The Straits Budget, 3 January 1952

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    31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] New Series No. 283. Singapore Thursday, January 3, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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      77 1 The STRAITS BUDGET Published in SINGAPORE on THURSDAY Delivered in LONDON on MONDAY SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION $24.00 condilio.19 wo sl.onld he in n po silion I" post '"P** <“ nd ch M< ,la >'- The cost which includes airfreight and postal charges will be »24 for six month, subscription. This
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      THE I.M.P. AND THE TIES WITH BRITAIN
      488 2  -  SKNllX WAKI) Kuala Lumpur. KLYNE STREET” in his letter of Dec. 24, “Two Minorities in Free Malaya of the Future,” was most'unreasonable in his reference to the I.M.P. As a Federal citizen whose interest should be in a single, united Malaya, he reveals
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      IN SEARCH OF A PILLAR BOX
      65 2  -  K. P. CHANDRASEGAR. Singapore. OOME of the pillar boxes In Singapore’s streets are not of much service to the public If the authorities would kindly move some of them near the bus stands. I think this would really be useful. At least, we should
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      WHENCE CAME MALAY?
      95 2  -  MELAYU Pahang. F the legend told to Mr. 1 Marsh by the Javanese aristocrat (“On the Margin.” Straits Times, Dec. 18) Is correct. It would be interesting if an> of your readers could say to what people the Malay language originally belonged. It is difficult to believe
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      Freedom, politics and Dato Onn
      445 2  -  C.H.K.C. Ipoh LAST Friday morning I read in the Press that Dato Onn refuses to give any assurance that Malaya will stay in the Commonwealth on getting independence. Of course, he cannot give any such assurance. What we want to know is. what are his
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      ‘Cheaper by post’
      157 2  -  HOMEWARD BOUND* Ex-Bangkok. DERHAPS your readers are largely dulled to the 1 horrifying level of shop prices in Singapore, but even so they may be interested in my experiences, and be inclined to profit therefrom. My theory for several months past has been that we would Be
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      PENANG’S MALAY CHILDREN
      125 2  -  ISASIB MELAYU. Penang. WITH reference to a protest against tests in Penang as reported in the Straits Times on Dec. 19, I strongly support the prompt action taken by hundreds of Malays to improve the welfare of Malay children. Malays are still backward in all respects, as
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      CONTROL OF LUXURY IN BUILDING
      240 2  -  ALTITUDINE. Singapore. 1WAS interested to read in your paper some ten days ago a letter dealing with the building of a luxury cinema in Singapore. At the present time, with a large proportion of the people crying out for houses, it does seem ridiculous that
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      FAN MAIL
      84 2  -  X. Singapore. WITH reference to the re- cent overhaul of the City Council by an efficiency expert, one such expert is also needed for the Singapore Improvement Trust. Most of the S.I.T. flats are equipped with hooks fo r ceiling fans. Yet an application to instal a fan
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      OWNERSHIP OF THE SOIL IN NEGRI
      144 2  -  ANAK WARIS. Sunrei Ujong. jyjOHAMED JAMAL, in ills letter of Dec. 20 headed “Euler’s’ Soil,” is misleading. It reminds one of the English proverb “An empty vessel makes more noise" when tie says that the soil belongs to the Sultans and not to the
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      $500 A MONTH PLUS?
      109 2  -  TAXPAYER. Singapore. MANY people are of the opinion that the $5OO paid to Legislative Councillors’ Is a very extravagant levy on the public purse. They should not be paid such high remuneration for voluntarv service. I believe that our Councillors are also paid subsidiary allowances for
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      THERE WERE 19 THERE
      112 2  -  M. K JAIIAll Kuala Lumpur. IN your report on “Onn hits out at Labour Party.” you stated at a meeting in Kampong Bahru this evening Malays predominated." This portion of your report is incorrect. There were only 19 people in the audience, out of whom 15
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Ebb and flow in Korea
      632 3 —Straits Times. Doc. 27. IIA thirty day time limit which has governed the last luUl weeks of the Korean Ijuco talks expires at midnight (i-night, and the possibility of full armistice agreement brtng reached by then is reAlthough the truce n*anr> are meeting again this
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      Rice problems
      433 3 -Straits Times. Dec. 27. i! is becom ng a habit with Sou’h-East Asia*< rice exporting countries to produce around harvest time the gloomiest possible account of h. rvest prospects and the amount available f>r export. This year Siam has taken the process a little further. The Siamese Minister
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      Achievement in Kelantan
      736 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 28 There is much material for quiet optimism in the survey of the past year’s achievements in Keiantan contained in the Sultan’s message to yesterday’s meeting of the Council of State At the beginning of tin veai Keiantan had to accept a reduction ir.
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      Commando Threat
      350 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 28 The Egyptian Government’s threat to turn loose commandos who will he encouraged to attack British troops in the Canal /one was perhaps lightly made It contrasts so fiddly with the unexpected appointment as chief of King Fnrouk’s Royal Cabinet of an official known to
      —Straits Times, Dec. 28  -  350 words
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      Indecision In London
      559 3 —Straits Times. Dee. 29 If the latest reports from London can be trusted, there is indecision now on the appointment of a “supreme commander for M a 1 a y a. While General Sir Brian Robertson’s visit to Mr. Churchill has put his name among the starters
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      Graft among the Reds
      423 4 -Straits Times. Dec. 29. A sad note* is being struck by the* Communist Chinese Press, pitched an octave* or two lower than anything heard by the* outsiele world on tin* Communist radio There are charges of corrupt inn against Communist Party officials, some of them quite*
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      Crime and corruption
      871 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 31 Re cent weeks have seen a stiffening in the punishment given by emr local courts to those convicted of offering bribes to public servants. The fact that cases of offering bribes come before the courts in fair numbers is welcome, because it shows
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      Solution from Washington
      296 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 31. It could be that one reason for the delay in announcing w’ho is to be the Federation’s new “clean up the bandits” top man is that Mr. Churchill is being pressed by Washington about the political future of Malaya. The Washington Post, a
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      Hail the new year
      822 4 -•StraiLs Times. Jan. 1. On this, the first day ot the year, there is a temptation to bid good riddance to the year that has gone. In many respects it was not in fact a happy year, in the full sense of happiness. The fear of
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      The New Year Honours
      310 5 —Straits Times. Jan. 1. Singapore will share the Federation s pleasure this morning in the honour of knighthood conferred by His Majesty the King on Dato Tan Fheng Lock and Dr. G. V. Allen Both are as well known in Colony as in the FedeDr. Allen
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      Mission To America
      973 5 Straits Times, Jan. 2. Inevitably Mr. Churchill’s mission to Washington invites comparison with his famous I wartime visits across the At- lantic. If the voyage and the times are less dramatic, as less secrecy also attests, the issues are no less historic. The Washington talks will embrace
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    TONY, THE FRIENDLY ICE CREAM ROBBER
    192 5 TONY THE FRIENDLY ICE CREAM ROBBER SINGAPORE, Dec. 30. A FRIENDLY robber with a strong liking for ice l cream and cakes had willing i victims in 40 children—all oi 'them either crippled, deaf. I dumb or blind—at a Christ- mas party yesterday given by I th British Red Cross
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    BOUND OVER FOR SUICIDE ATTEMPT
    47 5 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. Chan Sang, of Kampong Soo Poo. who attempted suicide in the early hours of yesterday morning, admitted In the Singapore Second Police Court that he had tried to stab himself He was bound over in $lOO for six months.
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    FINED $25 FOR NEGLIGENCE
    33 5 MUAR Thurs.—For negligent driving at the oth milestone Parii Jawa, where his taxi crashed Into a drain, Sarjani bin Nawi was fined $25 at Muar Ills licence was endorsed.
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTH
      200 5 DAVIES: To PEG. wife of L. E. C. Davies, at 10, Orange Grove Road, on 31st December, a son. WOODFORD: To MAVIS, wife of F. V. Woodford, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on X’mas Day, a son. BADGER: On Christmas Day, 1951. at B.M.H Singapore, to Joan, wife of Major
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      109 5 FONG-TAN: The engagement is announced between Mr. Fong Hock Hin (Jimmy), eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Fong Piang Choy, and Miss Tan Sian Lui (Selina), youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Eng Peow MR. LENG HONG YAP third son of the late Mr. Lcng Khai Throng and
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      ANNOUNCEMENT
      63 5 KHENG KEE, 120. Clyde Terrace. Singapore, wishes all our friends and patrons a Happy New Year and a bright future. THE BEST of good luck to all old friends, both in Malaya and in the United Kingdom Mr. and Mrs. O. T Dussek and Dawn. CHRISTMAS GREETINGS from Mr.
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      ACKNOWLEDGMENT
      28 5 MR. MRS. D. A. WOODFORD sincerely thank all relatives and friends for their much appreciated presents and telegrams on the occ;usion of their marriage on the 20.12.51.
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    232 5 DEATHS RAMDHAS Ida Cecilia Raindhas Nee Paul beloved wile of Francis Ramdhas passed away peacefully at 1(18 East Coast. Road on the 1st January 1952. Funeral will take place Bidadari at 5 30 p.m. 2nd January 1952. CORNELL: On 1st January, Carla Marie Macdonald, baby daughter of Commander <fc Mrs.
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    A SINGAPORE DIARY
    2755 6  -  Stanley Street. From The Straits Times of Dec, 27—Jan. 2 Ruts Mr J L. Harrison, zoologist at the Scrub Typhus Research Unit in Kuala Lumpur. lias put us right on one or two i><»int.s concerning rats, whether “estate” nil,s or “jungle” rats. Rats on Malayan oil palm
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    THE STATE SECRETARIAT, JOHORE BAHRU
    11 6 Photograph by C. A. Gibson •Hill.
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    Malay Motherhood:
    6 7 Picture by Hedda Morrison.
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    Countryman’s Journal
    748 7  -  Tl T AN DJEK. IT S a nasty drizzling morning on which the Tuan starts to compose his weekly article when along comes a Chinese from the estate opposite to report that his wife has been, or is going to be. arrested for stealing tree scrap. His version
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    “A Poor Day For Business,”
    9 7 by Yon* Fee Mun
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    Fifty years ago
    100 7 (From tlie Straits Times of Jan. 3-9, 1902.) T' IE death of Cheang Keng Kwi, Capitan China of Perak, a millionaire, took place at Penang after an illness lasting only a few days. r pANGLIN is, forsooth, sorely afflicted bv burglars just now: and, in view of
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    Carolling in an estate
    37 8 .MEN Ot M B“ Company, 1st Suffolk Regiment, sing Christmas carols on Christmas Eve at Bukit l>arah Estate Selangor, accompanied by Mrs. Dewar, wife of Major Malcolm Dewar.—Straits Times picture. -Stmits Times picture.
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    BURNING PETROL KILLS BOY
    79 8 IPOH, Doc. 26. I OKE KOW was washing hLs hands in a tray of petrol !i> hi.s workshop at Jalan Renduhara when a spark from th» »*ni«ine of his ear lit the petroi He flung the burning petrol away, but at that moment hLs son Poke
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    Xmas Eve hurt charge
    59 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Doc 26. JJLTNASAMY. pleaded not guilty before the Kuala Lumpur Second Magistrate today !o causing hurt. Ho was alleged to have assaulted Thuralsingam in trop.i (ji a Hindu temple at •S unr c 1 Besi Road. Kuala L’nnpur on Christmas Eve. The case was
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    Muslims hold mass meeting
    50 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 27. M°r than 200 people attended a mass meetinß on Christmas Lay at the pretnl a* of the All-Malaya Muslim Miss'onary Society to commemorate the birthday of the late Mohamed Ali Jinnah The meetinß was held tinder the auspices of the Overseas Pakistani League
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    LATEX FIGURES
    41 8 SINGAPORE, Dec. 27. Shipments or prepared kt*ex from Malaya totalled 2,879 96 ion in November of which 1.982 41 tons went from Ring'’pore Britain took 1.109.82 tons. America 1 089 22 tons. Franco 216.80 ton; and Japan ***** tons
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    Falling wall kills worker
    65 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 27. A 50-year-old labourer, Nr Gek Tee, was killed late yesterday evening when the wall of a house he was engaged in breaking down collapsed and crushed him. The tragedy occurred at the 13 Vfe milestone, Setnbawang Road, in the Nee Soon area. There
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    TOOK OFFICER FOR A BANDIT
    44 8 MUAR. Wed.--I was frightened as I thought the man who stopped me was a bandit, said Mohamed Nor hip Hail Elias a taxi driver, who did not stop when ordered by police ollieer at Panchor He was fined $2O.
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    FEDERAL COUNCIL
    25 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 26 The next meeting of the Federal Legislative Council will b«* held here op Wednesday and Thursday of next week
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    SIX BANDITS KILLED
    260 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 26. IT was an unhappy Christmas for the bandits in 1 Malaya’s jungles. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day they lost six killed, one captured and four surrendered. Twenty suspected food suppliers were arrested in Kedah on Christmas Day and 11 in the Raub
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    $100,000 RUBBER LOST IN A FIRE
    212 8 SINGAPORE, Dec. 27. gINGAPORK passed through the Christmas holidays with one major crime, no fatal traffic accidents and a fire which destroyed more than $100,000 worth of rubber in a factory in Plantation Road. The C.I.D. operations room reported last night: “Nothing doing. Our
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    He foiled bid to swim in
    72 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 26. A CHINESE who attempted to enter Malaya illegally by swimming across the Golok River from the Siam .side to Keiantan was foiled by a vigilant home guard. The home guard promptly reported to the police who arrested the man. The
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    $61,000 to help kampong trade
    47 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 26. A $61,000 loan to promote trade in kampong produce by financing credit sales has been announced b v the Rural Authority The loan is to be made to a co-operative consumer shop society in Kota Kuala Muda, Kedah
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    CARRIED FOOD IN RESTRICTED AREA
    52 8 KUANTAN. Wed. Yew Rian Gua n <69) a- rubber tapper, was fined $5O or one month’s imprisonment by the Kuantan magistrate for carrying food in a restricted area without a permit Yew was arrested in Jeram Kuantan estate with small quantities of rice, sugar coffee
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    Join Rotary, he urges Malays
    174 8 IPOH Dec. 26. Deploring the fact that only a handful of Malays are Rotarians. Tuan Haji Mohamed EusofT Rotarv Governor ot the 46tb district, appealed t,o his community to loin tile movement to “give them an Insight into the international way of life.” The Dato
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    Soldier amok with a Sten gun
    113 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 26. A BRITISH soldier who is alleged to have ‘‘run amok’» with a Sten gun in his hands here on Christmas Day, was shot in the knee, over-power-ed and captured by other soldiers. He is being kept in Kinrara military hospital
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    Xmas cheer to woman
    115 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 26. NUMBER of Government clerks in Kuala Lumpur helped to bring Christmas joy into the home of a lonely British woman whose husband was fighting bandits in the jungle and whose Chr.simas allowance was stolen bv a thief The woman lives in Kuala
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    GUILTY PLEA IN TRUST CHARGE
    42 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 26. A former police constable. Bahari bin Mat Akir. pleaded, guilty to criminal breach of trust of a bicycle in Kuala Lumpur today. Sentence was postponed to Jan. 2. Bahari was allowed $2OO bail
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    TAPPER HELD
    25 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 26. A Chinese rubber tapper was arrested in the Kerling resettlement area in Selangor when guards found him carry inguncookedrice.
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    S.C. FINED
    26 8 KUANTAN. Wed.-Osman, a special constable, attached to a field Police Station, was fined $2O by the Kuantan magistrate for assaulting Abdul Rahman bin Ahmad.
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    THEY PUT GUNS AWAY....
    90 9 IPOH. Dec. 26. mill had its quietest postI Christmas. T few planters and ml r> who came in for the Kind checked in wea- the police station. B °Ho.'e her" reported pood on Christmas Eve. business er a i m ost bU r s 0 Christmas
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    He has two ways to tax the dodgers
    148 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 27. a SINGAPORE accountant A v..-s:trd.iv suggested two s-mpV ways in which the invT, Tax Department could ca tch n my of the income tax dodgi rs. America and Australia.' tu- .>a:d it should be m id. impossible f°r people
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    105 finish co-op course
    91 9 IPOH. Dec. 26. hundred and live secretaries oi rural cooperative societies ooservers and penphuius of South Perak Monday completed a fourf training course in Ipoh. ihe c urse was sponsored oy the c -operative Department Ollicial* nt th e department gav> lectures o n aspects t
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    Malacca’s protest
    107 9 MALACCA Dec. 26. S m 01 Malacca’s most 1 ttuential citizens have siri.-.t r U r through the ReM, m.u., C mmiss t° ner to the )r ealth at Kuala r ,ri ?P u f r Lee Tian Keng 'f l f n against the re- n Dr
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    Man, 20, not guilty of extortion
    178 9 SEGAMAT. Dec. 26. UOLDING that the evidence of the principal prosecution witness. Chen Soh Teck. was unreliable, the sessions court acquitted and discharged 20-year-old Liew Choon Wah. son of a Kuala Lumpur businessman, charged with extortion. The prosecution gave notice of appeal. The prosecution
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    Motive not known
    51 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. SINGAPORE police are trying to find the motive for the murder of Tan Ah Puan whose body was found in the Singapore River on Boxing Day. The body was found with hands tied behind the back legs bound together and three stones tied to
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    Guns at Carol party
    70 9 CAROL SINGERS of the First Suffolk Regiment with their hosts at Tuan Mee Estate, Selangor, on Christmas Eve. In the group are Mr. and Mrs. II. Aitken-Quack, manager of the estate; Mr Ian Johnstone. assistant manager of Elmina Estate; Mr Crawford from Province Wellesley; Mr. Kussell-Smitli
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    Battle for suckling pig will go on
    134 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 27. SINGAPORE’S 6,000 pig-rearers affected by the Government’s ban on the slaughter of suckling pigs have appealed to Dato C. J. Paglar, Legislative Councillor, to make another effort to get the order rescinded. Dato Paglar urged at the last session of
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    He robbed two women
    80 9 IPOH. Dec. 26. FOR robbing two women of $2,700 worth of jewellery after staying with them only a few hours, a young cloth merchant, Yusof bin Majid, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment to be followed hv 18 months police supervision by the Sessions Court Magistrate
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    Association wants judge for dogs
    152 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 27. THE Malayan Kennel Association are trying to get Mr Joseph Dunn, from England or Major J. W. Goldsmith of the Kennel Club of India to judge a dog show to be held in Kuala Lumpur next year. Before asking these overseas judges
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    Widow’s story ‘unbelievable’
    98 9 SUNGEI PATANI, Dec. 26. defence counsel. Mr. K.S. Piliai, had submitted that the evidence of 23-year-old widow, Aishah, was “inconsistent and unbelievable,” the Sungei Patani Sessions Court President Tuan Sved Sheh Barakbah, acquitted three Malays. Hussein. Puteh and Jamal, of a charge of abducting her. 1 Counsel
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    3 quit ‘Malaya for Malays’ meeting
    375 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 26. THIREE representatives walked out of the AllMalaya Malay Congress in Kuala Lumpur on Christmas Day after protesting against the formation of a Malay Independence Council of Joint Action. The meeting, sponsored by the Peninsula Malays’ Union, elected a 24-man Joint
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    ‘Ang pows’ for Xmas
    52 9 Ang pows’ for Xmas MALACCA. Dec. 20. POOR Eurasians living in the Portuguese Settlement here were not forgotten during the Yuletide season. Ninety families and a few others from Banda Hilir and Tranquerah were given presents and “ang pows” by Mr. and Mrs. B. Brunton, head of the Malacca Vehicles
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    GIRL BOUND OVER
    31 9 PORT DICKSON. Dec. 26. For possession of a defaced identity card a girl, Ow Ngee Mooi. aged 17. was bound over for $2OO bv the Port Dickson Magistrate.
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    Men-at-arms defend own kampongs
    179 10 THE Malay peasant in Kelantan had shown him sell worthy ot his “new status as a man-at-arms," the Sultan of K'dantan, Tengku Ibrahim, said in his message to hL> Council of State at its budget meeting in Kota Bahru yesterday. The skill and devotion ot the
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    She tried to die—twice
    81 10 She tried to die —twice SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. YEE Chok Ooi. a woman, aged 23, who tried twice to kill herself was in Singapore Second Police Court yesterday bound over In $lOO tor six months. Yee was saved bv a European at 2 a.m on Christmas Day from the Stamford
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    $300 FINE
    24 10 TAT PI NO. Thurs. Tan Yew Noi was fined $3OO for allow lnu ills premise-, to h< used as > eommon gaming house
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    Weeping time at the Singapore docks
    47 10 A FEW of the sad and weeping mothers and si»ter> at thp Singapore Harbour Board yesterday waving goodbye to the students who sailed for Australia in the Gorgon. Most of the students were from Singapore. The rest were from the Federation
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    GAOLED WOMEN TO HAVE CUSSES
    53 10 PENANG. I burs THE Pefiang Adult Edu- ation \v-iOriulion will start a (lass next year for 3f> women prisoners, Mr. ('hang Min Her thp secretary, announced at today’s meeting of th*» executive committee oJ the Federation Adult Education \ssociation. The elass will he held inside
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    Bound body in river
    50 10 SINGAPORE Dec. 28 THE Singapore C.I.D. said yesterday that the bodv ol a Chinese. found in the Singapore River on Boxing Day, was that of Tan Ah Puan of Cumming Street. Tile body was found with its hands and feet hound and weighted with, thrive stones.
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    Tin mine ordered to close down
    182 10 KVALA LUMPUR. Dec. 27. TpHF Irengganu Government has ordered the Kajuniz Kemaman tin mine to close by the end ot the year because it cannot be given sufficient protection, the Straits Times understands. The Deputy Chief Inspector of Mine.- for Federation. Mr W L.
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    DEFAULTER FINED
    21 10 MUAR. Thurs.—For failing to attend court to answer a summons. Omar bin Abdul Jalil was fined $l5 at Muar.
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    Car crashes didn’t make it merry Xmas for insurance
    287 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. |T was not a very prosperous Christinas for motor insurance firms in Malaya. Crashes on C hristmas Day and Boxing Day are estimated to have cost them a repair bill of more than $lOO,OOO. Singapore’s main garages had
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    ‘Kidnapped girl’ charge
    44 10 SINGAPORE. Dec. 28. Udik Dirt Yussof, aged 25. was yesterday charged In the Singapore First Police Court with kidnapping a girl beiow the age of 16. The case was postponed to Jan 3 and Yussof was ottered a bail of $5OO.
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    Governor visits Cocos islanders
    46 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. The Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, paid a visit on Wednesday to the 600 Cocos Island Malays who are now living in the Malay Settlement in Jalan Eunos. Sir Franklin spoke to several of them and inspected their living quarters.
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    SUSPECTS HELD
    17 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Security forces arrested two suspected bandit supporters in the Sungei Patanl area
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    Railway record in danger
    170 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 27. THE clean, 1051 theft-free record of the Kuala Lumpur railway station is in danger. With little more than a forti gi bef re the »nd of the year, railway deleft ives i o' i hei* fir*-' 1051 complaint of ulli <•<’:! loss
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    Cable to Premier: ‘Keep the C-G’
    187 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. A CABLE urging that the CommissionerGeneral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, should remain in Malaya when his term of office expires next May has been sent to the Prime Minister. Mr. Winston Churchill, by two Malayan leaders, the Straits Times understands. The two
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    One month for bribe offer
    85 10 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. Lee Yew Lim was sentenced to one month’s rigorous imprisonment by the Singapore Second Police Magistrate, Mr. R B. I Pates, for offerins a $lO bribe to a policeman. Sub-inspector T. S Zaln told the Court that Lim was arrested at Stamford
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    DRIVING CHARGE
    35 10 SEGAMAT. Wed. Yonc Sip (33). claimed trial In the Segamat Court when he was charged with driving a vehicle with more than two Axles on u Johore road without permission. Hearing was adjourned.
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    Guns from Peking for Malaya seized SAYS REPORT
    215 11 LUMPUR, Dec. 27. 4 ;>!G shipment of Sten A .runs, rifles and ammunition sent by the Chinese Communists for the Malayan bandits was t tplurt'd at sea by Siamese police off Singgora, South Siam, recently, according to a report from Bangkok quoted
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    Accused of jewel theft
    64 11 IPOH. Dec. 27. AI.LPGED t.o have stolen $5 <)00 worth of jewellery **h V she was staying with mother woman in Kuala Kanusar Road. a 36-year-old Siamese woman. Moon Nal Lur.g, was allowed $2,000 bail h re today. M n claimed trial and if i>e was
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    2 accused in opium case
    73 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 28. Kt T Chay. 45. and Tia Choon. 34. were V'- Vf n l n Singapore i;V, d f Dlstric t Court yester'Vlth possession of ill i’ r »w opium at 22 Oeylane Road, on Uiristmas Day r';! r Pleaded guilty and lai
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    Bandits attack pipe line
    34 11 UA LUMPUR. Dec. 27. il ~L tark on the pipe Cnemor Reservoir. ’Poh resulted in rvoi r drying up. special Constabulary am D and Chemor were withpipe line has repaired.
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    Two glum men land in Colony
    297 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. 4 TWO-SEATER, single-engine Mackie —the first Italian plane to arrive in Singapore since the war—touched down at Kallang airport on Wednesday without any previous notice and without calling the control tower. After surprised officials had watched the 8001 b. plane taxi
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    RED CAMPS FOUND
    19 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 27. Bandits ’amps were round in the Temerloh and Raub areas oi Pahang
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    TROOPS BREAK UP 2 CAFES
    138 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. A GROUP of British soldiers smashed up two restaurants. bent two bus-stop* metal signs and pushed a car into a ditch at Nee Soon village or. Christmas Day. About 100 yards away was the Nee Soon Police Station. Shops in the village
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    BAIL REFUSED
    33 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. N Subratmaniam agea Ji was yesterday charged in the Singapore Third Police Court with Intimidating Vf Van daraja In the grounds of the General Hospital Ball was refused.
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    100 STUDENTS TO BE ‘TRIED’ FOR DISORDER
    177 11 100 STUDENTS TO BE TRIED FOR DISORDER SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. A HUNDRED students from the Singapore Chinese Catholic High School are to “face trial’* on a charge of disorderly conduct. The cases will be “judged” by the principal of the school, Brother Philip. The teachers will prosecute and the parents
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    ‘Traffic jam’ on Corfu
    120 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. A FEW minutes before the liner Corfu sailed yesterday for England, all companion ways were jammed with visitors. It took the combined efforts of stewards, pursers and seamen to control the traffic. Among the passengers were Mr. and Mrs. P. F. do Souza
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    Criminal force allegation
    61 11 MUAR, Wed.—Three youths Than Tone Miang, Tan Soon Chua and Hee Chuan Kee. were charged at. Muar wi»h using criminal force on a woman Tang Mooi. at Jalan Bakri It was alleged they attempted to steal a gold chain and locket she was wearing Bail of $3OO
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    Gaoled, tells court of robbery
    270 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 28. SOON after he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for robbery on a plea of guilty. Lee Ah Seng, aged 25. stepped into the wit-ness-box in the Singapore First District Court and told of his daylight robbery with an alleged accomplice in
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    Price of rationed rice may go up
    159 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 28. |VIR. A. D. Stutchbury, the Deputy Secretary for Economic Affairs, said yesterday that the Singapore Government might have to increase the charge for rationed rice to make up for any price-increase in Bangkok, unless the price of rice from the
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    Fought for wife’s honour
    87 11 MUAR Dec. 27. A JAVANESE rubber tapper. 28-year-old Kiman bin Haji Talb, was lined $3OO or three months’ Imprisonment when he was found guilty in the Muar Sessions Court of causing hurt to Salleh bin Haji Rahman at Parit Yusof on Aug. 16 last. Kiman was
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    Bribery bid alleged
    80 11 IPOH Dec. 27. A 30-YEAR-OLD Indian woman, Visalatchy, was accused here today of having offered a $6 bribe to an assistant resettlement officer to get him to obtain $100 from Government as compensation for rebuilding her house. She claimed trial and the case w;us postponed to January
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    ‘FIRST HOP’ BEAVER CARRIED ONE PAYING PASSENGER -And he was an air official
    353 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 29. THE federation Government’s Beaver monoplane service to small towns was opened officially lor business yesterday. But the Slx-seater ult Slnuaunri without i passenger On the return Journev irom Kuala Lumpur it carried one paying
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    Tea party before retirement
    62 12 PENANG, Frl. On Ihe eve of hi.s retirement after 50 years’ with the firm, Mr. Seah S(*e Chooi was entertained by Fraser and Nenve Ltd. to a tea party at the Piccadilly Hotel today. Mr. Seah lirst joined the company in Singapore in 1901. He came
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    100 KEES TO HELP EACH OTHER
    45 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 29. \JORK than 100 Chinese with the surname Kee have formed an association in Singapore called the Nanyang Kee Sie Kong lluay. Objects of the association are to assist members in adversity and at marriages and funerals.
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    Guthrie & Company’s new offices
    85 12 Guthrie Company’s new offices SINGAPORE. Dec. 29. GUTHRIE and Company will celebrate their return to Battery Road, Singapore, on Jan. 19 when more than 600 guests will be invited to the opening of their new offices The opening ceremony will be performed by the managing director of the company Sir
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    19-year-old girl claims trial
    64 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. Ng Kim Tong, a 19-year-old girl, yesterday claimed trial in the Singapore Fourth Police Court on a charge of fraudulent possession of 189 tins of biscuits, valued $614.25 and belonging to Ong Say Yoow. at Serangoon Road oh Dec. 22 Ng was offered
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    Rubber for Poles leaves tomorrow
    205 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. MORE rubber will be going from Malaya to countries in the Russian bloc when the Danish ship Meonia sails tomorrow. She will carry 125 tons of rubber to Copenhagen, from where it will be transhipped to the Polish port of Gdynia. This
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    4,815 tons tin in November
    60 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. Malaya produced 4.815 tons of tin-in-concentrates last month, bringing the total for the year to ***** tons. The monthly production was 48 tons lower than that in October. Stocks of tin metal and tin-in-concentrates at the end of last month were 6,788
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    HIS GOOD DEED COST HIM $15
    53 12 MUAR. Fri.—“ You might be doing somebody a good turn but it was an offence.” said the Muar Magistrate. Inche Mansoor. when h(> fined a taxi-driver. Jatfar bin Meon. $l5 for carrying an extra passenger Jalfar said the man begged for a lift saying
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    ‘DEFER MacD DECISION’
    208 12 DEFER MacD DECISION’ SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. r rHfc Prime Munster, Mr. Churchill, has been asked by Malayan leaders to postpone his decision on the future of Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Commissioner General in South-East Asia, until he receives a memorandum which will be sent by air from Malaya next week. Dato
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    Year’s gaol for robbery
    118 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. YUEN Ching, 24, a fitter, of Banda Street, was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment in Singapore yesterday for his part in robbing a woman, Tan Peck Luang of $2,593 worth of jewellery and $517 in cash. An accomplice, Lee Ah Seng. 25 who
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    Bottle of beer was exhibit
    97 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. A BOTTLE of beer was produced as an exhibit, in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday when a labourer. K. Pakirasamy, was charged with stealing it on Dec. 27 from the motor vesel, Kina which was berthed at Godown 4/5 in the
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    Accused man warned in death case
    154 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 28. r pilE case of Wong Yat Kim, who is charged with driving offences in connection with the death of Mr. Derek Green, Assistant Director of the Malayan Film Unit, was postponed here today until Jan. 21. It is alleged that
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    Aviation petrol up 7 cts.
    196 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. THE price of aviation petrol in Singapore the Federation and Borneo will be increased by seven cents per gallon from Jan. 1, the Shell Company announced yesterday. This will be the second increase in two months the price went up by 10
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    Died after fall in factory.
    97 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. A finding of death by misadventure was recorded at an inquest on an 18-year-old factory worker, Leow Kok Chong, who died as a result of a fall in a noodles factory at Kim Chuan Road on Oct. 10. Lears father told the
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    DRIVER CLEARED
    57 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. V. Panchavarnam. a driver attached to the Municipal Transport Centre, was in Singapore yesterday acquitted of driving in a negligent manner in Bras Basah Road on July 28. He said he was taking the bend at Bras Basah Road when he swerved to avoid a
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    BOY DROWNED
    26 12 TELUK ANSON. Fri. A two-year-old boy, Chai Chan Lan, w’as found drowned in a well at Kampong Pelawan behind Langkap Village in Lower Perak.
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    HAWKER FINED
    19 12 MUAR. Fri. Qua Soo Chung, who hawked foodstuffs in a prohibited area, was fined $lO at Muar.
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    Armed bandits raid a Perak village
    129 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 28. tkn uniformed and armed bandits raided a village on the outskirts of Kampar town, in Perak, last night in search of food. They entered a house and ii gun point collected jewellery, food and drinks A telephone and rice and
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    HOLIDAY SPIRIT IN MARKET
    183 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. AS ‘he Christmas holidays, which included Monday r the rubber market, have occupied most of the week there is little of market uiterest to report, says Lewis aid Peat’s weekly report issued yesterday. Prices have tended to sag but ’here has been no
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    Two bandits hanged
    42 13 r UA LUMPUR. Dec. 28. y.-> bandits were hanged in saoi this morning W( r Perlanan alias a idaram son of Kuppu- bnd Lam Slew Wah were sentenced to r<Jr carrying a rifle and a hand grenade '"munition respective
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    5 cent profit costs $25
    33 13 hi.,‘ V Fri. Osman j ci. Tahir of Tanjong Was fined ,$25 in r or selling a packet ,i l' 1 l es five cents above rol price.
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    MR. W. L. Blythe, the Colonial Secretary, pictured speaking at a party yesterday in the Victoria Memorial Hall to celebrate the birthday of Prophet Mohamed.
    135 13 An earlier speaker, Mr. Ahmad Ibrahim, called for the introduction of religious education in schools and colleges and for the setting up of a Shariah
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    Malaya’s exports show sharp rise
    152 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. r THERE was a sharp rise in the value ot Malaya’s exports, including re-exports, during November. Malaya ended last month with a favourable trade balance of $75,947,159 total exports being $462,426,714 and imports $386,479,555 Exnorts for the 11 months of this vear.
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    BITE COST $7
    20 13 MUAR. FrL—Because his dog bit a boy at Sungei Mati. Tee Yeo was flned $7 at Muar
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    Two women accused
    66 13 SINGAPORE. Dec. 29. TWO women, Leong Wal Sin aged 43. and Lee Choo. aged 66. claimed trial In Singapore yesterday on a charge of managing a brothel in Duxton Road between September and Dec. 21 They also claimed trial on a charge of living on the earnings
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    RODE ABREAST
    30 13 KUANTAN. Fri.- For riding abreast with two other cyclists in front of the police station. Yap Yoon Loy. a school boy was fined $lO by •he Kuantan Magistrate
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    Onn and Tan don’t speak for Malaya, say 4 Malays
    533 13 pOUR leading Malays in Kelantan have addressed a memorandum to the British Government criticising the recent statement by Mr. John Strachey, former War Minister in the Labour Government, that Britain should accord self-government to Malaya “at whatever pace Dato Onn
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    CAR OWNER FINED
    17 13 VIUAR Fri.—For using a private car for hire. Teh Teck Choo was fined $5O.
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    $250,000 SCHOOL PLANNED
    113 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29 r THE Singapore Ramakrishna Mission has a $250 000 plan to build an English school for 800 children at Bartlev Hoad. lit' hopec to appeal to jnclian ar.d Chinese philanthropist*', for contributions. "The Mission realised the importance of English education in this country and
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    No reply yet to gunfire protest
    190 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. Singapore GovernA ment’s protest to Indonesia over the action of an Indonesian gunboat which fired upon a Royal Singapore Yacht Club sloop a few weeks ago has produced no result, except a letter which said “The matter is receiving attention.*’ Mr.
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    Shipwrecked Japs due
    58 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. THE cargo vessel Bencleuch. expected in Singapore on Tuesday will bring eight shipwrecked people. The Bencleuch left Kure on Christmas Day. Two days later, she signalled the Singapore Ben Line office that seven Japanese men and one woman from a wrecked vessel had been
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    Trial claimed on property charge
    58 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. Yeo Kim Kang, aged 44, claimed trial in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday on a charge of dishonestly disposing 95 umbrellas valued at $ll4. believed to bp stolen property at Park Road on Dec. 20. Ball of $l,OOO was allowed I
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    ‘Yellow Tops’ quit Perak
    193 14 Yellow Tops’ quit Perak SINGAPORE, Dec. 30. 'THE familiar “Yellow Top” taxLs will £0 of! the roads in Perak from the end of this year. They are being: withdrawn from service by the operators, Messrs. Universal Cars Ltd. Reason, said. Mr W H Oladwell. manager of Universal Cars. Is that
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    Woman with tobacco fined
    92 14 .SINGAPORE, Dec. 30. A 47-YEAR-OLD woman, Ho Ah Ng. wa.s fined .$750 or three months’ gaol when .she pleaded guiltv to possession of 241 b of dutiable tobacco at .Smith Street on Dec. 28 Two Revenue officers on their rounds saw Ng trying to conceal a
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    Boy, 17, failed his exam—so took life
    154 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 30. SINGAPORE mother told the Coroner yesterday that her son had failed his school examination and because of this she believed, he took his life. The mother. Heng Hoow Chen#, was giving evidence at an inque.st into the death of hor
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    ‘Food was for baby’, plea
    52 14 Food was for baby’ plea SEGAMAT. Sat.—“l had a small child with me and l was taking the food out to feed him on the way.” said Marliah binti Kasan 35-year-old Javanese woman, charged at Segamat with attempting to take out bread from a food restricted area. Shr; was admonished
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    R.A.F. PLAN SAVES TIME AND MONEY
    130 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 30. EARLY two million Malayan dollars a year of British taxpayers’ money is being saved by a new system of overhaul for Royal Air Force flying boats based at Seletar. Singapore. The Hying boats—30-ton Sunderlands—operate against the bandits in Malaya and (from
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    ‘Fight for hearts of the people’
    159 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 29. b 1RUGGLE for the hearts of the people will be the task of the Federation Government in 1952, a n )C L^? Srrian r ircc t° r of Operations, General Sir kob Lockhart, said in Kuala Lumpur today. The spokesman.
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    ‘SUTTON BOY’ IN COURT
    59 14 PENANG Dec. 29. THE Penang First Magistrate. Mr. D. C I. Wornham. today ordered an 18-year-old National Serviceman. Lim Mok Ooi. to be handed to a police escort from Kuala Lumpur. Lim was charged with having absented himself without leave and without Intention of returning to
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    8 TOWKAYS CHARGED
    613 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 30. EIGHT Chinese merchants went to the Singapore First and Third District Courts yesterday to face 37 charges under the Finance Regulations involving a total of $370,600. They were alleged to have made payments to people residing in Singapore on orders received from persons in
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    TWO ON THEFT CHARGE
    51 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 30. Tan Soon Lock and Goh Geok Koon claimed trial in Singapore yesterday to a charge of stealing 15 batteries and four radiators, worth $9OO, from Yap Lian Loke on Dec. 12 at McPherson Road They were each allowed bail of $l,OOO until Jan.
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    MOTHERS FIND BABIES IN WELL
    80 14 'pWO Chinese women living in the resettlement camp at Port Swettenham found their children drowned in wells. One woman. Yap Siew Kuay, could not find her child when she returned from the standpipe where she had gone to fetch water. She made a search and
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    SINGAPORE COURTS: 2 CHANGES
    148 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 30. SPHERE will be two changes A in the administrative machinery of the Singapore Criminal and District Courts when the Registrar of Vehicles’ Court in Middle Road ceases to exist from Tuesday. Mr. Tan Ah Tah, the First District Judge, said yesterday that the
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    ‘Fire’ S.O.S. from ship
    84 14 PENANG, Dec. 29 gTAND-BY boats in Penang Harbour were alerted early this morning when Penang radio, at Bavan Lepas, intercepted an SOS. message from the Norwegian vessel Sakaugum. which radioed that its engines were on fire. The ship gave its position as mid-way betwween Sabang. Northern
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    Manpower director
    19 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 29. Mr. S. Angus. Adviser. Lands and Mines, Kelantan, has been appointed Director of
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    Krian gives $6,259 to University
    229 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 91. [DONATIONS totalling $#.849 w fit* received by the Univcr.;;:v of Malaya Endow‘Fund during the week no. 1 Dec. 22. largest donation oi y) *ime from the Krian :s;ty of Malaya Fund Committee. Endowment Fund now totals $4,652,982. lit*: are: j./iK'KI: Staff ot
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    Nuisance attacks
    105 15 LUMPUR. Dec. 30. a mUNIS T bandits in Pe- fk yesterday made nuia.tacks on a number I’ciunded points. a °b case, either a few r or lights were uvn tt h ch drew the vre qI police. No cascj'rjV/' ,urc caused to either I-toJ-matton from a mem* o.
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    Company makes $17,000 profit
    46 15 Mon. —At the annual O* Mf'ssrs H W Company Ltd.. It 7 1 f d that the com■r protit for the year u<» 30 1951 was against $5,986 for "is year, after deir')m e tax n?, r cent dividend c a rod
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    1951 WAS YEAR OF ACTIVITY
    231 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 31. 'l'llH Singapore City Council has seen a year of intense activity, said the City President, Mr T. I*. F. McNeice in a review of the year. iii justification of this”, Mr. McNeice said "1 .to anybody to walk or drive around the
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    5 YEARS FOR MAN IN JUNGLE
    153 15 GEMAS, Dec. 30. 'pHE story oi how a Chinese wearing khaki, was found leaning against a tree in the jungle was told in the Gemas Sessions Court when 24-year-old Lau Mock Cheng was charged with consorting with persons acting in a manner prejudicial to
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    SENT TO GAOL
    20 15 GEMAS, Sun.—For unlawful possession of chandu, 62-year-old Keh Yeip was sentenced at Gemas to eight month's imprisonment.
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    60 tin ore dealers lose licences
    122 15 SINGAPORE. Dec 31 qIXTY tin ore dealers in Perak and Selangor, who do more than $25,000,000 worth of business a year, have been told that their licences will not be renewed for 1952. Notices were received by 13 of the 17 dealers in Selangor
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    S’PORE’S GAS MAY BE CHEAPER
    209 15 S’ PORE’S GAS MAY BE CHEAPER SINGAPORE, Dec. 31. 'THERE is every prospect of the price of gas being reduced soon if the Singapore City Council manages to set supplies of coal at its latest tender price of $53.75 a ton. rhe President of the City Council. Mr T P
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    FINED $20
    35 15 KAJANG, Sun.—A Chinese. Wong Ah Man was fined $2O by the Kajang Circuit Magistrate. Inche Harun for inconsiderate driving on the Ban-gi-Dengkil Road in Kajang, when his car collided with a military vehicle.
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    Grandstand crash injures five
    187 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 30. LMY L Chinese boys were injured, one seriously, when a wooden grandstand in the basket ball stadium of the Bukit Bintang Amusement Park, Kuala Lumpur, collapsed last night. About 200 pepple, including women and children, were sitting on the tiered ten foot
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    Bandits do not scare these girls
    101 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 31. ‘TWO yrting English g.ri> wno are not afraid of bandits arrived in Singapore yesterday by Qantas-BOAC from London to help resettled squatters :n the Federation. They are Miss Sheila Compton and Miss Jean Holder who will join the British Red Cross
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    Airline man fined $401
    62 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 31. JOHANNES Josephus Numeyer a K.L.M. airlines freight officer, was fined $4Ol in Singapore at the week-end for two offences under the Finance Regulations. Numeyer pleaded guilty to buying 6.000 Indo-China piastres from a money-changer in Singapore who was not an authorised dealer. He
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    2 killed as bandits hold up lorry
    225 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 30. A GANG of about 20 bandits stopped a Chinese-owned food lorry and a jeep in the Kota Tinggi area of Johore yesterday. One driver and one special constable in the escort were killed. Two other special constables and a
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    Scores show interest in new offer
    147 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 31. CCORES of China-born Chinese residents of Singapore have been inquiring about naturalisation procedure during the last 10 days, a Government official said yesterday. The official said only 14 applications for naturalisation had been received from non-English speaking Chinese since the offer
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    British Council Chief for U.K.
    70 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 31. Mr A 1 Baker the cmef of the British Council in Singapore since its opening four years ago left yesterday in the Denbighshire Mr Baker goes to London to be head of the Appointments Department In the British Council Head Office He
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    Pahang train derailed
    56 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 30. The East Coast mixed train, travelling from Kuala Krau in Pahang to Gemas in Negri Sembilan was derailed yesterday in Negri Sembilan. Two crash wagons and one wheel of the engine left the rails. There was ho firing and the only casualty was
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    FAIR PRICE LIST
    35 15 SINGAPORE, Dec 31. The only alteration to the fair price list announced last night was for “Oak” brand powdered milk in 12 oz. tins, the price of which is quoted at $1.25.
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    GAMBLERS FINED
    18 15 SEREMBAN, Sun. Fourteen people, including TJ3. patients and hospital assistants, were fined $l5 each for gaming.
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    WOMAN KILLED
    24 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 30. A 70-ycar-old woman was found axed to death in front of her house in the Ipoh area yesterday
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    ABSENT: $50
    21 15 SEREMBAN, Sun.—Zakarai bin Udin. a special constable, was fined $5O lor absenting himself from duty for about 34 hours
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    252 16 IJATO TAN CIIFNG I.OCK conies of a family which ha« bwn settled in Malaya for live generations. He is a descendant of T in llay who came to Malaya in a sailing boat and made his home in Malacca. Tan Cheng I/Ock was born in
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    DEAD BANDIT HAD MORE THAN $3,000
    33 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Tucs.—A bandit killed in die Kulim area of Kedah yesterday, had more than $3,000 in his pocket His pistol and a hand ‘grenade were captured
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    Four get O.B.E. in Singapore
    413 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 1. jyiR. A. Graham, retiring Surveyor-General of Ships, Singapore, has been awarded tiie O.B.E. in the New Year Honours List. Lieut. Col. II .1. Rae and Lieut. Commander G. E. W. W. Bayly, Commissioner of Prisons, Singapore, are both'awarded the O.B.E. (Military). Thp
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    ORDER OF BATH FOR POETT
    108 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 1. J. H. N. Poett, Chief of Staff. Far East Land Forces, is made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. C.8.E.: Brigadier M.S.K. Maunsell. Chief of Staff of the British Forces in Hong Kong. 0.8. E.: Lieut.-Col. F. H. Allisop. Commanding
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    CYCLIST KILLED
    37 16 IPOH, Tues.—A 38-year-old farmer, Khoo Ah Yew, while cycling with a load of tapioca flour to market, was killed when he was involved in an accident with a car at the 12th mile Kuala Kangsar
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    GIRL MURDERED
    30 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 31. Bandits murdered a 17-year-old Chine.se girl in the Mentakab area of Pahang and took a ring and a pair of earrings from her body
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    Knighthood for Sarawak Governor
    162 16 SINGAPORE, Jan 1 M R ANTHONY Foster Abell, Governor and Comman-dor-in-Chief of Sarawak, is made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, in the New Year Honours for the Borneo territories. The Chief Justice of Sarawak. Norlh Borneo and Brunei, Mr
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    KNIGHTHOOD FOR TAN CHENG LOCK
    626 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 1. THE KING HAS CONFERR ED KNIGHTHOODS ON TWO MALAYANS—DATO TAN CHENG LOCK, PRESIDENT OF THE MALAYAN CHINESE ASSOCIATION, AND DR. GEORGE VANCE ALLEN, VICE-CHANCEL LOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA, IN THE NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST. DATO TAN WAS MADE KNIGHT COMMANDER
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    A WET DAY AT THE ‘RACES’
    232 17 A WET DAY AT THE RACES’ SINGAPORE. Jan. 2. 1 wu*' a day at the races with i d.fierence. There a, h rs< s but there were All the thrills for the many hundreds who lined Collyer Quay. Singapore. to watch New Year’s Day sea sports In •he harbour I:
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    Butchers had a fight
    48 17 °h Tues.—Ipoh magis- c* urt was told of a i slaughterhouse betwo butchers. Choc claimed trial to hurt to Sim Thai 'hh a butcher's knife m also claimed trial upt’ng to cause hurt Thev were allowed each, and the case 'tponed to Jan. 25.
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    No pass means $500,000 loss
    210 17 IPOH, Jan. 1. NEARLY 9,000 dulang washers in Perak whose passes for this year have not been renewed by the Mines Department will lose a monthly income of more than $500,000. A check Mr. I L Patterson. acting Senior Inspector of Mines. Perak revealed irregularities
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    SUSPECTS HELD
    22 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 1. Five suspected suppliers of food to bandits were arrested vesterdav in the Gurun area of Kedah.
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    World ships ‘hoot in’ the Year
    183 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2. S ''IRENS and hooters of ships from all over the world sounded in the New Year in Singapore. It was a gay New ear. especially among the Forces. Lines of cars stood outside the Shackles Club on Beach Road, and buses
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    ‘Let us speed progress: says Gimson
    215 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2. I L '‘vernor of Singapore. Nv v r anklin Gimson .in a message broadcast 'J voiced the hope 1 nirapore’s progress !n lp51 would continue rvi an even quicker Sir r an bef °re so that ,;v[' ”o can be a
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    Sir Cheng Lock gives message
    250 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2. TELEGRAMS from all over Malaya yesterday poured into the Malacca and Singapore homes ol Sir Cheng Lock Tan, the first Chinese in the Federation to be knighted. And Sir Cheng Lock sat in nis Singapore home and between thanking the callers gave
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    CRASHING TREES KILL TWO
    93 17 IPOH, Jan. 1 TWO people were killed by falling trees in Ipoh on New Year’s Eve Au San aged 40. a woodcutter. was felling a tree at the Seventh Mile. Jelapang Road when it crashed on him He died on the wav to hospital Leong Kok
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    New Year accidents
    92 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2. On New Year’s Eve there were 12 road accidents in Singapore but no one was injured. None of the accidents was serious Up to late yesterday evening there had been 14 accidents No one was injured Mr. W. R M. Haxworth, Chief of Traffic
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    ‘A belated honour’ says leader
    266 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 1. A honour ior one who has performed many years of public service,” was the comment of Mr. Yong Shook Lin, secretary of the Malayan Chinese Association, on the knighthood conferred on I)ato Tan Cheng Lock. Mr. II. S. Lee. president of
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    Gaol for theft
    68 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2. J-JANIFFA bin Ibrahim, ol Kee Seng Street, pleaded guiltv In Singapore to the theft of $40 worth of property belonging to P. Naravasamy and Vadivellu at Enggor Street on Dec. 23. He stole three shirts, two pairs of trousers, one sarong and a fountain-pen.
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      74 17 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Hr. F.mptre X Singapore Town Arc* Mklajt No Post age I no lulling PowUk’r Quarterly t 5.20 5.15 Half-yearly 10.40 11.50 Yearly 20.80 23.00 The weekly iwum o# the Straits Budget ran be sent yt delivery service to the United Kingdom onlv at
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    KEEL ROSE WINS CHRISTMAS CUP
    1057 18 PENANG, Dec. 26. JUTTING on a spectacular hurst ot speed a furlong from home, Keel Rose, ridden by “Porky” Donnelly, heat the favourite, Red Carnation, h\ a head to win the Christmas Cup over a mile, the main event at today’s races, second day of
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    NEGRI UNBEATEN AT HOCKEY
    282 18 SEREMBAN, Dec. 29. rilE Negri Sembilan Chinese Recreation Club ii 1 o Cl Vv* V team emer ff e d champions in the interC.K.C. Quadrangular hockey tournament concluded in Seremban yesterday evening. They were unbeaten in all their three matches. Nff?ri C.R.C. defeated Perak one-nil on
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    TPCA win well at Muar
    102 18 MUAR. Wed. r j’’HE lamilians Physical Culture Association of Kuala Lumpur proved too good for Johore, whom they trounced by six goals to two in a charity soccer match in aid of the University of Malaya Endowment Fund, on the Muar Club padang. A feature
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    Perak win
    64 18 pERAK women became champions lnter-CRC triangular tournament (women’s section! which concluded yesterday. Thev fully deserved their victory. Perak women beat Negri women one-nil on Sunday and yesterday’s concluding match between Perak women and Selangor women, played in heavy rain throughout, resulted in scoreless draw F'erak women wore unlucky
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    6-0 margin did not flatter
    602 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 29. Federation Civilians outplayed Federation Services to win by six points (two tries) to nil in the first North Malayan rugger “test” played here this evening. A sodden ground made the ball slippery but even allowing for this the passing on both
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    Shell S.C. keep title
    117 18 S HFLL Sports Club retained the Singapore Badminton Association’s commercial houses championship on Sunday, beating Fraser and Neave SC in the final bv four games to one. Ong Poh Lim won the only point for F. and N. Scores were (F. and N. players first): Singles:
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    S’pore take the women’s championship
    310 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. gINGAPORE won the women’s championship in the Malayan Basketball Congress last night when they again beat Perak this time by 36 points to 33 after extra time. Singapore had taken the first game by a one-point margin and last night’s match was
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    Jungle Scouts win 15-nil
    177 18 A SPEEDY Special Air Service Regiment rugby XV beat Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers at Ayer Raja Road yesterday by 15 points (three tries, drop goal and a penalty goal) to nil. It was only late In the game that the Jungle Scotlts got on top.
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      42 18 Big Sweep Total Pool $378,270 Ist No *****7 ($90,784) 2nd No. *****0 ($*****) 3rd No. *****0 <*****6) Starters ($7,505 each): Nos *****1. *****2. *****8 *****1. *****5, *****1 Consolation prizes ($2,269 each): Nos. *****7 *****7. *****0. *****9 *****7 *****1. *****4, *****5 *****5. *****8
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    Ouicksand pays $56 for maiden win
    836 19  -  From EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Dec. 29. I ItANDSTAND finish by Audiola (McCloud), Chance Remarks straker) and Pilot’s Point (Tulloh), who finished in a line in the i .,2 event over 8}-furlongs (Race Five) highlighted the races here lot) ,V. third day of the Penang
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    $3.3 MILLION SENT TO INDIA MONTHLY
    121 19 OEMITTANCES to India from Singapore and the Federation last year were nearly double that of the previous year. The average monthly remittances in 1949 were $686,000 from Singapore and $1,097,000 trom the Federation. In 1950 the figures were slightly higher but last year the
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    Printing works burgled
    52 19 PENANG Tues.—Cat burglars last night broke Into the Oversea Trading Syndicates printins works tn Chulla Street and stole several hundred dollars worth of printing material. The loss was discovered this morning when the press opened for business. It is believed the burglars sealed a wall to enter
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    TOPS ON THE TURF, 1951
    49 19 HONOURS on the Malayan Turf for the 1951 season went to: Leading owners: Shaw Brothers 28 winners Leading trainer: Marinus van Breukelen 72A winners. Champion jockey: Athol Mulley 53 winners. Horse of the Year: Best Bet (5 wins and over $60,000 in total earnings).
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    ISLAND CLUB GOLF RESULTS
    130 19 IN the Island Club’s Boxing Day flag competition the prize for men was won by R. A. Mullal. whose last stroke was 30 Inches from the 10th hole. T. Critchley. the runner up, was seven feet from the same hole. The Ladies Prize was won by
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    Accent on youth in 1951 sport
    993 19  -  By NORMAN SIEBEL The Sports Editor SINGAPORE, Dec. 31. FOR sports in Singapore and the Federation It has 1 been an important year; never before have so many splendid achievements been crowded Into one year and never before has promise for the futtire been
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    Singapore score easy victory
    142 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 30. SINGAPORE beat Selangor by 63 points to 42 in the key mat-ch in the men’s section of the Malayan basket ball congress here last night. A crowd*of three thousand saw the colony "cagers” strike top form and wear down their strongest opponents
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    Perak win
    59 19 IPOH, Mon.—Perak beat Selangor by 1-0 in the final round of the Thivy Shield, Indians’ InterState hockey; tournament, here to emerge- champions for the meet. The goal was scored by Thillainathan midway in the second half. Perak won all four matches to take eight points. Runners up are
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    SHELL WINS
    48 19 In the final of the Singapore Commercial Houses Tournament played at the Clerical Hall yesterday. Shell Sports Club beat Fraser Neave Sports Club bv four games to one. In the Senior Inter-Club tournament played off vestefday. Eclipse BP. beat Youthful BP. bv four games to one
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      42 19 Big Sweep Total pool $391,650. 1st No. *****0 ($93,996) 2nd No. *****1 ($46,998) 3rd No. *****3 ($23,499) Starters $6,714 each): Nos. *****8, *****6. *****6. *****5.' *****0. *****4 *****3. Consolation: ($2,349 each): Nos *****0. *****4, *****0. *****3. *****6. *****2, *****4. *****2. *****8. *****5
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    BUSY CHRISTMAS WEEK ON LOCAL MARKET
    462 20 From A Market Correspondent MARKET activity, quite unusual at this season, iT1 was maintained in the three and a half business days before and after Christmas and Friday saw trading which was very brisk indeed. Industrials contributed some sizeable transactions but in Rubbers sellers
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    Dredging company reports
    288 20 MALAYAN Tin Dredging's net profit for the year to June 30. IHa 1. £64.921 (32-i per cent.i. was derived entirely lrom interest and dividends; r > per cent, was distributed. The No 5 dredge exhausted the vnyin driV table land Rt Batu Oujah ar worked through to
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    12½% FINAL FOR SEMBILAN EST.
    51 20 12½ FINAL FOR SEMBILAN EST. gEM BILAN Estates' directors have recommended a final dividend of 12*4 per cent, less ta* on the Preference and Ordinary shares in respect of the year to July 31, 1951. The company has already paid an interim dividend of 7Vi per cent for the same
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    Business Done
    144 20 BUSINESS reported done on the local market last week included: Industrials. Fraser Neave $4.07 i. Cammon $2.75, Malayan Breweries $5.10, Malayan Cement 55 to 57 cents. McAlister $40.50, Robinson $3.90, Straits Times $3.95, Straits Trading $22.00, Henry Waugh $2.70, Wearne $5.20 ex div., William Jacks $3.50. Tins. Hong
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    970 20 SINGAPORE. Jan. 1. INDUSTRIALS Buyer* Seller* Fraser Neave f"/ 2 15 2 25 18 J c f 12 60 13 50 gg. Ptro1 46/6 BM Trustees 6 50 7.50 Con Tin Smelt rpf 21/6 22/6 23/- 24A uu l Assur 36 50 37 50 Led Dixoensurv 1.75
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    SINGAPORE ‘ON-CARRYING’ RACKET
    259 20 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. glNGAPORE’S Foreign Exchange Control has tightened its rules to prevent Continental racketeers from getting dollars at the sterling area’s expense from Malayan tin, rubber and pepper. European buyers have been on-carrying cargoes to America, getting payment i n U.S. dollars and paying the Malayan
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    KAMRA TIN DREDGING
    108 20 KAMRA Tin Dredging made only £2.059 three-quarters per cent.) in the year to March 31. 1951. This figure was arrived at after charging £39.000 for replacements and repairs. Net liquid assets add up to £32,170 including £7,602 balance of war damage compensation received after the end of
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    MALACCA ELEC.
    34 20 MALACCA Electric Lighting liquidator's account on S)ept. 30. 1951, showed cash at $197,367 (23 cents per share) but no further distribution to shareholders Ls possible until the companvs tox liability Is determined.
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    SANDYCROFT
    60 20 gANDYCROFT Rubber Company i;, to hold cn extraordinary meeting on Jan. 19. 1952. when shareholders will be asked to authorise disposal of the estate. Tha directors have made confidential recommendations to shareholders regarding an offer they have received. JOINT stock companies registered u in Singapore this year number 151.
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    Cheaper beef by mid-January
    156 20 SINGAPORE, Dec. 29. L’KOM the middle of January, there will be cheaper beef in three of the markets under the control of the Singapore city Council. A local firm, the Madju Trading: Company, w'll sell beef at 20 per cent less than the current market price
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    AMAL. BRUAS EST. SHARES
    40 20 AMALGAMATED Bruas Rubber Estates has notified holders of the £20,000 of six per cent. Redeemable Cumulative Preference 2s shares that their shares 'vill be repaid at par on March •'ll, 1052. together with interest then due.
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