The Straits Budget, 6 July 1950

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    29 1 The Straits Budget I t *w Series No. 205. [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] Singapore Thursday, July 6, 1950 THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES Price 40 cents Currency)
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      103 1 The STRAITS BUDGET Published in SINGAPORE OH THURSDAY Delivered in LONDON on MONDAY SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION 824.00 Arrangements have been made to send the “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 position
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      AS A EURASIAN SPOKESMAN SEES IT
      592 2 THE SCALES-MARCUS CASE THK decision on the Marcus-Scales candidature for the post of Deputy Municipal Treasurer has indeed come as a great surprise and disappointment to many in Singapore. Unlike the Lim-Wicks affair. here was a case where Mr. P. C. Marcus was teyond
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      “STRONG MEN ARMED”
      140 2 lEf me congratulate you most warmly for Avo oi the most beautiful things, and the most moortant, which the Straits Times has ever published in its editorial columns: “The Die Is Cast/ in your issue of last Wednesday, and the "irst paragraph of your leader today (Thursday).
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      THE PEOPLE WHO SAY “KLING”
      63 2 WE are quite indifferent to the words “Kling” or ‘Kling Kooi” because like a mirror, the words reflect the low upbringing and mean mentalitv of the person who who uses them-especially knowing that they are not concerned. The user only advertises Singapore. himself for the
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      PILLAY AND TESSENSOHN
      263 2 1 AM surprised to learn at last that Mr J. D. M. Smith has found a champion in Mr. M. T. Pill3\ an accountant at the Singapore Treasury. Ever since Mr. J. D. M. S ntth uttered those sarcastic remarks levelled at the General Clerical Service, the
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      The Casting Vote Of Mr. McNeice
      147 2 (J OW politically Immature M* McNetn 11 his casting votejn the Sca-es- Marcus se six Government-nominatea members T he I elected member of the Singapore Mum-'';'\.° ne mission voted for Mr. Scales a Europe nt* and eight elected members voted for m/v lcer local-born
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      OLD COLLYER QUAY
      93 2 tlflTH diffidence I offer some pointers regarding that very interesting picture of Collyer Quay in your issue of today (June 29.) It was certainly taken from the verandah of the old Singapore Club There are no tram lines. Jl therefore pre-dates Anderson Bridge and Fullerton Road <built.
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      UGLY STAMPS IN A LOVELY COUNTRY
      266 2 Collector” in the Straits Times of June 24 wondered why Malaya had such ugly postage stamps. Talk of pictorial stamps for Singapore and perhaps also Malaya has gone on for a long time, and a committee was appointed by the Government to submit proposals
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      A LONE MALAY
      69 2 IREAD with interest in tk? Straits Times of June 24 that a Malay among 17 Europeans had been appointed Assessor in the War Damage Commission. With many others, 1 am curious to know if this Malay friend of ours was appointed on the same terms as the
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      THE KALINGA KINGDOM
      244 2 recently. in both me I On The Margin" I column and in a letter I of Mr. Stephen Pooter I imbushed on June 23 H tht> ancient Indian I kingdom of Kalinga was I described as an ancient I South Indian Tamil I kingdom. I l ant
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      INTERNMENT: BEST FORGOT?
      147 2 AS an ex-internee, I snould like to bring up a few points regarding the picture “Three Came Home.” One is that I can quite the censor’s point of view originally banning rh” P ir ture. Another is that did not leave out a single portrayal of the
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      Strong Men Armed
      926 3 —Straits Times. June 29. drama of President •ruman’s action has seized the grid’s imagination. May it Iso steel our nerves. Make Ho mistake, there is danger in Hhe seas and in the air. but at east the gravest peril of them |Hn__the paralysis of unnerved HnincLs-has vanished
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      War Damage In 1950
      974 3 —Straits Times, June 30. Presiding at the annual meeting of Sungei Sepang Ltd in Kuala Lumpur last week, Mr. E. D. Sheam said that “the length of time war damage compensation has been withheld reflects little credit on those in the United Kingdom Government and in
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      The Black Sheep
      380 3 Straits Times, July. 1. Although it is certain that Communist groups have been carrying on propaganda in two of the largest Chinese schools in Singapore, namely the Chinese High School and the Nanyang Girls’ School, questions are being asked in the Chinese Press and in the Chinese
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      Hard Feelings
      371 3 —Straits Times. July. 1. The aftermath of Mr. J. D M. Smith’s remarks on the G.C.S. at the last meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council are yet another warning of a fact which every old resident of Malaya knows, and which Mr. Smith himself should have known at
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      Bulan Puasa
      208 4 Straits Times. July, l. Here is a revealing note on observance of the Fasting Month under conditions oi modem urban life in Kedah, taken from tJtusan Melayu Several Ulamas in Alor Star allege that the Kedah Religious Department is slack and is not taKing any action against Muslims
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      The Home Guard
      265 4 —Straits Times July. 3. The announcement made at the week-end that every town and village in the Federation is to have its Home Guard is the best news that four .nil'.ion people plagued by Communist terrorism have had for a long time. Not only does this decision
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      Men In Uniform
      451 4 —Straits Times July. 3. At their meeting last Friday the Singapore Municipal Commissioners unanimously passed the plans for the Services’ swimming pool on the Beach Road site which they had held up at the previous meeting. This is a relief not only because it avoids the clash
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      In Labu Kubong
      327 4 Straits Times July. 3. An illustration of the difficulties that are bound to aiise out of the squatter policy of the Federal Government is given by a report published in Warta Negara, the Penang Malay newspaper. Apparently it is proposed to divide among Chinese squatters some 2,300
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      The South Holds On
      805 4 Straits Timt s July. 4 Although the week-end hysteria is fast being drained out. the situation in Korea remains partly obscure and, where not obscure, not for the moment very encouraging. But th* 1 important fact is that Scutl Korean resistance has not collapsed, and that
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      A Calcutta Lie
      282 4 Straits Times July. 4. “Calcutta Weekly Notes- a law journal edited J. Chaudhuri. barrister-*«t-law. However, it is rath* more than the collect'on onotes on legal matters reports of cases that a l ,lV journal usually contains, to) its issue of May 1 it a leading article headed
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      Korea And Hevea
      661 5 St rails Times. July 5 The re-«<penin„ i one or more of tin* Ameni..n standby synthetic rubi factories, first requited y rubber industry when ’In runaway price ot Cultural began to hit mam::.»eturers. becomes a strong possibility now that American security is being reexamined in the light
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      The Public And The Enemy
      445 5 Straits Times. July 5. Listeners to Ridio Malaya news bulletins must have noticed a new vagueness in the Emergency news last week-end. Instead of naming the places or districts where incidents had taken place, as before, the bulletins named only the States. Our readers will
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    LOVE NOTES TO GIRLS ARE TORN UP
    372 5 Precautions In Schools SINGAPORE, July 5. J*HE principals of two of the leading girls’ schools in Singapore, the Raffles Girls’ School and the Fairfield Girls’ School, have torn up love-letters and undesirable letters addressed to the schoolgirls. They are seeking the co-operation of
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    SUICIDE BID ALLEGED
    50 5 SINGAPORE July, 5. Shanmugam aged 18, of the Municipal labourers’ lines in Haveiock Road, claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to attempting to commit suicide by drinking balsam. Bail of $lOO in one surety was allowed. The case will be mentioned on July 11.
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    CLAIMS TRIAL TO THEFT
    62 5 SINGAPORE July. 5. Lim Chean Moh. 49, of Tiong Bahru Road, claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to stealing a pail, a roll of wire and a trowel belonging to Messrs. Sime Darby. The goods were valued at $BO. Bail of $lOO in
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    Clinic Man Accused
    95 5 SINGAPORE July. 5. KS. R. MOOSA. of the Nagorr Clinic, Nee Soon Village, claimed trial In the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to a charge of practising as a qualified medical practitioner from Sept. 8 1948, to Feb. 14 this year, when he was not registered under
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    FOR AUSTRALIA
    30 5 SINGAPORE July, 5. Mr. C. V. Bath, a director of Lewis and Peat Limited, left. Singapore ’by Q.E A 8.0.A.C. Constellation yesterday for five months leave in Australia.
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      188 5 STEWART: To Malrl DOugle Stewart (Straits Times. Singapore) on July 2. at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, a daughter, Christine Main MacDougall. MILLARD. To Muriel, wife of G. W Millard, a daughter, Linda Mary. Born on the 28th June in the Bangkok Nursing Home. She apologises for the delay! AROOZOO: To
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      74 5 LINDSAY—LYNCH. The engagement is announced between Richard, youngest son of the Rev. H. P. Lindsay and the late Mrs. Lindsay of Sopers Bridge House, Stonystanton. Leicester, and Stephanie Wise, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Lynch of Warren Lodge, ritorrington. Sussex. THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced between Graeme,
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      MARRIAGES
      87 5 GODMAN MORTON: At Malacca, on the 24th June, 1950. Arthur Godman to Jean Barr Morton. THE MARRIAGE between T. Johnson (attached to Messrs. George Wimpey Sz Co., Ltd and Annie < daughter of Mr. to Mrs. P. K. Kashy), took place at Ernakulam Immanuel Church, on Thursday, 22nd June.
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      SILVER-WEDDING
      51 5 LAVILLE STANHOPE: .On 27th June. 1925, at the Church of The Visitation, Seremban. Louis Victor Joseph Laville, M.C.S., eldest son of the late Louis Laville, I.C.S., to Florence Muriel Stanhope, Hdost daughter of the late A B. Stanhope Esq. of Melbourne, Australia. Present address Hill Farm House, Ren hold
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  • Obituary
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    105 5 DEATHS GOODY: On 30th June, 1950, on Scdgeley Estate, Kajang, Roland, beloved husband of Alma. Killed by Communists near the estate. Funeral at Chera.s Road Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur, 5 p.m. yesterday. ESS: Joseph Wilfred, age 57, passed away peacefully on 30th -line, at 3.50 a.m., at General Hospital. Ho leaves
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    A SINGAPORE DIARY
    1671 6  -  Cecil Street. •Ilitrslmijr" IN reading tlie letters which 1 come 1.0 this office clay by day from all parti ol t.ho country one gets many insights into Malayan lil” at all levels, Three letters which have set me thinking lately have complained about rude and harsh behaviour
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    Municipal Chief Rebukes Two Commissioners
    670 7 SINGAPORE, July 1. •♦a GOOD deal of language has been used x which 1 would have thought had not been ve rv well chosen or considered”, said the Singapore acting Municipal President, Mr T. P. F. McNeice, at the Municipal Commissioners’ meeting yesterday. He was
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    Mrs. Dunlop Going Home
    82 7 SINGAPORE. July 1. \|RS. Dunlop, wife of the 111 G.O.C. Singapore District. Major-General D. Dunlop. will leave for Britain tomorrow in the trooper Empire Orwell Their eight-year-old son. who is to go to school in Wiltshire. will accompany Mrs. Dunlop. Mrs Dunlop's place as Chairman of
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    CUT THROAT IN STREET
    47 7 SINGAPORE. July 1. A TRISHA rider got otl his t rush a in Victoria Street at mid-day yesterday and was seen to cut his throat with a knife. A passer-by rang for an ambulance but the man was already dead when it uirived.
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    BRIND IS BACK IN S’PORE
    169 7 SINGAPORE. July 1. THE British Pacific Fleet has moved to Korea and is already taking part in operations, Admiral Sir Patrick Brind. C.-ln-C., Far East, told the Straits Times last night on his arrivai at Changi aerodrome from Hong Kong. "While co-operating with the Americans
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    FIRM’S GIFT TO FIRE HEROES
    205 7 SINGAPORE, July 1. T*HE Singapore Municipal Fir<? Brigade has received a gift of S500 from the firm of Louis Dreyfus and Co. in appreciation of the splendid work its members did in bringing under control a fire which broke out at the firm’s godown on
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    MONTH’S GAOL
    39 7 SINGAPORE. July 1. Tan Soon Chooi. a shop assistant, was sentenced in the Singapore Third Police Court to one month’s rigorous imprisonment for possessing stolen goods valued at _nne tin of margarine and 46 kalis of coffee-beans.
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    PLANTER DIES IN AMBUSH
    233 7 I "'in Our Staff Correspondent kuala lumpup. June 30. IWK Roland Goody, manner "1 Sodgeley Estate, Kajand a Malay special were killed eariy II V by Chinese terrorists Hie 50th mile, Kajang-Hitam-Dengkii Road. Chinese estate superviWong Foot, was woundr md is now in hospital. e Malay
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    STOLE BIKE
    32 7 SINGAPORE. July 1. Ong Chua Chwee of Tiong Bahru, was sentenced in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to three months’ rigorous imprisonment for stealing a bicycle valued at $lOO.
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    PLANS FOR POOL PASSED
    213 7 SINGAPORE, July 1. THE controversy over the Services swimming pool in the reclamation area opposite Raffles Hotel ended yesterday when the Singapore Municipal Commissioners unanimously approved the plans for it. An earlier committee decision to approve the plan was standing deferred. The swimming pool is to
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    Two Words: Day’s Gaol
    52 7 SINGAPORE. July 1. A British seaman shouted two words to an auxiiliary police officer of the Singapore Harbour Board and was promptly arrested. Yesterday Anthony Spellman, 37, of the s.s. Wairimu, was sentenced to one day’s gaol. The Third Police Court magistrate held that the words
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    Mail Train Shot At Again: No Casualties
    362 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 30. gECURITY forces killed lour bandits, one of them the leader of a gang, in different parts of the Federation during the 24 hours ending this afternoon. The bandit leader, one of a gang of four,
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    $1,000 Bail For Woman
    71 7 SINGAPORE, July 1. HO KHEE YU, a woman living in Tanjong Pagar, yesterday claimed trial before Mr. P. Claguc, Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate. to a charge of giving Goh Siew Wah, an assistant examiner in the Income Tax Department, $lO, as an inducement to show favour
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    GUESTS NOT REGISTERED
    50 7 SINGAPORE. July 1. A police raid on the Sing Hoe Hotel, in Mountbatten Road, resulted in the manager appearing in Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday, for failing to regisier four Chinese who were occupying a room. The manager, Ong Tiow Kian pleaded guilty and was fined $l5O.
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    Child murder: Police seek young Indian
    607 8 Child murder: Police seek you ng Indian SINGAPORE, July 2. CINGAPORE police are hunting for a young Indian who spent at least 12 hours with lG-year-old Winnie Annie Spencer, a Eurasian schoolgirl, before she was raped and then strangled to death with the cord of her underwear on a beach
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    BROKE INTO HOUSE 18 MONTHS’ JAIL
    72 8 SINGAPORE July. 2. Unemployed Loo Ah Leong was sentenced in the Singapore First District Court yesterday by Mr. H. E Kingdon to 18 months’ rigorous imprisonment. to be followed by two years of police supervision. for breaking into the building of Murugappa Srenavasan at
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    Woman Assists In Murder Inquiry
    250 8 SINGAPORE. July 3. EH)R the first time in the history of the Singapore 1 Police —if not in that of police in the British Colonies—a woman police officer is taking part in a murder investigation. Inspector Mary Voon, officer in charge of the Women’s Scciion
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    16, had opium: jailed, fined
    104 8 SINGAPORE July 2 H° LOE SENG, a 61-year-old Hokkien living in Duxton Road, Singapore, was convicted by Mr Tan Ah Tah, the Singapore Second Police Magistrate, yesterday, of possessing 26 lb of opium and nine packets of chandu together with smoking apparatus for opium. Ho
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    Well bubbles led to girl
    82 8 BUKIT MERTAJAM. July, 1. r protect human and animal life, wells should oe fenced said the Province Wellesley Coroner, Inche Abdul Rahman, today in returning a verdict of “found drowned” on a nine-year-old Indian girl, Somosundari. A temple priest, Kathelinam, father of the girl, said
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    DR. Lim Boon Keng congratulates Mr. Johnny Lim after his marriage at the Wesley Church on July 2 to Miss Marie Holder (right). Behind Mr. Lim is his best man, Mr. Joe Eu.
    35 8 DR. Lim Boon Keng congratulates Mr. Johnny Li m after his marriage at th e Wesley Church on July 2 to Miss Marie Holder (right). Behind Mr. Lim is his best man, Mr. Joe Eu.
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    $1,000 to aid detainees
    58 8 KUALA LUMPUR July. 1. The Central Office of the Malayan Chinese Association has approved the expenditure of $1 000 for the welfare of Malays in detention camps on Hari Raya. Arrangements are being made for food to be distributed to the Malay detainees through State ami
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    EUROPEAN DEAD IN STORM DRAIN
    168 8 SINGAPORE, July 2. THE body of Mr. Charles Snort, 49-year-old British 1 engineer with Malayan Airways, was found yesterday morning lying in water in a deep drain in Killiney Road, Singapore. The Singapore police slated yesterday they had no reason to suspect foul play. Death
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    Came Home’ record
    47 8 SINGAPORE July. 2. “Three Came Home”—controversial film about a woman’s concentration camp dur-rg the Japanese occu-pation-broke post-war box office records during its 11day run at the Capitol cinema. Singapore, a spokesman for Shaw Brothers told the Sunday Times last night. $25 on each charge.
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    Tea party for Police chief
    93 8 MALACCA. July, 1. A LARGE gathering yesterday attended a tea party given by the Sikh community in honour of Mr. R. W. E. Harper, Chief Police Officer and chairman of the Sikh Advisory Board, who received the Colonial Police Medal in the King’s Birthday Honours
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    CARD DEFACED: $10
    28 8 PARIT BUNTAR, July, 1. Janies A. Punjabi, was fined $lO in the Parit Buntar Court when he pleaded guilty to having a defaced identity card.
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    Brigade saves firm’s stocks
    164 8 ROBINSON ROAD FIRE SINGAPORE. July 2. EIRE broke out in the store of Optorg Co. (Malaya) Ltd. at the ground floor of their premises at Robinson Road. Singapore, just before 6 p.m. yesterday. Though the store was full of cases of textiles anc butter, prompt action
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    New Little Theatre show coming in KL
    181 8 KUALA LUMPUR July. 1 THE “Y” Little Theatre in Kuala Lumpur w is started in February 1949. with Mrs. A. Pinnick as the director. It is run by a committee formed from the members of the group. Teachers, business people and oflice workers
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    Hears charge in hospital
    65 8 RAUB July. 1 A charge of conso: nwith persons who arms in their possession read out to Chow Cnn year-old Hakka, in the i District Hospital. Chow was wound'd security forces duI l operation in the Sami Jungle in the Rauh t June26 A known banal
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    CHINESE CHAMBER TO APPEAL TO GOVERNOR FOR SCHOOLS
    285 9 SINGAPORE, June 30. r|U< Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce has 1 decided to send a petition to the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson. appealing to him to consider the effect on Chinese education m the Colony if it is decided to close the
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    They Keep RAAF Planes Flying
    162 9 SINGAPORE. June 30. TWO more Dakotas of the I raA.F. 38 (Transport) Souadron arrived with the Squadron'.' Commanding Officer Wing-Commander J. F Lnsii. at Changi yesterday. Tiv»re 'M.-i' two other officers nnc 1 M men oil board. No w c?QUiiG*.on. which is being rar.sferreri o
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    Seaman Had Opium
    119 9 SINGAPORE. June 30. HOARDING the Hermelin. D which had arrived from Bangki k. on June 28. revenue officers noticed a seaman clutching a pair of shorts. In »ne of the pockets a small qu unity of opium was found. In his cabin some more 'Pium was found.
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    HAD NO PERMIT
    44 9 SINGAPORE. June 30. hua Bio Long, aged 35. Vils fined $30, Low Ee Kee, 41. $10 and Hatara bin •Hi. aged 42. $5 in the Sinsunore Third Police Court yesterday for entering the Harbour Board. a protected place, without a Permit
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    COURT PACKED
    34 9 SINGAPORE June 29. Hio Singaoore Third Police t urt was nacked yesterday n 70 neople appeared on Tmonses for offences p’hst sanitary regulations in o s totalling $636 were ■tposed on them.
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    Fined For Fighting
    32 9 SINGAPORE. June 3u. K Ramalingam and M M. riappan were fined $5 each in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday tor fighting at the main gate. Singapore Harbour Board
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    Plea For Larger Electoral Roll
    213 9 SINGAPORE, June 30. riE chances of securing the fittest Singapore Councillors and Commissioners will undoubtedly be far better assured with a large electoral roll than with the small one that exists at present, the Progressive Party Commissioner for East Ward, Mr. Frank James, told the
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    DRANK POISON ‘BY MISTAKE’
    53 9 SINGAPORE. June 30. Low Chan Seong. a 17-year-old girl living in Pasar Paniang Road, was bound over in $5OO for one year in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for attempting to commit suicide by drinking caustic soda. She said that she had drunk the caustic
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    TOBACCO DUTY NOT PAID
    55 9 SINGAPORE. Juno 30. Abdul Latiff bin Abdul Rahiman, a 30-year-oid Indian living in Bras Basah Road, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to possessing 41 lbs of dutiable tobacco The duty on the tobacco was $l6 41 Bail of $5O was allowed Sentence
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    MR. BLYTHE BACK FOR NEW POST
    184 9 SINGAPORE, June 30. SINGAPORE’S new Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, received an invitation to one of the first functions he will attend as a Colonial Secretary as he alighted from a Malayan Airways plane at Kallang airport yesterday. The invitation is to attend,
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    OBSCENE PICTURES, $500 FINE
    172 9 OBSCENE PICTURES $500 FINE SINGAPORE. June 30. TWO obscene photographs found by a police raiding party m a shop in Bencoolen i Street resulted in a $5OO line and the conviction oi P. Supramaniam, an Indian photographer, in the Singapore Fourth Police Court, yesterday. Inspector M. C JacoD. oflt-cer-in-charge oi
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    Jagas Fight Park Fire
    81 9 SINGAPORE. June 30. PROMPT action by 12 jagas yesterday morning prevented what might have been the total destruction of the Victory Theatre at the Happy World, when a fire suddenly broke out behind the rewinding room of the cinema. On hearing shouts of “fire” the watchmen
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    COUNSEL BLAMES NEW YORK FIRM
    239 9 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG June 29. A NEW YORK firm was today alleged by detence counsel, Mr. T. E. Monaghan, to have “instigated” a Penang merjhant to make a false deciaiation to the Assistant Controller of Foreign Exchange to get permission to export 500
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    CLEARED AFTER 2 YEARS
    107 9 SINGAPORE. June 30. ALMOST two years after he had been sentenced to nine months’ rigorous imprisonment for criminal intimidation. 35-year-old Chan Beng Tong was iinally cleared of the charge. Yesterday ne walked out of the Singapore Second District Court a free man after the prosecution withdrew
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    Medal For A Hero
    87 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. June 29. AN immediate award of the Colonial Police Medal for Gallantry has been made to Special Constabulary Sergeant Wan Ya’acob Bin Wan Ahmad. He commanded a party of special constables in the Gua Musanc area of Kelantan in March
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    “Use Malay Language In All Work”
    304 10 KUALA LUMPUR, June 28. A CALL to Malays to make the Malay language A “trulv official” by using it in every kind of work has been made by the Singapore Malay newspaper Utusan Melayu. The call resulted from a report from Penang that the
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    FUNERAL OF MRS. LEE
    72 10 SINGAPORE. June 29. Many friends attended the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Lee at Bldadari cemetery in Singapore on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Lee, wife of Mr. Robert Lee, sales supervisor of Lion Ltd., was a wellknown Straits-born Chinese, and the younger sister of Dr. Mary Tan, Lady
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    2 YEARS FOR SEAMAN
    60 10 SINGAPORE. June 29. After a three-day hearing, the Singapore Second District Court magistrate, Mr. Tan Ah Tah, yesterday sentenced a 39-year-old seaman, Man Woo, to two years’ rigorous imprisonment for possessing 31V2 pounds of opium. Mr. W. E. Demuth who appeared for Man, gave notice or
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    Acting Controller
    19 10 SINGAPORE. June 29. r/?!' 11 Assistant uons. has been unpointed to as Coni roller of Telecommunications, Singapore
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    “King’s Men” Is Passed
    103 10 SINGAPORE. June 29. ALL The King’s Men” the Columbia Academy Award winner is to be shoion in Singapore cinemas. This film, which teas banned by the Singapore Censor, Mr. Jack Evans, was reviewed by the Singapore Film Board of Appeal yesterday and was passed by the
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    More RAAF Crews In Singapore
    95 10 SINGAPORE. Juno 29. QANTAS Skymaster, carrying 50 r.a.aj’. ground personnel, is due to arrive at Changi airfield this afternoon. They will be for the R.A.A.F. Dakota squadron which is being transferred to Singapore from Australia to help in the fight against the Federation bandits. Two
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    Year’s Gaol For ‘Rogue’
    86 10 KUALA LUMPUR. June 28. CAMINATHAN, a 27-year-old fitter, who was described by the prosecution as an “incorrigible rogue,” w'as found guilty today of theft and sentenced to one year’s rigorous imprisonment by Mr. A. P. Jack, the First Court Magistrate. fßaminathan had 11 previous convictions. A
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    DOUBLE FOR MEN
    36 10 SINGAPORE June 29. Three Chinese, one a woman. were charged in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday with selling iceero nn without licences. Tile men were fined $2 each and the woman $l.
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    MURPHY WINS APPEAL -NO EVIDENCE
    233 10 SINGAPORE. Juno 29. REFERRING in a lengthy judgment to “misdirections” by the Traffic District Judge, Mr. Justice Storr yesterday allowed the appeal jf Denis Murphy, 43-year-cld Singapore lawyer against a conviction for having allegedly driven a car while under the influence of drink and of
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    Likely To Be Approved By Full Board
    231 10 SINGAPORE Juin. *><, THE plans Io r the proposed Services swimmi 1 pool at the Beach Road Reclamation arc ed to be passed at Friday’s meeting of the pore Municipal Commissioners Sln a The Straits Times understands that, oimn.i. to the construction of
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    WOMAN STOLE BOUND OVER
    47 10 SINGAPORE. June 29. Tan Siion Lan. 27-year-lold woman was nvicted in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday tor stealing jewellery and clothing from Lim Soon Kim. a hawker. She was bound over for one vear in the sum .f $590 in two sureties.
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    MOVE FOR FEWER S’PORE TRISHAS
    264 10 u SINGAPORE. June 29. I Hh number of tnshas in Singapore is likelv to be reduced bv 30 per cent. —from the present maximum permitted of 7 900 to 5.580—but the maximum number of riders will remain at 9 000. A request for a reduction
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    TRANSFERRED TO ACCRA
    55 10 SINGAPORE. June 29. Mr. S. L. Oggier, Import manager of Paterson. Simons Co., will leave Singapore next week on transfer to Accra. Gold Coast, after a service of 30 years in Singapore. Mr. W. Meade, a former resident in Singapore, who arrived by Q.E.A.-8.0 A.C, Constellation from
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    FATAL SLIP
    51 10 SINGAPORE. June 29. A finding of “death by misadventure” was returned by the Singapore Assistant Coroner Mr. Choor Singh yesterday. after an inquest on Wan Ah Yuen, an 85-year-old woman inmate of the Bushey Park Home, who slipped and fell while on her way to breakfast on May
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    Rotarians Hear Of Rep. Trials
    212 10 EIGHTV G^n ORE June 29 IGHTY Singapore Rotar*anf yesterday listened lo trials and tribulation? of the Colony’s Repertory Theatre when its actor-man? ger Mr. John Forbes™? pul. gave a review of the company's activities. Dealing with props. Mr Forbes-Sempill told of the difficulties they had
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    Detainees Give Blood For Woman
    78 10 SINGAPORE. June X EIGHTY detainees in n* Taiping Rehabilitate Camp responded to a recerw appeal for blood donors wlwan urgent call to inhaDi' tants of the district iua f( to bring results. One of the donors was_>»; lected and a woman pane** in Taiping Hospital
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    NO PERMITS
    41 10 From Our Own Cnrri*W‘*n t JOHORE BAHRU, June Karuppiah. of Singapore fined $30 in the JohoreBam Police Court for carry in three passengers in his without a Federation P» rrT1 and $15 for not having Public Service Permit cence.
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    Shortage Of Officers In Police Force
    335 11 SINGAPORE, June 30. fpIlE Singapore Police Force has vacancies for 1 about 20 Assistant Superintendents. It hopes to fill some of these posts from the 160 A.S.P.S who are being recruited in Britain for Malaya, and some by either promoting local officers or taking
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    Chandu In Glass Jar
    128 11 SINGAPORE. June 3Q. TAN MAH CHYE. a cigarette 1 cieaier living in Duxton was yesterday sentenced IJ 'even months’ rigorous imprsonment by the Singapore Second District Court judge, r Tan All Tah. for the posMs '*<>n of 16 tahils and live of chandu. r C. H.
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    BACK FROM LEAVE
    31 11 JOHORE BAHRU, June 29. a pector M. H. James, who returned from a holiday In dia, has been posted to Central Police Station, f j>, Bahru, for duty.
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    U.K. Grants Sought By University
    108 11 SINGAPORE. June 30. THE University of Malaya is seeking details from the Nuffield Foundation of its research grants to Commonwealth universities. “The grants will be a great help towards improving our research facilities, but we cannot accept them till we are aware of their accompanying
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    TOOK CHANDU
    27 11 JOHORE BAHRU. June 29. Tan Eng Kai. who was convicted on a charge of consuming chandu at Bamfoo Lama, was sentenced to 10 days’ imprisonment.
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    PETITION TO KING ON CITY STATUS
    250 11 SINGAPORE. June 30, AT today’s meeting of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners, the acting Municipal President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice will move a resolution that a petition should be sent to the King requesting the grant of city status for the town of Singapore.
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    Penang To Recruit New Town Band
    108 11 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, June 29. IN place of Penang’s recently-disbanded town band, the Municipal Commissioi.c rs have decided to recruit experienced musicians as well as apprentices, to form another band. At their ordinary meeting this afternoon, the Commissioners agreed to inv'te the
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    JOHORE WEDDING
    39 11 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. June 29. The marriage took place yesterday before Mr W B. Sutherland, Registrar oi Marriages. Johore. of Geoffrey Watson Wilson, of Majedee Barracks. Johore Bahru, and Vimala Naidu, of Johore Bahru.
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    GAMBLED: $8 FINE
    30 11 SINGAPORE. Jun' 1 30, YusulT bin Salleh. a 21-vear-old Javanese living <n Selangor Street, was lin' d $8 in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for gambling.
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    Coat Of Paint For Supreme Court
    45 11 SINGAPORE. June 30. The outside of Singapore’s Supreme Court is to be repainted at a cost of $20,000. The task will take three or four months. Tlie money comes from $500,000 earmarked for T he repainting of government buildings.
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    $10,000 GIFT TO VARSITY
    187 11 SINGAPORE. June 30, A SUM of $10,000 has been received for the University of Malaya Endowment Fund from the staff, the pupils of Raffles Institution Singapore, and their parents. The principal and staif oi Raffles Institution started a drive for the collection of funds for the
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    FLOWN OUT BY HELICOPTER
    67 11 SINGAPORE. June 30, A HELICOPTER was used for the first time in evacuating a casualty from the scene of a battle against bandits at Kamhu. 35 miles north of Kota Tinggi yesterday. The helicopter took oiT while the battle between the bandits and a a police
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    PROMINENT COLONY LAWYER DIES
    136 11 SINGAPORE, June 30. ly/lR. David Keri Walters, a leading member of the Singapore bar. died last night at the Singapore General Hospital after a month's illness. He was 53. A Bristol man. Mr. Walters served in the 1914-18 war and came to Malaya in 1925 to
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    Thousands Of Families Will Be Resettled
    538 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 29, JHE extent to which the Malayan Chinese Association is assisting financially the resettlement of squatters was revealed to the Straits Times today by Mr. Yong Shook Lin, the Association secretary. Mr. Yong said that Chinese residents
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    Estate toddy shops allowed to re-open
    302 13 IOHORE BAHRU. July 1. THE State Government has approved of the re opening 1 of estate toddy shops, a spokesman of the Covern men* told the Sunday Times today. Action is being taken to implement this decision. Johore planters have been agitating tor some
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    ‘Ever-smiling’ president of Rotary
    116 13 SINGAPORE July. 2. %|K Yap Pheng Geek, “the ill ever smiling. silvertongued diplomat.” was instilled as president of Singapore Rotarv Club last night at ceremonv at Rattles Hotel. Receiving the presidential badge and collar from Mr. L. Cn sson who has been president for the last
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    Appeal To Save Stamps
    134 13 SINGAPORE July. 3. T.. J K Ex-Service Association 1 < i Singapore has appeal's members and to of the Singapore s Club to save all used •1 .vamps, a nixed to their pes if possible, for the Legion in London. A* a meeting of the assor
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    S.P.C.A. gets from dance
    70 13 w t SINGAPORE July, 2. p 1 NDS for future activities the Singapore Society in; the Prevention of Cruelty Animals were raised on F >y night at a special d i.’ice held in Raffles Hotel, owgapore. Among the projects of the Aoriety are the establishrri' .‘t
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    MAY TEA IMPORTS
    27 13 SINGAPORE July. 2. >! irin c the month of May. vva imported 381.130 lb worth $409,973 and exL v M, 'd 257.285 lb worth .021.
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    $200 FINE
    37 13 SINGAPORE July, 4. A woman ehap-ji-ki runner 22-vear-old Lam Soi Wan was yesterday fined $2OO nr 14 days’ imprisonment when she pleaded guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court to assisting in a public lottery
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    WHEN East meets West, and boy meets girl. Fancy dress was de rigeur at the barbecue party given at Braddell Rise mess by members of the staff of the Commissioner-General in Singapore. This Sunday Times picture shows Mrs. P. O. Burgess (Fatima} and Mr. Jim Shynn (A flapper of the twenties).
    51 13 WHEN East meets West, and boy meets girl. Fancy dress was de rigeur at the barbecue party given at Braddell Rise mess by members of the staff of the Commissioner-General in Singapore. This Sunday Times picture shows Mrs. P. O. Burgess (Fatima} and Mr. Jim Shynn (A flapper of the
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    PARTITION COST $25
    35 13 TELUK ANSON. July. 1. Because he erected a plank partiton in his house without a permit from the chairman of the Lower Perak Town 3oard, Kong Boon Khoay was fined $25 here.
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    Colony signs on 5 U.K. engineers
    169 13 SINGAPORE, July 2. THE Singapore Municipal Commissioners have approved 1 the recruiting of five high-salaried engineers in the United Kingdom in connection with the Electricity Department's $80,000,000 new power station for Pasir Panjang. The Commissioners have budgetted to spend more than $8,000,000 this year
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    Non-Malays join UNMO
    84 13 KUALA LUMPUR July. 1. rE United Malays’ Nat 1 o n a 1 Organisation. Kuala Lumpur branch, has accepted more than 30 non Malay associate members in Kuala Lumpur They comprise 11 Chinese, including Mr. Khoo Teik Ee. and Mr Tan Kim Boon, a rubber dealer, six
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    Singapore water supply to be boosted
    251 13 SINGAPORE, July 3. extra 2,500,000 gallons of water a day to augment the* Colony’s precarious supply is expected to be made available by the end of next year, if the progress anticipated for the Tebrau River Scheme in Johore is attained. It is also
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    Slim Meets Son In Singapore
    174 13 SINGAPORE, July 3. THE Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field--1 Marshal Sir William Slim arrived in Singapore yesterday from Australia and New Zealand, where he lias been holding defence talks. He will visit troops in tlx Federation before resuming his journey to Britain. Sir
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    Had chandu in attap hut
    56 13 SINGAPORE July, 2. a 26-year-old Chinese woman. Seah Ah Foo. pleaded guilty before Mr. Tan Ah Tah. Singapore Second Police Magistrate, yesterday to possessing 15 packets of chandu in an attao hut in Upner Serungoon Road on June 23. She was bound over tor one
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    Found in banned area, is jailed
    157 13 KUALA LUMPUR July. 1. I OH KIM PENG, pleaded J guilty before Mr. A. P. Jack in the First Magistrate s Court on four charges. The first and second charges were that Loh picked two Parker fountain pens from two persons at the Selangor
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    Penang Call For Priests
    100 13 PENANG. July, 1. iV) meet the shortage of Malayan priests. Catholic parents should encourage their children to adopt a religious vocation, the Reverend Father Francis Lek. Vi *ar of the Church of Our of Sorrows, urged in his sermon today. The Pope, ne said, was aware
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    Dane failed to register boat
    64 13 TFT OK ANSON. July 1. Mr H. C. Madsen, a Dane, appeared in the Telok Anson Magistrate's court in a summons case on three charges of failing to register his motor boat and tongkang for the current year and also for permitting the tongkang to
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    STOCK COCONUTS
    37 13 PARIT BUNTAR. July 1. Two Chinese women Leg Soh Shee. aged and Tan Hun Bon. aged 21. were each fined $5O in the Parit Buntar Court for theft, of :vi coconuts from On la Estate.
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    GIRL OF 10 FOUND SLAIN ON BEACH
    279 14 Police Appeal For Aid Over Child's Murder SINGAPORE, July 1. rIE semi-nude body of a 10-year-old Eurasian school-girl, Annie Winnie Spencer was found strangled early yesterday on a beach inside Keppel Harbour Singapore with a cord from her underwear round her neck. Rapt*
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    Cot Away With It For 3 Years
    72 14 troro Our Staff Correspondent PENANG June 30. /'HARGED with causing obstruction to a jhcjoot way, Ncoh Chcoi Chcan told thi Penang Fin: MapiArute Mr. D. R. Horne, that he hi:d kept his drum of oil outside his shop ;or the past three yea
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    VARSITY STUDENTS TO AID TRUST
    125 14 SINGAPORE. June 29. BEGINNING July 10. an island-wide survey will be carried out by 18 undergraduates of the University of Malaya to record all land developments in Singapore during the last decade or two. The survey will be under the direction of Mr. D. W.
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    Diphtheria In S’pore
    91 14 SINGAPORE. July 1. acting Municipal Health Officer. Dr. W. E. Hutchinson. told Commissioners yesterday that the Municipality was considering legislation tor enforcing immunisation against diphtheria. I)r Hutchinson was replying to Mr Sandy G Pillay •Prog City Ward), who asked why diphtheria figures had remained static for the
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    Theatre may be air-conditioned
    166 14 SINGAPORE July i. THE Theatres Commit U e of the Singapore Municipality will be asked to study the possibilities 01 air-conditon-ing the Victoria Theatre as a means of improvinng the acoustics. the acting Municipal President, Mr. T P. F. McNeice, said yesterday. Mr. McNeice was replying
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    TAX CHIEF
    33 14 SINGAPORE. July 1. Mr. G. A. Bridgeman mis been appointed to act as Comptroller- General of Income Tax for Malaya in place or Mr. R. B. Heasman, who is on leave.
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    Home Guards In Federation
    360 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KlIALA LUMPUR, June 30. THE auxiliary police force in the Federation 1 is to he expanded by the formation of Home Guards in every town and village. The Home Guards will embrace all nationalities and there will be no specified age limits.
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    GRIFFITHS’ ‘THANKS’
    54 14 SINGAPORE, July 1. The acting Singapore Municipal President, Mr. T. P. F. ivicNeice, nas received a letter from tne Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griflitns, tnanning tne Commissioners tor tneir ‘cordial hospitality” during his visit here last month. The letter was read to the Commissioners
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    PROMOTED A.S.P.
    21 14 JOHORE. BAHRU. June 30. Chief Inspector Hisham bin Nawai. O.C.P D.. Tangkah, has been promoted Assistant Superintendent of Police.
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    ‘IRON CURTAIN’ AT S.M.C. CRITICISED
    231 14 SINGAPORE, July SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners seemed be getting into the mood of drawing down “iron curtain” on affairs of the Municipality \i Pat Johnson (Labour —North Ward) chirk'd yesterday’s meeting of the Municipal Com mi* 1 sioners. n,s “The mood seems to be coming over
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    When VIPs Visit Us.... —MC’s PLEA
    110 14 SINGAPORE. July 1. MR Duncan Robertson tProgressive South Ward' yesterday called for more unofficial and less official representation at visits paid to the Colony by VIPs. Mr. Robertson was speaking during the adjournment at the meeting of Municipal Commissioners fie said: “I must draw*
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    Inaccurate Scales
    61 14 SINGAPORE, July 1. r/ENTY-TWO stall-holders and dealers pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to having inaccurate scales, and were fined $2O each All the weighing instruments, including one which the owner said cost $2OO, were confiscated. Four Chinese with scales in favour of their customers
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    STOLE $155
    40 14 SINGAPORE, July 1. Lee Hee King (20) was sentenced to two months’ rigorous imprisonment in the Second Police Court vesterdav on a charge of stealing $155 from his K S. Nathan, at. a coffee-shop in the Naval Base.
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    Funeral Of Mr. D.K. Walters
    115 14 SINGAPORE. Julj i. I'HE funeral of the late Mr David Ken Walters “a leading member of the Singapore Bar, took place yesterday evening at the Buiaduri Cemetery. A large gathering ot Singapore barristers and friends attended the burial service conducted in the Cemetery Chapel and
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    ‘A SERIOUS LOSS’
    92 14 SINGAPORE. July 1. The acting Munlcip.il President. Mr. T P. F. McNeice, told a full board meeting 01 the Singapore Municipal Commissioners yesterday that the death of Mr. D. K. Walters, who was recognised as an authority on municipal ordinances, was a serious loss to SingaDore Paying
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    Resignation Of M.C.
    109 14 SINGAPORE. July 1THE acting President. >*r. T. P. F. McNeice, an non need in the Singuj)' Municipal Commissi* n. torday that Pnd. N. Alexander had resigned the Commission and'■ n ing on leave on Jnb Mr McNeice said Prot Alexander had 1 sign under pressure 1 t
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    MISADVENTURE
    33 14 SINGAPORE. Jub 1 M The Singapore W. G. Porter, yesten- turned a finding of misadventure” quest on a 33-yea man, Tan Ah Sin, knocked down b > p d truck in Holland I
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    SCHOOLGIRL MURDER: AN ARREST
    501 16 SINGAPORE, July 5. THE Singapore C.I.D. investigating the rape and murder of ten-year-old Katong schoolgirl, Winnie Annie Spencer, have arrested a Eurasian who will probably be produced in court this morning. This climaxed four days of feverish police activity which began after the body of the
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    72 S’pore Scots Back Covenant
    133 16 SINGAPORE July. 5. THE signatures of 72 Scots- men in Singapore, all members of St Andrew’s Soon the Scottish Covenant, are now on their way to Scotland Ih<* Scottish Covenant aims at more "control of Scottish a air s in Scottish hands.” The terms of
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    HE LED TWO BOYS ASTRAY
    144 16 SINGAPORE July. 5. THE Singapore First Districi Judge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon. yesterday sentenced a 17-year-old Indian boy Mohammed Kassim bin Osman to three months’ rigorous imprisonment for breaking Into a shop in the Arcade on Apr. 15 and stealing $3OO worth of sports goods.
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    Pillboxes Now Married Quarters
    207 16 SINGAPORE July, 5. A NUMBER of military pill-boxes, emplacements and shelters in Singapore —which were ouilt before the warhave now been converted into married quarters, according to an Army spokesman. These buildings formed part of the pre-war coastal defence system of the Colony, and provided shelter
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    Slim At “Nerve Centre” Of Johore Operations
    170 16 From Our Staff Co-respondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 4. THE Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field 1 Marshal Sir William Slim, visited the nerve 'entre of the Briggs plan operations in south Jonore this morning. He discussed the situation with the commander of
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    Health Dept. Loses Two Long-Service Men
    156 16 SINGAPORE, July 5. THE Health Department of the Singapore MuniA cipality has lost two long service members of its staff, Mr. H. J. Kenjafield of the anti-malarial section, and Mr. Charles Alexander de Souza, a senior Health Inspector. Both have recently retired. Mr de
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    Jump in prices: Inquiry by Government
    330 16 SINGAPORE, July 5 T h E Singapore Government is investigating th* cause of the sudden jump in the pri< J free rice and sugar in the last few days of a few cents a kati for both commodities U reported in certain parts of
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    Linen Guild Gifts To Hospital
    112 16 SINGAPORE July 5 THE St. Andrew’s Mission 1 Hospital Linen Guild, voluntary organisation founded last year, in one year sent to the hospital 12 towels 49 cradle sheets. 120 napkins. 36 face cloths. 82 bibs. 121 garments 1 dresses, sun suits*, toys, rag dolls, and
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    Anti-Bandit Experts
    136 16 SINGAPORE July. FE research Doing done by a special army team now in Malaya may load to improvement in infant r> equipment, tactics and c< mmunication problems in tra campaign against the bandits. A throe-man team has already begun its work mt* the scientific aspects o. operations in
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    POISONING
    28 16 SINGAPORE July- f Ah Sam. a 14-year-old gm was taken to the Geneia pital ‘last night from a njj. at Desker Road. from caustic soda P° 1M
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    S’pore is not ready for attack
    846 17 SINGAPORE, July 2. J HERE has been some angry talk in air force circles in Singapore this week. Korea started it and as long as the situation there remains a menace to world peace the bitter words will fOttbnuG. Is Singapore prepared for an
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    Gang Fight Tragedy
    145 17 SINGAPORE July, 3. A TAMIL named Baskaran was fatally injured and two others, including a Malayan ither rank, were seriously injured in a gang fight vhinh took place at 4th mile Telok Belanga Road shortly after 5 p.m. vesterday. An eye-witness told the Straits Times yesterday that
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    NO LICENCE: $10
    27 17 PARIT BUNTAR. Sat.—For dealing in second hand goods when he had no licence. Khor Ah Por was fined $lO in the Parit Buntar Court.
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    TROOPS FAINT AT SEX SHOW
    147 17 SEREMBAN, July 1. THERE has been a fainting wave at the Cathay cinema here, where the sex hygiene film "Secrets Of Life" is being shown. Seventeen people passed out and had to be revived by first aid last week. On Tuesday, the second day of
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    ••••and at Johore Bahru
    47 17 •••and at Johore Bahru Johore Bahru, July, 1. TWENTY people, mostly Europeans, fainted at the first screening of the film “Secrets of Life” this week at the Capitol Cinema, Johore Bahru. Most of those who fainted had to be carried out of the theatre to be revived.
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    TO JOIN RADIO MALAYA STAFF
    66 17 SINGAPORE July. 2. .Sunday Times SfafT Reporter. Coming to Malaya tour as a hinior programme Assistant in Radio Malaya is Mr A. J M. Schooling, of London. During six years’ war service Mr Schooling was with the Forces’ Broadcasting Service in the Middle East. He
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    St. John cadets on parade
    201 17 SINGAPORE, July 2. yWO-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY boy and girl cadets from Singapore’s schools were on parade yesterday at the first enrolment ceremony of cadets of the Singapore St. John Ambulance Brigade, at Victoria School, attended by the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson. Becau.se pf the hot afternoon sun
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    WENT HOME TO SEE MOTHER-$50
    75 17 IPOH, Fri.—A 17-year-old special constable, Shaahri bin Lope Mohamed, was today fined $5O by the Ipoh Magistrate, for deserting his post at Kanthan Chemor. Snaari said that he had gone home to see his mother who was very ill. He felt ill too and could
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    ELEVEN HEAT UP ONE MAN
    116 17 SINGAPORE. June 29. ELEVEN Indians who ap- peared before Mr. II. E. KinRdon, Singapore First District Judge, yesterday, were convicted on a charge of rioting in Cecil Street on April 9. One of eleven, Mohamed Ahdaan, was sentenced to three months’ rigorous imprisonment. Another, Mohamed
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    HAD NO ATTENDANT
    27 17 TELUK ANSON. Sat For failing to have an attendant at the oack of his lorry, Foo Boon Sim was fined $10 in Teluk Anson.
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    $250,000 SCHOOL FOR GIRLS AT K.L.
    126 17 KUALA LUMPUR, July 1. £OSTING about $250,000 and known as the Junior Methodist Cirls’ School a school has been built at Kandang Kerbau Road, Kuala Lumpur. The school, (pictured below) has 16 classrooms and will accommodate a maximum of 40 pupils in each. Half
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    ‘CAMPAIGN IN MALAYA MORE IMPORTANT’
    210 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 3. iT*HE campaign in Malaya was more important to Malaya than the situation in Korea, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir William Slim, told the Straits Times today. Sir William would not comment when
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    ANTI-BRITISH PENANG POSTERS
    46 18 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. July. 3. A FTKR a lull of several weeks, Communist pamphlets Have reappeared in Penang. This morning .several posters •"'TIT 'Ghinese and English were found in the public market at Balik Pulau. They were all antiBritish in tone.
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    Got Woman Drunk, Then Stole Gems
    87 18 SINGAPORE July, 4. ABDUL Salam, an unemployed Indian, yesterday pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police court to gelling a woman drunk and then stealing her earrings and a ring valued al $230. He was sentenced to four months’ rigorous imprisonment to be followed
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    SHE APPLIED TOO LATE
    58 18 SINGAPORE July. 4. Because she was tw'o days overdue in applying for an identity card an Englishwoman. Christina Small Dow. appeared before Mr. H. E Kingdon. the Singapore First District Judge yesterday. Mr Kingdon cautioned and discharged her after the prosecutor. Mr. M. C. Boyle, ASP.
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    R.A.O.B. At Funeral Of Mr. C. Short
    253 18 SINGAPORE July, 4. Members from six lodges of the Royal and Ancient Order of Buffaloes were present in full regalia at Bldadari cemetery yesterday evening for the funeral of one of their Order, the late Mr. Charles Short, 49-year-old British aeronautical engineer. Mr
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    FOUR FOUGHT
    42 18 SINGAPORE July. 4. Tan Lek Hoe. Tan Bee Lai. Lim Seng Kwong and Chia Ah Miang pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to a charge of fighting in the Singapore Harbour Board They were fined $5 each
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    It can be so lonely
    482 18 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW J SUPPOSE most humans suffer from what is commonly called “the herd instinct” rather than being like (ireta Garbo, who wanted to be alone. All the same 1 have certainly been cursing up-hill and down-dale—the repairers and painters were in. Ours
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    CLERKS’ GIFT TO ORPHANS
    111 18 CLERKS GIFT TO ORPHANS SINGAPORE July. 4. CLERKS of a large oil company In Union Building, Singapore, yesterday sent the Straits Times $148 for the Chee orphans whose parents committed suicide in the sea off Marine Parade, Katong. on June 10. A senior clerk of the company told the Straits
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    Gang Fight: Two Dead
    79 18 SINGAPORE July. 4. /ANOTHER man has died as a result of Sunday afternoon’s gang fight in Telok Brlangah Road. Singapore. He was Abu Bakur bin Abu. a Malay soldier, who died in the General Hospital yesterday afternoon. This brought the number of casualties in the gang
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    Beaten And Bitten
    95 18 SINGAPORE July. 4. A CHINESE woman who al- leged she was beaten and bitten by two sisters was awarded $lO compensation by the Singapore Fourth Police magistrate. Mr. P. Clague. yesterday. The sisters. Molly Chiew and Chiew Ah Chan, were also bound over to be of good
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    FELL TO HIS DEATH
    50 18 SINGAPORE July, 4. Within five minutes of booking a room at the International Hotel, Jalan Besar, Singapore, Moh Kim Say, a 29-year-old Teochew fell from a window on the floor of the building. He died in a few minutes. Moh had a wife and two children.
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    $3,600 Offer To Military Officer Alleged
    484 18 SINGAPORE, July 1. A 38-YEAR-OLD salesman, Ong Teck Hock was tned in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday, with offering: a bribe of S > ann to a lieutenant in the Royal Military Police U It was alleged that Ong offered the monev tn
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    Alleged Hurt To 2 Women
    46 18 From Our 0«n Corresponds JOHORE BAHHV. J' R. Kandasamy, Estate, claimed trial i the Johore Bahru Court on two charges <■ luntarily causing v two women, Rasinah lamah. ortit un The case was aa for trial and Kanda»am> allowed bail la S30U.
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    Marcher Lords wins the Perak Plate
    1052 19 y Sf WW* L m. r&*g? |St s» l" •'"‘“""'Mil'S surprised! w rung tne Iasi race to pay $bb for a win and $30 for a nlarp Th<> Fox stable s Marcher tw? u v lor a P ,ace The Fox stable s Marcher
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    Mrs.O’Geary Wins Colony Title
    429 19 SINGAPORE, July 3. MRS. J. K. O’GEARY of thy Island Club won the 11 Colony women’s golf title when she defeated Mrs. M. M. Patterson six and four in the final over 18 holes at the Royal Singajvore Golf Club course yesterday. Mrs. O’Geary’s brilliance is
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    SIX GOAL WIN
    28 19 SINGAPORE July. 2. Sunshine Rangers beat the Bright Star Sports Club by six goals to nil in a soecer friendly played at Railway ground yesterday
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    Schools Win By 8 wkts.
    377 19 Schools Win By 8 wkts SINGAPORE July. 3. COMBINED SCHOOLS, wiln their Saturday’s advant- 1 age of 104 for five wickets in reply to the Singapore Cricket j Association’s 106 for tin* first innings, went on to score 142 I runs and finally defeated thei Association by eight wickets i
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    S.C.C.OUT FOR 147 v. ARMY
    167 19 SINGAPORE July. 2. SINGAPORE Cricket Club were dismissed for 147 runs in their first innings in their twodsty match against the Army (Singapore District) played at Nee Soon yesterday. Army bowlers. Cooper-Key and Lobb, each took four wickets for 38 and 25 runs respectively. Army
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    Women’s doubles final decided
    537 19 SINGAPORE, July 4. THE FAVOURITE for this year’s singles title, 26-year-old Ong Chew Bee who was last year’s singles runner-up, was taken to a hard-fought three sets by 46-year-old veteran G.T. Holloway in the semi-final of the Singapore f awn Tennis Association Championships at the S
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    DR. LIM WINS CHESS TOURNEY
    96 19 SINGAPORE July. 2. DR. Lim Kok Ann won the Singapore Chess club championship yesterday when he defeated M. Candaswamy in the final game played at the Y.M C A Dr. Lim topped honours with 5'. points, dropping only one draw in the course of the
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    MARKET SURPRISED BY WAR BUT NO PANIC
    617 20 From A Market Correspondent 'FUK Korean war took marivets by surprise and last Monday there* was a sharp precguUonary marking down but no panic selling. Only small business was done at the lower levels. On Tuesday the aimed intervention of the United States
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    COMPANY REPORT
    104 20 M’cr.by Rubber Company Limbed rhowed a profit of $25 764 (5 7 r i l for the year ended 28th Feb 1950. but no dividend recommended. the last received by Allenby shareholders being that paid in October 194! j Net lie.uid assets. 513.062, were equivalent to. 2 9
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    RUBBER: TRADE CAUTIOUS
    121 20 r 1 SINGAPORE. July 1 ln Korea lias been the predominant I I tore rub- 1 ek. says ekly re- j violently from that the turnas might ders were and ner- statistics ,ith April j May 3 60.187 5 63.640 7 101.079 3 7 46.369 1 reported
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    TO SHIP RED RUBBER
    74 20 SINGAPORE July. 5.. THE first Italian vessel. vilJei de Brugine, chartered by the U.S.S.R. to ship Malayan rubber to Odessa in Russia arrived in Singapore yester- day from Port Swettenham. The Ville de Brugine. an exLiberty class ship built in Am- erican shipyards, is under the
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    Rahman Hydraulic
    13 20 DAHMAN Hydraulic in June pro v duced 955 piculs of tin-on*
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    $19 Million Worth Of Jap Goods For Singapore
    280 20 $19 Million Worth Of J ap Goods For Singapore SINGAPORE importers have booked ord f„ nearly $19,250,000 worth of Japanese tood to be purchased from Japan this year. This u against two issues of Government quotas >,,t-A' ling $22,650,000 for Singapore und.-V Japan-Sterling Area Trade Agreement The trade balance unde,
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    TAKUAPA VALLEY TIN DREDGING
    30 20 TAKUAPA Valley I'm Dredging announces that in June the mine’s two dredges worked 1 2«M hours, covered 270.000 cubic yaid«= and won 790 picuLs of tin-ore
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    Kinta Kellas Tin
    14 20 Il/INTA Kellas Tin DndginR in June nreducPd 332 Diculs of tin-ore.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    992 20 SINGAPORE July. 4, INDUSTRIALS Bnyrr Seller AieA BrtcKa Pref 1 2b 4 30 ">rd 2 2a 2.30 ter I 90 i2 25 B B ''etroi 31/9 32/9 rt m I'niHiAft ’Of r sr Ton Tin Smelt 4ll/i II 16/9 17/» cn ••»u 3vnit <8 7f <9 71
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    TRIALS IN COCOA PLANTING
    97 20 SINGAPORE July. 5 THE Department of Apiculture, Federation of Malaya, has gained aoerience in rapid clonal ;?i*:ltiplication of cocoa The April issue oi he Malayan Agricultural Journal says that trials were made for the rooting oi sin Me ie 0 f cuttings under continuous spray irrigation.
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    Consol. Tin Smelters
    142 20 8% ORD. 01V. (CONSOLIDATED Tin Smellers provisional revenue account for the year to March 31. 1950. shows net revenue oi £291.802 before taxation An Ordinary dividend of eieht per cent is proposed The revenue accouir dividends from £273.827. and from trailment £33.277; interest sidiane’s current account* gross
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    JUGRA ESTATE
    32 20 V/ V# m w v JUGRA Estate lor the Mar 31 pays a 10 per cent less tax previous year’s P er five per cent. Jubilee b<> sorbing £5,280 net.
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