The Straits Budget, 10 June 1948

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    6 1 THE STRAITS BUDGET Jun e 10,
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      Dr. Vickers And Local Doctors
      264 1 THERE have recently appeared in your paper several letters, the writers of which have expressed doubts about the honesty of Government in fts pronouncements that more and better jobs will be given to local men. You too, Sir, In a review of the situation some
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      “LAVENDER” STREET
      137 1 AS a newcomer to Singapore, I am shocked at its complete lack of cleanliness. I can safely say that it is the most filthy and unhealthy town in Malaya. Lately, you have published a number of letters on this subject, and I hope you will add mine to
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      North Borneo reaction to Mr. Calwell
      384 1 THE tiny Australian race is steadily building up trouble for itself in Asia. That an Asian wife of a British hu«£fend and born a British subject should be ejected from a country which is steadily being swamped by Semitics (Asiatics by the way), Maltese.
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      TOWN CLEANSING AND MR. YAP
      95 1 WITH reference to the ActfT ing Municipal President’s remarks about the indifferent attitude of some shop-keep-ers in disposing of their refuse, we seem to remember that some little time ago Mr. Yap Pheng Geek was the Chairman of a Subcommittee of the Chinese Chambers of
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      Third Party Trishaws
      115 1 I NOTICE from the Press 1 that it is proposed to have compulsory Third Party Insurance for trishaws. Might I sugggest, as a motorist, that it would be far more to the point if the riders of the trishaws were tested more strictly in their knowledge of
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      Mercantile Clerks And The New Allowances
      784 1 1*HE members of the Selangor Clerical and Administrative Staff Union are much perturbed at the report of the Committee on Cost of Living Allowances as it gives one the impression that mercantile employees are much better off than those in Government. Although this may
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      THE JAPANESE PERIL AND AUSTRALIA
      355 1 DO not know if the views expressed hv Australian correspondent in your 31 recently are the official views of the An t S Government But if they are, we British 2 m u s i strongly protest against them Jectl l Self-defence was, and always
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      MALAYA IN LONDON
      1094 2 —Straits Times. June 3. K, ,jmv published on t «da\ will serve to Malaya-born com a Malayan asset may have forgotSl'li Y from the Unit K" >111 know that the HM.n'fVm. and the Colony j iiik 1 of the finest |^K V heart of London, E few
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      AUSTRALIA’S GOODWILL
      1017 2 —Straits Times. June 4. Australia’s goodwill mission to South-East Asia is due to arrive in Kuala Lumpur from Batavia today. Our visitors may be assured of an attentive and country-wide hearing, for the significance of their visit is plain to the Malayan public News from Canberra published here
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      PENANG GETS ITS WAY
      1050 2 —Straits Times. Ju'ne 5 This week has seen the end of the long controversy over the post-war position of the port of Penang. Ever since the new constitutional framework was introduced, whereby Penang became linked with the Peninsula and cut off from Singapore, there have been
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      THE SPLIT IN MALAYA
      1033 3 —Straits Times, June 7. An invitation to the Malayan public to think afresh about the separation of Singapore from the rest of Malaya was extended by Dato Roland Braddell at the annual meeting of the Singapore Association last Friday. Since Dato Braddell himself played no small
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      BEHIND THE MURDERS
      1066 3 —.Strafrs Times. June 8 Since the debate in the Legislative Council of the Federation a week ago on labour unrest and violence associated with that unrest, the industrial crime wave has become even worse than it was before. To the list of crimes in the Federation and
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      THE LABOUR UNREST
      1027 4 Straits Timas, June 9. HT! jnic" of a Malay village Headman ur.d a Malay settleHent offietT in Perak, the Hurder of a Chinese estate Hanager h. Pahang, and an Hbortive at trek by an armed Hing on a European estate Hanagt-r’s m.ngalow in Johore H-thow w*-n yesterday’s
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    FAREWELL TO MR. MENON
    116 4 SINGAPORE June 9. Members of the Bench and Bar of Singapore were present at a dinn:r held on Mo day night at the Cathay Re>taurant in honour of Mr. K. P. K. M non. the Singapore lawyer who Is leaving Singapore shortly. He is returning to
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    HOLLANDIA IS FORGOTTEN
    287 4 SINGAPORE, June 6. MOST of the 74 Singapore Eurasians and their families who intertded to migrate to Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea as part of a colonisation scheme, have “forgotten entirely aboutt the idea” and returned to their normal livelihoods. There are few who still believe in
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    IPOH CONCERT
    41 4 IPOH, jur.e C.—The Eukit Mertajam Recreation Club’s concert here raised $2,000 for the Anti-T.B. Fund. Prizes for the best actor, actress and the child actor were won by Mr. P. Retnam, Miss M. Leans and Cheang Siew Yit respectively.
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    Re-Dedication Of Colony Y.M.C.A.
    209 4 SINGAPORE, June 7. SINGAPORE V.M.C.A. was wiped clean of association with the Japanese Kfropeitni at a re* dt dicat ion service yesterday afternoon The service was held in the room which was used as cells f<*r people who were being tortured by the Kempeitai during the
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    PLANE CRASH
    36 4 SINGAPORE iun»* A rocket-carrying •npKuro crashed aitcr landing on arriving at Kuala Lumpur f< i yesterday's air displ/y. The pilot was noL hurt. Tin* piano overshot Iru- runway and ipped or» to IP! nose.
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    Dressmakers Go On Strike
    120 4 SINGAPORE, June 9. EIGHTY Chinese men and women dressmakers In 30 Singapore shops struck work yesiterday following their employers' proposal to reduce the piece-work rates. Shopkeepers claim that they are reducing the $5 shep charge a dress, and want this cut to be made from their
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS.
      88 4 MATlfKfiOf, TO DOROTHY m> the 20th Way at Muar (nee Chewing*) wife cl J. Mathesen, FagteHitate. TangkaJr, a daughter. TO NORAJ I, wife ol A. I*. Belts at Randan# Kcrbau Jin* pital, Ijlngapcro, on 4th June. 194.1. a «on. TNNKfI KERr-At Norwich. t* Rnicl wife of W. M. Innrs
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      120 4 KFIAH— ONO. The r.t to;k |,l.u', > ri» t«*.tw#*en Khan Klni Lei Jr. »Id«.t -.on cf lie late Mr. Mrs. Khan Ifcrk Chuaa and Or.p Lhtng Nt*o cn’y •laughter f Madam Lim (k k f; i and die ufo Mr. Or.g Jia‘< The engagement h announce I l>«:tween Joseph.
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      MARRIAGES
      101 4 (JM o*o/. The marriage tr«ok place it the Singapore Marriage I'l.,'l‘ity in June Mh 19-11 h< t’.v* en f f> ng m d K i 'ne. The marriage look p!nct> en the ?i I June, 1944. I tween Mr. Feng i!i g Elln, Mth ren < Mr. *4 Mrs
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    IN THE PROPERTIED CLASS
    1932 5  -  A Malayan Countryman’s Diary TCAN DJF.K. THE squatter in the Little Du-un has hough t the property. He is now a cap'talist and ought to be eliminated. He still goes out tapping, so it is not clear how lie can develop the land unies- he pays
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    ‘Destroy’ call to Johore workers
    300 6 I JOHORE BAHRU, June 5. BrArKKS in bold Chinese characters, inciting IPy workers to violence, found this morning on r| ftts throughout Johore, are believed by the W tl> he the signal for a fresh wave of law■rEjess in the state. 1 ■TlVe posters exhorted:
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    Stand Up Protest
    148 6 Singapore, June 4. Hoke than 30 men (in Birmand in the Seventh Court, yesterday, Kfu'ed take their seats the court was demonstration was r d a* a protest against an i .i.'>.raIt on them by a corporal while they in the court lock-up. Chinese. Malay* |H I:.:
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    Teachers’ Polio Plan
    81 6 SINGAPORE. June 5. ■pIBKRS 1 of the H, Singapore Teachers’ are willing to la ::n tiu'ir one-month holiday by half H lle d make up for a lost hy students ln K to the closing of in the polio epiteachers are also tM make up further ■tith
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    Awarded Medal
    24 6 LUMPdfR, June 2. V be,;? a Service Medal v Uarded to Mr. N lv aratnam. forM, f l sls tant special department.
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    Employers’ Groups Are Planned
    222 6 SINGAPORE, June 4. Employers groups, operating as sub-com-mittees t 0 deal with labour problems affecting the city’s more important trades and industries, are planned by the Singapore Federation of Industrialists and Traders. The aim of the Federation, which has now applied for registration as a trade
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    Gurkhas Called In To Guard Estates
    363 6 SINGAPORE, June 5. ALL police leave cancelled ‘until further notice’ in Kedah; Gurkha troops helping to keep order in Johore. This was yesterday’s main news on Malaya’s industrial front. Police authorities declined to give reasons for stopping leave in Kedah but it was believed
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    Schools reopen June 14
    79 6 S IV( niM SINGAPORE, June 6. INGAPORE schools which have been closed because of the outbreak of poliomyelitis will be re-opened on Monday, June 14, it was announced yesterday. Govern* ment evening classes will reopen one week later The official statement adds: “Though a number of
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    Petition For Release
    123 6 SINGAPORE, June 5. rE Singapore Rubber Workers’ Union is to petition the Governor (Sir Franklin Gimson) to demand the release of its president (Mr. Koh Swee Guan), wh 0 was arrested on a banishment warrant on Thursday. It will simultaneously launch a Malaya-wide campaign “to rally help
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    Manager Killed In Pay Day Raid
    521 6 From Oar Staff Corfespondent IPOH, June I. MR. Finest Vaughan Dubli, resident manager of Idris Hydraulic Tin Ltd. was shot dead today by Chinese gang robbers who stole $*,500, wages for labourers at the mine. The killing took place at the office of the
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    THEIR HOME COLLAPSED
    115 6 SINGAPORE. June 4. A 63-year-old Chinese and hit five year-old granddaughter had a narrow escape yesterday when an army 15cwt. truck ran into their attap home in Henderson Road. The truck was going towards Tiong Bahru Road from the direction of the Alexandra Barrack area when it
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    Pioneer Fracas Inquiries End
    72 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. June 3. Courts of inquiry into Ceylonese disturbances in various parts of the Federation ol Malaya have been completed and the findings forwarded to higher military authority, said Maj.-Gen. D. A. L. Wade*. G.O.C. Malava District, today. The Army, he
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    1,300 flee estates after threat
    223 7 K LAI A LI.MITR, Juno 5. ALL Chinese and Indian labourers on klapa Mali and Lima Lias Kstates, Slim River, numbering about 1,.‘>00 evacuated in tear yesterday morning. Scofin Company control the estates. Overnight there appeared on the walls of labourers' lines, slogans warning the
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    'Back Police’ Call
    233 7 'Back Police Call SINGAPORE. June 5. A PUBLIC which, through spinelessness, allows itself to be mJmidated is an unworthy one,” said the Singapore Association in its annua) report last night. Appealing for still more backing for the police, the Association Committee said that nothing much could be done to stop
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    3 drowned off Penang
    91 7 PENANG. June 5. \M RASIAN woman, hvr son and a Malay boatman lost their lives in a triple drowning tragedy in the sea off Pulau Jerejak yesterday. I heir bodies were recovered this morning, but another boatman is still missing. The four were going from Butterworth
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    Robbers Shoot At Towkay
    82 7 SINGAPORE. June 5. The towkay of a watch shop in North Bridge Road who attempted to resist three armed robbers on Thursday night was shot at. The robbers arrived at the shop in a taxi and one of them fired a shot, which missed, when the
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    Pioneer welfare worker retires
    133 7 SEREMBAN, June 5. WITH the departure of Miss Joan Vickers, Area Welfare Officer for Negri Sembilan, Johore and Malacca, to England on retirement. Malaya has lost one of its leading social workers. During her eighteen months here Miss Vickers has established and managed institutions for the
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    Japs may get iron from Fed
    258 7 KUALA LU.Ml'l i lln I A N ANNOUNCEMENT about i h, n I pre-war Japanese iron mine at in Trengganu, is expected so, n'M Secretary of State for the Colonies "a ""I federation Government, it is under t giving final consideration to an 3
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    Wife Saw Tree Kill Husband And Child
    130 7 A >7-YF \R m n r. SINGAPORE, June 7. A 'and th!w*yMr-oJd e «tai^ho£. n killed *bv" Sfi morning in Aljunied Road. rsp husband. 35-year-old Tay Kim Chim. a car painter who had been out of work for the past week, was playing
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    SUICIDE IN A TAXI
    77 7 SINGAPORE. June 5. A youth suffering lrom tuberculosis engaged a taxi to cinve to the General Hospital .'lid cirank a solution ol caustic soda on the way. t w as presumed at. an inquest yesterday when a! lour-man jury recorded a finding of suioide. i In
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    Singapore stops police leave
    202 7 SINGAPORE. June ti. DOLICE throughout Singapore received stand-by 1 orders yesterday and all leave was cancelled while riot squads from the Police Training School were ready to rush to any part of tlie island where trouble threatened. Along with this emergency action. 200 police combed Bukit
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    Films help in crime detection
    133 7 P__ ‘SINGAPORE. June fi OLICEMEN in Singapore are now being trained in various phases of crime detection by means of films specially brought out from ome of the films fnr w /J 1 Proper procedure for detecting crime through fingerprints and footprints. Others, starting from
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    BANDITS TAKE $10,000 FROM PAY TABLE
    160 7 SEREMBAN June j '.-THREE .ira. <1 CW*f n i X dressed m u —Wrktis and wearing b ;>h > a r atf j raided Jeram ;U 1 'V."’ Tr cktoday and esca; 000. I The robbt ry t k v ,."j: as the estat.
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    POLICE TELL OF BATTLE ON ESTATE
    446 8 SINGAPORE, June ■j/j.’uiiK police and labourers clashed at the j Kin Kang Swee rubber estate near ■llll*ll tab, North Johore on Tuesday, a rnagis■tc ordered the men to lay down their arms E| disperse quietly. Hi- order was defied and the magistrate ■dered the
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    ‘Protest To Siam About Rice’
    191 8 SINGAPORE. June 3. Ha STRONG protest In mu>t be made to Siam Kb quality of recent KiCf shipments sent to HSmg.tpoie. T:< r tary ot the Joint K. (Mr. A. W. BN* 1 said this j ester al day of the c*: in the Cathay
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    400 Police Enforce Eviction
    313 8 From Our Special Correspondent SLIM RIVER June 2. Four hundred police went into action at Klapa Bali and Lima Bias Estates, Sinn River, today to enforce ejection orders against 79 labnuers who were 1.290 strikers* :n the estates. Contrary to expectations,! there was no opposition from
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    NEW QUARTERS
    81 8 fe> l,r r 0vvn Correspondent set of i'V 11 2 A modern been nn, J0 rers> llnes has division in the second Ka tnp<L J?engat Estate, openim A Kapayang. The formed W? mo ?y was P er ham Jh lrs J p Herringnepheuh M ls n a visit
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    Thief Praises His Own Prosecutor
    119 8 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, June 2. r r\VENTY-\INE-year-old Alexander Bell, convicted 1 yesterday on two charges of theft, praised his prosecutor, inspector M. Krishnan. who during the occupation saved Bell’s life by giving him help and sheLter from the Japanese. Bell, the prosecutor smci,l
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    ARSON CHARGE IN JOHORE
    65 8 JOHORE BAHRU. June 3. Twenty-six cnineie labourers were arrested after a $30,000 fire at the Gov-ernment-run Senai Estate In Johore early Tuesday morning. Eight of the arrested Chinese were charged at Johore Bahru yesterday. One was accused of arson, two of criminal trespass and five of
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    HIDDEN RIFLES
    41 8 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, June 2.-Poliec uncovered a dump containing four rifles underneath a potato patch in a remote area in the third mile Simpan Road last night. From markings, it was believed they were looted police rifles.
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    Questions On Gaol Life
    214 8 SINGAPORE. June 3. i rE answers of about 40 convicts in Changi and Outram Road gaols to a specially prepared quc3tionaire which was given to them by the Singapore Prison Enquiry Commission have “confirmed many ideas already before the Commission.” The secretary of the Commission, (Mr.
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    Gang Battles Revived In Singapore
    91 8 SINGAPORE. June 3. THERE were only 25 robberies in Singapore in May. This is the lowest monthly total since the return of civil administration. Gang “wars” and gang killings are increasing. Several secret societies have turned to violence. Quick Arrests The police say there have
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    New Cargo Laws Plan
    120 8 SINGAPORE, June 3. THE Singapore Roads Board will make recommendations to Government to institute legislation on cargo-handling in <the Roads in order to reduce and stabilise charges. This was decided by a meeting of the Roads Board yesterday, presided over by the Master Attendant (Comdr. L.
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    Value Of Price-Tag System
    195 9 SINGAPORE, June 3. PRK E tagging in Singa- 1 pore had brought soout a wide difference in •ho retail prices of com-} 'nudities and would u. the, ong run reduce bus 4 ness profits to the benefit oi the ••veryday consumer, said the Deputy Food Controller
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    Chinese Consulate
    36 9 1 KlVmiur*" orr, s n<mdeiU KUCHING, Jmie 2.—The v him se community of Sara«!Mmm V h Un<l taken t0 $200,000 by voluntary contrihutions to pay for a perS»i!iTi nl 1 (:hinf>sr Consulate building here
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    PARTY SNUBS MISSION
    562 9 SINGAPORE, June 3. SAYING that the Australian Goodwill Mission would not he welcome, officials of the Progressive Party decided yesterday not to accept invitations to attend a reception to the mission in Singapore. The mission, however, had already been delayed in -he N.E.I. and the reception cancelled.
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    POLICE PRECAUTION:
    51 9 Tapping knives, changkols and other implements which could have been used by labourers on the Klapa Bali and Lima Bias estates were the first articles police removed from houses on the estates. The man on the right is seen holding a collection of pig-hunting spears found in the
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    Second Blaze In 3 Weeks
    113 9 From Our StafY Correspondent SEREMBAN. June 3. About 400 lbs of rubber, valued at some $2,000 were destroyed when a smokf house on Sua Betong Estate, in the Port Dickson district, was set on tire last night. The cause of the lire is unknown. A
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    “Reconsider Attitude To Learning,” Say Students
    198 9 ►SINGAPORE. June 3. THE time has come for gra- dilates and undergra duates of Raffles College and the Medical College to reconsider their attitude towards learning in the light of the Carr-Saunders Commission’s report, states the Raffles College Union Magazine, organ of the student
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    ONE WOMAN IN 17 PLACED IN JOBS
    216 9 SINGAPORE, June 3. A RECORD number of women registered for work with the Singapore Labour Exchange last month—but only (>7 found jobs. This increase of more than 750 on April registration of 37S women was due to a rumour that a new factory
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    71 DEAD
    45 9 SINGAPORE. June 3. A MONO the 7l deaths reported to the Coroner in Singapore in May. 11 were from the Mental Hospital and two from the leper settlement. The others included two judicial hangings, one snakebite. one aircraft accident and 21 natural deaths.
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    Farmer Acquitted
    36 9 from Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA. June 2.— A farmer. Tai Swee Chong, was acquitted in the Supreme Court yesterday of having caused the death of a woman in a tapioca plantation at Sungej Udang.
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    Rendova Will Miss Singapore
    209 9 SINGAPORE in I I'r^v will no» ..‘i l Jmorrov. uL!o:, 1 he ,t> c I 1 has o-.t. ir:,6 bv"f I U:,:u.d s;a- ivl.! F R< ndova s < .immanding o* I cer. C.ipt. T F o FriV?t U.S.N. hro{ r *d Ihov it I send
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    ACQUITTED ON ARMS CHARGE
    159 9 SINGAPORE. Jim. A SINGAPORE u;i v yesterday. in the Asuz: Court. disbelieved th« <Yide*vt i >'• police info: .n« r O 4 an elderly Indian sh< >pk( epei bin Moh; unlawful b "l a pis'ol. The verdict wa* by a majority of five to two ana
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    “IN WOLF’S CLOTHING”
    86 9 SINGAPOl Describing dm 7 that turbance as a capped a wh< h (jini't^ terical sla u (l ,p, ar" lll J ;\«j'ii nst ()rganita MDU. in a Slyest 01-day. sta part of a eon< 0 j,. 'Vs discredit working-class this country There is n° main? up the
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    NON-STRIKERS KILLED IN SELANGOR
    492 10 Prom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 3. JL ,j KCC widely-separated areas of Selangor W w-tcrday, and during the night, Chinese ■innKri shot and killed two labourers on a tin ■jm. murdered a sleeping kepala on an oil palm Ktnti. and fought a battle with
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    HOW striking labourers were evicted from the Klapa Bali and Lima Blas estates.
    60 10 TOP PICTCRE shows Chinese on tiie police truck which took them to the village of Trolak, 12 miles away. CENTRE.—The riot squad marching into position behind Mr. F. T. \larrable of the Police 'framing School. BOTTOM.—Police with
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    GANG KILL OWNER OF ESTATE
    120 10 From Our Staff Correspondent Johore Bahru. June 3. T HE owner of a small rubber estate near the 51st mile on the main trunk road was shot and stabbed to death by a gang of armed and masked ChF nesc on Friday. Entering his house,
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    Welfare Scheme For The Blind
    174 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 3. A FEDERATION association is to he formed soon to establish a welfare scheme for the country’s 12,000 blind people. A working commit.ee has been appointed to (Drnnjre a public meeting to form the association. The decision to
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    MALAYA’S REDS GET NEWSPAPER
    373 10 MALAYA’ S REDS GET NEWSPAPER Front Our Staff Correspondent r KlIALA LUMPUR, June 2. K Malayan Communis* Party has for the first time proclaimed its acquisition of a Chinese newspaper as its mouthpiece. It has also issued its lirst “English party paper” entitled the “Malayan Communist Party Critic.” The M.C.P.
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    “HE WOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD”
    72 10 JOHORE BAHRU. June 2.— Kamari bin Mohammed Tahir, charged with hurting Leman with a bayonet, told the Court that he merely hit the man with the bayonethad he stabbed him, the man would have been dead. Kamari was lined $100, or in default one month’s
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    APPEAL DISMISSED
    29 10 I JOHORE BAHRU June Mr. Justice La vllle yes h’ldny dismissed the appeal uj Phee Thaim Hock, who was fined s;:t() for assault in/ a w< man.
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    Girl, Stranded In U.K., Seeks Aid
    123 10 From Our Stafl’ Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 3. A MALAY girl’s application for funds to enable her to return to Malaya from I he United Kingdom came before the Central Welfare Council yesterday. The Council decided to refer the application to the Government. It
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    Dato Braddel Gives A Warning
    991 11 SINGAFOKF, June 5. [YATO Kolund Bniddell. retiring President of tlie Singapore Association, said last that the Association must give thought to the future of Singapore, and the advantages of its inclusion in the Federation of Malaya, or in some substituted scheme of federation. Hr was
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    NEW ROAD PLAN
    67 11 SEGAMAT, June 3.—The gumat and Muar road through Kampong Gemoroh may soon be opened to motor traffic if plans to span Buloh Kasap River with a Bailey bridge materialise. Mr. V. Peters has been appointed to be a member of the Labour Advisory Board for the c
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    MORE WOMEN IN SINGAPORE
    118 11 SINGAPORE, Jure 4. THERE were nearly as many women as men in Singapore last year. The ratio was 876 t 0 1,000. The Municipal Health Officer (Dr. N. A. Canton), in his annual review, says that this is a marked change among the Chinese. They form
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    $1,000 Haul By Thieves
    115 11 SINGAPORE. June 4. Three Indian shop assistants were hurt, $l,OOO was stolen, and show cases and other property in a number of shops was smashed auring a clash between Malays of the Royal Navy Police and local-ly-enlisted Malays of the R A.0.C., in Ayer Rajah Road
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    Drowned In Floods
    36 11 SINGAPORE. June 3. A three-year-old Malay girl was drowned at Ah Hood Road on Tuesday morning in the flood waters caused by the rain. The body was discovered when the floods had receded.
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    MORE HOUSES IN SUBURBS URGED
    148 11 JUR. Tan Chin Tuan, a IVI pore Chinese Chamber of Commerce in t Kn g C UnCil Will the He suggests building houses in the suburbs. His proposals, which aim at preventing congestion in hav been endorsed in principle by the Singapore StttSK 61 Association,
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    “Clean City” Campaign
    86 11 SINGAPORE June 5. THE a.Grig Superintenoent of the Singapore fawn Cleansing Department, Mr. J. Ephraim, said yesterday that the 1,851 summonses taken out in May against persons charged with depositing of refuse, obstruction of fivefoot ways and failing to provide rubbish bins was an all-time record. He
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    Red Lion Bombers Go Back Home
    243 11 SINGAPORE. June 5. THE Koyal Air Force 1 heavy borntvr exercise, ‘‘Operation Red Lion’’ finished yesterday when the Lincoln- 0 f v 0 m (Strait- Settlement*) Squadron t u ff from lengah aim- Li. Singapore, on their \va;. i;;;k to tr.eir base in En,
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    Truck Ride Ends In Gaol Terms
    152 11 SINGAPORE. June 5. AN escapade in an army truck which took them h«>rn Singapore to the Siamese frontier last N<»vem has landed two British soldiers in gaol. The men, Private R.J. Holder, 25, and Private R.J.A. Forrestt, 21, of No. 21 Company, R.A.S.C., were
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    New Commissioner
    30 11 Inche Ahmad bin Mohamed Ibrahim has been appointed a Municipal Cornmiss’ ~ner for the Town of Singapore in place of Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir who has resigned.
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    HOMES FREED BY R.A.F. MOVE
    137 11 SINGAPORE June 3. Paya Lebar airstrip the surrounding lte ?f R b oya l de-requisitionec by the g Air Force, and houses have in <<>n- he been handed back to > owners, it was announ yesterday. jf The Base T^f° ta uoned Depot which V
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    Communist ‘Bid For Rule Of Gun, Knife In Malaya’
    1395 12 SINGAPORE, June 7. B (iiionct* of the free and decent way of life in Malaya, the “bestial of Communist agitators must be struck down. The (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) said this in a broadest last night. 1 long past in Malaya, said
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    ‘Pay Non-Internee Volunteers’
    149 12 PENANG. June 6. Malayan volunteers Ex-Services Assoc 1 a* tion is calling for payment of gratuities to all non* interned volunteers on the same scale as to European personnel. The chairman of the Penang branch (Capt. Mohamed Noor) said this at last night’s annual meeting. A memorial
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    LIGHTING FOR KEMAMAN
    210 12 From Our Own Correspondent KEMAMAN, June (i. TDK Electrical Department is surveying Romanian preparatory to providing (he town for the first time with electric light. It is expected that the work of installing electric plants will he completed by the end of August and that the lights
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    VARSITY SITE IS CHOSEN
    270 12 KUALA LUMPUIt, June 5. LOW hills overlooking some of the most beautiful stretches of the picturesque Tebrau Straits in Johore are included in the 1,700 acres of land earmarked by Government for Malaya’s future university. The site, which has already received a preliminary survey, is a
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    MAY RUBBER EXPORTS BEST FOR THIS YEAR
    156 12 SINGAPORE. June 7. MALAYAN rubber ship ments for the first, live months of this year amounted to 391.931 t0n5—220.788 tons from Singapore and 171,143 tons from the Federation. On a monthly basis, May shipments were the highest this year, with 53,341 tons from
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    NEGRI ROTARY CLUB
    62 12 SEREMBAN. June 5 MR. Ginder Singh, re-elect-ed president of Seremban Rotary Club, was installed in his post at the installation dinner of the Club on Thursday. Others installed were: Mr. R. N. Broome (vicepresident), Mr. Lionel Van Geyzel (secretary), Mr. Lim Chin Hln (treasurer), Mr. J H.
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    Governor warns of threat to liberty
    428 13 SINdAI’ORK, JUNE <>• TIIK (Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin (Jintson, yesterday warned Malayan youth against a threat to their liberty from political associations which were under foreign influence. There were many associations in this country, he which sought to destroy “all that we in
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    $14,000 IN LOANS
    74 13 SINGAPORE. June 4. THE Singapore Government. 1 Public Works Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society loan ed $14,400 to 81 of its members between April 1 and Dec 31 1047. The society’s investment account, at book value, stands <■ 2 4n 099 »nd total assets at >)D.*»7O. These
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    PAHANG’S OLD MEN
    66 13 ciMir KUANTAN, June 5. THE old men’s home, Kuantan, recently completed an order for 3,000 bamboo baskets for use In the plantmg of cacao shoots. The older was placed recently w,th the Social Welfare Department, Pahang, by a local ™tatc manager. It is now hoped to receive
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    Officials only greet mission
    323 13 SINGAPORE, June 6. T IIE three-man Australian goodwill mission, headed by Mr. W. MacMahon Bali, arrived at Kallang airport yesterday morning. They were met by the A.D.C. to the Governor of Singapore, Capt. Snowdon, and by Australian officials. Despite opposition voiced in Singapore during the week,
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    Newsprint Quota In Malaya Attacked
    169 13 From Our Staff Correspondent /CRITICISM ~f <u RCALa LUMPUR, June 6. in Malaya Tn Kuah l ne vs|>rint l u,,ta The speaker was Mr. c h"! sUala5 Uala Lum J M,r knight. W k V/, n Goult, the chairman at the inaugural dinner at the
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    AMBULANCE IN CRASH
    92 13 SINGAPORE June 7. An ambulance attached to the Kandang Kerbau Hospital was in collision with a military truck yesterday at the junction of Selegie Road and Short Street. No one was injured. Both the ambulance, which was returning empty to the hospital, and the truck w’ere lightly
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    ‘STRIKE IS AGAINST DIGNITY’
    91 13 ‘STRIKE IS A GAINST DIGNITY’ SINGAPORE t., Workers c n bb intend to strike i, against the art*,, President. Mr. Ko m!“ Guan, on u. M n Swe < Get U lshryif-r warrant. unf! All ofiicial of o,,, told the Strait* tL ln night: Tlme la: “To strike now undignified."
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    S.A.T.A. TOTAL AT $170,608
    113 13 SINGAPORE June 7 Singapore Anti-Tuberculo-sis Association funds, at th» end of last month, stood at $170,608. During la>t month donation were received from Malaya Pit:.* Dig House, si 000 Imperial Ch nacal Industries iMalava Ltd s.yjo Metal Box Co. $250 Sir. QPI) Casket Co.. Ltd $5O:
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    More Nurses For Malayan Service
    58 13 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. June 3-The appointment of six more Nur.-mj Sisters to the Colonial Nursinc Service in Malaya is announced bv the Colonial Offne Thev are Miss- > K Horner. B.C. Hoy land. M Hunter HC Laing. E. Maynard, and M P Woodhall.
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    Society Plans Homes For All
    234 13 SINGAPORE. June 5. A FORECAST that a union of housing soctehfc* »uig*ht be formed in Malaya and that thev niighi employ i heir own staff of experts to design n construct housing estates was made in a statenien issued by the Singapore Government Servants inoperative
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    FUNERAL OF MR. GEORGE LAWTHER
    57 13 J rlt n d» A large gathering l (is( nt a t and relatives occ»r* e the funeral of B j ac iari Lawther. at the Cemetery. yesteru. V v.i> 28 Mr Lawther. was with the H™ 111 Department. p.iliaM He was forni*-rI> v in
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    Police To Guard Estate Manager
    616 14 SINGAPORE, June 8. Hoi. 1 OWING a raid by a gang of seven M Chinese on the Consolidated Eastern ■ant at ions Estate, Rengam, in daylight yesterK v {he manager is to be provided with an K; n j police guard “until further notice.” W
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    Five To Be Banished
    45 14 SINGAPORE. June 8 \NOTHER live Chinese have been ordered to be banished from Singapore. One is connected with an unlawful and dangerous society. two have been convicted of housebreaking, one has returned from banishment and the other is an habitual criminal
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    Drugs Conviction
    38 14 SINGAPORE. June 8. For allowing his room at *26, Upper Weld Road to be used for illegal administration of morphine Cheng Ah Loon was sentenced to 18 months’ rigorous imprisonment in the Second District Court yesterday.
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    Teachers Cable To Bangkok
    148 14 SINGAPORE, June 8. HPHE Singapore Chinese Teachers Union yesterday sent a cable to the Siamese Ministry of Educat on. protesting against the closing down of Chinese schools in Siam. The cable said: “We regret deeply the Siamese Government’s drastic measure of closing down 500 Chinese schools.
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    From an estate bungalow
    439 14 THE young Tamil girl was returning from the field. It is hard to tell the age of some of the children now, for bo many are sadly undersized due to poor food during the occupation. This girl was of a fairly mature age for she was
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    ‘Malayan Mission to Australia’
    618 14 SINGAPORE, June 7. TOR leader of the Australian goodwill mission (Mr. W. Macmahon Ball), at a press conference in Singapore yesterday, said it had been that a group of political and community leaders from the Federation and Singapore should visi<t Australia. They would then have an
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    PILLAY ELECTED TO COMMITTEE
    50 14 Mr. Sandy G. Pillay was appointed by the Singapore Association to be a member of the Parking Problems Committee recently set up by Government. Mr.. Pillay. as the nominee of the Automobile Association of Malaya (Singapore branch), has also been elected to the permanent Safety-First Committee.
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    NEW MOVE TO CUT FOOD PRICES
    167 14 SINGAPORE. June 8. THE Food Control Department is working on a scheme to encourage Singapore retailers to organise small groups to deal direct with foodstuffs importers in order to cut out “middle men” profits. Importers will be asked to try to sell direct to
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    Murdered Officials Found On Roadside
    150 14 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOII, June 7. TWO Malay officials Inche Baihari, Settlement Officer, Kuala Kangsar, and Inche Yusuf, ketua kampong (village headman), Jalong, were brutally murdered while on duty today. The outrage occurred this morning, about four and a half miles from Sungel Siput.
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    Municipal Promotions
    106 15 SINGAPORE. June 8. THE appointment of Mr. T. M. Stevens to the new permanent post of Deputy Municipal Secretary, Singapore, is announced. The post carries a salary of $l,OOO a month. The service of Mr. W. W. Duncan, Municipal Secretary, has been extended for a maximum of one
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    GUNMAN GETS FIVE YEARS
    161 15 SINGAPORE. June 8. An attack by a gang of gunmen on a police party in Singapore in which a European police officer was wounded, was recalled in the Assize Cour yesterday when one of the gunmen. Tan Ban, alias Ho Thiam Seng pleaded guilty to unlawful
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    Assaulted Detective
    29 15 SINGAPORE, June 5. For assaulting a detective in the Orchard Road Police Station on Feb. 18, G. Govindasamy was fined $25 in the First District Court yesterday.
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    Kedah Planters Give Warning
    249 15 From Our Staff Correspondent A LOR STAR, June 7. 4 “VICIOUSLY sustained” attempt is being A made to wreck the rubber industry, the United Kedah Planters’ Association said today. More and more workers were coming under control bv subversive bodies, (he association warned. immoHiite invp*t lent
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    Killed By Truck
    37 15 SINGAPORE. June 4. A 40 years old Chinese stevedore who was run over by a four-ton truck in the Singapore Harbour Board at 10.45 a.m. yesterday, died an hour later at the General Hospital.
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    $2,000 BAIL ESTREATED
    101 15 SINGAPORE. June 8. For failing to appear in the Fourth Police Court yesterday, a man had his cash ball of $2,000 estreated. A warrant was issued for his arrest. He was Kah Tian, a worker employed at the Bin Seng Rubber Factory at Buklt Tlmah Road. He
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    80 Sacked Men Ignore ‘Leave Factory’ Order
    144 15 E SINGAPORE, June 8. IGim dismissed labourers of the Chua Guan Hong rubber factory in Jurong ignored a management deadline to leave the factory yesterday. The men had been told to collect their wage dues at the factory office yesterday, after which they
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    HOUSE DAMAGED
    58 15 SINGAPORE, June 3. Half of the roof of a house in Ewe Boon Road, Singapore was completely damaged when a tree crashed down on it shortly after lunch time yesterday. No one was injured. Mr. Seet Hiong Kiat, the tenant, said he believed that the tree had fallen
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    Malaya Buys More Chinese Textiles
    163 15 SINGAPORE, June 8. piHNA was first in the textiles trade with Malaya !T H la s yeff- She supplied nearly 70,000,000 yards of cotton textiles, compared with America’s 44 700 lino Hong Kong's 44,200,000 and Britain’s 40,600 000 yards’ A small amount of textiles *w,ouu,uvu
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    Strike Averted At Last Minute
    173 15 SINGAPORE. June 8. 4 STRIKE of 600 workers in Keppel and Tanjong dockyards of the Singapore Harbour Board, scheduled for yesterday, was averted by the opening of last-minute negotiations. The issue in the dispute was between carpenters, painters and iron workers and the contractors who
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    Mr. Ball Had An Unpleasant Time
    221 15 MR. MacMahon Ball, 8 will Mission, and his lean, had T' evening when ihey met community 9 L hara home of Ihe Commissioner-Generai dQtrs at th» night. 0n SatunjJ When the time came to leave. Mr. Ball said to his host, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald:
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    CALL FOR MEDIATION
    95 15 From Our Staff ('orrespondent SEREMBAN*. June 4.-A resolution to send two delegates to the Agent of the Government of India and to the Pan -Malayan Federation of Trade Unions at Kuala Lumpur, for their mediation in the strike of Indian labourers on two estates in Negri Sembilan.
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    DEPORTEES & WIVES PUT IN MARELLA
    118 15 DEPORTEES WIVES PUT IN MARELLA SINGAPORE. June b. r r O Australian women and their Chintz deportees from Australia, were or* Marella by the Singapore Immigration yesterday and sent back 4o Australia. The two women—Mrs. Hui Tong, and Mrs. Foo Kai Imm -and their husbands were not allowed to land
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    RUBBER PROFIT—NO DIVIDEND
    137 15 PAN AS Rubber Estate *9l 4? a working profit of $21,574 for the year to last paid 31 N dividend Is to be wri<lng off rehabilitation expenditure and making a reserve against holding in Russell Plantations. tiie balance at the credit of P roflt and ,OSR account
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    EMPLOYERS DEMAND GOVT ACTION
    365 16 I From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, June 8. of industry and comiff merce talked with Sir Ralph Hone, Deputy idmissioner-General (Colonial Affairs) and IfBEdward' Gent, the High Commissioner, at House this morning at a special conferHe on lawlessness. |W'j, s understood that the delegation
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    THE FLAGS OF GOODWILL
    48 16 AS a gesture of existing goodwill and loyalty the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce has issued circulars through schools, associations and members requesting Chinese business premises and residences to fly the Chinese National flag side by side with the Union Jack on ceremonial occasions.
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    Many Leper Children Are Adopted
    163 16 SINGAPORE, June 9. IF people want to adopt a leper child they will have to hurry, the chairman of the Leper Welfare Committee, (Canon R.K. S. Adams) told the Straits Times yesterday. Canon Adams said that the response to the scheme to aid children bv
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    AGRICULTURAL POSTS IN THE COLONIES
    89 16 I <Mlr Own Correspondent LONDON, June 6. lhere are at the t 85 vac ancies for g*™ Officers in the tisfipri u Government is r vi ce hat .conditions of are sat »sfactory. Du* of in the tider f omm °ns by the of State
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    Officials To Study In U.K.
    192 16 From Our Staff. Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, June 8. TWO courses of instruction for officers appointed <o the Colonial Service will be attended by Malayans. The first course will be attended by officers immediately after their selection and before their departure for the Colonies. The second
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    GUNMEN KILL CONTRACTOR
    313 16 SINGAPORE, June 9. A CHINESE contractor was murdered and another contractor had a narrow escape on Monday night when four masked Chinese gunmen burst into the kongsi on the Tong Hin Estate, Masai, south-east Johore. and fired four shots. The murdered man was Pang Piew of the
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    Malaya To Buy Typhus Drug
    81 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 8. MALAYA has begun negotiations with Parke Davis and Company, the American chemists, for the early production of Chloromycetin. Chloromycetin cures scrub typhus instantly. Large-scale production has not yet started and a time lag is inevitable, state local
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    TENT SERVICES
    52 16 PENANG, June 6. Three preachers, Mr. A. Wilson, Miss P. Wilson and Miss U. Hedderman are conducting a special mission in Penang. In a little tent put up on the grounds of the Chinese Merchant’s Club in Mac Alister Road they hold religious services on Sunday. Wednesday and
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    JET TESTS SUCCESSFUL
    133 16 SINGAPORE. June 9. A Vampire, which has been undergoing trials in Singapore and the Federation, has proved that it is a suitable machine for bombing, strafing and general operations under existing climatic conditions here. This was disclosed last night by Flight-Lieut. J. W. Wilson, in a broadcast
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    T.B. FLAG DAY RESULT
    72 16 SINGAPORE. June 9. The Flag Day organised oy the Singapore Anti-Tubercu-losis Association last Friday realised $14,258 for the Association’s T.B. campaign funds There is a possibility that this sum will be further Increased. The chairman of the Campaign Committee of the SATA. Mr. S. H. Peek,
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    Perak Planters Cable To Gent
    398 16 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, June 8. QEMAND for immediate action against lawlessness in Perak was made today in a telegram to the High Commissioner (Sir Edward Gent). This followed an extraordinary general meeting of the Perak State Committee of the Malayan Planting Industries Employers
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    MARKET DISAPPOINTED Rise And Fall Of Tin Shares
    1223 17 From A Market Correspondent f ITTLK letter than average business was done in a week which must be written down as most disappointing. Oponing with kt*cn expectations, the fondest hopes of Tin shareholders were realised on Tuesday with the splendid increase in
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    Straits Trading Co. Loses $390,459
    173 17 iii'Aw SINGAPORE. June 8 H ,n cre as t s thf cos ‘of stores, equipment and M r Pa ?J'“ arly abou 81 Oy the chairman (Mr. E. I?* rras on for 1 loss of $390,459 for Straits Trading Compan y last year The loss
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    6¼ PER CENT FOR SEMPAH
    111 17 From Our Own Correspondent F LONDON. (By Air Mail). E directors of Sempah Rubber Estates Limited recommend payment of a per share dividend. This is equivalent to 6 l 4 per cent The profit on the year to last Nov. 30. was £6.664, Sempah Rubber
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    Steadiness In Rubber
    173 17 June 5 luctance on u,,» pr'Ktm-.d Fluctuation* but nr,., to bt> u li ti e' n ivl other inarko' :>ari ty sale to'Ho: ti r’ IU 5' >;■ pousibl- f,: U lu> part (>; iioi.-i.. r J have nu>ri cent marki t|)| ultimate g t i n
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    Perak R. V. Rubber Dividend
    46 17 Idle Perak River Valley Company will pay a 7 J per coil dividend, less income tax a* 20 pel cent to shareh 'id-r.- r- e:M cl June 14. I The dividend l* on account ill the year to S'pt 30 1948
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    Consumption Of Tin
    67 17 Mr. D A Macka.v, Eastsi manager of Eastern Smelting Company, was reported in the Stmts, Times of June 2 to have said la did not think world consumer would be able to absorb all the t* produced at the new price He now state> that the inclusiao
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    824 17 SINGAPORE. June 8. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers’ Association were INDUSTRIAL*. Buyer Seller Atlas Ice 13.00 14.00 Alex. Brick Ord. 1.60 i.io Pref. 3.00 3.15 B. B. Petrol 43/- 44/-xd B M Trustee 8.75 8.25 Consolidated Tin (O) 24'- 24 '6 Con Tin Smelters do (P)
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    NEGRI BEAT ARMY-NAVY
    348 18 H SEREMBAN, June 6. Kyi inspired soccer, Negri Sembilan defeated p frilly and Navy four goals to two in a Malaya BRi<‘ played at Seremban yesterday to take the in the Southern section with six points from games. ending player for the winners was centreWatson, who led
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    Cycling Meet Next Month
    96 18 op. r. cycling meet, organisoi by the CosmopoSJ C >'cling Club of Singaheld on July 3 Th <; ov._i.ts on July 3 will u“ m:lc hill climb chamS sh, P' <»n Bukit Batok y P Ij n 1 i rd s imen) slowand the 100 ace
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    S.C.C. VICTORY
    17 18 4 £"f a l, or Cricket Club funs le Dockyard XI by the Naval Base
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    Weak Kedah side hold Services
    249 18 KUALA LUMPUR, June 6. KEDAH played a grand defensive game to force a scoreless draw against the Combined Services in a Malaya Cup soccer fixture played at the Malaya District soccer ground in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The northern State’s ability to keep their goal Intact
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    CENTURY BY D. ROSS
    70 18 SINGAPORE June 7. THE Singapore Colony cricketer. Douglas Ross, hit a century for the St. Andrew’s Old Boys’ Association in their match against the Colonials C.C. at Woodsville yesterday. The match was drawn. The 5.A.0.8.A. scored 155 declared for seven <D. Ross 101 retired). The Colonials
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    Selangor win 2-0 at Raub
    215 18 RAUB, June 6. SELANGOR beat Pahang by two goals to nil In a Malaya Cup match played at Raub yesterday. They were worth the victory. Their forwards, served well by Henry, were always a danger. Bin Kheng’s centres had always to be marked. Pahang, however.
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    Women’s XI Defeated
    82 18 Women ’s XI Defeated TAIPING, June 3. IN a thrilling hockey match played in aid of the Welfare Fund yesterday, Taiping Teachers’ Club Veterans defeated a women’s team 5—3. The women put up a great display and netted early through, their inside-right, Miss Yoon Yin. The Veterans equalised before the
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    PENANG BEAT KRIAN 6-0
    56 18 PARIT BUNTAR, June 2. A record crowd saw Penang play grand football lo beat Krian District 6 —o in a match in aid of the Welfare Fund yesterday. Ah Loke <2> and Thean Weng gave Penang a 3—o lead at half-time. Ramlan scored twice and Ah
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    Singapore save a point
    697 18 SINGAPORE, June 6. IN a ding-dong “battle” fought in true Derby style, A Singapore Civilians forced a two-all draw when they met the R.A.F. at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday in the Malaya Cup competition to keep in the lead with five points from three games against
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    Hong Kong To Meet Colleges
    201 18 WITH the arrival of the Hong Kong cricket team on June 17, Singapore will have its first inter-port fixture in 22 years. The Hong Kong team will play their first fixture on June 18. It will be a practice match against an S.R.C.-S.C.C. combined team
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    NRA Shoots: Singapore Placed 5th
    114 18 NRA Shoots Singapore Placed 5th Reuter, LONDON, June 3. HONG KONG did well in the overseas rifle and revolver matches for 1947. the results of which were announced here today by the National Rifle Association. In the Lynch-Staunton Challenge Cup revolver event, Hong Kong were second, four points behind Malta.
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    JOLLILADS WIN
    67 18 SINGAVORK, June 7. Dominating play through out, the Jolll I ads trounced the H Q Embarkation XI 4 —o in a friendly soccer match play ed on the Victoria Schorl ground yesterday. Osman opened accounts in the first half. A few minutes later Salahudln added another goal. In
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