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The Straits Budget
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Title Section31 1950-08-31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY J Series No. 213. Singapore Thursday, August 31, 1950 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or I ah.31 words
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Advertisement78 1950-08-31 1 lOLLEY SCOTT TOLLEY. LTD FOUNDED 1858 ST. PETERS, ADELAIDE. t v. v -4 V c.v ■\r V •r >» .i'v t i r> X 'v J N >* ft A\ mi N- t •v > Ai ♦-'jr. xr& v* •v L XJ A. jpr.(JP 1 <*r* 1 ..rrr> -.J* T78 words
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432 1950-08-31 2 WE :in* :ig;iin from :i system of mis* phic'ocl /wit in the field of “security” which is endangering more lives Ilian it can possibly save. Malaya lias, unfortunately, always had indicted upon her an unfortunate type of military mind, which has not appreciated the true432 words
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Article65 1950-08-31 2 \LL are agreed that the Pipe-line over the Cause- ay is an eye-sore, and that 1)1 ots out the scenic view /he Straits on one side. Since the position of the 1,1 cannot be changed, I if anyonoe has ‘"ht o! an alternative—•!ihc level of65 words
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Article184 1950-08-31 2 Express To Johore YOUR report, on Aug. 21. of how some of Singapore’s film critics crossed to Johore Bahru by an 80-cent express bus ride to view the film “The Blue Lamp,” was ex- j tremely interesting. These privately-owned express buses are playing a very important part184 words
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Article240 1950-08-31 2 IN connection with charges brought under the Income Tax Ordin- ante for alleged failure to submit a return of in- come within 21 days, it J would be appreciated if the Income Tax authorities gave consideration to the following: While issuing forms for J assessment240 words
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Article102 1950-08-31 2 Let’s Have More! Let s Have Less! 'J'HIS is not a criticism, but I wish to say that THE most pleasing items we get from Radio Malaya are those contributed by the Radio Orchestra. The pity of it is that we don’t get them more frequently. A.D.V.102 words
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Article312 1950-08-31 2 THE Federation Comptroller of Income Tax says in the introduction to his report that staffing has been difficult. but that a sufficient number of senior officers were appointed to form the NUCLEUS of an ASSESSING staff The whole emphas s has apparently been on raising312 words
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Article211 1950-08-31 2 1 READ in my morning 1 paper of Aug 22 that the bandits are worried about Retting so little publicity lately; this is actually hinderine their war effort. Here is a little publicity which they can take beck to their lairs and digest, while they pat211 words
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Article274 1950-08-31 2 Smoke, choco lat e and peanuts 4S an Australian I cannot let “Cmv away with his statement about non yet Australian theatres. 1 non in He or she is quite correct as regards theatres but very much adrift re- m y restraint of my countrymen. Thev do because they know274 words
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Article168 1950-08-31 2 A LEGISLATIVE Councillor has disclosed that the Colonial Office is pressing Singapore to increase its income tax. That such interference should he attemptea indicates how for a Socialist Administration nas departed from democratic tradition But there is another very good reason why a stern rebuke168 words
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Article48 1950-08-31 2 WHUM 1 u .I* Mr, Malcolm i n a broadcast > other day. said, J are weakening“Marcato in headed “Pahang published by you on said. “The situation grow from bad to terrorists grow b( day. their terrorism more intensive. Wh °m an We L '<> s Singapore.48 words
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Article631 1950-08-31 3 -Straits Times. Aug. 24. Local Authorities Elecr (frilinance, which will be nod at the September ol the Federal LegisL'oitncil, is not the final t,ve procedure before .t rnment elections can ,.i,i in the States and c ,i meats of the Federation, •tw task of the Federal •ure-Straits Times. Aug. 24. - 631 words
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Article448 1950-08-31 3 Straits Times. Aug. 24 Three months of touring and talking in India and Pakistan has found Sir Owen Dixon, United Nations mediator in the Kashmir dispute, without a solution. Sir Owen left Karachi yesterday for Lake Success to report complete failure. He did not travel east with– Straits Times. Aug. 24 - 448 words
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Article679 1950-08-31 3 Strait.s Times. Aug 25 A new phase has opened in {the political development of i Singapore with the announce- ment this week that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has approved the increase in elected seats in the Legislative Council for which the unofficial members votedStrait.s Times. Aug 25 - 679 words
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Article413 1950-08-31 3 Straits Times. Aug. L\'> One oceiit development in Malay education which Mr. Leonard Barnes will have to consider during the inquiry on which he has embarked at the request of the Federal Gov- j eminent is the decision to teach English in the Malay primary schools, starting inStraits Times. Aug. L\'> - 413 words
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Article542 1950-08-31 3 -Straits Times. Aug 26 i To most people outside the i medical profession the Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur the I M R as it is known in the jargon ol the Federal capital is the least known of all the scientific institutions in Malaya. Nevertheless,-Straits Times. Aug 26 - 542 words
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Article397 1950-08-31 4 -Straits Times. Aug 26 Within a week of the out- j break of the Korean war on I June 25 Singapore was faced with a sugar shortage, but only an artificial one. Some hoarding took place, with at- tendant price rises. However, prompt action by the authorities– -Straits Times. Aug 26 - 397 words
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Article807 1950-08-31 4 Straits Times. Aug. 28. There can be little doubt of the drastic nature of the pro- posed new emergency regulations in the Federation which will require the chief tenant of a house or building to keep a register of all persons who j stay overnight in his– Straits Times. Aug. 28. - 807 words
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Article294 1950-08-31 4 Straits Times, Aug. 28. The action of the U.S. Department of Commerce which reduces by ten per cent, the consumption of new rubber by American manufacturers in the next four months is far less restrictive than press forecasts had led the industry to believe. Consumption in July– Straits Times, Aug. 28. - 294 words
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Article638 1950-08-31 4 •—Straits Times. Aus 9 There are MacArthurisms which can be permitted to so brilliant and individual a soldier as America’s distinguished commander in Asia. But adventure into the field of statesmanship is not one of them. General MacArthur was to have given to the American Veterans•—Straits Times. Aus ~9 - 638 words
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Article495 1950-08-31 4 traits Times. Aug. 29. To non-Malay observers" came as a welcome surpnread in their newspapers on Monday that the UMNO >' n ral Assembly at Kuala il sar had accepted the cit ship plan of its execute* mittee without amendmtn and had recommended this plan shouldtraits Times. Aug. 29. - 495 words
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Article676 1950-08-31 5 Straits Times, Aug. 30. f r J cipal progress in Singa-r)-s t.nken one more step I with the decision to r Noel V. Lange, of the p;il Parks Department, United Kingdom for a year’s training at Kew Gardens, where he will gather fresh knowledge and ideas forStraits Times, Aug. 30. - 676 words
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Article503 1950-08-31 5 —Straits Times. Aug. 30. One of the most striking facts of Malayan sociology is the attitude of the Chinese towards co-education as compared with that of the other Asian races ‘Chinese parents have no objection to co-education, which in practice works with a fair degree of success,” says—Straits Times. Aug. 30. - 503 words
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Article102 1950-08-31 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 29. 1MIL terrorists may have two “headquarters,** one in the jungle and one in Singapore, said the Director of Operations, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harold Briggs, at a Press conference in Kuala Lumpur today. "There is no doubt about the one in the jungle,”102 words
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Article304 1950-08-31 5 Church Confers With Legal Dept SINGAPORE, Aug. 30. 'J'HE Methodist Church in Malaya and the Attorney-General’s Department in the Federation are now trying to find a satisfactory solution to the position which has arisen by the publication in the Federation last week of a new Christian marriage bill. The bill,304 words
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Article71 1950-08-31 5 From Our Own Correspondent .TOHORE BAHRU. Aug. 29. The death took plane yesterday at Kluaiig of Inche Suleiman bin Radi, Chief Clerk of the Sessions and Magistrate’s Courts, Kluang. The funeral took place yesterday evening at Kluang and was largely attended Among those present were the71 words
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Article35 1950-08-31 5 From Our Own C orrespondent JOIIORE BAHRU Aug. 29. Tav Chin Kiat, of Singapore, found driving a motor car vithout having a Road Tax licence, was fined $B. in the Police Court today35 words
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Article120 1950-08-31 5 jack On August until i «*r»o at Bungsar Hospital to Lilian wife of A P Ju< k—a m, RITCHIE: To Edith, wile of James Ritchie, a daughter. MarJory Louise, at Batu Gaiah Hospital. on 24th Aug., 1950 A sister for Alan. WILLIAMS: To Joan, wife if Captain J. O.120 words
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Article47 1950-08-31 5 THE engagement is announced between Reginald John Charles Davies and Elspeth Jones THE engagement is announced between John Lyall, son of Mr. Ac Mrs. H L. Mason, of Crowborough, Sussex, and Kim. daughter of Mr. W Cardiff Murray, of Guernsey, and the late Mrs. Margaret Murray.47 words
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Article81 1950-08-31 5 THE MARRIAGE took place in K.L.. on 26.8.’50, between Mr. f.anw Kim Seng, 2nd son ot Mr. and Mrs. Lauw Hong Kcng. and Miss J- nny Mul, of K L LONG-LAKE: The marriage took place at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. Singapore, on 26th August. 1950, between Lieutenant J A. Long.81 words
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Obituary137 1950-08-31 5 DEATHS JENKINS: Suddenly at the General Hospital, on Wed.. 23rd Aug., Anna, beloved vlfe >f W W. Jenklas. Funeral at Bidadurl at 9.30 a.rn. on Thurs.. 24'h Aug MON'rOR: Alfred, passed away suddenly on the morning of the 24th August, in New York. Aged 72. I.YE KEE FOOK: Age f,8.137 words
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Article, Illustration1793 1950-08-31 6 Cecil Stre - Cecil Stre English Rost*s reading t-he note in this column on the Johore Bahru nurseryman who believes that the lovely roses of temperate climates can be grown successfully in Malayan low-country gardens. I have received a letter from Mrs. ED. Evans, of Seremban. w’hich confirms this claimPhotograph bp Hedda Morrison - 1,793 words
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Article218 1950-08-31 7 55th BIRTHDAY Fivni Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Aug. 24 A TRIBUTE to the security forces for their “fine work during the Emergency was paid here this morning j by the Yang di-Pertuan Besar >f Neeri Sembilan when he addressed the Police and the Malay218 words
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Article44 1950-08-31 7 SINGAPORE. Aug *25 r,,M r Edvard J Trost, a new k ®Lates vice-consul in a Lumpur, arrived in k i'pore yesterdav. succeeds Mr. Allan I .in who has been rr ed (o Mexico, and nv for Kuala Lumpur mm a week.44 words
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Article31 1950-08-31 7 Opr staff Correspondent U.A LUMPUR. Aug. 24 r °f Victory savings ,'ms. the income from ls not subject to Mal‘r>come tax, is to end at d t)f the year.31 words
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298 1950-08-31 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26 'l'!'K Federation of Malaya has so far received 1 £25,000,000' from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund, the Federation’s Economic Secretary, Mr A. Heywood-Waddington. said in a !<ilk over Radio Malaya last night. He said that the298 words
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Article105 1950-08-31 7 SINGAPORE. Aug. 25. FREE vice-chancellors of Commonwealth universities arrived in Singapore yesterday by QEA-BOAC Constellation from Australia eager to take a quick look at the University of Malaya. They were Dr. Cyril James of McGill University. Montreal. Professor J. McKinnell of Natal University, and105 words
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Article138 1950-08-31 7 T SINGAPORE. Aug. 25 Governor has appointor. Paul Sammy to over the Juvenile constituted under the r °n’s Charter.” Sammy has been act- honorary magistrate juvenile offenders the criminal laws for :sf three years. Under the children and Young Persons Ordinance, the Juvenile Court magistrate would138 words
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Article245 1950-08-31 7 ‘Law Necessary For Colony SINGAPORE, Aug. 28. of a Bill which, if adopted, “will nullify marriage between persons either of whom is undei the age of 16,” will be given at the next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council by Mr. John Laycock (Municipality North-East). The Bill closely follows the245 words
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Article30 1950-08-31 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 27. Mr. H. A. Campbell, director and general manager of Socfm Co. Ltd., kft today bv air for Europe on a short business trip30 words
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Article223 1950-08-31 7 SINGAPORE, Auk. 25. SINGAPORE and the Federation, if given assist the British Government in its new the opportunity, could defence and re-arma-ment programme, say engineering experts in Singapore They maintain that Malaya can handle $24,000,000 worth of production a year on rearmament. Small Craft223 words
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Article164 1950-08-31 7 SINGAPORE. Aug. 28. r PHE Singapore Municipal 1 Veterinary Department yesterday stated ’hat there had been an epidemic j of hard pad <a disease i contracted by riogsi i in the Colony lor more than three months. i A spokesman said that although many164 words
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Article149 1950-08-31 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. INLYING boats like the Princess, a 10-engined turbo jet aircraft carrying 110 passengers, may be put back on the England-Australia air route by 1952. Mr. H. J Bingham, station manager for BOAC in Southampton, forecast this on his arrival in Singapore yesterday149 words
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Article45 1950-08-31 7 SINGAPORE. Aug. 27. Miss Amy Lay cock (Municipality East Ward is going to Australia on Tuesday on six months’ health leave. Members of the Municipal Commission are granted leave of absence, which may be extended by the full Board meeting of the Commissioners.45 words
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183 1950-08-31 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. f pHE Singapore Government is to appoint a five- man elections committee to discuss the rearrangement of constituencies in the Legislative Council elections, and other electoral procedure. The committee is to be charged with the splitting of the present two183 words
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Article136 1950-08-31 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 27. 'pHE Singapore Teachers’ Union has planned a production of Shakespeare’s “Richard II", this year’s school Certificate play,’ for October. Teachers and students from various schools will take part. Mr. David Lyttle, of Radio Malaya. will be in charge of production. The teachers136 words
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Article105 1950-08-31 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug 26. SIN HONG, of Kuala Lumpur, paid a fine of $1,000 today in the Johore Bahru Police Court when he was convicted on a charge of evading customs duty amounting to $143 on two wrist watches and a camera. The goods, valued at $600,105 words
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Article147 1950-08-31 8 nOCHORE Ward with 4.964 registered voters, heads all other electoral districts in the number of people qualified to vote at the Municipal elections to be held in December. according to latest figures prepared by Singapore election authorities. South Ward with 4.762 voters comes a close147 words
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Article212 1950-08-31 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 25. gINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners in committee have approved a draft amendment to the Municipal Ordinance which would exempt properties used for welfare purposes from payment of assessment The suggested amendment will go before the full board of Commissioners for confirmation at their monthly212 words
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Article381 1950-08-31 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. A VIGOROUS campaign against well organised gangs of thieves who systematically rob army depots in Singapore Island, resulting in losses amounting hundreds of thousands of dollars every year has begun. Army security personnel, the Field Security Service assisted by the Special Investigation381 words
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Article39 1950-08-31 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. Fong Peng Fung, manager of the Thai Seng pawnshop in Selegie Road, was fined $lOO in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday for failing to report stolen property lodged with him to the police.39 words
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281 1950-08-31 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR W •>- T H E raffi fi c handlod through Port in the first six months of this year makes all-time record, says an official statement is, u 2 yesterday. The number of ships enterinj. was 499, which compares281 words
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Article102 1950-08-31 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 28. ]\JISS Hilda Saul, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Saul of Seremban, was married at the Maghain Aboth Synagogue yesterday to Mr. Jacob Solomon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Reuben, of Singapore. Dressed in a crepe lamay material, the bride who carried a bouquet102 words
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Article197 1950-08-31 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 27 Korean war has stirred up a new consciousness and curiosity about events and problems in Asia, said Mr. Tom Driberg. Labour M.P for Maldon, who left. Singapore yesterday for Hong Kong on his way to Korea Mr. Driberg will report the war197 words
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Article67 1950-08-31 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 27. pHEN FU, 35. was sentence in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday -o four months’ rigorous imprisonment after pleadm* guilty to possessing 4 P' h fvM leaf packets of opiui Aug. 11. The rackets were io;'W hidde in Chen's stocking s when67 words
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Article138 1950-08-31 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 27. 'pWO European motorists, who were trapped in an overturned saloon car, at Buona Vista Road, Singapore, last night, were rescued by kampong folk. Mr. Burton Graham of William Jacks and Co. was driving along Buona Vista Road towards Paslr Panjang in the comnany of Mr.138 words
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Article218 1950-08-31 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. 4 LL arson claims in Singapore to date have been met by the insurance companies, a spokesman of the Singapore Fire Insurance Association told the Straits Times yesterday. 1 he spokesman said that policies covered criminal arson but this was a218 words
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Article104 1950-08-31 9 SINGAPORE'. Aug. 24. CER H of merit :inc a I ur.tain-pen in is services in t:: i rtant Communis:.'. in Burma, was prem n; d to Sc’. I. H. Wilson, of n ipor Harbour Board Auxiliary Policy. at their n- adqu art. r* in104 words
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Article76 1950-08-31 9 M SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. !v Lee Kong Chian, the Singapore rubber mag1 f l has donated three acres nd to the Government r r a school. i y‘ la .nd is situated at the mile. Thomson Road. Ihiosite the polo ground. 'government statement r ;Lty said76 words
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Article48 1950-08-31 9 P l) A A LUMPUR. Wed.—An oV Eric George lies. M /i trial in the Second j rate’s Court, Kuala our, r n a charge of in.derate driving while on a r vcle in Ipoh Road. Sr- l ase was postponed to *6 ior hearing.48 words
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Article63 1950-08-31 9 TWO WOMEN TWO SHIPS SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. r PWO solitary women were the lone passengers on two ships which left Singapore yesterday. One of them is Mrs. McCulloch, wife of the Master of a salvage ship, who leli in the s.s. Tonjer. The other is Mrs. Hopgood, who was a63 words
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Article173 1950-08-31 9 HAD OBSCENE PICTURES SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. A PAKISTANI businessman who claimed to have taken obscene pictures with him in his tours of Europe and the Far East without being arrested for possession of them, left the Singapore Second Police Court a wiser but poorer man. He173 words
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Article68 1950-08-31 9 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. ANOTHER large seizure of contraband opium, worth nearly $45,000. was made by Singapore Customs afficers when they boarded a ship which arrived from Hong Kong on Tuesday. They found 140 lbs of opium wrapped in ten brown paper packages in the crews’ quarters.68 words
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Article33 1950-08-31 9 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson. has provisionally recognised Dr Mohamed Rasif as Con-sul-General of the Indonesian Government in the Colony pending the issue of His Majesty’s Exequator.33 words
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80 1950-08-31 9 MALACCA, Aug. 23. MaiaCCA is becoming a dumping ground for dud rice A fit onlv for animal consumption, said the Resident Commissioner Mr. O. E. C. Wisdom at today’s meeting Ahn Municipal Commissioners rice were passed on to the people, he added, they.80 words
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Article134 1950-08-31 9 —2 Months Gaol SINGAPORE. Aug. 24 A53-year-ola ex-cook, who took to printing obscene photographs and selling them, was sentenced to two months gaol in the Singai pore Fourth Police Court yesterday for possessing 29 I obscene photos and materi ials for their reproduction. i He was Phua134 words
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171 1950-08-31 9 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. r FIIE assistant cashier of Messrs. Gattey and Bateman, Singapore, reported to the police yesterday that he was forced by two Chinese into a waiting car outside the Hongkong Shanghai Bank and taken to the m.s. Jurong Road where he171 words
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Article100 1950-08-31 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. SCHEME to use aircraft from the Royal Singapore Flying Club to ferry municipal officers to and from Johoie on routine and emergency visits in connection with the waterworks extension works there, has been approved by a committee of Municipal Commissioners. The charge would100 words
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Article53 1950-08-31 9 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. ALOR STAR.—About $16,000 has so far been realised from Kedah Welfare Week Campaigns in six districts. Four more districts are planning similar campaigns. This was disclosed at a meeting of the Kedah Welfare Committee held in Sungel Patani with Mr A B Sheriff53 words
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Article193 1950-08-31 9 18 MONTHS FOR “SHY WOMAN From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Aug. 23. DESCRIBED by the prosecution as a “shy woman,” 26-year-old Loh Khum. who on two previous occasions had asked to be hanged and shot, was today sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment in the Sessions Court on two counts of193 words
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Article172 1950-08-31 9 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24 MR. Chong Thutt Pitt, a Singapore lawyer, who was attacked by two unknown persons, one of them a Malay, early yesterday morning, told the Straits Times last night that one of his assailants carried “something that looked like a pistol.” Mr. Chong was172 words
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Article97 1950-08-31 9 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. T*HE Singapore Muslim Wel1 fare Association, has suspended the general secretary. Mr. J. Khalendar Khan, and the treasurer. Mr. Abubakar. The action was taken “duo to certain statements they have released, which in the opinion of the committee, were prejudicial to the interests of97 words
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Article91 1950-08-31 9 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24 CHINES! woman produced her identity card in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to prove that she was not Aii Sam. a woman for whose arrest a warrunt had been issued She was acquitted. Ah Sam had failed to appear in court on91 words
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Article139 1950-08-31 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. TAN Joo Long, an unemployed coffee shop assistant, was yesterday in the Singapore Assize Court sentenced to death for the murder of his room mate. Wee Kim Wah. Tan killed Wee with a chopper in their cubicle at Erskine Road on May 23.139 words
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Article94 1950-08-31 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. A N Indian, C. Koshy Varghese Panicker, was yesterday acquitted in the Singapore First District Court on a charge of “being the owner of a dispensary which suggested that he was a registered pharmacist”. On a second charge of administering penicillin injections to two94 words
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Article78 1950-08-31 10 I rom Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Thurs. —An Indonesian woman. Latifah Omar, who pleaded t uiu v to a charge of illegal g£ r rv Malaya was fined at Malacca. Prosecution said that frnr! t oamo to Malacca 'i', 1 nesla In a fishing Whm she78 words
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352 1950-08-31 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. 'THE Methodist Bishop for South-East Asia, I)r. Raymond L. Archer, yesterday said that he was at a loss to understand the bill, gazetted three days ago in the Federation, which validates marriages hitherto solemnised by Methodist ministers Dr. Archer said that352 words
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Article, Illustration109 1950-08-31 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. SIX women and 25 men were interviewed in Singapore yesterday for selection to do radar work in the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force. The women were Mrs. Richard Gray, a 40-year-old mother. Miss Marjorie Bartels, a dancing teacher: Miss E. Lim. a109 words
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Article32 1950-08-31 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 25. For possessing one gallon of dutiable samsu. Ang Choon. a 33-year-old woman, living in Buona Vista Road, was fined $39 in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday.32 words
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Article207 1950-08-31 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. SINGAPORE’S radio-telephone service, which links the Colony with Britain, may be extended to other countries, Mr. R. W. Stainforth, general manager of the Oriental Telephone Exchange I .OtYlfl'l tl 17 Od Company, said yesterday. Exnerimental calls from the Colony to other parts207 words
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Article57 1950-08-31 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 25. Ten Indians claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to being members of an unlawful assembly and rioting at the hospital attendants’ quarters in Tlong Poh Road at midnight on Aug. 23. Bail of $2OO was allowed to each man and57 words
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Article264 1950-08-31 10 SO HAPPYTHEJS LEAVES IflRS. "Turko” Westerlin5 > IN a (^im >R ve r v' U m 1,1 brunette, arrived in Singapore bv 1Ve Jakarta yesterday morning and left will m newspapers which carried the storv „f her iV, ucal deportation from the Colony "I husba264 words
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Article182 1950-08-31 10 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Aug. 23. INSTEAD of engaging a fully-qualified town planner 1 from the United Kingdom, Penang Municipal Commissioners have decided to employ an architect with “town planning experience.*’ Applications are now Invited for this appointment, which will be placed on the182 words
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Article52 1950-08-31 10 BROKE QUEUE FINED $3 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. 24. Ng Yew Liang was charged here today with behaving in a disorderly manner by interfering with people queing up at a cinema. He was fined $3. Ng told the Court that he only climbed the rails and interfered with no one in52 words
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Article161 1950-08-31 10 SINGAPORE’. Aug. 24 ,r PHERE are signs of a re markable awareness oi the importance of As m studies in Malaya, said Dr Victor Purcell, a former Actl A n e Secretary for Chinese Affairs in Singapore, addressing the KuaJa Lumpur Rotarv Club yesterday Professor of161 words
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Article86 1950-08-31 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 25. T'HE new Vicar of Penang. the Rev. Douglas Hobson, arrived in Singapore yesterday with Mrs. Hobson and their 21-month-old son. Peter, by QEA-BOAC Constellation from Sydney. They were met at Kalian? airport by the Rev. Kinross Nicholson and Mrs. H w Baines, wife of86 words
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Article68 1950-08-31 10 SINGAPORE. A The attack on Mr. Chon? j Thutt Pitt, the Sini-jP 'lawyer and president Singapore branch Malayan Chinese Ass un does not appear to b it u Communist stamp. J 11 R. C. B. Wiltshire, the l Commissioner. C.I.D.. day. Mr. Chong, who was att-W ed68 words
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Article35 1950-08-31 10 SINGAPORE. Ail Lee Kah Meow. son Road, claimed r lr, v< the Singapore Third Court yesterday to Ar a fountain pen from Thian Yew. Bail of $200 was aiuntil Aug. 31.35 words
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Article98 1950-08-31 11 from Our Own Correspondent KAJANG. Auk. 25. II KW Kim Fong, a 2ti-year-jold woman rubber tapper, appeared before the Kajang Circuit Magistrate, Indie Annuar, for unlawful possession of 15 tahiLs of scrap rubber valued at 55 cents. She was sentenced to seven days’98 words
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Article237 1950-08-31 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 26. QIN RB Is to have its i o own C 1 of Adult Edul T tltution and function council will b-* discussed at a meeting in I the British Council Hall on £>ept 7 called by the acting Director of Education, Mr.237 words
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335 1950-08-31 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. g] GAR rationing in Singapore and the Federation is expected to start again in the next few days. It is understood that both (jovernments have had the question under f onsideration for some time. Following reports yesterday that335 words
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Article85 1950-08-31 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 23. Malaya had a net loss of 2.681 in her population through migration in the first six months of the vear More Europeans. Malaysians. Indians and Pakistanis left the country than came in. But more Eurasians. Chinese and other races arrived than left. Tlie85 words
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Article53 1950-08-31 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 26. Because her husband beat her a 19-ycar-oid girl drank caustic soda, it was stated in the Singapore Third PoliceCourt yesterday. The girl. Ho Sink Har. ol River Valley Road. pleaded guilty to attempting to commit suicide, and was bound over in Si oo53 words
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Article119 1950-08-31 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 26. SMALL tiger, which was p(1 n prowling at Ponggol. Singapore Island, has now over to Pulau Ubin 1 ,s believed to have swum the Straits back to n extensive search of Pulau Ubin has been made by Dato C. J Paglar and119 words
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57 1950-08-31 11 SIR HOWARD FLOREY, Professor of Pathology at Oxford University (left) who played a big part in the discovery of pencillin, pictured at Kallang airport, Singapore on Aug. 24 with Professor R. G. S. Macgregor of the University of Malaya why met him on his arrival from Australia. He is onStraits Times picture. - 57 words
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Article243 1950-08-31 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. A N international conference, which will take stock of the rice position in Asia, and particularly the threatened shortage of supplies next year, will assemble in Singapore at the beginning of next month. Invitations to the conference, which will begin on Sept.243 words
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Article32 1950-08-31 11 SINGAPORE. Aux. 20. Three Chinese were fined SlO each in the Singapore Third Police Co u*l yesterday after Pleading guilty to gambling in the Singapore Harbour Board on Aug 2432 words
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Article92 1950-08-31 11 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25. r |’HK .Military Medal has been awarded to Rifleman Jasbahadur Rai of the 1/10 (iiirkho Rifles for bravery in action, in which he chased a bandit and killed him while under heavy fire from 10 other bandits.92 words
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Article142 1950-08-31 11 SINGAPORE, Auk. 26. SINGAPORE’S public car parks may bo the source of additional revenue to the Municipality if an experiment with a parking meter which the Municipal Commissioners propose to arrange, proves successful. A Municipal committee recently studied the brochure of a parking meter and have142 words
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Article178 1950-08-31 11 Frcm Our Staff llorrespondent IPOH, Aug 26. WHEN a 21-year-old woodcutter, Hui Peng Lim, was charged before Mr. Justice Thonv*m in the Assize Court with being in unlawful possession of a hand grenade, he said he had been given it by a Chinese with instructions to178 words
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Article205 1950-08-31 11 From Our Stuff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aui?. 25. 1HVO Chinese, Tan Choon Chuar and Tan Choon Chai, convicted and sentenced to death, have been granted a free pardon by the Sultan of Selangor on the recommendation of the executive Council of the Government of205 words
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Article56 1950-08-31 12 Krum Our Own Correspondent Bl KIT MERTAJAM. Aug. 24. A MALAYAN RAILWAY mechanic, Iman Din. told the Province Circuit Magistrate. Inche Abdul Rahman, yesterday that he was “prepared to be “beheaded” if certain tools alleged to be stolen property could be proved to belong to the56 words
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Article168 1950-08-31 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. SINGAPORE cabaret girl? want a day off a week and they are prepared to take it without pay. Tltis question has arisen following the introduction of the new Weekly Holiday Ordinance. The managers of local cabarets say that dance hostesses are not168 words
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Article53 1950-08-31 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 25 A 45-year-old woman, Lan Leong Mui, was yesterday sentenced to one year’s simple imprisonment in the Singapore Second District Court for possessing 154 tahilr of opium in a house in Neil Road. Notice of appeal was given by Mr. C H. Koh who53 words
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317 1950-08-31 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 24. gOMBERS of the Far East Air Force ran a shuttle service from a Singapore airfield today to pound bandit hide-outs in Johore in attacks which lasted from early morning until well ipto the evening. After theii bombing runs,317 words
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Article93 1950-08-31 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 25. TWENTY-FIVE new foreign A companies were registered in the Colony last year. During the same period. Ill local companies with a total nominal capital of 940.000 were also registered. The increase in local companies is a significant indication of the local traders’93 words
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Article107 1950-08-31 12 rom Our Stag Correspondent KUAI.A LUMPUR. Aug. 24. '*rst batch of more ’ban 50 police sergeants t0 for England on term nation of their two-year (l,1 ract leit Kuala Lumpur vesterday and will leave for the United Kingdom trom Singapore by air tomorrow. These sergeants107 words
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Article, Illustration33 1950-08-31 12 —Straits Times picture.—Straits Times picture. - 33 words
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Article286 1950-08-31 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 25. 15-YEAR-OLD breadseller. Koh Ah Mu, was severely injured yesterday afternoon when he tried to open what is believed to be a home-made bomb at his home in the squatter area at the 10th mile Bukit Panjang Road, Singapore. Outside the House later,286 words
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Article22 1950-08-31 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 25. Mr. John Dew Haskings, M.C.S., an Assistant Commissioner for Labour. Singapore, has been appointed a Commissioner for Oaths.22 words
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Article66 1950-08-31 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. MALAYAN-born Mr. Ho Ying, the new Communist China Consul-General in Jakarta, passed through Singapore yesterday on the Tjitjalengka on his way to Indonesia. He stayed on board the ship and did not land. W: h him were 23 other members of the Chinese Comn66 words
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Article338 1950-08-31 12 From Our start Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR MISS P ThambydVi a Ceylonese worker in the Social Welfare Do partment, today wax acquitted and Uis'chat/d by Mr A. p. Jack in the First Magistrate s Court Kuala Lumpur, on a summons alleging shp had accepted $20 to use338 words
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Article115 1950-08-31 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 25. If A. Padmanabhan, a 44- year-old part-time accountant. was yesterday committed to stand trial at the next assizes on two main charges and an alternative charge in connection with a cheque alleged to have been forged for $360. The preliminary inquiry into115 words
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216 1950-08-31 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 25. AN R.A.F. policeman with a 3.000-mile "beat be presented with the Long Service Medal by Group Captain B. W. S. Smith, Provost Marshal oi the Far East Air Command, at a parade at tne F.E.A.F. Police School. Telok Paku, Changi tomorrow216 words
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Article132 1950-08-31 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 27. AFTER the failure of three previous attempts to organise a central trade union organisation for the Colony Mr V K Nair. president of the Army Civil Service Union, has appealed to all trade unions in Singapore, to take part in an informal132 words
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Article136 1950-08-31 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 28. It'1 THIN naif an Hour of the arrival of ♦he Dutch liner. Hrunje. at Singapore docks v t rday evening. crew -•'■.ubers attended a Coroner s v l i *iry into the death of Mr. r Hagers Chief Officer of Anglo-Saxon tanker.136 words
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Article26 1950-08-31 13 >HORE BAHRU, Aug. 27. o Singapore fishermen were found in the re Strait last night durcuifew hours, were each r i $10 here today.26 words
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Article343 1950-08-31 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. THE Stadium Committee of Singapore Municipal Commissioners have turned down an application by the Singapore Amateur Football. Association for a reduction in rent charges for using the Jalan Besar Municipal Stadium. This decision is likely to be challenged w nen it comes343 words
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57 1950-08-31 13 Miss Pieternella Hoogendam and Mr. Herbert Edward Giles of the Standard Vacuum Oil Company, Palembang, after their wedding at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, on Aug. 26. The bride who came from Jakarta about a week ago, was dressed in a white sharkskin suit, with white sharkskin Juliet cap. The Rev.—Sunday Times picfurc. - 57 words
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175 1950-08-31 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. QNE of the biggest hauls of Persian opium valued at 535,000 was made by Singapore Customs officers yesterday, after a 48-hour non-stop sweep of the Ulu Sembawang area, Woodlands, Singapore. The opium. 96 lbs in all, was hidden in four175 words
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Article70 1950-08-31 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 27. A taxi-driver, Abdul Rashid bin Jantan, was fined $l5 at the Fourth Police Court yesterday, for spitting in front of the Orchard Road Market. The magistrate, Mr. P. Clague, said that the law' against spitting in a public place was enforced in70 words
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Article144 1950-08-31 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. THE storage of rubber in godowns and premises within thc city limits of Singapore should be controlled and regulated by license, a Municipal Committee has recomto the Commissioners. The Committee has suggested this because it was that ,he Commissioners should have some measure144 words
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Article199 1950-08-31 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. THE Master of the 6.000-ton British carKo ship Audax. Capt. W. J. Farncll, and four officers signed off the ship yesterday morning and have been replaced. This follows the signing off of 51 members—the entire crew of the Audax—on Friday. The new master.199 words
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244 1950-08-31 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. MUSIC loving Singaporeans* who go to hear the Police Band at various public parks, will shortly be provided with chairs at 20 cents each, if a recommendation by a Municipal Committee is approved by the Commissioners next Thursday. The committee244 words
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Article81 1950-08-31 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 28. The 1950 professional dance championships of Singapore, organised by the Teachers of Dancing Association, held at the Victoria Memorial Hall last night, resulted as follows: 1, Mr. Low Poh San and Miss Jenny Quek; 2, Mr. Victor Ang and Miss Lily Tang, 3, Mr.81 words
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Article231 1950-08-31 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 28. A PROGRAMME for the de--1 velopment of Singapore’s open spaces with provision for four swimming pools, three children’s playgrounds and a public park, has been approved by Municipal Commissioners in comm.tl.ee. In addition, a proposal for the development of approximately 200 acres of land231 words
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1063 1950-08-31 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LTTMPUR, Aug. 25. THK Director of Operations, Lt.-Gen. Sir 1 Harold Briggs, today announced details for the raising of the Federation’s armed Home Guard and gave notice of new Emergency Regulations which will require a chief tenant to1,063 words
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Article27 1950-08-31 14 SINGAPORE. Aug. 25 Singapore had 640 births and 169 deaths in week ending Aug. 19. Chief cause of death was again T.B. with 20 cases.27 words
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Article, Illustration453 1950-08-31 14 ....But who shot the stag? Not I’ said the General SINGAPORE. Aug. 26. 3OO-lb. wild stag was shot yesterday in South Johore by a sixgun party, which included Major-General G. B. Erskine—military leader of the U.S. mission now in Malaya. The other five members of the party, on their return-Straits Times picture. - 453 words
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Article63 1950-08-31 14 KUALA LUMPUR Fri.—The new Vice-Consul for the United States in Kuala Lumpur, Mr. Edward J Trost. will take up duties here next week. He arrived in Singapore by air yesterday. Mr lTost’s last appointment overseas wa R in Bremen, Germany. In Kuala Lumpur, he replaces63 words
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133 1950-08-31 14 SINGAPORE. Aug. 25. Malays are making a move to form a “language council’’ “to foster and enrich the Malay language”. At a meeting called by the Singapore Malay Teachers’ Union recently, wellknown Malay literary figures expressed the view that a “language council'’ was badly needed133 words
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Article87 1950-08-31 14 SINGAPORE. Aug. THE first stage in a fresh legal move to restore Maria Huberdina Hertogh. now the wife of Inche Man soor Adabi. a Malay schoolteacher. to her parents in Holland wa s made in Singapore yesterday. An originating summons tiled in the High Court87 words
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Article86 1950-08-31 14 SINGAPORE. Ail*.. *> PETITION for dno.u A brought by Jacob Peter d. Silva, a Singapore >choui teacher, against his grounds of alleged iU was dismissed in th< Snv pore Supreme Coun day. A countcr-pi'tition bv hw wife. Evelyn H<*aimo tie Silva, on grounds leered desertion ana adultery86 words
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Article60 1950-08-31 14 From Our Staff orn‘ i>' KUALA LUMPUR. Col. c. w P. 4 Rlcil V 1 Lt Deputy Commandei 1 Malay Regiment, leav laya on Sept. 3, fj> weeks’ leave and am in Britain. He will attend an in conference for coi officers and will ad the60 words
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Article243 1950-08-31 15 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Aug. 28. IF the present appointment of Assistant Secretary to LV Penang Resident Commissioner shoqld continue to b,* classified under the Administrative Service. the chances of future holders being recruited from the Penang General Clerical Service would be 100243 words
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Article46 1950-08-31 15 SINGAPORE, Aug. 29. who disturbed people in Keppel Road and .Mi- himself a nuisance to was fined $10 in the n -apore Third Police Court X'.sterday f f was Achhar Singh, of nation Road, who plead1 uilty to a charge of '“kenness.46 words
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227 1950-08-31 15 SINGAPORE, Aug. 29. Chinese vested interests will strongly oppose any move Government may make to double the present profits tax on companion The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce at its monthly meeting yesterday decided to approach the Federation of Chinese Chambers of Commerce in227 words
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Article27 1950-08-31 15 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 28. Miss. I. Beatty. Matron, General Hospital, who has been away in Borneo on a vacation, has returned to Johore Efahru27 words
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Article88 1950-08-31 15 SINGAPORE. Aug. 29. Parainasivam pleaded IX guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to cheating Koh Keng Nam. a dhoby. in East Coast Road, of a palm-beach suit valued at $5O. Inspector Low Hong Hoe. prosecuting said that Paramasivam. after leaving the service of Mr.88 words
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Article36 1950-08-31 15 SINGAPORE. Aug. 29. A 34-year-old Chinese nun. Siek Nyet Mun. who pleaded guilty to assisting in a chap ii ki lottery in Sago Lane, was fined $2OO. or 14 days imFourth Police Court yesterday36 words
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Article99 1950-08-31 15 SINGAPORE, Aug. 29. j "MS worth approximately 1 $3,500 were stolen from a safe by robbers who ke into an office In Wln(*ster House, Collyer Quay, i! kapore, shortly before 8 a fn. yesterday Tht* safe, which belongs to j Mr. K. Lokhram. a jeweller, contained99 words
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Article230 1950-08-31 15 SINGAPORE. Aug. 29. IN an effort to help the Singapore Income Tax Department track down tax dodgers members of the public are giving information to the authorities. But some of the information is vague, Mr. D. H. Tudor, Comptroller of Income Tax, told the230 words
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41 1950-08-31 15 -Straits Times picture.-Straits Times picture. - 41 words
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Article151 1950-08-31 15 S'pore Man Lost In Sea SINGAPORE, Aug. 29. pROCODILES are believed to have dragged away and killed a Singapore Chinese school teacher who is missing after swimming at Tanjong Balai on Saturday. Another man was pulled from the water wounded. The missing man is Gan151 words
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293 1950-08-31 15 SINGAPORE, Aug. 29 |N taxis, in trishaws and crouched under umbrellas on foot, dozens of Singapore fathers yesterday took a morning off from work—or at least a few hours—braved the torrential rain to register their sons and daughters in the latest two Government schools.293 words
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Article46 1950-08-31 15 Prom Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. 28. Foo Toll Wal. of Singapore, who was found to have no Federation licence to operate bis taxi in Johore, was fined $2O here today and an additional $lO for not having a Public Service Vehicle permit46 words
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Article52 1950-08-31 15 f rom Our Slat!' Correspondent MALACCA. Aug. 28. 'f’HE publicity section of the Malayan Chinese Association announced today the gift of $5,000 to the widow of Mr. Boey Eng Eng, former secretary of the Penang and Province Wellesley branch of the M.C.A.. who died some52 words
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Article55 1950-08-31 15 SINGAPORE. Aug. 29. RATHAKRISHNAN. 25, of Beach Road, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to possessing 3.660 dutiabl* "igarettes and was fined $350 Mohamed Hussain, 28. of Middle Road, who was stated to have sold the cigarettes to Rathakrlshnan, pleaded guilty to possessing 10,860 dutiable55 words
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156 1950-08-31 15 SINGAPORE, Alls. 29. THE Singapore Life Guard Corps of the Royal Life A Saving Society was formed last night at a meeting of over 300 people at the Y.M.C.A. Anv one over 18 years of age and who possesses the Bronze Medallion of the Royal156 words
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Article32 1950-08-31 15 SINGAPORE. Auk. 29. The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, is to go to London to attend the formal opening of the new House of Commons on Oct. 26.32 words
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Article156 1950-08-31 16 NEW IDEAS ON PATROL WORK SINGAPORE. Aug. 30. SINGAPORE'S Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. G. R. Livett, who has been on leave in the Tnited Kingdom for nine months, returned yesterday by the Glengyle with “certain proposals’* which he said he would put forward to the156 words
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Article73 1950-08-31 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 30. LEE Kow, aged 66. was acquitted in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday of assisting in a public lottery In an attap house in Kim Chuan Road Singapore m June 6. There was no evidence to I prove that the 43 papers believed to73 words
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Article751 1950-08-31 16 From Our Special Correspondent KIJATA LUMPUR Aug. 29. VINETY-TWO Communist bandits were killed or captured in the six weeks ended Aug. 25. stated the Director of Operations, Gen. Sir Harold Briggs, at a Press conference this morning. There has been a drop in serious751 words
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131 1950-08-31 16 SINGAPORE. Auk. 30. (WDETS of the Malayan Air j Training Corps who gave their blood at the Transfusion Centre in the General Hospital, Singapore, last night, may in a few days’ time watch their contribution to the hank being transferred to accident cases and others.131 words
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Article156 1950-08-31 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 30. THE Singapore Government's approval for a deviation in the course of the Singapore River at Kim Seng Road to permit the replacement of a oridge has been sought by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners. The oridge. which carries a constant stream of traffic between156 words
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Article41 1950-08-31 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 30. Hor Keen, 35. of Ban San Street, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to possessing 2 1/3 gallons of dutiable samsu. Bail of $l5O was allowed and sentence was postponed to Sept. 5.41 words
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311 1950-08-31 16 SINGAPORE, Aug, 3(t A 10-MAN conference of rubber scientist* technologists from Malaya, Indonesia ,„a Indo-China is now meeting i„ Shw.lin.'U achieve international co-ordination of testing methods. When the co-ordination of methods h as b«» completed they will be available alongside th present visual trade311 words
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Article47 1950-08-31 16 From Our Staff C'orre*pondent KUALA LUMPUR Aug. 29. A young Indian. Thanggiah. who admitted he had failed to have the address on his identity card altered when ho shifted, was today admonished and discharged by Mr. A. P Jack In the First Magistrate’s Court. Kuala Lumpur47 words
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112 1950-08-31 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 30. A MAN who could read more in a hair found on a bloodstained weapon, sweepings from a railway truck, or ash than any other person in Malaya has left the country on retirement. He is Mr. Morris Jamieson. Director of Chemistry, Malaya.112 words
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Article23 1950-08-31 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 30. Mr. J. D. Haskins. M.C.S., has been appointed to act as an Assistant Commissioner for Labour. Singapore.23 words
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Article143 1950-08-31 16 SINGAPORE. Aug 30. THE majority of men in one A of the squadrons ot the 4th Queens Own Hussarswho arrived in Singapore yesterday from the Federation to embark for Hong Kong—are glad to be saying farewell to Malaya. Five of them however. are unhappy These five,143 words
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Article171 1950-08-31 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 30. MARY Mount Vocational School of the Good Shop* herd Nuns, which was PDnned 10 years ago. was opened yesterday by the Governor oi Singapore, Sir Franklin Gunson. Situated at 4i mile Thomson Road, the $252,000 building will accommodate -w girls, most171 words
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Advertisement35 1950-08-31 16 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES The weekly Issues of the Straits Budget can be sent oy delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an Indus*'• 524.00 for six months. (ALL THE ABOVE ARE IN STRAITS35 words
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280 1950-08-31 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 29. rr\ HE British Minister for Commonwealth Relations 1 Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker, who arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon by Air Ceylon Sky master fr oni Australia, said the thing that struck him most about Australia was the deep and very280 words
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Article59 1950-08-31 17 SINGAPORE. Aug. 29. The A O.C. Malaya. Air Wee-Marshal Sir Francis Mellersh, is due to take off rrom Changi this morning on a routine visit to the Governors of Borneo and Sarawak. The Air Vice-Marshal, who Air Adviser to the Governors. plans to reach Jes>elu)n today,59 words
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Article116 1950-08-31 17 SINGAPORE. Aug 29. M R C.W. Byrde, superintendent of the Radio Division. Singapore, will take charge of the new special constables who will shortly be appointed to guard factories and godowns against arson attempts by Communists. He will act as liaison officer between the police116 words
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Article95 1950-08-31 17 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. 28. MTORI. a Japanese woman who said that she was a British subject, was charged here today with having an identity card which was mutilated. Tori told the court that she trimmed the card to fit it into her95 words
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Article186 1950-08-31 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 29. AN investigation in Penang resulted in a cartridge case, found with a number of others with which it did not match at the scene of a crime, being compared with more than GOO cartridge cases lired from 47 different weapons. No match186 words
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Article123 1950-08-31 17 SINGAPORE. Aug. 29. I A 19-YEAR-OLD British soldier, John Morrison, i was sentenced in the Singaj pore Second Police Court yesterday to two months’ imprisonment for theft of a motor-cycle at Stamford Road on June 25. Flight-Lieut R H. Cook, owner of the machine,123 words
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Article366 1950-08-31 17 When the mem returned. FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW J is strange how some little incident, which ln ay have happened vears ago, is suddenly recalled to mind. We had set out in the car ru* other day on business U(i had been gone about j ve minutes when we met366 words
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1093 1950-08-31 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 29. 'J’HE day after he was alleged to have strangled a 10-year-old schoolgirl, Joseph Michael Nonis, a 25-year-old Eurasian wireless operator, had lunch and chatted casually with one of his best friends—the girl’s brother. This was stated in the first day’s1,093 words
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Article34 1950-08-31 17 SINGAPORE. Aim. 29. Included in the general cargo of the Haligonian Queen, which arrived in Singapore yesterday from Colombo. was a consignment of four torpedo tubes and two nrk-aek guns for Singapore.34 words
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687 1950-08-31 18 By MOHAMED SALLEH BIN BAUD Straits Times Special Correspondent KUALA KANGSAR, Aug. 27. f PHE United Malays National Organisation at its fifth annual Assembly today elected Dato Onn bin Ja’afar president again by 66 votes to three. The only other nominee was Inche Mahmud Mahyudin,687 words
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Article34 1950-08-31 18 SINGAPORE. Aug. 28. THE University of Malaya Endowment Fund has received from Trengganu State Appeal Committee, a donation of 520.210 to build a research laboratory to be named “Trengganu.”34 words
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Article115 1950-08-31 18 SINGAPORE. Aug. 27. The funeral of Mr. Fredrick John Blowers. 36-year-old senior assistant of Rengam Rubber Estate. Johore. took place at Bidadari cemetery yesterday, the Rev. Canon R K. S. Adams officiating. of the neighbouring estates, the Johore Police, and of the Anglo-Thai Corporation115 words
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Article110 1950-08-31 18 SINGAPORE. Aug. 27. I T*HE first Consul-General A for Indonesia in Singapore. 40-year-old Dr. N. Rasif who was until recently Indonesian Deputy High Commissioner in Holland, arrived yesterday by Garuda Indonesian Airways Dakota from Jakarta Dr. Rasif was met at Kalians airport by Dr. Zain, the110 words
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Article67 1950-08-31 18 T H d CVCr how fhe nur n 8 staff of »hc 0 |”oh A Hospiiai describes one of the most unusual babies born in the hospital—or the infant, only 14 inches long, weighs just 28 oxs tho rk°ld n tKe wi c of a vc67 words
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Article325 1950-08-31 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. JHE Labour Party of Singapore is understood to have suspended one of its vice-presidents, Mr. M. P.D. Nair, for certain statements which he released to the Press, alleged to be prejudicial to party interests. This decision, the Sunday Times learns, was taken after325 words
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Article238 1950-08-31 18 SINGAPORE. Aug. 27. A 34-YEAR-OLD Government clerk Abdul bin Mcnamed Kasum who posed as an income tax official on Aug 16. was sentenced fo two months' imprisonment at the Fourth Police Court yesterday Inspector Low Hong Hee said on Aul». 15 Lim See York, the238 words
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Article130 1950-08-31 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KU.f.LA 1VJMPUR Aug. ||7 HEN a bandit sw c dered in Pojum re cently, he pleaded trith tn officer commanding m police district to shon immediately rathe “give him endless .o’ 1 He said bandit ers had told him tha > J130 words
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Article1132 1950-08-31 19 By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 26. kj 1 '*ING u magnificent finish, independence iawi) gained a splendid half-length win from Kn frenchman to pay S76 for a win at Kuala l.u pur yesterday, opening day of the Selangor Ti Club August-Sept, meeting. It was IndependfI.,1,132 words
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Article83 1950-08-31 19 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. A RTHUR Crawley-Boevey (5) returned a gross 71, the best scratch scored in an Island Club competition since the war, playing in the August medal competion yesterday. The course bogey is 72. Crawley-Boevey was playing with the Club professional Jack Hodgkinson, and his83 words
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Article390 1950-08-31 19 SINGAPORE. Aug. 28. rPHE Singapore Cricket Club defeated Singapore Indians by nine wickets to win the Gandhi Memorial cricket mutch at the 5. padang yesterday. The Cricket Club took their overnight score of one for six to 177 all out in the first innings. In390 words
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Article584 1950-08-31 19 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. kJORE than 700 members crowded the pool side at the 1 Singapore Swimming Club yesterday to cheer the youthful contestants entered for the boys and girls races specially included in the gala for school children on holiday from Britain, Australian and local schools.584 words
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Article37 1950-08-31 19 F. N. SCORES 18 GOALS IN GAME SINGAPORE. Auk. 30. In a Singapore Business Houses soccer league fixture played at the Police Depot ground yesterday. Fraser and Neave SC beat Malayan Airways by 18 goals to nil.37 words
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470 1950-08-31 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 29. 1AK. C. P. RAWSON, former president of the Foot- ball Association of Selangor, today explained his resignation from the Association. Four other senior officials have resigned. They are Dato E. E. C. Thuraisingam and Mr. J. M. Laing. both vice-presidents,470 words
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Article217 1950-08-31 19 SINGAPORE. Aug. 28. SINGAPORE Recreation Club. the Colony’s Senior League cricket champion, were defeated by G.H.Q FARELF by 53 runs in a friendly game on the padang yesterday. <-ll<* FAKKI.t Symlh PigoU b Rosario II llawe b Kornitz •> Knox b ll'Almrlda 7 Andrew c D'Almelda b217 words
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699 1950-08-31 20 From A Market Correspondent MALAYAN share markets had a disappointing week in which the violent daily commodity fluctuations had no counterpart. If there was a feature, then it was the fairly large and sustained buying interest shown by London in sterling tins and rubbers, while699 words
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Article55 1950-08-31 20 From A Market Correspondent Singapore copra market was again firm yesterday, with buyers at $45\ per picul. Business was done at $46 in the morning, after which sellers withdrew. Coconut oil was steady in tone with buyers at $69 and sellers at $69 4 for55 words
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Article240 1950-08-31 20 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 25. OUBBER production in the Federation in July was 65,494 tons, the highest monthly output since January last year when production was 65.941 tons. Total output for the seven months ended July was 387.275 tons, compared with 380,433 tons240 words
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Article27 1950-08-31 20 Rubber Company has sold forward five tons monthly of S.Q.R.S.S.. from January to March, 1951. inclusive, loose into godown Singapore, at $1.07 per lb27 words
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Article297 1950-08-31 20 SINGAPORE V< <*,1 MALAYA’S exports to Russia last by $14,359,164 according to official tr f M U P issued last night, which gave exports l url>! in ,y iune $22 449 765 38 with During July Russia was Malaya's third best customer after the United297 words
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Article33 1950-08-31 20 A LOR Gajah Rubber Estates have sold forward two tons monthly ol No. 1 R.S.S from January to March. 1951. mclu sive. baled, into codown Singapore. at $1.06 per lb.33 words
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Article33 1950-08-31 20 VEW SCUDAI shareholders, at 1 the annual meeting in Singapore, adopted the report and accounts and approved payment of a first and final dividend of five per cent, less income tax33 words
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Article19 1950-08-31 20 DENONG Tin Dredging’s dredges produced 1.054 piculs of tinore in June and 793 piculs in July.19 words
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Article967 1950-08-31 20 SINGAPORE, Aug 29 I INDUSTRIALS J Buyers Sellers A.< x. Bricks P™/ 1.83 f 95 rds 1»0 197J let* 1190 12 25 B B Petro'. 29/- SO/HM Trustee 7 00 7 50 Con l u» Smelt T( J 20/3 21/3 Ord »6 '9 17/g K Utd Assur967 words
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Article228 1950-08-31 20 D SINGAPORE x tSPITE the Ion at the ei iV., week that lower s S rubber were likely. t .i’f has continued to rls .dill Business was done .:,,VT y “W»‘ high as m e-uv Jb for September sh:; iU -t Lewis Peats maiVissuer, yesterday. Several228 words
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Article138 1950-08-31 20 PENANG. Aug. 26 FOR "patriotic reason* number of rubber nrws in Penang have refused t sell rubber to Rus>:a. tni Sunday Times was t "Government, she;; < duce legis’ation to shipments.” an exporter tag ed "After all. we don t wa- 1 to provoke or a138 words
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Article17 1950-08-31 20 United Maiacr Estates in Ju 79.680 lbs of rubber total for three mont.c lbs.17 words