The Straits Budget, 19 April 1956

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    29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER flew Si s No. 504. Singapore, April 19, 1956. Price 46 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      No room for mere sheep
      279 2  -  nFVFNHRA Singapore. NOW that Singapore la on the threshold of a substantial measure of freedom from British control, I think It is the duty of all citizens of this Colony to take -a keen interest, in its politics. Party politics may be a game too
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      Politicans are born
      128 2  -  “DEMOCRAT* Sibu. POLITICIANS, Mr. Mar|r* shall, are born, not matte and recent events in Singapore should have convinced the British that independence lor Singapore cannot he rushed and if it is granted now or even within the k next year or two,,* the results will be nothing
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      Merdeka ten years hence
      184 2  -  DAVID CHING. Singapore npHE biggest task for SinX gapore today is to raise the general living standard. Although some claim that the living standard here is the highest in South-east Asia, it is still not satisfactory for the majority of .the people. r Now it remains
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      Equality for Malays
      81 2  -  HAJI MOHAMAD BIN HAH TAIB, General Secretary, Lembaga Kesatuan Melayu Semenanjong. Johore Bahru. T EMBAGA Kesatuan Melayu Semenanjong support hundred per cent the move made by the Perak Malay Chamber of Commerce on its memorandum that no more licences and permits be granted: to non-Malays until the
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      Citizenship made easy
      110 2  -  A CHIN ESE. Kajang lAM a voluntar Workp and help to j plication forms Nationality Certil es Bt ¥j Chinese. s lor Borne applicant thoueh they have a U the 3528 documentary evick •<> as children’s birti= r ti«£ h cates, electric bii oiCY u c receipts
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      Malays and merdeka
      69 2  -  MENTEGA Singapore. THENGKU Abdul Rahman has told the Si tapore Malays to back up Mr. Marshall’s Merdeka Mission. I wonder hov much he knows of the true posiUon of the Malays in Singapore. I consider his attitude is not at all based on facts. What are the
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      Can merdeka remedy present shortages?
      202 2  -  £M. SHARIFF Singapore MR. RASHAD Baharoom seems to be quite certain that the majority of Singapore’s citizens are in favour of “merdeka”. I am a Malay and. although 1 am not one of those organising an anti-merdeka campaign, yet. like thousands of other Malays and
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      New body should reassess technical qualifications
      415 2  -  K. O. t. SMY Singapore. INDUSTRY'S in Singapore and the Federation would benefit greatly it a completely neutral body were set up to regulate and advise on the technical qualifications necessary.- pi various posts At the moment this work is left in the hands
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      Lock icon A Time For Restraint
      456 3 —Straits Times, April 12. i* and differences within the nherent in the composition •ing themselves in lion now that s no longer n an but an assured ■re is pressure r tiu- Chinese guilds and for multilinguaj sT all t>r acceptance or Jr>o!i. the principle that
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      Lock icon The Schools Debate
      628 3 —Straits Times, April 13. By a unanimous vote, the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday approved the Government’s White Paper on educational policy. Since this policy faithfully reflects the main principles of the AllParty Committee’s report, it would have been extraordinary had there been any dissent. Some critical comment
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      Lock icon Mission To London
      682 3 —Straits Times, April 14. Today Mr. Marshall sets off with the main body of the all-Party mission for the constitutional talks in London. On the eve of his departure, Singapore’* Chief Minister received and displayed with pride a pile of “referendum” books in which 167,000 people have
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      Lock icon Aid From Britain
      373 3 Straits Times, April 14 The Federation’s Minister of Finance, Col. Lee, is to lead a small delegation to Britain next July to discuss a matter which was only discreetly mentioned during the merdeka talks in London. It was no doubt felt then that the question of financial
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      Lock icon Facts Oil Housing
      415 3 —Straits Times, April 15. The Singapore Government must not expect the Opposition or the public to be satisfied with its answers to Assembly questions on the building programmes of the S.I.T. Mr Lim Koon Teck wanted to know how many houses in each category had been completed
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      Lock icon The Need For Unity
      595 4 ■j —Straits Times, April 17. One slogan Merdeka united all communities in the Federation. Another slogan jus soli threatens to shatter the political unity with which the promise of merdeka was won. The danger has become real with the M.C.A.’s final decision to address the Constitutional
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      Lock icon Union Recognition
      264 4 —Straits Times, April 17. The decision of the Working Committee of the Malayan Trade Union Council not to press for compulsory recognition of trade unions in the Federation may come as a surprise to many unionists. After all there have been bitter fights over the question of recognition.
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      Lock icon Research In Rubber
      800 4 —Straits Times. Apj d 13 Addressing shareholders of Labu Cheviot, Sir John Hay returned to an old and still controversial theme the cost and direction of the rubber industry’s research programme. Sir John has been a constant critic of what he once called “the emotional approach” to
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      Lock icon The Challenge
      304 4 m, cuuiatiuu. —Straits Times, Apr:i The Federation's M.msU:for Commerce and Inuu.-try. Dr. Ismail bin Abdul Rai::nr-. has issued what amounts u a challenge. He has propped a five year plan to give Malays opportunities in commerce. Briefly the idea is to pi cu training and scholarship fit Malays
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      BIRTH
      13 4 tSltvlfi BAYNE: To Mrs. J. B.V Bungsar Hospital, a (1 Both well.
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    ASIA WANTS FRIENDS — NOT COMRADES IN-ARMS
    839 5 ASIA WANTS FRIENDS NOT COMRADES IN-ARMS The warning from CVylon ,\i,V a fool would atu i nipt to deny the ..••ufiuiad significancewestern demo-((-v ol the electicn nils m Ceylon. T niward Issup before 1 tors was whether v‘. 1 ,i r s t should reV u t English as the
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    MR. MARSHALL CARRIES HIS OWN BUILT-IN CONSPIRATORS
    645 5 VOU’VE noticed the stillness, the peace after the storm? The people of Singapore can forget for a few days or weeks how desperately impatient they all are for merdeka. But I wonder what is the effect in London of the arrival of so
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    No more grace for tax dawdlers: Action from today
    167 5 P SINGAPORE, April 17. V r who bave not yet made 1956 income tax iP s now face Prosecution Singapore’s acting v, of Income Tax. Mr G T Holloway, said relay. It.' extended time limit for making returns exp,r'( 1 yesterday.
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    Mr. CHEW TO ACT AS CHIEF MINISTER
    189 6 SINGAPORE, April 14. WITH Mr. David Marshall and four of his ministers leaving on the merdeka mission today, six ministerial portfolios will be shared by two ministers. And the Financial Secretary, Mr. T.M. Hart, will take over the portfolio of Commerce and industry.
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    Subversion? — Only within the law
    250 6 Subversion? Only within the law LIM’S TERM PUZZLES VARSITY MEN SINGAPORE, April 14. IJNIVERSITY of Malaya authorities yesterday denied knowledge of Communist or any other illegal activities within the student body. iney were puzzled by the statement of the Liberal-So-cialist Assemblyman, Mr. Lim Cher Keng, who said in the Legislative
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    OFFICER’S CHEQUES DISHONOURED
    265 6 IPOH, April 13. AN intelligence officer, Lt. John ameron, of the West Yorkshire Regiment, was ordered to be dismissed the service by a general court martial here today. Lt. Cameron, 22. was charged on five counts of prejudicial conduct. He was alleged to have issued five cheques
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    In spring, the thoughts of Colony citizens...
    181 6 SINGAPORE. April 14. MR. W.A.C. Goode, Officer Administering the Government, said yesterday that nowadays in the spring the thoughts of Singapore’s citizens turned not to love, nor to flowers, but to a new constitution. Mr. Goode was making a lighthearted speech at the
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    JOBS ROW: JUMAT’S VIEWS SOUGHT
    144 6 SINGAPORE, April 14. THE Singapore City Council Services' Union intends to ask Government to intervene in its dispute with the Council over promotions. The union is protesting against the promotion of two officers “over the heads” of employees with longer service. Replying to a comment
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    JOBS: LOCAL MEN HIT AT CITY COUNCIL
    249 6 SINGAPORE, April 13. THE Singapore City 1 Council was accused yesterday of adopting a policy of requirin qualification designed to bar local officers from higher appointments. This charge was made by stalT representatives of the City Council at a public session of the
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    JUS SOLI: TENGKU PROMISED, SAYS TAN
    325 6 KUALA LUMPUR Apr. 13. There were four sensational developments today in the battle for jus soli citizenship by right of birth. ONE: Reliable sources said that Chinese. Indians and Eurasian-. were l planning to send a delegation te> the- Colonial Office to press their
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    Back pay
    22 6 JOHORE BAHRU. April 13. —After the revision of salary scales, the Johore Government has paid $765,889 in arrears of salary.
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      70 6 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Quarterly Half-yearly Yearly Singapore Town Area No Postage 8 5.20 10.40 20.80 Br. Malaya including Postage S 5.75 11.50 23.00 Empire Foreign (Including postage) 6.75 13.50 27.00 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can he sent hy express air delivery service to
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    Two brothers from ‘Down Under’ meet in Colony
    132 7 Two brothers from ‘Down Under meet in Colony SINGAPORE, April 12. AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE are ail for having their troops in Malaya. Australian Air Vive Marshal A. M.. Murdoch said on his arrival at Singapore bv air yesterday. He said he believed that the stationing of troops here was of mutual
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE, April 12. MR. FITZROY MACLEAN, Britain’s Parliamentary Under-Secretry of State for war, who yesterday led on the Commander-in-Chief Far East Land Forces, Gen. Sir Charles Loewen.
    66 7 SINGAPORE, April 12. M R. FITZROY MACLEAN, Britain’s Parliamentary Under-Secretry of State for war w ho yesterday led on the Commander-in-Chief Far East Land Forces, Gen. Sir Charles Loewen. touJinl* VI. ,S at P re sent in si ti Xrmy ms tallations in apoM and the FeK.„ n <‘ "ill
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    NEW TACTICS BY REDS
    185 7 They're trying to influence Assemblymen Mr. M SINGAPORE, April 15. POMMUNioTS are trying to influence Singapore v Assemblymen in an attempt to cause confusion 1.1 /^i_ i in the Colony. The Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, said this yesterday while elaborating on the speech he made
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    84 7 ht Straits Times of T' h 1 1J > woo) Tm- 1906) oi two infants deposited in Jalan ff Victoria rn tng. Both U P. but one to show child, other is not known. Appearances showed that one was of Malay and the other of Chinese origin.
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    Last of old Malaysia
    952 7  -  vJMALA YSWAIV NOTEBOOK m STANLEY STREET. IT IS infinitely more A interesting to leave Singapore from the roads than from Keppel Harbour. Keppel Harbour is tediously like any other harbour east of Suez or, for that matter, west of Suez. A monotonous series of docks and
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    Countryman’s Journal
    606 7  - Countryman ’s Journal Tt AN INURING last week no rain of any use fell in the Dusun. The reported recovery of our house well was shortlived. The bananas, however, are standing up to the drought. One morning the Tuan’s heart fell when he found that VVa’ Dollah’s chickens had been
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    $ MISSION TO LONDON
    454 8 MISSION TO LONDON Lee to pay 14-day visit KUALA LUMPUR, April 11. —The Federation Government will seek financial aid from Britain before it submits its supplementary budget to the Legislative Council in July, the Minister for Finance, Col. H. S. Lee, said here today. He said he would go to,
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    CANADIAN TRADE IS SAFE, HE SAYS
    114 8 SINGAPORE. April 12. THE new Canadian 1 Trade Commissioner in Singapore, Mr. M. P. Carson, said yesterday that merdeka would not affect trade between Canada and Malaya “unless your governments change their trade policies radically.” Mr. Carson, who arrived in Singapore in the Hannover.
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    A PIONEER DIES AT HOME
    63 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 11. Mr. E. G. Install, a pioneer in the development of rubber companies in Maiava, died yesterday at his home in Woodford Green. Essex, England. it was learned here today. He was 69. Mr. Estall was governing director of Sharpe, Estall and
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    Merchant seized by five men, then freed
    350 8 SINGAPORE, April 12. SINGAPORE merchant escaped from his abductors last night after he had struggled with them for more than an hour in a fast-moving car. While the car circled the city with Mr. Lam Sek Khang, 26, shouting and struggling, the police
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    No short cut, says Minister
    55 8 KLANG. April n Th Minister for Local Gov,™ ment Housing anti Torn Planning, Inche suh bin Dato Abdul Rahman, tow Town Councillors hi |oday at their monthly meet- There ts no short cut to your responsibilities Your job is to look after the p. onle
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    Wedding bells soon for hem Harry—the man who brought mercy by candle light
    170 8 SERGEANT Harry Baxter was the hero of a dramatic jungle mercy march. But his fiancee. Pat Roberts, 20, knew nothing of it until Harry arrived home on leave—and she read about it in a London newspaper. Harry,
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    Trouble brews at second bank
    254 8 SINGAPORE, April 12. Employees of the First National City Bank of New York in Singapore voted last night to go on strike over the management’s refusal to pay them a bonus for 1955. They will stop work on a day to be fixed bv the
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    Women teachers are best
    43 8 TAIPING. Apr. 11.—Women student-teachers won the top awards in the two-day exhibition here of teaching am' for teachers of English m vernacular schools. Miss Beh Gr.ik Keow wr> 4 the first prize and Miss Kho Siew Kin the second.
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    CITIZENSHIP—NOW A SPLIT LOOMS BEFORE THE MCA
    449 9 CITIZENSHIP —NOW A SPLIT LOOMS BEFORE THE MCA -political experts say: Chinese Ministers in cabinet may quit IMUA LUMPUR, K \pril 11.— The controversy over jus soli—citizenship bv right of birth— has not only precipitated a crisis in he Alliance but also threatens to split the Malayan Chinese Association. Source
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    Engage Indonesians to teach Malay in S’pore, say students
    314 9 SINGAPORE, April 12. T'HE PAN-MALAYAN 1 Student Federation last night suggested that the Singapore Government should recruit Malay teachers from Indonesia to facilitate the establishment of the Malay language as the lingua franca of the country. It pointed out that the
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    Airways can’t be taken over
    135 9 SINGAPORE. April 12. Discussions between the Singapore and Federation Governments have led them to the conclusion that Malayan Airways cannot be nationalised. This is because the airline serves Sarawak, Brunei ana North Borneo. The Minister for Communications and Works. Mr. Francis Thomas, told the Straits
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    Police hold 26
    31 9 PFNA\( r Apr. 11.—Penang nn* n on four bad-hat” hideouts 0 un. today and detained ni-n for questioning. More them are re- -r! bad characters and l( supervisees.
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    More Sultan ill—and no one is talking
    149 9 More Sultan ill —and no one is talking >2TATv A P™ 13. v f n a V rities yest erday ■at.. f c to describe the i T f] illness of the Tl r i 1 Jo7lor was due to lay tone of the >’ I mosque in vr.i in
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    This expat is wanted
    79 9 MALACCA. Apr. 11. The staff of Malacca settlement Agriculture Officer, Mr. H. D. Matheson, would like him back when he returns from six months’ leave in Britain. But he is likely to go to Kedah. The staff made a request for his return to Malacca at
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    Vacancy lasted three years
    40 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Apr. 11. —The State Government has been asked by the Johore Bahru branch of UMNO to fill the post of lady supervisor of Malay girls’ schools. The post has been vacant lor three years.
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    To join tests
    24 9 Ships from the Far East, Fleet based in Singapore will take part in the nuclear tests off the Porto Bello Islands
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    Court shown picture of dance girl in wedding dress
    248 9 SINGAPORE, April 12. A DANCE HOSTESS, Annie Chan, produced wedding photographs in the Singapore Seventh Magistrate’s Court today to support a maintenance claim aeainst a Singapore businessman, Ng Fook Chee. She claimed that she was legally married to Ng in 1948.
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    ‘JAEL IS BETTER THAN THIS DISTRICT’
    129 9 SEREMBAN, April 11. PRISONERS in jail get more rations than the people of Jelebu, Inche Ibrahim bin Haji Mansoor, a Negri Sembilan State Councillor, declared at today’s Council meeting. Speaking in Malay at the adjournment, Inche Ibrahim said that the people of Jelebu were
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    the old folk are ready
    240 10 SINGAPORE, April 12. A GREAT majority of the 1,500 Government pensioners in Singapore are waiting lor a word to return to their old offices to help out with the Malayanisation programme. This was stated yesterday by the secretary of the Singapore Government Association, Mr. Kiong;
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    Asian woman architect joins P.W.D.
    86 10 SINGAPORE, April 11. THE FIRST fully qualified Asian woman architect to join the Public Works Department in Singapore is Miss Chia Rim lliak, 28, (above), a graduate of Melbourne University. Miss Chia, who was born in Singapore, holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree. She has
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    New drive against Reds soon
    142 10 ITU ALA LUMPUR, April 12. —All is now ready ror the launching of a new all-out people’s war against the terrorists. The starting date for the new campaign is a top secret known only to members of the Emergency Operations Council and high-ranking Service chiefs.
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    BOMB MEN PRAISED BY GENERAL
    76 10 SINGAPORE, April 13. Maj. Gen. D. D. C. Tulloch, the G.0.C., Singapore Base District, yesterday commended all those responsible for the disposal of explosives found at Jervois Road, recently. The commendation read: •‘The work of the ammunition examiners of the R.A.O.C, and the working party
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    MERCY AIRLIFT FROM SIAM
    185 10 PENANG, April 11. AN AUSTRALIAN miner, Mr. S. Trimble, was rushed to Penang Hospital from Bayan Lepas airport this afternoon after a Royal New Zealand Air Force transport plane had flown him from Puket Island, West Siam. An ambulance waited for two hours on the runaway
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    Soldier hurt in bus fall
    53 10 SINGAPORE, April 13. A British soldier was critically injured last night after he fell off a moving bus at St. Andrew’s Road, Singapore. Pte. Kenneth Reginald Watts. 19. was admitted to the General Hospital with severe head injuries. Early today he was placed on the
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    Malaya census next year
    45 10 IPOH. April 12 —A censusof Singapore anG the Federation of Malaya will be conducted next year During the next three months, field trials will be carried out in selected areas in Perak to try out the new procedure of census taking.
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    ‘The Rulers have open minds’
    225 10 KUALA LUMPUR, April 10. mllE Keeper of tin* Rul--1 ers’ Seal, Tuan Haji Mustapha Albakri, today urged non Malays who are worried about their future in an independent Malaya to keep calm. lie told the Straits Times: “The non-Malays have nothing to fear. The Rulers
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    REDS BLOWUP MAIN RAIL LINE
    549 10 IPOH, April I‘. TERRORISTS last night blew up the main railway A line in the notorious Tapah area, about 35 miles south of Ipoh, and caused one of the worst derailments in the history of the Emergency. The engine, tender and eight wagons in a
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    JOHORE GOVERNMENT MUST RULE ON NURSES’ CAPS DISPUTE
    85 10 JOHORE BAHRU. April 12. T'HE Johore State Government will have to decide whether nurses at the Johore Bahru General Hospital should wear the regulation head-dress. The nurses objected to wearing the head-dress called a “toad cap” and appealed to the Federation’s Director
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    SCHOOLS: A NEW DEAL — BUT ENGLISH STAYS
    1658 12 SCHOOLS: A NEW DEAL BUT ENGLISH STAYS ‘CHINESE SCHOOLS GROW MORE SUSPICIOUS WITH YEARS’ SINGAPORE, April 13. THE Singapore Government’s blueprint lor a Malayan-centred education system was unanimously passed by the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The plan is embodied in a \\hile Paper which boosts Malay, Ghinese and iamil education and
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    New Far East Air Force chief
    44 12 SINGAPORE, April 13. AIR VICE MARSHAL Francis Braithwaite, CJB.E., newly-appointed C-in-C, H.Q., FEAF. He succeeds Air Vice Marshal Alan Gillmore, who recently returned to Britain. Air Vice Marshal Braithwaite was formerly A.O.C. No. 61 Group, Home Command, RAF.
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    Housing expert
    37 12 SINGAPORE, April 13. Mr. G. F. Middleton, a British expert on low cost housing is now in Singapore on the invitation of the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall. He was formerly with the Ceylon Government.
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    Nine bandits raid village for arms
    181 12 JOHORE BAHRU, April, 12. 'VINE armed terrorists raided an isolated village at Kampong Bahru in the Kluang district of Johore last night for arms They managed to grab a shot gun and 20 rounds of ammunition from a Home Guard and escaped with a
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    Five arrested
    38 12 SINGAPORE, April 13. Singapore police yesterday arrested five men in on nection with the abduction of Mr. Lam Sek Khang. 26, a merchant from a coffee snoi in Robinson Road on u* night of April 10.
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    ‘Minorities’ pledge to Eurasians
    355 13 ‘Minorities pledge to Eurasians CHIEF MINISTER: GIVE THE sl'ORE BATTALION YOUR TOTAL SUPPORT SINGAPORE, April 13. i Hi hicf Minister, Mr. David Marshall, yes1 urda\ assured a delegation representing the Eurasian community in Singapore that the alloarh merdeka mission to London would seek to incorporate in the new constitution provito
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    Li Li is the rage of Malacca
    248 13 CROWDS FOLLOW HER EVERYWHERE Malacca. April 12.— Beautiful Hong Kong film star Li Li Hwa. who arrived here on April 7, has been besieged from morning to night by teenage autograph hunters. photographers and admirers of both sexes. Sh» i> here to shoot
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    Synthetic imports: Second thoughts
    192 13 LTUALA LUMPUR, 1V April 12.— The Federation Government and the rubber industry are now having second thoughts about their opposition to a British rubber manufacturers’ plan to import 70,000 tons of synthetic rubber from the United States this year. They are considering a plea by the
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    English? No, not for my son—LEE
    360 13 English? No, not for my son —LEE SINGAPORE, April 13. 'J'HE P.A.P. leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, is determined that his four-year-old son is not going to be English-educated, like himself. He confided his plans for his son’s future to members of the Singapore Assembly yesterday, during discussion on the
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    Malay teachers: No Indonesian help
    137 13 SINGAPORE. April 13. CEVEN visiting Indonesian journalists told the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, yesterday that Indonesia could not help to ease Singapore's shortage of Malay teachers. The journalists, who are now touring the Colony after attending the recent International Press Institute conference in Tokyo,
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    Deputy C-G sails for home
    69 13 SINGAPORE, April 12. MR. A. A. DUDLEY, Deputy Commissioner General, and his family left in the Carthage yesterday for Britain. Mr. Dudley, who has been in Singapore for nearly three years, is returning to Britain for a holiday before re-post-ing. His successor, Mr. Angus MacKintosh,
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    IT WAS A BIG DAY FOR 52 TEACHERS
    154 13 SINGAPORE. April 13. IT was a big day for the Singapore Teachers’ Training College, Chinese branch, yesterday—a day of double celebration. Not only was the college observing its first commemoration day ceremony, but certificates in education were awarded to the first class
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    JAPANESE FORCES HAD NO RIGHT to OIL THEY PLUNDERED says JUDGE
    886 14 Three Dutch companies win $5 million claim SINGAPORE. April 14. Singapore Court of Appeal held yesterday that Japanese armed forces had no right to the oil wells in Sumatra which they had “systematically and ruthlessly plundered throughout the occupation
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    SIR ROBERT IS BACK — IMPRESSED
    103 14 SIR ROBERT IS BACK IMPRESSED SINGAPORE, April i? the commissioner for SOUTH-EAST ASIA, sir Robert Scott (above), j«j by the way the rauippmes Army is tackling the problem of internal security. Sir Robert, accompanied bv Lady Scott, returned to Singapore by air yesterday after a five-day visit to the Philippines.
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    Casanova who lived in fear...
    205 14 Casanova who lived in fear SINGAPORE, April 14 FOR the past decade, tali, good-looking, Mohamed Salleh, 26, has constantly changed his occupation and home....and all because he was too much of a Casanova. Whenever he moved into a neighbourhood, girls were certain to be disturbed. In factories, firms or offices
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    GETTING READY FOR FINANCE TALKS
    123 14 KUALA LUMPUR, April 13. THE Federation and Singapore Governments are A preparing for talks with the Indonesian authorities at the end of next month. The talks, on a ministerial level, are to be held in Singapore*. They will cover finance, trade, and shipping and fisheries
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    SHARKS PROVIDE ESCORT
    115 14 Troopship rams 20-ft man-eater SINGAPORE, April 14. THK 22,500-ton troopship, 1 Asturias, sailed into Singapore y e s t e r d a y—trailed by a school of sharks. The sharks were following the blood trail of another 20-ft. man-eater which the Asturias had rammed and impaled
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    40 see three drown
    146 14 I/'OTA BHARU, April 12. —A 14-year-oltl girl and two young wives were swept out to sea and drowned yesterday in full view of 40 people picnicking at Pantai Kuda near Kelantan’s famous Beach of Passionate Love. They were wading close to the shore when they were
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    New councillors are named
    52 14 JOHORE BAHRU, April 13. —Mr. Woo See Tian, Mr. *>■ Mana Pillay and Mr. B. o' t Costa have been nominatt as members of Kluang Council. Ex-offlelo members are t < Administrative Officer, ‘deputy president), the Senior Executive Engineer, PWD Health Officer, Johore Centra., and the
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    MARSHALL: LAST WORD ‘Be calm if talks hit snags’
    495 15 SJNOAPOKE, April 14. rrilK Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall who flies to London today to seek merdeka for t h e Colon v, is certain of the ultimate success” of the people’s aspirations for freedom. But in an eve-of-de-nuruirc broadcast xast
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    BIG NEW POWER STATION PLANNED
    106 15 \PORE. April 14. re City 'll is considerldin another dollar to meet l ncl's mowing -ty n-T-ds. will be taken in the n be constructP. fir Panjang fion. the 1 ind is and boring ried out. new .station it 13 months »r generators will •<on
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    THE LAW IS BENT, JUSTICE IS DONE
    196 15 SINGAPORE. April 14. r FHE Singapore Fourth Magistrate, Mr. ,J. M. De-vereux-Colebourn, yesterday evaded the letter of the law and put a self-admitted opium addict on one year’s probation The addict, Ho Joo Chwee, 62. had pleaded guilty on April 6 to charges
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    ‘THIS IS MY M-BOMB’
    161 15 ‘Merdeka NOW’ 167,259 say it SINGAPORE, April 12. rplE CHIEF MINISTER, A Mr. David Marshall, is jubilant as ho litis up tho eight merdeka referendum books, which ho described yesterday as “my Mbomb.” Tho books contain 1G7,2.)0 signatures “for” merdeka and 128 against. One man wrote
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    Lady Templer is returning
    70 15 KUALA LUMPUR, April Li. -Lady Templer, wife of the former High Commissioner, is coming back to Malaya next month to open the hospital she played such a big part in building. It was Lady Templer who started the fund for the multi million dollar tuberculosis hospital
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    RED CROSS OFFICIAL IMPRESSED BY MALAYA
    134 16 IPOH, April 15. language and racial differences, Malayan youths were keenly interested in Red Cross work, the Straits Times was told today. Miss Barbara Cooke, of the British Red Cross Society headquarters, London, said she was impressed by the spirit Malayan youths of all
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    CINEMA CROWDS FLEE BARRAGE OF BOTTLES
    299 16 SINGAPORE, April 16. TIUNDREDS of people on their way home after an open-air film show walk- ed into a gang fight in Serangoon Road, Singapore, last night. They fled in terror. Dodging bottles and stones, housewives screamed and dragged their children to safety on
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    Villagers are active
    52 16 SINGAPORE. April 16. Villagers at Yio Chu Kang in Singapore are to form a community centre advisory committee. It will work closely with the Social Welfare Department on matters affecting social services in the area. Mr. M. P. D. Nair. Assemblyman for Seletar, will be chairman of
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    ‘LET SONS READ FOR CHURCH’
    154 16 ‘LET SONS READ FOR CHURCH Bishop appeals to Catholics PENANG, April 15. T’HE BISHOP of Penang, Monsignor Francis Chan, today appealed to Catholic parents to offer their sons “generously” to the service of the 91 enuren.” “We need more priests in Malaya,” he said in a sermon at the Cathedral
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    Malayanised —he goes on leave
    73 16 SINGAPORE. April 16. SINGAPORE’S Seamen’s Adviser, Mr. T. A. White, left for Penang yesterday on local leave. During his absence, Mr. Goh Sin Tub, the Seamen’s Industrial Relations Officer, will act for him. Mr. White will resume work on May 16 and will return to
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    MCA PLAYS LONE HAND
    527 16 Committee to draft ‘jus soli 9 memo MALACCA, April 15 T HE MALAYAN CHINESE Association made up its niind today to press for jus soli* nationality by right of birth. It will ad fade pendently of its allies the United MalawNational Organisation and the Malayan Indian
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    SO TIRED—THEY WANTED TO SWIM
    184 16 PENANG, April 15.—Two young Australians flying from Croydon to Melbourne with Olympic Games pamphlets touched down at Penang airport this evening, tired but cheerful. "Gosh, we need a bath. Wh»*re can wc go swimming in Penang?” David McClure. 25, of Melbourne, asked a Straits Times
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    PENANG: ‘MALTA’ PLAN FOR U.K. MERGER
    217 17 Secession cry again as jus soli cow (laves up PENANG, April 16. THE flare-up of the ius soli controversy thr.i'jehout the country l.as revived Penrry for secession from ihe Federation. former Federal Councilor, Mr Koh Sin Hock, is now suggesting that Peshould merge with
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    ‘Everybody wants to sell a naval base’
    384 17 EARL MOUNTBATTEN TELLS THE PRESS— SINGAPORE. April 17. BRITAIN'S First Sea B Lord. Admiral Earl Mountbatten, said in Singapore yesterday that the next move on Trineomalee, Britain's naval base in Ceylon, must come from the Ceylonese Government. E Mountbatten, who leaves for Ceylon
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    COMBINE—THEN WE CAN BEAT REDS IN ASIA, HE SAYS
    187 17 SINGAPORE, April 17. THE Philippines Under Secretary for Foreign AfA airs, Mr. Raul S. Manglapus, said in Singapore yesterday that Asian countries should combine against Communism. Mr. Manglapus, 38, arrived by air yesterday to attend the sixth regional conference of the
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    RIDA loans: No takers
    44 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Apr. 15. A large number of people did not apply for loans as expected by RIDA after the Government had decided to aid Malay participation in the transport industry. Only two applications were received and they were approved.
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    Unions want ban on HK books, shoes
    136 17 SINGAPORE, April 17. mwo Singapore trade unions have attacked Hong Kong products—shoes and books. The Singapore Book Shop Workers’ Union appealed to members to eliminate the sale of Hong Kong sex publications. The union president, Mr. Chu Man Biew, said these publications, poisoned
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    $3.5 MIL. RUBBER for RUSSIA
    138 17 SINGAPORE, April 17. MALAYAN rubber worth nearly $3,500,000 bought by Russia is now stored in godown 44 of the Singapore Harbour Board. This will be the second direct shipment to the Soviet Union. The 3,816-ton freighter, Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky which is to load the cargo is
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    Men in car abduct girl, 15
    144 17 SINGAPORE, April 17. A SINGAPORE school- girl, Kamalabai, 15, was abducted yesterday by two men in a car from her home at the 15th mile, Sembawang Road. Kamalabai, daughter of Neelakandan. a village businessman, was in the garden of her house when a car
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    TWO MORE BANDITS GIVE UP
    50 17 JOKIORE BAHRU, April 16. Two Communist terrorists surrendered at Central Police Station here on April 11, it was revealed today. They handed over a rifle, a shotgun and ammunition. The names of the terrorists cannot be revealed as they are leading police to terrorist camps.
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    OUR DOLLAR IS DOWN AGAIN
    246 17 SINGAPORE, April 17. EVDR the second time in three weeks, the Malayan r dollar fell yesterday in terms of sterling. Authoritative financial circles, however, said that the drop had not been caused by political developments and that there was “no need for alarm.” Yesterday’s drop
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    Off on course
    28 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Apr. 15. Mr. C. L. Carrier, District Forest Officer. Kluang, will be leaving shortly for Sweden to do a course of forestry training.
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    TREASURY NETS $23 MIL.
    84 18 $2mil. more than last year SINGAPORE, April 18. pROSS revenue col- lected by the Singapore Government during the first three months of this year totals $23,096,000. Tills is nearly $2,500,000 more than receipts in the same period last year. Customs revenue showed an increase from most
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    $80,000 PAID OUT FOR ‘WHISPERS’
    61 18 KUALA LUMPUR, April 17. The Government last month paid out a total of $80,175 for information leading to the capture or killing of terrorists. Selangor topped the list with $30,250. Next came Johore with $21,627 and Negri Sembilan with $19,000. Penang handed out $5,000, Perak
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    1,730 apply as teachers
    55 18 KUALA LUMPUR, April 17. More than 1.730 people, including 617 girls, have applied for training at the Teachers Training Colleges at Kirkby. Brinslord Lodge and Kota Bharu. A selection board will interview them, from May 1 to July 2. at various centres in tin* Federation. There
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    Batten is going to Nairobi
    41 18 SINGAPORE, April 18. The former Information Oflicer lor Malaya in London. Mr. John Batten, has been appointed Information Oltic- < r to the East Africa High Commission. H<* will take up his duties in Nairobi in July.
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    Lord Louis presents Mountbatten Medal to river rescue hero
    142 18 SINGAPORE, April 18. Earl mountbatten of Burma presents the Royal Life Saving Society’s top award, the Mountbatten Medal to Mr. Francis Koh Teck Chong (above) —18 months after he had saved a 74-year-old man from drowning. The ceremony yesterday was at
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    ‘RETURN COLONY TO MALAYS’
    153 18 SINGAPORE. April 18. INCHE ISA ZAIN, publicity chief of the Peninsula Malay Union! leaves for London by air on April 22 to tell the Colonial Office: “Singapore belongs to the Malays and should be returned to them.” Incho Isa had originally planned to leave today, but
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    British Adviser: It is now up to Sultan
    158 18 KUALA LUMPUR, April :7. The Selangor Government will soon put the question of abolishing the post of the British Adviser to the Sultan. The question crops up with the retirement of Selangor's British Adviser, Mr. F. V. Duckworth, next month. The system
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    New planting
    25 18 SEGAMAT. April 17. The Johore Government has set aside 3.000 acres of state land in Segamat district for smallholders to plant new rubber.
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    ‘MALTA KOH’ HAS FEW WITH HIM FOR SECESSION
    348 18 PENANG, April 17. THE suggestion by a former Legislative Councillor, Mr. Koh Sin Hock, 1 that Penang should secede from the Federation, merge with Britain and assume the same status as Malta, had a mixed reception here today. Local political reactions ranged
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    Sultan is better
    24 18 SINGAPORE, April 18. The 82-year-old Sultan of johore, who has been ill, is on his feet again, istana sources said yesterday.
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    ‘Big 4’ plan mass meeting
    302 18 l UM[‘UR, April 17.— The ea ders of four powerful organisations today laid plans to w rest the leadership 0 f the Chinese in the Federation from the Malayan Chinese Aw* ciation. The plans, which call for the formation of a rival countrv wide Chinese
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    $100,000 Government show will bring the country to the city—and on TV too
    95 18 $100,000 Government show will bring the country to the city —and on TV too SINGAPORE, April 18. SINGAPORE Government is planning a $lOO,OOO, agricultural show .to demonstrate rural life and problems to city dwellers. The show, at which television will be displayed, will be at the island’s former airport at
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    KHANDI STAR STEALS MAIN RACE
    906 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, April 15. nT > vLA, with leading jockey Garnet Bougoure b i .de, followed up his recent first up success mart win in the Class 3, Div. 1,7 f. handicap K i Lumpur yesterday, first day of the Selan- i
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    Chinese are also rent by discord among athletes
    378 19 f HI is another spot iiscord in Sinyftp.or' sj>ort— in athlete but this is an old sot which has been ‘Hj? beneath the su e for many yea 11 is the Chinese athe‘. Swift Athletic Asci;'' :n and the Singapore Fee ,i.
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    THERE’S A RIFT AMONG MALAYS
    529 19 By Our Soccer Reporter THE SINGAPORE Ama- tear Football Association’s Community league competition traditionally has been a light at the last ditch between th«£: Chinese and the% Malays, but this ya&there may be a very different tale to record at the end of the competition.
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    SIKHS’ CROSS COUNTRY
    100 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 17.—Free board and lodging will be given all outstation competitors who take part in the Malayan Sikh* first annual cross country race, which is to be held In Kuala Lumpur on May 13. The closing date for entries la May 0. These should be
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    THE JESSE OWENS TROPHY IS COMING
    199 19 rIE "JESSE OWENS TROPHY" has been a long time coming, but it is definitely coming. ■Tbe celebrated American Olympic champion, who coached in Singapore and the Federation during an extensive Asian tour last year, has said so in an article he has written for
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    Industrials: A good week in Singapore
    458 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, April 16. TH£ Singapore Share 1 Market last week experienced better trading, with a healthier sentiinent in the industrial and tin sections. Industrials were characterised by good solid selective buying in quantity. The fact that the industrial section showed
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    208 20 /COMPANIES operating v in Malaya announced the following dividends last week:— THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD.: a dividend of 5$ per cent less 30 per cent Singapore income tax. payable to shareholders registered in the books of the company on April 30. Books will be closed
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    BUSINESS DONE
    271 20 THE following business done 1 in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period April 7 to April 13:— INDUSTRIALS: Fraser A Neave Orda. $1.70 cd to $1.65 xd., Gammons $2.10, Hammer Sc Co. $2.47 Ml to $2.50 to $2.47%,
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    OFFICIAL PAIGES
    29 20 SINGAPORE, April 18 RUBBER: 91| cents per lb. (down a quarter of a cent). TIN: $379.37H per picul (down 25 cents). COPRA: $30.50 per picul (up $1.12}).
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    832 20 SINGAPORE, April 18. INDUSTRIALS Bayer* Seller* Ale* rt*lr« work* rrtf ISO i.M 'ird* I.M 106 Aua* lee IS. 00 i Soy era l B. B. Petrol 4«/- 48/BM ruatee* l« 111 Con Tin Smelt PrM ls* 10/- od Ords S7/0 M/0 fasten, United 36 SO 87.80 Fed.
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    RUBBER PRICE SAGS QUIETLY ON BETTER MIDDLE EAST NEWS
    211 20 RUBBER PRICE SAGS QUIETLY ON BETT ER MIDDLE EAST NEWS By Oar Market Corresponded SINGAPORE, April THE rubber price in Singapore sagged gidetl*] yesterday on the lessening of tension the Middle East and May first grade buyers lse j at 91{ cents per lb., down If cents. The market had
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    MARCH OUTPUTS
    68 20 The following tin outputs (In piculs) are announced: CheaderMg. 945; Ospent Consolidated, 3.420; Hongkong, 1.565; Kent, 888; Klnte Tin. 1469; Kininghafl, 1,135; Malaysians, (trlbuters’ sales) 620; Frngkalrn. 2,040; FWaHng, 5,576; Posuif Robber Tin. (trlbuters’ sales) 1,475: Rambotan. 777; TanJong, 6,130; Tekka, 574; Telok Krnln, (trlbuters) 873; Tekka-Tol-ping, 395;
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    SUNGEI TUKANG
    9 20 Sungei Tukanf March crop was 47,000 tb.
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    Middle East dominant influence
    442 20 SINGAPORE, April 14. TOHE Middle East situation A has been the dominant factor In the rubber market this week, and, although no particular trade or consumer demand Is in evidence on this acoount, tellers have been very reserved and there has been covering by nervous shorts,
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    COAL OUTPUT
    26 20 Output of Malayan for the first quarter of 1111 wa« 50,554 tons. 928 It comprised: unr aD d tons February 15,306 March 18.320 tons.
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