The Straits Budget, 26 August 1948

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    7 1 THE STRAITS BUDGET A,k:,, n 2*i. Pul
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      Turf Club Badges And The Crisis
      533 1 DURING the present emergency, it behoves the public to give the fullest support to the police authorities n their onerous *nri difficult task of tracking lawless elements. The law-abiding citizen has often been assured that the minimum inconvenience would be caused him, but an
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      BLACKOUTS IN KATONG
      76 1 I WOULD be glad if the 1 Municipal Electrical Engineer would issue a statement giving the reasons why there should be three blackouts in seven days in my area. On each occasion the blackout was from 6.45 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. 1 would also be grateful if
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      Fifty Years Ago
      250 1 MAY I continue the reference to an oil discovery in Province Wellesley made in your “Fifty Years Ago” article of Aug. 19. One of the best known firms in the Straits was said to be the victim of a cunning Malay —54,000 was the amount believed to
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      Hamlet Speaks To Asians: Culture In Schools
      650 1 VOUR first leader on A Saturday morning asks the question: “Will Shakespeare ever be really appreciated in Asia?” May I offer a few facts to show that he is already popular in Malaya There have been three Shakespeare plays produced in Singapore in
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      NINE AND A HALF MONTHS AFTERWARDS
      310 1 THE Municipal architect attributes the cause of building delays to a dearth of architects, and estimates the period from inception to materialisation of a building project as two vears at a maximum. Here is an instancy (and there may be others) that will blatantly
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      Jobs For All—All The Time?
      418 1 f to me rece letter in your coinm. headed. “Till- E \p QENCY REGU.atiov MALACCA ;i siNm &nd would lik» to ornuh sise that large-scale gai ful employment bv t Government for its ne pie is practised j n r Union of Souih Afrii the
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      GOLD COAST LESSONS
      964 2 —Straits Times, Aug. 19. L i n Malaya have always r u5 piciou.s of those sweepLaeneralisi.tions about colf,* licN in Africa and Asia r h starry-eyed empirer, inside and outside the Office love to indulge Hf e do not think that there L, useful purpose to be
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      THE GUARDS IN MALAYA
      1066 2 —Straits Times, Aug 20. Malayan morale has been given the boost that it badlyneeded, and given it in a manner eding our highest expectations. It was announced by the War Office on Tuesday after the usual leak in Whitehall which now begins to seem inevitable where
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      KATONG PARK
      235 2 Straits Times. Aug. 21. A most precious opportunity occurs to extend Katong Park along the adjacent empty land up to the Swimming Club, now that the ban on big American cars has caused General Motors to postpone their scheme to build an assembly plant there. Singapore needs all
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      Colonial Colour
      394 2 —Straits Times. Aug. 21.1 A welcome sign of recovery in Singapore is the way in which the last reminders of the occupation are disappearing, one after the other, from the exteriors of the chief public buildings. To anyone who remembers what Stamford Road looked like on September 5,
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      On Being A Boss
      334 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 21. ART OF GROWING OLD" was an intriguing heading in one of the news pages of the Straits Times last Thursday. Feeling that this had an uncomfortably personal application, we looked beneath it, and learnt that Dr. A. W. S. Thevathasan (who has
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      Drawing The Line
      146 3 —Straits Times, A us. 21. Several weeks ago, when one of the leading European clubs in Singapore was asked to modify its rules for guest nights, the main objection raised was that the lads of the village might bring in the ladies of the town. Subsequently it
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      THE SEMBRONG ATTACK
      1062 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 23. The terrorist attack on Sembrong Estate in Johore last Friday morning was not just another attack on a rubber estate: it was an operation which requires to be considered and analysed in itself, as the most serious demonstration that has yet been given
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      THE SECOND PHASE
      1033 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 24.; Many of those who are living and working in those areas of Johore, Selangor, Perak. Pahang and other States which have a large Chinese population of estate workers, squatters and villagers have come to the conclusion that the military and administrative strategy which
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      THE QUID FOR THE QUO
      1003 4 Straits Times Aug. 25. The poMtion of Malaya in to Great Britain’s Ration' under the Marshall is still obscure, blit dcare already under r *y which may be of great spertanee to this country, as •prcducer ol *\vo of the main materials which *he e-
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    From An Estate Bungalow
    457 4 OUR new Malay syce has got something so cheerful about his face that he makes everyone else smile and is a regular tonic to have about the place. He is already very popular with Cookie and his wife for lie is a man of many accomplishments
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    Murder Of Merchant By Maniac
    480 4 mt% I \j d i SINGAPORE, An,. 25. J. N. Becker, an assistant at Watts and n j M Singapore merchants, was shot and killed yesterday by a C hinese who went amok, 1 thethn-d floor of No. 144, Robinson Road, at 12.30 p.m. The
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      60 4 LAWSON —In Singapore. Aug. 19th. 1948, to "Doreen” (nec Linney) wife of L.leut M. S Lawson, 1st Bn The Seaforth Highlanders, a son. GRAHAM At Bungsar Hospital, on 21st August. 1948. T <> Eileen, wife of Malcolm D B Graham. —a son. SCHAATMIOK.-On August 22ncl at 1 Queen Astrln
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    TALK WITH GOVERNMENT
    2012 5  -  A Malayan Countryman’s Diary XI'AN SUNDAY, Aug. 15th. —This last week has been full of incidents. Two days no tapping; labourers’ families sick; crop down owing to wintering; absenteeism among the girl tappers; and so on. I myself took some medical treatment on the 12th. and have
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    Malaya-Europe telephone soon
    235 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 20. flwjjj an international telecommunications 1 Standpoint, Singapore is destined shortly ne the switching centre for the Far L the Federation Director of TeleconununiItions (Mr. H. R. Dowse) forecast today. Dowse will leave Malaya early next month retire in South
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    University Statement
    80 6 SINGAPORE Aug. 19. ■pSecutarv of state has ■./V'- dose touch with K uiv-.rsity Council for Education in the about the appoint■h,.: hist Vice-Chancel-pcsed Universitv ■v-y- :i :n the Singapore t’ ancil. the acting Sectetary. (Mr. An- added that no ■V-;.‘.ru?ut could be made ■:/f r.pens of the Select
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    Holidays For Schools 2 Weeks Late
    163 6 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21. 1' w E N T Y thousand schoolchildren started their annual summer holidays in Singapore yesterday, a fortnight later than usual. The reason for the delay was the nolio outbreak which had given the children a holiday from April Iti to
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    FAREWELL PARTY TO DIRECTOR
    115 6 SINGAPORE Aug. 20. Members of the Education Department gave a farewell dinner party last night to Mr. J B. Neilson, retiring Director of Education, Singapore, who is leaving in a few days for Australia. The Colonial Secretary (Mr. P. A. B. McKerron) was present at the
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    WORKER CRUSHED
    43 6 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. Lam Swong. a 37-year-old labourer employed by the United Engineers, was crushed to death by a mobile crane at Teck Guao Street on Julv 28. At the inquest yesterday the Coroner (Mr. Choor Singh) recorded a misadventure verdict.
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    2 SOLDIERS FOR TRIAL
    73 6 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21 Two Seaforth Highlanders alleged to have forced a taxi driver out his car after hitting him on the head and driven of! were yesterday committed for trial at the next Singapore Assizes. Pte. James John Quinn, 18. and Pte. Robert Howland, 20. were
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    Governor Sees Security Raid
    130 6 SINGAPORE, Au&. 20. THE Governor (Sir Franklin Gimson) and the Commissioner of Police, Singapore (Mr. R. E. Foulger) witnessed a security raid on Hong Kah Village, in Jurong Road. Singayore, at daybreak yesterday. Five Chinese, including a woman, and two Indonesians who could not give satisfactory
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    POLICE SEIZE ARMS, FOOD DUMPS
    271 6 I r r m <>ur Staff fe it r esp°ndent ltocp LlMPUR Au e- 20 |Vrr?- yesterda y found fc lst arms dumps stores in the rV 0f Un rthe d a large Is 5 on fi? m nini hon and M off b °rder
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    RETIREMENT
    42 6 Mr. J. F. Woodford has retired from the Sime Darby Group of Estates. He joined the group in 1911 as a junior assistant on Merlimau Estate and at the time of retirement, he was manager of Kempas Ltd., 10th Mile Estate.
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    Tenant Told To Leave
    215 6 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. tfIRS. Klara van Hien was successful in her action against Miss M. E. Castor, a private teacher, in the Singapore High Court yesterday for possession of room number 35 in the Oranje Building, Stamford Road. The Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Gordon Smith) gave
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    KEEPING WATCH ON SUSPECTS
    369 6 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. GOVERNMENT is considering what steps should be taken further to tighten up on security measures in Singapore. The possibility of raising “self protection corps” for the rural areas is being closely studied. This was announced by the chairman of th? Rural Board (Mr
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    7 terrorists dead in clash
    281 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. UOUR hundred British troops and police, carrying out a large scale sweep ;i» an area between Sungei Way and Sungei BuJoh—a few miles from the Federal capital—this morning, surprised a nest of terrorists and »n a fierce pitched battle killed seven
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    S.H.B. UNION OPENS SCHOOL
    80 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21 THE Neelambikai Tamil 1 School, which closed after the collapse of the Singapore Harbour Labourers’ Union in April, has re-opened. The school had been assisted by the Singapore Harbour Labourers’ Union, and has been re-cpened by the new Singapore Harbour Board Workers' Union.
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    TIN OF BUTTER COSTS $1,000
    49 7 MALACCA, Friday. The District Judge (Mr. F. A. Chua) yesterday fined Lui Nai Chen of Chop Tai Chong $1,000 or six months' hard labour for selling a 12-ounce tin of butter for $2 Th fixed retail price of the tin of butter was S1.20.
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    SHELL. EMPLOYEES’ UNION REGISTERED
    63 7 SINGAPORE. Aug. 22. addition to the list of trade unions registered in Singapore is the Shell Company Employees’ Union, Singapore. There are altogether 167 registered trade unions in Singapore This number is likely to be reduced within the next lew months unless defaulting unions send in
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    SCHOOL GIFT TO PENANG
    71 7 PENANG. Mon. Th e millionaire and philanthropist. Mr. Lim Lean Teng, has donated a 31J-acre site for the building of a Chinese school in Penang. The site, near the Penang Free School in the Green Lane and Batu Lanchang area, will be the largest school site
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    DROPPED CARDS GAVE HIM AWAY
    83 7 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21. Three red cards fell from the pocket of Tan Ah Leong at 10.15 a.m. on Aug. 10 as he took some money at a shop at Rochore Road. That was enough for a detective, who was trailing Tan, to arrest him. Yesterday.
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    BOY FOR GAOL
    51 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 22. PNANG, Fri.—Eighteen-yrar-ciU schoolboy Singam was today sentenced to one month’s gaol foi broach of trust of two gold chains Defence Counsel (Mr. K. K. Pillai) told the District Judge CMr. Rogers) ‘hat the boy’s fathei was willing to make good the value of the
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    REGISTRATION IN N. MALAYA
    81 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 21. IN order to seal off Kedah and Perils from Communist penetration from Siam, national registration is to begin in the two states from Aug. 25. An official announcement says that Chinese residents in the following areas must apply for registration cards: Sanglan.
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    ‘OLD GIRLS’ AT PARTY
    124 7 SINGAPORE. Aug. 22. THE Lady Superior of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, the tßev. Mother St. Charles) welcomed nearly 100 Old PupiLs of the Convent at the first “At Home” held at the Convent since the war. A variety concert’ by present and former
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    15 CHINESE FINED FOR GAMBLING
    43 7 SINGAPORE. Aug. 22. FIFTEEN Chinese, caught gambling on Friday at 12, Gopeng Street, were each fined $25 in the Second Police Court, Singapore, yesterday. The Magistrate, Mr. L. C Goh. ordered that $125 be given to the informer.
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    SMOKING TO COST MORE
    261 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 21. pipe tobacco, matches, imported bicycle, motor car and motor cycle tyres, and tea, will now cost more in the Federation as the result of an increase in Customs duties. The increase means that in the case of popular brands, the price of
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    S’pore jewel stolen in Bangkok
    110 7 S’pore jew e l stolen in Bangkok T SINGAPORE am, M HE $20,000 C,* f -m gems, jeweller? mU H bracelets report, d d from the Customs Deni ment strong room at P ?1 Muang aerodrome, Banal while in transit from the to Singapore is the miM of the Singapore
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    DEAD BANDIT HAD RECORDS
    103 7 JOHORE BAHRU Aug d THE bandit shot by Gurkd in the Sedenak area d terday has been identified Pang Koon Yin. a notorfl criminal. 1 Born in Kajang about! years ago, he was a rud tapper until the Japanese! vaded Malaya, when he came a guerilla.
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    AIRLINE OFFICIAL WEDS IN S’PORE
    79 7 SINGAPORE. Aug. U FE wedding of Miss p Alexandra Keyt. data ter of the late Mr. W® Arthur Keyt and Mrs. K*j® Singapore, and Mr. A® Witmer. son of Mr. and Anton Witmer. Sr., of doom. Holland, took place® terday at the Cathedral ofl Good
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    YOUTH SENTENCED
    34 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. —Edward Fernanch-.’. year-old boy. wa* b’ the District Judge '< months’ simple iir.i H ment. the sent-'-a served in an approve! sc for dishonest 50 cooies of the S:ni'- t:
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    Two terrorists killed at mine.
    149 7 IPOH. Aug. TWO Chinese terrorists were killed in the hours of this morning when a force attacked a police post on the Wan lee Rfl 12 miles north of Ipoh. I After a brief battle the police beat on attackers. There were no police casualties.
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    Robbery charge against Chinese
    52 7 SINGAPORE AUg.B AChme.se, Chew I wSl was charged M Seventh Singapur;Court yesterday Kj Cheng Su Cnew of articles worth >' 1 at 2 a m. The alleged said to have been c0 1 i fe r. in a boat in Sii cUS Chew was remanc todv
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    K. L. WANTS A HOSPITAL
    287 8 I rom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18. m \LA Lumpur Municipal Commissioners are i of the “considered opinion” that the Mu.iialitv should provide for the erection jf a “to he financed out of a loan fund in Uptime way as extension to water
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    AIRPORT CUSTOMS CATCH MAN
    45 8 lf G -VS- 18. -Ooi Kee Pleaded guilty he District Judge (Mr. atUmutin to ex v -ohibited goods. to* as fined $10. The l ere confiscated. ta w etaiued ar Ba van £> r P°rt on Aug. 11 'O' a customs search.
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    “Hands Up” He Said-Bound Over
    237 8 “Hands Up” He SaidBound Over SINGAPORE Aug 19. JOHANNES Bonde. 19. a Danlsh seaman, is lucky to be able to leave Singapore for his homeland today. But for the leniency shown him yesterday by the Singapore Assize iudge (Mr. Justice Brown) he might have been doing a long prison term
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    SEAMEN’S BILL: FIRST READING
    58 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. The Merchant Shipping (Registration and Supply ui Seaman. Amendment) Bill had its first reading at Tuesday’s meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council. If it becomes law. a Seamen's Registration Bureau will be established. Seamen will be able to obtain employment without having to
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    Priority For Sewers Urged
    156 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18 THE Municipal ComA missioners made a token vote of $1 in this year’s Municipal Budget to authorise preliminary investigations into the proposed $l6 million sewerage scheme. The token vote is made pending a decision on financial responsibility for
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    “UNUSUAL DRUG FOR CHINESE”
    61 8 PENANG, Aug. 18.-Ong Hock Koon told the District Judge Rogers today that he was asthmatic and required ganja a.> medicine. Ong was fined $2OO or three months’ gaol for having a packet of ganja. The prosecutor (Mr. Whittles* said it was unusual for a Chinese to
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    CALL TO JUSTIFY EXISTENCE
    226 8 Aug. 19. Federation of [trade lm nions is one of Un u n ‘I re 8istered in SL t at ha ve had egg? on th eir precau l upon them to h Uley should V k 0 r the re isterjig th o 0ti es
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    CEYLON SENDING MINISTER
    144 8 SINGAPORE Aug. 19. CHILDREN of Ceylonese parents born in Malaya will be eligible, on return to Ceylon, for the same privileges as those born in the Dominion This assurance was given to Mr S. Ponnampalam (member of the Johore State Council) by the Prime Mini «ter of
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    Mukim Councils To Aid Defence, Urge
    201 8 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Aug. 18. 4 MALAY Unofficial Member, Mr. M. I. Merican, A urged today the appointment of Mukim Councils to aid in Kedah’s defence organisation during the present emergency. “Such councils would also provide useful training ground tor the
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    NO POISONS FOR UNAUTHORISED
    47 8 SINGAPORE Aug. 19. To prevent distribution of poisonous drugs to unauthorised persons, the Singapore Legislative Council on Tuesday approved the Poisons (Amenrmcnt) (No. 2) Rules, 1948. The Director of Medical Services (Dr. W. J. Vickers) proposed the motion. It was passed without comment.
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    Police kill 10 terrorists
    521 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. DOUCE and Gurkhas killed ten terrorists and captured many others in two battles yesterday. Police casualties were one (unstable killed and a senior inspector wounded. A small police investigation party whi *h was ambushed by over 40 terrorists -0 miles north of Johore
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    Shot dead attacking terrorists
    744 9 SINGAPORE, Aus. 21. A EUROPEAN assistant estate manager was killed yesterday in a gallant attempt to silence two terrorist Bren guns firing on a rescue party during a raid by over 100 terrorists on Sembrong Estate, in the Layang Layang area of Johore. With no thought
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    ALLEGED FORGED PETROL COUPONS
    74 9 SINGAPORE. Aus. 21. A photo lithographer from the Survey Department in Kuala Lumpur, Mr B. S Smith, gave evidence against two Chinese in the Singapore Ninth Police Court, yesterday in a case relating to counterfeit petrol coupons. The two Chinese are Ong Kim Yong and Wan
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    Scholarship Awards
    206 9 SINGAPORE Aug. 19. THREE Singaporeans have been awarded Queen’s scholarship ana fellowships this year by the Scholarships and Fellowships Board. They are Dr Yaliya Cohen, a graduate of the King Edward VII College of Medicine and Miss Chua Sui Eng, a graduate of Raffles College who have been
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    CALL FOR “BOOK OF SINGAPORE”
    131 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. QIR Roland Braddell, newly elected president, of the Friends of Singapore Society, suggested yesterday that the society should produce a book containing old prints, watercolours and modern photographs of Singapore. The old prints and watercolours. Sir Roland said, were available from Raffles
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    WHY BIRTH RATE FELL
    378 9 SINGAPORE, Auir •>, I REASONS for the pronounced drop in' J numhcr f girths in Singapore during hi Japanese occupation, and the big j ncrc deaths during the same period, were nublkhll yesterday. Nu '4 Relative figures and comment were mm.,, I in the report on
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    BANDITS KILL KONGSI HEAD
    40 9 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21. Five terrorists yesterday raided the house of the Supervisor of Ban Sin Kongsi. in the Sungei Besi area of Selangor, stole $200 in cash and $200worth of jewellery, and shot the supervisor dead.
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    In Action 4 Hours After Being Posted
    164 9 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21 ex-members of tl Palestine Police, pai of the force being now to Malaya to fight the te: rorists. were in actic within four hours i being posted to estates the Mentakab district Pahang. They arrived at fi p.m, Wednesday and
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    FIRST B.O.R. VICTIM
    80 9 Kuala Lumpur. Aug. Armed troops and police on guard at the Chedras Rfl Cemetery today at tne nmfl of the first B O R. to be by terrorists. fj The name of the soldier |W not been disclosed by tlu Afl authorities. He was killed when a
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    TWO SINGAPORE ACCIDENTS
    62 9 SINGAPORE Aug. An Indian cyclist and 91 year-old Malay woman trian were seriously m street accidents The cyclist was a collision with a mo in Geylang Road at 1 :> Mj: The woman was inven<»p a collision with a cyclist in Beach Road aw" p. m. They
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    Move to define terrorism
    307 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. lg(;UL department spokesman said in i kuaia Lumpur yesterday that the Colonial and the Federation Government ware iiderinu whether a state of insurrection, jJlion or war existed in the country. ‘fids follows questions by the F.M.S. '•mber of Commerce and the United Planting
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    Death Of Mrs. Blanche Clowe
    87 10 SINGAPORE Aug. 19. Blanche Clowe, sister Cornfield and the i* l C B. Leicester of SjJPore. was killed in a u', car accident in Los \>;: es on July 3i. C'lowe was born in vV r0 ai *d went to America ".•ears aso. ■k of
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    UNION SECTION DISSOLVES
    79 10 UNIO N SECTION DISSOLVES Aug. 19. Wanor c ln M eso Sect ion of the ISUonhS .^J, Val Base Labour fl final? dlsSolved because w a C a difficulties, the SlBas rt °T f T he Keion7 ase i V ni °n (Mr. M. K. Vs Straits noa stated that
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    Charge Then Praise
    109 10 From Our Own Correspondent TKLtIK ANSON, Aug. 18. TAN Siew Fun, who was 1 charged with breaking the curfew at th c 9tli mile road-block, at the junction of Bedor-Kampar-Telok Anson Hoads on Aug. 1, was jesterday discharged and complimented by the District Judge (Mr. J. G.
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    Friends Of Singapore Membership
    311 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. THE Friends ot Singapore—an organisation whose ■object is to stimulate interest in the cultural and historical life of Singapore—is aiming at a wider membership. t An appeal to members of i tbe public who had the good of Singapore at heart to Join
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    POOR STAFFING A RISK TO COLONY
    184 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. DEFERENCE to the risks to the economic IV prosperity of Singapore from inadequate or inexperienced stalling of the Secretariat of Economic Affairs was made by the acting Colonial Secretary and substantive Secretary for Economic Affairs (Mr. A. Gilmour) in the Legislative
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    Farewell Party
    59 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 18. Mr W R. Dowse, DirectorGeneral’ of the Telecommunications Department. Federation of Malaya, who is retiring, and Mrs. Dowse were entertained to a tea party hy the Telecoms Telephone Operators Association on Sunday. European and A inn officers of the department including representatives of the
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    Appeal To Indians
    58 10 BENTONG Aug. 18. An appeal to Indians not to forget the land of their adoption and to make some “tangible contribution” to its well-being in the way of schools and charitable institutions, was made by Mr. Athi Nagappan. editor of the Tamil Nesan. when he addressed an
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    Prefab factories in Colony plan
    313 10 SINGAPORE, Auir 19 JNDUSTRIAL estates including prefabricated factories for the Singapore of the future are envisaged in the report of Singapore Housing Committee which was set up in May 1917 and which reported this week. success of industrial estates has been proved elsewhere, says the
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    Registration In Penang
    52 10 From Our Stafl Correspondent PENANG, Aug. 18. of all civilians in renang are expect 1 tc he ready “within the next few days.” The T> «ddent C—'oiissioner (Mr. A. V. As >) indicated this to the Straits Times today. Registration, he >•! would he “Settlement-wide.” The scheme
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    Colony Police Powers Of Arrest Modified
    225 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. AMENDMENTS to the Emergency Regulations have been approved by the Singapore Legislative Council which qualify the powers of the police m regard to arrest and taking possession of property. A police officer of or above the rank of inspector may not
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    Local Airline Wants Asian Pilots
    257 10 SINGAPORE, A ig. 19 THE Tralllc Superintendent of the Malayan Airways, Mr. D. E. M. Fiennes, said vesterdav that the airline wanted a number of trained Asian pilots for its service. Malayan Airways is at present advertising in both Malaya and Hong Kong for pilots
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    Terrorists Ambush Bus
    195 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18. FOUR murders were reported in the Federation today. About 15 terrorists ambushed a bus at Kampong Luas In the Kroh area of Kedah, about half a mile from the Siam border. They killed one passenger and wounded six. A Malay immigration ofilccr is
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    Labour Board’s Proposal
    393 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. A PROPOSAL that wage changes, conditions of employment and retrenchment of staff (as distinct from dismissals of individuals on reasonable grounds) be frozen for thi period of the present Emergency has been unanimously recommended to the Government oy the Singapore labour Advisory Board. The
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    HEAVY FINES IN LOTTERY CASES
    87 11 SINGAPORE Aug. 19. The Second Police Court Magistrate, Singapore, yesterday found Ong Chin Chai, a 16-year-old shop assistant guilty of assisting in the carrying on of chap ji kee (public lottery) and fined him $1,000, in default six weeks’ simple imprisonment. Another Chinese, Neo Ah
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    Prefabs May Solve Crowding
    201 11 SINGAPORE Aug. 20. PRE FABRICATED houses may be a large factor in solving the overcrowding problem in Singapore, says the report of the Singapore Housing Committee published this week. In properly laid out trading estates, with their own shopping centres, schools, churches. clinics, playgrounds and places
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    CONVERSATION PIECE
    144 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. SINGAPORE Rural Board was admonished by one of its unofficial members Mr. Chin Chye Fong yesterday for not conducting its affairs with sufficient formality. Mr. Chin, in an open blue sports shirt and smoking a pipe, said he knew they were a friendly little gathering
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    Govt. Men Dislike New Terms
    255 11 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Aug. 20. (GOVERNMENT servants 1 who wish to be placed [on the new salary scales recommended by the Public Services CommitI tee have been asked to sign an “irrevocable option.” This option provides for acceptance of the new terms cf
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    2 B.O.R.s FOR TRIAL
    88 11 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU Aug. 19. Pte. MacKenzie Gallon and Pto. Walker appeared again in court here today on a charge of armed robbery at Pulo Babi. Mersing. Mr. McCall, Federal Counsel, applied for the transfer of the case to the High Court on
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    2,000 “SPECIALS” IN JOHORE
    122 11 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 19. •T'HE State of Johore has re- cruited over 2.000 Special Constables up to date and the number is being increased day by day. The majority who have Joined up are Malays. Five per cent are Indians. The Chinese
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    CHINESE FESTIVAL RAISES FISH PRICE
    249 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. TPHE annual Chines? festival of the Seventh Moon has caused Singapore fish prices to rise. Lavish celebrations, which included decoration of some municipal markets, on Wednesday brought in- creased buying. To meet this extra demand there was a reduced catch because 01
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    Peer In Malaya To See For Himself
    290 11 SINGAPORF THE people of Malaya did not anxious the people of England wen. h Malayan affairs, said the Conservative i» eßar(li Mancroft, in an interview with the sirvi er yesterday. a,ts Lord Mancroft arrived in Singapore from the United Kingdom on Tuesday, to
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    TERROR CHIEFS HELD
    473 11 SINGAPORE. Auc >ol TWO terrorist loa'J 1 n,n h ?o V 5» een ca PturedH i the last two days. I i p °J ice captured the in t h h e t v r0rist °rgunisaaH m the \ong p Cn g ;irea Johore cn Wednesday I
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    ANIMALS LEAVE FOR U.S.
    163 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. AFTER being held up in Singapore for nearly a month because of the shortage ol shipping space to the United States, Filipino wild animal trapper. Mr. Johnny Royoia, has found a ship to take his animals. Mr. Royoia will put the bulk of
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    Funeral of Mr. John Boden
    61 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 22. A LARGE gathering attended the funeral of Mr. John Boden. assistant manager of Chemara Estate. Johore. at Bldadari cemetery last evening Mr. Boden was shot dead by terrorists on Friday morning while attempting to silence two Bren guns firing on a rescue
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    MAIL TRUCK TURNS TURTLE, 2 HURT
    62 13 BENTANG Aug 21. T'HE mail truck from Kuan--1 tan to Kuala Lumpur turned turtle as a result of an accident at the 82nd mile about 8.40 this morning Pahang mails were delayed about two hours, but they were sent on by other transport later.
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    NO PRICE CARD
    48 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. For falling to display a price card beside two tins of condensed milk in his showcase at 79, Hill Street at 10 a m. on Aug. 21, Mohamed Yusof, proprietor of the shop, was fined $100 in the Second District Court yesterday.
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    RURAL WEST BY-ELECTION
    228 13 THE Progressive Party has namcri Mr. Cheong Hock Chye as its :andidate for the Rural West by-election. The Legislative Council seat was made vacant by the death of T.lr. S. C. Goho. Nomination Day is only a fortnight away and Mr. Cheong is so far the only
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    AGED 6, GETS SPECIAL PRIZE
    180 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 22. THE former president of the 1 Singapore Stamp Club, Mr. Andrew Gilincur. himself an ardent sfamp-collec-ter from the age of six. yesterday handed a special prize tc six-year-old Nicolai T?bnefT. the youngest competitor at the first junior philatelic exhibition and competition arranged
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    JOINS UP AT 76
    31 13 SEREMBAN. Saturday. A 76-year-old Chinese was one of those who signed up for the Negri Sembilan Chinese auxiliary police at a meeting to call for recruits today.
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    Bangkok Mayor In Colony
    187 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21. 'THE Lord Mayor of A Bangkok (Mr. Prapat Wattanasan) is on a visit to Singapore. He told the Straits Times yesterday that Siam expects to be in a position to export more and more r ce each year trom now cn. Mr. Prapat
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    CYCLIST DIED BY MISADVENTURE
    60 13 SINGAPORE Aug. 20. A misadventure verdict was recorded vesterdav bv the Singapore Coroner (Mr Choor Singh) on Tay Ah Chye, a 19 year-old cyclist, who was run over by a lorry on Aug. 12 at Upper Scrangoon Road. Evidence was given that Tay was riding his
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    Frontier Force Patrols Siam Border
    135 13 SINGAPORE Aug. 20. A FRONTIER Force formed recently in Kedah Is now guarding the border between Malaya and Siam. The members are men familiar with the local jungle. The Forces consists of Malay youths who have served in such units as Force 136, the Malay
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    $240,000 FOR T.B. CARE AT HOME
    269 13 SINGAPORE \iifr if I SINGAPORE’S Director of Medical Service!’ }l I J. Vickers) told the Legislative Conn, n Ur W day that he had asked the Secretary f« r So!?. 1 1 fare to include $240,000 in his budget for i n "w and
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    PENSIONER IN BANKRUPTCY
    89 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21. Mohamed bin Ibrahim, a government pensioner, agreed yesterday in the Singapore Bankruptcy Court to the payment of $lOO from his gratuity of $1,426 towards his creditors. This payment would allow the Official Assignee to pay a dividend of over 80 per cent in his
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    Illicit Arms: 3 ‘Partners’ Gaoled
    181 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. A MAN whom the Singapore Assize Judge (Mr. f* Justice Brown) described as the “senior partner” in an illicit arms dealing business was sentenced to eight years’ rigorous imprisonment yesterday. was Tay Ah Bah who. thinking that a detective was a gangster
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    Municipal Buses In Colony Plan
    111 13 SINGAPORE. Aug l| A MUNICIPAL or otß publicly-owned trail port system for Sing pore is forecast bv I report of the Housl Committee, placed befd the Legislative Court this week. 1 The report, which Mg J eight satellite towns for 1 outskirts of Singapore, i
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    2 Years For Receiving.
    129 13 SINGAPORE. Aue. 2m HAJI STnikur bin H Alt a 26-vear-B Indonesian, was yes\M day told that he wasH extremely dangerous fl ceiver of stolen propeB and sentenced to tfl years' rigorous imprisA merit by the DisM Judge (Mr. E. P. ShanW Haji Shukur was convifl on
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    GURKHA PATROL KILLS BANDIT
    111 13 Ails. A British Gurkha was shot in the arm day during a skirmish w* bandit, who w*as Kilicci ing the shooting. T d Unofficial sources m last night told the S| Times that the u' place on Sedenak LsU Bu They said the band J,* being
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    Appeal After Kedah Clash
    211 14 I From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 23. L-pl'FNCES to a Sino-Malay clash in the district of Baling in Kedah was made In an I.. statement issued tonight. ■Laid that the Mentri Besar ar.d the British IT Kedah, had visited the area today. The
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    “Nice To Be In England”
    107 14 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. KK in Singapore is Mr. wifA Khahk. the jewelHfr: a thr-- -months visit ar.d Europe. And he <aid vesterday V some of the countries ■Mted: York .ir.d Chicago, ■Bf L>: t\vu people in a nttmanity and endand houses. NoHPMttced iv nobody bogiv®
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    EQUAL PAY RESOLUTION
    58 14 4 t iP a sed a reso il the Payment to h ker s, irrespective H work ri QUal Wages for t K d °ne on planta- whlch «>* W e r f f hlr d annual HnV J?; Nr ri Semalso urged r Poun H L°v
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    $3,276 Due On Tobacco
    128 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. POUND guilty of having 1 stored 780 pounds of Malayan tobacco for which duty amounting to $3,276 had not been paid, a 31-year-old Indian named Marimuthu was yesterday sentenced to pay a fine of $5OO, or to undergo 10 weeks’ rigorous imprisonment in
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    Farmers Now Unemployed
    162 14 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. Farmlands in the Kim Keat Road area. Potong Pasir. and part of Braddell Road, have given way to housing, writes a Chinese correspondent. Some farmlands, forced out of work for the move, have become labourers. trishariders and shop assistants But in the outlying districts
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    Fishermen Have Many Worries
    264 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. ’pIRATES last year ioot--1 ed fishermen’s catches and tackle, states the Fisheries Department in its annual report. The report refers to “the shadow of income tax looming heavily over all those indulging in the precarious business of fishing." Kelantan fishermen organised beach look-outs
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    GROCERS MAY GO FROM MARKETS
    109 14 SINGAPORE. Aug. 24. GROCERS may have to quit Singapore’s markets next year, if a committee recommendation of the Municipal Commissioners is confirmed this week. The recommendation is that markets should be tor perishable goods only. This would mean that rice, salt, sugar, tinned food ana
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    New Arrest In College Hold-Up
    162 14 SINGAPORE, Auk- 24. A SECOND man accused of armed robbery at the College of Medicine on Jan. 29, appeared in the Seventh Police Court, yesterday. He was Mohamed All bin Mohd Rais, a 29-year-old Javanese of Coronation Road. It was alleged that Mohamed All, with
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    Director Pledges More Information
    219 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 23. THE Director of Information, Colonial Office (Mr. I K. W. Blackburne), who has been touring Malaya for three weeks, told a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today that he felt there was room for improvement in the information
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    5 YEARS’ EACH
    63 14 l/’UALA LUMPUR. Aug. 24 —TWO youths. Suppiah and Rama* chardram. were today sentenced to five years’ hard labour enrh at the Assizes for robbing a 73-year-old physician of cash and Jewellery to ‘he value of $750. The youths were stated to nave gone to the physician’s house
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    COLONY FORCE SAILS TO RAID JOHORE
    406 14 TROOP* ui- StNGAPORE, Au K 24. JROOPS and I ohee from Singapore raided Johore on Sunday, it was tne first fullscale offensive to be organised from the Colony into the Federation. y Pniw C ?™?n. lorc of Singapore Police, Johore Pohce. Inniskilllngs. Royal Artillery,
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    FIVE YEARS FOR HAVING PISTOL
    78 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. Ong Ok, was sentenced to five years’ rigorous imprisonment yesterday In the Singapore Assize Court by Mr. Justice Brown on a charge of carrying arms. Ong Ok was arrested by a detective in Upper Weld Road, on May 12. with a .48
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    CONTEMPT CASE JUDGMENT
    2365 16 I From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 24. I.M justice Spencer Wilkinson in a judgement today held that the Straits Times Lcs had committed contempt of court by Ebbing a letter %vnich tended to prejudice the E, disposal of criminal proceedings before a E,rt of
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    First To Land In Singapore
    234 16 AUSTRALIAN WIVES OF MALAYS SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. THE first two Australian wives of Malay seamen A to be permitted to land in Singapore, arrived by the Burns, Philp Line ship Marella from Sydney yesterday. They are Mrs. Ahmat bln Osman and two children, and Mrs.
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    MODERATE TURNOVER ON STEADY MARKETS
    818 17 From A Market Correspondent MALAYAN markets were generally steady and on a moderate turnover quotations improved over the week. Operators would appear to have become inured to the vagaries of daily conflicting reports on Berlin and to be decided to take the long view in
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    Sungei Tukang Crop
    15 17 gUNGEI Tukang Rubber Company harvested a croo of 77.000 lbs. in July.
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    Estate Rubber Production Up
    347 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 24. rflE Federation estates* production of rubber for July of 35,193 tons was the highest figure since November, which was a post-war record of 36,050 tons. Production showed an increase ol 1.947 tons, from 33.246 in June to 35.193
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    Cold Stor. Capital Increase
    149 17 SINGAPORE Cold Storage doctors announce that the company will increase its paid-up capital to $3,445,314. The object is to help finance rehabilitation and development. Shareholders will be offered 574 219 new shares, of $2 p;,value each, in the ratio of ore new share for every two
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    The Week In Rubber
    193 17 SINCE last b*en V exSc r e<, m^‘| PeaJ s a weekir^' iS 1 The diacuith, m ket insurance against all the short-term cover 0 fleSdJ caused holders tc real! d 4 than carry large stock! ra f I: ts reported that \u 1 mid-wwk prices
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    Tin Figures For July
    55 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Tuej DESPITE terrorist activfl tin ore production in tfl Federation increased by nej ly 400 tons in July. The July production 5.159 long tons of which Peii produced 3.387; SelanJ 1.364: Negri Sembilan. ll Pahang 122; Johore. 47; m lacca. 13: Trengganu. 1 Kedah.
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    12½% DIV. FOR KINTA KELLAS
    32 17 12 DIV. FOR KINTA KELLAS KINTA Kellas Tin Drcan directors will propose a d dend of 124 pei cent, at annual meeting on Oct. 22. approved, it will be payable Oct. 25.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    847 17 SINGAPORE Aug 25. Prices quoted oy the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association toda\ were INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Atlas Ice 14.00 15.00 Alex Brick Ora i 60 i.ro Pref 3.05 3.15 8.8. Petrol 40 3 41/3 B M Trustees 900 950 Consolidated Tin fO> 21/6 22 '6 Con rtn Smelters
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    R.A.F WIN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
    365 18 By MALCOLM USHER SINGAPORE, Aug. 22. Rova l \ir Force, last year’s winners of the ...nor, Representative Athletic Team Enionsliip. retained their title at R.A.F. Seletar, J* afternoon, returning 118 points for jc evtMits. i"»l placings were 1. R.A.F. 118 pts; iLpoiv A.A.A. 106 pts; 3.
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    NEGRI DEFEAT MALACCA 3-0.
    69 18 fciRPMDM CCA AUg 2L ■7 -N brat Malacca ,ls t0 nl1 411 ■L... V’ 7ball :n Malacca yesia sway for the K£ rt of tbe game and Bit ijf bv a bi 8ger mariB|rv.‘ ,iC 1 'did display by K 1: Malacca goal K‘J rs g°al
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    SAFA Cup Entries Restricted
    184 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. THE Singapore Amateur K Football Association Cup competition, scheduled to begin in the latter part of September, will be limited to 24 teams in Singapore. This was decided at a meeting of the S.A.F.A. league committee yesterday. The decision to limit the number
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    MYRA CUP POLO
    153 18 TWO Singapore Polo Club teams competed for the Myra Cup on Aug. 18 on the Thomson Road polo ground. The game was keenly contested and some delightful polo was seen. The Red team won by 34 to 2 goals For the victors Mai. Harding scored two goals
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    CUP FINAL: DATE UNFIXED
    168 18 Ralump'' rr,,sp<>ndent P trial rt 1 R A P |rU 24. PVe'/ 1 cSp b&'?sf5,a ■Ida] lay evening, ■ttion n c le Football ingor told HStat •> y F-A.S. Is H th eom tneetln at r said, “in- regar >ng the date and place of the
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    Records Of New English Racehorses
    211 18 From EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 24 IV/lEATH, Conturius and Little Ned, three English horses entered for the Selangor Turf Club August-September Meeting. were winners in England last season. Meath, a three-year-old ba> filly by Gold Mint II out of Love of Gain, a Gainsborough
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    S.C.C. RUGBY MEETING
    81 18 SINGAPORE Aug. 20. At a meeting of the Rugby Section of the Singapore Cricket Club last night, the following office-bearers were elected Captain: Mr. Gordon Taylor, vice-captain, Mr. Keith Wilsoa, secretary, Mr. A.F. de Franck Mr. W.M. Quayle continues in office as the convenor of the Rugby
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    PENANG IN M.C.F.A. CUP FINAL
    181 18 PENANG, Aug. 21. pENANG became Noun section i finalist. in the Malayan Chinese Inter-State soccer compeJtion for the Yeap Hock Hoe Cup by defeating Perak by two goals ic nil in a thrilling game, yesterday Penang opened scoring five minutes from the interval when Hock
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    St JOSEPH’S WIN EASILY
    51 18 ST. Josephs Institution beat No. 3 Group Ceylon Pioneer Corps, by five wickets In a cricket match at Woodlands on Sunday. Scores: Ceylonese 123 (Cpl. Cruxe 40. Scully five for 45. A Delikan five for 21); S.J.I. 135 for five (J. Delikan 73. Pere-ra three for
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    Malayan Olympic Players Return
    375 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. THE two Singapore players in the China Olympic soccer team, Chia Boon Leong and Chu Chee Seng, returned yesterday afternoon. They arrived by plane from Bangkok, where the China team played a number of games before resuming their journey to Manila. Yeap Cheng
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    9 Records Broken At Athletic Meet
    380 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 22. VINE records were broken at ttie All-Mai*van 4h ld p“? eyl n^ e athletic sports meeting held at the Princes; Road stadium. Records were set up in 100 yds., hop, step and jump, 880 yds., high jump, three miles, 880
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    TANGLIN CLUB DEFEATED
    115 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. IN the ttrst of a series of tennis matches between the Tanglin Club and local teams, the Malay Sports Association defeated the Tanglin Club by three games to one at the Club courts yesterday. The following were the results (Malay players mentioned first) I.
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    RAF WIN 1st TEAM RACE
    112 18 SINGAPORE Aug. 20 THE three-mile team race winch was held a l R.A.P. on Wednesday as the first event in the Singapore representative team ahletlc championships resulted In an easy win for the Royal Air Force. Individual winner was F/O J L. Meek if! of
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