The Straits Budget, 30 November 1950

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    32 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [K&TAJILISIIKD OVKU A CtNTUEY j < w Series No. 22(5. Singapore Thursday, November 30, 1950 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 *h.
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      WARNING FROM A KELANTAN CHINESE
      497 2 Approach To The Emergency'' THE heading, “A New Approach To ihe Emer1 gency,” attracted m e very much to the article published bv you on Nov. 16. But after reading it I felt confident that it would be enthusiastically hailed by the “comrades” now hiding
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      Dato Tan At Kuala Pilah
      179 2 DATO Tan Cheng Lock is to be congratulated on his out-spoken criticism, at Kuala Pilah of Chinese fencesitters as reported in vour issue of Nov. 18. Where he falls down, however. is in nrawing attention to the fact that “many people ire apt to forget
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      A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
      129 2 IVVISH to express my heartfelt gratitude to Our Lady of Fatima, to whom we have dedicated our family, and to whom we offer the daily devotion of the "family rosary." for the miraculous escape of our three-year-old twin son He fell 35 feet from the balcony of
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      An Indian Youth
      252 2 ,IN Joo Chiat Place at 9.20 p.m. on Nov. 16 a 1 Singapore Indian boy was requested b> a Chinese I to show him his identity card The Indian boy refused, but offered to go to the nearest police station. The Chinese man said that he was
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      To Sir Christopher Cox: From A Malayan Parent
      522 2 WOULD Sir Christopher Cox, who nas come all the wav to Malaya from the United Kingdom to conduct a personal study of the educational facilities enjoyed by the citizens of one of Britain’s most favoured colonial territories, accept a timely suggestion from
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      A PLEA FOR THE MIXED SCHOOL
      411 2 "THE CHINESE TRADITIc VOUH admirable leader of Nov. 21, “i h, Tradition’. goes scarcely far enough the aim of every Government to discern munalism and sectionalism within its o-rdV* In an atomic age we must all lean; V internationally. Community schools tha« niter to
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      A EUROPEAN GIFT
      75 2 ABOUT two weeks ago port in tthe y jj Tim£s referred to an I named Ramasamy. blind. Since then a European man has generously sen tor the helpless man. It is a great disgrac. the Indian community so many organisation' Ignore this countrym. theirs. I therefore su-
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  • The Straits Budget
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      More Powers For War
      943 3 I —Straits Times. Nov. 23. promise of more ellec- measures against the ter- ns ts which the Officer Ad-| ministering the Government ,,cle in his address to the K.-d**ral Legislative Council Tuesday will be welined no less by the public m by the Council. If Mr.
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      The Hawker Report
      1039 3 —Straits Times, Nov 24 The report of the Singapore Hawkers Inquiry Commission, published this week, is likely to find interested readers in the Municipalities and Town i Roards of the Federation as well as in Singapore, for it is certainly the most exhaustive study of the hawker
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      Honours In The M.C.S.
      894 3 Stratts Ti-mes, Nov. 25 A spec i a 1 correspondent, writing in this page a few days ago, suggested that one of the chief characteristics of university education as a whole is a complexity of administration and method that makes hard and fast evaluation of any
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      After The Battle
      996 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 27 There can be no doubt that the Budget session of the Federal Legislative Council will prove a landmark in the Federation's progress towards self-government. It established the principle that the executive must at least share with the Council the responsibility for new taxation,
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      U.S. Dollars For Siam
      616 4 --Straits Times, n, iV In some comments on the annual report of the International Bank which were made in these columns recently, it was mentioned that Siam had applied to the Bank for loans for the rehabilitation lof her railway system, for the j development of
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      Good News From North Borneo
      472 4 Straits Times, Nov. 28. North Borneo is a col- t,v j n which, one imagines, it n y j tot) easy to give way i, depression and frustratin' by i reason of the lack of money,and skilled personnel r a jj the many things that
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      The Colombo Plan
      1105 5 —Straits Times. Nov. 29. The London conference on rhe Colombo economic plan .»n»iod with the merest flicker >f publicity. It was believed tliat one reason for the diffidence, perhaps the chief reason. *as the desire to discover what role should be reserved or the American dollar. Whether
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    JOHORE APPLIES H.G. LAWS
    114 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 28. THE first step in the formation of Home Guards in Johore has been taken by the issue of an order by the acting Mentri Besar Johore applying the provisions of the Emergency (Home Guards) Regulations to six areas
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    Wants To See Mrs. Hertogh
    89 5 SINGAPORE. Nov. 29. THE Malay schoolteacher husband of Nadra (Marla Huberdina Hertogh). Inche Mansoor Adabi, who left the Singapore General Hospital a tew days ago. and Is now convalescing at his home in Rowell Road told the Straits Times yesterday that when he s better
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    DRUNK, FINED $5
    33 5 SINGAPORF, Nov. 29. For being drunk and d'so drrly at the Hanny World Park, a young Malay. Abbas bin Omar, wn.s fined $5 In the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday.
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    POPPY DAY FUND
    23 5 I rrm Our Own Correspondent KI.UANG, Tups. Nearly <59,500 was raised in Kluang in aid of the Poppy Day Fund
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    T.U. LEADERS MEET GOVT. DEPT. HEADS
    179 5 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. piFTEEN Singapore Government irade union leaders yesterday held a two-hour preliminary discussion in the Colonial Secretariat with heads of departments on “staff relations in the Government service”. This is the first time in Singapore that employer ana employees in Government have
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    Gold Worth $l00,000 Seized
    81 5 SINGAPORE. Nov. 29. GOLD worth $lOO,OOO has 1 been seized by Singapore Customs officers from the freighter Sze Chuen, which arrived in the colony from Hong Kong. A European officer of the ship has been detained b.\ the Customs for questioning An officer of the ship
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    S’pore Hears Brahms
    89 5 SINGAPORE. Nov. 29. T'HE first performance in Singapore of Brahms’ Liebeslleder was given last night at the Music Circle concert In the British Council Hall. The pianists were Mr. Victor Doggett and Mr. Tan Thoon IJp. The verses were recited by Mr. Seow Cheng Fong. Mr. Soon
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    Association Secretary Acquitted
    118 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 28. MISS Kwan Sin Kwal, secietary of the Health and Strength Association, who. together with its president, Wong Hoi Onn, was charged on three counts of criminal breach of tiust of $84,007, was today acquitted and discharged by Mr. D. M. K. Grant, the
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      BIRTHS
      102 5 EWART: On Nov. 26. at Randan* Kerbau. to Mary, wife of John Ewart, a son. NEATH On Nov 22 at Cln*Apo:e to wife of Capt. R C Neath 2 6 O R a daugher Susan Margaret. WINCKLER: At Kandan* Kerbau, on 27'h Nov to Be tie, wife of R.
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      ENGAGEMENT
      36 5 PFRUNDER-LOETBCHER The engagement Is announced between Hatrv. younger son of Mr At Mrs. K 11. Pfrunder of Maennedorf (Swd zorln nd> and Silvia. youngest daugh er of Mr At Mrs C Loetscher of Neuhauaen <Bwltcrland)
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      MARRIAGE
      40 5 RIMPSON-f'n ABEK: A- I*erth. Western Australia, on the 17‘o November. 1950. Donald youngest ;on of the Late Mr. At Mrs John Simpson, Caithness Scotland, to Rosemary, rinugh'er of the I.ate Mr Ai Mrs Wallace Eraser, r, olnt Piper, Sydney
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    29 5 ftCKNOWI.EDftnVENT MRS. CRAIO tiianks all friend* !n Malaya for heir numerous kind letters of *ym{>athy In her recent r.a<' bereavement and regrets 'hat she cannot answer each on** individually.
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    A SINGAPORE DIARY
    1846 6  -  Cecil Street From The Straits Times of Nov. 29—Nov. 29. Cawing In Tamil j| FTER reading the note on this column r- the Malay name for the crow Burong Oaeafe an Indian reader in johore Bahru has written to tell me that the name for this hlrd
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    Rubber export duty cut by half
    498 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 25. THE FEDERATION GOVERNMENT AND RUB BER PRODUCING INTERESTS IN THE COUNTRY HAVE REACHED aN AGREEMENT WHICH WILL CUT THE PROPOSED EXPORT DUTY ON RUBBER BY HALF. The Sunday Times understands that all >;ut the minor details of the new scheme
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    Good news came, then he crashed
    79 7 IPOH. Nov. 25. [EIGHTEEN -year-old Johnny J Wong See Chin, a Straits Times reporter, set off from ere on his motor cycle, with friend riding pillion, for an nterview in Kuala Lumpur hirh might have gained him j scholarship for the Institute international Education
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    Gerald goes for forum
    118 7 SINGAPORE. Nov. 26 A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Singapore student. Gerald Pillay, ot St. Joseph's Institution. lias been selected from in candidates to represent the Colony at the eighth annual Youth Forum to be held at N' nv York on Dec. 9. Last month Gerald took T e rote
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    MARINE POLICE CHIEF CHOSEN
    79 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 26. Mr A. E. Minns. A.S.P. has f *n appointed officer com ending the Marine Police 'h vision of the Singapore lice Force. takes the place of Mr K- Jeans who leaves the "'°ny on Dec. 2. on leave 1 ‘‘*>re retirement. Mr. Minns,
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    Gaoled For Theft
    38 7 SINGAPORE. Nov. 28. Leone Seong aged 27 was sentenced in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to two months’ imprisonment for stealing a fountain pen from the shirt-pocket of Abdul Karim in North Bridge Road.
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    Air Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty, C’.-in-C’., Far Fast Air Force, alighting from a Tiger Moth of the Royal Singapore Flying Club on Nov. 26 after a ten-minute solo flight. Sir Francis is the patron of the Club —
    40 7 Air Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty, C’.-in-C’., Far Fast Air Force, alighting from a Tiger Moth of the Royal Singapore Flying Club on Nov. 26 after a ten-minute solo flight. Sir Francis is the patron of the Club Times picture. Straits
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    Murdered Child —The Full Story
    380 7 TWO KILLED IN ESTATE AMBUSH From Our StalT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 26. A MAI.AY ayah and her two sons, with tears in their eyes, today told me how they had seen three Communist bandits wantonly murder a 21-year-old Kuropean girl, Susan Thomson whom they
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    TEN HURT IN S.V.C. SMASH AT CHANGI
    201 7 SINGAPORE. Nov. 27 4 EURASIAN private was seriously injured and nine others hurt when an Army truck bringing back members of tlie Singapore Volunteer Corps and Police from a combined security check in Pulau Übin and Pulau Tekong overturned at the 12th mile
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    SAPPER FINED
    32 7 KAJANG. Sat. Sapper Me Klnna, of Batu Cave s, wa. lined $25 at Kajang for driv ing a military truck negli gently at 17**-.# mile Kajang Road on Aug. 13.
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    BAN ON POLITICAL HOLIDAYS
    161 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 26. THE Singapore Education Department has banned all political holidays next year for Chinese schools in the Colony, according to the list of holidays drawn up by Mr. E. H. S. Brctherton. acting Deputy Director of Education. The schools are being allowed to retain
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    OLD MAN AN ACCIDENT VICTIM
    61 7 SINGAPORE. Nov. 26. Phuan Ah Joon, a 87 yearold, Singapore Chinese, was knocked down by a hit andrun motorist at Grange Road yesterday morning. The old man is in hospital now with a suspected fracture of the right leg. The Traffic Police are appealing for
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    Attempt To Burn Bus In Singapore
    90 7 SINGAPORE. Nov. 27 A SINGAPORE Traction Com pan v bus was slight ly damaged in .an unsuccessful arson attempt at file Junction of Alh** r t street and Bencoolen Street at 7.11 a m. yesterday. Tiie men were not seen although there were about
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    SHOT AT FOXES
    38 7 SINGAPORE. Nov. 26. Chow Wing Meng pleaded guilty in the Singapore First District Court yesterday to having discharged a doublebarrelled shotgun in shooting flying foxes at Ponggol Road on Nov 24 He was fined $5.
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    Doctor (on tax charge) says: My tax was paid
    236 8 SINGAPORE, Nov 25. i\K. T. Balasingham, Government pathologist, Singapore, charged in Singapore yesterday with failing to furnish the Income Tax Department with his 1949 income tax returns, said that the Gniversity of Malaya had paid his tax for 1947, 1948 and
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    10-CENT CHEAT: GAOLED
    126 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. pOR attempting to cheat the Singapore Traction Co. of a fare of 10 cents. Chons Yew Kong, a fitter, was sentenced by the Singapore First District Judge. Mr. H. E. Kingdon. yesterday to seven days’ imprisonment and fined $10 The conductor, Kadil Maideen. stated
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    Red Victim Buried
    102 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. MANY members of Hie Johorc plantin'* community attended the funeral a* Bidadari Cemetery yesteiday of Mr. Edward Lergatt, ma naeer of Coronation Estate in the Kluanu district, who was ambushed and killed by bandits on Wednesday. He was buried beside two European police ofTioers.
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    GEN. THOMAS TOURS NORTH
    85 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 24. General sir g Ivor Quartermaster General of the British Army, j today visited North Malaya sub-district. He flew to Taiping, accompanied by the G.OC., Major General R E Urquhart. Brl-; Bright In charge of! quartering Far Eastern Land
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    ‘Proof of wedding not established’
    231 8 SUIT AGAINST DOCTOR FAILS SINGAPORE. No\ 25. a MAINTENANCE suit brought by a woman. Govindammal, against I)r. A. J. Thamboo was dismissed yesterday by the Singapore Second Police Magistrate, Mr. S. E. Teh. The Magistrate said that the case must fail as the pr f
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    $500 REWARD FOR CHILD KILLER
    40 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. The reward for information leading to the arrest of the murderer of 11-year-old Tan 800 Kim at the 18t,h mile Jurong Road, Singapore, is $5OO. Investigations into the murder are still proceeding.
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    Pay retrospective To Aug. 1, 1947
    327 8 Pay retrospective To Aug. 1 1947 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 24. (GOVERNMENT clerks in the Federation today 1 accepted rheir $6,000,000 hack pa\ windfall with equanimity—and asked for more. The President of the Federation of Government C.erical and Administrative Services Union Mr. M. Arokiasamy. today told the Straits Tinier that his
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    FREE FILM SHOW LEADS TO DEATH
    80 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. A SUGGESTION that Imr 13-year-old grandson who was injured in tailing from a tree had climbed it to see the films at an open air cinema was made at a Singapore inQuest yesterday. A misadventure verdict was recorded on Tail Sim
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    Airport May Be Bigger
    64 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. SINGAPORE Government may requisition 57 more acres of land than originally announced at Paya Lebar for a modern airport. A gazette notification last night said that these plots would fill in gaps left in the earlier notification The announcement was made to forstall
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    F.M.V.F. To Be Set Lip in Fed.
    298 8 KUALA LUMPUR Nov T H E Fedeiatiun 7. Malaya is resuscitating the Volanteei tru. ment next veui it. v ,:i start with a i o t strengtn of 2 7 > throughout the Fedora tion. Recruiting begin as soon as ordinance is approver
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    Receiving: Order
    89 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25 a DJUDICATING and reA ceiving orders were made yesterday in the High Court by the Chief Justice. Sir harles Murray- Aynsley. against, Mr H A Rahim Khan on an application by the Assis a’*' Official As.* i: n:e. Mr. T. Kulasekaiam Mr P Chelvanathan. who
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    HIS U.K. LEAVE-BY COURT PERMISSION
    155 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. THE Singapore Second District Court Judge, Mr. Tan Ah Tah, yesterday gave permission for Mr. H. C. Tinsley, a Singapore Improvement Trust official, to go to Britain on leave signing a bond to appear in court as a witness in January. Mr
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    S’pore Studies Plan For Call-up Of Manpower
    154 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. |>I,ANS and machinery for mobilising Colony manpower in an international emergency are !>cing studied by the Singapore Government. The Government is also considering the curtailment of leave of expatriate officers during the ::iergency. The Officer Administering Federation Government, \Ir. S.
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    ‘Get Sample To Convict Spitter’
    148 9 Get Sample To Convict Spitter’ H-oro Out Stall t‘orrw»pondrn« KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 22 T'HE Kuala Lumpur Munici1 paUty is seeking a simple v,stem to enforce the law \ca;nst spitting. The president, Mr. H. T. W told Commissioners that a policeman who >a\\ a person spitting could *ake him to a
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    Bandits Kill Johore Estate Manager
    216 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23. MR. Edward Leggatt, manager of Coronation Estate in the Kluang district of North Johore, was ambushed and killed by bandits yesterday morning as he was visiting a replanted area. A Malay special constable was also killed and an Indian conductor, who had
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    MR. G.W. DAVIS
    31 9 SINGAPORE, Nov, 23. Mr. G. W. Davis wh has resigned membership of the Singapore Legislative Council is the Commissioner for Labour and not the AttorneyGeneral, as stated yesterday.
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    ALLEGED RAPE IN BATHROOM
    52 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23. Goh Lim Kwui, aged 25. was tentatively charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday with rape in a bathroom at Sain Wang Hoo" Chinese Temple off Thomson Road, on Nov. 16. Bail was opposed and the case was postponed until Nov. 29
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    Music Treat For 500 Before School Exam
    189 9 SINGATORE, Nov 23. VIVE hundred boys and girls from Raffles Inst t r tion and Raffles Girls’ School will hear Mss Joyce Scharenguivel, herself an °ld (> (•iris' School, give a piano recital in Raffles Institution hall tomorrow morning at 10.30. It is
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    Gamblers Warned
    30 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23. Lim Jon Hock. Ong Kwang and Chua Chin Hai were ??ut»onrd nnd discharged in the Singapore Second Eohce Court yesterday for playing “chi-kee” for money.
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    RUBBER EXPORT DUTY TALKS BREAK DOWN
    317 9 Federal Councillors Sit Till One a.m. KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 22. 'J'ALKS between the rubber industry’.** representatives and the Government concerning the new rubber export duty have broken down. At a meeting of unofficial of the Legislative Council late last night, it was decided that
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    MILITARY TRAINING IN MALAYA IS URGED
    310 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 22. COMPULSORY military training lor all youths in the Federation was advocated by Mr R. Ramani, speaking during the debate on the draft estimates in the Federal Legislative Council this morning. Mr. Ramani said that if youths
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    GAOL FOR $31,000 FRAUD
    151 9 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Nov. 23 INSCRIBED by his counsel as “one of those people who join in the swim and indulge in luxuries,” Quah Kim Keng, former salesman for Henry Waugh and Co., was today sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment on two counts of
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    SEAMEN FLY TO SHIPS
    62 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. Forty Malay and Chinese seamen left Singapore yesterday morning by air for Aden to sail two ships back to this Colony. They spent the previous night at the Seamen’s Hostel in Singapore. The Superintendent of the Hostel points out that it was not
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    Che Zaharah Takes Debate Challenge
    160 9 SINGAPORE, Nov 23. THE president of the Singapore Malay Women’s Welfare Association, Che Zaharah binte Noor Mohammed, opponent of child marriage and advocate of the Laycock (Marriage Age) Rill Is sending a reply to the Singapore Malay writer “Idrus*\ accepting his challenge to a public
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    500 Troops Go Home
    46 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23. ABOUT 500 troops, accom panted by SO families, due for leave, left Singapore vesterdav for home In the troopship Empire Ken. Most, drawn from various Regiments and including Naval and R A F. personnel, were from the Singapore district.
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    BANDITS RAZE 46 SQUATTER HUTS IN PERAK
    313 10 From Out Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. pORTY-SIX squatter homes were razed to the ground on Monday night at Kampong Hongkong, near Siputeh, 13 miles south-west of Ipoh, when bandits, frustrated in their attempts to defeat Government’s plan to resettle the squatters in that
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    New Betting Law Hits Sweeps
    94 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23. 'pHE new Betting and Sweepstakes Duties Ordinance 1950 became law on Tuesday and affected all sweepstakes at Bukit Timah yesterday, the second day of the Singapore Turf Club Winter meeting. Government duty on sweepstakes is increased from 15 per cent to 20
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    CUSTOMS OFFENCE
    44 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23. D aged 24. guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to possession of 195 lb of dutiable tcbacco and l lb of cneroots at dementi Road on Ncv. 13, and was fined $3,000. in default threp months’ imprisonment
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    C-G ISSUES WARNING ON EMPTY RICE BOWL
    395 10 SINGAPORE, Nov 23. IF rice fails then everything else in this part of the world will fail. This 1 i> what the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, told the first meeting of the Consultative Committee on Rice held it Phoenix Park yesterday. He told
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    Expenditure Approved
    88 10 SINGAPORE. Nov, 23. r pHE estimates for expenditure for 1951 were approved by the Council when it met at 9 o’clock last night. Before the Council gave its approval, the Officer Administering the Government. Mr S. W. P. Foster Sutton, announced that after consulting the Executive Council, he
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    VISIT TO VICTIMS
    41 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov, 22 The Sultan of Selangor and the Tungku Ampnan yesterday met victims of the bombing accident which occurred at Utan Simpan Estate. Selangor, when they visited the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital.
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    S’PORE HAWKER INQUIRY REPORT
    253 10 S’ PORE HAWKER INQUIRY REPORT SINGAPORE, Nov, 23. T'HE prosecution of those 1 who buy from hawkers in areas or streets prohibited for hawking is one of several recommendations made by the Singapore Hawkers' Inquiry Commission in its report released by Government last night. While the Commission recommends that all
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    PROFITEERING CHARGE IS REFUTED
    677 10 SINGAPORE Nov 9** Ac C hr ATIO S b> t U 'f‘ Senate Militar. Sub-Committee on Tuesday that “nationals of other countries are profiting unmercifulU in the prices they charge the United States f..Y rubber” were strenuously denied vesterrf n by Mr. A. F. Taylor, general
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    Govt. Shops Plan Gets Approval
    311 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 22 SEVERAL member§ of tfr Federal Legislative Council fought hard but unsuccessfully today to persuade th council to reject a recommendation urging the setting up. at an early date, of Government and co-operativ. shops for the sale of rationed and price controlled
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    Council wins tax revision battle
    892 11 From Our Special Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 22. f PHE Federal Legislative Council this morning won its battle for a revision of the tax >>stem. The Officer Administering the Government, Mr. S. W. P. Foster Sutton, told the ('ouncil that he will recommend to the
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    13 NEW CASES OF POLIO
    54 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24 Thirteen cases of polio (one fatal» were reported in Singapore in the week ending Nov. 18. against six in the previous week. Total number of deaths n Singapore from all causes in the week was 181. a g ain^ r the previous
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    NEW LAW ‘HITS AT BASIC RIGHTS’
    280 11 SINGAPORE, Nov, 23. npIIE implications of the proposed Immigration (Control) Ordinance, 1950, virtually make British nationality as such “worthless from the point of view of travel to or through the Colony”, states a protest by the Singapore Association to the Singapore Government. The Singapore
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    Two Found Not Guilty
    110 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23. JTHARAPATxtI and Ramiah, two of four Indians charged at the Singapore Assizes with ht murder of aroiirer Indian Raskaran, yesterday w?r» found guiltv ot matiSlaughe''. Utharapathj was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and Ramiah to seven years’ imprisonment. Suppiah and Krishnan, the other
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    DRIVERS FINED
    34 11 I rom Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.-P. Ayerkannu and Ng Ah Leong, Singapore taxi drivers, were each fined $7 in the Police Court today, for failing to observe a traffic sign.
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    $4,000 THEFT
    19 11 SINGAPORE, Nov, 23. Textiles valued at $4,000 were stolen from a godown in Colombo Court, Singapore, yesterday.
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    Revenue Estimates Sent Back For New Scrutiny
    913 11 From Our Staff Correspondent Kl ALA LCMPITR, Nov. 22. jhy: Federal Hudget today again oeeupied the Legislative Council's attention all morning, the debate being resumed at a special meeting tonight, alter the Council had approved an amendment which sends the revenue estimates back
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    Director Is Cleared
    53 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. QUEK Thiam Song, former company director, was acquitted at Singapore Assizes yesterday of charges of fraudulently concealing that his company was insolvent. The prosecution offered no evidence on charges which alleged that Quek received rubber on credit and that the money was not paid
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    OPIUM CHARGE
    38 11 SINGAPORE. Nov, 23. When Ho Kit Swee pleaded not guilty to possessing three chis of opium at Duxton Road, Singapore, he was given bail of $200 in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday until Nov. 30.
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    Govt. Promise In Benham Report Debate
    436 12 From Our Special Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 23. r rHE Federation Government this morning pro1 mised “an exhaustive investigation” of the functions and structure of the public services. The aim is economy and improved efficiency. Nor will the Government wait for the results of
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    POPPY DAY FUND
    44 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. At the exhibition of water colour paintings at the Victoria Hall last week the artist. Mr. Yong Mun Sen of Penang, donated 20 per cent, of the takings to the Poppy Day Fund. Lady ■Hardine opened the show.
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    T.B. ‘WAR’ TO OPEN IN JOHORE
    187 12 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 22. WAR against tuberculosis in the Federation is to beein on Dec. 2. The base will be Johore Bahru and ihv campaign will be pushed northwards until the whole of the Federation has been covered. Government, co-operating
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    Army To Dig Out Shells
    153 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. rE Royal Army Ordnance Corps will begin a hazardous operation on Monday—the digging out and disposal of 15-inch live shells weighing a ton each from Chungi gunpitc. Just before the Colony was surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the gun barrels and
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    8 Die In Night of Terror in Kedah
    509 12 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Nov. 23. AFTER a nignt of terror during which murder and arson claimed at least eight lives, the Central Kedah village of Bukit Silemban is all quiet today. When I visited the scene this morning, I
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    S.H.B. Appointment
    29 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. I Mr. PAT. Chriines has been appointed to act as chairman of the Singapore Harbour Board following the retirement of Mr. H. B. Basten.
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    HOPES FOR AN AGREEMENT ON NEW DUTY
    382 12 O.A.G. on Rubber Talk* From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 23 rpHE Federation Government annoutned that it is still negotiating with the rubber industry on the increases in the rubber dut\. ;ls it has “conceded that the proposed mechanics .>♦ imposition require
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    $20,000 Road Safety Drive
    105 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. A BIG road saiety campaign for this year, publicity for which will cost over $20,000, is being launched by Singapore’s Saiety First Committee. Forty thousand coloured booklets in four languages and 4.000 posters are being printed, and Government has agreed to extra expenditure
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    MOVE FOR WHITLEY COUNCIL IN S’PORE
    145 12 MOVE FOR WHITLEY COUNCIL IN S’ PORE SINGAPORE. Nov. r rHE Singapore Govern- ment has invited three trade unions to talks on Monday on what may lead to tnp establishment of a Whitley Council machinery in the Government service. The unions invited are the Singapore Teachers’ Union, the Singapore Governm.m
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    Ex-Colonel Vanman Attacked
    103 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. Mr. Woo Sung Foo, aged a former Lieu ten an t-Ol onel of the Chinese Army 1 van driver, was assault*« Battery Road, Singapore. ye& ferday by a Chinese youth Woo, who is with M« Airways, had got out f parked vehicle when -J c.h
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    GOING TO U.K.
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    No Reason For Panic’ Says Labour Chief
    337 13 No Reason For Panic Says Labour Chief From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 24. LC-OTIA FIONS between the All-Malavan Rubber Workers’ Negotiating (ommiitee d the Malayan Planting Industries Lmplovers’ oeiation tor an increase in the wages of r bber estate workers broke down t )dav. i>oth parties, at their
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    Building Is Halted
    130 13 •SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. AN application for an iniunction restraining the Insurance Company o» r agents from carrying on ‘her construction operon their 18-storey r ina in Finlayson Green v.umorc. was made before Chief Justice. Sir Charley rray-Aynsley. in the Sinore Supreme Court on 'rsdav. ho application was
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    POSTED TO IPOH
    17 13 'MIORE RAHRU Fri.—Mr. S Huxley. Inspector of ninery. Johore has been ‘■ed to Ipoh.
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    Sea Captain Flies To Sick Wife
    112 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. 4 DUTCH sea captain left aA Singapore by KLM Constellation yesterday to get to the bedside of his wife who is seriously ill in Amsterdam The captain, Mr G H van der Roest. received a phone call from Holland informing him
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    NEW CORONER
    18 13 Mr Ebert, of the Straits Settlements Civil S.ivice. has been appointed i Carom r far Singapore.
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    COURT SITS TILL SEVEN AT NIGHT
    249 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. AS Maria Hertogh Adabi left tiie Singapore High Court last night after Mr Justice Brown had reserved his decision on her future, a waiting crowd of about 1.000 people broke through a police cordon and surged around her P'or seven minutes.
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    UNDERGRAD IS OUT AGAIN
    210 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. /CRITICISM ol “some expa iv triate members” of the University of Malaya stall “whose contact with local students has been minimal" was made by Mr. K. Kanaga ratnam. President of the Students' Union. In his presidential message to tn« Malayan Undergrad The Undergrad
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    RAILMAN SLIPS: KILLED BY TRAIN
    52 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 24. R. COPAL, aged 50. Indian shunter employed by the Malayan Railway, was killed by a shunting train at Kuala Lumpur Brickfields Road marshalling yard last night. Copal was coupling the wagons when he slipped and fell between
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    Suicide By Detainee
    46 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. SUICIDE verdict was recorded at a Singapore inquest yesterday on 23-year-old Lee Kim. a detainee at St John’s Island Lee. who was detained under the Emergency Regulations m May. was found with throat injuries. He died •i few days later.
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    UNMINED TIN ORE SURVEY IS PROMISED
    505 13 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LIJMPlJR, Nov. 23. PlIL Federal Legislative Council has requested Government to institute “a comprehensive survey of unniined tin ore in the count r v as soon as possible.” Although there wa s a show of hands. Government accepted Mr.
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    TOOK BRIBE CHARGE
    55 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25 ALLEGED to have accepted $2O from One Kee Chong, at Hindoo Road as a reward for forbearing to do an otflcial act, OnKenu Wee. an overseer of the Municipality and Building Architect’s Department. claimed trial in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. The case
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    Briggs says I’m not resigning
    179 14 Briggs says I’ m not resigning SINGAPORE, Nov. 26. A REPORT in a London newspaper that Lt.-Gen. Sir Harold Briggs, Director of Operations in Malaya, had ottered his resignation was officially denied yesterday by the Colonial Office and by Sir Harold himself. According to United Press Sir Harold said that
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    Blinded man gets priority for house
    153 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 26. rE Singapore Indian, Ramasamy. who was biinded by Chinese gunmen four years ago and sacrifices his sleep at night so that his wife and children can sleep in their overcrowded cubicle, has been registered as a priority applicant for Singapore Improvement
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    2 TAXIS FIRED
    215 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 26. (COMMUNISTS burned two Yellow-Top taxis and raised a false fire alarm in Singapore last night. They committed these outrages within 45 minutes. A Chinese youth engaged the first taxi at Stamford Road and directed it to Bolo Street, off Havelock Road at 6.20 p.m.
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    30 couples apply for unborn baby
    191 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 26. TV /TORE than thirty couples 11 in Singapore have signified their desire to adopt an (as yeti unborn European baby, in reply to an advertisement which appeared in the Straits Times last week The baby is due to be born any
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    4-Hr. Restriction At Night Planned
    237 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 27. A FOUR-HOUR load restriction on all indusx trial consumers of electrical »ower generated from the St. James’ power station may be imposed to cope with the increasing lighting load from new housing estates and homes in Singapore. The restriction, which is to
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    LOTTERY: FINED
    36 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. Tan Jee Guan, aged 67. who pleaded guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to assisting in a chap 11 ki lottery was fined $2OO, in default two months’ imprisonment
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    TEA KIOSKS FOR BUKIT TIMAH HILL
    136 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 27. BECAUSE more people are now visiting lUikit Timah forest reserve in Singapore, (;< )v ernment is to spend part of a vote of on improving and beautifying the reserve The work wih be carried out next year and u include the
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    Wreckers at tin mine
    51 14 SINGAPORE, Nov RANDITS did $60.0 of damage to a tin m nc m Perak last night. Security forces drove bandits. There were no casual ties. There was fighting between bandits and security forces m other parts of the State last night, but there were no known
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    SHOP PARTNERS FINED $2,000
    238 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. A TOTAL of 1,313 katis of sugar was ccrcis cated in the Singapore Second D strict Court yesterday when two business-partners cf a shop, Chop Seng Huat, in Beach Rosd, S'ngapore, were each fined SI,QCO or six months’ rigorous imprisonment for concealing the
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    A Mystery Bullet
    48 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 28. VAMOON bin Katar. a 50-year-old woodchopper was shot and wounded in the neck yesterday evening while chopping wood at Bukit Pan Jang. Kamoon, who was sent to hospital, told the Straits Times that he did not know where the bullet came from.
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    University 86% Poll Was ‘Poor’
    300 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 27. VfR. T. Visuvanathan, Returning Officer, described the University of Malaya elections held over the week-end as “poor” bceause most of the students had not used all their votes. He said that the 86 por cent, poll was not as good as in
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    LIVE SHELLS
    28 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 27. The Army will begin today to recover one-ton live shells buried in Changi gunpits since 1942. The task will last for several days.
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    5,000 theft from craft
    80 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 26 POODS and cash tot.i i w $5,000 and a cheque were stolen f three motor tongkane*a chored in Singapore Rl'ir Friday. rh n Three well dressed Chm were said to have dri in a car after msp< c the vessels. nnrt The Sze
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    JUST ONE OVER
    22 14 TAIPING. Fri.— For carr ing an extra passenger in h. taxi. Mat bin Taib was hr. $25 at Taiping.
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    PENANG GETS $1,600,000 FOR ST. GEORGE’S
    448 15 WOMAN DEFENDS OLD SCHOOL From Our Staff' Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 23. *THE clock was threatening midmgnl last night when IVnang Federal Conneillois gained victory in their defence of a $l,(il)0.tl(»() rebuild ing grant to St George’s School. One of the most spirited defenders
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    60 Teachers Meet Cox
    49 15 KOTA BHARU, Nov. 23. qixty teachers, reptueeiiiInc EngPsh, Maiay and Chinese schools, met Sit Christopher Cox. education adviser to the Secietary for the Colonies, in Kota Bahru today. They had informal discus sions on educational matters. The meeting ua.s soonsored w ihe Kelantan Teachers Union.
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    S.E. Asia Trip ‘Heartens’ American Aid Chief
    266 15 S.E. Asia Trip Heartens’ American Aid Chief SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. rHE situation in South-East Asia has improved, the Chief of un Economic Co-operation Administration, Mr William C Foster, told a Singapore Press conference y p sterday. Mr. Foster, who has toured Asian countries and is on his way back Washington,
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    Two Women Gaoled
    65 15 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. TWO women, Lee Moh, aged 63. and Yip Ah Hone sed 42. yesterday were sen *enced to one month’s impri 'onment in the Singapore fourth Police C'>urt for llvng on the earnings of pros•irutes. They w a r? also convicted 'f managing a brothel
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    FIVE FINED
    29 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. Five shopkeepers who pleaded guilty in the Siagaoore Third Police Court yesterday to failing to observe the Weekly Holidnvs Ordinance were fined $20 each.
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    SCHOOLS DIVIDED ON THREE-TERM PLAN
    155 15 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24. r piIE Singapore Education Department is studying the views of Chinese school authorities on the adoption of the three term system os in English schools. Although Chinese schools •n the Federation have do eided to have three terms om the begimvng of
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    FINE OF $150 ON WOMAN
    44 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. A woman. Wong Scow Heng. aged 40 was fined $1.> in the Singapore Third Polir Court yesterday for assisting in the management of a brothel at Sago Street. She pleaded nullty. Mr. C. tl. Koh defended.
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    HE SAID ‘NO’ TO AID OFFER
    111 15 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23. 4 N elderly Chinese who fell Into a 30-foot well near his house In Faya Lebar yesterday afternoon and refused assistance to get out. died on the way to hospital A fire engine ladder was lowered t<) the man but he
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    Sultan Aids Fire Victims
    77 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 27. 1UIL Sultan of Kedah Mas sent a cheque for $250 to the chairman of the Bukit ISelambau Fire Relief Comi mlttee following the burning of squatter huts by a number of Malays in retaliation for the murder of a Malay Auxtj Itarv
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    SEVEN FINED
    40 15 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23. Seven Chinese from Pulau Tekong Keeh 1 were each lined $5 when they pleaded eutlty in the Singapore First Disk let Court yesterday to tailing to notify the change of address in their identity cards.
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    Found Daughter Dead Near Home
    360 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. A MOTHER who called in a Chinese spiritual medium to help her find her missin* daughter found the girl herself later— strangled and lying in tall grass 100 yards from her home In lurong. Singapore. Yesterday, the Singapore Police offered a substantial
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    4 GIRLS FELL FROM LORRY
    82 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. Four Chinese girl.s sitting on wooden boxes in a lurry rolled oil tile vehicle as 't was turning round the trutllc i rid at Ernpr*.. j Place A car driven by Mr. M Abdul Kadir Marlcun which was following »iie lorry Immediately
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    CHILDREN AMONG THE RAIDERS
    596 16 COMMUNISTS RAID 4 SCHOOLS SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. ARMED Chinese Communists in Singapore last night held up four Chinese schools and robbed the pupils of 561 identity cards. They also fired an omnibus and raised a false Are alarm. All this was done within half an hour.
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    Students Behind Raids On Schools
    384 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 29. MEMBERS ot the Students’ Anti-British League are relieved to have been behind last Monday nignt s Communist raids on four Chinese schools in Singapore when 540 identity cards were taken from students and teachers. Mr. N.G. Morris, acting Deputy Commissioner, C.I.D, told
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    ON LEAVE
    26 16 SITIAWAN, Mon. Mr Khoo Tcow Chuan, Post Master, at Sitiawan, is on three weeks’ leave. Mr. S Suppiah, from Taiping, is acting for him.
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    YOUNGER STUDENTS FOR TRADE SCHOOL
    162 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 28. 'THE minimum age for 1 Joining the Junior Technical Trade) School in Singapore has now been lowered from 14 to 13 years to permit boys in the younger age group to learn a trade. Thiiteen year-oids can Join the Trade School from
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    Armed Convoy For Children
    145 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 29. AN armed motor convoy yesterday made sure that 60 children from Tanglin School. Cameron Highlands, got to their homes in various parts of Malaya safety The children. with their principal Miss A. L. GrifllthsJones. were on their way home for Christmas. They had
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    To Succeed Langdon
    72 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 29. QNE of the younger American diplomats who has been dealing with Asian affairs, Mr. John M. Allison has been appointed United States Consul-General in Sin gapore to succeed the present Consul-General, Mr. W. R. Langdon. Mr. Allison, who has been Director of the Office
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    CRUELTY, FINED
    31 16 SINGAPORE Nov. 25. For causing pain and to three ducks bv having their legs tied tocher. Chua Seng Chia was fined $2O in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday
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    ‘Military Law Needed’ To Fight Bandits
    342 16 The Association says that penalties for theft of rubber ire too lenient; there are far too many rubber dealers in the country; and rewards are inadequate and should be extended to the securityforces. Plante: s say that civil law has failed and military law
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    180 ON WAY TO NEW LIFE
    86 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 29. A SIXTH batch of 180 Cocos islanders have arrived in Singapore on their way to Tawau in North Borneo under a re-settlement scheme. They are being looked after by the Depaitment of Sociai Welfare at Bushey Park. Since Government started the
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    SPENT 39 YEARS IN FAR EAST
    125 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KU*T A LUMPUR. Nov. 28. A SHIP built under the su pervLsion of bis brother will take Mr. F. R Ormstcn, a former manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Kuala Lumpur, to England on retirement this weekend The snip.
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    Radio For Marine Police ‘Soon’
    186 16 Thirty-four speed launches have already been ordered and when these are put into action, smugglers will have “no easy time,” *he said. Mr. Jeans also said that the strength of the Marine force will be raised from 325 men to 485. Included in the 34
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    HAD OPIUM
    33 16 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Frl. Ur Hee Long, of Plcntong was the Sessions Court, bound ovj r for 15 months for being nossossion of chandu. chain dross and opium.
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    Council Agrees To Pay $6,000,000 In Back Salaries To Federal Govt Employees
    2253 17 THE BENHAM REPORT DEBATE 1 imiTT SK nnn mwi ;n K -j KI ALA LUMPUR, Nov. 23. y ***** ?>o,0()0,00U will be paid m hack salaries to members of the Government service in the Federation of Malaya. This
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    ENOUGH RICE NEXT YEAR
    143 17 SINGAPORE, Nov 24 f rHE world rice situation for next yeai does not give cause for undue concern. This was the conclusion of the two-day meeting of the new Consultative Committee on Rice which ended yesterday at Phoenix Park. A statement by the committee said that
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    S’PORE FISHERIES OFFICIAL
    112 17 S’ PORE FISHERIES OFFICIAL SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. p<X)R the first time, the Slnapore Government is to have a Deputy Director of Fisheries. A Government spokesman told the Straits Times: "It has been found that the fisheries problems of Singap ire are so vital and complicated that a senior official is
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    U.S. GENERAL IN COLONY
    94 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 24 Major-General Harry E. J Maloney, of the United States Maritime Committee, arrived in Singapore yesterday by Pan American Airways Clipper from Manila. Hr* was accompanied by Commander B. L. E. Taltnan. of the United States Navy. Gen Maloney told reporters that during his
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    PROSECUTOR ILL: POSTPONED
    56 17 SINGAPORE, Nov 24 When Yahaya bin Ismail appeared in the Singapore P’ir.st District Court yesterday on a charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Mr Chong Tnutt Pitt, president of the MCA Singapore branch, tin* Judge. Mr. H. E. Kingdom postponed hearing to Jan. lft and 16.
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    Bankrupt Will Stand In S’pore Elections
    406 18 NO SEAT FOR HIM EVEN IF HE WINS SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. MADE a bankrupt by court order on Friday, 11 Mr. M. A. Rahim Khan, an Independent candidate for Rochore Ward in the Singapore Municipal elections on Dec. 2, will continue to stand but,
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    PLEA FOR STABLE TIN PRICE
    168 18 from Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 27. 'THE widely fluctuating tin price was ample evidence of the need for machinery to ensure stability in the mining industry, said Mr. W. M Warren, chairman of the Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging Company at their ninth general
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    FIVE GAOLED
    36 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 28. Three Indians and two Boyanese were each sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment in the Singapore First District Court yesterday for being found at Tanglin Barracks, a protected place, without lawful permission.
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    GOLD CROWN FOR PILGRIM VIRGIN
    101 18 PENANG, Nov. 27. A GOLD CROWN is being made by a firm of Sinhalese goldsmiths in Penang for the Pilgrim Virgin Statue to commemorate her visit to Malaya. Thp crown, which will be of pure gold, will be the gift of Maj. A. S. Roman,
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    NEW CHAMBER PRESIDENT CHOSEN
    143 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 28. MR V. P. Kanagasundaram of Messrs. K Venkatachalam Bros., has been elected President of the Singapore South Indian Chamber of Commerce. Mr Kanagasundaram succeeds Mr. G. Sarangapany. who resigned Mr Sarangapany resigned because he disagreed with the rf 8t ot the Committee of
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    KNEELING Catholics with candles venerate the statue of Our Lady of Fatima at Bukit Mertajam, Province Wellesley, on Nov. 25.—
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    Planters ‘Up In Arms’ On Child Murder
    180 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 27. planters are “up in arms” over the murder by terrorists this week-end of Susan Thomson, 2}-y ear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R P. Thomson, of Elmina Estate, Sungei Buloh, near Kuala Lumpur, and intend
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    Stole Newspapers Allegation
    47 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 28. Charged with stealing 196 copies of the Straits Times last Friday from a shop in Upper Serangoon Road. Singapore, Vaithilingam claimed trial in the Singapore Fouth Police Court yesterday. The case was postponed until Jan. 24 Bail of $100 was fixed.
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    MOBILE STAFF TO FIGHT CHILD T.B.
    199 18 SINGAPORE Nov or S IN “*P° RE s School Medical service win next year have a bl»',4r and more mobile s t ,nwhich will worK from an up-to-date centre np Director of Medical s t r vices Dr. W. J Vickers told the Straits
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    13 WEEKEND CYCLE THEFTS
    58 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 28. A warning to all cyclists to "guard your bicycles" was issued by the Singapore C.I.D yesterday following the theft during the weekend of 13 unattended bicycles in the municipal area. A spokesman of the C.I.D said that for "some unaccountable reason” thefts of
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    Caught—A Binturong
    350 18 Caught —A Binturong ESTATE BUNGALOW Army friends they have caught a most peculiar animal. It was found on a jungle patrol and no one seems to know what It is. They said it was something like a musang but after investigation we are now almost certain it is a binturong
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    RICHMOND WINS BY SIX LENGTHS
    996 19 TACJ a By EPSOM JEEP j T f hm0 u d rst an d the rest nowhere in the $3,000 Singapore Stakes, a s j x ur 0 s handicap for Class 1, Div 1 horses at Bukit Timah yesterday, .econd da v ot the
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    Lim Wong Nyan Wins Speed Award
    636 19 SKILFUL DRIVING AT HILL CLIMB SINGAPORE, Nov. 27. SELANGOR’S Lim Wong Nyan, in a high-powered 3.917 c.c., 'Lim Automobile”, won the Singapore Motor Club’s half-mile hill climb event for racing cars of 1,500 and over at Bukit Batok yesterday in tho excellent time of
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    Charles lands fine double
    1006 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 26. OIDING at the top of his form. Jockey Herb v Charles landed a great double on Toboggan in the 9-f. Singapore Plate and Ondine m the Singapore Stakes at Bukit Timah yesterday, concluding dav of the Singapore Turf Club Winter Meeting. Four o’Ciock
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    GOOD TURN OVER; BRIGHT SPOTS IN TINS & INDUSTRIALS
    459 20 GOOD TURN OVER; BRIGHT SPOTS IN TINS INDUSTRIALS The Week In The Share Market From A Market Correspondent 4 GOOD turn-over was maintained on 'tie Singa- pore shaie market last week although with the xeeption of Industrials which were always steady, the general trend was to lower prices. This tendency
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    102 20 SINGAPORE. Nov. 29. business was reported in »he copra section of the Singapore produce market yesterday a p'ml. Olivers oprned at $45 u out sellers neld oil and later, when bid« we:c increased to $46 sellers quoted $47. Coconut oii was quiet and unchanged m price, with
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    Business Done
    313 20 BUSINESS done in the Malayan share market last week included Industrials —Fraser Ncave Olds $3 30 to $3.27to $3.;>). Gammon $2 40. Georgetown Dispensary $1.7G l i Malayan Brewerries $5 2.5 cd.. Robinson Ords. $2.50 Straits Steamship $10.50 S.ngap'’rc Traction Piets 23s 6d.. Straits Traders $15.25. Uniteer Ords.
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    The Week’s Dividends
    175 20 Dividend ‘announced durine las’ week were:— Do 1 e B°oks Payable Close A la* Ice Co. 8% less tax Dec. 14 4 14 D°c. Raffles Hotel 10% final 5*7 bonus 1 tax De~. 2n 14 20 Dec. S'pore Cold Storage 10% 7).% bonus less tax Dec. 1*1
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    1038 20 SINGAPORE. Nov. 28. IN'ilt'S i KIALs IJuvrrs sellers 41ei Bricks Pref ao i uu Ords I 97« 2 Ob Ml a Ice 11 WO i2 25 BB Petrol 39 3 40 3 B M Trustee 7 00 7 50 Con Tin Smi it Pref 21/ 2'2/K *n
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    Rubber Firm At Opening But Eases
    265 20 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. 'J'HE runber market opened firm at the beginning of this week on adverse news from Korea, but later raved on lack of support from America and re-selling bv Hong Kong in Singapore, says Lewis and Peat’s market report. issued yeste* day
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    RAUB GOLD MINING
    43 20 |}AUB Australian Gold Mini.in crushed and ounces ol tine eolo produced, in that order Four weeks to July 15. lit jo •4.205. 1.153 091 to Ane 12 4.I..4 1.210.359: to Sep- 3.824 1 240.142: to Oct. 7 3.89U. 1 327.7.4
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