The Straits Budget, 7 August 1952

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    31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) K v Series No. 814. Thursday, August 7, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ih.
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      A WAR DAMAGE COINCIDENCE
      390 2  -  S. E. CHAMIEr A*. Chairman. Var Damage Commission. Kuala Lumpur. I REFER to the recent correspondent! paper regarding an alleged payment bv y u ur Damage Commission to a man who had n,-v, l at a claim. The facts appear to be as follow maiie A
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      A $500,000 CHANCE FOR MALAY EDUCATION
      392 2  -  ABBAS BIN MOHD. ARIFF. Hon. Secretary. Truna Club. Batu Gajah. WITH reference to the controversial subject of the proposed $500,000 M.C.A. gift to the Malays may I be permitted to offer my comments? If Sir Chengock Tan does not know how to distribute the
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      SINGAPORE’S SUGAR
      57 2  -  HOUSEWIFE. c Singapore. IN VIEW of the plentiful supplies of white sugar in hops ln Singapore, will Food Controller please nioim the public when the rationing of this commodity ls to stop? It seems farcical for a RaUO" OR Office to be kept on t 'his purpose when
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      THE AFRICAN SPORTSMAN
      149 2  -  e. m. McDonald. Referee. Championship Meeting. Selangor A.tl I 1 WOULD like to draw the M. attention of your readers to the fine display of sportsmanship shown bv L Cp Kipsang. King s Africa: j Rifles, during the running o! I the one mile event at the
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      Detainees’ advisory committee ‘Nothing short of farce’
      528 2  -  A LAW > Singapore. IN your leading article in the edition of August 1, under the heading “Singapore Detainees,* you refer to the fact that, under the Emergency Regulations, an Advisory Committee has been set up, to which detainees can lodge objections to
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Federation Finances
      579 3 —Straits Times, July 31. 7he news that the Federan':i large revenue balance is in g rapidly dissipated is part of the grave tidings f r which General Templer’s week-end reference to the financial position provided Kit warning. It was obvious tru.t as a result of all the ir.
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      Shenton Way Muddle
      540 3 —Straits Times. July 31. It is to be hoped that the Singapore Government will not persist in its apparent intention to withold clarification of its policy towards development of the Shenton Way site. In fairness to lot purchasers, action should be taken to dispel the confusion that
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      Tightening The Belt
      549 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 1. The inability to supply 3,000 tons of steel for Singapore’s power station was only minor evidence of one aspect of Britain’s serious economic situation, which has been under two days discussion in the House of Commons. Life in Britain this year will be
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      The Singapore Detainees
      558 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 1. The statement by the Secretary for the Colonies regarding the case of Mr. John Eber will have done nothing to allay public concern in this country over the longterm detention, without trial or explanation, of a large number of suspects under the emergency
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      More Freedom for Tin
      446 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 2. The additional freedom given to the American tin market will cause satisfaction among Malayan producers on a scale comparing with the apoplectic reactions which are likely among the members of Senator Johnson’s Senate Preparedness sub-committee. If one thing appeared clearly from the
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      In Defence of Asia
      852 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 4. The American Secretary of State and the External Affairs Ministers of Australia and New Zealand begin in Honolulu today the first meeting of the Anzus Council. The name itself is important for it has been chosen in place of the original title,
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      A Year Of Progress
      1078 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 5 It is a measure of *he failure of the Communist terrorists in Malaya that it is possible to describe the Federation report for 1951 as a record of a year of progress. Progress, not only in the long campaign towards peace, but
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    52 RAISED HANDS
    162 4 SINGAPORE. Aug. G FIFTY-TWO people, each with a copy of a cour summons in his hands, lin d up in two rows in the Singapore City Police Court dock yesterday, and pleaded guilty —all together. It happened thus; Looking through the charge sheet, Mr. K. J. L.
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    S’pore bank cheated
    69 4 SINGAPORE, Aug. 6 SINGAPORE police ar e investigating the swindling of a Chinese bank in Singapore of $35,000 by a man who cashed a cheque bearing th P forged signatures of a businessman and the bank manager. The businessman has an account with the bank. The cheque
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    A Federation report with a sad and sorry omission
    1017 5  -  By LESLIE HOFFMAN THE beautifully printed and admirably 1 turned out Annual Report of the Federation of Malaya for 1951 contains an initial shock which should recoil on its anonymous author. h begins. Ihe outstanding event of the Emergency during the
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    THEY WILL LEAD KAMPONG IN FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
    502 5 From A Special Correspondent I FLY 21 will long be remembered by Home Guards &t Batu Hitam as a day of pride and fulfilment. They had undergone a month of training more intensive than for ordinary Home Guards, culminating in unique ceremonies
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      BIRTH
      35 5 SON. Roberto: On Ist Augu.si (o Trix, wife of J. J B Kuvelli K.K Hospital. HONEY-PENMAN Theengagfinent is announced of Margaret Joan Penman of Auckland. New Zealand, and Charles Raymond Honey of Kuula Lumpur.
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    MAN WHO KILLED LONG PIN GETS M.C.
    214 5 SINGAPORE, Aug. 6 CAPT. E. II MORGAN, of the Ist Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment, who shot dead the notorious terrorist regimental commander. Long Pin, who had a $35,000 reward on his head, has been awarded the Military Cross. Lt. Girmansing Thapa, of the
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    Classes for Johore villagers
    91 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 5. TWO FARMERS from each village in Johore will attend the six-day educational classes in Johore Bahru which start on Monday. They will teach their fellow villagers on their return. Dato Abdul Kadir. Mentn Be.sar, Johore, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and other
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    New manager
    28 5 SEREMBAN. Aug. 5 Mr. J. H. Morton of Prang Besar Estate. Kajang. Is the new manager of Kemayan Estate. Pahang, in place of Mr. D. E.
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    86 5 DEATH DAVIES: On July 17th as the result of an accident, Robert Ernest Lloyd (Bob), beloved husband oi Dorothy of Hoggntts. Kingsley. Nr. Bordon. Hants; eldest son of the late Daniel Davies formerly Bishop of Bangor and of Mrs Davies. ACKNOW LKIHi MEN T THE gratitude of Mr. and Mrs
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    TAMIL GIRL
    7 6 Photo graph by Birte Steincke
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    As I was Saying
    615 6  -  STOIC. AS SOMETHING that could not happen in Malaya, last week we recorded the prosecution of a Hong Kong Chinese for income tax evasion. Now comes news of another amazing income tax development which also, alas, seems unlikely to have Malayan emulation. In a “confession campaign”
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1052 6  -  Stanley Street. (lap in lutml \\IE sing of academic protocol and ceremony, for last Saturday's Convocation of the University of Malaya has prompted an old friend. L.C.H., to wonder whether things ceremonial were as they should have been when the graduands came before the Chancellor.
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    Clague gets top job in police
    128 8 SINGAPORE, July 31. Vf R P. CLAGUE. a former Singapore-magis-trate, started work at the police headquarters in Pearl’s Hill yesterday us secretary to the force. Mr. Clague told the Straits Times ‘One of my jobs will be to look after the welfare, pay and
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    4 Malayan guests
    99 8 SINGAPORE, July 31. Air cadets from Malaya, India and Pakistan, who have been on a fortnight’s goodwill tour of Britain at the invitation of the Air Ministry, were guests of the Overseas League in London on Monday at a reception to mark the end of their visit.
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    Book follows Malaya visit
    54 8 Mr. Harry Hopkins, staff Writer of the British magazine John Bull, has written n book on the situation in Malaya and other South East Asian countries called “New World Rising.” Mr. Hopkins was in Malava in November last year. He wrote several articles called “Report from
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    2 nodded & became man and wife
    416 8 2 nodded became man and wife SINGAPORE, July 31. 4 ROMANCE between a deal and dumb couple which started in Hong Kong five years ago ended happily in Singapore yesterday. At a 30-minute ceremony in a Gospel Hall in MacPherson Road, Mr. Peng Tsu Ying. aged 26. was married to'
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    THE ‘EGGS OFFICER’ TO LOSE £50 PAY
    126 8 THE ‘EGGS OFFICER TO LOSE £50 PAY TAIPING, July 30. A FORMER officer-in-charge of the R.A.S.C., Cameron Highlands, Capt. James Arthur Wood, I was today found guilty by a court martial of “neglect to the prejudice of good order and mili- tary discipline.” Capt. Wood who ha<j yesterday been acquitted
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    WIFE GETS DECREE NISI
    57 8 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, July 30. MRS. Eva Susan Mitchell. wife of a former Singapore businessman, Mr. A. Mitchell. was granted a decree nisi with costs in the Queen’s Bench Division today. Both parties accused each other of desertion in Englapd. Mr Mitchell was interned
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    MANAGER SHOT BEFORE LEAVE
    161 8 PENANG, July 30. M r. F. T. BARNES manager of the Penang branch of Gestetner (Eastern) Ltd. was found shot dead in the store room in his Beach Street office today. He had a revolver in his right hand. He was to have sailed on leave
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    Land buyers may sue Govt
    428 8 SINGAPORE, July 31. MORE than half the buyers of Crown land 1 1 building sites in the Singapore Shenton Wa\ development scheme are considering legal action against the Land Office. Plans to build have be*n refused by the Government under the Building Restrictions Ordinance. A
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    10-day tour of Malaya planned
    97 8 SINGAPORE, July 31 COMMISSIONER JOHN BLADIN. of the International Salvation Army, will visit Singapore and the Feneration for 10 days next week. Commissioner Bladin. has just attended Salvati Army rallies in Australia and New Zealand, will cor., as the personal representative cf Gen. Albert Orsbor
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    HONG KONG SINGER
    35 8 MISS CHANG EE VVEN. llone Kong singer know as “Miss Shanghai, wn< has arrived in Singapore t' 1 sing. She has also apopan-o in Chinese films. —Strait' hinese films. —Straits Times picture.
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    Plea for probe into graft
    333 10 SINGAPORE, Aiiff. 1. A REMAND for a “Lynskey tribunal” to probe into allegations of corruption among Singapore City Councillors and Council employees, was made by Labour Councillor for Rochore W ard, Mr. Phillip Williams at a Council meeting yesterday. The demand followed reports by other
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    Explosion in tanker kills two
    186 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 1. “QNE MAN dead, may save one if you hurry.” This dramatic message was flashed to the Singapore office of Standard Vacuum Oil Company on Tuesday, shortly after an explosion on board a Norwegian tanker when she was 100 miles northwest of Kuching,
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    Lower catch
    23 10 Market handlings of fresh fish in Singapore totalled 815 tons in June, a decrea.se of 67 tons over the previous month
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    Customs fix ‘duty prices’
    57 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 1. Customs duty on rubber exports from July 31 to Aug. 6 will be based on a price of 88U cents a pound. Other prices for assessing duties during the period: copra $4OB a ton, coconut oil $640 a ton. palm oil $977.50
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    Two Indonesia ports stop exports to S’pore
    225 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 1. THE Indonesian Government has temporarily suspended all exports to Singapore from the ports of Pasir Ikan (Jakarta) and Tanjong Priok. The suspension, which took effect from Saturday, has been imposed while investigations take place into alleged irregularities in export documents
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    3,000 asked to tell
    84 10 NIBONG TEBAL. July 31. A house-to-house operation has been launched in two villages in Province Wellesley to persuade 3,000 people to tell the police about bandit activities and intimidation. The campaign started yesterday and will last until tomorrow. To ensure that every household is covered, a
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    New school
    30 10 Kuala Kangsar, July 30. The Perak Education Department has opened an English school at Lenggong, Upper Perak. Mr. Arthur Muttiah. formerly on Clifford School, is its first headmaster.
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    Heated debate on transport service
    408 10 SINGAPORE, Aug l SINGAPORE CITY COUNCILLORS spent th greater part of their five-hour meetiii yesterday in heated debates over public Iran port services in the City, particularly that on, ated by the Singapore Traction Company. P< r Two etforts by Labour and Independent m„, cillors
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    He’ll be consul for two months
    68 10 SINGAPORE. Aur. 2. Mr. K. R. Welbore Ker. First Secretary (Information>’ at the Commissioner General’s office, is taking over the British Consulate at Hanoi next week. He is expected to tly there on Wednesday His duties in French Indo-China will be for about two
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    THOUSANDS SEE $10,000 BLAZE
    187 10 SINGAPORE, Apg. 1. A THICK layer of waste <fie*vi oil in the sea off C’lvd,. Terrace, Singapore, fought fire yesterday and damaged two tongkangs !mH a wooden jetty. The damage is estimated at SI 0.000. T»yi«nnds of people watched 20ft. high blaze, which t-ni, firemen and
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    Wanted: New hotel in Johore Bahru
    177 11 government tries again JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 1. rHE Johore Government is having another try at persuading someone to build a modern hotel in johore Bahru, on State land. It is now offering a 99-year-lease instead of the 60years which brought no response when the
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    MR. HODGE GETS TOP FILM JOB
    124 11 Kl \LA LUMPUR, July 31. TILL Federation Govern I ment today announced he appointment of Mr. Thomas Hodge as Director f Films Division. He will be responsible for translating the Federation Government’s information, publicity and propaganda hemes into films.” said an official statement. “He
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    Two-day talks
    30 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 2 Mr Michael Hogan, At-torney-General for the Federation. arrived in Singapore yesterday for two-day iscussions with the Colony legal Department and highmaking Government offi- Ui. N
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    4 more officers for Fed. MAAF
    65 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 1. The Deputy High Commissioner. Mr. D. C. MacGillivrav has commissioned four more officers in the Federation section of the Malayan Auxiliary Air force. Mr. J. R. Fletcher and Mr. D. P. Evans have been appointed Flight Lieutenants, while Mr. M.
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    OSMAN GUMANTI, the film star, rehearsing the Manora Dance for Indonesian Night in aid of the Indonesian Club.
    20 11 OSMAN GUMANTI, the film star, rehearsing the Manora D anc e for Indonesian Night in aid of the Indonesian Club.
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    Sixteen policemen to start a ‘test’
    244 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 1. VINE CHINESE, an Indian unci six Malay constables are to be tested by Singapore police in an experiment to get better-educated recruits into tin force. The men. all of whom have a Standard VII or higher educational qualification, start work today
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    CITY COUNCIL PAYS MORE
    159 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 1. IHE1 HE SINGAPORE City Council yesterday agreed 1 buy the leases of two on.ding lots along Shenton ,Va >’ at a premium of $26 a duare foot—s 4 a square foot nore than the maximum a id at the public auction •°r similar
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    PARENTS SEE BOYS AT ARMY SCHOOL
    207 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 1. PARENTS from nearly every State and settlement in the Federation visited Singapore. by courtesy of the Army, yesterday for an Insight into the lives of their teen-aged sons training to be soldiers and useful cltU zens at the Army Boys’ trade
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    Riot squad trainees
    85 11 SINGAPORE. Auk. 1 Fifty nu*n of the specially trained riot squad of the Singapore Police will complete their riot-drill and crowd control training by tin* end ol August. The men are divided into three sections C h i n e s e. Malays and PunjabLs and an
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    Tea Exports
    28 11 KUAI.A LUMPUR. July 31 The Federation s tea export < last month totalled 164.150 lb. worth $171,574 compared with ***** 1 lb valued at $:i4H,518 in May.
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    Nicoll televised at radio show
    399 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 2. THE GOVERNOR OF SINGAPORE, Mr. J. F. 1 Nicoll, made Malayan radio history yesterday nhen he was televised as he opened the trade fair and British radio exhibition at the Happy \Y or Id. The 3,000 guests who saw the first Governor
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    150 S. V. C. recruits end training
    69 13 HUNDRED AND FIFTY "fruits who have comd their four-month inn,sive basic training, have 1 M chosen and posted to the oiiou.s units in the Singapore ‘imteer Corps in the last lro e days. Tne recruits were divided r ll V f °m* platoons
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    Duchess sends a message to the boy hero
    81 13 KUALA LUMPUR Aug. 1. Terence edmett, the 14-year-old hero of the terrorist ambush on Nanyo Estate, Johore. last week, will receive a message from King's House today. The message will tell him that the Duchess of Kent, who is to visit Malaya
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    Ambulance was busier
    63 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 2. The Singapore City Coun--1 oil’s Accidents Ambulance Service attended 5.1G7 calls test year. This is an increase of L 445 over the numbei of calls in ISSO. The total distance covered by the ambulances was 49.837 miles against 31.848 in 1950. Last year the
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    Get new taxis or no permits, owners told
    226 13 SINGAPORE, Au*. 2. A WARNING that unless owners of ordinary tars used as taxis replace their worn out vehicles, wholesale cancellation of licences would be necessary soon is given by the former Registrar of Vehicles. Mr. W. A. M. Watts, in his
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    Steel for Malaya
    136 13 KUALA LUMPUR, July 31. the second half of this year, 3.206 tons of “priority” steel lcr Malaya is expected to be released for rolling by the manufacturers, the Pan-Malayan Steel Priority Board announced today. At its second meeting recently. the Board, which was set up ir. April
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    Miners say this is good news
    132 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1. THE announcement, that the United States Government had lifted certain restrictions on the purchase of tin by American consumers, v.a* welcomed in Federation tin circles today. The president of the F.M.S. Chamber ot Mines, Mr. I>. T. Waring, said that
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    Plea for creche
    184 13 SINOAPORE. July 31. SINGAPORE City Council has been urged by the Social Welfare Department and a number of doctor.s to reconsider it.s decision to evict the Oversea Chinese Children’s Creche from No. 10 Balmoral Road. A joint report by Professor E. S. Monteiro of the University of
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    Brigade sets up new record
    72 13 Till Singapore Fire Bri- gade received the lirgest number of calls in it> history last year 8.11. which is 29 more than the previous highest figure 111 1949. The estimated d image to property was s*>,417.363. In his annual report for l»<* year, the Superintendent
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    M.C.A. gift of $500,000
    514 14 TO HOUSE SQUATTERS SINGAPORE, Aug. 3. JHE Malayan Chinese Association is to give the Singapore Government an outright gift of $500,000 to establish a housing trust which will build cheap, standardised houses for the resettlement of evicted people in the Colony. Announcement of the proposed gift
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    MISS N.S.W.
    28 14 MISS MAUREEN DUVAL, aged 19, “Miss New South Wales,” who passed through Singapore by Qantas-BOAC on her way back to Sydney. She is a freelance mannequin.
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    M.C.A. gift to squatters a ‘God-send’
    248 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 4. THE MALAYAN CHINESE ASSOCIATION’S offer A of $500,000 towards squatter resettlement in Singapore was yesterday hailed as “a God-send” by the chairman of the Attap Dwellers’ Association, Mr. Mak Pak Shee. “It is the answer to all our prayers and I
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    New KL daily
    41 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 3.— A cocktail party was held today to mark the birth of the Lien Pang Daily News. Kuala Lumpur’s second Chinese daily. The first issue of the new nnpo r was printed on Aug 1
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    HAPPY IN SYDNEY
    110 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 4 Treatment ot Maimunah binte Mohamed. who was sent to Sydney for plastic work for a facial disfigurement by the Johorr Bahru Social Welfare Committee recently, has started The New South Wales Society for Crippled Children who is looking after her! states that she has
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    SEVEN KILLED IN R.A.F. CRASH
    166 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 2. CEVEN R.A.F. men were killed when a Valetta aircraft on a supply dropping operation crashed in deep jungle 12 miles from Kuala Lumpur at 10.30 this morning. Tne wreckage of the plane was spotted by an RAF helicopter which, with other
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    Reds derail train
    43 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 3. Terrorists derailed a train between Gemas and Paloh in Johore this morning and halted rail traffic. The day mail trains were halted at Gemas and Paloh while local trains between Gemas and Singapore wer e cancelled.
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    New D.O., Krian
    25 14 KUALA KANGSAR. Aug. 3. —Dato Muda Abdullah bin Mohamed Noordin has been appointed District Officer. Krian He succeeds Inche Abdullah bin Saat
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    GOVT GIVES 150 ACRES FOR REHOUSING
    246 14 SINGAPORE. Aug. 3. THE Singapore Government has earmarked three areas of land, totalling 150 acres, for the re-settlement of squatters now occupying crown and Improvement Trust land. Work on the layout of the first of these—at McPherson Road—will begin at once, Government announced last
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    WOUNDED, 4 BEAT OFF GANG
    199 14 KUALA LUMPUK. Aug. 3 GALLANT resistance b> ,i police lieutenant, two special constables and a railway overseer saved an engine and a break down van when thev were ambushed in the Kuala Krai area of Kelantan yesterday. Although wounded, the four men fought back against
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    Study leave for lecturer
    81 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 4 The University of Ma*aya has granted Mr. F. A. Oehlers, lecturer in dental pathology, 15 months’ study leave in Britain. Mr. Oehlers will leave Singapore at the end of the yvai He will take a course in London leading to the Fellowship in
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    RETIRES AFTER 38 YEARS
    29 14 TAIPING, Aug. 2— After 38 years’ service in the Medical Department, Mr. S. Velupillai. supervisor. General Hospital. Taiping, is now on leave prior to retirement.
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    Briggs plan has turned the tide
    998 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 2. rHE tide of battle turned against the Communist terrorists in 1951 with the completion of the Briggs Plan and “Operation Starvation"— the plan to cut off all their food supplies the Annual Report of the Federation of Maiaya for 1951,
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    BIG DEMAND FOR RADIOS
    76 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 2. LAST year, 61.980 sewing machines were bought in the Federation— nearly three times the number bought in 1950 and eight times the number in 1938. Similarly. 35.623 radios were bought Inst year compared with 18.000 the year before These figures, contained in
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    MR. JOHN FALCONER, who left Malaya yesterday on leave before retirement after 30 years’ service, the last three as British Adviser, Johore, seen with Mrs. Falconer in their cabin in the Tjibadak. Mr. and Mrs. Falconer will go to Sydney first. “Then we’ll decide what actually we are going to do.” he told the Straits Times.
    60 15 MR. JOHN FALCONER, who left Malaya yesterday on leave before retirement after 30 years’ service, the last three as British Adviser, Johore, seen with Mrs. Falconer in their cabin in the Tjibadak. Mr. and Mrs. Falconer will go to Sydney first. “Then we’ll decide what actually we are going to
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    More interest is shown in schools
    353 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 2. THE most important educational progress during 1951 was in the minds of the people ot Malaya, the Federation Annual Report published today says. Not on'y did more people wish their children to go to school as enrolment figures prove, but
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    90 REDS KILLED IN JULY
    235 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 1. terrorists were killed last month, 12 were .captured, 15 surrendered and 52 were wounded. A.; the month ended yesterday, police and troops killeo four terrorists, wounded two and captured three One surrendered. A police jungle squad, watching a mine kongsi in
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    MALAYS ARE NOW CO-OP CONSCIOUS
    195 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 2. THE most remarkable development in co-operative societies last year was among the Malay rural population, according to the Federation Annual Report. During the year the number of registered societies ncreased from 1.095 to 1.392 A contributing factor to this expansion, says
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    MacD TO VISIT INDONESIA
    53 15 SINGAPORE, Aug. 4 Mr. Malcolm MacDonald will spend the latter part, of August and the beginning of September in Indonesia. After a short official visit to Jakarta, he will leave for Bali where the remainder of his stay will be spent on holiday and in a
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    PEOPLE ARE MORE FIT
    98 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 2. Approximately 200,000 children will attain school-going age each year, says the Federation annual report based on statistics of births and deaths for 1951. Vital statistics show a steady improvement In the health of the population. The naturae increase last year (births minus
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    RADIO MALAYA’S DIRECTOR
    69 15 SINGAPORE. Auk. 3 MR. F. N. Lloyd-Williams. Deputy Director of Broadcasting In Kuala Lumpur, will act as Director of Broadcasting when Mr H W. Jackson goes on leave this week Mr. Jackson is due to leave for Britain on Friday. Mr. A A. Beamish, acting Deputy Director
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    NAUTICAL SCHOOL OPENS FOR 3 MEN
    203 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 6. Ol\<. U’ORE’S nautical tJ school to train engineers j I'cr the mercantile marine.) re-opened yesterday, at the i Marine Hostel, with Lt.; Commander D. Steuart- h.tries as acting principal. Only three men, two of whom work for local shipping companies, are
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    NIGHT MAILS TO RUN AGAIN
    138 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Au*. 4. THE night mail train service between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, cancelled in January last year after frequent terrorist attacks on the trains, is to be resumed on Sept. 1, the Malayan Railway announced today. i The “up” service will leave Singapore
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    GURKHAS KILL 4 MORE BANDITS
    156 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 4. /HRKHA units killed four terrorists yesterday, 1 and a police jungle squad claimed a fifth. In the Kota Tinggi area of Johore, a patrol of 1/2 Gurkhas shot dead two terrorists and captured their pistols and hand-grenades, while in the Tangkak
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    Dentists to ask for $50,000
    76 17 Kl ALA LUMPUR, Aug. 5. THE Central Maiaya Chi- nese Dentists* Association decided to ask the v today for $50,000 to y tap t a mobile dental clinic lor new villages in SelanRor mobile clinic is part association’s plan to v tn “e treatment in
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    Work starts to salvage the Sirdhana
    168 17 SINGAPORE. Aug. 6. FIVE deep-sea divers will begin preliminary work on salvaging the sunken wreck of the 7.700-ton liner Sirdhana. this morning. Their first job Is to cut a hole in No. 1 hold and get the cargo out Much of the cargo is
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    Varsity plan dropped
    54 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 6. rPHE proposal to build a I multi-million dollar Chinese university in Malaya has been abandoned because of lack of support, Singapore Chinese leaders said yesterday. The proposal was first made last year by Mr. Tan Lark Sye, when he was president of the Singapore
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    Daughter of doctor marries
    106 17 M. f LONDON Aug. 4. u AYA’S first diplomate r. :n Froebel training in p Hampton, Miss Barbara cbptchet, was married in '*°n on Saturday to Mr. irice Baker, former presiof the Malayan Stu- dents’ Society in London. She was given away bv her father Dr
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    She’s lending a hand again
    301 17  -  F»om CUNN CHIT THYE PENANC, Aug. 2. AN IRISH WOMAN, the mother-in-law of a future Scottish Duke, is among 15 students to have enrolled in the first all-women’s class organised by the Penang Civil Defence Headquarters. Mrs Anne Semple is a woman of many activities.
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    Swimming Club opens to Asians
    176 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 5. rr O N I G II T, the Singapore A Swimming Club will be opened to Asian guests for the first time. The club has hitherto been exclusively for Europeans, although the Question of a guest night, to which Asians might be
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    SPECIAL PRAISE FOR CADET
    78 17 CADET MAII WENG CIIEONG of No. 1 Squadron (Selangor) Federation of Malaya Air Training Corps got special praise from R.A.F. Station Commander, Wing Commander M. Wasse, when he was presented with his Proficiency Star as an Air Cadet 1st Class at a squadron parade in Kuala
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    COL. WHATNOT WINS THE GOLD CUP
    1226 19  -  By r EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Aug. 4. and Mrs. Yeo Hock vn g’s COL WHATNOT, a vi ar-old Fairfax gelding tlu* Penang Gold Cup. mile and 3 furlongs, tod I' the last day of the Pen m rurf Club August Bank Holid >y Meeting.
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    JEUNESSE SCORE FINE VICTORY
    1011 19  -  UN EPSOM JEEP PLNANG, Aug. 2. |)ASHING ,i\vay to a commanding lead in the b.u-k .straight, Jeunesse •Harrj McCloud* kept up a beautiful gallop to slam a lm-tty bright lot of Classs 1 performers over 8' 2 f. at Pen-aii'-i yesterday, third day of the Penang
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    Kelvin again goes off the board
    116 19  -  (FROM EPSOM JEEPJ PENANG, July 30 .—Kelvin, a five-year-old gelding by Denturius, is a very unlucky horse indeed. In the 3.15 here this afternoon, he was again disqualified after having run third to Finalist. His rider, young Billy Bagby, failed to weigh-in correctly after
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      84 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: $374,GOO. 1st: No. *****6 $89,904 2nd: No. *****5 $44,952 3rd: No. *****3 $22,476 STARTERS ($7,492 each): Nos. *****2; *****5; *****2; *****9; *****7; *****7. CONSOLATION ($2,247 each): Nos *****6; *****9; *****8; *****4; *****5; *****3; *****2; *****6; *****4; *****3. Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: $360,700 1st: No. *****7 ($*****)
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    Fair volume of trade was recorded
    449 20 SHARE MAHKETI From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Aug. 4. A FAIR volume of business was recorded, mostly in the industrial and tin sections, with prices in general showing a downward tendency. The announcement on Friday that American Importers were free to buy and import
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    BUSINESS DONE
    226 20 SINGAPORE. Aug. 4. Business done in the Malayan share market last week included: INDUSTRIALS. Eastern United Assurance $37. Federal Dispensary $1.75 and $1,774. Fraser and Neave Ord. $3.75 to $3.72 4. Fraser and Neave Pref. $6.70. Hammer $2.15. Hong Kong Bank i London Register) £BO 4. Malayan Breweries
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    MOVE TO PROTECT CARGOES
    127 20 rpHE Singapore Chinese 1 Chamber of Commerce has decided to ask the Colony’s shipping companies to prevent further losses of cargoes from Indonesia ordered by local Chinese merchants. Mr. Tan Siak Kew, the Chamber president, said that the Chamber had received complaints from Chinese merchants that
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    PETALING TIN
    41 20 Peialtng Tin Ltd. has declared a third quarterly interim dividend of 25 per cent for the year ending Oct. 1952. less income tax at 3"* per cent, payable on Aug. 30 to shar holders registered on Aug. 9. 1952.
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    EXPORTS DOWN BY $1,457-MILLION
    215 20 Jan-June economic review JI/IALAYA’S exports declined by $1,457,000,000 iT1 the first half of this year compared with tl first six months of 1951. This figure, however slightly above the exports for the first six month of 1950. Exports for January to June this year amounted to
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    MALAYAN COMPANY REPORTS
    335 20 From A Market Correspond*** CONSOLIDATED TIN SMELTERS LIMITED: Advance information on results for the year ended March 31. 1952. gives profit. after tax. in the Consolidated account at £446.972 which after deduction of Preference dividend. Is equivalent to 17.9 r on the Ordinary capital. Dividend of 2
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    848 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 6. I \1» 1ST RIALS Buyers Setter* Alex Bucks Pref 2 10 2.25 Ords 3.40 8.4C Atlas Ice 12 50 13 50 B B. Petrol 33/- 34/BM. Trustees 6.50 7 50 Con Tin Smelt Pref. 21/- 22/Ords 22/- 23/- cd Eastern United 36.75 37.50 Fed.
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    Danger of Study Group rumours
    272 20 J [Rubber Market SINGAPORE, Aug. 2. IN SPITE of some restricted !u bu T in of lower S rad bv the U. S. A., the rubber mar. ket has been very quiet and the fluctuations in price small, says Lewis and Peats weekly report. The
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    49 20 SINGAPORE. Aif> QUIET conditions prevailt the produce market after holidays and no transactions reported. Copra buyers were quoted s.: n picul buyers f.o.b.. wi'h s $25 •‘?4. Coconut oil was $39'.* s f.o.b., with buyers $38?.*. Pepper, sago flour and tapn flour prices remained unchanu n
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    JULY EXPORTS OF TIN UP
    62 20 exports of tin to all countries from Singapore and Malaya last month were 1,256 tons higher than in June. The preliminary total re leased yesferday was 5,937 n> for July. The June total was 4,68i tons. Rubber shipments for July riutwever, declined by nearly 60«
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