The Straits Budget, 8 May 1952

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    32 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] T O w Series No. 301. Thursday, May 8, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      The British effort in Malaya: two views
      512 2  -  on the ball Tanjong Malim BRITISH EUROPEAN AND PROUD OF IT. Perak QENERAL Templer has not been long in observing that a large percentage of the Europeans in this country are not pulling their weight. It is shocking to think that at this
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      A CLINIC AT S. LEMBING
      111 2  -  H. F. W. GRAY. For The Borneo Co., Ltd. As Agents. Pahang Consolidated Co.. Ltd. Y° u reported on April 29 that a modem dental clinic had been built in Sungei Lembing and was ready for use by the Government dental surgeon. This give# the
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      LIFTING SIR GERALD’S GAUNTLET
      269 2  -  GOLF WIDOW. Taiping. rsay I am amazed at the “gauntlet” taken up by an "Anonymous old MaCayan” from the High Commissioner’s speech criticising cocktail parties or golf matches is putting it very mildly. This retrieving of the gauntlet would appear to be strong criticism of the
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      TRAFFIC TALK
      64 2  -  OBSERVER. Singapore. pOLICE in patrol cars often 1 direct traffic at busy centres in indistinct and haughty tones. I fail t o see how road users are going to follow their directions if they cannot understand what the police are talking about T hope their Commanding Officer will
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      INTO THE HANDS OF FOOLS
      156 2  -  WOMAN DRIVER Singapore. 1 Friday) h^ ed point that Mr. h working very h?: v prove the roads l .tJJ and pedestrians lon If, as Mr. Haxwji h there is a person d e v <£ other day, surely e gestlon to abolish limit, in
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      PROGRESSIVE RECORD
      108 2  -  MEX Singapore. 1 REALLY cannot see i\ the Singapore Elect®) Welfare Council should pa on the Progressive Party i the target for their cr.ticia The Progressives n v have don? everything rtyl but at least they have i record of having perform*', some public service. The: representatives in
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      RED TAPE BUSINESS
      219 2  -  W.Y.W. Kota Bahru. HPHE reaction to Sir Gerald’s p frank Easter attack on public apathy has been varied and lively. Admittedly hfe intention was to appeal for more public support to end the Emergency as quickly as possible and not to wage a war against golf and
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      ACQUISITION OF ESTATE LAND
      240 2  -  PL A' Selangor. IN the Straits Times of April 19 it was r pond that The Negri Sembilan Governmen tow denied allegations that Malays in i t' Stai a were forced to sell their lands for rest I ioni eil l purposes. The refutation said: ‘The
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      35 2 S' V IT 8BATS THE ..4 me sweep, 0oy$, >, and you save VOUR DOLLAR. 'M T > u* 3* iofl ooo n 4 V *U c CHIN PENGCw Secretary Ctnjrai c •'.^t S' r ••■y Hi
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Houses In The Air
      795 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 30. Solutiun of one of the most urgent problems in the Federhikt housing—will be taken step further at the next meeting of the Legislative Council. A report recommending the creation of a housing trust will be tabled, and legislative action enabling the proposed
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      More Rice For Asia
      729 3 —Straits Times. May 1. The Colombo Plan countries have decided to increase their production of rice. If this was the main accomplishment of the Karachi conference, as is suggested by a news report which appears to be a preview of conference conclusions, then the planning has
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      No Steel From Britain
      375 3 —Straits Times, May I. The lack of a hundred tons of steel for the main pump house building at Tebrau now threatens to hold up the completion of Singapore’s water extension scheme. Six months ago the City Council applied for priority for this steel. But the
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      Open The Way To The Sea
      481 3 —Btraits Times, May 2. Singapore’s tightly-packed million will be grateful that the City |Council is at last taking up the question of access to the city’s beaches. The Estates and Fire Brigade Committee of the City Council has recommended that the Council stronglv urge
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      Questionable Questions
      646 4 —Straits Times. May 2. One disquieting impression remains from reading reports of Wednesday’s question time in the House of Commons. A large section of the Laboui Party seems determined to make Malaya into a political issue by using any stray incident as a rod with which to heat
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      The Village Charter
      500 4 —Straits Times, May 3. It is paradoxical that the charter of village government which the Federal Legislative Council is to be asked to pass on a certificate of urgency really originates nothing. This loes not mean it is not a great step forward. It is. But the
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      Colombo Plan Progress
      455 4 —Straits Times. May 3. The hand of Malaya’s representatives may be detected n the warning expressed by he Colombo Plan report ot the importance to the South East Asia area of the maintenance of the prices obtained or its principal exports. A ~hange of only ten per
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      The Retail Co-ops
      719 4 VII —Straits Times, May It is possible no doubt to auestion part at least of the eulogy which the Member for Economic Affairs chanted in praise of the M.C.WS. at the conference in Kuala Lumpur of Co-operative Officers. But the Society’s fif eon month record is sufficiently
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    Farewell party for instructor
    51 4 About 100 men of r} 1 Malayan Auxiliary A*r F rc Fighter Squardon. Slngai* Win? gave a farewell r to Fit. S?t. E. R. Ta>- who h3.s been transferred the 84 f h Snuadron Ten n FT. Sgt. Taylor had r the training instructor of t
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    WANTS NEW NAME
    18 4 The Kadayara lu. League wants Ytr' in the Tanjona Paaar of Singapore, re-named dayanallur Street.
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    THE VILLAGES STILL LACK SECURITY
    1112 5 A Straits Times special correspondent, in the second of two articles, explains why so many resettled people are still ‘passive’ Resettlement and food control have had a Igreat effect usainst the terrorists in •ertam areas of Malaya. lu segamat district, North Johore, for instance, there
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTH
      79 5 McMAHON: At K.K. Hospital. Singapore, on 28th April, a brother for Shael. PEARCY: To Esme, wife of John Pearcy, a daughter, Diana, on 29.4.52. Both well. PRICE: To Beryl (nee Hoyland) and Bill, on May 2nd, at Penang Maternity Hospital, a son. LORIMER: to Prue and Andrew, on May
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      74 5 THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced between Mr. Poo Yoon Kal. son of Mrs. Poo Choong Yit and the late Mr. -Foo Choong Ylt and Miss Chew Gaik Heng, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chew Boon Hong. WEATHER SON-WITTE: The engagement is announced between David Alan, yofmger son of Mr. Sc
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    Malayan plywood on show at BIF
    49 5 Plywood manufactured in Singapore from Malayan and Borneo timber, is on display at the British Industries Fair, in London Malay, Chinese and Indian students from Malaya, who are studying in Britain, art* on duty in the Malayan stand in their national cosi tumes.
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    PICKING UP THE DHOBY
    466 5 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW rvNE of the troubles upcountry these days is that you see very few people. It may seem absurd but I get quite excited when we go weekly to Gemas to take and pick up the dhoby. Anyone who knows Gemas may think
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      70 5 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABI.E IN ADVANCE) Br. Umpire Singapore Foreign Town Area Malaya (Including No Postage Including Postage postage) Quarterly 5.20 5.75 6 75 Half-yearly 10.40 11.50 13.50 Yearly 20.80 23.00 27.00 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be spent by express at delivery service to th
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  • Obituary
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    79 5 DEATH Frank Warrack Walker. M.C.. E.D., of the Smoke House Inn, Cameron Highlands, and formerly of Bo us Lead and Company, on Sunday May 4. AIRLIE: Renfrew, Scotland, late of Singapore Harbour Board, died 19th April, aged 69 years, James Hamilton dearly loved husband of Sarah. WURTZBURG: Charles Edward, late
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    YOUNG MALAYA.
    7 6 Photograph by Yong Peng Seong.
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    As I was Saying
    684 6  -  CYNICIJS. SINGAPORE, May 3. battle between the believers and the sceptics will neither be won nor lost by the R.A.F.’s explanation that the flying saucers seen over Singapore are jet fighters, leaving a long va-1 pour trail behind them. That is much too neat and likely
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1052 6  -  Stanley Stre Time* of Hay WE ARE still being chased by words. Mr. P. Nonis of Malacca* who happened to b<> standing by when a friend glanced at his wrist-watch, overheard a Malay ask his friend. “Pukul be ra pa (“What’s the time?”) It then
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    WARP AND WOOF
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    Countryman's Journal
    615 7  -  TUAN DJEK UR one and only mine manager, who is soing on home leave, gave a cocktail party the other morning. Many people attended, and the party was a great success. The Tuan left early after king his host and h 'ess who urged him to t the
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    50 Years Ago
    86 7 From the Straits Times of April 26 to May 3, 1902. rE contingent of Volunteers representing Singapore at the coronation of H.M. King Edward left on Saturday in the steamer Ceylon. One of the gallant members of the Chinese Company of the Volunteer Infantry had his queue
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    SINGAPOREANA
    893 7  -  Stanley Street. At Pasir Laba TURNING northward off the Jurong Road at Milestone I6V2. past a sign stating that the hinterland is an Army firing range, is a singlelane macadamised road leading to Tanjong Pasir Laba. After winding through open countryside, over wooden between hedgerows speckled here and there
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    IT’S NOW $250,000 FOR PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1
    638 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 30. THE FEDERATION GOVERNMENT today announced a reward of $250,000 for “bringing in alive” or giving information leading to the capture of the leading Malayan Communist terrorist, Chin Peng. The new reward is three times the reward of $BO,OOO
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    Higher rewards plan is welcomed
    399 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Mav 1. T he FEDERATION GOVERNMENT’S new scale of rewards for the capture alive or killing of leaders of the Communist revolt was generally welcomed today. "Afc, last we seem to be approaching the Emergency with some realism", a leading rubber planter said.
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    Royal names for roads
    92 8 SINGAPORE, May 1. ¥>RINCE Charles, hi s sister A Princess Ann, and their father. Prince Philip, have had new roads in Singapore named after them. The City Council, at its meeting yesterday decided on thf following name s for three new roads and a square in
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    $300,000 CENTRES FOR CHILDREN
    153 8 SINGAPORE. May 1. OLANS to build two children’s social centres n\ 1 Upper Serangoon and Bedok, in Singapore, at cost of $300,000 have been completed me work expected to begin in June, Mr. Carl r. de Souza, assistant secretary for Youth Welfare in the Singapore Social
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    Bandit dies —and saves 18 trouble
    80 8 KUALA LUMPUR, May 2. EIGHTEEN rubber tappers who went to a police station in the Kuala Kangsaa* area of Perak to report that a bandit had stolen their identity cards, were asked their names. Then their cards were handed back to them. They scratched
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    Karim Ghani for Karachi
    45 8 SINGAPORE, May 1. Abdul Mohamed Abdul Karim Ghani. former president of the Singapore Muslim League, who was released iroin detention 10 days ago flew to Karachi this morning. Karim Ghani was detained by the Special Branch after the December 1950 riots.
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    OSPC ON LEAVE
    26 8 BATU PAHAT. Apr. 30—Mr. C. D. Hitchman. O.S.P.C. Batu Pahat, goes on long leave to England. Mr. V. D. Gerhold will replace him.
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    Committee seeks views
    65 8 SINGAPORE. May 1. THE Select Committee appointed by the Singapore Legislative Council to cons; i and report on the Nuti.aa. Service Bill invites repn tations from the pubbc the provisions of the B Representations, w must be in writing, w received up to Mav 15 should be
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    Perak Club gets 2 planes
    84 8 IPOH, Apr. 30. PLANES of Porak Flying Club will assist security lorces in aerial reconnaisance ana Photography from July Thu planes the first power- f'd machines to be owned by the club since the war are two Tiger Moths. They left England by ship today
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    Eight children excess in car
    51 8 SINGAPORE. May “The overcrowding ol n cars in Singapore has c stop,” said the First Magistrate, Mr. J. FWilliam, yesterday aftf had fined a driver $5‘ The driver. Lim Peng pleaded guilty to dr iv car. carrying eight passengers tall rni along Towner Road on
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    Civic reception for Cup visitors
    272 9 SINGAPORE, May 1. rrhe CITY OF SINGAPORE will give a civic reception to all participants in the Thomas Cup badminton matches played in the Colony, the City Council decided yesterday. The Council voted $2,500 to be spent for the reception with a provision that the
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    STRIKE MAY BE AVERTED
    225 9 SINGAPORE. May 1. THE threatened strike by I 8.000 Singapore City Council labourers may not take place. This was indicat- cd by the President of the Citv Council, Mr. T.P.F. Me- i Neice, when he addressed I the meeting of the City Council yesterday. Mr. McNeice
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    Council to thank two
    96 9 DURING the adjournment at yesterday’s City Council meeting Mr. Chan v ut Chee (Progressive-East) said that the two City Councillors who lost their seats when their names were taken off the electoral register had been shabbily treated. He had asked the City President to convey them
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    Held talks with C.G.
    76 9 SINGAPORE. May 3. SIR VINCENT TEWSON. general secretary of the British Trade Union Congress and president of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, arrived in Singapore bv Qantas-BOAC yesterday after a visit to Australia and New Zealand. Sir Vincent met the Com-missioner-General! Mr. Malcolm MacDonald,
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    DELAY COST $100,000
    95 9 A DELAY of nine months by the Government to give permission to the City to build flats at Bukit Timah filters has resulted in the City Council having to spend an extra $lOO,OOO on the project. This was stated by Mr. D. Robertson (Progressive-South) when a proposal
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    Traffic signs decision
    53 9 /COUNCILLORS gave general authority to the Commissioner of Police to erect and maintain. at Government expense, traffic signs on or near any road within the City limits. They also delegated full powers to the Public Works Committee to authorise the City Engineer to construct, at Municipal expense,
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    Disagreement denied
    45 9 TOURING the adjournment, the President. Mr. McNeice said he regretted there still existed an impression that the City Council did not see eye to eye with Mr. W.R.M Haxworth, the Traffic Police Chief. He hoped the public will “get it right this time.”
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    10-MIN. LIMIT
    65 9 confirmed recommendations made by their Procedure Committee which would impose a 10-minute time limit 0,1 speeches in a debate. Phey also decided to seek the advice of the Traffic Advisory mmittee and the Traffic Police j ,n b(> number of taxis which ran ,f allowed in Singapore. before
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    SENIOR JOBS
    49 9 senior posts for the Electricity Department approved bv the Council. ,r hese posts are to be advertised l;, ”h locally and in Britain. In agreeing to these posts. f 'mnrjllorx gave their Establishment Committee the authority to ppoint overseas candidates if lf, cal men were not available.
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    Referred back
    22 9 (COUNCILLORS referred back the health committee a decision that the new Esplanade hawkers shelter should be let out on tender.
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    PLEDGE TO YOUTH FROM ROTARY
    264 9 SINGAPORE, May 1. SINGAPORE Rotarians turned the spotlight ot their weekly meeting on youth yesterday with a pledge “to be firm friends and constant companions of young people as they prepare themselves to be worthv citizens and leaders”. Mr. A. W Frisby, Singapore’s Director of
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    Urquhart to leave soon
    78 9 SINGAPORE. May 3. 'Vf AJ.-GEN. Robert E. Ur--I*l auhart, Generali Ollicer Commanding. Malaya, i.s to go to Austria as Commander of the British Troops. He will leave Kuala Lumpur next, month Gen. Urquharl has been in Malaya for two years. Mai.-Gen. Mirhaeil M. AO- the pre-
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    MEMORIAL OFFER TO SATA
    119 9 SINGAPORE, May 1. A LOCAL businessman has offered the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association a large sum of money tor a memorial to the work of Mr. C. L. Edwards, SATA’S recently retired chairman, a spokesman for the association told the Straits Times yesterday “The exact amount and
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    Penghulus told: Help end crisis
    135 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Apr. 30. IT was the duty of every penghulu and ketua in the State to explain to the kampong people what they could do to help in the present Emergency, the Regent of Johore today told the annual meeting of Johore penghulus. The
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    His last voyage on the Willem Ruys
    118 9 SINGAPORE. May 2. WHEN the Willem Ruys leaves Singapore early today for Europe .she will be doing her last voyage with 54-year-old Captain G. H. Visser as her skipper. Captain Visser, who has been at sea for 33 years, is going to Rotterdam
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    US attaches study jungle fighting
    173 9 SINGAPORE. May 1. C COLONEL Earl Stewart, the j United States’ Military Liaison officer attached to th«* U.S. Consulate-General in Singapore, and Col. James Michael, hi s assistant, have made several trips into the bandit areas of Malaya as observers with British military patrols. Commenting
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    MacG finds area of promise
    146 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 30. Till! PKOPI/K art* ripe for local government at kampong and mukim levels.” declared thp Deputy Commissioner. Mr. D. MacGillivrav today after a 50-mile tour of the Tan* jong Karang district. Mr. MacGillivray, who was probing every aspect of life In Selangor’s
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    Rent raised from $375 to $650
    78 10 SINGAPORE. May 3. The Singapore Kent Cont filiation Board vcstei day cai ed the monthly rent of a three storey bui dir. mainly built as a godown. from $375 to $650. The increased rent will take effect from May 1 The building concerned is
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    GEN. TEMPLER VISITS NEGRI
    361 10 SEREMBAN, Apr. 30. clerks jumped to their feet in Negii k Sembilan State Secretariat in Seremban toda\ as the High Commissioner, Gen. Gerald Tenipler. paying a surprise visit, walked through their offices. Only senior officers knew that Sir Gerald was to make his first visit to
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    Plans to encourage musicians
    144 10 THE setting up of a music library in Singapore ami the purchase of musical instruments lor use by local musical organisations are two decisions which the 10-man Orchestral Performances Committee made when it met last week. The Committee, which is headed by the Colonial Secret rv.
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    ENGINE BURNT
    32 10 Bundit s t lir* 1 to an inc in a rolling shod and hod rubber trees on an in in the Kanthan area n I J &lt; r.ik on May 1.
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    Malayan sales drop 50 p.c.
    113 10 SINGAPORE. May 1. &lt; A M W A S exports to Aus- i IV?. tralia dropped by near-! r,0 per cent, in March. The total was S7.7hi.8no compared with Sl.i.10 &gt;.&lt;)«; i in February. Tlie Australian Tride Cummissioner. Mr. A. .1. S. Day, said eslerda*
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    MR. R.W. JAKEMAN
    28 10 Mr. R W. Jakeman will ’&lt;V. as Under-Secretary, sm-ap( &gt;rf !n p lac(l of Mr K Iju» if is who is going on lone have.
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    TEMPLER TOURS ‘BAD’ COUNTRY
    139 10 SLRLMBAN, May 1. JN T HIS bullet -proof ear with a loaded carbine at iv feet and later in an armoured ear equipped with a two-inch gun. the Hrh ComI mlssinner, Gen. Sir Gerald 1 Tunpler, spent May Day in Nv Sembilan in. one of the
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    SUFFOLKS KILL 8 IN 5 DAYS
    134 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 3 0 THE Ist Suffolk Ro ßiment 1 now stationed at K, Kubu Bahru, killed t'v,&gt; K J a i a s yesterday, making their ‘bag’ eight in five days acting on Information patrol of the Suffolks waitM m ambush at
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    Graves make way for 30 homes
    131 10 SINGAPORE. May 2. UUNDREDS of unclaimed graves have been exhumed in the private Chinese cemetery at Coronation Road. Singapore, to make way for a million-dollar housing project. The exhumation cost the estate owners $lO,OOO. the bones have been reburic in the Municipal cemetery at
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    Rescue men hold night exercises
    117 10 SINGAPORE. May 2 F REALISTIC night exerc-- including smoke am. bombs exploding in daman buildings. were held a' Civil Defence Training »s at Kolam Ayer Lane, Sm. pore, yesterday. The 40 men who took pa’ members ol the First Rest rue tors’ course whirr, tomorrow.
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    RESIGNATION
    16 10 Lieut.-Col. H. J resigned from the fcm City Council as non' Councillor, for “busme sons.”
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    Synod told how to revive the Church
    299 11 BISHOP HAS 6-POINT PLAN IPOH, Apr. 30. The Bishop of Singapore, the Right Rev. H. W. Baines, suggested six ways to revive church activities when he opened a two-day session of the Synod of the Anglican Church in Malaya here today. rii, aims
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    Church has to sell property to carry on
    351 11 IPOH, May 1. JHE ANGLICAN CHURCH SYNOD, at its Hcond day session today, was told by its honorary treasurer, Mr. W. S. C. Leach, of its acute financial circumstances. It cannot be disguised.’’ he said, “that from the financial angle, the future
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    AN ETHIOPIAN soldier, Pte. Goberi Tomari, with an amputated leg on board the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia, is greeted by Mrs. D. W. G. Faris, head of the Singapore branch of the St. John' Ambulance Brigade, when he stepped ashore from the vessel yesterday morning, before being taken on a tour of Singapore.
    57 11 AN ETHIOPIAN soldier, Pte. Goberi Tomari, with an amputated leg on board the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia, is greeted by Mrs. D. W. G. Faris, head of the Singapore branch of the St. John' Ambulance Brigade, when he stepped ashore from the vessel yesterday morning, before being taken on a
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    NEW SINGAPORE JOB FOR FRISBY
    197 11 SINGAPORE, May 3. rpHE SINGAPORE DIRECTOR of Education, Mr A. YV. Frisby, will retire today, the Straits Times understands, and will become the second chairman of the Public Services Commission in the near future. Mr. F. Gordon-Smith, Q.C.. the present chairman of the Commission, leaves
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    S'PORE MAY DAY QUIET
    270 11 SINGAPORE, May 2. SINGAPORE had a quiet May Day yesterday. The only incident was the discovery of two Communist slogans—one scratched on a wall near the junction of Waterloo Street and Middle Road, the other on a Singapore Traction Company bus. There were four meetings in
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    SYNOD TO SPEND $221,200
    151 11 IPOH, May 2. 'I iIF. Synod of the Anglican Cnurch ol Malaya, after tli.in tv, o hours discus- sloil V‘.wrelay passed its 1952 &gt;ud 1 tol tiling $221,200 Tlli -&gt; includes $105,600 osti'd diocesan expenditure L y and sii9.ooo 1 due to diocesan special md nension
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    LADY FOGARTY OPENS $500,000 SCHOOL
    162 11 SINGAPORE. May 2. A SIX-YEAR struggle to mu vido a woper school lor t’v&gt; hundr ds of children of Service families in the Changi area of Singapore has end* d uoc Yesterday, before a large gathering of parents, senior offic t.s and visitors, Lady Fo
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    Appeal for funds
    146 11 SINGAPORE May 3. A SPECIAL ;i;)p is Being made* this year by the John Ambul iihv* Brigade io Singapore for funds 1 fiu u &gt; Ihe brkuid*- and h'io build its m w hcaciii'’: rters, .aid Mr. D. \V G. Levit. Lady District Sup* Tin 'oik 111.
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    Dud $10-note appears in Singapore
    150 11 SINGAPORE. May 2. 'rilE Singapore C.I.D. are investigating the source of a fake $lO bill which showed up in the Colony yesterday. The note was received by a member of the public who reported to the police. A C I D, officer said yesterday: “So
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    Gifts of dates from Iraq
    58 11 SINGAPORE. May 3. The Government of Iraq, through the Sii: *..ipore Consul. Mr. S. T O. AlsagolT. yesi'Tdav c! i.s: ribuled 386 p cl: *:.s of date' a’ live Sockti VV dare Ct'tii’i.s to celebrate National Day. Tin* five centres were Sigla;&gt;. Jalan Eunos, Malay
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    CHARTER FOR THE KAMPONGS
    774 13 KUALA LUMPUR, May 1. 4 VILLAGE CHARTER which aims at laying A foundation of a new Malayan nation in the 100 new villages and thousands of Malay kampongs throughout the Federation Was published today. F The charter —one of the most far-reaching and I uortant pieces
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    200 WIN PIPELINE BATTLE
    379 13 KUALA LUMPUR. May 2. WORKING NON-STOP since Tuesday, about 200 waterworks engineers. technicians and labourers restored Kuala Lumpur’s water supply this afternoon —just in time to ease a situation rapidly becoming critical. Earlier, the Municipal Health Officer had warned that all drinking water must be boiled
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    BANDITS AMBUSH POLICE PATROL
    34 13 Bandits ambushed a patrol of Special Constables in the Mersing area of Johore yesterday. Police reinforcements from Mersing were also fired on. The police lost two killed. Another was wounded.
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    Priority for model villages
    586 13 KUALA LUMPUR, May 2. jIfODEL villages and kam--1 pong s chosen by the s ’ate and Settlement Government Governments will be ;ne means of showing the people how the new village charter will work, the Mema r lor Home Affairs, Dato ()I n bin Ja’afar. said
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    SINGAPORE WARDERS GET PAY RISE
    154 13 SINGAPORE, May 2. THE Singapore Government has announced pay increases, retrospective to Jan. 1, 1951, for prison warders in the Colony. Th&lt;&gt; new salarv scalp for warders, which is based on that granted to the police last year, gives them a basic $20 increase. A
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    DONATIONS TO VARSITY
    38 13 Latest donations to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund amounted to $1,157 50. bringing the total to $4,704,859 03 host week’s blcgest singlp donation was $5OO from Mr. Yeo Hock Seng of Cecil Street. Singapore
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    2 ex-BOAC hostesses wed in K.L.
    98 15 KUALA LUMPUR ,May 3. TWO lorraer BOAC hostesses were married at St. Mary’s Church. Kuala Lumpur, today. Miss SP. Payne, now attached to the Commissioner of Police’s Office in Kuala Lumpur was married to Mr. D.R.O. Fawcett, an engineer with Guthrie and Co. Best
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    PADRE LED MEN BEHIND LINES
    234 15 SINGAPORE, May 4. A GREY-HAIRED genial middle-aged Australian! p.idre. Squadron Leader Esmond New, Chap- j lain to the R®y a l Australian Air Force in Singapore, is probably the only United Nations’ officer to have penetrated far behind the Communist lines in North Korea last
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    3 DEAD IN CRASH
    60 15 SINGAPORE, May 6. GROUND troops who had cut their wav through jungle in North Perak yesterday reached the wreckage of an R.A.F. Brigand light bomber which crashed during an airstrike on Saturday. The party found that all three occupants of the plane —a pilot otficer. sergeant
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    Scholarship as tribute
    64 15 KUALA LUMPUR, May 5. CUNDs are Deing collected locally for a scholarship h u on °ur of Father Charles Mathews, rector of two colapes in Ceylon, father Mathews, who has large number of ‘‘old vs in the Federation, will otate his sacerdotal gold- v Jubilee on May
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    NEW BRITISH PLANE AT KALLANG
    198 15 SINGAPORE, May 5. SINGAPORE’S Department of Civil Aviation officials will attend demonstration trials of a new British light aircraft, the Heron (above), at Kallang airport this morning. If the tests are successful, the Federal Government may place orders for the aircraft for internal air service.
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    THEY BOTH HAD CAR SF 5763
    234 15 SINGAPORE, May 4. cars in Singapore with the same registration number gave quite a headache to their owners and a surprise to the Colony Registrar of Vehicles on Friday. Mr. B. G. Batty of the Chartered Bank and Mr. K. Gardner of. Harrisons and
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    'I regret this', says Helliwell
    180 15 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. May, 4. MR. ARTHUR Helliwell, in The People today writes: ”1 hear from Singapore that Mr. Runme Shaw, the millionaire king of Malaya’s entertainment world, thinks he might be associated with my story about the much-discussed mon-key-brain banquet. “I regret
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    PLANTER DIES
    44 15 Mr. James Barclay Campbell Henderson, who died recently at nis home. 3. Wellesley Avenue. Northwood. wa.s at one time manager of the London Asiatic Rubber and Produce Company’s Diamond Jubilee Estate. Jasin, Malacca The cremation took place at Golders Green on Thursday
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    Centre for Ipoh youths
    106 15 SPONSORED by the Rotary Club of Ipoh, the Ipoh Physical Culture Centre, situated in an half-acre enclosure of the People’s Park, was declared open on May 3 by the British 1 Adviser, Mr. I. W. Blelloch j (above). 1 This open-air gymnasium is available to the
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    A pep talk —and 2 Reds die
    165 15 KUALA LUMPUR, May 5. A PATROL of No. 17 Police Jungle Company killed two terrorists in the Jelebu area of Negri Sembilan yesterday. Only 48 hours earlier, the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, had visited the company’s camp at Pertang and told
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    The first rescue instructors' course of the Singapore Civil Defence Department concluded at Kolam Ayer, Serangoon, on May 3.
    213 16 Back row: Sgt. Mason (RAF K. Lumpur), J. Silberman (City Council). Narinjan Singh (Dist. Court). Chng Heng Khong (Lee Rub- ber), Sgt. Gill (R. Sigs.). Tan Chin Guan (St. And- rew's),
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    Legless pilot in Singapore
    42 16 CROUP CAPTAIN DOUCLAS BADER, the famous leg-less British flyer, pictured in Singapore yesterday. He is ferrying a Pcrcival Prince aircraft from Luton in England to Lutong in Borneo for the Sarawak Oilfields Ltd.—Sunday Times picture. —Sunday Times picture.
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    Governor urged: Act on taxes
    180 16 SINGAPORE, May 5. gEVERAL Legislative councillors yesterday called for an immediate investigation by the new Governor of Singapore, Mr. John F. Nicoll, into tax evasion in the Colony. Impressed by Mr. Nicoll’s action in investigating t he Colony's steel position, one councillor said "II proper
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    T’GANU TOUR
    30 16 KUALA LUMPUR, May 5. A mobile recording unit of the Emergency community broadcasting service of Radio Malaya, with the controller, Mr David Lyttle, In charge ha, toured Trengganu.
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    JOURNEY’S END FOR MR. CHANG
    220 16 KUALA LUMPUR, May rwa s the end of lii&gt; s journey for 65-year old Chang Sip Foo win n he arrived at Kuala Lumpur railway station last night to catch the train to Singapore. The poor old man had hurried all the way from Klane
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    Police priority No. 1 is for training
    154 16 SINGAPORE, May 5. A LTHOUGH the Singapore Police Force is nearly a thousand officers and men short of its full complement of 4,205, recruiting is not at the moment the number one priority in the re-organi-sation plan. Mr Nigel Morris, the acting Commissioner
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    ARMY MEN HURT IN RAIL MISHAP
    260 16 KUALA LUMPUR, May 4. 'THREE police constables were seriously injured A and seven military personnel and three other constables slightly hurt when two railway armoured trolleys collided two miles south of Slim River in Perak yesterday.* Both trolleys were returning to Tanjong Malim at
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    U.S. music honour for ACS student
    120 16 SINGAPORE. May 5. YEAR-OLD 1 Douglas Tan, a former student of the Anglo-Chined School in Singapore, was on. of 203 overseas and Amer- can students cited for academic honours at Florida Southern College in Lakeland. U.S.A., recently. t The citation was read .p the
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    600 (480 MALAYS) JOIN S.V.C.
    135 16 SINGAPORE, May 5. MALAYS form 80 per cent of the 600 young men who Joined the Singapore Volunteer Corps during the past ty/o months. Thl s year's S VC. recruiting dr.ve, which has been "very successful”, will b&lt;* continued until December, the Corps Adjutant, Captain
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    Boy, aged 11, aided Reds
    82 16 IPOH. May 5 TWO boys aged 11 ant! and a man were f convicted in the Assize of having been bandit &gt; pliers at an estate n Kuala Kangsar dis net Feb. 21 Lee Lam, aged 22 a r u tapper was sentenced years’ imprisonment.
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    Special team to probe graft
    270 17 SINGAPORE, May 6. alMJAPORE GOVERNMENT has set up a IS special team —separate from the police foriT—to investigate allegations of corruption iivnotii* public ser\ants. spokesman yesterday told the Straits ’l'j Ilh s (hat the (iovernment was also considei l rll f [j u establishment of
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    Rice output fall causes concern
    182 17 KUALA LUMPUR. May 5. Rll K PIUHUTTION in the Federation bad fallen steadily in the past two years and was causing grave concern. Mr. O. J. VocLker. Director of Agriculture tola the Straits Times today. I'l- (iovernment was consicterin measures to remedy the position. the
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    Trust told: Build cheap houses
    252 17 SINGAPORE, Mav 6. gINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST should press forward with more low cost houses, the Governor, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, told the Trust chairman, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, after a 90 minute tour of estates yesterday. The Governor saw the new Trust buildings and
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    TAX EXAMINERS NOT SATISFIED
    154 17 SINGAPORE, May 6. INCOME TAX examiners in Singapore are not 1 satisfied with their salary scales and conditions of service. Two of them resigned recently, a spokesman of the Singapore Government AdminLstrative &gt;nd Clerical Services Union told the Straits Times /esterday. “One reason why there is
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    Schoolgirl is fashion queen
    61 17 ALOR STAR. May 5. An A lor Star schoolgirl, Miss Lim Suen Gee. warn Kedah’ first al 1 community fashion contest last night from 21 competitors. MLs s Lim, wearing a strapless evening gown, got 63 votes. 19 more than the runner-up. MKs Munlra Ma. daughter
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    Alor Star may get a park
    63 17 ALOR STAR, May s.—Alor Star may have a public park if a proposal by the chairman of the Kota Star Town Board. Mr. A. B Sharin’, is approved. At a meeting yesterday, the board decided to defer consideration of the proposal pending the erection
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    2 BLOCKS OF FLATS PLANNED
    143 17 SINGAPORE, May 6. THE Singapore Improvement Trust plans to build two jlocks of 11-storey flats and three blocks of four-storey flats—a totall of 112 houses—&gt;n a hill next to Outram Road J rison this year at an estlnated cost of $1,200,000. They .vi.fl be low
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    PLAN TO TRAIN ALMONERS
    147 17 SINGAPORE, May 6 A scheme for training almoners through the social studies course, which begins in the University of Malaya in October, is now being olanned. the organising secretary of the course. Mrs. R. You. said in a broadcast Irst night. Applications for the course should
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    Secretary is robbed
    82 17 SINGAPORE, May 6. IIfHEN Miss Audrey Dezilma, a 23-year-old secretary. returned to her room in Wilkinson Road, Singapore, at 2.30 on Sunday afternoon, she found it had been burgled. Miss Dezilma told the Straits Times: "It was a clean sweep.” A total of $7,800 worth of jewellery,
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    $1,100 from dance
    38 17 SKREMBAN, May 5. A not profit Cf about $l,lOO was* realised at Saturday night’s fourth annual dance of Negr! Sembilan Ladies’ Sports Club Twentv-ilvc pe r cent, will be given to S'ate social welfare funds
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    FEWER DIVORCES
    33 17 SINGAPORE'S divorce suits dropped bv more than a third last ynr, according to the annual report of the Supreme Court. Thcr« were only 20 divorce petitions compared with 47 in 1950.
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    RUBBER: LOWEST FOR 2 YEARS
    465 18 SINGAPORE, May 7. 'J'HE price of rubber dropped below the dollar mark yesterday for the first time since June 1950. At the close of business it stood at 93$ cents a lb.—a 7} cent drop from Monday’s close. This heavy drop was attributed bv Singapore
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    PRICE DROP MAY HIT WORKERS
    229 18 KUALa LUMPUR, May 6. 'pHE fall in the price of rubber might put estate workers’ wages back to where they were before wage increases were granted last year following protracted negotiations and arbitration. Today the chairman of the negotiating committee of the Rubber Workers’ Unions,
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    FAMILY THANKS RESCUER
    170 18 SINGAPORE, May 7. Ling yeoag looxed up at six raided glasses at the Cathay Restaurant Singapore, last night, ar.d shyly acknowledged the toast of the Daroya family, whom he rescued from drowning in the Rochore Canal on Apr. 14. He thanked Mrs Elpidio Daroya for the 12-course
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    501 bandits now dead in Johore
    361 18 SINGAPORE, May 7 OECURITY froces in Johore killed three bandits M Monday —and brought their total of kills in the 23 months since the Briggs Plan started in j une 1950, to 501, which is a record for any state nr Settlement in the
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    Gas fire at harbour
    56 18 SINGAPORE. May 7. cylinders of oxyacetylene gas caught fire at the Singapore Harbour Board yesterday. Prompt arrival of the Harbour Board Fire Brigade prevented an explosion. The fire wss put out in a few seconds. A fire officer of the Harbour Board said: “The cylinders were
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    Sea walls to be repaired
    51 18 JOHORE BAHRU. May 6. Damaged parts of the sea and river waif s from the 3rd mile Jalan Scudal to Stulang Laut aCong the sea front in Johore Bahru are to be repaired shortly. All low lying places behind the existing wait will be fttled
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    SUTTON BOY WINS THE GM
    183 18 KUALA LUMPUK, May 6 GEORGE MEDALS have been awarded to a young Chinese "Suttoo Boy” and a Malay spe cial constable heroes ot battles against the terrorists. A Malay police lance corporal has been awarded the Colonial Police Medal for gallantry. The George Medalflists are
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    Silence on missing Jap engineer
    146 18 SINGAPORE, May 7 A SPOKESMAN of the Sin- gapore C.I.D. replied: “No comment,” when the Straits Times asked yesterday if the case of the Japanese ship’s engineer, missing from the tanker Salte No. 57 when she arrived in Singa Pore last July, w’as being re
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    Tapper murdered
    18 18 A Chinese rubber taPP‘» was murdered on a estate in the Yong Pe’-P arf of Johore
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    400 reply to S’pore traffic chief
    139 18 SINGAPORE, May 7 T HE Singapore Traffic Police 1 chief, Mr W R M Haxwortp has received nearly 400 r'&gt;iy&gt;s in two davs to the 5 000 leaflets left in Colonv cars, asking drivers to let him know how long it takes them to
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    Fair volume done in industrials
    385 20 SHARE MARKET] By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, May 5. FAIRLY active conditions prevaijed during the week with a good volume of business written in Industrials, a fair turnover in Tins, but a disappointing market for Rubbers. The drop in the rubber commodity, which became marked
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    Business done
    184 20 SINGAPORE, May 5. BUSINESS done in the Malayan Share Market last week included Industrials: Alexandra Brick Ord. $3.35; Fraser Neave $3.67*4 to $3.80. Preference $6.65; Oam mon $3.05 to $3.10 c.d.; Hammer $46.25; Malayan Breweries $5.05 to $5.00; Malayan Cement 92*4 to 90 cents; McAlister $39.86; Robinson $4.00
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    Rubber exports
    18 20 Exports of rubber of all grades from Singapore and the Federation in April totalled 68,555 tons
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    TAKUAPA TIN
    24 20 Takuapa Valley Tin Dredging (N.L output for April was 470 piculs. Two dredges worked 1 104 hours and covered 220.000 cubic yards.
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    RUBBER BOARD NAMED
    154 20 KUALA LUMPUR, May 1. •THE APPOINTMENT of 13 1 members to serve on the Malaya Rubber Export Registration Board was officially announced today. The announcement also named 13 persons to be alternates to the members of the board. The members are: Mr. O. J. Smith, chairman; Mr.
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    Less rubber left Malaya
    65 20 SINGAPORE, May 7. SHIPMENTS of rubber from Malaya for last month totalled 68,693 tons— a drop of 17.101 tons over the March figure. The United Kingdom bought 21,360 tons, and the United States took 18,591 tons, while 1,400 tons went to Russia. Total shipments for. the
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    76 20 SINGAPORE, May 7. A SLIGHTLY steadier tendencj prevailed in most sections of the Singapore Produce Market yesterday. Scarcity of stocks caused sellers to increase prices in the pepper section. Muntok being offered at $530 a picul, Sarawak at $525 and Lampong (black) at $425. Buyers in the
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    PLAN TO STOP SALE OF STOLEN RUBBER
    249 20 KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 CTATE and Settlement Governments aim Rubber Producers’ Council are now sturKj uir a report by Mr E. E. Pengilley. Comptroller f„r Rubber, on how stolen rubber can be prevented from being sold to rubber dealers. Mr. Osca Spencer. Member
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    April tin shipments
    104 20 C TRAITS Traders announce the following Malayan tin shipments, in tons, for April 1952: From Singapore to—U.K 179 Vi (167 optional); U.S.A. 1.935; Continent 678; Canada 100; Pacific 29%; India 5%; South America 127; Africa 31; Australasia 77y 4 Middle East Vi. Total 3.253%. Total to date
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    910 20 SINGAPORE, May 7 INDUSTRIAL* Alt'* Brines B yer Drds i 1 20 BB Petrol 3a® 4 0/ B M I rustees or on Con Unsmm f”' *1/ 22/ 22/ 23/ United 1H 00 &lt;1/50 f^ 0 Dispensary 2.10 in Fraser &lt;n Neavc Ords" 0 00 10 Gammons
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    PRICE SAG DESPITE DEMAND
    322 20 SINGAPORE, May 3. AFTER holding steady around the 110 cent mark for some months, the rubber market sagged five cents last week in spite of moderate trade and factory demand, says Lewis and Peat’s weekiv report. Malayan shipments during April were the lowest since April 1950.
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    Garing (Malacca) Rubber Estate
    47 20 GARING (MALACC RUBBER ESTATE—Net profi, September 30 £15,143 &lt;£-J I&gt;' after taxation £19.962 (£l.&lt; Total dividend, already reP&gt; ed, 25 per cent GO 5-12ths cent). To general reserve £5,000 replanting provision (£2.000). Forward £984 (£1.2 Mr. L. J. D. Mackie is chairrr n.
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    Kimanis Rubber Ltd. dividend
    70 20 T*HE BOARD of Directors A Kimanis Rubber Ltd. has t commended a final dividend respect of the last financial ye of one penny per unit share f rc of tax, payable on June 21. Profit after tax £20.915; bui! ing and machinery replacen)c: reserve £7.000; tax
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