The Straits Budget, 26 October 1950

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    31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVEB A CENTUBY] V, Series No. 221. Singapore Thursday, October 26, 1950 Price 40 cents (SS Currency^ Or 1 »h
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      THE SURGEON’S TOOLS AND TRAINING
      664 2 'PHE recent reports and resultant correspondence A concerning surgeons here and in Europe have, firstly, reminded me of my younger days as an instrument maker in London half a century ago and. secondly, prompted me to have a tilt at the local medico system. As
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      SECRETARIAT FLEAS
      108 2 ONE afternoon, while having tiffin at the G.C.S.U. Canteen, in Singapore. I overheard some clerks talking about fleas in the Colonial Secretariat. I went through the building to see the offices. I could hardly believe my eyes The offices are crowded, congested, and dark. The European officers have
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      THE RIGHT REV.
      93 2 1AM not surprised to read in “Cecil Street's’’ notes in the Straits Budget of Sept 14 an account of the Dean of Manchester < Right Rev J L Wilson) appearing at a diocesan conference in his shirtsleeves. No doubt the Right Rev. like the rest of us
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      THE FLIT-GUN
      171 2 rjENERAL Briggs describes the campaign t the country 0 1 terrorises as he same as o r a malaria-ridden country oi nusquitoes” Government tackling banditry as it tackles m Bandits and handit «nr»- Bandits and bandit supporters are housed and fed at great expense in vast holiday camps.
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      The local girl talks frankly about nursing
      1030 2 'I'HE Governor, in a speech. A has appealed to parents to give their assistance in recruiting girls to the nursing i profession. He has praised the* profession and painted a 1 glowing picture of the op- oortunities open to “those who have the
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      Why Gnash Over The Rep?
      305 2 WHY all the I wailing and lln e of teeth over th ,r h t of the Singapore r torv Theatre? Sr.uiy it is time the situat; was looked at in itr ,rrect perspective. All credit to Mr Semplll for launchln (v n lerprise. but
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      Why He Takes Old English
      113 2 WITH reference to W Margin'' of Oct. 1glad to be able to 1 Mr. Cecil Street: no > at the University of forced to read OKI It is seldom that a nn does so: probably m incentive then is th ticipates continue studies, later on.
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      University News
      937 3 Straits Times. Oct. 19. correspondent in our I p, i, -i page last Saturday inI v U ,l comment from the Straits I Tinu on what he described I -.‘cent goings-on” at the [*niv isity of Malaya. It is I iyt v wish of this newspaper mde into
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      A Little Off The Rails
      799 3 Straits Times. Oct 20 The Director of Operations seems to have chosen an unhappy moment in which to remind Malaya that “the military' cannot he here fm e\ r Sir Harold Briggs made this comment in announcing the formation of jungle companies of police organised
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      Malaya’s Secret Landmark
      367 3 Straits Times. Oct 20. It is nice to be told once again, as we have been by Dr. F. C. Benham. that the Commonwealth report on aid to South and South-East Asia will prove to be a landmark in the economic and social progress of the area.
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      Singapore Theatre
      893 3 Straits Times. Oct. 21. The Singapore Repertory Theatre, which has delighted the play-goers of the Colony lor some months, opened its last production in the Victoria Theatre last night Alter this week-end the compnuv will cease to exist as such, tinprops will be stored away to await an
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      Two Dollar Rubber
      764 4 Straits Times. Oct. 23 Rubber has now been dealt in at $2 a pound. There was a time, now forty wus ago. when $2 a pound looked ruinous and when even double this figure marked ihe beginning ot a recession. i>ut rubbei has not sold for $2
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      Stamford Road Sundays
      398 4 Straits Times. Oct. 23 It was pleasing to notice quite a number of bicycles as well as cars parked outside the porch of Raffles Library yesterday morning. This was the second time in the history of that venerable Victorian institution on which it opened its doors on
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      The Way To Peace
      697 4 -Straits Times. Oct -L The fifth anniversary of the United Nations celebrates a triumph and points the right road to an illusive goal. It has been customary on these anniversary occasions to speak of the moral force of persuasion. and to search the records in illustration
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      The Rambutans
      339 4 Straits Times. Oct. 2*l A bunch of red rambutan> hanging amid green leafage a Chinese scroll painting a novel and pleasant Malayan influence up nese life in the exhibu work by Singapore :*'ai*M and art students whit!' open in the British hall in Stamford Road It is pleasant,
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      The Laycock Bill
      594 5 Straits Times, Oct. 25 Tails of coming elections in uere is a reminder that t,S o time to waste if the Marriage Bill is not to r d at birth. TY.o present Legislative CouneW is due to ho dissolved at rvi iv \t January or in P-
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      “Courage Is The Thing”
      390 5 Straits Times. Oct. 25 Two brave talcs adorn the news. Near Mersing «i hand of Malay woodcutters, some o' th e m auxiliary policemen pending a few hours off duty attacked a band of well-armed terrorists. Four of the terror i«sU were slain, the fifth man
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    SAVED LINCOLN, WINS DFC
    218 5 SINGAPORE. Oct. 25. IIONOURS nave been, won by two Air Force men serving in Singapore I'he Distinguished Flying Cross goes to Flight Lieutenant Keith Irvine Foster, of the Royal Austraian Air Force Corporal John Wrench of the RAF receives the Bri tish Empire Medal. r'ligni uieuiemim
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    Keeps Python In Her Bed
    116 5 ta\o AP ORT, Oct. 25 EVERY Thursday nlpht a Malay woman lUnnn In Muar sleeps with (2 21 -foot python by her side She believes that the w/thon is the reincarnation of her mother-in-law Her husband says th/it his mother died in January this year
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    New Airport May Cost $20,000,000
    292 5 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. THE proposed international airport at Paya Lebar may cost the Colony up to $20,000,000. spread over a number of years, if the scheme is approved by the Singapore legislative Council. I his figure is arrived at, it is understood, on the basis
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    “ALL GOT RE-ENTRY VISAS”
    128 5 SINGAPORE. Oct.. 24. OINCL the introduction on O Ot l. of re-entry visas for ■ho>.o iravTni? fvfalaysi and wishing to return no one has *t ’•••fused v|«a i r Immigration Department spokesman told the Straits Times yesterday. This in- said proved that the system w is
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      230 5 COHKnX: To Zena. wife ot Vernon Corklll. at Kundang Kerbiu Hospi ul. on 17lh October, a son. STUCKEY. —To Marjorie, wife of Frank C Stuckey i sister for John and David o’ Oci 21st at '1.30 a.m. a. Kandang K<rbau llosnital CAMERON: At Johore Bahru, to James Elizabeth, a
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      ENGAGEMENT
      45 5 CHEIOHTON-IVOYLY The engagement is announced he ween Oeorgr vnnnvst son of Mr As Mrs O Creighton of Orenork. Ft< nfreweblrn Scotland, and >*lll. elder daughter of Lien* -Cmdr J. R D’Ovly R.N 'Retd of Sussex. England and of Mrs. J C Wiggins of Singapore.
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      MARRIAGE
      48 5 I’EEK-McCAI.L: At St Andrew's Cathedral S’pore. 14 o Oct. ny Canon R. K Sorby Adnrrr, Lewm Ronald, elder son of Mr Ai Mrs. H II Peek. to Helen Marjorie Mind, da ugh er ot the late William Charles MeCall and Mis McCall of East Freemantle. W AnstrnlLi
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      SILVER WEDDING
      59 5 MURRAY-I.YALL. On October 24' h I!)2'> at Pre.sbvuri n Chuir.n. Sir:ga|y;re bv he to wl H Dorgla Al' Xiind r Ross Meriay f'ubiic Works Dpt, Srrrrrdnn, o (Wacv Vi or a eld t da turn- r of Mr Mis Oeorge fy• IJ of Aberd* en. Sr* Hand I*r*
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      80 5 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION KATKS (PWABIJC IN MIVAM'Ci Malays (fort adlng Pmtatfl 9 5.75 11 50 2S 00 ftiMtrft cin be .Singapore Town Are* No I’ttAlagr Ownrlnlv 5 5 !'i Half-yearly 10.10 Yearly 20.M0 •*hr werklv Issues of the S*r.»if* ’eliverv service to the United K. (dom only at an Inclusive
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    23 5 DKATII CKAIO. Suddenly on Octo►v i 1 f# »0 ii. DrvnriiM, Cornwa'l, Andrew Cr.ni' lute Manager ol M.iliikofF F.s at«\ Proving* Wel-n-s i*v
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    A SINGAPORE DIARY
    1891 6 From The Straits Times of Oct. 19—Oct. 26. Linggi s Avenu#* A COPY of our weekly edilion, the Straits Budget, containing a interview with Mr. Mark John Kennaway. who has been planting in Malaya since 1904, and who is coming out again next month to take an
    From The Straits Times of Oct. 19—Oct. 26.; Pho'n cjruph by C. A GibsoJi-Hill  -  1,891 words
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    The Rep Stages Its Last Show
    249 7 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. I'HE Singapore Repertory Company in the Victoria Theatre last ht demonstrated just now difticiilt an art the presentation of farce is. play was Philip "On Monday N >xt". modified for Singapore. c difficulty of farce is it.< rent artlessness. In this
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    SHOULD GAS BE ADVERTISED?
    241 7 Singapore, Oct. 21. jHOI'LD the Singapore Municipality revert to prewar practice and advertise its electricity and as services, even though it is not yet in a position to tope with the entire needs of the city’s population? This question is now receiving the attention of the
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    Four get medals for giving blood
    256 7 SINGAPORE, Oct. 21. JnVO mothers, a stock broker unci a clerical officer in the Admiralty yesterday smiled modestly as they received in turn a silver medal from Dr. M. G. Mac La re n, head of the Blood Transfusion Service Centre, Singapore, for having
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    POISON DRAMA IN COURT
    58 7 I ***** Our Stall Correspondent PENANG, Oct 20. after he had 1 been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for dishonestly retaining jewellery stolen from the Siamese consulate at Penang, 26-year-old Tan Ah Hin was found writhing in court Behind him was a broken bottle believed to
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    ACCUSED OF PERJURY
    55 7 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. Soil Seng Kok. 57. was i charged In the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday with giving false evidence In the Singapore Coroner’s Court on Aug. 16 at an inquest on his son. Soli Boon Chee Seng Kok. who claimed t trial, *vas allowed bail
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    STILL NO MEDALS — And 14,000 are waiting
    114 7 STILL NO MEDALS And 14,000 are waiting SINGAPORE, Oct. 21. ALTHOUGH a “hurry-up” message has been sent to London 14 000 Singapore Volunteers and members of the Passive Defence Services are still waiting for their Defence Medals, and War Medals. A spokesman of the Volunteer Forces Records Office told the
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    DAGGER CHARGE
    22 7 TELIT K ANSON. Oct. 13. Charged at Toluk Ans.u v. i n ‘nrrvinr a rtanM-rAl.mad bin Yeop Abdul Rahman, w.i.
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    $80,000 Haul Of Opium
    86 7 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. \FTLK a 72-hour search of an oil tanker in Pulau Bukom. Singapore. Customs ilficers yesterday made what is believed to be the largest haul of Persian opium since the liberation. The opium Is valued at $30,000 The drug, 212 lb in all, was
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    Cost Of Provident Fund ‘Too High’
    193 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 20. YfOST small Chinese tin miners are opposed to the proposed Provident Fund for workers earning 5250 a month and under. This was stated today by a miner who claimed that the profit mar£>n of small mines
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    456 MORE
    30 7 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. There were 182 deaths <f)4 men and 88 women> in the Municipal area of Singapore during the week ending Oet 14, compared with 028 births.
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    Bandit Boss Opposes Destruction Of Identity Cards
    350 7 KlIALA LUMPUR, Oct. 20. THE bandit boss in Central Selangor ha* written to the Central Politburo of the Malayan Communist Party condemning the campaign of destroying identity cards. The letter, captured by security forces. wa.s written by Hoong Poh, chairman of the Central
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    FUNERAL OF SLAIN DRIVER
    84 7 SINGAPORE Oct. 21 FIFTY -year-old Mr Albert Thyri ih, the locomotive driver who was killed when his train was sabotaged by bandits on Wednesday night near Senai. Johore, was buried at Bidudari Cemetery yesterday More than 1 f>o people, most of whom were his colleagues in
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    “More pay for health recruits ”
    344 8 “More pay for health recruits SINGAPORE, Oct. 20. pROPOSALS for a unified health service in tlw Singapore Municipality have been submitted b> the acting Municipal Health Officer Or. VV E Hutchinson, who has also recommended that all medical posts in the Municipal Health Department should be interchangeable as far as
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    $25,000 BAIL
    49 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. Ball of $25 000 in two sureties was offered Goh Poh in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday when he claimed trial to a charge of “procuring the importation” of 27 lb. of opium “through the agency of Kng Luan Kee” on July 27
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    POISONED
    24 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. Chee Seow Cheang, a 43-year-old Hakka, was removed to hospital from Fort Canning yesterday evening suffering from caustic soda poisoning.
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    113th BANDIT EXECUTED
    39 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 20. rllF 113th bandit to be executed under the Emergency Regulations was hanged at the Taiping Prison this morning. lie was llui Bong Lim, sentenced to death for possession of a hand grenade.
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    THEFT OF CARD ALLEGED
    39 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. Alleged to have stolen an identity card. Lee Han Boon, aged 32. claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday. Bail of $2OO In one surety was allowed until Oct. 27.
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    Smile They’ll Remember
    114 8 Smile They’ ll Remember SINGAPORE. Oct. 2d. A PRETTY hostess for a travelling companion and a “heart-warming Irish smile” at tne end of the .journey made the day complete for four Senior N.C.O.’s and 3t> R.A.F. men who arrived by B.O.A.C. Argonaut from England yesterday to swell the ranks of
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    Freshman’s Forum
    107 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. OVER 200 freshmen and seniors attended a “Freshman’s Forum” held at the Central Hall. Faculty of Medicine. last night The forum consisted of a number of short speeches made by freshers, both men and women. The subjects of the 10 or 12 speakers were humorous
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    Fund For Lower Paid Workers
    347 8 PROVIDENT SCHEME BILL DETAILS From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 19. FhETAILS* of the draft Bill establishing an Employees Provident Fund for workers earning $250 a month, or under, were published today. Monthly contributions bv employers and employees are $1 each when wages exceed
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    ‘NAME CHAIR AFTER RAFFLES’
    130 8 SINGAPORE Oct 21. I” an inaugural lecture at the Oel Tiong Ham HalJ yesterday, Prof. RD. Purehon, the new Professor of Zoology at the University of Mnlava, said that the newlycreated Chair of Zoology after Sir Stamford Raffles “It is singularly appropriate,” Prof. Purchon said “as
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    FILM CENSORSHIP INQUIRY
    435 8 SINGAPORE, Oct >l PHE widest terms of reference are to be uiv, to the committee which the Singapore <; 0 ernment has set up to investigate the f.i„ censorship system, the Straits Times Un( stands. r The committee will investigate all astjoct f the censorship and will
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    THREE a.m. THEFT
    114 8 $4,000 Lost SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. JEWELLERY and clothing J worth about $4,000 were stolen from a bedroom of a house at Amber Road. Singapore. early yesterday morning The property belonged to an Australian woman, Mrs. J. F Day. A Chinese amah told the police that she was
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    ‘HOUSING BEFORE ART GALLERY’
    187 8 ‘HOUSING BEFORE ART GALLERY SINGAPORE. Oct 2! AN art lending; nbrar> might be a suits b,t substitute for an art irallerv in Singapore. 1 suggested the Municipal President. Mr. T P f McNeice, yesterday upen- ing the Singapore Art Society’s first annual ei- hibition of the work of local teachers
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    Big Rise In Cargo
    97 8 SINGAPORE. Oct 21 SINGAPORE handled 4.42i.W. tons of cargo in the firs’* i nine months of the v* <r l»s 835.557 tons more than tne total for the same tv-rod year, and only 471.630 tom less than the total for trv whole of last year. in
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    SENTENCED TO ‘STAY IN’
    56 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. Salim bin Darim. aged and Pang Ah Lak. agca were yesterday bound in $lOO for six months theft of four fishing r They were also ordered to > in court for one day. Thrv were stated to na» removed the fishing n from the
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    Senai Crash Halts All S’pore-K.L. Rail Traffic
    372 9 Senai Crash Halts All S’ pore-K.L. Rail Traffic SINGAPORE. Oct. 20, NO passenger and goods trains are expected to run between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur for several days as a result of terrorist sabotage of two portions of the railway track in South Malaya on Wednesday night and early yesterday
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    MURDERED TRAFFIC P.C. BURIED
    222 9 SlNCrAPORE. Oct. 20 17IVE hundred police officers V tvnd men reoresertitlve of all branch*** of the Slnga;>>rt P 1c Force, attended orday of Traf- f n*t ibit Mohamed Senin \k it in* Muslim ceme>ry oti Upper Serangoon Road M b. rnd Senin. who was mtside the
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    GAMBLED WITH FIRM’S MONEY
    42 9 SINGAPORE. Oct. 20. Chye Lye was fined or one month’s impri>ent in Singapore yesiv wnen he pleaded 'to criminal breach of n 4 belonging to his firm, Cheng Company, was stated in court to gambled with the icy.
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    DAMAGED ROTOR LEAVES
    98 9 SINGAPORE. Oct. 20 a TURBINE rotor from a St. James’ Power Station generator formed part of the cargo of tne Blue Funnel ship, Pyrrhus, when she left Singapore yesterday morning, bound for the United Kingdom Repairs to the rotor, necessitated by last week’s break down in Singapore’s
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    $5,000 FOR P.C’s KILLER
    76 9 SINGAPORE. Oct. 20. A reward ol $r>.000 is being ottered b v the Singapore police for information leading to the arrest of the men involved in thp shooting of Mohamed Senin bin Arkil. a Singapore traffic police constable at Queen Street cn Wednesday afternoon Mohamed died
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    3 Police Killed Kedah Ambush
    205 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 19. 'THREE constables were killed, three were wound- ed. and one is missing in an ambush in Kedah this morning. .iq*o o h'lttlf* H SELANGOR yesterday evening a European assistant manager, a special constable, and a Chinese worker
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    TIGRESS SHOT NEAR K.L.
    150 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 19. i TIGRESS, weighing about i 300 o mnds and measuring about seven feet, was shot by Malay hunters about nine miles from Kuala Lumpur this morning The hunters, some oi whom were special constables, were led by Hail Abbas, a 55-year-old Malay
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    $2 MIL. FROM RENTS IN 1951
    175 9 TRUST FLATS SINGAPORE, Oct. 20. I'HE Singapore lmA provemenl Trust expects u> co.led about $>4UUU,l)UU m tents irum all its properties next year, according to tne 1 rusts litol budget estimates wnicn will go before the Trustees on Nov. 8. Tnis represents an Increase
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    Fleming Pays Tribute To M.C.A
    297 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 18. MORE officer» than ever before were spending their time on Chinese affairs and more were learninu Chinese languages than at any time before the war, said the retiring Federal Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Mr. E. 1). Fleming,
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    Fed. Labour Party To Get S’pore Aid
    145 9 SINGAPORE. Oct. 20. 1»HE Labour Party ol Singapore would help in the formation <>t a Labour Party In the Federation with the iltimate object of setting up i pan-Malayan organisation. The Oenerai Council of the party. which met recently the straits Times learns,
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    BEER BOTTLES USED IN ASSAULT IN ARMY CAMP
    514 10 Long detention terms for 3 hot-headed soldiers SINGAPORE, Oc. 19. three separate trials in which they were tried jointly and separately on 12 different charges, three soldiers of the 1st Bn. Cameronians, Rifleman John Lavell. Rifleman Charles O’Donnell and Rifleman John Campbell
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    HITCH IN ‘RADIO for ALL’ PLAN
    200 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. THE first seventeen of two hundred community listing 6ets allocated to Singapore by the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund are now being Installed. While the siting of the sets nas been agreed to. the Gov-i um*n' departments concerned which inch’d** Education.
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    New Labour Candidates
    96 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. '|*HE Labour Party of Singa- nore has named Mr M A Majid, a founder of the party, as Its candidate for the City Ward in the December Muni clnal election* He will contest this seat in place of Mr. Mumtaz Hussain who withdrew his
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    Constable Shot, Revolver Stolen
    366 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. A SINGAPORE traffic police constable, Mohamed Senin bin Arkil, aged 30, was shot yesterday afternoon by a Chinese gunman in Queen Street, outside the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, as he waited to direct schoolchildren across Bras Basah Road. As Monamed lay in
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    MALAY WOMEN APPEAL TO BLYTHE
    142 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. |*HE president of the Malay Women’s Welfare Assotjition. Che Zahara blnte J**>r Mohamed last night t or warded to the Officer Adw.n u/* r, t n K the Government. tt L Blythe the resoluk2 (n aRS k at the mass I ting
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    ‘RadioAchco’ Man To Join Novitiate
    170 10 RadioAchco’ Man To Join Novitiate SINGAPORE, Oct 19. THE organiser of a humorous weekly concert entitled “Radio Actaoo” which hat been put on for the las 1 two months at Tan Tock Sen? Hospital, is leaving Singapore shortly to enter the Novitiate of the Gabrielite Brothers at Coonoor South India.
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    NIGHT BAN ON HORNS
    63 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. A new regulation Panning the night hooting of motor car horns i*; the whole of Sin gaoore Municipa] area was announced yesterday. Under this rule the sound Ing of motor car horns is comol°tely forbidden between 9 o m and 6 a m
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    ‘JUST THE TIME FOR A PACT ON RUBBER’
    407 10 From Onr stui Correspondei't A LUMPUR t. gPEAKING at a dub luncheon i rf this afternoon, E. E. C.' Thuralsln-.’tium suggested that thi- Ji ‘the psychological ment for the g-jv'rn ments of the prcx! jno countries t 0 apt roach the governments
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    APPOINTMENTS
    27 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. WAppointments of Mr J Haxworth as acting Cor. n> ler of Immigration, Singapore, and Mr F. Sharp as ru Deputy, Were officially onnced yesterday.
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    PENSIONER PUTS ROBBER TO FLIGHT
    59 10 SINGAPORE. Oct 19 A PAKISTAN Government pensioner, Mr. R R- 1 r Blonde, granpled with an armed Chinese who truto rob him on Tnesday nftrht a♦ Farrer Park a short struggle, the Chinese ran off. Mr Le Blonde was not sure what weapon Chinese carried
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    Red ‘Breeding Places’ Being Cleared : Briggs
    866 11 Red ‘Breeding Places’ Being Cleared Briggs From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. IS. THE Federation is setting up jungle companies of special police on a para-military basis to take over duties eventually from Army units in Malava, the Director of Operations, Lt.Gen. Sir Harold Briggs, announced in Kuala Lumpur
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    Black-out Casualties
    68 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. TOURING the black-out in Singanor? last ni?ht a ♦vessure lamn In a sund r v -hon at Merchant Road exploded, injuring three Chin e c Th r v were taken to hospi‘“operators M the Sin<raonrc Nival Base, restored after wartime damn?'' Contributed to the Singapore
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    NO LICENCE: $175
    16 11 MUAR. Wed.-Frrs'or1n' f rubber ce w fined"or two months hard labour, at Muar
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    Back After Climb In Himalayas
    149 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. JLf AJOR James O. M Robe: ts, M.C., of the Second Gurkha Rifles, returned to Singapore yesterday afternoon after five months climbing with the Tillman expedition in the Himalayas He climbed to 23.000 feet higher than the BOAC Con stellation in which
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    GOVT. NAMES ‘BETTER MUSIC’ COMMITTEE
    187 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. MUSIC lovers and musicians form the special committee which (vie Singapore Government has appointed to plan belter orchestral concerts for the Colony. The chairman will be Mr. W. L. Blythe, who is now officiating as Officer Administering the Government. It is understood
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    $300 FINE
    38 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. Lim KeoK Feng, 3b. was lined $3OO or two months’ imnrisonment when he pleaded guilty in tly. Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to assisting in the carrying •>n of a chap-Ji-kt lottery at
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    Fire Bombs Failure In Jungle
    144 11 From Our Staff ('or respondent KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 18. (petrol Jelly) Incendiary bombs used with such success against the Communists in Korea, have been tried against the Malayan badtts. but the test# have not been successful, the acting Chief Secretary Mr M V del Tufo.
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    REDS ATTACK TWO TRAINS: ENGINE BLOWN OFF LINE
    401 11 SINGAPORE. Oct 19. A TERRORIST mine last night blasted the day mail train from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore o7 the line near Senai, seven miles from Johore Bahru, killing the driver and injuring seven people. As rescue work was going on late
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    ORCHIDS FROM S’PORE FOR THE NEW COMMONS
    71 11 ORCHIDS FROM S’PORE FOR T HE NEW COMMONS SINGAPORE. Oct. If). ORCHIDS from Singapore will decorate a taM»* at the ceremonial op°nlng of the new House of Commons on Oct. 2G. The table, with a set of chairs, is the gift of the Colony of Singapore. Mr Tan Chin Tuan,
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    UK WHITLEY COUNCIL EXPERT FOR S'PORE
    120 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. 4 BRITISH Whft’ey Council expert is expected in Singapore Dossibly before the end of the year, to advise the Government on how to use the Joint employer-employee consultative machinery to advantage tho Straits Times understands. It Is understood, that the mv-v.,..
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    $6½ MILLION PLAN FOR FORESTRY DEVELOPMENT
    190 12 SINGAPORE, Oct. 20. A $6,584,000 forestry development plan for Malaya, which would also make possible an experimental wood pulping laboratory and fibre board plant, was indicated by Mr. J. P. Edwards, acting Director of Forestry, Federation of Malaya, at the Food and Forest Products
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    MR. GERALD HAWKINS
    41 12 fo.mei secretary tor Defence and Supervisor of Elections. Singapore and >lrs. Hawkins pictured at Kallang airport on their return irom Calcutta bv QEA-BOAC Constellation. Mr. Hawkins attended the Institute of Pacific Relations conference in I.ucknou.- —Straits Times picture.
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    TO STUDY BOMB DISPOSAL
    84 12 SINGAPORE. Oct. 20 'pHREE more members of the Singapore Volunteer Corps are to be sent to the United Kingdom for an instructor’s course on bomb disposal. They are C.S.M. R.R.A. Benedict, of the Army civilian staff, Sgt. AH. Jeerts, of the RAF. civilian staff, and Sgt.
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    Old Graves Examined
    121 12 SINGAPORE. OcL 20. A MALAY grave on Fort Canning, believed to be that of Iskander Shah, and gravestones in the Christian cemetery, are being examined by the Singapore Committee for the Preservation of Historic Sites and Antiquities, for repairs and renovations The committee have also discussed the
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    MR DEL TUFO AND RESETTLEMENT
    66 12 KUALA LUMPUR Thurs.—The acting Chief 8?cretary. Mr M V. Del Tuto did not. as repo-ted in the Straits Times this morning, sav at vesterdav’s Press rnnlerence that ’’saua’ter resett'ement can almost put under the Rural and Industrial Development Authority Referring to the cost of the
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    APPOINTMENTS
    41 12 SINGAPORE. Oct. 20. Mr. C. Noble. Deputy Sur-veyor-General. Malaya. has been appointed to act as Sur-veyor-General Malaya, and Mr. A. H. W. Lilly Chief Surveyor Grade 11. H.Q. to act as Deputy Surveyor General. Malaya, with effect from Oct. 7
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    PARK NEAR SEA FOR MALACCA
    54 12 Krom Our Stall Correspondent MALACCA, Oct. 18 AT today's meetino of the M unicipal Com missioners, it was decided to build a park near the sea. Estimates will be submitted as soon as possible. A new plan for the future development of the town of
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    HEAVY FLOODS IN PERAK, SELANGOR
    286 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 19. pLOODS have been reported in many parts of r Selangor and Perak because of heavy and continuous rain during the week. The Public Works Department, Federation of Malaya stated today that a bridge near Beharang, in the
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    HAWKERS FINED
    26 12 JOHORE BAHRU Oct. 19. Knoi Kim and Kim Lai w*tp fined $l2 in the Police Court here for selling cuttleflsh without a hawker’s licence
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    C.I.D. INVESTIGATES ‘SWINDLE’
    146 12 SINGAPORE. Oct. 20. r I'HR Singapore C I D is in1 vesMgating allegations by three Colony banks that they have been swindled by a prominent Singapore Chinese bus'nessman of large sums of monev P lice beheve that the businessman is in Java, where he went from Singapore.
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    Govt. Asked To Think Again
    367 12 JURONG PUBLIC PARK PLAN SINGAPORE, Oct. 20. T'HE wisdom of Government’s intention to acquire 180 acres of land at Jurong for a public park is being questioned by the Singapore Association. i 'the Association, in a letter i to Government, says that the acquisition of
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    Trees Theft Denied
    39 12 From Our Own Corre v »'''nden* JOHORE BAHRU Oct. 19. Chin Chong, of Mt. Austin Estate, charged here todav with stealing 10 rubber trees, valued at $4O was allow*** ball In $2OO. He denied the charge.
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    3 BANDITS A DAY BAGGED IN SEPT.
    177 12 From Our Starr Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR SECURITY force, kill. ed captured or wounded an average ot three oandits a day last month according to eas 5 t i t i figures issued todav 7 Altogether D(J Dana, killed, making 1.44: ne beginning of
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    CASHIER HELD UP, ROBBED
    130 12 SINGAPORE. Oct 20 r'WO Chinese youths. tn« armed with a revolvr, held up the cashier of a shop in Upper Nanking Street. S ngapore. at 8a m yesterdj.r and stole $343 from a lock d drawer in the counter Alter warning the cashier to “be silent”
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    Johore Mentri Besar
    81 12 l-To.n Our Own C'orrest>nndc:i' JOHORE BAHRU Oct- 18 Tuan Syed Abdul Kadlr dm Muhamad. a former presiden of the Town Board. yesterday assumed office a* acting Mentri Besar Johore, In place of Date wa Idris. He has served for 3r> y in the State, joining Town Board,
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    TROOPER FACES DRIVING CHARGE
    54 12 TROOPER FACES DRIVING CHAR GE F-om OU! S«alT r’nrrrs y IPOH, Wed —Trooper 1 Hyde Jf the Fourth -i own Hussar*; rlsimed Ipoh to Inconsiderate om Hyde is Hlleg-.-d r bumned Into the n 1 civilian van at i Road while driving a t on Sept 9. The case was
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    THREE KILLED IN CRASH: DRIVER HELD
    277 13 SINGAPORE. Oc. |<j WARRAN T for the arrest of Viu Penir Vim Singapore motor mechanic, on a chanse of ,,i i-ins the deaths ol three people i>\ a rash act no! amounting to culpable homicide. \*as i"-ied yesterday bv the Singapore Coroner Mr G.
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    Closer Border Watch
    273 13 KUM A LUMPUR. Oct. 20. JBLUKITY measures along the SiamU*:aya border have been tightened and the border railway village of Packing Besar in Perlis becomes the tlrst area to have the new Home Guard regulations applied. In Gazette notification i v. ;he Mentri Besar of Per.15 aanounccd
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    DETAINEES PLAY ‘AULD LANG SYNE’
    58 13 ™i* AIPING Oct. 18. I 'ittiE hundred Asians detamed at Taiping plaved tune of “Aulri n Syne” with their •nr-monica band. This was mature of a farewell to r K. ,1. Henderson, supe- 'mdent of the rehabili',0n camp, and his w’ife have pone on home
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    Prison For ‘Doctor’
    124 13 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. 4 N Indian dresser who posed x\ as a d.ictor and was stated to have given an injection to i baby was sentenced yesterday to three months’ imprisonment and lined $750 on charges of impersonation and P issession of deleterious drugs and poison He
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    MR. MORLEY’S NEW POST
    65 13 From Our StafY Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 18 Mr J A F M«>r!ev Deputy Economic Secretary for the Federation, has been appointed acting Economic Secretary. After three vears. from October. 1945 as Assistant Secretary of the Singapore Secretariat. Mr. Morley was appointed Secret arv to the
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    RUBBER ESTATE COMPENSATION
    94 13 irn Our Staff Correspondent k ALA LUMPUR. Oct. 18. War Damage Commiss<on has accepted a renonclation from repre •ves of the rubber in- dustry including smallholders to pay $5.50 an aery compensation for initial clearing of access to rubber trees for tapping. A meeting of representatives of
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    YEAR-OLD ANITA EDWARDS
    52 13 mtiiin to takf' her rocking horse seriously—and justly s,», because she has got a long way to ride from Singapore to Australia on ihe Charon with her sister two-year-old Eredriea. Mr. K.C. Edwards, retiring manager of Malayan Motors, her Dad, and Mrs. Kdwards happily look on. —Straits
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    Major Incidents Up Last Month
    368 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 19. gENTONG and Mentakab in Pahang have been made “priority areas’’ for anti-handit operations, tht Director of Operations, Lt. Gen. Sir Harold Hriggs, announced in Kuala Lumpur this morning. These two areas are now getting the same special
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    MR. NAIR WINS THE DAY
    116 13 SINGAPORE. (Jet. 1?) SINGAPORE Labour Party has withdrawn its suspension of Mr M P.L) Nair. one <.f the Party’s vice-pre-sident*. announc'd Mr. P. M Williams, the Party s general see re* ary. yesterday. Mr Nair was suspended by th* Party General Council on Aug 2
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    Hand Shake In Court Ends Case
    109 13 SINGAPORE. Get IS. A HANDSHAKE before thi magistrate ended an assault case involving two fishvendors m the Second Police Court yesterday. Charged with causing hurt to Chew Tian Hock at EUenborough Street on Aug. 14 was a 26-year-old Teochev/. Tan Yang Swee. Chew told
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    At Home’ At York Hill
    74 13 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. ABOUT 200 guests yesterday attended an “At Home" given hv girls trom the Hn” craft Centre at York Hill Singapore. The girLs sang several songs, which were followed bv an exhibition of dancing and then games competitions. Mrs. T. Eames Hughes, wife
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    Museum Officer Back From U.K.
    213 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 19 A MALAY, a Raffles College economics specialist. who spent two years in the United Kingdom studying anthropology, is now the highest qualified Asian museum officer in Malaya. Mr Abu Bukar bln Pawancn f thnolugical assistant at Rallies Museum, who was born in
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    Big plan for Chinese schools development
    397 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. SINGAPORE'S leading Chinese educationists nave completed plans to centralise organisation and control of vernacular schools in the Colony, to revitalise their educational and economic structure, and provide special facilities for students to take up vocational studies. Proof of the backing is
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    S’PORE TOLD OF U.N. WORK
    289 14 S’ PORE TOLD OF U.N. WORK SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. EVENTS in Korea have shawn to the world that the United Nations can effectively be used to preserve the peace of the world, declared Mr. W L. Blythe, O.A.G.. Singapore, yesterday, when he declared open the U.N. Exhibition at the Victoria
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    DIES IN K.L. AT 72
    60 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 22. After a long illness, the death took place this morning of Mr John Richard Mcleod at his home in Treacher Road. Kuala Lumpur. He was a retired Assistant Engineer of the Malayan Railway and was 72 years old The funeral takes
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    MALACCA DEATH
    26 14 MALACCA Sun. —One of )th* 1 oldest members of the Eurasian community. Mr. Hornes has d ed at Malacca at the age of 71.
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    First teachers’ election
    186 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. ELECTION fever ran high yesterday when the ballot was counted for the appointment of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Teachers’ Training Association. This was the first year the officers had been elected by ballot and keen competition resulted as there were 27 nominations
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    LAU MAH, TOP BANDIT, KILLED
    227 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 21. J AU MAH. top bandit leader in the Federation, was killed in a battle near Sungei Siput, Perak, in December. surrendered bandits have admitted. The Federation Government announced this today. Lau Mah, alias Kah Sin. bespectacled and Englisheducated. was a member
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    UNIVERSITY MAY TRAIN ENGINEERS
    217 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23 A °f Engineering may be established by the University of Malaya to train ,-ivil electrical and mechanical engineers. Already donations to the Endowment Fund t the Faculty total $568,657. ua r r The date of the pm #ii ment of the Faculty rt
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    ‘I Won’t Take Back One Word’ Says Dato Onn
    430 14 ‘I Won’t Take Back One Word Says Dato Onn r|ATO Onn bln Ja’afar, Federation delegate to the Commonwealth Aid to U South-East Asia talks in London, told the Straits Times on his retai n here yesterday by Qantas Constellation that he would stand by his statement in London alleging mistrust
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    MR .H.K. RODGERS
    29 14 SINGAPORE Oct. 23. Mr. H.K. Rodgers, managixg director of United Engineers returned to Singapore by K.L.M. Constellation yesterday after a business tour •f Britain and America.
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    SIXTEEN MINUTES OF FALSE ALARMS
    70 14 PENANG. Oct WITHIN 1»> minulcs the Penang I ire Bru me received five calls today- all of them false alarm" The Brigade <» :U_ Charge. Inrhe /..anal Abidin, said the r.ir«i" started at 114.*. Fire engines raced out each time and found Inal the alarm
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    NEW GENERATION PREFERS BREAD
    291 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 22 THERE is a generation now growing up in MalJy a particularly among the Chinese, which prefers rca to rice, Dr. H. W. |ack, who retires today as Agriculture Adviser to Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, told the Sunday Times. Dr Jack said that this marked
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    CAPITAN CHINA DIES
    141 15 KUCHING, Oct. 21. *1; o..g Tiang Swee. O.B.E, er of the Star of ,k, who died last woek ST, was buried this Am at Kuching after the and most impressive al seen in Sarawak for years. Governor, who is abfrom Kuching, was re- '.:cd by the Chief
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    Measles On The Oranje
    74 15 SINGAPORE. Oct. 25. Y'iE 20.113 ton Dutch liner Oranje berthed at Singa- ore docks yesterday more ’h. n two hours late due to it* outbreak of measles on ooard which infected eiglP n. and delayed quarantining. Tnree of the eight sick ’hiidren are to be disembarked
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    New Australian commander
    59 15 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. ->e RAAF Wing in Malaya ses its present CommandOfficer thi« wepk when Capt P.O. HefTernan. C flies to Melbourne to 0In c Director of Training 0r r he R A.A.F. will be replaced by "ir j f. Lush, pending arrival next month from ralla
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    HARDING RETURNS
    35 15 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. np ral Sir John Harding. inder in Chief Far i and Forces, who ha* visiting Japan and < returned to Ringanore >i- r ht bv air from Hong f\ 1 ’j
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    Live Repertory is possible
    747 15 .act SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. L AST n *§bt in the Victoria i rne curtain tell* probably tor the last time, on Singa* pore s first professional Repertory Company. At the same time another Rep company, the Teachers', opens to packed houses. Why? The reasons for the
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    THEY ALL CLAPPED
    71 15 mvr.iPORF. Oct. 22. f I HE president of the M"" 1 1 clpal Commissioners. Mr. T P F‘ McNelce. was among the almost packed audience at last night’s last night at the Singapore Repertory Coni oi"'> Or Is It? John Sempill, actor-manager-pro-ducei asked all in 'h*- n
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    P.Cs FIRE ON ‘WHITE FIGURE’
    55 15 SING APORE. C> t. 23. special constable on duty at the Buklt Timah wireless station. Singapore, seeing a figure in white hovering about, tired six shots. Another constable fired tu’n shots at the figure Po*ice from “E“ division and a snuad of Gurkhas were sent
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    A burglar cut his trip short
    105 15 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. CABLE teiling a husband of a burglary at his home in Amber Road. Slngjpore, In his absence, brought him hurrying home from Sydney vaster day. The burglar decamped with $4,000 worth of Jewellery and -lothing from the home of Mr and
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    MR. B.W. de SILVA CREMATED
    59 15 SINGAPORE. Oct. 23. The cremation of Mr. B. Wnmut cit* Silva, brother o! Mr B Titus de Silva. J.P took place at the Bidadari ceme lery J3 ahls t st c 10 n v i terday. A iarge number ul friends and relatives attend ed.
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    BORDER VILLAGE TO CALL UP H.Gs
    252 15 From Our Own Correspondent kj,' 7\. 4 BOUT 350 men out of n population <;f 040 in the Siam Malaya border vil.age of Padanu Besar are liable to be called up under the new Home Guard Regulations. they nave not Deen enlisted yet. but
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    Helicopter Rescue In Jungle
    75 15 BINGAPORE. Oct. 23. fiNE of the Far East Air Force casualty evacuation helicopters Hew a sick Brit.sh soldier to hospital yesterday trom an isolated Army posi in jungle country m Pe:uk The pilot of the helicopter was ll 'wn in an Artil ny <;<• Operation Unit’s
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    Will Fly To U.K. Next Month
    279 15 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. A 20-YEAR-OLI) Singapore Chinese youth, who was accepted as a student by the University of Malaya, has declined the offer, honing to become instead the first RAF cadetofficer from South-East Asia since the end of the war. He is six foot
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    Busmen Deny Strike Plan
    106 16 SINGAPORF. Oct. 24. MR J as want Singh, secretary of the 2,000strong Singapore Traction Co. Employees’ Union, yesterday denied reports that the union would strike if its demans for a higher cost-of-living allowance was rejected. Not a single union member had so far expressed any desire
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    Hit By Oar —Died
    67 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. 2*L A Shanghai seaman who was struck with an oar during a fight at Telok Aver Basin Singapore, early yesterday morning, died in the General Hospital eight hours later The tight followed an argument at sea over boat fares between three Shanghai sailors and
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    U.K. EDUCATION ADVISER HERE
    71 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. 25. S'r Christopher Cox, Edu cat*on Adv^e' to the tary of State for the Colonies, said in Singarore vesterdav. on his return from a month’s tour of British education institutions in Hong Kong. Sarawak and Brunei, that he was intensely interested in the progress
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    Govt. Asked To Give Cash Aid
    300 16 SINGAPORE, Oct. 24. THE Singapore Labour Party is sending a note to Government calling for a grow-more-food campaign in the Colony, the Party’s General Council announced last night The note suggests that Government call immediately a round-table conference of representatives of the people to
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    WORKERS FUND BILL FOR COUNCIL
    188 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. 24. 'I'HE Progressive Party proposes to introduce in the Singapore Legislative Council shortly a Bill for the establishment of a centra* provident fund by mercantile firms in the Colony The aes'i abuiiy oi crtnftuu tuch a fund to give to mer cantile worke
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    Charge Withdrawn
    55 16 From Out Own Corr^pondenl KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 23. A European commission agent. D. B. P. O’Sullivan who appeared b“fore Ra.la Sulaiman in the Kuala Lum our First Magistrate’s Conn today, was told that thr the charge against him failure to submit his Income f °x return within the
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    Security Room For Secret Papers
    245 16 SINGAPORE, Oct. 24. QN the suggestion of the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson a new security room is beins built in the Singapore Government Printing Office for confidential and top secret publications. Also being Duilt is a technical library for the staff and it is hoped
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    Bride’s Attendants Wore Dresses Of Seven Countries
    197 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. 24. MISS MYNA Ruth Perera. Central District Commissioner for Guides in Singapore, at her wedding yesterday at Wesley Church, h id six attendants dr ssed [n *he national costumes of China Burma the Philippines. Ceylon, India and Mal iya and one
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    11 PARANGS ROUT FIVE TERRORISTS
    591 16 From Our Special Correspondont MERSING, Oct 24 (jORNERED by five well-armed terr»ri < band of II Malay woodcutters working timber clearing near Mersing. yesterdav k il.a four of them and put the fifth to flight iv,,™* and axes beat Tommy-guns, rifles, and hand grenades in
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    LEFT WITH ‘OTHER WOMAN’
    109 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. J4 fJECAUSfc a wife obiec to her husband tr;-’ another woman into rhome in 1937 the hu r> immediately left the n and never returned. The wife was Agn s i Woodford who yesfer i.w p titicntd in the Smeaior Supreme Court for a
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    Unemployed Man Gaoled
    72 16 SINGAPOKI vsi Convicted m housebreaking at a down in Cheng Tuan v on Sept. 17, an unemployed. Chinese, Lian Ah Kim. sentenced in the Singap First District Court yesterday to six months imprisonm*n Llan it was stated, was arrested ov a watchman found him tampering the nadlock
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    NEW VICAR OF SINGAPORE
    93 16 SINGAPORE. Oct The Rev. R vV Vicar of South Ai. Leicester, since 1946. hi x appointed Vicar ami t deacon of Singapore Htake up this appi.intmcm April. Mr. Woods, who is «wn j the Bishop of Llchfleu.. Edward Wood-*, serveo t Chaplain to the Force* ing
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    Schoolgirls Queue Up To Help Shot P.C’s Family
    254 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 24. 2TI DENTS of Raffles Girls’ School, Singapore, yesterday donated $750 to the family of Traffic Constable Moharaed Senin bin Akil, who was shot near their school by a gunman last week. Many of the contributions came from the iry
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    NG‘GUILTY BUT INSANE’
    133 17 NG‘ GUILTY BUT INSANE’ SINGAPORE. Oct. 24. 1 K.i. Sung, former teak -ant. who shot Yong former President of •.'t> Chamber of ComV. a- yesterday found but insane** on a >1 murdering Yong. v remanded in custody ■Ug an order from the --iai Secretary. Tii court was crowded h i
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    NO, IT WAS NOT AN EARTHQUAKE
    74 17 SINGAPORE, pet. 24. Koval Air Force Lincoln bombers from Tengah tacked a bandit target in 'mth-west .loliore just he--1 '•**'<■ midnight last night. ,l *> a few miles from Sin- ipore Island. I he explosion of 500- nd bomhs was heard finetly in many
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    Record of opium seizures
    234 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. £EIZURES of opium anci native tobacco for the past nine months constitute a post war record for Singapore, exceeding even tne total seizures for the whole of 1949. The Assistant Comptroller in chaise of ih Preventive Branch. Mr R S Clemons, told (he
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    S’pore Special Shot At Home
    166 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 24. I AWRENCE Pang, a 29-year-old Volunteer Special Li Constable, was shot in his home at Joo Chiat Road, Singapore, last night by a Chinese gunman. Pang, a base Ordnance Depot worker, is in hospital with a hip wound. The gunman, with two
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    SENT TO PRISON
    33 17 SINGAPORE. On. 24. Tav Lim Han. aged 45. rv sentenced to a month’s im prisonment in thr* Singapore First District Court yesterda*' for failing to register for an identity card
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    Hot eggs for the pups
    391 17 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW WE wondered V'hy the hens had ail off the lay as they all koked remarkably well and we usually get enough eggs from che 14 hens to ourselves and visitors Found out the reason the other morning wher we caught both
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    Bandits Burn Railway Station
    254 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 23 IVTHEN bandits burned a main line railway station in Selangor on Saturday nignt, they dragged chairs out of the office and told the stall to sit down and watch the blaze. The ft and its had previously surrounded
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    False Reports Warning
    88 17 SINGAPORE. Oct. 24 r rnF. Singaport yin ye*- vrday tear ru'd thr jiublir (Kiainst mnknto false reports to the not ire The Assistant Commissioner. CI I).. Mr l) K ftrondhvrst '‘(lid that thr had been grossly exaggerated reports of incidents. Recently, he said, a ch ncse told
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    Beach Murder Case Opens In Assizes
    1356 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. vyiNNIE Annie Spencer, 10-year-old schoolgirl who was found murdered on the beach at Telok Blangah, had no boy friends, her mother, Mrs. J. A. Spencer, told the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. In the dock, charged with the murder of Winnie, was
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    TRESPASSED—$10
    32 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 25. An Indian. Doraira.l Appooorai was yesterday fined $lO in the Singapore Fourth Police Court, when he pleaded guilty to wilfully trespassing into a Service area without a permit
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    Two More Asian Lecturers
    208 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 25. 'pWO Asian lecturers, a Chinese and a Ceylonese are among the five latest appointments to the University of Malaya staff. They are expected to arrive early next year. The Ceylonese, Dr. P.H. Dianenda. takes up a lectureship in Mathematics. He has been studying
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    TWO BOYS STARTED A SCARE
    158 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 25. I*WO schoolboys, sent oy their father to buy a gallon of petrol decided on their way back to “see what a petrol fire, looked like.” They poured some petrol into a drain in Ceylon Road and set hre to it. There was
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    “SIT IN COURT FOR DAY” ORDER
    54 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 25. For theft of four pieces of scrap brass and three rolls of wire at R.A.F. Seletar. Liew Yoon, aged 54. was bound over in $5O for six months yesterday. He was also ordered to sit in the Singapore Fourth Pn lice
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    “3-Pronged Attack On Discontent’
    966 18 “3-Pronged Attack On Discontent SINGAPORE, Oct 25 T HE cost of Singapore’s six-year development programme, submitted to the recent ('om monwealth Economic Aid Conference $450,000,000. This is a “tentative total,” Singapore Government statement issued vL terday. l> The plan, presented a s “a three-pronued attack upon social discontent,” features ImV
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    TWO FOUGHT $10
    34 18 SINGAPORE. Off .a r*OR fightinsr In Keppel la bour dockyards, Lye wa Chong, aged 28 and K Hun Keng aged 20. day were fined SlO cm f the Singapore Third Court.
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    Main races to Printers Error and Airmail
    1030 19 \KING his first SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. (late Antoine) a hanrf aranC< !k n a Mala y an racecourse, Opera .%wL“;r?h?r, Fre r h br^ *>**■* ■int to nav SI IX f n n ,n the Gass 3 Div. 3 5 furlong Penang Turf
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    Singapore win Trophy soccer
    433 19 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. SINGAPORE retained the Sportsmen’s Trophy when thev beat Federation by two ffoals to nil in a keenl\ fought out soccer match before more than 3,000 people at Jalan Besar Stadium last evening. The goals were scored in the fourth and 29th. minutes "respectively
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    Colony enter badminton final with 8-1 win
    796 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. L*INGAI ORE qualified to meet Penang next month in the Foong Seong Cup badminton final by eliminating Perak by eight games to one in the North-South zone final concluded at Singapore’s Happy World stadium last night. Singapore led four-nil on
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    THE SCORES
    126 19 Complete results of the twoday match were; SINGLES: Ong Poh Lim beat Tan Jin Hour 15-5, 14-18, 15-5; "on* Peng Soon beat Foo Von* Khean 15-3. 15-2; Ong Poh Llm beat Foo Vong Khean 15-6. 15-2; U'ong Peng Soon beat Tan Jin Fong 15-6, 15-5; Cheong Hock Leng
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    Hard Fight For S.H.B.
    162 19 SINGAPORE. Oct. 19. SINGAPORE Harbour Board “A" XV had a hard fight again l Singapore All Blues yestordu\ and. after a scoreless first half. Harbour Board managed to come out on top by six polnu ttwo tries> to three (a pcnultyi. In a name of rugger
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    Another Title For Helen
    106 19 .SINGAPORE Oct. 2H. \pss HELEN HENG and }i her sister Mrs. Mary Sim (United Family BP.) rciained their Singapore women's oven doubles badminton title, yesterday when thru beat last year's junior doubles champions. Miss SurJe Pang and Miss Babu Low /5-7. J5-9 in the final viaued
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    Local Investors Lacking In Confidence
    474 20 From A Market Correspondent MALAYAN Share Markets had increased activity and were >ieadv throughout Uie wee*, with a hardei tenden.-v at the French setbacks the hands of the Vietminh rebels had no apparent effect on prices the continued advance of United Nations Forces in Korea
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    ESTATE OUTPUTS
    69 20 OUBBER outputs are announces as follows, lor August ana September. In *bs. .\uc. s*pl. Kempas 593 KH) 322.60 c Radella 19.000 17.300 Bukit K.B. 9,100 6.900 E\att Company announce the following rubber crops, in lbs.: Brunei Utd Plant. 30 000 Changkat Serdang Est. 36.021 Chermang Development 187.000 Hay
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    The Week’s Dividends
    42 20 Dividends announced during ilie week were:— Payable Books Close. William Jacks Co. 10S second interim less tax Nov. 4 26 Oct./4 Nov. Ling-ui Tin Ltd. 15% le6s tax Nov. 17 11/17 Nov. Jimah Rubber Oct. 31 25 31 Oct.
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    Business Done
    433 20 Business done in the Malayan share market last week included. Industrials. F <>s i Neavt Ords. $3.O7Me to $3.10 ex all. Fraser A* Neave Prefs $6.00. Gammons $2.20, Hong Kong Banks (Colonial* $750 to $7OO. W’ll am Jacks $2.32’?. Malayan nreweries $5 05 ana $5.10. Perak River Hydro
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    Cocoa Plants Need New Jungle Lane
    182 20 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 23. MEW jungle and not old rubber land was the major hope for cocoa planting in Malaya, the Director of Agriculture. Mr. O J. Voelcker. told the Straits Times today. He said that the cocoa p»an< was much more difficult to
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    15% F0R KAMUNING RUBBER AND TIN
    76 20 KAMUNING (Perak) Rubber anc Tin Company’s directors have declared an interim dividend ct li oer cent, less tax. No final dividend is being recommended After charging £902 dcpreciattoi and £7.897 for replanting, provision profit for the year subject to audit amounts to £68.398 Taxation
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    63 20 From A Market Correspondent business was reported ip »L* copra or coconut oil section, of »he produce mark?’ yesterday. Copra buyers bid s42’ a picul, sellers quo'ed $43 Coconu oil sellers quoted $7O a picul. The pepper section eased slight ly with a drop of $5 the picul
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    JERAM KUANTAN
    34 20 JERAM Kuantan Rubber Estau has sold forward 15 tons of No 1 RSS for delivery of five tons monthly Aprtl-June 1951 f.o b Malavan ocean port in bale!* «i *7B oer lb.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    982 20 SINGAPORE. Oct. 24. INDUSTRIAL!* Buyer* sflkr* A.rx BricKs Prei' i r>7* i 674 Ord* 195 200 AUa* Ice 11 90 12 25 BB Pctrni 36/- 37/B M Trustee ’Of r RT Con Fir Sme.t Prel 20/9 21'9 cc Ord 18 6 19 6 fc «I»J A»«ur S
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    NEW PEAK IN SHORTCOVERING.
    197 20 Rubber Mark SINGAPORE Oc r SHORT-COVERING i 0l n tober shipment j.rubber prices to a new and business passed at ing rates up to 188 cei lb against the 175- r highest for November ment, says Lewis t weekly market report yesterday. Proflt-takirg and lack of
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    $879,790 PROFIT FOR KEMPAS
    133 20 From A Market Corre>ponurm KEMPAS LTD. made $879.79" o5 6 per cent.) f r > r y?a* c June 30. 1950. before providing $19,719 for E tation expenditure work has now b* pleted. A final c ?0 per cent, is r making 30 per cent, for
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    6% FOR NYALAS
    127 20 NY ALAS Rubber FdeJ‘•. propose their tnaiuen since the war of six P* r a profit, of $77,943 uo-G pefor the year to June 1 in cost was 30.2 cents pe« an average production oi per acre and net lui»:ia ($129,954) were equivalent cents per share, excluding
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