The Straits Budget, 29 May 1952

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    31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) t »w series No. 304. Thursday, May 29, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      REWARDS FOR THE BANDITS
      110 2  -  JUST A PLANTER. Brunei. |N the 7 p.m news of May 16 Radio Malaya announced the payment of $l3-000 to three surrendered bandits who had gone into the jungle and returned with 10 fellowmembers of their gang. What, may I ask, is the difference between giving
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      Safety for pedestrians
      93 2  -  X. Y. z. Singapore. I WOULD like to congratu- la Jte the Traffic Police fo r haying a man to stop traffic r° r pedestrians crossing the road outside the Hongkong Bank, Collyer Quay during the rush hours ctm fol ls yin K hollow cong** strips along
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      DATO’S EXAMPLE
      44 2  -  LOYAL MALAY. Singapore. I AGREE entirely with “Nimbus’s” letter in your of Wednesday regarding Dn’o Onn’s ending of his recent speech at Malacca. The Dau) should set an example of loyalty in these of bwJewie..,, or M Nimbus” savs. quit his job
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      AWAITING CLEARANCE OFF ST. JOHN’S
      230 2  -  SHIP MASTER Singapore. j AM a ship master in a well known local shipping company. I ply regularly between Singapore and Sarawak carrying essential cargo. The Immigration auhorities recently made new rules regarding the entrance of vessels from outside Malaya to the port of Singapore.
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      POLICE VOICE
      63 2  -  AWAKE. Singapore. f LIVE in a block of flats in A Singapore. I w’rite to ask if it is really necessary for a radio patrol to bawl at the ent.re block through a loud speaker at midnight (when most of us are asleep) to ask for the driver
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      Control of trade unions from without
      388 2  -  POSTGATE. Penang. VOU recently published a contributed article by Mr. A Creech Jones which was in the nature of propaganda in support of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions movement. Much of the article is devoted to justifying the existence of the movement
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      NEWS OF WAR DAMAGE
      641 2  -  CLAIMANT. Penang. THOSE who have read the answers given L x Financial Secretary to the questions a V l e Mrs. B. H. Oon at the last meeting of the 1- by Legislative Council must have felt <>ral astonishment, though the .replies did give aW ation
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      MR. CHAN KUM CHEE’S STAND
      90 2  -  GS.C. Singapore. WHETHER or no Trade Fair at C Serai shoulld be turnea an amusement park matter which the must decide between se(lve3, since there are divergent views. Mr. Chan Kum Chee much our elected reo: tative in the East Wn areas other than t
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      27 2 s > U I >:•>■ H 7/; #v <5 ••> a V V »5 ;:.'v Ji-SW:** //J X Sif, <T r,[ v M •>•••' A v time to trim the sails
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Rubber Wages
      712 3 —Straits Times, May 22. u nt likely to be any i,i negotiate a wages with rubber selling cents than it was when pi v was very much It is, therefore, necthat the negotiations which the wages com- u c of the M.P.I.E.A. has! preached the negotiating j mmittee
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      Aid To Dental Health
      375 3 —Straits Times. May 22. Officers of the School Dental Service will welcome the news that the Singapore GovemI ment is studying plans to add fluorine to the city’s water supply, for, as the Chief Dental Officer has stated, it is a comparatively cheap way of reducing
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      Setback For Rice Planning
      676 3 —Straits Times, May 23. An inference which might be drawn from the remarks by the Federation’s Chief Research Officer on his return from the Bandoeng meeting of the international rice commission of the F.A.O. is that Malaya’s plans for increasing rice production are proceeding satisfactorily. In
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      Trincomalee and the Royal Navy
      338 3 —Straits Times, May 23. Leftist political parties in the Ceylon elections seem to be making capital out of the fact that the British have not yet handed back to the Ceylon Government the naval base at Trincomalee. Perhaps political parties in the early years of
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      Ending the strike
      597 3 —Straits Times, May 24. The Colonial Secretary’s broadcast offer to the striking postmen and telegraph messengers deserves further and rather more mature thought by the Union. Unfortunately there is a background of distrust which may still be too influential. But it would be a pity if the
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      The Case For The Teachers
      330 4 —Straits Times. May 24. The Federation Government will know who to blame if the mission school teachers carry out their threat of large-scale resignations. Not long ago Singapore’s former Director of Education was preaching the gospel of self-discipline and patience to an audience of Malayan
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      A Hanging Matter
      626 4 —Straits Times, May 27. There is no need to waste too much sympathy over Chien Ah Min, the youth whose appeal against the death sentence for being in possession of a hand grenade in contravention of the emergency regulations was dismissed by the Appeal Court in Kuala
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      High Jinks On Koje
      705 4 —Straits Times, May •;*> The bizarre story of Koje prison camp is not exactly easing the task of the truce negotiators’ at Panmunjom. It is perfectly true, that the Communists would not let this matter interrupt if they were really anxious to have an armistice. But
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    Pay rise for dock police
    175 4 SINGAPORE. May •>$ \TEW terms and conditions of service for the Singapore Haroour Board police have been approved. Mr. Kenneth Davis, the Harbour Board Staff Officer said at a Press con ft renee yesterday that the new terms would came into effect on Sunday. Th
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    Dr. Rawson retiring
    70 4 KUALA LUMPUR. May 27. Dr. c. p. rawson. cruet Welfare Officer in the Federation, is retirin.4 try™ Government service. tne Straits Times was officiary told today. ro Dr. Rawson, who is j-. a>sed to be allowed to return under the terms of optional retirement for officers over
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    Honorary A.D.C’s to the H.C.
    53 4 KUALA LUMPUR. May 2j The High Commissioner, general Sir Gerald Templer. appointed Mr. G Lawton and Major J. R. Lumley as Hungary A.D.C.’s Mr. Lawton is a Super ntendent of Police at tne Kua. Lumpur Police Depot ai >' Major Lumley is with Gurkha Rifles
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    9,000 MORE WANT TO VOTE
    54 4 SINGAPORE. M v 28 UP TO MONDAY. 0 J1 people had added D• names on the Sinuap electoral rogis'ter. A I'-' of 2.250 people rcgiNte" for the City Council H < tion 1.125 for the l lative Council and for the Legislative and 1 Council
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    THE M.C.A.’s STAND AGAINST THE REDS
    1317 5 mHE organisation of I tht Malayan Chinese Association Into what Its founder and President,, Date •'S‘ r Cheng-lock Taa calls "a political organisation" was In-, spired by the late Sir Henr> Gurney. S r Henry preferred the phrase "an alternative standard (to Communism) to
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      106 5 BOWDEN: On May 7th, at Market Stalnton Hall. Lincolnshire. to Pat. wife of Desmond Bowden, a sister for Sally Anne CHARLTON: To Joan, wife of E. O. Charlton, a daughter, on 17.5.52. at Batu Oajah DAVIDSON: To Audrey, wife of D I. N. Davidson, on 26th May, at Bungsar
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      43 5 THE engagement la announced between John Oalbralth Tedford, Lieutenant The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Tedford of Drimla. Isle-of-Arran. Scotland, and Jocelyn Ann Desiree, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs L. M. Gardiner of Johore Bahru.
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    Cookie and new trades
    279 5 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW COOKIE is a great believer in learning new trades and has been pestering me for some time to buy some very small nails. As a rule I get what he asks (bar paint, for he paints all and sundry if given half
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      73 5 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br. Empire A Singapore Foreign Town Area Malava (Including No Postage Including Postage postage) Quarterly 5 20 5.75 «75 Half-yearly 10.40 11.50 13 50 Yearly 20 80 23 00 27.00 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by express at
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    58 5 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NESSA NICOLL wishes to extend thanks to the many dear friends who sent floral tributes and messages of loving sympathy. She also thanks members of Police Headquarters. Kuala Kubu, Officers and Men of 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment, Royal West Kents and also to staff rf Messrs. Harper Ollflllan for
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    THE LANTERN-CARRIER
    31 6 < ial attire!'follows^ Uic'* brhla Vin'th^h 1 J h 6 Ia tern carrier in his spent unii.ii stnan ciiair (in the background) to the temple. Photograph by Chan Hong Nam.
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    As I was Saying
    667 6  -  CYNICUS. r PHANKS to the post men’s strike, the Sin* Kfipore Legislative Coun('h at its meeting on Tuesday had a full house it the High Court will pai don the terminolog\ of the gaming table. in 9 Pt result may be a greater insistence in luture
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1043 6  -  Stanley Street. Beloved pump rpHE story of the theft of two engine-room pumps at Selayang moved us considerably, for we are in the position also of having had a pump purloined. This was in 1946, when we shared a house on top of a hill
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    BIG ‘SURRENDER’ DRIVE
    447 8 IPOH, May 21. HIGH COMMISSIONER. General Sir Gerald Templer, today spoke to Ghing Kuen, surrendered Commuftiist vice-comman-der, when he paid a surprise tuo-liour visit to I poll. The three-minute meeting took place at Police Headquarters. What transpired at the meeting is being kept a close secret. Police
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    TEACHERS STRICT —FOR SAFETY
    51 8 SINGAPORE. May 22. CHINESE schoolchildren are more orderly than any others in Singapore, according to the Traffic Police report for April. “Their teachers are very strict about the safety first road-crossing experiments we have been carrying out and are interested in enforcing the scheme,” savs the
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    $12,000 RAISED
    16 8 The Y.W.C.A. women’s centre building fund committee raised $12,099 on Brick Day held recently.
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    Last of the European chief inspectors
    164 8 SINGAPORE, May 22. f'Hli;i INSPECTOR C. W. SI CII left Singapore yesterday in tlie Charon to retire in Australia after 23 years’ service in Singapore Police l one. He wa* the la>t European to hold his rank. With him were his wife. 13-year-old son,
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    Games of chance in parks illegal
    329 8 SINGAPORE, Mav 22. SINGAPORE’S CHIEF JUSTICE, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, yesterday ruled that an amusement park was a public place and that games of chance, even with cigarettes as prizes, were illegal. He gave this ruling in dismissing the appeal of a games stallholder and
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    Smallholders cut wages
    46 8 JOHORE BAHRU, May 21. Owners of small rubber-hold-ings in Johore have already cut wages. Tappers who were previously paid 80 cents per kati are now paid 70 cents per kati. Tapping may cease on smallholdings if the price 0 f rubber falls further.
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    No smoking here chum, Sultan told
    138 8 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. May 21. CONDUCTOR of a doubiedecker bus running on the outskirts of Croydon. London. yesterday. said severely to a little man who lit a cigarette on the lower deck: "No smoking here chum, if you please” The "offender’’ was
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    Mrs. MacG. in Johore Bahru
    51 8 JOHORE BAHRU. May. 21— Mrs. D. c. MacGillivray. wife of the Deputy High Commissioner, spent yesterday morning in Johore Bahru. She visited the General Hospital and the State Welfare Home but missed, meeting the blind children as most of them had left for the Poasa
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    11 ROAD DEATHS IN APRIL
    115 8 SINGAPORE, May 22 DUSES cause one" u **flve of Singapore's fatal accidents, says t Traffic Police monthly report. In the first four month* of this year there were r-,7 road deaths, eleven of tlv last month. And 12 of the 57 were bus accidents. There
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    Scout official
    24 8 JOHORE BAHRU.Mav 21. Field Commissioner for the Boy Scouts Association ;.as been engaged by the Government. He will arrive shortly from England.
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    CREMATORIUM SCHEME
    155 8 SINGAPORE, May >2. City Council has planned the lay-out of a modern crematorium, with three chapels, to be built next to Bidadari Cemetery. It includes a garden of remembrance, set in pleasant surroundings. Work on these «rever. has beer, held up jvnding the findings of Government’s Graves and
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    $6,000 fine to stay
    84 8 SINGAPORE. May 22 WON G SIE TAI, who appealed against a conviction and fine of $6,000 three months’ imprisonuym for exporting wrist watch' > without a licence, lost appeal in the Singapore H: Court yesterday. The watches were found 11 a ship in the Singapore Har
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    Cable ship on her last lap
    113 8 SINGAPORE, May 22 THE British cable ship Recorder. which left Singapore last month, is now 7m he r way from Gibraltar on the Enel rind. ,f her v,,yaßl t(> After unloading her cable equipment at Plymouth, the Recorder will sail for the Firth of
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    KUCHING PLANS NEW CATHEDRAL
    161 9 SINGAPORE, May 22. IN Singapore en route to Kurhing, in Sarawak, I to finalise his designs for a new cathedral there for 1,000 people, is young Liverpool architect Mr. C. tV. Garton, who sails for Borneo on Saturday. Yesterday, he told the Straits Times: “The cathedral
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    Help needed, says Lady Templer
    79 9 Help needed, says Lady Tem pler IPOH. May 21. VN app» a: r more volun- rs to he£p in nit s was made r vpier today after U the Ipoh Hoshe Salvation A::. c- home. .V, ,r v rv pleased witn work that is re.” she said, iple Including come
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    ESTATES WORELESS LINK-UP
    115 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mav 21. OTATE CONTROL centn > for the bi<j w:r♦ T*>s link-up iluit will put rubber estates in ■"uoh "'Ah on*' another and v:! h security force headquar- '•'> are likely to be ready by end of this month. r:n> Straits Times was told ay
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    C.G. flies to Hong Kong
    53 9 r SINGAPORE. May 22. I 1 ornmissioner-General Malcolm MacDonald. ‘"‘Uaporc by air yesterK a brief visit to Hong MacDonald, who was oanied by Mr. M. Stern Counsellor, and Mr. K n rp Ker. Information ary will be the guest of s governor of Hong Kong.
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    Bandits rob Malay
    17 9 bandits held up a y and robbed him in the Kth area of Perak.
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    GREEN HOWARDS BAG 5
    74 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 21. CAREEN HOWARDS killed I five terrorists yesterday. One ol their .successes was in the Jasin area of Malacca where they stalked a threemar. gang and. when witnin 70-yards range, opened fire killing all three. One British soldier was IT* ally wounded ir.
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    POLICE OFFICER LEAVES FOR U.K.
    40 9 IPOH. May. 21.—Mr. K. W. Gray Oflicer-in-C h a r y Police Circle. Ipoh. has left for the United Kingdom on holiday. Inche Hussein bin Sidek. A.SP.. will act as O S P C.. Ipoh.
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    $6,500 gems recovered
    45 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 22. KUALA LUMPUR police today said every pieee of the jewellery worth S6.500 which disappeared from Durbar Restaurant, Ampang Street, during the week-end had been recovered. Three of the employees of the restaurant had been detained, the police said.
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    Reds ‘threat to unions’
    284 9 ‘UNTOLD HARM IN FAR EAST SINGAPORE, May 22. AIK. NORMAN THOMAS, American Socialist leader and six times a candidate for tlie t T nited States Presidency, yesterday warned Malayan trade unionists against Communism. “Communism is doing un- i told harm to the trade union movement in
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    Two managers in battle with bandits
    219 9 KUALA LUMPUR, May 22. E EUROPEAN MANAGERS of two rubber estates J had battles with terrorists yesterday. One manager and his escort killed a bandit. The other escaped unharmed from an ambush. In the first incident, the manager of an estate in the Kajang
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    Mrs. Doggett & Red Caps
    161 9 Mrs. Doggett Red Caps SINGAPORE. May 22. MRS. GLADYS DOGGETT. who flew 8,000 miles from Ldndon to Singapore to collect her eat and then found it was missing —has spent several nights walking round Tanglin Barracks in a vain search for her pet. “Tibhy” was given to Mrs. Doggett, the
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    Perlis royal romance
    164 9 ARAU, Perlis, May 21. pERLIS EXECUTIVE Council may meet soon to discuss the Raja’s engagement to Siam’s 1940 Beauty Queen, Miss Riem Baedsayanawin A Straits Times reporter today found Arau, the roval capital, excited over the Raja’s romance. But court circles maintained a strict silence. “We don’t
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    Sea funeral service
    69 9 PENANG. May 21 SIX members of the Penang Squadron of the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force fired a last salute today in tribute to their comrade, Leading Aircraftman Allan Leong. pilot of a Harvard aircraft which crashed into the sea last Sunday ofi Batu Ferringhi. Full military honours
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    ‘Guard liberty,’ assn warns
    340 10 SINCAPOKE, May 22. INCREASED vigilance over the liberty of the subject and the business of the Colony because of the danger inherent in post-war legislation is called for by (he President of the Singapore Association, Dr. C. 11. WithersPay ne, in the Association’s report for the
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    $150,000 arrears paid out
    95 10 SINGAPORE. May 23. OINGAPORE City Council v has paid out nearly $150,000 to its labour force as arrears of housing allowances due from Jan. 1, 1951. These payments settle one of the demands made by the Federation of City Council Labour Unions in its 14-day ultimatum
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    HOME LEAVE
    36 10 Mr I. G. »Sa8mond. director '•t Maclaine, Watson an<i Co. Ltd.. 1»*11 by air for Britain on May 22. He will be away vy. months. Mr C C P Wlchers will act for him.’
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    NEW CHIEF OF M.A.A.F.
    53 10 SINGAPORE. May 23. The Governor of Singapore and High Commissioner for the Federation of Mail ay a have appointed Air ViceMarshal G. H. Millls. Air Officer Commanding. R A F. Malaya. to be Commander of the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force, in place of Air Commodore J.
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    U.S. TOURIST FALLS INTO DRAIN, DIES
    125 10 PENANG, May 22. Jlfß. FRED E. SNEDECOR, 68-year-old American x tourist, died at Telok Bahang yesterday after falling into a drain. His body was cremated to- day. and his widow will fly j back to America with the I the ashes. Mr. Snedecor. his
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    ON HOLIDAY
    44 10 SINGAPORE. May 22. Mrs. A. W. Morelra. wife of Dr. A W. Moreira. of Ipoh. left during the week-end for Australia on holiday. she was accompanied by her daughter. Jacqueline, who will enter the Santa Maria Girls College at Perth. W A
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    Anti-bribery report ready
    58 10 SINGAPORE. May 22. SINGAPORE Government’s anti-corruption proposals will soon be placed before the Governor, Mr. John F Nicoll. the Straits Times understands Certain recommendations are now with the Attorney General’s Department. Government recently appointed a special team of high Government officials, separate from th P police force,
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    U.S. CONSUL
    22 10 Mr. Robert J Jantzen. ViceConsul attached to the American Consulate General, Singapore, has been promoted to the rank of Consul.
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    DROP IN TYRE PRICES
    41 10 T VI> SINGAPORE. May 23. YRE prices in Singapore have c«m P down bv anproximalelv 10 per cent during the la*t week fell lowing an increase in Mipplii-s. next U nw’»clifc UCtl0nS in nri<c llrp within the
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    MALAYAN TIN SMELTERS HIT
    391 10 SINGAPORE, May 22. OECAI'SE other tin-producing countries weie direct to America to get IT.S.l T .S. dollars, the tin-smelting industry in Malaya is suffering loss of business, stated the chairman, Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson, at the annual meeting of the Straits Trading Co., yesterday. Mr.
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    MR. V. E. DIAS, of Malacca with the silver cross of the Imperial Order or Portugal on his breast. He was made a Chevalier of the Order when Commander Manuel Maria Sarmento Rodrigues, Minister of Portuguese Overseas Territories, visited Malacca.
    44 10 MR. V. E. DIAS, of Malacca with the silver cross of the Imperial Order or Portugal on his breast. He was made a Chevalier of the Order when Commander Manuel Maria Sarmento Rodri gues Minister of Portuguese Overseas Territories, visited Malacca. Straits’ Tim**" picture.
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    SEVEN GET POLIO
    100 10 IPOH. May TWO BRITISH soldiers arc among seven victim' infantile paralysis report Kinta district. a Governnv i report said. The soldiers have been Je lated in Taiping. n “There is no fear oi epidemic: the cases ore «P 01 and widtlv distributed m district,” Dr. Chang Hoey
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    THE BUNNY RACES
    38 11 >mplet<> with rabbit headgear and .unis u pr.> i s s durint; the Kadin Mas. Singapore, > l rs W. Frisby. wife of the >{ 7 i .m Education. distributed prizes. Straits ’limes nirttiro Straits Times picture
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    Dealers want Govt to cushion rubber
    245 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mav 22. or \l. rubber dealers today urged the J r-tahli-Itment of a special Government ippartment to look after Malayan interests in bbor market. were indications that a serious drop ices was inevitable, this department ;■< ’inmend immediate Government measures ushieu." it.
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    PLAN IS ‘FUTILE’
    137 11 SINGAPORE May 24 CINGAPORE rubber dealers \esttrria\ described as .i suggestion b; Kua.a Lumpur coalers that a .'pr.’ial Government ciepartna nt si et up to cushion the rubbei market against price tails. The department, it v as should watch pric-' uls of rubber, and. using nited States
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    Colin wins scroll
    76 11 SINGAPORE, May 23. N LEICESTER, of RafIinstitution, has won a v competition run n e Overseas League. ipore. "V of a silver scroll ted by Mr. F. Gordon vice-president of 'P »re branch of the > will be held by his tor a year •11 bp present
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    Meat for UK his mission
    59 11 SINGAPORE. May 24. SIR JOHN Primrose, Lord Provost of Perth. Scotland. passed through Singapore bv Qantas-BOAC yesterday en route to AustraUia. He is to negotiate for more meat for Britain. Sir John is chairman of a four-man mission ot the Queensland British Hood Corporation which
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    State engineer delayed
    43 11 JOHORE BAHRU. May 22. Because of illness. Mr. G H. Houston. Joliore’s new State Engineer, will arrive only by the end of June Mr M B. Hcmber. the Deputy State Engineer, will be in charge of the department until then.
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    THE LAST TASKS OF Mr. PEARSON
    119 11 THE Custodian of Property, Singapore. Mr. C. W. Pearson, yesterday offered for sale wliat is almost the last of the unclaimed property found in Singapore after the Japanese war—“two ivory tusks in very good condition.” Mr. Pearson said he had no knowledge of the
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    ‘Shoot and don’t miss’—Templer
    354 11 ALOR STAR, May 22. THE HIGH COMMISSIONER, Sir (Jerald Templer, today toured some of the worst bandit areas in Kedah. Everywhere he went he told the people: “Kill the bandits. Shoot at them —and don’t miss”. To 400 Home Guards who greeted him at Sik after
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    QUIT THREAT BY TEACHERS
    352 11 KUALA LUMPUR, May 22. ACCUSING Government of making “pie A crust” promises, Mission school teachers are again planning mass resignations unless their conditions of service are improved. A memorandum has been sent to the Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. D. C. MacGuillivray, in a “final attempt” to
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    Guard killed
    22 11 A kampong guard, who went to shoot pigs in the Bentong area of Pahang on Sunday, was murdered b> terrorists.
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    TEMPLER TAKES A PLUNGE
    141 11 SUNGEI PATANI. May 22. THE High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer. had his first swim in Malaya today. He was passing an Isolated beach at Bagan Ulu, opposite* the K»*dah fishing vil!ag<* of Tanjong Dewai, when he alighted from the British Adviser’s car and walked 75
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    185 DEATHS
    13 11 SINGAPORE, May 24. There were 185 deaths in Singapore last week.
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    GROUP-OFFICER L. H. TURNER, OBE, Inspector-General of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in Britain,- who arrived in Singapore on May 22, in the trooper Dilwara to spend a few weeks in Singapore and the Federation. She will tour RAF centres and leave camps, before leaving for Ceylon.
    50 11 GROUP-OFFICER L. H. TURNER, OBE, Inspector-General of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in Britain,who arrived in Singapore on May 22, in the trooper Dilwara to spend a few weeks in Singapore and the Federation. She will tour RAF centres and leave camps, before leaving for Cey lon. —Straits Times picture.
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    I WAS POLICE SPY, SAYS MAN ON DRUGS CHARGE
    1078 12 Russian claims he fought big smuggling ring KUALA LUMPUR, May 23. 4 DRAMATIC story of smugglers and narcotic rings operating in South- Cast Asia was told to Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today by a Russian who claimed to have been an
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    Sir Garald visits irrigation work
    166 12 ALOR STAR, May 23. lITRA Home Guards provided security and strong J police details patrolled the area when the High Commissioner, Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, inspected the S 12,000,000 irrigation project at Kubang Pasu today. L Sir Gerald spent more than two hours there. He
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    New Jakarta S’pore link
    69 12 SINGAPORE. May 24 A NOTHER air link between r V Singapore and Jakarta will be added today when he Bharat Airways extend their weekly service from Calcutta. Mr. Bhu Mitra, Singapore station manager of Bharat Airways, told the Straits Times that this was the first °t
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    New Labour Dept office
    31 12 KUALA LUMPUR, May 23. A branch oliice of the Labour Dep. r'ment has been open'd at Tapah Perak to cover Batang Padang, Tanjong Malim and Cameron Highiunds.
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    FOOD PRICES DOWN
    174 12 SINGAPORE. May 24. SINGAPORE food prices have come down with the drop in the price of rubber. A Government oiliclal told the Straits Times yesterday: “The trend of food prices has been downwards for the past month now. The drop has been gradual, but I think it
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    Maude, menace, is caught
    60 12 SINGAPORE. May 24. M a u d e. ,four-year-old monkey who has plagued the French Mission flats, River Valley Road, Singapore, for days, has been caught Last night, Maude was bark in her cage at the Tomlinson Road home of Miss L. E. Bach, honorary secretary
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    MR. D. GREEDY, Assistant District Officer, Rawang, and his bride after their wedding at St. Mary’s Church Kuala Lumpur.
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    PLAN TO RAISE IBAN UNIT
    329 12 Kl ALA Ll .MPl R. .Ma\ 22. 'J'Hf: Federation (iovernment is con>idorinir a suggestion that a battalion of Sarawak Ilian* should be raised for infantry service in .Mala} a during the Emergency. They arc a!read.' famous for their work as tracker* in Federation. A spokesman
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    TRADER KILLED
    128 12 BUKIT MERTAJAM. May 22 PROVINCE Wellcshp bandits this afternoon shot dead Mr. Lim Co Lee, a leading rubl merchant whose fact they burnt down tiv months ago. Mr. Lim was inspecting estate at Bukit Minyak kv miles from Bukit M- i a when be was attack* unknown number
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    General visits training camp
    55 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Ma\ The new training centre Home Guards at the j East Training Camp on K Tinged Road h?s been spected by Maj. Gen. J. F Fonblanque. Inspector G<* eral of Home Guards, Fc eration, who was acco panied by Col. C. P. F. Mi.
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    Straits-born told: ‘pride not enough’
    450 13 PENANG May 23. 'I'llK STRAITS-BORN Chinese community in Mali* va the Babas are passing through a m ri o<l of grave dangers, Mr. Ong Joo Sun, Undent of the Penang Straits Chinese British \ssociation, told members at the annual meeti I! IT ■•.Ana the dangers
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    PARADE FOR THE QUEEN
    336 13 SIX (a .A l 'HE. May 24. 4 MU •V parade 1 A b.nta: than pre-1 years will be held 1 on June 5 Qut n’s birthday.! outside tile foot and nns. They t .r ;:> nt areas of Tlv Vf rr. r. Mr. J. F.
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    THE SULTAN’S HOUSES
    63 13 JOHORE BAHRU. May 24. 'THE 27 houses which the Government recently acquired from the Sultan of Johore were built in the years 1935-1936. Ever since their completion they have been leased to the State Government for accommodation of senio’* Government officers. These houses brought in a monthly
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    12 Ex-REDS PUT ON A PLAY
    84 13 PENANG, May 23. 'TWELVE surrendered bandits entertained 500 Sungei Bakap villagers last night to a play, “Bloody Revenge,” written and produced by tnemselves. The story tells of a small group of farmers who came under the influence of terrorists and their Min Yuen agents.
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    SEARCH FOR BAUXITE
    88 13 JOHORE BAHRU. May 25. THE Canadian Laboratories, 1 Ltd., which has been prospecting for bauxite in Johore for a long time, has been given a mining lease covering 2.855 acres in Penggerang, Kota Tinggi district, to exploit for bauxite. The company’s plans to develop this area include
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    ‘MAGNIFICENT BUILDER,’ RETIRES
    150 13 ‘MAGNIFICENT BUILDER RETIRES SINGAPORE, May 25. W. Frisby, retiring ector of Education. re, was yesterday (I as “a magnificent r' by Mr. Chew’ Kia president of the SingaLaehers Union. Frisby laid the foundt the live-vear educa;an in the Colony, on which Is based the entire educational advancement in Singapore”, said
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    S’pore power plant to cost more
    206 13 SINGAPORE, Mav 24. SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL will have to pay several million dollars more than the contracted pride of $10,000,000 it it wants its new power station at Pasir Panjang completed on schedule by the end of the year. This was stated to three
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    NO LICENCES
    29 13 MUAR. May 25. Found selling fish without a licence at Parit Bakar, Tang Seng Jo. Ah Pang and Heng Ah Kow were each fined $l9 at Muar.
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    THEIR HISTORY WILL BE 50 p.c. CHINESE
    125 13 KUALA LUMPUR, May 23. HISTORY text books for higher primary classes in Malayan Chinese schools will in future be based in the main on China, with lesser proportions of both Malayan ana world histories. nuin iviai y The nronortion. decided at The proportion,
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    The orang laut were suspicious
    182 13 JOHORE BAHRU. May 24 THE sea gypsies (orang laut), who live along the coast at Sungei Pelepas. South Johore lead a very precarious life. Thev are dependant on the Chinese shopkeepers in the vicinity for all the necessities of life which thev obtain in exchange
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    Dr Garlick for talks
    76 13 SINGAPORE. May 24 DR. G. 11. Garlick. radiologist of the Singapore A n t i Tu be r c ulosis Assoc i a tion. will represent S.A.T.A at the third Commonwealth and Empire health and tuberculosis conference in London from July 8 to 15. He leaves
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    MALAYA TRADE DOWN $43 MIL
    307 16 SINGAPORE, May 27. ItfALAYA’S Foreign Trade in Aprii dropped by over $43,000,000, compared w*th March, because of the fall in the rubber price. This represents a drop of over $1,400,000 a day. Although no official figures have yet been compiled for May, the drop is
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    MR. B. BRUNTON RETURNS
    41 16 SINGAPORE, May 28. Mr B Brunton. superlnten dent of the Malacca Road Transport Department, re turned from leave in Britain in the Corfu yesterday Mr. Brunton. his wife and tamily left Singapore for Ma laeca yesterday evening.
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    PROFESSOR ON RUBBER
    139 16 Professor of Economics A at the University of Malaya, Prof. T. H. Silcock, said yesterday that he would not call the present price of rubber a depression price. 'But if the price stays where it is, it Is likely to bring about a phase of reduced trading
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    Govt fears delay
    62 16 FURTHER delay In opening the Singapore Government’s Marine School is expected because the principal has not yet been chosen, Mr. R E Ince. Deoutv Director of Education, told the Straits Times ‘The Colonial Office has been trying for some time to find a su'table man for us
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    A S’PORE MAN LOSES HIS $500,000 GOLD
    119 16 SINGAPORE, May 27. IT ALF A-MILLION DOLLARS’ worth of contraband gold destined for Singapore will never reach the man to whom it was consigned. The gold, wrapped in brown paper packages, was sneaked aboard the 3,600ton ship Hai Lee, 12 hours before she
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    H.K. ALUMNI
    74 16 SINGAPORE, May 27. At the annual general neeting °f the Hong Kong Unlvers.ty Afumni Association. South Malaya, held in Singapore recently, th e foetowing were elected officebearers: Pres’dent, Dr. Yeoh Hong Soo; vice-president, Mrs. A J. Braga; hon. secretary, Mr. Llm Tai Tim; hon. treasurer Mr. Ngr Cheng
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    Farmers will have to move for lepers
    258 16 SINGAPORE, May 27. FARMING FAMILIES living on land needed for the extension to Singapore’s leper settlement, Trafalgar Home, in Y'io Chu Kang Road, will have to be moved, Dr. R. A. GroveWhite, medical superintendent of the home, told the Governor, Mr. J. F.
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    YMCA pool project
    98 16 WORK on the proposed fT swimming pool on the 1 hree-acre site of the new Singapore Chinese Y.M C A building and sports ground in the Telok Ayer Basin area will begin in September as soon as the land is cleared by Government. The pool is a
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    MCA donation for TB home
    121 16 SINGAPORE, May 28. SINGAPORE branch of the Malayan Chinese Association hns decided to hn MHIn $1 9? 000 towards budding a home for chronic tuberculosis patients In the Colony. The decision followed aopeals for support by the Chronic T.S. Home Commit. h ch was formed
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    More help now for welfare people
    214 16 SINGAPORE, May 27. pEOPLE in Singapore have started a "whispering campaign" against juvenile prostitutes, says the Social Welfare Department. Mr. L. Cornwell, head of the women and children section of the Department, told the Straits Times yesterday: “Some of the informants give us clear
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    Boy, one day too old, will not hang
    128 16 IPOH, May 26. rjlHE boy “who was one day X too old’’ willl not c.c on the gallows. Chlen Ah Min. 17 years and and one day old nt was sentenced to drain having a hand-grenade. was told today that on Sufltan
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    HOME LEAVE
    21 16 IPOH, May 27—Mr. A Weaver, Assistant Contn ler Telecomms, Perak Cent_ leaves this month for u tain on leave.
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    6 bandits bagged daily in May
    138 17 KUALA LUMPUR. May 27. ni'( i !IITY forces killed, wounded or captured 5 an average of six terrorists a day during \pril. The month’s total of bandits killed1()?,_was the highest this year. Sixty■-three bandits were wounded in Mile'., seven more were captured, and six
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    Men who shot Manap bag 2 of his gang
    263 17 KUALA LUMPUR, May 27. rt'RRHAS killed two of Manap Jepun’s gang in u the Kuantan area of Pahang today. The patrol, which killed Manap Jepun on Sunday, is still chasing the rest of the gang. Details of today’s battle are not
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    Mine goes off at P. Tekong
    80 17 ]>' j VI TKKONG inhahiMut s were startled last ‘*-end by an underr explosion. them, Mr. Joseph “Hlez, said that the ,os4o nr. which started r the liberation, were Japanese mine s in 1 area. hiys ago there was 'her explosion at the •rv
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    Dog kills a Red who shot master
    142 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. AN ALSATIAN tracking dog jumped at a terrorist and tore bis throat out a few seconds after the bandit had killed its master in the Jasin area of Malacca. Emergency Information Services disclosed today The dog and its master were
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    More car parks planned
    58 17 (JINOAPORE City Council win soon turn nearly 2' ofij'ps of it*> o\< n and Ini provement Trust vacant Sand into car parks to ease nark- 1 inn in the busine ss sort inns. In nrfrlition, the Counril will ask t.h»* Government to hand over about el"hf
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    SHOCK TACTICS TO FIGHT RIOTERS
    133 17 ANY’ONE who touches this new Singapore Police Force riot car when the “juice” is switched on is in for a severe shock. The side panels can be electrified from a generator inside. The constable seen in the picture is standing in the riot car's “conning
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    Dhobies to charge same
    174 17 Although the price of washing soap had dropped by more than $5 a case In Singapore, Colony dhobies told the Straits Times yesterday: “We don’t benefit by it. Our charges will be the same Explaining that soap was only a small item in their business, one
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    20 book Comet jet seats to London
    168 17 SINGAPORE, May 28. TWENTY people have so far registered to fly on Comet jet airliners from Singapore to London, although the B.O.A.C. has not yet announced a regular passenger schedule. A BOAC spokesman said yesterday that a flood of bookings was expected as
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    The G.O.M. of Penang is dead
    412 17 PENANG, May 26. Millionaire hanker Mr. Yeap Chor Ee. “grand old man“ of local commerce, died todav in his palatial home in Northam Road, Penang. H e was 85. Mr. Yeap had been in failing health, but went to hi s bank, the Ban
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    ROUND THE WORLD HOLIDAY FOR MR. ENS
    77 18 SINGAPORE, May 28 AFTER 13 years in Malayan broadcasting, Mr. Eng Kam Hua (above), assistant Chinese programme organiser of Radio Malaya, Singapore, is off to see how radio stations operate in other parts of the world. He leaves by air tomorrow to spend
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    Police hold 35 in raid on school
    243 18 SINGAPORE, May 28. DOLICE yesterday raided Yock Eng school in Tanjong Katong Road, Singapore, and detained eight teachers and 27 students. Seventeen of the students were later released. Police also searched the homes of several teachers and students who were not living in
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    S’PORE AIR VIEWS FOR T.V
    119 18 KUALA LUMPUR, May 27. AR.A.F. helicopter flew low over Singapore yesterday morning carrying an Australian Government newsreel cameraman, whose air pictures of the city will be shown on London’s television screens. He was Mr. Frank McKechnie. of Australian Diary, a Government newsreel, which has an
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    NEW HOME FOR FIVE PORTRAITS
    139 18 piVE portraits, Including two of former Governors the Straits Settlements, which have adorned the walls y .the Victoria Memorial Ha.i in Singapore for several v *rs, are to be moved to Government House. Recently the City Council’s Estates and Fire Brigade Committee decided to re-ar-range
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    Indians beat the Danes
    940 18  -  THE WEEK IN SPORT By CONRAD NG. A general view of the Happy World Stadium dur mg the mter-zone‘filial between the United States and India on May 27. FIRST NIGHT'S PLAY: U.S. leading by three games to one. LONG traffic halts, long queues, terrific heat and
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    ZANZIBAR WINS THE SUMMER CUP
    1056 19 s IGAPORE, May 22. \R date Winter7 an, a handsome fourU g old chestnut by jftLu, i out of Irish Brume, BaWpj;;. in the valuable tfJNJf' cup over 6f. for summe. y sprinters at iS® sniSMfS*. .,,Var tracked the Billdaw, into the paC Sht Vnd
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    GOVERNOR’S CUP FOR GAMBAR
    1203 19 SINC APORF Mav 25. Mill. A YU late J Casting >ui-year-old bay English welding by Hyperion out of Plebiscite, clearly established hhnself as the Number One stayer in the Malayan Turf when ho carried a record weight of 9.7 to a runaway threeie;.:th victory in the
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      103 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: $438,840 1. No. *****0 $197,478 2. No. *****2 98,739 3. No. *****5 54,855 Starters ($4,571 each). Nos. *****9; *****7; *****2 *****0 *****0 *****4 *****5 *****8 Consolations ($3,291 Nos. *****3; *****9; *****5; *****6; *****6; *****8; *****7 *****5; *****9; *****4; *****5. each). *****8; *****7; *****7; DOUBLE TOTE 138
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    Sellers prevail and volume still small
    392 20 I SHARE MARKET] From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, May 26. WITH negligible support forthcoming from Amc- rica and with no early prospect of recovery in Malaya’s major source of income, buyers for shares behaved in a most realistic manner. In all the market, except
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    BUSINESS DONE
    214 20 BUSINESS done in the Share Market last week included:— Industrials: British Malaya Trustee $6.00; Fraser Neave $3,62 4 to $3,574; Gammon $2.50; Hongkong Bank, London Register £80; Jackson $1,97 4; Malayan Cement 80 cents and 79 cents; Malayan Collieries $1.55 to $1.45: Straits Times $3.60. Tins: Batu Selangor
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    55 20 SINGAPORE, May 28. INCREASED stocks of copra 1 caused an easier tendency in this section of the Singapore Produce Market yes’erday. Sellers quoted $254 a picul, against bids at $25. Peppers steadied slightly with more foreign inquiries. Sellers quoted Muntok at $545 a picul. Sarawak at $540
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    Increase in new insurance
    175 20 From A Market Correspondent. EASTERN Life Assurance Company’s report for 1951 tells of a large Increase in new business, bringing insurance in force to the highest figure in the company’s history. The triennial actuarial valuation was made at Dec. 31, 1951, and resulted in $103,233 (604
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    BANK’S RECORD PROFIT
    85 20 From A Market Correspondent. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation’s report for 1951 shows profit at a record figure which, if adjusted to a before Income Tax basis, cannot have been less than $3,647,667, or 364 per cent. Final dividend 5 per cent, and bonus 5 per cent, have been
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    ‘WEEK’S RATION’ LIMIT IN NEGRI
    286 20 SEREMBAN, Mat y AS from Monday, no person or household L Negri Sembilan can stock or keep more ti« m one week’s supply of rice on the basis of v C katis per person per week, the State Govern, ment announced today. A Government spokesman
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    Reconstruction of 2 companies
    148 20 /CIRCULARS from two tin companies—Jelebu Tin Dredging Ltd., and Lnknt Tin Dredging Ltd ..—explain the reason for resolutions to be considered at extraordinary meetings on May U. Shareholders are asked to authorise directors of Lnknt to write off 5t cents per share unrepresented by assets and
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    894 20 SINGAPORE. May 28. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Mix Uricxa Pret < .t i Ords 3.30 3 40 All is Ice 12 50 (3 50 B.B. Petrol 37/- 38/- xd B M I rusieeh 8 00 I 01' Con Tin Smelt Pref 21/ 22/ Ords 22/* 23/ f asten.
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    A BETTER WEEK
    167 20 Hulihrr Marked I SINGAPORE. Ma 21 rIS has been a far more settled week for bber and any easing of price has brought in reasonably trade demand. Factories nave bought, but so far the mantitles have been small savs Lewis and Peat’s week*'- report. The selling pressure
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    DIVIDEND OF 80 P.C.
    104 20 SINGAPORE. May OARIT PERAK Rubber Com* pany made a profit in 1&>1 of $428,593 (142.8 per cent > and the dividend recommended .»t 50 per cent, wil make a total per cent for the year. Net quid assets at $404,622 are equhalent to $1.34 per share.
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    33½ p.c. dividend
    39 20 The directors of Mergui Estates Ltd., recommend a dend of 33 Vi per cent foi year to June 30, 1951. Profit for the year was The annual general me; will be held on June 5. lgg;
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    CHERSONESE (FMS)
    68 20 rpHE CHERSONESE (FM S.J 1 Estates Ltd:— Profit for after charging taxation i 4 (£69,221), U.K. taxation cna £58,000 (£72,000), transfer to planting reserve £25.000 (£20 depreciation of buildings machinery etc., £14.000 5 general reserve nil < E1U dividend 10 5/12th per cent 7/12ths per cent.), less tax
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