The Straits Budget, 10 April 1952

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] v Series No. 297. Thursday, April 10, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      Tanjong Malim: ‘Soldierly action’
      156 2  -  OLD STRAITS CHINESE. Singapore. 1 HASTEN to protest against the tendentious nature of the letter appearing in your paper on Tuesday under the heading “Collective Punishment”. Whatever may have been K.H.L.’s motives in writing such a letter, it must be pretty obvious that he was suffering
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      DOGGY PARTY AT RAFFLES
      49 2  -  T.M.H. Singapore What in the name of crass stupidity Prompted this corny hid for publicity On the part ot grown women who should have known better, Who followed Helliwell's words to the letter? Lapborne dogs with painted toes. ‘‘Orchids To You What next? Who knows?
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      POWER TO DECIDE
      176 2  -  “SATAY MAN.” Singapore. ON reading “Councillors Hit At Singapore Road Changes.” I cannot help but write to make recommendations to our City Fathers and Mothers. It appears that Mr. A. P. Rajah, a member of the Tralfic Advisory Committee, is not prepared to confirm certain traffic arrangements
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      Action—not words
      127 2  -  NOTA RENII. Singapore. AS a member of the public, A 1 am glad that Mr. Haxworth has taken the necessary action to cope with the serious traffic problem in Singapore. Had he waited for the City Council to consider the new schemes they would have suffered the same
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      FREEDOM AND UMNO YOUTH
      172 2  -  TUDONG-SAJI. Ipoh. According to Monday s Straits Times front page, the UMNO Youth League. meeting in Kuala Lumpur. has decided to ask the British Government to set up an interim government which will i give full independence to this country within three years. I wonder if
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      STOPPING TAX EVASION
      101 2  -  E. i). SAMY. Singapore. TO HELP stop tax evasion all business names, irrespective of whether the annual valuation of the rent of the place occupied is less than $360 or not, should be registered. No business should be allowed to run without a certificate from the Registrar
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      CARDS AND FRANCHISE
      128 2  -  -JOHN T. CHES- < TER, Singapore. j Tilt! announcement that the Singapore Government is going to undertake the replacement of all present identity cards with plastic ones means that everyone in Singapore must re-regis-ter. There is therefore a golden opportunity for Government at the same time to
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      PRAISE TO MR. HAXWORTH
      176 2  -  8.1. A. Singapore. IAM sure that the majority of thoughtful road-users in Singapore feel that every encouragement should be given to Mr. Haxworth and the Traffic Police as a whole In their attempts to cut down the very large number of road accidents which occur in
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      BRAIN BANQUET TECHNIQUE
      56 2  -  CONNOISSEUR. Singapore. THE latest description bv r Th People of monkev br ?i n feasts would sound authentic enough if not for a technical error. Even a three-year-old child when served with with such a jeiJy-like dish as monkey’s cram would use his spoon instead of his
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      Critic of collective punishment
      468 2  -  TSE-KWANG HSU. Singapore. the acid test of collective punishment, like tv., A any other Emergency measure, i s the e flV- relation to effort. Malaya is under abnormal J, n tions and there is no question of drastic <■> Collective punishment is a misnomer The nii
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      SURPRISED OR JUST ANNOYED?
      105 2  -  < Mrs.) B. LUMSDEN MILNE. Muar, Johore. HPHE Kirkby instructor who is reported to have spoken about, the students’ surprise <that the art of teaching w r as not confined to book-learn-ing» wa.s probably unable to resist the temptation to mak“ an effective statement: or else
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      Let’s all starve' for ‘juice’
      329 2  -  •M. KIS» Singapore yyE must iirst tha:. .\j r Robertson, City r Ucillor, for his great effi, with the support of the C Engineers to increase ti domestic electric power atior. to 250 units. The rationing, ot ***** concerns new premise- But then, with all
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Sentence And Protest
      754 3 —Straits Times. Apr. 4. Cntics of the High Com'loncr 'or the action he has n iu>;iinst Tanjong Malim ,i'«trict must make up their whether they are att -king the principle of colpunishment, or only its Imposition in the case of i. j >ng Malim. The Federal (inu
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      The Case Of The Armoured Cars
      415 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 3. To suggest that the episode of the eight missing armoured cars is typical of the way some Government Departments and other authorities carry out their duties would be to exaggerate. But not by very much. If only one of half
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      Feeding The Colony
      761 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 5. It is nearly 14 months since the Steering Committee formed to advise the Singapore Government on food problems and commodity and price control produced its excellent report. It is eight months since a Government spokesman claimed that positive action had been taken on
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      Houses For The Government
      333 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 5. The Federal Government’s building plans have been so haphazard a business that the report which the Colonial building liaison officer is now to make will be the first real attempt even to set down the magnitude of the problem. It is estimated
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      Tg.Malim Has Its Chance
      594 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 7. Tanjong Maiim has been given its chance. On its replies to the questionnaire which the High Commissioner has addressed to the head of each household in the town and district will depend thu severity of its punishment. The district remains for the
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      Health record
      323 4 —Straits Times. Apr. 8. A report for 1949 published in April 1952 can hardly be considered a genuine source of news, yet some points which are made by the Health Officer of Singapore Municipality (as it then was) deserve I notice. One of them is that about thirty
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      The Rubber War
      701 4 —Straits Times, Apr. 9. The -American reply to the Perak Rubber Traders Association, which had protested against Washington’s rubber Policy, is courteous enough, but too vague to be reassuring. \ct there is evidence that the State Department has heen giving fresh thought to the problem. It has
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      The Sport Of Party
      389 4 —Straits Times, Apr. 9 It is distressing that Tanjong Malim should become a party issue at Westminster. After the little flare-up in the Commons, has come the debate in the Lords. It is right that Parliament should speak to its brief, and take seriously its responsibility
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    With Gen. Templer on tour
    564 4  -  <By HARRY MILLER jQhNERAL Sir Gerald I Templer, the High i Commissioner of th e Federation, is a man who does not like keeping to a schedule when he it, C n tour. That has become obvious the various journeys he has undertaken since he
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    RESETTLEMENT AREA BECOMES A TOWN
    643 5  -  By NONI WRIGHT ■fJTITHIN two months, Jinjang, six miles from Kuala Lumpur, will have a Town Board. This will set tht* seal on the progress of a resettlement area from a new village to a town- the first in the country. It has grown up;
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    She leaves home to aid Malaya
    254 5  -  by ALAN GARDNER. THE first of 50 women Red Cross volunteers who are to work in the Malaya is Penang-born and the daughter of a former leading member of the staff of Sime Darby and Co. She is tiny, fair-haired, 38-year-old Mrs. Jean Chandler,
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      201 5 FORRESTER. to Una and Johnnv on April 2 a son Both well HARRIES at Kandang Kerbau Hospital on 6th April to Mr. Sc Mrs. Harries a daughter Linda. GOLDING. to Diana, wife of Kenneth, at the Youngberg Mernoial Hospital on 6th April, a daughter Joanna. POTTER at Bungsar hospital
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      MARRIAGE
      47 5 LYNN—DUDLEY: At St. John’s Church, Burscough, Lancashire, on 4 April 1952 by Rev’d K. A. Puntan, Assistant Chaplain, General Western Command, Lieutenant Peter James Lynn, Royal Navy, to Heather Marjorie McDonald Dudley, only daughter of Lieut. Col. and Mrs. G. H. Dudley lately of Kuala Lumpur.
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      ACKNOWLEDGMENT
      83 5 MRS. O. C. STEVENS wishes to thank her many friends for their kindness shown in her late bereavement and is grateful for all hc-lp given her particularly the blood donors and those who looked after her and her children, those who sent wreaths and letters of condolence and those
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    Bharat to end at Jakarta
    110 5 SINGAPORE, Apr. 9. BHARAT Airways weekly service between Caflcutta and Singapore may be extended to Jakarta soon. Mr. H. R. Sugla, general manager of Bharat Airways, said In Singapore yesterday. Mr. Sugla, who arrived from India on Sunday, leaves for Jakarta today to finalise arrangements
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      70 5 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Singapore Town Area No Postape Quarterly 5.20 Half-yearly 10.40 Yearly 20.80 The weekly issues of the express at delivery service to an inclusive rate of S34.00 fo (ALL THE ABOVE ARE Br. Empire Foreipn Malaya (Including Including: Postape postape) 5.75 6 75 11.50
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • Obituary
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    22 5 DEATH MILLS, L.L., formerly Chief Police Officer, Pahang, Johore and Selangor, on 23rd March, 1952, at Somerset West, Cape Province, South Africa.
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    GOING PLACES
    7 6 Photograph by Yong Peng Seong
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    As I was Saying
    794 6  -  CYNICLS. fTWO unsolved mysterA ies remain to plague the owners of the eight armoured cars that were found in the Singapore Harbour Board premises. The batteries of some of the cars were missing, and so were the spares. It is unlikely that they wore .stolen while
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    From a Singapore Diary
    1067 6  -  Stanley Street. Mirrored moon BY your leave, a little bit more about the moon from the Old Salt. The Old Salt is a Welshman, and he explains that when they kill a pig in Taliesin’s country they are concerned to ensure that the resultant bac »n
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    WIND ABEAM.
    28 7 \n eight-man racing kolek does eight knots with the crew swinging out on lines from the masthead to hold her up against the stiff bT »eze.
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    Countryman’s Journal
    607 7  - Countryman’ s Journal TUAN DJFK. rrHERE has been a 1 meeting of the local Security Council to which planters and miners, and a few others, were invited. Army and Police officers and the Resettlement Officer gave their reports on the Emergency after which the Controller of Labour had his say.
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    Fifty Years Ago
    178 7 From the Straits Times of Mai/ 24, 1902. Extract from the Municipal Commissioners’ Meeting. meeting then passed to the consideration of a new Christian cemetery for Singapore. This matter arose, said the President, out of a joint report which had been made at his request by the
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    SINGAPOREANA
    865 7  -  Stanley Street. Unusual trade UNUSUAL trade in Sin- 1 gapore is the troca shell business. Like pearl trading, it has a South-Sea flavour about it: and like carving images, it is limited in scope but lucrative to those in on the ground floor. Its limitations are not in finding
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    LOOKING AT THE ARMY
    49 10 MR. C N. FIFE, an Assistant Under Secretary at the War Office, who arrived in Singapore b> Qantas-BOAC on Apr. 3 on his way to Hong Kong. II* will spend a few days in Singapore on his way back. Straits ia> back. Straits Times picture.
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    Rubber unions ‘have made big strides’
    245 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 2. ESTABLISHMENT of negotiating machinery at all levels between estate owners and trade unions is the aim of Mr. R. D. G. Houghton, former Federation Commissioner for Labour, who yesterday became secretary of the Malayan Planting Industries Employers’ Association. Mr. Houghton,
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    $1 mil Malay firm formed in Kelantan
    126 10 KOTA BAHRU, Apr. 3. a NEW Malay company, the Kelantan Development and Prosperity Co. Ltd. with a capital of $1.00*).000 has been formed, with its head office in Kota Bahru The company will buy land, build houses to rent to the working classes,
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    Rights bill ‘good but...’
    161 10 SINGAPORE. Apr. 4. SINGAPORE labour leadors yesterday welcomed the Human Rights Bill which is to be introduced in the House of Commons, by Mr. Fenner Brockway Labour, on April 25. Mr C R. Dasaratha Raj, LerUslative Councillor <Lab, Rochore). said that the move was excellent, but
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    Pearl divers leave Colony
    41 10 SINGAPORE. Apr. 3. Among the passengers who lclt Singapore for Australia in the Gorgon yesterday were three Malay pearl divers. They were: Inche Ali bin Saradi, Inche Moez bin Abdullah and Inche Latiss bin Inurkin, from Singapore.
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    New recruits aid the blood bank
    136 10 SINGAPORE. Apr. 4. 'pWENTY-five of the 250 new recruits in the Singapore Volunteer Corps gave blood yesterday to the blood bank. The Volunteer Corps adjutant. Capt. T. F. Jones, told the Straits Times that many more had volunteered to give blood. but 25 pints
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    Woman granted decree nisi
    53 10 PENANG, Apr. 2.—Mrs D C. A McLean, who alleged that her husband “kept” a Chinese girl and had told her he could not afford to keep two homes, was granted a Jlecree nisi by Mr. Justice Spenser-Wilkinson. Her petition on the grounds of adultery and cruelty
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    They will entertain troops
    27 10 T"!: Men,ri B, sar and the Brftfsh L Adviser,’ Selangor Amends CommiUee he SeC rUv tCts <Selan or > secX 'forces membef f lhe
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    10-ct park ‘soaking the motorists’
    274 10 SINGAPORE, Apr. 4. SINGAPORE'S motorists are opposed to the siiugestion by the Vehicle and Traffic Committee that ten cents be charged for parking half an hour in Raffles Place, and that a time limit of one hour be imposed. Protests on the lines that the
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    NEW ROTARY OFFICIALS
    91 10 SINGAPORE. Apr. 3. Mr. Alfred R. Hogg was yesterday elected president of the Singapore Rotarv Club tor 1952-1953. Other office-bearers are: vicepresidents. Mr. Jee Ah Chian and Mr. Jack Aspinall; hon. secretary, Mr. W. S. Stredwick; hon. treasurer. Mr. Jack Loder-Waters; board of directors. Canon R. K.
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    6 INCHES LESS IS $50,000 SAVED
    268 10 SINGAPORE, Apr. 3. A REDUCTION of six inches in the ground floor height of the proposed 100 blocks of artisans quarters, which the Singapore Improvement Trust wants to build at Kim Keat Road, will SV savinß of about iiirthor- the present minimum height of
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    $15,280 FINES REDUCED TO $1,000
    201 10 SINGAPORE. Ap 3 EMNES totalling $15,280 K imposed on each p two men by a Sinuapor magistrate on th recharges under the F m ance Regulations weie reduced to $1,000 in each case by the Chief j Us tice. Sir Charles Murriv Aynsley, i n
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    HIGHWAY CODE
    14 10 The Singapore Safety First Council last year distributed 325.000 highway code posters
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    LEONG LEE SUN, appointed a school traffic warden by his headmaster at the St. Francis School. Brother Bernard, holds up the lunch-hour traffic in Victoria Street, Singapore, on Apr. 3 during the first day of a new Safety First drive conducted by the school. “I am not a prefect, I think I was picked because I am taller than the others.”
    61 11 LEONG LEE SUN, appointed a school traffic warden by his headmaster at the St. Francis School. Brother Bernard, holds up the lunch-hour traffic in Victoria Street, Singapore, on Apr. 3 during the first day of a new Safety First drive conducted by the school. “I am not a prefect, I
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    A. D. York given the deputy job
    181 11 KIALA LUMPUR, Apr. 3. a FI LL-TIME Deputy Chief i\ Secretary for the Federation has r>een appointed alter a lapse of one year. 11,. is Mr. A D. York, for- i merh principal assistant secretary to the Commis-sioner-General. and at one time acting
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    Chinese learn to work in air ‘bell’
    393 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 4. labourers are being trained to work a special compressed air “bell”, brought out from Britain to speed up work on the foundations of the new Asia Insurance building on the corner of Collyer Quay and Finlayson Green. The air “bell.”
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    ENGLAND WAS SO FRIENDLY
    75 11 SINGAPORE. Apr. 4. The friendliness of the English people and the exquisite charm of the French women were impressive, said Mrs. E. Sandosham. President of the Indian Women’s Group of the Indian Asso.ation who is back in Singapore after a tour of the Continent and Europe.
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    Rubber dealers’ licences fees
    87 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 5. An increase in the fees for rubber dealers’ licences is announced in an amendment to the Rubber Dealers Ordinance, which will be ’*aeed before the next meet- ol Singapore Legislative L’ >uncil. rhe fee for a licence to mrchase rubber is proposed be
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    Life guards want posts
    97 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 3. j THE S.ngap re Lut guard Corp.> has asked Government for sites "n popular beaches to build lifeguard posts, says the first annual report of the Corps. In a survey last year it was found that posts were needed at Changi. Tanah Merah.
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    SORRY, MY MISTAKE, HE SAYS
    100 11 SINGAPORE. Apr. 4. A SINGAPORE City Councillor. who made allegations against the Registrar of Vehicles. Mr. W. A. M. Watts, has apologised. Tne Councillor’s apology was placed before the Council’s Vehicles and Traffic Committee at a recent meeting. The Committee agreed unreservedly that the allegations
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    S’pore fish well in U.K.
    120 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 3. THE 250 Malayan aquarium fish flown to London last month in a special canvas bag. are all alive in London Zoo. The Deputy Director of Fisheries in Singapore, Mr. T. W. Burdon, who took the fish to London when he went on
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    City wants retired men on board
    222 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 4. THE PRESIDENT of the Singapore City 1 Council, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, will make representations to Government on the composition of the Public Services Commission. This move follows a suggestion by the Labour leader on the Council, Mr. E. V.
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    Queen’s Scout
    76 11 Queen’ s Scout KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 2. THE Queen has approved the changing of the name of the King s Scout badge—the highest proficiency award which can l»e gained by Scouts—to the Queen s Scout badge. Imperial Headquarters of the Boy Souts’ Association told the Federation branch of the Association
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    New Alex. fire station
    48 11 SINGAPORE. Apr. 3. WORK on a $1,500.00 ttrestation in Alexandra may start about the middle of June Singapore City Council architect. Mr W. I. Watson, told the Straits Times yesterday. The staff for the new' station was sanctioned by the City Council last month.
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    SEASIDE HAWKERS: 21 STALLS
    139 13 SINGAPORE. Apr. 7. PING A PORE City Councillors when they meet at the end of this month will be asked to decide the policy for allocating food stalls in the refreshment area which the Council is building on the Esplanade. The refreshment stalls are expected to
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    Move to protect councillors
    345 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 4. A BILL to establish the privileges of the Legis lative Council and to give it certain powers, including the immunity of members from civil and criminal proceedings for anything done or said in the Legislatve Council, is to be introduced in the
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    New floor for St Andrew’s
    119 13 ANDREW’S SCHOOL, Singapore, may be able to umit MO additional pupils n the construction of a ;V fl° or to the present o.» tiding at Woods ville is mpleted by the end of the v t'ilf The extra floor will have i-uss rooms, a science
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    Forces ‘jollygood’ says Templer
    392 13 By Our Special Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Apr. 3. B h -FORK he flew back to Kuala Lumpur from the lonely airstrip at Labis yesterday Sir Lerald Templer told the Straits Times: “Everybody I have met seems to realise what an administrative feat has been performed in
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    Squatters are ‘Govt liability’
    142 13 Squatters are ‘Govt liability SINGAPORE, Apr. 7. SINGAPORE Government has been asked by the Colony’s Social Welfare Council to accept responsibility for all future dealings with an estimated 200,000 squatters on the island. In a report to Government, the Council deplores the attitude of squatters who try to prolong eviction
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    Lecturer dies
    74 13 SINGAPORE, Apr. 7. MR. Ernest S. Dix, who died in the Middleton Hospital on Saturday night after a short illness, will be buried this morning at Bidadari Cemetery. An American scholar from Clark University, Massachussetts, Mr. Dix was invited as a visiting lecturer to the Department of Geography
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    GOVT. SELECTS PRESS OFFICER
    155 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 3. A NEWSPAPERMAN with i\ considerable experience in Britain is to be appointed press officer of the Federation's Emergency Information Services He is expected in Kuala Lumpur within the next few weeks. More than 300 applications for the post which carries a salary
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    Pasir Panjang ‘go slow’
    81 14 SINGAPORE. Apr. 7. Work on the new Pasir Pan.ang power station boilers has been delayed for several days because of a “work-to-rule" move among the local labourers employed on the job. The workers, it :s understood. have been holding out for a pay increase of SI
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    ‘Terror valley’ folk are home again
    327 14 IPOH, Apr. 5. THE PEOPLE OF BELUM, that valley in northernmost 1 Perak, who had to be torn from their homes and had their padi destroyed to deny food and shelter to the bandits are all back in Perak again. They are today the
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    KILLED BY LIGHTNING
    68 14 SINGAPORE, Apr. 6. AN Indian civilian fitter at the Royal Air Force .station at Tengah was struck dead by lightning just before dusk last night while working on overhead electric wires. Thr man, Chellappan Pillai, fell dead from a ladder after a flash of lightning plaved around
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    Magicians’ tribute at Gilroy’s grave
    264 14 SINGAPORE, Apr. 3. A TEAK magic wand was broken and cast into the grave of Mr. Malcolm David Picton Gilro> when he was buried at Bidadari Cemetery yesterday. There were more than 200 mourners. Head of the Public Relations Department of Shell Company, and a
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    HELICOPTERS TO LAND AT B.M.H.
    163 14 SINGAPORE, APRIL 6, T'HE football ground at the L back of the British Military Hospital, Singapore, Is to bo converted into a helicopter landing ground. Two helicopters will be stationed there to deal with emergencies in the Federation and Singapore. A spokesman at the Hospital
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    Lost snake holds up airliner
    358 14 SINGAPORE, Apr. 4. TWO playful snakes, tired of being cooped up in u small basket, decided to break loose. They did and the result —a London-bound Qantas Constellation airliner was grounded for 24 hours a Kallang airport yesterday. But a companion of the roving pair
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    LEARN A TRADE, BOYS TOLD
    212 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr 6 rAR too many young. 1 sters seem to look for nothing better than to push a pen or tap a typewriter, Mr. D. C. MacGillivray, the Deputy High Commissioner, told the Technical Association of Malaya at the Hotel Majestic. Kuala Lumpur,
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    New beach hotel for Singapore
    145 14 ANEW beach resort wiu soon be available to c ingested Singapore with opening of a 33-room hotel in the 100-acre estate of the late Mr. J f Eiia.s, former Colony millionaire. Situated along one of Colony’s clearest sea bea'he> stretching for more than ha.i a
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    THE LETTER
    290 15 TO the citixcns of Tanjong Malim: This is a letter from me to v y householder in Tanjong Malim. If you are a Communist I do not expect you to r( ply. If you are not, I want you to give, on this sheet of p.ipcr as much
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    T. Malim replies go to Sir Gerald
    444 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 6. DANDIT secrets in one thousand envelopes 1> came to King’s House, Kuala Lumpur, home of the High Commissioner, Sir Gerald Templer, at noon today, from the curfew town of Tanping Malim. flic bandit secrets were contained in eight boxes
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    Mr. Nicoll sees the Queen
    21 15 Hie Queen received Mr. J. Nicoll, Governor-desig-i:,to of Singapore, at Clar* ce House on Apr. 7.
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    RED LITERATURE FOUND IN 2 SHIPS
    134 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 6. IARGE quantities of Communist literature, printed J in Chinese, were found in two sister ships, La Capirena and La Colorada, which arrived in Singapore from the Sumatran port of Belawan, over the week-end. When La Capirena entered the quarantine anchorage on
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    Swimmer loses his clothes
    73 15 JOHORE BAHRU. Apr. G. \FTER a swim this mornd l ing Mr. A. L. Beckett, of the Naval Base, Seletar, found his clothes stolen from his car at the 3rd mile Scudai Road. He also lost his wallet containing $BO, his identity card passes to the
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    BIG DROP IN INDONESIA TRADE
    296 15 SINGAPORE merchants fear that a trade slump will hit Malaya, more particularly Singapore, if there is further deterioration in the entrepot trade with Indonesia. They said that in the last, six months, thorp had been a big drop in imports and exports. Singapore’s prosperity was
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    SHOPKEEPERS HIT BY T. MALIM CURFEW
    373 15 TANJONG MALIM, April, 6. NO ONE in Tanjong Malim, after ten days on half rations and a 22-hour surfew, is either starved or even facing starvation, but many people are beginning to feel the pangs of hunger and the loss in trade. So Sir
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    Trial survey of the City
    240 15 IMIE] survey team, under the direction ot Sir George Pepler, ha.s ended a trial survey of the City area, the team’s chief planning officer, Mr. D. H. Komlosy, told the Straits Times A start has also been made on important items of the land and
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    300 JOIN JUNIOR RED CROSS LINK
    247 16 SINGAPORE, Apr. 8. THREE HUNDRED Singapore school boys and girls x have been enrolled as members of the junior link of the Colony’s British Red Cross Society. The link—the first of its kind to be formed in the City —will train school children in
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    Unofficials want two more seats
    265 16 PENANG, Apr. 7. THE addition of two official members to the Penang Settlement Council was questioned by Dr. N K. Menon (Indian, unofficial• in an adjournment speech today. He suggested two more un-' officials should be appointed to maintain the balance. Dr. Menon asked if
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    STAFFS MOURN
    59 16 The Singapore and Kuala Lumpur offices of Muller and Phipps (Malayai Ltd. were dosed on Apr. 7 as a mark ol respect, for the late Mr. L. E Philips, chairman and founder of the parent company, Muller and Phipps (Asia) Ltd., htid Dayton, Price and Company Ltd., who
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    Malay boys to learn pottery
    116 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Apr. 7. THE offer made by Goh Ban Huat Pottery Works. Segambut, Selangor, to train Malay beys in pottery making has been accepted by the Johore Government. Two boys have been sent to the pottery works. The training Is given free of charge.
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    SCBA award scholarship
    73 16 SINGAPORE, Apr. 8. yilE Straits Chinese British Association of Singapore h.i.s awarded its Volunteer Memorial Fund scholarship to Tan Thian Hock, a Standard VI pupil in the Victoria Afternoon School. The scholarship, with an annual value of smo, is offered to cover sehool expenses of a student
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    W.H.O. IS READY TO HELP S’PORE
    199 16 n i ßFrTnp r SINGAPORE, Apr. 8. D* RECTOR Of Medical Services, Singapore, Dr. W. w i'j \l c ,5 s n a broadcast last night on Uorld Health Day that the World Health Organisation was prepared to back up the efforts of Sinea
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    TRAPPED MAN KILLS HIMSELF
    460 16 PENANG, April. 7. 4 GUNMAN chased by a policeman and a detective ran into a Chinese school this morning, and shot himself when he found himself trapped in the school library. He was Lam Yew Cheong, 22, who a few minutes earlier had attempted to shoot
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    Challenge to ‘The People’
    205 16 Challenge to ‘The People THE STRAITS TIMES on Apr. 7 challenged the London Sunday newspaper. The People, to produce the lournalist who. in last Sunday’s issue of the paper, supported the claim made by The People’s roving columnist. Arthur Helliwell, that monkey’s brains, eaten warm from the skull, are a
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    It is only a fairy story, say Clubs
    344 16 SINGAPORE. Apr. 8. SWIFT reaction to The People's story came from the Thor Guan Club. (rot,s Street. Singapore. The secretary said. “A* our club happens to be over a shop near the Victoria Memorial Hall, I wish to state categorically that no
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    Your views—in in 16 copies
    69 16 KUALA LUMPUR Apr. 7 THE FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE Council’s Select Committee appointed to consider the National Service B' is prepared to receive written representations from thpublic, the Government announced today. r Representations should be made to the Clerk Councils, Council Chamber. Maxwell Road, Kuala Lum pur.
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    Arrests made in Tanjong Malim
    308 17 KUALA LUMPUR, April, 7. I7||E Federation Government confirmed today the first arrests of men suspected of aiding the Communist terrorist gang which has terrorised the cur- town of Tanjong Malim and murdered its inhabitants. More arrests are expected. Confirmation of the arrests came as seven
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    ‘The People’ turns down a challenge
    147 17 The People’ turns down a challenge From Our Own C orrespondent THE London Sunday newspaper The People is not accepting the challenge of the Straits Times to reveal the name of the London reporter who last Sunday backed the monkey brains feast story of their roving correspondent Arthur Helliwell. A
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    Mr B Lowick falls 15 feet
    108 17 SINGAPORE. Apr. 9. \|R. B. R. Lowick, of the Singapore firm of accountants, Messrs Rennie Lowick Co., was taken to the Singapore General Hospital yesterday with back injuries after falling out of a window in his Cavanagh Road flat. The Straits Times understands that
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    Clan leader, 80, dies
    83 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 9. death took place at his J '%dence in Fifth Avenue. fi K: i Tin »h, on Sunday of U( ‘k Kee Suan, aged 80. t l r of the Singapore '•gchiew community. >wne r of many rubber H'*s in the Federation, the Mr
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    PLANE LANDED AT THIRD TRY
    81 17 PENANG. Sun. THE Penan g airport fire brigade, together with an ambulance from the General Hospital, stood by yesterday as a Bang-kok-bound Malayan Airways Dakota from Singapore made three attempts to land on the Bayan Lepas aerodrome. It succeeded on the third try. The plane’s
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    $1,000 reward offer
    43 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 9. SINGAPORE police are offering a reward of SI,OOO for th«* killer of Detective Tan Tua Tee. Tan was shot dead in Henderson Road last Wednesday. His revolver was missing after tW shooting and has not been found.
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    He wants best brains behind our electricity
    222 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 8. A SIX or eight man board, comprising the best of the Colony’s brains and business ability and entirely free from any political considerations would be the proper body to control Singapore’s electricity undertaking, Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson, chairman of
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    March not good month
    101 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 8. MARCH was not a Rood month for the .security forces in the Federation. Preliminary Emergency casualty figure* show that a total of 191 troops, police and civilians were killed, wounded or missing during March, compared with 129 in February. 151 in January,
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    SMUGGLING BID
    31 17 .TOHORE BAHRU. Apr. 8 Haji Wahid bin Basoh was fined $l2O in the police court for attempting to smuggle a w’rlst watch valued at $l3O. The watch was confiscated.
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    ‘STRANGE’ LETTERS TO SULTAN
    191 17 ALOR STAR. Apr. 8. THE Kedah Government today said that the Sultan had received several strange letters from a writer who signed himself “Mohd. Hassan bin Daud.” The Government denied that the letters had made any reference to last week’s execution of two Malays for the
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    Election fever in J. Bahru
    96 17 JOHORE BAHRU Apr. 6. THERE is great keenness in Johore Bahru about the elections to the Johore Bahru Town Council, says Inche Ismi, the Supervisor of Elections. The Register ol Voters will be opened on Apr. 15. The three electoral wards have been divided into
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    Jobs found for 1,012
    82 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 9. rpHE employment exchange A of the Singapore Labour Department received 1,190 applications for work in March, 96 fewer than in the previous month, says an official announcement. Of those. 1.012—769 and 243 women—were found 217 more than in February. Vacancies notified to the
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    Church needs 2 teachers
    60 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr 8 The Anglican Church urgently needs two teachers to work in mission schools- “in a happy and peaceful land.” The teachers are needed for schools in Tawau and Kudat, in North Borneo. They must be Anglicans and be proficient in English. They must
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    NOW TANJONG MALIM WAITS
    930 18 TANJONG MALIM, Apr. 8. T'AN JONG MALIM is a waiting town. On the thirteenth dav of the curfew today it has an air of expectancy. The innocent expect the curfew to be lifted any day... The guilty expect the worst. Today the Royal West Kents machine-gunned
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    ‘Bad record’ villagers are moved
    158 18 TANJONG MALIM. Apr. 8. WITH CURFEW passes tucked in their sarongs, the people of the “bad record kampong” of Simpang Ampar made 12 journeys each today carrying their goods and chattels. They are being cleared from both sides of the Bernam River, a mile and
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    PLANTER FINED
    19 18 SEGAMAT. Apr. B.—Derek SHlby, a 22-year-old British planter, was lined $2O at Segamat for violating the curfew.
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    Cpl. gets MM for action against Reds
    65 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 9. fORPORAL Harke Thapa, of the 1 6 Gurkha Rifles, has been awarded the Military Medal for action against the bandits in January. Acting as platoon commander. Corporal Thap a and his men killed three bandits, wounded one and captured another.
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    EXPORTS TO PAKISTAN
    82 18 SINGAPORE. Apr. 9. Mr. M. H. E. A. Baig, Pakistan Trade Commissioner in Singapore, yesterday issued lists of goods which may be exported from Malaya into Pakistan in 1952. One list covers Roods which may be imported into Pakistan without special import licence. The other includes over
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    EX-HEADBOY TO GET AWARD
    222 18 Served G.O.C.s’home for30years SINGAPORE, Apr, 9. riFTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD Chang Ah Yoke, retired headboy in the household of the General Officer Commanding, Singapore Base District, will receive a reward for 30 years of faithful and meritorious service. Major-Gen. A. G. O’Carroll Scott, the present G.O.C., Singapore Base District,
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    $2,110,000 sent to China
    40 18 2,110,000 sent to China DFMITTANrre ru- SINGAPORE, Apr. 9. IJEMITTANCES to China sent by Chinese families ,n Malaya totalled 52.110.200 in March an offlelal announcement said yesterday. and 51 382 207 wa remitted from Singapore, anu $421,993 from the Federation
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    PLANES TO ATTACK RED CROPS
    367 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 9. Hormone j>iant kiii er s dropped as “rain" f ro low-flying aircraft of* i Special anti-bandit squad may soon wipe 3 terrorist cultivation in M a i ay.a/s remote jitngie area* and increase the Communis already severe food problem* 4 An R
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    COMPANY’S GIFT
    49 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 8 A gift of 360 bottles ot essence of chicken has b< n made to the Kuala Lurnp/r Chinese Maternity Hospital. The Rift followed a visit to the hospital by Col. J. k. Ridley, chairman of the company which manufacture' the essence in England
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    RECORD BUILDING ACTIVITY IN S’PORE
    141 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 8. 'THE number of buildings under construction in city area of Singapore last year—2,o25 —was an all-time record, the City Architect, Mr. W. I. Wa'son, told the Straits Times yesterday. Similarly, the number of building plans submitted--2.514— and th r number approved—l,ss9 -were
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    RAJ MAHAL BREAKS THE JINX AT LAST
    1198 19  -  EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Apr. 5. >K i LESS Raj Mahal \j l: ped ‘a chain of hui iiu '< when he led ■rnm s art to finish to I' a irlew and other nerbv hopes In the I5 ni Derby Trial over qt
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    Irishmen win Army boxing
    1139 19 THE WEEK IN SPORT fTHEY say that Irishmen A are the toughest fighters in the world. And the men of the Ist Bn., Royal Ulster Rifles, certainly went a long way towards proving it at the Chinese Assembly Hall in Kuala Lumpur when they won the
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      42 19 Big Sweep Total pool: $428,550. 1st. No. *****8 ($118,565 2nd No. *****4 59,282) 3rd No. *****4 29,641) Starters ($4,234 each): Nos. *****8, *****9. *****2, *****1, *****3. *****6 *****0. Consolation ($2,000 each) Nos: *****1. *****0, *****8, *****6. *****7, *****8, *****4, *****4. *****0, *****2,
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    Volume of transactions smallest for the year
    275 20 SHARE MARKETS From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Apr. 7. DULL conditions prevailed in Malayan markets during the week and the volume of transactions was the smallest to date this year. The slight easing in demand for both Rubber and Tin and reports of
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    15 P.C. INTERIM DIVIDEND
    50 20 T’HF directors of the Renong Tin Dredging Co.. Ltd., have declared an interim dividend of 15 per cent., less tax at the standard rate on ordinary stocks, payable on April 26. 1952. A cable making this announcement was received by the agents. Guthrie Co., Ltd., Singapore.
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    KEMPAS ESTATE
    30 20 Kempas, Limited produced 338 900 lb. of rubber in February and 404,500 lb. last month. Radella Rubber Estate Limited produced 16.400 lb. in February and 16.800 last month.
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    Business done
    185 20 SINGAPORE, Apr. 7. BUSINESS done in the Malayan Share Market last week included Industrials:—Borneo Co. 23/9; Fraser Neave $3.70; Gammon s2.B2**; Hammer $42.00; Jackson &Co $2.50 and $2.25; Malayan Breweries $4.92 Vi and $4.95; Malayan Cement 90 cents; Paterson Simons 12/6; Robinson Ordinary $3,824 to $3 874; Singapore
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    COMPENSATION FOR ONLY ONE FIRM
    52 20 ANLI one out of the 12 V f? r pis in Singapore had its claims established by the special committee appointed by Government to recommend compensation for contracts of rubber sales to Red China following imposition of destinational control. Claims by the 12 firms totalled
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    Profit of over$2-m.
    149 20 JJENKY Waugh and Co.. Ltd. report their most successtul year when, on a record volume of business, a profit of $2,161,877 was earned for 1951 which is equivalent to 84.7 per cent. Final dividend at 15 per cent makes 25 pepr cent for the year on the
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    Govts want Whitehall to decide on quotas
    218 20 SINGAPORE, Apr. 9. OECAUSE the Chambers of Commerce in the Federation and Singapore cannot agree, the Governments of the two territories are awaiting for Colonial Office instructions on the Malayan quota for the textile trade with Japan for this year. They are also
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    Rubber men to unite
    83 20 PENANG. Apr. 8. RUBBER trade associations in 11 State s and Settlements may form a federation at a meeting In Penang soon. The Penang Rubber Trade Association has written to all its sister bodies in the Federation and replies Indicate unanimous support for the move. “The
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    57 piculs mined
    15 20 Hitara Tin Ltd’s output of tin ore last month was 57 piculs.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    937 20 SINGAPORE, Apr. 9 IXDI STRIAI.S Buyer* Seller* Alex. Bricks i 1U i2b Ords. 3 25 3 31 lce ,2 50 is 50 B B PPtrcl 39/6 40/6 B M Trustees 600 700 Con Tin Smelt 2l/ .'2/. co ords 21/6 -jo/g United 38 00 3?50 d Dispensary
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    Money tighter—and land values down
    151 20 SINGAPORE, Apr. 9 I AND AND PROPERTY values are f and many short-term speculators who l>< at the peak of the market at the end of last cannot now get their money back, let „n e make a profit. The Straits Times was told this
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    OFF TAKE BY TRADE LOWER
    165 20 RubtoMark f SINGAPORE THE rubber mark tended to sag t. we ek and the offtake by ac j e has been on the 1( side says Lewis and Pea .s eekly report. In view of the k of support, the markr homing well and thi
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    Bukit Kepong Rubber Estates
    97 20 Bukit Kepong Rubbo. Ltd. sold its rema: nature rubber in 1950 and 1 confined its activities to lopment of 282 acres rubber planted with seL terial. War Damage Coin}-; 1 brought $50,466 during th ar.d $3,826 since, represe: 3 per cent of the sum aw a-
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    MARCH TIN OUTPUT
    45 20 rWO encases oi A** ua P >rKe d Tin Dredging (N.L.j7B hours in March, co\e j3l juo cubic yards a« a wa» .ncuis of ore. No. 2 dr.c shopped for eight days. oS KUita Kellas Tin UreOf tin-ore output for Mat piculs.
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    Heawood Tin & Rubber Est.
    45 20 Heawood Tin Rubber Est. IVU Heawood Tin ftn ntf* P-ctote Results for p s Ms r oh 15. Curr pent f79 93fl (£74 MablMtles £23.099 (£20.5 Some 11 per cent, of' 1952 crop has been sol oe r at an average price of pound, elf-
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    SELAYANG TIN
    16 20 Mayan* Tin Dredglm for the first quarter 1Q52 recovered n 0*189.97 piculs) tin conce'
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