The Straits Budget, 5 June 1952

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    31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) tv v Scries No. 305. Thursday, June 5, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency Or 1 ftb.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      THE PRICE OF PATIENCE
      144 2  -  PATIENCE. A MATHEMATICALLY min- I ded friend of mine has 1 computed that the whole War 1 Damage Claim Commission, including the staff at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang, Seremban, etc., average a settlement of one-third of one claim per day for the whole of Malaya.
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      Challenge on the Pension, Scheme
      321 2  -  VICTIM. Singapore. S°th? Tubject a of° \Z T te a leading article on Councillor subsequently addressed a aiiestinnnn Vnf subject to Government. butions find In reply, Mr.Blythe blandly and adroitly evaded tho point in question by saying that the liabilities under the Scheme were likely
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      CITIZENSHIP & HIGH FEVER
      618 2  - CITIZENSHIP HIGH FEVER K. C. HOH. Nottingham, England. WITH the growing coustitutional development of the country, it is refreshing to read, away from the passionate heat of bandit warfare, a provocative yet sober article on the present problem in Malaya. In “High Fever in Malaya” (Overseas April and May) Dr.
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      THE MISSION TEACHERS
      107 2  -  MALAYAN Ipoh. THE Straits Times reports 1 that mission school teachers are threatening to resign by the hundred because of “pie-crust” promises made by Government. This is a timely report. Mission teachers have long been dissatisfied, more so because they have not yet been given their housing
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      Points at issue
      271 2  -  FAIR DEAL, Kuala I.inis. Reverting to > “Merdeka-God s e (me Queen” discuss, A w est »n ii > friendliness that it w. !d (increase one’s re- for Dato Onn, eith.* as State Minister or 4S )the leader of a poi; > party, if he would r
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      THE AIRPORT ‘SHACK’ AT K. L.
      157 2  -  travellf.i Singapore. IT may or may not b- Generally known that airport buildings in the F ration are in the hands the Department of Civil A\ Kuala Lumpur (Malay; Airways merely rents buildings). While some of these icings are in fair order ta Bahru,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      A Little More Rice
      631 3 —Straits Times, May 29. Thi 100.000 tons of rice hch l> Chinese Govern- ha> agreed to supply to a windfall from un V ected source .which would be welcome t,, those whose task is to procure supplies for Malaya. Kor Malaya’s own production i, down bv
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      The End Of The Strike
      481 3 —Straits Times, May 29. The Singapore Post and Telegraph Uniformed Staff Union has won its strike, hands down. At yesterday’s meeting, with the three day truce fast running out, agreement was reached on the two remaining points. The men appear to have made some concession
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      The Workers’ Welfare
      809 3 Straits Times, May 30. Six months late, but too soon for one section of employers, the Federation’s Provident Fund is to begin to operate on July 1. The Federal Legislative Council approved the bill as long ago as April last year. Administrative difficulties prevented the Fund from
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      The Opium Evil
      574 3 —Straits Times. May 31. Three items on a news page —570,000 worth of opium seized in a tongkang; 121 b. of opium hidden in a motorcar; an opium addict attempts suicide for lack of the drug. The pattern has changed very little over the post-war years. Scores
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      “Cheapjacks” And The General
      370 4 —Straits Times, May 31. Lord Mancroft has not been intimidated out of speaking his mind by his recent experience in having to apologise to the House of Commons for a jocular reference to honourable members larking around with buxom Bessie Braddock and the rest of the
      —Straits Times, May 31.  -  370 words
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      The Thomas Cup
      535 4 —Straits Times. June 2. Malaya has retained the Thomas Cup, symbol of international supremacy at badminton. When, three years ago, Malaya’s badminton team set out for Europe to clash with the world’s masters of the game in the first tournament for the Cup not many outside Malaya
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      Tin Industry’s Problems
      568 4 —Straits Times, June 2. To state the problems of the Malayan tin industry is not, unfortunately, to take even a small step towards their solution, and it is to be doubted whether Mr. Waring felt very much optimism in making his speech to the F.M.S. Chamber of
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      It Pays To Be Tough
      690 4 —Straits Times, June 3 It evidently pays to be tough with the Americans—and we do not mean at the Happy World! Ceylon has always refused to toe the line by banning rubber shipments to Communist countries, and its policy seems likely to yield a dividend.
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    War Memorial fund donations
    100 4 Donations to the St. drew’s CathedraJl war n rial fund, Singapore 10* fortnight ended May 24 Bata Shoe Co. $3OO. v; S*. Andrew’s Society $1 on. c M ller $854 28. Mrs. G Lj bridge and mahjong dn\ M”S V. C. Bath (ale r. drive) $2O;
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    THE M.C.A. AT THE CROSSROADS
    1250 5 plan which Sir 1 (-1-,-ns-lock Tan drew m lor the re-organisa-in of the M.C.A. is mtiedied in a memorandum dated Oct. 28. 1951. •Malaya is a plural coi'i't t».' he wrote, “and with two potent perils, CommuJJ iism and Communism, winch in their dire Meets
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    A MURUT LUNCH.
    42 5 The rice is cooked rather suit, then wrapped neaily in leaves. Th e plic-e isBab KelaIan (in the Fifth Division of Sarawak), on the Fast Borneo border, eight days’ walk from La was photograph by I led da Morrison.
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTH
      140 5 BOYCE: To Trims, wife of Ken, on 28th May. a daughter LOCKE: To Jean, wife of A Locke, M.C.S., on 23rd May, in Picton, New Zealand, a daughter Pamela. JANSEN: to Madeleine, wife of Cyril Jansen on May 31. a son Both well. HENRY—To Mahes. wife of Mr. J.
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      ENGAGEMENT
      54 5 MAJOR AG. HEYWOOD and Miss S.A. Walton—the engagement is announced between Major Anthony Garnett Hey wood M.V.0.. EC. Grenadier Guards, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.G. Heywood of Beadles. Sandwich Bay. Kent, and Shirley Ann only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Walton of Sandakan, North Borneo, and 1.
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      GOLDEN WEDDING
      43 5 HAYES-PALMER —WOTTON On June 3rd at St. Jame.v Church. Weybridge, by the Rev. W. B. Money. P. H. Hayes-Palmer, son of Montagu Hayes-Palmer. of The Manor House. Newbury, Berkshire, to Lilian Margaret, daughter Of Randel Wotton, of Cavendish Square, London. Wl.
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      MARRIAGE
      39 5 ROOKI.ESS GLANCEY. On rue day May 30th 1052 at St Thomas’ Church. Middleton Row. Calcutta by Rev. Fr. L. Amove S.J. with Nuptial Mass, Archibald John Booklet!* M C., C.A. to Catherine Teresa Glaneey, M.A. ol Johore Bahru.
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    NEW INFORMATION OFFICER
    48 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Juno 3. Indio Abdullah San: ha* been appointed State Information Officer. Johore, in .succession to Sycd Othman bin Ali, who leaves for Britain on June 12 for training course. Inche Abdullah S;mi comes from Kuala Lumpur and was previously stationed in Scrum bun.
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      79 5 STRAITS BUDGET .SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br Quarterly Half-yearly Yearly The weekly Singapore Town Area No Postage 5.20 10.40 20 80 issues of the Malaya Including Postage 5.75 11.50 23 00 i ur wtt>iy u. j u| Straits Budget can express at delivery service to the I'nited Kingdom only
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  • Obituary
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    125 5 DEATH TRACY: On May 2Gth. Drum infant daughter of Barbara and Tony Tracy. No letters pleas* 1 R. A. ALFRED. Bukit. Zahrah School. Johorr Bahru. Passe.! peacefully away on 28.5 52 A.:e 50 years. MH Antonin* France* ten Hoop** passed away peacefully at the General Hospital age t>9 leaving behind
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    THE LADY WITH THE SAW.
    10 6 Photograph by Kok Ah Cfiong.
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    As I was Saying
    737 6  -  CYNICUS. SINGAPORE. May 31. 4 AIONG the many possibilities of surprise n the Thomas Cup, the ntervention of J. Edgar Hoover and the F.R I probably could have been reckoned the least likely it has happened. G* man Joe Alston has been recalled, and the American
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    975 6  -  Stanley Street Ilir Jaffnese ii/t are confronted with a political poser. Who and what tasks an Australian ivadt r) are the Jaffnese? “I gather. he says, “that they come from northern Ceylon. Two Jaffnese colleagues in the hostel where I stay are trying r.o convince
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    Her five reasons why women are superior
    352 8 SINGAPORE. May 29. MISS Phyllis E. Morrison, private secretary to the Governor of Singapore, yesterday gave five reasons why business executives should place greater value on their women employees and use them in more senior and responsible positions. They were that women show
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    SARAWAK TO HAVE HER OWN RADIO
    148 8 SINGAPORE. May 29. SARAWAK’S Council Negri has approved a 81,000,00(1 scheme to start a single network broadcasting service in medium and short waves on strengths of four and seven-and-a-half kilowatts It is proposed to expand the service to two networks aftei 12 months. Studios
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    Police Officer going on leave
    36 8 TAIPING. May. 28. Two raipin'4 pollen officers who he going on long leave to v' M ,U Kln d(,m Shortly m Engel, O.C.P.D sun om <! o wvr 1 Crimes i, TaU
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    POSTMEN’S STRIKE IS NOW OVER
    271 8 SINGAPORE. May 'PIIE strike of Singapore's postmen is now over. On the last day of a three-day “truce” the Government yesterday agreed through the C olonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, to meet the men's outstanding claims. The final settlement was reached at a one-hour
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    Naturalisation—Few Chinese seek MCA aid
    94 8 SINGAPORE, May 29. TNESPITE an offer of clerical help by the Singapore branch of the Malayan Chinese Association, very few Colony Chinese have applied for naturalisation through the association. Otily a little less than 100 of the 200 application forms with the association have been
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    Union, Govt to discuss tax staff
    103 8 Union Govt to discuss tax staff SINGAPORE. May 29. A FIVE-MAN committee of the Singapore Government Clerical and Administrative Services Union, will meet the Colony Government today, to negotiate a settlement for 19 examiners and assistant examiners of the Colony’s Income Tax Department. These assessors recently threatened to go on
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    Drop in output of tin forecast
    897 8 CHAMBER OF MINES IPOH, Mav 28 THE peak oi Malayan tin production hail already been reached and the virtu-1 absence of all prospecting for tin in th, country since 1930 was bound to lead l<> serious drop in production as mines w ere worked
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    Women aid voters’ campaign
    134 8 Women aid voters campaign JOHORE BAHRU Ma> THE FINAL figures of 'fie registration of voters in Johore Bahru reveal that women, who lagged behn. the start in registering. mad* a fine effort towards the enci. finishing up with a total 1,591 registered voters. This is considered very isfactory when comp
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    Record month against Reds
    377 11 .KUALA LUMPUR, May 29. vlM’lL was a great record month in the war Against the Communist bandits. Their record pities—lo 3 dead and 13 captured—brought me Known number of terrorists put out of 1 lum since the Emergency began to 4,654. \nd the Security Force’s losses
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    ‘Not cultural desert’
    69 11 Not cultural desert’ SINGAPORE, May 30. -:ID of art in Sin has impressed Chao Shao-an. artist during the he has been in -Cony. Chao said yesterday ■C he left Hong he was told that v c was a cultural ce>, but he found this 't so. Singapore, he ca was
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    N.Y.K. ships on the way
    59 11 SINGAPORE. May 30. f k the first time in eleven the house flap of premier shipping line, Vusen Kaisha, will re- in Singapore waters •onth when the 6.800“'"•.vu Maru arrives. >hip re-opens N.Y.K.’s passenger and freight to Europe. will be followed by ther high-speed freigh-
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    These 2 were too much for 20 bandits
    277 11 S EG AM AT, May 29. i SCOTTISH security (►nicer, Mr. A. C. McKenzie, and a Malay special constable combined on a rubber estate in the Segamat area of Johore this morning to drive off more than 20 terrorists. Mr. MacKenzie and
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    Pilot train derailed
    36 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Juno L IMIE pilot train precedin'! the north-bound express was derailed in the Slim River area of Perak earlv today by bandits. No damage was done. The line has been cleared.
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    Donald Peers to sing in the jungle
    111 11 SINGAPORE. May 30. THt British singer Donald Peers is to visit Singapore and the Federation soon to entertain British troops. Mr. Peers. 8.8 C. and stage singer, is expected to spend a few weeks here. He will not visit Korea, as the War
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    NEW ADMIRAL
    64 11 —Reuter. THE appointment of RearAdmiral R M. J. Hutton as Flag Officer Fifth Cruiser Squadron and Flag Officer. Second in Command. Far East. Station, has been cancelled on account of ill health, the Admiralty announced. The appointment will now be taken by Rear-Admiral E. G A Clifford. Assistant
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    MR LIM KHYE SENG, Federal Legislative Councillor, of penang, who is now in England, chatting with Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, former Commander-in-Chief. China Station, and Mr. Lionel Jardine, former Resident of Baroda, India, during a screening at Southsea, near Portsmouth’s docks, of the Moral Rearmament film, The Forgotten Face, an industrial drama.
    52 11 MR LIM KHYE SENG, Federal Legislative Councillor, of penang, who is now in England, chatting with Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, former Commander-in-Chief. China Station, and Mr. Lionel Jardine, former Resident of Baroda, India, during a screening at Southsea, near Portsmouth’s docks, of the Moral Rearmament film, The Forgotten Face, an
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    CRIPPLES WILL BE CARED FOR HERE
    257 11 SINGAPORE, May 30. THE Governor of Singapore, Mr. Nicoll, will, on Julv 8, lay the foundation stone of the Home for Crippied Children to be built by the Singapore Brancn of the Red Cross at Tanah Merah Besar, Changi. •’Preparations begin this week and
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    Sir Gerald gives hope to blind boy
    166 11 KUALA LUMPUR. May 20. A BLIND Malay boy in a welfare home for desti--1 lutes in Trengganu met General Sir Gerald Temi pier today and soon a new useful life will begin for the boy Sir Gerald, who is on a visit to
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    India may send labour
    137 11 KUALA LUMPUR. June 1. IF Indian labourers were guaranteed reasonable wages and proper civic rights, the Malayan Indian Congress would .try to .persuade the Indian Government to permit labour from India to come to Malaya, said Mr. K. L. Devasar. President of the M I C.
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    COUNCIL TOLD: ‘NAMES FORGED’
    301 12 SINGAPORE, May 31. AN inquiry will be conducted soon into allegations that a forged petition was sent to the City Council about the conversion of the trade fair at Changi Road, Geylang, into an amusement park, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, President of the City Council,
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    Talks on new power plant
    75 12 SINGAPORE. May 31. SINGAPORE City Councillors wont into secret session yesterday to consider a recommendation by three committees that the contractors for the new electricity power station at Pasir Panjang should work on a cost basis from Thursday. Mr. S. S. Manyam (Inde-pendent-North), who w’anted
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    DAILY-RATED LATECOMERS
    46 12 Mr. S. S Manyam (Indep.— North) successfully sought reference back of a committee decision that daily rated employees, reporting late for duty in the mornings, be given work only alter the normal morning breaks of rest and be paid half the daily waye rates.
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    REJECTED
    32 12 Councillors rejected a committee recommendation to spend $9,000 tor installing two roof lights in the Water Department, two in the Sewerage Department and one in Die Architect and Building Survever's Department.
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    How they CAN parade—‘with bayonets fixed’
    130 12 How they CAN parade—‘ with bayonets fixed’ SINGAPORE, May 31. SINGAPORE City Council O yesterday granted permission for the three armed Services and the Colony's police to parade through the City “with colours flying and bayonets fixed" on the Queen’s birthday Permission was sought by the chairman of the Services
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    GURKHAS KILL 3 MORE
    96 12 KUALA LUMPUR, May 29 VIEN of the 1/10 Gur who killed Manap Jepun last Sunday, reported today from their base deep in the Pahang jungles that they had killed another three of the gang. This brings their total of kills during six days of relentless pursuit
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    Treasury Bill tenders
    46 12 KUALA LUMPUR. May 30. Tenders for Federation Treasury bills to the value of 55.000.000 have been accepted by the Acountant-General. Tenders at the rate of 3/4 per cent per year have been alllot ted in full. The bills will be issued on Monday.
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    The councillors will taste the food
    131 12 SINGAPORE. May 31. T'HE Singapore City Council will become food A tasters in the interest of the public, the City President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, told councillors yesterday. He was explaining the job of the Esplanade Hawkers sub-committee which will allocate stalls on
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    Letters will tell them to surrender
    111 12 ALOR STAR. Fri. Twenty thousand letters written by a surrendered bandit .calling on his comrades of the 4th Independent Platoon of the Malayan Communist Party to leave the jungles “for freedom and happiness” will be air-dropped in the Kedah jungle in the next few
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    T.B. TOLL
    10 12 T.B. claimed 21 deaths in Singapore last week.
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    Hired seats in taxis
    64 12 SINGAPORE, May 31. SINGAPORE Municipal councillors yesterday deferred a proposed amendment to the Hackney Carriage by-ldws which would prevent the hiring of taxis by the seat. They also referred back tP committee a decision disapproving a proposal to erect a block of four-storied service hats for
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    Gazette goes gay for coat of arms
    319 12 KUALA LUMPUR. May 30. THE USUALLY dull and prosaic Government Gazette today burst into technicolour for the first time, to*reproduce the Federation coat of arms in six colours. The illustration was part of an F.x:raordinai Gazette in which the High Commissioner. Gen. Sir
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    666 BIRTHS
    12 12 There were 666 births in Singapore last week. Deaths: 172.
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    Four more follow the Big Quit
    96 12 IPOH. Fri. FOUR more bandits nav given themselves up the Sitiawan area sinc“ tr. vice-commander 11th pendent Platoon ot the I d Regiment M.R.L.A., Chu Kuen. led the mass surrenn of 13 earlier this month. The latest surrender w at noon today at K
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    NEW OFFICERS
    31 12 New commissioned Insp tors in the active unit of 1 Singapore Special Constab lary are: Inche Ot:ur Abdullah. Messrs. Eric S”til.' George de Cruz and Fran D, A. Edema.
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    APPOINTMENT
    38 12 Mr. C. L. Schelkis. offi on probation under Part the Statistics Service. act as Assistant Registrar Malayan Statistics in P Ii! of Mr L. A Joseph. He will also be Assrstai Registrar of Imports and imports, Singapore.
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    Mr. Lam protests but his shop is moved into the road
    373 13 SING 'PORE. May 31. .1 Mr. Lam Kee f v in. managing director of a textne business, has done liis work daily on the floor 4> f his shop at Circular Hoad, Singapore, without an> interruption. i n lie
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    TRACTOR CLEARS AIRPORT SITE
    178 13 SINGAPORE. May 31. 4 1 t-AVY tractor started felling trees on the site the Colony’s new multi-million dollar internaJ «U airport at Paya Lebar. Singapore, yester- 1;n .a month, many units of specialised r including bulldoz- tders and 1 a huge 50*?ber tyred roller will 1
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    GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY
    25 13 THE University of Malaya Endowment Fund now stands at 54.817.205. Donations of sl.3s** were received in the week ending May 24.
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    Air strikes in Negri, Johore
    56 13 SINGAPORE, May 31. R.A.F. Brigand light bombers and Vampire jets, and RAAF. Lincoln medium bombers. hit bandit targets in Johore and on the Negri Sembilan/Pahang border in yesterday’s air operations against the terrorists. A helicopter flew to Kelanton to airlift a sick European police officer
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    Band drowned army officer’s suicide shot
    277 13 SINGAPORE, May 30. r»OI ICF INSPECTOR B. C. Ross said at a Singapore 1 inquest yesterday that he believed 42-year-old Major Garret Herbert had committed suicide because of Qn MaJor Hcr bert officer commanding Selarang Garrison, Chanel, who was found with a gunshot wound
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    Fed. Chinese police to get own uniform
    148 13 KUALA LUMPUR, May 30. FEDERATION’S Chinese policemen will have a special uniform of Iheir own. Revealing this at a farewell dinner given by the Malayan Chinese Association to 77 Chinese police recruits in Seremban last night. Col. A. E. Young, Commissioner of Police,
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    Five fought 50— and the 50 fled
    350 13 Five fought 50 and the 50 fled KUALA LUMPUR, May 30. during a battle lasting almost two hours against terrorists who outnumbered them 10 to one has won a Distinguished Conduct Medal for Cpl. Pahalsing Thapa and Military Medals for Rifleman Tekbahadur Roka and Riflemen Lasbahadur Gurung, of the 1/6
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    HE SAVED THE POLICE FROM ANNIHILATION
    157 13 KUALA LUMPUR. May 30. rn/fR. T. F. KEAREY, a planter, has been awarded the Colonial Police Medal for gallantry by the Queen for the part he played in saving a police party from annihilation in Kedah on Oct. 22, last year. A police radio
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    Safety film
    50 14 C CAMERAMEN from the J American Soundmaster Film Company “shoot” pedestrians crossing in front of the Singapore General Post Offlcr. The film will be used for a series of “Safety First” shorts which will soon be seen on Malayan film screens. Straits yan film screens. Straits Times picture
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    Federation Regt Bill published
    233 14 KUALA LUMPUR, May 30. THE BILL to provide legislation for the setting up of the Federation Regiment—the first step towards a Malayan national army—was gazetted today. It will be considered at the next meeting of the Federal Legislative Council. In six clauses the Bill puts into
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    Labour plans newspapers
    63 14 .SINGAPORE, June 2. The Labour Party of Singapore i.s to publish newspapers in English, Chinese Malny and Indian languages soon. This was decided by the portv general council during the week-end. Pn.!r s r w.nf ranc,s Thom as. Ah* William*, and v p nr b h d
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    SULTAN’S SON DISMISSED
    68 14 KUALA LUMPUR. June 1. Dismissal of Tengku Haji Abdul Aziz Shah, son of the late Sultan Sulaiman. from his political appointment as a major chief in Klang was officially announced today. Raja Uda bin Raja Muhammad. Mentri Besar for Selangor. who made the announcement. said that, the
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    GURKHAS KILL JOHORE RED
    39 14 KUALA LUMPUR Fri A patrol of the 1 2 Gurkhas killed a bandit in the Kota Tinggi district yesterday afternoon. They recovered his weapons and ammunition, rice clothing and five packs. The other bandits fled.
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    ‘Mink coat? I walked in and took it,’
    241 14 SINGAPORE. May 30. Win N Ang lloek Seng, a rag -and-bone man, now serving sentence, was asked m the Singapore Third District Court yesterday where he had got a mink coat a microscope and other articles worth $5,000 he replied: “I walked
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    ELIZABETH Montgomery, (left) and Alison Read, of Singapore Army families, sort and tie up children's books and comics at W.V.S. Headquarters c/o NAAFI. Anson Road. Singapore. They also sent books and papers for troops in the jungle
    59 14 ELIZABETH Montgomery, (left) and Alison Read, of Singapore Army families, sort and tie up children's books and comics at W.V.S. Headquarters c /o NAAFI. Anson Road. Singapore. They also sent books and papers for troops in the jungle Children's picture books and comics are Eagerly accepted by children in the
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    ‘FORGERY; McNEICE CALLS IN POLICE
    308 14 SINGAPORE. June 1. M R n T P F McNEiCE President of the Sin gapore City Council. yes terday called m th e police to investigate an allegation that a pettion containing forged signatures had been sent to the Council in support of a plan
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    4 more riot men to be released
    95 14 SINGAPORE, May 30 T<HE SINGAPORE Government will soon the remaining four of seven men detained the Emergency Regulations on St. John’s I after the Maria Hertoph riots in December 1 spokesman said yesterday. v The four are Mob;Taha bin Kalu. Dr. Bm^ 1
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    NEGLIGENT DRIVER
    18 14 TAIPING. May 31. Tee was fined $40 at Taipin driving fits van neglm" His licence was
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    Mr. Thio is head of S’pore A.C.S.
    337 16 HISTORIC 9 APPOINTMENT SINGAPORE, June 3. OINGAPOKE Legislative Councillor, Mr. Thio Chan Bee, was yesterday named principal of AngloChinese School —premier Methodist school in Malaya—as from June 7 in succession to Dr. Herbert H. Peterson who goes on a year’s leave. Mr. Thio’s
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    HE WANTS REDS TO BE FREE
    170 16 SINGAPORE. June 3. THE LABOUR PARTY of 1 Singapore may ask the British Government to reeongise the Malayan Communist Party as a legal political organisation, if it agrees to function legally. A resolution to this effect will be discussed at the party’s general council
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    Snake killed at service
    52 16 KUALA LUMPUR. May 20. T HE Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, was a interrupted by a snake \v hi 1 o preaching a sermon in Kuantan Methodist Girls’ School this week. It was killed by a member of the congregation during the
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    10 KILLED IN BATTLE FOR PIPELINE
    219 16 IPOH. .1 une. 2. policemen and two bandits were killed and several wounded ten miles lri, m Ipoh today in a battle over ;i sabotaged water pipeline. llie police were ambushed by bandits as they went to repair a damaged pipeline three and a
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    FIGHTING FISH DOUBLE LOSER
    94 16 BAIT PAHAT, June. 2. IITINNER in a tight be- tween two large tish in the sea oft Menyak Beku was Ong Boon Eng. a teacher at the Government English School. Batu Pahat. His prize was the loser a 16 kati specimen. Mr Ong was walking along
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    S’pore Govt gets report on rice
    168 16 S’ pore Govt gets report on rice SINGAPORE. June 3. I\ETAILED background information on the situation in South-East Asia was given to the Singapore Government’s three-man select committee on rice last month by Dr. W. M. Clyde, rh» British Foreign Ottice rice expert. i Dr. Clyde through Singapore las: week
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    CG ‘helped’ to train Thomas Cup team
    173 16 T SINGAPORE, Jur.i HE Commissioner-Cjfiier .1 Mr. Malcolm Machomii* said last night that 1,,, t'’ proud to think that 1,. a hand in the training J the victorious Mal.v, Thomas Cup badnunfol Speaking at the Badnimtn, Association ol M a lava din ner
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    Outlook is ‘very grim’
    169 16 IPOH. June MAJOR a. c. Smith, prudent of thf MaiaiaV. Planting Industries E.-tat Association, told a mrciir. of tho Lower E>tar» Staff Union to.'.av tlut tlu prospects f< r t future of the r try were "very “The rubber going thre stress “he t ill s:
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    New radio Malaya station at Kajang
    127 16 KUALA LUMPUR, June RADIO MALAYA’S transmitting station at K >khm Selangor, will be ready for use within the x! few weeks, the Straits Times was informed tod »>. It will improve the reception for Radio Malava listeners in Kuala Lumpur Klang. Port Swettenhai Seremban.
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    20,000 letters for a bandit chief
    120 18 ALOR STAR, June. 3 IHVENTY THOUSAND copies of an open letter from the Kedah Government addressed to Lau Seow, deputy commander of the Bth platoon of the underground Malayan Races’ Liberation Army, calling on him to surrender, are now being distributed in the Kedah
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    Forum chairman to study in U.S.
    213 18 SINGAPORE, June 4. OROFESSOR E.H.G. DOBBY, who has been the chairman of the Malayan Forum broadcast during the last few months, is to study American methods of running radio forums. Head of the geography department of the University of Malaya, Prof. Dobby leaves for
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    KIDNAPPED
    12 18 te?rr^°I nan was abducted by thp Jpleba area °t Negri Sembllan,
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    Heavy air attacks
    71 18 SINGAPORE, June 4. ALMOST every operational type of R.A.F. and R.A.A.F. aircraft available In Malaya was out yesterday to hit terrorist targets in Johore and Perak. R.A.A.F. Lincolns and R.A.F. Vampire jets and Brigands went for a group of targets on the north-west coast of Johore. In
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    GOVT TO BUY 15 HOUSES
    273 18 SINGAPORE. June 4. SINGAPORE Government is negotiating for the purchase of 15 new bungalows for its senior European officers, many of whom are living in hotels and boarding houses. The Governor, Mr. John F. Nicoll, yesterday inspected the houses which are being built in Rebecca
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    Burnt identity card to placate ghost
    134 18 SINGAPORE, June 4. WHEN Ng Ah Kow, a labourer, was charged in the Singapore Third District Court yesterday under the Emergency Regulations with failing to apply for an identity card, he said he had one hut in April, he had burned it because he
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    MAY RECORD MONTH IN CRISIS
    171 18 KUALA LUMPUR, June 3. MAY has been a record 1 month in the Emergency in Malaya in two respects—the number of terrorist surrenders and the small number of civilian casualties. Figures compiled from day to day communiques show that in May, a total of 30
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    Power station: New agreement
    217 18 SINGAPORE, June 4 (SINGAPORE City Council, under a new con tract system with the contractors for build inn the new power station at Pasir Panjang, can now order the work to be done at whatever p a(e it wants. But, the City President. Mr. T. P
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    THEY MUST HELP BUILD A FENCE
    74 18 KI’AL ALUMPUR, June. 3. \NY able-bodied man or woman in the Federation can be compelled from to day to help to build a fence or other defence works. The Federation Government today promulgated an Emergency Regulation which gives Mentris Besar and Resident Commissioners the
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    Japs want to come to S’pore
    168 18 Japs want to come to S’ pore between Malay* and Japan could bo improved if more of th* sterling balance was to import more Japanese goods, and if the present heavy restrictions on th* entry of Japanese per. sonnel were removed Mi Michael Sasaki repre sentative of the Japanese Export
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    COLONY RIOT SQUAD GETS INSTRUCTOR
    90 18 SINGAPORE. June L Lieutenant colonel w. fairbairn. who bum up the pre-war Shanghai Riot Unit, is expected to arrive in Singapore on Monday to train tn Colony’s first riot squad. The squad will be trained in the newly conver |*J police barracks in Eunos Social
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    35 Harbour police quit
    84 18 SINGAPORE, June 4 Thirty-five members of Singapore Harbour Boaro Police Force resigned month rather than sl n st for three years as from Sunday. rcC d The remaining 165 a r to the new terms and ditlons of service. pr The acting CommL' t of Police
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    MALAYA WINS THE THOMAS CUP—7-2
    1307 19  -  vy CONRAD NG ma] THOMAS CUP—the l nbol of world bad_ir supremacy-will laya’s for three or years. When Mr. T Woods, of Ipoh, i°'y ial representative nt ttv uternatlonal Bad»h -'“srtast %r usrSK rtok 11.15 on Sunday G had been well (S’ bravely lost. 0
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    Buyers waiting for stability in rubber
    310 20 [SHARE MARKET] From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, May 30. DUBBER fell to 77 cents per lb. and lower levels were touched in all sections of the Share Market. On Thursday, slightly more buying interest was noted when rubber recovered for a short time to
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    BUSINESS DONE
    220 20 SINGAPORE, May 30. BUS INESS done in the Share Market last week included:— Industrials: Fraser Neave $3.50; Gammon $2.35 and $2.40; Hammer $2.10; Hongkong Bank (London > £77; Jackson $1,924; Malayan Cement 77*? to 70 cents; Malayan Collieries $1.40; Oversea Chinese Bank $29.75: Robinson 6 i per cent.
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    G0PENG & PENGKALEN
    54 20 G0PENG PENGKALEN IPOH, June. 2. INTERIM dividends have been declared by the undermentioned companies in respect of the year ending Sept. 30. 1952: GOPENG CONSOLIDAT- ED LTD. 12V2 per cent, payable on June 21. PENGKALEN LTD. ten per cent, on the preferred and 10 per cent, on the ordinary shares
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    Dividends taxablewhen declared
    168 20 SINGAPORE, May 29. rE CHIEF Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, held in Singapore High Court yesterday in an Income tax appeal that dividends became due and receivable when they were declared and not oefore. The appeal was brought by Mr. Lim Eng Peng, a shareholder of •he Station
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    92 20 SINGAPORE. June 4. Conditions were quiet in all sections of the Singapore Produce Market yesterday following the holidays. Pepper prices remained unchanged, sellers quoting Muntok at $545 a picul. Sarawak at $540 and Lampong black at $445. There were no bu> s in the coconut oil section
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    70,062 TONS EXPORTED
    40 20 Total exports of rubber, all grades, to all countries from Singapore and the Federation last month amounted to 70,062 tons. Total exports of tin from Singapore and the Federation during the same period amounted to 4.553 tons.
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    TIN OUTPUTS
    37 20 T AST month’s outputs of companies in the Burma-Malay Tin Limited Group were: Katu Tin Dredging Ltd: yards dredged 103.000; output 181 piculs. Renong Consolidated Tin Dredging Co., Ltd. yards dredged 194.000; output 683 piculs.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    873 20 SINGAPORE, June 4. INDUSTRIALS Buyers StUer» Aiex Bricks Pref 4 >0 i 2d Orda 3.30 3 40 A tin* Ice 12 50 13 50 8.8. Petrol 36/- 37/- cd B N Trustees 6 Of 7 0d Consol Tin 3/9 4/2 Pref. It/- 22, Ords 22/- 23/Eastern United
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    U.S. rubber claims ‘not justified’
    259 20 KUALA LUMPUR, June 2 FEDERATION rubber merchants have r ed huge and unjustified claims from ten-in*! buyers on shipments of rubber to the l States, said Mr. Heah Joo Seans to 40 repm en atives of rubber merchants’ associ on from all parts of the
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    Dividend of 60 p.c.
    146 20 T'AIPING Consolidated’s profit for 1951 of $1,544,816 is equivalent to 150.4 per cent. Final dividend of 20 per cent, will make 60 per cent, for the year, against 45 per cent, for 1950. Net liquid assets in balance sheet work out at $2,182,352 or $2.12 per
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    WEEK OF ACTIVE TRADING
    205 20 WEEK OF ACTI VE TRADING Rubber SINGAPORE. ,v 30 THIS week has beei one of 1 active trading on ail rubber markets, th turnover in Singapore being particularly heavy, savs Lewi< and Peat’s weekly report The downward trend continued until, the middle of the week when it was halted by
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    Ampat Tin to pay final dividend
    106 20 Ampat Tin Dredgim recommends t final dividend cent, making with the oud w* terim a total of 30 pe: ‘Jf 1951. Last year an in!*" nOl deed of 15 per cent onl\ o*tributed. u Profit, subject to tax n £467,565 (£210,316)— an ncreas* of
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    1951 profit of $214,004
    45 20 Bassett Rubber c<> Profit for 1951 cay $214,004 (30H,). Proposer, dividend of 10 per cent. u. 30 per cent, for the yeai 12 per cent, for 1950. Net liquid assets in sheet amount to $133.94*' cents per share. a production vo.
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