The Straits Budget, 10 January 1952

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    34 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [EBTABLKHEO OVER A CENTURY] V v. Scries No. 284. 0 XI 1 Singapore Thursday, January 10, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) or i
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      284 1 Jtevj&i, Paints solve your problems We live and work in a climate which is unkind to paints, and it is therefore essential that those we buy should be made to stand up to our conditions. In the laboratories of the large Berger Group of Companies, with factories all over the
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      FOR WHOM DO THE TWO DATOS SPEAK?
      351 2  -  W’.Y \V Kota Bahru. IVVAS astounded to read, on Dec. 29, the Straits Times report of a memorandum addressed to the British Government by Haji Wan Mohamed bin HaJi Wan Ahmad and three of his friends (“Onn and Tan don’t speak for Malaya,
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      SANTA CLAUS AT THE DOOR
      87 2  -  SNOWMAN. Singapore. JN the New Year, I hope the Government will do somcJJ} ln R about our Sikh Father Christmas, who lives by lending money to public servants for 3G5 days in the <tl and is yet their master the whole year. On any pay
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      TODDY SUPPLIES
      83 2  -  JUSTICE (‘(‘deration of Malaya I UNDERSTAND that certain toddy suppliers have not been allowed by the authorities concerned to supply toddy to estate toddy •shops oji the ground that they have been convicted in court There are a number of nppliers with at least half a dozen convictions
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      PRIVILEGES OF THE AIDED
      92 2  -  NOT FULLY AIDED. Singapore. 'pilE first teacher from sn Aided school to sit on the Singapore Legislative Council was nominated bv the Government The second ruch teacher was also a Government nominee. This proves, perhaps, the special qualities possessed by teachers serving in these schools Ic
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      CHATTING IN THE OFFICE
      247 2  -  HO THEAN FOOK. Ipoh. 1FEI3J. I must contradict Mrs. M. M. Mandy for her superficial observation of Government men and commercial men. I agree with her that the Government employee is more “approachable” because if he cannot finish his work today he can postpone it, to
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      Utility sale prices
      240 2  -  MANAGER. Singapore. fJF course utility goods are on sale in Singapore y/ I can hardly believe that any department store head has ever said otherwise. In my own case, utility goods from the United Kingdom are stocked in a wide range, selling in competition with nonutility and
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      U.K. & U.S.: THE BOND
      224 2  - U.K. U.S.: THE BOND ki.yne street Kuala Lumpur. RECENTLY, in London, a distinguished American addressed a distinguished gathering in the following terms We have much in common. We have a common heritage; a common language—though it may be that some of our American speech is hardly in keeping with the
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      Salute to a magistrate
      103 2  -  E. E WARE. Singapore JjNDER the heading “Magisu..tratr„to refuse orders to quit published l n the Straits rimes of Jan 4. I see that, m these troubled times when the housing problem looms large there i s a man who has ’lie welfare of the poor
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      ‘Dilution of labour’ in school
      236 2  -  FAIR PLAY. Kuala Lumpur TO alleviate the ‘‘Kirkby shortage”, the Negri A Sembilan Education Department has taken on Normal trainees who haven’t passed their Senior Cambridge exams. These teachers are employed on a month-to-month basis and will presumably become permanent if their Cambridge results are
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      THE PRICE OF STEEL BARS
      204 2  -  VERIDIQUE. Singapore. ''pODAY, Thursday, you quote the representative of a local building firm regarding prices for steel bars. I hasten to point out that a somewhat erroneous picture would be given to the public at large were this statement left unchallenged. While the prices mentioned
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      WHO THOUGHT OF KIRKBY?
      265 2  -  CRUSADER. Singapore. (JAN you tell us who was responsible for the bright idea of sending our student teachers to Kirkby? What benefit will Malaya, I get from this experiment which is costing our Government so much money—money that can ill be spared during this period of
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      OVER-AGE PUPILS IN PAHANG
      70 2  -  PARENT. Pahang. I WAS much interested to read last Saturday’s letter “Penang’s Malay Children.” As one of the parents concerned may I ask the authorities whether there has been any investigation of certain children over 12 years, for whom statutory declarations were submitted as to their
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      TOO PRECIOUS
      73 2  -  MM RENO HOCK. Singapore. MUCH has been said about the play “Lady Precious stream” in your paper. We students would very much like to see the play, but the prices of tickets are such bat it is beyond our means We would be very grateful it the producer.
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      Washington Tin Talks
      878 3 —Straits Times. Jan 3 j. s n ow reasonably certain _M lay an tin and rubber l r among the subjects i; Churchill will discuss a I'm sident Truman, al- < t j Ul4 h President and Prime Mini>ti r are unlikely to in- themselves in more
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      Maxim Litvinov
      303 3 --Straits Times, Jan. 3. Maximovitch Litvinov, whose death has been announced by Moscow Radio, was one of the last of the “old Bolsheviks.” a litle reserved for the small group which led the 1905 revolution To his close friendship with Lenin, and a later genius for keeping himself
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      The Federal Citizen
      787 3 —Straits Times, Jan Mr. W. M. MacLeod’s appeal for the relaxation of the qualifications for Federal citizenship so as to gain the confidence and greater co-operation of the Chinese in the Communist war is a reminder that six months have passed without any word of the progress
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      The Melbourne Match
      272 3 —Straits Times, Jan It matters not who won or lost, but how we played the game. Not quite correctly quoted, the aphorism also is not accurate. For it does matter who won, and the West Indies, who did not win yesterday, will be the first to admit
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      A New Deal For Tin
      650 3 Straits Times. Jan. 5 The resignation of Mr. Stuart Symington, head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which President Truman has announced may he expected later this month, is good news for Malaya. Mr. Truman told Press correspondent. l that Mr. Symington had been anxious for
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      Russia, Korea And The U.N.
      366 4 Straits Times. Jan 5. Mi Vishinky’.s surprise proposal that Ihe Security Coun''d should intervene in the Koii*an armistice negotiations presumably sprang from recognition that the Panmunjnm talks cannot go on forever. They have to he ended some time. Whether the Security Council could bring them
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      ICFTU And The Unions
      755 4 Straits Times. Jan. 7 rhe> delegation from the Inti rnational Confederation ot k ree Trade Unions which made, many months ago, a survey of trade* unionism in Asia encountered at the* beginning ol it.* mission a great deal of suspicion It was able to meet the
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      The Tax Dodgers
      363 4 -Straits Times, Jan. 7 A pointer to much needed action hv the* Malayan Governments. whose complacency in the matter of income-tax collection is quite remarkable. is found in the intention of the British Inland Revenue authorities to seek among university graduates •t new corps of income-tax inspectors
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      Churchillian talks
      689 4 v.. ,tc Times. Jan. 8. With the groundwork already prepared in a cruise bn the Potomac, President and Prime Minister have embarked in Washington on talks momentous to the free world. Mr. Churchill has already warned against the expectation of immediate dramatic results from his American visit. But
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      The Tibetan Reds
      373 5 —Straits Times, Jan. 8 An apparently successful “cultural tour" of India by a Communist f'hinese mission docs not seem to have removed all th.t' fears felt in > 'mo Indian auarters as a result of events in Tibet. Recollection of Peking's bruscue 1 aetn n to the
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      The Dangers Of Delay
      1096 5 —Straits Times, Jan. 9. It is three weeks since the, Secretary of State for the Colonies returned to London' leaving Malaya to expect the) appointment of the new High Commissioner for the Federation before the end of the vear. The appointment has still to be announced.
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    REPAIRS TO THE ROADS
    185 5  -  A. R. LAZAROUS. Singapore. I NOTICE that extensive repairs are being done to Dunearn Road. Singaporean excellent piece of work, for Dunearn Road does help to relieve the weight of traffic on Bukit, Timah Road. But there is a snag. I have looked at the still
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    POSTAL MATTER
    37 5  -  W. A. COOPER, Director of Posts. Singapore. IF your correspondent “Palm Grove Avenue” would care to reveal his identity by addressing his complaints on Post Ollier deliveries to the undersigned they will be fully investigated.
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      BIRTHS
      208 5 DAVIES To PEG, wife of Dr LEC. Davies at 10 Orange Grove Road on 31st December a son. BROWN. To MARIAN, wife of C Brown at K.K Hospital on sth Jan. 1952, a daughter. CAMERON To PEG, wife of M. Cameron at Batu Gajah on 1.1.52 a daughter Hellen
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      74 5 THE engagement is announced at Ipoh between Mr. Lee Loo San. third son ol Mr. Mrs. Lee Man Che€. and Miss Betty Chin Ewe Heng second daughter of Mr. Mrs. Chin Cheng Hong. THE ENGAGEMENT is announced between Steuart Robert Pringle. Royal Marines, only son of Sir Norman Pringle
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      MARRIAGE
      73 5 TEO-CHENG. The marriage took place between Mr. Tco Choo Wah. second son of Mr. Mrs. Too Siok Guan, of Guan Hoe Co., (Malaya) Ltd., 14 Hill Street. Singapore, and Miss Cheng Wei Lian. niece of Mr. Sc Mrs. Clung Hui Ming, MB F. on the sth January, 1952, at
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      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
      30 5 Mr. and Mrs. Wong Onn Fook thank their many friends and relatives lor their kind wishes and valuable presents on the occasion of their marriage on 30th December 1951.
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    197 5 MISS C. McGUIRE thanks all those friends and relatives lor their messages of condolence, wreaths and “for attending the funeral of her beloved brother Bertie, and uLo for the help given, during his brief illness. MRS. STOKER thanks all relatives and friends for their sympathetic messages and letters of condolence,
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    A SINGAPORE DIARY
    2624 6  -  Stanley Street. From The Straits Times of Jan. 3—Jan. 9. Flight of hornets we have disposed ai least temporarily of tigers rats, snakes, centipedes and wasps over the last few days, it seems only right that we should revert to the topic which brought Mr. S. Rumuchandra
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    INDIAN FISHERMEN, BATU FERRINGHI, PENANG
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    Countryman’s Journal
    789 7  -  TUAN D.IF.K. i r was recently re1 corded m the journal that the rainfall this month had not been heavy, and it was predicted that this state of affairs would not last. A; 7 Christmas morning the Tma was awakened of boxes and ...s- bei:v pushed about ic.der
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    “Morning in Tanjong Tokong Bay Penang.”
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    2,000 FLEE FLOODS
    129 7 SINGAPORE. Jan. 6. A LARGE force of police and troops yesterday evacuated 2 000 women and children from the flooded resettlement area at Kampong Abdullah, one-and-a-half miles along the Segamat-Labis Road. The men settlers are staying on for the time being, trying to dam the area In
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    Fifty years ago
    118 7 (From the Straits Times of Jan. 6, 1902) IT is very hard upon the planters of the Native States, who have battled with years of loss In the roller business when the Government practically starts in f o competition with them in ’he cultivation of the Para
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    THEY GOT A BANDIT A DAY
    347 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. AN average of one bandit a day fell to the 1 security forces in Johore last year. Increased contacts had led to a record number of surrenders. This is disclosed in statistics from Johore stating that 367 bandits were accounted for
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    RUBBER COUNCIL AND GOVT. AGREE
    372 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2. Agreement has been reached between the Rubber Producers’ Council and the Federation Government on the establishment ol the Rubber Stabilisation Fund, the Straits Times understands. Negotiations have* been going on lor more than six months The Federal Legislative Council, scheduled to
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    Mr. Forrer takes Oath of Office
    58 8 SINGAPORE Jan. 3. Mr H. A Forrer, former Registrar. Supreme Court, and a District Judge, who lead been living in retirement, assumed duties yesterday as Civil District Judge and Magistrate. lie took the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Olliee before Mr A
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    LORRY BURNT
    22 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2. Twenty bandits, dressed in kliuki, burned a lorry in the Muar ana of Johor*,* on Monday
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    ACCUSED OF LYING
    105 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 3. Quck Ec Hong, a former detective, was tentatively charged in Singapore yesterday with giving false evidence during a police investigation into a gambling ease, in which 23 people were involved, on Sept. 13 in North Bridge Road. He was alleged to have a i>olice
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    No. 1 kill to the Gurkhas
    82 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 2. PATROL of the 1/7 Gurkhas made the first bandit kill of the New Year yesterday. They were about to return to base from ambush positions in the Bahau area, Negri Sembilan, when they spotted three bandits. The Gurkhas opened fire,
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    $10,000 THEFT: 3 HELD
    88 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 3. 'THREE men aie being held by the Singapore C.I.D. in connection with a $lO,OOO burglary of wrist watches from Bajaj Textiles, of Raffles Place, between New Year’s Eve and New Year's Day. Police believe that burglars broke into the store by climbing into
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    Carried excess weight
    41 8 PARIT BUNTAR. Wed— A lorry driver. Ye oh Hock Poh, was fined $5O in the Bagan Serai carrying an .xcoss load of one ton in his lorry. He was fined another $lO for driving along a restricted road.
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    VALETTA HITS SEA, 3 SAVED
    203 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. T'lIE naval boom defence ship Barfoil made a mile-and-a-quarter dash to the rescue when an R.A.F. Valetta transport crashed into the sea off Telok Paku, near Changi airfield, yesterday*. Barfoil picked up the aircraft’s crew of three, the only occupants, who were
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    Bandits kill headman
    71 8 IPOII Jan. 2. A FEW hours after he was kidnapped by bandits at Tur.ggang Kramat Pulai on Sunday night, the body oi a Sakai headman. Kulop Chabang. was found in a shallow crave three milt's in the jungle The discovery was made bv two other Sakais who
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    GAOL FOR MAN WITH AN ALIAS
    48 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. For failing to repott to the police, 25-year-old Awang Yatim bin Awang. alias Mohamed bin Awang. was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, to be followed by another 12 months’ supervision by Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate. Mr. P. Claguo. yesterday
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    Reunion after 25 years
    77 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 3. Prolessor Chandran Devanesen. who teaches history at the University of Madras, had a reunion at Kalians Airport on Tuesday with his uncle and aunt. Mr and Mrs. J. D. Edwards, and cousin, Mr. J. E. R. Edwards, of the Customs Department, after 25
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    A former bandit is cleared
    164 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 2. fa 22-ycar-old surrendered bandit, charged in Kuala Lumpur today with attemptin" to rxtort $200 from a boyhood friend, was discharged without his defence bein'’ called. I ow Kali Seng was nllrperi t/i }riv> commit! led tlio offence at the second mile
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    BANDITS USE A TAXI TO KILL 3
    166 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 2. bandits drove A up in a taxi to the “state guardroom on a Johore rubber estate and started a fight in which a special constable and two Chinese children were killed and a constable and an estate labourer were
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    Trader wins $500 claim
    120 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 3. JUDGMENT for $5OO. with costs was given by Mr. H. A. Forrer in the Second Civil District Court yesterday In a claim by Wong Choy. trading as Kwong San Lee and company, against Ong Oh Tlic claim was based on a cheque issued
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    Bail refused on extortion charge
    78 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 3. Teo Ah Leng, aged 25, claimed trial in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to a charge of attempted extortion on Oct. 10 threatened a woman. Soh last year Teo was alleged to have Kim Lian. by putting her in fear of
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    2 accused of extortion
    63 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. A charge of extortion was explained to Tung Kok Chong, aged 22, and Liew Chong, aged 18, both of Lorong 17, Geylang, in Singapore yesterday. They were alleged to have threatened to beat up Bong Hock Eng in Sims Avenue on New Year’s
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    Two kisses for dad from the R.A.F. twins
    55 9 QH to be their father now the twins are here! is how Sergeant Alfred Wickham, of the R.A.F* Seletar, was greeted yesterday when his two 22-year-old daughters, Myra and Valerie, stepped off the troopship, Empress of Australia, in Singapore. The twins are
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    $3,000 POLICE OFFER
    99 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 3. SINGAPORE Police have oilered a $3,000 reward ini leading to arrest and conviction of ,e pe.'x'U responsible for throwing acid at a wedding u.irtv m Anguilla Road on N v' 25. rke acid injured six quests, one seriously. The la*’er w,..s Mr Tan Kim
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    Alleged theft of rubber
    73 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 3. wi-.vEN Chinese and four f hms were charged in up r- Third Police e>*erday with stealing *°n of sheet rubber $3,500 from the ard on Monday ->v Neo Kee Sin. C'hua Boon Teck. Quee. Low Wan :Io Tat Ping Lee Abdul Kainv Su-
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    Soldering iron killed him
    28 9 •■*IING, Wed.—A misad,t( verdict was recorded e Hoe Meng, aged 20. as electrocuted on Nov. was handling an elec- dering iron when he Kihed.
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    CIVILIANS HURT
    28 9 *HALA I.UMPUR. Jan. 2. vllians were wounded Mr, h Monday— one in l Pahat area of and the other in the 1 Ojstrict of Negri Bern-
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    Chinese goodwill must be won
    337 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2. AIR. W. M. MacLeod, president of the Malayan Association, recommended today that Government should ease the Federal citizenship qualification to gain the confidence and greater co-operation of the Chinese in the fight against Communist banditry. Speaking at the association’s quarterly meeting,
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    Stole cycle spare parts
    75 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 3. VAP Han Sue, of Tiong Bahru Road, was sentenced in Singapore Third Police Court on Monday to one month’s imprisonment for theft of bicycle spare-parts from the Ascanius at the Singapore Harbour Board on Dec. 29. Mr. B. N. Finch. A.S.P., who prosecuted,
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    $184 CHARGE
    58 9 SEGAMAT. Wed.— Alleged to have misappropriated 5184.21 on the Chuan Moh San Estate. 34-year-old Kok Choon had his case transferred from the Sessions Court to the Magistrate’s Court here today. Bail ot $2OO was allowed SEGAMAT. Wed. Bail in $3OO was offered Lim Tim Siak. aged 24, charged
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    SIR GEORGE REVIEWS THE UNIVERSITY
    458 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. OIR George Allen, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, who received a knighthood in the New Year’s honours, yesterday said that the most significant occasion in his career was the founding of the University. “The founding of the University in 1949, and
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    $100 BAIL
    28 9 SEGAMAT, Mon. Bail In $lOO was allowed to Ng Bak. alias Tey Yew Chai, 29, charged here today with moving medicine out of a restricted area.
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    Went amok on his wedding day
    77 9 ALOR STAR Jan. 2. A MALAY special constable who Is alleged to have run amok and to have killed two Chinese and wounded another at Kampong Lallang last week, has now been found dead. He is believed to have killed himself with his own
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    2 on modesty charge
    72 9 IPOH VUSOF bin Hashim, a 19- year old special constable, was charged with attempting to outrage the modesty of a woman, Low Chow Tai, in the lock up of the Ipoh Central Police Station. JafTar bin Din, another special constable, was said to have abetted Yusof
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    Guard was asleep
    58 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. YUSOFF bin Abdul Ghani, a 23-year-old policeman, was «ent to gaol for a month in Singapore yesterday for sleeping while on armed duty at Kairang airport on New Year’s Day. Inspector i. S. Zain said that YupbfT was found sleeping and had a loaded
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    Caused hurt: $75 fine
    43 9 PARIT BUNTAR. Wed A Tamil labourer was fined $75 in Bagan Serai for voluntarily causing hurt to Thanimalai at Guala Estate on Oct. 13 It was alleged that the accused stabbed the complainant in the course of a fiuarrel.
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    Rent board grants increases
    121 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 3. "FIIE monthly rent of $80.25 of two houses 740 and 742, Mour.batten Road. Singapore. was increased to $ll2 by the Rent Conciliation Board yesterday. The Board sat. in the Civil District Court building for the first time under the presidency of Mr. Eu
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    COLONEL (Miss) G. E. Morgan, left, head of Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps in Singapore, photographed with three of the 28 nursing orderlies and other ranks of the Q.A.R.A.N.C. who arrived in Singapore yesterday in the Empress of Australia. They are the first women nursing orderlies to come to the Fast.
    55 10 COLONEL (Miss) G. E. Morgan, left, head of Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps in Singapore, photographed with three of the 28 nursing orderlies and other ranks of the Q.A.R.A.N.C. who arrived in Singapore yesterday in the Empress of Australia. They are the first women nursing orderlies to come to
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    Magistrate to refuse orders to quit
    136 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4 MR. K. J. L. Jamieson, i Singapore City Police Court Magistrate, said yesterday "I cannot go on giving mandatory orders to demolish houses unless they are necessary for development purposes and are required at once” lie said this when told that
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    16 gamblers fined $400
    89 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4 OIXTEEN rm*n were fined a O total of $4OO when they pleaded guilty to Rambling charges before Mr. P Clague. the Singapore Fourth Magistrate yesterday. The case was a sequel to a raid by detectives, led by Inspectors I). F. Meyer and S
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    134 Civil cases listed for 1952
    68 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. The Singapore High Court has listed 134 civil cases, most of them filed during 1950 and 1951. for hearing during the current year. Eight cases on the list are divorce suits Dates for the hearing of these suits were fixed by
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    NEW COACHES
    39 10 PENANG Jan. 3 Two new sleeping coaches for the Malayan Railways arrived In Penang on Wednesday by the Blue Funnel vessel Charon They are the first coaches to be sent to Malaya completely and ready for use.
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    PENNEFATHER-EVANS LEAVES NEXT MONTH
    94 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. Commissioner ot Police, Mr. J. P. Pennefather-Evans, will leave the service in February. His successor has not yet been named. Mr. Pennefatner Evans came to the Colony to reorganise the police force lollowing the riots in December 1950. He took olliee as Commiscioner
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    S’pore man marries K.L. girl
    135 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 3. WEDDING, according to Buddhist rites, which united Singapore and Kuala Lumpur Singhalese families, took place today in Kuaia Lumpur. The bride, who wore a white georgette and silver lace saroe over a silver blouse, was Miss Indrawathie Jayawardena. daughter of Mr.
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    Bandits destroy New Year mails
    57 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 3. A bandit attack destroyed mails for Kuantan and Kuala Trengganu on New Year’s Eve. The Postmaster General announced today that the mails destroyed tneluded letters and parcels posted in Singapore on Dec. 28. in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 28 and 29
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    Woman told: ‘Pay rent’
    62 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 3. I EE GUAN. who said that j her husband was t n gaol was today ordered bv Mr. A. P. Jack the Kuala Lumpur First Court Magistrate, to pay arrears of rent from August last year or be ejected from her home
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    STOREKEEPER SENT TO GAOL
    52 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. Cheong Hock Chye alias Tan Quee Boon, a storekeeper of tho Societa Commissionaria. was yesterday sentenced to three months’ rigorous imprisonment, by the Singapore Second Police Magistrate, Mr. R. B. I. Pates, for misappropriating two bales of cloth valued $1,798,49 on Nov 16
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    RUBBER CESS
    40 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. The Singapore Rural Board vesterdav announced that, the fee in 1952 on every tappable rubber tree standing on rubber lands under 100 acres in area in the Rural Board will he six cents per tree.
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    Sunspots ‘held up’ promotion
    214 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. QUNSPOTS affecting radio communication delayed promotion news by nearly 24 hours for officers of Far East Air Force. The Air Ministry’s halfyearly promotion list, effective January 1, was received “jumbled” in parts owing to interference, and had to be clarified before it could
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    DECEMBER TOPS CRASH LIST
    167 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. THERE were 1,009 accidents in Singapore in December —the highest ever. And all the accident reports are not yet in. But five people were killed on the roads during the month —the lowest monthly figure last year. A Traffic Police spokesman said the
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    Fish expert reports
    121 10 SINGAPORE. Jan. 4. PAPTAIN William Liston. veteran Clydeside fishing skipper who has been studying Malayan fishing methods yesterdav visited Chinese fishermen at a kclong 'fishing stake) oft Changi Accompanied bv Mr. T W Burdon. of the Fisheries Department. Captain Liston spent seven hours a ruising off the
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    Car Licence: new rule
    58 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. A new regulation has been made by the Registrar of Vehicles, Singapore, forbidding motorists to paste their car licences on the windscreens of cars As from Jan. 1, licences must be enclosed in holders mounted either on the glass, or on the dashboard
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    BUILDERS ARE SCEPTICAL
    192 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. SINGAPORE builders and engineers were cautious and reserved yesterday when asked about the possibilities of reinforcing concrete with bamboo. Bamboo-reinforced concrete, said to 'oe much cheaper and a partial answer to the shortage of steel, has been useci to build a large cow shed
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    ‘All nations’ show opens
    118 10 All nations’ show opens SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. UNDER tlie patronage of Mr. Malcolm MacD naid. the Internal! >nal Variety Concert opened last night at the Victoria Memorial Hall. The proceeds are to help raise funds for a kindergarten and clinic of the Church of the True Light in Jalan Besar.
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    12 years for consorting
    69 10 IPOH, Jan. 3. 26-YEAR-OLD surrendered bandit, Kong Meng. who pleaded guilty to consorting with bandits between Oct. 1948 and Sept. 1951. was today sentenced to 12 years' penal servitude. He gave himself up to the police in May last year. He continued to consort with bandits
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    GAMBLERS FINED
    32 10 SEREMBAN Jan. 3. —Hospital attendants, and not “hospital assistants” as reported, were fined in the Seremban Police Court last week for gambling in the local General Hospital on Boxing Day.
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    Sugar price reduced by five cents
    102 11 iNGAPORE, Jan. 4. T ij of rationed sugar 1 Singapore has been rv! n'“ V five cents a katty u":; ,> Government sources t ,'.)iv are charging less. X n dement to the Gov- i; Gazette yesterday 1 j r.::t sugar is now being
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    Absent from duty charge
    82 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 4. SHAN MUG AN Sinuaram. a 20-yeai ial conFederatton Pode, IVrvt. ...s charged in :he S.r. re First Police Court yesterday with absenti:k himself from duty. Singaram. arrested on a rovisional warrant at Kranti Road on Wednesday, was sted to Pan Lee Estate in
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    Trial claimed on trespass charge
    67 11 RE, Jan. 4. -.1 oin Abdul p 9. ol Potong d yesterday •v t: V -r- First Police L r v n i.'e trespass. entered a P VP r n S to Suppian Ddlah with intent to I; i! *d assault her on weCiiH -d
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    CHILD CRUELTY CHARGE
    33 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. f ck Hoon. of 33 DeRoad. was charged i»ro yesterday with •V“,r'\ v assaulting and 111-l-'.m Ah Cheng an ir-old girl j P ,Se was adjourned to
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    GANG TOOK EVEN THEIR UNIFORMS
    92 11 rr. IPOH, Jan. 3. j Y armed bandits raided the Sin Cheong Hin w Viine i n the Lahat area, about five miles from r car ly this morning, killed a special constable away with nine rifles and clothing, includ ‘“i/ he uniforms of other
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    City taxation of chief tenants is proposed
    197 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. TAX on chief tenants to recover some of the assessment revenue being lost by the Singapore City Council through rent control legislation is being considered. The City Assessor, Mr. J. G. Aspinall, in a I memorandum to City Councillors, has
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    Bachelor —said he had a wife
    120 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 4 A SOLDIER, who claimed a year’s marriage allowance although he was not married, was sentenced to 84 days’ detention yesterday at a Singapore court martial. He was Craftsman Khalid bin Laudin of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Capt. J. P.
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    $150 bail in modesty charge
    60 11 IPOH. Jan. 3. A 33-year-old Indian employee of a military camp in Ipoh, Snanmugam Vellasamy. was charged today in the Magistrate's Court with outracing the modesty of an Indian girl. Kamala, at Ashbv Road, on New Year's Day. Shanmugam claimed trial and the ca.se was
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    DETAINED
    35 11 PENANG. Jan. 3. Penang police last night arrested three Chinese suspected of being bandit supporters. They were detained in the Tanjong Tokong area, about four miles from the town, after information had been given.
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    BENHAM SENDS IN A PLAN TO END INFLATION
    85 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. SINGAPORE Goverriment is studying a report on anti-inflationary measures submitted by Or. F. C. Benham Economic Adviser to Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. th«» CommissionerGeneral. and leader of the Malaya-Borneo delegation to the recent Bangkok conference of financial experts The conference,
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    Stabbed boy dies
    57 11 IPOH. Jan. 3. AS he sat on a bench outside P.W.D. offices in Kampar, yesterday. Loh Kam Cheong. ar. 18-year-old Chinese, was stabbed several times by two men. He staggered 200 yards to the police station, where he collapsed. He was taken to Kampar hospital and later
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    P.C. GAOLED FOR TAKING BRIBE
    225 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. 4 BE Bakar bin Haji Puteli, a police constable with A three years’ service, pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to corruptly accepting $lO Irom Liin Cheon, a lorry driver, and was gaoled for nine moilths. Mr. Peter Bald. A.S.P.. prosecuting. said that
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    Unlicensed shed
    23 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 4. Mrs. C. R Paul fined $2O in the Citv Police Court yesterday for having an unlicensed cattle shed.
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    Driver fined $510, says:‘I risked it’
    100 11 Driver fined $510 says: ‘I risked it’ IPOH. Jan. 3. JOO Pang Liang, of Butterworth. told Ipoh Magistrate’s Court today that he decided to “risk it” and drive a load ot perishable onions to Kuala Lumpur in a lorry which did not have a haulage permit or a road licence.
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    FINED $200
    35 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 4. Yong Kong Hwee was fined $2OO in the Singapore police Court yesterday for erecting two timber and iron-roofed working sheds without a plan and specifications approved by the City Council
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    Found his mother-but she was dead
    125 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 4 AFTER Kwa Tiew Eng. a 53-year-old amah disappeared from her house at Upper Thompson Road on Nov. 24. without her identity card, her son went to a temple to consult a medium and was told he would find her at 6
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    Rent board approves $715 increase
    131 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 4 T'HE Singapore Rent Conciliation Board yesterday approved an unopposed application to raise the monthly rent of 39, Robertson Quay, now used as a store, irom $285 to $l,OOO. The landlord is Mrs. Rebecca Meyer and the tenant Guan Seng Hang Co., Ltd.
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    One killed, 6 wounded
    64 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2. TERRORISTS lost one killed and another six wounded on Monday. There were r.o casualties among the security forces. The bandit was killed In an engagement in the Johore Bahru area. Four or the 25 bandits w’ere wounded, tv.o seriously. Two bandits were
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    Court clerk is gaoled
    51 11 ALOR STAR. Wed. A. Kuppusamy, a Kroh court clerk, who misappropriated $260 in lines entrusted to his care, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Tuan Syed Baraßbah, Baling Sessions Court President, told Kuppusamy that misappropriation was a serious offence rendered worse when committed by a Government
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    PATROL FIRES ON 3 BANDITS
    42 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 3. A patrol of Royal West Kents fired on three bandits in the Tanjong Malim area of Selangor yesterday. The bandits fled and the soldiers arrested a woman who had been talking to them
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    THE MAN WHO STAYED AWAY
    35 11 SEGAMAT. Wed.—For tailing to attend court. 28-year-old Leong Kok Sam was fined $25 and hart h:s $5O bail estreated. For driving a car without a licence, he was fin* $l5
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    RED CAMPS FOUND
    34 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan 3 Bandit camps have been found in the Grik area of Perak, the Kluang and Segar mat areas of Johore and the Kuala Pilah area of Negri Semhilan
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    NEW MAGISTRATE
    18 11 The Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson. has appointed Mr. S E Teh to be a Police Magistrate
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    U.S. BUYING POLICY IS EXPECTED TO BE CHANGED
    864 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. A QUICK rise in the price of tin yesterday followed the news that the chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Mr. Stuart Symington, had resigned. Chinese and European producers in the Federation said: “It is good news”. They were
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    INQUIRIES FROM ABROAD
    193 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. THE year opened with .some fresh Inquiries from abroad which absorbed offerings, accummulated over the long weekend. Prices, however. remained at much the samp level, but there was a tendency for thp discount on forwards to narrow, says Lewis and Peat’s weekly report issued
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    He wants more rain
    80 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. TIHE City Water Engineer. Mr. W. A. St red wick Is not satisfied with all the rain Singapore has had in the last few days. (From midnight on Thursday to 8 p in. yesterday Singapore had 1.77 inches of rain. Mr. Stredwiok said
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    DISTRICT SCOUTS’ ASSN. MEETING
    89 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. At 11if* inaugural meeting ol the Singapore Roy Scouts’ (Soulh-Western) District Association yesterday, the following oflieer.s were elected:Mi'. H. J C. Kulasingha, chairman; Mr. N. F. G. Seharengulvel. vi c c-chair-man; Mr. Koh Hun Boon, 4 ’'usurer. Mr. Chen Si Kok, .serretary; and
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    CLIMBED TREE TO LOOK FOR RUBBER
    76 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. IN the early days of rubber in Malaya, the High Commissioner sent a man up a tree at Kuala Kangsar to look for rubber among the leaves. When he found none, the High Commissioner ordered the trees to be cut down.
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    JOBLESS, SO THEY COULDN’T PAY
    70 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. Nian Wee Hoc and Lini Bok Kuo were each fined Siou or 28 days’ imprisonment in the Singapore City Police Court yesterday for being unlicensed trisha riders and for using a rider’s badge without a licence. Nian and Lim both said they
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    ‘READY FOR SECOND ROUND’
    190 12 KLUANG, Jan. 4. 'J'AN THE AN SIEW, the 19-year-old “Sutton Boy” who killed three bandits with his Brenfifun last month, today said: “I have recovered from my leg wound and am ready for a second round with the Reds.” Tan has Just returned to Kluang headquarters
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    WOUNDED SC HELPED COMRADES FIRST
    94 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 4. A SPECIAL constable. Abdul Aziz, dressed the wounds of four of his comrades before he tended his own after a bandit ambush this morning. With heavy Bren and Sten sun tire the bandits ambushed the police, who were travelling in a
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    Used force on woman allegation
    76 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jail. 4. OH Pang, alias Low Kah Tain, was charged here today with having used criminal force on a European woman to outrage her modesty. The ollence is alleged to have taken place at the compound of Taylor House. Kuala Lumpur last Wednesday
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    UNION OFFICIAL FINED $50
    39 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. For failing to furnish a statement of accounts of the Indo-Malayan Seamen’s Union. S.C. Chakravarty. the Union’s Honorary Secretary, who pleaded guilty, was fined $5O in the Singapore First Police Court, yesterday.
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    APPOINTED
    17 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. Mr. S. Thirucholvam has been appointed a n Assistant labour Commissioner in Singapore
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    MANAGER ON TIN CHARGE
    115 12 IPOH.Jan. 4. |AM Wah Yin, 31, a mine manager, and Ng Teik. 56. a dulang washer, were charged in the Magistrate’s Court today with being in possession of 210 katies of tin ore valued at S5OO suspected to have been fraudulently obtained. Police Corporal Naharuddin bin
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    ‘Name a wing after him’
    173 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. Tributes to the part played by Mr. Edwards in the formation and growth of S.A.T.A. wer<» paid when the association held its annual general meeting at the Adelphi Hotel yesterday. Mr. Lee Kong Chian said that it would be fitting if there
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    China Cultural Mission tour
    61 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. A Chinese cultural mission headed by Mr Liu Pel Yu. secretary-general, arrived in Singapore yesterday on its wav back to China after a two-month tour of India and Burma. The mission comprises 15 delegates and six staff members and includes five women They
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    REDS BURN BUS
    22 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 4. Bandits set fire to a bus in the Grik area of Perak early this morning.
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    TOO MANY IN TAXI
    24 12 MUAR, Fri.—For carrying too many passengers in his taxi at Bukit Pasir, driver Ali bin Mohamed was fined $2O here.
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    3 young boys plead guilty
    91 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. Three young boys, Palanisamy (16», S. Gopal (18) and Namsiyam (19» pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to a charge of stealing a camera and a fountain pen at the Naval Base on Dec. lo They were alleged to
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    SIX WEEKS FOR PENCIL THEFT
    45 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. James Edwards, of Geylang Road was sentenced yesterday to six weeks’ imprisonment by the Singapore Second Police Magistrate, Mr. R. B. I. Pates, for stealing a pencil valued at $lO from Too Chong Teck on Christmas Eve.
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    Increases in rents are approved
    213 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. THE Singapore Rent Conciliation Board yesterday approved several applications for increasing the rents of dwellings and other buildings. In all eases tin* tenants had agreed to the increases. The npplieaiil. v.i'o the trustees of Ihc elate «»f Rallim bin Tnllb Among the
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    MALAYA MAY BE TOLD: ‘CUT U.S. IMPORTS’
    364 13 MALAYA MAY BE TOLD: CUT U.S. IMPORTS’ SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. pi si ness circles in Singapore are expecting further restrictions on the 1>, nport of American goods into the Colony and the Federation after the i oimiionwealth Finance Ministers’ conference which opens in London on I in. 15. 'he conference
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    Mr. Spencer for London conference
    88 13 A LUMPUR, Jan. 4. Federation Govern- ;t today said that Oscar Speneer, the ier for Economic Atwill attend the contee of Commonwealth ince Ministers in Lon- n: this month. spencer leaves for Lonin about 10 days. He return to Kuala Luniin February in time i
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    Licences to stay valid
    74 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. Ciovi rnment ot India in Singapore \v«announced that all mod licences for trie exof cotton piccegoods valio o Dec. I*2. 1951. will oc va!v; to Feb. 29 T. Indian Gov rmnerr L'O decided ,o extend a July-Decembor quotas for roods, as well as
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    ‘Smuggler’ seaman fined
    69 13 Smuggler’ seaman fined SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. s Chcok. a seaman, i*' lined $7OO in the Wore Third District ’•esterday for exporting u\s to an Indonesian without a permit. l --other seaman. Tay Sng '•Us lined $6OO for ex- ;;-mR 48 watches. watches were found in a tin of rice and
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    ACCUSED OF HAVING OPIUM
    42 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. :n Ah Chien, aged 19, tria l in Singapore rf ny on a charge of 10»/2 lbs, of raw near the Capitol °n Tuesday. r> ase wa.s postponed an II and bail of was offered
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    Court told man had tommy-gun
    66 13 IPOH, Sat. Jan. 5. Lau Kim Fong, 25. was today committed to stand trial in the Perak High Court on two capital charges under the Emergency regulations. He was alleged to have been in possession of a tommy gun at Jelapang on Aug. 5. 1948.
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    TIN EXPORTS DROP IN 1951
    82 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. jyjALAYA exported 64,957 tons of tin last year, 16.844 tons below the total for 1950. according to figures compiled by Mr. E. J. Phillips. Registrar of Malayan Statistics. The December export figure was 5.016 tons, 1.057 tons less than for November. The
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    WOMAN ACCUSED OF PROCURING
    63 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. Yong Lau. a 46-year-old woman, was charged in the Singapore First Police Court with procuring Gaw Swee Sum and Au Gaw Lai girls under 21. for tlv purpose oi prostitution. She was further charged with "acquiring guardianshit)" ot Gaw and Au. described as
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    DEALER DID NOT KNOW MONEY LAW
    299 13 DEALER DID NOT KNOW MONEY LA W SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. pHNG Song Thiam, proprietor of Chop Chng Hwa Seng, of Boat Quay, charged with three offences under the Finance Regulations, involving a total of $60,000, yesterday told the Singapore First District Court that he was ignorant of the Finance Regulations.
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    Sea, air search for Hornet
    168 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. RA.F. flying boat? throughout the night searched the South China Sea about 85 miles from Singapore after the disappearance yesterday of a Hornet single-seater fighter on its way from Singapore to Labuan. Life-saving equipment carried by the pilot includes night signalling apparatus.
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    Heavy fine as warning
    87 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. YVAH Cheong, a lurniture dealer of Victoria Street, was fined $l5O in Mu* Singapore City Police Cotirt yesterday lor causing obstruction to pedestrians bv placing rattan furniture on the fivefoot way. “This heavy fine will serve as a warning to other furniture dealers,
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    PARCEL POST RATES RISE ‘INEVITABLE’
    128 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 4. INCREASES in Malayan Railway freight rates and 1 in shipping charges had forced the Postal Depart ment to increase parcel postage rates, the Postmaster General explained today. He said that since the increased rates were announced on Tuesday people had been
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    Worried over his father's death
    72 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. G. Because he was worried over the death of his father who died throe years ago in Burma. Koh Geek Soo. aped 21 drank caustic soda near the sea ofT Sumbawa Road This was stated in Second Police Court yesterday when Koh was
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    Used criminal foree charge
    54 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 6. In the Third District Court yesterday, Raman Chlnniah was charged w r ith using criminal force to outrage the moesty of Ratha. a seven-year-old girl, at North Bouna Vista Road on Oct. 13. He claimed trial and w’as allowed $5OO bail. Hearing w'as
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    USED PENKNIFE SAYS CHARGE
    45 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. Tan Kim Poh. aged 19. claimed trial in Taiping to a charge of voluntary causing hurt to Kok Ah Hai in Kota Road with a penknife. The case was postponed 'o Jan 7. ball or $5OO being illowcd.
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    ‘PEOPLE BOUND TO TALK’
    538 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. lu|R. K. J. L. Jamieson, the City Police Magistrate. said yesterday he was embarrassed by the wide publicity in the newspapers to the inquest on Mr. C. Bolton, when the trial of Ralph Naylor, who was alleged to have negligently knocked him down,
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    Wreckage of hornet found
    164 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 6. THE wreckage of the R AF. 1 Hornet fighter, which was missing since Friday morning, was found by RA F. planes and Naval ships yesterday HO miles from Singapore in the South China Sea. There was no trace of the pilot, thi* Hornet’s
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    Rotan, gaol for man who robbed baby
    93 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 6. 'J'AN Chin Mens, aged 40, was gaoled for four months, plus four strokes of the rotan for stealing a gold locket and chain from a Malay child at the General Market on Dec. 12. Tan was said to have snatched
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    She used a knife
    31 14 r-dAMVI’ Jan. 5. Pappa mai. a 40-year-old woman, was lined $75 by Segamat Circuit Magistrate for causing hurt with a knife to anoth»r woman at Batu Anam
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    GRAND MUFTI APPOINTMENT DENIED
    142 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 6. N° person couiu be piaceu ail overnuing position over the Rulers In matters of the Mu sum religion, said lnche Mustapna Albakri. Keeper of the Rulers' Seal in Kuala Lumpur yes'crday He was denying the rennrt In the Singapore Malay news* paper Utusan
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    A.T. Read to relieve Tony Beamish
    201 14 PENANG. Jan. 5. JV1 R A. T. Read, manager 1 of Radio Malaya’s Penang station, will be leaving shortly for Singapore to act as the Colony’s Deputy Director of Broadcasting. He will take over from Mr. A. H. Tony Beamish, who is going on
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    The Emergency: better news
    170 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 5. THERE WAS a considerable improvement in the 1 general Emergency situation in Malaya last month, a spokesman of the Director of Operations Staff said today But he warned that “for more definite conclusions we must wait for the first few months of
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    202 Perak Reds killed
    76 14 IPOH. Jan 5. CECI'RITY forces in Perak last year killed 202 bandits and raptured 46. Six of the 46 were arrested on information given by members of the public. During the same period, as many as 23 bandits surrendered. The number of bandit camps located and
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    ‘Singapore not so far behind in housing’
    135 14 Singapore not so far behind in housing’ SINGAPORE. Jan. 6. CINGAPORE is not far behind other countries in its housing situation, said Mr. M. Fraser, Manager of the Singapore Improvement Trust, on his return to the Colony yesterday Mr. Fraser has lust completed a three-month visit to the United Kingdom
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    GAOLED FOR DESERTION
    64 14 MUAR, Jan. 5. ATHMAN bin Ahmad, a special constable stationed at Eng Kee Estate. Tangkak, was sent to prison for three months at Muar for desertion. It was stated that he had a bad service record and that disciplinary action had been taken against him on four
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    COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
    48 14 IPOH, Jan. 5. Chong Fatt, 27 was committed in the Magistrate’s Court to stand trial at the Perak High Court on a charge of consorting with bandits between November 1948 and June last year in the Tanking Rambutan Chemor area. Chong was remanded in custody.
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    Policeman gaoled
    30 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. For absenting himself from duty at the Police Training School, Chan Cheng Khim, a 23-year-old policeman, was sentenced in Singapore yesterday to one month’s imprisonment.
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    Dr. Garbett speaks his mind
    334 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 6. Forthright speeches on the Welfare State, divorce, control of atomic energy and other important subjects by Dr. Cyril Garbett. Archbishop of York, are well known in the House ot Lords; and Singapore and the Federation will have an opportunity of hearing the
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    BAD DRIVING IS ALLEGED
    49 14 MUAR, Sat.—A motorist. Dug Chai Loon, was charged at Muar with causing grievous hurt to an eight-year-old Malay girl, Zaiton binii Yusof, by negligent driving at the 2V 4 milestone. Muar-Bakri road. Bail of $3OO was allowed and the case was postponed to Jan. 17.
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    FINED $75
    36 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. A 46-year-old women. Dal Ying, who pleaded guilty to a charge of offering a $3 bribe to a Special Constable on Sungei Searut Estate, was fined $75 by the Segamat Magistrate...
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    ONN AND TAN ‘TOO FAST ON HOME RULE’
    174 15 ONN AND TAN TOO FAST ON HOME RULE’ KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6. I > KIT AIN should not introduce self-government for 1 >1 ilaya at the pace set by Dato Onn bin Ja afar sir Cheng Lock Tan, said Mr. K. C. Chia, presiV 0 f the Selangor Labour Party,
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    Floods drive 2,000 from their homes
    200 15 SINGAPORE. Jan. 7. Iv. ie tloed position in Seiin.it cot worse last night heavy rain throughout ;.ie day. Toe District Officer. Segam it. Mr. Sarnsu bin Mahmood. said that nearly 2.000 women, children and oVd men had been evacuated from the resettlement area at
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    JEWISH CONCERT
    37 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. ’’yie's Jewish Organihabonim presented V annual variety connight in the British hall. Singapore. •as a cast of 23 and was directed and ..7’ Mr J Khatena Jonah Joshua and oy Mr. Abraham
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    —But union leader says Onn is right
    142 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6. DATO Onn was right in refraining lrom pledging the independence of Malaya within the Commonwealth. said Mr. S. Arumugam, chairman of the Electricity Board Workers’ Union, at an IMP municipal election meeting in Kuala Lumpur last night. Although Dato
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    Shopkeeper fined
    26 15 MUAK, Sat.—A shopkeeper. Lee Kiat Tharn. was fined $lOO and $5O respectively for selling cigarettes above the controlled price and for having no licence.
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    Islands searched for lost pilot
    198 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. ISLANDS round the coast of Indonesia were searched from the air yesterday by R.A.F. flying boats seeking the pilot of a Hornet single-seater fighter, missing since Friday. Wreckage from the aircraft was found by planes and naval ships in the South China
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    Too fast for police car
    87 15 PARIT BUNTAR. Jan. 6. CHEN Koon Chin, of Ipoh, was fined $25 in the Parit Buntar court when he pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving. The prosecution said that Chen, while overtaking a car along the Parit Buntar-Ba-gan Serai road, narrowly averted a
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    Eight girls take vows
    104 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. f]IGIIT girls—all from China —took the vows at the Chapel of the Convent of the Little Sisters. Thomson Road. Singapore yesterday. In three years they will become fully qualified nuns. Three of seven girls, who have been postulates at the Thomson Road convent
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    Sincerity counts, says Ho Swee
    207 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. MORE than 2,000 rubber workers in Singapore gave up a day’s wages to attend a rally at the Great World yesterday to celebrate the first anniversary on the Singapore Rubber Milling and Manufacturing Workers’ Union. Also there were Mr. Lim Yew Hock,
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    Govt. offer rejected
    52 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. SINGAPORE Postal and Telecommunications Uni. formed Staff Union yesterday rejected a Government offer of pension rights and increased pay This was decided at a workers’ meeting. The members told the general council to pursue its efforts with Government until all the union’s demands had
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    University Fund now $4,654,644
    48 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. Donations totalling $1,GG1 were made to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund in the week ended Dec. 29. The Fund now stands at $4,654,644 The Chettiars* Chamber of Commerce, Malacca, contributed S144. bringing their total donations to the fund to $10,000.
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    SAFETY—AND IT’S COOL
    53 15 SINGAPORE. Jan. 7. The Chartered Bank have installed in their new premises in Bnttery Road, Singapore. a safe deposit vault which is believed to be the largest in South-East Asia. The vault which is bombproof, burglar-proof and fireproof, is air-conditioned. There are more than 3.000 deposit boxes
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    LATEX CHARGE
    43 15 MUAR. Sat. Goh Chye Ilong and Goh Chang Tiap were charged at Muar with possession of 11 katies of latex at the 9*4 milestone, Muar-Tangkak Road. Case was postponed to Jan. 7 for trial, and bail of $5OO each was allowed.
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    UMNO AND M.C.A. TO FIGHT ELECTIONS
    440 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8. I/lALA LUMPUR division of UMNO and Y Solanffor branch of the Malayan Chinese X'MK’jation today, in a joint declaration, said t!u > would contest the Kuala Lumpur Municipal elections on Feb. 16 on a common noncommunal, non-party basis. The two
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    Gurkhas in 3 battles with bandits
    131 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9. URKHAB had three tl battles with bandits in the Bentong area. Pahang, yesterday and on Sunday, and killed a branch committee member, Leong Kuan. A gang of. 15 bandits attacked an estate guard post in the Tapah area, Perak, today, killed
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    Man of 72 on death charge
    82 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9 Lre How, ageo 72. wis tentatively charged in Singapore yesterday with causing the death of Foo Ah Fu aged 25, by a negligent act not amounting to homicide, at New Bridge Road on July 9. lie was alleged to have treated
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    Rubber exports a record
    92 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. MALAYA’S rubber exports last year reached an alltime record of 1 155.204 tons 43.765 tons more than in 1950 and more than double that in 1946. iiigge.st shipments were in lanu m FHiru irv. April and May 104 174 to is. 103.703 tons,
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    GOT $50 ON ARREST THREAT—GAOL
    150 16 W SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. HEN Seng Ah Sia was released by the police •'liter he had been detained for 15 days over a rubber factory fire, a contractor threatened to have him arrested him. This was said in Singapore Third District Court yesterday when the
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    CITY INSPECTOR FINED $25
    35 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. 1 P Mono Yusofl a City Cleaning Department Inspector was lined $25 in the City Police Court yesterday for falling to maintain his car in a proper condition
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    DRIVER FINED
    24 16 JOHORE RAIIRU Jan. 8. For carrying an excess passenger R Chellappan a taxi driver was fined $l2 in the police Court today
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    Drop in S’pore crime figures
    157 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. rpHERfe was less crime in 1 Singapore last month than in November the police announced yesterday The situation ha v improved slightly said Mr F O Minns C D Chief “All tyne« of crime? are down except theft from dwelling houses which
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    Lost court’s sympathy
    66 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. T AM Teck Guan was fined $250 in Singapore for building a shed on vacant land without submitting a plan and specifications to the City Council. Tam said he built the shed to store charcoal. Imposing the fine, Mr. K J. L. Jamieson, the
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    BLACKOUT DID NOT STOP DR. GARBETT
    147 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9. A BLACK-OUT did not stop the 76-year-old Archbishop of York, Dr. Garbett, from addressing representatives of the Malayan Christian Council last night. It was his fourth function of the day. The Archbishop said he hoped the Council would increase in strength
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    RADIO MALAYA’S new musical assistant. Mr. W. A. Ray (above) arrived in the Canton yesterday.
    52 16 An official at Radio Malaya, who showed Mr. Ray round the studios at Thomson Road, refused to comment on his appointment. He told the Press: “You ean only photograph him—no questions, not wen where he
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    Ex-Red ship is sold to Greek firm
    158 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9. THE 7,223-ton ex-Liberty ship, Hai Hsuan, now lvin£ in the Singapore outer roads flying the flag ot Communist China, has been sold to the Londonregistered Greek firm of Lemos and Pateras Ltd. Arrangements are being marie to 11 v a
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    FLYING BOATS BOMB BANDITS
    41 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. The R A F struck at bandit targets in Central Kedah. North Perak and Negri Sembilan yesterday, Hornet fighter-bombers made the first two strikes, while Sunderland living boats rieait with the Negri Sembilan target.
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    RED CAMPS FOUND
    34 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8. Bandit camps have been found in Perak. Pahang and Johore. Bandits slashed rubber trees in the Seremban area of Negri Sembilan and the Klang area of Selangor.
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    Loses sale licence
    65 16 PENANG, Jan. 8. DECAUSE one of his emu ployees sold a packet of cigarettes at five cents abov* the authorised price. P Thevar. proprietor of the Simla Hotel, had his price control licence cancelled yesterday. Thevar was found guilty of failing to take reasonable precautions to prevent
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    RIDA gives Larut $1,000
    62 16 IPOH Jan. 8. 'JHE Rural and Industrial Development Authority, Perak, has given $l,OOO for the repair of the perimeter bunds separating the pad! field from the Jebong Fiver in the Larut district to prevent floods. The villagers provided the labour. Repairs to other bunds Tire to
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    SEGAMAT ISOLATED BY FLOODS
    542 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 7. HK\VY rain again in north Johore yesterday threatened to halt the entire north-south road and railway system in the Federation. Floods and landslides have already rut ll u inland trunk road and the railway at several points. Scgamnt is virtually isolated, m(
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    These horses may miss Bukit Timah
    123 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 8. MRANDED in tbe tloods at Genius >i!!Cp Sunday M <v lt art it race-horses Ul7.* *li were hem® brought by r.ul from Kuala Lumpur u r Saturday’* races at Bukit Timah \1: R N Hobb> Kuala Lumpur racehorse tralnef. said yesterd
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    $264 claim dismissed
    80 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8 [JOLDING that a promissory note did not disclose the rue contract between the parties. Mr. A. \V. Bellamy. Singapore Civil DLstrict Judge, yesterday dismissed a ‘.aim for the recovery of $264.8C The claim was brought bv Kabul Singh against J. Jalil bin Ha.ii Mang
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    SAID HE WAS FOOD OFFICER
    72 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 8. M.irrick Earl Siebel, aged who pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to imper!*liatinK a Food Control offiwas fined $lOO or a myntn's imprisonment, t ‘H 1 was alleged to have i.~ a shop-keeper. k f E k Bee of Chua Chu >.Road, with
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    GAMBLERS FINED
    42 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. }r teen people, 16 men tV? re i vomen were fined of $3BO In Singapore i day when admitted a > l V K paikau f or money co o Se in Jo Chia t Ter-a(-e on Sunday
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    TWO GAOLED
    24 17 T WO GAOLED SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. Ah p’ dockyard coolies Tan in Qh.'i 11 anc Lee Hah were capore yesterday gaoled alin K handkerchiefs
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    Two escape as rafts are dragged by liner
    140 17 PENANG. Jan. 7. TWO Malays had a narrow escape in the Penang Channel today when the low ropes of their hainboo ralts were caught by the hows of the 1(»,000-lon liner, anion. The Canton was delayed about 20 minutes. The liner had
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    Sergeant cleared of sleeping on guard
    222 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. William Henry Mathias, of the Special Air Service Regiment in Singapore, was yesterday found not guilty by a court martial of sleeping while on duty as a guard commander. Fifteen minutes later, hi gave evidence for the prosecution against Trooper Da
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    HE STOLE BUS, COURT TOLD
    68 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 8 IRCRAFTMAN Harry Smith, R.A.F., aged 29, claimed trial in Singapore Fourth Court yesterday on a charge of stealing a mol orhus in East Coast Road last Sunday. Smith was said to have stolen the bus, worth $20,000, belonging to D. A. Bakar,
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    WEEK’S RAIN —5 INCHES
    43 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 8 Singapore’s rainfall last week was the heaviest for the period since 1948. Last Friday 2.87 inches ot rain were recorded. The week's total was 5.86 inches But in 1948 the same week’s total was 10.34 inches.
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    Engineer dies while on duty
    57 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 8 Mr. S. S. Isaac. European civilian power station engineer at Changi RAF. airfield. collapsed and died while on duty in th° power station yesterday. An official of the Air Ministry Directorate General of Works. Mr. Isaac leaves a wilt and two daughters,
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    Dunlop due in Colony in new role
    88 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. lytAJ. GEN. Dermot Dunlop. who was G.O.C. Singapore District, during the riots of December. 1950. will arrive in Singapore on Saturday to check the security of documents in Government offices Gen. Dunlop is now security adviser to the Colonial Office
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    $51,000 INVOLVED IN TWO CASES
    291 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. LM* Kwang Pheow, a cashier employed by Chop J Kwang Huat in Carpenter Street, was charged in the Singapore First District Court with three offences under the Finance Regulations involving $21,000. He was alleged to have made three payments, totalling $21,000. to
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    ‘Keep MacD’ memo goes to London
    133 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. r pHE Singapore memorandum to Mr. Churchill setting out the reasons local leaders consider that Mr. Malcolm MacDonald should be retained as CommissionerGeneral has been sent to London by airmail. Sir Cheng-iock Tan, the president of the Malayan Chinese Association, and
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    Grants to Chinese
    84 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. RANTS by Singapore Edu--1 cation Department to Chinese schools in the Colony showed a big increase last year over those for the previous two years. Total aid to Chinese schools bv Government last year was $1,555,077. For 1950 it was $647,784 and in 1949
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    BRIBE OFFER: FINED $30
    49 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 8 A sampan man. Tan Ah Yam, was sentenced in Singapore vesterdav to six weeks' imprisonment for offering a policeman a *3O bribe He was found with three people in a sampan in a prohibited area of Singapore Harbour by a police patrol
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    DUNLOP EXPERT VISITS COLONY
    46 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8 Dunlop Rubber Company's chief aviation representative in the Far East. Mr G. Shipway, arrived in Singapore yesterday by Qantas-BOAC on a week’s tour of the Colony.. Mr. Shipway will discuss aviation problems with civil I aviation and Service chiefs
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    ‘GRAZED’ A GATE
    42 17 JOHORE BAIIRU. Jan. 7 Timoh bin Ali, a Batu Pahat lorry driver, was lined $35 in the Police Court today for ’’grazing” the gate leading to the re-settlement area at the 16th mile mile Johore-Ayer Hltajn road when driving
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    MALAYA IS CUT IN TWO
    654 18 KIIALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8. ALL ROAD and rail traffic between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore was stopped today as rising floods, caused l>y high tides and five days’ rain, swept across huge areas of north Johore, .Malacca. Negri Sembilan and south Pahang. Two Ilioiis.ind people have
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    Gaoled for bribe offer
    104 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9 lAOR lading to ootaln a port r clearance permit to leave the Colony, a talkong. Tan Bian. aged 45. was ye.sterday lined $5O or one week’s imprisonment by the Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate. Mr P. Clague For trying to bribe a policeman he
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    AIRPORT MEETING Girls with the dresses go on a bus tour
    220 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9 IJOUR p r o f e s s i o n a I mannequins from Lon don arrived in Singapore by Q.E.A.-8.0.A.C. yesterday and then went on a bus tour of the city. They were Viscountess
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    2,400 ACCIDENTS AT WORK LAST YEAR
    133 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. TWO thousand lour hundred labour accidents wore reported to the Commissioner of Workmen's Compensation in Singapore last year and /I were fatal. About $173,000 was paid out by the Labour Department flu ring the year to workers and their beneficiaries. Mr
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    They want ban on film
    63 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. put Singapore Muslim Advisory Board at its monthly meeting yesterday supported a petition for the banning of the film “David and Bathsheba" now being shown in Singapore. The Board, it is understood, endorsed the letter sent to the Singapore Government on Friday
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    P.C. TOOK $10 FINE, SAYS MAN
    152 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9 WHEN a sampan-man. Yeo Chwee Teh, was asked why he did not appear to pay hi s fine, he told the Singapore Fourth. Police Magistrate. Mr. P. Clague, that he had already handed the fine to a Marine Police constable. As
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    JENKIN GOES NEXT WEEK
    74 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Tuea.Sir WHliam Jenkin, the Federation’s Director of Intelligence. will leave Malaya for Britain on Thursday next week. The Straits Times understands that it has not yet been decided who will replace Sir William, but that a successor will be appointed after the Inspector-General of
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    SNAKE BITES MAN
    36 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. A Malay labourer, H. Din. was taken to the Singapore General Hospital last night after being bitten by a gras.*, snake at Firestone Park. Tanglin. He was sent home later.
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    Defence officers get $3.90 a day
    134 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. pLASSES start on Feb. 4 for the instructors ot Singapore’s civil defence corps. The classes will be held at the Civil Defence School in Kolam Ayer Road, Upper Serangoon. Yesterday Mr. H. G. Turner. Secretary for Civil Defence announced rates of
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    Manager to pay $5,000
    98 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. NG Lip How. assistant manager of a Chinese firm in South Bridge Road, was fined $5,000 in the Singapore Third District Court yesterday for exporting seven cases of goods to Bangkok without a permit. The cases were said to have contained shoe polish,
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    $2,000 BAIL IN TRUST CHARGE
    47 18 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 8. Lim Yee Boh. a Singapore boatman, was allowed bail in $2,000 in the Johore Bahru Police Court, pending trial on a charge of criminal breach of trust in respect of 16.000 attaps. valued at $1,444. in November 1951.
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    SENT BACK TO MALACCA
    61 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. Lim Kee Siong. aged 30, ol Jalan Yam Tuan, Kuala Pilah, was in Singapore yesterday remanded to Malacca in connection with a cheating charge He was alleged to have cheated Yong Peck Kong, by inducing him to deliver groceries to the value of
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    ONG BEATS CHEONG IN 20 MINS.
    303 19 sNGAPORE, Jan. 6. unleashing terrific ,.*n s and piling up with his inimitable Ong Poh Lim (Fra- ave B.P.) took less minutes' to beat Heck Leng (Eclipse the 1951 singles 1. in straight sets in i ’dials of the Singaiminton Association’s at the Clerical
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    CHANGI AIRMEN LOSE TO S.C.C.
    173 19 TNGAPORE, Jan. 6. without seven replayers, RAF. wer e no match for ln n rugger gamo i-he padang yesteri. Chib side romped h H points la goal. Wo Penalty goals) -mens three (a penbened with the S.C.C. ./'ronnly Within Asv 1 ay J or ban
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    ‘No contest’ as the blood flows
    243 19 No contest as the blood flows SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. gINGAPORE Police, wrestlers and spectators last night rushed into the ring to separate King Kong and Chief Little Wolf from a bloody fight after the referee, Wong Buck Lee, had declared the fight a “no contest” in the fifth round. The
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    K.L. GIRLS HOLD SCC ONE ALL
    175 19 DLAYING on a wet and slippery ground a Kuala Lumpur P W.D. women’s hockey team drew one-all against S.C.C. women’s side on the latter’s ground before a big crowd yesterday. The visitors gave a sparkling display and led one-nil at the interval. The S.C.C.,
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    N.S. Telecoms win cup final
    124 19 SEREMBAN, Wed.—Negri Semb'.lnn Telecoms defeated N S. Police (west) circle by seven goals to two in the final of the N.S. Government Services football league to win the Mentri Besar Shield here yesterday. The score at half time was twoall. YusofT and Atan scoring for
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    Hutchings wins 6-mile race
    115 19 SINGAPORE. Jan. 6. yETERAN Army athlete Capt. L. C. Hutchings surprised 34 of the best distance runners in the three Services in the six-mile read race at Seletar Naval Base yesterday Finishing better than anyone else in the race. Hutchings was 300 yards in front of
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    RITCHIE CUP SAILING
    65 19 'jpHE Singapore Naval Sailing Association team defeated a Royal Singapore Yacht Club team during the weekend in the final of the Ritchie Cup series of team races, sailed this year in Singapore Roads. The Ritchie Cup. presented by Sir Neil Ritchie, former Commander in Chief. FARELF, is
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    Gerda draw in hard fight
    237 19 KOTA BAHRU. Wed. JN one of the best soccer matches seen here the Gerda, a new combination, gave the Prisons Sports Club some very anxious moments, especially when they opened accounts with a lovely goal by Mat Noor. This lead was short-lived, because Wan Hussein
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    BEST BET ‘HORSE OF THE YEAR’
    416 19 pHAMPION horse of 1951 was Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Foo’s BEST BET (late Viewfinder), a striking chestnut gelding by Panorama out of Paravane, who won five races and gained three seconds in 15 starts to earn $62,000 —a record figure in one season
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    Doc Rodgers gets 9 wins at Penang
    250 19 PENANG, Wed. THE FOUR-DAY Penang Turf Club Christmas-New Year meeting turned out most j satisfactorily for the local [etnhios which won 15 racaa including the plum of the meeting—the CommissionerGeneral’s Cup in spite of powerful outstation rivalry. Doc Rodgers came Into his own
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    POLICE CUP GOLF R.M. RAJOO WINS
    55 19 The Police Cup over 3G hole* was player! during the weekend nt the Island Club and resulted in a win for R. M. Rajoo (18) who returned a nett score ot 145 for the two rounds. The runner-up was J. L. Pagan (18) who
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    TIGER S.C. MEET
    29 19 The Tiger Swimming club will hold its sixth annual general meeting on Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Clubs premises. All members are requested to attend.
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    SHARE MARKET BUOYANT & ACTIVE AT THE YEAR’S TURN
    478 20 SHARE MARKET BUOYANT ACTIVE AT THE YEAR’S TURN Market prescience has frequently been commented on, and once again the combined anticipations of numerous operators have been borne out in the political event. Early in December a marked keenness was noted in Tin shares and this was maintained throughout what is
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    KRAMAT PULAI’S PROFIT
    56 20 KRAMAT Pulai tin tributes. srhcellte production from tail'tigs and investment revenue brought a profit after British profit* tax of £19.429 (Us. 6d. per •harei for the year to March 31, 1951; fid. per share was distributed Net liquid assets in balance sheet, at £fi2.B4fi. ore equal to
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    Sembilan Estates
    37 20 Estates paid an inle- tm dividend for the year to 3l of five per cent.—not of 7' per cent, as stated recently n Information trom the company's ’’gents <who now write to rectify ’he statement)
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    CYCLIST FINED
    23 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. Tan Kee Tat was fined $25 in the Singaixire City Police Court yesterday for using an unregistered bicyie.
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    Business done
    267 20 Business done in the Malayan share market last week included Industrials —Fraser Neave Ord. $4.07 4 to $4 10, Gammon $2.82 4 to $2.85, Malayan Breweries $5.20, Malayan Cement (25 cents paid) 61 cents, McAlister $41 and $42, Maynard $10 Robinson Ord $3.95, Singapore Cold Storage $4.85, Straits
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    Police to give ‘get together’ concert
    149 20 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9. THE Commissioner-General Mr Malcolm MacDonald, will attend thp variety conVictoria Memorial Hall on Friday organised ?v h <* Singapore Polio to roster better relations between tho police and the public The two-and-a-half hour concert, will b P presented by po .n
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    917 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. INDUSTRIALS Buyer* Sellers Fraser ,V Neave Pr f 2*/> 2 2ft AtU I K <IS 110 4 20 B B Petrol "V l \tf. 'W con I'.rs.t— 650 7so Ord* f«<l tJU n,^ r ~r 16 50 Frwr o, ;j'S V e ,7 200
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    Timber grading course opens
    187 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8. UNDER the green flag of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, which flew for the first time in the Federation, the first timber grading course for Asian students was opened today by the Member for Agriculture and Forestry, Tengku Ya’acob. Fifteen students from
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    Police want a secretarysalary $780
    109 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. THERE Is a $7BO job lor a civilian in th P Singapore Police Force. The force wants a secretary The Commissioner of Police. Mr J. P. PennefatherEvans. said yesterday: “The secretary’s work will be general administration of the department under the Commissioner.
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    3 SUSPECTS HELD
    16 20 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 3. Kedah police have arrested three suspected bandit food suppliers.
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    Oldest firm goes back to its ‘home’
    166 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. an absence of three and a half years, Guthrie and Company, Singapore’s oldest firm, returned yesterday to the site in Battery Road which they occupied for nearly 70 years. The new offices, which occupy two floors in the Chartered Bank
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    Teachers put demands to Bishop
    117 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. REPRESENTATIVES of Met- hodlst teachers from all over the Federation today presented demands for better working conditions to Bishop Raymond L. Archer, resident Methodist Bishop, South-East Asia. They told the Bishop that teachers employed by the Methodist Mission did not receive
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    Girl chased snatch thief
    70 20 JOHORE BAHRU. Tiles. Appearing in the Police Court for the fourth time 20-year-old Samian bin Talib, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for theft of a packet of cigarettes, the sentence to be followed by six months’ police supervision. Samian who was said to have snatched
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