The Straits Budget, 28 August 1952

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    31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) y a Series No 317. Thursday, August 28, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      Greeks had a word for if
      77 2  -  RITA. Rutterworth. WISHING only to have his passport papers signed, a poor Indian labourer approached a certain doctor, who demanded $10 for the job. The labourer then tried a certain J.P., whose rates were even higher—he demanded $25 (Is this the reason why the
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      Protecting the sports
      142 2  -  ROSA DARTLE. Federation of Malaya. IN the Aug. 16 issue of a contemporary of the Straits Times I read that security measures in and around Ipoh Town included 1,000 regular! police, some of whom came from towns as far as Taiping t Auxiliary police were also there;
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      Power to stifle just inquiry
      256 2  -  CALIGULA. Singapore. THIS letter is written, as are many you receive, during a blackout. It is written, as are most you receive, by a member of the public whose only method effectively to express his discontent is through the Press. It appears from statements of
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      A Commission?
      246 2  -  KLYNE STREET. i mmmj M. ii m j Kuala Lumpur. THE IDEA of detention on suspicion, without trial, is abhorrent to every lawyer, judges included. Nevertheless circumstances may exist (as they now exist) where such detention is an inevitable necessity, as the less of two evils. A man
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      ENGINEER WANTED
      179 2  -  DEAD LETTER. Selangor. 11TITH reference to the re- f ported shortage of engineers for the Pasir Panjang power station, and the difficulty in getting the right men (a statement often made by the Singapore City Council >, perhaps it would interest your readers to know of what would
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      New lampoons for old
      45 2  -  COUSIN |ACK. Ipoh. (Address to the Radio Scientist) Ethereal Boffin, stay your bark, And leave McNeice In hi$ own set. To lurk in peace. Your woc,ds may cause a spark, But as the tinder’s wet You’ll still be in the dark.
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      UP FIVE CENTS
      73 2  -  WAGE EARNER. Singapore. I read with great disgust the report In your paper that the price of rationed rice in Singapore will be incresed by five cents a kati as from September 1. Th e cost of living in Singapore is already high enough to make th
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      QUEEN’S GUIDES
      171 2  -  i unuci E. B. CHEEK nnirimissio Headquarters for Publicity. Girl G"*®' Association Kuala Lumpur I SHOULD be grateful if you would allow me to correct a slight misunderstanding which has arisen in some of the reports of the visit of our Malayan' Girt Guides to the international Camp
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      DRAWING LOTS IN THE M.C.A.
      248 2  - DR AWING LOTS IN THE M.C.A. INDEPENDENT Singapore. member of the Malay in Chinese Association h as denied that money raised from lotteries is to be used ♦for purposes which include the building and stren/thening of a vast political orRanisatlon. If lottery money is to so used then a position
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      THOSE BIRDS OF PASSAGE
      273 2  -  VIVA MALAYAN' Singapore. IT would be Interesting to know the feelings of all true Malayans as regards any bird-of-passage standing for the local elections. In the place, it is difficult to define who exactly is a bird-of-passage. It does not mean that a non-Malay when made
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Unjustified Optimism
      583 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 20. There is nothing in the y, v m scene, observable to t t rdinary member of the pull to justify the rather rcin.'ikable optimism shown p, tin* Colonial Secretary w heii. yesterday’s meeting, he asked the Colony Legislative -uncil to approve the Cover »r’s
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      Rent Control Bill Delays
      467 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 20. When the new Rent Control Bill eventually reaches the Colony statute book it should, judging by the time and consideration that is being devoted to it, have become as near perfect a piece of legislation as it is possible to prepare. Originally
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      The Price Of Rice
      695 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 21. Singapore will have to resign itself to paying more for its ration rice next year if the Government accepts the recommendation of the three-man select committee whose report was published this week. For the committee, while recommending that there should be no
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      London Rubber Talks
      358 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 21. In conformity with the practice established by the Rubber Study Group, secrecy is being closely maintained regarding the London rubber talks. Called to consider the possibility of working out plans to prevent burdensome surpluses or serious shortages of rubber, whether such measures are
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      Opium Policy Needed
      705 3 -Stnits Times, Aug. 22. A useful purpose has been served by discussing in this column at the end of May the gravity of the opium evil in the Colony. It has led to a thorough ventilation of the subject, including some authoritative and informative contributions from Dr.
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      The Sarawak Puzzle
      391 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 22. The more one reflects upon recent events in Sarawak the more difficult it is to form an opinion as to what is the real state of affairs. A government does not declare a state of emergency in part of its territory unless there
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      The Cost Of Silence
      515 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 23. There will be little sympathy for the people of Permatang Tinggi if they are uprooted from their village and sent into detention. Ground there may have been in the past for keeping silent about the terrorists in their area there is none
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      The Shortage Of Land
      415 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 23. The Singapore Government has had to spend $7 million upon acquiring land for resettlement and Improvement Trust housing schemes because reserves of Crown land suitable for these purposes are now exhausted. If such a possibility had been suggested 20 years ago it
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      Legal Concept to Follow
      275 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 25 Odd stricture on judges comes from newspapers in China, translations of which have just been published in London. Most general charge is that they are too deeply biased by old legal concern, which is odd in itself, Lj which becomes odder ..i
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    CHECK ON PICNIC PARTIES
    206 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 24 RIGID tightening of the laws prohibiting movement or rice, flour and other cereals—parr of the “Operation Starvation” against the terrorists has begun in Negri Sembilan. Kuala Lumpur picnickers travelling to Port Dickson yesterday reported tha; er cars had to stop at several
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    Mr. P.A. Gething
    28 4 KUANTAN, Agu. 25. Mr. A. Gething has taken the post of State AgricuL Officer, Pahang, from Mr M. James, who has gone six months’ leave.
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      166 5 TO POH LIAN, wife of Yong Nam Seng, at K.K Hospital on 19.8 52, a son. MORROW: To Treg and Ted a son Christopher Hugh Treggiden at Penang Maternity Hospital 17 8.52. DICKSON: To Barbara, wife of E.M. Dickson, on 20th August at 38. Spottiswoode Park, a daughter. Diana
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    MAN OF THE ISLANDS KEEPS THEM WELL
    812 5  -  By KATHLEEN < HICKLEY QNE of the first persons to be vaccinated against smallpox in Singapore last week was Dol bin Bengol, Pcnghulu of Pulau Sudong. a small island which lies behind Pulau Bukom. Government has not the islanders in its drive to
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    THEY KEEP THE TRAINS MOVING
    295 5  -  By Noni Wright ALL the races of Malaya are represented in the 2,304 workers in the Railway Workshops at Sentul a few miles from the centre of Kuala Lumpur. They are Indians (50 per cent.) Chinese (22 percent.). Malays (20 per cent.). Eurasians and others
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    FED. COUNCIL APPOINTMENT
    48 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 26. The High Commissioner has appointed Mr Chong Khoon Lin a temporary unofficial member of the Federal Legislative Council. He will take the place ol Mr. H. S. Lee who is in Europe on a holiday. Mr. Chong is a tin miner.
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    127 5 DEATHS EWINS BARBARA uged 12 beloved daughter of Eric and Irene (nee Siruyr) at Suva, FIJI, 11th August result of Accident. NEWS has been received of the sudden jind untimely death in Australia of Mr. K.M. Engelm&nn. HILL: On August 22nd, Qordon, ooloved infant son of Norman and Olive. Aged
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    SUNSET
    54 6 This water colour, by the well known Singapore teacher-a rtist T. Y. Choy is included in the Singapore Art Society's t bird open exhibition of work s by local teachers and art students. The exhibition is o pen from 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. daily at the British Council
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    As I was Saying
    594 6  -  STOIC. SINGAPORE. Aug. 23. DR. PAGLAR can usually be relied upon to produce a laugh in his Council speeches. This week it cam e as a relief to a rather grim description of the effects of deprivation of drugs. The doctor recalled that when he was
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1109 6  -  Stanley Stree> Water THE tragedy of Lyumouth in Devon has. in an unwonted place, focussed attention anew' on the elemental fury of water in flood. It is a fury more widely and ferociously known in China and America. Yet over the ages the main destruction
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    Nancy joins up to stay with sister
    190 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. 'TWO sisters who did not A want to be separated flew into Singapore by QantasBOAC from London yesterday, leading another batch of 50 “Templer girls.” Marjorie and Nancy Miller, of Ipswich, have been sent out by the St. John Ambulance
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    S’PORE CITY COUNCIL SEEKS $45 MILLION
    83 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. SINGAPORE City Council will shortly seek to raise $45,000,000 to pay for its electricity, water and other public works projects. The City President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, told the Straits Times yesterday that agreement has been reached with the Government
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    Only one was Chinese
    82 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 20. THERE was only one Chinese among 218 applicants interviewed when recruiting for the Federation Regiment in Perak began at Taiping today. Most of them w'ere Malays. There was a sprinkling of Indians The recruiting team, tinder Major Ryan, rejected HI of the
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    Mentri Besar off to Canada
    41 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. The Mentri Besar of Perak, Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang, left Singapore bv air yesterday. He is going to Ottawa to represent the Federation of Malaya at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference next month.
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    Gen Templer starts boys’ company
    267 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Au*. 20. C. r R Gerald Templer today announced another im- portant Malayan experiment the formation of a boy's company to serve both the Malay Regiment and the Federation Regiment. The company will form the nucleus from which the future officer recruits of
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    BRITAIN’S TOP A-SCIENTIST
    32 8 SIR JOHN COCKROFT. Britain’s top atomic scientist. pictured at Kallang airport on Aug. 20. He was on his way to Australia and New Zealand. Straits Zealand. Straits Times picture.
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    STANDARD OF TEACHING IS FAR TOO LOW SAYS REPORT
    223 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 20. with much higher qualifications than many of those already employed are urgently needed to prevent schools from “slithering across the narrow border which divides cultivated land from the weed patch,” says the 1951 report of the Federation
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    Danger in many Chinese schools
    451 8 FEDERAL EDUCATION REPORT SINGAPORE, Aug. 21 jyjANY of the Chinese schools in the Fedora tion, in their present form, “even the ntovi robust champion of Chinese schools will admit are a most serious danger to this country This is stated by Mr. L. D. Whitfield,
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    Fight graft appeal to Youth Assn.
    173 8 SEREMBAN, Aug. 20 M. C. ff Sheppard. iTA the British Adviser. Negri Sembilan, last night appealed for public support of the GovemMient’s drive to stamp out corruption— "one of the most undermining influences of good government.” He made the appeal when he opened the
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    $186,000 for Blind School
    76 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 2J The Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board ycsa'J" day decided to give a harin'. $186,000 towards the cost o the Princess Elizabeth Seniv* for the blind, to be built a. Johore Bahru. This brings the total contribution from the Boan. u the
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    Elephant killed at estate
    46 8 TELUK ANSON. Aug n An elephant, which had causing a lot of dama ithe Sungei Dua division 1 Sungei Samak Estate. Bernam. has been killerIt was first seen onestate about a week a*’" a report was made t game warden who shot
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    HALF A MILE AWAY THERE WERE SMILES
    252 12 PERMATANG TINGGI. Aug. 21. AFTER the sullenness and silence of tne people of the old village of Permatang Tinggi, General Sir Gerald Templer was greeted with smiles and affection when he visited the new village of the same name half a mile away.
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    MISTRI GIFT IN THE PLAN
    53 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. Singapore Government has decided to incorporate the MLstri gift of $950,000 into the* Colony’s medical plan. Mr. N. R MLstri, chairman and managing director of Phoenix Aerated Water Company, made this gift to the Government in June for additional non-paying accommodation at
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    Mr. P.H. Burgess
    22 12 Mr. P. H. Burgess, Senior Customs Officer, has been appointed to act as Assistant Comptroller of Customs (RelVcmk >, Singapore.
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    The evil record of silent village
    250 12 PERMATANG TINGGI, Aug. 21. THE High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald A Templer, accused the people in Permatang Tinggi of six crimes of silence when he spoke to them today. “Let me tell you of vour evil record.” he said. “On FEB. 2, a Chinese
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    Farmers sign up for Govt food plan
    194 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 22. SINGAPORE Land Office has begun “unofficial registration” of farmers for the 2,566-acres estate at Sungei Bedok, which the Government proposes to open up, for food production. But, farming lots may not be allotted until a land survey, to determine how
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    Committee resigns
    55 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. The committee of management of the Yock Eng Chinese School, Tanjong Katong Road, Singapore, where police recently arrested 32 students and teachers for alleged Communist activities. has resigned en bloc. A general meeting of the school “donors” has been called for Aug. 30 to elect
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    Council meeting
    18 12 The next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council will be on Sept. 16, at 10 a.m.
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    Dogs’ check intensified
    79 12 ITiru amt u i SINGAPORE, Aug 21. y IGILANT checks are bein g carried out bv Singapore police and Customs department to see that no does are smuggled nto the Colony from the Federation whe?e the rabies epidemic is raging. wmre A police officer told the Straits
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    Given four days to name killer
    1153 12 TEMPLER WARNS VILLAc r PERMATANG TINGGI, Au»r >1 THE 79 silent villagers of Permatanu *Ti’ n in Province Wellesley, where last FridJ? 1 Chinese assistant resettlement officer Wavi l a dead, were today given four days in which 1 speak—or go into detention. to
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    Progress of Trade Unions praised
    254 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. rpHE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT in Malaya 1 has made “incredible progress” in the past year, Mr. D. Mungat, secretary of the Asian Regional Headquarters of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, tolc* Pressmen in Kuala Lumpur today. The movement here,
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    MR. GUY EDWARD WILLIAM FRANCIS and his bride, Miss Edith Mary Curd, drive away after their wedding at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore.
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    Doctor tells why they resigned
    94 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. DEPUTY Director of Medical Services. Dr. J. CouttsMilne, yesterday denied that Asian doctors in Singapore had resigned this year because of long working hours and Government’s failure to give them a "square deal.” Dr. Coutts-Milne told the Sunday Times, "So far six
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    New factory inspector
    86 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. IfK ARTHUR E. QUINN, a chief factory inspector is u°w in Singapore on loan jrom the British Ministry of 1 -»r on a t’v ee-year ag^ement. We started work at the inspectorate of Machinery ln Havelock Road this week. Mr. Quinn Is here to
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    SCOUT TROOPS
    35 13 wuala lumpur, Aug. 23. Hew Scout troops have been lormed i n the Kaiumpang, Kerling, Kuala Kubu Bahru. Kampong Gurney (Ulu Yam Hahru) Rawang and Kundang new villages in the Ulu Selangor district.
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    New radio chio
    33 13 Mr. F. N. Lloyd Williams, Deputy Director of Broadcasting, Federation of Malaya, has been appointed to act as Director of Broad casting, Malaya, in place of Mr. H. W. Jackson.
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    Malacca goes on air map
    93 13 SINGAPORE, Au p. 22. MALAYAN Airways announced that their Dakota services will be extended to Malacca from Sept. 1. Eight flights will pass through Malacca a week in the mornings and afternoons on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturday’s. The first Dakota to touch down on
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    10 cannot agree on how to spend $6 mil.
    207 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. T*HE committee, appointed by the Singapore A Government, to consider what should be done with the Colony’s share of the $6,000,000 from tne Indian Immigration Fund, has not come to an agreement on how the money is to
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    AUSTRALIA TO HELP
    34 13 —AP. CANBERRA, Aug. 22.—Au stralia is providing six Red Cross teams, each comprising a trained nurse and an experienced woman welfare worker, to assist in resettlement of Chinese villagers in Malaya.—A.P.
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    Malayans in London fete Watherston
    102 13 LONDON, Aug. 23 MALAYAN students and I members of the Malayan community and Civil Service in London were among guests yesterday at a tea party at Malaya Hall. The party was given by the Malayan Agent in London, Mr. Ward, to allow guests to meet
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    Argylls visit S’pore on way home
    182 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. r |MiE Ist Battalion Argyll A and Sutherland Highlanders, one of the first two British units to enter the Korean war, was warmly welcomed on arrival at Singapore yesterday in the Empire Halladale. The troops are on their way home to
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    Woman granted divorce decree
    68 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 23. Mrs. Doreen Mavis Hall was granted a decree nisi by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore High Court yesterday, dissolving her marriage with Dennis Alfred Hall, an Army driver, on grounds of adultery and desertion. The decree nisi is to
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    SINGAPORE TALKS ON ELECTED MEN
    145 13 SINGAPORE, Aur. 25. INVITATIONS are being sent to Unofficial Members of the Singapore Legislative Council to serve on a committee set up by the Governor, Mr. Nicoll to consider increasing the number of elected councillors, a Government spokesman told the Straits Times yesterday. This committee,
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    900 sail for home today
    46 13 SINGAPORE. Auk. 26. The third troopship diverted by the War Ollice to .speed Service families home from tlr. Far East arrived in Singapore yesterday. 9,769-ton Dorsetshire will take on nearly 900 Servicemen and their families before she sails for Southampton today.
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    New pay plan for M.O.R.s
    48 13 THE FEDERATION Government have recently announced a new retired pay. pensions and gratuities scheme for the Malay and Federation Regiments. A similar scheme for Malayan Other Ranks serving with British forces is under active consideration. Details will be published as soon as possible.
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    Mrs. van Praag returns
    56 13 PENANG, Aug. 23. Mrs. h. b. van praagii. the wife of the Chairman of the Penang Chamber of Commerce, has returned from the United Kingdom with her two boys. Accompanying them on the m.v. Benalder was Mr. van Praagh’s niece, Svea, Countess Oeynhausen, who will spend
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    Plan to aid addicts
    42 13 A PLAN to solve the opiu m addict problem in Singapore is being prepared b y Dr. Chen Su Lan, an authority on opium “When the time comes, it will h«» disclosed,” Dr. Chen told the Straits Times
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    Call for Asians in new villages
    149 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 22. \|ORE Asian workers, particularly Chinese, are 1 1 needed by the churches in Malaya to answer the challenge of Christian service in the new’ villages in the Federation, said the Rev. John R. Fleming, general secretary of the Malayan Chris- tian
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    Singapore’s first mobile bookshop is now in operation.
    54 14 Specially built for the job. it can carry 3.000 books and magazines which are sold at, or below, their cost in the City The shop will visit services camps every week. So far the response has oeen very good. This picture shows
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    DAVID COMES HOME
    112 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. TjVVITH IN GOD and the skill of New York surgeons has brought nine-year-old David Reinoehl back to Singapore again. David is the son of the former pastor of Singapore Wesley Church, the Rev Waldo S. Reinoehl, who will go to Malacca with his family
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    New job for Pahang man
    42 14 BENTONG. Aug. 24 Mr. Michael Hugh Morgan, former Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Pahang, now on leave in Britain, will return to Malaya in October. He will be posted to Ipoh as Chief Inspector of Chinese Schools. Perak.
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    MR N. F. CURWEN
    31 14 BATU GAJAH, Aug. 24—Mr. N. F. Curwen, first European master to the Sultan Yussuf School. Batu Gajah. will be leaving Penang on September 6 for long leave.
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    Six bandits give themselves up
    234 14 Six bandits giv e themselves up KUALA LUMPUR Auet >i > YESTERDAY was the best anti bandit day far this month. Six terrorists gave th«.r° selves up to th e police and the bandit boss ft f the Kangkar Bahru area of Johore was l:ii i bv a Malay Regiment
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    ‘Big improvement soon’: Templer
    207 14 From Our Own Correspondent KLUANC. Aug. 23. IN two months there will be a great improvement in the situation in the Federation, said the High Comm ssioner. General Sir Gerald Templer, here to-day. The General was talking informally to a group of police lieutenants at the
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    Shark kills fisherman
    66 14 KUALA TRENGGANU, Aug. 24 TSMAIL Awang, aged 28, a Malay fisherman of Paka, died a few minutes he was attacked by the shark. Ismail was in knee-deep sea water only four yards from shore near Paka River on Thursday drawing his dragnet ashore when he was attacked
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    New Welfare officer
    29 14 JOHORE BAHRU Aug. 23. MR. C. G. Watts arrived in Johore Bahru from Kuala Lumpur recently to take up duties as Deputy State Welfare Officer, Johore.
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    ANOTHER RED BOSS KILLED
    244 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 23 Communist District Committee Member was killed yesterday. lie was the second District Committee Member killed by the security forces in the Federation last week. The Rod chief killed yesterday was Wong Loke Kilim. He met his death when with four other armed
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    SQUARE DANCE AT Y.W.C.A.
    213 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24 THE WOMAN who brough: the craze for square dancing to Singapore is blonde Mrs. Gwendoline Griffin, whose Police Lieutenant husband—after a four-dav honeymoon last November flew to Malaya to serve sifJi a jungle company. Since then, apart from i brief 36-hour re-union when
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    7,111 GET ‘L’ LICENCES
    31 14 7,111 GET ‘L LICENCES SINGAPORE. Agu. The Licensing Depar of the Singapore Police last month Issued i visional licences to people. The department tested new applicants and 597 Revenue collected $36,457.
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    Sarawak needs more police
    289 15 SIR ROB LOCKHART'S SURVEY —Reuter. KUCHING, Aug. 24. ry HE Deputy Director of Operations in Malaya, General Sir Rob Lockhart, said here todaj that the police force could do with more recruits, in particular Chinese. It should be reorganised from peace lime level to meet the
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    MISS Leena Madhavan, daughter of Mr. A.P. Madhavan, Town Board Super intendent, Ipoh, will be the main star at an Indian dance performance at the Victoria Theatre, Singapore
    55 15 Sixteen year old Miss Leena studied Indian classical dancing at Madras for five years. She represented India at the International Peageant held
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    $400,000 prize to Selangor
    259 15 KIIALA LUMPUR, 24. PICKET No. *****13 won the first prize ol $400.(00 in the Malayan Chinese Association's eleventh million dollar lottery draw today. The ticket was sold in Selangor. The second prize won by No. *****72 ($160,000). The ticket was sold in Singapore. The three third
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    Bandits kill conductor
    40 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 25. An Indian conductor on an estate in the Kuala Lumpur area was brutally murdered by four armed terrorists, who called him out of his office yesterday. The terrorists also burned the conductor’s motor-cycle.
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    COMMISSIONER MARRIED
    58 15 Mr C S Anderson Australian Trade Commissioner for Indonesia, n J Miss Eleanor Markland after Hieir wedding at the Singapore Pro,by ferian Church on A»*. 23. The be,» m a„ wa, Mr. I. Day. Australian Trade Commissioner for Malaya while Mrs. Day was Matron of Honour. The bride
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    Council meeting
    25 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Auk. 25 The next meeting ol the Federal Legislative Council will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept 10 and 11
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    Attack on disease ‘a joint task ’
    227 15 Attack on disease a joint task SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. A JOINT Infectious Diseases Committee, set up by the Singapore City Council and the Government, has recommended that the Council be responsible, in the City area, for direct preventive measures against dangerous infectious diseases, including tuberculosis. The committee has suggested that
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    2 bandits wounded
    62 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25 A terrorist was wounded when he was fired on, by a sentry, as he was seen approaching a camp, iccupied by the 3rd King’s African Rifles, in the Kuantan ar°a of Pahang. Another terrorist is believed to have been wounded by u patrol
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    Naval Base union to boycott elections
    221 15 SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. THE Singapore Naval Base Labour Union* at yesterday’s annual meeting decided to boycott Legislative Council elections in the Seleta r District The president of the union, Mr. B. Sitiah, told over 3,000 union members that Naval Base employees get “no benefit
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    Templer gives the OK but headmen are silent
    453 16 SEGAMAT. Aug. 24. r pHIRTEEN Chinese headmen at Yong Peng today greeted Sir Gerald Templer in stony silence when he suggested they should fight the Communist bandits without help from the Army. Sir Gerald made this suggestion during a tour of Johore
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    GOING TO LONDON
    39 16 MR SAN MUN FOO, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. San Kwok Leong of Kuala Lumpur will leave shortly for Britain on the William Ruys to worn for his articles as a chartered accountant in London.
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    2 Pakistani editors here
    75 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 26. Two Pakistani editors, who have been touring in Indonesia. are now visiting Singapore and Federation. Mr. M. A. Zuberi, editor of the Karachi English daily, “The Evening Star.” arrived by air from Jakarta yesterday. Mr. Khairul Kabir. editor <>f “Sangbad” Bengali daily in
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    Appointment
    32 16 KUANTAN, Aug. 25.—Inche Ahmad bin Jamal, f Malacca, a. boon appointed junior Agriculture Offlcier. East I ahang in place of Wan Azis bin Ungku Adbullah, uh° has been transferred to Temcrloh.
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    He wants £250 for flood victims
    51 16 PENANG. Aug. 25. A gift of £250 for the Lyn Flood Disaster Fund as a mark of sympathy to victims of the tragedy in Western England was suggested by Dr. N K. Menon Indian Unofficial at today’s meeting of the Penang Set* le men:
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    260 boys lose a playing field
    266 16 SINGAPORE, Aug 25 THE extension to Shenton Way, work on wm A began last week, has taken away a from 260 members of the Prince Edward d C lub. The assistant secretary tor Social Welfare. Youths’ Section, Mr. Cat’ n Souza, to* i the
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    ‘Slow’ ferry criticised
    93 16 PENANG. Aug 2d—Mr. Lim Huck At. Chinese Unofficial, said at today’s settlement Council meeting that any improvements in the Penang ferry service should not await the outcome of the Port Development Scheme. Mr. Lim urged that steps be taken to speed up the delays in the service.
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    City to consider salary revision
    229 16 SINGAPORE. Am; •>=; THE Singapore Stv A Council has set up special four man com mittee. under the chairmanship of the DenntCity President. Mr. j Rea. to go into the ques tion of incorporating part of the cost of livinl allowance of Council employees into
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    Insurance rates cut
    89 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 26 The Fire Insurance Assertion of Malaya announce, yesterday a considerable duction in the minimu*** insurance rate charge ale riot and civil commotio cove.* in respect of to- tho.se insured ana had this cover in force on tinuously for three year* For those who have
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    Lancers wounded by bandits
    30 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug f Three British soldier.- slightly wounded when convoy of the 12th 1 was fired on by near the 13th milesh the Mnran-Kuantan h_‘
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    5,745 vaccinated
    14 16 A total of 5,745 people vaccinated against m in Singapore on Aug.
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    THE OLDEST MAN IN THE WORLD ? He is 148, says his I-card
    437 17  - THE OLDEST MAN IN THE WORLD He is 148, says his I-card By CHAN SWAN BEE 7 w THE Oldest living person in Singapore today is Haji Ilias bin Haji Majid who claims he is 160. His identity card, however, shows he is only 148. He was feund by.a group
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    ‘MINE’ AT SEA WAS A BUOY
    118 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. YVARNING was flasnea m ui shipping in Singapore v. yesterday to avoid a livr mine, reported to have seen in the Johor* Sti ait A passing ship reported t the mine could be seen c'e„ ly above the surface three miles
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    UNIONS TO SET UP RIVAL TO TUC
    234 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. A RIVAL organisation to the Singapore I r ade Union Congress is to he formed by some of the newly-formed trade unions in the Colony. ne organisers hope by move to make it possible ,,r Government unions to to a
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    Trucks take 66 to detention
    956 17 NOT-ONE-WHISPER VILLAGERS From STRAITS TIMES STAFF REPORTER PERMATANG TINGG1, Aug. 25. THE VILLAGERS OF PERMATANG TINGGI, 1 LN PROVINCE WELLESLEY, KEPT THEIR OBSTINATE SILENCE TO THE BITTER ENDToday as the clocks in the 19 shophouses in the village struck nine. 6G silent men, women and
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    Three days to destroy the houses
    54 17 rREE days' notice has been given to the owners of the 19 shophouses in Permatang Tinggi village— Chin Heng Estate —to demolish the buildings. Of the 19 shophouses. two were bicycle repairing shops four coffee shops, one pineapple export shop. 11 sundry goods shops
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    ASIANS CAN BECOME CADET A.S.P.s
    118 18 SINGAPORE, Aug:. 27. CADET A.SP. posts in Singapore police force are open to local men with University degrees, said a police spokesman yesterday. “We will consider any applicant with the right educational and physical qualifications/' he said. Physical qualifications are sft. 4in. tall, 6/6 eye
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    Forty-mile dash to fight blaze
    96 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 26. EIGHT shophouses were gutted when a fire broke out last night at Jerteh. a town near the Kelantan border, lying 64 miles north of here. Damage is estimated several hundred thousands of dollars. A Chinese woman, caught in the flames in
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    Mr. B. Jennings
    34 18 KOTA BAHRU, Aug. 26. Mr. B. J. Jennings has taken over the duties of Legal Adviser, Kelantan and Trengganu, from Mr. J. D. Peterkin, who has been transferred to Kuala Lumpur.
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    Footballer dies on field
    52 18 BATU PAHAT, Aug. 26 AJOHORE State soccer player, Mafuz bin Haji Abubakar, collapsed and died during a football game here today. Mafuz, who was 49, was an inspector with the Batu Pahat Town Board. Mafuz represented Johore State at soccer for five years. The funeral takes
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    Course for villagers
    50 18 MALACCA, Aug. 26.—Mr. B. T. W. Stewart, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Malacca, has organised a course for 30 Indian villagers from “regrouping areas”. The course includes visits to Government departments, social welfare institutions, schools, military and police establishments as well as demonstrations, lectures and cinema shows.
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    More scholars
    18 18 There were 148,556 children attending school in Singapore last month, an increase of 229 over June.
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    UMNO PUTS ‘BAN’ ON PURCELL
    394 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26. 'pHE president of the United Malays National Organisation, Tengku Abdul Rahman, today said he would not meet Dr. Victor Purcell, retired Malayan Civil Servant and adviser in London to the Malayan Chinese Association. From his sickbed in Bungsar hospital, Kuala Lumpur,
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    Athletics team to visit Ceylon
    1141 18  -  THE WEEK IN SPOUT By CONRAD NG SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. TIE infant Malayan Amateur Athletic Union has a man-sized job to tackle in the coming weeks. The task is to raise $16,000 to send a team of 20 odd (if possible, 25) to the international
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      70 18 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) isr Quarterly Half-yearlv Yearly Singapore Town Area No Postage 5.20 10.40 20.80 Malaya Including Postage 5.75 11.50 23.00 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can sent by express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at r n mV, s J!.
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    COLIN TULLOH SETS RIDING RECORD
    1003 19  -  If I oil) EPSOM JEEP K ai LUMPUR, Aug. 20. Boi N TULLOH today K breke Frank Flannery’s ML. record of 56 V 2 winners W i‘,,48 when he scorded on I/ilavdi, Kind Regards Bd rrt view at the second Bv cf the Selangor T.
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    PAX HAVEN SCORES DOUBLE AT K.L.
    1034 19  -  From EPSOM JEEP Itvl ALA LUMPUR, An*. 23 n ANDlLY positioned behind the pace. British Film, fth Jackie Jones astride. Hn t with a beautifully |Hged run in the straight to Si the H-mile trophy race Class 3 stayers at Kuala Bmpur today, concluding
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    WOT, NO JOCKEY?
    89 19 TIIL spectacle of a riderless 1 horse finishing comfortably in front of the field thrilled racegoers at Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 20. Seven Eleven threw his rider, Mickey Donnelly, shortly after the start in Race 2, manoeuvred his way through a gap on the falls a furlong
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      108 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL $366,800 No. *****4 $99,036 No. *****2 $49,518 No. *****7 $24,759 STARTERS ($4,951 each): Nos. *****7, *****7, *****9, *****4, *****5. CONSOLATION ($2,200 each): Nos. *****0, *****4, *****5, *****7, *****6, *****5, *****1, *****5, *****4, *****7. DOUBLE TOTES. 1st Double: 3 tickets ($576 each); 2nd Double: 8 tickets ($200
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    LEADERS OF BUSINESS IN MALAYA: (7)
    188 20 THE RUBBER KIN G of Malaya, Mr. Lee Kong Chian, is probably the best known oversea Chinese in South East Asia today. He came to Malaya at the age of seven from the Nan Ann district of China, where he was born. Educated in
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    Industrials and tins continue firm
    245 20 SHARE MARKET] By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. THERE was a fairly large exchange of shares on the Malayan market in the past week, parti- cularly in local tins. Industrial shares opened and continued firm throughout. Hammers rose from $2.15 to $2.35 and Fraser
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    BUSINESS DONE
    215 20 SINGAPORE, Agu. 25. Business done in the Malayan Share Market last week included:— Industrials: Fraser Neave Ordinary $3.90, Federal Dispensary $1.60; Gammon $2,62 4; W. Hammer $2.30 to $2.35; Malayan Breweries $4.75; Robinson Ordinary $3.55 to $3.65; Straits Times $3 971 it to $3.92Me; Straits Trading $19.60 to
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    79 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. /OVERSEAS inquiries from the U.K. and India strengthened the price of copra in Singapore yesterday and business was reported done at $25% per picul f.o.b with further buyers at the price. Sellers were $26. Coconut oil was correspondingly steady, in sympathy with buyers, at
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    New branch for U.E.
    89 20 SINGAPORE. Aug. 27. Tlie United Engineers have established a branch in Australia to open a two-way trade The company has had an office in Melbourne for sorrm time, and this has now been expanded into a branch which will act as a ourchasing office for the
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    COMPANY REPORTS
    299 20 From A Market Correspondent BENONG CONSOLIDATED TIN DREDGING CO.. LIMITED: At an extraordinary general meeting to be held on Sept. 12, 1952. shareholders will be asked to pass a special resolution to reduce capital by returning to members 3/- per share. SIJNGEI KINTA TIN DREDGING LIMITED. whose dredge
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    Cargo handled
    32 20 Cargo discharged and loaded at the Singapore roads and Harbour Board wharves last month totalled 608.723 tons sending the cumulative total for the seven months this year to 4.194.895 tons.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    805 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. INDUSTRIALS Bayers Sellers Alex Brick.* Pref 2.15 2.30 Ords 3.80 3.90 Atlas Ice 12 SO 13.50 8.8. Petrol 35/- 36/B.M. Trustees 6.50 7.50 Coq Tin Smelt. Pref 21/- 22/Ords, 21/- 22/- xd Eastern United ..•36.75 37.50 Fed. Dispensary 160 1.65 Fraser 6t Weave Prefs
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    QUIETEST WEEK FOR RUBBER
    195 20 8INQAPORE, Ant. 23. THE past week has h Pl 1 n °tu the detest of tS year In the rubber and fluctuations u,K* have been negligfbi, Lewis and feat’s w t k,y There has been some oil take for both Euro IS the UAA, but the
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    Rubber output improves
    131 20 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug 23 The federation produced 49.984 long f g rf rubber in July the b?5f month since January the output was 50,814 tom Of this. 29.473 tons Hi Droduced by esta es and 20.511 tons by smallholdings Total production Vr the first seven months of
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    TEA EXPORTS ARE UP
    52 20 KUALA LUMPUR Aug. 26. The Federation exported more tea last month June, but the value was The amount exposed 184,459 lb., worth 51 67 7 1 °b compared with I 64 13 nine valued at $171,574. for W Most of the tea went w Britain—101.280 lb
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    TIN OUTPUT
    32 20 Malay* produced 4.84 1 tin-ln-concentrates in par:d with 4.678 tons »> of For the first seven v(i this year the produc 33,047 tons, compared tons for the correspond i last year.
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    MORE SOAP
    22 20 Ag KUALA LUMPUR. A cfd The Federation I u nt h, 6.600 cwt. of soap las as against 6,296 cwt.
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