The Straits Budget, 5 November 1953

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    29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER c w Series No. 379. Thursday, November 5, 1953 Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 ahillinr
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      MUST FACE CRITICISM
      175 2  -  ANAK NEGRI. Singapore. fTHE picture “Papers B’aze i J A Protest” suggests that 0 uil ““Xton Malays are copySS the Chinese custom of burntnB joss sticks and papers 1 J£1 ings to dead souls. Dl t me this is a method of ornEM also. les l Has
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      HAVE TWO PAPERS ABUSED FREEDOM?
      808 2 I SEE that some of your readers have been shocked by the public demonstration of the United Malay National Organisation in making a funeral pyre Qalam and Warta. I see nothing strange in Tungku Abdul Rahman’s action. Other political parties have been making bonfires of
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      ‘VIOLATION OF FREEDOM’...
      129 2  -  ANAK CHEGU. Johore Bahru. rIE UMNO President, Tungku Abdul Rahman, has severely attacked the editors of the Qalam and Warta publications. He went further by burning in public at Johore Bahru copies of these publications Does this not amount to a violation of the freedom of the
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      Backward
      202 2  -  NON-ARSONIST. Ipoh. HHHE burning of copies of two Malay papers— Warta and Qalam by the UMNO in Johore Bahru was an act of despotism by a group of people whose political immaturity Is now confirmed. What surprised me most was the fact that Tungku Abdul Rahman was at the
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      The ‘poise’ of secretaries
      129 2  -  RETIl’Kfi- Kuala Lumpur. mHE story of the secretary seems to have been debunked! They are said to be required for Police Headquarters. That disposes of tin necessity for great “poise"! There is no stream of business executives seeking interviews in Bluff Road and it 1 difficult
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      Weekly wages
      58 2  -  V. M. S. MAi* i yl Bukit Mertajam. MR. C. P. Liston's sug about weekly wac this country needs try i 1 Dthe authorities. I still remember on* a your editorials a fev ca-» back on this, and do n t understand why no step been taken to
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      Page 2 Miscellaneous Column 1
      59 2 V <1? and to Kamasanuj Q we present the Estate 4 e SR r m m X MB m we 1598®::® i? n® i n xXy ;WSS; i> mmm o <?» Q <* SiS One Malacca estate offers a pair of rubber shoes as an extra bonus tor more rubber
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Keeping The Secret
      644 3 -Straits Times, Oct. 28 Sri.', poll's Financial Secretv n hi. post-budget meeting vitb Bress, stolidly declin*j yi.'t. rd:»v to say anything of inter*--"* on the question of incom* tax. It was not an u J. rea> nahle attitude for a Finii!! Secretary to take at a conference,
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      Rubber, Tin and Nixon
      401 3 -Straits Times, Oct. 28 It is encouraging to learn Item Vice-President Nixon that the facts he has learned about Malayan economy, and about lubber and tin. will be considered by American officials in any long range division they may make concerning these two commodities. Mr. Nixon
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      Public Transport Proposal
      440 3 Straits Times. Oct. 29 r I lie report of the Public Passenger Transport Committee, published yesterday by the Singapore City Council, in general follows expectations, but is none the less valuable tor that. It recommends the creation of an independent transport authority to be set up bet
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      The Test Of Resilience
      655 3 —Straits Times. Oct. 30 The monthly reports of the Labour Department have been for a long time the best barometer of economic conditions in the Federation. They have shown consistently the surprising resilience of the rubber and tin industries to adversity in 1053. The September account
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      Squatters’ Warning
      306 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 30 There is an unmistakable firmness in the Singapore Government’s warning to squatters, or would-be squatters, on Crown land that marks the end of a lenient policy. It has always been an offence to build on Crown land or to cultivate it without a licence.
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      The Five Indian Seats
      560 3 Straits Times, Oct. 31. The Hit'll Commissioner's intention to /ill ;it once tin* five sen*s on the Federal Legislative Council vacated by Indian members offers an opportunity for reconciliation which we hope will be seized Somethin" will depend, of course, upon tile attitude of the High
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      The Plan For Rubber
      859 4 Straits Times. Nov. 3. Out of the labours of the I Rubber Study Group are born i three mice. Stockpiling, a higher price for synthetic and the acceleration of replanting. 1 Admirable mice all, but the buffer stock plan, from which j so much w r
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      Things of Beauty
      487 4 Straits Times. Nov. 2 It is difficult to visit a stamp exhibition and not come away with a desire to collect stamps. There are those who are so quickly seized of ambition that they come away avid philatelists, but for most of us stamp collecting suffices. Casual
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      University Site
      692 4 V'-* miiin/u. —Straits Times. Nov. The University of Malaya’:. 15-year building programme, costing $145 million, goes before the University Council tomorrow. This mammoth project has never ceased to weigh, heavily on the minds of the Council, but by the public in general has been almost forgotten since the
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    Rendel arrives
    56 4 SINGAPORE. N ’V. 3 Sir George Rendel. chairman of the nine-man coinmi >* appointed to renew the stitution of Singapore. by 8.0.A.C Comet this aiorn in*. On the same aircra Legislative Councillor C. C. Tan, who was ret m•; from New Delhi where 1 tended the Colombo Pla
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    Great camera art and dazzling array of names
    755 5  -  R W. BAXTER. —is all the world of quiet pride I untamed in a statement on Page 21 f t; year’s “Straits Times Annual’’ (on a e today). It says merely: “This annual r.nted in its entirety at the Straits S ngapore.’’
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    LIM BO SENG MEMORIAL
    98 5 OCJR ARTIST’S impression of the Lim Bo Seng memorial, the foundation stone of which was laid by the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, at the Singapore Esplanade on Nov. 3. The memorial is designed by Mr. Ng Keng Slang, a local architect, after the Victory Monument in
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    CALL-UP WON’T HIT STUDIES
    142 5 SINGAPORE. Nov. 4 THE compulsory training which will be introduced when Singapore’s big call-up plan begins will not keep people from their work or studies, the Defence Secretary, Mr. C. R. Forsyth, told the Straits Times yesterday. The training, he said, would be similar to what
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      156 5 GARDNER: To Jo. wife of Kenneth Gardner, at Bungsar, on 2.11.53, a daughter, Patricia Margaret. TO Ann Catherine <nee Glass), wife of C. J. L. Elwell, on Nov. 2nd, at the K.K. Hospital, a daughter, Selma Ann. MASON: To Joyce and Horace at Penang, a daughter. Rosemary Sheila, on
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      ENGAGEMENT
      26 5 THE Engagement is announced between Lieut. Lyn E Thompson, D.S.C., R.N.V.R., Royal Malayan Navy, Woodlands, Singapore and Miss Barabara M. Eagland. Tremelbye Bungalow. Klang. Selangor.
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      MARRIAGE
      31 5 THE Wedding between Doreen Constance Hilling and William Frederick will take place on Saturday, 31st. October at 4 p.m. at Wesley Church Fort Canning Road. All friends are cordially invited
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      ACKNOWLEDGMENT
      28 5 MR. AND MRS. A. J. STEPHENS thank all relatives and friends for their kind attendance, valuable presents and messages of congratulations on the occasion of their marriage.
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  • Obituary
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    69 5 DEATHS ANDERSON Agnes Anderson dearly beloved mother of N. A. Marjorlbanks in London after a serious illness. WILFRED SIMMS on 2.1153. Cortege leaving General Hospital for Bidadarl Cemetry 4 30 p.m. Age 55 years. WILLIAM JOHN BERRY. Security Officer. CMu Remts Estate (Oil Palms of Malaya Ltd...) killed by terrorists
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1098 6  -  r v, STANLEY STK> T How they cheered WHILE Harold Williams was doing some fast and furious singing at the H.M.V. studios in Singapore I was doing some fast and furious thinking. It was a magnificent etfort. I mean on Harold William’s part. From Mozart
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    YOUNG MALAYAN
    5 6 HAN HA1 FONG
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    As I was Saying
    800 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE. Oct. 31. T'HE iront page picA ture yesterday of a blazing pyre of newspapers, a burning begun by the President of UMNO who put a torch to the mock coffin, invites serious thought. Obviously it was not a demonstration in favour of free speech,
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    Countryman’s Journal
    698 7  -  TUAN D.IEK. iFTER heavy rain last T; •'day the Tuan over to see the planter, whom he wrestling with of woes and mishaps. His car was r ivnair in Johore he had had to >; "vo sick pups that *oo far gone for the save; about 150 raanv
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    A MALAYSIAN NOTEBOOK
    823 7  -  STANLEY STREET. ONCE upon a time, but thus is no fairy story, since it happened on 4th May, 1493. The Pope of Rome drew an imaginary line across an unknown area of the map. Then he proclaimed that all lands found east of it were t'he property
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    34 years with Government
    34 7 MERSING. Oct 31.- Tuan Haji Hash i m bin Ibrahim, special grade clerk of the district sub-treasury. Mersing, Johore. is going on leave from November before retirement after 34 yars.
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    NEW ISLAND NEARLY READY
    60 7 f t imisi<r barrels In different patterns. Singapore’s newest roundAFTER MONTHS «f 1 pherson and Serangoon Roads, is neari'ig completion. Picahout. at the junction ol island. The bulge at the leftpis designed to slow Mactun- shows tho outline of the lnto S eran S mm Koad.
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    Federation to raise $55 mil.
    81 8 KUALA LUMPUR. O t :H The Federation Govnt. proposes to raise a $55 loan in London to i;ii development project A bill authorising t will be introduced the Federal Legi>latiw r oil. The Government ;nt• spend $14 million construction and $10 on the Malayan Railw.i
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    Australia to send top nurses for T.B. hospital
    406 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 28. gISTERS and senior nurses will come from Australia for the Federation’s tuberculosis sanatorium for which Lady Templer has appealed for $5 million. Seven sisters and Id senior nurses trained in tuberculosis work will arrive as soon as the
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    TIMOR BISHOP
    28 8 BISHOP JAIME GOl’LART of Timor, who passed through Singapore on Oct. 29 in a K.L.M. Constellation after a tour of Britain and Europe. —Straits Times picture.
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    City Council wants $20 million loan
    214 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 29. UNLESS Singapore City Council has about $2O million at the end of this year it will not be able to carry out its extension works. Stating this during; the adjournment of the City CouncU meeting yesterday. Mr. A. P. Rajah (Progressive
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    PROMOTION IS CONFIRMED
    73 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 29 DR. H. R. MORRISON, Deputy City Health Officer. Singapore, will be the City Health Officer when the present holder of the post, Dr. N. A. Canton, gets to the age limit next year. The City Council confirmed the promotion yesterday. It also confirmed the
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    Single transport authority urged
    167 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 29. riE CITY COUNCIL'S Public Passenger Transport Committee has recommended that an indepe:u:< -nr central transport authority be set up to take over the Singapore Traction Company at a cost of $10,000,000 and operate one service for Singapore by later buying up all private
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    New start to varsity year?
    57 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 28 The beginning of the financial year of the University of Ma!aya may be changed. A bill being introduced at November’s meeting of the Federal Legislative Council says that January 1 has been found inconvenient. The bill, if passed, will enable the
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    CONTROL OF EXCHANGE
    44 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 28 A bill consolidating foreign exchange controf regulations in the Federation is to be introduced in the Legislative Council in November It follows on the passage >-t a similar ordinance by the Singapore Legislative Council enrlier this vear.
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    Villagers kill two bandits
    162 8 Kl’ALA LIMPIR. Oct. .’S THREE more terrorists, including Loke Hon. nr.unh committee member for the Bentong area of Pallia;, have been killed. The other two were slash'M to death with parangs br enraged Sakais in a Kampons in the Mersing area oi Joc.ore on Monday. The
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    Clinic struck by lightning
    38 8 JOHORE BAHRU. N*' During a rainstorm last lightning struck the Tangga Duke clinic ot Johore Bahru District Asm'—' tion for the Prevention ot The parapet facing Johore Straits was dan No one was injured.
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    MOVE TO END DUAL PLANNING
    111 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 29 THE Singapore City Council decided yesterday that, bv-laws effecting bungalow areas, rubber factories and theatres and cinemas should be suspended to end the present dual planning bv the Improvement Trust and the Council, This should however not affect any proposals the Council
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    Councillor was away 220 days
    154 11 PENANG. Oct. 29 ■IN and a halt years, from V May 1947 to October 1953, Municipal tan in■P, y r. Inche Mohd Yusoff M hd. Noor. was absent on -'-gyve Council duty for days. -M." Nancy Yeap (Radical, was told this in a ply tabled
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    Price drop hits villages
    85 11 r, Kl v) LA LUMPUR. Nov. 1 °ntri Besar of Kelantan, i bK ’J. Hamzah. told Penggajrn 'ending the All-Kelan-i“, n gawas Conference at I yesterday that the j ‘he prices of tin and c had caused some diffithe villages. i r v °d them to
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    SHE SHOOK HANDS FOR 45 MINUTES The wedding-of-the-year
    519 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 31. a GREAT public event That was how the A Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, described the wedding yesterday of Miss Amy Laycock and Mr. John Ede. Not only the 1.000 guests, saw the Chinese “baby member of the City Council
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    COLONY FACTORY CLOSING
    143 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 30 SINGAPORE’S trade recession has hit another factory, and 93 more Colony workers will lose their jobs next month. The workers employed by Concrete Industries at Swanage Road are under one month’s notice. Fifteen will go on Nov. 15 and the rest a week later.
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    CHE SITI- LADY WITH A PASSION FOR SPEED
    388 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30 C'HE Siti Ilawa Zain is probably the most unusual Malay in Malaya. She works with her husband as a broadcasting assistant in Radio Malaya, drives a car, raises a family and is a keen angler. Unusual? Yes, because in
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    COUNCIL SEATS TO BE FILLED
    179 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 29 THE five seats on the Federal Legislative Council vacated by the Indian councillors who resigned are to be filled. General Sir Gerald Templer, the High ommissioner, feels It “would be unfortunate” If any seats were vacant at the important budget meeting
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    Eleven calls —and it’s a record
    87 12 SINGAPORE. Nov 2. r rHE Singapore Fire Brigade held a record of 11 calls yesterday. Nine were lallang fires which broke out all over the Colony within five hours. The two others were a small auap hut fire in Potong Pasir and a malicious
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    RUBBER HOLDINGS UP FOR AUCTION
    174 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 28. ‘"THOUSANDS of rubber holdings may be auctioned 1 this year because their owners cannot afford to pay quit rents. “In one State alone the Government recently gazetted 2,000 lots, mostly smallholdings, for auction to recover arrears of rent,” Mr. Tee Teh,
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    TEMPLER LEAVES FOR HOME
    69 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 2. rpHE High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, who arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon, will leave for Britain today to have routine discussions at the Colonial Office. General Templer was accompanied to Singapore by Lady Templer and Miss Jane Templer. During the High Commissioner’s
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    $8,500 gates
    27 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 1. Six iron grilles and two collapsible gates on six arches have been provided at Istaoa Bukit Serene at a cost $8,500.
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    Unemployment in tin industry
    792 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 28 MALAYA’S two main industries, rubber and tin are being hit by the worst depression si nt the early 1930’5, the Federation Labour Department monthly report said today. Unemployment has severely affected the |j n industry and active measures are being taken bv
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    U.S. interest in new drome
    81 12 SINGAPORE OctNews that singapon* s nr international Paya Lebar. with its H.oo-* runway, will be ready t*; U rate in the beginning <’• \j Is attracting the attenti*. American air panies. Trans-World Airlines. of the largest Amer.ear. lines has applied to ex services in the
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    WELFARE LOTTERY WINNERS
    110 12 KOTA BAHRU. Oct. 30. lOHORE proved to be the lucky state at the draw for the 16th social and welfare lottery made here today. The first tfc.ree prizes went to tickets sold in Johore. A total of 1,431,500 tickets were sold in the lottery. Draw results were:
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    CAPTAIN PETER STEWART, of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, took time off from fighting the bandits in the Gemas area to come to Singapore with his wife to meet his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Stewart, who arrived in the Boissevain, Mr. C. E. Stewart was formerly head of the Chartered Bank in Manila until he retired.
    63 13 CAPTAIN PETER STEWART, of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, took time off from fighting the bandits in the Gemas area to come to Singapore with his wife to meet his father and mother, Mr and Mrs. C. E. Stewart, who arrived in the Boissevain, Mr. C. E. Stewart was formerly
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    HE TELLS U.S. OF MALAYAN RUBBER
    118 13 SINGAPORE. Oct. 30 iRIGAPIER H.K. Dimoline. i s of the Rubber Council of Malaya, n .i c- i>t-to-coast trip *n State* telling Amt-r about rubber prot,<\. n in Malaya. P 1 his stay in WashingB he has been the guest of K" ;ll 'd
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    Sweep agent gives party
    54 13 P\. b AHHU, Nov. 1. Mr. A h A Kelantan 1 the > Social Welfare r niirht entertained e cl als and about 100 r Pantai Chinta, n 'luded the Tengku dentri Besar, the yiviser and f rs. P- V Duckworth, ■p rl Social and Indust-
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    Head of Gattey & Bateman retiring
    477 13 Head of Gattey Bateman retiring UAXT u SINGAPORE. Oct. 30. 4 MAN who believes that Singapore offers “an op- Port unity of reward for sustained work and enj oeavour will leave the Colony next month after 33 I years ot proving his theory He is 60-years-old Mr H. C. Reilly,
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    100 Volunteers go on picnic
    53 13 SEREMBAN. Nov. 1. The British Adviser Negri Scmbilan, Mr. M. C. If Shepperd. who is Commandant of the Police Volunteer Reserve, took 100 members of the Reserve to a picnic at the Siginting Home Guard training centre, Port Dickson, today. At Port Dickson the men
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    New Registrars
    28 13 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov.l. District Officers in Johore have been appointed Deputy Registrars under the Johore Nationality Regulations Enactment to provide every facility lor people to register
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    More rice soon at lower prices
    439 13 By Our Industrial Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. ,f pHE rice bowls of Asia are filling up. And the result is that the cost of rice—Malaya’s staple food—is going down. Yesterday, for the first time since Ihe war, Government spokesmen, importers and business men predicted
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    LOWER RICE PRICE EXPECTED
    175 13 From lIALL ROMNLA LONDON, Oct. 28 lOWER Siam rice prices are J expected, says the Borneo Company in its annual report. The report, pointing out that the country's post-war prosperity mav he attributed largely to its ability to sell the entire rice crop on very satisfactory
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    HE WANTS ISLAND RE-NAMED
    133 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30 A N attempt to get Tanjong Kling, an island off Pasir Panjang, re-named because Indians object to the word “kling." was made at the Singapore Rural Board meeting yesterday by Mr. H. J. C. Kulasingha < Pasir Panjang). Mr. Kulasingha suggested that the
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    More students for Australia
    142 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 1. MORE Malayan students are going to Australia lor higher studies. Yesterday. Australia’s Minister for External Affairs, Mr. R G Casey, said his country would shortly train 25 Singapore City Council officers in various subjects. Mr Casey said at present there were 65 Malayans
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    Mrs. Choy sees Johore Bahru
    51 13 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov 1 Mrs. Elizabeth Choy. of the Singapore Legislative Council, visited Johore Bahru at the week-end to see the social work being done in districts and learn how the Government operates. She saw how the Red Cross worked in places like Masai and
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    On home leave
    27 13 SINGAPORE. Nov 1 Mr Bashist Rai, Headmaster of the Netaji Hindi High School. Singapore, leaves for India today bv Indian Airlines Corporation, on leave.
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    Johore village celebrates year of freedom
    466 14 YONG PENG, Nov. 1. THE 5.000 of Yong Pong, Johore, today 1 celebrated the first anniversary of their freedom from fear —a freedom which they found inside fences. year ago today the villagers were moved from their scattered homes to the salety ot Peng
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    SPECIALS REJECT NEW JOBS
    190 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A “LARGE NUMBER'* of demobilised Special Constables have not accepted jobs which the) Labour Department has found for them, a Federation Labour Department spokesman told the Straits Times today. He said that it is now difficult to find jobs on the epen market.
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    23 fire families get low-cost homes
    334 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. TWENTY-THREE of the 137 families homeless after last Saturday's fire in Aljunied Road were yesterday allotted Singapore Improvement Trust low-cost accommodation in Kolam Ayer and Aljunied Road. More homes will be allotted today. The Straits Times understands that there are 63
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    FIRST ANNIVERSARY MARCH
    36 14 VILLAGE COUNCILLORS, school children and Home Guards marched through the streets of Yong Peng on Nov. 1 to celebrate the first anniversary of resettlement in the village. Straits Times picture. Straits Times picture.
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    LICENCES MAY BE SUSPENDED
    200 14 SINGAPORE. Ort in SINGAPORE drivers diet, o to have committed serimi driving offences ,„.,v"" their licences cancelled by the nim "loner of Police while u m await trial and until the pro. ceedings are concluded But the drivers ma> anneal tn the Governor against the decision
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    YAM TUAN NOW IN HOSPITAL
    86 14 SINGAPORE N v 2 IiHE Yang di-Pertaa:. Bt of Negri Sembilan 'v;j admitted into Singapore General Hospital ••e'tercay He is under the ire of Professor G. Ramsome. He was described as beir.: “very comfortable" in the hospital last night. He may be in the hospitil
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    FAREWELL TO PRESIDENT.
    59 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Oct y At the end of todayV c.t' es the Sessions Court Mr 0 r# Grant. Legal Adviser farewelled Inche Ali ont san. the President o: the who leaves tomorrow Bahru. Kelantan. on tra’fj Mr. Grant, on behar prosecuting officers. Inche Ali for the hearing
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    Welfare week nets $4,000
    30 14 JOHORE BAHRU More than $4,000 during Mersing Wei! of which $250 was sen the Federation School Deaf. .oci 3 The Johore Weliarc tion will get $4OO.
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    INDONESIAN ARTIST PAINTS THE C.-G.
    189 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. -i£ rs*- portrait of the Commissioner-General, Mr. VaMoim MacDonald, by a local artist has been done L \ounk? Indonesian painter, 29-year-old Mohammed r; —e n at an exhibition in K impur a few months Mr MacDonald was so -.1 by Hoessien’s work
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    Unilever talks in K.L.
    93 15 I KrALA LUMPUR. Nov. 2 A r nee of Unilever execute r 'in Britain and Southj Vda begins in Kuala this week. K Sydney van Den Bergh. r. arrived in Kuala ir today to lead the conof chairmen and T.ents of Unilever com1 *n South-East Asia.
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    Klang gets 2
    25 15 I," KG Nov. 2 Two fire I ive arrived in Klang. a A b»* in use here and *'v’< ttenham. They cost
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    PENANG DUTY ON SPORTS TO STAY
    101 15 PENANG. Nov. 2. The Settlement Government is o; the opinion that entertainment duty on amateur sports should be abolished, the Resident Commissioner. Mr. R P. Bingham. said today "The question of abolishing or continuing this tax is left to each individual State and Settlement.”
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    Six Reds killed
    108 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 30 SIX more terrorists have been killed and two others have surrendered in the Federation. The 7th platoon of the 1st Fijians shot dead three terrorists in the Segamat area of Johore this morning “C” Company 1 6 Gurkhas killed two in the Kuala
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    FIRST AID WINNERS
    59 15 r AHniinisteriiiK the (lovernmont of Singapore, congratulates MR. YV. A. C. G( »E. Onic» r A In Xmbul;in( r Brigade inter-divisimal first aid eompctithe winning team at thf M J w thp (’hinese Second Corps, C. Division. I he competition tions. The winning team Has eu Nov
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    Templer praises leaflet airmen
    252 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29. THE High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, last night sent a congratulatory message to the Air Officer Commanding Air Headquarters, Malaya, at the close of the biggest leaflet dropping operation ever attempted in the Federation. “Your air crws have dropped 15 million
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    He wants to keep bandit baby he found
    127 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 1 A MALAY tapper, who found a bandit baby at the mile SegamatMuar* Road. Johore, wants to adopt it. Inche Seden bin Gading was out tapping when he heard crying. He found the baby, a girl of about a
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    Handbook advice is like a warning
    214 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 2. 4 DVICE to overseas students going to Britain sounds more like a warning in the British Council’s handbook “How to Live in Britain,” which is beinr distributed in Singapore. Samples: “It Is no good securing a place in a college unless
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    FREE TRIP TO MECCA
    43 15 PENANG, Nov. 2 Penang’s Malay newspaper today said it would give a free pilgrimage trip to the “most popular Malay or Muslim personality” chosen by its readers. The one chosen will go to Mecca during the next Ilajl season.
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    BOARD WILL DECIDE ON COLLEGE MOVE
    213 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 2. AMONG “pressing” matters to be referred to ‘he British Medical Inquiry Commission due to arrive in Singapore this month Is whether the medical faculty of the University of Malaya should stay in Singapore or be moved with the university to its
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    $145 mil. plan for University
    448 16 SINGAPORE, No\ IT is estimated that the new University of a 1 buildings in Johore Bahru will cost gjimillion and take 15 years to complete, the VjJ Chancellor, Sir Sydney Caine, said at a p ri s conference yesterday. ss This is $10 million higher
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    CITY ASKED TO PROVIDE LIBRARIES
    80 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 3 Mr. M. P. D. Nair will movne at the Singapore City Council meeting on Nov. 30 that the Council institute and maintain public libraries within city limits without delav. In a second resolution, he will ask the Council to construct, maintain, supervise
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    50 nurses to train in Australia
    146 16 PENANG, Nov. Australian Government has agreed to tram jj nurses from Malaya is part of its contribution to the technical co-operation scheme under the Colombo Plan. The Federation Medical Headquarters will select lan.iidates soon, a spokesman t 11 the Straits Tin e» todav Nurses
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    Manager of car firm dies
    107 16 SINGAPORE N v MR. Wilfred Simms. a. general manage r d Universal Cars Limited Singapore, died in tbe General Hospital yesterday morning. Mr. Simms, who ha ill for several months. ri to retire at the end < month. He is survived by wife and a
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    Gurkhas kill bandit propaganda chief
    169 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 1. KWOk PING CHIN, usually known as William Kwok, a top propagandist and intellectual of the Malayan Communist Party, was killed last month by the 2/7 Gurkha Rifles, the Federation Government announced today. No details were given of the killing which was
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    Colony gets gift from Australia
    313 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. jNCAPORE will soon receive as a gift from Ui-tralia equipment for the Junior Technical School worth £8,000, said .Mr. C. Tan on his return yesterday from the Colombo Flan conference in New Delhi. 'It hough the cost of the equipment is rather
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    ‘Heartened’ by better outlook
    205 17 -1XGAPORE. Nov. 2. <•*, r G. Casey, Australian M. mister for External aid in Singapore last j was heartened by the y. ,ul dwindling support fur f ;v.:r. n >t terrorists among t:., M e.iv.in people. Gt rtphieal racts, he said r. a br adcast. have
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    VILLAGERS GIVE MACE TO GURKHAS In gratitude, they say
    272 17 GRIK, Nov. 2. VILLAGERS and kampong folk of Grik and Lenggong sub-districts in Upper Perak crowded round the padang, here yesterday afternoon to see a silver mace presented to the First Battalion f>th Gurkha Rifles. The presentation was made by the
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    Playtime for the tiger
    91 17 T h t'?cr cubs which Security Forces found in C |un£ c and presented to the Tungku Mahkota, f urn handed them over to the |ohorc Zoo t n? v cry well and growing fast. 1140 cubs were nursed by Rita, a dog bclong- n? to
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    Dr. Hanna, 66, dies in New York
    141 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30 J. G. (“Jace”) llanna, Malaya’s best-known dentist, died in New York on Wednesday, aged He was to have returned to Singapore from long leave nert month. An American, l)r. Hanna came to Malaya to practise dentistry in Kuala lain,pur and
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    Shipping master to be abolished
    52 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 4 Sarawak Government proposes to abolish the post of shipping Master from March 2 next year. A Bill will bo introduced in the Council Negri shortly to substitute the Governor-in Council, in place of Shipping Master, as the authority to make regulations under
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    $3 MILLION COLLEGE NEARLY FINISHED
    165 17 KOTA BAHRU. Nov. 2. riE new $3 million teachers’ training college at Pengkalan Chepa, on the outskirts of Kota Bahru in Kelantan, will be finished by the end of the year. The ollicial opening will be in May. The Federation Director of Education, Mr. L
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    Gillon will not now appeal
    91 17 SINCAPOKK. Nov. 1 PRIVATE Hammond (iillon, now serving eight years’ imprisonment in Ciiangi Convict Prison for causing the death of dance hostess Doreen Pereira, has decided not to appeal against the sentence. He was found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder by a
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    FIJIANS’ TOTAL IS NOW OVER 100
    139 18 FIJIANS TOTAL IS NOW OVER 100 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. FROM London today the High Commissioner. General Sir Gerald Templer. congratulated the 1st Fijian Regiment on reaching the 100 mark in the war against the communist terrorists. The Commanding Officer was told that General Templer was highly pleased with the
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    World Bank official here for talks
    104 18 >IR. F. 1) GREGII. (above) director of the Department of Operations, Asia and Middle East, of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and his assistant. Mr. William Fraser, flew into Singapore from Colombo on Nov. 3. lie is here for preliminary talks for
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    Red patrol wiped out
    101 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 3.—A patrol of the 2/10 Gurkha Rifles killed all five communist terrorists it contacted in the Kulai area of Johore today. Three of tlie terrorists were women. Two pistols, a sten gun and two grenades were recovered. The terrorists were on a hillside
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    TOC H WARDEN GOING HOME
    40 18 Mr. William Muir, an architect in the War Office, who has served as voluntary warden at Toe H, in Scotts Road, Singapore, for four years, will sail in the Chusan on home leave on Saturday.
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    Govt’s new land scheme
    79 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 3 THE Government today announced that new schemes to settle Southern Indians on suitable non-reserved state or crown land are being considered. The Labour offices in most States and Settlements have been empowered to help any Southern Indian who wants to settle in
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    Sultan tours villages
    44 18 KOTA BAHRU. Nov. 3. The Sultan of Kelantan, accompanied by the Raja Perempuan, spent today visiting remote villages to the west of the Kelantan river along the Tanah Merah-Jeli Road. It w’as their first visit to the villages bordering the highlands.
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    TO BE NEW ABORIGINES ADVISER
    222 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 2 V YOUNG man has emerged from the anonymity of Federation intelligence headquarters to tread in his dead brother’s footsteps and look after the aborigines, lie is Mr. R. O. D. Noone, brother of the late Mr. 11. D. Aborigines in Perak.
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    Brunei lends $40 m. to Malaya
    240 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Non 3 THE SULTAN OF BRUNEI HAS OFKFRFn 1 THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA |i OF $40 MILLION AS A GESTURE OF HuKn SHIP. This was announced in Kuala Lumpur tonight by the Federation Government. In ;i letter to the High p, Sultan
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    DOCTOR CATCHES QUEER FISH
    101 18 DR. E. VV. SKINNER, of Singapore with a four-fee' yu kemajan, caught after a 20-minute fight at rt near the I’ulau Ubin coast on Nov. 1. The foru of the fish resembles a ray and the tail end is plain' A feature of interest to anglers
    wun a small nook and the breaking strain 01 in« jts hook to line was barely half the fish’s weight. — Times picture.  -  101 words
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    Lim Bo Seng—‘He died for Malaya’
    427 19 C.G. greets hero's widow MEMORIAL TO GREAT PATRIOT SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. VINE years ago Major-General Lim Bo Seng, the Singapore businessman who led Chinese guerillas of Force 136 against the Japanese army in Malaya, was betrayed to the Kempeitai. He was tortured until he
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    ANTI-BANDIT PLEDGE
    22 19 BANGKOK. Nov. 2 —Chinese civilians near the Malayan border have pledged to help the Siamese government suppress Malayan Chinese Communists.
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    TERRORIST GAVE UP ‘FOR LOVE’
    136 19 ALOR STAR, Nov. 3 SURRENDERED bandit told the Straits Times today that his main reason for leaving the jungle was to marry his finance in Kulim, South Kedah. Lo Ah Pin, a former member of the Bth Independent platoon of the Malayan Communist Party, who
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    Security officer is killed
    126 19 RENGAM, Nov. 3. MR. W. J. Berry, 32, security officer at the Rengam division of Ulu Remis Estate (Oil Palms of Malaya Limited)' in South Johore, was killed by a party of about 10 bandits In an ambush on the estate at 7.30 a.m. yesterday. The
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    $10,750 gifts
    17 19 Gifts totalling $10,750 have so far been received by the Singapore Poppy Day appeal committee.
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    BISHOP Raymond L. Archer, Methodist Bishop for South-East Asia, lays the corner stone of the new $60,000- church building at Tran- querah, Malacca, on Nov. 1.
    67 19 I ooking on (from left) are: Rev v A Chelliah, Bishop Clifford Northcott, represen- tative of the Council of Bishops, who is on a
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    SAFA final is postponed
    1065 19  -  THE WEEK IN SPORT By JOHN MARKS SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. fPHE Singapore Amateur A Football Association senior cup knock-out competition final will have to be played well into what is officially the close season for soccer in Malaya. This is because one of the finalists, Tiger
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    Small turnover in tins and industrials
    697 20 SHARE MARKET By Our financial Correspondent SINGAPORE, Nov, 2. 13UMOURS of increased taxation which practically killed the Singapore share market during the preceding Week, still overshadowed the market during last week Tnis, together with further declines in prices of Malaya’s two main commodities, rubber
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    BUSINESS DONE
    172 20 ffiHE following list of busi--1 ness in the Singapore share market is reported by Fraser and Co., for the period October 24 to October 30, inclusive:.— INDUSTRIALS Alexandra Brick Prefs. $2.10, Fraser and Neave Ords. $lB5 and $1.87*4. Federal Dispensary $2.60, Gammon $2.80 and $2.77%, Hammer $2.70, Hong
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    115 20 rpHE following dividends A were announced last week bv tin producing companies operating in Malava. KESANG TIN. second interim 5 per cent, making 10 per cent to date for year ending December, payable November 11. books close November 6. PETALING TIN: fourth Interim 10 per cent, making 60
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    Lower price slows up replanting
    304 20 KUALA LUMPUR, N ov 3 RUBBER replanting on estates in Malaya has CO me to a near standstill, Mr. H. A. Campbell, chairman of the Rubber Producers’ Council, said today. “This is due to the uneconomic price of the com modity. Unless we have immediate
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    $16,800 given for drainage
    23 20 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 3 Johore Government has provided $16,800 to maintain the Sri Menanti drainage area In Batu Pahat.
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    U.S. SALES HIT PRICES
    270 20 Rubber Mafttl SINGAPORE Oct 31 EARLY in the week more depressing selling in New York carried rubber prices to a new low level, since when a slight reaction has set in and a better tone is again in evidence, says Lewis and Peat* report. The demand
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    Rice output goes up
    83 20 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 2 Rice statistics for the federation issued today shoved an Increase of 1,632 tons ii P lC duction in this year s off sea son crop. The output was 3.436 tons compared with IW tons last year. Penang 1 and Province weileslev produced
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    77 20 SINGAPORE. Nov. J Singapore Chinese 1 fU j change: Noon prices pe r were:— Copra: steady: Novem' r; buyers. $37% sellers: $37 Vi buyers. $3744 sellers. Coconut oil: steady: $51 ft Pepper: quiet, no bus.ne ed; All varieties down ,g white $340. Sarawak $325. 1 black $305.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    865 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4 INDUSTRIALS Buyer* Seller* turx eJricK> Prefe *lO a 20 Ords 3 85 3.95 Atlas Ice 12 25 13.25 BB Petrol 34/6 35/3 B M Trustees 650 750 Con Tin &melt. PTwf. 17/« 18-* xd Ords 21/6 22/Eastern United 34 50 35.00 Fed. Dispensary 3.60
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