The Straits Budget, 25 November 1948

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    7 1 THE STRAITS BUDGET Noven'v,. o*. I l!)4l
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      STRAITS-BORN CHINESE EDUCATION
      301 1 IN your leader of Nov. 16. “THE CHINESE STRONGHOLD,” you stated: But certainly these products of the Chinese vernacular school (where they have had any schooling at all) have been educated for life In China rather than in Malaya. And whose fault is that? The answer to
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      The Malayan Police Officer: By Mr. Onraet
      567 1 AS a retired and ever proud member of the Malayan Police Force, let me thank you for your leader of Monday, Oct. 18, 1948 headed, “THE PALESTINE POLICE”. It sets out so clearly and so fairly what should have been the correct method
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      Local Chinese Puzzle And Its Solution
      342 1 I WAS very interested in your leader, “THIS CHINESE STRONGHOLD,” on Nov. 16. You have revived my hope that some day the powers-that-be will put their heads together and devise some simple scheme whereby the Chinese of this British Colony may be brought together.
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      A CHINESE ON TOJO’S HANGING
      167 1 THE clear-cut views expressed in your editorial of Nov. 15, “THE HANGING OF TOJO” and the pertinent extract from “The Great Assize” are highly commendable. I hold no brief for the sentenced Japanese wai criminals. Few are qualified to question the ludgments of the Allied
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      CITY FATHERS FOR 7 MONTHS
      155 1 V WONDER how many would-be candidates for the Municipal Elections realise that should the strain and expense of their campaign result in placing them third in the poll, their term of office will be from the Ordinary Meeting of the full body of Commissioners at
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      GUARDS ON PARADE
      175 1 I HAVE j U: 7 1 from the n two friends. “L® several empl ..‘M outnumbered tally murden W rorists. Le For the past H the enemy have b to operate with vL°?M punity in that ar. [n dally paper I not: K 8 l“ 300 UUnh
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      The Sultan Of Johore
      458 1 T7ERY many thanks for your leader of Saturday, Nov. 13, headed “THE SULTAN’S TROOPS”, in which I see that you have stated: In 1941 the J.M.F. were mobilised. but before the Japanese invaded Johore they were disbanded and sent to their homeson advice tendered to the
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  • The Straits Budget
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      FEDERATION BUDGET
      887 2 —Straits Times. Nov. 18. j,.,lay is Budget Day in the L t 2i>lative Council of the non, but it is not quite mentous an occasion for t j, 0 public as it usually is, the Federal Govern- d'd something last week as never been done in Hjjalaya before:
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      A Malayan I.G.P.
      219 2 A Malayan I.G.P —Straits Times. Nov. 18. After some of the things that have been happening in the Federation Police lately, those who remember Malaya as it used to be will read with pleasure what Mr. ROnraet has to say in our cor- respondence columns today about the professional Malayan
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      RED TIDE IN CHINA
      980 2 Straits Times, Nov. 19 In the last four weeks the fate of Nanking has virtually been made dependent on the fate of Hsuchow, the railway junction city less than 200 miles north of the Chinese capital. Actually this reading of the struggle is an oversimplification. The
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      QUESTIONS IN CHINATOWN
      732 2 —Straits Times, Nov. 20. When we walk or drive through the teeming streets of Chinatown, that alien and yet not alien world whose history on Singapore Island goes back much farther than Empress Place, what do we know about the people who live behind those shop-fronts, who
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      From A Perak Chinese
      467 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 20 It is not the custom of the Straits Times to reproduce letters from other newspapers, but a letter appeared in the Ipoh edition of the Malaya Tribune this week which deserves to be given the widest possible circulation in present circumstances in
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      SOME FEDERAL POINTERS
      1063 3 Straits Times, Nov. 22. Ten unofficial members and three Mentri Besars spoke in the debate on the Budget in the Federal Legislative Council last Thursday. All those speeches had to be reported by the Malayan newspapers in the same issue as that in which they presented the
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      THE CHINESE POSITION
      1133 3 -Straits Times. Nov. 23 In the comments on the emergency made by Sir Henry Gurney in the course of his review of Federation affairs at the Budget meeting of the Federal Legislative Council, fhe outstanding point, and the one on which public attention throughout the country has
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      RAJAGOPAL VS THE REST
      1063 4 -Straits Times, Nov 24 It was a cruel stroke of irony that the first proposal for a Social Security Plan in the history of Malaya should have been preceded by a de- vision to make further euts in the Social Welfare Department of the Federation. This
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    Comic Strips Cost $2,840 In Fines
    327 4 piNES totalling $2,840 w” 1 three Mr F lf I S b > thc hir District Jud£ J. Shanks) yesterday, when they pleaded guilty to misusing hard currency during the mst two years by importing American comic strips The book-sellers were: I v Mr.
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    RAF FUNERAL IN JUNGLE
    76 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 23. The remains ot ail five occupants of the RAF Dakoa which crashed in the jungle east of Serendah on November 12 were found yesterday in the wreckage by a search party of the Second Scots Guards accompanied by
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      168 4 BLEARE: To Kita, wife of T °hn R. Blraso. at K K Ho.s 01l ~L. on 11 11 48 son. 1ISBURY: To Charles Isabel, w Ue of J. B TLsbury. at K K Husp'tai on Nov l2 h S(jn Mot her A: son doinij well. VICKERS-—On November 23 2*
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      192 4 LFF. I AN r The engagement was announced on 21.1148 between George Le e Eng Koon son of tiie late Mi Mrs. Le*c Tian Ycow and n uhew of Mr. A: Mrs Lie Elan Seek and Alice Tan Lay j Cheng tiie only daughter of Mr A* Mrs Tan
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      MARRIAGE
      21 4 BENDI, E-BRUCE: At Prnnn K <>n 1st Nov.. 1948 Robert Stuart Campbell Bendle. to Mary Stuart Bruce (both of Kuantank.
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      ANNOUNCEMENT
      18 4 THE MARRIAGE arranged between Charles Malcolm Quayic, and Thalia A Jones, will not u w take nlace
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    Rural House Plan Urged
    103 4 SINGAPORE. Nov 24 THE Pasir Panjang Rural District Committee in asking the Singapore Government to develop the rural areas by large-scale housing for the benefit of artisans and daily-paiu workers. The chairman of the Pasir Panning Committee (Mr II J C.\ Kulasingha) said yesterday that the
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    27 4 DEATH HOLMES-SMITH: About 17tn October, at her home, Ormond Home, Fisher, Surrey, Owen, beloved wife of Stuart Holmes-Smbh and mother of David, Lawrence Shirhv. Christopher and John
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    TIN VERSUS TERRORISM IN KINTA
    921 5 IT is a groat life these days in the Kinta Valley. I refer to planters and miners, especially those whose estates and mines lie near tin* foothills of the Kledang range, other isolated places, and in the notorious Sungei Si put area embraces some delightful
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    The Swettenham Collection: Old Malay Silver
    906 5  -  By J. N. McHUGH THE late Sir Frank Swettenham first came to Malaya in 1871. He retired after more than thirty years’ service and sailed from Singapore in October, 1903. With him went his unique collection of Malay silver, suasa, chutam and other objets
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    Social Security: “Federation Not Ready For it”
    462 6 I\ n in Our Staff C orrespondent ij a LUMPUR, Nov. 18. OVERWHELMING nia tority in the Feder-[t-islative Council todrcided that it was mature to consider the rodiiction of- social ur> in the Feder5» b: k debate lasting neara hours followed the by
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    REGISTRATION ORDEAL:
    32 6 Trying to keep his face com- posed in spite of friendly gibes from interested onlookers, as Indian labourer has his registration photograph taken in Malacca.—Straits Times picture. —Straits Times picture.
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    “Most Expensive Form Of Illness ”
    201 6 “Most Expensive Form Of Illness From Our StafT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 HOWEVER wholehearted and successful the antiterrorist measures might be, they were very expensive in terms of money, said Sir Henry Gurney today. “They must therefore be made to achieve decisive and final results quickly and with the
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    COPRA TAKEN FROM LORRY
    72 6 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. A gang of seven Chinese robbed a lorry driver of a bug of copra in Read Stree: at 11 a.m. yesterday. The driver a Chinese, reported that one of ’he gang first climbed on his lorrv and removed the bag. He said six
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    SHOCK FOR THE POLICE
    74 6 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. iTHVO incendiary bombs of American-make were found lodged in the rafters of the West Wharf Police Station in the Singapore Harbour Board area yesterday morning. A Malay electrician making repairs to the roof wiring found one bomb, and a further search by police
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    NEW PLAN FOR PENSIONS
    132 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, I*)v. 18. GOVERNMENT intends substituting a suitable pensions scheme for the 1941 Personal Injury Scheme introduced for volunteers who were killed or incapacitated in or as a result of the Malayan campaign. Giving this information in official replies to questions
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    NEHRU BIRTHDAY
    24 6 BENTONG, Nov. 18—The local Indian community last Sunday celebrated the birthday of Pandit Nehru at a mass meeting at the Tamil School.
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    Super-scale Posts For 8 New Men
    202 6 Hum Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 18 CiGHI Palestine Police olll- c ers have to date been appointed to super-scale posts m Malaya over the heads of Malayan officers with longer service. This is disclosed in Oo\ern- l l enl answers to question
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    REDUCTION OF CAPITAL
    81 6 SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. The capital of the Singapore Chinese daily newspaper. Chung Shing Jit Pao, was reduced according to an order granted in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday by the acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Gordon Smith). From $195,000, divided into 1,950 shares of $lOO each the
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    TYPHUS RESEARCH WILL COST $15,000
    257 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 ‘THE following are extracts from the report of the A Standing Committee on Finance tabled today for ratification by the Federal Legislative Council: A sum of $15,086 has been set aside for scrub typhus research. Owing to
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    GONE WITH THE WIND: $36,000
    31 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KIIALA LUMPUR Nov. 18. HIGH winds which damaged school buildings in Perak this year will cost the Federation Government $36,000 in repairs.
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    BUTCHER’S MURDERER TO DIE
    161 6 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 18. JAN Chon i Tui was yesterday at the Assizes sentenced to death by Mr Justice Laville for the muider of a K 1 uang pork butcher, Lim Chat Sen» Chai Seng’s body was found, almost decapitated, in a
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    Colony Tug Off To Help Refloat Ship
    166 7 SINGAPORE. Nov. 18. SALVAGE officers and crew left Singapore yesterday by the Singapore Harbour Board tug Griper to assist in the refloating of the American freighter Amelia Earhart which is stranded on a coral reef in the South Natuna Islands. 200 miles north-north-west
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    PETROL RISE “SURPRISE”
    73 7 SINGAPORE. Nov. 18. An official of the Automobile Association of Malaya said that the announcement yesterday of the flvecent increase in petrol price had come as a surprise. The Association is to hold a committee meeting next Tueday when, it ig understood, the increase will be discussed.
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    ENGLISH SCHOOL FOR MANTIN
    64 7 SEREMBAN, Nov. 13. A new English school for Mantin. Negri Sembilan, and the surrounding villages will be opened early next year under the patronage of the Roman Catholic Mission. The school is intended to be a feeder school for St. Paul’s Institution, Seremban. It will give
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    COURT SEQUEL TO CRASH
    59 7 SEGAMAT. Nov. 17.—A fatal motor accident on Monday morning in which a Chinese clerk was killed two miles south of Labis had its sequel in the Segamat Court yesterday when Lam Teck Kim. the driver of a lorry, was charged with negligent driving and causing the
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    TO CONTEST ELECTION
    229 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. “THE Singapore Regional Indian Congress, as the only political organisation of Indians, will contest Municipal elections," Mr. K. R. Menon, the secretary of the Regional Congress, said yesterday. Mr. Menon said this conformed to the policy of the Malayan Indian Congress. He pointed out
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    BARS OF GOLD IN COURT
    123 7 PENANG. Nov. 17. GOLD bars. American dollars and sovereigns estimated to be worth over $lO,OOO were produced as exhibits in the District Court today when Ooi It Beng faced a charge of failing to offer them for sale. Mr. Horton. ASP., said that he searched
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    CONSTABLES CHARGED
    106 7 From Our Own Correspondent BUTTERWORTH. Nov. 17. The disappearance of 133 cases of Milkmaid milk from a godown at Prai Wharf had a sequel in the Magistrates court yesterday when two constables. Long Chik bin Dalleh and Shariff bin Yusoff. were charged with stealing the milk. The Magistrate
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    27 Bandits Die, 152 Held In Big Drive
    410 7 From A Special Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Nov. 17. /OPERATION Rugger,” one of the Army’s biggest bandit drives in Johore, ended this morning. Twenty-seven bandits were killed, 152 people detained, 12 camps destroyed and quantities of arms, ammunition food and stores seized.
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    ELECTION JOB FOR ASIAN
    123 7 SINGAPORE. Nov. 18. THE post of Supervisor of Municipal Elections Singapore. is likely to be given to a qualified Asian next year after the first elections are held in April. Mrs. A.S.M. Hawkins. Supervisor of Municipal Elections. said that not the least important part of her
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    Chinese Leaders Promise Aid
    328 7 From Our Staff Correspondent I IPOH. Nov >- fl CHINESE leaders in Ipoh met i 0 „i‘i consider the problem of the sou;; t,' B cuated from Sungei Siput. “We have to start a fund to provide money and so that they can build homes and
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    Improved Remittance Terms
    126 7 JOHOfcE BAHRU X U CHINESE businessmen acre® with the proposals mai® by petty remittance dealer® in Singapore to obtain otr.® terms from the Governmer® for sending money to Chin® They hope that Chine® Federal Councillors and ti® Chinese Chamber merce will get the limit ed as $45
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    ‘Suspicious’ Drowning
    133 7 SINGAPORE. N 18. “1 VERY suspicious ca* A said the Singapo: roner (Mr. Choor Singh Vt ;j terday at the close o* ’-fl inquiry into the death Wong Kok Sai. 48-' -clB Adelplii Hotel boy. Wong’s body was V a condenser tank v.JJ feet of water near :h
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    24 Honoured For War Services At Colony Ceremony
    1385 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. people one a woman—received medals > aiu i five others received Cards of Commendation at an investiture held at Government House vester day evening. J lcr -ere was one C.M.G., five O.H.E.'s six M B F s tro Military
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    Trade “Tax” Ignored
    92 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. THE Singapore Government can make no allowance for any payment of “tax” or “levy” to third parties as far as trade between Singapore and Sumatra is concerned. Furthermore, the Government is determined that there shall be no interference in the straight dollar-for-dollar trade with
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    SINGAPORE DEATH
    37 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 22. Mr I. A. Rodgers, chief clerk at Rengam Estate in Johore for 28 years, died yesterdaytwo months after his retirement—at the home of his daughter in Racecourse Road. Singapore He was 72
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    DEATH OF MR. W.J.P. GRENIER
    139 8 Krom Our Stall' Correspondent KUAIA LUMPUR. Nov l'j I'HK death took place in the Kuala Lumpur Bungsar Hospital today ot Mr. W. J. p. Grenier, a well-known resident of Kuala Lumpur. He was the of the late Mr. John Grenier, at one time first Registrar
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    Board Had No Facts
    170 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 20. lIOLDING that the **Board had no facts before it on which to assess the rent, the Singapore Rent Conciliation Board yesterday dismissed an application for reduction of rent made by a married woman, Kho Sien Moy. Kho said that she had rented a
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    DID NOT PAY FARE
    88 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. A Municipal labourer, Mohamed Yusof bin Abdullah, who had a two-and-half hour drive in a taxi on Oct. 27 and later evaded payment oi the fare amounting to $7.50. appeared in the Second Police Court, yesterday. Mohamed pleaded guilt v u> a charge
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    TWO BAGS OF VALUABLES FOR NEW PENANG PAGODA
    93 8 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 18. TWO canvas bags filled with valuables were deposited and sealed in a special chamber in the roof of the Mahindrama Temple at a foundation stone laying ceremony for a new pagoda yesterday afternoon. The ceremony
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    Colony First, Says Board
    311 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. IUIE proposed action of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners to erect an overhead electric line from the island to Johore Bahru was strongly criticised by members of the Rural Board at their monthly meeting yesterday. As part of the proposed cable would run along
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    ‘B’ PERMIT FOR WOMAN FLIER
    77 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18. Miss June Godsall, of the Kuala Lumpur Flying Club, this week won her < 'B” permit, w'hich allows her to carry passengers. This permit calls for a high standard of flying, a minimum of 25 hours’ solo
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    ROAD BLOCKS CUT CRIME
    79 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. The Singapore C I D. Chief (Mr. E. V. Fowder) yesterday said that “efficient police road blocks and routine searches w'ere responsible” for the crime drop in the past two woeks. Mr. Fowler said that during this period there were only three reports
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    CO-OP HOUSING SOCIETY
    174 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 19. SINGAPORE Government Officers decided yesterday I to form a co-operative housing society. At a meeting of representatives. a set of by-laws for the society was adopted, a committee of 10 was appointed and an application form for registration was signed by 31 officers. Mr.
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    ACQUITTED BUT REBUKED
    274 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 19. I rIND >ou are a quarrelsome and a contumacious 7 Person and I do not think that you can be proud of the record of troubles and arguments I have heard today in this court.” This was said to Mr. W. J. Steinback, a
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    PARTY FOR ENVOY
    83 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. Mr. G. Parmeswaram Pillai, former Chief Secretary of the Government of Travancore and Indian Trade Commissioner designate for Australia, arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon by Qantas flying boat on his way to Australia. He was accompanied by Mis. Pillai and their daughter. Mr. J.
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    LOTTERY CHARGE
    31 9 SEREMBAN. Nov. 18.—Lee Moi Ngee was charged in the magistrate’s court yesterday with having assisted in the carrying on of a pubblic lottery, Chee Fah. The case was postponed.
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    INDONESIAN DANCE:
    52 9 Radem Hartono and Soediro performing the Handoko Boegis in a programme of Indonesian music and dance presented in Raffles College Singapore, by the College .Music Society on Nov. 17 night. This dance portrays a prince of Redion fighting hand to hand with a Bugis invader.—Straits Times tugis invader.—Straits
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    Grenade Gun Is Great Success
    412 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. WEAPON classed as obsolete in the U.K. has proved successful against Malaya's bandits and is to be extensively issued to troops. The weapon is a rifle firing a grenade from a cup discharger fitted to it. This was revealed to newspaper men
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    “PRIDE IN WORK IS VITAL”
    211 9 SINGAPORE Nr. 1, CPEAKING on industrial psychology at the Rota® Club lunch at the Adeisfl Hotel on Wednradav Francis Thomas, ot sH Andrew s School p the urgency of the post-wB problem of falling output B Mr. Thomas said that *r.B Singapore employer* fcJ ed
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    ROADS STILL IMPASSABLE
    104 9 SINGAPORE. Nov >■ After a day. floods in the K i.ii-JJ area were last night u> JL to be subsiding rapidb W roads southwards and m wards from the town still impassable to o.> After more than 4b delay, mail reached Kaai.^B y A Kuantan resident 1
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    EVADED CUSTOMS
    38 9 From Our Own C« rt 1 JOHORE BAHRI Sulong bin Mahat. *K on a charge oi 26 to evade customs ned piculs of arecanuts fog $175. or three month. p Jj ct imprisonment, bj Judge yesterday
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    GURNEY WARNS AGAINST PAYING ‘PROTECTION’
    1570 10 fr rom Our Staff’ Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18. P1K Henry Gurney, the High Commissioner, today warned “the subJ stantfal number of people paying protection money to the bandits.” The} were, he said, the principal means of prolonging the activities of those preying upon them.
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    $5,600 For J. Bahru Security
    99 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18. OECURITY measures at the Government offices at Johore Bahru will cost the Federation an estimated $5,600. A sum of $lO,OOO has been approved for the volunteer headquarters building at Penang for use as the Settlement Council Chamber.
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    Gurney’s hopes on University
    314 10 Prom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 to the Carr-Saunders report was made by the High C ommissioner, Sir Henry Ciurney, speaking at the legislative Council today. "If the recommendations of the Commission ait, translated substantially into lact, the report will prove to have been
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    “P.E.A. NOT POLITICAL”
    115 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. Professor T. H Silcock, outgoing president of the People’s Education Association, yesterday emphasised that the association was a non-political organisation. Prof. Silcock was speaking at the first annual general meeting of the association. He expressed satisfaction at the progress ot the association which, in
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    DIVORCE DECREE GRANTED
    58 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 19 Mrs. Margaret Mather, was granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute in six weeks, in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday by the acting Chief Justice <Mr Justice Gordon-Smith). The judge g-H'r her u oci/ of the two children Tlie respondent. Mi J >hn
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    Federal Depts. to be pruned
    988 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. IS. THE working of the Social Welfare, Food and Public Relations Departments in the Federation will be examined with a view to effecting economies. This was announced by the Financial Secretary (Mr. W. D Godsall) today, when the
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    A SOLDIER jumps from an “ambushed” lorry at a demonstration given to the Press at FARELF Training Centre Three of his comrades lie “ dead ” on the ground, shot by “ bandits ” hiding in the jungle at the back.
    40 11 A SOLDIER jumps from an “ambushed” lorry at a demonstration given to the Press at FARELF Training Centre Three of his comrades lie dead on the ground, shot by bandits hiding in the jungle at the back. —Straits Times picture.
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    Cars, jeeps cost Govt. $1,164,500
    300 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18. ANOTHER $1,729,500 has been voted by the Federation Government towards emergency expenses. The Federal Legislative Council was asked to ratify the supplementary provisions. Nearly all phases of military ‘operations are reflected in the supplementary estimates. V.H.F. radio
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    BROKEN LEG
    38 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 19. A Chinese cyclist, aged 60, who was in collision with a car at the junction of Balastier Road and Boon Teck Road last night was taken to hospital with a broken left leg.
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    NOBODY HAS TOLD HIM
    200 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 19. I HAVE no knowledge of a flat 10 per cent, increase in assessment next year.” the Singapore Municipal Assessor (Mr. J. G. Aspinall) told the Straits Times yesterday. He was replying to a letter published in the Straits Times on Wednesday in which
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    Unauthorised Jetty
    41 11 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON. Nov. 11.— For erecting without a permit a wooden jetty on the Perak River in the Town Board limit. Tan Pak Wan was fined $lO by the Teluk Anson Magistrate (Inche Abdul Aziz)
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    New Trees Mean More Rubber
    211 11 J>Y I capable of crcu. r auction. th•'Ia*f»ya coma b,' i-;*# b> half. Dr. W. B Ha.::.-. research and c msuh-r-pert attached to D.:V.:p'M bor Co., much* N to the Straits TimVshortly after arriv. 1 London. New trees were more <m® luable than old. bm
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    Gun Case: 2 Discharged
    214 11 SINGAPORE. Nov 1?H TWO young Chinese ae i'B in a gun battle on Feb Ng Ah Guan and Ons U Huat. were found no‘ y-tn-M and discharged oy Mr J -S Brown in the Sir-gap* Assize Court yesterday. They were charm d attempted murder and t.iw
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    Merchant Cleared
    22 11 From Our Staff Corr SEGAMAT. Nov. Hien Swee, a men rfct acquitted in the Court of having otu a policeman.
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    TERRORISTS SHORT OF FOOD, ARMS
    1250 12 TERRORISTS SHORT OF FOOD ARMS From Our Staff Correspondent K V, ALA L UMPUR, Nov. 19. THK federation Government considered that -he time had not yet arrived to make any public announcement on amnesty terms, said the Chief Secretary (Sir Alec Newboult) opening it debate on the Emergency at today’s
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    LINOTYPE IMPRESSED THE DYAKS
    205 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 2<». NINE uniformed Dyaks attached to the Ist Battalion Royal Inniskilllng Fusiliers in Malaya, arnived at the Straits Times yesterday to see how a newspaper is produced. They were on two days’ leave from jungle operations and wanted to spend them in Singapore They
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    LAPSE LEADS TO PRISON
    195 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20 A 45-YEAR-OLD Indian constable, Joseph Fernandez, who had served in the police force for the past 19 years, was yesterday sentenced to two months’ rigorous imprisonment when he pleaded guilty in the First District Court to having misappropriated $143 on Oct. 30. Fernandez
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    57 DETAINEES RELEASED
    116 12 KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 22. SIR Alee Ncwboult said that advisory committees had heard <>(>o objections by detainees and had ordered the release of 57 people. The Solicitor General had personally visited parts of the Federation where the majority of detainees were held, in order to co-ordin-ate policy
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    Gang Uses Stolen Cheques For Goods Worth $4,000
    144 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. BUSINESSMEN are warned by the police to beware of a ffaii£ which is using stolen cheques for their purchases. nr rtrnnn uri-iiin During the past week, throe firms—two at Singapore and one at Muar—have been; cheated by this gang
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    BUYERS WERE THE POLICE
    111 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. While bargaining witti •‘buyers'’ for 2,000 rounds of ammunition and two revolvers. two Chinese suddenly found themselves under arrest. The “buyers” were police officers in plain clothes and the Chinese found that 'he “friend” they had despatched to lind a buyer was a
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    MALAYAN BID TO BALANCE NEW TRADE WITH JAPAN
    249 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. MOW (hat free trade between Malaya and Japan is to be restored, an attempt will be made, as far as possible, to balance imports from and exports to Japan. This was stated by the Trade with Japan Office yesterday.
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    DROP IN CHINA REMITTANCES
    66 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 18. Family remittances to China in October totalled $1,675. 814. (Singapore 5961,339 and Federation of Malaya $715,475). An additional amount of $665,046 has been remitted from the Federation from March to August last inclusive, and not us previously reported. While families are permitted to
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    STOLE TREE
    55 13 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR. Nov. 17.—For felling a rubber tree and causing damage to telephone wires Mohamed bin Samad was lined $4O. In addition, he was ordered to pay $4O damages *o th? Telecommunications Department. Mohomed was lined $4O oir a second charge of theft of a
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    CLASSES FOR GIRLS TO CLOSE
    240 13 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Nov. 17. pi-.CAUSE there will be inu sufficient students, the Fukien Girls’ School. Penang's biggest Chinese girls’ school, will abolish its three-year high school course next year. An earlier proposal to transfer girl students to the Chung Ling High S.’hooi
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    TAX OFFICIAL DEMAND
    45 13 MALACCA. Nov. 17.—An income tax official should be sent to Malacca to answer questions, a prominent local citizen said today. There was an official in Penang to answer queries “As we pay the same tax, we expect the same facilities.” he said.
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    RULERS HEAR GURNEY’S SPEECH
    184 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 17. THE Malay Rulers were, it is believed, given a prehearing today of what the High Commissioner (Sir Henry Gurney) will pay at tomorrow’s meeting of the Federal Legislative Council. The Rulers met Sir Henry today, the second day of their own conference,
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    Bishop Institutes New Vicar
    213 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 18. ryiTH the ancient ceremonial of the Church of England, the new Archdeacon of Singapore (the Yen. Maxwell Gregory) was last evening instituted as Vicar of Singapore by the Bishop (the Right Rev. J. L. Wilson). Youth was well represented in a congregation in
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    HAWKERS FINED
    46 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. For hawking bread without a licence in a prohibited place two men were each fined $lOO. in default three months’ simple imprisonment, by the Third Police Magistrate (Mr. F. B. Oehlers) yesterday. Both had been convicted before of the same offence.
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    Mackay For Federal Council
    113 13 From Our Staff Corrospondrnt PENANG. Nov. 17. f I'HE Penang Chamber of Commerce yesterday nominated its chairman. Mr. D. A. Mackay. to the Federal Legislative Council. Mr. Mackay will represent the Chamber during the absence of Mr. Jules Martin, who is going to South Africa on
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    JOHORE CASE FOR COLONY
    112 13 From Our Staff Corrpsoondeni JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 17. Ahmat bin Hi. Hassan and Sahat bin Musa, employees cf Shell Company. Singapore, were charged before the District Judge yesterday with jointly committing criminal breach of trust of 800 gallons of diesel oil. On the application of Mr.
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    LIGHTER DISPUTE “OVER”
    248 13 SINGAPORF V "l’HESin s l dispute, which ha* lasted four 0 w a is now ended." the' s', n „B apore Assistant Cumn-M sicner of Lab,,.,: A. S. Roman) to!, Straits Times last Thf whole I evolved itself r S case ot a claim i -'"-‘W Major
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    Promenade Planned
    112 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 18 II SINGAPORE will have il M finest promenade in MjH laya when plans to rieveic® the Connaught Drive reel® mation ground are put in® effect. 1 The reclaimed land whic® stretches from Anders® Bridge to Stamford Can® will have a concrete prom® nade. gardens, a
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    WIFE FEARED HUSBAND
    55 13 From Our Own Co* SEGAMAT. Nov u M will kill me if I go ba< am not prepared circumstances to r dared Chin Foon. c )(1 Chinese woman, in mat Court yesterday “If she is not will! n with me, I can no >& her,” the husbar..
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    Bandits shoot priest at Mass
    216 14 r 1P0H, Nov. 20. .’ERR 'R'STS «n the Cameron Highlands this morning 1 b t into a Roman Catholic church 10 miles from jnaH and sh t 1 the P r,cst as he was taking Mass |jj in 'ies were slight. er Hippolyte Bertold. a
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    Club plane crashes in sea
    128 14 .uAPORE, Nov. 21. c )MS launch crew he life of a f tiv* Royal Singa- Club. Mr. O. 8 when a Tiger was piloting crash- -ne ■Singapore Roads i Clifford Pxor vesemoon nnochie. who was i\: hospital with minor was swimming when the launch Irtui
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    Water Rates Raised
    84 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 20. CCU PIERS o t busir.t premises within the re Municipal area, r...ve hitherto paid water its- .it 55 cents per thou'.Ions, will pay 30 cents from January next Other water rates will reLr. the same. Tr. r.tw rates are estimating the Municipality additional revenue
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    P.W.D. EXAM RESULTS
    101 14 B'"om o.if Own Correspondent PH0P! BAHRU Nov. 21. W- r ults of’ the PWD it ion of Malays examination, held have just been H: 0ur and are as folI, 't examination an P.W:—Lee Hong Ne K* ng Thlon. P Br. h r d idrus bin Montel >
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    DR. WAS DRUNK FINED $10
    91 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 21. A Ceylonese physician, Dr. Chelliappa Retnasingan of Kallang Road, was fined $lO yesterday in the Singapore Fourth Police Court for being drunk and incapable in Arab Street on Friday night A police constable said he found the doctor lying on the road
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    Passed examination
    30 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 21. Two Singapore students— Mr. T. R. Doraisamy and Mr. Cheah Bian Kung, have passed the London University B.A. General Examination, held in Singapore in June.
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    T.B. clinic to examine 200 daily
    174 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 21. SINGAPORE doctors are responding well to the call for clinical assistants at the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association’s clinic at Tanjong Paear to be opened to the general public *rom December Ist. The Director of the clinic, Dr. G. H. Garlick, told ihe
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    Festival Of English Church Music
    244 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 22. A LARGE congregation, including the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, attended the Festival of English Church Music in St. Andrews Cathedral last night. The cathedral choir, with the choirs of St. Hilda's and St. Paul’s, sang: hymns, chants and anthems. w
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    Govt. To Examine Police Seniority
    301 14 LONDON, Nov. 17. \IR. Creech Jones. Secretary of State for the Colonies, was quoted in Commons yesterday as saying that he would give the most cordial consideration to a memorial which he understood some police officers in Malaya were submitting on the question of seniority
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    RAFFLES CASHER: CASE POSTPONED
    83 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 21. SARKIES M. Arathoon, charged with breach of trust of Rafiles Hotel funds, i appeared again before the (Singapore First District .Indy Mr. A. p. Shanks, ye..t.erday Mr. A. H. Frew. A S IV. said that the prosecution was not ready to proceed with
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    Card game cost $200
    90 14 SINGAPORE Nov. 21 /MIONG San Moot, a 42-year-old Chinese nonya, paid a $‘200 fine in the Third Police Court yesterday for allowing seven people to play chi-ki in her house in Balestier Road on Nov. 12. The seven gamblers—six women and a man had been lined
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    Singapore Weddings
    245 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 22. MISS Irene Violet Gerry. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. U. Gerry of Ilexham, England was married at St. Andre w’s on Saturday to Mr. Alexander King, son of the late Dr. A. King and Mrs. King, of St. Lucia, British West Indies. The bride,
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    TO COLLEGE BY POST
    203 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. SINGAPORE representatives of correspondence schools and “learn-at-home” agencies estimate that about 1,500 young men and women in Malaya are today taking educational correspondence courses. This, over half as much again as the pre-war “enrolment”, is despite the unsettled nature of Malayan and world
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    Reduction In Capital
    127 15 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. THE acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice GordonSmith) made an order in the Singapore Supreme Court on Monday reducing the issued capital of the Singapore Chinese daily newspaper Chung Shing Jit Pao. By the order, the issued capital was reduced from $195,500 divided into 1.955
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    CAUGHT IN CABIN
    87 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24 A 20-year-old Indian. Rajoo. of Tanjong Pagar Labourers’ Quarters, who pleaded guilty to theft of a fountain non and 26 sticks of cigarettes from a cabin in the vessel Benchruachen on Monday, was yesterday sentenced to one month’s rigorous imprisonment by the First District
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    COLONY CHESS CONTEST
    293 15 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23. next year, the Singapore Chess Club will hold its hrst annual open tournament tor the chess championship of Singapore for a cup presented by Dr. Lim Boon Keng. The cup stands fully 18 inches high and is made of silver throughout. The event marks
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    Scholarships In U.K. For 2 Teachers
    97 15 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23. rfit teachers for senior posts in the Singapore Education Department, the Colony Government is offering two scholarships for study in the United Kingdom. This is the first time that teachers have been Invited under a Government scheme to «tudy in England.
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    Temporary Zoo For Penang
    60 15 PENANG, Nov. 23. Penang s historic Fort Cornwallis has been turned into temporary zoo. A Zurich zoo official (Mr. E. Schmidhauser) and his collection of wild animals from Siam are caged in huge wooden boxes there. The animals and reptiles, bought from Siamese village r i
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    From An Estate Bungalow
    723 15 gVKRY so often we find ourselves in ;i nenrbv town —if you r:m call sixty miles nearby. This invariably does us a great deal of tsood. for although the trip always lias business as a basis it is nevertheless pleasant to see lots of fresh faces.
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    ECAFE Chief Sees Mr. MacDonald
    236 15 SINGAP()|ir e 1 IAN his arrival at Kallang Airport l, II Bangkok, Mr. K. S. Lokanathan F\ r( u,t ,r <>nM tary of the Economic Commission Asia t i* N lre H travelled immediately to Bukit Serene t 1 lr the Commissioner-General in South i.
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    NEW APPOINTMENT
    30 15 KUALA LUMPUR N-n 21 B Lieut.-Col. J A. R B son, D S O., M B E has M made Brigadier. O'. Staff. Malaya District. M appointment. B
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    Cheeseman Tells Of Progress
    480 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 21. I’RING 1947 there was greater realisation by a teachers everywhere in Malaya of the need ra |l branches of education—English, Malay, ,jne>e, Indian, technical and vocational—to be legrated into the general educational system. This is reported by the
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    BABY IN LINER DIES: SMALLPOX
    62 16 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Nov. 21. PETEK Beard, aged two-and-a-half months, died from smallpox at the Penang General Hospital this morning. Peter disembarked with his Australian parents from the Carthage last week and was found to have the disease. Since then, the Penang medical
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    Challenge Cup For Dancers
    83 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 22. MR. Victor Ong and Miss Lucy Ee. who won the 1948 Singapore Professional Dance Championship on Saturday night, received the K. L. Lim Challenge Cup and a S2OO cash prize at the Happy World Cabaret last night. Twelve cups and cash prizes given
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    Immigrants Returned To Singapore
    110 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 22. 4 TRANS-OCEANIC Airways flying boat, carrying 3G Italian immigrants to Australia, took off from Kallang. Singapore, this weekend and returned two hours later after the port inboard motor engine had failed. The aircraft will remain m Singapore until another engine is flown on
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    2 SCHOOL SHIPS FOR HOLIDAYS
    99 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 22. MORE than 250 schoolchildren will arrive in Singapore from Australia next month in the Blue Funnel ships Charon and Gorgon to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays with their parents in Malaya. Both these vessels will be “children’s ships.” Special reservations
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    Hardwoods could earn money
    176 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. CXPORT of hardwoods from Malaya’s almost limitless forests could become a major industry as a result of the European shortage, said the Far East representative of Universal Power Drives (Mr. F. L. Bailey) yesterday: Much timber, including hardwood, was being cleared for plantations
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    The Law Gives No Option
    199 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. jF contraband is found in a motor vehicle, it is obligatory on the part of the authorities to confiscate the vehicle it was held by Mr. Justice Jobling, in an appeal in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. The appeal was argued by
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    Cold Store Glad Of Decontrol
    442 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 22. CJIN.GAPORE (old Storage’s re-emcrgcnce as an independent importer of meat has meant a considerable drop in retail prices from those charged when the Joint Supply Board was the sole importer, according to the comnanv’s chairman (Mr. J. M. Prescott.) He toici the
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    LAST MEETING WAS IN GAOL
    102 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 20 r Pwo of the recipients at 1 yesterday’s investiture at Government House Singapore, were well known to each other. They were Mr. Leslie HofTman of the Straits Times editorial staff, and Mr. B. 11. Cheah of the Outram Road Prisons Department. Mr.
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    Increase In Tin Ore Production
    75 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18. TIN ore production in the Federation lor October amounted to 5,355 tons (89,958 pikuls), as compared with 5,134 tons (86,260 pikuls in September. Perak was the biggest producer with 3,455 tons. Selangor came next with 1,415 tons.
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    Speech Day At Johore
    154 16 From Our Stall' Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Nov 19 STUDENTS of the Johore English College yesterday held the first Speech Day since the liberation and also, for the first time in the history of the College, an exhibition of the pupils’ work in art, photography and handicrafts.
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    Barth shines in defence & attack
    368 18 Barth shines in defence attack SINGAPORE, Nov. 21. or LIANT defensive play by R. Barth and v fine combination by the forwards enabled Sim pore to beat Johore by four goals to nil in the iter-state hockey match at Segamat yesterf shower of rain an hour before the match ma;
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    Perak beat Selangor
    258 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 21. FIELDING a team which had several substitutes. Selangor were no match for Perak in the inter-State rugger game played at Ipoh yesterday losing by 17 points (two trios, a dropped goal, a goal and a penalty) to six points (a try and a
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    B.O.D. WIN 6-0
    21 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 21. 223 B.O.D. beat Euona Vista six-nil in a game of soccer played at Alexandra yesterday.
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    MALACCA WIN
    39 18 I»A "MPUR, Nov. 21. mr h triumphed by two o one over Perak ItiJ 1 cr-State hockey fL 1 cd this evening. IJ?j a Carvalho. MaIL';. player in the forwL ll! cored the winning ute before time.
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    SELANGOR BEAT PERAK 3-1
    267 18 I KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 21 goalkeeping by Wong Kam Thong for S angor was the feature of the inter-State hockey fcb played on the Kuala Lumpur Padang yesterday ninr in which Selangor beat Perak three-one. ting scrappily, the game developed into one of played in Kuala
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    20 Years Without A Blemish
    275 18  -  By EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. IT was a sad but proud moment for veteran trainer H. “Snowy 0 Marland when he bade farewell to the Malayan Turf yesterday. When he stepped on board a Qantas flying-boat bound for Australia yesterday morning, “Snowy*’ was leaving
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    PCFA To Play In Singapore
    138 18 PENANG, Nov. 22. yHE Penang Chinese Football Association, winners of the Malayan Chinese Football Association Cup competition, will play two matches in Singapore during the Christmas holidays. At the Council meeting of the Singapore Chinese Football Association yesterday, it was decided to apply to the
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    MALACCA SCORE WINNER ON TIME
    234 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 21. 4 GOAL scored in Hie last minute of play gave Malacca victory by one goal to nil over Negri Sembilan in an inter-State hockey match played at Seremban yesterday. Highlight of the match was the splendid defence put up by both teams.
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    Medicals Win Tratman Cup
    239 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 22. THE Thomas Cup players, Lim Kee Fong and Law Teik Hock participated in exhibition matches at the Singapore Hospital Assistants’ Union Hall yesterday at the badminton competition between the Raffles and Medical Colleges for the Tratman trophy, named after Prof. E. K. Tratman.
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    Badminton Team May Fly To U.K.
    221 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. MALAYA’S Thomas Cup team may tty to England if the Carthage is diverted for evacuation of British nationals in China. The team has booked berths on the liner, which is now on its way to Hong Kong on its outward run
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    SOSC want site for stadium
    113 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 2? THE Singapore Olympicand Sports Council have issued a report in which possible sites for a sports stadium in Singapore are mentioned. These include Anson Road. Farrer Park, Balestier Road. Guillemard Road (Kallang), Serangoon Road and McPherson Road. The report states that an
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    MEDICOS WIN AT BADMINTON
    171 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 19. THE Medical College neat Raffles Institution in a I ‘‘trial” badminton match vester dav Recently. Raffles Institution defeated Raffles College and In ’.he inter-College match on Sunday, the Medicos appear to have the better chance. The; Medical College* beat R f five-three yesterday.
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