The Straits Budget, 7 February 1952

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    31 1 The Straits Budget \l*w Series No. 288. ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] Singapore Thursday, February 7, 1952 THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.
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      103 1 The STRAITS BUDGET Published in SINGAPORE on THURSDAY Delivered in LONDON on MONDAY SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION $24.00 Arrangements have been made to send the “Straits Budget by air to the United Kingdom weekly on Thursday i.e. on publication day in Singapore. Under normal conditions we should be in a position
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      LEGAL ADVICE ON THE CITY COUNCIL
      211 2  -  RATEPAYER. Singapore. T*HE Ratepayers’ Association has engaged a lawyer to give an opinion on whether civilian employees of the War Department are eligible to sit on the Singaoore City Council. According to the report published in your paper recently the Association's counsel has given
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      THE SERVICE MAIL
      151 2  -  PRO BONO PlIBLICO Job ore M AY I take up a little of your valuable space in order to voice a complaint on behalf of Servicemen in Malaya? Is it not possible for the authorities to organise the Postal Service a little better? At Christmas the Post
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      AN EFFECTIVE RED CROSS
      139 2  -  F ''ingapore AS a former Deputy Commissioner (Administration) of the War Organisation of British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John, I know from first hand personal experience how valuable an Advisory Committee Can be. If such a Council is to be effective it is
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      UNIONIST AND COUNCILLOR
      117 2  -  NON-T.U. OFFICIAL. Singapore. MR. Lim Yew Hock is reported in the Straits Times of Jan. 30 to have said at the first Malayan Atfairs Forum of Radio Malaya that it would be better not to have paid union officials. As trade union officials presumably devote as much
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      FISH-PLATES ON THE RAILWAY
      68 2  -  ANTI-SABOTAGE. Singapore. 'J’HERE were three serious derailments on the North and East Indian Railways in 1950. The fish-plates had been tampered with in all three cases. The Indian Railways then adopted a new type of fish-plate invented by an Indian Railway employee. Since then I have
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      TIME OFF TO SERVE
      201 2  -  POLITICO Singapore. I THINK the main objection to War Department employees standing for election is that few if any of them can devote the time required for City Council work. As it is, they don’t attend the committee meetings regularly to follow up the discussions on
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      PLUNGING ON LOTTERIES
      97 2  -  HUSBAND. Kuala Lumpur. F the housewives’ case against the sale of M.C.A. lottep’ ’ickets in Singapore is valid, then it is also valid in the Federation—against both the M C.A. and the Social Welfare lottery But the housewives should trv to think in terms jf the millions
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      Society to protect the children
      275 2  -  Ahmad bin Mohamed Ibrahim, Elizabeth Choy, Myra Cresson, Fatimah binte Haji Haroon, Kathleen Hickley, Grace Pekha Lim, (Dr.) Lim Boon Keng, Y. P. McNeice, Joanna Moore. (Dr.) C. J. Paglar, D. E. Stewart. Mairi R. Stewart. Jean Thomson. Singapore. 'THE absence of any Singapore or
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      A personal appreciation of the new ‘Deputy’
      477 2  -  WANDERER. Kuala Lumpur. I KNEW the new Deputy High Commissioner for the Federation both in Palestine and in Jamaica and have had many opportunities of watching his work and studying him as a man. Perhaps a short personal appreciation may help your readers
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      Unguarded tongues
      141 2  -  PLANTER Rantau. one who was in the S< vices during the wai am often appalled by amount of careless t k which goes on in Malaya day. During the war we were encouraged by the rat amusing cartoons of Fougasse, who in dozens of sketches and drawings brcn
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      A TRADE UNION FOR SHOPMEN
      151 2  -  UNIONIST Singapore. T SEE .hat Mr. P.M. William* is about to organise another trade union, namely the Shop Assistants’ Union presumably with the intention of cashing in on the work of the Progressives Why are politicians who 1 not belong to a particular trade or
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      THE TOWGAY WELLS
      120 2  -  FAIR PLAY. Singapore. 1AM glad that the contr versy over the towg well s is now over, but I d plore the attempt to ma political capital out of which fortunately failed The Labour Party’s ”P a liamentary committee’’ tn weeks ago decided to opp any move
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Choosing The Deputy
      733 3 —Straits Times. Jan. 31 j, neatest summary of the in yesterday’s debate in rVderal Legislative Coun- the appointment of a p -y High Commissioner from a Penang member was almost the last r “I have listened carehe said, “and I have i > the conclusion that are
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      What Happened To The Stadium?
      369 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 31 Another stage in the halting progress of Singapore s efforts to build itself a sports stadium capable of staging any kind of sporting event up to the Olympic games will be taken at the Singapore City Council’s meeting today. In keeping
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      The Police Ordinance
      815 3 -Straits Times. Feto. 1 Federal Councillors yesterday found it easy to persuade the Government that it would be unwise to attempt a 24- hour passage for the Police j Ordinance. The Bill rewrites j completely the mixture of j laws and Emergency legislation which are at present
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      Current Affairs In Malacca
      320 3 -Straits Times. Ft4>. 1 A very odd state of affairs in Malacca was uncovered by Mr. ,Tan Siew Sin in an adjournment speech in the Federal Council when he drew attention to the ability of the Central Electricity Board to provide current for one of its
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      Reducing the Deficit
      808 3 Straits Times. Feb 2. First in the field with its measures to reduce spending and to meet the deficit in the balance of trade, the British Government offers an example which the rest of the sterling area must follow. The other sterling countries will not need to
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      Insight Into the Red Mentality
      313 4 -Straits Times, Feb. 2. Communist ideas on social welfare in Malaya are a trifle behind the times. Not so long ago Communist propagandists in a tapping area in the Federation were making great piay—on paper—with a demand that workers should strike in order to force
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      The Man from Jamaica
      583 4 —Straits Times, Feb 4. The appointment of the Colonial Secretary, Jamaica, to the new r post of Deputy High Commissioner is not going to please Malaya and Malayans. Why pretend that it will? No doubt he is an efficient official and administrator. He has what the
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      Shedding New Light
      421 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 4. An answer has boon furnished by tho Control Eloctricity Board to criticism of tho Board’s methods in Malacca made by Mr. Tan Sicw Sin in the Federal Legislative Council. Mr. Tan accused the Board of extending the mains especially to supply quarters occupied
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      ECAFE Meets in Rangoon
      791 4 -Straits Times. Feb. 5. At its last meeting u, Geneva, the U.N. Economic and Social Council surveyed the work of the Economic Commission for Asia and th Far East to determine whither or not this regional cor.,, mission should continue. I could hardly dispute the me.,
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      The New Rupiah
      266 5 —Straits Times, Feb. 5. devaluation of the rupiah !°n;' delayed recognition of l ne real position of Indone--•'s currency. What it will nM an ln terms of trade, partili a -y the entrepot trade X roi3 h Singapore, we shall M|, tT only after some ex-Den-’nce of
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      Commodity Policies
      517 5 —Straits Times Feb. 6. Criticism by the Economic Commission for Europe of American policy in its purchases of tin and rubber has come at a moment when straight talking may be to some purpose. The report ascribes the dollar crisis which began in the middle of last year
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      Plantations In Indonesia
      533 5 Times Feb. 6 The woes of rubber companies in Indonesia are becoming a familiar story. The high price of rubber has been their salvation, and from recent company reports it is evident that any levelling out of the price following the completion of American stockpiling will mean
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    S’pore man in Royal tour convoy
    147 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. (SINGAPORE'S closest link to the royal tour will be made when Mr. Gordon Clarrie, a sub-lieutenant in the Malayan Volunteer Naval Reserve, loins the convov of ships to escort Prirtcess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to Australia at the end
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      117 5 HARRIS. To RUTH, wife of Donald P. Harris on 24th January at Simcoe, Ontario, a son Michael. BOWLER, to JOAN, wife of Brian, on 28th January 1952. at Bungsar Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, a son. Geoffrey Michael Ralph. (United Kingdom and South African papers please copy). To Tim, wife of
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      ENGAGEMENT
      63 5 THE engagement is announced between Mr. Aloysius Claude Nonis of Singapore, and Miss Lee Gay Ming of General Hospital, Johore Bahru, on 25th Jan., 1952. THE engagement was announced on Sunday the 3.2.52 between Laurence Ang. third son of the late Mr. Mrs. Ang Poh Leek, Penang, to Rosalind
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      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
      47 5 MR. MRS. PATRIC CHAN thank their many friends and relatives for their kind wlahes and valuable presents on the occasion of their marriage recently. MR. MRS. EDWIN W. MESQU1TTA wish to thank all relatives and friends for their valuable presents on the occasion of their marriage.
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    Keep lorries moving, says magistrate
    81 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. TIHE Singapore City Police Court Magistrate Mr. K. J. L. Jamieson, yesterday expressed surprise that so few people were prosecuted for parking empty lorries on the road longer than necessary. “I should imagine that this Is what the Tratnc Police would be
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    250 5 DEATH MR. KHOO CHONG BOON. oi*<xl 63. died at 2 35 a m. on Tuesday, 29th January. 1952 at General Hospital, Tuiping. The funeral will take place at 12 noon on Saturday, 2nd February, 1952. MADAM TAN BONG CHEE. aged 81. beloved grandmother of Dr. and Mrs. Quah Boo Ghee,
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    A SINGAPORE DIARY
    1807 6  -  Stanley Street. From The Straits Times of Jan. 31 —Feb. f>. ‘Soriram’ A MALAY lullaby, winging it way from snowbound MacDonald College, in Quebec, ha.s come to roost in this office. It came in a letter from Incite Mohamed bin JamiJ who wrote: “On Sunday. Jan. 20.
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    DEEP IN THOUGHT
    29 6 By C. T. Wong of Singapore this photosraph was “Highly Commended in the Singapore Art Society's third open photographic exhibition at the British Council Hall Singapore
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    Countryman’s Journal
    655 7  -  TUAN DJEK. the Chinese school day3 to clean up the tde by the late flood, tve the pupils an exto their holiday, •hey welcomed. As nas been only' one of rain since the <,ne may suggest, but .■diet, that a drought turfed. .vrtus's latest find is v. as
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    RURAL ROAD
    823 7  -  From a Singapore Diary Stanley Street. THE townsman’s idea of the 1 countryside is often one of contempt.#. He imagines rural life to be a bucolic daydream without incident or l importance. But an obseri vant trip along the Jurong road would provide a fair sample of the
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    2,000 SEAMEN WAIT FOR WORK And they want a waiting room
    374 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. QVER 2,000 REGISTERED seamen, representing every section of ship crews—deck, engine room and catering are unemployed in the Colony, according to yesterday’s roster of job-seekers maintained by the Singapore Seamen’s Registration Bureau. Following a complaint by
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    Postal rates revised
    40 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fob 2. The Postmaster-General. Malaya announced that effective Fob l the revised rates of postage on parcels to Ceylon are: 3 lbs. $1.40; 7 lbs $2 30. 11 lbs $3.50. and 22 lbs $5 40
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    Plane from Cocos in Singapore
    117 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3 r J*HE first aircraft of a new air service, the QantasBOAC fortnightly courier service between Sydney and Singapore via the Cocos Islands, reached the Colony last night. The new service starting at Sydney, will carry personnel and equipment for the construction of
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    Girl, 8, killed in accident
    60 7 SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. ROAD fatalities during the Chinese New Year season in Singapore reached a total of five yesterday morning when an eight-year-old Chinese girl. Sng Geok Uan, was fatally injured by a truck at Collyer Quay. The girl, daughter of a City Council worker
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    CAUSED HURT: $100
    22 7 SEREMBAN. Sat.—Ramasamy, 37. was fined $lOO in Seremban todav for voluntarily causing hurt to Raman With an iron pipe.
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    THREE-HOUR DEBATE ON NEW FEDERAL POST
    1900 8 KIIALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. AN amendment which sought appro\al for the appointment of «in A Asian as Deputy Commissioner was defeated at the Federal Legislative Council meeting today. The amendment to a general motion was defeated by 3<i votes to 27, with six abstentions.
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    ARSON FEAR IN BIG BLAZE
    270 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. SINGAPORE police tear that arsonists last night caused $200,000 worth of damage in a blaze at a rubber shoe factory at Upper Serangoon. Singapore. The fire was at the Natural Rubber Shoe Company’s factory, where jungle boots for Malaya’s bandit fighters are
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    Registrar resigns
    51 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. MR S. K. Reudi has resigned as Registrar at the office of the Representative of the Government of India in Singapore Mr Reddi is a barrister and proposes to practice here Mr. V S Pillay has been temporarily appointed Registrar until a new officer is
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    Woman shot by bandits
    67 8 KLUANG, Jan. 30. A 20-YEAR-OLD woman. Lim Bee. wounded by bandit gunfire at 2nd milestone. Kluang-Batu Pahat Road, died in Kluang hospital two hours later. She was returning home to Parit Tengah in a jeep with her husband and two children when they were fired on
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    MONEY TRANSFER —FIRM CHARGED
    143 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. MULLER and Phipps (Malaya) were charged in 1 Singapore First District Court yesterday with three offences under the Finance Regulations between Dec. 31. 1947. and June 31, 1948, involving 827,196. The firm was said to have placed the money to the credit of
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    UNIVERSITY SITE WILL COST $3.6m.
    187 8 KIJALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30 THE 1,477-acre site of the University of Malaya at 1 Johore Bahru is to be bought by the Federation Government for 53,629,000 this year. The Finance Committee 1 the Federal Legislative C cil has approved funds i r this purpose About
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    Entered flat, court told
    75 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31 WONG Ji Kin. a 19-year-old student, was charged in the Singapore Relief Cotir yesterday with house trespas by entering Mrs. June Wood. Hat with intent to outran her modesty at 10 a.m on Sept. 17. He was further charged with trying to break
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    Veterans will aid widow
    104 8 gYDNEY war veterans are reported to be prepared to care for the widow and three children of Billv Loh. friend of Australian prisoners in Singapore, who died last week. The Australian Commis- sioner’s Office in Singapore has sent a message of condolence to widow and familv.
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    The Malayan Affairs man is ‘fired’
    494 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. ij, U EX JOSEY, chief news editor of Radio M Via lay a and centre of last year's “Malayan > controversy, will not have his contract with il Government renewed when it expires shortly. tn, vhis W as stated by
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    DARK SALOON CAR DRIVER SOUGHT
    80 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. s a Pbre Traffic Police "'•ay appealed to the and five passengers of 1 J f saloon car, which auss i through 1\ mile 1 p ms Road shortly after V,' lc fk nt had occurred v Ja n. 28, to contact
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    3 GAOLED FOR THEFT OF NUTS
    44 9 K ANSON, Wed.—For V* coconuts valued r bcionging to Bagan f 1 at T e Teluk Anson, bln •m*t Asm bin Mat and ••'bin Haji Anur w T ere iir, f to two months’ 'ment each at Teluk
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    K.L. DRIVER FINED $60
    49 9 KUAUA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. Lee Sia Eng. 25 .was fined a total of $6O in Kuala Lumpur today for driving a motorcar without consideration for others, for not having a driving licence and an insurance policy. He was also disqualified from driving for 12 months.
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    TWO GET C.P.M.
    27 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 30. Inspector C. M. Robert, of Johore Bahru, and Inspector A. T. Karthegosu. Segamat. have been awarded the Colonial Police Medal.
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    ‘OPERATION WAIST LINE’ FOR W.R.A.F. —BY ORDER
    165 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. “/OPERATION WAISTLINE" U starts on Monday at the R.A.F. base at Changi. It consists of slimming and general health exercises for girls of the Women’s Royal Air Force and the wives of Service families Twice-weekly evening classes are planned, with
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    I was driven out, she said
    85 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. AN elderly woman, who w T as charged yesterday with vagrancy, told the Singapore Second Police Court Magistrate. Mr. R. B. I. Pates, that she was driven out of the house bv her grandson after a quarrel. The woman. Tav Huat.
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    $9 MILLION TO BEAT THE AMBUSH
    179 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. THE Federal Legislative Council decided yesterday A to spend nearly $9 million on buying armoured vehicles, building police buildings and destroying blukar at resettlement areas and at potential ambush spots. Three hundred more armoured vehicles for the police and 15
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    Fine instead of gaol
    94 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. A FRUIT shop keeper, Gan Kee Teng. who was sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment for possession of Tiger Beer labels and Crown corks belonging to the Malayan Breweries had his sentence altered to a fine of $750 on appeal in the Singapore High
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    $350,000 a day to fight the bandits
    180 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. THE Emergency is costA ing about $350,000 a day, said the acting Secretary for Defence, Mr. E. B. David, in a written reply in the Legislative Council, today. This figure does not take into account the Malay Regiment, the
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    Lost hand in accident
    104 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. TAY SIAK HENG, a salesman, was in the Singapore Second District Court, yesterday without hLs right hand. He was giving evidence against a 30-year-old seaman. Tan Siong Koh, charged with driving a motor-car in a negligent manner. Tay said that he was driving
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    BOUND OVER
    40 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 30 Sudin bin Bakar, a railway gate watchman at Sedenak, was bound over In $lOO for six months for attempting suicide. A neighbour found him inside a locked room with n wound in his stomach.
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    LORRIES BURNT
    22 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 4 Two estate lorries were set on fire by bandits in the Batu Pahat area of Johore.
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    CITY URGES PREMIUM BONDS ISSUE
    482 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. SINGAPORE City Council, by a 15—9 majority, yesterday approved the issue of premium bonds as a way to raise money lor the City’s public* works projects. The Labour group voted against the bonds, which several members called “a dishonourable way of raising
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    Swoops on shops cut prices
    128 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 1. OWOOPS on markets and sundry goods shops all over Singapore by price control inspectors just before the Chinese New Year have caused prices to drop. Ninety men arrested during the raids will be charged with failing to display price tags. The Food
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    ‘No’ to water men’s bonus is rejected
    138 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 1. M K S. S. Manyam (Inde-pendent-Nort in success--1 ullv moved reference back of a committee decision not to grant Water Department extension works’ employees at Tebrau an emergency bonus, at yesterday’s meeting of Singapore City Council. He said that Water
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    NEGLIGENT: FINED $500
    87 10 NIBONG TEBAL. Jan. 31. Found guilty of negligent driving which resulted in the death of a Malay woman, a fisherman, 22-year-old Khaw Kim Heak. was fined $5OO in Nibong Tebal today Khaw’.s motor cycle collided with a bicycle on which the woman. Chet Tot binte Abdullah. was
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    R.A.F. messboy charged
    45 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 1. Tang Kim Kian, a messboy, claimed trial in Singapore yesterday to stealing 20 tins of cigarettes valued at $3l from a store at. R.A.F. Changi on Jan. 20. The case was postponed to Feb 7 Tang was allr.veo bail
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    Promise of aid has put her ‘in a spot’
    166 10 Promise of aid has put her ‘in a spot SINGAPORE. Feb. 1. AW BEE, the 64-year-old woman who lost 564, saved over 14 years, when fire destroyed her home at Duku Road on Dec. 10, is very embarrassed. Friends and creditors have been pestering her to reveal the “large sum
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    Plan to recruit Muslim women
    154 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. rpo off-set the shortage of nurses in hospitals, a l Malaya-wide campaign to recruit Muslim women will be iaunched by the Singapore Muslim Advisory Board. i A member of the board said yesterday: “There is a misunderstanding among Muslims that to be
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    PASSES IN LAW
    21 10 GEMAS, Mon.—Mr. D. Vincent, of the Tampin Court, has passed the Law Examination (part 2) held in October.
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    $5,000 HAUL IN STORE BURGLARY No. 2
    105 10 PENANG, Jan. 31. DURGLARS last night broke into the Penang Street godown of John Little and Co. for the second time in 10 days and escaped in a truck with $5,000 worth of goods. Using a ladder they climoed up to a wire
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    ‘Ace in the Hole’ not to be shown
    97 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 1. 'J'HE Malayan Federation Film Appeal Board has banned the showing of the American film, “An Ace in the Hole.” The film, based on a true series of incidents in America, depicts the mass hysteria of tourists who flock to
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    SEAMEN IN THE RAIN
    68 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. Seaman who seek jobs at the Singapore Seamen’s Bureau are “undergoing great difficulties and inconvenience” because they have to wait on an open verandah, said Mr. M. A. Kadir, President of the Pakistani, Seamen’s Union, yesterday. Mr. Kadir said a waiting room was
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    Timber man to instruct
    60 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 1. Mr. M. Udarbe. Timber Officer of North Borneo Forest Department, who has been visiting Singapore, left for Kuala Lumpur yesterday, where he will be an instructor in log grading in the Forest Research Institute, Kepong. Mr. Udarbe. a Filipino, has been seconded to
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    REDS KILL ONE
    40 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 31. A Chinese was murdered by bandits in the Nibong Tebal area lof Province Wellesley. Several camps and food dumps have been found by police and Gurkhas in the Kota Tinggl area of Johore.
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    $15,000 FINLAYSON GREEN PLAN
    114 10 SINGAPORE City Council has a $15,000 development scheme for Finlayson Green. The scheme will include laying concrete pavements and crossings over drains to the green, building a surrounding dwarf brick wall and flower troughs and planting trees, flower shrubs and hedges. Mr. Yap Pheng Geek (Nominated)
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    Skipper was so upset...
    88 10 BECAUSE he was upset by u news of the death ot his mother. Louis Grimaud. French skipper of the s.s Terbourba did not exercise “his usual care” when his ship was loaded with cargo at Nam pong. In a Singapore Court he was fined $1,200 loi
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    4 FREED HIM FROM CROCODILE
    110 10 SINGAPORE. Fob 1 A MEMBER of a jungle squad. Noordin was rescued from death by four com panions who forced a croci/dlli to release him when h P wa carried away while bathiiu in the Bidor River. Both hLs hands were b:icil\ cut. Noordin and
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    No evidence, he says
    157 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 1 Defence counsel. Dr. c. h Withers-Payne, said at the end of the case in the Singapore First District Court yesterday that the prosecution had produced no prima facie case against Muller and Phipps (Malaya*, charged under Finance Regu lation. The firm was alleged
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    Four were drunk and incapable
    43 10 SEREMBAN. Thurs.—Four men were fined a total of $4O by the Seremban magistrate Inche An.jang Saith. yesterday. for being drunk and incapable They Ramasamy. So.ar Singh. Loh Woon Chuan and Wong Ah Yong. who were each fined $lO.
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    MARKET STALLS KEEP 12 MEN TALKING FOR 50 MINUTES
    271 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. rrWKLVE Singapore City Councillors talked 1 ,imarket stalls for 50 minutes yester- n( j at the end of it all the Council •leeted a resolution which started the talking ~,H approved a committee decision. The Health Committee had
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    Road fell into sea
    52 11 Nearly half the road at a point along Marine Parade, S ingapore. has been washed away as a result of a breach in the seawall which has been left unrepaired for over a year. Picture shows labourers filling in part of the aap.—Straits Times picture. —Straits
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    Templer due on Feb. 7
    258 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 31. mhe Federation’s new 1 High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer. will arrive in Singapore on Feb. 7 and will fly up to Kuala Lumpur the same day. In the Federal Legislative Council this morning, the Officer Administering the m nl Mr.
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    Body set up for Port of Penang
    73 11 P^ NANO Feb 4. An adM V y comm ittee has been 1 *P for the Port of Penang Pon Y ln deali ng with local LY l )ro blems, Mr. A. D EooYYY D £Puty Controller, od^ vlsion said ln formation ot
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    JOHORE BANS SALE OF BOOK
    43 11 JOHORE BANS SAL E OF BOOK Tt,, J BAHRU. Jan. 31. sVh? circulation of the s?an ar ah dan PerdjuanAk;. sv Malaya” by I. K JY ak'i‘rta? d T publis hed In hlt -0-i in Joh n o d re nesla te pro
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    Insurance Institute
    99 11 SINGAPORE. Feb. 1. MR. L. A. WILLIAMS Malayan manager for the Prudential Assurance Company, has been elected president of the Insurance Institute of Malaya Other officers are Vice-Presi-dents. Mr. J. Nusserwanji tNew India > and Mr. Yom? Nvuk Lin (Overseas); secretary. Mr J. R Crowe (Norwich Union'; Council.
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    SIR OTTO IS BACK
    45 11 SINGAPORE. Feb. 1. The Commissioner-in-Chict of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. Lt.-Gen. Sir Otto Lund, now on an official visit to Malaya, returned to Singapore yesterday from Penang He was met by the Director of Medical Services. Dr. W J Vickers.
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    22 FINED $405
    29 11 SEREMBAN. Thurs.— ITwen-ty-two people, including two boys, were fined a total of $405 by the Seremban magistrate. Inchr Anjang Saith. for gambling during Chinese New Year
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    Young-men wanted
    103 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 31. V'OUNG men of spirit are wanted by Lt.-Col A T Edgar to loin his volunteei reconnaissance corps, the only fighting unit being formed in the new Federation of Malay a Volunteer Force. "There will be no racial dis-Lt.-Col. Edgar today. "Promotion will be open
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    Govt, urged to act
    71 11 SINGAPORE. Feb. 1. CiITY Councillor for East j Ward. Mr. Frank C. James, yesterday called for speedv action on legislation, proposed a year ago. to exempt schools from payment of assessment on playing fields "Government was asked to frame the necessary legislation and nothing has happened
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    He will deliver the goods
    151 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. EMRE will not prevent Mr. Tan Hwee Min from j r furthering the war against the bandits. A fire on Wednesday night caused $200,000 worth of damage to the factory of the Natural Rubber Shoe Company at Upper Serangoon. Singapore of which
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    Biscuit magnate on tour
    45 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. Mr. R. A. O’Connor, managing director of W. and R. Jacobs Ltd, biscuit manufacturers, left Singapore yesterday for Borneo. Mr. O’Connor, who is on a tour of the Far East, will return to the Colony later this week
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    Troops for Korea
    47 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. The Empire Fowey arrived in Singapore last night from Southampton with 1.700 United Nations troops for Korea About 300 of them are Dutch and Belgian, and the rest British. Nearly all the men will be seeing action for the first time.
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    DEALER FINED
    23 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 31. Koh Lee Song, a shopkeeper who sold beer wholesale without a licence three times, was fined $lBO.
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    New plan to beat racket
    111 11 SINGAPORE. Feb. 1 gINGAPORE’S Foreign Exchange Control offloers are working on an alternative scheme to replace the Christmas Eve order to banks, aimed at stopping Continental speculators from making U.S. dollars out of Malaya’s tin. rubber and pepper bv re-selling to the hard currency areas.
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    3 KILLED IN PERAK AMBUSH
    145 11 IPOH. Jan. 31. BANDITS killed a European police lieutenant, a Malay driver ana a Malay Police constable not far from the main trunk road in the Chemor area of Perak this evening. The spot has been the scene of two previous ambushes. The police lieutenant
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    $1,000 fines in gold case
    83 11 SINGAPORE. Fob. 1. IIONG MOH TIM and Lee Soh Moh. wor tint'd $l,OOO each in Singapore yesterday for failing to sell their gold to authorised deae'rs on Jan. 24. 1950. The gold was found by Mr William Gordon. Assistant Controller of Foreign Exchange, in the
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    ESTATE MURDER
    30 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 31. Bandits have murdered a Chinese on an estate in the Batu Ga.jah area of Perak and abducted two rubber tappers from another estate nearby.
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    FELL 15 FEET
    25 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. In a police raid in Anguilla Road last night a woman of 25 fell 15 feet and was injured.
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    City seeks more coal for gasworks
    199 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. {’HEAP-RATE coal for Singapore gasworks V which an Indian firm promised to deliver by Jan. 11 has not arrived, said Mr. T. I*. K McNeice, City Council President, yesterday. Present coal stocks at the gasworks would last only until March, so
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    SAGGING TENDENCY GOES ON
    293 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2. j OWING to tbe intervention ot the Chinese New Year holidays, the trading week has- been somewhat short, states Lewis and Peat’s weekly report issued yesterday. Although there appeared to j h«* a reasonable number of orders in this market each day, the
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    Workless man owes $49,000
    83 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. O'n Yew Ilian, aged 59. a i bankrupt with liabilities amounting to $49,000, told Mr. Justice Rogers in the I Singapore High Court yesterday that he was unemployed. Oh said that of his two wives one was employed as an amah. The other
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    PAWN TICKET THIEF
    59 12 SINGAPORE, Feb 2. Cheong Cheng Van, aged 30, admitted in Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday that he stole four pawn tickets belonging to Mila binte Ranawi at Aljunied Road on Jan. 23 The pawn tickets were Fold to cover $l3O worth of jewellery The ease was postponed
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    Ten years for killing his wife
    172 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. JYAMPILLAI Arumugam, 24. a Singapore Harbour Board labourer, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment a*t the Singapore Assizes yesterday when he was found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. He had been charged with the murder of his 15-year-old
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    GOATS STRAYED
    25 12 REGAMAT. Fri —Kor Olok Kwee, aged 45, who allowed three of her goats to stray into the Labis police compound was fined $3.
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    City seeks power to issue bonds
    204 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. YfR. T. P. F. McNeice, President of the Singapore City Council, yesterday officially wrote to the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, seeking powers for the issue of premium bonds to raise money for the City’s public works projects. The issue
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    Pleads guilty to 2 charges
    54 12 TAIPING, Fri.—Din bin Mat, aged 45 pleaded guilty to theft of three fowls valued at $l5 belonging to Inche Saidin Khadri of King Edward Road, and to failing to register and obtain, an identification card within the prescribed time. Sentence was deferred to Thursday Din
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    Board more than doubles this rent
    123 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2. 'J'IHE Singapore Kent Conciliation Board vesterdav increased the total monthly rent of three shop-houses in Cecil Street from $312 to $7OO The premises, which ad10ms each omer. are 141. 143 and 145 A Cecil Street. They were said to have been
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    TEMPLE TRUSTEE
    29 12 MUAR. Fri.—At a meeting of Muar Chettiars held at the Muar Chettiars Templer recently. Mr. S. E. S. V. Palaniappa Chettiar was appointed trustee Of the temple
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    HE WILL HUNT MEN HE HAD ICES WITH
    253 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. VfAJOR Ratu Cakbau, second-in-command >f the Fiji troops now training at Nee Soon camp, Singapore, may soon find himself face to face in the jungle with bandits with whom he used to eat ice creams in London restaurants. He
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    Ceylonese may fly flags
    82 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2. The Colony Government has permitted Ceylonese to fly their national flag on Monday Ceylon Independence Day. Celebrations will begin at 9 a.m. with the hoisting of the flag at the home of the Ceylon Commissioner in Malaya. Mr. M. Saravanamuthu. At 5 p.m.
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    BORROWED TO BUY A TAXI
    58 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. Sng Tian Sang, a bankrupt, who went through his public examination in the Singapore High Court yesterday, said that his indebtedness was due to his borrowing money to buy a taxi. His total indebtedness amounted to $3,530. towards which he is now
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    WITHDRAWN
    24 12 KUALA KANGSAR. Feb. 1. The police guard at the Iskandar Bridge over the Perak River on the Kuala Kangsar-Ipoh Road. has been withdrawn.
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    GIMSON LEAVING IN MARCH
    72 12 TIIK Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson. will leave the Colony on retirement during the third week of March. The new Governor. Mr John Nicoll, is expected to arrive towards the end of Anril. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. W L. Blythe, will take over as Officer
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    Million oranges go bad
    99 12 SINGAPORE. Feb 2 A MILLION oranges, which had gone bad, were unloaded from the Leneverett yesterday. The Leneverett arrived in Singapore on Jan. 28 from Kobe, Japan. An officer of the ship yesterday: “We could not down the hold because' ot tin overpowering acid gas comiiv:
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    T.B. kills 24 in Colony
    73 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2 Tuberculosis killed people in the week ended Jan. 26—five fewer than in the previous week, the Singapore Health Officer said yesterday Fifty-three T.B. cases wcr< reported, compared with the week before. There were 30 deaths from pneumonia—l 7 more than in the
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    FIRE NEAR OIL STORE
    70 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2 Fire-fighters and policemen put out a lallang Are a’ Woodlands, last night before it could reach Shell Com pany’s oil installations in the area. The flre-fighters were em ployees of the Shell Company. They had the blaze out before two engines arrived. One
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    GIMSON TOASTS CEYLON
    40 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 5. The Governor of Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson. proposed the toast of Ceylon at a cocktail party given Y es c dav by Mr. M. Saravanamuttu. the Ceylonese Commissioner, to mark Ceylon’s Independ ence Day
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    S’PORE GOT MORE FISH IN 1951
    233 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. i increase in the supply of fish caught Abound Singapore and the development of fisheries on the east coast*of Johore were the two most encouraging features of last year’s l«.hi ni r activities, the Economic Information Hu I let in states.
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    He seeks better police methods
    213 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2. rr he Singapore Com- missioner of Police. Mr. J P. PennefatherEvans, left by air yesterday for Hong Kong where he will study improvements in the police system with a view to patting them into force here. Mr. Nigel Morris, who is now
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    PRISON FOR KNIFE ATTACK
    20 13 pOAMAT, Fri.—For using on two other Indians t N aopah Estate. Kand 26. was sentenced imprisonment.
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    EYE SPECIALIST
    28 13 «7°Jf BAHRU Fri.—Dr. Jn Sharma. Senior eye t. Johore. has gone on TP retirement after a:\ service. Sh;,r 2? a previously \j at Batu Pahat, and
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    Fined at Kuantan
    24 13 i,„ K A nAN Fri.— For caus- onvemence with his r Pekan-Kuantan C 1 2r C Hoi was fined Kuan tan.
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    $764m. IN MALAYA
    20 13 ’/l 1 amount of cur- v ,;V.A° S in circulation ■c» -c 209 on Jan 1 was
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    NEW JUDGE
    18 13 M, r 'NGAPORE. Feb. 2. ne s Fleming McWil,S r pX appo!nt Pd a •"“DwrteuJudge magtatrate
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    SEEKS ‘REVENGE’ ON CROCODILE
    73 13 TELI'K ANSON, Fri. NOORDIN, a member of the Teluk Anson Jungle Squad, who was attacked by a crocodile while bathing in the Kid or River at Sussex Estate-, over lhe week-end. said he would get even with tbt creatu.’e by seeking the services of a pawang
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    PARKER DINNER
    45 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2. Montor Ltd., agents for Parker pens, last night entertained over 200 sub-agents and guests at a dinner at the Tai Tong Restaurant. Happy World, to mark the visit of Mr. T A. Gavin, export manager of the Parker Pen Company
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    LORRY LEFT OPEN
    34 13 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.—For failing properly to cover his lorry with a tarpaulin when conveying foodstutfs Chew Yoon Choon. of Batu Pahat. was fined S5O in the Johore Bahru Police Court today
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    Debtor says: I was robbed
    110 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. MO. VERGHESE. former keeper of an eating shop in Changi Village, said in Singapore High Court yesterday that a robbery in which he lost $3,450 on September 10, 1950, made him insolvent. Verghese said this at his nublic examination before Mr. Justice
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    Absent special fined $400
    44 13 KUANTAN. Fri.—Yahya bin Mohammed Rashid, a special constable of Jeram Kuantan Estate, was fined $4OO, in default three months' gaol, at Kuantan for being absent from duty. He did not return after 24 hours’ leave. He was arrested in Perak
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    C.G. sees N. Borneo as big rice producer
    145 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2. T*HE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, told an audience at the University of Malaya last night that he hoped North Borneo would be developed into an exporter of rice to Molaya. Mr. MacDonald, who was lecturing on “The Future in
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    FOOD STALL RENTS UP
    53 13 JOHORE BAIIRU. Fri. Food market stallholders in Johore Bahru are to pay more rent. Satav stall fees have been doubled to $lO a month. Other stall rents have been increased from $lO to $l2. Stalls which open onlv at night have to pav $lO a month,
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    More local men as RAF Regt officers
    340 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. AIR Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty, C-in-C, Far East Air Force, yesterday told a “birthday’" parade of the R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) at Changi that he hoped the day would not be very far distant when the great majority of the regiment’s
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    He forecasts more goods
    154 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2. A N increasing supply of manufactured goods from. Britain is forecast by Mr. K E. MacKenzie, U. K. Trade Commissioner in Malaya, who recently returned from England. In an article in the Singapore Economic Information Bullentin, published yesterday Mr. MacKenzie says there is
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    YOUTHS GAMBLED
    17 13 MUAR. Frl.—Five youths were each fined $l5 by the Muar magistrate for gambling at Bakri.
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    DACHING LAW TO BE ENFORCED
    106 13 will be taken against market stallholders in the city who do not use weighing, machines the Citv President Mr T P. F. McNiece, said. City Councillors have ordered that stallholders in all markets in the City area, must have both weighing scales and dachings, as
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    SHE TOLD ME I WAS TOO OLD — Says husband
    175 13 SHE TOLD ME I WAS TOO OLD Says husband SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. CHOO Jwee Slang, aged 37, a seaman, said in Singapore Second Police Court yesterday that his wife, Ang Piak Loan, aged 23. told him on his wedding night that he wa* too old for her. Two weeks later,
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    Youths stole a ring
    84 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. 'pwo boys who were charged with stealing a ring valued at $3O from an R.A.F. flight-sergeant were conditionally discharged on a good behaviour bond of $2OO each for one year in the Fourth Singapore Police Court yesterday. They were Hamid bin Haji Ahmad
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    Cheating charge
    45 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. KHOH LAP ONG, aged 33, was charged in the Singapore First Police Court yesterday with cheating Esah binte Ahmad of $345 at the New World Cabaret on Jan. 20 and 27. Khoh claimed trial and was remanded until Feb. 8.
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    Towgay: next step
    33 13 SINGAPORE. Feb 2. Singapore’s 500 towgav growers will decide next week on steps to be taken following the decision of (he City Council to close all polluted wells in May.
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    ARMED ROBBERY
    45 13 SINGAPORE, Fob 2. Four armed robbers in Singapore vesterdav used a car when they held up a 21-vear-old Chinese vou f h. Lua Chwee Kiat at East Coast Road, in front of the Ocean Park Hotel, and took away $2,000 worth of cloth.
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    ‘ACTING ON INFORMATION’: PUBLIC AID
    460 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 2. HEARTENING news on the fight against the bandits was announced here tonight news of a growing resolve among the men and women of Malaya to bring about an early end to the Emergency by passing on information to the police and
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    New chief for Changi named
    61 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. ROUP Captain E. C. Bates, 1* C.8.E., A.F.C., will succeed Group Captain R. N. McKern as Officer Commanding, R A F. Station, Changi at the end of this mf>nth. the R.A.F. said last night. Group Captain Bates will arrive by sea irom
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    Air strikes in N.S.
    34 14 SINGAPORE Feb. 3 Bandit targets in east and west Negri Sembilan were attacked by RAF Brigands and R A.A.F. Lincolns in yesterday’s air operations in support of the security forces.
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    Contractor killed: 2 wounded
    75 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. IJANDITS last nignt killed a Chinese contractor-fore-man and injured nis young son and an old woman in the new resettlement village at Permatang Tinggi. in central Province Wellesley. Quek Hai Seng, aged 41, was shot dead by two uniformed bandits who called at
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    Big K’tan gift to University
    47 14 Big K’ tan gift to University SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. year’s donations to the J University of Malaya Endowment Fund towards the Kelantan Hall totalled $30.143.58, the Kelantan Government announced today Since May 1949. $109,391.94 had been contributed. Advertising. travelling expenses, stationery and coupons cost $1.435.20/ leaving $107,956.74.
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    LORRY BURNED
    33 14 KUALA I.UMPUR Feb. 2. Bandits burned a lorry in the Kluang area of Johore and slashed rubber trees in the Mersing area and in the Kuala Kubu district of Selangor yesterday.
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    BANDITS PAY HEAVY TOLL
    219 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 2. pOLICE jungle companies are now getting into their stride in the anti-bandit campaign, said a spokesman ot the Director of Operations Staff tonight. The 21 Federal Jungle Company showed their skill after months of training by killing two and wounding three out
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    $4,500 from jockeys
    52 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Feb. 4. THE Malayan Jockevs Association has donated $4,500 to the Elizabeth School for the Blind and the Statp Welfarp Home. Johore The money i s part of the proceeds from last year’s dance. This is the second gift the Welfare Homp has received from
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    RED WHO KILLED 9 DIES WITH MISTRESS
    416 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb l* riONG Ngan, sharpshooting 1 member of the notorious Kajang Killer Squad under the ‘‘Bearded Bandit”, l Kon Kim and nine time.', murderer at the age of 22 was shot down with hU mistress this week by a patru; the
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    Naylor is fined $100 for negligence
    740 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. DALPH Naylor, 29-year-old Singapore City Council engineer, was yesterday fined $lOO by the Singapore City Police Magistrate, Mr. K. j. L. Jamieson, and disqualified from driving for six months after he was found guilty of negligent driving. The negligent driving occurred
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    WOMEN WILL HE THE ‘EYES’ OF DEFENCE
    183 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. tiifKl ITING will begin on Feb. 18 lor 500 men R ir j women to be trained for the Singapore ,)lll,l^ r ar°e rP to be trained for the anti-aircraft u r the infantry battalion, and the mechanised transport sections.
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    PIRATES FIRE ON SHIP
    171 15 PENANG. Feb. 2. A N lU v..u!U of how Chinese A ’)’.> fired on his ship in d .1 d it m the Formosa -aas given by Captain H J M Perry, of the 9,000ton P. m O. passenger freighter Somali, on his arrival in Penang
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    Latest gifts to Varsity
    168 15 yyiTH latest donation amountirur to $4,548. the total of 'h« University of Malaya Endowment Fund now stands at S4 752 392 Hn ILsr or new donations folS3r''"*' ap0rf Llly Dispensary V l ri Staff of Govt. i Port Dickson $9. I*n,k v. s: s. HaJi Nordin
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    SATA to get Sterilisers
    59 15 !a Pore Anti-Tuber-rof" JS Association will 'M r Npstle’g Products 56.700." tWo lfts costing Thf- V rn and a h,m.i steriliser tfJ be a rpo^L st r liser and are Mr 1° nriemory of fan a (rA V v In rie general filed f n 1
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    MacDonald flies to Sarawak
    66 15 SINGAPORE. Feb. 4. YfR. Malcolm MacDonald, Commissioner General, left Singapore yesterday by R.A.F. Sunderland flying boat for Sarawak. He flew to Pending, near Kuching, where he was joined by Sir Anthony Abell, the Governor of Sarawak. From Pending, they will go to Sibu on the Rejang
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    Death of Mr. Grosz
    77 15 SINGAPORE. Feb. 5. MR. Victor Grosz. Radio Malaya record librarian and one of the organisers of the- Festival of Music in Singapore in 1949 died yesterday in the General Hospital. Mr Grosz, born in Budapest in 1900. came to Singapore in 1938 to join the then
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    BANDIT CAMP BOMBED
    23 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 3. -A 20-man bandit camp, destroyed by bombing, has been found in the TaipLng area of Perak.
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    SELANGOR INDIAN DANCER
    39 15 MISS A. RtKIMAM, who performed an Indian classical dance at the first dance of the newly formed Trained Nurses Association, Selangor branch. The dance was in aid of (he nurses* welfare fund.—Straits welfare fund.—Straits Times picture.
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    MANAGER AND SON DIE IN AMBUSH
    170 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. TiHE manager of the Choon Sen San estate at Muar, Inche Hussein bin Ismail, and his 17-year-old son were murdered in a bandit ambush on Saturday. The bandits also killed a special constable and seriously wounded two others in the ambush
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    TRIBUNAL FOR ALL HELD OFFICERS
    120 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3. AN amendment to the Emergency Detained Officers Regulations has been issued by the Officer Administering the Government. It provides for the setting up of a tribunal to examine the case of any officer detained. The tribunal, which is to be set
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    SEVEN HELD
    21 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3. Security forces have detained seven people on an estate In the Kluan? area of Johore
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    Govt. ‘seeks its problems’
    227 15 rIE Singapore Government seeks and faces the social facts and is conscious of the limitation of its resources in face of the magnitude of Singapore’s social problems”, said Mr. G. G. Thomson, Singapore’s Public Relations Secretary, in a letter to the Manchester Guardian. Mr. Thomson’s letter
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    Director to retire
    103 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. MR. Maynard Clark, director and senior planting adviser of Sime Darby and Company, will retire next week after 29 vears’ service. He will live in Devonshire, England. He has spent mast of his time in Malacca and Johore but for the last two years
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    NEW REGISTRAR
    35 15 I POH. Feb. 3. Mr. C. H. Hill-Willis. the new Harbourmaster of Perak, has been gazetted Registrar of marriages under the Christian Marriage Enactment, for the districts of Batang Padang and Lower Perak.
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    MORE OF THE RIGHT SPIRIT
    67 15 MORE mature whisky was becoming available and in 18 months there should be enough for everybody, said Mr. J, A. Herries, manager of) the Johnny Walker distilleries. Mr. Herries. who passed through Singapore on his way to England, said the shortage had been caused by
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    Advantage the Chinese haven’t yet realised
    122 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3. CHINESE in Kuala Lumpur still prefer to bury dead friends and relatives rather than have them cremated. The Lim Lum crematorium in the Kuala Lumpur Chinese cemetery has had to deal with only 12 bodies in eleven months. The nun
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    They want a separate hostel
    155 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. TWO leading Muslim women in Singapore, Che Fatimah and Che Zahara. said yesterday that a separate Muslim nurses’ hostel was essential if Muslim parents were to encourage their children to become nurses. Thev also emphasised the necessity for adult education classes to
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    S’pore Assizes
    40 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. The February session of the Singapore Assizes opened in the High Court yesterday before Mr. Justice Knight with a calendar of nine cases. All the cases were called up and dates were fixed for hearing.
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    MISSION TOUR
    27 15 SINGAPORE. Feb. 4. Bhai Amarsingh—Khalsa. chief editor of the Sardar, published in Lucknow. India, in Hindi and Punjabi, is in Singapore on a missionary tour.
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    LAB. OPENED
    29 15 TAIPING. Feb. s.The Department of Geology has opened an office and laboratory at Taiping. Mr. A Renwick is Ln charge and is assisted by two field assistants.
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    MALAYA PROTESTS ON NEW DEPUTY
    651 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 4. UNOFFICIAL members of the Federation’s Executive Council will ,J protest at the weekly meeting tomorrow against the appointment of the new Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. Donald Charles Mactiillivray. There has been talk in Kuala Lumpur ot the resignation ot a numhci
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    THE LAW FOR THE DEPUTY
    202 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 4. CHANGES in the Federal Agreement to put into effect the appointment of a Deputy High Commissioner were announced in the Government Gazette today. The proclamation changes clause 11 of the Agreement and substitutes two subclauses. The Deputy High Commissioner will now
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    MAN CLEARED OF OUTRAGE
    60 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Feb. 4. Ari s bin Abdul Rahman, of Pulau Bukom was acquitted in the Sessions Court of attempting to outrage the the modesty of Ara binte Yunos and with stealing her gold necklace. Aris said she had been friendly with him. He pawned the
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    Christening on depot ship
    127 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. y\N inverted ship’s bell was the font for a double christening aboard the MR. N.V.R, depot ship Laburnum in Singapore. It was the first-ever christening aboard the Laburnum. The babies were Penelope Frances, daughter of Lieut.Commander P. Magnus, D.S. C., and Mrs. Magnus,
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    Union men want to ban Councillors
    100 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. A resolution to bar City Councillors in the Army Civil Service Union from holding office in the union will be discussed at the ACSU annual delegates’ conference this month. Mr. K. G. Mathews, of the Keat Hong branch, said yesterday that
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    THESE WILL BE ‘SHOOT TO KILL’ AREAS FOR ALL
    85 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 4. Emergency powers gazetted today enable a Mentri Besar or Resident Commissioner to impose unlimited curfews on danger areas. Any area gazetted as a ‘‘danger area” will be forbidden land to all except Security Forces or people in
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    2 WOMEN FREED
    48 16 JOHORE BAHRU Feb. 4. Wong Leong and Liew Tin, two women, who came up for trial in the Police Court for moving foodstuffs at Tampoi. were acquitted on the Police withdrawing the charge. The foodstuffs, which comprised dry fish and vegetables, were returned to them.
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    AFRICANS GET READY FOR THE BANDITS
    266 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. MEN of the Ist (Nyasa) and 3rd (Kenya) bat- talions of the King’s African Rifles, who arrived in Malaya two weeks ago, are now in the thick of their intensive training in jungle warfare. In two months they are expected to
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    Community centre used for gaming
    160 16 SINGAPORE. Feb 5. AS a sequel to a police raid on the Tiong Bahru Community Centre on Saturday. 19 Chinese boys were yesterday charged With gambling in the Singapore Third Court Mr. B. N. Finch. A.S.P. prosecuting. said: "The office of the Centre was divided
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    ‘Freedom’ for Gimson
    121 16 Freedom for Gimson SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. SINGAPORE’S retiring Gov ernor. Sir Franklin Gimson. will be made a Freeman of the City on March 14. a week before he Ls due leave the Colony. This was announced yesterday bv the Citv President Mr T P F. McNeice. who added that the
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    WAR HAS TAUGHT US THIS LESSON: BE PREPARED, SAYS BLYTHE
    326 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. q'ilK Colonial Secretary, Mr. VV. L. Blythe. 1 (l! n cd the Civil Defence school at Kolam u l.ane, Singapore, yesterday and said: -tiu* lust war made it clear that equally as rant as the three Armed
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    Leaders told to clarify aims
    287 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. AT tlhs important stage of Malayan history, when people are awakening to full politic i and national progress. leaders of this country should clarify their aims and give an assurance that, while striving for independence. they would also work for Malaya to
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    Mr. J.F. Hodgins dies in Sussex
    62 17 SING APORE, Feb. 6. with t Hod gins, who was Piny i’v Llttle and Comf" from !902 H’ r 1 n lle retired, died J: *n i J !h“ 8h Sussex. on Mr n<iritrflf. a e of 72 y ear s. rr. ot r
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    Malay camp head chosen
    93 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 5. MR G S. Patterson has been I** appointed superintendent of the Malay rehabilitation camp to bo opened soon in Klang. Mr Patterson, who is now on his way back from leave, was Administrative Officer for Kota Tinggi. Johore. from June 1948. until
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    2 BANDITS KILLED, THREE WOUNDED
    80 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 4. T'VVO bandits have been killed, three wounded and a suspected woman bandit has been captured over the week-end. In the Telok Anson area of Perak, Commandos killed one bandit and wounded another. A sack of supplies was found. A police Jungle
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    Johore MCA to give $50,000
    44 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues Johore branch of the Malayan Chinese Association will give $50,000 this year to buiid schools In resettlement areas, said Dato Wong Shee Fun. Johore MCA chairman The branch has already contributed $58,650 to build resettlement schools.
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    Big man hunt in Penang
    89 17 PENANG. Feb. 5. f>ENANG police have launch--1 ed one of their biggestever man hunts for the killer of Mr. David Chen, principal of the Chung Ling High school. But although a wide check has been made —and is still going on—no one has yet come
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    Five more Reds surrender
    161 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 4. ANOTHER live bandits have surrendered to security forces, making a total of 12 in the past week. One bandit, who was left with a comrade to guard a jungle camp, slashed his comrade with a parang, knocked him unconscious and escaped. He
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    More brandy comes from Australia
    159 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. Malaya's brandy imports from Australia are throe times more than a year ago i ana confectionery imports have doubred. Mr. A. J. S. Day. the Australian Trade ComI missioner. said yesterday. In 1950. Malaya imported 20.671 gallons of brandy from Australia. compared
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    TO AUSTRALIA
    27 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Feb. 5. Inche Rahman Musa, officer in charge of RIDA in Johore State, accompanied by nls wife, has gone to Australia on leave.
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    NONA ASIAH, the popular Malay singer and film actress at the Kuala Lumpur Races.—
    17 17 NONA ASIAH, the popular Malay singer and film actress at the Kuala Lumpur Races Straits Times picture.
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    Mr. & Mrs. Gatrell
    49 17 Mr. Mrs. Gatrell SINGAPORE, Feb. 6 Thu Singapore Government Printing Office Cooperative Society gave a farewell dinner to Mr. and Mrs. V C. G. Gatrell on Saturday nieht. Mr. Gatrell who is retiring as Government Printer. Singapore, was one of the founders and has been its president since 1933.
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    ‘When to retire’ not decided
    154 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 6. rpHE committee set up by the Singapore Government two years to report on the retirement age for expatriate Government officers is still at work. Tli<* committee is still studying the views of other British colonies on whether 55 a-s a retiring age
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    CAMPAIGN FOR LITERACY
    29 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb 5 Dr. Frank Laubach. the literacy expert. 1| expected to direct the preparation of a Malav literacy campaign in the Federation in May
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    CAR PARTS ARE BEING SMUGGLED TO RED CHINA
    268 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. CUSTOMS and Special Branch men revealed L yesterday that they are seeking the “brains” behind an. organisation in Singapore which is smuggling motor car spare parts and other banned export goods to Communist China. A Special Branch man told
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    AND NOW SCHOOL No. 30
    142 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 6. THE thirtieth school under the Singapore Education Department’s supplementary plan was begun yesterday, when the Director of Education. Mr. A. W. Frisby, laid the foundation stone of the Canberra School at the Naval Base. The school, meant to serve the children of
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    Manager is entertained
    83 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 6 MR. Humphrey F. Chilton, advertising manager ot Horlicks Ltd., was entertained to lunch at the Adelphi Hotel, Singapore*. yesterday by Mr E Dudley-Bateman. the company’s general manager .for Asia, to meet distributors in Malaya. Market research and newspaper advertising. Mr. Chilton told them, were
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    Tin exports decrease
    49 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 6 Malaya exported 51.957 tons of tin and tin concentrates last year. 15.844 tons less than that in 1950 January exports totalled 4.454 tons the lowest for 13 months. Europe was the best customer w'th 1 885 tons, followed by Britain with 1.818 tons.
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    No big reshuffle in the M.C.S.
    166 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 5. THIERF will be no big reshuffle among high Malayan Civil servants as a result of the arrival of Sir Gerald and Mr. MacGillivray. Immediately after the swearing-in of Sir Gerald, the Officer Administering the Government. Mr. M. V del Tufo.
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    Commandos the best shots
    40 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. C. The Millington-Drake rifle shooting shield has for the second year been won by the Heavv Weapons Troop cf the 40 Royal Marine Commando unit. General Sir Charles Keightley, C-in-C Farelf, presented the shield.
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    Good news for the new AOC
    192 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 8. VLTHEN Air Vice-Marshal G. H. Mills, the new Air Officer Commanding Malaya, arrived* in Singapore yesterday on board the Carthage, he was handed a cable to tell him that his 21-year-old son, Derek, had passed out of the Cranwell. R.A.F Training
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    Fijians get applause
    46 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 6. AN enthusiastic audience showed its appreciation by thunderous applause when men of the Fiji Regiment, now in Singapore, gave a song and dance recital under the leadership of Warrant Officer Enele Karuru last night at the R.E.M.E theatre. Rowcroft Lines
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    New college for girls
    62 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 5. Plans for the Federal Government’s new Malay Girls' College, to be built in Kuala Lumpur at an estimated cost of nearly $1,820,000. are going ahead. A 45-acre site has already been set aside at Cheras Ror.d and a token vote of $l,OOO
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    GOVT. WON’T INTERFERE
    99 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 6. rE Singapore Government will not interfere in the case of the 66 Improvement Trust tenants served with notices to quit. the Chinese Chamber of Commerce has been told. The Chamber on Jan 9 called on Government to institute a public inquiry or other invnstiqation
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    SIR GERALD WILL BE CHIEF SCOUT
    160 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 5. f'JENERAL Sir Gerald Templer, the new High Commissioner of the Federation, has accepted the appointment of Patron and Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts’ Association, Federation of Malaya branch. Sir Gerald has been a member of the Scout movement since
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    Two councillors not on the register
    93 18 SINGAPORE, Ft o 0 'pilE Singapore tiovernment is to be asked at the next meeting of the Legislative Council by Mr John Laycock (Progre»iveKatong) if there ar<> two members of the City Council whose names Me not shown on the Municipal Electors’ register for
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    RAF give a dinner to an ‘old boy’
    96 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. NO. 84 Squadron ol R.A.F. entertained one <>l their “old boys,” Air Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty. C-in-t Far East Air Force, to d: in Singapore last night. The Air Marshal st*ry«-d three tours of dutv with t' l squadron
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    GIRLS’ SCHOOL TO BE OPENED
    35 18 JOHORE BAHRU. Feb 5 The first school for girls be built under the Peopb'School Scheme will be opei at Sungel Durian, Kukub Sunday. It has accom dation for 100 girls
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    NEW A.D.C.
    43 18 SINGAPORE. Feb <> A Gazette notification y< terday said that Sq« ad^ h Leader I.S. Stockwell, of Royal Air Force, has been pointed an extra ai camp to the Govern Singapore in place j> f ron Leader S. R. Hvland, has resigned.
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    GOOD GAMBLE WINS MAIN SPRINT AT K.L.
    894 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 2 nn CAMBLE won the main sprint (for u n 1 Div .1 horses over 6 f.) today, open- iV of the Selangor Turf Club Gold Cup in n a spectacular finish which saw the rive horses flash past the
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    Strong case for Anson Rd. stadium
    198 19 SINGAPORE. Feb. 5. JM* KINO a str ig cost lor going nhead with the $2 million Amor, Road gu*’hum at yesterday S.A.F A. vou v.*: meetJng, the president Mr. McGregor Wat. said tha f •*.A F.A. wtu only asK 4 Government to give back
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    R.S.G.C. Gold Medal tourney
    178 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. T»HE Royal Singapore Golf Club’s February Medal (Stroke). Gold Medal 1951 Qualifying Round Clifford Cup was played on Saturday afternoon and resulted in a win for P.M. Owen in “A” Division (78 —6—72). Other cards returned were:— P. P. Shellarcl (80 —7—73). H.
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    ENGLISH, SWISS & INDIAN XI’s TO VISIT COLONY
    136 19 ENGLISH, SWISS INDIAN XI’s TO VISIT COLONY SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. rIE Singapore Amateur Football Association Council yesterday took decisions which mean that Singapore socoer fans can look forward to watching three or four touring teams in action during the season which officially opens next month. The Council approved acceptance of
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    ‘Doc’ Rodgers on India trip
    122 19 Doc’ Rodgers on India trip PENANG, Feb. 4. rpRAINER “Doc” Rodgers left Penang today on a short trip to India. It will be his first visit to his family in 15 years “Doc’’ Rodgers expects to be away for only ten days. On the first stage of his journey by
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    Perak Blues Beaten 11-3
    778 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 2. QNCE again Selangor All Blues, the underdogs, surprised the experts by beating Perak All Blues in the inter-State Asian rugger cup final on the Kuala Lumpur padang this evening. Selangor, scoring first in the third minute, never looked back and emerged winners
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      57 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL $409,700 1st No. *****7 ($110,619) 2nd No. *****7 55.309) 3rd No. *****7 (S 27.654) Starters $3,456 each: —Nos. *****3; *****5; *****6; *****6; *****6: *****4; *****7; *****0. Consolation $2,458 each:— Nos. *****9; *****3; *****9; *****4; *****7; *****3; *****5; *****5; *****1; *****1. DOUBLE TOTE First Double: 35 tickets.
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    TIN SHARES HAD BIGGEST TURNOVER IN THE ‘HOLIDAY’ WEEK
    545 20 From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. 11/HOLEHEARTED celebration of Chinese New W year was a limiting factor in the Malayan share market last week and until Friday the volume of trading failed to approach that of before the holidays. Most
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    CONTROL OF EXCHANGE
    109 20 rPHE Controller of Foreign Exchange, Singapore, states: “Consequent upon the recent relaxation in dealings In certain foreign currencies, it has been found that the previous policy cf publ shl ig the Control rates of exchange under the Finance Regulators 1950 needs revision. "The rates of exchange published
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    Takuapa Valley Tin
    31 20 'pAKUAPA Valley Tin Dredging in Januuy, us>g two dredges, v i n(. 1.370 heurs ano c;*ovei 2.’5 uuu cubic yiTds to prcvlic-* »*0 t'v .s of tin- re.
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    Business done
    217 20 SINGAPORE. Feb. 4. BUSINESS clone in the Malayan share market last week included Industrials—Fraser A: Neave $4.25 and $4.20. Hammer $4l, Malayan Breweries $5.40. Malayan Collieries $1.97 4 and $1.95. McAlister $42.50 to $43, Robinson Ord $4. Robinson Ist Pref. $6.10, Singapore Cold Storage $5.15 to $5.12*2. Straits
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    140 20 SINGAPORE. Feb. 6. 'J'HE Singapore produce market continued to be inactive yesterday, and in several sections sellers lowered offerings. Pepper prices dropped to $BO5 a picul tor Muntok. $BOO for Sarawak and $585 for Lampong black. I-uyers for February copra quoten S3O a picul, but sellers held
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    New Indonesian export duties
    158 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. INCREASED export duties of 25 per cent. v 1 rubber, including latex, copra, palm oil, tin on pepper and coffee were announced yesterday in m Indonesian Government emergency decree r connection with the abolition of the fore exchange certificate system. All other exported
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    LUNAS EST.: 100% TOTAL
    120 20 T UNAS Rubber Estates made $863,218 <2os‘i> per cent.) in financial year to Oct. 30. 1951 Tlie final dividend recommended. 4C per cent., will make 10C per cent, for the year. Net liquid assets in balance sheet work out af 5584.570. or $1.39 per share. Lunas
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    EXCHANGE TO MERCHANTS
    80 20 fPHE Malayan Exchange clanks Association Singapore. Feb. 6. announced agreed rates of ex change to merchants as folllows: nivixr. Air Mail r.T 0.0 Mld/st Credit Kill* New York 33j Canada 32; 33 321 Trade HUN Nea York 331 Cevion 1564 156 J SeUtn* T T./0.0 Head; New
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    865 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers.. Ale* Bricks 2 \o z 2b Ords 2 95 3 05 Atlus let |2 50 13.50 B B PetroV 45/3 46/3 BM Trustee’ 650 1.50 Con Tin Smelt Pref 21/6 22/6 Ords 23/- 24/E. Utd Assur 38 00 39.50 Fed Uisnensarv
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    Taiping & Kundang
    97 20 Taiping Kundang 'J’AIPING Consolidated ar. nounces an agreemer t with Kundang Tin Dredgim regarding a proposal to mini*’ approximately 292 acres <>: the latter company’s propt ty. When the ore reserves ol present Taiping area are exhausted. which is expected to be u about four months’ time, the dredge will
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    565,000 LBS. HARVESTED
    83 20 South Perak Rubber Syndic it* results to June 30 January 25. are: Crop harvesw. 565.000 lbs. -668.479 ibsi and sold at an average pri< e excluding export duty and ce >. equivalent to 2s s*4d Der .jound London landed (part lloTd London landed and balan- e tor
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    Petaling to mine on Seaport Est.
    80 20 A RRANGEMENTS have *)een made for Petallng Tin t.’ mine part of Seaport (Selanpot Rubber Estate at Sungei Wav The area over which the tin coni panv proposes to dredge ja acres, three-quarters of winch carries old rubber. The chairman of Reaper* (Selangor), Mr.
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    KUALA KANGSAR EST. SALE
    85 20 KUiiLA Kangsar Plantations directors announce that the out-division of the Sun jei Bionc Estate nnr been sold S126.907 equivalent t»» £14,808 which ha* been receiwu by :h.? company's agents in Malaya The buvers t« c-V posse* y on on January The sale price doe; not include
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    RUBBER ESTATE CROPS
    39 20 UARRISONS Crosfield (Ma- laya) announce the followi’ December rubber crcps. in AHe-ihy 32.500 Bonta Est, 30.0 1 Jeram Kuantan Est 3 11, Kundrng Est 37.50* Mentakab Sungei Bagan 64. Sandycroft 20.00 Tan tons Pan Est 3,ul
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    SOUTH PERAK RUBBER SYND.
    35 20 P.-cflt to June 30. after (i. li.742 taxation. Jb sa u (£2.842). To general reser' £10.000 (£1.789; dividend per cent (5). forward fl.o--(£2.199). Meeting. Feb. 21 Mi H Copeman is chairman
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