The Straits Budget, 23 December 1948

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    • 396 1 text of the Debtor and Creditor Bill is by its nature complicated, but changes that have been made in Section 4 will, if enacted, expose the legislators of Malaya and Singapore to ridicule in the eyes of all jurists and reasonable men. The legal
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    • 169 1 MRS. Tufnell, whose 1 letter “CRUELTY’', you published in a previous Saturday Forum, has been badly informed. During the incident she mentions, no horses were beaten till they fell and could not rise again—that statement Is ludicrous. I am unaware of the part played by
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    • 152 1 WITH reference to L. C. L’ s letter. “SCHOOLMASTER DIRECTORS” in your issue of Dec. 15, perhaps the following facts are not generally known. Mr. R. W. Hullett. Mr. C. M. Phillips. Mr. J. Watson Mr A. Keir and Mr. H. R. Cheeseman himself were all schoolmasters who
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    • 537 1  -  By PLANTER’S WIFE A LL the estate guards both here and on surrounding estates are very keen on the competitions which our exPalestine police arrange for them. The shooting competition brought forth amazing results. The standard Is now pretty high generally. The last competition was at
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    • 182 1 TO one who has just retired from Ce 1 highest Government officials stl" a great demand for all processed sa as a surprise to see your newspa;23l prominence to a proposal by the own. f Singapore sago factories to dismiss V: uf !!1 workers because of
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    • 174 1 JT would be of great interest to the general public to know exactly how much more than $320 your corresponded; who complained so bitterly about his pension, really gets. In comparison, the average serving Army Officer at 30 gets somewhat less than $320 pay and
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    • 103 1 JN Malaya much care is taken to teach the three R’s to the children of the country. But after reading some of the magazines that are published at the end of every term one has a very poor opinion of the standard of English in some of
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    • 175 1 IjXDR weeks past Tua DJek’s article Countryman's Diary” hi used up most of its spa< running down the Spec! Constables posted to tt estate of which he is ac ing Manager. The Special Constables the Federation with lack training, equipment ana most cases, uniform, ba done sterling
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    • 47 1 From Our Staff Conv JOHORE BAHIU vc “j Special repairs j lo made in the new r t hospital Johore B: are cracks at -he building and ov entrance. The v;t dangerous conditu The State Cour asked to apP l for these repairs
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 709 2 M ALAYA’S RICE ALLOCATION —Straits Times. Dec. 16. While the I.E.F.C. has still !0 approve the allocations nia de by its Rice Committee f or the first six months of next Vi: it has not been the Comniittoo’s habit to question the rt commendations so that the figures Riven in
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    • 288 2 —Straits Times, Dec. 16. Malay comment on the secessionist movement in Penang unfortunately does not seem likely to contribute to the weakening of a movement which was bom of exasperation and which will grow with political fear. The Federal Constitution should pave the way for Penang
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    • 700 2 Strait Times Dec. 17. The Committee which has now been appointed by the Federation Government to enquire into the problem of the squatters, and to recommend a policy, will not need reminding that its task is urgent. There are really two problems, the general future of the
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    • 421 2 Strait Times Dec. 17. The Debtor and Creditor Bill has come back from the Select Committees without substantial change except in three respects. There is a recommendation for a new sliding scale of the value of occupation currency, the principal point being that parity with Malayan currency
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    • 548 2 —Straits Times, Dec. 18. The annual report of the Colony’s Prisons Department normally would not require the attention of the Legislative Council, hut in the report for 1947, which has just been published, are some figures which appear to require explanation. Conditions last year admittedly were excepj
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    • 457 3 —Straits Times. Dec. 18 The possibility of an increase in the rice ration depends on the new I.E.F.C. allocation, said the Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Creech Jones, when asked in the House of Commons yesterday the prospect of Malaya getting a little more rice to eat.
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    • 630 3 —Straits Times. Dec. 20. Censorship prevents the draw’ing of a clear picture of what is happening in Java, but the broad outline of Dutch action against the Republic is not in any doubt. Dutch forces w’ent into action at midnight on Saturday, and early yesterday
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    • 469 3 —Straits Times. Dec. 20. The progress of the campaign against the terrorists, as reviewed by Major General Boucher and Major General Dunlop in statements to the press, was as much a catalogue of continuing difficulties as it was a record of success. In Ulu Selangor, north of
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    • 682 3 Straits Times, Dec. 21. The most surprising detail of Dutch military action in Indonesia has been the ease with which the paratroops occupied Jogjakarta. The Republican capital was completely in Dutch hands in a few minutes under nine hours from the time that military action began.
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    • 355 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 21. n passing its Working Comresolution on foreign the Indian National B-on .ivss Party has given the ■nd an Government full free■orn to carry out its plan K,r keeping India within the ■ran'iAvork of the British Commonwealth. The debate was »oit. however, and it shed
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    • 653 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 22. There is only one line of c °nduct which the Security can take in the Indonesian war. It must act to r eston» the truce, and to comthe reopening of negotia- lions. But in doing so, it must not condemn the Dutch wlthout
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    • 439 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 22 Broad as the Yangtze is i from Szechuan to the sea, it is a thin enough barrier between the Communists and Nanking. The plan to hold it, which received yesterday the approval of President Chiang Kai-shek, will involve the abandonment of Pengpu, where
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  • 122 4 SINGAPORE, Dec. 22. OENTENCE of nine O months’ rigorous im- j prisonment was imposed on a 43-year-old Chinese, Yong Ah Yiew, by the Second District Judge (Mr. J. L. McFall) yesterday for running an opium saloon in Malabar Street on Oct. 28. Yong was arrested
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  • 73 4 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. A petition has been filed [with the Singapore Municipal i authorities by the Trishaw Owners Association against the proposed new by-law requiring trishaws to be bigger. The petition states: "Bigger trishaws will be very dangerous on the roads. They will be too heavy for
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  • 47 4 SINGAPORE. Dcr 22. As a result of a competitive entrance examination throughout Johore, 11 special Malay classes are being organised at English schools in 1949 three at Johore Bahru, three at Muar, two i at Batu Pahat and one each at Kluang, Segamat and Pontian.
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  • PERSONAL
    • 95 4 yap-yeo. Engagement took bclwe n Yap Seng K m eldest son of Madam Yeo Neo laU} Mr Y »P Oim Chtoiig Miss Yeo Peck Neo youngest daughter »f Madam Goh I ve Din late Mr Yeo Kim Bock engagement to<\ A niT 1 0 Ihe n 8agement took place
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    • 125 4 On 15th. Dec 23 at Port Dickson. Negri Sembilan by the Rev A. P. Strugncll. Richard Gilbert John Beatty to Mildred Ruby Stuart REYNOLDS—To Joyce, wife of O. W Reynolds on 11th December at Hongkong, a son. Bolh well. SILVER WEDDING KDWARD6-CONWAY: At 8. John's Church. Longslght. Manchester.
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    • 35 4 MADELIN—To Eileen Mary (nee Kirby) at Bungsar Hospital. KL„ on 14th. December—a son. LAMPRELL: To Carline (nee Reid), wife of Dr. B. A. Lamprell, on 19th Dec., at Bungsar Hospital. Kuala Lumpur —a daughter.
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    • 52 4 Mr. Mr.s. Yeo Thong Buang wish to convey their sincere thanks to their relatives and friends who attended their wedding and for their good wishes and valuable presents. Mr. and Mrs O. Nallayya, thank all those who sent them their good wishes and valuable presents on the occasion of
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    • 93 4 The wedding of Mr. Maurice Gareh to MLss Mary Millar, which was to have taken place on Dec. 26th has been postponed owing to the demise of Mrs K. A. G Arratoon (Sybil Oarch). GRAEME ANDERSON: At Kuala Pertang Estate on 6th Doc., 1948, the Hon’ble Mr. Walter Graeme
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  • 123 4 200 SEE KATHI EXPOSE IMAM From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 18. A FAKE “Imam” who was lecturing to 200 Malays on religious principles was exposed by a Kathi (religious chief) in Jerantut, Pahang. The impostor had claimed to be the Imam Kahdi (the Messiah). With six assistants, dressed
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  • 41 4 MALACCA,Doc. 21 Many subordinate officers, inspectors, and clerks of the Malacca Food and Price Control Office expect to be out of work o.v the end of this month. Tins includes those in the local production section which will be dissolved.
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  • 72 4 DEATH GARCIA—On 15 th December at Bungsar Hospital, after a short illness, Florence, aged 77. widow of the late W. J. Garcia and mother of W. H. Oarcla. BLAKE. At Serendah on Dec 13, 1948, Mr. A. M. Blake. Superintendent. Serendah Boys School. Funeral at Cberas Road cemetery at 4
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  • 1678 5  -  By TUAN DJEK OUNDAY, December 12. O —we started to plant out basket plants on the 2nd., had a fairly good shower on 8th. and have had no rain since! A dry December, if we dare talk of such, was by no means unknown in the
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  • 128 5 SINGAPORE. Dec. 20; •'■'HE F.rst Singapore 1 Scout Group was yesterday when 10 Scouts 12 Cubs took their oath At investiture ceremony at Church of Our Lad. Lourdes. rn The Scouts were sworn by the Acting Scout Comm sioner. Singapore (MJ G Plllay) while the A*s*«
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  • 220 7 SINCAPORE. Dec. 19. ITNABLE to worship together because of language difficulty, the four congregations of the three Chinese Anglican Churches in Singapore will meet together at a dinner on January 10 to say farewell to the Bishop of Singapore, the Right Rev. J. L. Wilson.
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  • 128 7 SINGAPORE. Dec. 18. MORE than $50,000,000 will probably be required to complete the Singapore Municipal electricity scheme. Initial work on which has been approved by the Municipal Commissioners. It Involves the erection of a new power station at $27.360,000 to meet the electricity requirements of the
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  • 90 7 “Remember The Troops From Our Staff Correspondrnt KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 17. A PLEA for a thought for the troops who will be fighting bandits in the jungle on Christmas Day was made today by the G.O.C. Singapore District (Maj.-Gen. D. Dunlop). “I hope,” he said, “that the people of Malaya
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  • 206 7 From Onr Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Dec 17. MR. B. F. 8 Cooper, Offlcer-in-Charge of the Tampln Police District, who was killed in a battle with bandits on Wednesday, was buried yesterday evening at the Christian cemetery in Sikamat Road. Mr. Cooper’s widow was the chief
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  • 224 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. A MONG Malay political movements in Malaya is “a A general sympathetic interest in the fate of the Indonesian Republic and a feeling that, in the last resort, the alternative to domination by the Chinese may have to be throwing in the Malay
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  • 315 7 VARSITY PRIORITY URGED From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR,Dec. 16. THE Select Committee 1 appointed to examine and report upon the detailed constitutional proposals of the Carr-Saund-ers Commission on University Education in Malaya has recommended that preference be given to applicants domiciled in Malaya, British North Borneo, Brunei and Sarawak
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  • 75 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. A 65-year-old Chinese, Toh Hai Quah, was fined $l,OOO in the Fourth District Court, yesterday when he pleaded guilty to possessing 142 pounds of Chinese tobacco, duty on which, amounting to $714, had not been paid. Toh was in a sa.npan which was intercepted
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  • 31 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 16. Ten tons of rice included in a barter cargo to Rengat on Tuesday was unfit for human consumption and was transhipped in Singapore from Java.
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  • 212 7 'I'HREE days before the fall f^\'\ Australian gunner, wounded in battle iJ an Singapore Club, which had been hastily the hospital. There he picked up a century-old ptaJ r 'T a which he kept with him all the time he was bool( prisoner-of-war. 35 a l
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  • 127 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 19. MONTOR. LTD., were convicted in the Singapore First District Court yesterday on two charges relating to infringements against Finance Regulations. The charges were in respect of U. 5.523.808 credited to the company by Messrs. Neuss, Hesslein and Co.. New York, and U. 5.59.134 credited
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  • 22 7 SINGAPORE. Dec. 19. Thirty identity cards were reported lost in Singapore yesterday. The previous Saturday 25 were reported lost.
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  • 70 7 SINGAPORE. Dec 17 A 40-year-old Indian. Nadasan was sentenced to 10 days simple imprisonment bj the First District Court Judge (Mr. E. P. Shanks) yesterday for not having an identity card. Nadasan wag arrested jn Dec. 15 when police searched the Raddn Mas area. He told
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  • 137 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 16. HPERMINATION of the War Prisoners (Singapore) Association will be considered at an extraordi* nary meeting of the association on Jan. 18. The Singapore Association has suggested that members of the War Prisoners’ Association should join it. The war prisoners* committee suggests
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  • 54 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 19. Fire engines were called out three times to deal with lallang fires in Singapore yesterday. The biggest fire, at about 10 a.m., destroyed six to seven acres of lallang at Bukit Terese. Small lallang fires broke out in the afternoon at Serangoon
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  • 137 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 19. SINCE Tan Sing Choon, the dumb Penang ex-Volun-teer has not come forward to claim any one of the five jobs offered to him by interested people in Singapore, the Police are now going to try to trace him. Tan has been reported
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  • 14 7 MUAR.Dec. 16. A lorry drn 'J Ong Ah Hook was flnc« for overloading
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  • 47 8 Private Gerald Ilawksworth. the KOYLI, with his father, Mr. Cyril Ilawksworth. who was flown out by the War Office because his son was lying seriously ill in Kuala Lumpur. f»te. Ilawksworth was badly wounded by bandits in October. .—Army P. It. picture.
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  • 275 8 I SINGAPORE, Dec. 16. IrjiF, British Government has agreed, subject P to Parliamentary approval, to help the ftovernments of North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei to finance a war damage compensation t heme estimated to cost $17,000,000. This was announced yesterday in a statement issued in the three
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  • 231 8 SINGAPORE, Dec. 16. 'HE Governor of North Borneo (Mr. Edward ‘wining) said in the orth Borneo Advisory ouncil yesterday that le British Government ave a scheme to assist he colony to regain and evelop a balanced and ound economy. Mr. Twining said that since
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  • 109 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 16. 4 REPORT on the grievance, ces and difficulties experienced by pilgrims to Mecca is being completed by the Malay Welfare Council for he Colonial Secretary. This was disclosed by the Secretary of the Council (Inche Darus Sharif) in an interview. Inche Darus said that
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  • 42 8 IProm Our Staff Correspondent) Johore Bahru Dec. 15 Mr. w. w. McCall Legal Jdviser. Johore. and Mrs McCall leave tomorrow f or Hongkong on a brief vacation. Mr D W B Goode of SereinJfn will act. during Mr McCall's absence.
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  • 348 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 15. “VTO one can excuse the act which took his life,” said the Rev. T. E. Currie at the funeral this afternoon of Mr. A. M. Blake, superintendent of the Serendah Boys’ Home, who was killed by
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  • 152 8 NO SECESSION’—CHENG LOCK SINGAPORE. Dec. 16. "JAM completely opposed toj the move now being made restore Penang and Mai- 1 aC(, o to their pre-war status.” fcid Mr. Tan Cheng Lock in a P interview with the Utusan Melayu. Saying that Malacca Is onetoftieth of the area of the 'deration,
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  • 217 8 SINGAPORE, Dec. 16. SINGAPORE will benefit considerably from the long-term civil aviation policy mapped out at the recent South-East Asian Regional Air Navigation Conference, in New Delhi. This was stated by Malaya’s delegate to the conference, the Pan-Malayan Director of Civil Aviation (Air ViceMarshal S.
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  • 131 8 SINGAPORE. Doc. 16. THE bartci traffic between Singapore and the two Republican ports of East Sumatra iPakan Baroe and Rengat* Is to be Increased by two-and-a-half times. Five ships each to Pakun Baroe and Rengat will be allowed monthly from Dec 20. Two trips monthly to
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  • 119 8 SINGAPORE, Dec. 16. THE former Burns Phllp ,hip Marella was handed ovei in Singapore yesterday aft rnoon to the agents of her South American buyers. She was sold for £77,000. Now lying in the Empir** Dock, the Marella will shortly be renamed Captain Marcos and placed
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  • 34 8 |'ro m Out Staff Correspondent SEGAMAT, Dec. 15. -Arrested under the Emergency Kenulations. Lee Hlong, was yesterday committed for trial at the next Johore Assizes lor alleged possession ol a hand grenade.
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  • 826 9 Frojn Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 17. THE Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. N. Gray) said today that a number of mine owners or shareholders had been arrested in connection with the payment of protection money. He was speaking at a Press
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  • 113 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 16. To meet expenses In improving the hostel’s services as well as to run It on a par with middle-class notels, the Chinese Y.M.C A. is increasing the rents of its rooms by about 50 per cent, as from Jan. 1. The increases
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  • 98 9 The defending lawyers, seen with the threr Americans ;l(( USfd of complicity in the Airabu gun-running case, hearing of which opened in T, Bi USfd Pinang on Dec. 16. In the foreground is Mr. W. H. Quasha the American hi 00 defending the three men. On his
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  • 53 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 17. THE body of a Chinese who was killed during the shooting in Rawang last Saturday was exhumed yesterday in the course of further investigations into the incident Rawang was attacked by bandits on Saturday night and two people received fatal wounds —a Chinese
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  • 152 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPURJDec. 15. THE scope of the Central A Welfare Council of Malaya is to be widened. The standing committee of the Council met today, under the chairmanship of Lady Newboult. and approved proposals for a new constitution. These will be recommended
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  • 30 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 17. The Singapore C.I.D. has arrested 29 Chinese in connection with secret society activities. Twenty-two other Chinese were arrested on Thursday on gambling charges.
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  • 310 9 From Our Staff Correspondent Kl ALA LUMPUR, Dec 17. /\NE of four Chinese killed by a military patrol in yj the Mentakab area of Pahang yesterday afternoon. was identified as a notorious bandit The patrols went to searcn two houses at Paya Sat. Three
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  • 117 9 I'roin Our Staff Corrf'.pondml KUALA LUMPUR.Dec. 16. STATISTICS of the number of aliens allowed to enter Malaya In 1948 will be published early next year said a wTitten reply to a question by Inche Kamruddin bin Haji Idris at today's meeting of the Federal Legislative Council.
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  • 84 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 18 r 1 HE Singapore Canton Uni--1 versity Alumni opened its first postwar nual art exhibition more than 200 pX s u \nd paintings, califh‘ai’ !n photographic stu' u's Chinese YMCA, Road, yesterday. Dr. Wu Paak-Sbinsc. Chinese Consul-C^nn tended the mony given by who
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  • 508 10 Sharp Battle In The Jungle F rom Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Dec. 15. F S. Cooper, Officer in Charge of Tampin Police District, was killed today in a battle with bandits on Francis Estate in Batang Mai aka, about 45 miles south of Seremban. Eight bandits were
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  • 211 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. THE retiring Director of Education for Malaya (Mr. H. R. Cheeseman), in a farewell broadcast last night, said Malaya’s most important need was greater educational facilities for girls. Mr. Cheeseman said he was no new convert in the matter: he received his first
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  • 213 10 BANANA’ MONEY EXCHANGE From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 16. THE Select Committees appointed by the Governments of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya to examine the Debtor ind Credi or (Occupation Period) Bill 1948 have recommended a “compromise” schedule of the value of Japanese mllitarv scrip in relation
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  • 45 10 SINGAPORE, Doc. 18. The Singapore Improvement Trust proposes to rehouse displaced shopkeepers from thfi Hokien Street and Pickering Street block Crown property, which is to he demolished. In shops or the ground floors of the l tenements at Smith Strce and Sago Street.
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  • 106 10 SINGAPORE. Dec. 18. At the annual meeting ol the Singapore Cabaret Girls Association it was announced that Mr. Ho Hon Liong had resigned as secretary. Officers elected were:— President. Nancy Ho; vice president, Lily Wu; general affairs office and assistant, Alice Wong; Anna Ho; treasurer and assistant,
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  • 72 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 17. THE end-of-term departure of European children from the Cameron Highlands School on Dec. 13 was treated as a "serious operation," said the G.O.C. Malaya (Maj.-Gen. C. 11. Boucher) at a Press conference in Kuala Lumpur today. "It had air
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  • 130 10 SINGAPORE. Dec. 18. LMVE people were sen- tenced to terms of imprisonment yesterday in the Singapore Assize Court on arms and ammunition charges. Lim Poh S<ng. a youth of 18. was sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment for possession of a signal pistol and 82 rounds
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  • 73 10 SINGAPORE. Dec 18. Twenty-one-year-old Lee Soon Guan. of Boon Tat Street, pleaded guilty dn the First District Court on Thursday. to three charges of cheating. Lee was charged with cheating the Federal Dispensary of $76 on Dec. 14 and Whiteaway Laidlaw of $665 oi Dec.
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  • 458 10 SINGAPORE. Dec 17 “A CHEAT need In Malaya. lu< n oth er colonial territories. Is for a more adequate understanding of the basic social and economic processes at work." says Professor Raymond Firth in his report on social science research In Malaya Professor Firth who toured
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  • 38 10 SINGAPORE Doc 18 Fines totalling $3,400 were imposed on a 34-year-old Chinese, Chan Ghee Bah, by the Fourth Singapore Police Court Magistrate 'Mr. H. MacDougaD on four charges o i imp ting dutiable liquor and cigarettes.
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  • 854 11 Ginsberg Forrest Get Four Years SINGAPORE, Dec. 17. ALL five accused in the R.A.F. generators case were yesterday unanimously found guilty on all charges in the Singapore Assize Court. David Wolf Ginsberg and Sergeant Alexander Greenock Forrest were each sentenced to four years* rigorous imprisonment. Corporal Ronald Hurst to three
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  • 82 11 SINGAPORE. Dee. 17. FINES totalling $3,400 were imposed on a 34-year-old Chinese. Chan Ghee Bah. by the Fourth Police Court Magistrate Mr. M. H. MacDougal yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to four charges relating to the importation of dutiable liquor and cigarettes. Chan was arrested on Dec
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  • 154 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 17. THE Commissioner of A Labour. Singapore (Mr. R. P. Bingham) yesterday suggested that Singapore’s 9,000 trishaw men should wear uniform blue jackets and shorts as rickshaw pullers did in pre-war days. Mr Bingham said this in letter to the Singapore Rick and Trishaw
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  • 109 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 16. THE first meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council next year is likely to be Feb. 15—too late to amend the Municipal elections ordinance. Unofficial members of the council learnt this at an Informal meeting with officials on Tuesday. Inche Sardon bin Jubir.
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  • 148 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 17. I*HE Straits Chinese British Association debase on the secession of Penang ana Malacca, which was to have been held today, has been been postponed. The president of the S.C.B.A. (Mr. Yap Pheng Geek) said yesterday morning that Mr. T. W. Ong
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  • 588 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. it; AFTER a vigorous debate lasting nearlv hour, the Federal Legislative Council i. large majority, today rejected a pr<m give the Public Prosecutor the right to 1 against an acquittal and the Appeal (vPj nower ‘o jrd?r
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  • 197 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 17. TWO Singapore students have been recommended to the Secretary of State for the Colonies under the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund. Mr. Toh Chin Chye. ol the College of Medicine, has been recommended for a Ph. D. course at London University. Miss Kismet
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  • 81 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 1 6 4 DEAF-MUTE may KW Ato trace the dim 1 ang youth for whom are waiting in Sin f H yells an employee of R' an d which has offered an claims to know Sing Choon lives. agln g Mr. F. E. Bent
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  • 691 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LIIMPUK Dec 16 'OMPENSATION of up to 30 months’ wages recoml' mended by a special Federal committee as Ktyment to the dependents of civilians kiHed bv errorists during the emergency, was approved In he Federal Legislative Council today. P The full
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  • 119 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 16. INDIAN merchants handled more than 65 per cent, of the $230,192,000 worth of textile imports into Malaya in the first nine months of this year. Mr. Balwant Singh of Gian Singh Co. said yesterday that Indian merchants led in this branch of business
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  • 91 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 17. Twenty-one-year-old Lee Soon Guan, of Boon Tat Street, pleaded gUllty In the First District Court, yesterday to three charges of cheating. Lee was charged with cheating the Federal Dispensary of $76 on Dec. 14 and Whiteaway Laidlaw of $665 on Dec. 15. He was
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  • 38 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 17. Financial assistance, four iobs and a house have been offered to the dumb wa l (l L r of the streets, 22-year-old Tan Sing Choon, but he cannot b< found.
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  • 164 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 16. /COMPENSATION amounting to $8,410 has been paid by the Government to the people of Salak South, Kuala Lumpur, following the accidental discharge of rockets by an R.A.F. Spitfire. Other payments being made include: Kedah: A “back payment” of
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  • 98 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 17. Four Singapore men have been awarded certificates and testimonials by the Royal Humane Society for their part in the rescue of an Indian labourer who had been overcome by gas in a sewer hole in Tanjong Rhu in October last year. The
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  • 41 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Dec. 16. A 50-year-nld col Tin maker’s assistant, Lee Soon Chye, yesterday accidentally stabbed himsell to death with a chisel working on a casket. He had a four-inch wound and died soon afterwards.
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  • 168 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 15. THE following donations have so far been received for the Blake Fund to assist orphans in the Serendah Boys’ Home. Dr. C. P. Rawson, Kuala Lumpur, $25; Mark Olver, Kuala Lumpur, $25; Swami Satyananda, Kuala Lumpur, $10; Agent of the Government
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  • 159 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 16. A NEW scheme for Federation nurses is under consideration, it was stated this morning in the Federal Legislative Council in a written reply to Mrs. B. H. Oon. The scheme would provide terms similar to those exist,lnK
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  • 76 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 17. A party of six Australians left Singapore yesterday for Christmas Island in connection with the phosphate industry there. Mr. F. F Christian, leader of the party, told the Btralts Times that the party was making a survey. They would be returning to
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  • 128 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 16. THE Post Office Savings Bank Ordinance was passed in all its stages at today’s meeting of the Federal Legislative Council. Introducing it, the Attor-ney-General (Mr. S Foster Sutton) said the Bill was designed to amalgamate all the
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    50 12 V W.C.A. Industrial School, P"^ nts *> rize to Miss Yen Len Chun, one of four pupils who rweived awaMs for K ,0d conduct and regular attendance, at a Christmas party at the Y.W.t.A. headquarters yesterday afternoon. Miss Mary Chen of the Y.W.C.Vis in the centre. —Straits Times
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  • 274 13 From Our Staff Correspondent |OHORE BAHRU, Dec. 18. ONLY survivor of Johore pre-war xoo, Dolly the Zebra, who has since the liberation roamed the grounds of the G. .eral petted and fussed by patie staff, has been lassoed and is back at last in his
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  • 167 13 SINGAPORE. Dec. 17. FIFTY years service with McAlister and Company, by Mr. Beng Boon Kee was celebrated. on Wednesday, when a tea party in hLs honour was held, at Robinson’s Cafe. Mr. Beng Boon Kee, who works in the produce department. joined the company
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  • 34 13 PARIT BUNTAR. Dec. 18. Mr. Hay has arrived in Parit Buntar and taken up duties as O.C.P.D. Krian in place of Mr. Wheeler, who has gone to Batu Gajah on transfer.
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  • 250 13 From Oar Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU Dec. 17. "I'HE District Judge (Mr. vv B Sutherland) yesterday acquitted Chan Thin, ,*n estate kepala. and his wife who were charged with oeing in possession of three rounds > ammunition. Their arrest was the sequel It a raid
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  • 227 13 TTVIV/ SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. OLYING for Russia and covering of the short position created during the recent decline appeared to end early this week, says Lewis and Peat’s weekly rubber report. Thereafter, buying support was poor. Both the above factors had been responsible for a
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  • 28 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 18. The important conference between Malayan and Siamese Military, Air Force and Government representatives, is now to take place on Jan. 6.
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  • 297 13 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Dec u lOHORE GOVERNMENT has recciv-H fall of nearly $300,000 from the stockpile of bauxite (the ore from whirl, 1 nium is made) left behind by the Japane*. f had illicitly mined it during the occuDaW. State and alienated land
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  • 242 13 From Oar Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. 17. PARTY of friends playing. cards In a bungalow in Amber Estate. Senal. one night in August, was interrupted by a burst of guntlre. They immediately put out all lights and lay flat or the floor. Soon after, three armed
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  • 409 13 From Our SUfT CorresDon^.* KUALA LUMPURdSm? A TOTAL of ar J?<*n received for h, BlBke irimd” f° r the fhe Serendah Boys K,me whose headmaster Mr u* Blake, was killed by bandS on Tuesday. Some of the monev will 1* used to replace the Christa* toys
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  • 61 13 SINGAPORE. Dec. 18Five cases of jnLmt. 1 wer< ralysis and two deatis reported In 0 week ended Dec U J r rura these were from area. nf Heath The total number nf lg( from all causes against 170 the' P r Ite <i p The infantile
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  • 224 14 From Our Staff Correspondent NCREASINC number, Of ,he Social Hygiene Hospital in Middle Road. Sineaore, for treatment, but Dr. W. I. Vickers Dir* r I S t kdical Services, told the Sunday Times yesterday that IS did not mean the incidence of venereal diseases was n
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  • 73 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 19. THE warrant officers and sergeants’ mess of the Singapore Engineer Regiment at Gillman Barracks was the scene of a Christmas party yesterday attended by more than 50 children. There were games and carol singing. Mess was decorated with a ten foot Christmas
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  • 182 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 19. UOWEVER unlucky number 11 13 is generally believed to be, it brought juck to 20 houses yesterday. It happened in .he Singapore Second Police Court. The Magistrate (Mr. R. W. P. Rule) was asked to say: 1. That 13 Henghwa Chinese trishaw pullers
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  • 34 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. Dr. S. H. Aljunied and Mrs. L. C. Goh, have been elected by the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council to be members of the Hospitals Board for 1949.
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  • 274 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 21. STRICTER control over immigration has resulted in fewer Chinese entering Singapore this year, and there have been more departures of Malayan Chinese than arrivals, particularly in recent months. This position, which appeared more striking since the Emergency Regulations were enforced, was due primarily to
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  • 160 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. OINGAPORE Government is prepared to offer the Old Government Trade School in Scott's Road, near Newton Circus, as accommodation for the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East if it decides to move to Singapore This was revealed to the Straits Times
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  • 75 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. The Singapore Seventh Police Court Magistrate (Mr. R. J C. Wait) yesterday commended a witness afte* he had given evidence against a Sikh and a Javanese who were alleged to have stolen a motor car. The Magistrate said that Singapore should have more public
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  • 176 14 *rom Our Staff Correspondent A MFMRFR t r*, KEMAMAN, Dec. 20 A ™KMBER of the Trengganu State Council, llaji Wan Ngah bin llaji Wan Mamat, was shot dead attack by bandits on Saturday morning on the Kajang Tin Mine in Kemaman. Before he was shot dead
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  • 61 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 19. THE Royal Air Force Vampire, piloted by Fit. Lt. A. G. Francis, A.F.C., returned to Singapore from Bangkok yesterday just before 1 p.m. The Vampire gave four exhibition flights during a six-day visit to Siam and on the return trip gave a demonstration at
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  • 67 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 21 •THCN sailors from the United T States aircraft-carrier Tarawa and two Chinese were injured in a riot at the New World Park on Sunday night. The fight started between the sailors and employees in a restaurant over the bookI ing of tables. It
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  • 92 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. MRS. Thivy, wife of the Representative of the Government of India in Malaya (Mr. J. A. Thivy), has been co-opted to the Singapore Regional Indian Congress Election Board. The board was set up last Wednesday to watch the interests of the Congress at the
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  • 236 14 “Scholarships Should Be Open To All SINGAPORE, Dec. 21. T'HE question of three scholarships given by the Singapore Eurasian Association for children of needy members, was discussed at the 25th annual meeting of the Association last night. Opinion was that these scholarships should be' open not only to children of
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  • 154 14 Straits Times, Dec. 21. Methodist Bishop Ralph S. Cushman will arrive .n Singapore towards the end of February. He has been appointed by the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church to conduct the Methodist Conferences in Malaya and Sumatra A cable to this effect was received
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  • 171 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 21. “THE Labour Party of Singapore opposes the present property qualification for voters for the municipal elections.” This statement was approved at a meeting of the Party’s political committee last night, under the chairmanship of Mr. Francis Thomas. “The Labour Party considers it
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  • 91 15 SINGAPORE. Dec. 20. AN estimated $1,000,000worth of toys was importea into Malaya last month and in the first two weeks of this month for sale before Christmas. In October, imports of toys amounted to about $230,000 The total imported for thr 10 months ended October
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  • 107 15 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. A surplus of unskilled and semi-skilled workers in Singapore continued last month when an average of five in every nine who registered for employment were found jobs. About 3,000 women who registered a few months ago following a rumour of possible employment in a
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  • 263 15 ‘Left Me To Carry Baby, Says Clerk From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Dec. 16. THE former chief clerk of the Taiping branch of WhUeaway Laidlaw, Lim Khoon Aik, told the Ipoh District Court today that he decided to expose his former manager after four months of silence following his arrest
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  • 92 15 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. r |'HE first ordinations that the Anglican Church in Singapore has held since the time of the Japanese occupation will be held in St. Andrew’s Cathedral, on Sunday, January 16, by the Bishop of Singapore (the Right Rev. J L. Wilson). On that day
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  • 204 15 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. 1 IM Ah Ang and Chong Kah were today sentenced by Mr. Justice Lavllle at the Assizes to four years’ rigorous imprisonment for having assembled with arms for the purpose of committing gang robbery. Mr. T B. Sime. estate manager, said he was being
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  • 43 15 SINGAPORE. Dec. 17. Two fire engines from the Central Fire Station answered a call from Fraser and Neave’s premises in Trafalgar Street about 4.20 a m. yesterday. An electric motor was burnt out but otherwise no damage was reported
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  • 138 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 21. rE Singapore Department of Economic Affairs yesterday issued a statement advising merchants to get in touch with the department before sending ships to trade with certain Sumatran ports. Ports specifically named were those such as Sibolga, Pakanbaroe, Djambi and Rengat, which had been
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  • 238 15 SINGAPORp T'lIE Government of India has agreed to Vv 18 1 ber of scholarships to Malayan u„i anu,ru further their studies in Indian Universitii 1 nts to Mr. J. A. Thivy, Representative of Uie'r ment of India in Malaya, told the Straits tj oVern terday
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  • 120 15 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. Five of the six Indians who were charged In the Singapore Seventh Police Court a week ago with the alleged murder of two employees of the Singapore Dairy Farm on Dec. 12 were discharged by the Magistrate (Mr. R. J. C. Walt), yesterday. They
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  • 70 15 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 20. Almost 400 Government subordinates are on the waiting list for quarters in Johore Bahru. The State Council Finance Committee is recommending that building be re-started f o piovlde accommodation for these employees. The State Council is to be
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  • 81 15 From Our Stall Corresnonn MALACCA. IW 5f en {SPECIAL concession 7 a tM for haireutting and permanent waving A be available to members a i Malacca Clerical Cnion was announced at the J ion’s meeting yesterday l;*e» d Of agitating for a higher cost of living
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  • 206 15 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH. Dec. 20. “IF you educate a boy, you 1 educate an individual: if you educate a girl, you educate a family.“ This was what the assistant Director of Education, Malaya (Mr H. L Hodge' told about 300 teachers of
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  • 31 15 SINGAPORE. Dec. The Director of J* an 0 f Transmission, Fedrratu n Malaya and Singapore R. P. Whyte) ha.s bet pointed Director f an d Federation of Mala. Singapore.
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  • 2270 16  -  By C. C. TAN Member of the Legislative Council of Singapore I 1 1 is an indisputable II 1 fact that before the i);i|>anese occupation Ini Malaya the various ■pees in the Straits Kettlemcnts and Ihe [Malay States, Federat■d and Unfederated, hived in compete har■nonv.
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  • 329 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 22. rpiIE Singapore Government must be ready to answer questions affecting the people of this Colony if a Communist government controls China, suggested Mr. John Laycock (Municipal North-East) in the Legislative Council yesterday. “We must take thought to see
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    30 17 Five year old Vivienne Shaw in a pantomime pose at the Christmas party given yesterday by the Singapore Swimming Club ior children of six and under.- .—Straits Times picture.
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  • 70 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 21. A FULL inquiry into the circumstances of the shooting of the 24 Chinese at Batang Kali on Dec. 12 is now in progress. It was begun .two days after the incident on the instructions of the Chief Police Officer (Mr. H. G. Beverley).
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  • 166 17 From Our Staft Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 21. Chinese Consul-Gen-eral (Mr. Li Chin) said today he had wntten to rhe Chief Secretary asking for fuller details of the killing of 24 Chinese at Batang Kali on Dec. 12. Mr. Li Chin said: “I want to
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  • 237 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 22. A CALL to the Singapore Government to withdraw the diplomatic privileges granted to the Malayan Representative of the Government of India (Mr. J. A. Thivy) was made by Mr. John Laycock (Municipal North-East) in the Legislative Council yesterday. Mr. Laycock said that
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  • 148 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 21. T*HE Malayan Railways made a gross revenue of $33.3 million last year. This was the highest in the history of the Department and reflected the higher level of railway charges now in force, stated the General Manager of
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  • 90 17 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. 'I’HE Emergency Regulations Ordinance was amended by the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday to allow emergency regulations to remain in force for three months instead of one month. The Attorney-General (Mr! E. J. Davies) said that the amendment was necessary as the Council would not meet
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  • 565 17 SINGAPORE, Dec 2? THE first step in establishing a Malavafv 1 Force was taken at yesterday’s mJ!. v *> the Singapore Legislative Council w t' m? o! ordinance was passed authorising th* r to raise the force. ,uver nor The Colonial Secretary (Mr. P a
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  • 102 17 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. CINGAPORES C.ID. Chief (Mr. E V. Fowler* yesterday offered a reward ol $4OO for the capture ot twu Chinese, believed to be responsible for eight or nlm street hold-ups in the past tw montlis in the Colony. Mr. Fowler says that tin
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  • 62 17 From Our Own Correspondeut BUTTERWORTH Dec. 21.Nineteen houses are being built in Bukit Mertajasfl under the town improvement scheme. This was stated at the recent monthly meeting oi the Province iVedes'ey R'J** Board. r9 Of these, six are he.r.i built by private individual, and a
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  • 40 17 From Our Staff PENANG. Dec 20-Tne nicipal Commissioners afternoon confirmed t-- e u of seven notices lor and dangerous Five of the housf.s an( ed are in Kuantan Roa( one each in Bun- ,nd Jones Road.
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  • 84 17 C-G To Meet Secession ists PENANG, Dec. 21. THE Commissioner-General 1 (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) will meet the 15-mcmber Penang and Province Wellesley .Secession Committee here during the Christmas— i New Year holidays. No spe- cific date is given. Mr. D. A. Mackay, chairman r mince, of the Secession Com said
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  • 17 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 20. Inclie Ayab bin Abdullah. Unofficial Member, has resigned from the Kedah State Council.
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  • 548 18 MALACCA, Dec. 19. By RALPH MODDER IiNCAPORE scored their third inter-State hoc- key victory when they defeated Malacca by lur goal* to nil at Malacca yesterday. Malacca started oft in whirlwind ta,n on and for I, first ten minutes, the Singapore defence was called k,n to work
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  • 29 18 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22 S Darby Sports Club defeated litflres by one goal to nil in ball match at Oevlang Sta®»u yesterday. A Fak scored the only goal.
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  • 218 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 20. CELANGOR’S 19-6 victory over Singapore In the All Blues’ match on Saturday was fully deserved, but it was a margin of victory which few of those concerned with the team ever expected. Expectations fell even lower when, Immediately the match started,
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  • 98 18 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. rpHE December mixel oursomea compet.tion of the Island Club, Singapore, held on Sunday afternoon over 18 holei, resulted in a win for Mrs. O. Hodgkinson and P. Jones, who returned a net score of 70 Vi The best cards returned were: Mrs. O. Hodgkinson
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  • 281 18 Ti SINGAPORE, Dec 17. HE Girls’ Sports Club had themselves to blame* lor going down to the Naval Hase Ladies’ Hockey Uub on ®***-C- paclang yes- 1 terday by two to one O.S.C. rads came by the minute. The fast combination on the right flank
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  • 78 18 THE Singapore Haroour Board Police beat Singapore Khalsa Association flve-two in vhelr hocke\ match at Thomson Road yesterday. The Police led two-one at halftime. Speldewtnde scored both these goali for the Police, the first two minutes from the start Khalsa Association got th ir goal through
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  • 68 18 Motor Club’ s Treasure Hunt’ SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. The Singapore Motor Club held a 52-mile “treasure hunt” on Sunday and cars ranging from Pontlacs to Midget MO.'s as well as motor-cycles took part. The prizes were won by Messrs Jansen, E. Longden and W. Crouchen. Prizes In the appearance contest
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  • 272 18 SEREMBAN, Dec. 19. A WEAKENED Singapore Cricket Club fifteen were overwhelmed by Negri Sembilan in their annual rugger match at Seremban yesterday, going down by 27 points (three goals, two penalties and two tries) to three points (one try). In spite of a
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  • 427 18 SINGAPORE. Dec. 16. i ’HE dash and tine stickwork 1 of F/O Billers, the W.A. AF. centre-forward, was -he feature of a hockey match between the Singapore Cricket Club’s women’s hockey team and the W.A.A.F. on the sp.C. padang yesterday. The Club won by
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  • 392 18 SINGAPORE, Dec 17. A FEW European soccer enthusiasts, who are anxious to improve the standard of the game among the European civilians in Singapore, are planning to hold a series of trials before the new season opens in March. The purpose of these trials, the
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  • 168 18 SINGAPORE, Dec 17. THE Shell Sports Club drew two-all jvitn the Singapore Recreation Club In a game of hockey played hi Farrer Park, /esterda The Shell Club fielded ten men and at the start were slightly at a disadvantage. The S.R.C. had most ot the play
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  • 1014 19 SINGAPORE, Dec. 16. I/ATU Tin Dredging has an estimated life of 9| years ahead of it on its pre- sent ore reserves; Renong Consolidated of 8$ years. Both are in the BurmaMalay group. Burma-Malay Tin and these two
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  • 105 19 W EARNS Brothers' directors recommend paymen of a five-per-cent. final dividend and a 10-per-cent bonus dividend, to make a total of 20 per cent, for the year o Sept. 30, 1948 Profit for the year was $1,538,747. A balance of $137,668. brought forward is added. The
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  • 56 19 From A Market Correspondent SOME business was done In Btak sago flour at a slightly improved price yes erday on the Singapore produce markets. The majority of other produce sections continued dull and quiet. Whi'e pepper prices dropped again. Yes erday’s changes were: Sago flour: Slak $15.60. Pepper:
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  • 676 19 SINGAPOKI [w From A Market Corresponded ec 2trjESPITE the season there was little in Malayan share market to induce a 1« et k’i Business was probably at its lowest level .kH. Most trading was in the Industrial s < there was a Arming tendency for i
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  • 804 19 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. Price quoted by the Association today were: INDUSTRIALS Bayer Seller Atlas Ice 14.00 15 00 c<J Alex Bricks Pref 2.774 2 85 Ord 1.90 2 00 B.B. Petrol 39/9 40/9 B M rruste** 54* Con. Tin Smelters Pref. 23/6 24/6 Ord. 17/9 18/6 E.
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