The Straits Budget, 26 November 1953

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    28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Series No. 382. Thursday, November 26, 1953 Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 shill nr.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      RIGHT AGE FOR GOING TO SCHOOL
      342 2  -  JOHN LAYCOCK. Singapore. f AM surprised to see in your paper a statement that “there are more than 32,000 children of the ‘wrong’ school age attending primary classes in Singapore schools/* and that “the wrong age** children “are either below or above the age
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      Take heed of Sir Roland’s warning
      335 2  -  A MALAYAN Seremban. IYATO Sir Roland Braddell, who told Malayan leaders: “Keep ideals in the air, feet on the ground”, puts the whole matter of self-govern-ment in a nutshell and it is hoped leaders will benefit by his pithy remarks It is about* 10
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      Only mild ‘ragging’
      146 2  - Only mild ‘ragging GRADUATE MALAYAN UNIVERSITY. IT IS fitting and timely hat the Vice-Chancellor stepped in and expressec disapproval of hooliga !n wnich has hitherto ma>, raded under the term “un: sity ragging”. It may be excusable for >- mature boys to express t r high spirits in childish pra:
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      ‘Ruthless budget’ Suggestions
      359 2  -  PROSPER LISTO V Penang. I TRUST that the next Legislative Council meeting will produce some very drastic pruning of expenditure in the Federation. The, “We can’t cut that old boy’* attitude, must go, and some ruthless budget balancing must be done, maybe where it hurts most. As
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      Reasons for the rubber crisis
      257 2  -  SUPER-OPTIMIST. Singapore. OEFERENCE the present price of rubber. Let’s «et down to fundamentals —get at the bottom of the crisis Advices from America indicate clearly that golf-playing Eisenhower is enjoying life thoroughly—to the detriment of not only Americans themselves generally but, where Malaya is concerned,
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      Challenge to student
      61 2  -  J. COPLEY, M Lecturer In English The University of Mai» VARSITY Student complains of the “o'i sporting attitude” of tie year’s students toward ‘‘ragging.” I challenge Varsi Student to compile t the benefit of the read, of this paper a detail* unexpurgated account all the activities whi
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      The Crisis In Rubber
      916 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 19 Reports that Federation Government officials are studying proposals to start Malaya’s own rubber buffer stock plan art as was said of a famous occasion— interesting if true. But it would be helpful if the Government could find something to say about the
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      Statements To The Police
      372 3 Straits Times, Nov. 19 The Government of Sarawak has given notice of the introduction of a bill to amend the Criminal Procedure Code so as to provide that any statement made by any person to a police officer authorised to receive such statements can be admitted
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      The Colony’s Forces
      804 3 —Straits Times. Nov 20 There was published yesterday a Bill for the establishment of Singapore’s own military forces. It will have its first reading at next week’s meeting of the Legislative Council. Unofficials who have fought for years for the creation of a Singapore Regiment may not
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      Cap In Hand Budget
      605 3 —Straits Times. Nov. 21 Year after year the Federal Legislative Council devotes on Budget Day solemn thought to runaway government expenditure 4 the necessity for economy and the requirements of a basic financial policy. It will be the same on Wednesday when the Council will have
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      More Schools
      301 4 -HStraits Times, Nov. 21 Fifteen more new Singapore primary schools next year instead of five is a wholesome triumph for the Unofficials on the Legislative Council w ho have been disturbed by the Government’s apparent readiness to cut the education programme. Provision in the budget for only five
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      A Chance To Help
      724 4 —Straits Times, Nov. 24. The Colony’s Legislative Council may have the opportunity this morning of anticipating the British Government’s announcement of financial help for the Federation. Singapore cannot afford to give or to lend on the British scale. But it can make a gesture —and probably
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      Provident Fund
      477 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 24 The adoption of the Select Committee’s report on the Provident Fund Bill is to be moved by Mr. C. C. Tan at Tuesday’s meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council. The Select Committee recommended extensive amendments to the Bill, which emerged strengthened, improved and fit
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      The Revised Budget
      812 4 -Straits Times, Nov > Singapore's Legislative Council yesterday approved the 1954 budget, revised by the Finance Committee, again almost without debate. There was, of course, the Committee’s report in explanation of the revision, but neither on the introduction of the estimates last month nor at yesterday’s meeting
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    English best as official Malayan language IT ‘SPEAKS FOR ITSELF’
    1759 5  - English best as official Malayan language IT ‘SPEAKS FOR ITSELF By JOU BIENMING, formerly Professor of Linguistics, National Amoy University that every N Malayan political )ar t y or union is talking jboiit self-rule and impendence. it is pertinent to ask: In what jffidal language shall ilalaya become independent and
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    Councillor forgot the Chair
    133 5 SINGAPORE, Nov. 25. ONLY after the Governor. Sir John Nicoll, interrupted him for the third time in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday, did Mr. R Jumabhoy (Indian Chamber of Commerce) realise that he should have said “Sir’’— addressing the Chair —instead of 4 Gentlemen.” Each time
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      171 5 STENGER—To Ayleen and John, a son. Jack Dane. 935 am.. November 12th Young berg; brother to Lynn Diane. CUTFIELD: On Nov. 17th. at 8.M.H., Kinrara. to Mary, wife of Capt. D. J. Cutfuld. 7th Gurkha, Rifles, a son, Hugh. TO JEAN and Arthur Godmnn at Bungsar Hospital on Friday
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      72 5 THE Engagement is announced between William Anthony, youngest son of Sir Bernard and Lady Blatch of Raglan, Gerrards Cross and Alice Jean, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Sully of Ottawa, Canada and Singapore. THE Engagement Is announced of Major lan George Macdonald Petrie RAOC only son of
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      MARRIAGE
      40 5 PARFORD McMUI.LEN: On November 14th, at Christ Church, Knowle. Bristol. Dennis Norman, son of Mr. and the bite Mrs. E. C. Parford of Woodlord, Essex, to Pamela Lorraine, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. McMullen of Singapore.
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      ANNOUNCEMENT
      63 5 MRS. STODDAHT Ed in 4 ton (late of I.ingiii Tin. Kota Tinggi, Johore> would be glad to have the address of her old Cantone.se am.*h. Ah See (Malaya and Scotland 192(5 31 She would also be pleased to hear from nr see any of the Asian Students who have
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  • Obituary
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    38 5 DEATH WESTON: On November 23 Jean Marian, beloved wife of Christopher Weston <d st AnSchool. Funeral Hidadari 5.30 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MRS. HELEN BENNETT thanks all friends for then kind sympathy, wreaths and telegrams of condolence in her recent bereavement.
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1092 6  -  STANLEY STK! I Unhappy style PLANS for a new church at Kuala Lumpur to enhance the rather messy skyline of the Federal capital are likely to interest many people. It would be wise to let us see the contemplated design. What we have heard sounds
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    MALAYA KAMPONG
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    As I was Saying
    725 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE. Nov. 21 Federation Legis- lative Council has managed to provide an example of steady economy whatever the Government spending departments may have done. The Council itself will cost the Federation taxpayer next year $434,525. about $20,000 less than the 1953 estimates which did not
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    NEW INDIAN AGENT
    62 6 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. A lawyer, Mr. P.M. Nair, who was Assistant Controller of Imports in th e Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has been appointed Agent of the Government of India in Malaya. Mr. Nair. youngest son of Sir C Madhavan Nair of the Privy Council,
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    SULTAN CALLS FOR HOLY WAR ON REDS
    193 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 18. THE Sultan of Selangor today urged all Muslims in A the country to fight a holy war against the communists. He was speaking at the town mosque to 5,000 Muslims during the celebration of the prophet Mohammed’s birthday anniversary
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    Watherston visits jungle fort
    117 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 13 THE Officer Administering the Government. Mr. D. C. W.itherston. today went by i'.fii:opter to visit a jungle fort in the Sakai country around Grik. north Perak. Mr. Watherston. who has 't completed a two-dav tour t the State, spent half an hour
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    C.P.O. throws a party
    52 9 IPOH. Nov. 18. Abuot 90 eole including the Mentri Be'ur, Mr. Justice Pretheroe and Mr. Justice Thomson, attended a ccoktail partv given last night by the Chief Police Officer and Mrs. J.N.D. Harrison ut their residence. The occasion was the visit ol Hie Police Commissioner. Mr
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    4 appointed to Finance Board
    50 9 Four people including two Unofficial members of the Singapore Legislative Council, have been apoointed members of the Education Finance Board. The Councillors are Mr. Thio Chan Bee and Mr. Lim Yew Hock. The others are Mr. J. A. D. Morrison and Mr. Lien Ying Chow.
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    Crocodile comes to town -and finds a boss
    186 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 21 RKiHT in the middle of Singapore’s business section yesterday they caught—a crocodile. it was only about a foot long, but it was a croc, right enough, all alive and snapp.ing. The little fellow was found in the flood-drain outside
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    Radio phone link with India soon
    65 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 19 PRELIMINARY radio telephone tests between India and Singapore will be conducted next month. If the tests prove satisfactory, the link will open in a tew months This was disclosed to the Straits Times yesterday by Mr. j. c. Dallow, Director of
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    3 years’ gaol for half a kati of rice
    153 9 lOIIORE BAHRU. Nov. 19 pIIANG SENG, who could not i;ive a satisfactory account of half a kati of rice, was sentenced by Mr. N. L. Cohen *n the Sessions Court today to three years’ gaol. Special Constable said that it 8.30
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    Military forces bill for Colony
    478 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. gINGAPORE is now to have its own army as well as a navy. It will be called the Singapore Military Forces. In this army will be regulars, volunteers and national servicemen. They will do regular, partlime training and reserve and mobilised service,
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    200 WILL QUIZ THE SMALL ESTATES
    156 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 18 TWO hundred investigators will visit about 3,000 smallholdings to make a pilot survey, Mr. H. A. Campbell, chairman of the Joint Working Party on the Rubber Industry, said today. The survey will start next month. “Our work is essential, since
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    We don’t do this usually, says Govt.
    150 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 18 IT IS not common practice for the bodies of dead terrorists to be publicly exhibited, said a Federation Government spokesman today, referring to a question which Sir Leslie Plummer (Labour) will ask in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
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    Decoration for aide-de-camp
    36 9 The Volunteer Reserve Decoration has been awarded to acting Lieutenant-Commander W. L. Clark of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Lt.-Cmdr. Clark is an aide-de-camp to the Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll.
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    6-point plan to clean up vice
    302 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 19. DOCTOR, a lawyer, a businessman and a woman teacher have drafted a six-point plan to clear prostitutes off the streets of Kuala Lumpur. In a statement today, they link vice with slum conditions. The plan calls on the Municipal Council
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    THE ANNUAL Order the next issue NOW
    105 10 rp//£ number of orders 1 received from retailers and individuals for The Straits Times Annual for 1954 exceeded the number printed by many thousands. We have “sold out and any copies still available are in the hands of retailers. No further orders can
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    New air link planned
    61 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 21 V" ANYANG AIRWAYS LTD. has applied to the Singapore Government for a licence for a tourist class service between Singapore and Sandakan. The service would also Include Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh. Taiping. Kuching. Sibu. and Labuan. There would be a daily service between
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    S’pore Buddhists build new shrine
    35 10 Thp Singapore Buddhist Union will build a shrine at Jalan Senyum, Changi, Singapore Last week, the Ven. Bhikku M. M. Mahawera Thera, colounder of the union, laid the Inundation stone
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    GRADUATES GET DIPLOMA FROM ABELL
    69 10 KUCHING, Nov. 18—Fortyone graduating teachers *at Batu Lintang Training Centre and School recieved certificates from the Governor Sir Anthony Aebll, in the school concert hall yesterday. An exhibition of student handwork was open to visitors. On display were examples of local arts and crafts, teaching
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    W.H.O. director on holiday
    59 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 19 Dr. W. W Yung, director of the W.H.O epidemological intelligence station. East Asia, his wile, and daughter, Geraldine. left Singapore by air yesterday for a holiday in Manila and Hong Kong. They are due back in January. Mr Z. Deutschman will take over
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    Villa now luxury seaside hotel
    149 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. IP A SINGAPORE house which has numbered three millionaires amongst its owners entered a new phase last night when it was opened as a luxury seaside hotel. Built at a cost of $1,500,0011 just before the war, the Lam Soon villa stands on
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    Sanders for Council
    69 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 20 Mr. J. O. Sanders, General Manager of the Malayan Railway. has been appointed a temporary official member of the Federal Legislative and Executive councils He takes the place of Mr H. S. Lee. Member for Railways and Ports, during his absence from the
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    Violet wins free trip to Hollywood
    118 10 A KUALA LUMPUR model, Miss Violet Sleigh (above), was voted “Miss Max Factor”—Malaya's beauty queen —in Singapore’s Raffles Hotel on Nov. 18. Miss Sleigh, youngest of ten finalists, said after the results were announced: "I am terribly thrilled.” The title carries with it a
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    STANDARD OF PUBLIC SERVICE ‘MUST GO UP’
    153 10 PENANG, Nov. 18. Settlement's Independence of Malaya Party A leader, Mr. Heah Joo Seang. said today the standard of public service in the country must be raised. Addressing Kelawei, Jelutong and Tanjong electorates in three campaign speeches today. he warned them to beware
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    For Singapore
    26 10 KUCHING, Nov. 18.—Mr I. H. Stourton, Deputy Inspector General or Colonial Police, arrived here tooav on an inspection tcr.r He i*<»ves ncxt#Tuesday for Singapore.—Reu’cr.
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    AXE FALLS ON THREE HOMES
    250 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 20 T*HE Federal Govern, merit's economy UXe will soon fall on three welfare homes. They are the Green Lane Home for Old People, Penang the Sit ia wan Old Women* Home, Perak, and the Bukit Besar Home for Children and Adults, Trengganu.
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    Scarcity to continue until 1957
    99 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 19 gINGAPORES water position from mid-1954 to mid--1957 will be no less acut< than it has been for the pa*t four years, says the City Water Engineer. Mr. \V. S. Stredwick in a memorandum to a City Council committee. He stresses that the
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    Negri gives $7,000
    33 10 The Negri Sembilnn Government has given $7,000 s t! Muslim College (Malaya l Fim c: This gift was am< $7,943.80 to the College month. The fund now mho.* at $107,515.72.
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    Wimpey chief in Singapore
    51 10 SINGAPORE. Nov Mr. R. u. Law ma director of Georgi and Company Limited, his wife, arrived in Sin yesterday by Constellation from. Brit a. Mr Law, who was n panied by Mr. M Lhe overseas manager, to spend a week in Sie before flying to B
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    250,000 ARMY LETTERS HIDDEN IN CELLAR
    403 11 Some from soldiers since killed Bv JOHN HOOD SINGAPORE. Nov. 20 IMFTY-SIX mailbags F containing a quarter 0 f a million letters come addressed to soldiers fighting the terrorists have been found hidden in the cellar of an Army building in Singapore. The letters
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    Haji wants a king to rule Malaya
    327 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Nov. 20. \IALAYA should have a king as constitutional 1 monarch when it attains independence and its constitution should closely follow that of the British, said Haji Abdullah bin Haji Taib toda P. The present nine Malay rulers should select from
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    State Youth Council plan
    74 11 KELANTAN. Nov. 21 Folding an address by Mr. F. Arulanandom. chairman ot 1: < Malayan Youth Council, it is decided here to set up a Shite Youth Council. the following interim committee formed to draft a constitution (.ill a meeting within a month: yku Zainab Zakaria
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    Top students get $925 in cash prizes
    106 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 21 MR. A F. Taylor, chairman cf the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, yesterday presented cash prizes totalling $925 to the 10 leading Colony candidates in thp L.C.C. spring examinations. The Chamber established the prize fund in commemoration of City Day From
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    $500,000 for low-cost housing
    84 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 21 THE Singapore Government Officers’ Co-operative Housing Society will spend $500,000 on low-cost houses for Government workers in the lower income groups. This amount was recently lent to the Society bv the Government. The secretary of the society, Mr. N. A. Kulara.jah, told the
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    Big playground plan for Kallang
    352 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 21. THE 300-acre site of Singapore’s Kallang Airport is to be converted into a multi-million dollar playground for more than 30,000 children attending Government schools in the neighbourhood. If the recommendations of a Government committee which is considering the best use lor the
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    35 more local Councils
    64 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 21 IMIE Johore Government in- tends to declare 35 more local council areas next year. Local council elections will oe held in the Segamat district in December. Other councils were duo to hold elections in December but, as they were only formed early
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    Another link on the road to Singapore
    106 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 20 ANEW 50-mile road between Pekan and Rompin which is now being built is a further step towards the East Coast link-up of Kuantan and Singapore. It is one of two roads RIDA is helping to build in Pahang. The
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    STORM FLATTENS 28 HOUSES
    90 11 K TRENCICIANU, Nov. 21. STRONG waves and winds knocked down 28 houses in the coastal village of Kampong Tanjong Seberang Takir, near Kuala Trengganu. in a rasing storm yes terday. The State welfare committee rushed squads to the area to help the stricken and homeless. The
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    Arts classes in Johore Bahru
    42 11 JOHORE BAHRU. N»v 21 Mr. P. B. Harris. Arts Superintendent, Federation, is in Johore Bahru, holding an arts class lo r teachers, at the Bukit Zahrah School. He has held similar classes at Muar and Batu Paha:.
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    ‘CITIZENSHIP FOR ALL’ DEMAND
    136 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 21 rpilE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce wants the Rendel Com mission to grant citizenship rights to all China-born Chinese “for the benefit of the Colony’s political progress and prosperity.” The Claim-for-Citizenship subcommittee of the Chamber will make this request in a letter to
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    ‘ONE DAY YOU TAKE OVER’
    296 12 Malayan Navy will replace R.N. SINGAPORE. Nov. 21 DEAR-ADMIRAL A. F. Pugsley, Flag Officer Malayan Area, said yesterday that as the Royal Malayan Navy expands it will replace the Royal Navy in local waters. He was speaking during his farewell visit at the Malayan Navy
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    Reserve will get new training ship
    134 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 21 ANEW snip. H.M.S. Canna is to be added to the Malayan Roya! Naval Volunteer Reserve It will join the MRNVR on Jan. 1 next year and will serve as a headquarters of a new sub-division of the Singapore division Announcing this
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    They’ll look back 25 yrs.
    60 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 21. Some of the earliest movies taken in Singapore w*ere shown by the Rev. Dr. Hobart B. Amstutz. District Superintendent and manager of the Methodist Book Room, in the church hall alter today’s evening service at the Wesley Church. They were about Wesley
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    Jap trade policy hits dealers
    149 12 JAPAN'S “choosey" buyJ ing and her cutting down of steel production have severely reduced Singapore’s once flourishing scrap metal trade. Singapore exported 84.000 tons of scrap metal to Japan in 1952—the boom year for scrap. In the sam e year. Britain, the next best customer,
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    $5,700 for SATA
    20 12 The Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association states that it got $5,700 from the “Miss Max Factor, Malaya” competition. 1953.
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    SILENT ORGAN COMES TO LIFE
    125 12 SINGAPORE, Nov 21 SINGAPORE’S $200,000 organ at the Victoria Memorial Hall—silent for the past 12 years is now ready for “accompaniment work!” One of its three keyboards has been repaired, the superintendent of the hall, Mr. Yap marriages and receptions. Van Hong, told the Straits
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    UBAIDULLAH RENAMED TO COUNCIL
    100 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 20 MR. S. O. K. Ubaidullah, one of the five Indian members who resigned from the Federal Legislative Council recently, has been re-nominated by the Associated Indian Chamber of Commerce. His re-nomination follows a request from General Sir Gerald Templer, the High Commissioner,
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    Walk-out men are nominated again
    194 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun I TWO of the five IndiaB A Federal Councillors whB resigned recently m>B P. P. Narayanan and m’B M. P. Rajagopal—wer® among four nomintB elected today by the Cer.B tral Committee of thB Malayan Trade UnioB Council for two vacarB MTUC seats
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    Tenders board in Batu Pahat
    25 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 21 A district tenders board been set up for Batu Pahatl with the District Officer ail chairman.
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    A SHOTGUN LEADS TO DEATH FOR FOUR REDS
    249 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 18 T»HE SOUND of a gun- shot led to the death of the four terrorists in the Triang area of Pahang on Monday it was reported yesterday. A patrol of the eighth and ninth platoons of the Fourth Battalion
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    The first school
    57 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. Next year will see the lishment of the first na' school in Johore. This school will be at kah in the Muar where a building erect* UMNO and handed to Education Department used after enlargemen’ In this national which will be open to Chinese
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    ‘Foreign capital is the answer’
    474 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov •>•> Irllt ENCOURAGEMENT of foreign "capital r into .Malaya is the best way to solve the [country’s present economic plight, Mr, H. H [pacer, founder and former chairman of the I Rubber Producers’ Council and former president uf the United Planting Association
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    $30,000 DAMAGES FOR A LIBEL
    201 13 I SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. I THE acting Chief JusI rice. Mr. Justice I Brown, in the Singapore I H:Ji Court yesterday [awarded Mr. Tan Kee I Gak. the managing director of Sin Lit Press Ld. the publishers of Sm Lit Pao. $30,000 damages in a
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    $10 mil. for Malacca
    46 13 Jblir services In Malacca f cost just over $10,000,000 I •ar Th,> Settlement’s riion Bill Is the highest. $4 702.005. and the rural I, G will cost just over »0,000. |1 h'ligious affairs will cost and courts and medical health services $736,349
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    Brigade saves kampong
    53 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 23. THE prompt arrival of the Kuala Lumpur Fire Brigade saved a kampong behind the Tuberculosis Hospital In Pahang RoaJ when a Are oroke out in an at,tap nouse today The roof was destroyed. The Kampong has a nopula tlon of more than 600
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    Poppit’s monkey business booming
    289 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 23 Sl'N I)AY T was one long monkey hunt for little .Miss Poppit, Singapore’s 10-year-old baboon baiter. During the day she received three calls for help from people who were having trouble with mischievous monkeys. An old enemy claimed first attention. After breakfast, Poppit
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    A TAX ON WATER FOR SINGAPORE? ‘Ridiculous’ say Councillors
    220 13 A TAX ON WATER FOR SINGAPORE? Ridiculous say Councillors SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. 4 SUGGESTION that the Federation Government A should charge an export duty of half a cent a gallon on all water supplied to Singapore from Johore is described by City Councillors as “ridiculous.” The suggestion was made by
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    EX-REDS AMBUSH AND KILL A BANDIT
    250 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 22 |VIEMBERS of the Special Operational Volunteer Force —made up of former terrorists —ambushed and killed a terrorist named Sze Mcng in the Mentakab district of Pahang. A patrol of No. 2 Field Force killed a terrorist in the Kulim district
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    Committee gets powers for loans
    108 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24 City Council yesterday gave its finance committee discretionary powers to grant housing loans to its workers. The committee can now approve loans of more than $25,000 but not exceeding $35,000 in special cases. It may approve an extended repayment up to 21
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    MALAY AND CHINESE FOR VARSITY EXAM
    66 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24 MALAY and Chinese may be taken by candidates in the entrance examination t the University of Malaya in 1955. The syllabuses for these two new subjects will be issued soon Additional mathematics will he accepted as a minimum entry i r
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    GENEVIEVE WAS SO STUBBORN
    197 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 22. A CATHAY Cinema usherette, Miss Nancy Tan. yesterday went for a short ride in the Colony’s veteran car— Wearne Brothers’ 1909-mode! Ford, Genevieve At the wheel was “Mr. Singapore.” the Colony’s No. 1 muscle-man. Tan Chew Beng. who is employed in the Cathay
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    AXE HITS DOCTORS FROM U.K.
    102 14 Recruiting stopped PENANG. Nov. 23. THE Federation medical headquarters have stopped specialist recruiting in Britain. A spokesman told the Straits Times today that because of the present financial stringency no more expatriate specialists and medical officers would be engaged. But recruiting of health officials and
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    Budget talk
    26 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. Mr. E. Himsworth, Financial Secretary, Federation of Malaya, will talk on the Federal Budget over Radio Malaya at 10 p.m. tomorrow.
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    SEA CADET CORPS GETS OWN TRAINING SHIP
    195 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23 rER f °ur years, the Singapore Sea Cadet Corps is to! get a training ship and headquarters of its own. On Dec. 12 the Governor of j Singapore, Sir John Nicoll. will present new colours to the oip.> At the
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    Fire officer for Britain
    38 14 MR. STEVEN VELGE, a Singapore Fire Officer, who will spend six months in Britain next year on a tire prevention course. He has been in the fire service for 12 years. —Straits Times picture.
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    U.S. professor visits Ipoh
    55 14 IPOH. Nov. 23. Professor Max Millikan, Director of the Centre for International Studies at Massachusetts, the Institute of Techonology in Boston, is on a visit to Ipoh. The professor, touring the world, was the guest of the CPO, Mr. J. D. N. Harrison and Mrs. Harrison
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    New member
    25 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Npv. 23. Mr. R J. MacDonald-Bennett has been appointed an Unofficial member of the Selangor Council of State for a year.
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    Mr. Mistri, man who thought of everyone
    929 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 22. VAVKOJI Rustamji Mistri, Bombay Indian who made a fortune out of soda water in Singapore lias bequeathed over a million-and-a-lialf dollars to his family and his personal friends. lh his will, which was longed on Friday, is the last testament
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    NEW U.K. TRADE MAN
    91 14 A PPOINTED as United K:r.:dom Trade Commissioner (in. Mr. S. C. Stout, has join- d the stall of Mr. K. E. Mackenzie. United Kingdom Trac* Commissioner in Malaya. Mr. Stout arrived in S.r.gapore last week. It is his first overseas appointment. In Britain. Mr. Stout ha?
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    Malayans meet at Bristol
    48 14 SINGAPORE. Nov Singapore teachers, a" them Mr. Chew Kim Mr. S Singh, Mr. Wei I and Mr. I. Solomon, at c tenham on a two-year s 1 ship, visited Bristol Unn recently. Malayan students at B University joined them social arranged by the Council.
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    Reds take guns from H.G. post
    265 15 YONG PENG, Nov. 23. GANG of 30 terrorists early yesterday stole r 19 shotguns and 90 cartridges in a daring raid on a Home Guard post here. The *3 a.m. raid was made only a few yards from the main north-south trunk road and
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    MALAYS BAG 4 BANDITS
    100 15 Kl ALA LUMPl'K, Nov. 23. K'Ol K more Communist terrorists have been killed It in the Federation. One terrorist suspect has been raptured. ■'vo terrorists were killed by a patrol of ‘E’ Company IK of the First Battalion of the Malay Regiment in the Sela|l niat
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    Extra time for calls to Britain
    102 15 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. [THE HOURS of service at Christmas and New Year for telephone calls between Malaya and Britain will be «xtended by special arrangement with the British Post Office. from Dec. 1 the Singapore I ‘'lf* com tn unicat ions Department will accept
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    THE ‘SANTA CLAUS’ FLEET SAILS IN
    157 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. 4 MERICAN destroyer divi- sion 302—now in Singapore on a four-day visit—is known as the “Thunderbolt Division.” But It may soon be called the “Santa Claus Division.” Officers and men of the four destroyers have been buying Christmas presents even since
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    2 HUNGRY REDS DIE IN TRAP
    182 15 ALOR STAR, Nov. 23. t PATROL of the Fifth Malay Regiment killed two armed bandits in a moonlight ambush last night at Kellang Bahru, near Kulim. Tapioca roots and a tin of stale rice found in the bandits’ packs confirm that members of the
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    TIGHTEN POISON LAW
    165 15 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. THE “widely different” basis of the co-ordination and interpretation of the poisons law in Singapore and the Federation is criticised by the Pharmaceutical Journal of Malaya. An editorial in thp latest issue of thp journal says it is possible for a preparation to be
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    New council to choose transport authority
    144 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. rrillE DEBATE on the question of who should run Singapore’s public passenger transport service in 1955 was deferred till January next year by the City Council yesterday. This means the issue will go before the newly constituted Council at its first
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    Rubber is so cheap here, says trade boss
    181 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 23. A JAPANESE rubber trade leader said here today that Japan was keen to buy Malayan rubber because it is so cheap and good. Mr. S. Suzuki, president of the Talsei Rubber Industry Ltd., one of Japan’s biggest rubber
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    Public baths call goes to committee
    241 15 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. THE Singapore City Council yesterday referred to the finance committee two resolutions by Mr. M. P. D. Nair (Lab. South) tusking the Council to provide public libraries and public baths and wash houses. Under a standing rule, no debate could follow
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    $30M. LOAN TO FEDERATION
    868 17 ‘It’s our fight, too SINGAPORE, Nov. 25. ■HE Singapore Legislative Council yesterday r approved a $30 million loan to the federation, payable in 25 years and interest free lor the first ten years. After that interest and Inpayment terms will be decided by the two governments.
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    BACK FROM U.K.
    48 17 MR. C. PARANJOTHY, an old boy of the Government English School, Segamat, returned to Singapore yesterday in the Victoria after five years in England studying law\ He was called to Bar at Lincolns Inn recently and intends to practice in Singa- pore.- .—Straits Times picture.
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    ‘GRAND GESTURE, HANDSOME AID’
    503 17 Federation says: Thank you KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 24. THE thanks of the Federal Government to Singapore for its loan of $30,000,000 will be expressed at tomorrow’s meeting of the Federal Legislative Council. In addition to the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, and the Financial Secretary,
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    Land price Bill goes to 7 men
    197 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. TiHE Land Acquisition (Amendment No. 3) Bill, designed to stabilise land prices in Singapore, was yesterday sent to a seven-man select committee by the Colony Legislative Council. The Commissioner of Lands. Mr J E Pepper, said that as the Bill
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    CALL-UP FOR 2,000 A YEAR
    374 17 Three age groups must register: Part-time training for one SINGAPORE, Nov. 25. |£KT\VKKN 1,400 and 2,000 men will be called up each year for part-time training in Singapore’s military and civil defence services if the Legislative Council approves a White Paper on National Service tabled
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    THANKS, SAYS MRS. EDE TO COUNCIL
    81 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23 SINGAPORE City Councillor, Mrs. John Ede (former Miss Amy Laycock) said “thank you” to councillors for their wedding gift to her, hi a letter she wrote to the City President from Japan. The letter was read to councillors at their meeting
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    Colonial Office head at dance
    62 17 KLUANO. Nov. 24 More than 100 people attended a danCf. held by the Gunong Lambak Women's Institute in aid of Poppy Fund. Among the guests were Mr. A M Mackintosh, head the South-East Asia branch at the Colonial Olllcc in London, Mr. and Mrs. J.
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    Reduced deficit budget for S’pore
    578 18 Expansion of services SINGAPORE, Nov. 25 THE SINGAPORE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL yesterday approved without debate the recommendations of its Budget Committee for a reduced deficit budget for 1954, which the Financial Secretary, Mr. VV. C. Taylor, described as a “budget of expansion of services.” The committee
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    GOC tells of Army’s role in Malaya
    94 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 24. rE GO C. Malaya General Sir Hugh Stockwell. to night gave the first of a series of lectures intended to bring Europeans in the commercial world closer to the problems of the Federation. He spoke of the Army’s role
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    Go ahead signal
    32 18 TELUK ANSON. Nov. 24. The UMNO and MCA branches in Lower Perak have decided to go ahead with plans to contest, the Town council elections in May next year.
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    THOSE EXTRA TEETH FOR THE TAX MEN
    156 18 Govt, told: They're not essential SINGAPORE, Spy. 25. A RECOMMENDATION that two sections in the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill be withdrawn was made in a report to the Legislative Council yesterday by a select committee appointed to examine the BUI. The two sections
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    COLONIAL I.G.P. HERE
    55 18 THE Inspector-General of Colonial Police, Mr. I. H. Sturton (left), arrived in Singapore on Nov. 24 from Kuching on his way to Australia and Fiji on an inspection tour. He was met at Kallang Airport by Mr. N. G. Morris, Commissioner of Police, and stayed overnight as
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    $277,000 for S’pore prison scheme
    361 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25 CHRST-OFFENDERS and vagrants serving long terms in Singapore prisons have been assured of a fresh lease of life under prison reforms and developments recommended to the Colony Government by the Budget Revision Committee of the Legislative Council in its report on the
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    Bandit courier surrenders
    44 18 ALOR STAR. Nov 24. A bandit courier. Liin Ah Seng. 39. trekked live days and nights to give himself up to a Home Guard last week Lim went into the jungle in 1948. He was a tapioca planter in Alor Star.
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    He’s here to discuss the ‘pines’ war
    88 18 JOHORE BAHRU. N ov \|R. GORDON BOGoa vice-chairman of Matk and Crowther and Co* one of the biggest adverts firms in England, arrived Singapore today from Lori v He is here to dilute 2 the Federation Pineapuie dustry Advisory Board a nuh city
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    300 LEAVES FOR CHINA
    70 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 2o rIREE HUNDRED Ch'ni deck passengers ft! Singapore and the Federate taking with them new bicyci spare tyres and tubes embark on the cargo liner Tjiwari yesterday fjr China. There were also 215 Chlntj from Indonesia travelling dec The rest of the space on
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    $850,000 PLAN for quicker phone calls to Federation
    158 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 2i WITH the passing of the Draft Estimates for 1954 by the Singapore Legislative Council 5850.000 becomes available for a new trunk telephone centre. Provided the Government gives final approval, a quicker, more efficient phone link between Singapore and all
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    More buying interest in tins and industrials
    714 20 SHAKE MARKET By Our Financial Correspondent ’THE higher tin and rubber prices caused a decided L improvement in the Singapore share market last week when the volume of trading was the highest for some weeks and the market was more cheerful than it
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    BUSINESS DONE
    209 20 THEfollowing list of business in the Singapore share market is reported by Fraser and Co., for the period November 14. to November 20, inclusive:— INDUSTRIALS C.T.S. Ords 24!-, Fraser and Neave Ords $1.95 and $1.97% Gammons $2.92 to $2.90, Great Eastern Life $43%, Hammers $2.77 Hongkong Bank (London)
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    69 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. 25. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: Noon prices per picul were: Copra: steady quiet: November $37% buyers. $37% sellers: December $37% buyers, $3B sellers. Coconut oil: $61% sellers, unchanged. Pepper: unchanged; small business reported; Muntok white $340, Sarawak $335, Lampong black $3OO. Lewis and Peat: Closing
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    JAPAN WILL SEE OUR FILMS
    191 20 Festival No.2 for Singapo SINGAPORE, Nov UIVE films depicting the lives, customs and Ura 1 backgrounds of Malayans will be screened tc Japanese audiences at the first South-East A \1 festival to be held in Tokyo next year. B This decision was reached at a
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    101 20 rE following dividends were announced last week by companies operating in Malaya:— ATLAS ICE: amount not disclosed, payable December 10, books close December 3. SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE: 10 pyr cent and bonus 2 per cent for year ended August, pay able December 12. books clbse December 5. RAWANG
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    855 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. 25. INDUSTRIALS Bayers Sellers Alex. Bricas Pref* 2 10 120 Ords t 3.70 380 Atlas Ice 12 25 3 25 BB Petrol 34/6 35/3 B.M. Trustees 6.50 150 Con Tin smelt Pref 18/- 19/Ords 23 9 24/3 Eastern Onited 34 50. 46 On Fed Dispensary
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    Good tone and offtake better
    299 20 ItuhberlVli^J^ SINGAPORE. N 21 rE undertone of the ngi pore rubber markt i hj been good although th con suming markets appear to ta resisting any advance h mice The offtake for shipment over seas has been better, part cularly in the case of low
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    OCTOBER TIN OUTPUT
    87 20 Tin production in ie Federation in Octobei 4,875 tons, compared dn 4.669 tons in September, making the ten mo ns output 46,288 tons, pared with 47,095 to in the corresponding 1’ ,od of 1952. Of the October u,t of concentrates, 3.9" j ns were produced in -lK
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