The Straits Budget, 13 March 1952

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] IV M*rii*s No. 293. Thursday, March 13, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or I ah.
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      The Govt officers’ housing queue
      296 2  -  V. E. F. Singapore. I NOTICE the Straits Times has published the first letter written by a brave but fed-up Government official's wife, regarding the housing situation in Malaya. We have been living in one room of a hotel lor two months waiting for accommodation.
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      A CHINESE VIEWPOINT
      97 2  -  “APPLE.* Ipoh. IF there had been a call--1 up for National Service in 1938 the Japs could not have occupied Malaya in 1942. Le us hope that the proposed Bill will be put through with little delay, even so that those of us who are keen could
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      SHENTON WAY
      62 2 WHY sell that valuable land on Shenton Way? Why doesn’t the Government put up the buildings required and rent them out? It would then hav e a perpetual source of income. And there are about 64 million square feet of useless tidal lands on our waterfront today. that
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      CIVIC-MINDED
      285 2  -  B” Singapore. f I I HE seven-year residential qualification for the franchise requested by the City Councillors is an admission of the political ineptitude of the local people. It is a clear indication that local candidates for the elections do not enjoy the confidence nf IVin olunfnrotn > of
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      ‘Time for action’
      234 2  -  (Mrs.) E. M. SMEDLEY. Federation of Malaya. I HAVE read the letter signed Paula Fitzgerald, describing conditions at a Rest House. (Mrs Fitzgerald was our neighbour until her return to I Ireland). I would like to say that my husband has i been in Malaya eight months;
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      Questions on Government housing
      515 2  -  JUNIOR WIFE. Sing a pore. REFER to V.E.F.’s let- ter on the Government housing shortage in last Saturday’s Straits Times She seems under the impression that senior officers like her husband have had to live in hotels while post-war recruits to Government have been allotted houses
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      SEVEN YEARS OUT OF TEN
      105 2  -  LOYAL. Singapore. T CONGRATULATE you on your informative leader on the “Birds of Passage.” To the ordinary person living in Malaya the question of citizenship has become most complicated, and some points at least are now clearer Referring to Labour Party protests, their representatives on
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      JAP WAR MEMOIRS
      130 2  -  OVTIG. Kuala Lumpur. NO sooner were the Jap war memoirs by Masanobu Tsuji published In Tokyo than terrific tidal waves driven by Nature began to sweep over Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, bringing death and destruction to the people there. I wonder whether there is anv moral
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      BUYING AND SELLING
      81 2  -  A MOTHER. Singapore. RECENT police court report said that a woman oi necessity, had sold two of her five children. Leaving sentiment aside, it would be interesting to know what steps the law will take about this selling and buying of the two chi'dren. Alter reading such
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      Monkeys’ brains & eggs of antiquity
      184 2  - Monke ys brains eggs of antiquity W. T. LEE Kuala Lumpur. MR. HELLIWELL S about eating livo 1; brains reminds me o* ner I gave to some !p friends. Rn Among the dishes plate of preserved eg vi ra ginger. I was imm tle; asked the age of t. because
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      Monkey Tale: U.K. Ideas
      88 2  -  WILLIAM SHORTKKK.E. Worcester Park. Sum-v. England. YOU may already tv. Mr Arthur H article in the “Peop v. hie; appears to be a gr < libel on the people of Singapore As one who retaincreat affection for the city ar.c its population these eo:. rent* of
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      THIS MONKEY BUSINESS
      88 2  - THIS MONK EY BUSINESS T W ON< Singapore. 1 OFFER SI,000 to be 1 "d to any charity that dr Helliwell will name ,u can give evidence to '*> an v neutral party th has attended a l>:r given by a Chinese 11 millionaire in his <C'h»• “Arabian Nights p
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      RE-ENTRY BAR?
      47 2  -  S. T. AR Singapore. THE news that sonic 11 are trying to avoid tional Service Call-un sail away ic not fcr.’ to those Malayan who have settled here mnnently. Has not the Gov realised that it can p these parasites from entering the country 0
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      Hongkong Facts
      647 3 —Straits Times. Mar. 6. j t i S doubtful whether the ast h«s been heard from Communist China of Saturday's i t> in Hongkong. The Red, nwv be expected to use them as a peg for a renewal 0 the long propaganda campa;gn against the Hongkong Goverr.nK-nt, a
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      Korea Germ War Charges
      217 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 6. Once Peking’s Foreign Minister associated himself with the charge that the United Nations has been waging “germ warfare” in Korea, it became necessary to take the accusation seriously. Not, of course, that the charge can stand investigation. It is altogether too fantastic.
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      Monkey Brains
      197 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 6. The gullibility of some travelling journalists is almost proverbial. Usually it is a matter for healthy laughter, hut sometimes there is reason for protest. The story in The People (one of London’s brightest Sunday papers) of Chinese millionaires in Singapore feasting on monkey brains,
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      Drafting The Men
      677 3 —Straits Times. Mar. 7. Both in the Federation and the Colony the National Service Bills have been received more warmly possibly than the two Governments expected. Indeed it is somewhat remarkable to find so many who have believed for so long in the necessity of drafting the
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      “We Are Your Friends”
      422 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 7. President Truman spoke for the whole free world when he addressed the peoples of Russia and China from the deck of the floating Voice of America. The Courier carries the latest battery of broadcasting transmitters which speed the truth behind the Iron
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      The Countess Appalled
      429 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 8. Countess Mountbatten, Sup-erintendent-in-Chief of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, has found the lack of hospital beds for the tuberculous appalling, and the shortage of civil hospital personnel and accommodation horrifying. The medical and hospital staff's of the Federation and Singapore are doing a
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      Effervescence
      387 4 —Straits Times. Mar. 10. It is the privilege of the President of the City Council to enliven an annual report with a dash of colour, and we would he the last to deprive Mr. T. P. F. McNeice of this annual pleasure. But there are limits. A drive or
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      Time to Give a Real Lead
      742 4 —Straits Times, Mar. 11. 1 Slowly the public conscience is beginning to think that something must he done to stem the growing flood of corruption in Singapore. A City Councillor has spoken out in Council; a Legislative Councillor has asked the Government to act
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    ‘AT HOME’ WITH MALAYA’S GOVERNMENT SERVANTS
    1419 5 A Straits Times Staff Correspondent surveys a source of discontent among the officers of the Federation—housing r :;ROPEAN GovA ament official s fp ,‘as booked a pasback to Britain after Wing here only ?V0 months. The trouHousing. lv her husband came B e h,
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    They plan an all-Malay government
    175 5 ALOR STAR. Mar. 10. F)ELEGATES from nine State branches at today’s final sPS- s l° n °f the Peninsular Malay Union’s conference at Alor Star unanimously resolved to ask the British Government to “hand over the administration of this country to the Malays.” The resolution,
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    Boys’ home gets $6,000
    88 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 10. THE Serendah Boys’ Home, run by the “Save The Children Fund of Great Britain” received $6,000 last month from the Federation Lotteries Board. The money will be used to buy furniture and equipment. Jobs at Malayan Collieries. Batu Arang, were found for
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    ST. GEORGE’S CHURCH, PENANG.
    8 6 Photograph by James Barclay.
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    As I was Saying
    669 6 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. HOW to explain Fleet j Street’s Arthur Helli- I well? It is a* long time' since any roving reporter made Singapore so angry, although the Helliwell drivel is by no means the first of its kind. Once 11 used to be the whisky
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    A Singapore Diary
    1069 6  -  Stanley Street Lese-majesty tales of the Japanese at war are too common in this part of the world, but one such tale, passed on to us by the Ever Helpful Colleague, is a bit out of the ordinary. It relates to the decapitation of a queen. This,
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    SINGAPORE SCHOOLGIRL
    60 8 A! ce Tay (tonrlu from right.) with some of the tie legates from IS nations in Asia and the Middle East who are now in New York to attend the Herald- Tri bune Forum. Picture shows .Miss Tay at a New A’ork reception held by Pan American World
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    2 SHOCKS FOR THE BANDITS
    46 8 KUALA LUMPUR A/«r. 5. #N tiro bandit attacks yesterday tables were turned despite overwhelming odds. A wounded European estate manager killed one bandit and wounded another and a Malay kampong guard, attacked by three bandits, killed one and captured his gun.
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    Shock No. 1
    109 8 TTARLY yesterday morning Mr M E R. Jansen, assistant manager of Yong Peng Estate in the KJuang area of Johore. was in a Land Rover with Woo Chee Hong, a contractor, Mahmud bin Mejan, a driver, and a special constable driving along the estate road A gang
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    Shock No. 2
    46 8 IN the Kuala Pilah area, of Negri Sembilan, three bandits fired on a kampong guard tapping damar. The guard grabbed his gun and fired back, killing one bandit and putting the other two to flight. The guard then collected the dead man's gun.
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    Govt can’t provide staff for T.B. homes
    171 8 Hospital, yesterday. He said that because of staff shortage. Government was concentrating on th I care and rehabilitation ol tubercular patients who could work later. Dr. Grove-White was commenting on a plan by Dr Chen Su-Lan, founder of the Chen Su-Lan Trust, to
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    Kedah bans Bible film
    59 8 ALOR STAR. Mar 5. THE Sultan of Kedah has banned the Him “David and Bathsheba’’ in the State This follows a recent protest from the State Council of Religion and Malay Customs. ‘Wo foe) the film will create a religious controversy which should be avoided," the
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    A fairy tale, says Dr. Paglar
    111 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. 'pHE acting president of Singapore Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Dr. C. J. Paglar, yesterday said the story by Arthur Helliwell, of The People, a British Sunday newspaper, that Singapore Chinese cat live monkey brains, was a fairy
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    Another Red gives up
    59 8 ONE bandit surrendered in tlie Federation yesterday, In the Tapah area of Perak, a patrol of the First Gordons arrested two men who were carrying food outside a resett lenient area. A> a result of Information given to the police bv the two men another patrol
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    LATE IN COURT
    40 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 6. For turning up late in the L'ity Police Court, yesterdav, Wone Tuck was lined $5 in addition to a line of $lO for throwing vegetable waste jn- a drain and on the fiveloot, way
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    CRISIS COSTS IN JOHORE
    55 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mar. 5. Segamat district received the most money for Emergency work. Up to Dee. 31 last year. $1,936,604 had been spent. Johore Bahru district was next,, with $1,152,848. expenditure. Figuures for other districts were: Muar. $499,568; Kluang. $641.630; Mousing, $155,758; Batu Pnhnt $109,117; Politico
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    Churches want 400 to work in camps
    251 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 10. rpHE Rev. John Fleming, secretary of the Malayan Christian Council, told Christian youth leaders in Singapore on Saturday that the churches in Malaya need at least 400 young men and women for service in the resettlement camps. Addressing the annual
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    THEY ALL HAIL CALL-UP MOVE
    908 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. THERE was almost unanimous agreement in Malaya yesterday on the importance of the National Service Bill and the need for its quick introduction. In Singapore, clerks, business men :im| trade unionists enthusiastically supported ih e move tor conscription. The leaders of t) x
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    ‘ALCOHOL FACTORY NEEDED’
    129 9 «ihE Malayan PharmaT .viitwl Association &nt to investigate mobility of produc-. vcohol commercially rh.’ Colony. In T,V. follows a shortage ol T .V ,-hich has now been K bv a Dutch comBir.y guarantee of a six m xv' adoration believe* alcohol factory will bemmc a necessity. "T,.
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    Shell chief retires
    79 9 SINGAPORE. Mar. 8. Alp us Kobert.son. manager mpany. Pentir after more service with U si.' li organisation. Mr Ri ber*.' was interned tra inc the JapIn 1947. M B E for l.b. rvice .urir.u internment H« pp eel honoiary V Co* Norway In (1 made n Ju
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    NO KNOWLEDGE, NO CRIME
    47 9 SINGAPORE. Mar. 8. Th( Federation Govern!v t,n :lid today that under Ue r urgency (ProclamaTerrorists* Regula- till neeess.iry, be--naltv can be inflict- 1 u:ov». that anyone per- !1 a *d with consorting had reason- believe that the r M n was a declared
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    THEY’RE OFF AGAIN
    84 9 SINGAPORE. Mar. 6. THE 30-year-old marooncoloured London taxi, which travelled more than 9.000 miles, before arriving in Singapore six weeks ago. left yesterday on board the Merkur for Australia with owner-driver Ludwig Lobel and his wife. Nora The young couple are keen to visit Australia, but do
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    Architects must pay fees
    62 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 5 The new Municipal Finance Committee has ruled that Municipal fees for the registration of architects should still be enforced. The Municipal President. Mr. E C. G. Barrett, said that registration did not come from local architects only, as applications had been received
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    ADVISER BACK
    20 9 Mr. Alex Simpson, Trade Union Adviser in Singapore, returned bv Qantas-BOAC on Mar. 5 after five months leave.
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    Colwyn medal for R.R.I. chief
    361 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 6. PERSON to whom all Malayans were deeply in debt, was how the Commissioner- i General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, yesterday described Mr. C. E. T. Mann, Director and Chairman of the Board of the Rubber Research Institute, Kuala Lumpur. Mr. MacDonald was presenting
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    TRIPLETS FOR KUANTAN WIFE
    53 9 KUANTAN. Mar. 5. Y 24-YEAR-OLD Malay woman grave birth to triplets all girls, Last Saturday. The* babies weighed 3.2 lb., 3.4 lb. and 3 lb. The mother and babies are doing well. The father is Ali bin Yahya, a hospital attendant. He already has a son
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    White collar parents ‘obstruct’
    157 9 SINGAPORE. Mar. G. PARENTS who wanted only white collar jobs for their children obstructed technical education, Mr. A. Halliday. examinations secretary of Singapore Education Department. said yesterday. Another obstacle was the shortage of trained instructors. In a talk to Rotarians on Employment and the average boy."
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    Federal Council
    30 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. G The next meeting of the Federal Legislative Council will be held in the Council Chamber, Maxwell Road. Kuala Lumpur, on March 1!) and 20.
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    MUNICIPALITY WILL PAY DAMAGES
    145 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 5. THE Municipal Finance Committee has decided to terminate a contract for repairs to the incinerator at Cheras Road. The work was esti- mated to cost $250,800. It was decided to write to the Crown Agents for the Colonies that the Municipalitv was
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    Students meet C.-G.
    74 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 6. milE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, last night joined members of the University of Malaya Students’ Union in a moonlight swim in his private pool at Bukit Serene, Johore Bahru. The students later had bnfTet supper with Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald, and the Chancellor of
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    Australia ‘is interested in S.-E. Asia’
    203 10 SINGAPORE. Mar. 7. A UST R ALIA is very interested in South-East Asian 1 affairs, said Mr. Alan Watt, permanent head of the Australian External Affairs Ministry, when he arrived in Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday on a tour of the region. Mr. Watt is
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    RENT LAW COVERS HUTS
    186 10 SINGAPORE, Mur. 7. r pHE Chief Justice ol Singapore, Sir Charles MurrayAynsley, said in the High Court yesterday that squatter huts are buildings protected bv the Control of Rent Ordinance. He gave this decision in a District Court appeal where the district judge had held that
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    Govt gags Josey
    51 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 7. gTUDENTS of the University of Malaya who invited Mr. Alex Josey, chief news editor of Radio Malaya, to address them on “political trends,” will not hear him speak. “The Government has refused him permission to address us,” a spokesman of the students said last
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    K.O.Y.L.I. looks back to Malaya
    118 10 SINGAPORE. Mar. 7. being stationed in Dortmund, Germany, for over two months, officers and men of the Ist Battalion of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, who had been in action against the terrorists, are looking back longingly at the sunshine and warmth of Malaya.
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    MORE $10 FORGED NOTES
    68 10 PENANG, Mar. 6. jyjORE counterfeit ten-dollar notes have been circulated in Penang. One found its way to the Penang Turf Club’s “tote” and eleven were detected today by the Treasury among notes received from a bank. They had been slipped in between new notes. The Settlement
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    ‘Guns better’ view for U.S.
    65 10 THE opinions of a British rfanter in Malaya, whose comment on Mr. Dean Acheson’s statement on the American view of Malaya was that ’guns would be a lot better than sympathy and economic threats’ will be forwarded to the U.S. Department. Otherwise “No comment” was
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    POWER SUPPLY IN J. BAHRU
    48 10 JOHORE BAHRU Mar. 5. At the end of 1951. ther t was a shortage of power in Johore Bahru. There hos been an improvement since. Out of 165 applicants for power in Johore Bahru in the last six months, 86 have been accepted.
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    This smell means a million dollars
    169 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 6. fpHE sweet, heavy smell of oranges that hangs around New Bridge Road, Singapore, these days is going to cost the Colony’s fruit importers a million dollars. The oranges are rotting, crate upon qrate, thousands of them—because Malaya suddenly seems to have
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    17 lots bought in record auction
    390 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 7. SINGAPORE Indian merchants and fin,, bought 99-year leases on 12 of 17 i„(, 2 Crown land along Shenton Way and Robins,,n Road at an auction yesterday. Th e 17 lots for $3,912,991—the polony’s biggest sal, Crown land on a 99-year lease.
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    Give us guns, not sympathy—planter
    160 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar (I. BRITISH planter, commenting on the statement on Malaya by Mr. Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State, today said: A lew shiploads of Amcriean carbines and less economic threats would be r than sympathy. e have been visited bv American Senators and
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    FORGED NOTES IN IPOH
    37 10 IPOH, Mar. G.—Forged $lO notes, reported circulating in Penang a lew days ago. have been seen in Ipoh. A local bank received a forged note on Friday. It was reported to the police.
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    MR. DAVID LLEWELLYA NIVEN, a police officer from Kota Tinggi, and Miss Marjorie Heather Rochester, an officer in the Queen Alexandra Royal Army Nursing Corps, after their wedding in Singapore on Mar. 6.
    37 10 MR. DAVID LLEWELLYA NIVEN, a police officer from Kota Tinggi, and Miss Marjorie Heather Rochester, an officer in the Queen Alex andra Royal Army Nursing Corps, after their wedding in Singapore on Mar. 6. Straits Times picture
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    ‘RESIGN’ CALL TO DATO ONN
    209 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 9. h v Onn bin Ja’afar should resign from his U as Member for Home Affairs, Mr. Chin < j v Meow, a Kuala Lumpur Chinese tin miner, n( i.»(i at a meeting of Chinese guilds and t"; ,tion« here today. onn
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    Bandits cut water to Perak town
    152 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 8. Bandits have cut off the water supply to Tanjong Malim Town, South Perak. The People are using river and well w’ater and the water they collected in tins and cans from a providential downpour of rain. This is the fifth
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    S’pore man pays $2,000 for tiger
    145 15 IPOH, Mar. 8. A CHINESE businessman from Singapore made a hurried 402-mile road journey to Ipoh early this week to close a rather unusual business deal—to buy “Stripes”, the tame four-month-old tiger cub which was for sale at Ipoh’s animal dealers—the “Birdshop.” “Stripes” had
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    Fijians going to Federation
    45 15 SINGAPORE. Mar. 11. Members of the First Battalion. Fiji Infantry Regin.- n* stationed at Nee Soon. Singapore, gave a farewell in the Colony last 'l hey are shortlv moving to ■y J > somewhere in the for more rigorous 'OO prople were
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    MR. F.G. SKELCHY
    28 15 K: MPUR. Mar. 8 ccurred lait night Francis George Frasers Hill. PaSkelchy was 39. m. vvi fe and three t.y, funeral will 1;t Kuala Lumpur
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    THE DEPUTY SEES TIN MINES
    53 15 Tin 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 7 luity High Commissioner, Mr. D. C. Mac Gilli( visited tin mines in the Kuala Lumpur area. '■•i'h Mr G. F. Gripper, the acting Chief Inspector y l !>o »e went to the Kampong I.anjut Tin Dredg- mpany a t
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    Amethyst in action against Perak Reds
    623 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 8. TERRORISTS in Perak, one of Malaya's bandit black spots, had a hot time when H.M.S. Amethyst and units of the Royal Marine Commando and the Cordon Highlanders carried out one of the most comprehensive drives of the Emergency against them recently.
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    3 BANDITS KILLED, 4 WOUNDED
    172 15 3 B ANDITS KILLED, 4 WOUNDED i MPtJR, Mar. 8. 0 7 Y forces have kill--00 iuore bandits wounded four Federation. i! flits were am- police party in district of Selinorning. One of f dead. He was Ali Piew, alias member of the f unit. He car- ried a pistol
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    Border ‘not so open to bandits’
    195 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 7. r I’HE Federation Government today took issue on the London Times report that tiio Malaya-Siam border was ‘‘open to bandits.” In a report from a special j correspondent at Padanc Heisar, the Perlis-Siam border I station. The Times said the
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    T’GANU PLAN HOSTEL
    92 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 10. A HOSTEL is to be built in Trengganu where TB patients may stay while receiving outpatient treatment. The executive committee of the Trengganu Antl-TB Association yesterday unanimously agreed that the hostel was an urgent requirement. It was decided that if Government did not
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    ‘No reason for call-up panic’
    256 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 12. THE Representative of the Indian Government in Malaya, Mr. M. Gopala Menon, yesterday told Indians in Singapore and the Federation to regard national service as the duty of every citizen, irrespective of race. “Indians in Malaya should do their bit for the
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    Work starts next week at Paya Lebar
    196 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 12. T'HE first spadeful of earth from the site of Singapore’s long-awaited multimillion dollar airport at Paya Lebar will probably be dug next week—to make the foundations for the small wooden hut in which the resident engineer, Mr. J. J. Bryan,
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    Latest entrant for the Singapore Rotary Beauty Queen title is Miss Mayli Lim, of 18, Hale Road, Kuala Lumpur.
    20 16 Latest entrant for the Singapore Rotary Beauty Queen title is Miss Mayli Lim, of 18, Hale Road, Kuala Lumpu r.
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    3,000 will go in 8 days
    66 16 NEARLY 3,000 Indians will be leaving Malaya within the next eight days for India. They will be sailing in the Jaladurga and the Rajula A passage official of one large shipping company said yesterday: ‘‘lndians are rushing to book passages back to India but
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    MCA gives $1,000 to school fund
    46 16 JOIIORE BAHRU. Tues.— The Working Committee of Johore branch of the MCA will give $l,OOO to the Malay School Building Fund of the Kulai re-settlement area. The committee agreed to help to build Malay schools in re-settlement areas in Johore.
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    That drink will cost more now
    99 16 SINGAPORE. Mar. 12. IQUOR and imported beer J became dearer in Singapore from yesterday. Government announced that import duties for whisky had been increased by $9 and brandy 53.50 a case ni 12 bottles. Duty on imported beer is up irom $2.80 a gallon
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    18 labourers shares $97,536
    115 16 IPOH, Mar. 11. A MANDORE and 17 Indian labourers of a working gang of the P.W.D.. Ipoh, struck the $97,536 first prize in the Penang Turf big sweep on Saturday. They had bought four tickets from their Chinese overseer and ticket No. *****9 won the hrst
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    ONE IN 41 OWNS MOTORCAR
    73 16 ONE person in every 41 in Singapore owns a car. Registered cars at the end of February totalled 24,419. There were 1,008 new cars licensed last month an increase of 299 over January figure. Registered buses totalled 433 and taxis 1,591. A total of 130,073
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    Police officer is fined $1,000
    201 16 SEREMBAN, Mar. 11 O R. Patton, aged 26, former member of London Metropolitan Police and until recently assistant 0.C.P.D., Seremban, was today sentenced to one day's imprisonment and fined $l,OOO or six months’ imprisonment, for criminal breach of trust of $1,400. The offence tvas sta*rd
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    DR. MONTEIRO IS RE-ELECTED
    30 16 PROFESSOR E. S Monte of the University of Malaya, was re-elected pres id n of St. Anthony’s Old Association. Singapore, at fourth annual meeting n cently.
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    Reds made councillor lie in drain
    160 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 11. OANDITS stopped a Federal Legislative Counon the main Ipoh to Kuala Lumpur road yesterday and took his identity card from him. They then ordered him to lie in a drain for half an hour. The bandits appeared two-and-a-half miles from
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    SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD
    46 16 Miss Alice Tay, Singapore's representative to this year’s New York Herald Tribune High School Forum, tells America about school and home life in Singapore in a broadcast interview. Her interviewer, Inche Ahmad Hussein, is a former member of the Straits Times editorial staff, in Singapore.
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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      67 16 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br. K Singapore Foreis Town Area Malaya (Inclu No Postage Including Postage Quarterly S 5.20 5.75 S Half-yearly 10.40 11.50 V-i! Yearly 20.80 22.00 1 V The weekly issues of the Strait* Budget can *><• v n express at delivery service to the
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    DEAD HEAT IN THE KEDAH CUP
    1292 19 PENANG, Mar. 8. i HILLING finish, in A Floor Show (Milln up in the last stride i dead-heat with k (Straker) highM i he day's main race iv final day of the turf Club Spring nU the field in the tes and coming on
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    CONSTELLATION & ADONISROUT RIVALS
    1058 19 CONSTELLATION ADONISROUT RIVALS n \N< Mar. 5. y hump an n-;th winner race-Class 3, Handicap— at •i the second 1 Penang Turf >• au meeting. hn was second racing favourite. was well-beat-n another two rirl third, a >n (Spencer) double with ri--1 when he slam"it ion by three e terrific
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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      84 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL $406,400 1st No. 430)39 $97,536 2nd No. *****6 $48,768 3rd No. *****6 $24,384 STARTERS ($8,128 each): Nos. *****4, *****1, *****2, *****0, *****2, *****1. CONSOLATION ($2,438 each): Nos. *****9, *****1, *****2, *****4, *****7, *****6, *****4, *****3, *****0, *****9. Big Sweep TOTAL POOL $354,300 1st No. *****3 ($85,032)
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    Better bids in all sections
    263 20 SHARE MARKET SOMEWHAT increased business was written during the week while markets readjusted their ideas to a prospective lower Malayan income consequent on the decline in Rubber and, on Friday, when there was a sharp upturn in our staple to $l.lB per lb., the effect
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    JAN. RUBBER IMPORTS
    71 20 A\ a imported 31.150 tons of ruboer from neighbouring countries month. 3.531 tons less than in January. Of this amount, Singapore imported 'J7.265 tons, of which 15 541 tons came from Rhiouw and Lingga Islands of Indonesia. Another 4.310 ions were imported trom Java, and 1.549 tons
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    STRAITS PLNTS
    27 20 Straits Plantations Limited output for nine months <Aprll| December 1951) were;— Copra 072 tons (5,847); Palm Oil 1.612 tons <1.1481; Palm Kernels (62 tons (177).
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    Business Done
    221 20 BUSINESS done in the Malayan Share Market last week included:Industrials: Alexandra Brick Preference $2.12 V*2 and $2.13. Fraser Neave Ordinary $3.80 to $3 60 to $3.67*4 c.d. Malayan Breweries $5.00 to $4.95 c.d. Malayan Cement $1.02*4 and $l.OO. Malayan Collieries $1.67*4 and $1.70. Robinson Ordinary $3.80. Straits Steamship
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    TIN OUTPUT
    73 20 During February, 14.500 tens were treated and 220 ton s tin concentrates produced by the Pahang Consolidated' C.\, Ltd. Sur.gei Kinta Tin Dredging Ltd. produced 281 picu’s of tin in February. The No. 3 Dredge of Ipoh Tin Dredging Ltd. (Puchong Section) proauced 554 piculs in February. Kuala
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    Increased U.E. profit
    173 20 I Company reports I TNITED ENGINEERS, Limited, I maintaining its practice of prompt presentation of results to shareholders, in the most satisfactory report for 1951 shows an I increased profit at $2,063,047 ($4.30 per ordinary share after Preference dividend) from which the well covered dividend of 10
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    A CAUTIOUS APPRAISAL
    103 20 JJONGKONG and Shanghai Banking Corporation’s 1951 Balance Sheet reveals a marked increase in liquid resources even over the impressive figures of last year. This, coupled with only a moderate increase in advances and a ’ower figure for Government securities indicates a cautious appraisal of future prospects which
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    Good progress
    75 20 jIJALAYAN Cenpn ’s report for the year ended Nov. 30, I Q SI told of g»j progress with n, ont foundations and main buildings. Bulk of plan* expected in 1952 but certain items will not be received unt’l 953 when production should commence n the first half. Expenditure
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    $181,506 PROFIT
    37 20 Pr ?.i vr Rubber Co.. Ltd., showed a profit of $181,506 (64 per cent) for year ended Sept. 30. 1951 and final dividend of 10 per cent will make 15 per cent for the year
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    Change in sentiment in rubber
    203 20 I SINGAPORE. Mar. 8. j THERE has been quite a change in sentiment in the rubber market during i the last few days and prices I have shown an appreciative advance, says Lewi s and Peat’s weekly report. The buying both in London i and
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    Trade heartening, future ‘uncertain’
    401 20 Trade heartening, future uncertain’ 1951 trade figures— which eat the record of 1950—were heartenin; ,nd eminently satisfactory, says Mr. Grantham, chairman of the Chartered B;i India, Australia and China, in his annual v rt And this record was achieved despit, inability of tin miners to prospect for new and the
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    East Asiatic’s 14 p.c. dividend
    45 20 THE Ea.-t Asiatic Company dedared a dividend of 14 per cent, as against 10 per cent, the previous year. The 1951 balance, after administration expenses, taxes, etc., was Kroner 21 3 millions, as against Kroner 10 7 millions in 1950.
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    ESTATE OUTPUT
    29 20 Batu Lintang Rubber Co. Ltd. harvested 84.700 lbs and Parit Perak Rubber Co. Ltd. 34.341 lbs during February. The Kuala Reman Rubber Estates Ltd., obtained 100.750 lbs.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    1000 20 SINGAPORE, Mar. 11. INDUSTRIALS lluvcr* Seller* Alex HI Irka PreT 10 i lIS' Orels 2 95 3 Oo Atlas Ire 12 50 13 50 BB Hetrol 41/6 42/6 B.M Trustees hoo 100 Con l in Smelt r »ef. 21/- >2/. cd Ords 21/6 22/6 Eastern United 38
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    February tin shipments
    88 20 Q TRAITS TRADERS at'. the following Malav shipments, in tons, for F From Singapore to —t’ (682 optional); USA 38n; t ent 1,236*4; Canada B< v 105 V t; India 180'i; Sou erica Africa 11; Midr 2. Total 2,742*4. Total 4,436. From Penang to —U K U
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    Guthrie Group’s Feb. output
    41 20 rkUTPUTS from the estates and mines Guthrie Group for 1952 and to date are ns Rubber 5.333,062 lbs. lbs.); Tea (Blackt 1‘ '312.000 lbs); Palm Oil (1.919 tons); Palm Kri: tuns (636 tons); Tin niouls (2.998 piculs).
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