The Straits Budget, 12 August 1954

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    37 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER New Series No. 41/. yr.'A-y Thunday, August 12. 1954 »k H ifSk-M'-W' -4 utSu^ l Price 40 cents (Malayan):. •.f A Zf-'2p* 1 Sbaitor^^yg
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      The omissions of Sir George Pepler
      277 2  -  C. H. WITHERS-PAYNE Singapore. ITPON my return to the Colony, I observe that Sir George Pepler is paying us another short visit and has again written to the Press Before dealing with hi* 4ir- ther comments upon the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Ordinance. I shall
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      What about a new industry?
      63 2  -  ROSA DARTLE, Johore. V BEFORE the war Nlpah Distilleries Ltd. had to close down for good. Is the same thing going to happen with Malayan Collieries Ltd? Both Malayan industries. Is Batu Arang coal not of good enough quality for the extraction of coal tar
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      ALLIANCE PETITION AND THE DECISION OF PERAK RULER
      444 2  -  V. D. K. Kampar AS the Perak Govema ment has Issued a statement explaining the reasons for the refusal of the Sultan of Perak to receive an Alliance delegation, one would have thought that the Alliance leaders would have allowed the matter
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      No minority in new Malaya
      84 2  -  MALAYAN.: Singapore. Iff* articles on Avl the Indian minority in the Federation have missed the important aspect of this hypothetical question, inasmuch as there will be no Indian minority in the new Malaya—they wW all be one hundred per cent Malayans If by any chance
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      Youth and all-night dancing
      88 2  -  LAWRENCE LIM Singapore. Uttera.. K Jmtt'm :r,'u SWfBSW' w» all-night bau i» bound to be a precedent and Mt as a demoraiwng i„ flue nee on youth. 1 am *vOl 1 all heads of religious organisatibnaart thope youth must look with dls-•“-n«ht ball Dancing may be
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      They also like to attend meeting
      82 2  -  SHOP EMPLOYEE. Singapore. WHILE the Slr-apote pubttc, v especially the tn&taa community, will rejoin the visit of Mrs. Pandit, empi*. eea of Indian shops and ft™." where working hours do not allow them to take part Jn any public activities, also want to attend
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      Murder in cold blood not ‘operational war’
      164 2  -  j. t. chApph Ipob. \f R. CHRISTOPHER SHAWCROSS is reported to Iv* have stated at the inquiry on the Kallang air crash, when referring to Mr. Gibson’s death follow mu wounds received in the recent ambush in’Johore that “his death was not assassination.
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      Council example
      37 2  -  ECONOMIC. Singapore. AS far as the private employer is concerned, City Council’s crazy example u giving their workmen double pay on Sunday is m reverse. Just watch the alrea high cost of living spiralis soon.
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      Queen’s Chinese need real leaders
      201 2  -  COMMONER JSingapore. |\ATO Sir Cheng-lock Tan, It is conceded, has been a great leader of the Straits-Chi-nese, both in Malacca and In the Federation. It would sound impertinent to ask what he has done all these years to prevent such a calamity he warns about
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Houses And Plans
      772 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 5. With all proper deference to the Federation’s Housing Trust, j and to the building societies, the Singapore Improvement Trust is still the only true and busy public housing authority in the country. By the end of last year it had built 8,000 houses
      —Straits Times, Aug. 5.  -  772 words
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      Lawful Excuse
      567 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 5. The Privy Council’s decision in the case of Wong Pooh Yin, who appealed successfully against sentence of death for the possession of a revolver, will no doubt occupy the attention of the authorities responsible for initiating these prosecutions. The precedent has been quoted at
      —Straits Times, Aug. 5.  -  567 words
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      Cost Of The Schools
      627 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 7. The Member for Education’s warning on the cost of the Federation’s programme has attracted remarkably little comment. But plainly he is preparing parents for the possibility that they may have to pay more for their children’s education, and he was reminding the
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      A National Union
      284 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 7. The rubber workers, who have given other trade unionists a lead before now, at last have some prospect of a single and strong national union. At a meeting at Ipoh yesterday agreement was reached between the Malaya Estate Employees Union, a Perak body,
      —Straits Times, Aug. 7.  -  284 words
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      Three Freedoms
      264 3 •Straits Times. Aug. 7. Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan has quoted the American Declaration of Independence in reproach to the Queen’s Chinese, j Now it is wise before quoting to appreciate the conditions in which the statement quoted was framed. The Declaration of Independence was drawn up by a
      •Straits Times. Aug. 7.  -  264 words
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      A Government Tote
      822 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 9. Bookmaking and off-the-course betting has had the inquiring attention of both Malayan Governments for years. Neither has been able to make up its mind what, if anything, should he done, hut both have felt attracted to New Zealand’s method of controlling ofT-the-course betting.
      —Straits Times. Aug. 9.  -  822 words
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      Ten to One Against
      405 4 --Strait* Times. Aug. 10 In their quest for control of ofT-the-course betting the Federation and Colony Governments are going to find it difficult to escape a charge of hypocrisy. Both have claimed that money is no object, although naturally neither government likes losing good revenue. It
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      World Youth
      208 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 10. The World Youth Assembly, which opens formally in Singapore on Sunday, gets off to a modest but important start today with a three-day Asian seminar. It is being attended by representatives of India, Ceylon. Pakistan, the Philippines, and Federation and Singapore youth leaders, and—
      —Straits Times. Aug. 10.  -  208 words
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      Full Ahead For The Vote
      655 4 7l fm.‘. t Aug. n Organising Federal elections is a new experience, said the Federal Elections Supervisor when discussing with the Press a gigantic task which will begin with the registration of Malaya’s voters. There will he fifty-two constituencies and 1,800 polling stations. Between 3,000
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      A Hongkong Lead
      300 4 —Straits Time®. Aug. 11. Only twenty p<j cent ot Hongkong's track teday is with mainland Chira. tompared with over forty pei cent before the war. Honekor; haj met it*, crisis through *b« development of local induM/y and the winning ot a world market for its manufactures, an
      —Straits Time®. Aug. 11.  -  300 words
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      71 4 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSGKirnON RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Quarterly Half-yearly Yearly The weekly issues Singapore Town Area No Postage S 5.20 10.45 20.85 of the Straits Malaya including Postage S 5.75 11.50 23.00 Budget can Fr. FmpilT Foreign (lnr'uding po"<ap.e) 6 75 ir r*o be f,7.00 by express air delivery service
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    All-night ball is no threat to our moral safety, they say
    272 5 WAY VISITORS LAUGH AT MINISTER S FEAR SINGAPORE, Aug. 11. THE opposition of a Singapore clergyman to an all-night ball at the end of the World Assembly of Youth in Singapore is not shared by overseas delegates to the
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    AND THEY’RE SO EASY ON THE EYE, TOO
    164 5 THEY SPEAK FOR CEYLON, PHILIPPINES BEAUTY and brains are strikingly combined in some of the girl delegates from overseas. Among the most glamorous are the Filipino girls who attracted many admiring glances when they arrived yesterday wearing national costumes. Most of the
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    MANILA’S MICHAELA SLATES THE REDS
    145 5 ‘WE DON’T BELIEVE IN CO-EXISTENCE’ lITARNINGS of the evil inV? fluence of Communism on the minds of youth were .nven by some of the delegates yesterday. One of the most outspoken delegates was Miss Michaela A. Montemayor. publicity officer of the Philippines group. “In our
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    INDIAN SEATS IN COUNCIL: GOVT. REPLIES
    70 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 10. The Malayan Indian Congress headquarters here today heard Irom the Federation Government on the question of reserved seats for Indians in the Legislative Council. The MIC sent a memorandum to the Government in July Pleading that certain seats in ’he
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    All these salaries are going begging
    162 5 SINGAPORE, Aug. 11. A SHORTAGE of medical and teaching staff and a lag in building had caused a drop in Singapore Government’s expenditure for the first half of 1954, the Financial Secretary, Mr. W. C. Taylor, said yesterday. At a Press conference, he said
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    Two generals met at Kallang
    65 5 SINGAPORE. Aug. 11. Lieut. General Sir Sydney Rowell, Chief of the Australian Imperial General Staff arrived in Singapore yesterday by Qan-tas-BOAC on his way to attend the Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff conference In London. He was met at Kallang Airport by Lt. Gen.
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    Off to Britain
    42 5 TAIPING, Aug. 9 Mr. Leow Khoon Fong. 22. an old boy of the St. George’s Institution, has left Penang to study civil engineering in Britain. He is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Leow Khi Lin of Taiping.
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      218 5 HILL: On the 3rd August 1954, to Margaret (nee Amoier) wile of Graham Starforth Hill, a son. REINHOLDT NIELSEN: At Batu Gajah the fourth August 1954, to Vips and Nold, a son. Soren. HAZARD. To Muriel, wife of W. D. L. Hazard at General Hospital, Johore Bahru, a son,
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      58 5 DR. M. O. WONG younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Wong Puck Sham, to Doris Lee Wee elder daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. T. Wee. MCELWAINE KIRKMAN: The engagement is announced between David, elder son of Sir Percy and Lady McElwaine of Shaldon Devon, and Margaret, daughter of
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      SILVER WEDDING.
      23 5 BENNETT-SMITH. On August 10th, 1929 at Kuala Lumpur, by the Revd. F. W. J. Reynolds, Jack Bennett to Cicely Mary Smith.
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  • Obituary
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    171 5 DEATHS HADERUP. HANSEY PATRICK, aged 63, passed away at the General Hospital, Penang. Deeply regretted. i w* w *****3 SGT. BRADLEY H.A.E. Passed Away 22nd July. 1954. at R A F. Hospital. Nocton Hall. England. Late of R AF. Changi. R.I.P. SHELDON: Ivy Corbett (nee Van der Holt), 49, passed
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    JUNKS ON PENANG WATERFRONT
    10 6 Straits Times photographer Kok Ah Chong.
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    As I was Saying
    644 6  -  CYNICt T S SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. t GOVERNMENT report on labour relations and conditions of work is not my idea of memorable tveek end reading, but a passage in the latest report of the Singapore Labour Department seemed to strike a chord. A study has been
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    Notes from a ... Malayan Diary
    1091 6  - Notes from a Malayan Diary STANLEY STREET. The open door WHAT with the New Zealand M.P.s and the British Labour Party delegation and the all-party delegation of Members of the Imperial Parliament, Singapore Is being so much observed, commented on. commentated about and investigated. that some of U.* are beginning
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    The penghulu’s carving
    57 7 CHE NOORAIHAN binte Sallehuddin. of the Education Office. Pahang, with a superb piece of Malay carving on a coconut grater, the work of a penghulu in Province Wellesley. This Sun- day Times picture was taken when Che Nooraihan visited the Penang and Province Wellesley stall at the
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    Countryman’s Journal
    625 7 AST Saturday the Tuan spent the week-end at the riverside mansion of the estate he has so often written about. There are tw T o roads to it, both in bad condition; he travelled by the best—not very comfortable in a Land Hover but comfortable enough in a
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    WEDDING—IN LONDON
    42 7 Miss Yvonne Ngoc-Lang, 19, daughter of the Vietnamese Minister to London, was married to another Vietnamese, Nguyen Huu Tinh, 25, an engineer living in Paris, in front of the ancestral temple at the home of her parents in in London.
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    Farewell to the ulu
    1182 7  -  Malaysian i\o(cbook STANLEY STREET. IT was a memorable and rathei happy goodbye that I bade the river people in the Fourth Division of Sarawak. There was no great entertainment at the last long house where we stayed on our journey down stream, the fifth where I
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    Fifty Years Ago
    80 7 Taken from the Straits Times of August 7, 1904: ON last Saturday afternoon, the largest sailing vessel which has ever visited Penang, the Juteopolls, a fourmasted barque in command of Capt. Steward, bringing a general cargo from New York, arrived there. She made the run from New
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    No bigger income tax allowances
    170 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 5. rpHE Singapore Govern- ment has approved a recommendation by the Malayan Board of Income Tax that the present deductions allowed should not be changed. The board’s recommendation and the Government's approval are reported in a white paper to be tabled in the
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    20 MIL. ‘SURRENDER ’ PASSES DROPPED
    204 9 20 MIL. ‘SURRENDER PASSES DROPPED KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 5. latest leaflet drive to get Communist terrorists to surrender spotlights the peace in IndoChina. “You now fight on alone," says 20 million leaflets bearing the signature of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Geoffrey Bourne, the Director of Operations, which are being dropped. This operation
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    Just the job for a rolling stone
    75 9 SEREMBAN. Aug. 4. Recruitment of teachers of English for Malay schools in Negri Sembilan has proved to be a costly failure. The candidates chosen often took these jobs, and used them merely as stepping stones to some better appointments. Moreover, the scheme was
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    Johore elections
    28 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 6. Nomination day for the Johore State Council elections will be Sept. 1 and polling day will be Oct. 10, it was announced yesterday.
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    300 SAIL FOR RED CHINA
    44 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 5. Three hundred Chinese from ngapore and the Federation filled in the Hoi Houw for hed China yesterday. Most of them were old women, men and young children. A strict security check was kept for draft-dodging students.
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    POPPY DAY POSTER OUT OF DATE, SAYS MRS. LIM
    189 9 SINGAPORE, Aug:. 6. rE TRADITIONAL Poppy Day poster, showing a field of Flanders poppies, is meaningless and out-of-date in Singapore and should feature local people beside the Colony’s own Cenotaph. This suggestion by Mrs. Lim Koon Teck was agreed to at
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    Aid for new citizens
    63 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 5. The Bukit Timah branch of the Malayan Indian Congress has set up nine centres to help Indians to register for British and Singapore citizenship. The centres are at the 6th, 7%, 9V 2 11 Vi, 14th milestones Bukit Timah Road, 15th milestone Jurong
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    Unions’ plan to save colliery
    281 9 K. LUMPUR, August 5. THE Malayan Trade Union Council is considering the introduction of an emergency motion at the next meeting of the Federal Legislative Council calling on the Government to take over immediate control of the Batu Arang Colliery. A statement issued by the
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    Youths will get better training
    240 9 TO FILL NEED IN SKILLED TRADES OEGULATIONS governing apprenticeship schemes in the various industries in Singapore hav«> been recommended to the Government by its Employment Officer, Mr. F. G. Tyson. The aim, Mr. Tyson told the Straits Times yesterday, was to raise the standard of
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    Raffles old boy off to Britain
    37 9 Mr. Leong Swee Lim, 19, an old boy of Raffles Institution, leaves Singapore for England today to study architecture. He is the son of a Colony merchant, Mr. Leong Kwan On.
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    MORE SHIPS ARE COMING TO SINGAPORE
    105 9 Singapore harbour is handling a steadily increasing number of ships, a Government report shows. The nett tonnage rose from 20,453,574 in 1947 to 46.233.529 in 1953. This is a considerable increase over the highest figure between the years 1918 and 1942 33.500.000 in 1937.
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    JUDGE WARNS JUROR WHO WAS LATE
    79 9 SINGAPORE, Au&. 6. Mr. Justice Tan at the Singapore Assizes yesterday told a juror. Mr. C.G. Hulsman, who arrived about five minutes late, that he should be punctual in future. The judge said that Mr. Huisman’s name was called first but as he was
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    Ex-wife can see children once a year
    107 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 6. MR. JUSTICE WILSON in the High Court here today granted a divorce to Dr. G. J. N. de Fonseka from Kitty Benzie de Fonseka on the grounds of adultery. They were married at Colombo on Feb. 16 1939. The
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    Gray goes on leave
    64 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Ang. 6—Mr. David Gray, the Federation acting Chief Secretary, left Kuala Lumpur today on three months’ leave. Mr. D. K. Daniels, deputy Chief Secretary, will act as Chief Secretary until the High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, returns next week. Then Mr. D C. Watherson,
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    Wall to stop river erosion
    36 10 SEGAMAT, Aug. s.—Government is to build a concrete wall to prevent erosion bv the Segamat river in the town area. Land for the purpose is being acquired along the river banks.
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    Protest on tax on sugar 46 p.c. ‘TOO HIGH’
    163 10 Protest on tax on sugar 46 p.c. ‘TOO HIGH MALACCA. Aug. 5. A PROTEST against the “unreasonably” high tax on sugar was made today in the Settlement Council here. Mr. Goh Chee Yan, on adjournment, said sugar, an essential foodstuff, bore 46.7 per cent tax. only 3.3 per cent less
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    Cinema men say it again: Cut the tax
    233 10 ‘WE’LL PASS SAVING TO PUBLIC SINGAPORE. August 5. THE Cinematograph Exhibitors’ Association has made another appeal to the Singapore Government to reduce entertainment tax on cinema admissions. The Association, which first brought up the subject six years ago, made its latest request
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    Three Socialists to see Penang
    67 10 PENANG. Fri. The three Asian Socialists now touring Malaya will be in Penang on August 17 for a three-day visit on Aug. 19. The mission will visit Kedah and return to Penang the next day. They will leave for Indonesia on Aug. 23. They are
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    UNIVERSITY PUTS FEES UP
    71 10 RISING costs and drop in funds have forced the University of Malaya to raise tuition fees by $135 a year. Announcing this yesterday, the Registrar, Mr. W. I). Craig, sa, d that the fees would be raised from $255 a term to $3OO a term. They
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    Sir Cheng-lock warns Straits-born Chinese
    294 10 PENANG, August 5. T’HE president of the Malayan Chinese Ass(„ia--1 tion, Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan, today warned the Queen’s Chinese that they faced certain extinction if they remained apathetic towards their political future. Sir Cheng-lock, who last week agreed to witheihis resignation as leader of
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    Club benefactor
    24 10 TAIPING. Aug. 6.—The Indian Association recently held a dinner here in honour of Dr. I. Mohamed Ghows, donor of the association building.
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    PALM OIL MEN WANT SEPARATE PAY PLAN
    138 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 5. T HE 16,000 strong Selangor branch of the Plantation Workers Union has decided to call for a separate wage scheme for workers on coconut and plam oil estates. The negotiating committee rubber workers unions will be approached to open
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    Death rail man returns
    162 10 HE WILL PRESIDE AT YOUTH RALLY SINGAPORE Aug. 6. A SIAM “Death Railway” nian came back ‘to Singapore vesterdav nine years after he was released by the Japanese in Siam. He is Mr. Guthrie Moir a former British Army captain in the Suffolk Regiment, who was
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    IVORY CARVINGS BRING $8,000
    94 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. More than $B,OOO worth of ivory carvings have been sold by Mr. Wong Lo Feng since his exhibition of micro-en-graving and carving in ivory was opened by the Com-missioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. Mr. MacDonald bought
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    FREE EDUCATION IN BRUNEI
    47 10 BRUNEI, Aug. 5. Government has announced an education improvement plan for the state of Brunei at an estimated cost of $15% million. Under the plan, primary and secondary education will be free, and improved facilities for technical and overseas training is also envisaged.
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    POLICE GET NEW ARM IN JUNGLE
    177 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 6. SPECIALLY TRAINED police anti terrorist squads have begun operations in Selangor, Kedah and Pahang against objectives selected by the Special Branch, This new arm of the Federation Police Force is an experiment. It was planned during the last weeks of
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    Gurkhas kill Chin Pin, comrade of ‘bearded terror’
    242 11 Gurkhas kill Chin Pin, comrade of ‘bearded terror KUALA LUMPUR, August 6. PIN, 37, a terrorist hunted by the security forces for six years, was killed yesterday—the thousandth bandit put out of action in Selangor, A patrol of the 1/7 Gurkhas, who have been in Selangor only three days, killed
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    Inspector dies
    24 11 IPOH, Aug. 6 Mr. K. D. Singham, aged 48. anti-mala-rial inspector. Ipoh Town Board, collapsed at work today and died in hospital.
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    SHE’S GOING TO BRITAIN
    48 11 MISS EILEEN YAP (above), daughter of Mr. Yap Pheng (i eck, left Singapore yester(I*y in the P and O liner Canton for Britain on a three-year Froebel teachers’ training course. Eileen will do her training at the Rachel •McMillan College Deptford.— Straits Times picture.
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    MAN FELL 25ft.—JUST MISSED THE VICAR
    128 11 PENANG, Aug. 6. AN electrical wireman, Ong Sek Kuan, 18, today fell 25 feet from the ceiling of the Penang Library, narrowly missing the librarian, Mrs. Patricia Lim, and the Rev. Jack Griffiths, Vicar of Penang. Ong’s head struck a steel bookcase. He was
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    $210 haul
    23 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. Thieves broke into a house in Everton Road, Singapore, on Thursday, and stole cash and jewellery worth $2lO.
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    14 killed by pneumonia
    39 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 6. Pneumonia caused 14 deaths in the Federation in the w r eek ended July 24. There were 65 cases, 20 in Perak. There were 35 cases of dysentery, with two deaths
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    Off to Penang for vacation
    35 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. Nearly 100 Singapore schoolchildren, with parents and some teachers, sailed in the Canton yesterday for a holiday in Penang. English schools closed for the August vacation yesterday
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    A man died in this 4 a.m. smash
    42 11 STRAITS TIMES picture show s the badly damaged car in which a Singapore newspaper advertising manager was killed and his passenger bad ly injured after crashing into a lamp-post in Bukit Timah Road yesterday.
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    ADVERTISING CHIEF KILLED WHEN CAR HITS LAMP-POST
    209 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. MR. HARRY TOWNE COUNTER, adverUMn* manager of a Singapore newspaper died from injuries received in a car crash early yesterday Mr. Tan Hock Chye, a lawyer’s clerk, who was in the car with Mr. Counter, was badly injured. The accident
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    Customs revenue sources
    23 11 Singapore Customs revenue from January to July this year totalled $46,068,000. The principal sources were tobacco ($20,271,000) and liquor ($12,383,000).
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    Freedom in 10 years says Cheng-lock
    131 11 SUNGEI PATANI, Aug. 6 DATO Sir Cheng lock Tan, president of the Malayan Chinese Association, promised today that Malaya would attain independence “within ten years.” “I assure you sel f government is not far off,” he told a joint meeting of about 3,000 UMNOM.C.A.
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    Straits Chinese must fight elections: Mr. Ong
    223 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. OTRAITS CHINESE and Brl.tish citizens In the Colony will lose their political importance if they regard themselves as above local politics, the President of the Singapore Straits Chinese British Association. Mr. T.W. Ong, said yesterday. Mr. Ong was commenting on
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    ‘No confidence’ vote on Perak’s Mentri Besar
    342 12 IPOH, August 8. TO shouts of “merdeka,” a meeting called by the Perak UMNO-MCA-Progressive alliance today passed a resolution of no confidence in the Mentri Besar, Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang. Crowds, predominantly Malay, went to the meeting at the Chinese Assembly Kali bearing
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    A MODEL of the Government offices at Muar is the central feature of the Johore display of arts and crafts at the Malayan Agri-Horticultural Association, which opened in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
    57 12 The cut-out heads and the examples of old Malay carving in the foreground were done by Mrs. Kathleen
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    MORE ASIANS ARE GIVING BLOOD
    135 12 M SINGAPORE, Aug. 8. ORE ASIANS have given their blood in Singapore in the past fortnight. During the period donations exceeded transfusions by 29 flasks, says a Singapore Blood Transfusion Service report. Of the 272 donations given, 84 came from Europeans and “P** 1 Asians
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    Spray saved city from disease
    114 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. ANEW insecticide spray was used to control fly breeding which could have started dysentery, typhoid and food poisoning outbreaks during the Singapore strike, the City Health Officer. Dr. H. R. Morrison. said yesterday. Dr. Morrison said that the spray had arrived from
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    Captain granted decree nisi
    58 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. John Philip Thomas Linklater, a captain in the British Army, who accused his wife of adultery, was granted a decree nisi in the Singapore High Court yesterday. The decree is to be made absolute in six months. The parties were married in England
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    Back to work
    27 12 IPOH, Aug. 7.—lnche Osman bin Talib has returned to duty as deputy to the Mentri Besar, Perak, after leave in England and the continent.
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    ‘Leaders, not bookworms, needed’
    133 12 ‘Leaders, not bookworms, needed BUKIT MERTAJAM, Aug. 6 The Resident Commissioner, Mr. R. p. Bingham, said here today that Malaya needed more leaders and not mere bookworms. "You must, therefore, allow your children to take part in outside school activities,” he told parents at the Bukit Mer- tajam High School’s
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    MALAYS PLAN A $1 MIL. COMPANY
    133 12 $100,000 capital is needed now KUALA LUMPUR. Aipj, ABOUT 50 Malay businessmen from different -> of Malaya today decided to start a $1 millin' pany for transport, building and import S business. wl 4r The meeting was sponsored by the Selangor Malay Businessmen’s Association.
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    Han Suyin’s book for the screen
    118 12 MALAYAN author Han Suyin’s best-seller. “A Many Splendoured Thing/* has been bought by Twentieth Century Fox and will be made into a film. Mr. S. A. Kao, the company’s Singapore manager, told the Sunday Times last night. It w’ill be made in CinemaScope and
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    Her target is on TV
    109 12 A SINGAPORE. Aug. 8 young blonde songstress who admits to ''never had music lesson in my [ye. recently made her debut in one of Singapore's night spots. Miss Jennifer Bellum always wanted to sing popular songs and develop he? own style. Daughter of an army
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    MISS ‘GOLDEN VOICE’ GOES ON THE AIR
    58 12 jy/fiss EILEEN STA MARIA (left) of Kuala Lumpur, who won the “Miss Golden Voice*' competition organised by the Telecommunications Department, being interviewed by Miss Elizabeth Kirby of Radio Malaya. Second in the contest was Miss Aisha binte Samsuddin and third Miss Sylvia Barbosa,
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    Governor visits trade fair
    43 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. The Governor, Sir John Nicoll, visited the Colony s sixth post-war trade exhibition at the Happy World last night. Among the demonstrations which he saw was one on cooking at the City Council s electrical stall.
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    TWO DIE IN MAAF CRASH
    203 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 7. TWO Malayan Auxiliary 1 Air Force pilots lost their lives when their plane crashed in a rubber estate near Banting, 30 miles from Kuala Lumpur, this evening. The two men were Pilot Officer Roy Wilson, Deputy Government Printer. Kuala Lumpur, and
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    MARRIED TROOPS GET HOMES
    152 13 ‘Tulloch Plan shows results SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. ‘Tulloch Plan” homes for married 1 Malay soldiers will be opened on August 16 and 17 an army spokesman said in Singapore yesterday The first 12 homes will be opened at Nee Soon camp on I Aug. 16 by
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    New offices opened in KL
    76 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 7. fT\HE president of the Kuala A Lumpur Municipality, Mr. A. D. York, today opened a new $600,000 office building for Messrs. Sime Darby and Co. Ltd. in Ampang Road. The chairman of directors, Mr. G. P. Noakes. and several co-directors flew
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    MISS Rajeswary Thambiah of Kuala Lipis, a second year science student at Melbourne University, looks slightly awed as she begins her first tennis lesson. And well she might, because the racquet she is holding was used by Frank Sedgman when he won the Wimbledon title and the Davis Cup for Australia.
    102 13 MISS Rajeswary Thambiah of Kuala Lipis, a second year science student at Melbourne University, looks slightly awed as she begins her first tennis lesson. And well she might, because the racquet she is holding was used by Frank Sedgman when he won the Wimbledon title and the Davi s Cup
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    LIFE IN U.S-BY MISS MALAYA
    221 13 Marjorie wee—“ Miss Malaya”—has told a boy friend in Singapore why she has remained in Hollywood. In the first letter received in Singapore since she left for America, Marjorie says she was due to fly home on July 25 when the management of the Ambassador
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    The lady with the Trengganu fans
    43 13 CHE SU binte MOHAMED, of Negri Sembilan, poses with some fans she fancied at the Malayan Agri-Horticultural Association’s exhibition at Kuala Lumpur. The fans come from the famous mat-making town of Paka in Trengganu. Sunday Times picture.
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    Railway stations to have fences
    51 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 6 The Malayan Railway will soon fence in stations on the east coast where passenger traffic is heavy, Mr. GJS. Warren, the Traffic Manager, said today. “This is to prevent passengers without tickets from getting out of the stations too easily,” he
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    CBE men honoured
    45 13 PENANG, Aug. 7.—The Chung Hwa Confucian High School feted two members of the school committee, Mr. Khoo Sian Ewe, the chairman, and Mr. Ng Sui Cam at a tea party at the school today following the award to them of the C.B.E
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    ‘GOVERNMENT NEEDS MANY NEW DOCTORS’
    174 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 8. A REPORT in a Singapore -A newspaper about newlyqualified doctors being turned down for Government service “just doesn’t make sense,” the Director of Medical Services, Dr R. H. Bland, said yesterday. The report said that there ts discontent among the 15 housemen
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    CABBIES NET $31,000 FOR NANYANG
    155 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 9. MORE than 1.000 Singapore taxi-drivers raised $31,003 for the Nanyang University on Aug. 7. They plied their vehicles from 5.30 a.m. on Saturday till 3 a.m. on Sunday and did not take a cent for themselves. Fares were dropped into collection boxes
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    New land chief
    32 13 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug B. Mr. S. Angus, from Trengganu has succeeded Mr. A. Glencross. as Commissioner of Lands and Mines, Johore. Mr. Glencross has left for Britain on retirement.
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    Dies at work
    29 13 ALOR STAR, Aug B.—A carpenter, Mat Isa bin Mat Noh, 35, collapsed and died while at work yesterday at Kuala Kedah, nine miles from Alor Star.
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    She’ll study in Australia, then go to Paris
    50 13 MISS FLORENCE PONG (above) who left Singapore on Aug 6. to study music in Australia for a year. She will then go to Paris. A daughter of Dr. Philip S. Pong, she has won several singing prizes in Singapore and Hong Kong.
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    OFF-COURSE BETTING PLAN CONSIDERED
    749 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 9. rpHE Governments of the Federation and Singapore are considering a scheme for ofT-course betting based on the New Zealand Totalisator Agency Board. The Federation committee appointed to inquire into the desirability of registration and licensing of bookmakers unanimously opposed licensed bookmaking. The committee,
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    New officials of Ceylon Tamils
    68 14 Officials of the Ceylon Tamils’ Association. Singapore. are: President. Dr. P. Thillainathan: vice-president. Dr. T. Balasingham; secretary. Mr. S. Ratnasabapathy: treasurer. Mr. K.V.K. Slngham; literrary secretary, Mr. T. Kandasamy; sports secretary. Mr. S. Mooi^hy. Committee members: Messrs. S.C. Somasundram. A. Eliathamby. V. Nagalingam. K. Nadarajah.
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    BETS PLANSTARTS ROW
    772 14 K. LUMPUR, Aus. 9. 'JHERE has been a sharp conflict of views in Federation racing circles on the news that the Government is considering a scheme for off-the-course betting based on the New Zealand Totalisator Agency Board. A strong section still advocates legalised bookmaking, but many others
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    LADY MacGILLIVRAY TRIES SOME OF MALAYA’S CHOCOLATE
    48 14 Lady MacGillivray tastes a piece of the first chocolate made in Malaya from locally ffrown cocoa at the Agrihorticultural Association c\hibition at Kuala Lumpur. The Agricultural Department’s chief research officer. Mr. R. B. Jagoe, waits for her comments.—S.T. picture. —S.T. picture.
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    It was first venture
    121 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. a. Lady MacGillivray, wife ot tt\e High Commissioiiner. was today one of the 15.000 peopie who visited the show by the Malayan Agri Horticultural Association in the Chenwu Auditorium and saw for herself Malaya’s first attempts to make her own chocolate. The exhibition
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    He will watch youth talks for the U.N.
    49 14 DR. C.W. CHANG, a representative of the United Nations in Bangkok, who arrived in Singapore on Aug- 11 by air to be an observer at the World Assembly Youth conference, which opens in Singapore on Sunday.—Straits Times picture -Straits Times picture
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    I shall soon have to say what is behind all this—ex-air chief
    1261 15 I shall soon have to say what is behind all this —ex-air chief KALLANG CRASH INQUIRY QUESTION TMPOSSIBLE 42nd DAY OF THE INQUIRV SINGAPORE, August 5. A LBERT WALTER SAVAGE, former Director-General of Civil Aviation for the MalayaBorneo Region, said at the Kallang crash inquiry yesterday that he was being
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    Report on fire services ‘unbelievable’
    1010 15 43 RD DAY OF THE INQUIRY SINGAPORE, Aug. 6. 4 REPORT made on Kallang airport fire services in 1952 was “absolutely unbelievable,” the former Director-General of Civil Aviation for the MalayaBorneo Region, Albert Walter Savage, said yesterday in Singapore. Extracts from the report were read
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    MISS SHARMANI TIRUCHELVAM, described in London as “one of the 50 most beautiful women of our time,” models a saree during the Ipoh women’s presentation of “One Sight on Glamour.” The show was in aid of Lady Templer’s Tuberculosis Hospital Fund and proved an outstanding success.
    52 17 MISS SHARMANI TIRUCHELVAM, described in London as “one of the 50 most beautiful women of our time,” models a saree during the Ipoh women’s presentation of “One Sight on Glamour The show wa s in aid of Lady Templer’s Tuberculosis Hospital Fund and proved an outstanding success. S f raits
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    TAXI MEN GIVE A DAY FREE
    166 17 Varsity gets fares SINGAPORE, Aug. 10. NOTHER 1.400 Singapore •A taximen will drive for •haritv on Sept. 12. They hope to collect a lot of money for the Nanyang University. The taxi-drivers Chinese. Malays and Indians will muise from dawn till midnight. Thev will
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    MASS TEACHING OVER THE AIR
    151 17 Community lessons in Malay PENANG. Aug. 9. Federation Adult Education Association s latest A move to wipe out illiteracy in Malaya will start on Wednesday evening, when a series of lessons i n Malay will be broadcast over Radio Malaya It is the first time
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    Ceylon Tamils fete M.B.E.
    43 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 10. The Kev ,;i i hevutnasan. headmaster ol the AngloChinesc Continuation School. Singapore, was entertained to tea by the Ceyien Tamils’ As sociation. Mernb' rs congratulated Mr. Thevathasan on his recent award of the M B E
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    St. Xavier’s new $75,000 lottery
    52 17 PENANG. Aug. 10. —The St. Xavier’s Building Fund Committee has organised a second $75,000 lottery to raise further funds for the school’s new $2 million building. The sweep, approved by Government, offers several cash prizes. The draw will be held in the school hall on
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    FIGHTING FIJIANS KILL RED No. 150
    241 17 BATU PAHAT Aug. 9. T!HE fighting Fijians of Johore have brought their score of terrorist kills to 150. No. 3 Platoon “A” Company of the Ist Battalion the Fiji Infantry Regiment killed a terrorist on Chamek estate seven miles north-west of Kluang. Another terrorist
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    Ex-manager is gaoled for nine months
    169 17 BREACH OF TRUST OF $9,800 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 10. AMU EL Alfred Evans, aged 4b lenmei manager of Storch Brothers, Kuala Lumpur was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment today by M»- J. Kirby, President of Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court for criminal breach of trust
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    TIME-LIFE S’PORE BUREAU
    92 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 10. riiHE American magazines Life 1 and Time will set up a permanent Singapore bureau In the next few months, the managing director of LiteTime International. Mr. Edgar R. Baker, said when he arrived in Singapore bv air yesterday. Mr. Baker, who was accom- panied
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    60,000 back big rubber union
    263 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Auk. 9. THE proposed national union of Malayan* plantation workers now has the support ot at least 60,000 organised workers in the planting industries. About 40,000 are represented by the Plantation Workers’ Union, Malaya, and 20.000 by the %Malayeu Estate Employees’ Union, Perak.
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    BURGLARS DROP IN ON MR. EVANS AGAIN
    136 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 10 A MAN who has been robbed six times by thieves in the last seven years, woke up this morn«ng to find that he had been visited again bv a burglar. He is Mr. 11. I. Evans, assistant manager of
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    Off to Britain
    26 17 RAUB. Aug. 10. Miss O.VV M Green, matron of the Get\>-. Hospital. Kuala Lipis, has l ft for England on live mouths' leave.
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    The golden grain makes a Sultan gasp
    73 18 A PRIZE-WINNING basket of padi won praise from the Sultan of Selangor when j he toured the Malayan Agri Horticultural Associa- j tion exhibition, which opened in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend. With him (left to right) are: Lady MacGillivray. Mr. O. J.
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    Don’t expect loyalty if you call us aliens says Dato Tan
    544 18 PENANG, Aug. 10. IAATO Sir Cheng-lock Tan, president of the Malayan Chinese Association, today criticised people in Malaya who say the entire Chinese population is loyal to the Kuomintang regime of General Chiang Kaishek. Sir Chcng-lock expressed the opinion
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    2-day course for officers
    58 18 KOTA BAHRU. Aug. 9. Twenty-two District Officers and Assistant District Officers in Kelantan attended a twoday course on representative government and electoral procedure at Kota Bahru during the weekend. The course, sponsored by the British Council, was opened by Mr. D. Headley. British Adviser. Kelantan. Films
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    Teachers to form national union
    48 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 10.— The inaugural meeting of the National Union of Teachers will be held at the Methodist Boys’ School here at 11 a m on Aug. 12. The officer administering the Government. Mr D C Watherston. will address the 1 meeting
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    Choongs to help defend the Cup
    953 18  -  'ffij WEBg W SWTOT By JOHN MARKS I SINGAPORE, Aug. 10. 1 nnHE Choong Brothers of badminton fame, Eddie and David, will both return next April to help Malaya defend the Thomas Cup in 1955. Eddie. 1953 and 1954 All- I England singles champion,
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    Metal Box shares still feature
    529 20 SHARE MARKET] BY OUR MARKET CORRESPONDENT; SINGAPORE, August 9. jyjETAL BOX $1 shares were again the feature of the industrial section of the Singapore Share Market last week and on Saturday morning business was passing in round thousands from $1.25 to $1.27j to $1,261, with
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    119 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 11. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul were:Oopra: quiet; August 129% buyers, sellers; September 830 buyers 830% sellers. Coconut oil: 851% sellers. Pepper: quiet; do business reported; white pepper down 82%, black 85; Muntok white 8212%, Sarawak 8210, Lampong black 8165. CL C. B.
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    BUSINESS DONE
    191 20 rE following business done in Singapore Share Market last week wgs reported by one firm of brokers for the period July 31 to August 6. INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelters 255. «d. and 28s. 74d. x all, Fraser and Neave Ords $1.97 >1 and $1.9*%, Hammers $3.05, William Jacks
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    44 20 rp following dividend was announced by a company operating in Malaya last week, r THE GEORGE TOWN DISPENSARY LTD.: A dividend of 15%, pins bonus of 15%, both less income tax at 36%, for year January 31. 1954. Books close August 11.
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    Indo-China rubber
    80 20 Indo-Chinese rubber through port of S.ugaa totalled 22.854 tons in ffrst half of (his year, comi pared with 27.586 tons in the corresponding period of 1953 reports Reuter from Paris. Shipments to France declined sharply to 5,284 tons from over 19.000 tons but exports to the United States
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    New director
    27 20 Mr. P. A. Rogers has been elected to the Board of Mambau (F.M.8.) Rubber Cotnpany. Mr. H. 8. Camp, bell has resigned from the Board
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    3 PROVIDENT FUND EXPERTS ARRIVE
    131 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. l npHREE experts of the Ministry Pensions and pa n al Insurance arrived in Singapore yestemin air from Britain to help organise the Singapoi tral Provident Fund scheme. iWmiK They were Mr. K. B. Malcolm. Mr. H. S. Robinson, and Mr. C. E.
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    Extortion from two is alleged
    87 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 10. KOW SOO WONG, alias PI Bl Chye, 29, of Kampong Dollah was today charged here with extortion. He was alleged to have threatened Kuan Kuen You with arrest at Buklt Bintang Amusement Park and got $l5O from him. He was also
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    Company fetes Iban leader
    53 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 10. The British Malayan Petroleum Company gave a party here to Penghulu Jugah of Batang Raj an*, a leading Iban of Sarawak. i\ *'tr: Jugah said he was happy to see better educational and social facilities being provided by the oil company to
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    New member
    24 20 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 10.— Dato Abdul Rahman bin Mohd. Yassim has been appointed a temporary official member of the Johore Executive Council.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    766 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 11. INDUSTRIALS Ale. Br.ck. B ye BeUer 2BO 2.10 .iff?*-, 370 3 0Q Atlas ice 12.25 13 25 Betrol 34/$ 35/o B M. Trustee* 6 60 7.00 SZ u> nueli a*- iw»«Si mmu::.. s& J& uammon 310 a is O town Dlsp 2 80 2
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    PRICE IS SAGGING
    469 20 Rv'A) Vlart&tj —l SINGAPORE. Ah After the long weekend the market opened better on political intlutr.ee but business was mainly confined to the adjustment 0 f the current month positions says the weekly rubber report of Holiday Cutler. Bath and co„ Ltd. The offtake for overseas markets
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