The Straits Budget, 2 October 1947
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Title Section31 1947-10-02 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES fESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] L Series No. 61. Singapore Thursday, October 2nd, 1947 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 *h.31 words
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Advertisement63 1947-10-02 1 The SINGAPORE FREE PRESS has the largest nett sale of any afternoon newspaper published in Malaya The Singapore Free Press is the oldest established newspaper in Singapore. It recommenced publication in May last year and its smart presentation of news has made an immediate appeal to the reading public. For63 words
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Article1282 1947-10-02 2 —Straits Times, Sept. 25. Yesterday was the first Census Day that Malaya has known for sixteen years. The first counting of heads in the Straits Settlements and F.M.S. took place in 1901 and was repeated in 1911, but the first complete census for the whole country was—Straits Times, Sept. 25. - 1,282 words
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Article879 1947-10-02 2 'Straits Ti mes J Johore police, with the full co-operation of a platoon of the Dorsetshire Regiment, yesterday engaged in action a number of gunmen at Niyor, near Kluang. They killed at least two and wounded several others in the battle that followed the throwing'Straits Times J - 879 words
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Article154 1947-10-02 2 Nonsense F rom Shanghailander —Straits Times. Sept. The Straits Time* H published in its Thur^J ZIne f »>' greater ed its readers one of thc m ordinarily misinformed art fig thls c °untry that has n !fl| ever appeared in prinL tide was written by a 3 journalist publishing‘ a—Straits Times. Sept. - 154 words
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Article1000 1947-10-02 2 —Straits Timas, Sept. 27. A meeting is to l e held Lumpur today to inaugurate Malayan Planting Industries ployers’ Association. In the e*H planting days in Malaya it P.A.M. Then, half-way the world wars, it became U.P.A.M. Now. as an offshootHj the latter, we are—Straits Timas, Sept. 27. - 1,000 words
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Article1095 1947-10-02 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 29. As is customary at general meetings of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, the chairman’s speech at the extra general meeting held last Friday was accompanied by a detailed report on the various branches of the import and export trade and other matters—Straits Times, Sept. 29. - 1,095 words
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Article1160 1947-10-02 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 30. A ballot now being taken in the Malayan Union will decide whether some 40,000 Government servants will strike or not. This strike has been recommended by the Pan-Malayan Council of Government Workers, following the breakdown of its negotiations with Government over—Straits Times, Sept. 30. - 1,160 words
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Article904 1947-10-02 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 1. The new petrol rationing schemes for the Malayan Union and Singapore have aroused widespread apprehension in Singapore where it is generally believed that an unpracticable and extreme form of rationing will be introduced. This belief has gained ground owing to the official—Straits Times, Oct. 1. - 904 words
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Article135 1947-10-02 4 SINGAPORE, Oct. 1. THE Progressive Party “deplores the action of the Secretary of State for the Colonies” on the question of back pay to non-in-terned Government servants and non-prisoner of war volunteers. In a statement issued yesterday, the Party says that the action of the Secretary135 words
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Article121 1947-10-02 4 SINGAPORE, Oct. 1. Mr. Douglas Massey, 21-year-old son of the Australian Commissioner for Malaya, Mr. Claude Massey, broke his right leg for the second time on Sunday morning, when he was out riding on his motor cycle and was in collision with a cyclist in Siglap.121 words
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Article, Illustration231 1947-10-02 4 SINGAPORE, Octl. MR. E. C. H. Charlwood, chairman of Malayan Breweries ll who is retiring alter 35 years in Malaya, was entertail last night at a party given by the director* and staff hi honour. A co-director, Mr. H Schweizer, presented to Mr. Charlwood231 words
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Article80 1947-10-02 4 At Penang Maternity Hospital® 23rd September, to Eleanor (nee Smith) wife of Y. S. Wl District Office Jelebu. a son WILLIAMS. At K. K. B® S’pore on 24tb S pt. 47 T jn hine wife of W.O I. S. M. Jtt® R.A.O.C. A son. Both doing PAYNE—At Essex. Eneiand80 words
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Article88 1947-10-02 4 DE SILVA-BATES. KOTA* KELANTAN. The tween Angelina. Silvtl Mr. and Mrs. C. A v* Blackmore English Jj, v i on fl Bharu. of Magalle C ta tive B Bradley Iredale. R p h r comP<® Barracks, attached to' 13 s on Platoon RIASC. the late Mr. Philip Bates 088 words
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Article12 1947-10-02 4 prnaM WHITE-PLATER- September 23rd- W J Bove t JJJ® cir«i,u *112 words
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356 1947-10-02 4 (Prom Our Staff Correspondent, KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27. THE president of the United Planting Association of Malaya, Mr. S. B. Palmer, declared today that in many cases, estate reserves were completely exhausted, and that any further funds for rehabilitation work would have to be356 words
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321 1947-10-02 5 HftrsE business and pr«men of Singawell in all which benefit their ‘I But what is the mat* their wives? The ‘K below middle age pride Elves on their “modertheir clothes and Although scores 'up to play mah ■or a “benefit” or for,321 words
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349 1947-10-02 5 PEREGRINATIONS OF A BOOZE-ARTIST’ ■AN't you and your readers M; 0 be the first ones to IV that I have at last found for Australian whisky. I n a P ar t from using it as W* lr tonic or slipping it K° n a friend when his W turned.349 words
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Article126 1947-10-02 5 IN his charming diary in the Straits Times of Sept. 20, ‘‘Tuan Djek,” suggests there is a Cape Remunia (the Tuan will, I am sure, forgive* the moder n spelling) known to the Malays—but is there? Telok Remunia, yes, but the adjoirng cap e is merely Tanjong without126 words
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Article284 1947-10-02 5 THE ‘Johore Government is to. select four candidates for direct appointment as Malay Officers. Judging from past experience, such direct selection has been far from satisfactory as is..evidenced from some of the misfits there are in the present Malay Officers’ Scheme. Nothing could have been284 words
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Article73 1947-10-02 5 WHILE at Cameron Highlands, it surprises me that I can get a copy of thq Straits Times in the afternoon on the same day of its publication, and at Kuala Lumpur even as early as seven in the morning. Congratulations for the initiative, for, no matter73 words
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Article243 1947-10-02 5 A SURPRISING amount of nonsense has been talked by the Government on the question of the penalty of banishment and I cannot understand why no banishment can be ordered without reference to the Secretary of State. Why be squeamish on this question? Government should accept243 words
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Article213 1947-10-02 5 PONSIDERABLE space in v your columns has been devoted to the opposition which has been expressed in various quarters to the Gov ernment’s federation plan. It appears that a series of oneday “hartals” in protest are being held' throughout the country. Malacca’s contribution in this campaign, organised213 words
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Article535 1947-10-02 5 IF direct taxation must be 1 introduced, may I venture to suggest an Excess Profits Tax as an alternative to income tax. Excess profits may be defined as the amount of excess of the total profits of a current year over the total profits of535 words
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108 1947-10-02 5 THE chances of the price of rubber coming back to its old figur e will be very remote, despite the various negotiations that have and are still being made internationally and nationally. Rubber optimists should weigh the matter for themselves and direct their Interest and108 words
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Article60 1947-10-02 5 J WONDER how many of your readers are aware that dogs do not eat crabs, even if offered in a very delicious form. Perhaps there is an interesting legend connected with this idiosyncrasy, and some one may be able to relate it. Or may be this distaste60 words
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1448 1947-10-02 6 TUAN DJEK - A Malayan Countryman’s Diary TUAN DJEK. SPHERE is something to be said about our Malayan Hymenoptera. It is strange that there is no mention of either bees or honey in Burkill’s two-volume work “A Dictionary of Economic Products of the Malay Peninsula.” Honey1,448 words
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Article83 1947-10-02 6 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. A new propeller tail shaft is being flown from London to Singapore for the disabled Canadian freighter Lake Chilco. The ship arrived in Singapore yesterday morning after a 500mile t<*w by the Singapore Harbour Board tug Griper from the South China Sea.83 words
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185 1947-10-02 6 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Sept. 28. yOUTHFUL, good looking Foo Moon Chiat, alias Foo Moon I Lim smiled persistently in the police court dock yesterday when the magistrate, Tungku Hussein, held a preliminary inquiry into a charge against him. Foo was charged with having185 words
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Article197 1947-10-02 6 LONDON, Sept. 28. PLANS are under way for the creation in Singapore of two additional district courts and thre e police courts to solve the problem of a backlog of persons awaiting trial, the Colonial Under-Secretary Mr. Ivor Thomas, said here. Mr. Thomas announced this in a197 words
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Article52 1947-10-02 6 pUBLI( b*iiding s aroTl Kapore’s paL decorated on Nov 8 Hi Elizabeths wedfiA 3 t«r A d n a y a,, Sr n «r?„ l^l pointed to look Singapore celebrate a I that the 9 that many firms and ,yjl will want to hav! buildings decorated52 words
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Article384 1947-10-02 6 Need For Malayan Oils Fat From Our Own Correspond LONDON (By Air Reference to the deflj in Malaya’s export oil)} and fats was made byH Geoffrey Heyworth, pr at the annual members of Lever Biot* and Unilever Ltd. in recently. H He pointed out that 1947 world production of oi«|j384 words
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Article1021 1947-10-02 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 26. pan-Malayan Council of Government Workers B |er a meeting this evening passed a resolution ■amending use of the strike weapon “in an effort ■tain an upward revision of wages.” The decision followed a Government warning ■lisiiplinarv action in the1,021 words
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Article121 1947-10-02 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. MORE than 20,000 people—estimated at about 25 per cent, of the enfranchised of Singapore—have registered for a vote at th e pending public elections for six members to a reconstituted Legislative Assembly. The six-week registration period closed at midnight last night. The Supervisor121 words
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Article58 1947-10-02 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. Fifteen immigrants of five nations yesterday left Singapore by the Malayan Airways olane “Murai” for Australia. The immigrants were five Poles, five Italians, two Danes, two Greeks and an Englishwoman. The “Murai” is making a special flight to Sydney and Melbourne in order58 words
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Article78 1947-10-02 7 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Sept. 24. VTEGRI Sembilan Welfare Week drive has realised $27,468 profit. This money will be used for badly-needed social services. Th acting Resident Commissioner, Mr. E. E. Pengllley, giving this information yesterday at his press conference, said the original figure aimed at was78 words
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308 1947-10-02 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 25. SARAWAK rubber producers are pressing the Government to com e to a decision regarding the reduction of the present export duties on rubber. Typical of the existing dissatisfaction is a letter signed “Smallholder” which appeared in the Sarawak Tribune last week.308 words
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Article311 1947-10-02 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. RUBBER and tin in Malaya were the subjects of a report at yesterday s meeting of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce. The rubber market opened on Jan 2 with the price of 41, cents per lb. for No. 1 R S.S. loose. P311 words
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Article355 1947-10-02 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. DLANS for large scale developments of the rice-grow-ing industry in Romeo are now being studied by the Government of North Borneo and the other authorities concerned. Success would help feed Malaya. Many hundreds of thousands of acres of land now waste in355 words
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Article104 1947-10-02 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. Eight members of the Royal Pioneer Corps (Ceylonese Section) are under detention pending further investigations into the riot which occurred last week at Colombo Camp in Reformatory Road. Singapore. The Ceylonese complained about the quality of their rice. Some 400 other soldiers of104 words
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Article45 1947-10-02 7 SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. A young European private was lound dead, with a gunohot wound in hLs left ahest, at a 223 BO D. sub-depot in Alexandra Road yesterday morning. His body was removed t > the British Military Hospital in Alexandra Road.45 words
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1560 1947-10-02 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. “CITHER Malaya exports sufficient to pay for her imports or she starves—or, like Britain, she must prepare herself for a lower standard of living than at present.” This warning was given by the chairman of the Singapore Chamber of1,560 words
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Article87 1947-10-02 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. In order that the Singapore Municipality should not lose an appreciable amount of revenue next year through being unable to adjust the assessment consequent on the recent increase authorised in rents, an amendment to the Municipal Ordinance was agreed to at a Municipal Commissioners’87 words
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619 1947-10-02 8 SINGAPORE e H DELEGATES of eight Singapore Municipal unions have approved 1 making “an urgent appeal” to the (iov» r increased cost of living allowance. nent f «B llie unions, which represent y\'! fl professional workers, in their iiiemonn.in. lcal B their case is “overwhelming.”619 words
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Article49 1947-10-02 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept, Princess Elizabeth'." wedding™ on November 20 will probabiJM declared a public holiday in™ Malayan Union to enable to be appropriately As a result of ini'* »i*niai a.*™ sions between the (nvernor.™ Edward Gent, and repr»™ atives of local committee has beeii set up49 words
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Article488 1947-10-02 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. rE Singapore Chamber of Commerce review of Malaya’s trade for the first six months of this year observes that there is evidence of a good deal more balanced discrimination i n the selection of consumer goods now being purchased by Malaya from supplying488 words
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219 1947-10-02 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 24. A a deep bow, a Chinese walked rapidly from the Krk of the Malayan Court of Appeal today. He K$t heard the Court quash the death sentence E m him at the Selangor219 words
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Article113 1947-10-02 9 !§g SINGAPORE. Sept. 25. I BI. Apcar Line services IBoin India via the Straits to B Kong and China will repfBence next month with the ■l in Singapore of the new flB 9.000-ton passenger vessel |B Sangola was recently on the Clyde aaid will iwy be joined113 words
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Article131 1947-10-02 9 I SINGAPORE, Sept. 25. ■S Concorn over the Punjab U expressed by a deputaB*v!L L. representatives from »v^ ac H m community in the B.P Ur *ion ar.d Singapore Bp n y mot the Representative Tw 0Vernment of India. Mr. B rh ‘vy. yesterday. Bnpf d<131 words
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Article269 1947-10-02 9 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 24. PE polry of the Home Government with regard to tin and rubber was most difficult to understand, said the Chairman of the Penang Chamber of Commerce, Mr. D. A. Mackay, at the halfyearly General meeting of the Chamb yesterday.269 words
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Article50 1947-10-02 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 25. PROFESSOR W. A. Young. former Professor of Bacteriology at the Medical College, Singapore, was the guest of honour at a tea-party held at the G. H. Cafe yesterday. More than 40 members of the Alumni Association of the College of Medicine and friends were present.50 words
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Article276 1947-10-02 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 24. THE Assessment Committee of the K.L. Town Board has recommended that the 1948 assessment rates should be increased from 1.57 per cent, to 2 per cent. The committee considers that the increase is necessary to assist in balancing276 words
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229 1947-10-02 9 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 24. TRADING restrictions in Malaya were a ‘‘humbug” which must be swept away, Mr. J. P. Souter declared at the half-yearly meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Urging the abolition of A.P. (Approved Permit) forms covering229 words
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Article249 1947-10-02 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 25. CENSUS enumerators on Wednesday night found 5.000 people living on the harbour and rivers and 1.000 homeless on the streets of Singapore. Some of the squad doing the water census were still clambering aboard junks, sampans and prahus at 5 a.m. Notwithstanding early249 words
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Article, Illustration432 1947-10-02 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 25. /H)L. Jameson Carr, veteran of two world wars and Mrs. Carr, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by the President Monroe, have each travelled over a million miles. They are among 23 American round-the-world tourists who will spend the next four days sightseeing432 words
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Article105 1947-10-02 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. Without being called upon to make his defence, Pang Wee Ngoh, who was alleged to have been concerned In Illegally bringing 23,318 katties of Siamese rice from the Malayan Union into Singapore on Sept. 7 was acquitted by the Second District Judge. Mr.105 words
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127 1947-10-02 10 MALACCA, Sept. 24. FOOTBALL posts had to be moved to allow a Singa- pore plane a clear field to take off from a Malacca playground on which it made a forced landing at 4 I p.m. yesterday. The plane, which was a Harvard127 words
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442 1947-10-02 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 24. rE Pan-Malayan Council of Government Workers this evening received a reply from the Chief Secretary, Malayan Union, Mr. J. InnesMiller, to their “final’' letter sent yesterday. “In all the factors which must influence the wage structure,” says442 words
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Article46 1947-10-02 10 PARIT BUNTAR, Sept. 24. Krian’s water restriction has been lifted. Thi s has been made possible by the heavy rain which has been falling since Monday night. Water economy is, however, still urged, although a full supply is now available for all needs.46 words
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Article175 1947-10-02 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. Two Chinese and a Malay robbed a cycle shop in Middle Road, Singapore, yesterday of $1,645 in cash and valuables. The shop had just opened for the day and the proprietor, Mr. Chew Boon Seong. was alone Inside reading a newspaper when the175 words
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137 1947-10-02 10 Radio SOS For ‘Lost Singapore Wives SINGAPORE. Sept. 25. THE Singapore station of Radio Malaya broadcast an S.O.S. just before it closed at 11 o’clock last night asking anybody who knew the whereabouts of Mrs. Bryant and Mrs. Goodall to contact the Young Women’s Christian Association. The appeal was made137 words
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Article89 1947-10-02 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KEMAMAN, Sept. 25. A MALAY rubber plantation .owner was carried away by a tiger at Pundoh Limau while he was out tapping rubber. A search party was organised when the planter, who tapped his own trees on his small estate, failed89 words
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Article87 1947-10-02 10 ALLEGED THEFT OF “OLD IRON SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. Saying he had “no money, no friends and no relatives,” 39-year-old Kua Boon Chang pleaded not guilty in the Second Police Court yesterday to the theft of a piece of iron railing, value $5, the property of the Registrar of Vehicles, from87 words
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334 1947-10-02 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 25. A MALAY ex-schoolmaster will leave Singapore tomorrow for England to take up the first appointment ever given a Malay at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. He is 52-year-old Che* Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad, successively334 words
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Article143 1947-10-02 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. SEVERAL Singapore families have moved from their wood and attap huts in the Balestier Plain area into the new-type, semi-permanent pre-fabricated Improvement Trust houses at Kim Keat Road. Among the first families were vegetable gardeners and squatters, whose old huts have been demolished.143 words
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Article43 1947-10-02 10 A sub-committee of 11 has been appointed by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce to take charge of arrangements to celebrate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth. Dragon and lion processions will be included as part of the celebrations.43 words
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Article127 1947-10-02 10 Straits Times Copyright I tr,,m 0»„ c B A l ONDON’>« RISE in registered 1 Exchange vested J e M miumg companies? modest i.-nprovemenM flow of machi? 1 equipment to the I Tlu Daily I'ti-ranh I” there has bfen Ph “"H change oi r ,pStraits Times Copyright I - 127 words
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Article113 1947-10-02 10 SINGAPORE. Sept! The Immigration Dep&itfl officially informer the H Times yesterday that cafl to published reports no nfl tions had been placed ocl entry of Chinese Into I country. The Department’s spotafl said the fact was that ejl restrictions had been eased! Whereas previously empil113 words
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Article99 1947-10-02 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. A former member of R.A.M.C Wong Chong Kam sentenced to eight years’rij imprisonment and 12 stroi the rattan by Mr. Justice Jo at the Assize Court yestena armed robbery of $7,000 m and jewellery from a w family at Race Course Ro* Mar. 27. eaM It99 words
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Article96 1947-10-02 10 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday* IPOH, Sept. 24- TWO Chinese robbers, dressed in black, last 1 an upstairs room of the Residency in Gopeng stole two watches, a fountain pen and a pair m S P belonging to the Resident Commissioner of PoraK, Jomaron.96 words
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872 1947-10-02 11 From Our Special Correspondent I KLUANG, Sept. 25. notorious Chinese bandits were hilled and four of their companions woun* Kj when Kluang police, helped by a detachment from the Dorsetshire Iment fought a gun battle with gangsters in their hideout at Niyor,872 words
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Article110 1947-10-02 11 PTE. G. Mules, of the Dorsets, says he will “remember all his life" the heroic act of a Chinese detective who stepped forward while he was helpless on the ground and received the bullet meant for him. Pte. Mules had been knocked down by a bandit110 words
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213 1947-10-02 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. i MIDDAY hold-up took place in a corridor on the third A floor of Fullerton Building, Singapore yesterday. The victim of the hold-up was Mr. Gordon Ahin, a 22-year-old Eurasian employed by Lyons Motors Ltd., Singa P °He’was relieved, at the point213 words
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Article103 1947-10-02 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. ’T'HE Singapore Overseas Chinese Importers and Exporters Association has obtained permission to evacuate refugees from Bagan Bahru, situated in the centre of Sumatra. The local immigration authorities gave permission on the understanding that the Association would ensure the refugees going back to Bagan103 words
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Article42 1947-10-02 11 LONDON, September 25.—ViceAdmiral ClifTord Caslon former Commander of the battleship Nelson, has been named Flag Officer. Malaya, ir. succession to Rear Admiral H. J. Egerton. the Admiralty announced last night. Admiral Caslon’s appointment becomes effective in December.— A.PA.P - 42 words
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Article137 1947-10-02 11 Straits Timers copyright. From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 25. fro the end of July. m n 1^ equipment worth more than £2 million had been nfl tched to Malaya, leaving only about £500,000 worth of orders unfulfilled, I am office allv informed today. In addition,Straits Timers copyright. - 137 words
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Article, Illustration191 1947-10-02 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. A SINGAPORE Chinese, Teoh Kim Tung, of Kheam Hock Road, who helped to hide British and Australian soldier* for two years during the Jap occupation of Malaya, was prosented yesterday with a commendation certificate signed by the former Supreme Allied Commander—Straits Times photo. - 191 words
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Article214 1947-10-02 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 25. —An inquiry into the qualifications of the Malayan Union Town Planner, Mr. R. P. Davis, was askeo for by a member of the Kuala Lumpur Town Board yesterday, following an announcement tnat the Board would have to abandon214 words
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226 1947-10-02 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. THE death of the Singapore Communist leader, Lin Ah Liang, was not caused by his imprisonment, says an official statement yesterday. Quoting medical reports prepared by the acting Director of Medical Services, the statement declares that the cause of death was226 words
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Article446 1947-10-02 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. FE Governments of Singapore and the Malayan Union yesterday issued a statement on ric e availabilities from Australia in reply to the leading article in the Straits Times on Sept. 24 on the subject. The statement follows: At the end of last year446 words
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Article47 1947-10-02 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. Summoned before the Third Police Magistrate Mr. F B. Oehlers. yesterday, a European named G. W. Moss denied that he used criminal force and abusive language against an Indian. Chaftar. Singh, on Sept. The case will be heard on Oct.47 words
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Article155 1947-10-02 12 S PORE TRADE WITH NEI SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. The possibilities of a closer economic co-operation between Singapore and the Netherlands East Indies were explored at the recent trade talks held in Batavia. The Singapore Government was represented by Mr. T. Van Der Gaast, Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, and Mr.155 words
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Article156 1947-10-02 12 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sept. 25. ALL Government servants were at their desks and posts today, which was hartal day here. Town Board and conservancy labourers were present In full force. Most Asiatic business premises were closed. Public transport, with the exception of yellow top156 words
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Article62 1947-10-02 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. Malayan Airways will, from tomorrow, start a new weekly passenger-freight service to Medan, on the East coast of Sumatra. A plane will leave Singapore every Saturday morning for Medan and return in the evening. Passenger bookings for tomorrows flight are reported to be62 words
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Article114 1947-10-02 12 SITIAWAN, Sept. 25. rwu young Chinese criminals, both handcuffed, have not been seen again by and leapt into the Parit River at the Blanja Ferry. They took their escorts by surprise the police. The two youths were being escorted from Batu Gajah Prison to be produced114 words
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Article46 1947-10-02 12 lOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 25. J Fifty-eight traffic accidents were reported in Johore Bahru during August, compared with 50 in July. This total caused six deaths and 22 injuries. In July eight people lost their lives in traffic accidents and 13 persons were injured.46 words
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200 1947-10-02 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 25. rO people wer e killed in the storm which raged through Penang, Province Wellesley and Kedah on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The two fatalities reported today occurred in Province Wellesley. An Indian cowherd, Suppiah, 40,200 words
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Article239 1947-10-02 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. FORMATION of a Malayan 1 team to compete in the World’s Ballroom Dancing Congress in England is proposed by the general secretary of the Institute of Dancing Teachers, Singapore, Mr. Matheson Sinn. “It will Indeed be lamentable,” he says, “if Malaya, with its many239 words
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351 1947-10-02 12 S ’pore Diocese Need £100,000 Urgently SINGAPORE, Sent il ON the second anniversary of the signing nf surrender, the Bishop of Singapore ti,„ o' apa l Leonard Wilson, C.M.G., launched an appeal f„i £100*0 I th e dioecso ,,f si, rap r The Singapore Hu| covers a vast area strS351 words
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Article113 1947-10-02 12 From Our Staff Correspond* KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 2! Four former members Green Dragon Mountain of Salak South appealed un cessfully to the Malayan Court of Appeal yesterdaj duction of sentences offences under the I ubla and Safety Proclamation. The men were: Cheah who was sentenced 10113 words
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458 1947-10-02 13 Final Census Report In Septem ber Next l n.ni Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sept. 28. <on i population figures of Malaya, with Ii i ;1 < to race and sex, will be available bv the fl November. II msiis chid. Mr. M. del Tufo, m n,u announcement today, said the458 words
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79 1947-10-02 13 F„,„, Our St.lt 1NEK th« "> '“J He was one of a group of 42 boys of the Kai Chee Chi nese School in Muar who hud been swimming l 1 1 under the supervision of two teachers. After the boys U set79 words
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Article369 1947-10-02 13 i()m Stall Correspondent PENANG. Sept. 24. ANO S incorporation nl0 the Malayan Union described as "a poor bar- by the chairman of the m ber of Commerce, Mr. I Mackay. at the halfly general meeting of the mber yesterday. Mack.iv .-aid Penang must reful auard its free369 words
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Article233 1947-10-02 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. FIFTY prominent Singapore Muslims at a party in Chancery Lane last night welcomed three doctors whom King Farouk of Egypt is send-! mg to Indonesia. Rcd-fezed Arabs, Egyptians, i Indian Muslims and Malays and Indonesians wearing songkoks, many of whom wore national garb233 words
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Article60 1947-10-02 13 MUAR, Sept. 29. At the annual general meeting ol the ii dian Muslim I<< acd”"ofliCofollowing were elected omce bearers for the ensuing year President, Mr. K P. PacKaei Unhurried 1 Vice-President, Mr. T. M Ibrahim: Secretary. Mr. M. M. Yassin. Asst. Secretary Mr. T A TatTar Treasurer. Mi.60 words
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Article176 1947-10-02 13 SINGAPORE, Sept, 20. SENTENCE of seven years’ rigorous imprisonment was passed yesterday in the Singapore Assize Court on a young Chinese. Teo Kim Hock, 21, who tried to hit a constable on the head with a gun. He was convicted of carrying a revolver and being in176 words
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Article310 1947-10-02 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. 4 NUMBER of people from Kluang and other parts of Johore came forward yesterday to identify seven bandits whom police arrested after a gun battle on Thursday in the bandits* hideout at Niyor, (live miles from Kluang). Four of th seven bandits under310 words
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296 1947-10-02 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 29. TIIIRTV-EIGIIT Chinese couples were married at the VicI toria Memorial Hall, Singapore at noon yesterday in the highest masts wedding since September, 1945. Th Chinese Consul-General for Singapore, Dr. Wu Paakshing, officiated at the two-hours ceremony, which was held in296 words
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Article95 1947-10-02 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 28. WHERE were 30 deaths from 1 tuberculosis and 05 cases reported in Singapore for the week ended Sept. 20, compared with 33 deaths and 58 others reported in the previous week. Three cases of diphtheria, one of which was fatal, were reported.95 words
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Article73 1947-10-02 13 From Our Staff Correspondent. MALACCA, Saturday. DLANtt for the erection ol a new three-storeyed reinforced concrete building at First Cross street have been passed by the Malacca Municipal Commissioners. The building, which wall cost approximately $50,000, will b? rented out as ofllces. It Is expected73 words
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Article897 1947-10-02 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. THE Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, in a broadcast last night promised that if the police needed further powers to fight crime in the Union he would give them his full support. Sir Edward Gent, who was commenting upon recent Press897 words
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Article65 1947-10-02 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 29 The Singapore Chief Medical Officer, Dr H. Scrimgeour, was entertained to a farewell dinner by members of the Singapore Hospital Assistants Union in College Road on Saturday evening, prior to his departure on leave. His successor, Dr. Strang, was also present. The65 words
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Article108 1947-10-02 14 The Johore Planters’ Association have written to the Straits Times as follows: “At a meeting of the committee held on Sept. 24. we were instructed to express the appreciation of all the Association's members for the publicity, w iicli you have given to the present state of108 words
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Article128 1947-10-02 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. Government vehicles may still be used for recreational purposes, but “the maximum reasonable economy should be exercised,” says an official circular on the use of petrol issued to all heads of departments in Singapore. The circular say s that it is128 words
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252 1947-10-02 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. AN application for permission to demonstrate how a man could be disarmed of a knife by the use of a ju-jitsu hold was made by counsel for the defence in a murder case. Mr. Y. Tsan, at the Singapore Assize Court yesterday.252 words
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Article233 1947-10-02 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 29. THE Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, speaking over Radio Malaya last bight, called hartal “an undesirable immigrant,” and suggested that it should “be treated with thg utter contempt it deserves.” He said the hartal was of great significance j n this country,233 words
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412 1947-10-02 14 SINGAPORE e M«. D. Robertson told the Singapore AhinilJ; nussioners at a meeting yesterdn ii posed to introduce a resolution urgim/th, .I* to tackle the crime situation in a “more n, ho efficient manner.” 1 thor <«*sli lie said lie did not think the police412 words
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Article121 1947-10-02 14 From Our Staff orrespont PENANG. Sept. 28—Pci plans to relieve the he shortage are under way. A will be made shortly on a 3( site in Perak Road wher e commissioners propose to new quarters for Municipal and build new tram and t bus sheds. Provision121 words
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Article136 1947-10-02 14 SINGAPORE. Sept A rubber and coconut es < Morib. Selangor, bought oj Admiralty in 1940 for more $1,000,000. is now being oiiw sale by tender. Sooi. after buying the e the Admiralty carried 't.i minary clearing wiirkt' 1 struction of an RNAS a The strip136 words
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Article16 1947-10-02 14 PENANG. Sep' relangs of n™ r land in Central under water u. heavy rains.16 words
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1163 1947-10-02 15 CLOSER TOUCH BETWEEN U.K. MALAYA From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON, Sept. 17 (By Air Mail). I question of the Association of British Malaya representing public opinion on Malayan affairs to authorities in the United Kingdom was discussed jug the annual meeting of the association at Over- House today. The question1,163 words
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Article297 1947-10-02 15 SINGAPORE, Sept 28. UNUSUAL and interesting air freight-ranging from a woman's shoe to diamonds and from bicycle bells lo artificial limbs—have been carried by Malayan Airways planes from Singapore to Malayan Union towns during the past few offlcera who load the plane each morning at Kallang297 words
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Article392 1947-10-02 15 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30. ‘117E are always ousted un- der the pretext of being a ‘section/ although we form 80 to 90 per cent of the Indian population in Matoya, and non-Tamils are appointed to represent the community. “Now it is time to put an end392 words
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Article380 1947-10-02 15 SINGAPORE, Sept 28. UIGHER quality transmissions, easier to receive, and additional facilities for the Programme Division to enable them to arrange more varied programmes will result from developments announced by Radio Malaya this week. Mr. J. S. Dumeresque, Director of Broadcasting, yesterday told the Sunday Times: “Our380 words
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Article115 1947-10-02 15 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30. There were four daylight robberies in Singapore yesterday, two of them with the use of arms. The flrst robbery took place in Neil Road at 5.30 a.m., when four Chinese, all armed, took $350 in cash and Jewellery from, a Chi* ncse family. In115 words
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Article1125 1947-10-02 16 R.E- HOLTTUM - The Malayan Gardener By R.E- HOLTTUM, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore SEVERAL passion flowers will grow in Malaya. In the lowlands the Buah Susu (Passiflora laurifolia) is very vigorous, but it does not flower freely enough to be ornamental. Cross pollination with flowers from another plant is1,125 words
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Article75 1947-10-02 16 JASIN. Sept. 29.—A general meeting of the Jasin Recreation Club was held at the club premises on Sept. 22 and the following were elected office bearers for the ensuing year: Patron. Wing Commander F.R.C. Fowle, D.F.C.; president. Mr. LH. Danapala; vice president. Che Omar bin H. Abdulrahman; hon.75 words
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321 1947-10-02 16 'j'HE children in kampongs learn at an early age to be of use. Even the tiniest child will gather sticks for the family cooking. Very small girls will carry water or wheel it on home-made contraptions, carrying out their duties with a321 words
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362 1947-10-02 16 SINGAPORF w* THE Chian* Kai-shek Government and tt! 30 1 “expansionist policy” of the United StV* attacked yesterday by the Chairman of the Pan i yan headquarters of the China Democratic i Mr, Hu Yue-tse.. 1 Ua l Mr. Hu presided362 words
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Article103 1947-10-02 16 The office of the Chief Inspector of Mines, Malayan Union, in Its report on the production of tin ore concentrates in the Malayan Union for the month of August, states that 58,743 piculs, equivalent to 3,497 long tons, of tin ore concentrates were produced in the during103 words
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Article408 1947-10-02 16 SINGAPORE, Septal THE strong position of I Alister and Co., Ltd., I reflected in the CompaB reserve accounts, said1 chairman, Mr. T. H. HolyB speaking at the annual nfl ing in Singapore yestercaj “Following our former policl prudence Mr. Holyoak contiiM “we have felt it desirable408 words
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Article503 1947-10-02 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30. I Eng hew, a Singapore taxi driver, told the ■Third Police Court yesterday how his taxi was ted to a flaming skeleton in Hill Street while a Liunist funeral procession was passing, on Aug. 27. EL vice-president of the Malayan Peoples’ Anti- Army Ex-Service503 words
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235 1947-10-02 17 BNGAPORE, Sept. 30. B5-YEAR-OLD American, ■Alfivci Eugene Commiade, was described as an Be engineer, was ordered Be Second Magistrate, Mr. B Goh, yesterday, to be B ned to Sitiawan, Perak, Bee a charge of alleged Bing. •piacle told Mr. Goh that he oeen unable to235 words
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Article, Illustration164 1947-10-02 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 29. I CONDITION of efficient civil aviation should be “safety first, safety second, safety third,” said Lord Nathan, Minister of Civil Aviation, in Singapore on Saturday. There was too much tendency in the past to make a fetish of speed in air travel,164 words
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301 1947-10-02 17 SINGAPORE, Sept 28. IT would be possible to bring Changi airport into operation as an international junction within two years, Lord Nathan, British Minister of Civil Aviation, said at a Press conference in Singapore yesterday. Lord Nathan indicated that the development of Changi301 words
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Article57 1947-10-02 17 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 28.—The former Penang badminton State player, Lee Hoo Chye was married this morning at the Penang Registry to Miss Lim Poh Choo. The Re. gistrar of Marriages, Mr. B. J. Jennings officiated. Witnesses were Mr. Kam Kee Leong for the bridegroom and57 words
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491 1947-10-02 17 SINGAPORE Sept. 30. f)OST- WAR economic condi--1 tions in Malaya would hav e been greatly improved if its interests had not time and again been ignored or sacrificed in the larger set-up of Imperial considerations, said Mi. Lee Kong Chian on Saturday. He491 words
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Article184 1947-10-02 17 From Our Own Correspondent IPOII, Sept. 29.—Two thefts by Europeans were reported in Ipoh yesterday. The total haul consisted of $3O, a bottle of sin and a “leopard.” The victim of the first theft was Mr. S. Nalliah. a well-known state cricketer. lie reported that184 words
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Article153 1947-10-02 17 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 27. MALAYA’S wedding gift to Princess Elizabeth will be a carved table of the best Malayan ornamental wood covered with a length of the finest Trengganu cloth and bearing three pieces of Kelantan silver in the form of a153 words
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Article81 1947-10-02 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30. Travellers leaving Malaya for another destination may take with them up to $45 (Malayan currency) and the equivalent of $B5 (Malayan) in foreign currency other than sterling, says a notification in the Govern, ment Gazette yesterday. This sum may be taken without obtaining special81 words
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830 1947-10-02 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30. DOLICE and legal representatives here said today that they considered the Government’s new “antibandit” bill should have been introduced 18 months ago. They added that the Government should make up for its past slackness by830 words
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Article77 1947-10-02 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 1. Eighty relatives, colleagues and friends attended the funeral of the late Mr. Chan Ah Soo at the Bidadari Cemetery in Singapore yesterday. Mr Chan, who was 34, was the chief linotype mechanic of the Straits Times. He died after a sihort77 words
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Article67 1947-10-02 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30— The life of the Malayan Union has been extended for another three months from today. A proclamation in the Gov. eminent Gazette gives this brief extension of life to the Union which has existed since April 1, 194667 words
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58 1947-10-02 18 The Singapore Marine Police had to besummoned to deal with a 12-foot python which had been loose on board the Shell oil tanker Solen in the Singapore Harbour for several days. The snake smothered in oil, was located in the ship’s engine room. It was shot by Cpl. Johar bin.—Straits Times picture. - 58 words
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Article102 1947-10-02 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 1. Precautions already existed for preventing the entry of cholerabearing cases to Singapore, health authorities told the Straits Times yesterday. Visitors arriving from other countries by ship or air must satisfy the port health officers that they had been inoculated against cholera. Ships from Middle East102 words
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Article43 1947-10-02 18 For keeping in his shop at Kim Seng Road. Singapore. 429 cigars on Sept. 22 on which duty had not been paid, Muthusamy, who was in charge of the shop at the time, was fined $lOO in the Third Police Court43 words
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Article205 1947-10-02 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 1. PERMITS are no longer required to move one picul or more of rice in Singapore. A person from today can also legally buy a bowl of cooked rice at a restaurant or stall. An official spokesman told the Straits Times last night that205 words
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151 1947-10-02 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30. FAILING in his application for bail, a Malay, who appeared on a charge of murder today, asked the First Magistrate to be allowed half-an-hour’s freedom to see his “girl friend” and to drink a151 words
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Article738 1947-10-02 18 From Our Staff Correspondent 1 KUALA LUMPUR L t DANISHMENT, “with all possible puffin urged as the one cure for the present .1 lessness by the Council of the Malayan Asw el a letter to the Chief Secretary which wasSl day’s quarterly general meeting of738 words
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Article61 1947-10-02 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. The engagement is ann jur j between Mr. Noel Gu\ Colonial Administrative Kenya, elder son o! or. j, Durant Hardy ot S0lK 1 DU s desia, and Miss Dawni l«only daughter ot y V/ duca t O. T. Dussek. Malay n Efl Service (retired., f61 words
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318 1947-10-02 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 29. BifKS footballers from the Malayan Union and a p ore have been invited to form a Malayan K touring team, to be known as the Lien Hwa, ■*111 play matches in Bangkok, Manila, Hong and Shanghai. ■he team, who will318 words
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Article177 1947-10-02 19 Our M.,n Correspondent K B l a LtMPUR. Sept. 28. G ai f Plans for this year’s j mpetition among Sld :,ro Just to hand, there will be more K'J t!u> t irnament this year cn Selangor’s entry. Seim playtd last jear. Piny in the177 words
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Article37 1947-10-02 19 v LNGAPORE, Sept. 29. Lilian b ‘A ,,p(n XI of the B. ■v, v iation and the fcflrau.]' m^stCr s played a ■O.D\;J n a ‘Soccer same at onst und st George’s n Saturday37 words
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244 1947-10-02 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 1. THE Singapore Recreation L Club has still to spend a large amount of money to complete the rehabilitation of the grounds under its control. This is revealed in the annual report, which will be submitted to the annual general meeting244 words
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Article289 1947-10-02 19 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR’, Sept. 24. AFTER a Short discussion this morning, the Town Board members unanimously approved a project to introduce greyhound racing in Kuala Lumpur. The subject had been referred to the Board last month by the Government, following an application by a289 words
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Article53 1947-10-02 19 The Singapore Hockey Association will hold a hockey league starting from Nov. 1. This decision was reached at a meeting of the Associations subcommittee held at the S.R.C. yesterday. The following teams will take part in the forthcoming league: SRC. Ceylon S.C., Indian Association S C.R.C.53 words
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269 1947-10-02 19 From Our Start Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 25. I KEEN tussle (or the presidency of the Penans TurfCluh A is expected next month, when the. club holds its annual general meeting. The election is likely to he between the present presiden Mr Lee Toon Poon, and269 words
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210 1947-10-02 19 From Our StafT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 25. T'HE possibility of encour- aging rugby in Kuala Lumpur schools was a subject discussed at a meeting of the Selangor Rugby Union held in the Selangor Club. It was decided that every effort should be made210 words
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Article170 1947-10-02 19 From Our Staff Correspondent. J ENANG, Sunday.—Despite a magnificent display by the former Scottish international. Barcroft. the Blues went down to the Colours in a Penang State rugger trial on the International Club ground yesterday. The Colours, who scored two quick goals shortly before the170 words
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Article33 1947-10-02 19 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Sept. 25.—The colt foaled by Harlem Princess has died in his stall. The colt had been fe f i with cow’s milk since his birth.33 words
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Article228 1947-10-02 19 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 28. DENANG just managed to defeat Perak by the odd goal in three in the first inter-State soccer match on the Westlands School ground today. Perak put up an unexpectedly hard fight, and had it not been for the stubborn228 words
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Article73 1947-10-02 19 points respectively. (Straits Times copyright.) From Our London Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 24. rpHE Senior Golfers’ Society of 1 Malaya held their annual golf and social meeting at Cooden Beach G.C., Bexhlll, on Monday and Tuesday. N.B. Fraser won the bogey competition two up, and the Stablefordpoints respectively. – (Straits Times copyright.) - 73 words
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Article109 1947-10-02 19 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 28. A SCHOOLBOY. Awthar Singh. won the Selangor Cyclists’ Association and the Argus Wheelers’ first post-war cycle time trial today, completing the 25-mlle course set out on the Kuala Lum-pur-Klang road in one hour seven minutes and 50109 words
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Article50 1947-10-02 19 The Singapore Island Club September Monthly (Stapleford Competition played over the w r eek-en f i resulted in a win for D. Neill ir. the “A’’ Division with a score of 39*4 points, and the "B” Division by R. Ker-Llndsay with a score of 361 points.50 words
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Article939 1947-10-02 20 Weekly Share Markert Review By A Market Correspondent WORLDWIDE public interest in Tin became most marked during the week. It seemed it had at last been brought home to the (lovernment of the United Kingdom that in the Malayan industry lay a large source of939 words
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Article169 1947-10-02 20 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. AFTER the slight reaction at the end of last week, the rubber market has again been stimulated by further prosoects of America buying for stockpile, says Lewis Peat’s weekly market report. TUe further rise in price has brought out a good deal of selling,169 words
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Article422 1947-10-02 20 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPiin c I A NEW trade union, the Malayan PlunthwTfl Emnlovers' Association 1 n 8 ,n diiM employers Association, was inaugural** today with an initial membership represent£I acres— including 38,000 acres of non-EuroiJ! M —out of a total of three422 words
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Article90 1947-10-02 20 —A.P. LONDON. SINGAPORE will be or tfl month itinerary of &fl goodwill mission whicfl London for the Far Eastfl day. The members of the grfl Lords Ammon ar.d Amulfl five Members of They left in a B.O.A.C. I boat. I They will visit Shanghfl king and—A.P. - 90 words
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Article618 1947-10-02 20 SINOAPORE. Sept. 30. Quotations given today by the Malayan Sharebrokers’ Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Atlas Ice 13.00 14.00 Alex. Brick Ords 1.85 1.95 Alex Brick Prefs. 3.15 3.25xa B M trustee 8 25 9 00 Consolidated Tlr Smelters (O) 21/3 22/3 do (P) 26/6 28/Easterc Onlteo618 words