The Straits Budget, 26 June 1952

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  • 30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) New Series No. 308. Thursday, June 26, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ih.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
    • 632 2  -  MALCOLM MacDONALD. Commissioner -General’s n ui4 o Residence, Rnkit Serene. .lohore Rahru. (From the Commissioner-General) I REGRET that my attendance at Miss Helen Traubel’s concert the other evening without a coat over my black tie and white shirt should have made your correspondent “Disgusted” feel hot
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    • 132 2  -  DISGUSTED. rE famous American singer Helen Traubefl, who gave a recital in Singapore on Wednesday, must have wondered what type of city she had entered if she spotted, as all others at the recital did. two well known public figureheads in their shirtsleeves. one of whom did not
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    • 115 2  -  R.W.B. “TAISGUSTED”, who objects to shirtsleeves in the Victoria Memorial Hall, is obviously one of those oldfashioned people who consider that good music can be appreciated only in discomfort and funereal solemnity. I can hardly imagine Miss Helen Traubel, the most unconventional of artistes, taking umbrage at the discarding
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    • 57 2  -  ABC. IT may interest you to know that the four Finnish women missionaries who have offered to teach the Olympic men are housed in Singapore Improvement Trust shops. The Improvement Trust apparently has so much shop accommodation to spare that no less than seven of its artisan shops
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    • 303 2  -  STKltO MEMOftA. Kuala Lipis. THINK I am voicing the opinion of the nri 1 of Malayans when I state that we aiv y have a live wire like General Si r Gerald 0 at the helm in the Federation. |)ler The laie Labour Government. no doubt, sent
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    • 79 2  -  D. M. BROWN. Penang. rE UMNO-sponsored petition asking for elemency in the case of four individuals convicted of a brutal and senseless murder is hardly' likely to engender any confluence in that body as an organisation capable of a realistic and unbiassed attitude towards any situation
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    • 312 2  - Widows and orphans’ pensions leuiuve C. PROSPER Penang. CONGRATULATE s t3 Mr Kuiasingha or tuirin* some very reve. and figures about e Wiri owts and Orphan.* Pennon Ordinance tor v.i. ve- th! official title may t I hope that Federal Councillor will be to ob tain, for general i> .nation
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    • 173 2  -  on this issue \NP G. STEWART SI Perak. IN your issue of June 18, included under the heading “Political Personages,” is published a letter by V.M. I would ask V.M. the following: What is the necessity for such an appointment as Com-missioner-General for SouthEast Asia? What
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 48 2 1 SI J r ‘K i US!* t I >• »s Nv \A‘> A- !//l W to 'Wl n *.i* *r\ MK rflWf Ml' \w vl ip j'W anyone who surrenders from this regiment will, upon the glorious dav of victory, automatically forfeit the back pay he’s been promised’.
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 587 3 --Straits Times. June 19. .!ii» heed to what Mr. U called the unanimous u f employers and emin favour of a provii'und. the Legislative h\ taking the second the Central Provi- tiii! Bill, has now tee two questions deterred the select -v am examining the In its report
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    • 439 3 —Straits Times. June 21. The battle between the security forces and the Communist guerrillas in Malaya is turning definitely in favour of the Government. That may be asserted, without complacency, i on the authority of the High Commissioner, although in his press statement in London
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    • 594 3 —Straits Times, June 21. To say that there seem to be improved prospects for effective action to help Malaya through the present transitional period without collapse of economic and political stabi ility” is not to make an unduly optimistic interpretation of recent authoritative statements concerning the
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    • 706 3 Straits Time.; June 23 An urgent need in Malaya is for doctors. In Hong Kong are hundreds of Chinese doctors, refugees from Red China, who need employment. Problem and solution are a mere fourteen hundred miles apart. It ought not to be difficult to bring them
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    • 348 4 Sirails Tunes, June 23 Support should not be lacking for Mr. Lay cock s plea in the Legislative Council that the time has come to increase the number of elected members of the Council. Tin* submission was based primarily on the fact that, with only nine elected
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    • 542 4 Straits Times. Juno 24 I hen- can hardly he disappointment that there has not h« n an immediately successful outcome* to ihe negotiations fur new wage rates for work- ers on the rubber estates. Dis- appointment is the* offspring of i expectancy; and it was not
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    • 564 4 Dignified, Cool, and Serene Straits Times, June 24. The subject, thanks to Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, is jack- Pis. and thp discarding of f them. The responsibility is > Mr. MacDonald’s, in the first place because of his personal endeavours to introduce a comfortable innovation in the matter of men's evening
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    • 803 4 —Straits Times. Ju The late Sir Henry Gurney saw in a reorganised Malayan Chinese Association an “alternative standard around which loyal Chinese could rally to light Communism. Sir Cheng-lock Tan s cabinet should keep the Gurney ideal in mind in the great task which faces
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  • 96 4 SINGAPORE. Jr. A EUROPEAN civile killed when lie tel. in the dark Into S' Canal. Singapore, la 1 after he had parked 1 1 Handv Road. near the 1 Two Indian clerk' 1 Mathews and Tttv Ab’/ V iumped into the cana’ nulCed out the European M.
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  • 1366 5  -  By HARRY MILLER rrOtVARDS the end of 1 next week, a 200,000- n l novel entitled y Many-Splendoured lh.m will be publish(i n i London and in (’•uvula simultaneously h Jonathan Cape, and in (tie C.S.A. by the \tlantic Monthly. Three we eks
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  • PERSONAL
    • 136 5 TO Peggy, wife of Dr. J. T Fernandez, at Bungsar Hospital a boy. Both well. WALLWORK: To Valerie, wife of Alan Wallwork, on 16th June, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital Singapore, a boy. HENDERSON: To Betty, wife of G. A. Henderson, at the Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on 18th June, a
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    • 38 5 THE engagement is announced between Keith Raymond, youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. R. O Lee of Aldershot, Hants, ana Josephine Innes. daughter of Mr and Mrs. C. H. Mackay of Lunas Estate. Lunas, Kedah.
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    • 22 5 MR. N. R. Mistrl wishes to thank all those who sent congratulatory messages to him in connection with his recent gift.
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  • 150 5 SINGAPORE, June 24. THE Singapore Chamuer of Commerce will give ea h prizes from a special City Commemoration Prize Fund under the auspices of the Education Department, to students sitting for the London Chamber of Commerce examinations this year. Prizes will be given
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    • 33 5 STRAITS BUDGET subscription rates < PAYABI/K IN ADVANCE) express at delivery service to th» Ini ted Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of $34.00 for nix months ‘AIJ. THE ABOVE ARE IN STRAITS CURRENCY)
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  • 108 5 DEATHS BODESTYNE: On 18th June, 1952, at No. 103, McNair Road. Matilda Bodestyne, 83 years. The funeral cortege will leave the residence at 4 45 p.m. today, 19th. for the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd and thence to Bidadari Cemetery for interment. McKENNA. On 23rd. June, 1952, at his residence
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  • 802 6  -  —STOIC. SINGAPORE, June 21. OUK SYMPATHY go es out to Mr. Hector Hughes, the Labour M.P., who, having prepared what was doubtless an epic in speeches about Malaya, had to go home at live* o'clock in the morning with it undelivered, because the House was “counted
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  • 10 6 Photograph by L Loo Seng.
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  • 991 6  -  Stanley Street. Initial twist MALAYANS, remarks Mr Lim Chong Hum in an I entertaining little letter, are not without a sense of humour. This is a matter on which we have never really had any doubt. ‘•Sometimes,” ..ays Mr. Lim. however, ‘‘it takes a strange
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  • 325 8 KUALA LUMPUR, June 18. ANOTHER big drop in export duty collected on rubber brought the Federation’s revenue for last month to the lowest since October, 1950. Import duty on tobacco raised more in May than did export duty on rubber. Tolal Federal customs and
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  • 45 8 SINGAPORE. June 19. IfALAV.t had an adif! verse trade balance of $27,900,000 at the end of May. preliminary figures issued by the Registrar of Malayan Statistics yesterday revealed. Total imports into the Federation and Singapore w err SSStSN.Mt; exports $3Ol ,<>oo.ooo.
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  • 93 8 SINGAPORE. June 19. fpHL Singapore City Couns cil peons want a new type of uniform khaki .shirt and trousers instead of their present closed coat*: and trousers. The Council had intended replacing the present type with dark grey bush shirts and trousers and each
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  • 83 8 SINGAPORE, June 19. THB: Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce is launching a campaign to collect, $1,000,000 for its new building at the corner of Lokc Yew and Hill Streets. Appeals will be made to Chinese associations, clubs and guilds in the Colony, Dr. S. Y. Wang,
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  • 68 8 IPOH, June 18. Till REV. 110 SENG ONN, L i*')W principal of Penang An pio- Chinese School, has beer, appointed the first Asian educational secretary of the Meti.odist Mission Schools in Maluj a. He succeeds the Rev. R. Kes^elring, Mr. Ho will become
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  • 68 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 18. Reports in a Singapore newspaper that the Federation Government was considering to pav the salaries of Chinese school teachers w r ere refuted today by Mr. L. H. N. Davis, Secretary to the Member for Education. Mr. Davis said that there were
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  • 85 8 HUSH, now, Teacher said we had to be quiet when this important gentleman came to school. Finger raised reprovingly, one girl pupil remonstrates with her friend in a primary class at Anthony Road school, Singapore. And the girl with hands over her mouth realises this is a special occasion, and
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  • 40 8 MR. G. P. Darke, a former teacher at Raffles Institution, Singapore, who has been appointed Chief Inspector of Chinese Schools in place of Mr. R. W. Wat-son-Hyatt. who is now Senior Inspector of Schools. —Straits Times picture.
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  • 29 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 19. Mr. Y. C. Kang, secretarygeneral of the Malayan Chinese Association, is in hospital in Kuala Lumpur. He was admitted last Friday.
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  • 54 8 SINGAPORE. June 19. PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT of the British Military Hospital in Singapore has lost two microscopes worth $2,000. They were missed at 8.45 a.m. yesterday when the department started the day’s work. “The theft occurred between 5 p.m. on Tuesday and 8.45 a.m. the next day,” a
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  • 242 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 18 CUSTOMS duties on J tobacco and bicycles in the Federation have been revised. Some rates have been reduced while others have been increased. Huty on cigarettes, cigars and snuff remain the same. Manufactured tobacco (excluding cigar* cigarettes and snuff) imported in
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  • 209 8 KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 rpODAY is the fourth anniversary of the declaration of the Emergency in the Federation. Three Malay Home Guards, who killed one terrorist and wounded another in the Batu Fana area of Johore last night, have commemorated tne anniversary by giving
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  • 33 8 SINGAPORE. June Inche Yahya bin A.. j* man. Otlice Asms Supreme Court Registry. be going on leave soon v retirement. f Inche Yahya joined 111 service in 1919.
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  • 208 10 KUALA LUMPUR, June 19. THE FOUR YEARS of Emergency have the* terrorists 4,816 men and women killed, captured or surrendered, it was officially stated today. In addition, 1.643 terrorists are known to have been wounded and to have slunk off into th* jungle, where
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  • 85 10 K. LUMPUR, June 19. GANG of 40 terrorists ambushed a patrol of First Manchester Regiment in Cameron Highlands area of Perak today, killing five soldiers, a Malay police inspector and two Chinese civilians. Rest of the patrol are on trail of the cam? and reinforcement*: have
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  • 130 10 From a Special Correspondent JESSELTON, June 19. JAMES TOCHER, Superintendent, Preventive Service, North Borneo, who was sentenced to 29 months’ imprisonment for assaulting Peng Siak Leong and three others with intent to extort confessions from them had his sentence reduced on appeal before Mr. Justice
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  • 65 10 KUALA LUMPUR, June 19. M ISS H. E. FALCONER, a missionary in Malaya fm 32 years, died on Tuesday after a long illness in Kuala Lumpur. A trained nurse as well as a missionary, she came to Malava from Scotland. She served in different Parts of
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  • 38 10 SINGAPORE. June 20. rT J °°dber. manager of Buklt Sembawang Estate has been appointed a member of the Singapore Rural Board in place of Mr A. L B' /nrvntlT’* h() I,S aW,AV 0n sl months leave.
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  • 236 10 SINGAPORE, June 20. THE Americans are just as concerned as the A Malayan producers over the rubber position, said Mr. H. H. Facer, Federal Legislative Councillor, who returned by Qantas-BOAC yesterday after attending the Rubber Study Group talks in Ottawa. Mr. Facer, who w r
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  • 312 10 PENANG, June 18. 'J'HE FEDERATION Government has approved a plan to expand specialist services, said Dr. H. M. O. Director of •Medical Services, in Penang: today. Dr. Lester told the Straits Times that he would be solus to Britain next month to discuss
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  • 136 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. CATEGORICAL denial that the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Tvmpler, had gone to London to a6k the Seerttarv of State for the Colonies for a temporary suspension of the Federation Ag e ment was made in Kuala Lumpur today by a Federation Government
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  • 112 10 SINGAPORE. June 19 THE Singapore Rotary Club yesterday agreed to hand over $32,500. raised at Its fun fair this year for a school and community hall in the Colony’s leper settlement. Trafalgar Home, at Yio Chu Kanu to the newly- formed Singapore Leper Relief Association under
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  • 215 10 KUALA LUMPUR. June 18. A BANDIT who was killed on the Ulu Caledonian Estate, North Selangor, dn June 13 has been identified as Hean Choong who took part in five murders. Hean. a 31-year-old Hakka wa.s secretary of the Ulu Yam district branch committee of the
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  • 426 20 SHARE MARKET! From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, June 23. OUBBER rose to 91£ at the end of the week, it was reported, on reports of devaluation pressure on the Investors in the market for commodity shares, however, were guarded in their operations, since they are not
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  • 184 20 SINGAPORE, June 23. THE price of synthetic rubber charged by the United States Government should coincide more closely with the price that private industry would charge if the manufacture of synthetic was in their hands, said Mr. H. C. Bugbee, Associate Director of the U.S. Natural
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  • 222 20 SINGAPORE, June BUSINESS done in the local share market during last week Included: Industrials: Alexandra Brick Ord. $3.40 c.d.; Federal Dispensary $1.85 ex rights; Gammon $2.65; Malayan Breweries $4.80; Malayan Cement 75 cents paid up 98 to $1.00; Malayan Collieries $1.55 to $1.57 4; Robinson $3.50; Singapore Cold
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  • 131 20 SINGAPORE, June 23. piculs of Lampong black pepper changed hands on the Singapore produce market in loose parcels at $485 a picul yesterday. Copra was reported steady with buyers at s2s\ and sellers at $26%. Coconut oil was quoted at $45 4 sellers f.o.b. Singapore. Prices for
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  • 282 20 SINGAPORE, June l 1 RUBBER orders from Japan this week «’i u have given an indication that the Jan h Government may embark on a stock 1/ programme, have sent the price of ruhh by 4] cents on the Singapore rubber n l during the
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  • 82 20 \§R. W K. Warren, chairman. Jtmes Warren (formerly Planters’ Stores and Agency Company) states that sales turnover for the first six months to the end of March. 1952. was most encouraging. being very considerably in excess of the turnover for the corresponding period in the preceding year.
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  • 807 20 SINGAPORE, June 24. industrials Ale,. Bricks. 2.10 2.25 cd 3 50 3.55 cd 1350 o.a. retro! 33/9 94/o B.M. Trustees'...'. 8 00 7*oo Xd Con Tin Smelt. W 0 2l- 22/United 18 00 39 50 Riffrasa 1 85 205 Gammons 255 H 7 O’town Disp. 2.40 2
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  • 314 20 SINGAPORE, June 'u QURINO the past w,;VV z r “bber market has undergone a decided chan sentiment, with sellei. be. coming more reserved savs Lewis .and Peat s week port. re Our old friend, devaluation thp ba< i k T ith us agair and the
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  • 65 20 STOCKS of rubber hell by ers in port and by Singapore at the end ot l** s totalled 45.203 ton.s-9.-lH lA«c thor* S(t the ee»d o. •I 1 1 Dealers stocks totalled tons, against 46.686 ton.' 1,1 stocks in port or in tran>‘ the Federation were
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  • 28 20 Cheras Rubber Estates for 1951 show current a £72,301 (£29.115). liability 1(£9.176). (£9.176). Revenne J* s r ves surplus £34.076 <£27.039 650.700 lbs. Meeting on wdh
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