The Straits Budget, 14 August 1952

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    29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) Scries No. 315. Thursday, August 14, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ih.
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      From the city of Light
      165 2  -  C. PROSPER LISTON. Penang. An ACCOUNTANT friend of mine has suggested a solution to the shortage of electric current in Singapore: 1. Take July 1952 as a basis of consumption. 2. Let anyone using less current than the “basic” in any succeeding month be given
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      REGIMENT OF INDIANS
      123 2  -  ALL INDIA. Johore. IT is encouraging to read the letters by Mr Maher Singh Bhullar, “Tamilian” and, on Aug. 9, “Malayan Malayalee,” all suggesting a separate racial battalion serving the same purpose. •While all agree this is to fight against the bandits, and claim Malaya as their
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      NEW PLANES FOR BORNEO
      100 2  -  R. P. MOLLARD, Managing Director, Malayan Airways. Singapore. IN the Straits Times on I August 6 a paragraph appeared on page 7 under the above heading wherein de Havilland Rapide aircraft were described as singleengined. We wish to point out the D. H. Rapide aircraft which
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      K.L. SHORT AND PENANG MEDIUM
      52 2  -  RADIO MINDED. Alor Star, Kedah. \[OW that nearly all radio stations under construction since last year have been compCeted, will Radio Malaya make an early announcement on when the K.L. shortwave and Penang mediumwave stations will be brought into service, giving their strength and coverage
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      A cry for sewers in Singapore
      239 2  -  RATEPAYER. Singapore. lUE hear so much talk about Singapore being a modern city, but in some ways we are 50 years behind the times in relation to other cities. In other parts of the world, modern sanitation is far ahead. Read what people say
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      ZEBRAS WANTED
      50 2  -  OLD MAN. Singapore. IT is very gratifying to see what has been done to aid the pedestrian in the business centre of Singapore. But if it would not be overflogging the willing horse, may I suggest that zebra crossings be set at some points along the SelegieSerangoon Roads?
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      Building control relaxation
      126 2  -  V. S. van LANGENBERG. Kuala Lumpur. THE Singapore Government x has made a W’ise decision in relaxing its control of building, restricting the control to only theatres, cinemas, dance halls, amusement parks, swimming pools, pavilions or club houses Mr. Coltman, at a meeting of the Federation of
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      DR. CHEN SU LAN CLARIFIES
      845 2  - DR. CHEN SU LA N CLARIFIES CHEN SL LAV Singapore. rrHE hatred of opium smugglers and den keoer® 1 towards m e is to be expected. It needs no ment. But the misgivings of a few well-wishei the present anti-opium campaign call for cl i!. i; ation. Two questions seem
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      PROCLAIMED BY B.M.A
      51 2  -  ll vCO» JUGGING Penang. JT is somewhat discono ing to find that pei are being charged before courts with offences ui B.M.A. Proclamations, though the B.M.A. ceased exist six years ago. It is time the Attorn General, Federation, pealed these proclamatn and replaced them with m suitable
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      Japan Looks To S.E. Asia
      645 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 8. j j has recently been termined moves to u w trade with South- s ia This resolve will probably be reflected in the liquations which are about i t pen new payments agreement be tween Japan and v <'ci lir.ii area
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      ‘Go Ahead’ At Shenton Way
      486 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 9. The Singapore Government having got themselves into such a tangle over the sale of the Shenton Way sites and the Control of Building Ordinance. had no alternative to the relaxation of the restrictions which prevented purchasers of sites from erecting the
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      A Setback To Tin
      386 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 8. There seems no good reason to fear that the tin market is following the rubber market into a serious decline which will add greatly to the financial embarrassment of the Federation Government. Admittedly, the fall in the London price from £956 before
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      A Little More is Needed
      484 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 11 When the United Malays National Organisation general assembly meets in Butterworth next month it will be asked to pass a resolution calling on the Federal Government to stop bringing into Malaya British troops or other troops from Commonwealth countries. It is
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      Commission On Traffic
      765 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 12. It is time a really serious effort was made to get order out of the chaos of Singapore’s streets. We need a commission of inquiry leading to a co-ordination of authority. Today there are all kinds of organisations and o ffi cia 1
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      Red Warning In Sarawak
      776 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 13. It would bo a disaster of Kroat magnitude if the six years of steady progress since Sara- I wak became a Crown Colony I were now to be halted by dis- orders of the kind with which Communist terrorists hoped to j
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      Malaya’s Need Of Doctors
      275 4 —StraitvS Times. Aug. 13. Those who have recently been heard to object to the introduction of foreign doctors for short-term employment in Malaya because the prospects of graduates of the University of Malaya would be adversely affected would do well to ponder over what the Federation’s
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      Anzus Front Line
      813 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 7. The Foreign Ministers ol the United States, Australia and New Zealand have been discussing “areas of common concern in the Pacific,” bounded (to quote a report from Honolulu) by such trouble spots as Korea, IndoChina and Malaya. It is part of what Mr.
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    St. John division for Kelantan
    56 4 KOTA BAHRU, Aug. 12.—Miss I. Richer, organiser of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, opened the Fourth Kelantni* Division of the Brigade at Tames School, Kota Bahru. She presented 40 first aid certificates and paid tribute to the enthusiasm and organising ability of Mr. S. K
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    THE DETAINEES’ ADVISORY COMMITTEE
    703 5  -  T. A. BROWN. Chairman of the Advisory Committee. Singapore. yrom Mr. Justice Brown) s chairman of the AdA visory Committee, 1 welcome the opportunity lff „rcled by "A Lawyer’s’’ letter in your issue of Ati'-ust 2 ("Detainees’ Advisory Committee ‘Noilune Short of a Farce” t 0
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    THE DETAINEE’S ‘CASE’
    880 5  - THE DETAINEE’ S ‘CASE’ A LAWYER. Singapore. rjHE letter which ap- < 1 peared in your edition of August 6, from the present chairman of the Detainees Advisory Committee, on the subject of i the functions of that I committee, calls for furI ther comment. The chairman rightly points out.
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    Two questions
    251 5  -  BLACK nrc». Singapore. IViR. Justice Brown’s explanation of the working [of the Colony’s Advisory Committee on detainees, published by you on Wednesday, was ys kind as it was lucid. But surely he begged two questions at the end of his letter? Detention by the Executive, he says, is
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      133 5 STEVENSON: To Eimlie. wife of J G R. Stevenson, at Penang Mattrnit” Hospital, on the sth of August 1952. a daughter. S'MITH-MITCHELL: On 4th Auuist. at K.K. Hospital, to Joan Lou sa (nee Case), wife of John Kenneth Smith-Mitchell, a e.ni'-'htcr. Kathleen Joan. TO MURIEL, wife of Desmond Hazard,
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    STEEL FOR POWER STATION
    204 5 SINGAPORE, Aug. 12 \IR. C. C. PAYNE, Singapores City Electrical Engineer, was yesi terday told that Britain j had made an immediate allocation of 1.000 tons of steel for the third quarter of this year for the Pasir Panjang power station. "The 1.000 tons have alI
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    50,000 ‘L’ drivers to be tested
    84 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Augr 11. IjMIOM next month, 50,000 ex-holders of provisional driving licences in the Federation will be tested, the Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr. A. A. Forward. told the Straits Times today. Twenty driving examiner* are being trained for the job at the
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    85 5 DEATH P. G RITCHIE senior partner of Ritchie <S£ Hisset passed peacefully awa.v in his sleep yesterdiu morning Bth Aug. 1952. PHILLIP: In London Hospital ..her operation on Bth August. 1952. David Phillip, partner in Rennie Lowick At Co. Cremation. Golders Green, August 13th. Deeply regretted. LANSELL: On August 3rd
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    ROCKING THE SARONG-CRADLE
    8 6 Photograph by Birte Stri icke.
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    As I was Saying
    648 6  -  STOIC. SINGAPORE. Aug 8. rpHERE’S NOTHING A like the tin and rubber industries lor confounding the prophets. When Britain agreed at the beginning of the year to sell 20,000 tons of Malayan tin to the United States, the Jeremiahs foretold a loss of anything up to
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1025 6  - Notes from a Malayan Diary Stanley Street. Katie’s iiesl BRUCE had Ills spider to point the moral. “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.” A reader in the Chatsworth Road area of Singapore has a more highflying example. This is a white-bellied sea eagle. For many years, he
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    CHECK ON LICENCE FRAUD
    120 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7 SINGAPORE traffic police are checking 80,000 driving licences in a determined attempt to smash a gang of forgers. Radio patrol cars will set up blocks in all parts of the island and examine licences. Forgeries so far discovered are for endorsements only. A
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    CALL FOR ‘SMALLER’ WEDDINGS
    109 8 CALL FOR SMALLER’ WEDDINGS SINGAPORE. Aug. 7. THE Women’s Section of the United Malays National Organisation. Johore. is to urge the Malays to marry “on a smaller scale.*’ A resolution t-o this effect will be moved at the annual meeting of the Johore division of UMNO to be held in
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    MALAYAN OFFICERS FOR BRITISH ARMY
    100 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. rpHE ARMY intends to offer Queen’s (Malayan) A commissions to Malayans for service in certain limits of the British Army in Malaya. They will initially be short .service commissions for fulltime Army service and a period on Reserve. Suitable short service commissioned
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    Perak miner dies at 72
    65 8 IPOH, Aug. B.—Mr. Chew Boon Pit, a former Perak planter and miner, died last night at the age of 72, at his home in Anderson Road after a long illness. Mr. Chew came to Malaya from China at the age of 19. He leaves a
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    Fed. issues new I-cards
    55 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 6. Faking of National Registration identity cards in the Federation have forced the Government to design a new' card which is now being issued when old cards are replaced. The fakers have been using halves of two different cards cleverly stuck together to
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    SCBA may be open to all races
    81 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. THE Straits Chinese British Association of Singapore, an exclusive body for 52 years, is considering admitting members of other communities. A draft of the amended constitution is being prepared by the association president. Mr. T. W. Ong. and the secretary.
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    Sultan & wife weep as they leave on Haj
    566 8 Sultan wife weep as they leave on Haj Kl T ALA LUMPUR, Aug. 6. rpHE SULTAN of Selangor and his wife, the Tungku Ampuan, broke down and wept today as they sailed from Pori Swettenham to Mecca. Many Malay men. women and children also burst into tears as their ship,
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    Vickers is back with new plans
    284 8 SINGAPORE, Aug 7 SINGAPORE’S Director of Medical Servi,,.. Dr. W. J. Vickers, returned to the Colon'! yesterday with high hopes of eking out the loc '1 shortage of doctors with men from abroad ini with new schemes for improving Singapore’! health. Dr. Vickers was
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    TO PORTRAY DAME NELLIE MELBA
    39 8 MRS. SLYVIA LA,)K 'Viil' will portray Dame V Melba, the famous ,iSl v‘ lian singer, in the eha» pageant “Rendezvous J l Eve” to be staged at Kallies Hotel on Aug. 15, and 21.
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    SALVATION ARMY TO OPEN COLLEGE IN SINGAPORE
    175 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. 'pHE Salvation Army in Malaya will open a college at its headquarters in Clemenceau Avenue, Singapore, next year, to train Asians for full-time service as officers. Plans for the college will be finalised when Lieut. Col. F. Harvey, Commanding Officer
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    3 ROOMS, WITH GARAGE—FOR $18,000
    71 9 m (1 I S S18.000-HOUSE I (with garage), top, is one of 76 built by the Kuala Lumpur Co-opera-ii\ Housing Society at (.iirney Hold. Sixty-four of them are of this type. The rest are smaller and i'o>t 812,700 each. RIGHT: The S12.700 ihich has two
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    Two get U.S. study gift
    107 9 SINGAPORE, Aug‘ 8. j Two Malayan teachers, Mr. I-- 1 Hee Yang of Singapore i ar.rj Inche Zainal Abidin Ali 1 T.mjong Maiim, have been warded six months’ trainee grants to study in the L’nitt-d States. Inch** Zainal who, for many ytar.> was Assistant Inspector
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    RENT BOARD CHAIRMAN
    34 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 7. The Johore Bar Council has übmitted the name of Inche Mohamed Ismail to the State Government for appointment as chairman of the Johore Bahru Rent Assessment Board.
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    NS Mentri Besar goes on leave
    71 9 SINGAPORE. Aug 8. Dato Hajl Abdul Malek, the y ntn Besar of Negri Sembi!li‘n who was in hospital for n ut three months in Kuaia Uimpur, is leaving on a shurt lld to Manila. Hong K.,ng Ja Pan on Tuesday in the rst is
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    ‘Close main roads to ‘L’ drivers’ call
    117 9 Close main roads to ‘L’ drivers’ call SINGAPORE. Aug 8. EARNER drivers should be barred from using some of the main thoroughfares in Singapore during certain hours of the day. This will be one of many specific recommendations the Singapore Advisory Committee will shortly make to the City Council for
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    Lake Club to admit Asian guests
    267 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 6. THE Kuala Lumpur Lake Club will change a 50- year-old unwritten rule this week. As from Saturday, it will open its doors to Asian guests. The change has been made following a referendum to members asking them to state whether
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    Racing a crook’s game ? Nonsense says Mr, Wheeler
    156 9 Racing a crook’ s game Nonsense says Mr, Wheeler V A LUMPUR, Aug. 6. steps were heiui; taken to stamp i dotting of racehorses Malaya, Mr. A. II. I •o'rler, of Course, ''Horror Turf Club. tn»'» n-'mhors of lhf Ki’nlr* 1T1 ”r Uotary Club n* "'rheon me»' <: rT to
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    Tax men form assn
    94 9 SINGAPORE, Aug 8. The officers who recently joiner the Income Tax Department after competitive examination by the Public Services Commission have formed an association to be known as the Singapore Income Tax Services Association. These men, who are considered senior officers by the Government, are not
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    Radio ‘lights off’ plea was a flop
    175 9 Radio lights off’ plea was a flop SINGAPORE, Aug 8. A NOVEL EXPERIMENT last night by the President of the Singapore City Council, Mr. T. P F. McNeice, during his broadcast talk on blackouts was a dismal failure. Mr. McNeice told his listeners at about 7.25 p.m.: “I ask you
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    Start blood bank call to Rotarians
    151 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. 6. DR. ELIZABETH COMBER. the first woman guest speaker ever at the Johore Rotary Club, has suggested that the club sponsor and support a blood bank in Johore Bahru. Dr. Comber, who Is attached to the General Hospital. Johore Bahru, said
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    WARREN and Dougas Wilkins, brothers, and graduates of Toronto University who are nearing the last lap of their motor tour of the world. They arrived in Singapore recently, and later left for Bangkok. Up to date, they up by travelled more than 21,000 miles by, road since leaving Toronto.
    53 9 WARREN and Dougas Wilkins, brothers, and graduates of Toronto University who are nearing the last lap of their motor tour of the world. They arrived in Singapore recently, and later left for Bangkok. Up to date, they up by travelled more than 21,000 miles b y, road since leaving Toronto.
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    Secondary trade school plan
    286 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 6. WORK HAS BEGUN on a pilot scheme to give Kuala Lumpur a modern secondary school whose curriculum will incorporate all subjects taught in trade schools. The Junior Technical (Trade) School at Jalan Kolam, which will be merged with the new school, is
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    New officials
    58 10 SINGAPORE. Aug 8. New officials of the Singapore Railway Institute are: president Mr. J. O. Sanders. vice-presidents Messrs M. G Foley and M St bastian. secretary Mr. Loh Ah Soo. treasurer Mr. A. Anthonvvtmy. committee Messrs Lam Mow Fatt S Marutha1 ingam N S. Subramaniam. G Hay. P.
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    Recruiting drive for new army
    296 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 7. F IK first 150 soldiers of the new Federate m Regiment will he recruited in five towns i M v Federation from Aug. 18 to 28. A recniiling learn will spend Iwo ‘aeh al Penang, Tniping. Ipoll, Kuala Liinmi and Malacca
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    India visit, then home for Mr. Bell
    125 10 SINGAPORE. Aug 8 AFTER almost a quarttTcentury of service in t East. Singapore Magistral Mr. R. C. S. Bell, will Cea\ the Colony on Sunday in t'-i Esang, to visit friend.' n India before settling down Tasmania. He will be accompanied his wife
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    ON TRANSFER
    22 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug Mr. E. M. Smallwood, seer ary to the British Advis< Johore. has gone on transf. to Bentong.
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    Training starts for the ‘Superb’ men
    90 10 ELEVEN of the “Superb Twelve” cadet officers of the new Federation Regiment have begun training at the Malay Regiment headquarters in Port Dickson The 12 cadets, selected with the personal approval of the High Comm issi oner,Sir Gerald Templer, will soon go on a
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    ‘Between October and June’
    320 11 hew power station SINGAPORE, Aug. 8. Tdd PRESIDENT ot the Singapore Citv 1 I ouncil, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, said last niti t that the first part ot the new Pasir I’an ang power station would be completed jioim'time between October and June next vein
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    DEPUTY H-C’s SON IN MALAYA
    50 11 GOLFING ENTHUSIAST. Malcolm Colin MacGillivray, 15. son of the Federation Deputy High Commissioner. arrrved at Kallang Airport. Singapore on Aug. 6 on his way upcountry to spend the August holidays with his parents. Malcolm is studying at Bradfield College, Berkshire.—Straits Times pic- —Straits Times picture
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    Scholarship man flies to U.S.
    53 11 SINGAPORE. Aug 8. Tuan Haji Raja Mohamed Noordin bin Raja Deli, Assistant Inspector of Malay Schoofls. Seremban. who has D'*en awarded a USIS scholarship, left for America yest'lday by air. He was seen off at KalCang Airport by Inche A.S. Wan '■'•k and a number
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    Guests from 3 Services
    55 11 SINGAPORE, Aug, 8. Air Marshal A.C. SanderJJ )n Commander in Chief. East Air Force, was the -'test of honour at the n >nt hly luncheon yesterday the Ex-Services Associa■o of Singapore, at the phi Hotel. her guests included men n the Royal Navy, the vy and
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    Colony’s efficiency drive is welcomed
    157 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. THE Singapore Government Secretariat’s move to improve efficiency by scrapping its old minuting and correspondence procedure and adopting commercial practice was welcomed by local organisations yesterday. The president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Tan Saik Kew, said: “If the efficiency
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    City court staff will be Government men
    107 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. THE SINGAPORE CITY Police Court former Registrar of Vehicles Court is to be staffed bv Government. At present, except for thp magistrate, thp stall ar*‘ Citv Council employees. The Council’s Vehicles and Traffic Committee has agreed to this change on
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    346,935 become Malayans
    44 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 7. Up to May this year a total of 346.935 certificates ol citizenship had been issued, the Federation Government said tod,iy. In May 2.273 certificates were issued of which 1.320 were for minors. Chinese took out 1.712 certificates.
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    2 tax probe men arrive
    68 11 SINGAPORE, Aug 8. Two inspectors of income tax from the British Inland Revenue Department arrived in Singapore bv air yesterday to investigate tax evasion in tile Federation The two inspectors. Mr C. L Harriot and Mr. H. E. Prentice, will form the team to pri'bp
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    War Office charters 20 planes for airlift
    224 11 SINGAPORE, Au£. 8. 'pHE GIANT airlift from Malaya of British Servicemen who have completed tours of duty and the flying of replacement from Britain will take place after all. Now 1.164 British soldiers, sailors and airmen, who have been in Malaya for the
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    14 MORE REDS OUT OF ACTION
    183 11 K LUMPUR. Auk. 7. SECURITY forces yesterday killed three terrorists, wounded slx. captured three and arrested 31 suspects. Two terrorists surrendered. Only 100 yards frorm an occupied kongsi in tin* Kulim area of Kedah, men of the 15th Federal Police Juntile Company killed one
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    Sultan meets Red killers
    73 11 KUANTAN. Aug. 7. The Sultan of Pahang today visited the Gurkha camp at Kuantan and congratulated the men of the 1 10 Gurkha Rifles on their successes against Communist terrorists In east Pahang. The Sultan was accompanied by the District Officer. Mr D. Thompson, and the
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    Johore talks
    31 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. 7 A conference of district Officers ana administrative officers in Johore was held at the Council Chamber Johore Bahru yesterday. The Mentri Besar, Join r»\ presided.
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    He drinks ‘kaya’ in coconut shell
    502 12 FIJIANS WELCOME SIR GERALD BAHAU, Aug. 7. CHANTING Fijians, in grass skirts, today presented the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, with an ancient whale’s tooth and shared a cauldron of “kava” with him in their traditional “yangona’’ ceremony of welcome. An Island sour,
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    11,000,000lb OF SUPPLIES FROM THE AIR
    149 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 8. AIRCRAFT of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force have dropped 11,000,000 lb of supplies since the Emergency began. R.A.F. Valettas last month dropped 750,000 lb. of rations, mail and other supplies to Jungle patrols on about 130
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    Back from talks
    21 12 KOTA BAHRU, Aug. 7. Tengku Seri Maharaja acting Mentri-Besar, Kelantan, has returned from the ECAFE conference in Bangkok.
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    Radio station
    33 12 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 6. A high frequency radio station is to be built on Pulau Babi Besar, one of the larger islands off the Mersing coast at a cost of $86,900.
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    BANDITS KILL POLICEMAN IN SARAWAK GUN FIGHT
    198 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 8. A POLICE corporal was murdered and two policemen were wounded bv a khaki' clad gang of three men and a woman in Sarawak <»n Wednesday it was announced last night. The Sarawak Government has offered a total .reward of $40,000
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    Sir George thanks 30 students
    134 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. SIR GEORGE PEPLER yesterday paid tribute to Mr. B.W. Hodder, lecturer in geography at the University of Malaya and the 30 students from the University for having done an “extremely good job” of the factfinding survey of land and buildings in the
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    Pepler plan for S’pore is ready
    262 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. CIR GEORGE PEPLER, British town planning expert, now advising the Singapore Government, told the Straits Times yesterday that a tentative development plan for the Colony was ready. “The preliminary plan is pretty well ready,” Sir George said. He hinted that precautions
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    SLOW TAX PAYERS SUED
    130 12 SINGAPORE, Aim k SINGAPORE tax-pay-ers will soon face immediate prosecution if they do not pay im promptly within the prescribed time. Mr. D. H. Tudor, Comptrcllor of Income Tax, told ihe Straits Times yesterday thit his department hopes “to pro secute current cases as soon as
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    Gurkhas’ 200th kill
    132 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Auc. 6 HPHE 1/10 GURKHAS 200th kill was Foo Yoke Kwang, district committee member and assistant commander of the terrorist Seventh Regiment, Emergency Information Services announced today. Foo was killed in the Kemaman area of South Trengganu during the weekend. Before the Emergency, he was
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    Now 8 are officers
    73 12 SINGAPORE. An?- S )f Eight Malay Re". 1 cers who were recently commissioned at Sandhurst returned to Singapore by an yesterday after spending ai months in Britain. They were: Second Lieutenants Ahmad bin Ah, hamed bin Rasiol. Mazlarn bin Yunus. Othman d* l Ibrahim, Ungku Naziruddin
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    Higher studies in Britain
    50 12 KUALA KANGSAR. Aug —Dr. (Mrs.) K. V. B. Pll^ 1 Lady Medical Officer, Kino Kangsar will leave for U tain this week for hign> studies. She was feted by the Sik Indo-Ceylon and Chine communities and by membei of the Medical and Healt. c;!ub, Kuala Kangsar.
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    Beachcomber artist arrives in Singapore
    374 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 8. t tiO-YEAR-OLD man who set himself adrift on a raft in the sea off Darwin, Australia, to try to reach England, has arrived in Singapore—by ship. Now he is living in Nantina Home, the Social Welfare Department’s home for penniless people. The
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    RUNAWAY LORRY KILLS OFFICER
    74 13 KUANTAN, Aug 8. 4 MISADVENTURE verdict was recorded at a Kuantan inquest on Police Lieutenant CJE.A. Bates, who was killed by a runaway lorry. Evidence was given that Rates got out of the lorry, which he had no right to drive, and walked towards th e
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    THE white walking stick in Mr. Reuben Jacob’s hand shows that he is blind. Mr. M. Visvalingam knows the meaning of the white cane, and is helping Mr. Jacob across the street.
    101 13 Mr. Jacob hopes that soon everyone will know that a white walking stick means blindness. He said yesterday:
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    Mr. Buehler for Pine Council
    39 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 9. Mr. J. A. Buehler has been appointed a member of the Pineapple Joint Industrial Council as a representative of commercial interests during the absence on leave of Mr. D. A. Johnston.
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    Raft artist gets £l,000 tour offer
    317 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 9. BEACHCOMBER artist Jack Fairweather, who made a 20-day journey from Darwin to Timor lying on his back on a 10 ft. triangular raft, has been asked to go on a lecture tour in Australia. Mr. Fairweather, now living in Nantina Home
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    Wounded Red talksthree bandits die
    485 13 Wounded Red talks—three bandits die KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 8. rpHREE BANDITS were killed and three others captured yesterday by the Support Company of the Green Howards in a battle in the Teluk Anson area of Perak. Two months ago, the company got seven terrorists in the Tampin area of Negri
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    ...and now doctor is very happy
    191 13 SINGAPORE, 8. IMFTY- two-year-old Dr. Johannes van der Goot, who had been living in Nantina Home, SmRanore for the past eight months, told the Straits Times: “I am glad to be able to go home H e returned to Singapore in September 1951 after
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    He beat off 50 bandits, gets Police Medal
    183 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 8. THE QUEEN has approved the award of the Colonial Police Medal for Gallantry to Mr. A. C. Mackenzie, security oflicer of Nagappa Estate in Jementah. Johore. With the help of a Special Constable, he put between 30 and
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    2 on mission for M.C.A.
    67 13 MALACCA. Aug. 8:- Dr. V. W. W. S Purcell, honorary adviser in Britain to the Malayan Chinese Association and Professor F. A. Carnell, of Oxford, will arrive in Singapore on Aug. 20 on a factfinding mission at the invitation of the M C A states
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    And now he is a group captain
    56 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 9 Captain Hugh Birch, Manager of Qantas Empire Airways. left Singapore yesterday for Colombo wearing the uniform of an RAAF group cn plain. Capt. Bircn, who is on the RAAF reserve, has been ordered to attend a four-day reserve training course
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    Indian flags can be flown
    20 13 The Indian national flag can be flown in Singapore on Indian Independence Day. Aug. 15.
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    2 proposed for M.C.A. $2,000 job
    86 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 8. TWO candidates have been proposed to fill Mr. Y. C. Kang's place as paid deputy secretary general of the M.C.A. They will be considered by the association’s “cabinet” at its next meeting, which has yet to be fixed. Mr. Kang
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    THREE SULTANS PAY VISIT
    39 14 KOTA BAHRU. Aug. 10. The Sultan of Kelantan, accompanied by the Sultan of Pahang, the Sultan of Trengganu and the Tengku Mahkota of Kelantan this morning visited the Home Guard training centre at Pengkalan Chepa.
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    Fresh air comes to Empress Place
    186 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. QFFICE “cubicles” and other partitions in the Singapore Colonial Secretariat are being pulled down for an extensive replanning of office space. This is being done on the recommendations of Government's organisation consultants to improve efficiency and working conditions. Workmen yesterday pulled
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    $300,000 godown fire in Singapore
    150 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 9. AFIRE DESTROYED thousands of katis of rice, sago, bran and rubber stored in a godown at the junction of Martin and Mohamed Sultan Roads, Singapore, early yesterday morning. T; brought the zinc roof of the building down. Total damage done was estimated
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    CAPTURED
    29 14 A patrol of “D” Company, 4th Malay Regiment, wounded a terrorist in the Temerloh district of Pahang. He and another bandit Oed but some printing equipment was captured.
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    SELECTED FOR KIRKBY COURSE
    36 14 MISS HO TUCK POH, a student teacher of the Seremban Convent and daughter of Mr. Ho Kim Siew. of the Seremban Audit Ofßce. who has been selected for the Kirkhy training course.
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    Bandits burn down house
    29 14 Terrorists burned down a hou<c and garage in the P lch area of Johore after robbing the occupant. A truck in the garage was destroyed.
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    12 LEARN TO HELP CHILDREN
    141 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 9. rpHE Singapore ChilA dren’s Society has started a training scheme to give practical knowledge and experience to its members who have volunteered to investigate cases of ill-treat-ment of children. Twelve members are now training in teams in co- operation with the Salvation
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    Sir Gerald makes peace with town
    499 14 RETURN TO TANJONG MALIM IPOH, Aug. 8. rpHE HIGH COMMISSIONER, Gen. Sir Gerald 1 Templer, today made his peace with Tanjon Malim, which he punished five months ago for itt silence. He told five community leaders in a back room of the police station:
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    CHETTIARS PLAN BANK
    57 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. s in the Fed, k rati ®*V P ,an to start i bank with som e of their capital lying idle since the Money Lenders’ Ordinance cam e into force. A number of firms are now consulting their principals in India. rl ™7* about
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    $500,000 damage in S’pore fire
    171 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 11 FIRE in a godown in Canning Lane, off River Valley Road. Singapore, earlv yesterday morning caused damage estimated at $500,000 to hardware stored there and to rubber stored tn an adjoining godown. The fire broke out shortly before 4 a.m. during a
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    U.S. Judge was there
    77 14 IPOH. Aug. 10.—Mr. Justice William O. Douglas. Associate Supreme Court Judge of the United States, was amone the guests at a dinner heat in the Station Hotel lust night to bid farewell to M*'P. Sankey, of the IP l ’h Supreme Court, who is retiring after
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    New barrister
    51 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 12 Mr. S. K. Reddi, barristf’ at-law, now attached to -he firm of Braga and de Sou/ was admitted to the Sing:' pore Bar by the Chief Justic Sir Charles Murray-Aynsu in the High Court yesterday Mr. J. K. Gale moved Mr Redai’s application for au
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    FLATS FOR RESIDENT DOCTORS
    116 16 SINGAPORE, AU£. 11. A $4OO 000 block of six flats for resident medical ofltcers of the General Hospital in Singapore is due to be completed by the middle of October, Mr. K. A. Brundle, Government architect, tola the Straits Times yesteruay. The flats are on a
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    MAGISTRATE FOR BRITAIN
    60 16 IPOH, Aug.ll—lnche Arshad bin Ismail, the Ipoh Magistrate. will be leaving for Britain early next month on a three-year judicial scholarship. Inche Arshad took over duties from Inche Bahauddin bin Yacob. who is at present in Britain also on a judicial scholarship. Inche Arshad was magistrate in
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    RIDA’S PROMISE TO MALAY YOUTH
    84 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 11. r plE RURAL ai.d Industrial Development Authority today announced an ambitious plan to train Malay youth in commerce an/il industry. l)ato Zainul Abdidin, Deputy Chairman of RIDA, told the Straits Times that discussions are going on with European firms to place
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    —And he couldn’t find a middleman
    361 16 SIR GERALD VISITS VILLAGE TAIPING, Aug. 10. MIDDLEMEN in fish were scarce in the Chinese fishing village of Kuala Kurau, Perak, todav when the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, descended on the place. “Bring me a middleman/’ the General told the Malay District
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    Volunteers in combined ops.
    283 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 11 SINGAPORE’S volunteer forces yesterday faced their severest test yet when the biggest combined land, sea and air exercises wei> carried out. c “Operation Rabbit" was a success, <>nj ar said last night. Rut soon after the “war" NV| over umpires set to work
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    INDIA’S RICE
    32 16 India will import 65.000 tons of Burmese rice on Government account and 50.000 on private account during the remaining five months of this year states a message from New Delhi
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    School in a bandit camp
    67 16 KUALA LUMPUR Aug ’o A SCHOOL was found m CL a terrorist camp located by a combined police rrn 3rc Kings African Rifles patrol beside a cultivated area in the Trianr District of Pahang y ester day. The camp consisted 13 huts and had accommodation
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    Transferred on promotion
    48 16 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug 11 Ir.che Taib Andak. President Sessions Court. Johore South, will be leaving for Pahang on transfer on Aug. 16. Inche Taib. who was recently promoted from the Johore Civil Service to the Malayan Civil Service. ha> been appointed District Officer. Kuala Lipis.
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    INDONESIAN IS REPRIEVED
    132 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 10. THE Governor of Singapore, Mr. Nicoll, has commuted the death sentence on Tikam bin Sulaiman, an Indonesian, to life imprisonment. The British Ambassador in Jakarta has told the Indonesian Foreign Ministry of this. Tikam was under death sentence in Singapore for stabbing a Dutch
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    TV can be menace, says MacDonald
    158 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 12. 'pliE Oommissioner-Oeneral, 1 Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, last night said that no community wishing to remain up io-date could afford to i hi- without television. speaking to mor e than 1,000 people over TV, Mr. MacDonald said: “In many ways and on
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    122 ESTATE SCHOOLS
    55 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 12— For the education of child•pn on rubber estates there ate 122 schools in Johore. Usually one school on an suffices but on Johore abis Estate, which has an ar reag e of 29,656, there are .seven. No estate with a reasonable number of
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    Had no money in bank, he issued four cheques
    98 17 kuala lumpur, Aug. 11. IRWIN, 32, was •sentenced today to four n iontns’ imprisonment on four ounts of cheating by Mr. B V Rhodes, president of the 'viah Lumpur Sessions Court Irwin pleaded guilty to all charges. He had issued four
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    POLICE SWOOP IN KUCHING
    342 17 KUCHING, Aug. 12. POLICE swooped on sleeping Kuching homes early today and arrested 18 people suspected of helping the Communists in Sarawak. One of them is headmaster of a big Chinese school. And later today three more people were arrested in the tough Chinese gold-mining township
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    New president
    30 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 12 Inchc All bin Hassan, who recently returned from Britain after qualifying as a barrister, succeeds Inche Taib Andak as President, Sessions Court. Johore Bahru.
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    Police flying to Sarawak
    463 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 12. |yjALAYAN police officers will fly to Sarawak soon to help the local authorities in the Emergency declared at the weekend in the First Division following two incidents involving armed Chinese Communists. Mr. -I. Hugh Ellis, acting Chief Secretary Sarawak, arrived in Singapore yesterday
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    This man sat alone for exam
    149 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 12. A CHINESE inmate of Trafalgar Home—Singapore’s institution for lepers—sat for the teachers’ normal examinations which began yesterday. Although separated from his other colleagues two months ago, this student told the Education authorities he wanted to sit for the examination and arrangements
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    For Privy Council
    72 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 12. Guan Seng Kee Limited, whose appeal to recover possession of 7. Read Street, from Buan Lee Seng Limited, was dismissed by the Singapore Court of Appeal, are to take their case before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The Chief Justice. Sir Charles
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    $400,000 for Perak’s new villages
    78 18 IPOH, Aug. 12. THE Federal Government has allocated nearly $400,000 for various forms of services in the 110 new villages in Perak. The bulk of this sum, about $274,000. is for maintenance of essential services such as conservancy and scavenging, minor roads and communty centres.
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    Colony plans new stamps
    126 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 13. SINGAPORE may have l5 new pictorial stamps of different denominations. The Stamp Designs Committee. appointed by the Government two years ago, has recommended that the stamps should include Malayan sceneries and industries in colour. The stamps will bear the Queen’s head. A Government
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    Hanged in cell
    31 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 13. A 45-yc*ar-old Chinese was last night found hanging in a cell in Singapore Central Police Station. He died on his way to the General IfosLpltal.
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    GEN. TEMPLER IN SCOUT UNIFORM
    93 18 THE HIGH COMMISSIONE R, General Sir Gerald Templer, wearing Scout uniform for the first time in Malaya when he opened the South- East Asia Patrol Camp in Kuala Lumpur, has a word wi th Major-General Sir Hugh Stock well, GOC Malaya. Young Miles Templer. in
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    BOMB FLUNG AT PENANG CAR
    196 18 PENANG, Aug. 12. A BOMB was thrown at a car in Penang Road this morning. The hood was blown to shreds and the driver, an estate owner’s son, was wound ed. Mr. Khaw Gin Teik was driving the car out of a garage near his
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    New anti-graft drive planned
    220 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 12. yHE FEDERATION Government is to amend the Prevention of Corruption Ordinance to step, up the war against graft. The ordinance now lets the Public Prosecutor authorise a police officer to inspect certain bankers’ books only if he “is satisfied” that the books
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    He stopped practice of ‘passing hat’
    75 18 He stopped practice of passing hat’ MALACCA, Aug. 12. Tribute to the work of the secretary, Mr. G. B. Lazaroo. was paid by the Rev. Father J.P. de Souza at the annual general meeting of the Portuguese Settlement Funeral Association on Sunday Father de Souza said that through Mr. Lazaroo’s
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    Burglary at USIS office
    46 18 PENANG, Aug. 12—Burglars broke into the new India House office of the United States Information Service in Beach Street last night and stole a small electric transformer valued at $9O. The thieves forced open a window. The loss was discovered this morning.
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    WARRANT FOR MRS. MENON
    350 18 SINGAPORE. Aug. 10 THE Singapore police havissued a warrant of arrest for Mrs. Vilasini Menon. the Colony’s first elected woman Legislative Councillor, on a charge ol abetment of criminal breach of tru>t by her husband. Mr. C. O Menon. a lawyer. Mr. Menon is wanted the
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    Tins were erratic on metal upset
    558 20 SHARE MARKET] From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Aug. 11. IN the four business days left to Malayan markets 1 last week by the Bank Holidays the turnover was small and scant attention was paid to aught but the plummeting tin price. Emphasis was on
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    BUSINESS DONE
    142 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 11. Business done in the Malayan share market last week included: Industrials. Fraser Sc Neave Ord. $3.75, Gammcn $2.55, Hammer $2.15, Robinson Ord. $3.45, Straits Trading $19.50, Henry Waugh $2.00, Wearne $2.10 and $2,12 4. Tins. Klang River $2.50, Kuchai $3.45, Petaling $6,474 cum div. to
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    SHIPMENTS OF RUBBER
    56 20 Ocean shipments olL rubber for July from Malaya and Singapore were down by 500 tons compared with Jupe. Ih July 71.922 tons were shipped according to official figures and 72.479 tong in June. Britain took 29.500 tons, U.S. 10.043 tons, Germany 5.824 tons. France 4."848 tons. Japan
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    COMPANY REPORTS
    290 20 From a Market Correspondent KLANG RIVER TIN DREDGING COMPANY LIMITED: The Company’s dredge lost a total of two months running time in the financial year to 31.3.52, while boilers were converted to oil fuel and ladder and bucket band were renewed. Profit for period was $447,876 (56#) against
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    846 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 13. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Alex Bricks Pref 2 10 2.25 Ords. 3.40 3.45 Atlas Ice 12.50 13 50 Ampat 7/- 7/3 8.8 Petrol 33/- 34/BM. Trustees 6.50 7.50 Con Tio Smelt Pref 21/- 22/Ords 22/- 23/- cd Eastern United 36.75 37 50 Fed. Dispensary 1.70
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    Rubber export duty is ‘too high’
    373 20 U.S. RUBBER CHIEF'S VIEW SINGAPORE, Aug. 9 THE PRESENT EXPORT duty on rubber i Malaya is too high and should be lower-* said Dr. W. E. Cake, president of the Mala\V,’ American Plantations Ltd., in Singapore yesterday. Dr. Cake, who is also managing director
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    Quiet week in rubber market
    218 20 wBBBEKBBBSSSj£jSmjjgg£. i vMrMv ulillj SINGAPORE, Aug 9 T HE week nas been a omparatlvely quiet one in the rubber market -und the fluctuations In price negligible, say Lewis and Pea. (Singapore) Ltd. The main feature of intere«» has been some offtake for u s account.
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    68 20 SINGAPORE. Aug Business was done in Sinyesterday in copra at $23 per picul. The coconut oil market quiet with buyers S3T 1 picul and sellers $37 On the Singapore Pro e fc change, no transactions were ported in pepper. Muntok remaining at $575 per picul lers. Sarawak
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    5,937 TONS EXPORTED
    37 20 Malaya exported 5.937 ton tin metal last month comp with 4,681 tons in June. Shipments for the first hal. this year were 36,505 tons c pared with 36,759 tons for corresponding period last yea
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    8,463 tons of copra imported
    42 20 8,463 tons o f copra imported Malaya Imported ®-*63 ton* copra In June valued at $3,Z4J and exported 2.030 tons valuen $929,587. Coconut oil exports tot a 5,790 tons valued at $4,678.80*’ The largest Importer of was Burma which took 2.. tons.
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