPORE, June 11. THE Government of Singapore has banned the importation of the Tamil weekly “Dheeran” into the Colony; under the ‘‘Undesirable Publications Ordinance, 1938." The magazine, printed and published by Mr. C. Doraisamy at the Rajan Press. Nemmra. India, was distributed in Singapore by the
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  • 88 13 SINGAPORE. June 10. "You will be given $25 from the Court’s poor box to enable you to start life afresh," said the Singapore Second Police Court Magistrate. Mr. A. G. Shears, yesterday to unemployed Tan Boon Eng, who took caustic soda at Synagogue Street on May
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  • 103 13 SINGAPORE. Juno 12. SEVENTEEN Dyaks who left Tawao, North Borneo, to '[k In the Sarawak oilfields ‘Hri were brought to Singa- when the Miri medical horities refused them landing permits due to an outbreak of smallpox in the port they hud just left. They arrived
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  • 371 13 SINGAPORE, June II. DAPERS concerning Raymond Paul Pierre (“Turko") Westerling are still with the Attorney-General’s office, Mr. Richard Green told the Singapore First District fudge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon. yesterday, when Westerling made another appearance in court, smiling and nodding to the Press. Mr Green, appearing
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  • 24 13 PARIT BUNTAR.June 10. Chun Chew Lim wjs fined $lOO in the Parit Buntar court for carrying an excess load in his lorry
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  • 157 13 SINGAPORE. Juno 10. FORTY babies dressed in their best were competitors in a Baby Show at the Welfare Centre. Alexandra, yesterday. After flin and cakes, they were Judged by Miss E. M. Hill, Principal Matron of the General Hospital, and Miss K. Howard, the hospital’s
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  • 118 13 KUALA LUMPUR. June 10. THREE UMNO delegates refused to take part In a debate here this afternoon on the clauses of state nationality by operation of law. They were Inche Sardon of Singapore, the delegate from Sabak Bernam, and the delegate from the UMNO Leftwing
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  • 103 13 BENTONG, June 10. OLIVER Nicholas, a British soldier, was fined $40 and ordered to pay a compensation of $60 to the Telecommunications Department in the Bentong Court by the West Pahang Circuit Magistrate, Inche Anjang Saith, for driving his motor truck negligently. Nicholas who pleaded
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  • 34 13 BENTONG June 10. For behaving in a disorderly manner in the Sessions Court at Bentong, Yong Ying, a 55-year-old woman, was lined $10 by the West Pahang Circuit Magistrate, Inche AnjaTig Saith.
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  • 90 14 SINGAPORE. June 10. AN anti-Communist document published by the “Intelligence Section of the Malayan Anti-Communist and Anti-Russian Column.” was found by the Singapore C.I.D. in Yock Eng School, Chinese High School and the Catholic High School. Cyclostyled in very correct Chinese they addressed the students about
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  • 129 14 SINGAPORE. Juno 10. MR. James Griffiths, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who left yesterday has made a good impression with Municipal Commissioners. This is what some of them say: The acting Municipal President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice: He has given us renewed confidence in ourselves. Any
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  • 61 14 SINGAPORE. June 10. A MAN who was arrested by detectives m the act of wheeling away a •‘planted” bicycle from the doorway of a house in Havelock Road was sentenced to five months’ rigorous imprisonment by Mr. an A J? Tah Singapore Second District Judge, yesterHe
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  • 343 14 SINGAPORE, June 10. TIRADE union leaders as well as some Muni- cipal Commissioners yesterday considered a s “too high” the rents fixed by the Singapore Improvement Trust for the Princess Elizabeth workers’ flats in Farrer Park, and said they should be reduced. The rents
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  • 299 14 From Our Own Correspondent 8 MERTAJAM, June 9. A TERRORIST died last night when the bomb jvnicli he hurled at a shop in Nebong Tebal, Province Wellesley, killed aim before he could escape. The grenade landed on the five-foot *vav injuring 24 people, 12 of
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  • 278 14 SINGAPORE, June 10. DECRUITING will start soon in Singapore for the first unit of 15 officers and 130 airmen and airwomen for the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force. Th/i M'llovoii A A%*«t A The Malayan Auxiliary Air Force, a part-time service formed entirely of -olunteers, will assist in
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  • 188 14 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, June 9. OOSING as “Govern- rnent officials”, a gang of armed bandits raided two factories in West Jelutong, Penang, early today and took away 12 identity cards from a kainpong area popularly known as “banana forPSt” To prevent their victims from recognising
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  • 39 14 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Jure 9.—The Muar Chinese Chamber ol Commerce 1 entertained Mr. L. H. N Davies the administrative officer, to a farewell dinner on the evn of his departure to England on leave.
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  • 130 14 SINGAPORE, June 10. ANOTHER sex-hygiene film, Sins of the Father”, has been passed by the Federation Film Appeal iloard —after being rejected bv the Malayan Film Censor, Mr. Jack Evans —for universal showing. This follows the recent decision by the Federation Appeal Board that “Secrets
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  • 421 14 Captured Papers Show Dissension Despondency SINGAPORE, June 10 COMMUNIST documents seized I,' t h Singapore Police in recent raids disclose disagreement, disorganization, much self criticism and depression amongst the member of the Malayan Communist Party. One document printed last December when m the words of a spokesman tor th e
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  • 54 14 SINGAPORE. Jun*’ 1(! Three decrees nisi made absolute by th<' 11 Justice. Sir Charles M’I'n Aynsley, in the Sin: ,M Supreme Court yosticThey were sequels to voice petitions by Ch">t King against Lily Cho" derick Guy Living.' against Pamela Johann i 1 ingstone, and Joyce N Lloyd-Jones
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  • 43 14 SINGAPORE, June I'' Tighter control of dan ous cargoes outside the t“ L pore Harbour Board Um envisaged in an amend to the Merchant Shipi' Ordinance gazetted night. The amendment come into force aftei tne gislative Council has gt' rn approval.
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  • 145 15 CONFUSION IN EXAMS: UNION INVESTIGATES SINGAPORE, June 10. THE University of Mala.va Students Union 1 intends to investigate the “confusion” in the distribution of papers for the final B.A. examination. Stating the matter is "very important”, the executive committee of the union is inviting underuraduates who sat for the examinations
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  • 112 15 SINGAPORE. June 11. MR. W. J. Lofty” Warin. proprietor before the war of Warm's Publicity Studios, di<d yesterday in the Singapore General Hospital. He was in his sixties. Mr Warin served with the Far East* rn Bureau of the Ministry oi Information in Calcutta during
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  • 95 15 SINGAPORE. Juno 11. D~-.IL of $10,000 in two surelies was allowed in the ■Singapore Second District L ur: yesterday when a 59-ir-old Eurasian. Peter HeCardoza, pleaded not c.i;i v to a charge «>i criminal Preach of trust of $1,322. T was alleged that Cardoza, was the
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  • 42 15 BENTONG. Sat.—Bail of 11 in one surety was 1 owed Muniandy. aged 15. •c.arged in the Bentong out with theft of $130 from V. M. B. Panikkcr. Medi1 Officer, Bentong. The was transferred to the n tong District Juvenile *urt.
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  • 34 15 T OH ORE BAHRU, June 10. D B. Murray and Inche !i *ih binte Mohd. Nor have r appointed members of Local Hospital Board at 1 Pahat and Kota Tinggi. ctivrly
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  • 144 15 KUALA LUMPUR. June 10. THE wedding of Mr. John A. Nettleton, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. F. Nfeitleton of Parit Buntar, and Miss Luella (Babe) Coiaso, eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Coiaso of Kuala Lumpur, took place
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  • 53 15 SINGAPORE. June 11. The following appointments were announced in Singapore yesterday: Mr. L. F. Lambert. Engineer, to act as Director of Engineering, Department of Broadcasting; Mr. G. C. O’Farrell, Controller of Telecommunications, to act as Director of Telecommunications; Mr. J. E. Rippengal to be an Assistant
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  • 37 15 SEGAMAT. Sat. t ound in possession of I’. gallons of toddy without a licence at Bek ok. 49-year-oid Chinnuya was fined $2O at Segamat “Tiu* toddy was for my own consumption.” he said.
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  • 151 15 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 11. gIGHT bandits were killed by security forces yesterday and today. Three were shot dead yesterday in a hut near Seremban and some arms and ammunition were recovered. Three were killed early this morning by a patrol of
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  • 248 15 SINGAPORE, June 11. THE discovery of clothing belonging to a Chinese couple on the beach at Marine Parade, Singapore, yesterday morning, led to the discovery by the Marine Police of the scantily clothed body of a 34-year-old Chinese woman. Tan Pek Neo, in the
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  • 250 15 SINGAPORe, June 14. M R R. E. Foulger, Singapore’s Commissioner of Police, said yesterday that ao member of the Police Force was supposed to use third degree methods or corporal punishment on anybody detained for any offence. If he did, his victim should complain about
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  • 355 15 SINGAPORE, June 12. \IK. P. J. Johnson, leader of the Labour Party on iTI the Singapore Municipal Commission, walked out during the nomination .if oilice-bearers at the Party’s annual meeting yesterday at Haw-Par Hall, leaving with the curt remark: “I refuse to stand for any office at
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  • 29 15 KAJANCJ. S;it.—For allowing his goats to stray into th»* compound of the police station at Kajang, an Indian Muniandy. was lined $2 by ihe Kajanp Circuit Magist••ate
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  • 340 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 13. AN emergency meeting of officials of the Perak 1 branch of the United Malays’ National Organisation, summoned last night at Ipoh, pledged itself to take the first opportunity to move Dato Onn bin Ja’afar’s re-election to
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  • 141 16 I' rom Our Staff Corn’sjvimlnjt KUALA LUMPUR. Juno 13. CiURKHAS on a “Briggs I Plan” operation in the Kota Tinggi area of Johore yesterday killed six bandits. One Gurkha was wounded. The same unit, the 1/10 Gurkha Rifles, on Saturday raptured an armed bandit, and arrested
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  • 75 16 SINGAPORe. June 14. WING Commaifder T. *R. Vickers, of Air Staff Headquarters, Far East Air Force playing with Wing Commander H. L. Messiter in a practice golf match at Changi yesterday did two consecutive holes in one. The holes were the third and fourth, of
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  • 22 16 KUALA LUMPUR. June 13. The sale of Victory Savings Certificates up to and including May 31. 1950, amounted to $912,282.
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  • 462 16 SINGAPORE, June 14. THE proposed Services swimming pool, over 1 which Singapore Municipal Commissioners are at logger-heads with their President, is part of a $1,250,000 plan for the development of part of Beach Road Reclamation for the welfare of Service personnel in the Colony. Included in
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  • 20 16 SEGAMAT, Tues.—Mr. A S H. Kemp. Administrative Officer at Segamat, has left the district or. u short holiday.
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  • 85 16 SINGAPORe. June 14. “CJINS of the Fathers.” ♦5 the sex-hygiene film which has been banned by the Singapore Censor, is breaking box-office records in the Federation. It has been seen b> thousands in Kuala Lumpur. Ipoh. Penang and Malacca A total of 12.500 people
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  • 288 16 SINGAPORE, June H QUESTIONS on the Colon,’, him ce« Khi with particular regard to the appointing of Mr. Jack Evans and his duties are asked at the next meeting of the Singapore \I gislative Council on June 20. P Le The questions have
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  • 189 16 SINGAPORE, June 14. STENCILLED pamphlets issued by the “Singapore Students Anti-British League’* have been found in the Singapore Chinese High School and have been handed over by the Principal of the school to the Education Department. Disclosing this yesterday. Mr. N. G. Morris, Assistant Commissioner, Special
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  • 59 16 SINGAPORe, June 14. OPIUM was found In four hollow corners of a box carried by a Chinese seaman, the Singapore Second District Court was told yesterday. The seaman. Say Cheak Slew, pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of seven tahils of opium. He said he
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  • 158 16 KALLANG DRAMA SINGAPORE. June 14. RASH tenders were v rushed to Kalian? Airport. Singapore, yesterday as a U.S. Navy ‘Privateer” bomber, with one of its four engines out of action, circled overhead for a quarter of an hour before attempting to land. There was danger
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  • 81 16 KUALA LUMPUR. June 1 Mun Wing Fatt. a 31-year-old English speaking Ulune. 1 who pleaded guilty to a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to Yap Kwai was today bound over in $500 in two sureties for a period of two years. Chief Inspector Raja Abbas said
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  • 421 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 12. uUALA Lumpur police have smashed the gang which has been terrorising the suburb of Segambut and which was responsible for throwing hand-grenades into the China Press building and other places in Kuala Lumpur recently. The
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  • 67 17 SINGAPORE, June 13. rE management committee of the Nanyang Girls’ School has sent to the Singapore Education Department its report in answer to the notice asking the school to show cause why it should not be closed. Meanwhile, the report sent in by the Singapore Chinese
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  • 25 17 TELUK ANSON, Man. Mr. A. Young, accompanied by Mrs. Young and son. of Hamiltonia Estate. Bidor, has left for England on long leave.
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  • 55 17 SINGAPORE. June 13. Mr. A. W. Frisbv, Singapore, Director of Education, will be going on leave on Thursday by the s.s. Canton. Mr. R. M. Young, Deputy Director, will act as Director until Mr. Frisby’s return just before Christmas, and Mr. E. H. S. Bretherton
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  • FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW
    • 606 17 A nice peaceful afternoon THOUGHT I would have a nice peaceful afternoon as I was feeling tired after an attack of flu—so went upstairs, lay down and remembering for once t Ho beauty articles, put two moistened pads of cotton wool on my eyes. I then also remembered that I
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  • 208 17 S PORE MAN, GAOLED IN BURMA, SAYS— SINGAPORE, June 13. MR. Peter Robinson, a Singapore man who spent 1 three and a half months in a Rangoon gaol on remand on a charge on which he was later acquitted, has returned to the Colony protesting
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  • 37 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. June 12. MR. Henry Bonnet Shaw. Deputy Commissioner. Federation of Malaya Police, has been appointed Commissioner of Police. Cyrenaica. Mr. Shaw has been in Malaya since Sept. 1948.
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  • 43 17 SINGAPORE. June 13. David Cock, a 21-year-old soldier in the Royal Norfolk Regiment who went “absent without leave" and then escaped from custody when in close arrest, was sentenced to 16 months’ detention by a military court-martial in Singapore yesterday.
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  • 65 17 SINGAPORE. June 13. Cruelty to fowls cost two men, Wee Boon Leah and Han Yee Juan, fines of $25 or five days’ gaol each, when they pleaded guilty yesterday in the Singapore Second Police Court. Wee kept 23 chickens in a wooden drum at Liang Siah Street, and
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  • 504 17 SINGAPORE, June 13. ‘'THE citizens of this great city and port believe A the importance of Singapore to the British Commonwealth cannot be overstated and that anything which has emphasized that importance is wise and to be commended/’ declared Sir Roland Braddell, senior member
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  • 56 17 SINGAPORE. June 13. The appeal of Che Aminah against the decision of the Chief Justice giving custody of 13-year-old Maria Hertogh to the Consul-General for the Netherlands to be returned to her parents in Holland, was postponed yesterday to June 28 owing to the illness of one of
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  • 636 18 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU June 12. •THE Johore Council of State decided today to put measures designed to bring the Emergency to an end right at the forefront of the planned activities of the Government. Members gave their unanimous approval to
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  • 225 18 VVASHIGNTON. Wed. 1 CANNOT line! any evidence that when he was in charge of the car he was incapable,” remarked Mr. Justice Storr in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday, during the hearing of an appeal by Denis Hubert Murphy. Singapore lawyer, who was convicted in the Traffic
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  • 368 18 SINGAPORE. Juno 13. ANY motion of censure J* which the Progressive Party Municipal Commissioners may introduce against the acting Municipal President. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice for his attituae on the swimming pool issue, is likely to meet with opposition from the rest of the
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  • 318 18 SINGAPORE, Juno n THE appointment of Mr. T. P. F. McNeicc as th„ nent President of the Singapore Municipal C P s.on is expected to be officially announced shortL T Sunday Times understands. 'he The appointment is in deference to the U m wishes of
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  • 37 18 SINGAPORE Juno 13. An appeal by Siong Soo Thong, who was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to one year's imprisonment, was dismissed by ihe Criminal Court of Appeal in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday.
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  • 142 18 SINGAPORE Juno 13 JJOMh freshly painted panels in a ships cabin gave revenue officers, who were searching t'oi opium a clue to its hiding place and help, ed to send a man to gaol In the Singapore Second District Court, yesterday. Go Kean Take,
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  • 58 18 SIXGAORE. June lfl. *7 cannot accept your story that you found 36 good tins of abalone isea food) on a public dustbin," said the Singapore Second Police Court Magistrate, Mr. A. G. Shears to a tri-shaw-pedaller, See Ah Moi, who was convicted yesterday of dishonest possession of the
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  • 158 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 12. OANDITS are active again or. the northern outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. Last night two British army officers were killed and, this morning, a food lorry was looted. The officers were kiiied when bandits ambushed their jeep
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  • 47 18 SINGAPORE. June 13. A 22- year-oid Malay, Sulleh bin Mohamed, was yesterday charged before the Singapore Relief Court magistrate. Mr. A. G. Shears, with the rape and robbery of a 57-year-old Chinese woman in a field off Haig Road, at 2 a m. on Sunday.
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  • 145 18 IPOH, June 10. |N the hills behind Ampang, four miles east of Ipoh, regular scene of air strikes and military operations, six British soldiers were killed and four others wounded, one seriously, in a bandit ambush this afternoon. About 40 bandits—overwhelmingly superior in
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  • 190 18 SINGAPORE, June 13. MRS. Tyrone Power, otherwise Linda Christian. star of “Tarzan and the Mermaids,” arrived in Singapore last night in a rain cloud from Bali. She brought a breath of romance to those film ans among the airport staff who purposely worked late
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  • 1100 19 SINGAPORE, June 11. VKING his first appearance on a Malayan racecourse, Buddy (late Silvertoft), a three-dr-old English gelding by Colorado Kid, red a brilliant win in the Trial Handicap for iss 2 “Maidens” to pay $116 for a win at ala Lumpur yesterday, first day
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  • 64 19 SINGAPORE. June 12. PENANG’S Ooi Teik Hock defeated the All-Eng-land and Malayan badminton champion, Wong Peng Soon, in three gruelling sets of 15-5, 8-15, 18-17 in last night’s charity programme at Singapore’s Happy World Stadium Another Malayan champion, Miss Helen Hena of Singapore, was beaten in three
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  • 34 19 SINGAPORE. June 12. Singapore Combined Schools beat Singapore Cricket Association "A” by one wicket on the padang yesterday. Scores in brief: Schools 112 and 80 for 9 SC A 91 and 100
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  • 332 19 SINGAPORE, June 13. TWE Singapore Amateur Football Association have A put in a formal request to Municipal Commissioners for lease of Jalan Besar stadium. In a letter whicn is addressed to the President of the Municipal Commission and signed by S.A.F.A. President, Mr. McG. Watt,
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  • 56 19 SINGAPORE. June 12. THE Singapore women s g<»f championship got under way yesterday at the Royal Singpacre Golf Club when eight qualified for the first round They are: Mrs. Mavor 90. Mr:. O’Geary 90. Miss Taylor 92. Mrs Lim 94, Mrs. Smart 94. Mrs. Paterson 95. Mrs
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  • 319 19 SINGAPORE, June 12. Civilians won their annual cricket match against Combined Services on the S.C.C. padang yesterday by five wickets, repeating their success last vear. Yesterday's play was remarkable for the collapse of Services who, after having put up on Saturday the largest total
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  • 45 19 SINGAPORE. Juno 9. MANILA'S tnter-cclleglate basketball champions, the Mnpua Instilu'o of Technology opened their Singapore tour yesterday at the Happy World stadium with an easy win over the Singapore Chinese High School '.'-Id Bovs’ Association by 71 points to 47 noints
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  • 632 19 SINGAPORE, June 13. A LL-CONQUERING Singapore scored their finest victory of the season yesterday when they beat unbeaten Sing Tao Football Olub of Hong Kong by two goals to nil in a thrilling no-quarter struggle at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Rain which started just before
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  • 574 20 From A .Market Correspondent INCREASING confidence \va* evident in the Malayan share market last week and a good volume of business was written in all sections. Whether the improvement can be attributed to assurances given by the two Ministers’ visit is a moot point.
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  • 33 20 TALAM Mines in May jr >d red 292.76 piculs of tin-ore. >■* r T'ONGKAH Compound No 2 produced 1,000 piculs j» unore after t-eating 105.110 cub*, yards in 651 hours' work.
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  • 185 20 t rom Oui Start corresjwmcieni KUALA LUMPUR. June 8. THE cost of piant at present prices will be far too high to permit Kunciang Tin Dredging to lnstal a new dredge Mr. W. M. Warren, the company’s chairman, made this announcement at the annual meeting in Kuala
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  • 50 20 pUTHRIE Company announce 1 the following outputs from the estates and mines in the Guthrie Group, for May and to date. 1950 respectively: Rubber ilbs.t. 6.251.826. 31.831. 158. Black tea (lbs.). 155.500. *****0. Palm oil itonsi, 1.418, 6.898. Palm kernels itons), 320. 1.628. Tin-ore <piculs). 1.361, 6.734
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  • 252 20 SINGAPORE. June 10. i THE Singapore rubber mar- ket rose to a new peak this week in nervous .rading when July shipment was done at 97 cents the ib.—the highest since 1926. It is obvious that the present price level cannot last for any considerable
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  • 145 20 From Our Staff Owiespondem KUALA LUMPUR. June 8. J ARUT Tin Fields’ costs last year showed a tendency to increase. This, said Mr. W. M. Warren, chairman, at the annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur, was largely the result of the rise in the price of oil
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  • 41 20 LUMPUR rin .11 \l:y worked 1.138 hours, treat d 197.138 cubic yards and 562 piculs of tin-ore. r PONGKAH Compound in he 1 same month worked 396 h.*urs treated 161,624 cubic yards ana won 250 Diculs of tin-ore.
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  • 354 20 JELAPANG: CARE MAINTENANCE NEXT YEAR From Our Staff correspond,,, KUALA LUMPUR IELAPANU Tin Dredging's existing ur a be exhausted next year, and the died”, 111 be placed on a care and maintenance bV en new area has been obtained according t 4 Warren, chairman of the company Hp tnlrl thp
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  • 333 20 From Our Market orrespondi nl KESANG Tin .nude a proft’ oi $48,102 (24 per cent.) for 1949 and paid four interim dividends totalling 20 per cent, less tax. against 15 per cent tax-free li. 1948. No final dividend is rtvom- mended. Net liquid assets. $25,594. art equal to
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  • 945 20 SINGAPORE. June 13. INDUSTRIALS Bover pellet A ex Bricks rd 2 25 2 35 ur ,190 2 25 Petro 32 6 33/6XU B M l rustee 7 Of 7 50 Con Tin Smelt Pr Mr* ii/b (5/6 .6'3 a (l»o Suuir <h 7f <y F**.i l)i<i)ni« 4
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