The Straits Budget, 2 October 1952

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) V>v Series No. 322. Thursday, October 2, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      HACKLES UP
      41 2  -  RABID. Federation of Malaya. I FEEL compelled to bark a protest about Noel Coward's song, “Out in the Mid-Day Sun being played so frequently on Radio Malaya. It is grossly unfair to mad dogs to compare them with Englishmen.
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      LAMENT FOR A PITCH THAT IS NOT
      134 2  -  THE TWO PORT CHAPLAINS. Singapore. SOME weeks ago you made j an appropriate lament I for the abolition of the Boys’ Club football field behind the Marine Hostel, Singapore—a necessary sacrifice to Shenton Way. Perhaps it is not too late to say a
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      The S.I.T.’s record
      220 2  -  “OLD DORAI.” Singapore. IAM interested in the ac- count of the programme of the Progressive Party as reported in the Straits Times this morning (Wednesday) and am sorry to see that one of the aims is the abolition of the Singapore Improvement Trust. I wonder if it
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      Communal harmony—Is it a sham ?
      341 2  - Communal harmony— Is it a sham TRUE MALAYAN. Taiping. lAATO ONN'S pronouncement on communal rela- tions has, I hope, ended once and for all this sham of “communal harmony” which every communal leader claims to exist, when actually very little exists in the true sense. As long as communal i
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      THE FOOLS’ PARADISE?
      111 2  -  anti-road fools Singapore. IT is high time our Traffic Police took action against inconsiderate drivers, but surely the people to start with are the drivers of buses and lorries who repeatedly flout traffic regulations by charging out from side turnings Into traffic streams, relying on their size
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      Indonesians coming and going
      153 2  -  ANTI-KID CLOVES Singapore. I READ in a daily newspaper Niar high-speed bunches of the Indonesian Marine Police, in co-operation with the Singapore Marine Police and Customs, will soon be launching large-scab antismuggling operations around Singapore. In view of the fact the Indonesian Government is behaving so
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      Girl behind machine
      138 2  -  HORNET. Singapore. IF Joan Tooke’s letter which appeared in your issue of Sept. 23 was meant to reveal the respective capabilities and status of the Asian and Eurpean stenos in this country, she has failed to attain her object miserably. She writes complete nonsense, with unquestionable partiality
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      Lotteries, politics and the M.C.A.
      472 2 *pHE Straits Times ha. vited the Malay, u> n u nese Association to submit for publication a state, vnt the disbursement ,f all monies collected fro, it various lotteries. tr < ait i Times asserts that this is the only :*v ,> j,, in! Sl
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      106 2 1 'Z, A r a < f/ jT\ \W </> i f r Cad r a Sir y; c 7,. He white r* i SB Xvj >x.«. <o-' 8f saw m m dad. sr a. Guardec <• iy; mmm s f ‘mm Hi PRELUDE TO A ROYAL BALL “With tails,
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Federation Elections
      389 3 —Straits fTimes, Sept. 25. local government expert v hon. the Federation Government has engaged to report nn the best methods for ex ik ng the system of local £(U r.nnent seems to be losing no time in tackling his rather formidable task. His presence in Malaya gives the
      —Straits fTimes, Sept. 25.  -  389 words
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      Not The Right Way
      433 3 —Straits 'Times, Sept. 25. Reports from London raise a doubt as to whether The I'lanter’s Wife” is going to achieve the objective, or one of the objectives, which the producers had in mind when the film was being planned, it was intended to make a him
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      Electoral Reforms
      471 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 26. Tiie committee appointed by the Governor at the end of July to examine and recommend changes for improving the electoral system of the Colony can hardly be accused of immoderate haste in tackling its important task. It has held two meetings during the nine
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      A Force Worth Belonging To
      365 3 Straits Times. Sept. 26. The Federation’s Police Commissioner is amply justified in the pride with which he has spoken of the honours recently bestowed by the Queen upon men under his command. The George Medal is among the highest awards for courage and devotion to
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      Slump Not On The Way
      634 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 27. While there is nothing in the current trade position of Malaya to justify very much optimism, there is certainly nothing to justify deep despond and Mr. Fergusson sounded the right note yesterday, in his speech at the halfyearly meeting of the
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      Where The Eyes Have It
      492 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 27. Political enthusiasts in Malaya should not need to be warned against accepting what has recently been happening in the United States as typical of democracy at work at election time. There are few countries where a candidate for high office could
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      Realism In Rubber
      467 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 29. It is welcome news that the Dowers conferred by the Rubber Packing and Shipping Control Ordinance* are to be put into effect (after inexplicably lying unused for two and a half years); particularly if the decision reflects in j»art a general resolve to
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      Our Royal Visitors
      848 4 —Straits Times. Sept. 30. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by her sixteen-year-old son, will arrive in Singapore this afternoon. She will receive a loyal welcome in the Colony and later in the the Federation of Malaya. The Duchess comes as the representative of the
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      Prison Cure For Opium
      677 4 —Strait? Times, Oct. 1 The details which have been given by the acting Commissioner of Prisons concerning the treatment of opium addicts confined in Outram Road Gaol as a result of the recent intensive drive against the opium dens encourage a hope that, with one or
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    THE LIEW BROTHERS OF THE NEW VILLAGES
    974 5  -  By Noni Wright THE Liew family ol Kuala Lumpur is certainly ”in Resettlement”. No less than three brothers hold responsible jobs iir New Villages in Selangor. Two of them were recently awarded Meritorious Service medals for their work ijv the Sultan. At 35
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    Textile show for Duchess
    81 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 29. By arrangement with the United Kingdom Trade Commissioner, leading shops in Singapore are arranging special displays of British textiles on the occasion of the visit of the Duchess of Kent. All principal branded textiles, as well as others from Britain, will figure promincrtly
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    HE DID NO! GIVE TIP ON REDS
    180 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept 29. A FORMER member of the Malayan People’s AntiJapanese Army, who later joined the bapdits, was sentenced by Mr. N. L. Cohen m the Sessions Court today to three years' imprisonment for failing to supply the police with information on
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    They will be British soon
    53 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30 F’or thp first time, 20 new citizens will receive naturalisation certificates from the Governor. Mr. J. F. Nicoll, at the next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council on Oct. 14. Previously presentations of certificates were made by the CoSonial Secretary at the
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    Negri M.B. back
    34 5 SEREMBAN, Sept. 30.—Dato Hall Abdui Malek bin Yusuf will resume duties as Mentri Besar. Negri Sembllan tomorrow. He has been ill. During his recuperation he visited Japan. Hong Kong and Manila.
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      174 5 HOLDSWORTH: At Penang, on 23rd September, 1952. to Irene, wife of Geoffrey Holdsworth a daughter COOPER: At Malacca Hospital 17th Sept., 1952, to Jean, wife o! Gerald, a son, Philip J^mes. ANDERSON: At Bungsar Hospital, on 24.9.52, to Anne, wife of James Anderson, twin daughter r tv still born.
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      MARRIAGE
      32 5 M ARGUE WONG: Felix Murgue, onlv son of Mr. Mrs. Julien Mnrgue of Luxembourg. in Florence Wong, third daughter of Mr. Mrs T. O. Wong of Singapore, on 2Gth September. 1952.
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      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
      20 5 MR Ac MRS. ABDUL WAHAB GHOWS thank friends and relatives who sent good wishes and presents on their wedding.
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    DRUM IN PREPARATION FOR DEEPAVALI
    9 6 —photograph by Birte Stcinckc.
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    As I was Saying
    683 6  -  STOIC. SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. IN HIS SPEECH l at the Singapore Chamber of Commercemeeting yesterday Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson referred to the committee appointed weeks ago to inquire into the blackouts. If the committee had accomplished little else, he said, it had established a reasonably
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1108 6  -  Stanley Street. Immigrant rllK moon has waxed and waned, full cycle, since Mr. S Y. Han of Singapore broached the question of vvhe.her a Malayan tcrap was t ie same as a Bornean tamp. Mr. John Mui of North Borneo date of Malaya) has inee
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    Countryman’s Journal
    601 7  -  TUAN DJEK. WEEK ago the Tuan had a telephone message from his neighbour informing him •hat the Cook had been held up at the town jare for trying to remove food from a restri'U'd area without a valid pass. Luckily for the Tuan, it was the day when
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    Fifty Years Ago
    177 7 > f n the Straits Times of 1902. driver (Mr. McKenzie was again before Mr. “■'°n for having driven a '>r car through the public mghfares at a speed her than 10 miles an The case had already a heard, but one point dred clearing up—the n
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    A MALAYSIAN NOTEBOOK
    662 7  -  Stanley Street. the Pacific, where pidgin English describes a sausage as a bullamakau banana and pockets as basket belong trousers, have come Fijian troops to fight in Malaya against Communism. In the same dreadful corruption of their beautiful language this column might be called paper talk. Those
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    Base sells electricity
    114 7 SINGAPORE. Sept. 23. IMIE SINGAPORE Admiralty, .supplied the civilian population of the Colony with $B,OOO worth of electricity last month. Thp City Electrical Engineer told a City Council committee that .supplies from the Naval Base alleviated to some extent the load on the Council’.s network during peak
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    The Duchess arrives in Malaya
    398 10 2,000 children at the Airport SINGAPORE, Oct. 1. 'J'HE Duchess came to Singapore yesterday. Two thousand children cheered and waved flags after her airliner landed at Kalian/ airport. And 21 guns boomed out a Roy salute. The reception to the Duches> o K nt ar.a
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    Singapore greets its Royal visitors
    753 11 THE GREETING In the doorway of the aircraft a Uttle appeared the Duchess, wearing a t ed frock with black dots, a hat round her neck, white shoes, and her ri£in nano Mr'SSfl \na%r. salute with their aides-de-camp and then M^he Duchess stepped on to
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    Troops find K.L. ‘tops’ for welfare
    297 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 25. IT UAL A LUMPUR leads in Malaya for entertaining troops under the Civilian Hospitality Scheme, said Miss A. Gibson, head of the Women’s Voluntary Service in the Far East, yesterday. Miss Gibson and Mr. M. Boyle, an Assistant Superintendent of Police,
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    Tea party for nurse visitor
    53 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. Miss F. N. Udell, chief nursing officer to the Colonial Office, who is visiting Singapore soon, will present certificates to nurses at a tea party at the General Hospital on Oct. 6. During her stay here. Miss Udell will visit hospitals and
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    Mrs. Menon gives up her Council seat
    209 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 26. IIRS. VILASINI MENON, who was elected to the Singapore Legislative Council in April 1951 on an Independent ticket to represent Seletar. has resigned from the council. There will be a by-election in December which Progressive and Labour candidates will contest
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    DR. H. P. M. MURPHY, formerly of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is the man in charge of the student health service being set up in the University of Malaya, Singapore. Dr. Murphy hopes to have the health service running by the beginning of the academic year on Oct. 1.
    53 12 DR. H. P. M. MURPHY, formerly of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is the man in charge of the student health service being set up in the University of Malaya, Singapore. Dr. Murphy hopes to have the health service running by the beginning of the academic year
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    New British Adviser for Kelantan
    77 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 25. THE British Adviser, Selangor. Mr. A. N. Ross is to become British Adviser. Kelantan, soon, the Federation Government announced today. The new British Adviser, Selangor, will be Mr. H. G Hammett who is at present acting Resident Commissioner Malacca, in place
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    Qantas for UK will stop at Cairo
    146 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. I ONDON-BOUND passengt rs on Qamas Constellations Vvill alter Oct. 1 once again make night stops at Cairo instead of Beirut. rhe chance in the route from f ro 10 'rut was made in January this year following the «-mr°
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    CONVENT HEADS THE MUSIC WINNERS
    140 12 T HE CONVENT 01. tltt w n first pl ac e in th e Senior Division of the Sin Rapore Teachers’ Union Music Festival held at the Victoria Memorial Hall. al tne Second place went to Raffles Girls’ School and St Margaret’s School and St'
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    Gas dispute court named
    63 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. THE PRESIDENT of the Singapore Industrial Court, Mr. Kenneth A. Seth, has appointed Mr. Lim Yew Hock as the workers’ representative and Mr. E. D. Rushworth as the employers’ representative to constitute, with himself, the court to deal with the gas workers’ dispute.
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    Johore fixes polling day
    60 12 XTDMTNATTnM hav JOHORE BAHRU. Sept. 25. XT MIN ATI ON DAY for the Johore Bahru Town Counts nV e iJi ct n ns has bpen tentatively fixed for Nov. 5 by the Elections Officer, Inche Ismi. Polling Day will be on Dec G. mnrT f e
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    Park meter tests soon
    57 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. Parking meter experiments will be conducted in the Raft’les Place and Fullerton Place car parks in Singapore as soon as the meters arrive. The agents for one manufacturer have agreed to supply 79 meters—sufficient for Fullerton Place. If the experiment is successful the
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    Duchess to miss the ‘world’s loveliest isle’
    141 12 PENAXG Sent or T HE Duchess A an her son the young Duke of Kent, win definitely not yU Penang. the St. i 1 Times learns todav ls But the Settlement. ,n official source said l day, would be rfnrcsrn ted at the
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    Fund appeal for hostel
    55 12 An appeal for fltnds to bu:'c a students' international house in association with thMelbourne University nas been made bv the Premier of the State of Victoria. Australia. The house will have accommodation for 60 Asian ar.r! 60 Australian students. Faculties wi£l include study bedrooms, cafeteria sendee,
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    Missionary loses claim for $17,800 damages
    301 12 SEREMBAN, Sept, 25. YIR. JUSTICE ABBOTT. 1?1 in the High Court here, today dismissed a claim by a Singapore missionary, the Rev. C. Davidson, for $10,000 general damages and $7,800 special damages after a bus accident. Mr. Davidson is president of the Independent Missionary
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    PRIZES FOR BEST IN CLASS
    53 14 hiA ti.N OF THE liEST pro t).U;onary Asian inspectors and recruits who were anion ng 250 pecruits and 23 P.A.i.’s who too kpurt in a pas.dng-out parade at the ikiuH.i Lumpur Police Depot. on Sept. 24. They re»v (i prizes foi br«it "i class, best
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    Soldier was ‘mother’ to bandit baby
    379 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 25. PUN in one hand and feeding bottle in the other, a grinning African soldier sat in a terrorist camp deep in the South Pahang jungle and fed a small bandit baby, while other Africans searched the jungle for the mother
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    A CITY COUNCIL peon, Ibrahim bin Ghani holds the beautiful silver casket in which the scroll making the Duchess of Kent a Freeman of the City of Singapore will be put. The casket and scroll will be presented to her at a public ceremony on the steps of City Hall on Oct. 1. The casket was made in Britain.
    62 14 A CITY COUNCIL peon, Ibrahim bin Ghani holds the beautiful silver casket in which the scroll making the Duchess of Kent a Freeman of the City of Singapore will be put. The casket and scroll will be presented to her at a public ceremony on the steps of City Hall
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    Soldier wounded
    22 14 A British soldier of the Ist Cameronians wa s slightly wounded in an engagement with terrorists in the Segamat area.
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    Owner must demolish house where 100 lived
    191 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 20. ’pHE owner of a house in Trengganu Street, Singapore—which 10 families had to quit yesterday—will have to demolish it AT ONCE. M he doesn’t, the City Council will knock it down—and charge him. Mr. D. E. Siddons. chief building: inspector,
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    P.W.D. chief
    16 14 Mr. A. Wear has been appointed to act as Director of Public Works. Singapore.
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    Back from Mecca
    18 14 Dr. S. Taha Mattar has returned to Singapore by air from a pilgrimage to Mecca.
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    S’PORE INVITED TO TALKS
    130 14 SINGAPORE, Sept •>,; MUNICIPAL delegates from more than 5n countries, including Sin gapore. ar e expected to attend a, public work? and municipal service? congress and exhibition in London from Nov 3 t d But the president Singapore City Council Mr McNeice. told the Times yesterday:
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    3-year life plan for taxis is scrapped
    93 14 SINGAPORE. Sept. 26 DROPOSALS to amend thv taxi by-laws to empower the Singapore Registrar of Vehicles to cancel the taxi licence issued, if he is satisfied that the vehicle is no longer suitable for such use, are being considered by the City Council.
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    Professor here
    34 14 SINGAPORE. Sept. 27. Prof. D. G. E Hall, head of the Department of SouthEast Asian HL'torv at London University arrived in Singapore yesterday to spend three months it the University of Malaya.
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    Villagers tell the forces
    59 14 MALACCA. Sent. 26. SECURITY forces gained information about terrorists’ contacts and organisations t o d a > when they carried out “Operation Interview at Tiang Hua. a nrv village where bandits have committed murders this year. This is the first time “Operation Interview has been tried
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    Waterspout ‘like a-blast’
    62 14 PENANG. Sept. 25. TII’NDRFDS of people lined Penang waterfront today to watch a big waterspout rising from North Channel. It lasted seven minutes and was so high that it coul< be seen from the main busi ness area of Penang Road. One eye-witness, Mr. S. Oei, said
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    Facilities for seamen
    69 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 25. Rev. Cyril Brown. Superintendent General of the Missions for Seamen, arrived in Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday on a visit to the Colony. Rev. Brown, who was port chaplain in the Colony in 1934 is inspecting facilities lor merchant seamen in India, the Far East
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    THE first Brazilian naval training ship to call at Singapore, the Almirante Saldanha. arrived alongside the Harbour Board wharves on Sept. 26 for a five-day visit.
    145 15 The all white ship presented a beautiful i Mght as she slowly I 'tinned into her berth. I oUmr was added by her smartly
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    Boom has done big harm, says Chamber
    163 15 THE high prices of rubber during the last two years have done enormous harm to Malaya, says the half-yearly report of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce. And the reasons, according to the report, are: 1 It has raised the ideas of the standard
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    S’pore MCA to get new premises
    75 15 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. THE SINGAPORE branch of the Malayan Chinese Association is to get new premises for its headquarters in the Colony. The association's present premises in Robinson Road is now considered inadequate. The Singapore branch committee decided to leave negotiations for the new
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    SINGAPORE FAILS TO RECOGNISE TED RAY
    152 15 SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. [HADING British comedian, Ted Ray, spent a night in Singapore without being recognised. ui I'vr i YViiuuut ITie reason he slipped r ough was because he was 'veiling under his real i c. Olden. Soon after he arrived at es Hotel,
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    Branch of party to be formed
    53 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 29. Progressive Party supporters. at a meeting in Upper Serangoon Road. Singapore, yesterday, decided to form a branch of the party in the district Mr. Lim Choo Sye, Progressive Party candidate for North Ward in the coming City Council election, was introduced
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    ‘Bad’ rubber: U.S. not co-operating
    116 15 AMERICAN merchants will not co-operate with Singapore to put a stop to the shipment of inferior rubber to the U.S.. says the half yearly report of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce The report says that no hope of any improvement can be seen as U.S,
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    Signs of harder days ahead
    477 15 SINGAPORE CHAMBER REPORT SINGAPORE, Sept. 27. r JpHERE is no suggestion of a slump but there are signs pointing to less easy days ahead, the president of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson, told the half-yearly meeting yesterday. The present trade
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    Supplies of Jap produce glut market
    216 15 Large supplies of pears, potatoes and onions are reaching Singapore from Japan at competitive prices and the market in th e first six months of the year was over supplied. The half yearly report of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce states that as a
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    ‘BALANCE THIS TRADE’ PLEA
    152 15 A WARNING that steps will have to be taken to redress the unfavourable trade balance of trade between Malaya and Japan should it prove detrimental to Malaya’s exchange position is contained in the half yearly report of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce. The report said it
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    Mr. Jack Evans
    23 15 Mr. Jack Evans, former Malayan Film Censor, left Singapore ort Sept 30 for the United States before going to Britain.
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    WOODCOTE INN BEATS THE CRACKS
    1169 19  -  Croni EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Sept. 27. ttv ,)DCOTE INN, With T? Tackle Tait astride, de~ Jlf crated his class ‘when h, ammed a field of top c l stayers by two lengths irophy race over 9f with 91, hLs back at Ipoh today, 0 )t
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    BILLDAW WINS THE GOLD VASE TRIAL
    985 19  -  from EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Sept. 28. ell.LDAW. with Frank Flannery up. followed up hi rerent triumph in the .liable Liberation Cup at Hu kit Timah when he put ip a delightfully smooth erformnnce to beat Sportiig Gesture by a convincing j P?-length margin in
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      47 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL $384,950 First No. *****4 $105,485 Second No. *****3 52,742 Third No. *****7 26,371 Starters ($2,397 each): Nos. *****2, *****6, *****9, *****1, *****0, *****1, *****7, *****3, *****5, *****0, *****2. Consolation Prizes ($2,000 each): Nos. *****8, *****8, *****9, *****1, *****0, *****9.* *****7, *****7, *****4, *****0.
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    Satisfactory volume of business
    614 20 SHAKE MARKET SINGAPORE. Sept. 29. A SATISFACTORY volume of trade was mainn tained with holders meeting the market and by the end of the -week sellers were in slight predominance and a slight general easing was discernible in Industrials and Tins. Little business was possible in
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    BUSINESS DONE
    214 20 SINGAPORE, Sept. 29. gUSINESS done in the Malayan Share Market last week Included:— INDUSTRIALS Consolidated Tin Smelter Ord. 20/0. Federal Dispensary $1.67*4 end $l-70, Fraser and Neave Ord. $4.10 to $4.15 c.d., c.b.i., Pref. $6.85. Gammon $2.65, Hammer $2.35, Malayan Cement $l.Ol Va to $1.03%, McAlister $42.50 cum
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    77 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 1. Business was done in copra in Singapore yesterday at $29 ;i f.0.0. per picul, with buyers at $29 > 4 and sellers $29 4 Coconut oil was $45.50 buyers and $46.50 sellers Black Lampong pepper was unchanged at $505 a picul, while Muntok (white)
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    865 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 1. INDUSTRIALS Bayers Sellers A. ex Bricks Peel 2.16 2 30 3 50 3 60 Atlas Ice 12 6( 13.60 BB Petrol 35/ 36/B. Trustees 6 50 7 60 Con. Tin Smelt. Pfef JV- 22/Ofds 21/- 22/Eastern United 36.75 87.50 Fed Dispensary 1.85 1.75 Fraser
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    MALAYAN DIVIDENDS
    96 20 Dividends announced last week were:— SINGAPORE. Sept. 29. M. Breweries Ords.: Dale payable Books close 6 cts final and 6 cts. bonus Qess tax Lower Perak Tin: 4.8d. (No 121 esa 3D r v tax 2 C 2 ct 20 25 Malayan Tin: 30% interim less tax 1
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    $2,276,000 profit for Fraser & Neave
    443 20 $2,276,000 profit for Fraser Neave 'THE accounts ot Fraser and Neave, Ltd., si, 1 profit for the year of $2,216,2*2, after prov/iin! for Income tax and a special charge of $*c ;i J for plant replacement. us This compares with $2,010,916 fo r ttv las financial year. The balance, available
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    No selling pressure for rubber
    186 20 SINGAPORE, Sept V THE rubber marker rtuctuat--1 ed narrowly around the present level throughout the week says Lewis and Peats weekly report. Orders from abroad continue to c t r^ v moderate in quanti but there has been no part, mar selling pressure here The
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    McAlister’s chairman confident
    154 20 SINGAPORE. Sept 2? ¥N soite of the fact that e I outlook for trading conditions was not so encoij:^' ami Company 1 were p finue 4 their bu.-i-of the Company in Singapore ye The rda meetlng approved fln T al dividend of 20 per and a bonus
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