The Straits Budget, 20 November 1947

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  • 31 1 The Straits Budget TW WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES fESTABLISHED OVER A CKNTUBT] Lw Series No. 68 $®Wore Thursday, November 20th, 1047 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.
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    • 63 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. For
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    • 1081 2 Times. Nov. 13. We wonder whether those in London who make it their business to follow affairs in Malaya —officials in the Colonial Office, our old friends in the Association of British Malaya, the London heads of Malayan rubber, tin and commercial companies realise how perturbing
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    • 974 2 —Straits Times, Nov. 14. From this safe distance, the tax provisions which Mr. Dalton has made in his supplementary budget look almost austere. Unfortunately, they are nothing of the kind. The British Treasury stands to gain £208,000,000 from the new taxes in a full year, and it
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    • 961 2 —Straits Times, Nov. 15. Several weeks ago there was a significant incident in Singapore. A Chinese committee appointed by the people of Sembawang, one of the villages on the island, approached the Education Department and said that they wanted Ensli h to put up the se.L
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    • 758 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 17. T* l gloomy and perhaps suriris‘n S conclusion that Singapore have to introduce State otteries on Australian lines was in these columns last Uesdav, after an examination Possibilities of raising suffi- ent m °ney for tuberculosis from e Public, the Government
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    • 488 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 17. In the latest number of the Cathedral Courier, the magazine of St. Andrew’s Cathedral, there are some wise words on the subject of Church and State, written by the Bishop of Singapore. These were prompted by a curious combination of circumstances.
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    • 1197 3 —Straits Times. Nov. 18. The warning given in these columns a few days ago that there is heavy reading ahead of anyone who wants to study the new data that is coming forward, before making up his mind on income tax in Malaya, is
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    • 1246 4 —Straits Times, Nov. 19. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. So runs the old English saying, probably unknown to the younger generation in horseless Singapore. It comes to mind on reading the report of the unofficial committee which
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  • 80 4 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. Yong Teck Seong, secretary of the See San Public School Board, was cautioned and discharged by Mr. R. J. C. Wait, in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. Yong was charged with having instructed Low Seong to collect money for the school
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  • 73 4 From Our Staff Correspondent. PENANG, Nov. 18. Three were killed and two injured when a motor boat from Penang struck a mine off Renong, Siam. The steamship Matang, about 300 yards from the mine when it exploded was not damaged. The motor boat was apparently leaving a river
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  • 200 4 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. AIR Marshal Sir George Pirie, who has relinquished his appointment as Com-mander-in-Chief, Air Command, Far East, left Singapore for the United Kingdom yesterday. He took off from Changi in the Lancastrian aircraft which last week brought his successor. Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd, to
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  • 70 4 KUALA LUMUPR. Nov. 7.—A kew judge of the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Russell, formerly Deputy Public Prosecutor. Perak, took his seat for the first time in the Selangor Assizes today. Mr. D. B W. Good, the Deputy Public Prosecutor, welcomed His Lordship on behalf of the Attorney
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  • 132 4 A SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. SCHEME is being prepared to enlarge the Singapore central telephone exchange, and the Pasir Panjang, Tanjong Katong and Johore exchanges, said Mr. H. Stainforth, manager of the Oriental Telephone and Electric Comnanv Ltd., Singapore, yesterday. New satellite exchanges will be opened
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  • 144 4 j s r L"? n statement i that it had decidl t yesla views of the iJ“ 1,1 Board on the a“ abandoning > ,ldvis abilitj which dockers and*?'* 1 f« supplied to ?he R Ved abour contractors agrees l with"' l n J ur
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  • PERSONAL
    • 108 4 McCAFTERY. To Hermina on 13th instant at KK. Kona Daughter Edith Maria HILL—To Bettv. wife of L W at Bungsar Hospital on 12.1147 1 ChristoDher. BAUMGARTEN—To Doreen, of Cyril, a daughter. Lucille Pn at De Cotta Clinic on 15th. Nov.' L AIRD—To “Bobbie” wife of Ri Laird at Kandang
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    • 82 4 THE ENGAGEMENT is annou between Mnrc. eldest son of Mr Mrs. V. H Wirson. Surrey End Sz Yolande. eldest daughter of Mi Mrs E. J. Latimer. Malim N* Perak. TAN-SEOW:— The engagement tween TAN SEK KAY (BOBBY' fourth son of the late Mr Mrs. Tan Teek Bee and 8*
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    • 117 4 Mr. N. J. Cowie and Miss B. Ferguson will be married in ot. Church. Teluk Anson on saw 22nd Nov. at H a.m. •invitations. All friends the church and afterwards a I Perak Club fV HARDMAN-LEWIS on ne ch( instant Donald only son of ir s H. C. and
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  • 95 4 DEATHS FRASER —Alan Hallidnv L^ r of the late Mr. D and 0 f Nordanal Estate. Jc 11( V n er ks. as M. Fraser of Windsor t on result of a motor-cvrle accia 11th November 19-.* Ho50 ital VENABLES: At 0L dear 1 10th November 194- Hpr a^«* of
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    • 1048 5 fct’ST that in fairness to he form of government ir. these L r'MiHprn vnu will countries is coalition government f uU1 rea ,y? U JJL. of political parlies established (iill the following Com through democratic elections. Ls
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    • 251 5 REGRET to note in your 1 editorial on Armistice Day, that while re-emphasis-ing the social dangers of State lotteries, you reluctantly assume that not enough money can be raised for a tuberculosis sanatorium other than by State lotteries. I agree with you that raising the
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    • 429 5 IT is >a:ci that the Services aiv now building in Singapore, but they nevertheless continue to be one of tile crosses that th e houseless civilian on tnis Island must bear. Perhaps the P.R.O.’s concerned would answer the following questions, so that
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    • 253 5 THE war has been over lor more than two years, the Worley Report has been considered for one year, and it is now three months since it was officially adopted. Almost all members of the Passive Defence Services have by now been paid
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    • 547 5 YOUR admirable and forthright editorial of Nov. 13 comes as a timely reminder to the Malayan public of thei existence of machinery which enables decisions economically deterimental to the interests of these territories to be taken without, as you pertinently remark, even a pretence
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  • 1489 6 A Malayan Countryman’s Diary •THERE having been a heavy shower of rain after many dry days, I remarked to the cook that this was the time to look for mushrooms and suggested that he should fry to find some. The cook, who generally tries to
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  • 482 6 “JUAN DJEK,” in his Countryman’s Diary last Saturday, asked about the call of the two deer, rusa and kijang. I think he has got them mixed. His description of the receding barks of the deer which he surprised at night is too vivid to mistake —this was no
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  • 158 6 SINGAPORE !i 0v M A HOTEL which bl, I best-looking hj..., resumes business P‘-re today. t 1" *1 says it was bookert "“"l weeks ago. 1 'Eh* hetj I Park Hotel in Son^^l n 1' *as de.re a 1 Aimy War r m *tione« rh? Oe
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  • 68 6 SINGAPORE. Nov. fl Tan Ah Tee. 18. was prod* before the Second Magistrate.] L. C. Goh. yesterday, on a ch] of house-breaking and theft. Tan is alleged to have entl 56. Circular Road, on Nov. Ill 4.30 a.m.. and committed thefl six rolls of cloth and one H
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  • 105 6 SINGAPORE. Nov. 11 THE latest racket in Singapl is for “confidence” men to I proach householders and o“ej sell them Siamese rice at dO cej a katty. J Those who have believed thl offers to be genuine have i money. The trick is to ask the ucumi go
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  • 185 6 SINGAPORE N"'- j| e FUR hooded gunmen seized $4,000 in cash am I from the safe of a Chinese provision store in Singapore, in the small hours of yesterday. W ir O g y -”V Before they left, the robbers threatened to throw a bomb
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  • 119 7 ■u M LUMPUR. Nov. 15. ■t hundred oer cent in- in preferential duties I cosmetics and perfumery H a similar rise in import K«s <>n playing cards were Bounced in the Malayan ■on loday. ■hr new scale of 'ustoms o’i the commodities, which Kr into effect
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  • 153 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 16. NLW Singapore District Judge and Police Magistrate, Mr. •hony Michael Webb, who aron the Can'on last week, is ew i- p his acquaintance with gapoie, which he last saw two rs ago. when he flew here with leral Gubbins, Chief of
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  • 125 7 SINGAPORE, Nov., 16. •FABRICATED parts are o- nt 'VI USe .d for the constructor n v Sin sapore Eighth and the r i: e Co V rts a t the back Dtrtt? n i ra l District and Police f uh,!l South Br idge Road, one
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  • 204 7 I SINGAPORE Nov. 15. K Singapore Government Servants’ Back Pay Council night adopted three resolutions protesting against Ciusal of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to re|der the terms of the back pay award to Asiatic GovernI servants. K second resolution criticised “the perpetuation
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  • 158 7 BATU PAHAT. Nov. 15. |?OR the first time in the history r of scouting in Johore, a rally of Scouts, Cubs. Girl Guides and Brownies from all parts of the State is to be held, in the grounds of the Government English School. Batu Pahat,
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  • 75 7 DUTCH KETCH ON WORLD T OUR SINGAPORE, Nov. The 42-foot Dutch ketch Aik, which arrived in Singapore last week in the course of a round-the-world cruise, leaves Singapore today for Sabang. The yacht is owned ar.d commanded by a veteran Dutch merchant mariner Capt. A-. van NiuWkoop. Since leaving Rotterdam
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  • 153 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. THREE Chinese were hanged yesterday morning in the Outram Road Prison, Singapore, for gun battles with the Singapore Police. They were Ooh Wah Soon, an 18-year-old Teochew; Chua Vow Tong, a 23-year-old Teochew and Chong Kwek Kwong. a 28-year-old Khek. Goh Wah Soon was
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  • 94 7 ALOR STAR, November 13. Intervention by the Kedah Resident Commissioner, Mr. O. E Venables, has averted a threatened strike by Indian labourers employed by the Alor Star Town Board. The threat was apparently connected with the labourers’ need of money for the Deepavali festival. ABOUT $l,OOO was raised
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  • 207 7 PENANG, Nov. 15, ARMED detectives and constables, wearing jungle green uniforms, have been organised into a special anti-bandit squad to deal with lawlessness on the Kedah-Siamese border. The squad was formed two weeks ago, and have since conducted several sorties into jungle temtory. This new
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  • 252 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 16. INDICATING the lines along which Singapore might progress and prosper in the next few years, the Governor, Sir Franklin GJmson, at a press conference at Government House yesterday declared: “A country has to depend on industry as well as agriculture.” Asia was
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  • 312 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 16, THE oldest church in Singapore, the Armenian Church of 1 St. Gregory in Hill Street, built in 1835, is to be repaired and redecorated. The adjacent parsonage may have to be pulled down because it is feared it is unusable. The church
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  • 179 7 PENANG. Nov. 15. A LARGE gathering of friends and sympathisers from Penang and Kedah attended the memorial service held yesterday evening for the late Mrs. O. E Venables, wife of the Resident Commissioner. Kedah. Mrs. Venables died in the General Hospital. Penang, last Bunday
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  • 1186 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 16. “IJNLESS there is a drastic re-organisation of the u administration, the eventual result will be the bankruptcy of the Malayan Union,” declares the report of the Finance Review Committee of the Malayan Union released for publication
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  • 128 8 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. lb’.— “We note that the Financial Secretary states categorically that it is not the intention of Government to increase the salaii's of its servants to enable them to pay income tax. if it is introduced. “This statement hinds
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  • 262 8 SINGAPORE v I pOUCE are investigating an expfifc I injured a 37-year-old Chinese in th i! h tat a house in Sophia Road, Singapore at in^" 1 yesterday. 1 lu -40 al The injured man, Ng An Lian, died n I Hospital yesterday afternoon from
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  • 118 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 16 pi\L thousand dollars worth of silverware and other valuables, locked up in Robinson and Company's strong room were found intact yesterday when, after nearly six years, (he room was opened again by a locksmith who had to
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  • 72 8 IPOH. November 13.—The Perak Welfare F\md has received a donation of $476.25 from the Ipoh and District Football League. The donation was forwarded ty the league president. Mr. J. B. Masefield, with a request that the sum be used for the care of the blind and
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  • 120 8 FI NANCIAL POST FOR WOMAN SINGAPORE, Nov r A WOMAN has been app, J* ?d Assistant Contra Foreign Exchange in Si pore. th She^ s c G An *U the Financial Secretary’? partment. 'rtie Singapore Gaee.te notifies that the Fii cial Secretary, as Foreign Exchange, has. with feet from July
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  • 130 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. ll “Among the many illusions tl exist on the subject of tneul eminent s constitutional phn-i the perfectly groundless belief tl it favours the Malays at tnei pense of the other communitii says the latest bulletin issued! the Malayan Democratic U] yesterday. I “The
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  • 345 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 16 TWO trade union members of the Finance Review committee of the Malayan Union disagreed with th e four other members on the subject of income tax and the holding of State lotteries. They were Mr. .Chang Min Kee and
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  • 646 9 S’ pore Income Tax Bill Gazetted H SINGAPORE, Nov 13. Singapore Government’s bill to introduce income ■ax, which was gazetted yesterday and will be shortly to the Advisory Council, lays down tax of 20 per cent, will be levied on companies' income. this respect the bill follows the recommendation H)r.
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  • 247 9 m Our Staff Correspondent UAL A LUMPUR, Nov 12. >UR partners and an employee of Coliseum Cafe, Batu Road, were fined a *1 of $975 Dy the District Jge, Mr. M. Garton, today. haa sold two cigars in 7* the maximum price fixby thi Price Controller
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  • 396 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12. RUBBER circles in Kuala Lumpur consider that any compensatory clauses in the Geneva agreements providing for a reduced ti n ore export duty for larger imports of rubber to the United States, would be unfair and detrimental
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  • 48 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 13. Arjan Singfi. Kartar Singh and Manzer Singh, three Sikhs who said that they got drunk because they were celebrating their New Year, were fined $lO each, in default five days’ s.i., by the Fourth Police Court Magistrate. Mr. E. S. de Banzie, yesterday.
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  • 180 9 SINGAPORE, Nfv 13. A RETIRED Australian businessman, Mr. Bradford Potter, has arrived in Singapore in his 40-ton ketch Flam after a nine-day voyage from Kuantan. He is sailing his yacht to Sydney. This is Mr. Potter’s second attempt to sail his yacht to Australia. His
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  • 98 9 VOTA BAHRU, November 12. S. KarthiKe.su, a Ceylon Tamil, was to death on Monday by Mr. Justice E. W. Taylor. Karthlgesu wa6 the righthand man of the so-called Japanese “Himmler of the East” (Sgt. Major Minami) during he Jap occupation. He was convicted of the murder of a
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  • 215 9 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Nov 12. THE Negri Sembilan Police are intensifying their driv e in the suppression of gaming in the State, a police crime survey for the month ol October, which was published today, states. Several successful raids led by the
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  • 384 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 12. I/UALA Lumpur's first Municipal budget, which will be presented next January, will show a deficit of more than $1,000,000, despite increases m assessment rates giving a revenue of over $2,400,000. To “bridge the gap,” Government is
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  • 65 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. —Chief labour adviser to the Secretary of State lor the Colonics, Mr. E. W. Barltrop, DSO. CBE, has arrived in Malaya to investigate labour conditions. Mr Barltrop. who will stay in Malaya lor about a month will tour the
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  • 78 9 KUANTAN, November 12.—At a meeting of Ceylonese residents of Kuantan. it was resolved to form a East Coast branch of the Ceylonese Federation of Malaya. More thaai 30 attended tn? meeting held at the Tamil School. The following office-bearers were elected: President. Mr. E. Ananda; vict-president, Mr. Pius
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  • 271 10 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 12. THE wartime “BBC myth” that bombing casualties in Penang were “not heavy and did not exceed 200“ was d*'" 14 with by the Chief Inspector, Mr. J. E. Miller, in his 19-16 annual report to the Municipal Health Office.
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  • 292 10 i* rom Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 12. IN any future policy for the control of tuberculosis the first requirement should j be compulsory notification of j all cases. This view is urged by the Penang Municipal Health D.part- ment in its annual report
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  • 57 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 12— —The following telegram was despatched today by the Governor. Sir Edward Gent, to the Chinese Consul-General in Singapore “I have much pleasure in sending, on the occasion of the birthday of the founder of the Chinese Republic, greetings and good
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  • 126 10 SINGAPORE, Nov 13. A GANG of four Indian and Chinese gunmen armed with pistols got away with $4,000 in cash and jewellery from the bungalow of a Singapore Chinese business man in Keng Le e Road at 9.30 p.m. on Tuesday. Two gunmen entered
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  • 135 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 13. Of the eight lots of property offered for sale by public auction at Messrs. Ching Keng Lee and Co.. Ltd., on Monday, five were withdrawn because there were no buyers. The three lots sold consisted of double-storey shophouses held under Government grants in
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  • 161 10 S SINGAPORE, Nov 13. INGAPORE Chinese yesterday celebrated the birthday of <1. Yat sen founder of th e Republic of China, with the hoisting of the national flag in most homes and offices n ■■‘•ww.w.i IIU) The Kuomintang Party held a ceremony in the morning,
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  • 215 10 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Nov. 12. OiHREE Malays who had been A sentenced to death twice and been discharged once, were set free again today after the Malayan Court of Appeal allowed their appeal against the last sentence of death passed or. them
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  • 480 10 SINGAPORE, Nov 13. SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners decided i animously at a special meeting yesterday to don $250,000 to the Princess Elizabeth Wedding Cent Celebrations Fund. This decision was made after they debated >e,e proposals for contributing sums from $lOO,O upwards. They stipulated that this
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  • 69 10 From (hit st ill orrespoo|H| PENANG. Nov. A WOMAN who was on a gambling charge jH the fine from proceeds ofHj lottery held specially for purpose, states the crime muB! for October issued by Penang police today H It is also stated that an portant
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  • 83 10 SEREMBAN N tg j n g 1 A. H. L. Fraser < r n last nW tate in Rantau d < I i' nI 1 following an ac motorcycle. irr ived W'*■ Mr. Fraser. b‘ v l£irs oi m laya In June. v\ Mine Police said nu»
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  • 308 11 OHORE BAHRU, Nov. 13 CONTAMINATED bottle of anti-tetanus serum was ntioned at the inquest here ay on two men who d ed er being injected with um from the same bottle. re e other patients were o taken ill, but recovered, i of them almost immediiy.
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  • 388 11 SINGAPORE, Nov 14. ■l Government of Singapore, according to a resolution adopted in the Advisory Council yeslerI w ill vote $500,000 to the re-housing scheme ■sored by the Princess Elizabeth Wedding Centra! ■brat ions Committee. ■it was made clear yesterday that this contribution be in
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  • 67 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 13. A decret nisi to be made absolute in six months was granted to Emily Mordecai (nee Atkinson) by Mr. Justice Brown at the Singapore High Court yesterday whe she petitioned for a divorce fron her husband, Kayliff Jacob Mordecai, on the ground of his
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  • 160 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 13. For attempting to extort $5O from a Chinese photographer, a 27-year-old Kheh. Lee Ah Kong was yesterday sentenced to 22 months’ rigorous imprisonment and fined $2OO or in defaut six months’ imprisonment, by Mr. H. A Forrer in the Singapore Fourth District
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  • 174 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 14 TWO American seamen of the P and T Pathfinder, John Tussel and Victor Tatko, were fined in the Fifth District Court, yesterday, on a joint charge of behaving in a disorderly and abusive manner while in the Central Police Station charge room
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  • 78 11 SINGAPORE Nov. 14 A SUM of $lOO,OOO will be spent to build quarters for 54 subwarders and wardresses attached to the Prison Department, Singapore. The Animal Quarantine Statior\ at Telok Ayer is to be re-built at an estimated cost of $90,000. The Telok Ayer station
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  • 31 11 Lady Glmson. President of Singapore District Local Association of Girl Guides, was enrolled as a Guide at a meeting of the executive committee on November 12.
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  • 198 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 14 A CHINESE gunman was shot down by Inspector Fong, of the Singapore CID, during an ambush outside a house in Lorong 15, Geylang Road, yesterday morning. The gunman is believed to be a member of the notorious “18” secret society. As he fell,
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  • 444 11 S’ PORE TIGHTENS UP ARMS LAW SINGAPORE, Nov 14. |HL Arms and Offences Ordinance, 1947, amending the law relating to carrying and using of arm« in the Colony of Singapore, was passed yesterday by the Singapore Advisory Council. “It remains to be seen what the result of this Bill will
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  • 56 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 14. Anti-mosquito works in Singapore are to cost an additional $llO 000 over and above $90,000 provided in this year’s Estimates. The Finance Committee have recommenaea this expenditure due to the increased number of labourers In the Anti-Malarial Department, increased activities
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  • 53 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 14. Dr. (Mrs.) Tung Ytng Lam, was granted a decree nisi to be made absolu e in three months by Mi Justice Brown at the Singapore High Court yesterday, when she petitioned for a divorce from her husband. Mr. Yat Chong Lam. on the grour.c*
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  • 298 12 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Nov. 14. THE Government of Australia has decided to deport 14 Malay seamen who are married to Australian girls. Be—n them, the Australian wives have 20 children. Most of the seamen settled in Australia during a"d after the war. The English-born
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  • 107 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 14. Sentence of eight years’ rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rotrfin was Imposed upon a young Hylam. Choo Teck Kian. by Mr. Justice Jobling at the Singapore Assizes, yesterday when he was found guilty of armed robbery. It was stated by the
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  • 149 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15 A SINGAPORE gunman in broad daylight yesterday fatally shot a young Chinese detective drinking coffee at a stall in Balestier Road. The detective s companion, an ex-detective, is in hospital with a bullet wound. Police combed the area and arrested three Chinese in
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  • 165 12 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 14. THE Malayan Union Government’s bdll to introduce income tax. which was published yesterday and which will be introduced to the Union Advisory Council on Nov. 24. lays down that a charge of 20 per cent, will be levied
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  • 53 12 BATU PAHAT. November 13. —Yamamoto, an escaped Japanese prisoner of war. was found guilty and fined $lOO, with the option of three months’ rigorous imprisonment, by the District Judge, Batu Pahat. yesterday, for being in possession of seven rounds of ammunition and one Japanese bullet. Yamamoto was arrested
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  • 188 12 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Nov. 14. ASINGAPORE-bound tongkang with a cargo of rubber and reptile skins valued at $30,165 was ’.pirated four miles from the estuary of the Muar River on Wednesday. Five armed Chinese appeared alongside tne tongkang in a motor boat and at
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  • 57 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 14. The Singapore Elections Department will cost an estimated $105,589 to run and the Finance Committee have authorised this charge under special expenditure The sum covers the salaries and wages of staff, and incidental expenditure connected w‘th the conduct of elections. D eluding the
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  • 88 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 13. “We still support the AMCJA and PUTERA policy of boycotting the elections,” said Mr. Huang Li. Secretary of the Singapore Federation of Trade Unions, when asked why the Federation was sending out citizenship investigation forms to member unions. Recently the SFTU sent out questionnaires to
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  • 449 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 14 “AUR workers are a good U deal ahead of labourers in India or China by way of wages, maternity benefits and the existence of periodical labour inspections.” This was stated yesterday by the Singapore Commissioner of Labour. Mr. R. P. Bdngham. at a
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  • 569 12 SINGAPORE v THE Director of Medical Service*, l) r wW 1 will shortly submit to Government detail 5H uosals for a separate clinic for tuberculin P 1 Dr. Vickers said in the Shi, J P \H Council yesterday that one section of mpf ii„, '"H
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  • 250 12 From Our Stuff Correspond) JOHOHE BAHRU, Nov. 12 LEE Ah Foo. 31, was ye>t day sentenced to years’ rigorous imprisons by Mr. Justice Bostock J at the Johore Assizes for W in unlawful possession firearms and ammunition. A similar charge against Yong. who was arraigned
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  • 296 13 I SINCMPORE, \ov. 17 OKI) crowd in Malayan turf history yesterday ■hrontfed Bukit Timah for the first day's racing of le-opening meeting of the Singapore Turf Club. than 10,000 people overtaxed the Singapore Turf s belting, cafe, and bar facilities, phe supply of 7,000 two-dollar
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  • 222 13 I [SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. Ir $:>50,000 will be spent til clothing and aecoutreIts for the Singapore le Force under a suppleItaiy provision vote lor sod by the Finance imittee. L Committee's recommendaL tabled at Thursday’s meet[of the Singapore Advisory kil, showed that $352,310 will bent on
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  • 96 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. Columbia Pictures of Smgarepresentative, Mr. Nonee is tlying to Sydney to attend convention of his company’s •tributors throughout Australia. Zealand and the East. In Sydney Mr. Sen will preColumbia’s latest American 'd British productions, inlidinp Rita Hayworth’s latest cture. a Technicolor entitled
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  • 41 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. -ang of two Chinese and a ay. one of them armed, broke w a house of a Malay in Herttt,. ad Singapore at 8 a.mr hftL rda y and got away with $5OO t- of jewellery.
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  • 65 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 14.—1 t Is understood that Sir John Ha;. head of Guthrie and Co., Ltd., is coming Eas; in the Willem Tluys which is due to arrive in Singapore on Dec. 22. He expects to be in Kuala Lumpur about the
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  • 167 13 SINGAPORE Nov. 15. THE president of the Malayan Indian Congress, Mr. Budh Singh, said yesterday that it was wrong to assume that Indians were foreigners in Malaya and had nothing to do with the political affairs of the country. Mr. S'ngh was addressing, a meeting,
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  • 383 13 SINGAPORE Nov. 14 MEMBERS of the Singapore Advisory Council are to debate the Income Tax Bill on Nov. 24 and 25, the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, said yesterday at a meeting of the Advisory Council. Sir Franklin declared that before Council adjourned, one of
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  • 169 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 15. FOR gallantry displayed during a police raid on a gangster hide-out in Kluang on Sept. 24 this vear. Probationary Inspector Choon Hock Joon of the Malayan Union Police, has been awarded the Colonial Police Medal by the Inspector Choon s citation describes
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  • 190 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12. THE plenary conference of rulers at King's House today was attended by the Sultan of Johore for the first time und it was also the first occasion that a Malay woman was present at such a
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  • 142 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 16. MR. FRANK TRAVERS, the chairman of Joseph Travers Sons Ltd. the oldest house trading uninterruptedly In the City of London arrived on Friday in Singapore by Skymaster to Inspect branches of his company in Malaya. Mr. Travers, who became chairman of
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  • 41 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. Total collections from Poppy Day .sales in Singapore up to last night were $31,000 This figure includes street sales and sales in the outlying districts of Singapore a.nd among members of the Services
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  • 65 13 SINGAPORE. Nov 15 George Harry Oreen, aged 19. ol the Royal Air Force. was yesterday ciiaxged in the -Singapore Second Police Court with) theft ol a wrist watch valutxl at $75. the property of I, Miller, and ciltemiitfvely with disposing of it at Cfiungi village Green pl<*ided
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  • 1260 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. THE Singapore Finance and Revenue Committee in 1 their report issued yesterday state “that income tax is inescapable and should be imposed" if it can be shown that the current level of taxation is insufficient to meet expenditure and long-term improvements
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  • 162 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. A MINORITY of three members of the Singapore Finance and Revenue Committee recommended the imposition of income tax in 1948. The paragraph of the aeport in which the minority makes this recommendation is as follows: “A minority w'ere of the opinion that, other
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  • 440 14 From Our Staff Corre apu I( j w Vj KUALA LUMim-p v fOMPREIIKNSIVE training Kingdom as well as in Rlalava for m.i he I Unionists have been completed by the Gov B I? nT 1 ilie Malayan Union and Singapore. ernni «itjj The Trade Union
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  • 167 14 SINGAPORE. Not® THE struggle ot the teach* Malaya must be confined! the removal of anomalies in I Education Service, says an edfl lal in the Malayan Educator® Official organ of the Mail Teachers' Union in its curl issue published Yesterday I “ctach categories as Lofl Recruited
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  • 40 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 1 For fighting in P ub ic C Chee Leng <19* and Moy (18) were fi, ned default five days’ simple w sonment. by the Second V* trate. Mr. L. C. Goh. yesterow
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  • 454 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. A MINORITY report signed by Mr. John Eber and published in the report of the finance and Committee of Singapore states that the committee has failed to fulfil its task according to its terms of reference. Mr. Eber states that the committee wrongly confined
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  • 713 15  -  The Malayan Gardener By R. H. HOLTTUM, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore Hain Tree. This is the large spreading: to give overhead Hde. is rapid in growth, and Hi full grown has a very ■shape; it is also much Hired hy epiphytic ferns H
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  • 630 15  -  By J. N. MILSUM and J. R. P. SOPER j£ the Department of Agriculture IK best situation for tomato containers is 't under the eaves of verandah or porch, ring north during the limner” months and nth during the “winr." This will ensure enty of sunlight and >o
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  • 276 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. AN investigation into the accounts of the Joint Supply Hoard is advocated by the Singapore Financial Revenue Committee in its report issued yesterday. 1 he committee, in its report, states that it is “astonished at the losses, estimated at nearly 40 per cent.
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  • 237 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 16. HUNTING of wild animals and birds has increased to such an extent in the Malayan Union that, for the benefit of newcomers, the Game Department has published a pamphlet containing a “plain English” summary of Malaya’s 30-year-old game laws. The pamphVts
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  • 195 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. BECAUSE of a pair of ‘black eyes’ she had received, a Singapore Chinese woman who was robbed by two gunmen, was unable to identify the robbers at a police identification parade. At the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. the unhesitatingly pointed out
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  • 167 15 SINGAPORE. Nov. 18. The death occured in Singapore on Sunday, of Mr. John Albert Danker, former senior Inspector of Water Works. Johore Bahru, and a well-known member of the Eurasian community. Mr. Darker, who was GO. retired in 1940 after 2G years in the Johore
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  • 50 15 SINGAPORE. Nov. 18 Sentence of four and a half years’ rigorous imprisonment was Imposed upon Lee Ah Hong at the Singapore Assizes yesterday, when Ip- pl< ided guilty to a charge or bring in unlawful possession of a hund grenade at Neil Road on July 24
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  • 322 16 Free Movement Of Rice Padi In Union Urged From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 17. THE free movement of padi and rice in the Malayan Union from the commencement of the next harvest is strongly urged by the Malayan Union Finance Review Committee in its report. “If this is
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  • 98 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. The long-awaited Malayan Public Services Salaries Commission report has been received by the Governments of the Malayan Union and Singapore and is to be published shortly. The report, it is understood, is being examined by the two Governments and is likely to
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  • 90 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. A Singapore Naval Base police constable. Sher Mohamed, was sentenced to six weeks’ rigorous imprisonment by the Second Police Court Magistrate, Mr. L. C. Goh, yesterday, for fraudulent possession of five pieces of parachute cloth. Staff Sergent Abdul Wahab bin Haji All said
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  • 235 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. Sixty-six passengers arrived in Singapore yesterday by the Blue Funnel ship Charon from Fremantle. They were: 'Mr. M. Zain Ariffln, Mr. Ashton. Miss p S Aul ?i Mrs. D V. Bell and two children. Mr. and Mrs. R. Bettison Mrs J H. Burchett.
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  • 81 16 IPOH, Nov. 14. Another alleged member of the triad society was arrested by the police at Kuan Kangsar last night bringing the total number of arrests to 11. The previous 10. among whom were prominent business men, were taken in a surprise round up on Tuesday night and
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  • 407 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. Iff “IT is generally fell that the population of Malaya is being 1 sacrificed and exploited because the people of the United Kingdom are unwilling to work with due diligence,” declare four members of the Malayan Union Finance
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  • 219 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 16. AFTER clinging to an overturned dhow for three days in the Java Sea, three Indonesian seamen were rescued by the Prince Line vessel English Prince which arrived in Singapore yesterday. The men—Jatin, Taiwan and Osman—were on their way back to Sourabaya from
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  • 87 16 P °PPy Day From Our Staff fv, KUALA LUMPUR v'*"* IN a statement Lacl V Gent, the t Oiganiser of the Pm F »-s"^ h their time and money to the Poppy Day a succ«>s s “it will u„S, prove to be.” Lady Gem issued
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  • 118 16 after a trial lasting J A weeks. Captain Tsuru Yo hiro. Kempei-tai chief i n Ke from 1943 to 1945. was sentei to death with four of his mei the War Crimes Court at Star on Nov.. 17. They had been found guilt committing atrocities in Star
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  • 48 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 1 Two Singapore Fire Brig engines stood by tor landing of Malayan Airj Dakota from Saigon at six oc* last night after its captain radt that he was having trouble« the landing gear After circling the a.rj several times the plane ian without mishap.
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  • 319 16 From* Our Own Correspondent I LONDON, No'- I<*J FUTURE development plans in Singapore which may e"! capital expenditure of up to £500,000 are .J Sir Henry McMahon, chairman of the Oriental Electrical Company, in a statement accompanying 1 nual accounts to be presented at the
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  • 313 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. m negotiations with the Siamese Government for ■rehabilitation costs for certain British and ComK. ea |th tin mines in Siam, have been temporarily Red. Rlr. A. H. Miles, president of the Association of Eh Commonwealth Mining interests in Siam, who ■to have conducted
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  • 237 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. FORTY-EIGHT racehorses and seven griffins were landed in P Singapore yesterday afternoon by the S.S. Obra, fomvtag one of the biggest batches of racehorses from Australia since the liberation. One horse, Hi-Cross, died on the voyage, but the majority of the
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  • 464 17 I Our Staff Correspondent IIA LUMPUR, Nov. 18 3,650-ton Finnish wind-! lammer, Passat, believed I the largest sailing ship I, is now at anchor at I Swottenham. I giant craft has attracted [attention that visitors from h away as Perak have made, II journeys to Port
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  • 261 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. THE Finance and Revenue Committee of Singapore, by a majority, recommended that consideration shou’d be given to making a surcharge on commodity insurance to be collected through insurance companies for the purpose of financing loans which may be raised to meet liabilities
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  • 73 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. CHEW AH KAH. a 35-year-old Chinese, was fined $10 with the option of 10 days’ simple imprisonment by the Second Police Court Magistrate, Mr. L. C. 3oh. yesterday. The offence was cruelty to ducks. A police corporal who arrested Chew said he had seen Chew
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  • 247 17 LONDON, Nov 13. THE Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. David Rees-Williams, told the House of Commons yesterday the police in Malaya had had “quite substantial success” against lawless gangs, and that he was satisfied the banishment enactments in force in Malaya were being
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  • 135 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. rE Singapore Dutch Con-sul-General has warned Chinese shippers that any further contravention of N.E.I. shipping regulations may result i n confiscation of cargo and vessel and prison for the chinchew (master) of the ship. The warning Is contained in a letter to the Secretary for
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  • 105 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 18.-A highly successful dance was held last night In aid of the Poppy Day Fund at the Johore Civil Service Club. Johore Bahru The organiser was Mrs. L. F. Knight in charge of Poppy Day collections in Johore Bahru. The dance was well supported by
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  • 123 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. Singapore police discovery of an unserviceable Japanese automatic and seven rounds of ammunition In a hole In a kitchen wall re«ulted In five years’ Imprisonment for Ng Boh Yam yesterday. Ng was sentenced at the Singapore Assizes to five years for unlawful possession
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  • 425 19 I SINGAPORE, Nov. 16, 1 43 pts, NON-EUROPEANS nil. Ipecled, the Non-Europeans lost by a very wide margin the Singapore Cricket Club in the fourth game of the lore five-sided rugger competition played on the Padang [ay evening, the club winning by 43 points
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  • 99 19 fom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 16. aio Malaya will broadcast final of the Sultans* Gold soccer competition which be played at Kuala Lumpur tov. 29. be four semi-finalists will off their ties on Nov. 26 Nov 27 at Kuala Lumpur. Clangor will meet Singapore
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  • 34 19 PER AK EUROPEANS LOSE AT RUGBY Nov 16— A Combined i. JP tea m from Selangor ft, n PerdK ftmopeans by points (a drop goal and a three (a try) at the Padar.g yesterday.
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  • 186 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. rE Singapore Colts had to go all out to beat the Singapore Cricket Club at hockey on the padang yesterday. The Colts won 2—l. Five minutes after the start, the Colts scored their first goal, Carnegie slamming n the ball from close quarters.
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  • 23 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 17. A soccer team from the s.s. Tydcaus beat the Keppel Bus Company by two goals to one yesterday.
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  • 201 19 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Nov. 16 PLAYING a spirited and determined game from start to finish, Negri Sembilan were unlucky to los e by two goals to one to Selangor in their inter-State hockey fixture at the N.S. Club yesterday. Negri, who opened the scor- 1 ing,
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  • 107 19 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Nov. 13 MEGRI Sembilan defeated Johore in an inter-State hockey match played here this evening by the only goal scored. This was Johore’s first interi State hockey fixture. The game was keenly contested. There was ho scoring in the
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  • 49 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. T:ie Singapore Rifle Association's clay pigeon shoot held on Wednesday resulted In a tie be.ween Quek Mong Song and Llm Loc Heng, each with a score of 75 Quek Mong Song won Ln the shoot off. Third was Tan Hock San (85-15. 70).
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  • 69 19 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Nov.. 14. MALACCA gave a brilliant display against Johore in their first inter-State hockey match, but were unfortunate to lose by a solitary goal, scored by Collins early In the first half. Though one goal down. Malacca played on doggedly and
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  • 24 19 CABLE WIRELESS BEAT KHALSA The Cable Wireless Hockey XI defeated the Khalsa Association nockey team by two goals to nil at St. George’s ground
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  • 239 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15 Medical College 2; Raffles College 0. A ROCKLIKE defence m which S. D. Williams, in the pivotal position, was outstanding gave a two-nil victory to the Medical College over the Raffles College in their hockey fixture played on the padang yesterday evening. Williams
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  • 250 19 SINGAPORE, Nov 14. CINGAPORE’S high jump champion, Lloyd Valberg, may be the only athlete to represent the Colony at the World Olympic Games in London next year. i At yesterday’s meeting of I the Singapore Olympic and j Sports Council management i committee,
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  • 89 19 IPOH, Nov. 14.—The Anderson School yesterday defeated the Malay College from Kuala Kangsar at rugger by 11 points (one goal, one try and one penalty goal) to nothing. The Andersonlans led 3-0 at half-time through a penalty goal kicked by Hassan. In the second half Wah
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  • 50 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 17. The Chartered Bank Sports Club beat the Blue and White Rovers at the Teluk Kurau English School ground by four goals to three last 1 Saturday Salleh. Nonis and Omar (two) scored for the Bankers and Kassim. Bldln and Ismail for the Rovers.
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  • 364 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 17. ABOUT 30 Singapore Malay organisations, including schools and clubs, participated in the Muslim New Year Sports at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, presented the prizes. Held under the auspices of the Young Men Muslim Association to mark the 1367th
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  • 1092 20 Weekly Share Market Review From A Market Correspondent THE removal by force of a Siamese administration which had at least initiated compliance with a peace treaty and its replacement by a dictatorship with a past record of hostility to British interests, the presentation of the
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  • 47 20 Osborne Chappe;, Ipoh, announce the following tin-mining returns for the quarter to Sept. 30: Piculs G peng Cons. 2,415 Kent (F.M.S.i Dredging 1,440 Kinta Mines 1,333 Lahat Mines Tributers) 954 Pengkalen 1,580 Petaling 4.308 Rambutan 195 Tanjon”; Dredging 313 ...613 Telok Kruin (Tributers) 897
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  • 42 20 Turquand'. Youngs. McAultfTe announce the following October rubber outputs: Lbs. Alor Gajah Estate 32.500 Aver Panas Estate 100.000 Qlenealv Plantations 71.590 S 1 66.000 Pajam 195.000 Tambalak Estates 32 105 Teluk Anson Estate 75.680 Ulu Benut Cons 39.022
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  • 288 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. FS check in the rubber market's steady advance coincided with Mr. Dalton’s supplementary Budget speech m London, says Lewis Sc Peats’ weekly market report. It would appear that the possibility of inflation was responsible for some heavy buying, but as Mr Dalton’s programme
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  • 160 20 Jelebu Tin Jelebu Tin Company n »»‘K. The consult 7tlf 3 "port. SS&X */m company act0 ”g "tkB *n the same year nJ? 0 1 the company paid j holders at Kuala T t r 01 »3S 21 .The D?om vear s rarrv.forwarrt ded Hj balanct of
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  • 110 20 Brunei United Plantation I year harvested a croD of uH lbs. at an all-in cost of cents per lb. This did notinfl rehabilitation oxperditure,T| This was shown in the iB report of the oomoanv a; thtH r.ual nteetine on SaturdavT| The accounts show a balufl the credit
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  • 797 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. Prices given today by the Malayan Sharebrokers' AWiation were: 9 industrial.* Seller Atlas Ice 13 00 14 00 Alex Brick Ords. 1.80 1.90 Alex Brick Prefs i.io j. 20 B.M. Trustee 8.75 9.50 Consolidated Tlr Smelters (O) 22/- 23/do (F) 25/- 26/6 Rasteix 0
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