The Straits Budget, 28 December 1950

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    32 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OfU A OEM TUB T] New Series No 230. Singapore Thursday, December 28, 1950 F’rice 40 rents (S.S. Currency) Or 1
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      DEATH’S DOOR ON THE FIVE-FOOT WAY
      225 2 DEATH’ S DOOR ON THE FIVE-FOOT WAY T'HIS is sent to you without comment. On Tuesday 1 morning a resident of Choon Guan Street, at 6 a.m., saw a man lying at the corner oi Peck Seah and Choon Guan Streets, on the five-foot way. On Wednesday afternoon at 3.30
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      VOLUNTEER AND REGULAR POLICE
      241 2 IT was gratifying to the Volunteers to read the compliments paid to them in vour leading article of Dec 23. As one of the first to join, when the scheme started in October 1946, I should like to stress how much the success is due to
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      THE OLD SIKH CONTINGENT
      89 2 Colony Police READ with much interest the letters in last Saturday’s Forum regarding the behaviour of the police during the recent riots. The Singapore Police Sikh Contingent in the days of Fairburn. Onraet and Hannigan was a fine body. Unfortunately. It deteriorated during the occupation, and
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      Round Of The Schools
      164 2 MY son used to attend the Royal English School. On Dec. 6 the principal gav’e all the boys their Christmas presents and the school was closed. Since then we parents nave been going the round of the schools in vain. In Tuesday’s Straits Times 1 was
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      Protection Of The Informer
      371 2 THIS evening, for the second time in a tow months, I have heard shots which have endeo the life of a police informer. I reflect that the oandits have scored an important success, and that the local security situation has been worsened as a result of
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      FOUR CENTS FOR THE PAPER
      79 2 U/HEN I went recently to get my rationed sugar I was told that the price was 34 cents a kati. But I was charged 55 cents for l*/ 2 katis instead of 51 cents. When I asked the reason. I was told that the four
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      THE FIRE-RAISERS
      69 2 IF the burning of S.T.C buses and vellow-top taxis is not checked, t.ie culprits may try the Governor’s and high officials’ cars next. “Arms of the Law should stationed day and night at important corners i/n the city: Bras Basah and North Bridge Roads. Arab Street and North
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      THE POLICE FORCE IN THE EMERGENCY
      566 2 I HE Federation Government no douot finds tl corruption in the police force is having a dot mental effect on the prosecution of the emerKencv This is a result of the preoccupation of all too many members of the force with increasing their incomes
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      LAMENT OF A PENANG CHAIN SMOKER
      251 2 AS an incorrigible chain I was interested in reading »uur recent Penang report rhar there are ‘’ample stocks of cigarettes in Penang". That. was. ol course fn. the distributors' point ot view but I am more inclined agre** with what your Staff Correspondent implied
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      THE FEMALE APE
      51 2 A TALK on Our A World.” produced bv j B B C. and relayed ovei Malaya on Thursday tioned that female ap< i.ot go out to look because they are a ther pregnant or tend* young ft seems we .o ditTerenr from our nn>: KIIOO ENT. teo
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      Questions From A Chinese
      254 3 A FTER the tragic events of the past few days I should like to know the answers to the following questions: Why have the police shown such weakness in dealing with, the rioters Did they receive orders from aboie not to hurt the hooligans Why were
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      LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP
      207 3 VOUR editorials during the L riots have had the support of all law-abiding citizens in this tow Ti. A great international seaport like Singapore cannot afford supreme weakness in its Government; that similar incidents have been rare in the past appears now to be due to a
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      A BOYANESE GIRL, SINGAPORE
      9 3 Photograph by C A Gibstm-llill
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      TRAVELLING IN BORNEO
      299 3 WISH to bring to your 1 notice the peculiar immigration regulations that are enforced for persons travelling between the Colony ol Sarawak and the State >1 Brunei. These two are British territories. the former a Crown Colony and the latter a Protectorate. Thus their relationship to each
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      TRACING THE WEAKNESS
      262 3 yoUR leaders of Dec. 12 and 13 express in some measures the disgust and dissatisfaction of all communities with the handling by fhe authorities of the recent disturbances. May I suggest that you have placed insufficient emphasis on the ultimate responsibility for the weakness displayed? While there
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      A.A. POINTSMEN IN CASE OF NEED?
      50 3 \LLOW me to suggest to those responsible for the running of our Automobile Association that they might train a few of their service personnoJ to act a.s pointsmen, in case another occasion arises when the regular police are busy dispersing rioters. K C Smgapore.
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      OUR KANGAROOS
      53 3 VOUR Ipoh correspondent states that the Perak Girl Guide who visited Australia brought hack two kangaroos, the only two living in Malaya. There is one in the Johore Bahru Zoo. At least a young kangaroo was there when I visited the zoo about a year back V K
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      Kandang Kerbau Market
      387 3 ‘Y 1 I VITAS”, writing on the Kandang Kerbau Municipal market last Thursday, referred to a subject very much in my mind It was one of the items J had Intended to take up if I had been elected a Commissioner for the Rochoro Ward. Having lost
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      WELFARE AND JUSTICE
      153 3 ON Dec. 19 you reported that the Singapore Govern merit had under consideration the question ol compensation lor injuries to persons, and damage to property, arising lrom the riots. In the same breath you confirmed that Mr. W. S Woon was sitting with open money bags waiting
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      Arming For Peace
      801 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 21 One good which has befallen from the Korean crisis is the urgency it has imparted to the creation of a sufficient force for the defence of the Atlantic countries. The connection is clear, the need imperative. There is no abandonment of the principle
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      Unhappy Comment
      246 4 Straits Times. Dec 21 Thoughtless comment on Malayan affairs is not altogether rare in the British press, but usually it. is not worth Malayan attention. When the Manchester Guardian slips, however, it is time to take notice. The Guardian’s reputation is too high for error to x.‘ allowed
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      War In All But Name
      843 4 Straits Times. Dec. 21 The emergency is “w ar in all but name,” the High Commissioner said at the Press conference at which he announced newr measures to combat militant Communism. It has been said before, but unfortunately repetition does not make it true. It
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      Riot Enquiry
      243 4 —Straits Times. Dec 21 Writing on the appointment of a commission to enquire into the Singapore riots, a correspondent expresses both irritation and dismay that its composition should now be tl subject of consultation betwei the Governor and the Secret ary of State. Should any ofh cial in
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      Volunteer Specials
      761 4 -Straits Times, Dec. 23 Singapore has good reason to be proud of the splendid work done by the Volunteer Special Constabulary during last week’s riots—and since tht i Ninety per cent, of the fo\ e< about 500 available for »n «:nergency are still on act in’.* It has
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      Choice For China
      242 5 -Straits Times. Dec. 23. Mr. Trygve Lie is not a tempestuous optimist. He has never shirked the tnuth. He says now that he has “great confidence” in the cease-fire commission of three which has tried to make Peking see reason, and which is now awaiting the final
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      Time Of Good Will
      616 5 Straits Times Dec. 25 “I have often thought”, said Sir Roger do Coverley, “it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of winter.” It is a thought which cuts little ice, as they sav. in a clime where wintei is onlv a
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      Hungnam And After
      998 5 Straits Times Dec. 27 While evacuations are not victories, the depressing situation which United Nations forces in Korea are facing at least is lightened to some extent by the success of the Hungnam operation. Two weeks ago the bulk of the U.S. 10th Corps, and the two
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    IN JUNE 1942
    128 5 A LETTER Irom A Straits Chinese” in the Saturday Forum .stated that in June 1942 .seven Malay youths were beheaded by the Japs on the ground that “they dared to try and prevent the soldiers of Tenno Hetka’ from molesting their womenfolk." TliLs statement Is wholly inaccurate.
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    SILENT RIFLE, LIGHT RADIO KIT TESTED
    365 6 Research Team In Jangle SINGAPORE, Dee. 21. IMPROVEMENTS suggested by an Army Scientific I Research team including the use of silent rifle and tighter wireless equipment have alieady been put into effect in the anti-bandit campaign in Malaya. Lt.-Col. J. R. Shirley, of the
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    GREETINGS TO TROOPS
    127 6 SINGAPORE, Dec. 27. The Commander-in-Chief Par East Land Forces, General Sir John Harding has received the following message from the Minister of Defence. Mr. Emanuel Shin well; “I wish all members of His Majesty’s Forces to know that wherever they are serving we at home have them
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    ARRESTED
    29 6 SINGAPORE. Dec. 27. A young European alleged to have had a revolver in his P n, w» < nsslon was yesterday arok/*" 1 a bar ln Dhoby Ohaut, Singapore
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    S’pore Nadra Appeal Body Is Set Up
    141 6 S pore Nadra Appeal Body Is Set Up SINGAPORE. De*. 27. THE Singapore Muslim League has formed a subcommittee. the Nadra Appeal Committee, to handle the appeal for return of the 13-year-old Dutch girl, Maria (Nadra) Hertogh. This decision was made at a meeting of the working committee of the
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    SOLDIERS WERE ONE BIG,HAPPY FAMILY
    269 6 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. OETWEEN moathfulls of turkey Pte P. Hughes, of the Green Howards, explained, “Christmas Is a time when the family gets together for dinner and good cheer and I'm glad to be with the 800-odd other members of my family’ this Christmas.” This
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    ANOTHER TAXI FIRED IN SINGAPORE
    426 6 SINGAPORE. Dec. 27. T*HREE young Chinese, one armed with a revolver A robbed a Yellow Top taxi driver of So and set fW to the car at Mosque Street, off South Bridge Road Singapore, yesterday afternoon. This brings to 19 the total number of General
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    OLD-FASHIONED GIRL BY THE SEA
    631 6 From An Estate Bungalow ROOKIE’S wife 1 s an old fashioned girl. She was brought up very strictly and has definite ideas about what is right and proper for her to do. For instance, nothing would persuade her to go to a town alone shopping
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      BIRTH
      49 6 FOY. At BAIJI. 18 December, to Eileen, wife of Capt. E. Foy RAOC, a daughter. Jane Susan MEYER/ MIFFLIN Kenr.eih Edward, only son of Mr. and Mrs |R. V. Meyer, of Singapore, and Constanc e Margaret. younger daugh’er of Mr. and Mrs. W C. Mllllln, Perth. W. Australia
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      ANNOUNCEMENT
      196 6 THE TANG LIN CLUB: Owing to the interference of the Club> Activities for the past week tbt Dookmg list for the New Years Eve Party has been re-opened I Members wishing to book shouic applv fo the Secretary. HANSON: On 30th December 1050. at 6.05 p.m., at 126, Sophiu
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      BIRTHS
      23 6 STRATHAIRN A* MaLiCca 17 th December. 1950. to Judy to Lim Soo Boev, wife of P. S Naidu. a daugh'er. Indra Devi
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      ENGAGEMENT
      92 6 HOOTON-PICKERINO: Th< engagement is announced between James William Hooton. eldest sor of Mr. <fc Mrs. F. J Hooton of Wisbech. Cambridgeshire, ana Patricia Wilcox, second daughter of Mr. Mrs. J. G. Pickering of Derby. MARRIED at Tana Rata on 14.12.’50, Jeas Hindhede oi Cameron Highlands to Mrs Rigmor Muller
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      IN MEMORIAM
      100 6 BLOWERS. FREDERICK. JOHN In very dear, very happy memo of Freddie, on this the first an niversary of our wedding day a: always—Elizabeth. CLEASBY. 21 Dec. at 3.M.H Singapore. To Francos, wife Major R. Cleasby. M.B E R.A.S.C., a daughter. ANDERSON. On Dec. 22. 19W. at the BMH
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    ‘SCRAP NEW PASSPORT RULES’ CHINESE PLEA TO GOVERNOR
    556 7 ‘Vexing, Harassing And Oppressive' SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. hundred and seventy-nine Chinese public bodies, headed by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, have sent a petition to the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, praying for the revoking of the new Passport (Amendment) Regulations, which
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    Income Tax Offences: 9 Prosecuted
    221 7 SINGAPORE Dec. 23. MINE persons yesterday appeared before the Singapore Second Police Court Magistrate, Mr. S. E. Teh, when the Income Tax Department conducted their third patch of prosecutions for failing to complete income tax returns. Seven pleaded guilty and were fined a total of
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    Application For Bail Refused
    61 7 SINGAPORE Dec. 23. A N application for bail 1 pending appeal, made by Suppiah Sivakadadcham. a Tamil, who was sentenced at the last Assizes to two years’ imprisonment for causing grievous hurt, was refused by Mr. Justice Evans yesterday. Suppiah had been found guilty of causing
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    B.O.R. ACQUITTED
    33 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 24 William Patrick White a British soldier, who was charged with house breaking was acquitted bv Inche Anuar. the Kuala Lumpur Second Magistrate. when the charge was withdrawn
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    Statement Soon On ‘BigScheme’ For S’pore A.R.P.
    248 7 Statement Soon On BigScheme’ For S’pore A.R.P. SINGAPORE, Dev. 23. THE final touches are now being: put to the 1 Singapore Government’s Air Raid Precautions plan. Official sources describe it as “a big scheme”. A statement will be issued soon giving the organisation and the different categories of workers needed.
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    TAX UNPAID: $35
    43 7 SEGAMAT. Dec. 22 For failing to pay the current road tax on his lorry trailer. 47-year-old Wong Seng was fined $35 at Sogamat. He was admonished and discharged on i second charge of using a defective trailer on the road
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    TRANSFER
    38 7 PENANG. Dec. 22 Mr. D M. Suppiah. probation oflicer attached to the Penang Welfare Department, is going on transfer to Ipoh on Jan. 1. His place here will be taken by Mr. Cheong Weng Choong. from Keluntan.
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    EX-COURT MAN WINS APPEAL
    179 7 I rom Our SiafT Correspondent IPOH, Dec. 22. RAYING that though he ugreed with some of the grounds of Judgment, he felt that the trial judge had not directed himself to the essential ingredients of the case. Mr Justice Thomson today quashed the sentence on Harban
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    Prison For Johore Clerk
    121 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 23 OENG Boon Kwee, clerk. Majedee Detention Camp. Johore Bahru pleaded guilty to criminal breach of trust in respect of $2,300 and was sentenced In the Police Court today to one year’s imprisonment. His duty in the Camp where he had been employed
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    Court Returns $220,000 Gold
    254 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. KWOK Tai Seng, awaiting trial on bail for having allegedly imported 1,000 taels of gold (valued at about $220,000) without a special licence to do so, was discharged yesterday by Mr. Justice Evans at a vacation session of the High Court and had
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    MANPOWER DIRECTOR GIVEN ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY
    342 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 21. L\MKRGENUY Regulations, published in the J Federation Government Gazette today, give the Director of Manpower complete and absolute authority in the direction of manpower in the Federation. “No decision or direction of the Director of Manpower shall
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    THE ENTERTAINMENTS Committee with some of the children at a Christmas party in the No 1. Sergeants’ Mess. R.A.F. Maintenance Base, Seletar.
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    GOVT MEN ‘NOT BEING SCREENED’
    142 8 GOVT MEN NOT BEING SCREENED’ SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. JTNQUIRIES are being made by the Singapore Government departments asking for information on whether they kept open on the Tuesday and Wednesday following the riots. numbers attending office and those injured. But a Government spokesman denied emphatically the suggestion made by a
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    HIRED CYCLE, DID NOT RETURN IT
    47 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. A 20-year-old Indian, Keruppiah Perumal, who hired a bicycle from a shop and failed to return it, was sentenced in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday’ to six months’ imprisonment. He pleaded guilty to criminal breach of trust.
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    2,000 MUSLIMS IN K.L. PARADE
    111 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 21. jUf ORE than 2,000 Muslims, shouting “Allah is great, long live Islam” marched in procession through the streets of Kuala Lumpur today to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. Muslims of all races and representing various
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    Customs Transfer
    34 8 I rom Our Ow n Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 20. Mr. J. L. Arnold. Senior Cusin lhc Preven- ra ch Johore Bahru. lo Kuala I.umpur on Httn.sler ()n d oc 2 7
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    NO SPECIAL CARDS FOR COUNCILLORS
    67 8 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Dec. 21. GOVERNMENT is not contemplating issuing special identity cards to members of Negri Sembilan Executive Council and the Council of State, Inche Zainal Abidin, Malay Unofficial, was told at yesterday’s budget meeting. Zainal Abidin, who had made the request
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    50 Per Cent On Active Duty Are Chinese
    556 8 SINGAPORE, Dei. 22. are pouring in for the Singapore Volunteer Special Constabulary. The Commandant, Mr. I M. Mason, told the Straits Times yesterday that this week there have been 30 applications a day from good types of men of all races. "They
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    STOLE GIN, WHISKY
    59 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. Lam Poh Khoon. aged 20, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court vesterday to stealing two bottles of whisky, a bottle of gin. 10 tins of cigarettes and tinned provisions, from Capt. R C. Milland, at Empress Place, Singapore. Bail of $250 in
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    SCHOOL MEDICINE
    21 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. Singapore travelling dispensaries treated 592 school children during November, against 585 in the previous month by
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    Planter Hits At Critics
    345 8 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUK. Dec. T'HE Planter, organ o; 1 the Incorporated So cietv of Planters, hits il its current issue at critics within the society who say that a stronger lintof action should have been taken with employers at a recent meeting with
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    Boat Owner Cleared Of Blast Blame
    154 8 SINGAPORE. Dec 2:: TAN Cheng Guan, owner ant. chinchew of a motor boat, Tong Heng, which b. up in Singapore River (>1 Sept. 8. was acquitted in n Singapore Second Court yesterday of abet'urn the loading of a clangeroi cargo of 20 drums of
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    ‘Join Police’ Appeal To Chinese
    150 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce will watch with close interest tinal plans for the formation of a Volunteer Special Constabulary Emergency Squad, a Chamber spokesman said yesterday No definite step, however, will be taken until the General Committee of the Chamber
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    2 MORE DENTISTS
    36 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. Tuo students, Messrs. Koh Eng Yam and Lim Kung Peng, passed their final professional examinations for the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery at the University of Malaya this week
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    MORE ON TRAVEL
    35 9 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 21. The $6,700 provided this year for Johore Council of State members’ travelling expenses was not enough and provision for $3,000 more has been made
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    New USIS Chief
    81 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. MR. Elmer Newton, chief of the Far Eastern Service of the Voice of America, has been appointed to succeed Mr W Henry Lawrence as Director of United States Information Service. Malaya. Mr Newton who is due in Singapore next month, was educated at Harvard
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    C.G’s Advice To Youth Of Malaya
    164 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. THE Commissioner-Gen-eral. Mr Malcolm MacDonald. in his radio broadcast last night, had a word of advice for the uouth of Malaga, warning them not to allow the Communists to ticist and warp their healthy characteristic of “divine discontent into violent forms.
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    Unknown Woman Lays A Bouquet For SVC Men
    426 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 22. A SIMPLE bouuuet of gladioli was laid by an unknown Chinese woman beside the ollicial wreaths of poppies, after the Memorial plaque to the members of the Singapore Volunteers Corps, who gave their lives in World War 11, had
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    FINED $10
    24 9 SEGA MAT. Thurs.—Liew Chak. a learner driver, was fined $lO at Segamat for failing to display the letter ‘L’ on his vehicle.
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    ‘PLUM BLOSSOM’ FLIES TO U.S.
    193 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. LITTLE White Plum Blossom." 15-year-old Patsy Li, left Kallang yesterday by Clipper for L')s Angeles to take up a scholarship gained for her by Father Frederick Gehring. Director of the Vincentian Mission in America. it was Father Gehrino who named her "Little
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    FURTHER TERM
    30 9 Mr. H. J. C Kulasingha and Mr. Ahmad Ibrahim have* been renominated to serve as members of tho Singapore Rural Board for a further term of three years
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    2 CYCLED FROM K.L. TO COLONY
    165 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. TWO Rover Scouts, D. G Piyasena md Kwong Kim Kong, have Just cycleq 250 miles -from Kuala Lumpur- to Singapore as part of their* Rammers’ Journey Test. They will have to complete another IliO miles before they qualify They hope to
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    He Stole Inspector’s Medals
    153 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. I EE Lai Hong, aged 20. was j yesterday sentenced to a month’s imprisonment in the Singapore Fourth Police Court after pleading guilty t.o stealing two boxing medals a King’s Police Medal and a silver cigarette case belonging t.o Chief Inspector Frank Pest
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    46 CASES OF T.B.
    48 9 SINGAPORE. Ihe 22 Forty .six cases <d tuberoilofils were »r»»*rl to the Singanore Health Department ci urint* November compared with 71 rases in the previous mont h Th*T»- w'-r*' run*' rases or f) din tnd sev-n ’ases of 1*’ privy r*p< r*erj n November
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    PLANS PASSED FOR HOTEL
    312 9 ONLY 10 HAD OBJECTIONS SINGAPORE, Dec. 22. PRELIMINARY plans for building a multi storey 1 hotel at the 6£ mile, Pasir Panjang Road, were approved in principle by the Singapore Rural Board at its monthly meeting yesterday. nni. l.., i n n r N I The
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    TAIPING FUNERAL
    52 9 I mm Our Own Correspondent TAI PING, Thurs Th. luneral took place in Taiping of Toil Pu.in Habsah, aged (H). mother of I)ato Sri Adika Raja. Territorial Chief of Upper Perak, who died at the home of her son-in-law. Inche Ahmad bin Hajl Kassim. president of Talping branch
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    Total Since Start Of Emergency Is Now 1,555
    297 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dee. 20. AN average of more than two bandits a day 4 were killed last month, when 68 known bandit deaths were reported. This brings the total of dead bandits since the Emergency started and up
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    YOUTH THROWS ACID AT TEACHER
    230 10 SINGAPORE Dec. 21. A 45-year old teacher at Seng Hwa School in Seah Street, Singapore. Mr. Lim Hwee Par, had acid thrown on his face last night while he was taking a class on the first floor of the school. Mr. Lim, who is the
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    Killed In Jeep Accident
    68 10 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. A finding of death by misadventure was returned yesterday by the Singapore Assistant Coroner. Mr. E. Ebert, when an inquiry was held into the death of 20-year-old Leslie Short, a signalman of Singapore District. Short was killed on Dec. 4 when a jeep
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    APPOINTED
    34 10 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. Mr. I. G. Salmond has been appointed a member of the War Damage Commission in place of Mr. F. J. Kemlo, who has resigned, it was announced in Singapore yesterday.
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    ON LEAVE
    30 10 TAIPING. Wed.—Mr. D. W. Bigley, Senior Customs Officer. for North Perak has left Taiping for home leave with his wife and children. He is succeeded by Mr. McCall
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    Over 200 Police At Cremation
    258 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 21. INSPECTOR Alfred Ratnasingam, who died on Tuesday from injuries received during the riots, was cremated with full police honours at the Hindu Cemetery in Cpper Aljunied Road, Singapore, yes- I terday. The Governor of Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson. yesterday sent a message
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    Rotarian Prince In Singapore
    98 10 SINGAPORE Dec. 21. PRINCE Dhani Nivad of Siam, visiting Rotary District Governor. and his daughter will be entertained to lunch at 1 p.m. today at Princes Restaurant by the Singapore Inner Wheel Prince Dhani arrived in Singapore with his daughter from the Federation yesterday morning During
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    AUSTRALIANS WED IN S’PORE
    180 10 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. r pilh wedding took place at the Singapore Presbyterian Church yesterday of Miss Ann Margaret Miller, of the A i'-' ralian Commissioner’s ,i! ‘‘IV an(1 Mr Keith Linden secretary or the Sinuap,r Glass Manufacturers. Limited The Rev R M Greer officiated The bride
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    BROTHEL CHARGE FAILS
    108 10 SINGAPORE. Dec 21 A YOUNG Chinese, Bobto> Yap. was yesterday ac quitted by the Singapore Second District Court Judge Mr Tan Ah Tail without having his defence called on a charge of allowing premises to be run as a brothel It was alleged that Yap. a.> the
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    SAKAI WOMAN GAOLED
    85 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Dec 20 Two Sakai women were convicted by the Sessions Court Segamat. on a charge of con sorting with armed persons The women. Saidah bmte Pau and her daughter Sola mah binte Mat Nisah. were found in a jungle clearing near Segamat by Security Forces.
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    16 Families Fly Here
    76 10 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. SIXTEEN families, including 27 children, of members of ihe Forces serving in Malaya. arrived in Singapore yesterday by BO AC Argonaut from Britain in time to celebrate Christmas with their husbands and fathers. This was the second batch of Services families to b'e
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    Legal Service
    27 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 20. Mr. C. H. Whitton of the Colonial Legal Service has been gazetted as a Principal Assistant Secretary in the Federal Secretariat
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    VOLUNTEER MEN HELD OFF MOB
    157 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 21. THE Singapore Volunteer Special Constabulary put in 11,557 man hours on duty during the recen Singapore riots. At a Rotary luncheon m« < t ing yesterday, the Command ant of the V.S.C. Mr. J. M Mason said that attendant of volunteers during
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    VAN DRIVER FINED
    29 10 JOHORE BAHRU pc Lim Soo Choon. a 5". van driver, was fined the Police Court today j'l charge of negligent o: on the Ayer Hitivm tv’
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    VANITY DOWNFALL OF CRIMINALS
    87 11 IPOH, Dec. 20. N ,NE times out of 10, vanity has proved the undoing of even the cleverest criminals, said Mr. Justice Thomson in a talk on “Crime and Punishment” to the Ipoh Rotary Club today. “The average criminal.” he added “is not insane in the
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    500 Pensioners ‘ln The Money’
    137 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 21. 4 BOI T 500 Government pensioners were at the Singapore Treasury yesterday morning to draw increased allowances and pension adjustments for 26 months, which had been promised them two months ago by the Singapore Legislative Council. Payments wifll continue to be made
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    WEARNE’S MADE $1.82 MIL.
    189 11 WEARNE’ S MADE $1.82 MIL. WEARNE Brothers Limited, made a net profit of $1,826,285 for the year ended Sept. 30, 1950, states the annual statement of accounts which will be presented at the general meeting on Wednesday. The directors recommend a tinal dividend of fiv e per cent and a
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    NEW BANK BRANCH
    43 11 Mr. J P Sen Gupta. regional manager of the United Commercial Bank of India, has arrived in Singapore to establish a branch here To meet Mr. Gupta, a coek- ail party will be given today by Messrs. Lekhral and Sons
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    NINE FINED
    28 11 Nine shopkepers who plead ft guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court t< fr ”ng observe the Weekly Holidays Ordinance were vy *r!iv fined $?0 each.
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    $3,000 BAIL FOR TOBACCO
    66 11 SINGAPORE Dec. 21. Ang Cheng Tloh. aged 45. pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to a charge of importing 147 lb. of dutiable Chinese tobacco in a koleh off Quarantine Anchorage on Tuesday. Ang was alternatively charged with possession of the tobacco. The
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    Penang Needs 9,000 More Houses To End Overcrowding
    439 11 POPULATION BEATING HOMES From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Dec. 20. pLNANG needs 9,000 more houses to end overcrowding, taking a family unit of seven to one hous*\ said the Municipal" President, Mr. H. G. Hammett, at today’s meeting of the Penang Commissioners.
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    Out fishing, didn’t know he won scholarship
    249 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21 A STUDENT of mathematics at the University of Malaya. Mr. Wee Sip C'hee (25). has been awarded a Queen’s Scholarship which will enable him to study for the next three years at Cambridge. When news of Mr. Wee’s scholarship success
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    N.S. Village War Bodies Set Up
    250 11 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. I>ec. 20 ON the advice of the Director of Operations, through the Federal War Committee, the Negri Sembilan State War Executive Committee was set up, with the acting Mentri Besar as chairman and had met regularly, the Yang di-Pertuan
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    SECOND OFFENCE $500 FINE
    49 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21 Wong Kheng Toh, keeper of Nam Kwong Hotel at Joo Chiat Terrace, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to a charge of failing to enter the particulars of two lodgers. Wong who admitted a previous conviction, was fined $5OO.
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    S.P.C.A. PRESIDENT
    47 11 SINGAPORE. Dec 21 Mrs R S. Clemons is presi dent of the Singapore Animal Envers’ League and not ol the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, as stated in last, Saturday’s Straits Turns President of the S.P C.A. is Mr F B Oehlers
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    Adult Education Council
    233 11 SINGAPORE Dec. 21 I 4 COUNCIL tor Adult I Education was formed in Singapore yesterday at a meeting ot delegates from nine associations Professor F. Mason, Professor of Education, University of Malaya, was elected the first president. The meeting was held In the Y.M.C.A., with Mr. Row
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    New S’pore District Judge
    89 11 New S pore District Judge SINGAPORE Dec 21 MR K H I) Net to. who ha :>»•■! )e j a 1 1 y Rey l rat of toe Supreme Court h; he»u unpointed in r.rict J’ld'u Singapore t t wi!' nine dutt*' after j t tie court var.i? ion etuis
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    JUDGE WILL HEAD WAGE DISPUTE BOARD
    315 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 22. 4 SUPREME Court Judge will be chairman of the Arbitration Board to be set up b.v the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, to settle the wage dispute between the Malayan Planting Industries Empoyers’ /Association and the
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    BAIL FOR 3 ON $12,000 CHARGES
    271 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 22. OVERRULING a prosecution objection, the president of the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court. Mr. D. M. K. Grant, today allowed bail to C. R. Clement. a European electrical engineer charged with theft of $12,000 worth of copper
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    Helped To Run Lottery
    73 13 SINGAPORE Dec. 23. Tan Kuay, a collector, was vcsterday sentenced to three months’ imprisonment by Mr. P. Clague. the Singapore Fourth Police magistrate, after pleading guilty to assisting in the management of a chap ji ki lottery in Townsend Road. Inspector Low Hong Hee, prosecuting, said
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    THREE FINED
    36 13 SINGAPORE Dec. 23. Loo Seng, Tay Ah Khiang, nd Ang Ah Woh, who pleadi guiltv in the Singapore ourth Police Court yester•>v to keeping a dog withut a licence were fined $5 ClCl i
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    SHORT HOLIDAY
    21 13 TAIPING. Fri. Mr Chung Ah Kee. Taiping landowner and sportsman, has left for Hong Kong on a short holiday
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    12 PASSENGERS TOLD TO GET OUT Masked Boys Set Bus On Fire
    209 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 22. LMVE Chinese boys -two masked and armed with revolvers —set fire to a Singapore Traction Company omnibus last night at the junction of Cross Street and South Bridge Road, five minutes after it had left
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    Green Network To Fight Reds
    233 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 11. AN entire new network devoted to Chinese programmes and a special $350,000 Malay community listening scheme were announced today in a new Radio Malaya programme schedule lor the first three months of 1951. This is the first
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    $200 BAIL
    38 13 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri—Lee Sang, 65. was charged at Johore Bahru with being found in fraudulent possession of 12 katis of rubber on Fraser Estate. Kulai. Le denied the charge and was allowed $2OO bail pending trial
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    Police Officer Shot In S’gor
    215 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 22. TWO members of the police force —a European Lieutenant and a special constable —were killed this afternoon when attacked by bandits in the Kuala Kubu area of Selangor. A special constable sergeant was seriously wounded and two
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    Pawned Customers’ Trousers
    78 13 SINGAPORE Dee i.'l KWONG l ong Yip aged 31 a laundry nan in I nning Tai Seng. Singapore yesterday was lined $150 nr one month's imprisonment in the Singapore Fourth Poliee Court after pleading guilty to eriminal breach of trust of two pairs of trousers worth $15
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    STEPS TO BEAT FIREBUGS
    93 13 SINGAPORE Dec. 2.1 STEPS which cannot be revealed for .security reasons are now under consideration for the combating of arson attempts on Singapore Traction Company buses In the past six months. 17 buses have been damaged or destroyed by arson, including three damaged during the recent
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    RIOT VICTIM TO FLY FOR U.K. CURE
    71 13 SIN(; \POKK Dec. 2:1 'yjK- H. M. McCiladdery. a surgeon at the Johore Itahru General Hospital and a victim of tin* recent rioting, will he flown to Bri tain for specialist treatment for head injuries Mr. Mcffladdery succeeded Mr. Vine who retired a
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    PIPES CHARGE WITHDRAWN
    87 13 SIN(JAPORK, Dec 22 A woman, Koh Ah Wet*, aged 27. and Tan Luck Tow*, aged 4i» yesterday were ar quitted in the Singapore Third Police Court of dishonestly receiving three lengths of water pipes, worth $1,800, belonging to the military Inspector M Ft Balakrishnan said that he
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    S’PORE MAY BAN EXPORTS TO RED CHINA
    373 14 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 24. embargo on exports to Communist China is being considered by the Singapore Government, Mr. A. D. Stutchbury, First Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, told a Press conference yesterday. Asked if the Federation Government was also
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    ANOTHER S’PORE BUS ARSON
    156 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 24. ABUS belonging to Tay Koh Yat Company while on its way from Beach Road to the Naval Base, was stopped at Rochore Canal Road, about 100 yarcte from its junction with Bencoolen Street, by three young Chinese and set on fire last night.
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    S’pore To Hold Show On Housing
    112 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. 4 HOUSING exhibition—“A Study of the Homes of Singapore”—will be held at •he Victoria Memorial Hall :rom Jan. 6 to Jan. 15 in connection with the visits of Sir George Pepler and of the United Nations Commission on Housing. Drawings, plans.
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    CASE WITHDRAWN
    41 14 KAJANG, Dec. 24.—The prosecution withdrew the charge against B. P. Everett, an Ipoh motorist, at the Kajang Circuit Magistrate’s Court before Mr. A. P. Jack^ Everett was alleged to have unven his car inconsiderately at Semenyih Road. 17 miles
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    RUSH TO APPLY
    24 14 SBUAMAT. Dec. 24.-There nas been a big rush, within De .ast fortnight at Begamat, for Federal citizen,,r. Chm°«- of ,hp appllcanls
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    He had chandu: 3 months’ gaol
    77 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 24 Liew Wan Sing, was sentenced to three months im prisonment by Mr. Tan Ah Tah. the Singapore Second District judge yesterday, for possessing 45 leaf packets of ehandu. 15 sticks of re-pre-pared ehandu dross and four tins of ehandu dross at
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    NO PERMIT
    28 14 TELUK ANSON. Dec. 24. Because he possessed a plsau belati (knife) without a permit. Naseh bin Kilan, was find $2O in the Teluk Anson Magistrate’s Court.
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    NEW REGISTRAR
    20 14 TAIPING, Dec. 23.—Dato Shahbandar (Inche Ibrahim bin Karim) has assumed duty in Taiping as Registrar of Titles Perak.
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    First To Go In The Call-Up
    167 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 23. DACHELORS in the Federation between 17 and 23 will be the first batch to be called up under the new direction of manpower ordinance This did not mean that every bachelor would be directed in one wide sweep, said the
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    13 Women Get A Fright
    145 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. THIRTEEN Chinese women sewing in a shop at Sean Street, Singapore, had the fright of their lives last night when five armed Chinese youths entered the shop and demanded their identity cards. One of the victims, a girl of 18. said to
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    FELL FROM HOTEL, DIED
    101 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 24 ONG Kee. a 27-year-old man. who had been unemployed for some time, fell from the third floor l> f the New Asia Hotel at Peck Seah Street. Singapore, shortly after noon yesterday and died Employees at The hotel said that they did not
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    ‘Physician’ fined—- not registered
    161 14 Physician’ fined—not registered SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. A MAN claiming to be a Chinese physician who had practised for 21 years in Shanghai. Bangkok and Singapore, was yesterday fined $l5O in Singapore for publishing his name as a medical practitioner when he was not registered. He was Lam Chee Nam. who
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    Mother a month hanged herself
    46 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 24 One month after she had had a baby. Thulisiyama. a 20-year-old Indian hanged herself because she was ill. it was said at the Singapore inquest yesterday. Thulisiyama’s husband. Sitham Baram. shopkeeper, of French Road, gave evidence Verdict Misadventure.
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    Jap. Trade Quotas Are Fixed
    156 14 SINGAPORE. Dec 24 TRADE arrangements for t!> year July 1950 to June 19 have now been concluded. Mr A. D. Stutchbury. First As.-, ant Secretary for Econorn. Affairs told the Sunday Tim yesterday. The Government had decided to distribute supplementary quotas for the importation of
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    Mr. MacIntosh goes back
    83 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 24 MR. D. W. Macintosh. Com missioner of Police. Hong Kong, has completed his study of Singapore Police Force. He returns to Hong Kong this morning His recommendations ft the immediate strengthenin'of the Singapore police Fore will be given to fhe Go 1 ernor.
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    FLAG PRESENTED
    30 14 TELUK ANSON. Dec :4 Federation Flag has be presented to the Scout by Mr. R J Morton, vlee-pr. sident of the Lower Per, District Boy Scouts Ass'* tion.
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    NEW RULES ON RUBBER DUTY
    258 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 23. Regulations regarding the new export duty on rubber w’ere published today in a Legislative supplement to the Federation Government Gazette. The Customs proclamation stipulates that the new rate will be imposed only on rubber exported from the Federation. From Jan. 1
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    UNIONS BACK GOVT SHOPS PLAN
    415 15 Will Halt Rise In Present Cost-Of-Living KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 23. OFnFPAT > mu r taff C orres JcEDLRATlON trade unions, alarmed at the rapid nse in prices of essential commodities today welcomed the setting-up of (iovernment shops as one of the most effective remedies to
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    DISORDERLY: $10
    39 15 SINGAPORE. I>c. 21. For “shouting and running about" at Gey ling Road on Tuesday. Chandra Singh was yesterday fined $lO in the Singapore Fourth Police Court. He was charged with behaving in a disorderly manner In public
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    WORK ON NEW FIRE H.Q. SOON
    158 15 SINGAPORE. Dec. 23. VUORK on the new $1,000,000 headquarters for the Singapore Fire Brigade at Alexandra Road is expected to start early next year, the Municipal Architect and Building Surveyor. Mr. D C. Rae, stated yesterday. Mr. Rae said the evacuation of squatters from
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    SCOUT RALLY AT SEREMBAN
    76 15 Seremban. Dec. 24. Two hundred Scouts, Cubs, and Ro vers attended a rally of the Seremban District Boy Scouts Association yesterday in hon our of Mr. J. F. Dahl, Boy Scout Travelling Commissioner from Imperial headquarters, London, now visiting Seremban. Demonstrations were given by Scouts of
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    2,000 TROOPS FOR SAIGON
    45 15 More than 2,000 French Morroccan troops passed through Singapore yesterday on board the 11.000-ton vessel. Argentina, on their way to Saigon. The Argentina sailed tourists up the Norwegian fjords 37 years ago, but is still capable of a steady 17 knots
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    COLONY NOW HAS 135 UNIONS
    95 15 SINGAPORE Dec. 23. THE newly-formed Singapore Rubber Milling and Manufacturing Workers’ Union has been registered to become the 135th trade union in the Colony.. The total membership of the 135 unions is now 55.345—53.648 men and 1.891 women. There are 93 workers’ unions with a
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    Good Health In Malaya
    120 15 PENANG, Dec. 23. T)ESPITE the serious short J age of doctors and nurses, there had been no deterio-a tion in the standard of health and sanitation in Malaya, said the Federation V D Specialist, Dr. V. K. Tamby pillai. at a farewell dinner last night in
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    Savings Up In Boom —But Not Enough
    153 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 23. T'HE boom in rubber and tin has sent up savings 1 in the Federation. More Victory 8avings Certificates were sold from August to November than in the preceding eight months. From January to August, certificates worth $27,124, were issued;
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    $300 MORE FOR FUND
    60 15 A further $3OO was received during the Christmas holidays from Straits Times readers towards the Army Amenities Fund. This brought the total to $l4 999 Yesterday’s contributions were: sloo Rheem Hume <Far East) Ltd., Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Williamson; s3s—Madam Elena Reid, Mr G. M
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    HURT TO 2 GIRLS ALLEGED
    148 15 JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. 23 gELAMAN bin Haji Salam, charged with causing hurt to two girls, was alleged to have slapped them when he visited the Malay GLrls’ School, at Bagan, Batu Pahat district. Another girl, who got frightened and tried to run away, fell and
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    SEGAMAT SOCIAL
    24 15 SEGAMAT. IXT 24 The Sogamat International Club will hold a social on New Year eve. There will be dancing and side shows.
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    MUSLIMS PLAN S.E. ASIA MISSIONS
    174 15 SINGAPORE Dec. 23. Nationalism and lack of organised missionary activity had retarded Muslim' progress throughout the world, said Maulana Abdul Aleem Siddiqui. the Muslim Divine, at the first SouthEast Asia Muslim Missionary Conference. in Singapore yesterday. He emphasised the need for all democratic governments to
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    COLONY’S FIRST STEP IN CIVIL DEFENCE
    428 16 SINGAPORE, Dec. 27. first step in setting up a Civil Defence Organisation in Singapore was taken yesterday when it was officially announced that plans for a Manpower Bureau have been drafted. Mr. A. E. Norrish, M.C.S., has been named Assistant Secretary ior Defence (Manpower).
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    STOLEN GOODS
    41 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 27. Syed Hamid bin Abdul Rahman was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in the Police Court when he was convicted on a charge of dishonestly retaining clothing stolen from Attan bin Ahmad and Kaspan bin Othman.
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    CHRISTMAS SPIRIT:
    27 16 George Ilanna and Joe Kane, from H.M.S. Mounts Bay. with girl friends from Tanglin Barracks, in festive mood, walking in Stamford Road.— Straits Times picture.
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    CLERK SAVED YOUTH FROM DROWNING
    97 16 PENANG. Dec. 27. |>ROMPT action by a clerk saved a 20-year-old Chinese youth from drowning *n the sea off Northam Road, Penang yesterday The clerk. Lim Cheng Leong of Fraser and Neave was playing billiards in the Junior Civil Service Awoc:ation when he heard 6houts
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    C.G. GREETS THE MUSLIM TALKS
    195 16 SINGAPORE. Dec. 27 'PHE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDo- nald, sent a congratulatory message to the SouthEast Asia Muslim Missionary Conference which met in Singapore on Sunday and Christmas Day. The message read: “Religions and the spiritual values which they enshrine are challenged throughout the world
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    HAD EXCESS: FINED
    37 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 27. Masdom bin Haji Majid was fined $l5 for carrying three excess passengers in his bus and Lai Fok Koon was fined $7 for carrying one excess passenger in his taxi.
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    2 Dead, 9 Hurt In Bomb Outrage
    313 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 24 A HAND grenade, thrown from the window of building opposite the Rex Cinema in Tehtk Anson, Perak, at a jungle squad on patrol dutv last night killed two Chinese, wounded six other Chinese and three
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    CUSTOMS CHARGE WITHDRAWN
    54 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Doc. 27. The charge of evading customs duty on a camera against Lee Mong Kong, a lorry driver, was withdrawn in the Police Court today as the Customs Department offered no evidence. The attendant of the lorry, who last week pleaded guilty to the charge,
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    FOUR GET BAIL OF $15,000
    51 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 27. Four men. Tan Hooi Pheng, Chew Kim Yee, Wong Ee Poh and Lai Wee Fee were charged on Sunday with bein unlawful possession of 63 pikuls 10 katis of rubber. An adjournment was granted and each accused was allowed bail in
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    NEW C.I.D. SET-UP FOR S’PORE POLICE
    216 16 SINGAPORE, I>*<! 27 IMPORTANT changes in the criminal investigation set-up of the Singapore Police Force have been carried out. A senior CJ.D. officer, confirming this yesterday, said that there will now be scope for greater applica tion to criminal investigation and intelligence work. The
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    PICTURE THE STUDIO DIDN’T TAKE
    175 16 SINGAPORE. Dec. 27. FUR Chinese workers in a photo studio in North Bridge Road Singapore, yesterday were robbed of identity cards by five Chinese youths, one of whom had a pistol. Lim Toh Siong, one of the workers, said that, thinking the men had come
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    POLICE READY TO TRAIN CITY’S NEW SQUAD
    196 17 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. MO time is to be lost in training the Singapore Voluntoe! Special Constabulary Emergency Squad to be raised to help Government preserve law and order. The Police Training School is ready to train the volunteers. who will come from business
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    RECOGNISED IN MOONLIGHT
    49 17 PARIT BUNTAR Dec. 21 Wahari bin Taib was sentenced to two months' Imprisonment at Bagan Serai Court for stealing fowls and 10 katfs of scrap rubber from Mainah blnte Matriapiah at Sungei Kepar Selinsing, Bagan Serai. Mainah was said to have recognised Wahari in the moonlight.
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    Cathedral Matins
    32 17 In order to fit in with the arrangements of Radio Malaya, Matins at St. Andrew’s Cathedral on Christmas Day will be at 11 a m. and not at 10.30 a.m.
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    PENANG TELLS WORLD OF NEW MALARIA CONTROL
    116 17 PENANG, Dec. 20 A “revolutionary change 1 in anti-malarial measures adopted by the Penang Municipal Health Department has been reported to the World Health Organisation, the Municipal President, Mr. H. G. Hammett, said today. “We have abandoned the time-honoured method of control by
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    MUSLIMS OPEN CONFERENCE
    71 17 SINGAPORE. Dec. 24. The first South-East Asia Muslim Missionary Conference opens this morning at the Victoria Memorial Hall under the chairmanship of Dato Syed Alwi bin Tahir AJ-hadad. Mufti of Johore. The conference, to exchange opinion and discuss problems affecting Muslims in South-East Asia, is being attended
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    500 Men Needed To Save Padi Crop
    112 17 ALOR STAR Dec. 20. TO meet the shortage of harvesters, the Kedah immigration authorities have been asked to allow the immediate entry of 500 Malay labourers from the Patani district of South Siam. The Kota Star District Officer, Tuan Hajl Isa, told the
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    Three Gaoled Tor ‘Lowest’ Theft
    178 17 Three Gaoled Tor Lowest’ Theft THREE Chinese who removed parts of a ear damaged in the Singapore riots were told yesterday by Mr. S. E. Teh in the Singapore police court: “This is the lowest form of theft. During war-time, you would have been shot/’ Tan Ah Wang. Tan Boon
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    RURAL HOMES
    34 17 5OO people have built homes in the rural areas of Singapore this year, a Rural Board Spokesman said He estimated that about 700 people bought $1 Rural Board plans during the year.
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    New Scheme Is Ready
    144 17 SINGAPORE Dec. 23. 'pHE Singapore Army em-ployer-employee joint subcommittee, appointed in October this year to recommend a new scheme of service for the Army’s 1.000 storekeepers, has completed its work. The joint sub-committee has investigated the work and conditions of service of storekeepers in the RAF.,
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    Protecting the child actors
    243 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. gEFORE last August tnere were no restrictions in Singapore over the employment of child actors. Hundreds of children some of them only seven-years-old. were were employed by theatrical companies all over Singapore. With the passing of the Children’s Charter early in August, no
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    $941 MORE FOR THE PEREIRAS
    219 17 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. FURTHER contributions totalling $441.50 were received by the Straits Times yesterday for Mrs. May Pereira, widow of Mr. Francis Pereira, 36-year-old Eurasian who was killed by rioters In Singapore, and her five children. Another $500 -the gift of the Eurasian Association of
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    WELFARE HOME PARTY IN JOHORE
    65 17 JOHORE BAHRU. WedContributions of $lOO each from the District Welfare Associations at Kluang. Pontlan, and Johore Bahru as well as $5O from Kota Tingg! and individual donation have ensured a Christmas treat for the children at the Johore Welfare Home. One donation of $5 came
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    SCHOOLS INSPECTOR FOR U.K.
    124 17 JOHORE BAHRU Dec. 27. CYED Nasir bin Ismail, acting Inspector of Malay Schools at Johore Bahru, will leave on Thursday for England on a visit sponsored by the British Council. He will be away for about four months. Syed Nasir was educated at Batu Pahat and
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    3 BANDITS KILLED, 2 MORE CAPTURED
    306 17 KUALA LUMPJUR. D.c 20 MALACCA police and military who attacked a camp near KesanR, Jasin District, today killed three bandits. They wounded and captured another bandit., arrested one who was not hurt' and wounded two others who escaped. Food, arms and ammunition were taken
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    Newcomer Offered Bribe, Fined
    171 17 THE day he arrived in .Singapore from Borneo, Abdui Malik, a 23-year-old Indones ian seaman, ottered a bribe ol $50 to Inspector V N. Ratna singam of the Singapore Police Force who hud arrested him for not possessing an identity card Yesterday, the Singapore Second District
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    ASTIVEL AND THEATRE SCORE
    1246 19 Record times big dividends PENANG. Dec. 23. By EPSOM JEEP A STIVEL scored a spectacular victory in the Xmas Cup over one mile and 110 yards to set up a new Malayan turf record of 1 minute 45 1/5 seconds here yesterday, opening day of the
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    Penang finalists in North section
    579 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 33. Sunday Times Rugby Reporter JN ONE of the grandest Rugby games seen this 1 season. Penang became Northern Finalists in the HMS Malaya Rugby Competition for the second time since the Liberation, when they edged out Selangor by 16 points (two
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    Kedah trounce Perak XV
    138 19 Sunday Times Ipoh Sport* Reporter AH expected, cerax overwhelm *d Kedah in their H M S Malaya rugb’ match at Ipoh yesterday winning by 38 point* (four goals, five tries and a penalty goal) *o three <a penalty». Perak's taster three* ana most •die* :tiV« puck
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    Army men swim gala dominate
    146 19 SINGAPORE, Dec 25 r rWO ARMY swimmers domlna'ea the major open swimming events in the swimming gala held at the Tiger Swimming Club PaMi Punjang yesterday. In the 200-yards Free Slyie event. Cln. G Wnrllng won fr**n* L Cpl Reeves. Rt eves won the 120-yard
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    ENG KIM SCORES 2
    30 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun goals by Chuu Eng Kim enabl* d Selangor Chinese to beat Negri Sembilan Chinese 2-0 in the q uadrangular hockey tournament this evening
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    Perak score 5-2 win over Negri
    216 19 INTER-STATE MALAYS HOCKEY KlIALA LUMPUR, Dec. 23. Sunday Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Correspondent DLAYING with a faster forward line that showed 1 excellent combination, Perak defeated Negri Sembilan bv five goals to two in the second match of the Malays Quadrangular Hockey Tournament yesterday
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    PNG. WIN TENNIS
    50 19 KUALA LUMPUR. SMn Penang beat Selangor Perak and Negri Sembilan in the first mterj Chines** R» creation Clubs’ Qua- drangului Tennis Tournament concluded here tills evening on 1 the Selangor Chinese R*rr«ation C’lui) courts and thus won the I challenge cup donated bv Mr Yeap Hock Hoe
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    LONE GOAL WIN
    31 19 KUALA I.UMPUK Him ppLNANO beat Perak bv a single goal scored in the second hall bv Him Guan in tiie Chinese Quadrangular htvkev tournament placed here his evening
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      41 19 Big Sweep Total Pool $358,500. 1st No. *****8 ($86,040) 2nd No. *****7 ($43,020) 3rd No. *****4 ($21,510) Starters ($7,170 each): Nos. *****6, *****2. *****3, *****8. *****1. *****3. Consolation ($2,151 each): Nos *****0. *****3. *****4. *****6, *****7. *****3. *****1. *****8. *****0. *****1.
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    Malaya’s Trade Is At Highest Level Ever
    448 20 year wa* a record year tor Malaya’s overseas trade For the Hr st time since the liberation the country has a favourable balance of trade, which is likely to approach one thousand million dollars. Taking into account the value of re-exports, largely rubber
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    Quiet Week In Rubber
    128 20 SINGAPORE Dec. 23. T’HE past week has been very quiet in the rubber market; subject to small fluctuations. prices have been well maintained, says Lewis Peat’s report. The market will be closed today (Saturday) and will reopen on Dec. 27. Highest and lowest prices during the
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    TIN COMPANY DIVIDENDS
    172 20 INTERIM dividends have been declareo ay the following tin companies: Puket Tin Dredging Second interim of 3d. per share, less income tax. in respect of the vear to December 31. 1950. equivalent to approximatelv 3 l *j per cent, on the capital invested in the business. including
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    938 20 SINGAPORE. Dpc. 27. INDUSTRIALS Haver* teller* A.e* ft icks Pref i hs it»s Ords l 95 2 05 At,a- ice M9O :2 25 B B Petrol. 37' 38/B M Trustee »00 750 Con Tin Smelt Pref 20/ 22/Oro 18/ 20/• e. (Hu Assur 37 50 -18 50
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    Business Done
    207 20 BUSINESS done in the local share market last week included: Industrials. Fraser Neave Ords. $2.97 u> *2.90 to *2.92»«. Gammon *2.15. Wm. Hammer $35 to *?5.75. Hongkong Bank (Col.) $650 to $635, Robinson Ord. $2.20, Straits Steamship $15. Singapore Traction Pref. 20s 6d. Straits Traders $13.75. Wearne Bros.
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    SHARE MARKET DEALINGS AT A LOW EBB
    218 20 SINGAPORE, Dec. >5 From A Market Correspondent THE approach of Christmas and the protrui d 1 political tension kept business at a low ebb the Singapore share market last week. Local operators were cautious and ;ransac.n»v meagre; prices in the Industrial and Rubber
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    Wearnes’ Profit
    142 20 VyEARNE BROTHERS pi T the record of another ve.trj excellent trading to Sept. 30. 1 :*.so Net profit after taxation and d*. preciation. $1,811,285 (45.2 p.J cent.), is equivalent to at it d $2,267,856 (56.6 per centi b*MovJ tax. The recommendation of a fit J dividend and bonus
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    Malayan Rubber Output And Exports
    265 20 KUALA LUMPUR Dec. 24 AMERICA bought about one thousand tons ot rubber less from the Federation in November than in October, resulting in a drop of 1.246 tons in total exports from the Federation last month America’s November purchases amounted to 15.049 tons, the United
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    MALAKA PINDA
    148 20 From a Market Correspondent MALAKA Pinda Rubber Estat profit for the year to Aug. 1950. was $217,882 <48.4 per cet. and a final dividend of 10 per is recommended, making '■"> cent, for the year, against three 1 cent, previously Net liquid assets. $182,680 eluding the cost of
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