The Straits Budget, 15 May 1952

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) >^ CNN Series No. 302. Thursday, May 15, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.
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      REPRESENTATION OF THE CHINESE IN MALAYA
      526 2  -  MALAYAN. Singapore. anak s. Singapore. HEARTIEST congratulations to “Aesculapius” for voicing what is the nuked truth concerning the Emergency. Its last embers would be but a smouldering heap now had the Chinese, as Malayans, been given their rightful political due. But, as always, there
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      TRAFFIC POINT
      70 2  -  WOMAN’S LOGIC. Singapore. ]T would appear that the point has been missed not only by “Employer” but also by “Another Employer”. The point is that Mr. Hnxworth’s iob is, by reducing road accidents, to save human life. The measures taken to ensure this, like a doctor’s orescrintion may
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      CLAIMANT PAYS
      160 2  -  HARASSED CLAIMANT. Kclantan. FAURING the war I lost my motor car. After the liberation I was asked to submit my claim. I did so. After a delay of several years I was asked to get certain certified documents from the Registrar of Motor Vehicles. That was in the
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      A CADET A.S.P.’s PAY
      195 2  -  A. Singapore. AFTER reading the report in your issue of May 6 of the prison term given to Cadet, A.S.P. Watson for misaporopriation of funds, I feel that it i.s only fair to point out that it was completely unreasonable to bring 3 married man with
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      PUNISHMENT IN THE POLICE FORCE
      542 2  -  PEPE LORA. Singapore lI7E are informed through the columns oi newspaper that “Singapore police divisu V commanders have been told that wherever pos Vie they should use their powers under the p. ce Ordinance to punish offending policemen th u selves, rather than send them
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    Points of issue
    303 2 IJ'OR the benefit ui the illiterate, I that bus companies including the Chinese i ones) put coloured plates in front and on thi left side of the buses s<» that they can be seen, and the route recognised, easily at a distance. I am most certain they
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      The Malayan Citizen
      1122 3 —Straits Times, May 8. Federal Legislative Counui. approval yesWrday c the report of its beiecx Committee on amendment of ,l Federation Agreement “rev a purely formal third Rg of the Citizenship p.'i, uiu-n the Council meets *,:n today This Federal ij,. deals mainly with the way to
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      Democracy in the Village
      789 3 —Straits Times, May 9. The Select Committee of -he Federal Legislative Council into whose hands the tillage Councils Ordinance nas now passed no doubt will take to heart the criticism which the Bill attracted veserday at its first reading, rhe principle of the Bill was warmly
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      The Malayan Agency
      532 3 —Straits Times, May 10. General Templer and Mr. Nicoll had so many matters of importance to discuss during their meeting in Kuala Lumpur that they are unlikely to have got round to the question of the information services. with particular reference to greater publicity for Malaya overseas.
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      The Trend for Rubber
      919 4 Straits Times, May 12. To predict the trend of rubber prices is to court disaster. There can be no better evidence of this than the panic fail of over 21 cenis recorded in the Singapore market last week. Neither the s a isticaJ position nor Ame.ican
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      Malayan Union
      212 4 —Straits Times. May 12. Uncomplicated by any ieference to Malayan relations with the Commonweahh. the outline of a future constitution which Dato Onn drew for an I.M.P. meeting in Malacca contains little that should arouse controversy among those who realise how the foundations of responsible self-government must be
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      The C.D.C. in Malaya
      890 4 _Straits Times. May i? The report of the Colonial Development Corporation, published as a White Paper, will arouse mixed feelings. It reveals a peak year for losses, but it also claims that control has now been tightened and that this year’s activities should show a different
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      Housing the Officials
      252 4 —Straits Times. May i 3 Some progress, though mt i nearly enough, will have oten made by the end of the t dr towards solving the pn,|V, m j of inadequate housing Government officers in the 1 Federation. In Sclang r. for j example, where the nceo
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    Mr. R.F. Cornell dies in England
    62 4 SINGAPORE, May 13. A popular figure In 'die Singapore restaurant bu>.•mss. Rov Frederick Cornell, died in England las Thursday. Beforp going to England 1; 1950, Mr. Cornell was mini ger of the Pavilion Re 'arrant. He left behind a vc wide circle of friends.
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    New course at university
    51 4 The University of Mda\» or the first lime is cfferh i post-graduate course 1 Mnloma in Public Health n hp 1952-53 academic venr The course which- begins 1 'ntober will.be under t f ection of Dr. J. H. Strnhan *rofesso;,c of Social Medicire and Pu kp
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    IS THE GOVT. PREPARED FOR A RUBBER SLUMP?
    793 5  -  KLYNE STREET. Kuala Lumpur. ‘What was visible through the telescope a year ago is today plainly visible to the naked eye’ i May 5. 1952, the U ..nee of rubber fell to M recovering to $l.Ol ;Jt lb. How much fur[her an
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    ‘Minimum wages’ in the Colony
    724 5  - Minimum wages in the Colony CHARLES GAIYIBA, Lecturer in Economics. University of Malaya. I READ with great interest Data Paglar’s criticisms of the present wages situation in this Colony (Straits Times. May 9 I agree entirely with the Dato’s remarks and I could clarify still more what he said by
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    MUCH TALK OF CORRUPTION
    142 5  -  F. Singapore. IT Is to be deplored that there should be so much talk of police corruption; it does not make for public confidence. How mucn Ls true and how much conjecture, possibly malicious conjecture to undermine public confidence, only those in authority can know. In
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    Looking At The Garden
    484 5 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW WE have found to our joy that there is quite a healthy looking real lemon tree in the garden of our new bungalow. There Is also a rather mangy looking lime tree stuck up close to an oil palm. I have come
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    As I was Saying
    791 6  -  CYNICUS. DOTH in Singapore and 13 the Federation, the police are more chary than they were of bringing charges of gaming. But to judge by a case dismissed by a Singapore magistrate this week, they are still not careful enough. The gam e was “peh bin.”
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    OLD-FASHIONED CHINESE SMOKER, SINGAPORE
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1059 6  -  Stanley Street. Ancient \ice rpOBACCO? Introduced to 1 South-East Asia bv tne Portuguese? The Ever Help* i nn Conrague spring: to cross words with this suggestion of an lpoh correspondent. Long before Sir Walter Raleigh was born, he states, Chinese gourmets knew what it was
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    Countryman’s Journal
    619 7  -  TUAN DJEK. OOME weeks ago there was a smell as of a dead animal in the house. One got a whiff of it at odd times during the day, but rarely at the same spot. After some days’ search the Cook decided that it came from the sofa
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    BALINESE WEAVER
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    SINGAPOREANA
    863 7  -  Stanley Street. The Basin Hulks 1UIE hulks forming the east .side of the basin used by the Royal Singapore Yacht. Club as an anchorage look suspiciously like something left from the war. but they haVe been there for 4t least 70 years. The original purpose of making an old
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    New key posts in Federation
    306 8 KUALA LUMPUR, May 7. THK tremendous reorganisation and streamlining of the machinery of government in the Federation since the arrival of the Higji Commissioner, (Jeneral Sir (Jerald Templer, is detailed for the first time today with the publication of reports of the Federal Legislative (ounciTs
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    Sultan sells 27 houses
    159 8 KUALA LUMPUR. May 7. THE Federation Government has bought 27 house's in Johore Bahru from the Sultan of Johore for $3,000,000. Th>> houses stand on 37 acres of land at Jalan Straits View, Jalan Scudai and Coomb e Hill. The sale was made just before the
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    Modern fishing unit for Malaya
    195 8 KUALA LUMPUR. May 7. r pilE Federal Legislative Council today approved t h e expenditure o f SIBO.OOO to bring to Malaya th«. nucleus of a modern fishing unit which will enable Government in one vrar to net §90,000 from catches. The unit consisting of
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    $1,000,000 AID FOR HOUSING
    93 8 KUALA LUMPUR. May 7. CjELAXGOR is the only Y State which has asked r financial assistance from the Housing Trust to launch a scheme to relieve the housing shortage. This was stated in the federal Legislative Council today by the Member for works and Housing, Mr
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    12,000 U.S. CARBINES FOR POLICE
    121 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Ma.v 7. 'pVYELVE thousand American carbines and four h? 11^ h of 30 ammunition have been Legislative th<> Ped^‘ A sum of $4.6 million has y already been approved for >nc purchase of the carbines and ammunition The Federation Police are also to
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    Rotary dinner
    32 8 Mr. Allred R. Hogg, pre-sident-designate of the Singapore Rotary club, and other new officials for *****953 will bo installed during the Rotary annual dinner at Rafik's Hotel on June 26.
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    MEMBERS OF THE SINGAPORE BRANCH of the Ex-Women’s Royal Naval Service Association, toast their secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Margery Grimes, who will shortly be leaving the Colony. The party was held on board H. M. S. Laburnum on May 7.
    44 8 MEMBERS OF THE SINGAPORE BRANCH of the Ex-Women’s Royal Naval Service Association, toast their secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Margery Grimes, who will shortly b e leaving the Colony. The party was held on board H. M. S. Laburnum on May 7. .—Straits Times picture.
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    NEW HOME GUARD APPROVED
    160 8 KUALA LUMPUR. May 7. THE Federal Legislative Council today approved the establishment for the new Home Guard which is being set up in the Federation under Major-General de Fnntblanque, the InspectorGeneral. Headquarters of the Home Guard will be at Penang with rear-headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. Salary
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    The basis for a Malayan nation
    839 8 KUALA LUMPUR, May 7. NEW basis of citizenship was accepted unanimously today by the Federal Legislative Council after a 90-minute debate. Dato Abdul Razak bin Dato Hussain called it ‘‘a charter of nationhood which should be i foundation on which to build a strong,
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    Will the D. O. have too much power?
    787 9 KUALA LUMPUR, May 8. rpHK overriding powers with which District 1 officers would control the new village council, were criticised at the Federal Legislative Council meeting today when the Village Council- Bill was passed to a select committee. Members welcomed Government's move
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    $182,643 to keep idle mill
    74 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 7. MEMBER for Economic Affairs. Mr. O. G. Spencer, told Tuan Haji Mohd. Rejab in a written reply in the Federal Legislative Council today that the maintenance cost of the idle Government rice mill at Anak Bukit, in Kedah, was $88,065 in
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    More people but fewer doctors in Federation
    136 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 7. Although the population of the Federation increased bv nearly one million since 1941, the number of registered medical practitioners in private service has decreased in the same period from 622 to 608. These figures were given in the Federal
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    Govt, aims to train diplomats
    168 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 7. rpHE Federation I Government had been consulting the British Government about devising means of giving Malayan officials training in foreign service work, said the acting Chief Secretary. Mr. W. N. GodsaJl in the Federal Legislative Council today. t He was replying
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    Marine school to open soon
    95 9 SINGAPORE. May 8. A FTER nearly a year s delay because of the difficulty in getting staff, the Singapore Government’s Marine School will soon open at the Marine Hostel in Anson Road. The Engineering Instructor. Mr. G. R. Hodges has arrived from Britain, and is
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    Councillor charged in Kuala Lumpur
    135 9 KUALA LUMPUR, May 7. I? L. DEVASER, Kuala Lumpur lawyer, Municipal Councillor and president of the Malayan Indian Congress, was charged in Kuala Lumpur today with giving false information to the Assistant Controller of Immigration. Devaser claimed trial, and the case was postponed to June
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    Honeymoon flight
    73 9 SINGAPORE. May 8. A YOUNG couple arrived in Singapore yestesday in their own Percival Proctor aircraft. They are flying from Britain to Australia where thev intend to settle. The coupfle. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Cherry, were married in London on Apr. 5 and began their journey on Apr.
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    Hannah going on leave
    43 9 IPOH, May 7.- Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hannah, of lpoh, are going on leave to Britain this month. Mr. Hannah is deputy general manager (commercial) of Perak River Hydro-Electric Power Company and chairman of Perak Turf Club Committee.
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    WAS‘VITAL LOSS’ TO BANDITS
    264 9 JOHORE BAHRU, May 7. WHEN a bandit company commander, Lip Khoon, was shot dead by security forces, terrorist propaganda captured later said he had been “gloriously sacrificed” and that his death was “an important and heart-rending loss to the bandit troops.” This is disclosed in a
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    Planter’s wife had no I-card
    69 9 JOHORE BAHRU. May 7. Mrs. Daphne Edith Gardiner, wife of a planter on Sedenak Estate, was fined $BO here today for failing to obtain an identity card. She arrived in the country on Nov. 3. 1950 and only went to get an identity card on
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    OLD RAFFLESIANS
    57 9 The officials of the Old Rafffesians’ Association of Singapore for the year are: President, Mr. A. P Rajah; vice-president, Mr. Lau Kiang Hlong; secretary, Mr. Tan Boon Seng; treasurer, Mr. Chew Charm Khuan; committee: Messrs. K. M. R. Menon. T Kaslnathan, Quek Keng Slang, Su Hong Wan, Woon
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    4 troubadours in armoured cars
    302 10 A TREAT FOR TROOPS SINGAPORE, May 9. LHHJR British entertainers who will tour the r Federation in an armoured car giving performances to troops, often in dangerous areas, arrived in Singapore by Qantas-BOAC from London yester- day. Led by producer Ralph Reader, the jxirty, consisting
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    Now they will dine in private
    103 10 KUALA LUMPUR, May 8. 'rHE FEDERATION of Malaya Society of Architects today agreed not to have a public annual dinner because of General Sir Gerald Templer's appeal for more public service. The retiring president, Mr. A. O. Coltman, told members at a meeting today
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    $2 mil. sent to China in April
    44 10 A total of $2.045,63« was •sent by Chine'O in Malaya to relatives living in China in April Oi this sum. $1,231,025 went from Singapore. This included remittances made by residents of the Federation through banks in Singapore.
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    COLONY’S ‘FINEST RECITAL’
    384 10 SINGAPORE. May 9. A PACKED audience in-1 eluding the Governor and the Commissioner-General in the Victoria Memorial Hall last night heard what must “urPlv hay e been the finest rtcital of Western instrumen- m asic ever presented within its walls. Tiiis was Walter Gieseking’s playing of four
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    Trip-ashore ban angers Japs
    219 10 SINGAPORE, May 8. f'KM\ of the first Japanese ship to call at Singapore since the signing of the Japanese peace treaty ten days ago were angry yesterday that the Colony Government still banned them from going ashore. I The master of the 7.000•or. freighter Ginko Maru.
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    11 couples for wedding
    66 10 SINGAPORE. May 8. "pLEVEN couples from Sinlj papore and the Federation have so far registered lor the third Singapore Chinese Y.M.C.A. mass weddine at the Victoria Memorial Hall on June 7 at 2 p.m. A Chinese Y.M.C.A. spokesman yesterday said that the closing date for registration
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    ‘Wake up’ call to Johore
    84 10 SINGAPORE, May 8. “\yAKE up and exercise your right to vote in the Johore Bahru Town Council Elections or you will suffer for your apathy,” warned Dr. M. Birchee Johore State Councillor and a prominent Chinese leader, yesterday in a special message to the Chinese
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    MR. R. E. PHILLIPS, V.C., a senior investigator of the six-man probe-team for the Malayan Income Tax Department, who arrived in the Colony by Qantas-BOAC on May 7.
    95 10 Mr. Phillips said that he would start work immediately. He will be based at Kuala Lumpur. To meet him at the airport
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    172,000 tons carried by rail
    74 10 KUALA LUMPUR. May 7. Malayan Railway carrie nearly 172,000 tons of geo, during March, making t‘ total since January 475.1" 1 tons—a drop of 25.000 tons on the same period last year Revenue from passengfi trains during March was over $1 million while goons train
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    536 court cases last month
    57 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Mav <• Last month 536 cases wet tried in the police cou here, of which 390 concern* offences against the Iran regulations. CAO The cases involved 502 p* sons, of whom 336 were Crnnese, 83, Indians. 81 Malay one European and one Lur.
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    ‘Don’t fear home rule’-McLellan
    422 12 ‘Don’t fear home rule’ -McLellan SINGAPORE, May 10. CELF-GOVERNMENT in Singapore is inevit- able, says Mr. A. McLellan, chairman of Straits Steamship Company, in his annual statement. And he adds: “I see no reason to be afraid of it.” Some influential people appeared to be frightened by the prospect of
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    Here to see how we beat the Reds
    155 12 KUALA LUMPUR May 9. ARMY officers from Burma and Indo-China are with security force units in the Federation, observing Communist tactics and how' they are foiled. Yesterday, a senior officer of the Burmese Army, Brigadier Kyaw Zar, flew to Kuala Lumpur. After
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    Comrade Ho hanged
    63 12 KUALA LUMPUR. May 8. A bandit ambushed by special constables just outside Lenggong new village, Perak, in December last year, was hanged in Taiping gaol this morning. Ho Chee Fatt, the bandit, was wounded when trying to climb the village gate. He had a loaded Mauser and
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    Invited to U.S. conference
    65 12 Dr. E. H. G. Dobby. Professor of Geography at the University of Malaya, has been invited to attend a conference on South-East Aslan affairs at the John Hopkins University in the United States in August. The conference, which will last from Aug. 11 to Aug. 15.
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    S’PORE DIVORCE
    42 12 S’ PORE DIVORCE SINGAPORE, May, 10. A cTc'-e' nisi granted to Mr F. W. H Clarke dissolving his marriage with Frances Evelyn Clarke last December, was made absolute bv the 'Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley. in the- Singapoie High Court vf erday
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    Detective Novel in Malay wins $300
    162 12 KUALA LUMPUR. May 8. DETECTIVE novel of 50.000 words has won the first prize of $3OO in the Malay '.Literary Competition organised bv the Federation Education Department. This was the only prize awarded for novels. The novel, entitled "Chinchin Rahsla,” was written by Inche
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    14-HOUR PRAYERS FOR WESAK DAY
    274 12 SINGAPORE, May 10. SINGAPORE Buddhists yesterday celebrated Wesak Day—the triple anniversary of the Lord Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death —with 14 hours of prayer. They rose at dawn to raise the Buddhist flag over brightly lit flower-decked homes and temples, and then went to prayer
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    New offers discussed
    64 12 SINGAPORE, May 9. THE pan-Malayan Council of the King Edward VII College ofjrtedicine met in Singapore last night to discuss the Malayan Government's new proposals for a unified health scheme Members declined to make any statement on what further action had been decided upon at the meeting.
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    $1,052,430 for schools
    62 12 JOHORE BAHRU. May 9. Johore has allocated $1,052.430 for grants-in-aid to schools in the State for the current year. Last year the total expended under this heading wa s $583,000. Chinese schools will receive $707,040. Indian schools 5317.170 and Malay schools $28,220. Other grants include $186,000 to
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    Heart, soul in police
    97 12 KUALA LUMPUR. May j). TEONG YIT, a 24-year-old captured bundr who now had his “heart and soul” in the police, today Dleaded guilty to consorting with bandits and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court. Ene had trot $103 a month for
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    Warned Reds
    20 12 A civilian who warned bandits of approaching security forces has been arrested in the Taiping area of Perak
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    Anti-terror rules tightened
    422 13 SINGAPORE, May 10. )i: i \N l additions to the Singapore Emergency ulat ions, gazetted last night, deline a terrodocunu nts and supplies, no regulations, issued by the Colonial Secre Mr. W. B Blythe, give live definitions of a st. u ny person who: use ol any
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    NAVY TOOK TOWN BY SURPRISE
    534 13 SINGAPORE. May 11. VIAL AYS along the 110- miles stretch of the Pahang river between its mouth and the little town ot Temerloh looked bewildered when they saw Royal Navy assault crafts chugging tnem recently. wondered what they nd when the vesV anchored at night,
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    Fingerprints send a man to gaol
    180 13 SINGAPORE, May 10. FINGERPRINTS left on Mr. Runme Shaw’s bed1 room windowsill at Queen Astrid Park on Feb. 15 led to the conviction of a man for housebreaking and theft in the Singapore First District Court yesterday. Chong Wan Ngee. who, i police said,
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    HOME LEAVE
    40 13 JOHORE BAHRU. May 9. Mr. E. R. Davies, State Engineer, Johore, and a member of the Executive Council, will be sailing for Britain on Monday on leave. His successor. Mr. E. W. Houston, is due to arrive shortly.
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    THE President of the Singapore City Council, Mr. T. F. P. McNeice, said he teas “glad and proud” to be able to present Ling See Yeong, the young man who saved five lives when a car full of people fell into the Rochore Canal, with the gold watch seen in this picture.
    132 13 THE President of the Singapore City Council, Mr. T. F. P. McNeice, said he teas “glad and proud” to be able to present Ling See Yeong, the young man who saved five lives when a car full of people fell into the Rochore Canal, with the gold watch seen in
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    AUXILIARY FIREMEN FOR COLONY SOON
    91 13 SINGAPORE, May 10. AUXILIARY Fire Service as part of Singapore’s Civil Defence Corps, is to be formed immediately, the Government announced last night. Membership will be open to men over the age of 18 years. Those over 25 years will be considered only for control
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    Helped to detain 80
    130 13 KUALA LUMPUR. May 9. A FORMER COURIER of Liew Kong Kim. the bearded Kajang bandit leader, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment in Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court today for not surrendering to the police. The man, Yeoh Fook Seong. helped the police for three months to
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    Dr. H. J. McPherson
    32 13 JOIIORE BAHRU. Sat.—Dr. H. J. McPherson has been appointed to act as Senior Ophthalmologist. General Hospital, Johore Bahru, In place of Dr. N. K. Sharma, who has retired.
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    Lights for new villages
    104 13 OEARCIILIGHTS have been installed at Bekok and Labis resettlement villages to aid the anti-bandit campaign. If the experiment is successful, lights may be installed in the other new villages in Segamat district. The villagers have paid part of the cost of the lights. Bekok raised $500,
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    3 stations to close
    75 13 IPOH, May 8 THE Perak Chinese Chamber of Commerce ha.s been informed by the acting secretary to the Federal Treasury that the Government decision to close the customs stations at Ipoh. Taiping and Kuala Kangsar from July 1 cannot be varied. This decision has been reached,
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    Templer letters go out in 5 towns
    902 14 KUALA LUMPUR, May 10. F 15,000 people in the Federation co-operate tonight, the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, should be in possession of the deepest secrets of the Communist terrorist* within the next day or two. Today, “Operation Question,” a practically painless
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    New relief rates plan
    109 14 SINGAPORE, May 12. NEW relief rates for the sick and poor and their families have been included in the 1953 estimates of the Singapore Social Welfare Department. The rates prooosed are $l5 a month for the ‘head of household.” $8 for wife and each dependant of
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    Home for TB incurables
    107 14 SINGAPORE, May 12. THE full co-operation of Singapore’s private T.B. hospitals, experts and antituberculosis bodies will be sought in the running of the Home for T.B. Incurables. Mr. G. W. Webb, chairman of the new T.B. organisation, told the Straits Times yesterday. There will be the
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    PUBLIC LIBRARY PLAN GETS SUPPORT
    194 14 SINGAPORE, May 10. THE Friends of Singapore, at its annual meeting A yesterday, supported a suggestion by Prof. C. Northcote-Parkinson that a public library should be built in the Colony as a memorial to King George The society agreed to sponsor a public meeting to
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    WEDDING GIFT FOR ‘ARMY’
    46 14 WEDDING GIFT FOR ARMY’ Curtailment of expen-e for a Chinese wedding resulted in a donation $1,000 for Salvation Arir.v work in Singapore. The donor was Mr. rec Cheong Chuan, proprietor a. a haulage company, w/ eldest son, Mr. Teo Lav is getting married on v 21.
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    MANY VOLUNTEER FOR C.D. WELFARE
    106 14 KUALA LUMPUR, May 10. VOLUNTARY organisations in Singapore have applied to serve in the new welfare section of the Colony’s Civil Defence Corps, the Secretary for Social Welfare, Mr. R.W.I. Band, told a Press conference yesterday. Mr. Band, who appealed to others to "step forward”,
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    60 m.p.h. racing crash: Three die
    598 15 SINGAPORE, May 12. rrp.KKE VOLUNTEER SPECIAL CONST AI u|,KS were fatally injured and the driver seriously injured when a racing car, tra'fHinfc at about 60 m.p.h., got out of i-onirol on the Gap Road, Singapore, yesterday, and v as wrecked. 1 u* dead are
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    Equipment for varsity
    73 15 SINGAPORE, May 12. The Neuro-Physioiogy Department of the University of Malaya will begin the next academic year completely up-to-date. Thousands of dollars worth of new equipment has been bought and is expected to an ve shortly. Mr. Toh Chin Chye, a science graduate of the Malayan University
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    $***** FOR THE FORCES
    69 15 KUALA LUMPUR. May. 10. —The $15,000 allocated lrom the State estimates to celebrate the birthday of the Sultan of Selangor will be used to entertain members of the security forces of all races in Selangor. This is the wish of the Sultan who has decided that
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    4,234 MORE CITIZEN?
    47 15 KUALA LUMPUR, May 10. H TOTAL or 4,234 certificate.' of citizenship were issued in February this year. Of this. 3.036 were taken out by Chinese. Up to the end of February, 338.875 certificates had been issued. The total taken out bv Chinese was 297,128.
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    Indian trade envoy going home
    249 15 SINGAPORE, May 11. THE RETIRING Indian Trade Commissioner to Malaya Sardai Jogindra Singh, will address meetings ot the Chambers ot Commerce at Bombay, New Delhi and Calcutta on Malayan-Indian trade relationships when he returns to India this week. For three years trade commissioner in Malaya.
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    Service Bill discussion
    83 15 SINGAPORE, May 12. Parliamentary Committee of the Singapore Labour Party has recommended to its General Council that a public meeting be held shortly to sound opinion ,on the National Service Bill. This decision was taken l over the weekend. i The committee has also recommended that Party
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    P.C. goes boar hunting -and bags a bandit
    205 15 KUALA LUMPUR. May 11. HUNTING WILD boar in Ihe Raub area of Pahang yesterday. an auxiliary policeman got a bigger prize —a bandit He was sitting in a tree wait- Inc for pie when seven terrorists. walking in line, passed below. The
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    M. MOULDINGS WINS IN GREAT FINISH
    937 19  -  From EPSOM JEEP PENANG, May 8. 1 i aging a great run in i lie straight, Malleable v ldings (Mawi), came ;u a long way back to a smart lot in the i 3, Div. 1, 5i furlong 'U at Penang today, n d
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    WINTER LADY TAKES SUMMER CUP
    968 19 PENANG, May 10. TIMING his chaUenge to a I nivety, Jockey Harry M t.oud booted Winter Lady h ...e a fluent length-winner ui the hot favourite Chesieres in the Summer Cup for Class 3 stayers over l l 4 miles at Penang today, last day
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    Athenians to play in Singapore
    49 19 THE ENGLISH Amateur footballers of the Athenian League have arrived in Singapore from Hong Konff for a three-game visit—against Singapore C ombined Europeans, Sino-Malaya and Singapore. Above are pictures of 12 members of the team, including th e captain. I). Stoker, centre-half, of Sutton.
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      76 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL—$360,000 First: *****9 ($86,400) Second: *****4 ($43,200) Third: *****9 ($21,600) STARTERS ($6,171 each), Nos.: *****0, *****3, *****3. *****6. *****1, *****4, *****3. CONSOLATION ($2,160 each), Nos.: *****5, *****8, *****9. *****2, *****8, *****3. *****2. *****4, *****3, *****2. Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: $394,800. 1st: No. *****2 $94,152 2nd: No. *****7
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    Malaya’s income badly hit
    532 20 share market! From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, May 12. IT IS estimated that, with every fall of one cent per pound in rubber, the Federation loses income at the rate of SI3J-million per annum. Our chief staple fell from $1.06£ to 90 cents in the course
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    PROFIT OF $2,161,284
    151 20 »n the future of the port, 1 extremely conservative accounting and large resources to meet the cost of new ship, were highlights of the splendid annual report presented to shareholders of Straits Steamship Co.. Ltd. during the week. Profit for 1951, which is shown after tax comes
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    SULOH RUBBER
    13 20 SULOH Rubber Estates output for April was 9,975 lbs. all grades.
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    BUSINESS DONE
    269 20 SINGAPORE, May 12. B 1 USINESS done in the Malayan Share Market I iasri week included:— Industrials: Fraser Neave Ordinary $3.90 to $3.65; Gammon $3.O7Vi to $2 95 c.d.. $45.75; Malayan Breweries $5.05 I to $500; Malayan Cement 92 i 80 cents; Mural 80 cents; Robinson Ordinary $3.80
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    Straits Trading Co’s $1,939,766 profit
    129 20 DIVIDEND of $1.50 per $1 share, less in, tax, is recommended by the Straits Trad Company in their annual report. Tne profit for the year is shown as $1,939,766, after depreciation and making provision fcr income tax. A sum of $3*346,687 is available for distribution
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    89 20 SINGAPORE, May 14. TRANSACTIONS amounting to 1 51 piculs of Muntok pepper were reported In the Singapore Produce Market yesterday. Bellers increased their offers by $2O to S6OO a picul for Muntok und $595 for Sarawak; while Lam pong (black), which was uietly steady, was unchanged at
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    Ayer Molek crop
    18 20 The rubber crop of the Ayer Molek Rubber Company for lMt month was 26.689 lb.
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    37,360 lb. produced
    16 20 The Bukit Katil Rubber Estates Limited produced 37,360 lb. of rubber last month.
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    Company reports
    209 20 following are extracts from 1951 reports of rubber companies rPHE Bradwall (F.M.S.) Rubber 1 Estates Ltd.: Profit for 1951, after charging taxation £24,969 (£13.408) U.K. and Malayan taxation charged £26.000 (£11,250). Dividend 10 per cent £4,725 (£4.725) Transfer to replanting reserve £20.000 (£6.000). Amount carried forward £3.187 (£2.943).
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    ‘Disastrous’ week
    319 20 [Rubb^^^B SINGAPORE, May i. THIS has been a disasti us week for rubber wl h has fallen in price 15 cents a pound, savs 1 and Peat’s weekly report Many reasons, most of; n fatuous have been put ward to account for n t i°VL r ea i
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    Broga Rubber Estates Ltd.
    74 20 SHAREHOLDERS in '■<** Rubber Estates Ltd. m< now send in to Secretaries then er >- flcates to secure the capita 1 u.n of 25 cents per share and t ex change for new certificate The new certificates wi. their holdings in terms of t consolidated $1
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    820 20 SINGAPORE, May 14. INDUSTRIALS i Alex BrlcXx «t? rd ’i 3M 340 2 5: P^ tro1 38/6 39/6 cd M Trustees h no 1 oo Con Tin Smelt r p e A 22/- ords 2j/. »3/. a te Onlted 38 00 39 50 Fed. Dispensary ..1 95
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    JOSEPH TRAVERS AND SONS
    28 20 TOSEPH TRAVERS AND (produce merchants!-' ary dividend 10 per cent, creased capital (8% P e v assuming same capital) to J ;1 28. 1952.
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    7½ p.c. dividend
    41 20 Sarawak Steamship Comp-* profit for 1951 at $571,766 U valent to 13 per cent on tn* creased capital of $4,400,000 dividend of 7V6 per cent is re. mended. Net liquid assets > at $2,846,388. or $6.47 P rr share.
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    SIONE TIN
    25 20 A FTER mining operations. brought Sione Tin Ltd. £4.000. the tributor censed work. Attempts al *e made to interest other miners the property.
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