The Straits Budget, 22 May 1952

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) Sow Series No. 303 Thursday, May 22, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency Or 1 ih.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      ARMING AGAINST A SLUMP
      689 2  -  KLYNE STREET. Kuala Lumpur. LMGHTY -FOUR cents (Saturday’s Singapore price), less 17 cents duty, less two cents cost of baling and transport, equals 05 cents a lb. (price of rubber loose ex estate.) In some cases this last price is exceeded by the cost of production,
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      A MESSAGE TO PLANTERS
      192 2  -  11. K. DIMOLINE. Secretary. ll.P.A.M., Kuala Lumpur. THE following letter addressed to the president of the United Planting Association of Malaya from the chairman of the Planters’ Association of Ceylon is forwarded to vou for publication in your paper: “At a meeting ol the general committee
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      IN NORTH WARD
      71 2  -  VOTERS. Singapore. 11 T E reside in the North Ward In the last City Council election we voted for Mr. A. P. Rajah, the Progressive candidate, who made the improvement of conditions in the Ward one of the points in his manifesto. It is more than five
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      TAX PROBLEM
      49 2  -  X Y.Z. Singapore. DST. in his letter headed “Disgrace of the Brothels” on May 17 said that each prostitute must make more than $1,500 a month, if this is so. I wonder if the six experts coming from Engiland to catch tax dodgers will look into it.
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      Estate wages
      335 2  -  planter Federation of Malaya. WITH the present*slump in the price of rubber it behoves the Malayan Planting Industries Employers’ Association to get cracking on a new wages agreement with the trade union Mr Narayanan represents. When the former agreemer* was made the rubber estates had to give millions
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      RIGHT TO VOTE IN MALAYA
      255 2  -  TEBRAl! W ARP Johore Bahru. THE apathetic and indifTera* i ent peopie j n Malaya towards their v itht t0 Y ote is unique. Time and again, it has been proved m Singapore, Penang, M lCca Kuala Lumpur and row Johore that the majority of
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      ‘PEONS IN SILK’
      94 2  -  INQUISITD Singapore. THE new type of uniform at present worn by peoni in Government Departments is a step in the righ airection. The public can more easily distinguish peons as such, besides nowing at a glance the yuve <i work, which is clearly in red letters on
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      SALUTATION
      60 2  -  nimbus Singapore. DATO ONN’S recent at Malacca would haps have appealed to listeners and readers n d ended with th<> cry. Save the Queen, rathe. “Merdekah* The Member for Affairs in the Governnn the Federation should at appear outwardlv to to the Crown. h If he cannot feel tn
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      The Busmen’s Strike
      1134 3 —Straits Times. May 15. ipore appears to be in {o y dose of labour trouble, die postal strike has b en .,dded the walk-out by j )US drivers and conductors of the Singapore Traction Com*y* If is no secret at it,- lower ranks of hospital workers may
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      The Synthetic Plant
      729 3 —Straits Times, May 16 There has been some be-1 wilderment in Malaya over the apparent failure of the International Rubber Study Group to discuss at its Ottawa meeting the question of the subsidised price of synthetic. Notoriously the Group says publicly as little as it need, a
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      Wiping Out Corruption
      647 3 EmpText If Singapore’s new Governor can rid the Colony of the disease of corruption in its he will have done something for which he will be gratefully remembered in years to come. Mr. Nicoll has lost no time in making the first move. The setting up of
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      A United Malaya
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      Trail of the Comet
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      Concrete help & grassroots
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      Democracy in the kitchen
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      The Police Command
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    MALAYA SAYS GOODBYE TO COMMANDOS The men the bandits fear are going to more peaceful lands
    931 5  -  By GEOFFREY GELDARD X>N the men of No. 3 Commando Brigade, .val Marines, will be rm ping from landing and capturing <trongposts on the riKl st of Malta G. C. in V nr.ke-believe war,
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      102 5 PALMER On 12th May. at Bunusar Hospital, to Marjorie (netBentley), wife of Antony Palmer daughter. BAPTIST: To Harrlette, wife of C. Robert Baptist, at Youngberg Memorial Hospital, on 15.5.52 a sister for Rhona. BROWN: To Betty, wife of F B. Brown, at Bungsar Hospital. K.L.. on 16.5.52. a son.
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      ENGAGEMENT
      117 5 D’SOUZA-HESSE: The engagement was announced between Earle William, son of Mr and Mrs. E. A. D’Souza of Singapore, and June Patricia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V O Hesse of Kuala Lumpur. MR. J H DALULIESH AND CAPT. M. A VIZARD iWRACi The engagement is announced between James Hunter,
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    Travers’ chief going on leave
    74 5 SINGAPORE, May 21. Mr. C. E. Coiimge. General Manager of Joseph Travers and Sons, Ltd in Malaya, leaves Singapore on FTiday on home leave. He will spend some weeks in South Africa, where his company has important business interests, before going to England. Mr. Collinge,
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    ON THE GAME TRAILS OF THE FEDERATION
    429 5  -  By C.A. GIBSON-HILL BIC CAME OF MALAYA by E. C. Foenander. (Batchworth Press, 21s.) THE present is scarcely the time to hunt game in Malaya, with gun or camera, but it is to be hoped most sincerely that this difficulty will not deter
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  • Obituary
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    82 5 DEATHS CHARLES AESCHLIMANN. Chief Delegate for South East Asia of the International Red Cross Committee of Geneva, at Clarenf-Montreux < Switzerland on 3rd May. 1952 HAWES, Brian Reginald at General Hospital 15th May. Funeral at Bidadarl ft p.m. 16th May ’NICHOLL ALFRED, ot Be lata River Estate, murdered by trrroris
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    MALAY FISHERMAN
    6 6 She!! Photographic Unit picture.
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    As I was Saying
    700 6  -  CYNICUS. SINGAPORE, May 17. yyiLL the Government take the easy way ou f pf the S.T.C. bus workers’ strike, and say and do nothing? It looks a greater certainty than anything at Bukit Timah this afternoon. There is plenty of excuse. There was no trade dispute,
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1045 6  -  Stanley Street. As (lie Homans did tH’EN in Malaya, it appears. we do what the Romans did This is clear from a letter from one “Ahir”, explaining the origin of beating Retreat. This military ceremony, he says, dates back to Roman rimes, and was the
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    Countryman’s Journal
    652 7  - Countryman’ s Journal TUAN DJEK. Sunday two Singaporeans visited the Dusun, travelling by motor-bike. They left on return at 3 p.m.; fortunately for them because at 4.30 a terrific rainstorm started. We have a good shower at least every other day. A.s there was no time for the husband to
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    The chair in the foreground indicates the size of this huge brass incense burner which stands, a dragon on each side, in the Ayer Hitam Temple, Penang.
    32 7 Photograph by Yong Peng Seong.
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    SINGAPOREANA
    860 7  -  Stanley Street. Timor Sea boats CONRAD’S heroes, Tom Lingard, Lord Jim and their like, are grey ghosts of the past; like the schooners they sailed. The only link with those times is the arrival of the Palari, Lambok. Golekkan. Leleh-Leteh and Sekochi ketches and sloops, from the Timor Sea.
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    50 Years Ago
    163 7 From The Straits Times of May 3 to May 10, 1902. THE Bombay Gazette thinks the situation on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula very much resembles that at the head of the Persian Gulf, and just as we interfered to protect Mahabarroukh we appear to
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    13 SURRENDER IN PERAK
    500 8 IPOH, May 14. THIRTEEN bandits have given up in the biggest surrender of the Emergency. It happened in Perak and the 13 who said they had had enough of the Communists were the vicecommander of the 11th independent platoon of the sth regiment, his wife and
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    Ex-Reds chief’s call to comrades
    177 8 KUALA LUMPUR, May 15. THOUSANDS of leaflets carrying letters from Ching Kuen, the $B,OOO bandit vice-com-mander, who organised and led the biggest surrender of the Emergency in Perak, are to be drooped all over Perak and other States in the next few days. Tho head
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    Nicoll elected
    20 8 Mr. J. F. Nicoll Governor of Singapore, has been elected an honorary member of the Singapore Rotary Club.
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    Mr. Sheppard gets a book
    116 8 SEREMBAN. May 15 MR. M. C. ff SHEPPARD, British Adviser, Negri Sembilan, who recently inherited Cabra Castle 50 miles north of Dublin, has received another valuable gift from a friend, Fash n 140-vear-old EnglishMalay dictionary. The thick book, by Marsden, looks none the worse for
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    Now turn-around is quicker
    141 8 SINGAPORE, May 15. SPECIAL berthing space for the hundreds of tiny coastal vessels which ply between Singapore and neighbouring ports, has been provided in the Harbour Board wharf area. The berths, with accommodation for five ships, are at I the North Wall of Empire Dock. Owners
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    Firms form advertising association
    72 8 SINGAPORE. May 15. EIGHTY-SIX representatives of various Chinese j and European businesses in Malaya met at the American I Club in Singapore on Tuesday to form a Malayan advertising association. An eight-man working committee was appointed, with Mr. Max Lewis, of Fraser and Neave Ltd., as
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    Pine council meets
    41 8 SINGAPORE. May 15. THE Pineapple Joint Industrial Council which held its inaugural meeting in Singapore this week discussed methods of helping smallholders. The council appointed a committee to draw’ up specific proposals for consideration at a future meeting.
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    City tire losses up $2,000,000
    134 8 M SINGAPORE. Mav 15 ORE than #3.200.000* worth of property was damage by fires in the City area Singapore last year. s av the annual report of tin* Singapore Fire Brigade This was nearly 52.000.0n0 more than the da mate caused by fire the nreviou*
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    FISH NOW CHEAPER
    104 8 SINGAPORE. May 15 PRICES of fresh fish i" Singapore markets hav? fallen by about ten per cent Fish dealers yesterday attributed this to increased lancing catches following the end of the north-east monsoon. Fishing operations off the east coast of Johore have increased since March, and bigger
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    4 troupers bring joy to the jungle
    255 8 KUALA LUMPUR, May 14 UUITH sweat dripping from their faces four gaU^ nt entertainers, two men and two women are touting the Federation giving shows to British troops Wherever the British Tommy might be —in ttu' Federal capital or in a remote jungle
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    ELECTRIC FENCES SCHEME
    199 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 15. THE use of electrified fences 1 round new villages to stop food from S°“'g l r is legalised under a new Emergency regulation Pr°" muSated by the Federation Government today. Hie new regulation gives the right to Met Uris Besar or Resident Commissioners
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    GROUP PHOTOGRAPH taken at a farewell reception in honour of the Rev. A. C. Daniels priest-in-charge of the Kelantan Trengganu Parish. The Rev. Paul Samuel has taken charge of the vicarage.
    32 9 GROUP PHOTOGRAPH taken at a farewell reception in honour of the Rev. A. C. Daniels priest-in-charge of the Kelantan Trengganu Parish. Th e Rev. Paul Samuel has taken charge of the vicarage.
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    Singapore is not the end—court
    276 9 Singapore is not the end —court SINGAPORE, May 17. SINGAPORE Magistrate, Mr. H. B. Livingstone, yesterday fined an English ship’s officer $lO and reprimanded him for his behaviour in the Harbour Board pass office on March. 15. H. Sladden. an officer in the Pemba, pleaded guilty to disorderly behaviour and
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    Bandits killed man who ‘escaped’
    284 9 Bandits killed man who escaped’ SINGAPORE, May 16. |>I('II.\RD Berlin, aged 24, a German, jumped oil a French Foreign Legion ship in the Straits of Malacca so he would not have to fight in Indot flina. That was two years ago. On Wednesday, Communist bandits killed him «>n a rubber
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    Port Dickson D.O. for Singapore
    42 9 PORT DICKSON. May 16. Mr. C. H. Wood. District Officer, Port Dickson, has left on transfer to Singapore where he wiCl be attached to the Economic Branch. His successor is Mr. D. W. Stewart, from Kuala Lumpur
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    Python shot In S’pore
    62 9 SINGAPORE. May 18. COLONEL C. Sellars, 0.8. E., of 3 8.0. D., Alexandra. Singapore, yesterday shot a 15-foot-long python in a store shed. The colonel shot the snake through the head with a .22 rifle. A sentry had spotted the python early in the morning. But
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    Killed by lightning
    90 9 SINGAPORE, May 16. LABOURER, Velaiyitanpillay, aged 26, was shaving in his hut at R.A.F. Tengah during a storm when he was killed bv lightning, it was stated in the Singapore Coroner’s Court yesterday. G. Thankappan Pilflai, a wireman, said that while in Velaiyitanpillay’s house on the afternoon
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    Singapore hawkers may defy Council
    180 9 SINGAPORE, May 15. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY hawkers may defy Singapore City Council by remaining on their pitches on the esplanade if the allocation of stalls in the hawkers’ building now being built is not changed. A spokesman of Singapore Hawkers’ Union told the Straits
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    $5,000 GIFT TO SCHOOL FUND
    37 9 A $5,000 donation by the Shaw brothers has helped to swell the Singapore Fairfield Girls’ School building fund to $20,693. Another donation was $l,OOO from Aik Hoe Company Limited. Other donations were:
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    VILLAGE HEROES PRAISED
    172 9 IPOH, May 14 THE heroes of Kampong Bukit Sati In Upper Perak, who had repulsed an attack bv a band of terrorists by killing four of them and wounding three others, have earned a congratulatory message from the High Commissioner. General Sir Gerald Templer. Sir Gerald has
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    Hostel seeks gifts for seamen
    147 9 SINGAPORE. May 16 SEAMEN stranded in Singapore and waiting for ships like nothing better than a quiet evening at the Marine Hostel, with plenty of books and gramophone records to play, said the hostel’s superintendent, Mr. A. L. Brown to the Straits Times yesterday. He
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    Red raid repulsed
    42 9 SINGAPORE, May 15. Home guards drove off a gang of bandits who raided their post in the Jitra area of Kedah on Tuesday. Before opening fire on the Home Guards, the terrorists raided a house and wounded a woman.
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    FOR ENGLAND
    24 9 JOIIORE BAHRU. May 15. Syed Othman bin Ali. Information Officer, Johore. is leaving for England next month for a special training course.
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    Awards for 4 Penang heroes
    174 9 PENANG May 15. fTtOUR PENANG Chinese who helped to shelter 18 soldiers of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment and an Indian sepoy after their retreat from the island had been cut ofT by the Japanese, today received illuminated certificates from the High Commissioner, Gen. Sir Gerald
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    MCA SECRETARY-GENERAL RESIGNS
    357 13 KUALA LUMPUR, May 16. \]U. YONG SHOOK LIN, honorary secretaryticneral of the Malayan Chinese Association, ri»sh r ned from his post today. He is still an ordinary member of the MCA. He refused to give any reasons for his sudden resignation, but it is believed that he
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    BRIAN HAWES DIES
    160 13 SINGAPORE. May 16. PRIAN HAWES. Ihe 30J> year-old Malayan Air- 1 w.iv.s' captain pilot, whose car crashed into three Volunteer Police course marshals at the Singapore Motor Club's Gap Road Hill climb last Sunday, fatally injuring all of them, died in the General Hospital, Singa- > <>rc.
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    Education Assn officials
    87 13 SINGAPORE. May 19. the annual general n < tm 7 yesterday the Work- :s Education Association, 11 a pore, elected Mr. A. R. l l/u ,°us president; the vice- ldents were: Messrs Lee an d S. S. Manyam; r secretary. Mr. E. S. Moortreasurer, Mr. P. M.
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    GOVT. WANTS YOUR OPINION
    69 13 SINGAPORE. May 17. -ho Singapore Government welcome proposals from Public of the form in 'jwh a memorial to King e une vi should take, said l! Government spokesman to Straits Times yesterday. He *aid that the Governwould be guided bv unr, cial opinion on the speci-
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    Colony school appointments
    36 13 SINGAPORE. May 17. Mr. B. Dudley has been appointed acting Inspector of Schools, Singapore. Mr. Soo Ban Hoe has been made principal of Victoria School. Singapore, in place of Mr. R. F. Bomford.
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    Income tax chief
    28 13 Mr. W. A. T. Morton has been appointed to act as Comptroller-General of Income Tax for Malaya. His deputy will be Mr. T. R. Robertson.
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    UNIVERSITY FUND
    24 13 Donations totalling S6OG were received during the week ending May 10 by the University of Malaya Endowment Fund, which now totals $4,807,624.
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    AIRLINES CANCEL FLIGHTS
    153 13 SINGAPORE, May 17. Cancellation of several overseas air services through Singapore owing to the aviation fuel restrictions was announced by three airline companies yesterday. Qantas-BOAC are cancelling an eastbound and a westbound service due to leave London and Sydney next Tuesday. The services were due to arrive
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    Onn and Onn they sang
    60 13 PENANG, May, 16 11HREL “tukangs karang’* (chorus leaders) from the ptilau pinang Boria Party sang pantuns last night in praise of Dato Onn bin Ja’afar, leader of the Independence of Malaya Party. The verses' were dedicated to Dato Onn for Ins services to the country
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    Library may be S’pore memorial
    245 13 SINGAPORE, May 16. SINGAPORE’S memorial to the late King will take the form of a public library—possibly with mobile units and sub-libraries in the out-of-town districts. This was decided yesterday at a public meeting convened by the Friends of Singapore at the British Council Hall.
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    $1,500 JEWEL ROBBERY
    49 13 SINGAPORE. May 18. TWO masked Chinese-—one speaking fluent English robbed a European woman of her jewellery and cash worth over $1,500 in Bukit Timah Road last night. She was locked inside a room and when she managed to get out she fo,und her jewelß<iry was missing.
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    KEDAH ESTATES CUT WAGES
    183 13 ALOR STAR, May 16. t>ECAUSE of the present drop in the price of rubber, the majority of Asian estates in Kedah have cut wages for tappers from 5 to 10 per cent. So far the tappers have accepted the cut without complaint. .Some estates In Central
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    C.D.C. AID FACTORY TO SPIN
    216 13 SINGAPORE, May 16. SINGAPORE’S first factory for spinning; yarn is to be built on the Colonial Development Corporation’s 53-acre factory estate site on Bukit Timah Road. The factory will be the first in the Corporation’s $1,500,000 plan to aid the Colony’s industrial expansion. It will
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    New hotel by the sea
    105 13 SINGAPORE, May 18. AT a cost of nearly $200,000, the 160-acre estate and mansion of the late Mr. J. E. Elias, off the tenth mile Tampenis Road, Singapore, has been converted into a luxurious hotel and seaside resort for use by the Colony’s pleasure seekers.
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    GUEST OF HONOUR
    32 13 A dinner was held on May 17 In honour of Miss Jean Fraser, director of the youth department, World Council of Churches, at the Singapore Chinese Y.M.C.A., Selegle Road.
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    Big opium haul in Singapore
    532 14 SINGAPORE, May 18. SINGAPORE Customs men swooped on a smugglers* hideout —a small bungalow off the Bukit Timah Road —yesterday and found $150,000 worth of opium locked up in a room. It weighed 500 lbs. The house is believed to have been the transit centre
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    GHANI QUITS AS PMU HEAD
    122 14 KUALA LUMPUR. May 18. INCHE HASHIM GHANI, president of the Peninsular Malays’ Union, today stormed out of its executive committee meeting after tendering his resignation. His action followed a ‘•(•lash'’ at the meeting. A member of the committee told the Straits Times afterwards that there
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    8,000-mile air trip to see her cat
    146 14 SINGAPORE, May 19. VJRS. Gladys Doggett, who ■l’A flew 8,000 miles from London to Singapore to collect her cat said in her hotel room in Singapore last night: “This is a private matter. I don’t want you to say anything about it.” Mrs.
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    Nicoll looks into needs of hospitals
    378 14 SINGAPORE, May 17. THE Governor of Singapore, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, yesterday spent nearly three hours touring the Singapore General Hospital, the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, the Kandang Kerbau Hospital, and the Middle Road Clinic to assess for himself their most urgent needs under
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    Provident Fund Board meets
    145 14 TKUAI, A LUMPUR, May 16. HK Employees Provident Fund Board, which has s *}l task of organls- a Government-sponsored nation-wide fund, met in Eumpur yesterday to duoin f l er t u he f da i e for inlro'rl ng v the fund. |l 10 board
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    Prof Catlin defines a ‘snob club’
    122 14 SINGAPORE. May 17. pROF. GEORGE CATLIN f (above), British lecturer on political science, arrived in Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday. Asked about his statement in Sydney last month on Singapore’s “snob” clubs. Prof. Catlin said that ne was not referring to clubs which allowed Asian
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    WATER IN MILK
    30 14 JOHORE BAHRU, May 18. S. Karupsamy, a grass cutter, was fined $lOO in the police court today for selling milk of which 13 per cent was water.
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    3 ASIANS GET AIR A WARDS
    124 14 SINGAPORE, May 18 THREE Asian aeromechanics have been awarded scholarships by Qantas Empire Airways to study for engineering licences on Constellation aircraft in Australia. The three mechanics are Mck Ah Fong. A. Jelters and G Pandian who will leave for Sydney about the middle
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    FIJI COLONEL ARRIVES
    107 14 SINGAPORE, May 18 Colonel Clive Pleasants. Commander of the Fiji Military Forces, arrived in Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday to visit the Fijian troops in Malaya. Col. Pleasants said at the airport that he had brought with him a message for the Fijian troops from the acting Governs
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    MORE GO FOR GUIDANCE
    214 14 Singapore brier s T'WIC F G n’ >ORK Ma V 17. '1'vviLt the number nf 1 women are seekin-. advice of Singapore Fami v Planning Association v of 'this 1 year Toos mo J"^ threemrn g ths 0 o f fC i r 95 t !'M
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    The Comet here —in 19 hours
    408 16 SINGAPORE, May 19. NINETEEN HOURS and 13 minutes flying 41 time after it left London Airport, the first fully equipped de Havilland Comet jet airliner landed at Changi airfield, Singapore, yesterday afternoon at 4.35. Tlu* pilot, Captain M. Majendie, shook hands with the Governor,
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    ‘MCS MEANT ONLY FOR EXPATRIATES’
    279 16 SINGAPORE, May 20. THE Malayan Civil Service is intended to be a A “senior political civil service staffed by expatriates”, says the editorial of the May issue of the Grad, magazine of the Singapore Stamford Club. The Grad bases its opinion on a speech by
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    SIX MONTHS’ GRACE FOR YOUR GARS
    134 16 SINGAPORE, May 20. MALAYAN motorists, who 1T1 have had their cars for 18 months can now. on a derla ,ltl0 of change of residence import them into Britain anr r>r,/ Jh**m through the Cusom.s lrp" of licence, dutv tuI uuMiase tax. Previous]/ the period
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    POLICE help was needed to control the crowd which went to collect mail from the temporary post office at the Victoria Memorial Hall on May 19.
    72 16 ABOVE: Mr. D. W. Naylor, personal assistant to the Director of Posts, uses a microphone to give directions to the 31 men and women
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    GORDONS LIKED BANDIT BASHING
    151 16 SINGAPORE, May 19. T'HL Ist Battalion, Gordon Highlanders—with 22 bandit kills in their year’s service in the jungles of Pahang and Perak—were piped into Singapore railway station yesterday for a period of rest and re-training. At the station to meet them were wives, sweethearts. comrades and
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    $3,560 FINE
    44 16 JOHORE BAHRU. May 19. Low Teo Swee, a Kuala Lumpur businessman. was iined $3,560 in Johore Bahru 1° r trying to smuggle 288 bottles ol perfumery and 288 botttes of hair cream, valued at $479. on which dwtv pay Jbij* was $353.
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    Bookings begin for Coronation
    121 16 SINGAPORE. May AIR and sea bookings the Queen's coronatior. in London next year were begun in Singapore yesterday more than 12 months before the event. Hundreds of Malayans artexpected to be among the thousands of overseas visitor.' who will flock to London for the Coronation which
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    The crisis laws are extended
    361 17 LABOUR MOVE BEATEN SINGAPORE, May 21. m m;\I*ORE Labour Party found no support at > vestr relay’s Legislative Council in its attempt to iu j the operation of the Emergency Regulations in the Colony. Except for Mr. Lim Yew Hock, the Party’s president, and Mr.
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    On way home
    26 17 The French freightertroopship Cap Touraint arrived in Singapore on May 20 with more than 400 veterans of Indo-Chlna on board, returning to France
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    Hospital policy defended
    293 17 SINGAPORE. May 21. rHE Singapore Govern- ment's policy of -giving some medical attention to as inanv as j possible, rather than giving first-class atten-j non to a few” was defended by the Colony’s Director of Medical Ser- ires. Dr. W. J. Vickers, yesterday. Dr Vickers was replying
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    Back from leave
    28 17 ’OHORE BAHRU, May 20. O. B. Friend, former Recent Officer, Johore. 1 1 rrtumed from leave. He a or f>n posted to the Secrer Pahang.
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    Council ‘not machine’
    67 17 ‘SINGAPORE, May 21. T’HE GOVERNOR, Mr. J. F. A Nicoll, yesterday told Singapore Legislative Council that he had never regarded a legislative council as a machine created for the automatic registration of decisions taken by the Governor and his Executive Council. Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, Council vice-president,
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    FIVE OFFICERS from Singapore who are in London for the Girls’ Life Brigade Jubilee celebrations.
    40 17 From left: —Cheong Kim Kee, aged 25; Lye Hou Seong, 20; Fong Noi Hor. 18; Tan Siew Cheng. 18; and Anna Tay. 17. A.P. picture.
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    $9 MILLION THEY HAVEN’T GOT YET
    127 17 SINGAPORE, May 21. of staff and the instalment-plan type of payment are the official reasons for delay in collecting nearly $9,000,000 of arrears of income tax on Singapore’s 1951 assessments. Government yesterday gave this answer to Dr. C. J. Paglar (Prog. Changi) in the
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    Tax men are dissatisfied with pay
    169 17 SINGAPORE, May 21. DISSATISFACTION with their pay scale on the part of some of the Income Tax Department staff, especially examiners, is contributing to the inefficiency of the department and needs a remedy.. Dr. C. J. Paglar, (Prog. Changi) suggested this in a question
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    Helicopter lifts wounded Gurkha
    75 17 An R A F. helicopter landed in the jungle of South Pahang on May 20 to airlift a Gurkha rifleman, a casualty on antibandit operations, to Bahau hospital. R A.A.F Lincoln bombers and R A F. Sunderlands made heavy attacks on two terrorist targets in Negri
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    BADGES and certificates for acts of valour or merit have been instituted by the High Commissioner. Sir Gerald Templer.
    86 17 And the first two awards for valour will be made today to two Penang policemen Corporal Syed Rahman Shah and Corporal Kok Joo Hock The awards have been made in recognition
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    ‘Provident fund plan useless...’
    140 17 SINGAPORE, May 21. rpHE select committee appointed to examine and 1 report on the Central Provident Fund Bill, 1951, declared it useless to consider the bill in detail until the Singapore Legislative Council accepted in principle a scheme for retirement benefits. In a paper tabled at
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    BRING—DOWN PRICES’ APPEAL TO GOVT
    174 17 SINGAPORE, May 21. UK. THio CHAN BEE (Progressive Balestier), at the v, igapore Legislative >uncil meeting yesr(Jay, appealed to the governor, Mr. John F. ,C °N, to pay special -Mention to solving the housing and high cost of living problems now facing the Colony. Mr
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    Govt. will not submit
    866 18 NICOLL ON STRIKE SINGAPORE, May 21. JWK GOVERNOR of Singapore, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, yesterday warned the Colony’s striking postmen that Government would not be forced by strike action to submit to all their demands. He was addressing the Singapore Legislative Council. “I would remind these
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    Mr. Blythe to meet the postmen
    231 18 OEPRESENTATIVES of the IV Singapore Post and Telegraph Uniformed Staff Union, will meet the Colonial Secretary. Mr. w. L. Blythe, today to discuss the possibility of reopening negoThis follows a new move by the Government to end the strike of 480 uniformed postmen and
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    362 told to quit in a year
    334 18 SINGAPORE, May 21. SQUATTERS and their eviction and re-settlement, school playing fields, loans for house buying and the Control of Buildings Ordinance were among the things the Singapore Legislative Councillors wanted to know about at yesterday’s meeting. Dr. C. J. Paglar wanted to
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    CONDEMNS THE BUS STRIKERS
    160 18 SINGAPORE. May 21. GOVERNOR of Singa- pore, Mr. J. F. Nicoil, in his first address to the Legislative Council yesterday condemned the three-day strike of employees of the Singapore Traction Company as an “outrageously irresponsible action, carried out with utter disregard of the interests of the
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    They may have to give up cards
    132 18 SINGAPORE. May 21 PERSONS leaving Singapore for places outside Malaya may. if so required, have ti surrender their identity cards to any police officer above the rank of inspector aa immigration officer, or Commissioner for Registration. This decision was taken tv the Colony
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    Act quickly Govt told
    60 18 SINGAPORE. May 21 INCHE Ahmad bin MohamI med Ibrahim (Nominated' called upon the Singapore Government yesterday in tne Legislative Council to act speedily on the recoir.’ emotions of the Boarding ano Lodging Houses Committee of 1951. The Lodging House« committee recommende licensing of all hotlodging houses
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    NEW G.O.C.
    29 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Mr MAJOR-Gcneral L. I J 1 Perowne has take; as General Officer Con ing. South Malaya, fr gadier R. C. Collingwoc has been acting G.OX
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    COLONY SURVEY FOR FOOD
    165 18 SINGAPORE. May 21. A TEMPORARY survey unit which will find out which nreas in Singapore are most suitable for reclamation for food production is Mng recruited as part of the Colony’s ‘‘more food” drive. The Secretary for Economic Affairs, Mr. Andrew Gil™°ur the Straits limes last
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    GULAR ROMPS HOME IN THE CUP TRIAL
    1118 19  - G ULAR ROMPS HOME IN THE CUP TRIAL Hy EPSOM JEEP. SINGAPORE, May 18. Ui Governor’s Cup proli ct sailed home a comf rl three-length winner »’up Trial over a mile Bu it Timah yesterday, opemn- day of the Singapore T iri Cl ito Summer Meeting. Ouiar paid £57 on
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    All set for the Thomas Cup
    790 19  -  THE WEEK IN SPORT By CONRAD NG VINE DAYS from today, Malaya’s badminton aces will wield their racquets in defence of the Thomas Cup which they won at Preston in 1949. The Americans and the Indians have already arrived. The Danes are' expected to
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      51 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL $430,585 1st No. *****3 ($193,762) 2nd No. *****3 ($96,881) 3rd No. *****4 ($53,823) Starters: ($5,382 each) Nos: *****7, *****1, *****7, *****4, *****8, *****9, *****4, *****6, *****7, *****8. Consolation: ($3229 each) Nos: *****9, *****3 *****0, *****4, *****8 *****8, *****3, *****6, *****1, *****5. DOUBLE TOTE 157 tickets ($120
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    Market in sympathy with rubber moves
    457 20 SHARE MARKET From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, May 19. SENTIMENT on Malayan markets followed pretty much the bulletins from the rubber commodity market and when, towards the end of the week, rubber appeared bogged down in the mid-eighties, holders of Industrials, Tins and, of
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    BUSINESS DONE
    185 20 SINGAPORE, May 19. BUSINESS done in the Share Market last week included:— Industrials. Fraser and Neave $3.65 to $3.60, Gammon $2.70, Malayan Cement 65 to 72 4 cents. Robinson $3.72 Vi, Straits Times $3 60. Straits Trading $21.00 to $20.00 ex div., Straits steamship $21.50 to $21.00. Union
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    Bank made $281,685
    114 20 SINGAPORE, May 18. A DIVIDEND of 12*/ 2 Per cent and a bonus of five per cent was agreed to by the shareholders at the annual meeting of the Sze Hai Tong Banking and Insurance Company yesterday. The annual report and accounts showed a net profit of
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    85 20 SINGAPORE. May 21. /CONDITIONS in the Singapore Produce Market yesterday were again quiet. Loose parcels, amounting to 20 piculs of Lampong (black) pepper were sold at $460 a picul, with further sellers at that price. Quotations for Muntok and Sarawak pepper were stepped up to $640 and
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    A RECORD AT PORT
    83 20 KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 all-time record amount of cargo was handled at Port Swettenham on Friday. The tonnage loaded and discharged during the 24 hours before 7 am. yesterday amounted to 5.492 deadweight tons. The normal port capacity is 2,500 tons a day. Imports totalled 3.052
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    April stocks
    38 20 CTOCKS of rubber in Singapore the en d of April totalled 56.413 tons—an increase of 3.391 tons over the previous monrh Dealers’ stocks totalled 46 686 tons, port stocks 9.686 tons and estate stocks 41 tons.
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    300,000 MAY GET WAGES CUT
    298 20 KUALA LUMPUR, May 2ii AFTER DISCUSSING the rubber price ij s j, today, the wages committee of the Ma'-.van Planting Industries Employers’ Association decided to ask the negotiating committee of th« Plantation Workers’ Unions to meet them as soon as possible to agree on wage
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    Guthrie Group
    51 20 from the various estates and mines in the Guthrie Group for April 1952 and to date are as follows: Rubber: 5.450,990 lhs (22 *****6 lbs); Tea (black): 155,000 lbs. (632,000 lbs Palm Oil: 958 tons (3,901 tons); Palm Kernels: 294 tons (1,266 tons); Tin Ore 505 piculs (4,657
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    907 20 SINGAPORE, May 21. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Severs Alt-x BncRs Pre» i .o i 25 ?rds 3.30 3 40 8 J ce »2 50 13 50 B.B. Petrol 38/- 39/- cd B M Trustees 8 00 7 00 Con Tin Smelt Pret Hi/- 22/- Ofds 32/- 23/Eastern United 38
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    Market in healthier state
    199 20 I -jpg RubberMaST SINGAPORE. Muv 17. THE fall in the price ol rubber was accentuated over the past week-end, and the lowest point reached on Monday afier which a welcome reaction set in say* Lewis and Peat’s weekly report. This reaction was caujed mainly Dy covering
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    PROFIT FOR GAMMONS
    47 20 Gammon (Malaya) Limiteds report for the year endei »n 1952, show a profit of f 143 (49.6%) including S30*7.1J4 jrotn on investments realised n a dividend of 40% is re< 0: against 30% last year. Net liquid assets are at or $1.13 per share.
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    COMPANY PLANS LIQUIDATION
    41 20 Sandycroft Rubber <- -P Limited will call an extr.i general meeting on Jun* consider the directors e mendation that the com put into voluntary liquto unit the recommendat o' a adopted, it is anticipates least $2.90 per share realised.
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    £27,150 profit
    25 20 Tampan Rubbery to January 31, £27,150.. £18,465. Pinal dividend 5) cent., making 25 per cen Meeting, Jurfc' 11. Mr. Da\ ruthers is chairman.
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    Coconut acreage
    27 20 The total pflanted ac. of Malayan coconut e. and smallholdings at th of last year was rP which w as 1.68° ariv than In 1950.
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