The Straits Budget, 21 August 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. 316. Thursday, August 21, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      DETAINEES: THE POINT
      77 2  -  LEX. Singapore. ADSUM” in his letter in the Straits Time of Aug. 14 has missed the point. We all agree that he is right in how Communists should be treated. "Lawyer’s” point would appear to be that one should have some check on the abuse of powers
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      COURT CASES
      43 2  -  SCRIBE Singapore. BEFORE Mr. Justice William O. Douglas, member of the U.S. Supreme Court, praises Malaya’s system of justice as "one aspect of democracy at work at its best,” I suggest he reads some cases recently reported in the Straits Times.
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      Communism and the power of detention
      246 2  -  ADSUM. SO A Lawyer” deprecates the wide powers given the police by the Emergency Regulations and “Anxious” <Aug. 8) is dismayed and shocked to learn from him that many persons are detained without trial. It is assumed that both correspondents hold either those responsible
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      The middleman in the market
      641 2  -  D. ROBERTS* >' Singapore. THE vegetable “importers’* of Singapore ci t r appear to be quite clear about the definitiu ni a “middleman.” Your apparently well-info*- J reporter in your issue of Aug. 12 tells us th jt “Vegetable importers said that there was no
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      By the Inland Sea
      196 2  -  CAROLUS |UNIUS. Singapore. 1 I by a Traffic jam am locked in Between the Gasworks and the Inland Sea Sharp as tne darts of unrequited Sin The sunlight beats upon my car and me. While some few hundred yards on, leisurely, Quite undeterred by hooting horns
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      Shocked about the detainees
      263 2  -  CURIOUS. Singapore. AS an ordinary member of I the public I was indeed i shocked to read your leader of Aug. 1, and the subsequent correspondence regarding the Emergency detainees. The first shock was. as stated in your leader, that People have been detained without triafi
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      ALLOWING FOR DEPENDANTS
      75 2  -  POOR SOUL. Ipoh. IAM a Government employee with a monthly income of $27 r <.so. I have five children and three are attending school. My European counterpart with a monthly income of $1,500, and the same number of children, is being paid children’s allowance, or rather dependants’
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Lotteries & Elections
      846 3 Lotteries Elections —Straits Times, Aug. 14. Officials of the Malayan L u:i ,.v t Association are dis)Vt.ring that there are em-ban-a>> jne nts in the running (t lotteries. There is little j oU bt that the popular appeal t be association’s lotteries has beer even greater, desccupetition from the federation's
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      American Interest In S.E. Asia
      247 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 14. An excellent opportunity for making the problems of Malaya and other South-east Asian countries better known in influential American circles is provided by a conference now being held in Washington. It is an international conference which has brought together 150 delegates,
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      Labour Pains
      964 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 15. There is a challenge to the Independence of Malaya Party in the vigour with which the efforts to develop the PanMalayan Labour Party are being pursued. It is not at the moment a serious challenge, for the PMLP has a lot of special difficulties
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      A New Rival For Hevea?
      542 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 16. There will be a tendency to scepticism over the report j that heavy truck tyres have I been made in the United States from guayule rubber which are as good as those made with hevea rubber. Time may prove that scepticism
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      A Soldier’s Wife In Malaya
      319 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 16. “I go wherever my husband goes; that is the lot of a soldier’s wife”, said Lady 1 Templer in January, when she learned that General Templer had been chosen by Mr. Churchill to lead the fight against the terrorists in Malaya.
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      Income-Tax In 1951
      226 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 16. A word of commendation to the Colony’s incom e-t a x department. On three counts. Not only was the collection of $59.9 million in 1951 nearly $29 million in excess of the estimate (if only that could be taken to mean a change
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      Not So Good Men & True
      399 4 Not So Good Men True —Straits Times. Aug. 18. Nothing that has been said or written on the subject of corruption in Malaya is more disquieting than the comment with which Mr. Justice Abbott acquitted a Government official at Malacca on a charge of corruption. “Whenever there is a clear
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      Danger Of The Smuggled Dog
      372 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 18. The action of a member of I the Services in smuggling a dog into Singapore from the Federation justifies the warning of the extremely grave dangers attendant upon such criminally foolish behaviour. At the present time a very virulent outbreak of
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      Colony Fish Prices
      308 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 18. The Fisheries Survey Report which has just been published by the Fisheries Department of the Colony represents only one aspect of a lot of work that is being done to increase Singapore’s fish supplies. It is doubtless an essential contribution to the very
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      P.W.D. Springs A Surprise
      481 4 —Straits Times, Aug. The first reaction to p, announcement of the y,, pore P.W.D.’s expanded. v gramme of works for tinof 1952 Combines relu« to disparage anything f savours of drive and i prise in a Government d ment with puzzlement what was held comp! impossible
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    MALAYA’S MOTHER OF THE YEAR
    1326 5  -  by NONI WRIGHT nlMPLED, homely Mrs. Majeed of t l u > twinkling eyes is Malava’s most remarkable mother. All lu*r five grownup children are scltularship winners Mn have had, or are at present taking, inkier education abroad with distinction. One daughter Is the only
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      113 5 AT QUEEN CHARLOTTES on 6th July, 1952, to Carol, wife of C. P. Sutton, P.W.D., Kluang a daughter. GRIFFIN: To Tcss, wife of Major J. J. Griffin, at Singapore, on 12th Aug., twin daughters. 80H-CHIA: To Mrs. Dorothy Soh, wife- of Mr. Soh Chuan Woo, at Lily Dispensary, on
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      88 5 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT M. A. NOBLE-MISS J. SIMMONS: The engagement Is announced between Michael Austin, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. N Noble of Cherlton, Hampshire, and Jean, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Bimmons of Ottery St. Mary Devonshire. EVANS-ROGERSON: The engagement Is announced between
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    Gurkhas go back to the bridge
    291 5  -  By Major D. H. de T. Reade IN the Japanese invasion of Malaya the 2/2 Gurkha Rifles fought from the Siam Border to Singapore. To-day, at Slim River, the Battalion’s Support Company is based on security duties only a few hundred yards from Railway
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    117 5 IN ME MORI AM IN LOVING memory of Mr. A.D. Knowles of Seremban who died on Aug. 1951. Oreatly missed. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MRS.*F. O. RITCHIE wishes to express her heartfelt thanks to all those who sent messages of sympathy and wreaths, and who attended at the funeral of her beloved husband
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    CHINESE TEMPLE, PITT STREET, PENANG
    9 6 Photograph by Birte Steincke.
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    As I was Saying
    668 6  -  STOIC. SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. SLOWLY RISING is the number of people in Singapore who are paying income tax. Assessments made up to Dec. 31, 1951, for the year 1950 —latest figures available and just issued by the Income Tax Department —show that 11,173 residents in the
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1052 6  -  Stanley Street. Rogue Elephant-hunting has never particularly appealed to us. as a pastime, let alone a way of living, but we ran see the point of it after reading a most graphic article on rogue elephants, by “Pelandok.” in the July issue of the Malayan
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    Railway takings are up
    79 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 13. Malayan Railway revenue for the first six months of this year showed an increase of 83,100,000 over the same period of last year, according to figures released today. The revenue for the first half year was 526.600,000, against 823,500,000 for same period
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    Seven bandit camps found
    66 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 14. Security forces cu Monday located seven bandit camps in various parts of the Federation. One camp was found by a patrol of the 3rd King’s Alrican Rifles in the Mentakabdistrict of Pahang. A 20-foot-long hut and five others were being built, while a
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    3 lorries burnt
    15 8 Terrorists burned three lorries on an estate in the Johore Bahru area
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    Sarawak calls for experts
    352 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. ]\|R. J. Hugh Ellis, acting Chief Secretary of Sarawak, told Pressmen yesterday: “In Sarawak the jungle is definitely NOT neutral.” Mosl of tin* country was controlled by Sea !Kales or Ilians, and they were undoubtedly loyal to the Government, 'flic* jungle could not
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    SIR S. CAINE DUE SEPT. 4
    53 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. Sir Sydney Caine, new ViceChancellor of the University of Malaya, is expected to arrive in Singapore by air on Sept. 4, Mr. W. D. Craig, the Registrar said yesterday. The University is now advertising several posts in three departments in the
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    THE SINGAPORE OF 1972
    336 8 SINGAPORE, Au s 14. Ml Dennis Koinlosy, chief planning officer in Sir George Pepler’s survey team for the New Singapore, yesterday told Rotarians what the island may look like in 1972. If Sir George’s Master Plan is carried out there will be in Singapore: A limited
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    ‘S’pore fighting T.B. correctly’
    115 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. SINGAPORE is tackling its tuberculosis problem on the right lines, said Dr. G. H Garlick, Director of SATA, on his return by Qantas-BOAC yesterday from London. Dr. Garlick, accompanied by his wife, has been away for six weeks attending two international conferences on
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    Mr.D.Phillip cremated
    103 8 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Aug. 13. Mr. David Phillip, a partner of Rennie Lowick. Singapore, who died in the Royal Northern Hospital in London last week, was cremated at Golder.s Given Crematorium this afternoon. Mr. Phillip, who was 67. had been ill for some time in Singapore
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    Labour seeks welfare state in Malaya
    268 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug n DLANS to turn Malaya into a fully self-eovcm 1 Socialist welfare state, working i n DartnprA*?* with Britain, will be discussed at an exec™/- 11 committee meeting of the Pan-Malavan i IVe Party in Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 14. l
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    Worker’s law to apply to services men
    118 8 Worker’ s law to apply to services men SINGAPORE, .\u 4 14. For the first time locally engaged civilian workers of the three Services in Singapore ‘will i>« covered by the new ('olon> Government’s Workmens Compensation Ordinance which will soon replace tin present law. The Singapore Labour Com4nissioner. Mr. G.
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    MR. R. M. SAPTOHUDOJO, of Indonesia, and his Balinese bride, Miss Kartika Affandi, drink toasts during their wedding ceremony at the Indonesian Embassy in London. They met five years ago in Malaya but the bride’s father decided that Kartika, at 14, was too young to marry.
    48 8 MR. R. M. SAPTOHUDOJO, of Indonesia, and his B alinese bride, Miss Kartika Affandi, drink toasts during their wedding ceremony at the Indonesian Embassy in London. They met five years ago in Malaya but the bride’s father decided that Kartika, at 14, was too young to marry. —A.P.
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    Two go cruising down the river....
    38 10 LADY TEMPLER AND MRS. D. C. MACGILLIVRAY. wife of the Deputy High Commissioner, travel down river on a bamboo raft during a 130-mile tour of the llu Selangor district. —Straits Times picture.
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    OFFICER ON BRIBE CHARGE
    94 10 IPOH, Aug. 14. A ‘27-YEAR-OLD European Customs officer, D. J. Mackay, was today arraigned before Mr. J. R. Whimster in the Sessions Court on a corruption charge. The charge against Mackay was that he "corruptly accepted $5OO from Teh Penp Sooi at his (Mackay’s) quarters on
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    25 teams for Malaya
    62 10 LONDON, Aug. 14. The Order of St. John is sending 25 welfare teams to resettlement areas in the Federation at the request of Sir Gerald Templer, High Commissioner, it was announced today. Two sisters. Miss Marjorie Miller and Miss Nancy Miller, of Ipswich, will be the
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    Anti-graft unit at work
    48 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. Key-officers of the Singapore Government’s special anti-corruption unit have started work on plans and proposals on the build-up and work of the unit. The officers were also working on the expansion of the unit and on the picked personnel for it.
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    London course
    50 10 A Singapore student is one of the 23 overseas students ot’enoing the summer vacation course in English organic by the Department of Extra-Mural Studies of London University at King’s Collet London. J lle urs e Is designed to students a deeper insight la J|Kuag e and contem.porary literature.
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    S’pore police to train in Federation
    97 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 14. SINGAPORE police officers are to be sent to the new* Police Training College for training when it opens at Kuala Kubu shortly. The Assistant Commissioner in Charge of Training. Singapore Police. Mr. R. W. Calderwood. visited the site of the
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    $2 million sent to China
    26 10 Family remittances to China from Malaya last month totalled $1,923,934.49. Of this, $1,249,067.68 was sent from Singapore and from the Federation.
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    Homes and training for the blind
    246 10 $750.000 SCHEME READY KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 14. TUIE Malayan Association for the Blind plans to start building work on the Princess Elizabeth School in Johore Bahru next month and on the Gurney Training Centre and Hostel in Kuala Lumpur in October. The two projects
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    SEVEN LOVELY Pakistani ladies at the cocktail party given by their Trade Commisioner in Malaya. Mr. M. H. E. A. Baig, at his residence in Coronation Road West. Singapore, in celebration of Pakistan’s fifth year of independence.
    38 10 SEVEN LOVELY Pakistani ladies at the cocktail party given by their Trade Commisioner in Malaya. Mr. M. H. E. A. Baig, at his re sidence in Coronation Road West. Singapore, in celebration of Pakistan’s fifth year of independence.
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    2 bombs thrown in S’pore
    223 10 SINGAPORE, Au K 15 TWO bombs werf thrown by terrorist, m Singapore last night Two Chinese youth, have been detained S first BOMB was thrown into a Singapore TvaetioS Company bus at Collyer Quay There were three paL„ gers in the bus but tin S'
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    Put dead bandits on show, Govt told
    288 10 Put dead bandits on show Govt told KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 13. T'HE Incorporated Society of Planters has made representations to the Federation Government that the bodies of terrorists hanged at Pudu Gaol. Kuala Lumpur, should be taken round the districts where they previously operated and shown to the people. The
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    Parcel post rates revised
    50 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 13. The new rate of postage mi a parcel weighing 22 lb. h the United States is $l2 from Sept. 1. The scale of rates for parcels to Britain is: 21b. $2. 3n $2.30; 71b. $4; 121 b. $6.40; and 221 b. $l2.
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    GUARD BEAT OFF REDS
    47 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. HOME Guards on Monday drove off 15 terrorists who attacked the Malay kampomt at Batu Tiga, in the Tapan area of Perak. A police jungle squad put. a bandit gang to flight in tn» Sungei Siput North district o Perak.
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    ‘Rendezvous’ began with Mr. MacD
    280 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. MRS. HELEN TAN, president of the Chjnese Ladies Association, Singapore. said last night before presen ting “Rendezvous with Eve” to an audience that had “every Adam with an 'impatient gleam in his eye.” that the show really sprang from a chance remark
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    Help social centres plea
    73 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. Mrs. Elizabeth Choy. a Singapore Legislative Councilor, televised at Happy World last night, appealed to women to come forward in greater number and voCunteer to work at one of the Colony’s *l7 social centres. She said: “I need not go 'J**ry deepP.y into
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    ‘Eve’ kept date —late as usual
    191 12 THE ‘APPLE’ TEMPTED 1,500 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16 RENDEZVOUS WITH EVE”, a charity pageant produced by the Chinese Ladies’ Association was attended by 1,500 people at Raffles Hotel, Singapore, last night. I “Eve,” like all beautiful women, was more than an hour late. But she
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    On leave
    48 12 IPOH. Aug. 15. The Rev. Paul Daniel, of the Tamil section of the Anglican Church. South Perak Parish, is going on long leave shortly and will be back by Christmas. During his absence, the Rev A Dumper and the Rev. Arnold Lee will deputise for him.
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    SARAWAK WOMAN ROBBED OF $10,000
    164 12 KUCHING, Aug. 15. A FRESH outbreak of armed terrorism was reported late last night. A Chinese padi farmer told the police that two masked Chinese armed with shotguns entered his house while he was in the field, held up his wif* at gunpoint and stole
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    Extra hour of English
    74 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16.. Radio Malaya is to extend English broadcasting time by one hour from Sept. 1, it was announced last night. The English programmes will begin at 5 p.m. instead oi 6 p.m. as at present. Most of this extra hour will be devoted to
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    Sixty re-unite
    21 12 Over 60 former officers of the Indian Army held a reunion dinner at the Singapore Club on Aug. 15.
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    60 men who wanted to be nurses...
    117 12 Singapore, Aug. 15. IVfOHE THAN 60 men caused a stir yesterday when they turned up at the St. John Ambulance Brigade headquarters in Stamford Road, Singapore, for a new class on home nursing, ‘‘They caught m e by surprise,” said Mrs. T. V.
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    You must tell Govt, of all your aliases
    96 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. SINGAPORE residents will have to disclose all aliases by which they are known in Government records, under a Bill to be introduced in the Legislative Council in three months’ time. Under the Bill, any person who has to enter
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    CORONATION COMMITTEE
    135 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 16 The members of the Singapore Coronation Celebration Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, was announced yesterday. Members are> Legislative Councillors. Mr. C. C. Tan, and Mr. Llm Yew Hock; City Councillors, Mr. Yap Pen? Geek, and Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy; Rural Board,
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    Mr O.F. Watkins
    29 12 IPOH, Aug. 16.—M. O. F Watkins, from Kuala Lut pur, is now Comptroiie Telecomms, Perak. He succeeds Mr. E. L. Spooner-Li lingston who has gone < leave.
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    8 MORE BANDITS KILLED
    190 14 KUALA. LUMPUR. Aug. 15. EHGHT terrorists have been killed in the Federation in the last 24 hours. A communique tonight announced the killing of three bandits by a patrol of the 3rd King’s African Rifles in the jungle areas of south Trengganu. A terrorist was shot
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    GEN. TEMPLER AT ADC’s WEDDING
    65 14 r,,E HIGH COMMISSIONER, General Sir Gerald TemPi«r gave the bride away at the wedding of his A.D.C. Vi!* 1 Brooke Pemberton, Coldstream Guards. to Kirkland Smith, of Canada, at St. Mary’s Church, Kuala Lumpur, on Aug. 15. General Templer is n standing between the bride
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    Green Howards kill 3 bandits
    288 14 IPOH, Aug. 15. PATROL of the Ist Green Howards, led by Capt. N. Bagnall M.C. of Northam, Sussex, killed three terrorists in a day-long ambush yesterday, on a jungle track near Tapah, Perak. The High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer today sent a message of
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    On leave
    32 14 PORT DICKSON. Aug. 15— Mr. S. R. L. Buckwell, Senior Customs Officer. Port Dickson. has left on long leave. His successor is Inche Wan Hamzah bin Wan Mohd from Muar.
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    Tailor falls 60ft. to death from flats
    148 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. A 42-YEAR-OLD tailor, Lum Foon, fell 60ft. to his death, from the fifth floor of the new nine-storey Singapore Improvement Trust flats in Upper Pickering Street yesterday. This is th e second fatal fall from the building in three months.
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    NEW MILITARY FORCES BILL
    332 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 15 LEGISLATION which will give Sir Gerald Templer power to raise regular military forces was published today. Called the Milit lr 'v Forces Bill, it will go before the Federal Leri*, lative Council at its next meeting. The Attorney-General, Mr. Michael Ho« an
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    Sandhurst 8 are feted
    65 14 PORT DICKSON, Aug. 15 Malay officers of the Malay Regiment at Port Dickson held a cocktail party this week to welcome eight Malay officers who returned to the Regiment after training at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Another cocktail party was also given is their
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    11 women for literacy drive
    63 14 PENANG, Aug. 15 ELEVEN Malay women have been elected to a literacy drive sub-committee set up by the Kampong Bahru section of the Penang Adult Education Association. Che Hilimi binte Menieem Is president and Che Mardziah binte Abidin is vice-president of the committee with Che
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    JAP BOMBS VICTIM HAD ‘GIVEN UP ALL HOPE’
    263 14 SINGAPORE. Aug. 16 T IM GUAT TEE. a 26-year-old woman who was hit on the knees by during the Japanese bomiing of Singapore in earl? 1942, jumped into Stamford Canal ten years later because she believed that she would never recover. Lim’s
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    Archdeacon to go on holiday
    49 14 SINGAPORE. Aui; 16. The Archdeacon of North Malaya, the Ven. D. M. Gnunasihamani, and Mrs. Onanasihamani will go on a short holiday to India nex* week This will be their visit to India after 25 yt rs of missionary work in Burma and Malaya.
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    Tyndareus took 5,700 to Mecca
    37 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 1» The pilgrim ship Tyndur took over 5.700 pilgrims Mecca last year. The Tyndareus was spec' ly fitted out at Liverpool the pilgrim trade and > ias commodation for 1.96° grims.
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    Colony Register under fire
    320 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. rpHE political future of Singapore is at stake because of the inaccurate register of voters Mr. C. C. Tan, Progressive Party leader, said at the Legislative Council meeting yesterday. “And unless we can find ways and means of getting an accurate register and
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    SUGAR TO STAY ON RATION
    138 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. SECRETARY for Economic Affairs, Mr. Andrew Gilmour, yesterday opposed the derationing of sugar on the grounds that this might increase the present price. At the Singapore Legislative Council meeting, Dr. C. J. Paglar (Progressive Member tor Chungii contended that it would lower
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    Gifts to Govt will now be tax free
    208 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. I OIFTS to either the Singapore or Federation GovI era men ts wiM be free from j income tax as irom Jan. i 1 this year, when the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday passed certain amendments to the Colony's Income
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    Tax allowances —no change
    86 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. HTHE Singapore Government does not intend to change the present scale of personal allowances for people liable to income tax. In the Legislative Council yesterday, the Government said that despite the increase in the cost of living, the present scale of allowances “is
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    Yap will move the resolution
    57 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. A resolution, to confer on tlie Duchess of Kent the Honorary Freedom of the City of Singapore, will be introduced by Mr. Yap Pheng Geek (Nominated! at the monthly meeting of the City Council next week. It will be seconded by Mrs.
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    80,000 who smoke opium? No, says Blythe
    208 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. SINGAPORE Government could not accept the statement that there were 80.000 opium addicts in the Colony, Mr. W. L. Blythe. Colonial Secretary, said in the Legislative Council yesterday. Mr Blythe was replying to Dr. C. J. P. Paglar (Progressive Changi)
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    $2,400 for 400 G.S. medals
    56 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. Special expenditure approved by the Finance Committee of the Singapore Legislative Council includes the purchase of 400 General Service Medals, at a cost of $2,400. and $2,000 to cover the cost of temporary secretarial assistance to cope with the increasing volume of
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    Paglar accuses landlords
    164 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. landlords were using questionable methods in dealing with people they want to clear fiom their lands the member for Changi, Dato C. J. Paglar, said in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday. J One estate has now been cut up into lots, to be sold
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    Govt, refusal to take local doctors hit
    236 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. T»HE POLICY of the Singapore Government not to accept into its medical services any graduates of the University of Malaya who were receiving unconditional bursaries from the Federation Government was attacked by Mr. C. C. Tan, leader of the Progressive
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    Committees fail to devise price control
    307 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. SINGAPORE’S import policy should provide the local market with as many consumer goods as possible, said the joint report of the Price Control Advisory Committees, laid before the Legislative Council yesterday. Singapore, however, could not avoid the effects of world shortages
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    Committee has been formed
    78 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. The Singapore Government had not made any commendations regarding increase in elected memo* of the Legislative Coun-n-Mr. W L. Blythe, the Connlal Secretary, said »n written reply to Dr PagCar yesterday. Mr. Blythe said: ‘A mittee, consisting of atl Unofficial members, urn- the
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    SINGAPORE’S CHINATOWN, normally a bright spot, has been made even brighter with the illumination from the new nine-storey Trust flats in Upper Pickering Street. Seventy families will move into these modern, two-bedroom flats next week, which are also served by lifts.
    42 17 SINGAPORE S CHINATOWN, normally a bright spot, has been made even brighter with the illumination from the new nine-storey Trust flats in Upper Pickering Street. Seventy families will move into these modern, two-bedroom flats next week, which are also served by lifts.
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    Emergency may end soon—Blythe
    87 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. THE SINGAPORE Legislative Council yesterday approved the extension of the Emergency Regulations for a further three months •because the Emergency Is still with us.” The Colonial Secretary. Mr. W. L. Blythe, said: “There is an atmosphere of expectation in the air, and possibly
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    Where the cash goes —by Mr Hart
    198 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Legislative Council yesterday voted nearly $13,500,000 for Government to spend and more than half of it will b P used to buy land. 'Hie acting Financial Secretary Mr. T. M. Hart, broke a tradition when he explained to the Council
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    RICE SUBSIDY OPPOSED
    420 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. INHERE should be no direct subsidy of rice prices by the Singapore Government, two of the three members of the Select Committee on Retail Price of Rationed Rice recommend in a report tabled in the Legislative Council yesterday. They are Mr. A. Gilmour (chairman)
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    Rotary guest
    32 17 JOHORE BAHRU Aug. 19. Mr H. Tries de Menezes Nolasco. of the Macao Rotary flub was a guest at the p** meeting of the Rotary Club Of Johore Bahru today.
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    SARAWAK: TWO ARE ARRESTED
    136 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Authorities in Kuching announced that the situation in Sarawak is now quiet and that no further incidents have been reported since last week’s armed robbery at Muara Tuang. Police have recovered gold and cash stolen by the armed gang and have arrested two
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    Detained by Indonesians
    57 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Nine Singapore fishing boats and one fishing tender were detained by the Indonesian Government in the first seven months of this year, Mr. W. L. BJythe, Colonial Secretary, said in a written reply to Mr. H. J C. Kulasingha, in the Legislative Council yesterday.
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    Brigade fights Petaling fire
    351 17 KIIALA LUMPUR, Aug. 19. A SHEET of flame swept across 600 acres of lallang and abandoned rubber trees last night and threatened to destroy the villages of Petaling and Puchong in Selangor. While firemen, soldiers and policemen fought the flames with flrebeaters and water, the villagers
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    MCA TO START DRIVE TO EDUCATE MASSES
    122 17 IPOH, Aug. 19. mHE Malayan Chinese Association is to launch a 1 literacy and adult education drive throughout the country with the help of Chinese Teachers Associations in the various States. Details of this scheme were discussed at a long session of the
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    Mr. Goh Bin Lay
    43 17 MALACCA, Aug. 19,Mr. Goh Bin Lay an old ooy of the Malacca. High School, has passed his law examinations at the London University He Is the eldest son of Mr Goh Tiow Chong, headmaster of the Tranquerah English School.
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    OFFICERS ‘LOST’AND FOUND
    197 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 19. HEAVILY armed men of a police Jungle sqvutd marched deep into the band it lnfested rubber at Petaling in Selangor today and rescued two British Army officers who had lost their way. A captain and lieutenant led a party of men of the
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    Gloom that got deeper
    86 17 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20 Singapore Arts Theatre last night put on a play by Joan Morgan, called "This Was a Woman," at the Victoria Memorial Theatre. This strong and overwritten theme of frustrated mother love started in a gloom that got deeper as the night wore on.
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    Govt revenue recovers
    260 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Au*. 19. FEDERAL Customs and Excise revenue began to A recover last month from the critically low collections in May and June. Last month’s total of $34,150,906 was $5 million more than in June and nearly $2 million more than in May. It was still
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    Visas for re-entry
    79 18 Aliens going to China and who want to return to Malaya must get re-entry visas before leaving o r they will not be allowed to come back. Applications for re-entry visas must b<> made in person at the Immigration Office at Havelock Road Singapore, one month before
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    POWER MEN TO STRIKE ON SEPT. 3
    79 18 POWER MEN TO STRIKE ON SEPT 3 IPOH, Tues. THE Perak Hydro Employees’ Union sent a notice to the company today stating that of the union employed by the company and the Kinta Electric Distribution Company will go on strike on Sept 3. This is an extension of the original
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    S’pore PWD criticised
    104 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. JOHN LAYCOCK (Prog. Katong), urged the Government at the meeting or the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday to put a stop to the non co-operative attitude of the Public Works Department. He was referring to the location of the lavatory of the Government En glish
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    Mr. Blythe says ‘no’ again to the TUC
    129 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Another bid by the Singapore Trade Union Congress to get the Government to allow its employee unions to affiliate with the Congress was rejected by Mr. W. L. Blythe, Colonial* Secretary, in the Legislative Council yesterday. “No amount of
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    TWO MORE BANDITS HANGED
    107 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 19. LEONG AH MENG and Lim Kai Seng, two convicted terrorists, were hanged in Johore Bahru prison this morning. Both had been in the terrorist armed forces from the early days of the Emergency until their capture by security forces. Leong was captured
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    Biggest-ever building rush
    299 18 SINGAPORE, Aug 17 THE SINCAPORE GOVERNMENT is to its Public Works Department to try and «i im‘SKi ng! *"i deVelOP men P r °< ects wort $21,700,000 in the remaining four and half months of the year. The P.W.D., in the first half of the year has
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    HE WILL ADVISE ON FEDERAL ELECTIONS
    143 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. MB. HAROLD BEDALE, Town Clerk ol the iT1 Borough of Hornsey, North London, arrived in Singapore yesterday to advise on local government in the Federation. Mr. Bedale, who will spend six months in Malaya, will be attached to the office of
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    TO STUDY IN SINGAPORE
    62 18 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. 19. Mr. Scott Thompson, who was awarded an American Rotary Scholarship, is due in Singapore on Sept. 12. from the U.S.A. He will enter the University of Malaya to take a course in economices. Mr. Thompson will be acrompained by his /ife, who
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    She’ll write book on Indonesia
    59 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. A BB.C. announcer, Miss C. P. Epton, who has been invited by the Indonesian Ministry of Information to write a travel book on Indonesia, passed through Singapore yesterday in the Willem Ruys. Miss Epton, who has written two travel books on North
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    Mock attack in S’pore on ‘armed gang’
    131 18 SINGAPORE, Aug 20 A COMBINED police-mill. tary operations room n the Singapore police radio division at Pearl’s Hill. Wl- for the first time ve<terday during police-mifo exercises. 1 In previous exercises tht combined operations room was at Fort Canning. ’’The use of Pearl's
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    4 pressmen for U.K. tour
    82 18 Four Malayan journalist le ave for England by air on Sept. 18 for a four-week visit as guests of the British Oofernment. They are Mr. Loke Pew Lum, of the Chung Shing Jit Pau and Inche Harun bln Mohamed Amin, of Melavu Raya from Singapore,
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    ALL WERE IN CHECK
    67 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 30. People in a Chinese chess club in Pagoda Street. Singapore, had a scare lasi night. Their mental battles on tne chess boards ended when 30 police officers, some armed with Bren-guns, rushed into the club witn guns on -the level. The police had
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    More healthy trend develops
    465 20 SHARE MARKET* From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. UEALTHY markets 11 developed during the week and total business assumed moderate proportions. industrials provided several substantial transactions as investment portfolios were revised or increased. Tins benefltted from a firming metal market and there was a little
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    100 20 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. /"’OPRA was quoted at $24 per picul f.c.b. buyers in Singapore yesterday, with sellers asking a cent more. Coconut oil was steady at s3B{ buyers and $3B l» s llers. Continued inquiry irem India incr.ased the prices of sago dour. Lingga being $l7 50
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    BUSINESS DONE
    203 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. Business done m the Malayan Share Market last week included: INDUSTRIALS. Federal Dispensary $l6O, Fraser and Neave Ord. $3.75 to $3 80. Great East rn Life $43.25, Hammer $2.20. Georgetown Disp nsary $2 30. Malayan Breweries $4.70. Malayan Collieries sl.42*i to $145. Gvirsea Chinese Bank
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    ‘Turko’cost Govt over $7,000
    46 20 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. The case of Turko” Westerling cost the Singapore Government $5,834.30, ajhd his repatriation to Holland cost $1,535; Mr. W. L. Blythe, the Colonial Secretary, said in a written reply to Dr. C. J. Paglar in the Legislative Council yesterday.
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    COMPANY REPORTS
    280 20 Frcm A Market Correspondent. TEKKA TAIPING LIMITED: Operated its dredge during the year ended Oct. 31 1951 to show a profit of £81.530 after profits tax. From these dividends trialling 10', hav been paid. Net liquid assets in balance sheet work out at £163,097 (8/lSjd. per share) before
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    S’pore answers Tokyo complaint
    248 20 *BAP RUBBER’ CHARGE SINGAPORE, Aug. 15. JAPAN has been buying rubber at tw 0 to three cents below normal prices and this i s partly to blame for the inferior rubber sh e has been receiving, in some cases, from Malava the chairman of the Singapore
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    LESS RUBBER IN PORT
    80 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 17. Port stocks of rubber showed a decrease of over 7,000 tons in July compared with June. There was a total of 13.341 tons of rubber in port stocks in Singapore in June compared with 5.665 tons in July. Dealer stocks in Singapore increased
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    Rubber mart is more optimistic
    269 20 i, -sss*=-sbb!Jß Rubber MarketJ SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. THE only feature of a dull week was the continued Inquiry from overseas for lower grades. The demand although small, was fairly well distributed and rny selling pressure was well absorbed at the lower levels. Fluctuations on the
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    Tokyo bank looks into S.-E. Asia
    107 20 SINGAPORE. Aue- 17 THE FORMER Yokohama Specie Bank, now kno*n as the Bank of Toky o ano principal bank of JaP* 1 “Big Five,” is making economic survey of 11 possibilities in Soutn-Et > As in Mr. Katsutaka Shimizu, manager of the economic <<
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    833 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. INDUSTRIALS (layers Sellers Alex Bricks. Pref 2.15 2 30 Ordt 3.40 3.45 Atlas Ice 12.50 13.50 B B. Petrol 32/9 33/9 B.M. Trustees 6 50 7.50 Con Tin Smejt. Pref 21/- 22/Ords. 21/- 22/- xd Eastern United 36 75 37.50 Fed. Dispensary 155 1.65
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