The Straits Budget, 28 September 1950
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The Straits Budget
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Title Section31 1950-09-28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OYTR A CENTURY] New Series No. 217. Singapore Thursday, September 28, 1950 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.31 words
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Article238 1950-09-28 2 T*HE Home Guard scheme is all very good as far as it goes, but once again it is mainly for the Malays. What is wanted in Malaya is general conscription for the (fighting) army for all between 18 and 24 years of age, so that others238 words
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Article274 1950-09-28 2 A PPLICATIONS are not invited from serving officers for appointments in Government Departments. In response to tneir applications. applicants are cailed for interview before a board of Interviewing officers and. after a few casual questions, they are dismissed Naturally, one gains the impression that an officer is274 words
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Article93 1950-09-28 2 TUESDAY’S head ines included “No Blackouts For Government House One of your crcss-heads on Wednesday was <in small type) “Born Bv Lamplight The auxiliary lighting set which i.s available at the Singapore P W.D for $1,500 would be serving a beMer purpose if it were installed at Kandang93 words
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Article239 1950-09-28 2 "Two bandits were killed last night in the Federation ftVER the air, in newsw papers. in day-to-day converation, this word BANDIT’’ is being used to describe a low, cowardly or- 1 ganisation of thugs, who are peeking wilfully to obstruct, by ruthlessly low methods, the existence of239 words
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Article123 1950-09-28 2 A MOTHER’ S TRAGEDY FIVE months ago my nine-month-old baby became suddenly very ill. i The doctor (he was sup- posed to be our family doctor) was immediately called. He refused to come just because f had taken the child to the Welfare Clinic to be vaccinated. We called another123 words
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Article200 1950-09-28 2 1 FULLY sympathise with the views expressed by "Bored Listener" in the letter published on Ihursday undei the heading "Radio Pirates It only listeners to Radio Malaya were less scrupulous, I'm sure many would turn radio pirate. Shucks to the radio detector van We can200 words
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Article163 1950-09-28 2 T'HE closing of the Nan 1 Chiau Jit Pao by the Singapore Government has set a lot of people thinking about the phrase “Freedom ot the Press” which has been repeated so often in the newspapers and over the radio. The closing of this paper must surely raise163 words
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399 1950-09-28 2 THE GROUSE RS: PLAIN WORDS FROM KLANG I AM a clerk myself, but 1 am inclined to tn„ k '““‘I he educated wage-earners do not pr o% this w 1 be a result of the laisser faire or tifV I s mentality of a great proportion of them a But399 words
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Article116 1950-09-28 2 TO be a member of a Turf Club, a person must be over the age of 21. I am 16V 2 years of age and am anxious to go and see the horsp-races I would be very hannv if the authorities concerned would change the116 words
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Article312 1950-09-28 2 I NOTICE that Radio Malaya has acquired some 1 expensive apparatus by which it is proposed to trace those wireless N sets for which a receiving licence has not obtained. Although 1 am a natural!v law-abiding citizen, I must confess that, after listening to Rad’o Malaya’s prog ammp312 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article769 1950-09-28 3 Times. Sept. 21. Several weeks ago, followup (correspondence in this on the “Bill of Human ,rhts“ adopted by the Genpr;1] Assembly of the United N. tu ns, we reproduced the lull t«*xt of this document, and it *vms to have been studied cluvly by many ofTimes. Sept. 21. - 769 words
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Article285 1950-09-28 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 21. One of the famous Fourth Leaders in The Times—which, we should explain for Malayan readers who do not see that great newspaper, are scintillating little essays rather than leaders in the ordinary sense —lately referred to the White Paper recently produced by the—Straits Times, Sept. 21. - 285 words
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Article722 1950-09-28 3 Straits Tirm\s, Srpt. 22. It is curious that the breakaway from the colonial past and the process of political growth should have begun in the Colony and the Federation since the war in quite different ways. The Colony has begun with elected members in the Legislative Council,Straits Tirm\s, Srpt. 22. - 722 words
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Article825 1950-09-28 3 —Straits Tioies. Sept. 23. In London last Tuesday General Percival presided over a meeting of delegates of exprisoners of war from South East Asia which was held to discuss means of furthering their claims to compensation; and machinery to press these claims on a national basis—Straits Tioies. Sept. 23. - 825 words
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Article859 1950-09-28 4 Straits Times. Sept. 25. It is the minority report of the Benham Committee in the Federation that has stolen the show—if the jargon of the stage is admissible in such a serious business as Government salary scales and the problem of finding the money to pay them.Straits Times. Sept. 25. - 859 words
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Article846 1950-09-28 4 Times, R, r>t It is indeed a strange and unexpected anomaly that when Malaya is passing through a long period of Emergency, and when the country is administered largely by Emergency Regulations, that same period should be the most prosperous in the country’s history If anyTimes, R, r>t % - 846 words
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Article813 1950-09-28 4 -Straits Times. Sept. 27 Since little or nothing lls I been heard from the Su.nis I Chinese British Association 5 f I Singapore for some hint. it w I a pleasure to learn fi’ om aQ I interview with its pn-sMent I Mr. T. W. Ong, published-Straits Times. Sept. 27 - 813 words
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Article284 1950-09-28 5 --Straits Times, Sept. 27. The Straits Times has received a copy of the JulyAucust issue of the news"'hoct which is published by thr International Labour Office m The following rtem is worthy' of special attention The first meeting of the International Labour Organisation's (r rmittee on Work--Straits Times, Sept. 27. - 284 words
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372 1950-09-28 5 From Our Special Correspondent KUCHING, Sept. 26. 'J'HE largest and most costly engineering project ever undertaken in Sarawak—Kuching’s new airport, which cost more than $500,000 to build—was opened today by the Governor, Mr. Anthony Foster Abell, before a crowd of 5,000 people. It was a372 words
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Article77 1950-09-28 5 SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. rpWO now additions to the X St. John and Red Cross Welfare Organisation in Sinjr a pore, Miss J D. Hall and Miss J. McCallum, arrived by BOAC Argonaut from London yesterday. Miss Hall and Miss McCollum were last here in 1945 with77 words
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Article56 1950-09-28 5 SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. The president ot the Malayan Indian Congress, Mr. K. Ramanathan. recently visited the Bagan Serai Branch of the Congress and addressed a large gathering. He urged that all eligible Indians should become Federal Citizens as early as possible. Miss Elizabeth Orijltham also spoke She56 words
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Article95 1950-09-28 5 TRIPLE CRASH SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. of the 16 people Injured in yesterday’s triple collision at the junction of Buona Vista and Pasir Panjang Roads. Singapore, were discharged from hospital after treatment Younpest victim of the crash, 15-year-old Lim Kwa Chwee is in a serious condition. Ali95 words
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Article154 1950-09-28 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. COMMITTEE of Singapore Municipal Commissioners has recommended a refund of $4,200 in charges paid to the Municipality by the Singapore Repertory Theatre for use of the Victoria Theatre during the period from Nov. 19 last to July 4 this year. Approval of the154 words
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Article42 1950-09-28 5 From Our Own (’orrrwpondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 25. Mr. J Altken, of Han Yang Estate. Masai, sails tomorrow for Australia where he is to be married. From Australia he will go to Scotland for the remainder of his leave.42 words
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Article172 1950-09-28 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. kJALAYA'S overseas trade reached an all-time high last month when exports totalled $396,946,452 and imports $279,533,248, giving a favourable trade balance for the month of $117,413,204. Exports for the first eight months of this year were valued at $1,903,624,656 and imports $1,637,973,718172 words
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Article75 1950-09-28 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. A coffee-shop owner, Quah iChoon Seng, 45, wits bound I over for a year in the sum of $750 when he pleaded guilty yesterday in the Singapore Second District Court, to possessing 25 leaf packets of chandu. Quah told the court that he75 words
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Article98 1950-09-28 5 VON WEILER: To Matilda, wife of J. W von Weller, on 23rd September, at Kandong Kerbau Hospital, a son. WRIGHT: On Sept. 21st, at B M H Singapore, to Marjory (n6c Osborne) and Oliver Wright. ,a son. MATHESON: On 20th September. at Malacca, to Dorothy Clare. wlf of J.98 words
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Article46 1950-09-28 5 MOON-MAXWELL: The engagement ts announced between Roger Moon of Hukit Her tarn Estate, Rantau, second son of Mr. J. Moon and Mrs. J Moon, JR., Llanymyncrh. Montgomeryshire, and Meg, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Maxwell of Hukit Kledek Estate, Ayer Kunlng South46 words
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Article69 1950-09-28 5 HANKINO-CROMPTON: The marriage between Rowlund Hanking. younger son of Mrs. A. Hanking of Wembley Middlesex and Oladys Crompton nee Richardson, daughter of Mr. Mrs T. P Richardson oi Harlesden. London, took place at Singapore, on 23rd September. WATEKS-LOKE: I7ie raurnug* has taken place between Raymond, the son of the69 words
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Article428 1950-09-28 5 Obituary IN England last Monday 1 there passed from this life a woman whose life was bound up with the life of Singapore for over twenty-three years. On the retirement of Dr Rickard in 1927. Dr. Elliot was called from India to serve in St Andrew’s Mission428 words
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Article, Illustration1916 1950-09-28 6 Cecil Street - Cecil Street From the Straits Times of September 21-27. Very Low l.Q. CINCE I rashly published my l.Q. Test in this column last week I have received a number of letters, all of which hint more or less politely that they feel sorry for Mrs. Cecil StreetFrom the Straits Times of September 21-27.; Photograph by Hcdda Morrison - 1,916 words
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433 1950-09-28 7 Visits Paid To Rubber Factory Radio Malaya SINGAPORE, Sept. 25. TWO of the six British M.P.s visiting Malaya 1 yesterday unintentionally gave their police escort the slip when they drove from Government House in a private car carrying no flag or official plates. A police car containing four plainclothes policemen433 words
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Article155 1950-09-28 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. ▼HE trial of Joseph Michael Nonis, 25 -year-old Eurasian wireless operator lor the alleged murder of 10-ycar-old Annie Winnie Spencer on |une 30 last, will commence at the High Court during the first week j oi October. N rLs w:io reserved155 words
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Article103 1950-09-28 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 23. ONE ot the first things the Malayan Youth Council T’Hns to d) after it has consolidated its position is to youth clubs in squatter r* M*ttl»‘ment areas r.r President of the Coun'/y. Mr. F. C. Arulanandom, 5 the Sunday Times today ::i!103 words
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274 1950-09-28 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. VMCAPORE’S Chinese community will split into two camps over the celebration of China’s National Day, proclaimed 39 years ago by Dr. Sun Yat Sen, father of Chinese Republic and now altered to Oct. 1 by Mao sc-tung’s Communist regime. Acting on274 words
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Article45 1950-09-28 7 SINGAPORE. S'-nt. 24. A 29-ycar-old women. Lee Ah Hick. was fined $250 for possession of one pint of samsu and 20 gallons of fermented rice, and $100 for distilling one pint, of samsu. in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday.45 words
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Article327 1950-09-28 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 23. "pHE ONLY real answer to the problem of Emergency Regulations detainees is their repatriation to their home countries, said the O. C. Detention Camps, Federation, Mr. C. I). W. Hall, who is leaving Malaya on Tuesday on retirement after 31 years’ service327 words
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Article138 1950-09-28 7 SINGAPORE. Sept. 25. MR. Walter James Edwards. wartime naval stoker who is now Civil Lord of Admiralty, declined to make any statement when he arrived last night at Kallang Airport, Singapore. ‘I am sorry but I’m too tired to speak just now,” he said on138 words
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Article46 1950-09-28 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. Ning Yew Thong, aged 17 who pleaded guilty to stealing six katis of sugar from his employer, Chan Poh Hua, at 4'4 milestone, Changi Road, on Sept 9. was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment by the Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate.46 words
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Article356 1950-09-28 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 25. A EUROPEAN woman was injured when a hand grenade was thrown at the Stamford Cafe In Bras Basah Road, Singapore, at 8.20 last night. i The woman. Miss Hilda j Townsend, aged 23. a schcolI teacher at Nee Soon Garri- son, received356 words
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438 1950-09-28 8 WE HAVE BEEN LET DOWN, SAY GOVT. UNIONS From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 22. IJISAPPOINTMKNT, dissatisfaction and a general feeling that they have been let down are the first reactions of Government servants in Kuala Lumpur today, a few hours after the findings of the Benham Commission on438 words
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Article282 1950-09-28 8 Citizen Plan SINGAPORE. Sept. 22. SINGAPORE’S Unofficial Legislative Councillors are not in favour, it is understood of instituting a plan similar to that published by the Federation yesterday of giving departmental responsibility in Government to citizens. This subject, it is understood. was discussed when the Secretary282 words
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Article23 1950-09-28 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 22. Building of the Sentui Pasar market at Kuala Lumpur will begin soon.23 words
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Article111 1950-09-28 8 a wnn/itv SINGAPORE. Sent. 22. WOMAN passenger who had travelled 8,000 miles to see her injured soldier brother wa s told on her arrival in Singapore bv yesterday’s QANTAS plane from London that he had died two days earlier. She was Mrs. L. M.111 words
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Article73 1950-09-28 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 23. The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson. attend- j ed a tea party yesterday at i the Ramakrishna Boys’ Home. Singapore. Sir Franklin visited the new 1 dormitory of the Boys' home, whose foundation stone was laUi by the Indian Prime Minister. Pandit73 words
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Article183 1950-09-28 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 23. PENDING a detailed study of the various recommendations, most Government services in Penang reserved judgi ment yesterday on the 1 Benham Report. The Penang Junior Civil Service Association will be considering the report at a committee meeting, the secretary. Mr Teh Thean Choo.183 words
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127 1950-09-28 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 23. IN Serein ban, Mr. l\ Rasadurai. secretary of the G.C.S. Union, N.S., said: “As far as the clerical services are concerned. it is most disappointing." “All that I can say is that if the welfare of the employee is to be127 words
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Article86 1950-09-28 8 Government employees in Ipoh "are terribly disappointed." Mr Ditt Singh. president of the G.C.S. Union, said: "Knowing the composition of the committee. it was the type of report one might expect." The report will, he said, bo considered by the Federation of Government Clerical Services Union which86 words
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Article240 1950-09-28 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 23. IJOW a single hair found on an old bloodstained razor and the cigarette ash on the dress of a strangled woman contributed materially to the solution of crimes was told over Radio Malaya last night by the Chief Chemist in Singapore, Mr.240 words
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Article140 1950-09-28 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 23. THE newly- formtxi Pakistani Seamen's Union of Singapore plans to build a $50,000 home for Pakistani seamen in Singapore. The president of the union.! Mr. Asabhmiah. told the j Straits Times that Pakistani i seamen were being exploited by boarding house keepers in the140 words
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Article456 1950-09-28 8 BENHAM-. SINGAPORE. S* pt. 23. POSITIVE Joint action 1 is expected to bt. taken by Government clerks in Singapore and the Federation now that, the Benham Report recommendations for the Federation are known This intention follows a recent agreement between the clerical unions of the two456 words
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Article37 1950-09-28 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. Eight shopkeepers Chinese and one Mus‘t>r jn dian, were each nneo iftel Singapore yesterday pleading guilty to tnU*' £r ZTsveX'ly Wht0 M b r et c e,r w%>V/>:>“? Commissioner foi prosecuted.37 words
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Article1555 1950-09-28 9 genham Salaries Report Prom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 21. INCREASES for a*> considerable number of posts and reductions for a few are recommended in the long-awaited Benham Report on Salaries of Federation Government servants, which is to be laid before the1,555 words
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115 1950-09-28 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 22. RURAL Board members were told yesterday by Mr. A. L. B. Swaine that the supplier of pork to two government hospitals in Singapore is a leper, who collects diseased pigs and slaughters them In the leper camp. This man, said Mr.115 words
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167 1950-09-28 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 22. DHEUMAT1C infection, believed till recently to be 11 rare in Singapore, is now being investigated by the Medical Unit of the University of Malaya. The incidence, clinical manifestations and social pathology of the rheumatic infections in Singapore, are being investigated by what167 words
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Article69 1950-09-28 9 SINGAPORE. Sept. 21. pOLKTKEN Chinese, who were taken into custody by Singapore police follow ing a raid at a godown at Sumoawa Itoad on Wednesday night, have been released after questioning. In the godown. which was being used by scores of Chinese as a dwelling place,69 words
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Article469 1950-09-28 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA JLUMPUR, Sept. 21. THE new basic salaries recommended by the 1 Renham Committee should be paid from the first day of the month following approval by the Legislative Council, says a majority report of the committee. ~T A minority report, signed by469 words
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Article49 1950-09-28 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 22. r PHIRTY Communist posters A wore found in the Chung Cheng High School at Kim Yam Road, Singapore, t*arly yesterday morning In addition. Communist slogans were painted on the walls of the building. The school authorities washed out the slogans with petrol49 words
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Article43 1950-09-28 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 22 The chairman of the F’asir Panjang Rural District Committee, Mr. H. J. C. Kulasingha, was yesterday appointed by the Board to serve on the Council of Adult Education and on the committee to consider the provision of bus shelters43 words
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Article24 1950-09-28 9 SINGAPORE. Sept. 22. Customs on Wednesday mad" a haul of 164 lb. of rhar.du worth $65,000 on a sampan off Pulau Bukom24 words
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316 1950-09-28 10 SINGAPORE, Sent. 21. QFFICIALS of the Singapore Co-operative Stores Society yesterday expressed surprise and may even protest against Government plans to open State-shops as a price-control measure. Singapore's Secretary for Economic Atfairs. Mr. Andrew Gilmour, announced in the Legislative Council on Tuesday that the projected Government316 words
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Article111 1950-09-28 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 21. £)R. Pamela R. Elliot, who letired in July from the resident doctorship at the St. Andrew’s Orthopaed c Hospital in Singapore after 23 years in the country, died suddenly in England on Monday. This news was received in Singapore yesterday by cable111 words
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Article38 1950-09-28 10 From Our Own f'' i rr«*sn>m|pnl JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 20. Tuan Sheikh An ibakar District Officer, Johore Bahru, has been appointed chairman of the State Accident Board and also a member of K T' aflic Advisory Board.38 words
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Article155 1950-09-28 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 21. WHILE his appeal against a sentence of one month’s imprisonment for failure to register and obtain un identity card was going on vesterdav in the Supreme c mrt Ton Tiong Joo. the appellant, produced a now card which he had since155 words
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Article210 1950-09-28 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 21. SINGAPORE taxi owners will be petitioning tbe Municipal Commissioners next week against acceptance of an application. now under consideration, to introduce motor trishas into the Colony. Mr. T. A Simon, president of the Singapore Hire Car Association, told the Straits Times yesterday210 words
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Article366 1950-09-28 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 21. T'HIRTY-THREE witnesses, one of the largest numbers ever called to give evidence in a traffic case, were yesterday sent away from the Singapore First Traffic Court without giving their evidence when the most important person in the case—the accused—failed to appear. He366 words
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Article435 1950-09-28 10 Girls Should Not Be Detained SINGAPORE, Sent. 21 T H E Singapore Medical Department he StraUs Times understands, has called papers in connection with the use of th« 2 Hygiene Hospital. Middle Road a s a nh ‘I detention by the Social Welfare Depart,n' t women and girls in need435 words
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Article37 1950-09-28 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 21. Pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to 26 ducks by putting them in two baskets Lim Sal Heng. of River Valley Road, was fined $25 in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday.37 words
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134 1950-09-28 10 SINGAPORE, Sent. 21. A $250,000 proposal for the rebuilding of Singapore’s Orchard Road Market into a two-storeyed structure next vear was turned down by a Municipal committee on the ground that it was not an urgent requirement. The committee. instead, approved an alternative suggestion that134 words
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Article73 1950-09-28 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 21. HOLDING that the charge against a lorry driver. Dhnngr Slew Boh. for the allied negligent driving had not been proved the Chief Justice, Sir Charles MurrayAvn lev yesterday allowed his appeal against a fine of $50. was alleged t<i have drivon his lnrrv in73 words
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Article171 1950-09-28 10 SINGAPORE. Sot)' •>, [TIGHT men of tho BrTtYsh Army were presented wrh certificates for good s-rvice at Buller Camo. A'exand'a yesterday, by Brigadier c g Robins. Commander, s. pore Base District. The following receive thp certificates: Sgt. n e Lydall (2 Air Survey l-iicm Section L171 words
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Article91 1950-09-28 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 21. A cable has been received in Singapore from the City and Guilds of London Institute announcing that two Municipal Electricity Department staff have passed the final electrical engineering practice examination held in May. They are Mr. LR. Estrop, who passed Part 1 and First91 words
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Article86 1950-09-28 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 21. “I am prone to t<' r j II ness.” said an Indian H nar bin Idris, wlwn pleaded guilty in th« pore First District Co terdav to failing to o 1 his identity card to a stable at Changi R f Sent. 20 to Bohanar86 words
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Article33 1950-09-28 10 x L From Our Own j R. JOHORE BAHRU rk Vellasamy. sweeper i} ha unit was fined fault two weeks ment at Batu F aha ing a quarter sack monts.33 words
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1042 1950-09-28 11 I From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 20. I nKPARTMENTAL responsibility in the GovI ernment of the Federation will be given to I Federal citizens it far-reaching proposals, I representing a further stage along the road to I -self-government, are accepted1,042 words
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Article183 1950-09-28 11 SINGAPORE. Sept. 21. WHEN live men were charged in the Singapore First District Court with housebreaking and theft, Lee Poh Tee. a Driestess at a Chinese temple at Chua Chu Kang, said that one of them asked permission to use her temple to deposit183 words
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Article63 1950-09-28 11 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, £ept. :!0. ASTRAY mongrel ran amok yesterday evening, biting a 15-year-old girl and her father and attacking another passerby before it was eventually beaten to death by the villagers of Sungei Lallang, Patani. The dog resisted rapture with such63 words
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Article34 1950-09-28 11 SINGAPORE. Sept. 21. Koh Hay Kim. 40. was bound over for one year ill the sum ot $3OO In the Second District Court yesterday for possession of 50 leaf packets of opium34 words
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Article386 1950-09-28 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 20. A SIAN women throughout Malaya are indignant at the recent statement made by the British Conservative peer. Lord Mancroft. that they have not realised their responsibilities and are not trying to learn the ’part they must play386 words
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Article81 1950-09-28 11 SINGAPORE. Sept. 21. Dr. W. A. Balhetchet, Medical Superintendent of the Kandang Kerbau Hospital. Singapore will retire at the end of this year. Dr Balhetchet. who is 52 has been in the Singapore Medical Service since* 1922 He received the OB E for his services during the81 words
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287 1950-09-28 11 SINGAPORE. Sept. 21. SINGAPORE’S tuberculosis rate is to be determined by a survey soon of a cross-section of the town’s population by the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association. “We will conduct this investigation in conjunction with the Government and the University of Malaya”, said Dr.287 words
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Article101 1950-09-28 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 21. RAYING that the evidence O was unsatisfactory the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray Aynsley. yesterday allowed the appeal of a detective police constable against his conviction In a bribery case. The constable Othman bln Mohamed Saad attached to the Joo Chlat Police Station,101 words
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Article57 1950-09-28 11 SINGAPORE. S.t.H. 21. The highest paid daily workers in Government last year were surveyors who got daily rates varying between $5.30 and $7.55. The lowest paid empljyees were women and Juni >» labourers who got 82 to I*B cents per day These figures are elven In the57 words
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517 1950-09-28 12 Will Not Help To Reduce Malpractices SINGAPORE, Sept 22. LEGALISATION of bookmaking in Singapore would not help reduce malpractice* in connection with horse racing, says a report issued last night by the Commission appointed by Government to study the control of bookmaking in the Colony. The six members of the517 words
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Article53 1950-09-28 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 22. Fifteen seats were removed from a POAS Skymaster in Singapore yesterday to make room for .€2.000 worth of essential ship machinery which being flown to a disabled British freighter in Yokohama harbour A huge cradle was employer for the task of hoisting i53 words
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Article78 1950-09-28 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 21. T 'HE Workmen’s Com- pensation Enactment was being carefully searched for a section to help a workman in Perak who had 15 teeth knocked out, said the Labour Commissioner in his report for August. The man claimed78 words
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Article173 1950-09-28 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 22. THE Singapore Govern- ment announced last night that the closing of the pro-Communist newspaper. Nan Chiau Jit Pau. was made under Section 3 of the Emergency (Publication-Con-trol of sale and circulation) Regulations issued on July 20. The acting Colonial Secretiry yesterday prohibited the173 words
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Article299 1950-09-28 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 22. "TRAVELLING along the road under a strong A escort of a troop of armoured cars of the 13/18th Hussars, the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, yesterday spent several hours in Johore visiting squatter resettlement areas. Sir Franklin said after his tour: “From299 words
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Article34 1950-09-28 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 22. Pleading guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to possessing 1,074 lb. of tobacco, dutiable at $4,725.60, Tan Mong Ee, 36. was fined $12,000, or 12 months’ imprisonment.34 words
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Article25 1950-09-28 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 22. Toh Eak, a woman, was fined $90 yesterday for possession of one gallon of samsu She had a previous conviction25 words
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213 1950-09-28 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 22. A BOUT 30 men were arrested in the Sims Avenue- Al-Junied Road area last night during one of the biggest security check-ups Singapore has seen since the Emergency. Screening of men, women and children and thorough searching of houses in the213 words
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Article53 1950-09-28 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 22. For misappropriating three cases and five cartons of beer, as well as $7.50 in cash, Wee Theng Koon. 38. a salesman, was sentenced to two months’ imnrisonment in the Second Police Court yesterlay. Wee. who worked with the Barretto Shipping and Trading Company, gave53 words
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853 1950-09-28 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept >l THE increases proposed by the Benham'k, 11 t j Government servants will, if agreed to, affect the co<t 0 f living of the whole community, and will cause a financial strain which will hinder853 words
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Article145 1950-09-28 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 23. THE acting Director of Me1 dical Services, Singapore, Dr K. D. Gross, yesterday strongly refuted an allegation made at the Rural Board meeting that diseased pigs uvre slaughtered and supplied to two Government hospitals At the Rural Board meetMr. A. L. B. Swaine stated145 words
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Article69 1950-09-28 13 l-roni Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Fri.—An 18-year- '> K.O.Y.l.1 private, P. J. toward, today was bound over in the Sessions Court tor one year in $200 when he <ame up for sentence on a theft charge. Edward had admitted theft various articles, including ;Y Camera, a69 words
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Article37 1950-09-28 13 1 r 'in Ou r Stafl Correspondent Fri.—D. G. Eaton a a assistant t ip nRei Kah ang Estate, guilty to being found r -i ur few area without a ,l and was fined $20.37 words
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Article306 1950-09-28 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 23. rpUNGKU Budriah, the Raja Perempuan of I’erlis and District Girl Guide Commissioner for the State, was one of three who returned to Singapore from Australia yesterday suffering with mumps. J* r ee were well enough to leave the Gorgon on which306 words
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Article90 1950-09-28 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 23. FIFTY -TWO overseas scholarships were awarded in Singapore last year, it is revealed in the Education Report for 1949 just issued. There were 13 Queens Scholars and 10 Departmental scholarships. Other awards were seven Welfare scholarships, six Colonial Development and Welfare scholarships, live British90 words
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Article, Illustration306 1950-09-28 13 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRIT, Sept. 22. T\ATO and Datin J. M. A. Lowson were entertained to tea at a farewell party given by the members of the Medical Sports Club and the Nurses Club of Johore, at the General Hospital yesterday Dato Lowson,Straits Times picture. - 306 words
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Article31 1950-09-28 13 KUALA KANGSAR, Sept. 22. Loh Chong Bee, a Chinosf? shopkeeper, was fined $7OO at Kuala Kangsar for offering a $5O bribe to a police inspector at Sungei Siput North.31 words
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275 1950-09-28 13 o»m ()nr Staff Correspondent A L UM p UR, Sept. 21. *t()FLSSIONAL officers of the Federation Gov- “TVfHt should be placed the same salary time ,fl. *s administrative l ret ?> says the report of L professional Officers’ appointed by *hgh Commissioner,275 words
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Article115 1950-09-28 13 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOII, Sept. 21. MR. LAU Pak Khuan, Perak Chinese leader, told the Sultan of Perak whom the Perak Chinese Community entertained to dinner last night on his return from Britain: “You have seen true democracy at work—the kind of democracy of which115 words
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Article187 1950-09-28 13 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH.Sept. 22. CONVICTED under the Emergency Regulations on a charge of being in possession of firearms, three young Chinese who robbed a rubber tapper’s family of their identity cards were sentenced to death at the Assizes yesterday. They were Lim Hock.187 words
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Article104 1950-09-28 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 23. 30,000 people in Singapore have been registered on rice cards since sugar was again put on the ration at the beginning of this month. Half of these people have done so because their rice* cards had become invalid. The other half are composed104 words
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Article21 1950-09-28 13 TAIPING. Fri.—Convicted I for possession of suspected stolen property, B. N. Narayan was lined $15 by the Taiping Magistrate.21 words
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380 1950-09-28 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 23. r FHE re-entry of aliens into Malaya is being tight1 ened up for security reasons and all holders of valid certificates of admission now outside Malaya will have to obtain visas to return. The new regulations will take effect from Oct. 1.380 words
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Article26 1950-09-28 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 23. Seventy-one cases of tuberculosis were reported from the rural areas of Singapore last month. In July there were 59 cases.26 words
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342 1950-09-28 14 Anjalai aged 12 ‘weds’ a goddess SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. THE Mariamman Temple at the little village of Bakar Bata in the Alor Star area was the scene of the ‘wedding’ recently between pretty 12-year-old Anjalai, daughter of Muthusamy, a Town Board Indian labourer, to Goddess Mariamman—the deity to whom vows342 words
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Article78 1950-09-28 14 SINGAPORE. Sept. 24. DS. FRASER, of Singapore was acquitted without his defence being called in the Singapore Second Traffic Court yesterday on a charge of speeding in Mountbatten Road at nightime on March 13. The magistrate, Mr. E. V. A. Peers, dismissing the ease on the grounds78 words
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Article123 1950-09-28 14 SINGAPORE. Sept. 25. THE Health Committee of' Singapore Municipal Commissioners has decided that a senior dresser in the Municipal service is adequately qualified to replace a doctor as an inspecting officer for the registration of births and deaths. The committee has unanimously recommended that the post123 words
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Article232 1950-09-28 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 23. A FTER three months of experiments, a leading Pan-Malayan bakery is to introduce vitamin B enriched bread from Oct. 1. In several countries, the inclusion of vitamin B in a 'standard loaf of bread has proved so successful that it has warranted232 words
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Article43 1950-09-28 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. Sinnappan Vaiapuri, a 22year old Singapore Harbour Board labourer, had two of his toes on the left foot cut off by a steel plate which fell off a sling last night. Sinnappan was taken to General Hospital.43 words
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Article157 1950-09-28 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 23. A REDUCTION In the staff' ot the Municipal Pig Abattoir at French Road, Singapore, by three assistant superintendents and four mechanical hands Is recommended by the Health Committee ot the Municipal Commissioners k will V nave to g Q first to the Fln-157 words
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60 1950-09-28 14 Mr. C. W. A. Sennett, managing director of the Sennett Realty Company, standing beside his cake when he celebrated his sixtieth birthday in Singapore on Wednesday. A party for him was given by Mr. A. C. Rozells at 18 Thiam Siew Avenue, Singapore, and 120 guests were present. Mr. Yap-David picture. - 60 words
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Article290 1950-09-28 14 ‘Nationalise tin rubber’ SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. RATIONALISATION of tin and rubber, and of public utility services in the Federation and Singapore is one of the recommendations of the Economic and Political Committee of the Labour Party of Singapore. The Committee is of the opinion that all land is national wealth290 words
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Article20 1950-09-28 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 23. Air strikes were carried out on bandit targets in Kelantan, Johore and Selangor yesterday.20 words
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Article365 1950-09-28 14 KUAUV LUMPUR, Sept. 21, T'HE executive commit- R? e i 0f Fede ratioQ of Malaya Government Officers (Div. II) Association held an emergency meeting at Kuala I umRonho day D t0 dtscus s the Benham Report The meeting was closed to the press but late365 words
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Article145 1950-09-28 14 SINGAPORE. Sept. 24. Prompt action by employees of the 5 e Co.. Singapore, prevente what might have been $1,000,000 fire yesterday afternoon The fire broke out amonp a pile of logs and ou ters’ shavings in the mai < store of the company® Tanjong Pagar. two after145 words
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501 1950-09-28 15 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. JOHORE planters, in “strong but friendly” J language over the weekend, told the six British Members of Parliament who are now visiting Malaya what they thought should be done to hasten the end of the Emergency. When the delegation501 words
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120 1950-09-28 15 TWO DEAD, 17 HURT IN S’ PORE CRASH SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. AN Indian man and wo- man were killed and seventeen other people seriously injured in a triple collision at tiie junction of Ruona Vista and Pasir Panjang Roads shortly after midnight last night. The injured include three women and120 words
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Article70 1950-09-28 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 26. 'I'WO 21-year-old Chinese, 1 Kang Ah Moh and Goh Heng Han. pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to trespassing on the runxoay of Kallang Airport on Sept 23. “We came from Johore to see the aeroplanes' they said. Kang and70 words
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Article138 1950-09-28 15 SINGAPORE, Sent. 26. hundred bales of rubber worth about $250,000 floated in the sea off Tanjong Rhu, Singapore, yesterday morning after a lighter was capsized in a storm. Residents along Tanjonp Rhu played a great part ir the salvage operations and by last night nearly threequarters138 words
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Article132 1950-09-28 15 M SINGAPORE. Sopt. 26. \BOUT 20 Chinese were detained by the Singapore last night after a seurity check at the Happy '‘’2, 'd Amusement Park. J he operation was carried yt to protect the hundreds Chinese schoolchildren ex- of about 40 uniformed men armed132 words
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245 1950-09-28 15 EIGHT BURNED IN AN HOUR SINGAPORE Sept. 26. 4 KM El) Communist arsonists last night burned eight taxis in Singapore within an hour and robbed the drivers of all their takings. Six of the cars were Yellow-Top vehicles, and the other tww privately-owned by Chinese.245 words
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Article53 1950-09-28 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 26. Tan Fng Kim claimed trial In the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to being a member of an unlawful assembly, assaulting Ng Hoe 3eng with a knife, and riot ing in a coffee-shop in Alexandra Road, on the night of Sept. 23. He was remanded53 words
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Article474 1950-09-28 15 Planter’s Wife - By Planter’s Wife PAY day on estates is a mixed blessing, apart from the fact that the pay-roll is a temptation for the bandits. First of all there is a long and tedious drive in an armoured car. None seems to get any tiffin, and474 words
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Article227 1950-09-28 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 26. DR. Hugh Conrad Stubbs was brought before the Singapore First District Judge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon, yesterday on nine charges of forging international certificates of inoculation and vaccination between July 6 and Aug 26. He is alleged to have certified In the certificates227 words
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177 1950-09-28 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 26. JUDGMENT was reserved in the Singapore High Court yesterday by Mr. Justice Brown in a diverce suit brought by Comdr. Thomas Parker Kinloch Jones against his wife, Joan Prisoilla Jones, on grounds of adultery. Mr. R. H. Green appeared for the petitioner177 words
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115 1950-09-28 16 SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. rE Federation of Singapore Municipal Labour Unions ha® asked the Commissioners to reconsider their demand for wage increase without further delay. In an appeal to the Commisioners, the Federation says that the recent 10 per cent increase on the basic salary “is115 words
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Article18 1950-09-28 16 A Siamese Navy LCT has arrived in Singapore to Terry aircraft spares to Siam from Seletar.18 words
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288 1950-09-28 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. TEACHERS’ unions in the Federation and Singapore will hold extraordinary general meetings on Oct. 6 and Oct 7 to plan action for a unified education service. The aim is to end “present discrimination between Asian and non-Asian teachers” and to288 words
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Article159 1950-09-28 16 SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. k N Assistant Superintendent of Police climbed over the back wall of a house in Lavender Street and discovered chap ji ki schedules and staking slips to the value of $1,131.40, it was stated in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday. Sng159 words
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Article258 1950-09-28 16 SINGAPORE, Sept 27. A SINGAPORE lorry driver, Loo Chick Vee, a *ed 25, grappled with two armed masked robbers who broke into his house in Victoria Street, just before dawn yesterday. As the robbers ran off towards Queen Street they fired a shot in the air.258 words
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Article22 1950-09-28 16 The Government of India will allow 20,000 tons of groundnuts to be exported in January and February next year.22 words
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Article196 1950-09-28 16 1 FATAL ATTACK IN 2 MIL. MILES SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. TWO AND A HALi* million miles on Malayan roads will have been re- gistered before the end of this month oy Three Transport Company, i R.A.S.C. Every driver is a fully trained soldier, I capable of shooting to ki’J in196 words
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Article231 1950-09-28 16 JEKYU AND HYDE" MAN LOSES APPEAL From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR. Sept. 26. A TECHNICAL assistant in the Perlis Drainage and Irrigation Department, M. A. Victor, whom the prosecution had described as a “Jekyll and Hyde working for Government by day and against it by231 words
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Article54 1950-09-28 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. Kanesaban Karunakaran. aged 26. was charged in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday with using criminal force on an 11-year-old Indian girl with intent to outrage her modesty at Bukit Timah Road Evidence of the principal witnesses was heard in camera. The case was54 words
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Article189 1950-09-28 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sent i* rpHREE boys and two girls were killed and onr u 1 three girls and five adults were wounded when 5 terrorist threw a hand grenade Into a shonhoii-LV Kuala Pilah, Negri Sembilan, last night. Security forces following189 words
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Article34 1950-09-28 16 From Our Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR. Sept. 26. Pleading guilty to a charge of carrying an extra passenger in his taxi, Dollah bin Yusof was fined $30 in the Nibong Tebal Court.34 words
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Article210 1950-09-28 16 Child Marriage SINGAPORE. St-pt 2" Malay women in Singapore agree that child marriages should be banned, if the undesirable consequences of such marriages are to be avoided, an educated Malay married wo mm told the Straits Times yesterday. She was commenting on the report that a mass210 words
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160 1950-09-28 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 2b. MALAYAN bus companies are considering tne formation of their own insurance company, an official of the Pan-Malayan Passenger Transpon Operators Association told the Straits Times today- This was a subject discussed at a formal meeting160 words
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Article29 1950-09-28 16 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 26. i Woo Wai Tong, a driver, was fined $ll5 at Batu Pahat yesterday for carrying one ton nine cwt overweight in a lorry.29 words
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Article146 1950-09-28 16 TO FOSTER MALA Y LANGUAGE SINGAPORE. Sept A MALAY literary body, w be called “Angkatan sas trawan 50," wnicn fostering the Malay ai and literature, will be fo.a i soon in Singapore. ry A group of young minded Malays, who vl ind present Malay langu*- n traditional Malay co A146 words
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Article, Illustration470 1950-09-28 17 hours* wait for an interview SINGAPORE, Sept 27. PARLY yesterday morning LAC Hunter and rj \C2 E. B. Booth of the RAF Station, Changi, spruced themselves up and reported to Air Headquarters Far East Air Force in readiness for an470 words
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408 1950-09-28 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUAf -A. LUMPUR. Sept. 26. POUND guilty of a charge of consorting h two armed Chinese "in circumstances which d a reasonable preI sumption that she had recently acted prejudicial to public order”, Lee Kam. alias Boon Wah. a 19-vear-old408 words
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Article45 1950-09-28 17 SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. A European officer is being questioned by the District Officer of Batu Pahat "regarding his shabby attire at a ceremony held in honour of the Sultan of Johore’s birthday.” This is reported in the Kuala Lemour Malay newspaper. Majlis.45 words
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Article58 1950-09-28 17 SINGAPORE, Sopt. 27. Mr H E Ktngdon the S’ngapore First District Judge vesterlay transferred five or Hie nine charges. In which or Hugh Conrad Stubbs Is allowed to havp forged international! certificates of lno lation and vaccination, to tne Second District The charges will be brought •in58 words
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Article610 1950-09-28 17 No Reason For Excitement From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 26. FEDERATION (government spokesman today expressed astonishment at the “state of alarm” on the rubber market as a result of reports that the rubber export duty might be ssbstantially increased. “The mere addressing of a letter asking what various610 words
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Article233 1950-09-28 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. A RECEIPT book for subscriptions to the Malayan Communist Party was a m o n g tne documents seized by the Police in their rakl on the pro-Communlst Chinese newspaper Nan Ohiau Jit Pao. on Sept. 20, the Singapore Public233 words
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153 1950-09-28 17 SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. T’RADE between India and Malaya Is now live times as great jt was 10 years ago. when 1940 established a record--and Indian t.ade then Included Pakistan. While exports to Malaya are increasing. Malayan trade to India has dropped fr $32,004,898 for153 words
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Article28 1950-09-28 17 SINOAIKORR. Sept. 27. Sir Han Hoc Llm has been appointed an Unofficial nrviT>1 her Of the Singapore Executive Council in place of Sir I Roland Braddell28 words
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Advertisement75 1950-09-28 17 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATKS ffMYMU.F, is ADVANCE» Singapore Town Aren No P<«'*:iRr Onar*rrlv Half-yearly loV Yearly 20.M«1 r, 'h'* «c*klv Issues of tlie Struts delivery service to Ihe United K ftO for six innnihs. (AbL THE ABOVE ARE IN S Malaya (Including Postage) 5.75 11.50 CS.00 flndret can he a75 words
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256 1950-09-28 18 SINGAPORE, Sept 25. Straits-born Chinese could settle down in Singapore and become part of the national life, if they were treated as Singaporean* and not as aliens, as they were in the Federation, said the president of the Straits Chinese British Association, Mr.256 words
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Article131 1950-09-28 18 SINGAPORE. Sept. 25. Amass' meeting “to protest against child marriage” will be called on Oct. 15 at the S.V.C. Drill Hall. Beach Road, by Che Zaharah binte Noor Mohammad, president of the Singapore Muslim Women's Welfare Association Malay and Muslim women will be Invited to attend131 words
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Article65 1950-09-28 18 Death Of Ship’ s Captain SINGAPORE. Sept. 26. CAPT Newman Jones. Master of the Straits Steamship vessel Sumpitan. died last night in the Singapore General Hospital The vessel arrived from Tumpat on Sunday and Capt Newman Jones was admitted to hospital yesterday He leaves a widow and one rng child,65 words
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Article62 1950-09-28 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. For killing a dog with a parang, Lim Tia, 43. a farmer, was fined $50 and bound over for six months on a bond of $50 in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. Lim said that the dog had bitten his pigling to62 words
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Article261 1950-09-28 18 COLONY’ S BEST DRIVER’ SINGAPORE. Sept. 25. MR. b. M. Glossop. of the Singapore Police, yesterday was adjudged the most careful and skilful driver in cne Colony at a rally organised oy the Singapore .victor Club. Twenty-four drivers, including two women, took jart. Ah fared wen in the est except261 words
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Article161 1950-09-28 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. THE question of the raising of a Singapore Regiment is still under consideration by the Singapore Government, a spokesman said yesterday, commenting on a tatement made in London by Dato Onn bin |a afar and vlr. C. C. Tan urging the formation of161 words
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Article119 1950-09-28 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sent. 24. OANDITS beheaded a Chinese and shot him after 13 tying him to a tree in Perak today. A terrorist who ran from a squatter hut in Perak yesterday was killed by a security force patrol. Two119 words
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Article72 1950-09-28 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. BECAUSE of the “tremendous pressure on accommodation” in the Universities of Adelaide, Melbourne. Sydney. Tasmania and Western Australia, no apDlicant from Singapore will be accepted for admission unless sponsored by the unless sponsored by the local Education Department. This is at the special72 words
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152 1950-09-28 18 SINGAPORE. Sept. 26. MR. Walter James CStokeri Edwards. Civil Lord ol the Admiralty, will spend most of today discussing industrial and labour matters with Singapore dockyard officials and trade union representatives at Seletar Naval Dockyard. He arrived in Singapore from England on Sunday He will152 words
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Article110 1950-09-28 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. A 55-YEAR-OLD tongkane A man Lim Song Oo, was yesterday fined $9,000, or one year’s imprisonment, when he pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court to importing 292 pounds of dutiable tobacco. A second man. Tan Bah Chua, 34 w’ho appeared on the110 words
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Article25 1950-09-28 18 MUAR, Mon. For drivine a lorry without a licence at Jalan Bakri, Tan Hor Kin was fined $l5 by the Mua»* Magistrate.25 words
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255 1950-09-28 18 Motor Trisha Protest By Cycle Dealers SINGAPORE, Sent •><> AN 11-point memorandum ha s been JL.» Singapore Municipal Commissioner, L. Singapore Cycle and Motor Dealers’ Cnio.. ,.L tl > e ing against the move aimed at introducing m«T trishas into the Colony rn t «f Among the points which the255 words
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Article158 1950-09-28 18 SINGAPORE. Sept. 26 HEAVIER penalties for breaches of Municipal regulations are proposed in ac amending Bill to the Municipal Ordinance which is shortly to be introduced into the Singapore Legislative Council The amendment provides for an increase in the max:mum fine from $25158 words
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Article46 1950-09-28 18 SINGAPORE. Sept 26A finding of "found i was recorded by the pore Coroner. Mr. W. (t L v ter, at an inquest yj’>- on Koh Ah Soon. 59 whose d composed body was fou t > forest ranger at the u Mandai Road, on Sept46 words
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Article172 1950-09-28 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 25. rpHE European manager ®f an estate in Pahang was slightly wounded by bandits who attacked him yesterday while he was out pig shooting. Security forces made a seaborne landing on a remote part of the SELANGOR coast last Friday,172 words
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271 1950-09-28 19 SINGAPORE. Sept. 24. A LOUDSPEAKER sys- tem has been installed at the Perak Turf Club, and commentaries will be made on all races at the Autumn meeting which starts on Satur-i day. i This new $8,000 installation k first of Its kind in anvi K271 words
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Article33 1950-09-28 19 WOMEN’ S GOLF SINGAPORE. Sept. 25. 1 SIAND Club beat Royal 19 Sl o^ P0re Golf club b y n, <M w an Inter-elub woM V B !lv tournament at the Club yesterday.33 words
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Article327 1950-09-28 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. LARGE crowd turned out to see the first big rugby match of the season on the padang yesterday when The Rest beat Newcomers in their an: ual match by 14 points (a goal, a try and two penalty goals) to nil, in what327 words
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260 1950-09-28 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 22. fTHE annual cricket matcn oetween the men and women's of the Singapore Cricket C’ub played on the padang yes terdav. ended In a win for th women bv 23 runs. The women sent in to bat first hit up IIS runs260 words
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145 1950-09-28 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 22. of the Singapore K*cehor«e Owners Association will decide, at their annual general meeting to be held at Adelphi Hotel on Oct. 20 at 6.15 p.m. whether to amalgamate with the Malayan Racehorse Owners Association. This was slated by the president145 words
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Article311 1950-09-28 19 SINGAPORE. Sept. 25. INDIAN Association won the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Cup when they defeated RA F Malava by 50 runs in their annual cricket match played at Seletar over the week-end. Each side completed an Innings on Saturday. Indians totalling 86 to which R.A.P. replied with311 words
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Article445 1950-09-28 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. ‘y a magnificent Wieve Wolters U P with his Chinese "Ing dub rival anl victory for his club (m ,v ‘,l, v a t Tiger Swimming a ihl tJ 8wlm^ers Day” enli cj n Iaw Par pool yesteru Vi? n C. were445 words
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Article307 1950-09-28 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 21. TWENTY-SIXTH Field Regiment Royal Artillery (Malaya District) won the FARELF Army Cup with a well-deserved two-one victory over the other finalists. Base Workshops R.E.M.E. (Singapore District), at the Jalan Bcsar Stadium yesterday. R.E.M.E., with a much stronger side on paper, were thoroughly307 words
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Article459 1950-09-28 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. /GENERAL Hospital easily retained the Inter-Hospital Championship Shield at the third annual athletic sports of the Singapore Medical Sports Union yesterday at Jalan Be ar Stadium. Champion athlete was Goh Ah Juan of Tan Took Seng Hospital. Fill* results wore: 1 00 yards 1459 words
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227 1950-09-28 19 WATER-POLO LGE. SINGAPORE. 8ept. 22. £HINESE Swimming Club have won the first postwar Singapore Water-Polo ■“A” League but there wl'l be no challenge trophy for them until one is donated. “B" League winners—the Singapore Swimming Club—have been more fortunate. Archipelago Breweries Co227 words
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Article293 1950-09-28 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 23. PLAY NO confidently. Singapore llaibour Board rugby XV aco r ed their third win of the seiison when they b?at REME by 16 points (two g( als and I t*.o tr.es) to ml in a last and «*l>en game at Keppol Harbour293 words
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666 1950-09-28 20 From A Market Correspondent 'THERE was increased activity in Malayan markets and in the four and a naif days under review a substantial volume of business was maintained. in all sections, save Loans, came in the train of United Nations successes in Korea, and was666 words
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Article37 1950-09-28 20 TERAM Kuantan Rubbei fcstate has sold forward 15 tons of No. 1 R.S.S for delivery, five tons monthly, between January and March 1951 inclusive, fob' Malayan ocean port In bales, at $135 per lb.37 words
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Article286 1950-09-28 20 Announcements of tin company dividends have been made as follows: SOUTHERN Tronoh Tin Dredging directors have declared a third interim dividend of Is. per j share, less tax. for the year to Dec. 31, 1950; this is equivalent to approximately nine per cent, on the capital Invested in286 words
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Article40 1950-09-28 20 EVATT Company announce the following August rubber crops in Tbs.; Brunei Utd. Plant. 35.000 Changkat Serdang Est 33 350 Che~mane Development 158.000 Havtor Est. 16.362 Indragin 49.300 Lunas 78.500 Nyalas Est. 45.752 Rivervlew Est. 193.000 Tap-’h E~t 92.92940 words
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Article36 1950-09-28 20 r TELUK Anson Aubber Estate has sold forward two tons monthly of No. 1 R.S S from January to March 1951 inclusive, for delivery loose into sodown Singapore, u: $1 31 Der lb36 words
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Article507 1950-09-28 20 SINGAPORE, Sen) DOBINSON and Co., Ltd., owners of aZ 0 'L. I store tn Singapore and Kuala Lumpur P 'ri-T nt record profit, will make a record contrlfcn/i, a the Colony revenue In Incometax and will to holders a record dividend In respect „f ,V ',areended507 words
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Article437 1950-09-28 20 gUSINESS aone in the Malayan Share Market la.t uee* included: Industrials. Fraser Neave Ord. $3,124 and $3 15 cum dv Hong Kong Bank (Hong Kcci Register- $630. Malayan Breweries $5.20 cum div cum bonus Malayan Collieries $1.50 u> $1,474. McAlister $36.00 to $37.C0 Robinson Ord. *2 20 cum437 words
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Article1006 1950-09-28 20 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. IMMSIKIALS Bayern Alex Bricks Pref do t 90 Ords 190 1 95 A«.h* Ice i1 90 i2 25 BB Petrol 39/6 40/6 BM I'ru-tter 7 00 7 SO Con i u> melt Pref 20/3 21/3 co >ra 9 |7 6 e. nta An«ur 971,006 words