The Straits Budget, 14 September 1950

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  • 30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] Scries No. 215. Singapore Thursday, September 14, 1950 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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    • 102 1 The STRAITS BUDGET Published in SINGAPORE on THURSDAY Delivered in LONDON on MONDAY SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION $24.00 Arrangements have been made to send the “Straits Budget” by air to the United Kingdom weekly on Thursdays i.e. on pub lication day in Singapore. Under conditions we should be in a position
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
    • 326 2 A s Penang citizen of long standing. I read with interest your Penang report that, because of the lack of senior M.C.S. officers, there was only one nomination for the post of Municipal President of Georgetown. You will agree, sir, that this is a very
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    • 244 2 ItfR. Lay cock’s Marriage i?1 Bill has produced quite a sensation in the Colony of Singapore, especially among the Muslim community. It is a great pity that a Marriage Bill such as this has not been intro- I duced in the Federation. This
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    • 196 2 “rkBSERVER’S” letter of Sept. 4, headed “A Grenade At Sungei Siput”, contains a misstatement of fact. In the lelter the following paragraph appears: “The police, who were stationed about 350 yards from the spot, did not arrive till they received a phone message from an injured
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    • 98 2 Mrs. Karen Rentse writes from Kota Bahru as follows: Please allow me to thank through your columns those who have sent messages of condolence from all over the country on the death of my husband in the air accident on August 25. “My svmoathy goes to all
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    • 477 2 IN your editorial of Sept. 1. headed ‘‘North Ward”, you have apparently misdirected yourself to irrelevant conclusions from false premises. The resignation of Mr. Pat Johnson from the Singapore Labour Party was the result not of disagreement over questions of policy but of Mr. Lim Yew Hock's
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    • 361 2 OO the Settlement Council of Penang is going a-hunting for a suitable official motto for the island Let it not be said, to our eternal discredit, that we. the public of Penang, take not the slightest interest in this very important matter. Each and every one of
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    • 541 2 TWERE is a world of truth In what Mr Beau u,.< 1 Kok wrote, in his letter of Sept 5 hr,< Bachelor’s Support", concerning prohibit? ,1 marriages between men over 40 and f unaer 25. ,;nen It is quite customary for many a father
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    • 792 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 7. I The fluid nature of the fightI ina. aid the latitude which war corn--Indents in Korea have I won by the risks they take, I have combined again to give a I picture of the United I Nations* battle front. There I
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    • 382 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 7. I It will certainly surprise most Singaporeans to be told i that one of the most successful applications of mechanisation in Singapore since the war has been in the cleaning of the city sewers. This tnav not be a pleasant subject, but cleaning
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    • 883 3 -Straits Times, Sept. 8 Some two hundred families living in attap huts on Crowr land in Havelock Road, Singapore. are under notice to quit by September 20, the land on which the huts stand being required for a new English school to be built for the Education
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    • 172 3 -Straits Times, Sept. 8 It takes a minor catastrophe to remind Singapore of the truth of the old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. When fire broke out in an old house in Albert Street last Saturday it
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    • 755 3 Straits Times Sept. 9. We often see Perlis referred to as the smallest State in the Federation, but how many of us know anything more about Perlis than that Tucked away on the coast between the Kedah frontier and Siam, it rarely sees a visitor from central
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    • 1069 4 —Straits Times. Sept. 11. An important new stage has been reached in Commonwealth planning for South-East Asia. In London, official technical experts have begun their examination of the separate six-year economic programmes submitted by Commonwealth countries and territories in the area as a result of
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    • 675 4 —Straits Times. Sept. 12. Two pronouncements on American policy in Asia made by State Department officials during the week-end deserve the widest possible publicity. In the first of them the Secretary of State. Mr. Dean Acheson, emphasised again American disinterest in Formosa except for the necessity of
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    • 379 4 Straits Times. Sept. 12 Last week the Strait* T published a letter with heading “Open Letter Bandits" and" bearing the undeniably startling s! r “Head Bandit The Head Bandit es'- r 1 his comrades to stop 1 n the rubber plantations < t aya because—he points in so
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    • 966 5 The Ceylon “Optimum Straits Times. Sept. 13 An impulsive volume of A -40 pages bound in russet morocco \v;.« published in I Colombo last month. This was i r'*be report n rhe 1946 census m Ceylon, nr vve are told J this i< only Volume i of th‘ larger work
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    • 212 5 -Straits Times, Sept. 13. Lately a close watch has been kept on printed matter coming into Singapore from China, and a variety of Communist publications have been banned. In reporting these activities the Straits Times thinks that it is doing its civic duty, hut it got quite a
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  • 84 5 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13. jJURAN Singh, charged uith failing to produce his kidentity card at the Singapore Central Police Station on Sept 11. n'as stated in the First District Court yesterday to “have pushed the constable aside and insisted on seeing the Commissioner ol Police.’ Pleading
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  • 236 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 13. r |'HE Broadcasting Department has caught six ‘‘pirate” listeners in Singapore as the result of its first day’s campaign against unlicensed radios in the Colony. At the moment the six listeners, who live in Chinatown, do not know the Department is uware
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  • 179 5 SINGAPORE. Sept. l.i /COLLECTING about $10.00(1 at Ns annual charity dance at Raffles Motel on Monday night, the Malayan Jockeys Association has now raised over $30,000 for local charities since Its formation in 1947 The association expresses thanks to the following who responded generously to
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  • 144 5 SINGAPORE Sept. 13. (COMMANDER J. I) Lewls- Williams R.N. Commanding Officer ol the Boom Defence Depot. Loyang. told the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W G Porter yesterday that after making Inquiry into th<* explosion aboard H.M.S Barwind on Aug 30. he “was sure that it was
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  • 26 5 JOIIORE BAHRU. Sept. 12. Ramasamy, who was found on Tebrau Estate in possession of illicit toddy valued at $1.60, was fined $7 here today
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  • PERSONAL
    • 129 5 DAVIDSON: On Sept i.st at Bungsar Hospital. K.L.. to Daphne tnee Minchinfoni, wife of D II Davidson, a daughter. HOOL: At Bungsar Hospital. Kuala Lumpur, on Sept. 5th. to Peggv and Bill Hool. a brothe! for Peter. Michael and Stisan ON 7TH SEPTEMBER. 1950, at Dunedin. New Zealand, to
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    • 17 5 THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced of Hindon Salieh of Batu Gajah and KhaialT Albas rawy ol Singapore
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    • 37 5 1’HE MARRIAGE arranged oetween Gilbert Arthur Richard MERGARD of North wood Middlesex and Singapore, and MAR1F KINO of Pymble Sydney, wa solemnized ny tin- Rev Goodwin at St Marks, Darling Point, Sydney, on September 9 1950
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  • 1926 6 Anker Rentse IT is strange how one can feel a pang of personal sorrow over the death of a person whom one has only mei :i lew times, and whose personality and inner being one has sensed rather than known So it was in my ease with
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  • 323 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 9. rpliK proposed Singapore Trades Union (JonI gross, under the leadership of Mr. V. K. Nail president of the Army Clerical Services i’nion. is likely to be formed without the support f a large section of the Colony’s industrial workers’ unions. On
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  • 80 7 HIS HEAVEN ON EARTH —AT 40 CTS. A BOTTLE pOK displaying an inder cent advertisement on the live foot-way at Syed 4lui Road. Supramaniam vu lined $50 in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday Supramaniam admitted giving a detective a handbill of an indecent nature and selling a bottle containing
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  • 110 7 SINGAPORE Sept. 9. \N Indian Tamil. S. Ratal •*.!> sterday senr' n r i t dr h in the SingaAsm/** i r the murder -p Indian in a house *>n Road He gave I norift* of appeal T' i lury who found him y unamimous veradd»yj
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  • 47 7 SINGAPORE. Sept. 9. “teen Chinese song were among the 26 *’p banned in Singapore V( V. "May. 1 e Governor-in-Council a > prohibited the imof past or future of all “75 Cents Maga- Published by the Uto1>!‘bfis at New York and Roland Gardens, Lon-
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  • 220 7 I com Our Staft i'onespondeiti KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 8. THE Sultan or Selangor has presented the istana Jamiah at Klang for use as the Muslim College to be started soon. This was revealed today at a meeting of 80 Muslim leaders from Singapore and the
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  • 231 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. r[E electoral lists for the Municipal and Legislative Council constituencies were yesterday thrown open for public inspection for a period of i two weeks. The lists for each Ward may be inspected at centres at various parts of the Colo- ny AH
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  • 105 7 SINGAPORE, Soph 9. “YOU should refrain from bringing this type of: eases to court.” the Singapore Second Police Magistrate, Mr S. E. Teh, told Inspector Lee Chong Teen, officer-in-charge of the Weights and Measures j Branch, when seven shop-) keepers whose dachings were, in favour of
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  • 192 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 9. THE aircraft carrier Unicorn, which with the cruiser Ceylon carried the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Middlesex Regiment to Korea from Hong Kong, returned yesterday to Singapore for a refit. One of the highlights of the ship’s welcome in Korea which most impressed
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  • 332 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 8. A FIVES of about 105 agencies interested in adult education in the Colony met in the British Council Hall on Thursday uitfht and agreed that Singapore should have a Council of Adult Education to co-ordinate their work. Mr R. M Young, acting Director
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  • 30 7 SINGAPORE. Sept. 9. Goh Bctig Bee. a 27-year-olii cake maker. was fined $750 in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday tor assisting in a chap ii ki lottery
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  • 57 7 ,fn Stall Correspondent J(r.r QRE BAHRU gept g y V 1 Da to Onn bin >or s impending departure ngland to attend the monwealth talks his dfr Ceylon to study indusand development me- has been deferred. The n Government has been d to make arrangements
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  • 111 7 SINGAPORE. Sept. 9. t PUBLIC Relations O'I A oartment van was badly imrnt at Pulau Salmon vesterdav afternoon when -4 reels of films stored m a j box inside the van caught 1 fire. Damage Ls estimated at $6,000 K. V Swamy. a
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  • 73 7 MARIA’ HEARING IN OCTOBER SINGAPORE. Sept. '< Four days have been fixed for the hearing of the claim by Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Hertogh, of Bergen-op-Zoom. Holland, for the custody of Maria Huberdina Hertogh (Nadra Adabi), the 13-year-old Dutch girl who was recently returned to Che Aniinah, her foster-mother
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  • 54 7 SINGAPORE. Sept. 9. Dr .1 D Dennehy, of Bai moral Ro.id, Singapore, wax accused at Singapore Second Police Court, yesterday of having left penrillln capsules and adrenaline hydrochloride in an unlocked car in Victoria Street “so as to endanger human life.’ He claimed trial and the case wfts
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  • 25 7 SINGAPORE. Sept. 9. Sixteen Chinese were each fined $10 in th c Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for operating coffee shops without licences
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  • 652 8 New Home —And $1,040 And Food For Mrs. Ong RELIEF POURS IN AFTER REPORT SINGAPORE, Sept. 9. than 12 hours after the story of her plight appeared in the Straits Times yesterday, Mrs. Ong Kim, 69-year-old squatter who lives with her crippled daughter and young grandson in a dilapidated hut
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  • 115 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 8. £)URING August, approval was given to deport 287 aliens and one British subject under Emergency Regulation 17C This brings the total number of deportations to date to 7.654 aliens and 163 British subjects. The total number of deportations last year was
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  • 93 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 9. A 22-YEAR-OLD Chinese Teng Tang Chwee. who was alleged to have set fire to a police telephone hut in Aljunied Road on the night of June 27. was yesterday committed to stand trial at the next Assizes by the Singapore Relief Court magistrate.
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  • 58 8 SINGAPORE. Sent. 9. Moving among a crowd in the Singapore Chinese Secretariat, a detective saw a man stealing a fountainpen from the shirt pocket of another and had him arrested. Yesterday, Chew Chin Hoo, who stated that he was an opium den proprietor, was sentenced to
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  • 44 8 SINGAPORE. Sent. 9. Thirty-four girls from the rls’ Home Pasir Panjang. Singapore were taken op Aug T O a pr'vgte view of tW» educational film “Secrets of the Film Censor's < S1VS tv,< monthly report f ■'Singapore Department Social Welfare
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  • 251 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 9. SEVEN men, five Chinese and two Malays, died in an explosion which occurred in a motor tongkang. the Tong lleng, loaded with carbide and formic acid anchored alongside North Boat Quay. Singapore. early yesterday morning. Police wno tound tne ouu.> of
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  • 70 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 9. Mrs. Caroline Eliza Mathews, a daughter rf the well-known Volge family of Malacca., died in Singapore early yesterday. A former teacher at the Singapore Anelo-C h i n e s e School. Mrs. Mathews had been living in retirement at her
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  • 209 8 Drank Herbal Brew—2 Die S1NGAPOKI s m TWO women <n,a and three others t>ecame seriously ill hut alter they druns .hucc of Chinese rued final roots in a h.euse ln Boat Quay. Sinitaijor.: The dead women w,r, T n, Swang Eng. 39. ami year-old daughter ;n-h® i' n Puei Meng.
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  • 244 8 ‘People’s Problem Laycock Told SINGAPORE. Sept. 8 THE problem of tuberculosis is the people s problem first and foremost, said the Chairman of the Council of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Mr. C. L. Edwards, in a letter addressed to the Singapore legislative Councillor. Mr John Laycock. Mr. Edwards was replying
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  • 76 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 9. Lady Gimson, wife of the Governor of Singapore, left hv the Can 1 on this morning to attend the marriage of her daocbt«r. M'ss ,?ndi*h Annette Ginison, to Cant Douglas Snowdon in England. Miss is the second danghter of Sir Erankl*n
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  • 56 8 SINGAPORE Sept 9. |>EEPING into the tuture. 1 the new Singapore Municipal (Hackney Carnage) By-Laws. 1950. lay down that no hackney carriages in the 0,01 shall be fitted with television equipment. In this section the Municipality also includes radios on w hich a ban is
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  • 95 8 SINGAPORE Pi ANGRY because bLwas served late, a n(J er smashed the b°tt. a glasses on his ta GoV coffee shop at Lor 0 lang. and chased th rietor with a knife r i.n<o u streets and lanes i This was told in th y
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  • 14 8 s Siniranore hir hs 578 during the pa* 1 against 166 deaths
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  • 389 9 A WOMAN WAS WAITING OUTSIDE FOR HIM.. SINGAPORE, Sept. 8. iiRITISH soldier who had just completed seven days’ "confined to barracks” A and was in such a hurry to set to town that he did not recognise an wder from superior officer, and
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  • 143 9 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8. A party of Royal Marine n Commandos disembarked in Singapore yesterday from the trooper Devonshire They are on their way to Korea. Skipping down the gangway with their kit, they looked flt and well after months of training, and quite unperturbed by
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  • 131 9 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8. iNL>: VS seven-man trade! Mission arrived in Singa- j yesterday on its way to! Jak.M t From Jakarta, the I n'.'vi -n will fly back to Sin- I cajjort*. Ch. rnbers of Commerce and other trading bodies inter* sted in holding clisciivions
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  • 32 9 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8.^ Seven Chinese shopkeep- summoned for having unjust platform scales for urpoaes, were acquit U the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday when the prosecution withdrew the charges.
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  • 119 9 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8. 12-year-old Indian boy. Krishna, raised broad on the laces of e/. ;prosecuting officers ‘d others -present at the ‘‘'ring of a murder trial the Singapore Supreme 1 uy t yesterday. he boy jvas being cross- r a mined by Mr. Muthu°my, counsel
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  • 107 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 8. THE Malayan Meteorological Service has plans for a four-year experiment to ascertain winds at hitth altitudes by means of radar equipment, the director. Commander H.B. Moorhead, said yester- day. This experiment, estimated to cost the department about $BO,OOO annually, will cover
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  • 86 9 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8. A N amah. Wong Ah Cheng, A who lost her left leg below the knee in a bandit attack on a train going to Kuala I.umpur on March 3 has received a 82,310 cheque from the Malayan Railway as compensation.
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  • 61 9 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8. Dr. A A. Sandosham of the staff of the University of Malaya, returned to Singapore yesterday bv KLM Constellation after a two years Queen’s Fellowship Course at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Sandosham. a graduate of the King Edward
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  • 117 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 8. r-IE 800-strong Singapore Harbour Board Stall Association will hold a general meeting next Wednesdav to decide by secret ballot whether to accept th< Board’s offer of 15 per cent-of-basic-pay housing allowance effective from Nov 1/. 1949. Members of the Association are
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  • 242 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. H. SINGAPORE beat and radio police spent yesterday on the look-out for an 18-year-old Chinese married woman who was abducted the previous night from her home in Clement! Road (off Holland Road) by two Chinese posing as detectives. No reason for the abduction was
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  • 62 9 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8. During the past month “harassing” raids have continued on hotels which are believed to be run in a disorderly manner, states the August report of Singajjore’s Department for Social Welfare. This has resulted in action being taken in three cases. In one case the
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  • 39 9 I rnm Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU Sept. 7. Johnny Tan and T/.e Fong, of Singapore were fined $lO and S 7. respectively, for not having renewed their Road Tax licences for the second half of 1950.
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  • 206 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 8. ty\TO ONN bin Ja’afar, of the Federation, and Mr. I C. C. Tan, of Singapore, are going to London to attend the Commonwealth talks on plans for economic development in South and South-East Asia, which open on Sept. 25. They will
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  • 90 9 SINGAPORE, Sept K. A statement was issued last night bv the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association of Singapore and the Federation on the eve of the second "anniversary” of the original petition it sent lo government seeking a reduction in entertainment tax. The original petition was sent two
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  • 37 9 I rom Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sept. 7. Aris bin Khalid and Ahmad bin Talib, auxiliary policemen. who were charged with being out of doors during curfew hours, were cautioned and discharged here today.
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  • 260 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. WORK on the Singapore Municipality's $90,000,000 power station at Pasir Panjang will begin in January next year, Mr. C. C. Payne, the Municipal Electricity Engineer, said yesterday. Power supply to Singapore from this station can be expected from the
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  • 140 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. A PLEA for co-operation J\ between m**n and women in the Rotary Club movement in Malaya was made by Mrs. Eunice Adams, wife of Canon R. K. S. Adams, and president of Singapore’s Inner Wheel, addressing the Singapore Rotary Club yesterday, in the
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  • 100 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. FOR beating a man unconscious after he intervened In an argument. Chan How Chin was sentenced to i two months imprisonment in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. Chan haa pleaded guilty to a charge of causing hurt to C. Devinathan in Bukit Timah
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  • 210 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. A MASS exodus, the second in recent months, from the Labour Party of Singapore, is expected to start before the end of this month. Many of the men resigning are said to bo the founder i members of the party, who are
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  • 126 10 from Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 6. Yow Kim, former director of the Selangor Omnibus Company. who pleaded guilty today at Kuala Lumpur to having made a l.iiso declaration before the Commissioner of Oaths in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court on Dec 20 last
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  • 136 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. REPRESENTATIVES of organisations interested in Adult Education will meet in the British Council Hall. Singapore, this evening to consider the formation of a Council of Adult Education. This council will co-ordi-nate the eUorts of public and private agencies engaged in the work of
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  • 40 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. Low Kean Seng, a hardware dealer of Victoria Street whose platform scale was alleged to be six tahils short in 35 katis. was acquitted in Singapore Second Police Court yos- terday. Mr. C. H. Koh defended.
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  • 29 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. Two boys who pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to gambling in Miri Road on Sept. 5. were cautioned and discharged.
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  • 373 10 From Our Own Corresponded BENTONG Sent <• “JT IS quite clear that the bandits arot’akin strong exception to the resettlement K in this district”, the Resettlement Office? f«* Bentong District, Mr. J. D. H. Neil S lu Straits Times. to d ‘he "In
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  • 75 10 PENANG, Sept ti WHEN the s.s. I.ok-aes arrived in Penang a t midnight lust night it carried one passenger mere than the number which boarded at Calcutta. The evtra passenger c.a> a girl born at sea two davs ago to Mrs. Balbir K.tiir. from Bengal,
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  • 212 10 No Lack Of Textiles In Singapore’ SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. T'HERE is no shortage of textiles in Singapore, J especially Indian textiles, and by next month or November the local market is expected to be flooded with them, said a spokesman of the Indian Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Any quality of
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  • 49 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUF. Sept. 6. *YHE Malayan Indian Congress has severely criticised “so-called wellwishers of the labour community” toho advocate the re-opening of toddy shops on rubber estates The criticism in made in anti-toddy pamphlets which will be distributed to estates tomorrow
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  • 51 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. Found guilty of behaving in a disorderly manner and fighting in public in Koppel Road on Sept. 5, Makand Singh, aged 24. of Spower Road, and Koh Yone Liang, aged 20 of Mohamed Sultan Road, were each fined S10 in the Singapore Third Police Court
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  • 213 10 SINGAPORE. Sept T M R. T. A. Brown, wh been acting as AttorneyGeneral in the Fedora*. i r.. returns to the Sir High Court Bench next week Mr. Justice Thorogood will be going on leave next w Mi 8 c: Burlock I pointed Deputy Chairman of the
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  • 60 10 SINGAPORE. SeP* TEN Chinese were en 1 with gambling in coin gaming house in I erak Singapore, on Aug. o. Singapore Fourth Court yesterday. One of them. Lin. Tan. aeed 37, was mute. He did not One other man was to be absent. r The remaining eight ed
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  • 311 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 6. Singh, a police sergeant-major and J former officer in charge of Pudu Police Station was today convicted by Mr. A. P. Jack in the First Magistrate’s Court, Kuala Lumpur, of corruption and sentenced to one
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  • 155 11 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. i DAKOTA courier aircraft A :rom a Now Zealand i(lr«ui of Malaya Air Com..inci was diverted to Kucht Sarawak) yesterday if.trnoon to pick up a sick, ;v; v otlicial requiring spe- 1 atment aircraft was on a .’.ne flight from Labuan to
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  • 44 11 SINGAPORE. Sept, 7. The asnes of the late Mr. Ian Morrison, Far Eastern representative of The Times, who was killed in Korea recently. arrived in Singapore bv air from Japan yesterday. They will be taken to; England later for burial
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  • 212 11 FAMOUS LANDMARK TO CO SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. 4 ONCE famous landmark known to the older generation of Singaporeans as the Hotel van Wijk, will shortly be no more. The buildings along Stamford Road which once housed the old hotel are now being demolished. They will
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  • 66 11 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. A passenger in a motorin the inner roads of >re on Sept. 5 was 1( i in possession of 150 nackets of opium. n* > was told in the Singa- j Second District Court j idav when Leong Sim n. 53. pleaded guilty
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  • 43 11 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. apore and Federation 'se remitted $2,15G.242.- their families and dents in the China last n. says an official release apore sent $1,521,839.53. nis included remittances by Federation residents >v, "b Singapore banks. Federation total was 102.95,
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  • 29 11 ‘SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. P. H Hopkins, repre- i| ivp of Swedish Match ifacturing (Singapore), rn cj yesterday by Q.E.A.-A-C. Constellation after a ne.s.s tour in Britain.
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  • 62 11 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. rkONATIONS to date to the i Singapore Boy Scouts AsI sociation total $4,127.50. R j a rr c s t contributions ($1,000 each > have comn from 1 Mr Lee Choc San and the Lee Rubber Co., Ltd. Eleven Singapore firms contributed nearly $2,000
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  • 169 11 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Sept. 6. A MEETING of the negotiation committee of the Pan-Malavan Rubber Workers’ Union and representatives of the Malayan Planting Industries Employers’ Association —the third so far will be held at Kuala Lumpur on Friday to discuss a memorandum recently
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  • 156 11 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. REPRESENTATIVES of the Singapore Federation of Services Unions will meet the six British Parliamentarians expected here at the end of next week to survey Malaya’s political and economic conditions. The Federation is getting impatient over the continued delay by the three Armed
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  • 93 11 SINGAPORE:. Sept. 7. F.IOUND guilty in the police 1 court on two charges ot preparing and being in possession of a poisonous drug, without a licence. Chan Sze Heng. of New Bridge Road, appealed against his conviction before the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley. yesterday. Chan
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  • 54 11 PENANG, Wed Mr. Khoo Heng Teik, well-known Penang racehorse owner, died last night at his residence at Tanjong Tokong. Mr Khoo who was 02 years old, retired from active racing two years ago. At one time, he owned one of the largest strings in Malaya, racing
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  • 40 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 0. Thye Mul Lam. owner of a tin min**, who failed to keep a proper register of workmen engaged on the mine, was fined $5OO, or one year’s imprisonment, in the Kota Tlnggi Sessions Court.
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  • 201 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. 1LTHEN bomb-carrying aircraft are Hying to attack anti-bandit targets in Malaya there is no danger of stray bombs dropping accidentally from the planes, but pilots are warned to avoid populated areas wherever possible, said a spokesman at A.H.Q., Malaya, last night. I
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  • 57 11 SINGAPORE. Sept 7. Marimuthu Nadesan. 19 a clerk in the British Military Hospital, Alexandra Road, claimed trial in tlie Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to theft ol some white sugar, a tin ol evaporated milk and two tins of cheese lrom the hospital. Hail of $100 In
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  • 297 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 8. r pHE shortage of nurses in Singapore is so acute that if the position should worsen, a few wards in hospitals may have to be closed, Dr. R*. D. Gross, the acting Director of Medical Services, told the Straits Times
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  • 168 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 7. A TRISHA man. Wong Min Huat, who was caught with $9,000 worth of chap ji ki slips in his possession while riding near the junction of Rutland Road and Farrer Park Road. Singapore. on July '7, was fined S750 or in default
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  • 131 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8. NINE "guinea pigs” from the Royal Navy who underwent tests on survival at sea In the Arctic Ocean this year, arrived in Singapore yesterday on board the Devonshire. to submit to physiological tests on a float moored in these tropical waters They
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  • 90 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8. OECAUSE he tailed to paint the name of his ship on both sides of the bows and the name of the port of registry on the stern, Wong Ting Hee, the taikong of the m.v. Thian Chee, was yesterday fined S200 in
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  • 86 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8. A WAITER at the Katong I\ Rest, House, Chong Heng Hai. was acquitted in the Singapore Fourth Police Court vesterday of causing hurt to Han Jin Siew. an insurance agent, in Middle Road on Apr. 25 Han claimed that Cheng assaulted him with
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  • 43 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8. Mrs. Kay Cubbin, wellknown in the Singapore theatrical world, died suddenly in the troopship Orbita while on her way to England with her husband. Major R. Cubbin. formerly a staff officer in the Education Service. GHQ FARELF
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  • 492 12 GRANNY (69) FEEDS THE FAMILY ON 30 CENTS A DAY... SINGAPORE, Sept. 8. 4 BOl’T 300 yards behind the Changi Prison is one of the Colony’s most tragic cases of destitution. A Chinese family of three lives in poverty, hunger and filth—on 30 cents
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  • 110 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8. A jar of formic acid broke in a sampan yesterday afternoon and injured three Chinese labourers, two of them seriously. The men, Ching Long Kee. Tay Hoe Seng and See Yong Wee were moving several jars of the acid from Clifford Pier
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  • 167 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 8. AUGUST set a new record for anti-bandit operations by aircraft of the Far East Air Force, which smashed at insurgent targets both by day and by night. pp.ik day was Aug. IT. when the first aircraft took off at nine in the
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  • 56 12 SINGAPORE Sept. 8. Mr. Paul Sykes, who spen* three years in Singapore Canadian Government rcaat Commissioner, has b n pointed to a similar in Ceylon, where Car. establishing a new i- 1 Commissioner Serviet This was recently am ed In Ottawa by t of Trade
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  • 28 12 SINGAPORE. f=The Commander-i Far East Land Fore- i*; eral Sir John H u yesterday by air f<J’ o.i a routine visit. turn to Singapore du week-end.
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  • 26 12 SINGAPORE The Governor of Si Sir Franklin Gimsoifor Penang today. nial Secretary. M r Blythe, will be his during the Governot from the Colony-
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  • 289 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 10. CINCAPORE Radio listeners who wilfully or J forgetfully have listened to Radio Malaya without* paying their $12 a year wireless license jr c for a shock. Broadcasting Department tomorrow will launch on all those who have listened and at the same heated
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  • 103 13 135,000 FIRE AT T. ANSON TELUK ANSON. Sept. 9. F Kb MEN police and scouts h<jttlL'd tor five hours be»oi: one ot the biggest rubber hro vet seen in Tcluk Anson tine., mc liberation was finally under control. A >moi' house belonging to the u. Company at the I rr«le
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  • 208 13 I KUALA LUNKUR. Sept. 9. T ,ir Malayan Y nth Coun- i c;r, ici* d at Kuala Lurnpt as memos connectedj ti tles, provid-| ’•o* introduce pothc council. the council will not r ar ln or identify itself political activities. A *o not. however. In
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  • 75 13 EVIDENCE WAS UNRELIABLE’ SINGAPORE. Sept. 10. Remarking that the evidence of the constable was "unreliable and contradictory.” the Singapore Second Police Magistrate, Mr. S. E. Teh. yesterday acquitted Song Kim Teu on a charge of begging in public at Raffles Place on Sept. 8 Song who has an artificial leg
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  • 212 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11. FIIREE Chinese and three Indonesian seamen, who 1 drifted for four days without food and water on a raft when their prahu was wrecked off the Malayan coast were brought to Singapore by a launch early yesterday. The seamen were picked up
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  • 72 13 SINGAPORE. Snot. 11. body of an elderly British seaman, 54-year-old Ed,rd Reid McDiarmid. found by an Indian in a ‘k lane off Bencoolen Stieet yesterday morning. •MoD armid had a wound over his ri r h f temple, but cause of the death is not vet known
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  • 175 13 I SINGAPORE, Sept. 10. > JINCAPORE police suspect tne existence of a morphine smuggling ring in the Colony. Of the 31 persons arrested! in recent raids, 15 have ;ilrca dy been convicted for either receiving or administering the drug. x Last week, three men were
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  • 234 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 10 W ITH the departure this morning of Tutor Sister Nellie Shaw Williams, the nursing staff at the General Hospital feel that they have lost not only a very good friend but also a second mother Sister Shaw Williams lias been teaching anatomy and
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  • 154 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 10. pOUR masked, armed men who boarded a motor tongkang anchored off Sultan Cate, Singapore, early yesterday morning unloaded 25 bales of rubber valued at $2,000 into a waiting sampan and then disappeared into the darkness. Two of the four-man crew of the
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  • 45 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11. A British naval officer, Commander Alan W. Brockbank, who has just, been appointed Press Relations OMicer on the staff of the C-in-C, Far East Station, arrived at Kailang Airport by QE A B O.A.C. plane from London, yesterday.
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  • 70 13 SINGAPORE. Sept,. 11 Mr. R. A Winter, representative? of Montres Rolex S.A.. Geneva, was entertained to dinner by the* Borneo Company Ltd at the Tal Tong Restaurant. Happy World Among the guests were: 11. Sena. GPM De Silva K A. Richard D»* Silva, and representatives of the Chee
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  • 73 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 10. MR. Egerton Mott, senior Director of the Colonial Development Corporation in Singapore, will leave for the United Kingdom next month after w’hich ho will become the Nigeria representative of the Corporation Mr F. S MeFadzean who returns t<> Singapore thin month Irom Home leave, will
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  • 76 13 SINGAPORE, Sopt. 10 Tony Cheng Kok Wall, an accountant, pleaded guilty :n the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to criminal breach of trust of u cheque for $1 fiP»2 while In the employ of Crichton and Co. He will be sentenced tomorrow Cheng, pleading for leniency
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  • 585 14 C.I.D. Chief Rescues HoldUp Victim SINGAPORE, Sept 10. SINGAPORE'S C.l.D. Ln.et, rvir. K. C. B. Wiltshire, came to the assistance of the victim of an armed hold-up immediately after the incident early yesterday morning. The victim was a young Indian shopkeeper, M O Varghese of 14 mile Changi Road He
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  • 36 14 SINGAPORE. Sept. 10. For assisting in a public lottery in River Valley Road. Singapore, on Sept, i, Teo Teck Kheng, 46. was fined $500 in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday.
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  • 322 14 SINGAPORE, Seut 10 A SINCAPORE European doctor visited the Ong Kim tamilv their wretched dilapidated hut in Changi yesterciv "j brought new happiness to 30-year-old Lim Su ng, their ctimtA si* iinklfl. P'Cd married daughter. VR ea L,m Sung s eyes lit
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  • 35 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 9. Mr c .1 Doshi has resigned |nr chairmanship of the oclangor Indian Chamber of commerce owing to 111- Mr A Mohamed Abdullah has been elected ■tf'sident by the committee.
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  • 235 14 IPOH, Saturday, 10. TRUSTEES of the Yuk Choy Chinese Primary School, which was accidentally 'bombed last Saturday as the result of a bomb falling from a faulty racket on a Tempest fighter, are satisfied with the explanation given by the Royal Air Force concerning the incident,
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  • 83 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 10. AVERAGE of 257 more motor cars have been registered and licensed in Singapore each month this year, making the total on the roads today of 15.751, compared with 13.693 at the end of last year. During the first eight months of this
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  • 45 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9. THE 106th and 107th bandits convicted and sentenced to death under the Emergency Regulations were hanged at the 'Johore Bahru prison this morning. They were Wong Kong, alias Ong Kong and Koh Seng Chee. alias Lee Kee.
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  • 62 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 9. Airport in Singapore, for the first six months of this year earned 48 per cent more from landing fees than lor the same period in 1949. There was a 16 per cent increase in long-distance traffic. In the same period Kallang dealt with
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  • 244 14 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11. TWO thefts in which goods and cash worth nearly S7,700 were stolen took place in Singapore on Saturday night. Among the things taken was a sewing machine. The home of Mr. Chan Poh Leng, a partner of Chan Sze Onn Co., in
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  • 23 14 TELUK ANSON. Sept. 10. Inche Abdul Aziz bin Rani, Technical Assistant of the P.W.D., Teluk Anson, is leaving on transfer to Lumut.
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  • 60 14 SINGAPORE. Sept. 9. rwork by helicopter—that is what the Commissioner General. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald did yesterday morning He .lumped into a Casualty Evacuation Flight helicopter parked outside Rukit Serene in Johore. and was dropped outside his office in Phoenix Park. Singapore. The journey took him
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  • 247 14 SINGAPORE. Sept lo M ORE donations to “C'ranama Ong’s Fund" continued to flow into the Sun day Times oflice yesterday each with their ‘little comment about the suffering which the Ong family havundergone these last tew years. Perhaps the most sinking came from a
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  • 166 14 From Our Staff CorresnOndent KUALA LUMPUR, Soot. 1 > MR. J. R. Dunn, manager of a rubber estat< >' Bentong; area of Pahang, died in Kuala t lin1 l this morning: of wounds received when 1 ambushed by bandits yesterday. A Mala> s i H constable
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  • 381 15 SINGAPORE, Sept. 12. ■I'ilK ommander-in-Chief, FARELF, Generali Sir John Harding, yesterday told a detach- 1 ment ot Royal Army Ordnance Corps volunteer*. "ho are shortly leaving Singapore for Korn: “You, just as much as the infantry in the front line, have got
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  • 142 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 12. ngapore Teachers 1 Ur. r. has instructed all mbers to return •..ir.K and unsigned” the rms sent bv Govern- bearding the Benham il si eme tor teachers spokesman lid •t i in was given beI tatlons were > T ill nr .-«s between
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  • 324 15 Two Cleared Of Trespass SINGAPORE, Sept. 12. 11 IKK hearing a small puppy crying f°r several tiiiy.s a European man and woman went to the owner's house at one o’clock in the morning to see it the dog was being badly treated. terday,
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  • 70 15 SINGAPORE Sept 7. Yl«mh than eight operations a day were carried out in the operation theatre of the Singapore General Hospital last year. Each day the surgical unit also admitted seven new eases. the annual review of the College of Medicine says th.i! the total
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  • 660 15 FHOM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW WHAT with bandits and one thing and another you are inclined to forget that other dangers exist on estates but the other day one member of the staff was attacked by nornets and this morning ten verv frightened labourers said
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  • 20 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 10 Mr. Justice Thorogood will be going home on Saturday next, on leave prior to retilenient
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  • 90 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 12. THE Chief oi Staff to the C-in-C, Far East Station,' Commodore G. F. Burghard, and Mrs Burghard left Singapore by air last weekend for the United Kingdom. At the airport to say farewell wa s the C-in-C. Admiral Sir Patrick Brind. and
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  • 22 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 12. The anti-vice squad ol the Singapore Poliee swept the Stamford Area last night and arrested 10 women
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  • 147 15 SUGAR CRISIS: WHY QUERY SINGAPORE. Sept. 12. THE Singapore GovernE ment will be asked, at the next Legislative Council meeting to explain how “the crisis in the sugar supply arose and why it was allowed to develop”. The query will be tabled by Mr Balwant Singh, member for the Rural
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  • 139 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 12. 1*1IE Singapore ClviJ Service Association, at its annual meeting yesterday, ask ed Mr L C. Goh. the retiring president, to study how the United Kingdom Civil Service was built up to its present high standard. Mr. Goh leaves lor the l’
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  • 87 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 12. \19 -YEAR-OLD building labourer. Chun Chin Ilock was yesterday sentenced by the Singapore First District Judge, Mi !I 1. Kingdon. to two years’ imprisonment lor causing hurt in order to extort money from another youth. Lim Kirn Hock, in Sungei Road A young
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  • 32 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11! T» n l,eng Kang, 22. was ac quitted of trespassing In the corrmounri of Alexandra Brickworks. Pasir Panjang. on Aug. HI. In the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday
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  • 284 16 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sept. 12. JF an experimental test to be carried out by the Penang Public Works Department proves successful, the present flood-damaged runway at Bayan Lepas aerodrome may be covered by a rubberised surface. The tesc will be made soon
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  • 96 16 SINGAPORE Sept. 13. 1 SINGAPORE'S Chinatown v* blazed with burning scrolls. candles and Josssticks until midnight o Monday night when thousands of Singapore Chinese homes celebrated the close of the monthlong Festival of the Hungry Ghosts. Last night was tin* 2iHh day oi the 7th
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  • 38 16 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13. Victor Thio was acquitted in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday on a charge of attempting to cheat the Singapore Traction Co of 10 cents bus fare when the prosecution withdrew the charge.
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  • 288 16 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG Sept. 12. 1 4 SINGAPORE dance hostess, Bertha Gibbs, told the Penang Supreme Court today that an Indian had asked her to offer a $200 bribe to the Settlement Secretary to secure the release of a Chinese from detention. 1
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  • 185 16 PEDICAP RIDERS LOOK ON A 5.... SINGAPORE. Sept. 13. l UIRTEEN Municipal Commissioners, with the Municipal President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice were up early yesterday morning to watch a motorised trishaw being put through a performance test at the Registrar of Vehicles testing yard. The
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  • 84 16 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13. Three Chinese pleaded uuilty in the Singapore Third Ponee Court yesterday to behaving in a disorderly mann, y and making a general nuisance of themselves in Kim s< n« Road at 4 a.m. yesterday They were Loke Ah Choy ■r W ,V,
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  • 55 16 SINGAPORE, Sent 13 C»«A CHI AN SEAH, aged i.i, and Chia Suan Seah, •»U» d 20, who pleaded guilty to flying a kite each at tavanagh Road, thereby < ausmg obstruction to traf«ere ,lned 5 «wh in u»e Singapore Fourth Ponee Court yesterday. tlieir fourMt flying
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  • 28 16 SEGAMAT. Tues.—For failing to stop at a police road block near Cha’ah a 38-year-old motorist Tan Men e Hua wa.‘ lined $l5 at Regamat
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  • 323 16 MAN ‘NOT GUILTY’ OF MURDER SINGAPORE, Sept 1 FOUND not ffuilty by the unanimous verdict the jury ot the murder of i rh;., ra lu< L«- Kim Wall, in February 1948 Hu E E"*' j;a» discharged by Mr. Justice''« Singapore Assizes yesterday. ,hp Ho. who was defended bv Mr D
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  • 58 16 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13. "I had just lost my identity card and was looking for it n n the road when the constable arrived,” a Chinese housewife. La m Kwal Kam. told the Singapore First District Court yesterday Lam. pleading guilty to failing to produce her identitycard
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  • 244 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 13. THE Cathedral Church of St. Andrew's was filled yesterday afternoon with people ol all races when a service of Thanksgiving for the liberation of Singapore five years ago was held. Seated with the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Crimson,
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  • 250 16 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13 r\VO young British soldi crs. with a total ot u previous convictions under the Army Act between them were found guilty of iisin* a military vehicle improper!.* and without authority for their own private purpose* and sentenced to undergo detention for
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  • 120 16 SINGAPORE. Sept 1 Holding that there misdirection by v judge and that cmam dence at the trial wa> missible. the Court ol jj yesterday allowed the of Lirn All Oh and 1 rL Hui against a conviction sentence of three yea.'' prisonment each for r«>bb The
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  • 516 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 12. ••VO one will be safe in this city if a policeman lies as badly as that”, said the Singapore pir>t Traffic Court magistrate, Mr. E. V. A. Peers, yesterday when he acquitted Donald Stewart Fraser on a charge of negligent driving.
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  • 32 17 From Our Own Correspond** nl BENTONG, Sept. 11. TIIKEE-year-old Chinese girl was admitted to the Bentong Hospital after a snake bite yesterday and died within 15 minutes.
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  • 206 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 12. /\NE source of revenue to the S ngapore Govern- ment —which is little known and does not add up to a very big sum —is the tax on dead bodies brought in or sent out of the Colony. f rom me uegimmig
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  • 38 17 I'rom Our Own Correspondent TAIPINO. Mon.—A sum of $1,000 has been forwarded by j the Taiplng Indian commuI nity to the University Endow- ment Fund, the proceeds of their charity show held last month.
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  • 150 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 12. T T HE Royal Navy’s survival trials in the tropical waters around Singapore have begun. Preliminary tests began at the Singapore Naval Base yesterday. The tests at sea are expected to be held in the next fortnight Th(*se are being carried oul
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  • 164 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 12. 'TWO Malay agriculturists have been awarded grants bv the United States Department of Agriculture to study the most advanced methods of farming in America, with particular emphasis on the mechanised cultivation of rice. The two. who are agricultural assistants with the Denartment
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  • 40 17 SINGAPORE. Sept. 12. Too Oeok Tiong. 47. of Rochore Road claimed trial m the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to possessing ,67 lb of dutiable cheroots. Bail of $5 000 in two sureties was allowed until Oct. 13.
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  • 293 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 12. BANDSTAND with a three- leaf roof design flanked ‘•n either side by sundials to ’3 the morning and after‘"">n time, quarters for the 'retaker and public con'•>mces. are new improvements planned for King George V Park in River V
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  • 450 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 12. THE last vital link in the Far Fast Air Force’s air casualty evacuation scheme will be forged tomorrow morning at (hangi, Singapore, when a Hastings aircraft, loaded with stretcher cases, flies to England. From then on. evacuation of casualties from
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  • 88 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 12. IyilE Japanese occupation period hack-pay issue is to be raised again by Singapore Government servants. At the annual meeting of the Singapore Civil Service Association yesterday. Or. A. A. Sandosham. the chairman of the Back-pay Council, said that the Council would
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  • 35 17 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sept. 11. Tan Boo I.eng, a driver of the South Johorn Bus Co., was finer! $25 here today for 'driving Inconsiderately and grazing against a motor car.
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  • 69 17 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13. The Army Eire Service and the Municipal (Ire department. 1 ng (lre-beaters, fought tor about two hours r o put out a fire which burnt approximately four acres of lallang at Sime Road last night Singapore finmen also dealt with three other minor lallang
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  • 104 17 c*T\Tr;*nOR p S**nt. 1? SINGAPORE police yesterday k warned the public not to accept any police documents If the signature on the original Is not In writing but i s franked with a rubber stamp. The Assistant Commissioner. C I D., Mr. D K Broadhurst,
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  • 661 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 11. SEVENTEEN unions, representing Government, non-Government, industrial and nonindustrial workers with an estimated total membership of 40,000, yesterday unanimously passed a resolution calling for “the early establishment of a Trades Union Congress in Singapore”. This was the first definite step towards forming
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  • 53 18 Sunday Times Correspondent JOHORF BAIIRl. Sat. 'THE Kota Tinggi Club has been rehabilitated and is now known as the International Club. It provides facilities lor tennis, badminton and indoor games and hopes soon to iosial a hdlinrd table. The State Government contributed $7,000 towards the rehabilitation
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  • 38 18 SINGAPORE. Sept. 10 The Director-General f Medicaj Services. Royal Australian Air Force Air Commodore A E. Daley arrived ’n Singapore by Qantas BOAC Constellation from London for a week’s visit to Australian airaen in Malava
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  • 432 18 ROTARY DISTRICT ASSEMBLY IR f From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sent in TTOERE is “no such thing as communalism in Singapore” said 11 t, 1 Pheng Geek, President of the Singapore Rotary Club, at the Rotarv iv ap Assembly held at
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  • 215 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 11. |yjORE THAN 100 firms are expected to take part in the arson guards plan which is being p-nde by the Singapore police to combat Communist fire-raising attempts. The scheme will start as soon as the police receive applications from all the
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  • 117 18 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11. STEVEN air-conditioned rooms are among major improve* I ments planned for the Sing- i I ap ire Colonial Secretariat in Empress Place this year The Government will spend $100,000 on these improve- ments from an allocation of $250,000 for all Government offices
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  • 107 18 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11. A squadron of Sunderland l\ flying boats left the R A F. base at Seletar early yesterday for the Korean war tront. They will reinforce F.E.A.F. Sunderlands already operating from Iwakuni in support of the United Nations’ police action in Korea With
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  • 52 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 10. Fatal road casualties in Singapore last month totalled three, the lowest since 1946, but there was a sharp increase in the numbers Injured There were 663 accidents, with 78 serious injuries and 133 slight. Bukit Timah Road had the greatest number of accidents
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  • 77 18 SINGAPORE. Sept. 10. A fire of unknown origin destroyed a large area of a rubber estate at Llm Chu Kang Road, Singapore yesterday afternoon Firemen from the Army Fire Service using two fire engines fought for about four and a half hours to put out the
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  • 138 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 10. THE R.A.F lost a race with death today, but demonstrated that in the midst ot heavy operational commitments humanity is never overshadowed. An s.o.s was received from Ceylon requesting an iron lung tor the young daughter ot an R.A.F Sergeant.
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  • 132 18 SINGAPORE. S pt- 10 WHILE a Municipal ;rJ was clearing up tne wreckage of the at North Boat Quay vester day afternoon. ano‘ plosion occurred < fire resulted was extinguished by fm until late last rv;:ht wi still standing by N Thorp was tip trace missing body
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  • 15 18 KUALA KANGSARS One Chin Sene sentenced to one rous imprisonmen ing a bicycle.
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  • 1127 19 I SINGAPORE, Sept. 10. I /i()\ JSTENT Clynor (Wahab) scored a smashing I l tri >mph when he beat top-weight Four O Clock I anil ftroplate in the Gold Cup trial over a mile I r/iti.kit rimah yesterday, opening day of the SinI fipt-r'-' Turf Club
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  • 196 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. [OHQ 'AngLin won the vl Singapore District senior cup soccer final when they defeated 30th Battalion RAOC by four goals to nil In a hard fought match at Tangltn yesterday. Exchanges were *ven. but GHQ forwards took their chances as they
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  • 635 19 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 6. THE COUNCIL of the Football Association of Selangor sincerely believes that its affairs are on a sound and Arm basis and have the appreciation and support of players and officials of affiliates, states a press communique issued today
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  • 480 19 SINGAPORE. Sept. 10. |>OBBY Locke, the British Open champion, and Jack Hodgkinson (Island Club) finished all square with Douglas McEwan (Royal Singapore Golf Club) and Tom Verity (Selangor Golf Club) in an exhibition match at the Island Club yesterday. The big South African
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  • 62 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 9. Bobby Locke the BrH sh Onen Golf Champion, played a great round of 69 (three under oar) in an exhibition match th*» Koval Singapore Golf t lun yesterday. I ocke and Donbas Muffin, the elnh "rof-s-siooal b'*at I) A O navies,
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  • 174 19 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11. N. -ciu A.ec Moititon oi the R A.K Changi j cling Club won tlx.* 50-mile open line trial staged on Lnn G'nu t <ang Road yesterday whh the ,ood time ot 2hr. 31 min. 20sec. The ra e, wh.ch «a> crgani ed p.-
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  • 189 19 SINGAPORE. ScpL 10. HOLLaNu won tiie Kojui Srngi*pore Yacht Club's international fours rowing rergatta for tiie Knowle; Cup yesterday. Three trews representing Britain, Denmark and Holland took part. Br.taln and Denmark dr<*w places for the first, heat, with Holland a* be. Britain won the heat very
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  • 563 20 KOREAN SITUATION SPURS BUYERS OF TIN RUBBER From A Market Correspondent WAR news limited business on Malayan share markets in a featureless week, and a moderate turnover was maintained with no general price trends perceptible. United Nations withdrawals in Korea brought in keen buyers for Malayan com- modi ties. In
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  • 271 20 I T>USINESS done last week included: I industrials Fraser Neave Ord. $2.95. William Jacks $2,07 4. Malayan Collieries $1,32 4 to $1.25.' McAlister $38.50 cum div. Robinson Ord $2.10 to u cum div., Robinson Ist Pref. $4.75. Straits Trading $12.25 to $12.10 Tins. Batu Selangor 55 cents, Kuchai
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  • 240 20 SINGAPORE, Sept s SHIPMENTS of rubber from August made a new post-war rero H !vk ,ri 110,627 tons left Singapore and l.'hr C i ports. n Only once since the liberation n* v r ikk export figures topped 100,000 tons in <V and that was in July,
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  • 103 20 SINGAPORE. Sent. 12. three thousand tons of Malayan rubber for Russia is being loaded on the 8.000-ton freighter, Lermontov, which docked at the Singapore wharves yesterday. She will pick up another 7.000 tons between Malacca. Port Swettenham and Penang. before proceeding, with two hundred tons
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  • 34 20 DIRECTORS of the Chartered Bank of India Australia and China have declared an intertm dividend for the current year of six per cent., subiect to income tax. payable on Sept. 29
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  • 49 20 rRQUAND. Youngs. McAulifle St Co announce the following estate rubber crops for August, in lbs Alor Gajah Est. 20.800 Ayer Pa nas EM. 97.000 Gleanealy Plantations 74.000 Kluang 6.5 500 Pajam 153.500 Tambalak EM 27.800 Talisman 38 900 Teluk Anson Est. 64.470 Ulu E?nut Consol. 45 000
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  • 40 20 HARRISONB Crosfield <Malava> announce the following August rubber crops, tn lb Allenby 40.000 Benta EM. 100 000 Jeram Kuantan EM 76.500 Kundong EM. 37.350 Mentakab 93 000 Sungei Bagan 145 000 Sandycroft 24.000 Tanjong Pau EM 56.000
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  • 1045 20 SINGAPORE. Sept. 12. INIH'S I RIALS Buvers Sellers Alfl KriCRn Prpf i HO l MO Ortls t 90 1 971 All»< Ire l 1 90 12 '2* B B Petrol 29 6 .10'6 F M Trustee 7 00 7 SO Con in smelt Fret 20/3 a:* Ord
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  • 263 20 SINGAPORE, 9 During the past Singapore rubbe: .irket has been extremely to news from Korea tr.i.i Indonesia (where the sM $**u continues), says L arid Peat’s market rep.m. issued yesterday. Burircs* has been m fined to switching and dealers have been very rcluctan* 0 :u* a view.
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  • 79 20 Kuala Lumpur I"** treated 162.677 v > in 1.041 hours to piculs oi tin-ore TONGKAH Com poll i. tin-ore output ua after treating 97 574 in 558 hours. TONGKAH Compotr treated 48 239 < 337 hours to produce 4; HITAM Tin in Aum 80 piculs of tin-o:«
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  • 24 20 pLENEALY Planta?-'* made a fonvnrd tons monthlv I Itvprv loose into from Januarv to Mat elusive at $1 07 per
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