The Straits Budget, 6 February 1947
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Title Section32 1947-02-06 1 The Straits Budget e w Series No. 27 [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES Singapore, Thursday, February 6th, 1947. Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.32 words
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Advertisement76 1947-02-06 1 JUtfa Museum T Ljvtc'i-*, Wlff/ii i. The Itmffks Museum Liberty Singapore. SINGAPORE FREE PRESS has the largest nett sale of any afternoon newspaper published in Malaya The Singapore Free Press is the old est established newspaper in Singapore. It recommenced publication in May last and its smart presentation of news76 words
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Article1094 1947-02-06 2 —Straits Times, Jan. 30. A notable feature of the announcement made in Washington last week that unification of direction of the United States armed forces has progressed beyond the planning stage is that while the United States was the first to become really concerned—Straits Times, Jan. 30. - 1,094 words
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Article1065 1947-02-06 2 —Straits Times, Jan. 31. It does not really matter very much whether the Council of Joint Action boycotts the Consultative Committee or not, because it is quite clear that even if the Council were to ‘'fall into this trap,” as Mr. John Eber put it in—Straits Times, Jan. 31. - 1,065 words
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Article1026 1947-02-06 2 —Straits Times, Feb. 1. The news published last Thursday that the United States will withdraw from China at an early date has been received with rejoicing among those in Malaya and other countries who have been sending “Quit China” telegrams to Washington, and with a certain—Straits Times, Feb. 1. - 1,026 words
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Article1166 1947-02-06 3 —Straitg Times, Feb. 3. For the labour movement in da lava, and lor the Pan-Malay an rederation of Trade Unions in articular. there is food for bought in the White Paper issued jy the British Government last nor.th on the economic position )f Groat Britain. Coming—Straitg Times, Feb. 3. - 1,166 words
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Article1096 1947-02-06 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 4. It is becoming increasingly clear that the only way to put an end to bus strikes in Singapore is to get rid of the busmen. Before the war the employees of the Singapore Traction Company were continually giving trouble, and since—Straits Times, Feb. 4. - 1,096 words
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Article1111 1947-02-06 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 5. One aspect of the colonial war which is going on in northern Indo-China is only now becoming clear to observers, and tha* that the people whom the French are fighting are striving to set up the first Communist state in tropical Asia—Straits Times, Feb. 5. - 1,111 words
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Article205 1947-02-06 4 At Locona, Panama Canal Zone, on 22nd January, to Lilian Sauncy, 2nd daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Anderson of Tennant Rent-hong Estate. Muar, u son, Geollrey. OAKLEY—On January 26th, m Singapore to Judy wile of Gruhanie Oakley, a daughter who lived only twenty-four hours. DAVIDSON: To Helen205 words
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Article40 1947-02-06 4 The marriage betvuin John Gray Houston, .son of Mr. Houston, 4 Lauder Hoad. Edit,bury,h, and Elisabeth Maud, younyer daughter of Retf-rcnd Doctor John and Mrs. Stewart 23 Driest.field Road. Edinburgh v.ill take place f,t Edinburgh on 4!h February 1347.40 words
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Article, Illustration266 1947-02-06 4 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. TO the thud-thud of the Malay drum, the rattle of tambourines and the chanting of “Allah-hu-Akbar,” over 3,000 of Singapore’s Muslims, in a half-mile long procession, passed through the city’s streets in commemoration of the Prophet Mhoammed’s birthday yesterday. It was one oi266 words
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Article86 1947-02-06 4 I rom Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 4.—A jiine-year-old Chinese boy who weut lor a holiday-swim was drowned in the sea ofT Northam Road behind St Andrew's Church yesterday. The deccas d. one o! a party of five boys was apparently carried away by.much sea86 words
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Article264 1947-02-06 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 4. ONE consequence of the separation of the Union from Singapore is the restoration o£ three former medical specialist appointments and the creation of several new specialist appointments. Post for specialists in venereal disease, ophthalmology find radiology, ail264 words
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Article150 1947-02-06 4 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. GENERAL Sir Richard O’Connor, K.C.8., D.S 0.. M.C., Adjutant General to the [Forces, arrived in Singapore from Hong Kong yesteiday I evening. O ’le val O'Connor is on a world .at m.yp• cling British ir op install it;om and is en route150 words
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Article208 1947-02-06 4 SINGAPORE, F. b 5 CHINESE seamen, do J t labourers and those con I cerned in shipping m tr J N.E.I. unanimously a «»i e D l yesterday that drastic mea sures, possibly an organised boycott by Chinese through out South-East Asia, shoufl be taken against the208 words
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Article112 1947-02-06 4 From Our Own Correspondent Batu Pahat, Feb. 4.—The lire: hostel of its kind for Malay boys was opened today at Batu n by the Tungku Mahkota, the Regent of Joihore. The hostel, opened solely through the efforts of the Peninsula Malay Organisation— Bern Pahat branch), is112 words
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Article89 1947-02-06 4 From Our Own Correapoi dot! Penang, Feb. 4.—A flve-pe.V-' presidium, consisting of or.f Chinese, one Malay, one T u:as one Eurasian and one v. au' representative will address ans rally to be held On Feb. 9 t 1 protest against “the uiidemocrnature” of the Federation posals.89 words
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Article69 1947-02-06 4 From Out Staff O' iron, Tuesday.—P' r r: d' nt, and one ot ■y n in Malv/a. has d T T was Tuan Habib w: MO yean old w ;>.■ Kempong pisnng Sun da v njotit. A former pencdiob: Tuan ti. bib All kft v hen69 words
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Obituary50 1947-02-06 4 DEATHS Mi Simon Thomas, beloved father of 'I Johnson, 37, Goodman Hoad. Singapore and Mrs M.E. Charles of Johore Bahru expired peacefully at his residence in ‘'Karlax.hlcam” Mayyanad Travaneore on *27-1-47, BOON —Joseph Soon Ah Hoi k late «f Sarawak OilfvldMin. paved j. say peacefully at Miii on ‘2M 1.47.50 words
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282 1947-02-06 5 C\ EKY now and then one sees proposals made for b arbitration in trade disputes, but these are genenllv refused by one side or the other for reasons of escape the general notice that in 1940 a special was published282 words
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222 1947-02-06 5 |S it not time that the GovI eminent took strong action against the irresponsible leaders of the employees of the Singapore Traction Company? How will it ever be possible to get back to a reasonable standard oi living when we axe continually being222 words
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Article111 1947-02-06 5 Sin gapore Sultans TV, h V' a aur prise I saw the ccirrv C 'i 0n truck s go into ,h Suli' lp 1 of J he Palace of Gl- m Sln Ka P° re at :,n actrct ;i'. rf nnd actors and ’rucks anri 1 do Wn from the111 words
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Article368 1947-02-06 5 AS I have reason to believe that “A Kuching Correspondent”, whose article you published in your issue of Jan. 27 under the heading RULER OF THE DYAKS OF THE REJANG RIVER conceals the identity of an official either of the Sarawak Government or of the368 words
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212 1947-02-06 5 YOUR correspondent “Semper Sursum” is yet another civilian whose knowledge of Service matters is very scant. Passages for Service families are allocated on a points system which embraces: (1) Number of years in Service, (2) Number of years married, (3) Number of children, (4)212 words
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Article111 1947-02-06 5 rE Dutch are perhaps the most oppressive colonial power in the world. Everybody who has lived in the Dutch East Indies will testify that this is true. All sorts of taxes were imposed to squeeze the inhabitants and enrich the Dutch Government. After having tasted the bitterness111 words
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Article160 1947-02-06 5 THE Municipal labour strikers 1 announce that they are starting to collect funds from business men for two weeks in order to maintain them during the strike. I think this is rather unreasonable. First of all, they have shown no care for the public health at all,160 words
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Article130 1947-02-06 5 A FEW days ago I was travelling by train from Kota Bahru to Singapore via Siamese territory. Arriving at Sungei Golok, on the Siamese boundary, all passengers were asked to make a declaration on a printed form in English and Siamese. We were asked how much money and130 words
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330 1947-02-06 5 I HAVE read with great pain your comments in the leader of your valued paper of Jan. 23, regarding the Chettiar community as a whole. You say that the Chettiars have always been “conspicuous by their absence from all subscription lists and other manifestations330 words
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Article425 1947-02-06 5 •PHE casual observer would infer from the letter headed IN OUR SEASIDE PARK: HOW MUCH LONGER?, signed “Arcturus,” and the many letters in similar vein which the Straits Times has seen fit to publish, that the only blemish on the fair face of Singapore is425 words
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Article32 1947-02-06 5 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Feb. 4.—After a short holiday spent In Malaya, Mr. C. S K. Bovell, Offlcer-ln-Charge Police Circle, Segamat, and Mrs. Bovell have returned to Segamat.32 words
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Article483 1947-02-06 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. THE Singapore Traction Company bus strike was likely to continue for a long time, a Government official said last night. Mr. R. K. Sarny, .President of the S.T.C- Employees’ Union, said last night that the men were ready for a “prolonged struggle.” Some483 words
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Article37 1947-02-06 6 •SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. THE Chinese-owned relief- vessel P C. 1239, destined for Palembang and detained by the Dutcto at Muntok, has now been released, says a statement '.ssued by the Netherlands Consulatein Singapore.37 words
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Article106 1947-02-06 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. AN improvement in the state of law and order in the Singapore Harbour Board area was announced yesterday by the Governor, Sir Franklin Ginison, at a Press conference. "A committee has been meeting on the subject,” said Sir Franklin, “and certain steps have106 words
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Article139 1947-02-06 6 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. TWO British Council soholar--1 ships, each for the duration of one academic year, have been awarded to the Malayan Union and Singapore for this year. The scholarships are primarily intended for men and women with an exceptional knowledge of139 words
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Article117 1947-02-06 6 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Jan. 31. ONE Chinese was killed and two others were seriously injured as a result of an attack by a Chinese carpenter who ran amok in broad daylight in a house in Pekan Lama in Sungei Patani yesterday.117 words
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386 1947-02-06 6 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Feb. 2. “I AM in complete agreement with the members of the jury 1 and I am convinced that you voluntarily and actively participated in gang robbery in the Straits of Malacca. You did rob in fact 10 or more386 words
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165 1947-02-06 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. ANEW Municipal post is to be created in Singapore, that of Welfare Officer to cater for the interests of 6,000 to 7.000 Municipal workers, and especially for the interest-daily-paid labourers. Mr. J. L. Byrne, who works in the Municipal building, has already165 words
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Article449 1947-02-06 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. I’HE specialist work of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. is described by Dr. Chen Su Lan, chairman of the organisation, in refuting suggestions made by the Archdeacon, the Ven. D. Rosenthal, in Singapore recently that racial discrimination threatened the work of the Y.M.C.A. The passage in449 words
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Article374 1947-02-06 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. l. DADANG Besar, the frontier railway station tor Malaya and Siam, has lost its reputation as a hot spot for smuggling and the xhief centre for illegal bartering of contraband goods over the Malaya-Siam border. Generally, smuggling is not as374 words
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557 1947-02-06 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. CI GGESTIONS that the Trade Union Ordinance J J|,ould be brought up to date by retaining as few P trillions as were necessary for the proper developn. 0 f t i, e trade union movement in Singapore and *V e i( .-hit557 words
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Article123 1947-02-06 7 From Ou r Own Correspondent CourcA LA I lunipur Jan 31 0 I «CES close to the Malayan rni^ m n Secretaria t say that 150 1 -'al officials are awaiting passages to Malaya. b m awaiting Plages are wivo Lh r ‘'Workers” and 1,500123 words
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Article60 1947-02-06 7 A lor stnr l Wn Correspondent d n Jan 1,31- A milidle--1 to be an T ..d "a s arrested in i l f c t ln Sungei Patani f d r/y Mr 'U!^ T a raj d conp lltni f ac Lcan, O.S.P.C. s ‘oi V60 words
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51 1947-02-06 7 Scholarship For Rubber Tapper’ s Son I rom Our Malay Correspondent TWELVE Malay students of the Sultan Sulaiman English School, Kuala Trengganu, have been awarded Government scholarships to the Malay College, Kuala Kangsar. One of the successful students is Salleh bin Ismail of Kuala Berang, the son of a rubber51 words
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Article189 1947-02-06 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. MAKING a hurried non-stop run from Colombo to Saigon with 8,000 French troops and paratroops on board, the 43,450-ton lie de France, the largest French ship afloat, has by-passed Singapore and is now in the China Sea. The giant ocean liner—onetime famous on189 words
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Article49 1947-02-06 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. Four members ot the Singapore Fire Brigade charged with criminal intimidation by thr'atenIng to cause injury and annoyance to an Indian on Jan. 22 at the junction of Armenian Street and Stamford Road, were acquitted and discharged in the Thira Police Court yesterday.49 words
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215 1947-02-06 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. NINETY -TWO passengers—including three Europeans—of the 1,463-ton Straits Steamship Company ship Matang which ran aground off the shore of Telok Kurang, off Kuching, on Jan. 23. were brought hack to Singapore by the s.s. Bruas yesterday. The passengers who included 85215 words
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Article337 1947-02-06 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. REPRESENTATIONS are being made by the Singapore Government through London to the Dutch Government at the Hague against the new regulations governing the export of goods from the Netherlands Indies. Trade between Singapore and the Netherlands Indies has virtually come to a337 words
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Article113 1947-02-06 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 31. TWO boys were sentenced to undergo three years’ in a Singapore reformatory school when they were brought up for trial along with two men llefore Mr Justice Laville at the Assizes yesterday on a charge of attempting to steel113 words
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Article68 1947-02-06 7 bark to Japan —Straits Times copyright. From Our Own Correspondent London, Jan. 31.—The Communist Member, Mr. William Gallacher, will a.sk the Secretary ior War in the Hous? of Com.a'.ns on February 4 how many Japanese prisoners of war are still in Malaya, how many have been used forbark to Japan —Straits Times copyright. - 68 words
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Article180 1947-02-06 7 *rom Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Jan. 31. IMMEDIATE reaction to the 1 lifting of import and export restrictions, imposed since the end of the war by the Siamese government, is the fear oi a flight of capital. The lifting of the import and export restrictions180 words
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Article159 1947-02-06 7 St.DUNSTAN’ S MAN VISITS MALAYA SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. waLILLPOx and trachoma <a contagious disease of the eye) are tw° of the main causes of India s two million blind people, said Sir Clutha Mackenzie, of St. Dunstan’s Home for the Blind, England, to a Press conference In Singapore yesterday. India’s159 words
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84 1947-02-06 7 f rom Our Own Correspondent Kluang, Jan. 31: Lee Foh Yuen, a Chinese, was fined $».000 it in default to undergo four months’ rigorous imprisonment by the District, Judge. Mr. T. R Hepworth. in the District Cour on a charge of collecting money for lottery84 words
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Article846 1947-02-06 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. THE Singapore contractors’ costs for building Army accommodation are now so high that the Army may have to close down completely on its local building unless the contractors lower their charges. The effects of such a stoppage would be felt not only846 words
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Article71 1947-02-06 8 From Our Own Correspondent. Penang, Jan. 30.—Capt. Eves Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshires, died yesterday evening following an accident near Trolak. on the Kuala Lum-pur-Ipoh trunk road. The truck In which he was travelling with four other British servicemen overturned, and Capt. Eves died71 words
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Article165 1947-02-06 8 Municipal Strike —Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 30. LXXJR demands were named unsettled in the Singapore Municipal strike by Mr. A Creech Jones, Secretary of State for the Colonies, when he made a statement in the House of Commons yesterday in reply to a request by Mr. L. D.—Reuter. - 165 words
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309 1947-02-06 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. A SALARIES Commission to examine the structure and scales of Asiatic government employees will be appointed in the Malayan Union and Singapore soon. This news was given to the delegates of the Junior Civil Sol vices Association309 words
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Article196 1947-02-06 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. “COURABAYA Sue” is in Singapore. She is Mrs. Kotet Tantry, a tiny American woman of about 40, who was smuggled into Singapore by the Indonesian underground movement. Mrs. Tantry was brought through the Dutch blockade and was landed here under cover of darkness196 words
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Article82 1947-02-06 8 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Jan. 30. WHEN a police clerk and a policeman were riding bicycles from Bidor to Paki: village on special duty they encountered a band of seven Chinese, one of whom threw a hand-grenade, seriously injuring the clerk, Yusoff. Although injured. YusofT82 words
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Article314 1947-02-06 8 SINGAPORE, Jan ;ji THE terms of reference of the War Damage’ Claim, Commission appointed by the Malayan Union and Singapore were published yesterday. The Commit sion consists of Mr. C. D. Ahearne, C.M.G., a former member of the Malayan Civil Service, and Mr L314 words
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Article176 1947-02-06 8 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 30. production by Japanese surrendered personnel at the Malayan Collieries, Batu Arang, has fallen so far below expectations that a drastic reduction in electricity output is envisaged. About 200 Japs were Put to work for the first time yesterday176 words
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Article42 1947-02-06 8 A SENTENCE of two years rous imprisonment wa? on each of three Indians Singh. Nasib Singh and Ia who were found guilty bv ';p mon jury of causing hu r V' Ht robbing a compatriot of Veerasamy Aug year.42 words
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437 1947-02-06 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. rriiF appointment of a commission to review the 1 uestion of the establishment of a university «H e ‘!e in Malaya was announced by the Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. A. Creech Jones, in the House t mn i 0 "ninjto the437 words
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Article131 1947-02-06 9 1 r°m Our Own Correspondent. THF rv PENANG Jan. 29. nL Cheeseman Consultative t c °mmittee on the constitu- i: -'i proposals will be in Penang v i rin d 12 to receive the Penang residents the K < ommissioner. Mr. 3.N. •-•"ur.cerl at a Press131 words
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Article153 1947-02-06 9 From Our Own Correspondent. IPOH, Jan. 29. A flagrant misrepresentation >f facts” was the comment made by officials of the Perak HydroElectric Co. Employees Union on the statement made by Mr. W G. Scott, Deputy General Manager of the company. They stated that in July153 words
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Article109 1947-02-06 9 From Our Own Correspondent Alor Star, Jan. 29.— What appeared to be a very bad accident took piece yesterday when a military lorry coming from Jitra to Alor Star crashed into a tree. Two passengers In the lorry, which immediately caught fire, were109 words
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Article165 1947-02-06 9 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Jan. 29. tJIGHTY-TWO families, vicf tims of Japanese persecu tion during the occupation, were among the first group of people helped by the Johore Welfare Committee (Segamat branch), according to the District Committee’s report for last year. In their efforts to165 words
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Article98 1947-02-06 9 —UP. Montreal, Jan. 28.—The International Labour Office announced yesterday that a mission will visit Far Eastern countries within the next few weeks to complete and verily reports combined tor the preparatory regional Asiatic I L.O. conference, scheduled lor October .in New Delhi. The preparatory meeting is—UP. - 98 words
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Article229 1947-02-06 9 LATEST figures available from the Registrar of Vehicles, Singapore, show that 1,257 taxis, 3,962 private cars, 1,120 motor-cycles, 4,435 lorries and 7,200 trishaws have so far been registered. Before the war, there were 981 taxis and approximately 10,000 private cars. At the moment 2,700 taxi-driv-ers229 words
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Article62 1947-02-06 9 From Our Own Correspondent Penang, Jan. 29.—In the fourteenth tragedy of its kind to have occurred in the General Hospital a Chinese tuberculosis patient, Lee Heng Jin, fell from a window on the third floor if the C Block and was killed immediately. The62 words
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Article471 1947-02-06 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. NEW regulations setting out the types of goods which are not considered native produce” were issued by the Consulate-General of the Netherlands in a communique last night. The following is the communique: In former statements from the Netherlands Consulate General. Singapore, it has471 words
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Article215 1947-02-06 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. MALAYANS will have greater prospects of getting textiles during 1947 with the recent allocation of the Combined Textiles Allocation Board in Washington of 15 million yards for South-East Asia, China and India. This quota, which represents a 25 per cent, increase over the215 words
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Article247 1947-02-06 9 Mr. G. S. Keeping, of 3, Mont-le-Grand, Exeter, has been appointed to the Colonial Service as an Agricultural Officer In Malaya. Mr. Keeping was educated at Hele’s School, Exeter, Reading University and Cambridge University. He graduated B.Sc. in Agriculture in 1944. Captain I.R. Price, of Glcndower House,247 words
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Article80 1947-02-06 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 30. IRWIN Oliver Jones. 38. Singa1 pore businessman, was committed for trial at the next session of the Singapore Assizes by Mr. A. P. Jack, in the Seventh Police Court in Singapore yesterday. Jones ls charged with the murder of a young Eurasian. Maurice Fox,80 words
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394 1947-02-06 10 Father Pays 15,000 To Set Son Free From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Jan. 3U. THE story of how a young Chinese, Oh \ak twnnn, son of a rich tin-miner in Perlis, was taken away by robbers and how his father had to pay a ransom of $15,000 for his394 words
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Article111 1947-02-06 10 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Jan. 29. T*HE free import of sugar will now be allowed in Penang it was officially announced today. Although it will cease as a controlled article under the Food Control Proclamation, however it will remain subject to price control, it is111 words
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Article53 1947-02-06 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31 \NE Chinese stowaway lrom f Swatow was among the 599 riussengcrs on board the Chira Navigation Company vessel Anhui which arrived in Singapore yesterday from China ports Among the passengers were 474 Chinese deck passengers for Singapore. 56 Chinese tor Penang, from Amoy,53 words
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Article213 1947-02-06 10 I'rom Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 211. Only ten schools in tile Malayan Union are still under requisition by the Army. They are all vernacular institutions. Onlv one oi thorn is j anv size This is the Kual-. 1dah Malay School, which was on<the213 words
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Article122 1947-02-06 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. MR Arthur Charles Wakeling, oi tin* Special Commissioner's Ollico, was marrl d to Miss Maureen Enid Taye, of the British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service, at the Cathedral 01 the Good Sir pherd yesterday. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Wakeling122 words
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Article280 1947-02-06 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. TIIE 350-ton British motor vessel Beng Huat has been detained at Serna rang, Java, by the Dutch authorities. She was detained there on Jan. 18, after having part of her $300,000 cargo of rubber and tea removed. A letter received yesterday by280 words
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340 1947-02-06 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. A CHINESE crew who were taken prisoner by the Germans during the war are today sailing two 724-ton former British corvettes, the Candytuft and Heliolock, which are now in Singapore on their way to Shanghai. It has taken the ships—onetime submarine340 words
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Article113 1947-02-06 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. THE Rev Hong Han Keng, District Superintendent of the Methodist Church (Southern District. Malayan) a nd pastor of the Teluk Ayer Chinese Methodist Church and Christian workers m his district, were hosts to Methodist missionaries at ci welcome tiffin held at the113 words
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Article294 1947-02-06 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. A YOUNG Chinese was wounded and arrested after a gun duel with Singapore detectives at the junction of South Bridge Road and Carpenter Street yesterday afternoon. The shots were exchanged after two armed men had held up the inmates of a294 words
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Article153 1947-02-06 10 From Our Own Correspondent, non Lumpur, Jan. 29.-Mr -•L. Brow n. for so many years British Adviser in Trenggaju;. from which post he retired after nis release from interment ie Singapore, is one of two lecturers m Malay appointed at the Schoc; of Oriental153 words
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Article73 1947-02-06 10 SINGAPORE. Ja. M A JAPANESE was sent one day’s gad and lit default two weeks’ gaol v labour in the Third Com gapore yesterday for steal tins ot cigarettes at the S docks on Wednesday. The Japanese. Ueno S 37. pleaded guilty to thi? of theft73 words
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Article376 1947-02-06 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. KOYAL Air Force officer was killed and another A injured when an R.A.F. Beaufighter from Sele- r shed in flames yesterday morning near Miletone Eight on the Tampenis Road, Singapore. Chinese family, including a two-day-old girl, I narrow escape when parts of the376 words
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Article137 1947-02-06 11 1 ">ro Our Own Correspondent. 4am,tt. Jan. 29: Almost one‘7 (> l: j total estimates of the i.ivar Union tor Special Serr Drainage and Irriga- r 1 51 -o to Johore which ‘itniitif s enough to turn it 11 > for South Malaya, scheme under which137 words
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Article131 1947-02-06 11 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 29. WHILE Japanese have began working at the coal, mines, there is a probability of talks between the coal strikers and the authorities re-opening. At the request of the Batu Arang trade union. Mr. J. Brazier, the131 words
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Article103 1947-02-06 11 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 28.—Under the escort of strong armed police Liew Ngit Sing, was produced before the District Judge, Mr. M. Garton, charged with escaping from Pudu Gaol on Sept. 25 where he was detained on charges of armed gang robbery and103 words
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Article317 1947-02-06 11 Married Women SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. 1 1 HE re-instatement of married women teachers on the permanent staff with right to all benefits to which regular staff in Government and Government-aided establishments are entitled, is one of five recommendations which have been made by the Singapore Teachers’317 words
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Article60 1947-02-06 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. TRAINS will now be running from Singapore to Penang daily instead of four times a week, following cancellation of night services due to the coal shortage, the Superintendent of Traffic, Malayan Railways, stated yesterday. A buffet car will be attached to all day60 words
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Article109 1947-02-06 11 THE rights of managing clerks and other qualified persons sponsored by solicitors to appear before a Singapore Judge or Registrar of Chambers are clarified in an Ordinance about to be laid before the Colony's Advisory Council. The Bill gives effect to a proposal whereby109 words
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Article140 1947-02-06 11 SINGAPORE, Jm 29. AN offer made on behalf of Government of back pay to non-interned employees of the Government service will mean, if accepted, thait the majority of employees will receive less than 24 months’ arrears of Hilary, the Straits Times understands. settlement proposed was140 words
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Article278 1947-02-06 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. THE system of co-operative soiling in Singapore should be expanded to include farming, fishing and marketing, and experienced English cooperators should be sent from ihe U.K. to advise the local Government. This suggestion was made oy Mr. Lim Kean Chye, secretary the Singapore278 words
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Article495 1947-02-06 11 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jap. 29. THE District Judge, Mr. M. Neal, after convicting a Chinese, Choo Yoon, an employee of the Malayan Collieries at Batu Arang, at Police Court this morning, of using criminal force against a Police sergeant in the495 words
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82 1947-02-06 11 From Our Oun Correspondent Muar, Jan. 29 A Chinese, Tay Say Siong. appeared before the Magistrate, Che Ibrahim bin Salam, today charged with collecting money for Una Huay lot t ry Tay was fined $400 or in default to undergo two months’ rigorous imprisonment. The82 words
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Article342 1947-02-06 12 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Jan. :)0. VAST expansion of Siam’s rice cultivation land is envisaged within the next seven years, when it is expected that land at present unproductive will begin yielding 600,000 tons of rice annually. Within that period the Chainat irrigation project,342 words
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Article117 1947-02-06 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners stood up at a meeting yesterday to pay silent tribute to the late Mr. Tay Lian Teck, a former Commissioner and Legislative Councillor. A tablet in his memory, to be erected by his widow, will occupy space which117 words
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Article110 1947-02-06 12 SINGAPORE Feb 1 AT the meeting of the Malaya Branch of 1 hr* British Medical Association, Southern Division convened yesterday* the following office-bearers were elected 1 Chairman; Dr. J. w. Winchester; Chairman elect; Mr j. k. Monro; Vice-Chairman: Dr. Chia Boon Honorary Secretary: Dr d A.110 words
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Article227 1947-02-06 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. A CALL for a public inquiry into working conditions, and for Municipal ownership of public transport, is made by the S.T.C. Employees’ Union in a letter to the Straits Times. The letter, signed by Mr. R. K. Samy, President of the S.TC.227 words
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Article164 1947-02-06 12 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Jan. 29. FOLLOWING the Dutch sinking of a Penang Harbour Board coastal vessel off Langkat on Dec. 22, a claim for $BO,OOO damages has been filed by the charterer of the vessel. The charterer Mr. Tan Chuan Hong of Chop Thye164 words
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Article133 1947-02-06 12 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Jan. 31. —Contributors who had to deposit their title deeds as security for loans obtained for payment towards the so-called Japanese voluntary contributions would presumably have a claim against the Japanese Government, the Resident Commissioner, Mr. S. N. King, told133 words
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Article251 1947-02-06 12 From Our Own Correspondent W IT1I Q KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 28 fill <1 view lo providing a liaison between prospective Lurojjean employers and demobilised personnel wishing to remain m Malaya a European employment agency has been set up in Kuala Lumpur. Organisations including the Chamber of251 words
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Article105 1947-02-06 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. MORE than 3,000 tons of cargo for the United States, comprising mainly rubber for New York, will leave Singapore early next week by the American President Lines ship Rutland Victory which inaugurates a new freight service to the United States. To be known as105 words
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Article102 1947-02-06 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. THE driver of a taxi wihich collid- ed with a trolley t>us was sentenced to three months’ gaol with hard labour in the Fifth Police Court in Singapore yesterday. He was summoned by his passenger. Tan Ohoon Lin, on a charge of causing hurt102 words
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Article105 1947-02-06 12 —Straitg Times copyright From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Friday. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. A. Creech Jones, said in th? House of Commons that the shortage of geologists in the Colonial Service was due to the interruption in the supply of young graduate owing to the war.—Straitg Times copyright - 105 words
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Article33 1947-02-06 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. The appointment of Dr. (Miss) Thora A M. Oehlers to the post of junior assistant Lady Medic’ll Officer. Singapore Municipality. was confirmed at yesterday’s meeting of the Commissioners.33 words
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Article479 1947-02-06 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2. THE Malayan Union is to follow the practice of 1 European countries and the United States in establishing training schools for nurses in which hospital bedside work will take its place with district and welfare activities. These schools479 words
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62 1947-02-06 12 THE headquarters of the Mah' yan Fisheries Depa until now located in Sim-aP will be moved permanently Penang, and the Singapore partment will become a sub fn< Mr. D. W. Le Mare. Din tor Fisheries, will move his oiTin' Penang at the end of62 words
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361 1947-02-06 13 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. thF Council of the Government Junior Civil Services i Association in the Malayan Union, at a meeting urd iv evening, heard details of the Government J ff r at a recent conference regarding back pay and361 words
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Article106 1947-02-06 13 Ivrw tk^t2? NGAPORE Feb. 2. |N° N n INTERNED doctors in the l c vrrnmn nt service have lc to the Secretary of I; f, ne Colonies to remind r I "V. r a Pblicatlon for arIt ,1, Li full period of the occupation, t-: r106 words
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Article67 1947-02-06 13 HrUaf A°T Wn Correspondent A w AU LUMPUR, Feb. 1. r fl in v'llnv 35 04 >1 hv rnn r l ua for the Poppv ‘-•m 'S' t ;,J nruc,!n? *30.444 73 L h- To this total |f r, r-»rv' p'nv' r °S u colle ctions in67 words
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Article119 1947-02-06 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 2. VILLAGERS at tSimpang Sungei Choh, in the Ulu Selangor district, have built a village school themselves. They collected the materials locally and built the school themselves on land provided for the purpose by the Malayan Union Government Mr.119 words
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92 1947-02-06 13 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. A special peace committee, consisting of five Malays and fivo Chinese, has been appointed for the Upper Perak District to settle local dispute-s. This has followed strained relations between the two communities. Immediately after an incident which92 words
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Article283 1947-02-06 13 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 2. •pHE Malayan Union Price 1 Controller in his notes for the week draws attention to the ceiling price for Government relief supplies of textiles. It is not always possible to identify these, he says, but in case283 words
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Article61 1947-02-06 13 From Our Own Correspondent. IPOH, Feb. 2.—The Sultan ofi Perak opened yesterday the handicraft bazaar organized by the women’s branch of the Perak Malay League in Ipoh. Th e stalls at the bazaar were well stocked with a large variety of articles manufactured in kampongs.61 words
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Article91 1947-02-06 13 JINGAPORE Police who were serving: at the time of the capitulation are entitled to wear the 1939-45 Star, the Pacific Star and the Victory Medal and will probably be issued with their medal ribbons durinc this week. An order received last week by Singapore Police said91 words
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Article118 1947-02-06 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. rIE recommendations of the Worley Commission, on back pay and other claims of Volunteer and Passive Defence services, were completed and sent to the Malayan Union “some time ago,*' said the Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson. yesterday. At the same time, a message from118 words
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502 1947-02-06 13 From Our Staff Correspondent London, Jan. 23. AN arrangement has been made by which members of the| Association of British Malaya on leave in. or visiting, Britain will be eligible for honorary member- 1 ship 01 the Over-Seas League for a period of one502 words
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Article370 1947-02-06 13 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. CAR-REACHING plans for closer liaison and co-oper-r ation in combatting banditry, brigandry and smuggling along the entire length of the Malaya-Siam frontier were drawn up at the recently completed Bangkok conference between Malayan and Siamese police officers,370 words
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Article108 1947-02-06 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. A UNANIMOUS verdict of not guiltv was returned by a common jury at the conclusion of n case at the Singapore Assizes vrsterdav in which a Chines\ Chiong Yew Chin, was alleged fo have been found in unlawful possession of two levolv rs108 words
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Article44 1947-02-06 13 The following have been ar>pointed cadets in the Malarr.r. Civil Service—Messrs. VV. Foul.>ham. K J Henderson. J.A. Cradock. P A. Coates. A S. Hartley. I D Irvine Mr. J. H. Davies has oten appointed q cadet in the Malayan Police Service.44 words
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216 1947-02-06 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. CIXTEEN Chinese alleged to be “dangerous characv t ers an( i members of hooligan gangs operating in the Kochore Road area of Singapore packed the dock in the First District Court in Singapore yesterday. Three others whom the Hokkien Sub-Branch of the216 words
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Article153 1947-02-06 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. ‘*l HAVE taken your age into account. If yoM had not been carrying a dagger I would have treated you as the others. You could have got three years for this charge.” The Criminal District Judge, Mr. Paul Storr. said this in the153 words
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87 1947-02-06 14 SINGAPORE. Ja'i. 31. One thousand Singapore r.d Malayan repatriates by UNRRA and CNRRA from Hong Kong who were expected in Singapore yesterday by the British vessel Hai Lee. will now arrive in Singapore on Sunday. Seven hundred of the repatriates are for Singapore. Although all87 words
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Article36 1947-02-06 14 Because of the present large stocks ol sweetened condensed mil* in Singapore, coffee shops ma\ now serve such milk in coffee and tea The prohibition is lift'd in a Government Gazette order today.36 words
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Article175 1947-02-06 14 From Our Malay Correspondent SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. THE Secretary General of the M.N.P., Inche Abdul Hamid Abdul, arrived in Singapore yesterday to finalise arrangements for the formation of a Pan-Malayan Malay Council of Joint Action. All Malay associations and parties which cannot accept the Federation175 words
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Article64 1947-02-06 14 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. (CONSEQUENT upon the restricted train services, the scheduled postal mail services are to be varied but all available passenger and goods tra’ns and road services will be utilised to the best advantage, says a Postal Department statement. The64 words
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Article185 1947-02-06 14 Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 30. THE order for the exclusion from Sarawak of Mr. Anthony Brooke, nephew of the last White Rajah, was made under a local law (the Sarawak Undesirable Persons Order of 1935), said Mr. Creech Jones, the Colonial Secretary, in the House of CommonsReuter. - 185 words
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Article258 1947-02-06 14 —Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 30. STATEMENTS on the proposals on citizenship and jurisdiction in the Malay States which had emerged from discussions between the Malayan Government and Malay representatives and had been announced on Sept. 24 were made by Mr. Creech Jones, the Colonial Secretary, in the—Reuter. - 258 words
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Article388 1947-02-06 14 From Our Own Correspondent. MALACCA, Jan. 30. MALACCA pcnghulus (village headmen) are to petition the Government to increase their salaries. to introduce popular elections in kiampongs and villages for the elections of pcnghulus and for a proper definition of the powers of penghulus. Pcnghulus388 words
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Article358 1947-02-06 14 A PLAN to assist Singapore squatter s Uln dwellers by settling householders on properly, planned sites has been devised by the Singapore Ini. provement Trust and is now before the Municipal Commissioners awaiting final approval. A 15 acre stretch of land off Kim Keat Road and358 words
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Article97 1947-02-06 14 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Jan. 30.—Mr. Justice Carey has been elected president of the newly-formed Penanc International Club with Mr. M Saravanamuttu as vice-president and Mr. E. H. Bulford as hen secretary. The following were elected to the committee of management: Ex-offlcio: G. R. Evan,97 words
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Article108 1947-02-06 14 From Our Own Correspondent Ipoh, Jan. 31.—The remains the late Col. Cecil Rae, who dird in internment in Singapore and was buried there, wer? brought, here by special truck ar.d re-interred yesterday at the Batu Gajah cemetery in accordance with his wish to bur. him108 words
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Article72 1947-02-06 14 SIR EDWARD GENT 'S NEW A.D.C. From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 Capt. G. M. Oliver. A.D.C the Governor, Sir Edward O' is returning to England He is succeeded ov Cap J.W.S. Guy. Royal Signals, wiio assumed duty as from todav Capt. Guy was cdu'a*' Clifton College and72 words
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Article52 1947-02-06 14 “KEEP SINGAPORE not stated.—Strait# Times right. From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Jan. letter to the Daily Telegraph. Lionel Haworth appeals to Government “not to suit' Bombay and Singapore u’hicfi were acquired not by imperi but by and purchase tively.” The cause of Sir 1 fears in regard to Singapoi' notnot stated.—Strait# Times – right. - 52 words
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Article497 1947-02-06 15 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 3. IkFFlMNG some of the points in the Federal constiP (utional plan, Mr. K. K. O’Connor, Attorney B ra l, .Malayan Union, in a speech to Ceylonese I !m all parts of Malaya at a conference in Kuala l497 words
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Article134 1947-02-06 15 GAOL FOR B.O.R.’ s WITH REVOLVER 1 Singapore, Feb. 4. I anc B °s H S t' Thomas Hughson ■tre Gl imartin, who j' )n possession ■ui 2 1,!;,!!/ automatic pistol |iv -r v I n “L amm unition in Bar. v r 1 on Oct. 29 last Ar., v134 words
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Article120 1947-02-06 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. TWO Chinese, Phua Joo Soon and Ng Lek Chet, who robbed a fish dealer of $lOO at the junction of Hill Street and Chin Nam Street in the early hours ot Nov 9. last year, and then gave him $5 “for expenses,” were120 words
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Article86 1947-02-06 15 THE Chinese Consul General in Singapore, Dr. Wu PaakShing, has written to Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, Secretary for Social Welfare, thanking him for tne care given by the department to Chinese recently repatriated from China. He says, “The existence of your department has certainly been86 words
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600 1947-02-06 15 A CALL to the people of Britain to insist that a delegation of Members of Parliament and Trade Unionists should come to Malaya and “find out things for themselves” is made by the Malayan Democratic Union in a bulletin issued in Singapore. At the600 words
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330 1947-02-06 15 TWO locally-recruited employees in the Singapore Government service have been recommended to London as candidates for the Nuffield Foundation Scholarships for the academic year 1947-48. Announcement is being awaited of the selection which is being made by the Trustees of the Founda- tion in330 words
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Article136 1947-02-06 15 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Feb. 3.—The women’s section oi the Malay League of Perak (Larut and Matang branch» held its annual general meeting at the Kempe Club on Thursday with Che Maznah in the chair. The following were elected office bearers for 1947, President: Che136 words
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Article46 1947-02-06 15 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Feb. 3.—Permits will be issued to town residents of Taiping next week by the Land Office to buy cloth at controlled price. Only holders of rice cards with five or more persons are entitled to one coupon per card.46 words
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Article204 1947-02-06 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. SIX Chinese, Indians and Malays, among whom will probably be a Malay woman, will represent Singapore public bodies at an Inter-Asian Conference sponsored by the Indian Council of World Affairs to be held in New Delhi in the last week of March. The204 words
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Article150 1947-02-06 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. DELIVERY in this country of the first plane for use in Malayan Airways, Ltd. an internal Malayan service is expected about Feb. 20. Target date for starting the service is April 1. The Straits Times understands that another five planes will follow the first150 words
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Article521 1947-02-06 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. A REPORT that 80 per cent, of the Singapore Munici- pality’s labourers, now on strike, would go back to work but for the fear of the physical consequences, was referred to by the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, at a Press conference yesterday.521 words
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Article28 1947-02-06 16 Trains are running daily from Singapore to Penang fallowing the cancellation of night services A buffet car will be attached to all day mall trains.28 words
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Article120 1947-02-06 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. QNE detective was shot and three civilians were injured when unknown men fired on a Police party which had be?n called out to quell a gang fight in the Cross Street-Cecil Street area of Singapore last night. The Police party were fired120 words
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95 1947-02-06 16 From Our Own Correspondent KUCHING, Feb. 2.—A mission comprising Major H. W. Jackson, representing the Australian Government, and Major R.K. Dyce. representing the British Government (War Office), will shortly visit Kuching to investigate cases of direct assistance rendered by local residents to prisoners95 words
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Article221 1947-02-06 16 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 2. AN unknown soldier’s “act of gross negligence” in throwing an ash tray, which hit a Chinese “boy” during a Tee-for-all fight among service pensonnel celebrating Christmas Eve at Piccadilly Hotel drew strong criticism from the Penang Coroner, Mr.221 words
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Article58 1947-02-06 16 From Oar Own Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 2.—The Penang Importers and Exporters Association at a committee meeting yesterday decided to forward a written protest to the Cheeseman Consultative Committee against the federation proposals on the grounds that the citizenship formula embodied in the constitutional plan would debar 6558 words
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Article225 1947-02-06 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. THE Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, has ordered the 1 appointment of a committee to study the findings of the pre-war Weisbcrg Committee on Singapore’s housing and to bring it up to date. b In making this announcement at a Press conference in225 words
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Article333 1947-02-06 16 SINGAPORE, Feb rE prospect of including Singapore in the proposed Klv (Royal Dutch Airlines) twoand-a-half-dav LorkhJ Constellation service between Amsterdam and Batavia depend on the suitability of Singapore’s Changi airfield take the giant commercial airliners. 0 A trial flight which has been arranged by KLM333 words
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Article171 1947-02-06 16 From Our Own Correspondent. Penang, Feb. 2.—A decision to lodge a strong protest through the local government as well as the Chinese Consul against the “lawless Dutch action” in detaining and confiscating goods destined for Penang from the Netherlands East Indies was reached by the Penang .Importers171 words
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Article255 1947-02-06 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. ONE of the results of the n cent Singapore Harbon Board labourers’ strike—j shortage of air mail letter cards—has been offset bv th co-operation of the Amu postal authorities in th Colony. rhe Army gave the Singapore Controller of Posts half255 words
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Article99 1947-02-06 16 From Our Own Correspondent KUCHING, Feb. s.—Follows discussions with the Singapo Economic, Food Control a Export authorities, the Sara*j Government has decided not impose quota restrictions foodstuffs imported into Sarauaj Sarawak food importers therefore, make their 0 arrangements without restri tion in Sarawak as to99 words
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583 1947-02-06 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. It I'd \TIONS of corruption and persecution by the Government in the Malay-speaking state of in southern Siam, were made yesterday by ■.j Mahmud Mohyiddeen, son of the last Malay Rajah fti hi' family to be installed in Pattani. ’while his583 words
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Article82 1947-02-06 17 Mtii ore. Fob. 5. ■r. -v I IONS for the ren1' the Legislate Municipal •Singapore were “uss oss between perron, Colonial 1 Pore, and the M ior the Colof n J hies, during to London b who arrived vt'.s orday, said ''results to be l.v from these82 words
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Article97 1947-02-06 17 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 4. Kidnappers who recently abducted an estate manager living at Bukit Mertajam have, it is understood, demanded $BO,OOO for his release The victim, who looks after a thousand-acre rubber estate for a well-known Penang towkay. wa* taken away in broad daylight just97 words
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Article69 1947-02-06 17 From Our Own Correspondent Kuching, Feb. 2.—The Kuching i Cotfeeshop Employees AssociaI tion. formed last year, at a meeting held during the week-end decided to present four demands to the Coffeeshop Association comprising owners and proprietors of cafes and coffeeshops) for consideration. The four points69 words
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Article697 1947-02-06 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. CARES on the Singapore Traction Company’s buses had increased by more than 100 per cent, but the wages of the Company’s employees had increased by only 15 per cent, compared with the pre-war level. Rent, light and w ater costs had increased697 words
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Article393 1947-02-06 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. THE opinion that there was no possibility of progress from the Malayan-Siamese Police talks on ways and means of ending border banditry was voiced yesterday by Che Mahmud Mohyiddeen in an interview with the Straits Times. The ex-Tungku, son of the393 words
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Article93 1947-02-06 17 From Our Own Correspondent KLUANG, Jan. 31. THE Klunng International Cluo was declared open by His Highness Tungku Mahkota of Johore on Thursday before a j gathering oi two hundred n:em- bers. Mr. R. B I. Pates, Assistant Commissioner, thanked Ilis Highness and remarked that the Club93 words
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Article43 1947-02-06 17 SINGAPORE. Fob. 4. Tbc S n ,r apore Fire nrlo.ade were reded oat to deal v/'Mi !v.v y< s'erday. One was a sm 1 loHan Pro at Forme P :.d mid was 1 Fane where some rubbish \v is on fire43 words
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Article75 1947-02-06 17 —Straits Times copyright. From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 31. T11F. general opinion of cduca- tionalists in London is that the Colonial Office could not have found a better chairman than Sir A. Carr-Saundcrs, Director of the London School of Economics, for the Malayan higher education inquiry.—Straits Times copyright. - 75 words
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150 1947-02-06 17 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 4.—Led by the Municipal band over 5,000 Muslims marched through the town yesterday in celebration of Prophet Mohammed’s birthday. Sponsored jointly by the Penang Malay Association and the Indian Muslim League, the programme began with the distribution of rice and150 words
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Article166 1947-02-06 17 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 3.—Public Works Department labourers in Johore Bahru made a demonstration before beginning work yesterday morning in order to press I the r claims i r back pay for two I months. Tli' y wanted the payments jimmciiately stating166 words
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Article240 1947-02-06 18 Inter-State Hockey From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Feb. 1. EAST, clean and thrilling hockey was witnessed on the Padang this evening when Selangor heat Perak three-nil in the return match. Bettor opportunism of the Selangor forwards was a deciding factor in the game in which both240 words
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Article154 1947-02-06 18 From Our Own Correspondent. TAIPING. Jan. 30.—0 n their way south to play In Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. West Yorks rugger team <Penang; stopped here and played against a Taiping combined team, called J. D. Joseph’s XV. in a charity match in aid of154 words
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Article46 1947-02-06 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. COUR penalties wese scored In the rugby match between the touring West Yorks fifteen and Malaya Command at Kuala Lumpur this evening, the tourists winning by 11 points to nine, alter be ing in arrears nine points to three.46 words
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Article96 1947-02-06 18 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Feb. 1. THE North hockey team to meet the South at Kuala Lumpur on Mar 1 is: Wong Kam Thong, Mat N >or, Chua Eng Cheng. Dollah, S. Selvanayagam. G. Toft, M. Danker, Tajuddin, Lee Ah Loke. Razali, Low Eng Cheng,96 words
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Article87 1947-02-06 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. In a ruby match nt Sclctar on Saturday. Sclctar defeated the S.C.C. by 15 points tone goal, one penalty, one try, one drop) to 5 points (one goal). Sclctar owed their success to the grappling power of their forwards, combined with a87 words
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Article191 1947-02-06 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. 223 Base Ordinance Depot opened their cricket fixture list for the season oh Sunday with a comfortable win against HG Singapore District. Batting first on their ground in Alexandra the BOD. reached the 100 mark in under the hour, and at the191 words
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Article80 1947-02-06 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. In a thrilling rugby match play< at Blakang Mati or. Monday, II M S. Sultan defeated the West York Regiment by 14 point,? to five, (one goal, a penally. 2 tries, to a goal). Cross, Garratt and Carr were scorers lor Sultan together80 words
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Article168 1947-02-06 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. I !HE S.C.C., playing their first socA cer match since the liberation, defeated the Jollilads Athletic Union by three goals to one. on the padang yesterday. Credit must be given to the Jollilads for a spirited display against opposition which made them look168 words
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Article189 1947-02-06 18 From Our Own Correspondent. Ipoh, Feb. 3.—ln -the first women’s inter-state hockey match since the re-occupation, Perak and Per.ang drew two-all on tho Ipoh padang today. Five minutes after resumption P: rak opened accounts when Netta Wong, receiving a crosspass from right-winger Patricia Fernandez,189 words
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Article50 1947-02-06 18 IPOH, Feb. 3.—Little Loon, last night, won the bantamweight title of Perak, taking a points decision over Jagir Singh in a 12 two-minute round fight. Little Loon has accepted an invitation to fight in Australia and understood his first opponent there is likely to be Stan Mott.50 words
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Article411 1947-02-06 18 FO cricket matches were played on Saturday. Raffles College beat Tengah Airmen in a game on the College ground and Medical College Union beat the Special Commissioners Cricket Club in a game at the Medical College. Scores were* RAFFLES M.T. Ratnam c Nash b Naylor 16 E J.411 words
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Article138 1947-02-06 18 From Our Own Corespondent TAIPING, Feb. 3. —In a .holiday Badminton fixture played here the Arrow Party from Penang defeated a Taiping scratch team by four matches to three. Results were as follows (Penang players first). Singles: Cheah Thean Kiu beat Khoc 800 Hin 15-8, 15-7; Cheah138 words
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Article228 1947-02-06 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. IN the first game of their tour which will bring them to Singapore next week, the West Yorks XV defeated Selangor United at rugby on the Kuala Lumpur Padang this evening by six points (two tries) to three (a penalty goal). Yorks did228 words
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Article397 1947-02-06 18 rE ascendancy of the R.a.f Changi team over the S.R.C. at soccer, was the domi nant feature throughout mov of the game which ended with a four-nil win for the R.A.F Though the Changi team field cd two- new playesr, their njav yesterday showed fine397 words
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135 1947-02-06 18 From Our Own Corresponrtrni IPOH, Jan. 30.—The suggestion thathe Association should resume the G practice of members coaching schod* boys was adopted at the annual gen* eral meeting of the Perak Cricket A-' sociation held at Ipoh Club last r.i6»with J. M. Lewis in the135 words
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Article261 1947-02-06 19 UILDINGA MATERIALS ■up Singapore Ratepayers’ Association is to ask Govern,fat0 permit freely the import of building materials I America once it has been proved that such materials n ot be obtained other than from America—instead of Kiivi.m a separate proof each time. r* f- Q261 words
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Article124 1947-02-06 19 From Our Staff iJ Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 4. mandate had been given W to the Pan-Malayan CounV c t Joint Action to speak B the Malays, declared Dato B nn bin Jafaar, President of I}*- 1 U.M.N.O., at the ceremony the hoisting the U.M.N.O124 words
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Article75 1947-02-06 19 Fob" 4 C °Thr POn u ent ■‘•■scmr-nie 4 —Through arKk Gnvf rnm ad e With the Sara Bive the R °PresentV M hv- J ndlan Government Bur belts as 1 s^ t to Sarawak B r amonp clesmnt f T r distribu All indinn h75 words
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Article44 1947-02-06 19 B r '»m Our (hv f IPOH. pL J n Correspondent Id arrd" it '7. re were 377 half nf,a. Perak »n the 1 f *m we ro f, /J Sixteen of W} *vr rr th accidents ■nicks td a s “due to44 words
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Article161 1947-02-06 19 Krom Our Own Correspondent Johore Bahru, Feb. 4. AN addition to public buildings in Johore Bahru will De made when a $llO,OOO Telephone Exchange will be constructed in Jalan Ibrahim in the course of this year. Estimates for the new build:ng were approved at a161 words
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Article113 1947-02-06 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. An explanatory statement on the constitution of the Trade Union Department in Malaya was made yesterday in an official pronouncement from the Singapore Government Public Relations Office. “There seems to be some misunderstanding of the organisation of the Trade Union Department in Malaya113 words
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Article559 1947-02-06 19 Company Meeting At the meeting of the Borelli Rubber Co., Ltd., in Kuala Lumpur, last week, Mr. Q. Wiseman, stated: Generally speaking, the Company had not fared badly during the Japanease occupation. No areas have been lost owing to being cut out or destroyed but it is559 words
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Article84 1947-02-06 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. b. FAILING a satisfactory reply within one month from Government to their claim for back pay for the full period of the Japanese occupation, Singapore teachers propose to take “appropriate action." At an emergency extraordinary general meeting yesterday at the Singapore Teachers Union, members84 words
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Article76 1947-02-06 19 From Our Own Correspondent Segamat, Feb. 4.—The following Trade Unions were registered in Johore in January according to the Government Gazette: Segamat Hawkers’ Union, Kota Tinggi Timber Workers’ Association, Ayer Hitam Workers’ Mutual Assistance Society, Johore District Government Labourers’ Union, Tangkak District Rubber Workers’ Association, P76 words
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Article63 1947-02-06 19 Total imports into Australia from Malaya are:— Nov. 1938. £stg. 42.000- Nov. 1946. £stg. 290,000; Five months Nov. 1938, £stg. 398,000; Nov. 1946, £stg. 671.000. Total exports to Malaya are shown as:— Nov. 1938. £A. 158.000; Nov. 1946. £A. 2,512.000; Nov. 1938, £A. 675,000. Nov. 1946,63 words
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317 1947-02-06 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. IN a statement in Singapore yes- terday, replying to charges that it is not sufficiently representative of the people of Malaya, the Pan-Malayan Council of Joint Action declares: “We make bold to claim that in Malaya today no other public organization317 words
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474 1947-02-06 19 Advisory Council Meeting SINGAPORE, Jan. SI. ALL previous registrations of business names in Singapore under the Ordinance passed in 1940 are cancelled and registration will start afresh again. A Bill to legalise this procedure, called the Business Names (Fresh Registration) Bill, was one of five474 words
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Article59 1947-02-06 19 Straits Times copyright. From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Feb. 2. The issue of 701.506 shilling shares by the British Malayan Tin Syndicate which offered to shareholders a proportion of five new shares for every old share held, was so over-subscribed that new applicants, as distinct from oldStraits Times copyright. - 59 words
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Article588 1947-02-06 20 Weekly Market Report By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. AN extremely good week’s business on the Singapore share market with industrial share transactions assuming large proportions while quotations firmed is reported for the last week. Tin share dealings continued to be limited and rubber588 words
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Article62 1947-02-06 20 ballyhoo.’’—Straits Times copyright From Our Own Correspondent London, Feb. 3.—The stock Exchange Gazette emphasises that Am rican rubber consumption figures are showing a consistent trend towards the us.o of an increasing proportion of natural rubber in relation to synthetic. This movement will undoubtedly grow, as supplies fromballyhoo.’’—Straits Times copyright - 62 words
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Article77 1947-02-06 20 and wheat.*—Straits Time copyright. From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Ft<b. 2. In an address circulated with the accounts to the shareholders of Chunbong Malay Rubber Co. the Chairman, Mr.’E D. Money, said: ‘the British Government’* with a weak Rubber Growers’ Association to advise it, failedand wheat.*—Straits Time copyright. - 77 words
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Article224 1947-02-06 20 city o: over 80.000 tons.—Straits Times Copyright. From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON, Feb. 2. AFTER reviewing the Malayan tin miners rehabilitation and j tucl difficulties, the Economist I comments it is nevertheless disappointing that more rapid progress has not been made, particularly since the Netherlands Indies, despitecity o: over 80.000 tons.—Straits Times Copyright. - 224 words
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Article79 1947-02-06 20 SINGAPORE. Feb. 5. Another shipment of 44 goods wagons for the Siamese Railways has arrived ir. Singapore by the B.I. ship Empire Admiral from Chittagong. The ship is now ir. the Singapore Roads awaiting the departure of the Empire Wallace which is now discharging wagons at79 words
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Article310 1947-02-06 20 SINGAPORE. Feb i EXTENSIVE plans for the rehabilitation of" Sim u pore’s telephonic network and to further the capacity of the central exchange beyond the 10 im lines maximum, are being considered by the Orio’hK Telephone Company. Further additions to the present system will I* the310 words
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Article67 1947-02-06 20 elude.—Straits Times com right. From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 3.-Advan(* of Malayan tin price to some, thing of €400 is expected when the Bolivian- American tin price negotiations con. elude.—Straits Times com cable containing approximate 26.803 miles of teleph t. were considerably alter Crmnar.y duringelude.—Straits Times com right. - 67 words
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Article142 1947-02-06 20 From Our Own Correspondent KUCHING. Feb. 4.— ln orderl check the hoarding of rice aa its sale in the blackmarket, ti Controller of Essential Commod ties, with the approval of tl Chief Secretary, and in exerci of the powers conferred on hi by the Defence Regulati142 words
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Article684 1947-02-06 20 Share quotations according to the Malayan Sharebrokers Association (Singapore) Jan. 31 were as follows: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller texandra Hiickwork? Orcis. 1.70 1.90 Alexandra nnekworke Profs. 2.90 3.00 Brit Malaya Tru&tee Si Executor Co U 0 i)( Jnnsolldater Tin Smelters Ord. 21/- 23/do Profs. 26/6 28/-xd Eastern United684 words