The Straits Budget, 30 October 1952

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) New Series No. 326. Thursday, October 30, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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      FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH
      172 2  -  JUST A HORSE. Singapore MAY I, through your columns, thank the Singapore City Council and Singapore Turf Club for their consideration in not permitting houses for human beings to be built within earshot of my air-con-ditioned stable at Bukit Timah? I have just returned from a
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      MUCH-MALIGNED COMMISSION
      53 2  -  ONE WHO KNOWS. Kota Itahru WE have heard enough of complaints about the much-maligned War Damage Commission. What about the many thousands of claimants. 90 per .cent of whose claims are false anyway? 1 think the Commission Is doing a fine Job of work and has been most
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      War damage: an official answer
      789 2  -  E. GRAHAM. Chairman. VOUR leading article of October 21 requires correction in respect of each point it endeavours to make: Appeal boards are always composed of three members; that is to say, of nearly always two unofficial members and one official member. It is sometimes
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      FOOTBRIDGE WANTED
      54 2  -  E. K. ABDUL KADER Singapore. AH UG E crowd of Singapore people is > altvays crossing from > Clifford Pier to Change Alley during office work- > ing hours. Traffic and pedestrians alike are im• > peded. If the City Council could build an overhead bridge at this
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      ‘Raising the wind’ In education’s name
      374 2  -  klyne street. Kuala Lumpur. |>Y the Registration and Licensing of Bu f if it becomes law, an annual licence f, -fn be imosed on businesses. This is new taxatio the purpose of raising additional revenue nl should be treated as such. na The promoters
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      New pictorial stamps
      112 2  -  TEO HONG KANG. Singapore. rE public has already been given the opportunity of seeing the design of our “Coronation Stamp”, which was depicted in vour issue of October 11. 1952. Would it not be possible for the Colony Government to have the designs of our new definitive
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      VIEWS AND FIGURES
      99 2  -  J. F. ARTHUR, (for Chairman). WHILE I do not agree some of the opinio* pressed in your article Issue of Oct. 22 on Damage). I appreciat* there are different pen view. I am concerned, howm get the figures quoted b accurate. I believe you quoting figures which
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Reply to Criticism
      376 3 Straits Times. Oct. 22. In a letter in this issue, the chairman of the War Damage Commission replies to criticism of his defence of the Commission’s work. There nave been many complaints, ,nd no doubt there will be runny more, not least because t is six years
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      A Boost For Rubber
      693 3 —Straits Times. Oct. 24. two cent rise is somewhat (1 comment on New' York 11 its that American rubber iifacturers have decided 1 more natural rubber and 1 snondinqly less synthetic. 'he background to this '••'ion is not entirely re•>inu. It is believed, for instance, that
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      Prison Babies
      398 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 24. Conscience is shocked at the charge by a prison visitor that babies living with their mothers in the Kuala Lumpur prison “aie being made to suffer for the sins of their parents.” Mrs. E. Ramachandram, a visiting justice of the peace, told the Selangor
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      Wages Award Error
      597 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 25. An unfortunate error on the part of the board of arbitration which yesterday published its award on rubber workers’ wages may reopen the whole dispute. Union leaders received the award as publish- j ed last night with some show of jubilation. Yesterday afternoon
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      Rubber Wage Dispute
      866 3 Straits Times. Oct. 27 The only pleasant background note in the dispute on rubber workers’ wages is the improvement in the price of rublxT. Unfortunately it is pitched a little too low to he clearly heard above the discord. Meanwhile the days are running out, and there
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      Progress To Security
      611 4 —Straits Times. Oct. 28 The Deputy Director of Operations in his review yes- terday of the campaign against the Communists described the progress made this year as showing “a very substantial i improvement in many aspects j of the situation.” That is no exaggeration. In almost every
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      Reverses In Indo-China
      597 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 29. Not much credence need be given to a report from Paris that the French Prime Minister, when he visits Washington. will ask for the support of British and American troops in Indo-China. For one thing M. Pinay knows what the answer would be.
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      A ‘Starvation Budget’
      359 4 A Starvation Budget’ Knowledge of the joint Gov-ernment-Municipal committee which is to examine the problems of finance alone redeems Kuala Lumpur’s unpleasant municipal budget meeting. The estimates show a deficit of $100,000, with expenditure totalling $5.9 million. But they arc artificial estimates of expenditure. All spending lias heen cut to
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      Take It From Here
      128 4 —Straits Times. Oct. 29 Cernt home Jim bawled the ice from tin clouds. Probably it meant little enough ’•> most o: th v who heard it in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Even gor.ia! •Tim, when the news reach O' him from hero, may profess j some astonishment.
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    Old Frees meet in London
    67 4 From our Own Correspondent LONDON. Oct. 26 annual meeting of the lnitea Kingdom Old Frees tion was held at the T*aiai y Restaurant London \a* week. Old boys of the Pen ang Free Scnool fr0^ 1 over Britain were present a. the dinner. Mr Officers
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    600 SOLDIERS FOR MALAYA
    42 4 SINGAPORE. (I t Nearly 600 troops repiat< ments for Singapo re a Malaya, arrived in S.ru. > yesterday by the trt ep>. Dunera. Thirty-six-service minidisembarked. In transit for Hong K< >•- were 201 service famihs »i.. •more than 300 troops.
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    DR. MATTHAI
    39 4 SINGAPORE. Oct. Dr. John Matthai Finance Minister of and his wife, arrived Singapore yesterday bv Carthage from Hong KonThe Matthais have c» pleted a tour of South- r Asia and Japan and will a for India tomorrow.
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    They’re saving
    31 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 2' Over $30,000 worth of star has been bought bv stud* in 136 schools participatin': the Students’ Savings Sclv Seventy thousand save cards had been issued.
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    The General in the Trilby is dead
    920 5  -  by by LESLIE HOFFMAN KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 27. rpHE MAN THEY USED I TO CALL “THE GENERAL IN THE TRILBY” lS dead. He died last night at Nicosia, Cyprus, where he had retired less than a year ago to be with his wife.
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    DEATH OF MR. J. D. JOSEPH
    102 5 SINGAPORE, Oct. 29. News was received in Singapore yesterday of the death in Britain on Monday or Mr. J. D. Joseph, principal of the Singapore Teachers Training College. Mr. Joseph, accompanied by his wife, went home on long leave in May. A former acting
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    The Straits Times Annual for 1953
    638 5  -  R. W. B. r|NCE a year, we the inhabitants of this glittering, sensual and absorbing group of lands in South-East Asia are presented with a mirror in which we can delight in the shades and reflections of our own passing scenes. “The Straits Times
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    New post rates
    47 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 28. The Postmaster General. Malaya, announced today that from Nov. 1, revised air mall postage rates to many overseas countries. Including Canada, Newfoundland. Northern and Southern Rhodesia, United States and countries In North. Central and South America, will come Into force.
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    Lumut changes
    31 5 SITIAWAN, Oct 28. Mr. J. M Milne, a resettlement officer, Kampar, hrus been posted to Luinut In place of Mr. Oordon F Ward, who has been transferred to Ipoh
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      BIRTHS
      179 5 BETTEN: On Oct. 22nd at Kuala Lumpur to Glennis. wife of G.G.K. Set ten. a son. ROBINSON RASA MINE: To Ruby and Ken, a son, at Bungs ir Hospital, 6-14-1/2, Kenneth Lionel. both well. SHEPPARD: To Avis, wife of R. C. Sheppard at Kondang Kerbau Hospital on 16th Oct.
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      ENGAGEMENT
      40 5 FLEMINO—SUTHERLAND. The engagement Is announced between William Allison, eldest son of the late Mr. James and Mrs. Fleming of Broughty Ferry and Alix Gordon only daughter of the late Dr. R. S. Sutherland and of Mrs. Bone of Edinburgh.
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    21 5 DEATH JOSEPH: On Oct. 27th at Cardiff Mon. John David beloved husbnrvi of Ann passed away peacefully after a long illness.
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    TOW FOO POK FOR SALE
    10 6 Photograph by Sam Kai Faye.
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    As I was Saying
    767 6  -  CYN1CU8. AIL and champagne are an unusual mixture. They seem, however, to have blended well enough for ceremonial purposes when the Duchess of Kent broke a vintage bottle over the head of Seria’s newest well. The barrels have had to be rolled outright smartly, for the
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1070 6  -  Stanley Street. Crai) Island AN ARTICLE written by Noni Wright on the sturdy island folk of Pulau Kctam. off Port Swettenham in the Klang Straits, was published in the Straits Times on Tuesday. She has been taken up by Mr. Lian Teck Chew of Singapore,
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    A BOY HERO meets the Duchess:
    63 7 From left are Bryan Edmett, the Duchess of Kent Terence Edmett and his parents. Mr. and Mrs. L. T F. Edmett. Terence Edmett, the 15-year-old schoolboy who drove his family in an armoured car through heavy fire in a terrorist ambush on Nanyo Estate,
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    Countryman’s Journal
    575 7  - Countryman’ s Journal TUAN DJEK. A WEEK ago there was a select curry tiffin party to welcome the new Brigadier. As it was a Sunday everyone behaved with decorum. The Tuan, however, picked up some “copy”, but having injudiciously given a certain lady a preview of it, he was warned
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    Fifty Years Ago
    282 7 From the Straits Times of 1902. THE Rajah of Kelantan is reporter to be collecting arms and ammunition and making preparations that are almost ostensibly for the purpose of resisting Siam. JN a second circular to subscribers to the new Electric Light and Power project the Municipal:
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    A MALAYSIAN NOTEBOOK
    681 7  -  Stanley Street. ONLY two weeks ago Krakatoa was discussed in this column. Now there is news that it may explode. This column denies in advance that it has had or will have any responsibility in the matter if it does go ud. With this safeguard the subject
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    To study war tactics in Malaya
    84 7 SYDNEY, Oct. 26. CiOL. A. E. YOUNG, Commls- sloner of Podice in the Federation, said in Sydney that ho would invite Australian police commissioners to send selected officers to Malaya to study tactics used against terrorists. He arrived in Sydney by air from Singapore
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    Spencer visits collieries
    55 7 SINGAPORE. Oct 27. Mr. O. A. Spencer. Member for Economic Allairs, and Mrs. Spencer, visited the Malayan Collieries’ installations a: Hatu Arang, Selangor. on Friday. Th'\v were shown around by Mr. N. Warmington, the manager. On their way back, they visit('d the new cement factory now being
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    “The Sunflower”,
    12 7 by Guan Yong Boon, c/o Standard Vacuum Oil Company, Singapore.
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    Big sunken dock beats schedule
    515 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 23. A HUGE section of Admiralty Floating Dock No. 9, sunk by American bombers in Singapore Naval Base shortly before the end of the war, heaved itself off the sea-bed and rose 54 ft. above the surface yesterday—24 hours ahead of schedule. The
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    Mrs. Fozdar returns
    28 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 24. Mrs. Shirin Fozdar, secretary of the Singapore Council of Women, returned by Quotas BOAC yesterday al'et a three-month lecture tom in Australia.
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    Ban on bad hospitals
    126 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. TH E SINGAPORE City Council is considering legislation to ban ill-kept and insanitary private maternity and nursing homes. The proposed Bill, wnich will eventually go to the Colony’s Legislative Council, requires all privately-run nursing and maternity homes to be licensed by trie City
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    SCOPE OF THE LEE FOUNDATION
    242 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. THE SCOPE of the Lee Foundation, founded by the A multi-millionaire, Mr. Lee Kong Chian, is to be widened so it can develop education, support working class housing schemes at non-profit rents and provide recreation grounds. Mr. E. E. F. Pretty, adviser
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    TOO NOISY TO BE THE NEIGH-BOURS
    112 8 SINGAPORE, Oct 23. raceA horses need protection from the noises made by human beings so the Singapore City Councils plans to build senior officers’ quarters for the Electricity and Water Depart- •merits on land off Duncarn Road have been scrapped. The Singapore Turf Club
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    GIFTS FOR KL MUSEUM SOUGHT
    117 8 LONDON. Oct. 22. TIE Pre idem of the Association of British Malaya, Mr. G A. Potts, has appealed to residents in Britain for sifts of Malay weapons, coins sarongs, Chinese porcelain, earl* Indian work, neolithic stone and axes or othir objects. These art- for the
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    R.A.F. chief ends visit
    78 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 23. Air Chief Marshal Sir v l liam Dickson. Chief ot A’- r Staff designate, yesterday Singapore for Jakarta on e. way to Australia. He had completed a t <m: day visit to headquarters. Fat East*Air Force. Changi. At Changi airfield to si him
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    Planters to get U. S. carbines
    91 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 22. nUICK-FIRING carbines for planters will be 1 issued very soon, the Federation Government announced today. A consignment of several thousand of the American M 1 type arrived bv sea for distribution to planters, police, miners and Home Guards. The Home
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    $8,500 FOR A CHAIN OF OFFICE
    126 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 24. A CHAIN of office for the future Mayor of Singapore can cost up to $8,500 and a mace up to $6,000. Quotations have been received by the City Council jimm firms in the Colony and Britain, together with suggested designs for
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    Asian hostel in Sydney suggested
    152 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. PADRE Harry Thorpe, of Bathurst, New South Wales, yesterday suggested ’hat “some person or organisation” in Singapore or the ’ederation establish a hostel m Sydney, Australia, for Vsian students. Padre Thorpe told the Straits Tinges that even Australian students found it di'licult
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    Ambushed patrol fights back, bag 3
    309 9 TWO soldiers of the 1/10 Gurkhas, Sergeant l Bachandmoj Imbu and Private Tikaram Gurung King wounded in the British Military Hospital, Mngapore, yesterday described how, 24 hours earlier, their patrol turned the tables on 50 terrorists lying in ambush. They told how the 22
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    Mr. R. Jumabhoy
    17 9 Singapore Legislative Councillor. Mr. R. Jumabhoy. will be going for three w’eek.s to Iraq.
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    ‘BRANDY’ TREE HELD SECRET
    130 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 22. THIS Ls the story of two trees. TREE NO 1. near Eaub in Pahang, appeared perfectly ordinary until a member of the Third Malay Regimen! discovered its hidden secret. It was hollow. Inside was found a rich, if unusual, trove of bandit
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    FILM WILL AID RED VICTIMS
    251 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 22. fyf ALAYANS who have suffered as a result of 1 bandit activities are to benefit from the proceeds, in the form of a charity, of the Malayan premiere of “The Planters Wife” to be held in Kuala Lumpur early in December.
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    MEMBERS OF THE SKAL CLUB of Singapore
    103 9 1 —an association of people connected with travel companies and agencies—were guests of the Rotterdam Lloyd at lunch aboard the liner Willem Ruys on Oct. 22. laft to right are Mr. .1. .1. Bisschop, manager of til,. Rotterdam Trading Company (Malaya) Ltd., shipping
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    4 Sultans for the Coronation
    185 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 23 rj'OUR Malay Sultans will represent the nine Rulers of the Federation at the Coronation of the Queen next June, a Federation Government spokesman told the Straits Times today. They will be the Sultan of Johore, the Sultan of Selangor, the Sultan
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    THE FIRST Industrial Court ever to deal with a labour dispute in Singapore he Id its first sitting at the room of the Labour Department.
    90 9 It heard the case of the 24 City Council gas stokers who threatened to go on strike last month following tlieir claim for a basic
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    MR. R. P. BINGHAM Resident Commissioner of Penang, who has returned to Singapore after long leave in Britain.
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    BRUNEI WELCOMES DUCHESS
    224 10 When the Duchess of Kent arrived in Brunei, she received a state welcome from the Sultan and was borne through the streets of the little capital in the usongan (royal litter) to the Lapau (audience hall). The Sultan *at beside her. Right: The Duchess licks the champagne
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    Children’s goodbye
    49 12 Children’ s goodbye SINGAPORE S SCHOOLCHILDREN, waving paper flags, say their good-bye to the Duchess just before she stepped into the Argonaut. Below. Service chiefs, senior neaas of the Government and four unofficial members of the Legislative Council join in waving farewell to the Royal visitors. w w.is shut.
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    Guns boom and 1,000 children cheer as Duchess leaves
    413 12 Guns boom and 1, 000 children cheer as Duchess leaves SINGAPORE, Oct. 28 MORE than 1,000 Singapore schoolchildren lined th balconies of Kallang airport building yesterdav morning and cheered as the Duchess of Kent and th‘ Duke left by air for Hong Kong. ne Singapore gave a loyal send-off to
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    BOYS’ COY. MAKING PROGRESS
    125 12 SEREMBAN, Oct. 26. rE six week old Boys’ Company of the Malay and Federation Regiments, now stationed at Port Dickson. was making good progress, the O.C. Training Centre, Major D. Burnett, told the Straits Times today. Major Burnett spent two hours conducting a group of Press
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    Metal display
    24 12 The Malayan Tin Bureau is among 434 companies participating in the 34th Annual National Metal Congress Exhibition now being held in Philadelphia.
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    Vice-consul
    19 12 SINGAPORE, Oct. 27. Mrs Clifton Virginia Riley has been recognised by the Governor as U.S. Vice-Consul for Singapore.
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    Korea action saved Asia
    69 12 SINGAPORE. Oct -< If Communist aggression had not been stopped Korea there might be no pay of Asia free today, the Lmn States Assistant Secre».a.> for Far Fastern Affairs, m*John M. Allison, said o\lt Radio Malaya last night “This shows.” Mr. A-ii.-i added. “that if the
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    Wife is granted a decree nisi
    76 12 SINGAPORE. Oct. 23 Mrs. V. M. Williams, had been living separa from her husband during past nine years, was gran a decree nisi bv Mr. Jus': Knight in the Singapore H Court yesterday, dissoly. her marriage to Mr. E. Williams on the ground his
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    They took food from jungle fighters
    488 13 Shocking, says Magistrate SINGAPORE. Oct. 24. TWO managers, Gordon Warrington and Allan 1 Richard Burns, yesterday pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court to dishonestly receiving food off a troopship. The Magistrate, Mr. H. B. Livingstone, said that the food was for the
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    Clinic moves to new building
    60 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. The Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association Clinic in Tanjoog Pagar Road will be closed on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 for transfer to its new million-dollar building—the Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic— in Shenton Way. Patients requiring treatment and applicants for X-ray should call at
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    New barrister for S’pore
    41 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. Mr. J. B. Maxwell was admitted to the Singapore Bar yesterday by ihe Chief Justice, Sir Charles MurrayAynsley, in the High Court. Application for Mr. Maxwell’s admission was made by Mr. J. C. Cobbett.
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    Wanted: a ‘superman’
    52 13 Wanted: a superman SINGAPORE, Oct 23. The Singapore City Council is seeking a C 4.000 (5.34,000) a year “superman” to advise on the organisation and methods of its departments. The ofiicer, to be appoineH in Britain, will work for an initial two years with the option of a year’s extension
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    LIGHTS IN STRAITS TO BEAT REDS
    126 13 SINGAPORE, Oct 24. Searchlights on Singapore Island lit the Straits of Johore last night as a practice anti-bandit measure. They will be on permanently from tonight. They were one of the measures announced by the Governor, Mr. J. F. Nicoll. at the last Legislative
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    THE POLICE PROVE IT PAYS TO HELP THEM
    127 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. SINGAPORE Government has offered to pay for the damage caused to the car of a British Army captain who blocked the barrow of a hawker running away from the police. A police spokesman said yesterday: ‘The cost of repairing
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    City may collect $2m from hawkers
    129 13 SINGAPORE. Oct. 23. LEGISLATION to licence and control hawkers in Singapore is expected to be laid before the Colony Legislative Council next month, a Government spokesman told the Straits Times yesterday. The new legislation, which will be in the form of amendments to the
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    Man from H.K. takes over welfare services
    174 13 KUALA LUMPtJR, Oct. 23. fTiHE man who organised Hong Kong’s Social WelA fare Department. Mr. J. C. McDouall, has arrived in Kuala Lumpur to take charge of the Federation’s welfare services. His new job is “an exhilarating challenge,” Mr. McDouall told the Straits
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    Confidence in Templer ‘increasing’
    83 13 PENANG, Oct. 24 THERE was increasing confidence in Britain in Gen. Sir Gerald Templer’s handling of the Emergency in Malaya, Mr. Jules Martin, a former Federal Councillor, said today on his return from seven months’ leave. “Everywhere I went I heard good comments on the High
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    Customs officer
    24 13 Mr P. W. Talbot, an officer of the British Civil Service, has been appointed Customs Officer, Malayan Customs Service, on temporary transfer.
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    FEWER BEAVER FLIGHTS
    226 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 23. "FLIGHTS on the south- ern route of the Federation air service will be cut by half because of poor support. Instead of operating four times a week, the service’s Beaver aircraft will fly only two weekly services, on Tuesdays and Fridays, from Nov
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    Unilever Ltd Director
    77 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 27. Mr. J. P. van den Bergh, director of Unilever Ltd., London, arrived in Singapore by air yesterday for a fourday tour of the company’s Singapore and Kuafla Lumpur branches. He wilt spend three days In Singapore and then visit the company’s now soap factory
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    Funeral of Johore’s Sultan’s sister
    439 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Oct. 25. T*HE British Royal Family was represented at a Royal Malay funeral when the Duchess of Kent, staying at Bukit Serene as a guest of the Com-missioner-General, sent her private secretary, Mr. Philip Hay, to represent her at the state funeral of
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    UMNO seeks a song
    54 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25 THE United Malays National Organisation is looking for an anthem. It has approached a Malay songwriter, Bung Zubir Said, to compose one. The general secretary, Inche Zulkifli Hashim, yesterday said that l MNO had inaugurated an anthem competition open to composers of Malay
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    Delay annoys Govt officers
    267 14 SINGAPORE, Oct ‘>1 QNE HUNDRED MEMBERS of the SinL nr Senior Officers’ Association, repres.',,!^ 0 locally-domiciled senior Government servant at a meeting yesterday passed a re*.»i..« 1 “deploring Government’s attitude” at th tl0n j week delay to reply to two petitions sent'hv them on family allowances.
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    Killed on a visit
    60 14 RAUB. Oct. 24.—Mr. Chua Eng Chan, a 31-year-old agricultural assistant, of Raub, was killed by bandits yesterday morning at Sungei Ruan. Mr. Chua, a Malay assistant, and a Chinese contractor were visiting an experimental cocoa plantation when they were fired on. Mr Chua was killed in
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    HOUSING ON ESTATES HIT
    54 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 26. Housing for labourers on many estates in Malacca “leaves a lot to be desired.” says the monthly report of the Labour Department. During last month the department told 12 estates to start new building programmes. Labour officers inspected conditions of employment on
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    New assistant
    23 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Oct. 24. ASP..P. p. Orton has been appointed assistant to the 0.5.P.C., Johore Bahru, succeeding A.S.P. Haron bin Hassan.
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    EX-OFFICER EXTORTED $10—3 MONTHS
    141 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. I>OBERT ARTHUR QUINN, 31-year-old ex-army officer, was yesterday sentenced to three months’ hard labour for extorting SlO from Foo Chee Seng, a shop assistant, and for attempting to extort 85 from Ismail mn Awang, a mandore, on Sept 5. Quinn submitted to the
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    THE CELL BABIES: Charges are ‘not true’
    275 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 24. T*HE chairman of the Board of Visiting Justices, Selangor, Mr j. g. Adams, today repiied to the allegations of neglect of prison babies in Pudu Prison, made by Mrs e Ramachandran, herseif a visiting Justice, at a meeting of
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    Island gets new school
    78 14 SINGAPORE. Oct WHEN Pulau Seraya’s only school collapsed pupils were left with'”*' place to study. But a public-spirited nony approached the Sin::!'" Education Depart men- 1 materials to build the i a new school. Last Saturday the Malay School of Eu- 1 Seraya, an island oh
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    INSPECTOR ON CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER
    168 18 KL ALA LUMPUR, Oct. 28 POLICE Inspector Wan Omar, who was detained following a shooting incident in Central Police Station. Kuala Lumpur yesterday, was charged with attempted murder before the First Magistrate here this morning He was alleged to have attempted to murder Mr.
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    511,780 safe
    29 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 29. One in every two persons in Singapore has been vaccinated since the campaign began on Aug. 20. Latest figures vesterdav were 511.780 are mated.
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    S’PORE GRAFT PROBE WIDENS
    311 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 29. 'jMIE Singapore Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau has uncovered information from its recent opium-smuggling investigations which led into other fields of corruption, said the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, at a Press conference yesterday. mlormation, he added, might lead the "lugger elements at
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    5 will share the $75,000
    72 18 TIIE $75,000 reward for the capture of the Malay terrorist leader. Mohamed Indcra in .Vohorc, will go to the five Home Guards who took the leading part in the oneration. the Federation Government said The policemen who helped the Home fiuards will not receive any
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    LEADERS OF BUSINESS IN MALAYA
    167 18 Mr. oxg pi ah tfng who started life as a clerk, rose to be the managing director of a hank and a well-known Singapore businessman. Bom at Quemov. in China, in 1892, Mr. Ong came to Singapore when he was only one year old. He
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    Rubber men will see Coronation
    78 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 28 THE leader of the Federation’s 350,000 rubber workers and a British rubber planter are two of the four representatives nominated by the Federation Government to attend the Coronation of the Queen in London in June next year. The rubber workers’ leader
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    Fijians dominate Malayan rugby
    1167 18  -  THE WEEK IN SPOrt By TEOH ENG TAT SINGAPORE. Oct. 28. A FORECAST of a Negri-Maiacca domination in this year’s rugby classics the H.MS. Malaya, North v. South, and Combined Services v. Combined Civilians—was given at Seremban on Saturday when they beat Selangor by 15 points
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    SERONOK WINS PENANG CUP
    1207 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Oct. 18. L 1 ERONOK’S early speed proved too much for his ponents In the Penang Cup or 7f. for Class 4, Div 1 ,rses at Penang yesterday, oond day of Penang Turf Club Autumn meeting. Mak- a three-length break once ne
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    RIGOLETTO TAKES THE AUTUMN CUP
    1204 19 PENANG. Oct. 25. RIGOLETTO, with Roy Percival astride, scored a runaway five-length win in the Autumn Cup over 1 114miles for Class 3 stayers at Penang yesterday, concluding day of the Penang Turf Club Autumn meeting. Tracking Winter Lady and Misty Line into the straight,
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      86 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $356,800 1st: No. *****4 ($85,632) 2nd: No. *****7 ($42,816) 3rd: No. *****0 ($21,408) STARTERS: ($4,757 each) Nos. *****2, *****8, *****3, *****9. *****6, *****9, *****4. *****3. *****4. CONSOLATION: ($2,140 each): Nos. *****0, *****8, *****0, *****9, *****8, *****9, *****9, *****8, *****5, *****1. Big Sweep TOTAL POOL $392,000 1st.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    834 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 29. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Ah*x. Brlck6. Pref. 2.15 2.30 Ords 3.50 3 60 AUas Ice 12.50 13.50 8.8. Petrol 36/- 37/B.M. Trustees 6 50 7 50 Con. Tin Smelt. Pref 21/- 22/Ords 21/6 22/6 Eastern United 36 50 37.50 Fed. Dispensary 1.70 1.75 Fraser Neave
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    TIN STOCKS ARE DOWN
    50 20 Stocks of tin met. 1 and tin-in-concentrates end of Septembei were 1,851 tons dovn. cm pared with the end oi September stocks 'y*' *j ot against 6.838 at th» August. Production of tin- n contrates was also ck t Septembei, 4.492 tons a4,755 tons In August
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    Mr. E. M. F. Ferguson
    67 20 SINGAPORE Oct E. M. P. FERG L chairman and 0 director of Straits Tradin' Ltd., and President of the pore Chamber of Commoi a Singapore by air yesterda d business trip to Africa London. v Mr. FeTgusson’s brother-n Sir John Bagnail. a directoi Straits Trading
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    Steady volume of business
    368 20 SHARE MARKET By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct. 27. I N a featureless week, Malayan markets maintained a steady volume of business and in the industrial range prices were cut to clear several stocks which had come on offer in quantity. The market reaction was a
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    Memorial on Exchange Bill
    96 20 By A Market Correspondent TOURING last week the Malayan Sharebrokers’ Association presented to the Governor of Singapore and the Executive and Legislative Councils a memorial upon the proposed Exchange Control Bill. The memorial demonstrates that the Select Committee which recently reported on the bill, while agreeing
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    128 20 SINGAPORE. Oct. 29. price of copra in Singapore advanced sharply by $2, buyers being quoted at $39 a picul f.o.b. ar.d sellers at $3994. Coconut oil was correspondingly up in pAce, with buyers at $56 and sellers $60. The market yesterday experienced a surge of buying interest,
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    BUSINESS DONE
    244 20 By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct. 27. Business done in the Malayan Share Market last week included: Industrials: Fraser <fc Neave Ord. $2.60 to $2.50 ex all; Consolidated Tin Smelter Ord. 22 3d 22- Hammer $2.65; Hongkong Bank $743; Malayan Cement $1.26 to $1.18; Malayan Collieries $1.47 Va;
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    MORE CARGO HANDLED
    91 20 rFHE downward trend in the tonnage o t cargo handled in the port of Singapore halted last month when 564,749 tons of cargo were loaded and discharged at the wharves and in the roads. This is an increase of nearly 13.000 tons over the cargo handled in
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    Malaya has credit balance of $9.8m.
    398 20 Malaya has credit balance of $9.8 m. By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE Ont jyjALAYA last month exported $4,600,000 v ,4. lu goods more than she received, and 11, t lh of nine months of the year, trade was S 9 sr rirs t her favour. 0 This favourable balance of
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    DIVIDENDS OF THE WEEK
    44 20 From A Market Correspondent. SINGAPORE. Get. 37. Dividend announcements made last week were:— Tl Dividends Payable Date Books Close Chenderiang Tin s** final less tax Dee. 1 Nov. 5 Teluk Kruin Tin 2nd interim less tax. Oct. *5B Oct. 35
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    U.S. reports stimulate trading
    207 20 SINGAPORE Ol 25 AFTER a dull v. ok the market w.i> mutated on reports from America that manufacturers SSL mor natural b b. er in tyres Fairly active trading ensued and prices advanced about 2', Lewis and Peat’s weekly re. port. however, bt- realised that the
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