The Straits Budget, 4 March 1948

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  • 32 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY 1 ft Series No. 83. Singapore Thursday, March 4th, 1948 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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    • 62 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 1946 and its smart presentation of news has made an immediate appeal to the reading public. For advertising
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    • 1118 2 —Straits Times Feb. 26. Contemporary and topical affairs are the proper meat for the editorial columns of a daily newspaper, but local history is one of the components of the civic spirit, and there are very few citizens of present-day Singapore who know what little is
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    • 1133 2 —Straits Times Feb V. The official despatches of Lieut.-General A. E. Percival, who was General Officer Commanding during the Malayan Campaign, have at last been released for publication. The despatches do not contain any of the sensational charges or bitter criticisms which it has been repeatedly
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    • 1157 2 —Straits Times F:b. 28. This week should not b< allowed to end without a m.*fl protest from Singapore, vo.c more in sorrow than in anger at some unkind remarks about this Settlement that were made by a spokesman of a siste* Settlement at the innugu meeting
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    • 1029 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 1. One of the points in General Percival’s report on the Malayan campaign which must have struck readers of all communities in this country is the conclusion which he reaches in his review of the civil population from the military point of view
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    • 1061 3 Straits Times, Mar. 2 There is one more dispatch on the Malayan campaign yet to be published. But it is one that will never be published. We have had the dispatches of Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Lord Wavell, General Percival and Air Marshal Sir Paul Maltby, and the Admiralty
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    • 1062 4 -Straits Times, Mar 3 Before the Percival dispatch on the Malayan campaign is finally put away in the archives, and before those of us who lived through the fall of Singapore and the Japanese occupation finally say goodbye to all that, there is one footnote
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  • 284 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28 TWO Selangor bus companies give their music wherever they go and are making if dividends. They have installed radios in their hi^ It began as an afterthought by one company Kuala Lumpur, Klang, Port Swettenham Comm which installed a set merely
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  • 139 4 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. rE 28-years-old block of flats at Wilkie Road, Singapore, known as Sophia Flats, was yesterday sold for $122,000 at the saleroom of Nassim Co. Ltd. The property was sold subject to existing tenancies. At present prices, it would cost $300,000 to build
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  • 92 4 A permanent branch of -.ns Hoyal Army Service Corps Association has been now formed in Singapore, with its office at the Supplies and Transport Directorate G.H.Q., Tanglin Barracks. The Association was formed in 1927 for the benefit of the past and serving members of the R.A.S.C.
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    • 45 4 BORN 29/2 48 at Kandaa Kerbau Hospital Peter Nico son o' O. Altona and H G AltonaAlley. JOHNSON-HILL At Penan* Maternity Hospital on Feb 24th to Pamela (nee Walden* wife j! Gerald Johnson-Hill of Sabrar.; Estate, Teluk Anson. A son Michael Angrave. Both well
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    • 132 4 JACKSON—McCormick Hi engagement is announced between Roland RofTev. younger son of the late Mr. and Mrs. S. H C Jackson of Peterborough. England anc Gloria Joan, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J McCormick at Rawang and Svdnev. EE TUNG. The engagement L c announced between Tun Lock youngest
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    • 59 4 .T1.1IVIU.1UI..' ARTHUR TITE YVONMCHANEY. Married quietly. Singapore. 24th February. 1948 ANTHONY HENG YECK HlAllately of Borneo and Lucy Bong Neo were married m Church of St. Peter St. on 13.1.48. Reverend Father Becheras officiated. b LOVE-SHEPPARD On <tn r* ruary. 1948. at St. Peters. Street. London. John M.C.S., of
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    • 42 4 STRAITS BUDGET. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Quarterly Half-Yearly Yearly (ALL THE (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) nirf fjr. EmP ir Singapore Malaya Town Area (Including Postage 1 No Postage 5.20 5.60 10.40 11.20 20.80 22.40 ABOVE ARE IN STRAITS CURRE* porfi* n In0 ludi^ 6.00 12.00
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  • 52 4 DEATHS PHARAOH. On Februan suddenly at CAYTON. BLA POOL. VIOLET i j beloved wife of MAJOR PHARAOH, late S.S.V.F. rHAKAUn. late o.o.v OBITUARY: At Batavia 6^ s Huibje—infant son of W Rd Jan R. Speyer, 99 CavrnwJ POOPALANPATHY-Thir j of Dr. K. Kiramathypath} 0 P in1 in an accident. Burial
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    • 1252 5 “BLAMING THE BRITISH” l/OUK ivply to my letter IY nublished on Feb. 16 IJJ?“ that AMCJAf li T E R A propaganda Invctod towards the Malays is telling them that t, c British regime delibe.ltt>lv failed to associate j„. n i with the modern jcoiinmic development of
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    • 463 5 IN your issue of Feb. 23, “A Japanese Interpreter.” under the heading. ‘‘A JAPANESE ON KOREA,” volunteers a few examples of how Korea fared better after her an nexation by Japan. I do not profess to have more than an elementary knowledge of
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    • 414 5 AS a Malay and a son ofi the soil, I strongly appose Mr. Heah Joe Siang’s article which appeared in the Straits Times on Feb. 26. Mr. Heah says in the last paragraph of his article to all appearances, il seems to be that
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    • 150 5 DR. Linehan’s addition to your remarks, on the photograph of the kramat on Fort Canning prompts me to add a story current among Malays since the J apanese surrender, i. e. that at first the barracks built by Malaya Command were occupied by Japanese
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    • 63 5 IN your editorial “ON FINLAYSON GREEN’* dealing with the relationship between traffic congestion and skyscrapers in Finlayson Green, you omitted to mention one partial solution to the problem, which is, to require the ground floor 01 all new buildings in the town area above four storeys high
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    • 40 5 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mar. 2.— The Sultan and Sultanah of Johore have accepted the Invitation of the Ceylon Independence Celebration Committee to dinner at the Royal Johore International Club on Thursday.
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  • 1817 6  -  A Malayan Countrymans Diary titan djek. I OOKING out of the window of an ear !y morning, my eyes are gladdened by the sight 0 1 our first plantings of bananas. The banana plant, oi tree, is a beautiful sigh* for the first twelve months of its life,
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  • 222 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUIt, Feb. 25. THE death penalty for carrying arms was passed on a 22-year-old Chinese, Wong Hing (alias Wong Hean) in the Selangor Assize Court today. He was found guilty of carrying two handgrenades and attempting to use them at the
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  • 164 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. A SINGAPORE detective on Tuesday night shot dead a Chinese gunman in a fight in Guillemard Road. The dead man is Wong Kooi Fon, 26. believed to be a robber He died in the General Hospital at 3 am. yesterday after being wounded in
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  • 99 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. Two decrees nisi were Ri -nted at the Singapore High Court yesterday. The Chief Justice, Singapore (Mr. Justice MurrayAynsley) granted Mrs. Kathleen Davies a decree nisi to be made absolute in three months, when she petitioned for a divorce from her husband, Mr.
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  • 75 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. 26. Sixteen employees of the Indian Bank Ltd. in Singapore held a one-hour token strike yesterday in protest against the management’s refusal to increase wages and allowances. A spokesman for the employees said they had been pressing for better conditions since 1946. All would now join
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  • 137 8 OEVFNTV Tuner SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. S fr„m T HJ HRE E Chinese illegal immigrants Kuantan a "fortnight ago° have'been ‘brought* to ?he men are'beingVept vessel Re^ng. on St. John’s Island by the Immigration authorities until they can be returned to Hainan by the first
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  • 222 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. MK. Justice Thorogood in Singapore High Court yesterday gave Mr. cap Lian Seng and three others possession of a house and premises at Meyer Road occupied by VT- A' l Far East (Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd). Tiie possession order stipulated that
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  • 401 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. British Commonwealth of Nations was one of the most potent factors in the world today in the maintenance of peace, the Governor (Sir Franklin Gimson) said at a meeting of the Singapore Rotary Club yesterday. The ideals for which the Commonwealth stood, said
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  • 307 8 SINGAPORE, Feb A NATIVE left Singapore a. for 6 M^ 6lla f Melbourne, bean™ a Malayan Governnw guarantee that lie i s a fi and proper immigrant f 0 i Australia and that h e j, free of foot and mouth disease. H ls "Gapi," a
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  • 114 8 PENANG. Thursday Minister of State lor Colons Affairs (Lord Listowel) mate* trip to Province Wellesley morning to inspect poss sites for the development the port of Penang. Accompanying hlIT1 cc ,n ne r th? Resident Commission 6 (Mi S. N. King) and chairman of the Ha Board
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  • 52 8 SINGAPORE. E pb ssi “ner The Special Com” 1 v (Lor d in South-East Asn rI) Klllearn) and Lad.v ter returned to Singapm* day from Ceylon Lancastrian aircrai jr e b They left Singapore oi tfte 9 for Colombo to t ‘noiB* opening of Ceylon s
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  • 371 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. MINING to Eurasians in Malaya to “look HLfore they leap” into the project of WJj s |,j n( an Eurasian colony in Hollandia, tAIi New Guinea, has been given by the SecU W.. 0 f (he Singapore Eurasian Association
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  • 413 9 DNGAPORE, Feb. 26. fc Malayan Democratic Eh ion opened its camfi against the coming Bg a p o r e Legislative j Eicil elections with its i I meeting held in the Bence of over 200 office) ■cers in Empress Place today afternoon. |r Philip Hoalirr
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  • 38 9 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 26.—More than 200 former Malayans attended the Association of British Malaya’s Winter At Home at Orosvenor House. Seventy Malayan students attended as guests of the Association.
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  • 202 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. A CANDIDATE for the Singapore Legislative Council elections has alleged that one of his helpers, a Municipal employee, had been told by an official to take no active part in the elections. He Is Mr. John Laycock, Progressive candidate for Municipal North-East, and
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  • 174 9 SINGAPORE, Feb, 27. rVO Chinese labourers were killed when a 15-cwt truck in which they were travelling was in collision with an S.T.C. bus opposite the gates of Bidadari Cemetery yesterday afternoon. The truck was carrying four labourers and a load of pigs into Singapore
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  • 75 9 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpuf, Feb. 25. A GRICULTURAL D e\partment investigators estimate that the 1947-48 season will yield Malaya the equivalent of about 325,600 tons of homegrown rice, an increase over the previous year of 68,434 tons. Government-subsidised improvements on 120.000 to 150,000 acres
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  • 167 9 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 25. JAUBBER exports dropped but production increased in the Federation during last month The fall in exports totalled 6,240 tons, the month’s shipments being 60,017 tons, while the increase in production was 3,316 tons, December’s total being 58,673 tons. The
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  • 593 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. [UR. S. C. GOHO, Independent candidate for m the Rural West constituency in the Singapore Legislative Council elections, has thrown down a challenge to Mr. N. A. Mallal, Progressive Party candidate for Municipal South-West. The challenge is to meet Mr. Goho before the public
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  • 138 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. A25-year-old labourer, Choy Tak, was yesterday sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Brown at the Singapore Assizes, for the murder of Chong Ngit Cheong, a detective attached to the Criminal Investigation Department Choy Tak was unanimously found guilty by a common jury of shooting
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  • 643 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. PE Governments of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya have rejected the recommendations of the Trusted Salaries Commission oil temporary and cost of living allowances. Announcing this at the meeting of the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B.
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  • 217 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 27. THREE Singapore trade unionists, P. Veerasenan, P. Govindasamy and Amuthalingam, were acquitted yesterday ol housebreaking to commit mischiief and committing mischief on Nov. 6 last year. The prosecution alleged that the three men were concerned in breaking into the premises of Ganapathy
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  • 212 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. THE Malayan Teachers* Union may take legal action against the Governments of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya. union will resort to this action failing a satisiactory reply in two weeks to the Union’s request for the restoration of the $5O diploma allowance
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  • 264 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. T’HE Singapore Marine 1 Police will be able to exercise more effective control over the movement and berthing of vessels in Telok Ayer Basin through the passing of the Singapore Port (Amendment) Kules in the Advisory Council yesterday. nf T il e ot d
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  • 646 10 From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Feb ?<! EGISLATION is to be introduced into n Federation for the setting up of a triJl to consider volunteer civil liability claims j There will be power to grant ex-m J assistance to an appropriate extent in partieui cases
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  • 82 10 From Our SU ft Correspond KUALA LUMPUR F 26.—A fire in Pulau Lm kawi, an island off Kedah I destroyed 24 houses the Government Dispense yesterday afternoon. There wa s no loss of life, but material damage si considerable. Relief supplies, organist by the State Welfare
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  • 125 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. Negotiations are j» an advanced state fo premises in the centre Singapore to accoifflJJ date a branch of The Ul ed Commercial Bank one of the biggest banK B concerns in India. The head office or the bank is in Calcutta. a The proposal
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  • 273 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. tmvo Singapore Chines© prisoners, who have since 1 |RH»n condemned to death in the Supreme Court, dr an unsuccessful attempt to escape from Outram p o id tfaol shortly before dawn on Thursday. The prisoners were (Nov Tak, and Soh Khim, coth
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  • 201 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. rE majority of the Czech community in Singapore are not in sympathy with the present developments in Czechoslovakia. t This statement was made the Straits Times yesterday k, a Czec h business man who lived in Singapore for k Onie years. u comm unity
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  • 101 11 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Feb. 27. THE fact that members are losing interest in Hinduism is deplored by the Young Men’s Hindu Association here in its annual report. “It is painful to note that less and less people are attending poojas and activities of the
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  • 58 11 SINGAPORE. Feb. 28. Lau Ah Peow. a 31-year-oid Chinese who professed to tell fortunes, was yesterday charged before the Second Police Court Magistrate. Mr. L. C. Goh. and fined $25. in default two weeks’ rigorous imprisonment. Ah Peow was caught telling fortunes on the five-foot-way of
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  • 203 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. *THE Singapore public might have been saved A blackouts and the Municipality millions of dollars if the Electrical Engineer* (Mr. C. C. Payne) had been allowed to order extra plant for St. James Power Station during the B.M.A. This was stated
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  • 291 11 “Guinea Pigs For National Home SINGAPORE, Feb, 27. rE head of a Singapore Eurasian household told the Straits Times yesterday that his and other Malayan Eurasian families .would go as colonists to Hoilandia, in Dutch New Guinea, “as guinea pigs for the formation of a national home for our people.”
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  • 232 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. A TOTAL of 1,688 Sin- gapore Municipal labourers, out of a total labour force of 2,500, absented themselves on Feb. 1 when a one-day strike was staged in the Colony in protest against the inauguration of the Federation of Malaya. Reporting how this
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  • 246 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. A MEMBER of the Swiss community in Singapore, Mr. Albert Tanner, has been awarded the O. B. E. (Honorary), for assisting Allied prisoners of war in Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam Rail-, way during th Q war. Mr. Tanner who is
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  • 159 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. ONE hundred Singapore doctors listened with concentration for two hours last night to recorded heart and breath sounds at the General Hospital. It was the first recorded clinical demonstration in Malaya. Dr. K. Balasimgham, General Hospital Pathologist, introduced the demonstration as “dance music.”
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  • 1477 12 Reuter. “Plans Were Frustrated ByDutch C.-in-C. SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. RESPITE an order from Queen Wilhelmina of Holland three days earlier that there should be no surrender, the Dutch Commander-in-chief in Java (Lt.-Gen. Ter Poorten) ordered surrender to the Japanese in March 1942 of all forces under
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  • 108 12 SINGAPORE. Feb 27 T ADY GIMSON. wife Lithe Governor of Si n pore, was ©resented with two India-made handbag and a jewel box inlaid with ivory at the Indian Exhibition yesterday nioni ing. On arrival at the exhibition entrance, Ladv Gimson was received by the Ren
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  • 648 12 False Report Cost Britain Prince Of Wales Repulse -Reuter. A SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. FALSE report of Japanese landings at Kuantan, on the East Coast of Malaya, cost Britain her most disastrous naval defeat of World War ll—loss of the battleship Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse. Both ships,
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  • 1020 13 From Our Staff Correspondent i KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 29. r\. VOLUNTEERS in Kuala Lumpur consider L Ueut.-General A. E. Percival’s recommenHutions for the future role of the Local Forces |s being “most sensible” and in accord with ■heir own conclusions. I Major A. Arbuthnott
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  • 80 13 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 28. riMIE body of a Hakka X woman with stab wounds on it was found half a mile away from Endau Police Station two days ago. Police, after a preliminary investigation, hold the view that the woman was murdered elsewhere and the* body dumped In
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  • 246 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. AFTER 20 years in the Singapore Police, Mr. Hugh vGray went on leave on Friday before retirement. He had had colourful career in three different countries —in Scotland, China and Malaya. His career in the Glasgow police began in 1913, when the beginning
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  • 245 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. IMR. Koh Yong Sung, the lone registered voter of the Tuas, Jurong, polling district, may not, after all, cost the Government $4OO to collect his vote. He may get $l5 on Polling Day, March 20, instead. It had been calculated that
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  • 61 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. The $8,000,000 Indian Trade Exhibition in the Great World Amusement Park closed yesterday. Although exact figures are not available at present, it is estimated that over 150,000 visited the Exhibition in the course of the past week. About 4,000 order forms were filled
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  • 265 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. MORE than 500 Singapore motorists this year have received summonses to appear in court on charges of having failed to renew registration of their vehicles. Vehicle inspectors in the past week have also daily detected an average of 20 motorists who have failed to
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  • 90 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. SEVENTEEN Chinese were deported from Singapore to China last Monday, a police statement revealed yesterday. This brought the total number of persons deported from the Colony since the beginning of last year to 141. Police said that among the 17 deportees were 10 notorious
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  • 150 13 ‘Johore Living Costs Too High JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 28. TJECAUSE of the high cost of in Johore, all members of the Asiatic Customs Staff who have been transferred from other States in the Federation have applied to be sent back to their former stations. It was decided to bring up
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  • 370 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. MALAYAN packers and shippers of rubber were warned yesterday that it is imperative that they improved the standard of their rubber shipments to America by representatives of the Rubber .Manufacturers’ Association of America and the Rubber Traders’ Association of New York. Contained
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  • 225 14 SINGAPORE, Fob. 27. THE Netherlands Con-sulate-General in Singapore states that an increasing number of vessels calling at Netherlands Indies checking ports en route to non-occupied ports are not in possession ul the required ships’ and crews’ papers. Tin* announcement states that the following regulations will
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  • 127 14 MALACCA, Feb 28. THE Penang Sack Murder 1 case ended yesterday when the Federal Counsel (Mr. C. Wylie) asked for the accused to be given a discharge not amounting to acquittal. Mr. Wylie’s action followed a two-hour argument with Justice E. N. Taylor on the admissibility
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  • 57 14 -Th?^ LIIMPUR Feb. 27. The Controller of imports and Exports states that, in accordance with the present Government regulations, he is unable to issue export permits to individuals for air parcels of foodstuffs exceeding a nett weight of seven lbs even though the air companies are prepared to
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  • 156 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners agreed in principle yesterday to 1 amend a section of the Municipal Ordinance which will give them powers to control buildings or structures erected during the occupation or in the period of the B.M.A. They decided that the penalty for
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  • 394 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 28. THE Cold Storage Company will no longer store all frozen meat imports to Singapore and free trading will be permitted in future among Singapore firms which can provide storage space at a temperature below 20 degrees fahrenheit. Revealing: this to the Straits
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  • 160 14 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 29. FE Senior Inspector of Schools (Mr. C. A. Scott) assured Penang teachers last nipht that ine Government would stand by its promise to Rive higher posts to local, men. One day someone among I you will be sitting in
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  • 76 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 29. A Singapore Army officer, Captain A. F. Taylor, R.E., yesterday gave away his daughter. Miss Patricia Beryl Taylor, at her marriage at St. Andrew’s Cathedral to Private Ronald Alan Larking, R.A.M.C. The bride wore a white figured satin dress with a white trailing
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  • 313 14 SINGAPORE Fob ‘>q CEVENTY-FOUR Singapore Eurasians J are planning to leave shortly for Holland' the projected Eurasian colony in Dutch Guinea, were warned yesterday by th e Consulate-General fn Singapore to carefuW consider their next move. A consular official told the Sunday Times yesterday that none
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  • 55 14 SCHOOL MASTER’ S WEDDING From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Feb. 29.-So'that the staff and pupils could attend a teacher's wcaainf. Saint Xavier’s Institution closed one hour earlier on rnd£Mr. Tan Teik Hock, a Raffles College graduate, was mar ed at the Penang Buddhist Association to Miss c Phaik Har, fourth
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  • 75 14 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON Feb. 1' A NUMBER of new ments to the Colonial Service in Malaya ar< nounced by the Col< uku today. They include lowing: Mr. Administrative Oil" < r> R. N. Jackson. A Education Service: j,r. Park (European lt VlifTe Science), Mr. O V ,the(European
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  • 1545 15  -  By ABDUL RAHIM IBRAHIM K{ E Malays have il reacted to the {Bgapore General Xetions with mixed ■lings. For one Kg it is someKg entirely new to Mm. which accounts M the small number a Malays who regisBed as voters. «ut there are other
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  • 182 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. Representatives of 12 Singapore coconut oil mills at a meeting yesterday decided to advise the Government against rationing of coconut oil. They said that they would not be able to supply any oil at the controlled price. The Government proposal, announced last week, was
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  • 358 15 MOST Tamil vegetable gardeners dislike hearing it said that this or that crop is a good one for fear that the iP chosen words may bring disaster to it. As well as acting as a talisman against such foolish words. or other strokes of bad luck, the
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  • 170 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. TiHE constant endeavour A of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association was to improve packing methods of rubber, a spokesman of the Association told the Straits Times yesterday. It was also the Association’s constant endeavour, he added, to maintain a high standard
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  • 40 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 1. —Mr. P. I. Read of Dublin, and Mr. J. E. Bunyan, of London, had been appointed engineers in the Drainage and Irrigation Department, Malaya. Both men served in the R A F. during the war.
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  • 608 16 Percival ‘Faulty On Volunteers SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. r. Yap Pheng Geek, of Singapore, one-time O.C. “E” (Chinese) Company, Second Battalion, the S.S. Volunteer Force, yesterday contradicted statements made by General Percival on Chinese sub-units in the war-time volunteer organisation. Mr. Yap taxed Gen. Percival with having made v faulty appreciation
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  • 203 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. VIALAYA S war damage claims came nearer possible settlement yesterday with the return of the War Damage Commissioner (Mr. J. J. St. L. Carson) from talks with the British Government. Mr. carson would not comment on the result of his discussions with Treasury
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  • 83 16 SINGAPORE. Mar. 2. Mr. Sng Choon Yee yesterday took over as Registrar of Trade Unions, Singapore, in place of Mr. J. J. Steel, who has left Malaya on grounds of health. Mr. Sng has a long record of Government service since he joined the Chinese Secretariat
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  • 127 16 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mar. 1. The 33-year-old H.M.S. Malaya is one of four more battleships to be scrapped. She probably has a greater record of sea service than any other ship in the British Navy. Serving with distinction in both world wars, she finally
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  • 229 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. A CALL for a non-political council* under a Malay Director-General of Education to advance the higher education of Malays was made by Inche Abdul VVahab Ariff, president of the Muslim Students’ Union of Raffles College and the College of Medicine, at the Union’s
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  • 400 16 Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 1. THE Minister of State A for the Colonies (the Earl of Listowel) is to carry out a personal investigation in Sarawak of Mr. Anthony Brooke’s claims. At, a press conference today Lord Listowel announced tiia’ he was going to Sarawak with an open
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  • 246 16 SINGAPORE VIORE than 300 war crimes trials will u b held in South East Asia by the "Sj'M* War Crimes Organisation closes its work’. 141 beginning of April. An Army spokesman tnu Sunday Times yesterday: ,na told 4, '•Already, 210 Japanese and Koreans ha». k. hanged
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  • 237 16 SINGAPORE, Mar 2. THE Director of Edna A tion, Singapore, (Mr J. B. Neilson) last night promised the AngloChinese School full sup. for its extensioc programme. Mr. Neilson was speaker at an Old Boys’ Associate Founder’s Day dinner uhic: marked the schools 6h birthday. Mr.
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  • 121 16 KUALA LUMPUR. MR. Donald George Grjwj Dussek, of the Civil Service, died at BunHospital today from typhus and pneumonia plications. Mr. Dussek. who was «j came to Malaya on r last year, on transfer Nigeria. k An He was born a. Teio son. the son of Mr.
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  • 144 17 I SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. |.|L' man who bought the pre-war Governor’s \a< lit Sea Belle II, yesterday signed on as 1 t-mt third engineer on board the vessel in Ke to get back to the Philippines ii,. is Mr. Bob Morrison who recently (lie Sea Belle
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  • 236 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. BILL to provide for the m discharge without ■dividual application to K ul -t—of persons wnc ■ere undischarged ban on Feb. 15, 1942 Hll be introduced in the ■ugapore Advisory Counci? Stiortly. T Bill aims also to sim■i:v the procedure for payKli dividends.
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  • 164 17 oni Otir stuIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 29. k K ary s recipe for peace way of fellowffi?:, Glared Mr. L. A. G. hr e vi c p -President of Club al 3, Lumpur Rotary at h r vv,,f lnesday’s dinner mr d tern H °tel celebratory
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  • 102 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 28. —Sentences of seven years rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rotan were imposed at Selangor Assizes today on each of two Chinese, Foong Yuen and Mooi Kam. who were found guilty of armed robbery. They were among a party of
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  • 111 17 TAIPING. Mar. 2. —Taiping customs officers raided the decrepit wards in Taiping Hospital, yesterday, and arrested seven middle-aged Chinese for smoking opium. Two of the men were not inmates of the ward at all. All the men pleaded guilty today in the District Court. They said
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  • 48 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. Four masked Chinese seized $3lO in cash and jewellery from a Chinese squatter and his family in a house in Tanah Merah Kechil, Bth mile, Changi Road, at 2 a.m. yesterday. One man was armed with a pistol, and another with a knife.
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  • 79 17 From Our Own Correspondent KEMAMAN, Mar. 2. A MALAY blacksmith was carried away by a tiger > yesterday afternoon in the village of Kertah. The man was preparing coconut leaves to make a broom about a quarter of a furlong away from his house when the
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  • 87 17 THE Straits Times on Friday achieved new record circulation figures for an English-language newspaper in Malaya. Present indications are that net sales were well in excess of 50,000. The demand for the Straits Times Special Percival Supplement was so great that newsagents throughout the country reported “sold
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  • 172 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. THE celebrated concert violinist, Yehudi Menu hin, and two world-famous dancers. Alicia Markovs ana Anton Dolin, will give concert recitals in Singa pore this year, a New York cable from A.P. announc ed yesterday. The superintendent of the Victoria Memorial Hall and
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  • 186 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 28. THE beginning of a miniature zoo of Malayan fauna has been established in the Botanic Gardens here with the arrival this week of two pelandok which have been installed in a wired enclosure. These little mousedeer were the mighty animals of
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  • 383 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. THE Singapore Teachers’ Union sees no possi--1 bility of either improving the standard of education or expanding the educational services in the Colony “unless discrimination against locally recruited teachers is removed.” It says so in a memorandum to be sent to the United
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  • 163 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. SINGAPORE Police art seeking three gangsters, one of whom shot a Chinese in the thigh and left him on the pavement oi’ a house in Owen Road on Monday night. Tb wounded man is Tan Teik. Moy, a hotel employee living in Race
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  • 142 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. SINGAPORE rubber manufacturers and representatives of shipping companies handling rubber shipments to the United States will appoint a special committee to study the complaints made by representatives of th/» U S. rubber industry. The U.S. representatives have warned Malaya that she must improve the grading
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  • 308 18 ‘Use Power And Candidates Quit SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. MR. John Laycock (Progressive), one of the Municipal North-East candidates lor the Singapore elections, yesterday said that if the Governor used his over-riding powers, the Progressive Party candidates would resign in a body and stand for re-election. ‘if it
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  • 338 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 2. MALAYA'S vital importance to Imperial defence was realised in Britain, Mr. Somerset de Chair, a former M.P.., said on Monday in Singa pore. In the event of an attack on Malaya, he said, he believed that the main defending forces would be
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  • 358 18 SINGAPORE, Mar. J. A STRAITS Times reporter yesterday visited No. 1 British Transit Camp, conditions in which will be the subject of a question in the House of Commons next week. The reporter, who stayed one hour in the camp was given every facility
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  • 87 18 THE Penang artist, Yung Feb 26> 1 pleted three ’the h Ta" been comm ss oned to nainf fmf\k d ,Ch he has Fair to be held in lIS in May. IndUS ries Mun Sen’s pictures will depict various phases oil the major Malayan
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  • 191 18 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. THE Singapore Municipal 1 Commissioners have approved a $7,000,000 tenyear scheme for the liyine trunk water mains to pope with the expected increase in water consumption over the next ten to 20 years. Aligned with this scheme is the provision of additional storage by
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  • 190 18 A S s?6ht° RE Feb a A S k IG T th «tha S ft t\ babl V never been* before in Malaya-, w between a hamadS < k "tK cobra) andapnC —is described in a reS published by the 8tS Echo, Penang, on day. The Balik Pulau
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  • 94 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 3 A total of 72 deaths w recorded by the Singapore Coroner for the month of February, as against 6S in January. The summary of deaths showed that nine persaos died through assaults, a compared with two in January. There were 12 traffic deaths, six
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  • 119 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 29Mr. W. H. Baillies. Manager of Selangor Estate, Kuala Selangor, married on Saturday a Presbyterian Churchi to M Zelia Lynn Croft Groucu only daughter of Mr. an j L. C. Groucutt. formerly Cameron Highlands ana g of Sydney. The Re' Evans officiated. 0 n
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  • 357 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. /JiWK «n the heels of the Singapore indoor VB tennis championships which open at the jlpnv World stadium today, the Singapore jV M fennis Association will hold its first posta| championship at the S.C.C. in June. Wp is will oe followed by an
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  • 296 19 SINGAPORE, 28. ■hr EE associations have 1 promised to give the ■tire proceeds of their Burnaments to the SingaHre Olympic and Sports Kuncif fund which will used to help defray the ■ponses of sending the jump champion. Boyd Valberg, to the World Blympic Games. ■This was
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  • 133 19 T SEREMBAN, Mar. 1. Il Hockey season in la ato concluded with Is,m h 1i ch b tweei1 th Negri I.-/,- an Mal ays and The l a ii T^; r^ I:ila Vs won three-nil, |bv sh iM w als bciin K scored I T k
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  • 279 19 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 26. OPEAKING at the annual general meeting of the Selangor Turf Club this evening, the president, Mr. S. B. Palmer, disclosed that there will be no increase in the Government tax on totalisator transactions. Mr. Palmer said that
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  • 131 19 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur Feb. 29. CHINESE footballers travelling: by air ar e to be insured to the extent of $10,000 each. This was decided at a meeting of the Malayan Chinese Football Association held in Kuala Lumpur today. The meeting decided to select
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  • 89 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. A goal scored by Twist late in the second half gave the Sir gapore Cricket Club a three-two victory over the Jollilads in a football match played on the padang yesterday. The Jollilads opened accounts through Salahudin, but Hutchinson equalised soon afterwards. The score
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  • 188 19 SINGAPORE, Feb, 27. THE Singapore Chinese Football Association hopes to have a stadium of their own some time this year. Announcing this at the S.C.F.A. council meeting yesterday, the vice-chair man, Mr*Sim Kwang Tow said that ways for raising funds would be discussed as soon
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  • 452 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. ENGLAND scored a well-earned victory over Wales in a keen, fast game of rugger played at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday in the Singapore international rugby series, the margin being 15 points (three goals) to 11 points (a goal and two tries). By
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  • 162 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. A- REPRESENTATIVE group of Singapore motorists met at the Adelphi Hotel last night and formed a club for sponsoring events to interest owners of all types of motor vehicles. The new club, which Is the first of its kind to be formed in Singapore
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  • 31 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. 1 fl HE Royal Air Force, Sembawang, beat the Public Works Department by 119 runs in a game of cricket played at Sembawang yesterday
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  • 89 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. THE Island Club’s February Bogey for women, played over last week-end, was won by Mrs. A. Week, with a mett score of all square. The “A” division of the man’s February Bogey was won by D. A. Ferrier-Smith with a nett score of one
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  • 663 20 London Decline Has Its Effect From A Market Correspondent IN sympathy with the decline in London, the general tendency in prices on Malayan markets was downward last week. There was a switch of interest on the industrial section and Tins formed a smaller part of the business
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  • 241 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. THE increase of 3.316 tons shown in the Malayan rubber production figures for January started off some selling. Prices during the week fell away about two cents. The undertone nevertheless continues to be good, says Lewis Peat’s weekly market report. Each level finds port.
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  • 299 20 SINGAPORE, £eb. 29. MALAYA'S imported bunker coal situation has greatly improved over the last twelve months and most bunker requirements can now be met, a Government coal organisation representative told the Sunday Times yesterday. lie said: “A year ago the shortage was really acute o wing
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  • 46 20 COLOMBO. Mar. 2.—ln a memorandum to the British Fooc Ministry. Ceylon has as.u*d for higher prices for her copra. Und« a five-year contract. Ceylon is now selling copra in huik to the United Kingdom a 125 rupees per candy of boO pounds weight.
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  • 177 20 a*ALAYA^ RE Feb '»l RiALMA began the J with a record twl 500.000 the highest monthly jl s.nce the ffif figures issued day revealed. The,;! &n increase of 000 over trade'*! December. V The January total last year’s record by&Sl although exports at 441 were
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  • 26 20 Mr. Cecil Robbins Cherry of Boustead and Co., to joined the board of Charterer Bank of India. Australia, arc China.
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  • 893 20 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2 Quotations given by the Malayan Sharebrokers’ Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller MIR.* let 13 0(. (4 Of 4iex Brick 3rds i 80 t 90 Pre! 3.50 3.60 8.8. Petrol 43, 9 44 6 B M Trustee 8.75 9.25 'on.vonnater Tlr Smelters <Oi 22/3 23'3
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