The Straits Budget, 31 January 1952

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    32 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] c w Series No. 287. Singapore Thursday, January 31, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      THE HOMELESS AND THE RED TAPE-WORM
      738 2  -  INI. M. MANDY. Kuala Lumpur. \\[E have read a lot lately about the people who live in slums in back-street shanties of the Federation and Singapore because of lack of better homos. Our sympathy is with them. So should our sympathy be with the
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      UNSHAVEN BUT TRIMMED
      175 2  -  KIM Singapore. THE barber-shops’ union has again raised its haircut charges to $2 and $2 50. shave or no shave, as compared with the pre-war 30-50 cents. “Traveller’’ has given the charges prevailing at the best saloons in Ceylon and Bombay, while at the Raffles Place and
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      THE CHEAPER WAY
      33 2  -  CROPPED. Malacca. WHY all the complaint Tf about barbers’ prices? People can buy their own clipper*. cut their own families’ hair and cock a snook at profiteering barbers 1 do.
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      SUSPICION OF THE DATO
      145 2  -  S.T.S. Singapore. “I/LYNE STREET” in your IX issue of January 22 takes Dato Onn to task for not making a clear-cut statement on whether the independent Malaya of the future should choose to stay in the Commonwealth. The difficulty is that no statement the Dato could
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      IN THE GRAVEYARD BY NIGHT
      85 2  -  FREQUENT VISITOR. Singapore rE Municipal Authorities ar P to be congratulated for the prompt action they have taken in preventing cattle from roaming over the graves of Bidadari Cemetery during the day. At night, however, things remain as bad as they were. The herdsmen are
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      THE ALLIANCE IN K.L.
      176 2  -  ROGER Penang. IT has been clear that the 1 IMP is against the UMNOMCA alliance in the Kuala Lumpur Municipal election. It is a pity that much strong words have been uttered against this attempt at the improvement of SinoMalay relations. Immediately after the recent war
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      Slipping through the road blocks
      353 2  -  CAR TRAVELLER. South Perak. IN order to reduce the movements of the terrorists 1 by road, and to protect the public from the terrorist menace, the authorities have wisely taken the course of blocking roads and examining travellers for arms and food supply movements. The
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      A GREAT LOSS TO MALAYA
      88 2  -  IJNGKU ABDULLAH bin OMAR. Johore. 'pHE going of Sir Franklin Gimson and Mi. J. P. Pennefather-Evans on retirement will be a great loss. Those who know Mr Pennefather-Evans. the present Commissioner of Police. as I do, will regret the day when he says “farewell” to
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      The States and the squatters
      433 2  -  ABDUL KAZAK BIN HUSSAIN. Ag. State Secretary Pahang. IN the leading article of your issue of Jan. 9 occur I the words “the State Governments trifled wjh the squatter problem for nearly eighteen months 10 the exasperation and alarm of Sir Henry Gurney. This general
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      HAIRCUTS AT $1.20
      85 2  -  BRITANNIA. Singapore. “TRAVELLER,” who wrote > the Straits Times reec: ly complaining about the i! crease in the price of a hair cut, will be interested know that one Chinese h dressing saloon in Colen Street, Singapore, has not creased the price. It proposes continuing charge $1.20
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      Fighting The War
      569 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 24. Tar casualty figures puhU.slnti by llic Federation Government make grim reading. A total of 2,693 Communists htlV e hi en killed since the war bt ‘,oan. The official list, using tin. customary euphemisms. C all them bandits, and the war an emergency.” The
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      The Controversial ‘Ministers’
      366 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 24. It may be supposed that noone is taking too seriously the proposal that the AttorneyGeneral should be asked for a ruling whether Federation ‘Ministers’ can take an active part in municipal controversies. The question has become an issue, however, in the Kuala Lumpur
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      The Red Purge
      143 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 24. Fascists, reactionaries and imperialist spies are being given a rest in Communist China. The purgers have other work to do. In the first month of the campaign against corruption, 1,670 Communist officials have been arrested. Over 27 government organisations are involved. The arrested
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      Peace Plan For Egypt
      515 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 25. Egypt’s interest in previous informal approaches by her Arab neighbours for a settlement of Anglo-Egyptian problems suggests there is hope that the Saudi Arabian plan may become the groundwork for agreement. But the new proposals are put in terms so general that
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      The Tin Deal Secrets
      553 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 25. Not until after Parliament meets will the British Government announce the full details of the much publicised tin-steel deal with America. Malayan tin producers, who met in Ipoh on Wednesday, presumably are satisfied, however. that the agreement does not sacrifice Malayan interests.
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      Malaya and Sterling
      700 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 26. The suggestion that the Malayan Governments are now awaiting the instructions of the Colonial Office as to how the two territories must help Britain and the sterling area puts a tough construction on a simple request. There are no instructions. But it is
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      The Towgay Wells
      317 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 26. The four months reprieve for the Rochore and Geylang wells presumably is to be Singapore City Council’s final word on the towgay controversy. The reprieve is to enable growers to make other arrangements. Either they must use water from wells which can be
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      Our Fight To Eat
      710 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 28. Asia’s fight to keep on the margin of self-sufficiency in food production is still far from won. Before Japan let loose war and all its evil after-effects on the still unhappy continent, the Far East always had a sizeable exportable* food surplus,
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      Our Need To Learn
      255 4 Straits Times. Jan. 28. Ceylon is reported to be preparing to introduce agriculture as a compulsory subiect in all schools in the Dominion. Some time ago a White Paper on Education in the island drew attention to the way in which Ceylon’s educational system had become
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      Citizenship: Duties And Rights
      142 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 2;-: By definition a citizen of a city has always been an enfranchised inhabitant, a man with a say in its management because of his privilege to stand for election to the city’s controlling body and duty to cast a vote in the
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      Smallholders’ Revolution
      1001 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 29. A “revolution” in the economic life of the rubber smallholder is planned in ihe rubber replanting bill wh h is to come before the Fed al Legislative Council in Marvn. The bill was published at he week-end. It sets up a replanting board to
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      The Burma Border
      704 5 —Straits Times, Jan. 30. There is only one way of getting at the truth about the Burma border. That is through United Nations investigation of what is going on in the Kengtung salient. It would not be a particularly easy mission, but if there were investigation on
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      A Record Year’s Trade
      337 5 —Straits Times, Jan. 30. The summary of 1951 trade, published today, is a register of record Figures. Exports last year totalled $5,990 million, and imports $4,720 million. Both figures are records. And so is the $1,270 million favourable balance of trade, which exceeds the 1950 surplus
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    MCA answer protest by wives
    140 5 AN official of the Malayan Chinese Association replied today to protests by wives of Government and commercial clerks against the M. C. A. lotteries He said. “Our lotteries are run to help resettle and maintain thousands of squatters. “No complaints have been received from wives
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    PASSES LEGAL EXAMINATION
    23 5 Mr. Peter Shai of Malacca, has passed the English Inns of Cours Hilary law examinations in Roman Law Class 111.
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    BROKE CURFEW
    47 5 KLUANG, Mon.—A twenty-vear-old female. Gan Lan Yong, who was found out-of-doors during curfew hours was fined $lO. or four days’ simple imprisonment. Gan said she wa s on her way home after tapping and did not know it was so late when she was arrested.
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTH
      161 5 GRAY. To BETTY wile of D.St. G.W. Gray at Perth W.A. on 23.1.52. a daughter. BRIDGES: TO HELEN EJLIZABETH, wife of Major D. K. Bridges, on 24th January, at Bungsar Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, a son. David Clutha Gordon. MACLEAN: To ANN, wife of D W., at Batu Gajah Hospital,
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      158 5 THE ENGAGEMENT is announced today of Chan Glm Swee, eldest son of Mr. Chan Pak Ohn and the late Mdm. Ho Slew Choo and Teh Poy Khuan. third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Teh Thong Chee. both of Penang. The engagement is announced between R. Shanmugam. son of Mr.
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      MARRIAGE
      79 5 VAN GELDER-VAN BLOEMEN W A ANDERS: The marriage took place on Saturday, 26th January, 1952. between J. A. van Gelder and A. van Bloemcn Waanders. LIVINGSTONE-WYLLIE: On 21st August, 1951, at Edinburgh, by the Rev. Peter Ferguson. M.A., Andrew Douglas, of the Borneo Co. Ltd., Labuan. only son of
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      ACKNOWLEDGMENT
      78 5 MR. <fe MRS. K. SALOMON of Johore Labis Estate express their hearty thanks to ttuxse friends and relatives who attended their marriage, valuable presents sent and greetings. MR. AND MRS. ANTONY MIRANDAH wish to thank nil friends and relatives for their kind presence, congratulations and presents on the occlusion
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      ANNOUNCEMENT
      22 5 MR. MRS. TOH THIAM WATT of the Singapore Harbour Board, wishes all their friends relatives A Happy and Prosperous New Year.
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    100 5 DEATH WAUGH peacefully on January 28th 1952. P. J. Roy Waugh beloved husband of Margaret and dear father of Jean Patricia and Ewan CABLE received by S. Ponniah, Co-operative Officer, Johore, that his brother Maniam, teacher. Govt. English School, Segamat, passed away in Cevlon. on 25.1.52. ALLEN: The death occurred
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    A SINGAPORE DIARY
    2845 6  -  Stanley Street. From The Straits Times of Jan. 24 —Jan. .'5O. Hscujmt IT may be remembered that a .short time ago tin.* Leal Monkey, which had been presumed to be extinct on the island ol Smgai>oie. came to .suspected lile in this column. We speculated on how
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    THE FISHERMAN’S HOME
    76 6 Up Tan Seng Ann of Penang this is one of the outstanding pictures in the Singapore Art Society's third open Singapore Photographic Exhibition which was opened by Mr T. P. F. McNeice. Singapore City Council President, yesterday evening m the British Council Hall. “The Fisherman's Home” has
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    Countryman’s Journal
    792 7  -  TUAN DJEK. j i £RE is nothing of i importance to write jlv at this week, except a the Tuan has just broken his upper dentare. As far as he knows tnere is no hush-hush in it ter that has to be suppressed. Tuesday the 15th being a
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    Freedom of City may cost $7,500
    140 7 SINGAPORE, Jan 27. AUTHORITY for the City President. Mr. T P. F. McNeice. to spend $7,500 "at his discretion" on arrangements for presenting the Governor of Singapore. St Franklin Gimson, with the Freedom of the City, will be sought at the Singapore City Council
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    Johore to open dental clinics
    43 7 JOHARE BAHRU, Sat.—As *oon as stall equipment and quarters for dental officers arc available. Government plan to or>cn clinics at Pontian Kechil. Kota Tir.ggi and Mersing. The money for these schemes has been provided in the 1952 estimates.
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    Food law on more areas
    133 7 rIE Restriction of Movement of FoodstulTs regulations have now been enforced on areas lying within the wire perimeters enclosing the labourers lines of Bata I Estate, the 36th Mile Kulai Besar Estate, northern division. Ayer Manis estate, Sedenak Estate. (Glencoe division). Oil Palm Estate, Fraser
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    Fifty Years Ago
    105 7 (From the Straits Times of Jan. 2, 1902) rE Malay States Guides’ guns were manufactured 45 and 48 years ago respectively; they are the only weapons the Government possesses for the defence of Selangor. FROM the meagre details to hand regarding the riots at the Ulu Selangor
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    YOUTH WHO ‘ASKED FOR A KISS’ SENTENCED
    476 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. WONG .11 KIN, aged 19, w as sentenced to two days’ imprisonment and fined $3OO in Singapore yesterday when convicted of breaking into a fiat in Grange Hoad belonging to Mrs. June Mood, aged 27, with intent to outrage her
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    Mr. Lee aims to clear the slums
    106 8 KUATA LUMPUR. Jan. 22. Mr. y. t. lee. mca-umno Municipal candidate for the Petalintr Ward in Kuala Lumpur yesterday promised at an election meeting to clear the slums «f Kuala Lumpur and build more houses. Mr. Lee, an architect, said he would try
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    S.C. ON OUTRAGE CHARGE
    64 8 MUAR, Wed.—A special constable, Elias bin Ali, aged 27. claimed trial when c at Muar with assaulting a woman, Jovoh binte Dali, with intent to outrage her modesty at Bekok Estate, Tangkak. $l5O was allowed and the case postponed to Jan. 31. n« SE Ar^ AT
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    Mrs Osman is still waiting to go home
    185 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. jyjRS. PHYLLIS OSMAN, Australian wife of a Malay, who lives with her husband and two children in a Keppel Road kampong, said yesterday that she was still negotiating with the Australian authorities about her possible return to Australia. In
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    WOMAN CHARGED WITH THEFT
    39 8 MUAR. Wed.—Bail of $5,000 in two .sureties was granted a voman Lau Chon Wah. charged -with theft of cash and jewellery, valued 'it 5 ,V rom Tcp «">* Sim at Parit Keroma. The cast was postponed.
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    GAVE 50 CENTS
    45 8 Wed.-When aref h fo T r Coring a traffic a J luan Yam Chua. F e J, ed 50 Cf>nlfi U) constable to release him. In the Muar Magistrate's court. Huan was fined $35 or 17 days’ imprisonment for the two offences.
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    Hid opium in car
    76 8 JOIIORE BAHRU, Jan. 23. \\UIEN Customs men searched a car driven by Goh Tee Cheng they found 8 lb of opium in the inside panelling. Goh told Johore Bahru Sessions Court yesterday that the car was lent to him, and that he was taking the opium
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    RUBBER CHARGE
    26 8 SEGAMAT, Wed—Bail of $5OO was offered Tan Hock. 54. who was charged at Segamat with being unlawful possession of 12 tahils of scrap rubber.
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    Councillor returns
    37 8 MR. J. M. JUMABHOY, Singapore City Councillor, pictured with his wife and daughter when they returned to the Colony by Qantas-BOAC yesterday after a three-week holiday in Indonesia and Bali.—Straits Times picture .—Straits Times picture
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    POLICE ‘TIGER’ MEN CHASE BANDITS -ONE TRIPS, CAUGHT
    189 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 22. 4 POLICE “Tiger” patrol (jungle squad) of special constables on a Kluang, Johore, estate yesterday captured a bandit after a fight on the estate. The “Tigers” had chased three bandits. One bandit tripped into a drain and cut
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    IBAN TRACKER SHOT BY RED
    46 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.—A bandit sentry wounded an loan tracker when a patrol °f the First Cameronians found a bandit camp in the Segamat area of Johorp yesterday. The bandits In thp camp fled into the jungle when they heard the shooting
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    DRIVER FINED
    32 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 23. Lim Ong Bee, a Singapore driver, was fined $4O for negligent driving on the Ayer Hitam Road. His licence was also endorsed. His vehicle had overturned.
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    M.P. SEES 3 DEAD BANDITS BROUGHT IN
    167 8 T IPOH Jan. 22 pOLICE jungle squads turning to Ipoh today with a bag of three urn formed Chinese bandit were met bv Colonel Montgomery Hyde. M.P i Belfast, and congratulaton their “splendid succes Col. Montgomery Hyde, wno arrived in Ipoh last nigh
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    What is a Singapore citizen?
    190 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 24 MR E. V. Davies, Lab* Party leader on the Singapore City Council, has problem. He believes that Singapore is a City without any specified citizens. He told the Straits Tlm< s yesterday that at present the City Council has no ordinance to
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    3 witnesses volunteer
    55 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24 'J'HREE people have answered the Singapoi Traffic police appeal for eve witnesses of a road acciden in which Mr. Peter Tav. an Assizes clerk, was killed. It is believed that Mr Tav was knocked down on th* evening of Jan. 13 at Seran goon
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    IMPORT BAN OFF
    31 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24 Indonesia has lifted th ban on imports of Australia 1 wheat flour from Singapor* following protests from tin Singapore Overseas Chinrst Importers and Exporters Association
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    ‘Rot rather than sell’ is dealers’ policy, says food official
    248 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. SINGAPORE vegetable prices, which have gone up by 20 to 50 per cent, during the past three weeks because of the rains, continue to soar. Cucumbers were a dollar a kati in most of the markets in
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    Direct hit—on wrong target
    71 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. L'X PLAINING a reduction r of output from its tin mining operations at Xanjong Rambutan last year. Sir Joseph Ball, chairman oi Malaysian Tin Ltd., said that operations were totally suspended for a month ovine to a direct hit by the R.A.F. on
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    Haircuts to cost more
    67 9 PENANG. Jan. 23. TO meet the higher cost of living, Penang barbers have raised their charges from this month. In first class saloons, a ha; r cut. with shave and shampoo, now costs $2 against the previous rate of $1.50. Second class shops charge $1.50 while
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    Planes raid bandit camp
    46 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 24. A PANDIT camp area in a Selangor swamp was ataeked by three waves of air- a.: yesterday in support of -security forces. Other air operations vesr :n( ludcd Hornet -i hui-bomber attacks on —rpets in Central iak South Kedah.
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    2 broke curfew, fined $80 each
    69 9 rirwr A M u W e ed A lorry v Mah Sio Kim and an ‘OicaiiL, Hui Liang were Z > SBO or 40 days i r? OI mcnl for breaking Cl "f>w at Bukit Pasir fOi transporting rubber Th,"," without a permit. v
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    HAD NO MONEY TO PAY THE FINE
    40 9 Wed.-Tan Hua, for ~netine S2°, in SeKan at «'> sLi 0 2 a police Labis as a bribe H- f e could not pay the f! M w as sentenced to 40 h prison.
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    FOWL OFFENCE
    46 9 F^; lJ K ANSON, Jan. 23 v a!i-r*ti 1 «Rn 13 u S l 0len f °Wls Ki;airi K ,d ln 3 belonging to a> Kamnrlnc, o ln Mohd Alio Lower Lampam. Karaj Osman bin Awang bin Antong monthg $50 or one imprisonment each.
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    Can factory owner fined
    87 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 24, L,AU HIN, proprietor of the Eng Leong Tin Can Factory at Ipoh Road. Kuala Lumpur, was today fined $5O for not having a certificate of fitness for his machinery and failing to put up safety guards around moving parts. Mr. A. Neilson,
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    December latex export
    51 9 SINGAPORE. Ja/.. 25. Malaya exported 4.504 tons of latex last month, according to official statistics released yesterday. Of this 2.441 tons were exported from the Federation. Most of the latex went to the United States— 2.134 tons. Britain took 1,247 tons. France 326 tons and Japan 78
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    Appointed to bomber unit
    57 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. Air Commodore H. L. Messiter. who recently returned to Britain from the Far East, has been appointed Senior Technical Staff Officer fiomber Command 1 He was in the Far East Air Force as Command Engineer Officer. He was formerly at the Air Ministry
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    HE GETS FIRST G.C. OF THE EMERGENCY
    196 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. THE first George Cross awarded tor gallantry in the Malayan Emergency was yesterday presented to Awang Anak Rawang by the Governor of Sarawak. Sir Anthony Foster Abell. It was Sarawak’s biggest post-war ceremony There to see Awang. 26-year-old Sea Dyak
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    SCHEELITE FIND
    50 9 Mr. L. Crozier, general manager of Raub Australian Gold Mine, telegraphed yesterday, stating that he had said over the telephone from Raub to the Straits Times that the company had found "somewhat more” scheelite on the mine than they had thought there was, and not "far more” scheelite.
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    Traffic police clear a point
    89 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. rE plea of a Singapore teacher in a Johore court that “in Singapore, cars parked under a bright street lamp need not have lights un them at night has brought a sivift denial from the Colony's traffic police. A traffic police spokesman
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    BOUND OVER
    30 9 MUAR, Wed.—For possession of chandu at Gersik, a woman, Lee Chow, 26, was bound over in $2OO for eight months by the president of the Muar Sessions Court.
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    JAGA TO HANG
    44 9 A 30-yer/r-old watchman, Gura Singh, employed by a rubber factory at Jurong Road, Singapore, was sentenced to death in the Assize Court yesterday for the murder of Jagat Singh, a 50-year-old fellow watchman, on the night of Aug. 14, last year.
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    MCA move to raise $2,000,000
    59 9 IPOH, Wed. r[E Malayan Chinese Association is to raise $2,000,000 to finance its activities. Part of this money, it is understood, will be used to build a suitable headquarters, probably in Kuala Lumpur. The surpluses from the Association’s lotteries are reserved for welfare work and
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    Judge ‘not too harsh’
    221 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. M R JUSTICE Rogers in the Singapore High Court yesterday dismissed the appeal of Low Chee Hiong against a six-month gaol sentence for making a false declaration while disqualified from driving. The Judge said that Low had admitted obtaining a licence by making
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    WOMAN MOTORIST WAS NEGLIGENT
    35 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Lucy Tay, a Singapore school teacher, was fined $25 today for inconsiderate driving on the Tebrau Road as a result of which her car grazed against a cyclist.
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    They were armed, court told
    51 9 MUAR, Wed.—Lee Kian Huat, 24, Goh Aik Leng. 23, Liew San, 52, Wong Chin Kcw, 17, and Yap Kim Chuan. 27, were charged at Muar with carrying rifles and ammunition at the Ith. m.s., MuarPanchor road. Bail was opposed and the accused were remanded in
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    Sir Samuel Thomas
    28 9 The death occurred in Trinidad on Jan. 19 of Sir Samuel Joyce Thomas, a Chief Justice of the Federated Malay States from 1933 to 1937.
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    LAST MINUTE RUSH IS A RECORD
    168 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. SINGAPORE liincst* in their thousands are making last minute purchases tor the New 'ear, W hith will he celebrated from tomorrow until K( b. 10. Shops and stalls yesterday reported record 'Heaviest buying is in Chinese sundry goods shops, which sell
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    2 meetings to celebrate Indian Day
    117 10 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25. CING AFORE Indians will celebrate Indian Republic Day tomorrow with two mass meetings and prayers in temples. The Singapore Regional Indian Congress will hold a meeting at 445 pm. at the Indian Association ground, Balestier Road. City Councillor Mr. Yap Phcng
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    WON $8,000 CAR IN RAFFLE
    88 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. A motorcar, worth $B,OOO. the first prize in a raffle held at the Great World cabaret last night, was won by Mr. Ng Kcng Hooi, of Singapore. The occasion was a joint dinner given by three firms —Messrs. Gutwirth Trading Co., Clipper
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    NOT GUILTY VERDICT
    90 10 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25. Fong Ah Lien, who attempted to .strangle her fourday old baby was found not guilty of attempted murder at the Singapore Assize Court yesterday on the ground of insanity. The jury found that Fong had committed the act with which she was charged but
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    COCONUT OIL PRICE DROPS
    44 10 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25. The price of coconut oil in Singapore has been reduced, tiu* Controller of Supplies announced yesterday A tin of coconut oil now co.;ts $17.50—51 less. The price for a quart bottle Is 65 cei five cents cheaper.
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    SHE MOVED RICE
    29 10 SKOAMAT, Wed.—A woman, Mon binte Seth, aged 40, was lined $2O by the Segamat Circuit Magistrate for moving four katis of rice into a restricted area.
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    WELLS CLOSED BEFORE
    149 10 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25. r pilE argument that well water was better than tap water was not stressed by towgay growers In the early days whi n wells in the City limits of Singapore were being closed, states Dr. P S. Hunter, a former Municipal Health Officer, in
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    MAN MISSED AS LINER DOCKS
    202 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. SINGAPORE police and immigration authorities are baffled over the disappearance from the P. and O. liner Canton during the run from Hong Kong; to Singapore of a Kuala Lumpur merchant. The passenger. Mr Yeo Khee Seng, of Pudu Road. Kuala Lumpur, who
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    FACTORY OWNER IS ACQUITTED
    85 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. The owner of a Singapore chilli sauce factory. Tan Yew Choon, who said he told his employees not to obstruct the five-foot way of the factory and to keep the place clean, was given the benefit of doubt by the City Police Court
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    WANTED MONEY FOR NEW YEAR
    66 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. A 22 year old Englishspeaking woman hawker Chee Poh Chun, who said she sold fruits to earn a little extra money for the Chinese New Year was cautioned and discharged in Singapore yesterday. She pleaded not guilty to placing a hand-cart of
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    $250 FINE FOR BREACH OF TRUST
    39 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. Patrick Chua, aged 20, was yesterday lined $250 or two months’ imprisonment, in Singapore for criminal breach of trust of a watch valued at $56 belonging to Ng Seng Watt.
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    Mr Gilmour wears a big overcoat
    112 10 Singapore, jan. 24 tIfEARING a khaki, hooded duille coat, Mr. Andrew Gilmour, Singapore’s Secretary for Economic Affairs, yesterday opened the new storage plant an,? building, of the Singapore Cold Storage Company at the Bori*eo Wharf. Mr. J M. McDougal. the general manager of the
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    Commandos for Malaya
    49 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. THE 41st Independent Commando Brigade from Korea is expected to arrive in Singapore on Monday on the troopship Empire Orwell. Some of thp men will reinforce No. 3 Commando Brigade ;n Malaya. The remainder will return to Britain for leave prior to re-assignment
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    MAN, 68, FALLS ROAD VICTIM
    52 10 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Thurs. —A few minutes after alight ing from a bus, Kok Kew Sa, aged 68. was knocked down by a motor leery at Simpang Ampat. Province Welleslev yesterday. He died on the spot. Kok, it is reported, was crossing the road when the
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    BAR KEEPER FINED
    33 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs Yee Kok Yam. a bar keeper wa s fined $4O for failing to show a signboard and $5O for not keeping a book showing purchases and sales.
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    Now Qantas will teach them
    138 10 mwn Aoio SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. Airways awarded School k, Sydney B course at the Qantas Technical The two engineers, Abdul Manaf and Anthony Koh. are the first of several Qantas Asian men who will go to Australia for advanced training. A Qantas spokesman told the
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    FOUR FINED
    35 10 SEREMBAN, Thurs.—Four people were each fined $l5 in Scremban Magistrate’s Court, today for breaking the curfew at the 9 m.s Serem-ban-Martin Road. They were Ah Kian. Lee MOOl, Chin Hoi and Pan Soon.
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    Fined $300 on arrival
    61 10 PENANG, Thurs. ywo new arrivals from India. V. Mohannan and M. Palaniasamy were fined $l5O each today for using altered certificates of identity. The Assistant Controller of Immigration told the court that when the Rajula arrived this morning, the passengers’ documents were examined. It was noticed
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    TWO BROKE CURFEW
    31 10 MUA R, Thur s.—Two Indians, Michael Das and Thomas, were each fined $l5 nt Muar for breaking the curfew at Pagoh. They were arrested on the main road.
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    Perak gives $68,587 to University
    469 10 Fund notv $4.7 mil t A GIFT o f $68,587 has been received by the University of Malaya Endowment Fund from the Lower Perak District Appeal Committee. It was the largest gift received by the Fund between Dec. 31 and Jan. 19 when a total
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    CYCLIST KILLED
    18 10 KLANG, Sat.—A Chinos'' evolist was killed in a co' sion with a bus at Po« Swettenham
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    Three hurt as gang raid petrol firm staff
    194 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. 11KEE men were seriously injured when a gang of 50 Indonesian labourers i .ittacked the staff of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company at Pulau Samboe, 12 miles from Singapore, yest\rday. In hospital in Singapore as a result of the attack
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    Holiday camp to public may be open
    144 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25. S rx holida y bungalows and a club house at Telok Ikan may shortly be available to the public, if I ‘J 2a t )ore City Councillors tins n e suggestion bv ir President. Mr. T P F McNeice. Tlie
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    REPORTED TO THE POLICE
    91 11 -UIORE BAHRU, Fri. uu Mahmud, son of the < u Mahkota of Johore, n the police court today after he saw a military io knock down a cyclist rive off without waiting, )0 k the number of the le and reported to the driver of the
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    DRIVER FINED
    42 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— Swee Choc, a lorry driver, of pontian. who narked his vehicle within 10ft. of a road junction, was fined $15 at Bahru todav and $40 tor refusing to give his name and address to a police officer
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    Austin cars have gone up in price
    172 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. IIRICFS of Austin cars which left the factory in 1 Britain after January this year, have been increased by about five per cent. The company announced this on Wednesday buts Us agents in Malaya. Messrs. Borneo Motors, could not say
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    P.C.s slept on armed duty
    69 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. 1 'n anrt C Q m i en Joned bln r v>«,?>?,? Sula,ma n bin Isw‘re ea ch sentenced in jre yesterday to a V s im ,P. ri sonment for b t bil e on armed I] inf K Shell Depot.
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    Road accidents
    27 11 ■^ro-wT'n Ur fjT“ Tbore wore >>Kl accidents in Perak tVo& h!c h 8 7 Peopie iron 17 °f them ln1ured was ,llts and 138 children.
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    BROKE CURFEW
    45 11 TELUK ANSON. Jan. 24. Charged with breaking the curfew at Labu Kubong in Lower Perak and possessing a defaced identity card, Nur Rashid bin Abdul Rahman pleaded guilty. Bail of $lOO was granted and the case was postponed to Jan. 30 for sentence.
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    $250 BAIL
    39 11 JOHORE BAHRU Jan. 24. Abdul Hamid bin Yassim was allowed $250 bail in the Sessions Court today on a charge of theft from a dwelling of a wrist watch valued at $5O belonging to Maimunah binte Abdullah.
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    THEY WANT MALAYAN AS DEPUTY TO TEMPLER
    135 11 KUALA LUMPUR. 25. THE appointment of a civil servant from outside Malaya as Deputy High Commissioner will bn opposed in the Federal Legislative Council next Wednesday. The acting Chief Secretary, Mr. D. C. Watherston, will introduce a motion asking the council to approve
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    Opium found in safe
    77 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. \yHEN revenue officers, led by Mr. H. G. Boyce-Taylor, raided a house in Kitchener Road on Oct. 24 last year, 47 lb. and 10 tahils of opium was found in a safe. This was stated in the Singapore First District Court yesterday when
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    CASE AGAINST WOMAN DROPPED
    82 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. The case against Agnes Mary Watkins, charged with housebreaking and stealing clothing and cash worth $7l from a house in Upper Serangoon Road on Dec 8. was withdrawn by the prosecution in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. She was given a discharge
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    He gave tip—and 4 bandits died
    203 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 24. A CIVILIAN walked into Seremban police headA quarters last night—and at dawn today four bandits, including the secretary of Seremban Communist branch committee, were killed. The civilian told the police that the bandits would be I on a rubber estate
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    Bribe charge
    43 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. William Noo. a 23-year-old Singapore special constable was remanded for a week at Singapore First Police Court, yesterday accused of accepting a $lO bribe for renewal of a car licence. He was allowed $l,OOO bail in two sureties.
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    House must be closed, Judge rules
    153 11 SINGAPORE, Jan;2s. LIM KONG MENG. a subtenant. who sought in the Singapore High Court yesterday to get n closing order, made bv the third magistrate, in respect of a house in Balestier Road, cancelled failed in his attempt. The application was brought before* Mr
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    S’pore, Fed. ready for help Britain
    116 11 S’pore, Fed ready for help Britain SINGAPORE. Jan. 25. SINGAPORE and Federation Governments are awaiting Colonial Office instructions on how the two territories can help Britain in her present financial troubles. Mr. T. Van der Gaast, Singapore’s representative to the Commonwealth Finance Ministers’ Conference, is expected to bring with him.
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    THEY’RE GLAD TO SEE LAND
    66 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25. The passenger-cargo vessel Gorgon arrived in Singapore harbour early yesterday with 10 passengers longing to disembark. The ship had run Into very bad weather shortly after leaving the North coast, of Australia. When passing through the Lomboek Straits most of the passengers
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    Mr. Yap will be MCA superman
    155 12 MALACCA, Fri. THE Malayan Chinese Association today announced the appointment of Mr. Yap Mail Tatt as its new $2,000-a--month “superman”. He will have as deputy Mr. Y C. Kang, Ipoh chartered accountant. Mr. Yap’s new designation will be agentgeneral while Mr. Kang is the
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    CONDITIONAL DISCHARGE
    78 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 26. A. E. Chelvan, a former contractor, who ha.s been a bankrupt .since June 1049. was granted a discharge in the Singapore High Court yesterday, subject to his consenting to judgment in the sum of $lO,OOO. Mr. T. Kulasekaram, Assistant Official Assignee, told Mr. Justice Rogers
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    8 ON ARMS CHARGE
    84 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 26. Eight Chinese, who were arrested bv Singapore Police at Kampong Tiong Bahru on Jan. 23. were charged in the First Police Court yesterday with possession of a .38 revolver without a licence Thev were Lee Poon Teck (20>. Ho Chee Geok (23). Ho
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    WRONG MAN CHARGED
    92 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 26. Tan Pei Hiong, partner of a cycle shop in Jalan Bcsar, was acquitted in Singapore of possessing 46 lbs opium, alter his shop manager, Sim Ah Kow, testified that the room, in which the opium was found, was his and not Tan’s. Sim said
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    SO 25 SHOPS MUST CLOSE DOWN IN BATU ARANG
    233 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 25. CKLANGOR Government has ordered 25 sundry shops in Batu Arang to close down. The order was made under the Emergency Regulations. Batu Arang is the centre of Malayan Collieries’ coal mining operations. Shop proprietors have been given
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    Hoarding of sugar ban
    77 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 26. THE hoarding of sugar is 1 prohibited on an order issued yesterday by the Food Controller. Singapore. The order does not apply to jaggery, rock sugar, sugar candy, icing sugar, caster sugar and molasses. Sugar can only be kept by holders of ration
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    GUILTY PLEA RETRACTED
    82 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. Tay Pin Cheong, who when first produced in the Sessions Court pleaded guilty to possession of 22 lbs of opium, retracted his plea when brought up for judgment. Tay told the Court he did not know what was in the parcels found in his
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    $12,000 a month for Pavilion
    101 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 26. 'pHE Singapore Kent Conciliation Board yesterday fixed the rent of the Pavilion Cinema, Orchard Road, at $12,000 a month. Mr. C. H. Smith, for the estate of I. A. Elias, the owners told the Board that th« cinema would be leased to
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    Rubber mart is idle in Singapore
    239 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. A LTHOUGH it was expected that there would be liquidation of rubber which has been accumulating at upcountry centres for some weeks past, there has been very little of this to date. The market has continued idle and the volume of
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    ‘ROCKETS WILL BE OUR ANSWER’
    110 12 ROCKETS WILL BE OUR ANSWER KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 23. EH)R every stone he flings at the Selangor Labour 1 Party, Mr. K. L. Devaser, an IMP leader, will get a rocket in answer, said Mr. K. C. Chia, President of the Labour Party, at an election meeting in Kuala Lumpur
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    Kampong ‘teacher’ is fined $90
    37 12 MUAR. Thurs. —A Javanese. Darjo bin Karyono, who taught religious doctrine at Kampong Panjane Sari, Pagoh, without authority, was fined $9O. or 45 days’ hard labour, at Muar under the Mohammedan Enactment.
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    DID NOT REPORT
    43 12 For failing to report himself to thp Police, Chua Thian Bok. aged 22 a police-supervisee was yesterday sentenced In Singapore to three months’ imprisonment Mr. E. J. Arrowsmith, from Kelantan, has assumed duties as Assistant Drainage and Irrigation Engineer. Krian
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    Liner sails as hunt for man goes on
    135 12 THE liner Cajiton yesterday from Singapore for England, with one entry in the log book reading: “One passenger still missing.” The police are puzzled by the disappearance of the Kuala Lumpur merchant, Mr. Yeo Khee Seng. A search of islands near Singapore
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    ‘I’m no Red,’ says Mr. Zalam
    184 12 W SINGAPORE. Jan. 26. HEN the P. and O. liner, Canton, sailed for England yesterday she had on board a Polish passenger. Richard Zalam— and Mr Zalam was unhappy for he had not been allowed ashore at Singapore. Yesterday an official of the Immigration
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    Siamese rice deal is made
    361 12 SINGAPORE!, Jan. 2G BRITISH territories n South-East Asia—Singapore, th e Federation 0 f Malaya, Sarawak, Borneo and Hong Kong—are to get 295,000 tons of rice from Siam for the first nine months of this year Negotiations ended in Bangkok yesterday. The rice will be deliverer!
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    EVADED DUTY: $650 FINE
    66 12 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. Twenty tins of saccharin valued at $200 were four. in a car driven by Tan Korn Tin who told the Custom that there was nothing durable in the car. He and a woman. Ow J i Air, were charged in th Police Court
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    FLOODS DEFACED THEIR I-CARDS
    46 12 SEGAMAT, Thurs. Wh< charged in the Segamat Cir cuit Magistrate’s court wit defacing their identity cards, three women, Tan Teen. 23. Ga n Gok Hwi and Pan Kooi Mol. 18, blamed th* recent floods for the damage. They were fined $l2 each.
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    Jap crackers hail Chinese New Year
    578 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. CSNGAPORE’S 800,000 Chinese continue their New Year’s festivities today. They will a iebrate the occasion by exploding thousands of fireworks and firecrackers to ward off evil sririts during the year of the Dragon. Many of the fireworks have been made in
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    Priest saves two in flood drama
    298 13 1POH, Sat. ■THE heroic action of 45- v car-old Rev. Choong Karri. .n o priest of the tamoj> am Poh Thong cave temple in Copeng o ;1 the lives o* two wjnti' c ootees who were iauc n a whirlpool of mud anri cl
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    ABUSED P.C. —FINED $30
    84 13 SINGAPORE, Sat. using abusive language 1 .policeman, 24-year-old r' ck Hock was lined one week’s imprisonnSlngapore yesterday V B N Pinch. A.S.P.; c 'uted. said Lim was i, v a P carryh on the cross-bar of io at West Coast "1 on Jan. 25 an ,il
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    She knows her Chinese
    94 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. YOUNG English girl, who recently qualified 4n Chinese at the School of Oriental Studies, will arrive in Kuala Lumpur early next month to take up a new post in the office of the Federal Secretary for Chinese Affairs. She is Miss M. G.
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    Bandits kill M.C.A. leader
    93 13 MUAR, Sat. 'JfWO Home Guards were killed when a bandit gang invaded the wired area of Kampong Raja in the Muar district of Johore shortly after midnight on Friday. They 'were Gan Leong. a local Malayan Chinese Association leader and Wee Gong Sim. aged 22. The
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    Did not attend court, fined
    46 13 SEGAMAT. Sat. Zalnab binte Lahom, a 21-year-old woman, was fined $lO by the Segamat Magistrate for failing to attend court. On an original charge of causing mischief by tearing her husband’s identity card. Zainab was acquitted when police withdrew the charge.
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    RED HANDS UP
    16 13 Siamese reported yesterday that a Malayan bandit had surrendered to them at Betong
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    MEAT BAN THREAT
    496 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. THREATENED ban on exports of Australian meat to Malaya would have a disastrous effect on meat supplies and the cost of living for the European population, a less serious effect on the Eurasian population and practically no effect on the Asian population, Singapore authorities
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    Mr. Goh retires after 35 years’ service
    91 13 Mr. Goh retires after 35 years service SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. THE Singapore Customs Department will be losing one of its longest-serving officers in March this year when Mr. Goh Chiang Chuah, M.8.E., retires after 35 years in the administrative branch of the service. Mr. Goh joined the local Customs Department
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    consorted, charge
    36 13 MUAR, Sat. A Chinese youth. Ho Ah Sian, was remanded in police custody when charged at Muar on two charges of consorting in the Tangkak area with persons carrying arms in October last year.
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    PRICE INSPECTORS ARREST 50 MORE
    97 13 CONTINUING their Colonywide sweep on markets and sundry goods stores to check the rising prices of canned goods and vegetables, Singapore Food Control inspectors yesterday made another 50 arrests. Arrests since Thursday total 90. The arrests were made tor allegedly failing to display price tags.
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    Another chance for man and wife
    183 13 MUAR, Sat j A PLEA to be given a I chance to patch up old quarrels and live happily together was made by a Chinese couple to the President of the Muar Sessions Court, Inche Hamid bin Mustapha The case was one in which
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    MISADVENTURE
    43 13 IPOH. Sat. A VERDICT of death by misadventure was returned by the Ipoh magistrate’s court at the conclusion ol an inquest into the death of a Javanese Special Consable, Sielamat Ahmad, who was killed in an accident on Oct. 10 last year.
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    FINED $30
    38 13 KUANTAN, Sat. Foong Sui Chow, a learner driver, was fined $2O at Kuantan for negligent driving. He drove into a padi field while overtaking another car. For not, displaying a “L” plate he was fined $lO.
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    TWO ACQUITTED
    27 13 MUAR, Sat. Pang Meng Jee and a woman, Kian Kian Lan, were acquitted at Muar on a charge of assaulting Lau Yee at Jalan Khalidi.
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    HUNDREDS WANT TO SEE S’PORE FROM AIR
    484 14 HUNDREDS WANT TO SEE S’ PORE FROM AIR SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. A FTKR a nitfht of feasting and drinking, Singapore was up with the dawn yesterday as the Colony’s 800,000 Chinese streamed out of their brightly lit, red-bannered houses to start off the 15-day Chinese New Year festival with the
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    Seven hurt in New Year road smash
    102 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 28. A TRIPLE crash at the 9th mile Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, in which three Chinese were seriously injured and four others slightly hurt wa lS the only major accident yesterday. The three Chinese w’ere taken to hospital unconscious and bad
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    Officer is found shot
    64 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 28. A BRITISH Army officer reported missing from his unit on Saturday nignt was found seriously wounded near the corner of Holland Road and Clementl Road. Singapore yesterday. The officer. Captain Humphreys. of the Buffs, died from gunshot wounds at the British Military Hospital
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    836,240 acres under padi
    65 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 27. Padi planting has been completed in Perils and is about to end in Kedah, Kelantan and Trengganu. A total of 836,240 acres will be under wet padi in the Federation in this season. Latest figures issued by the field branch of the
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    Car left road, overturned
    88 14 SEGAMAT, Mon.—Charged with inconsiderate driving, Gunarctnam, 39, was fined $l9 at Segamat. HLs car was alh ged to have left the road and overturned. Two others, Lim Teng (39) and Abdullah bin A Raul <3T>) wefv also fined Cl ft ‘*ach lor similar offences. Lim crashed
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    LAND WANTED
    33 14 JOHORE BAHRU. SunLand for building is in demand in Mersing and is fetching good prices. Recently, when Government auctioned two town lots slightly over a dollar a square foot was realised.
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    EXTRA HELP
    25 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The Johore State Government has engaged 20 temporary eldrks to prepare new rent rolls because land rents have been raised
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    Has any one here seen ‘Scup’?
    148 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 28. rIE saddest little boy in all the Changi. Singapore, area yesterday was eight-year-old Jimmy Hadley, whose pet mongrel dog. 'Scup* has gone astray in the Tanah Merah Besar beach area. Because of this major catastrophe in his life Jimmy has been
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    A.P. FINED $55
    55 14 SEGAMAT. Sun.—Alip bin Malan, an auxiliary policeman. was fined a total of $55 at Scgamat for riding a motor cycle without a licence or insurance policy and causing hurt to a friend, who rode behind him, as a result of rash driving. He was disqualified from holding
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    500 search for bandit gang
    298 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27 VTEGRI SEMBILAN home and kampong guards were brought out in force to follow up an air strike near Seremban yesterday. Four hundred ,>i them joined 100 police and a platoon of 1/7 Gurkh in the operation. I A gang of 20
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    Malayans ‘always the guests’
    210 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27. IT was a matter of envy on the part of most Malayans that they should be forced always to be guests at independence day functions of other Asian countries, Dato Onn bin Ja’afar, Member for Home Affairs, said at an Indian Independence
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    GUILTY PLEA
    31 14 PARIT BUNTAR, Sun. Din bin Dollah pleaded guilty to criminal breach of trust of a bicycle belonging to Saidin bin Arsbad., The s n ntenco was adjourned to Thursday
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    Palm oil output is down
    109 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 27. THE Federation of Malaya produced 48.000 tons of palm oil, 14,000 tons of palm kernels and 160.000 tons of copra in 1951. Palm oil production was 5,000 tons less than that in 1950 and 2.000 tons less than that in 1949.
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    BAIL OPPOSED
    42 14 KUALA KANGSAR. Sun.— Abu Sam bin Pandak Karim, charged with possession of a rifle, four rounds of 303 ammunition and 58 rounds of .303 ammunition without authority on Jan. 9 at Kuala Dal, Kuala Kangsar, was remanded Police opposed bail.
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    Blackouts? It depends on the Chinese
    144 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 28 WHETHER there are any TT blackouts over the Chinese New Year Is a matter that is entirely in the hands of the Chinese. Singapore’s Electrical Engineer, Mr. C. C. Payne, when asked abont the blackout situation. yesterday, wearily lifted his hands
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    Pahang gave $18,026
    71 14 RAUB, Sun A SUM of $18,026.90 was collected in Pahang for the Poppy Day Fund for 1951. almost double that in the previous year, said Mrs. Corry. wife of the British Adviser. Pahajig, who was the organiser. Temerloh district with $6,000.87 topped the list. The collections from
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    Mail trains attacked
    70 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27 BANDITS attacked both night mail trains between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore last night. The pilot train of the north-bound mail was derailed in Johore. There were no casualties. Four wheels the leading crash wagon l f the lines. In Malacca bandits fired on
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    DRUM THEFT CHARGE
    38 14 FARIT BUNTAR. Sun Two labourers of Soon Estate were charged v..’ theft of six bras* arsep drums valued at $492. case was adjourned to Wen nesday for transfer to Session Court. Bail of was ofTereel.
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    He will fly home in £1,000 plane
    225 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. yiNG «>n the floor at his 1 home at Goodwill Hill viMcrday surrounded by maps arid charts. Mr. A. K W Andren. Chief Enjjraoer of the Department «f ivil Aviation, Singapore. put the finishing touche* to his plan to fly
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    K.L. hospital facilities ‘disgraceful’
    110 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 28. FACILITIES at the General Hospital in Kuala Lumpur were disgraceful. Mr. K. V. Thaver. an IMP candidate in the Sentul Ward, said at a Kuala Lumpur election meeting. “If a patient went to the hospital at seven a.m. he would probably be
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    £40,000,000 oil refinery for Perth
    101 15 THE Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. is negotiating with the Australian Government to build a €40.000.000 refinery near Perth, the West Australian capital. This was stated in Singapore yesterday by one of Anglo-Iranian’s negotiators. Mr. P. Hackforth-Jones. who passed through bv QantasBOAC with his wife, on bis
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    ALL FAMILIES SHOULD HELP, SAYS LUND
    201 15 riVPRv KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 29. h j family in Malaya should have at least one 1 <• .rj ber in home nursing and first aid, the ra i Otto Lund, Chief Commissioner of imi’thn S mb ulance Brigade, said here today. Sir n a
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    Ang-pows for the bandits
    55 15 New Year angpows for bandits in five States were bombs, rockets and gun-straffing by the R.A.F. and R.A.A.F. in yesterdays air operations in support of the security forces. Targets in Kedah. Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Psrak and Selangor were attacked by R.A.F. Brigands, nornets and Sunderland, and
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    JUMPED INTO RIVER WHEN ‘BANDIT’ CAME
    181 15 TELUK ANSON, Jan. 28. A MALAY special constable told the Teluk Anson Sessions Court that when a man came up to his sampan at the Town Jetty and demanded his identity card he thought he was a bandit and jumped into the river. The
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    2 NOMINATED FOR COUNCIL
    69 15 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 29. Mr M. Kanthaswamy, secretary of the Johore Teachers Union, has been nominated by the Johore State division of the Malayan Trade Union Council to the Johore Council of State. The Johore Civil Service Association has nominated Ungku Aziz bin Hamid to the
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    AIRLINE MEN WILL CONFER IN S’PORE
    91 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. OEPRESENTATIVES from all airlines operating in K Asia and Australasia are to attend a regional conference of the International Air Transport Association which will be held in Singapore on Feb. 12—15. The conference will be held in the MacDonald House offices
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    ‘Evil Day’ rain kept the big crowds indoors
    142 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. TT was indoor day for the Chinese yesterday—- third day of the New Year. The third day is considered evil—and in any case it rained. But the cinemas were packed. And the Great, New and Happy Worlds reported record
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    Run school buses only
    93 15 THE Singapore Traction Company should run buses on all routes in the City area for school children, Mr. H. A. Jivabhai, Independent City Councillor, said yesterday. He said he will raise the question at the City Council meeting tomorrow. He said: “i have received complaints from
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    NEW TAXI TRACK AT AIRPORT
    114 15 SINGAPORE. Jan. 29. THE taxi track at Kallang airport Ls to be resurfaced. This will be the main development at the airport this year. It i s estimated to cost $lOO,OOO. Work will begin In two or three months and will be finished about July.
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    TENANTS MUST REGISTER
    63 15 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 28 The Emergency (Tenants Registration) Regulations have been made applicable to the re-settlement areas at the sth Mile. Batu Pahat Road; Kampong Paya; 2nd milestone, Jalan Merslng; Bth milestone. Jalan Merslng; Kahang. Chamek. Paloh, Sungei Sayong, Kampong Bukit Pisang. Layang Layang, Rengam. 51st milestone,
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    Settlement asks for loudspeaker
    100 15 MALACCA, Jan. 29. OESIDENTS or the Portuguese Settlement are agitating for a public loudspeaker for the 500odd persons in the Settlement. They have approached the Settlement Secretary with a request that the matter be brought before Government. A resident of the Settlement said: “The lot of
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    A LAWFUL HOLIDAY
    44 15 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. There were only 24 fresh cases at Johore Bahru police court today, most of them for minor traffic offences. And although it was the first sitting of the court since the holidays, there was only one gambling case.
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    TWO TEACHERS TRANSFERRED
    61 15 KAJANG, Wed.—Mr. Ma Loh Kah and Mrs. Yap Siew Fah, Kajang High School teachers, have left on transfer to Kuala Lumpur. Mr Ma is now attached to Batu Road School and Mrs Yap to Pasar Road School. KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.The mass rally in Kuala Lumpur this evening
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    Lucky bricks will raise Hall funds
    168 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 29. SELANGOR Badminton Association has drawn up a big programme for Its fun fair, to be held at the Chinese Assembly Hall here on Friday and Saturday The object is to raise funds for the association’s new hall. So far 30,000
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    Bail opposed
    26 15 SEGAMAT, Sat. Bail was opposed in the Segamat Court when Ramu, aged 19. and Sinnathamby, aged 23, were charged with house breaking and theft.
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    1951 WAS MALAYA’S GREATEST YEAR EVER FOR TRADE
    333 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. MALAYA had its most prosperous year ever in ITI 1951, official trade figures revealed yesterday. The favourable trade balance was $1,270 million, an all time record, with exports valued at $5,990} million and imports at $4,720 million. In 1950
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    Sick leave pay sought
    72 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. gINGAPORE Harbour Board Labour Union will ask the Harbour Board to introduce a paid sick leave scheme for daily-paid employees if a resolution is approved at the annual meeting on Feb. 24. Another resolution will ask for free medical aid for all daily-rated
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    $300 BAIL
    37 16 KLUANG, Mon. Accused nf illegally tapping rubber trees belonging to the Government. Cha Chui Leong. of the resettlement, ramp at Rengam was allowed bail of $3OO at Kluang. The case was postponed to Feb. 5,
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    HE GETS M.R.C.P.
    19 16 KAJANO, Tues.—Dr. Balblr jfttnKh, a former medical offlSJfer at Klang, ha s passed M.R. from Edinburgh.
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    GAZETTED
    24 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— The resettlement areas of Jemaluane and Kampong Kongsi, Endau have been gazetted as areas where the Emergency (Tenants Registration Regulationsapply.
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    BODY FOUND
    21 16 TELUK ANSON, Mon—Police have recovered the body of an Indian labour .Veerapatham, from the Bemam River at Utan Melintang.
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    MOVE ON TEMPLER DEPUTY
    117 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. rE Government has published the terms of the motion to be introduced at the Federal Legislative Council this week, seeking approval to appoint a Deputy Hign Commissioner. The motion, which will oe introduced by the Acting Chief Secretary. Mr D C. Watherston. reads:
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    Shopmen ask for law on hours
    154 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. A MEMORANDUM asking for legislation to safeguard the rights of shop assistants in Singapore will soon be sent to Government, Mr. P. M. Williams, organiser of the proposed shop assistants* union said yesterday. Mr. Williams said that it was proposed to
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    Six pretty faces lured him on
    111 16 A MARRIED man with a family told the Singapore Fourth Police Court magistrate, Mr. P. Clague. yesterday that he stole a box of six dolls from a parked car “because they looked so pretty.” Koh Bee Tat, aged 24, was sentenced to one month’s
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    HE BRINGS A DUKE’S MESSAGE
    168 16 THE Commissioner-in-Chief of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. Lt.-Gen. Sir Otto Lund, arrived in Singapore from Bombay yesterday evening—24 hours behind schedule. He travelled in one of four BOAC aircraft which were on Cairo airfield when it was attacked by Egyptian mob s last Saturday.
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    7 DESERTERS
    60 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 30. Seven Indonesian seamen, who deserted their ships in America, arrived in the Bali which put in at Singapore yesterday on her way from New York to Djakarta. The seamen are being sent back to Indonesia JOHORE BAHRU Jan. 29. Inspector Mohd Shariff bin Mohamed, of
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    Million to learn of bandit fight
    235 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 29. PRINCESS Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh and a million Ceylonese will learn about Malaya fight against Communist banditry when they visit the Colombo Plan Exhibition next month. Forty-nine cases of heavy exhibits left on the Canton for Colombo last week.
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    Dragon Year fires
    81 16 BUTTERWORTH. Jan. 29. SPARKLERo thrown by children celebrating Chinese New Year are believed to have caused two fires in Butterworth, damaging property worth about $5,000. An attap house was completely burnt dowrn at the New Ferry Road, behind Butterworth Convent, at noon today. There was no casualty.
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    Federation Day plans
    56 16 TAIPING, Jan. 29. TAIPING. girls’ schools will 1 celebrate Federation Day on Friday with sports and exhibition drills at St. George’s Institution. Each school will send 100 children to the Institution at 8 a.m. to hear a message from the Inspector of Schools, Perak North. Malay girls
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    White lines proposed for minor roads
    95 16 gINGAPORE CITY Council’s Traffic Committee has recommended that white check lines be painted on minor roads to control traffic at corners. The Registrar of Vehicles Mr. W. A. M. Watts, advised the Committee that lines should be painted on the left half of roads
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    Women‘must serve to be equals’
    148 16 PENANG Jan. 29 IF women wished to have equal status with men they must come forward and give puMlc sorvice, Mr. G. Veeriah, secretary of the Central Kedah Indian Association, said at yesterday's annual meeting He was commenting on th< poor response to the association’s
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    Motorist is killed by car fan
    69 16 TELUK ANSON, Jan 29 MOTORIST was killed instantaneously when oiu of the blades ot the fan in his car snapped off and pierced his lung. He was Mr. Suppiah, agtd 46. a director of the Hud Soon Omnibus Company. Teluk Anson. When hi s
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    Donations to SATA
    98 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 30. Recent donations toS.A.TA Fund include:- $1,452.55 Mi S. H. Tan. (Marden Compare Proceeds of “Esther” Cantata), $1,000, Mr. Chee GuaChians in memory of fathei (late Mr. Chee Swee Chens' $1,000 Indersons Co: $500 Mr. J. A. Elias. $200, Nanyami Press, $169.87, Nationale Handelsbank, Singapore:
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    Chief to be transferred
    42 16 TELUK ANSON. Mon.—Th' Territorial Chief Lower Perak Raja Haji Ali bin Raja Han Mahmud will be going on transfer to Kuala Kangsar < Feb. 1. hv He will be succeeded ID Raja Kechil Sulong. Musa Ibni Sultan Abdul A?
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    PART OF MARINE PARADE ROPED OFF: ROAD FALLING INTO SEA
    234 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. i*ilE Singapore City Engineer, Mr. G. Edmond, has closed part of Marine Parade in Katong because it is in danger of collapsing into the sea. Mr. Edmond ordered the closure after a City councillor for East Ward,
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    P.C. beat off a bayonet charge
    131 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 29. A I.THOUGH wounded, Police Constable Junit bin Rafle drove oil a bayonet charge bv an overwhelming force of bandits and today he awarded the Colonial Pol lie Medal for gallantry. 3 -.nit. was the leading scout Of two jungle squads
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    TWO BANDITS KILLED
    59 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 29. Mt n of the 1st Bn.. Suffolk Regiment, killed two bandits in a buttle on a rubber estate ar K uala Lumpur today l > soldiers were seriously wounded and one slightly The battle was i n the Ulu 7 l lle a
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    TO STUDY TRADE CONDITIONS
    65 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. rVnm?' f Chi l ton publicity u4 r l0 l- Horlicks Ltd., r v f ui Singapore yester--iv o Study conditions in a pore and the Federa'on'ninv' 011 ***** with his fut ure advertising -ramme in Asia w* J l f r L
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    FINANCE OFFICER
    30 17 •HORE BAHRU. Tties. St L sr nail bln Abubakar, St Treasurer, will act as r r 1 inance Officer when naia s Pra ne goes on on Friday
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    Murder verdict at inquest
    92 17 PAR IT BUNTAR, Tues. “Murder by an unknown person or persons unknown.” was the verdict returned by Coroner Inche Salleh bin Eckhardt at an inquest on a middle-aged Chinese man found in the river at Kuala Kurau on Sept. 3. The hands were tied behind the
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    THEY WILL FIGHT BANDITS
    31 17 MEMBERS OF THE 41st Independent Commando Group, Royal Marines, make merry on the Empire Orwell before disembarking in Singapore for duty in the Federation. Straits Times picture.
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    Gift makes him weep—then smile
    170 17 IT OH Quee Koon, aged 30, of Tampoi Leper Colony, Johore, yesterday cried when he got his Chinese New Year gift—a wheel chair. The present came from the Singapore police. Koh mumbled: ‘‘Thank you, thank you very much”, as the Singapore Police Welfare Officer, Mr.
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    Govt. plans to train them for top jobs
    124 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A PLAN to train Malayans for higher posts in the Federation Government service will be tabled at the Federal Legislative Council meeting next Wednesday. The council will also receive the third report of the Organisation and Methods Adviser who
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    A prisoners’ friend
    57 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. A Stralts-born Chinese. Billy Loh. who smuggled food to Australian prisoners at Caldecott Hill camp during the occupation has died aged 40. Caught by the Japanese, he was detained and tortured, and soon after contracted tuberculosis. Help was given him when Australian newspapers reported
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    TRAVEL RULES CRITICISED
    130 17 UAL Ceylon residents !l Singapore yesterday 1 the Ceylon Governv nns 11 l ns when t -y for travel papers v on. they should proonly their own birth II !>s their fathers’ v!onese were com- menting on the announcement of the Ceylon Commissioner regarding passports and Emergency
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    Soldier in a lorry shot by bandits
    69 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. BRITISH soldier sitting at the back of a lorry was shot dead by bandits on the Labis-Yong Peng road on Sunday. Other soldiers returned the fire, but the lorry, one of two on the way to Nee Soon. Singapore, did
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    LICENSING BOARD
    44 17 SEREMBAN, Tues. The following will form the Seremban Licensing Board for the year. The District Officer. Seremban (chairman) Deputy Commissioner for Labour Negri Sembilan (vicechairman) Health Officer, Negri Sembilan Mr. S. Thamby Rajah, Mr Yap Mau Tatt and Mr. Tan Beng Hock.
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    FAIR PRICES
    46 17 SEREMBAN. Tues. The Gedok Restettlement area held its first home guard meeting at the village community centre recently. The meeting elected five section leaders and one home guard chiei officer. Five sections, consisting of 28 men to a section were formed. Training has started.
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    Move for Asian as deputy to Templer
    181 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 29. A MOVE to appoint an Asian as Deputy High Commissioner for the Federation will be made at tomorrow’s meeting of the Federal Legilative Council. A councillor will propose that the word “Asian’* be introduced into the motion standing in
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    Bankrupt is discharged
    100 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. g MOHAMED Yousif, a contractor. who was made bankrupt with liabilities of $42,000, obtained his discharge in the Singapore High Court by consenting tc judg* ment In the sum of $5,000. The Assistant Official Assignee. Mr. T. Kulasekaram, told the court that from the
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    ONLY HAD $5- BUT FINED $l5
    64 17 ONLY HAD $5BUT FINED $l5 SEGAMAT. Tues. Pang Lian, aged 73, failed in an attempt in Segamat Court to have his fine reduced from $l5 to $5. “1 am old and poor and have only $5 on me with which to pay,” he pleaded when fined $l5 for having a
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    BANDITS KILL 5 POLICE IN DUSK AMBUSH
    239 18 IPOH, Jan. 29. IN a dusk ambush on a lonely estate in North Perak yesterday 30 bandits killed five policemen, seriously wounded a probationary Asian Inspector and got away with the guns of the dead. One bandit was killed. The police, in two
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    City Council has room for 65 clerks
    154 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 30. SINGAPORE City Council has 65 vacancies in the clerical grade of its service and boy s and girls who have passed the School Certificate examination or who have sat lor it last December, may apply for these jobs. Mr. T.
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    Appeal to Lyttelton
    73 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 30. The Independent Labour Party of Malaya, wrote yesterday to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. Oliver Lyttelton asking him to give one constitution to the Federation and Singapore. The letter asked Mr. Lyttelton to organise a committee of peoples’ representatives lrom both
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    Lorry drives into pond
    62 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 30 IN a freak accident last night at Potong Pasir a lorry drove into a pond. Police are still searching for the body of a Punjabi missing from the lorry. There were 25 accidents in Singapore up to midnight last night, resulting in eight
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    FUN FAIR EXTENDED
    52 18 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Tues.— The Fun fair in aid of the Inllan Association Building Fund at Bukit Mertajam has been extended until tomorrow Part of the proceeds will g 0 to the T. B. Fund Indian Republic Day was celebrated her e with a treat I lor Indian
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    Red offer on Mr. Lord
    99 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. COMMISSIONER Herbert A Lord, the Salvation Army Commissioner in Korea, who pre-war commanded the Army in Malaya, is one of 45 foreign civilians who Peking Radio has stated in a broadcast, the Communists are willing to release in any exchange of prisoners
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    SPARKLERS SET FIRE TO TREE
    44 18 PENANG. Tues.—Fire Brigade engines last night saved a blazing tree from being completely burnt down at Western Road in front of the General hospital. The top portion of the tree had been set alight bv sparklers tnrown by children.
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    DETAINED
    16 18 NIBONG TEBAL, Tues.— Province Wellesley police today artained Low Ping, aged 35, under Emergency Regulations
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    2 die as taxi, armoured car collide
    169 18 2 die as taxi armoured car collide BUKIT MERTAJAM. Tues I TAXI driver, G. Rama- i samy. and one of his passengers. Tan Kim Chooi. 21-year-old former detective, were killed yesterday when the vehicle in which they were travelling was involved in a head-on collision with a i Manchester Regiment
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    U.K. General ends tour
    109 18 IPOH Tues. MAJ. GEN. J. C. Westall, Chief of Staff to the Commandant General. RoyalMarines. in his inspection of troop.s of a Commando Brigade in Perak, used an Auster plane armoured rail trolley and armoured car to get around. Gen Westall on his nine day tour
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    Lim wants union officials unpaid
    226 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. SINGAPORE should not follow the example ot Britain and America in having paid trade union officials, said Mr. Lim Yew Hock, president of Singapore Labour Party and Trade Union Congress, last night. He took part in a new Radio Malaya bi-monthly series.
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    LAST MONTH’S TIN OUTPUT
    84 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 30. THE Federation produced a total of 111,762 piculs of tin concentrates last month. Detailed figures were: Perak 64.126 piculs, 3.817 long tons; Selangor 36.980 piculs, 2.201 long tons; Negri Sembilan 2.911 piculs. 173 long tons; Pahang 4,282 piculs, 255 long tons; Johore 1.148
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    FOR ENGLAND
    40 18 KAJANG. Tues.—Mr. P. R Andrew. Officer Superintending the Police Circle. Selangor South, will shortly leave Ka.iang for a holiday in England. He has been president of the Ulu Langat District Football Association and the Kaiang Pioneers Cricket Club
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    FIJI TROOPS ARE WORRIED
    179 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. SPHERE were anxious laces A among the men of the Fiji battalion at Nee Soon camp yesterday They were worried about the safety of their families in the hurricane which swept over Fiji on Monday. The battalion adjutant said: “We have heard nothing
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    624 WENT FOR AIR RIDES
    153 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 30. ROYAL Singapore Flying Club took 624 people for joy rides over the Colony during the first two-days ot Chinese New Year but bad weather on Monday prevented 34 people going up. There were two interval* of 10 minutes each and ore of
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    Little crime in K.L.
    93 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 29 WITH the exception ot petty thieving. Chines* New Year in Kuala Lumtva was practically crime free. The reason, Mr. J. R. Sykes. O.C.P.D. Kuala Lumpur ut ban area, told the Strait*Times today. was tha extra police patrols had be.*, sent out. There
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    Claims trial to hurt charge
    43 18 JOHORE BAHRU. Tups. Mohammed bin Abdullah, -j Naval rating, was charg" today with voluntarily causing hurt with a knife_to British soldier at the Garth 1 Cafe. Johore Bahru, on Mon day. He claimed trial and allowed $500 bail
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    North beat South by 16 to 12
    1048 19  -  By W. E. TREVOR VTSTERDAY’S North —South rugby at Singapore's 1 i alan Besar seemed all over bar the shouting 15 m mites from the end. South were leading by 12 M. r.its to five and appeared to have the game well i
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    JUNIORS OPEN WITH 5-0 WIN
    72 19 DOVERS Juniors opened ‘heir 195? season with a five-nil victory over the Amicable Athletic Association in a friendly soccer match played at Fatrcr Park yesterday. Confining play to their opponents’ goalmouth for the greater part of the game, the Rovers were unlucky not to have
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    Negri Govt. gives $l0,000 to stadium
    282 19 SEREMBAN, Wed. AREAL step towards the realisation of the proposed Seremban stadium will take place soon. Through the good offices of the British Adviser. Mr. M. C. fT Sheppard, the Mentri Besar. Dato Haji Abdul Malek bin Yusof. has sanctioned expenditure of $10,000 towards
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    S. C. C. DEFENCE WON THE DAY Harrison brilliant
    258 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. S.C.C 6; R.A.F. Changi 3. rjREAT defensive work, at which full-back Harrison u was superb, gave the Singapore Cricket Club a hard-earned rugger victory over R.A.F. Changi on the padang yesterday by a try and a penalty goal
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    Newey wins in brilliant style
    268 19 IPOH, Tuesday. DLAYING brilliant golf, Bernard J. Newey, a 1 Malacca planter, became the 1952 Northern Malayan golf champion when he beat the holder, R. R. Jackson of Perak, two and one in a wellcontested final on the Tiger Lane course this morning. All square
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    S.R.C. HOCKEY
    60 19 The team to represent the Singapore Recreation Club against the Police in a semi-final of the Singapore Hockey Association’s knockout tournament match to be played on the S.R.C. padang tomorrow: B. Kleinman; R. Barth, P. Neubronner; E. Barker, B. d’Bras. D. Hay; H. Hoeden, O. Rozarlo, Andrew Clarke.
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    Scouts win F&N Cup Fed. final
    213 19 IPOH, Wed. CUPERIOR in the scrums and quicker on the ball in the loose. Malayan Scouts (Special Air Service Regiment) scored a convincing win over 40 Commando (Royal Marines) in the Federation final of the Fraser and Neave Cup rugger competition here today. The
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    North whip South for Paglar shield
    143 19 [ROUSING rugger by “North” earned an 18-six victory over “South” in the annual University of Malaya rugby match for the Paglar Shield played at Bukit Timah on Tuesday. The South team played with 14 men throughout The South XV. which included half a dozen
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    NS MALAYS AGAIN WIN SIX-NIL
    126 19 SEREMBAN, Sun. Repeating their brilliant performance of yesterday Negri Sembilan Malays this morning beat Pahang Malays by six goals to nil in the Malays inter-state quadrangular hockey tournament that is being staged at Seremban. Negri Malays defeated Selangor Malays by a similar margin yesterday. Negri
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    ISLAND CLUB COMPETITION
    147 19 scores and starting Mmes A in the Singapore Island Club’s Chinese New Year flag competition tomorrow are: 8 a.m.: L. E. C. Davies <s\ A. Ttahman (16), A W. Mahmood (20). 8.30, H. Burnard (24), P. Hammond (21), Yong Loon Chong (8). 8.35, J. L. Fagan (18).
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    TINS PROVIDE BULK OF BUSINESS IN SHARE MARKET
    467 20 ALTHOUGH the advent ot Chinese New Year saw a slackening in business on Malayan markets, a fair total of business was written for last week. Profit-taking in Tin shares, against a firming Metal market, brought sharp declines to prices where buyers were
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    149 20 'pHE copra section of the Singapore produce market was erratic yesterday. Buyers for Jan-Feb. shipment opened at $35 4 a picul, then dropped by 50 cents, and later in the day rose to s3s’i. Sellers, however, held off. Coconut oil was dull, with sellers quoting $59 a
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    Rubber company appointments
    99 20 I T -Col. D G. Dickson has been J appointed a director of Kuala P lah Rubber Estates and Telok (FMS) Rubber Co. Mr. A. R. Scott has joined the boards of G’en Muar Estates and Hevea (Johorei Rubber Plantations. gIR JOHN HAY, it is announced, has
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    Business Done
    281 20 BUSINESS done in the Malayan share market last week included. Indus*, rials —Fraser Neave $4.25 to $4.29 to $4.20, Gammon $2,924 to $2.85. Goodwood Park Hotel $l7O. Malayan Breweries $5.35 to $5.45. Malayan Cement $1.22 4 to $1,124, Malayan Collieries $2.02 1 2, McAlister $42.75. Rattles Hotel $3.10.
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    GUTHRIE GROUP OUTPUTS
    53 20 QUTHRIE Company announce the following outputs for estates and mines in the Guthri# Group, for December and for 1951 as a whole. In that order, as follows: Rubber (It», 6.491,918 72.177.314 Black tea (lb) 181,000 1.787.000 Palm oil (tons) 1,268 13,97® Palm kernels (tons) 385 4,053 Tin-ore
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    MALAYA HAS A PLAN TO SAVE THE POUND
    163 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. MR. T. Van der Gaast, Deputy Secretary for Economic Affairs, Singapore’s delgate to the Commonwealth Finance Ministers* conference in London returned to the Colony yesterday with plans r„ r Singapore and the Federation to help the sterling area to
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    Agreed exchange rates
    93 20 HPHE Malayan Exchange Banks Association at the week-ena announced agreed rates of exchange to merchants as followsBUYING Air Mall T.T. O.D. 90 d st Credit Bills New York 32 13 16 32 15 16 ?3 116 Canada 32 13 16 32 15 16 33 3|16 Trade Rills
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    £31,444 PROFIT
    53 20 PAMBUTAN. operating hydraulic mines on its own account and on tribute, showed a profit of €31.444 (31.4 per cent) for the I vear to June 30. 1951, 15 per cent I was paid in three dividends. Net liquid assets on June 30. 1951, amounted to £78.774. or 15s
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    874 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Alp* Bricks 2s« 2 25 Ords 2 95 3.05 Atlris Ice 12 50 13 50 BB Petrol 46/- 47/B M I mu tee* 6 50 7.50 Con Tin Smelt P rr J f 21/0 42/6 f rd 23/- 24/- Utd Assur
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    Why the Layang crop fell
    93 20 MR. H. s. Russell, cnairn n of Layang Rubber P! rotations. states that he crop for last year was 1.274 705 lb. as against 1,624.000 lb. for the previous 1° months. Some of the main reasons were shortage of tappers as a result of competition
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    RUBBER CO. MERGER
    215 20 RESOLUTIONS approving the transfer of the estates, undertaking and assets of the Carnarvon (Selangor) Rubber Company the Sungei Buloh Rubber Con> pany have been approved at extraordinary meetings of both concerns in London. Shareholders of Carnarvon a is’ approved the voluntary Uquida’ion of their company. As a
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    K.L. RUBBER’S PROFIT JUMP
    135 20 JTUALA Lumpur Rubber’s P' mi nary statement shows _a Jump in group profits from £70. to £182.123 for the year to J 1 30. 1951 This was struck a 1 <•’ U.K. taxation (less double ta tion relief) of £125,652 (£49 1 and Malaya tax of
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