The Straits Budget, 9 October 1952

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  • 30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) N Series No. 323. Thursday, October 9, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
    • 655 2 Attitudes: U.S., British Malayan IN an editorial on October 6 entitled “U.S. Attitude to Malaya” you write: ‘‘After all, the Government of the Federation has been spending millions of dollars during the last four years and men from Britain, Malaya and other Empire countries have been giving their lives in
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    • 151 2  -  OUTSIDER. Singapore. WITH reference to a report i in your issue of Sept. 27,1 headed Station needs name,” may I suggest that the new electricity station at Pasir Panjang be named: “King George VI” in memory of our late beloved King I am sure that
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    • 707 2  - I.M.P. M.C.A. an appeal SEGARAM Kuat Lumpur. “(CHINESE MALAYAN’*, in his recent letter. (j octa unwarranted and untenable criticism ar onr leading articles of Sept. 16 and 18. I n my o nirm there is absolutely no reason for him to be a n Jl at these two editorials. ia
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    • 50 2  -  family ma> Penang. ••f OOK at India. WWsta"; L Burma and pylon. cannot hold on to h tain's) apron strings forever says "Pengawai of Kelanw Many oi us. indeed, looked long and hard a* we’d like to ho d on to apron strings just a ilonger. man
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    • 271 2  -  Nik MAHMOOD bin Haji A. MAJH' Kota Bahru. MY attention has been drawn to the report of a meeting of Selangor M.C.A. on September 20. It was held to discuss the Government’s request for 400 Chinese to be enlisted as Special Constables to help exterminate Communist terrorists.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

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    • 529 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 2. When, at the beginning of l.ist year, the Colony Legis- j i :i ti\e Council empowered the Cit\ Council to confer the honorary Freedom of the City re was no reason to expect that the opportunity would ->OlO so soon to inscribe on
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    • 657 3 —Straits Times. Oct. 2. Mr. T. Aiken, as chairman 1 of Fraser and Neave Ltd., has 1 drawn attention, on behalf of the tax-paying community, in < the Federation as well as in the Colony, to two legitimate j grievances under the income- < tax law. No
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    • 567 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 3. Today the Duchess of Kent performs one of the primary duties which brought her to Singapore. As President of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, Her Royal Highness will formally open this afternoon the new clinic of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association,
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    • 672 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 4. Communism in Asia has taken a blow on the chin; not a knock-out blow by any means, but one that should encourage the anti-Commun-ist forces to take heart. The resounding defeat that has been inflicted upon the Communists in Japan may not
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    • 399 4 Straits Times. Oct. 4. The recent report from Amsterdam seems to have been rather over-optimistic regarding the prospects for an international rubber agreement. That the progress so far made has not been as great as was hoped for in August is indicated by the fact that
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    • 243 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 6. he people' of Kuala Lumnur yesterday welcomed the Du« h< <>l Kent and her son to the Federation; a country at war, and therefore not permitting the freedom of I movement which in normal times would have allowed tin* royal visitors to see
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    • 529 4 —Straits Times. Get. 6. Mr. John Allison, the United States Under Secretary of State for Far East Affairs,! will arrive in Singapore next i week. He will be very wel- j come, although the visit may seem rather overdue. Admittedly, the United States has no responsibility
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    • 402 4 —Straits Times. Oct. 8. The Duchess of Kent, and the Duke, have done something which few of us, at least in the towns, do in a lifetime in Malaya they have tapped a rubber t v oc. Nothing very much, perhaps, hut it seems symbolic. And if
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    • 582 4 Straits Times. Oct. 8 Four Chinese a few days ago attempted to obtain admission to Outram Road Gaol in order to be treated as opium addicts. The incident, remarkable at first sight, becomes less surprising on consideration. There are a very large number of addicts
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  • 70 4 PENANG. Oct 2 Sixteen New Zealand clcntal nurses have applied tc work in remote rural areas in Kola 1 tan. But only two will b* chosen to serve for a peri i of two to three years. The two selected, ri sen ting the lirst team
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  • 47 4 New P. O. ship for Far East The P. and O. line’s latest cargo-liner, the Sunda, 11,600 tons dead weigh which will be put on the r o East run, undergoes tri: runs today. The Sunda is expected tleave London on her maiae, voyage on Oct. 23.
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  • 46 4 Mr. Choong Kok Sv." editor of the Penang G:y< and Sunday Gazette. wh>> to spend three months in y United States, has arrived Washington for a brief v H P will later join a Califs nia newspaper, the Rive"— Enterprise and Daily News.
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  • 30 4 SINGAPORE. Oft l Profe.ssor D. E. C. Mehf Professor of Surgery at E’iivrv«itv of Malaya. n?tur. or! in Singapore by air vest' day if ter a holiday Britain.
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  • 715 5  - AS SHAKESPEARE WOULD HAVE LIKED IT—IN CHINESE DRESS liy C. uu f Shakespeare were alive would he frown or chuckle at seeing his characters in “As You Like It” strutting the stage in long, flowing, multi-coloured Chinese costumes? A group of Malayans believe he would have said: “My friends, this
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  • 450 5 From our Kuala Lumpur office FOR five years Malaya’s post-war child prodigy—the Malayan Film Unit —was left on its own to develop as best it could with money supplied by government. Now .strict parental guidance has been provided lor this brilliant atid exuberant youngster. It has
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  • 66 5 SINGAPORE (fit 2. A tame young Malayan tigress. Nepti. which was tormerly mascot ol the Ist Bn., 7th Gurkha Rifles, has just made its debut at london Zoo. She was* given to the zoo by the Gurkhas. Nepti is in perfect condition and on view to
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  • 27 5 .SINGAPORE. Oct. 0. Mr. W .1 Parks Assistant Commissioner of Police, relurried to .Singapore try Qint l BOAC iftej (iVr month’s leave in Britaii
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  • PERSONAL
    • 218 5 liOOTON: On September 28, a* P'-nung Maternity Hospital, to Ann. wife of James William Hoouin, a daughter. V’l lib: On September 29th at Bungsur Hospital, to Diana, wife of A. M. Webb, Colonial Legal Srr ice, a son (Simon Henry t. brother for Amanda. BELSHAM: On Oct. stli, at
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    • 46 5 LIEUT. <Ej J. W. WHYTE, RN. and MISS P. M. LOCKHART. The engagement is announced between James <Hamish» Macnle, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Whyte of Kuala Lumpur, and Phyllis Margaret, youngest daughter of General Sir Rob and Lady Lockhart of Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 227 5 SINGAPORE, Oct. 8. (AST NIGHT'S performJ ance at the Victoria Memorial Hall of Shakespeare’s comedy “As You Like It” in traditional! Chinese dress proves once again that it matters little how the actors are dressed in a Shakespeare play but greatly how they speak and
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  • 18 5 Mr Samuel Edgar Hutchings. Prisons Superintendent. Gold Coast, has been transferred to the Malayan .Prisons Service.
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  • 70 5 DEATH BUGLE killed by bandits on Fraser Estate, Kulai, on 29th September, Robert Eric Bogle, de.trly beloved husband of Rene and .filher of Maureen, Jennifer uud Christine. ANN: Only daughter of Mr. Ar Mrs. Edgar Van Dor t. of Government Hospital Kluang died suddenly after operation on 2Gth September 1952.
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  • 595 6  -  STOIC. jyjOST UNFORTUNATE man of the week was the Singapore wrestling fan who was haled to court on Monday morning, after a Saturday night session among the grumble and grunt men, and fined $1 for booing, after he had pleaded that he was only doing what
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  • 8 6 Phonograph by Birte Steincke.
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  • 974 6  -  Stanley Street. Data Dalain 1%/fr. P. C. B. Newington of A K Sungei Bruas Estate, in Perak, has been prodded by the tarup discussion into recalling a Borneo tale of 1914. In grateful fascination we retire and hand him the half-column which here follows, in
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  • 717 8 Great day for the people SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. JT was the people’s day yesterday. A mv a t cosmopolitan crowd gathered on the Padano and cheered. A simple ceremony. And 'the Duchess of Kent becahie a Freeman of the fit\ of Singapore. 'flic throng—people
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  • 19 9 DIE DUCnESS signs her famine on the RegiKtc* oft Freemen. She signed h rs.li “Marina/”
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  • 382 9  -  By NAN HALL SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. rlis is the story of 15 little patients of St. Andrew’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Sig’an who lay on the grass by the side of the City Hall steps yesterday tor an hour-and-a-half to see the Duchess of
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  • 176 9 P .~'IIE ADMISSION of the Duchess of Kent to honorary freedom of the City of Singapore was a pledge that the Colony will develop, progress and maintain its rights within the Commonwealth and also showed deep appreciation of the Royal act by which the late King
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  • 590 10 DUCHESS PRAISES THE ‘ONE PEOPLE IDEA SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. rE Duchess of Kent, the first Royal Freeman of the City of Singapore, said yesterday that its people were engaged upon a project of far-reaching significance the casting into one mould of elements derived from many different cultures. “This plan in
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  • 148 10 SINGAFORE, Out. 2 WHO should present V n Duchess with a bouquet* Someone pointed out th,f City Councillor Mi G v daughters? had two Up to that time— l yesterday-seven- year old Oehlers did not even think she would be taken to see the Duchess But
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  • 587 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. THREE hundred people sang '‘For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow” in the City Hall, Singapore, yesterday, at a reception to honour the Duchess of Kent. It was spontaneous and unexpected. But it marked the pleasure with which those 300 people—leading citizens of
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  • 187 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 3. TtHE Duke of Kent paid informal visits to Royal Air Force Stations at Seletar and Tergah yesN rday. .pent 90 minutes at station and saw a y- r of the varied activithe Far East Air tour of Seletar began vstt to the
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  • 135 11 IPOH. Oct. 2. TH E 16/-YEAR-OLD Duke of Kent, now touring Malaya- with his mother, the Duchess, will not come to Ipoh. centre of the world’s richest tin mining area, hut he will receive a souvenir of the visit paid by his father, the late Duke of
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  • 444 11 DUCHESS AT THE NAVAL BASE SINGAPORE, Oct. 3. IV/fORE than 7,000 people waited for nearly two hours yesterday at the Singapore Naval Base for the Duchess of Kent and when she arrived they greeted her in complete silence. Then the Duchess smiled and
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 72 11 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br. Empire Singapore Town Area No Postage Quarterly 5.20 Half-yearly 10.40 Yearly 20 80 The weekly issues of tl express air delivery service an inclusive rate of $24.00 1 (/ILL THE ABOVE ARE IN Foreign Malaya (Including Including Postage postage) 5.75 8.75 11.50
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  • 51 12 P ii in !r t 0 ast at the clos C °f the dinner party. From the left of the picture are seen: Mrs. McNeice. Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, th e Duchess, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, the Governor. Mrs. W. L. Blythe, and th e
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  • 274 12 SINGAPORE. Oct. 3. I ONG hours of prepar- j ation preceded last night's dinner party l Kiven by Singapore j Executive and Legisla-; tive Councillors to the Duchess of Kent and the young Duke. W. L. Blythe, wife of the Colonial Secretary, spent the
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  • 149 12 rE DUCHESS wore an evening gown of slipper satin, the colour of ripened maize, with fichu effect of swatched cloth across the shoulder Corsage was of palest mauve and blue petals, at the neckline curve of the left strap, uorn with a large brooch of
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  • 577 12 SINGAPORE. Oct. 3. ’pHERE was a happy blending of East and West at the Royal banquet held in Singapore last night given by members of the Executive and Legislative Councils and their wives in honour of the Duchess of Kent and the Duke. There were the
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  • 331 13 SINGAPORE. Oct 4. r > i Duchess of Kent, who i declared open the Royal Singapore Tuberculqsis Cli‘|lu. ,1 Prince Edward Road vt sierilav said the work of the Singapore Anti-Tuber-|ul,,. Association was a rei” Mkable achievement. The new clinic was greatly to the credit not only
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  • 238 13 rE opening of the Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic by the Duchess of Kent was described by Mr. E M. F. Fergusson. Chairman of the Anti-Tuberculosis ciation as “an event of our.'.anding memory." Mr Fergusson thanked the Due\uss for making the long journey from England to open the clinic.
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  • 371 13 SINGAPORE. Oct 4. THE Duchess of Kent wore a white lace gown with a very full skirt which had a hem of white organza at the Government House Ball given by the Governor of Singapore, >1r. J. F. Nicoll, last night. Witn it siie wore the
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  • 417 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 2. CKCKET information about the bandits from people of three new villages in the Federation wus given today to Sir Gerald Templer. Two of these villages were “had”. Sir (i.-rald said. The people of the third village had behaved themselves “pretty well”. He
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  • 197 17 SEREMBAN, Oct. 1. TIE headman of Sikamat new village, four miles :n Seremban. 42-year-old i'iiow Fong, today put out his left hand to the High .nmissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, and had it grasped warmly. T promised you I would ivme,” Sir
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  • 73 17 The Singapore Trade Union Ci ingress has agreed to amend its constitution to make it clear that the orgai.i nation is not an executive b dy. but an advisory and co- t'dinating Congress. In a letter to the Commis»ner for Labour. submitting proposed amendments, ‘be Secretary
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  • 23 17 BATU PAHAT, Oct 3.—Mr. C. R. Danby, has taken over from Mr. D. I. Goodwin, as Administrative Officer, Balu Paha;.
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  • 146 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 3. THE High Commissioner General Sir Gerald Tern pier, gets a regular flow of “fan mail’’ from people who have information for him about the Communist terrorists. Today Sir Gerald stated that he wished to thank .all the
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  • 346 17 SINGAPORE. Oct. 7. I SINGAPORE Flying Club pilot and his two issengers in an A lister n out of petrol about miles north of luring, hit a 60- foot tree cl were “swallowed'* by > dense Jungle. 'bit—there was a track ’> yards away. It
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  • 117 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 3. PERMATANG TINGGI New Village—neighbour to the ill-fated Permatang Tinggi Village which was punished last month for refusing to give information against the terrorists—is preparing for the election of its village committee. Six weeks ago, after personally accusing the people of
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  • 14 17 Mr. David Robert Andrew McCorkell has been appointed Assistant Superintendent, Malayan Peilice Service.
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  • 197 17 SIKAMAT New Village, Oct 1. r PHE High Commissioner, Gen. Sir Gerald Tempter, was horrified at the conditions under which 35 rubber tappers and their families were living in what could be called “pig-sty alley” in Sekamat new village, four miles from Seremban today. When
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  • 78 17 SINGAPORE. Oct. 6. MALAYA has been allocated a large slice in the 1954 budget of the Weirld Health Organisation, said Dr. W. J. Vickers, Singapore Directoi of Medical Sevices, ye*sterday. He* returned yesterday from Saigon, where lie* attended a regional conference e>f the* organisation as chid
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  • 310 17 IPOH. Oct. 5. lOIIORE won the $400,000 first prize (ticket No. *****99 in the Malayan Chinese Association’s twelfth lottery, drawn today at Perak Chinese Assembly Hall. This is the second time since the start of these lotteries that .foliore has won the top prize Second
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  • Article, Illustration
    101 18 MK. CECIL FRANCIS SMITH, Chairman of the Malayan Rubber Export Registration Board, has served many years in Malayan public life and. until his retirement last year. Has managing director of Sime. Darby and Co.. Ltd. A director of Fraser and Neave. Ltd. and Raffles Hotel, he is also Chairman
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  • 44 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 3 Another conference of the United Nations F’oo<i and Agricultural Organisation ;s to be held in Singapore during December. The conference, which will deal with forestry problems, will it is understood, meet in the Victoria Memorial Hall
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  • 273 18 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct. 8. UALAYA has put an $80,000,000 ceiling on the import of Japanese textiles next year. I This is equail to five per cent of Malaya’s totaC imports of textiles from all j countries during 1950 and 1951. The Malayan Governments
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  • 62 18 IPOH. Oct. 7.- The officer in charge of No. 3 Platoon. Kampar group of the Kinta Valley Home Guard, 25-year-old Mr. Tan Say Chuan. was shot dead in his office at Malim Nawar yesterday. His alleged slayer, who is l said to have turned the gun
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  • 158 18 THE CHAIRMAN of ihc Malayan Exchange Banks’ Association. Vr. G. A. P. Sutherland, s manager for Malav.i of the Chartered Bank of India. Australia and China, which has 15 branches in the Federation and Singapore. The Chartered Bn; 1 carries the bulk of banking business
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  • 1186 18  -  THE WEEK IN SPOtt-f By CONRAD NG SINGAPORE, Oct. 7. T*HE Singapore rugger A fans who made up the welcome party at Kallang Airport on Monday j received the victorious Colony team from Colombo with loud cheers. Skipper Max Parker, cradling the silvery, three-foot bi«?h All-India
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  • 1203 19  -  From EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE; Oct. 5. SP {TING GESTURE, a vt*-year-old by Coflorado K1( i scored a dramatic last I r victory from Northern rii t in the Perak Gold Viv over 5if. straight, the r t championship of the Jpa n. at Ipoh yesterday, con
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  • 967 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Oct. 1. I EADING jockey Colin Tulloh was in maginificent 1; ing form at Ipoh yesterday. rd day of the Perak Turf ib Gold Vase meeting, ion he won four races in a i \v on Tarzan, My Ling, I'mce Hall
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 121 19 BIO SWEEP TOTAL POOL $416,532 FIRST No. *****2 $114,960 SECOND No. *****7 $57,480 THIRD No. *****0 $28,740 Starters ($3,193 each): Nos. *****7, *****4, *****6 *****6, *****5, *****2, *****2. *****2, *****6. Consolations ($2,000 each) Nos. *****7, *****6, *****2, *****0, *****3, *****2, *****8, *****4, *****2, *****5. BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL $375,850 First
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  • 281 20 SHARE MARKET I By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. 2HARE markets attracted less interest than was their wont this week while the Singapore public shunned things mundane to welcome their Royal guests. In somewhat reduced volume, a wide list of industrials were placed on
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  • 236 20 SINGAPORE Oct. 6. BUSINESS dene in the Malayan Shnre Market last week included INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelter Ord. 20 6; Federal Dispensary SI 67 1 1*: Fraser <fc Neave $4.15 to $3.95 c.d., c.b., c.bi.: Gammon ?2 65; Hammer $2.35 to $2.40; Malayan Cement $1,071/9 and $1.10: McAlister
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  • 19 20 Total exports of rubber, all grades to all countries, from Malaya during September, amounted to 75,740 tons.
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  • 41 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 8. Produce market pn?es in Singapore yesterday were: Copra $2B f.o.b. per picul buyers s2B'- sellers: Coconut oil 444.53 f o.b. per picul buyers. $45.50 sellers; Pepper Muntok $593 a picul sellers. Sarawak $585. Lampong $5OO.
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  • 167 20 SINGAPORE. Oct. 8. A REPORT in Singapore yesterday that colum-bite-a metal in great demand for manufacture of jet aircraft engineshad been found at Pulau Brani Smelter, sent the shares of Straits Trading Co. Ltd., up by nearly 32 on the Singapore market The report
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  • 85 20 SINGAPORE. Oct. 4. gINGAPORE City Council’s Finance and General Purposes Committee held a day-long meeting yesterday, its second long session this week, to try and work out a balanced budget for next year. The Committee will meet again this afternoon to finalise a draft budget
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  • 306 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 6 THE BUFFER stock scheme which Mal un producers are reported to favour to stal iL rubber prices would necessitate the accun h lion of 250,000 tons of rubber, worth more than $lOO million at current market price, accor ling to a
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  • 186 20 SINGAPORK i, 4 ALTHOUGH tn p- a sagging tend, no or c have to great e.v held by short-coveri: < October position :l Singapore markc, sav s and Peat's weekly rubber Fluctuations have beer minor nature and there n" particular feature oi m- KV Offtake
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  • 56 20 SINGAPORE Oct 7. Dividend announcements ,a*t week were: Company Dividend* Total foe Date Book* Year Pavablp Close Ovrrsea-Chtnese Bank 5% lnt. less 30% tax 5% Oct 13 Oct. 7 Southern Kinta l/'3d. flna'. less tax 53% Oct. 31 Oct 15 Kuala Sldim 15% int less 30'*.
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  • 918 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. fl. INl>l STKIAI.S Buyers Sellers Alex BriiK* Prof i .5 t 3u Ords 350 3 t>o Atlas Ice ,2 5( i'j 50 B B Petrol 35/ 36/B M Trustee* 0 ?J 7 50 Con lin Smell Pref 2'. >j, Ords 2’./- 22/Eastern United :<6 75
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  • 173 20 F. N. set new record Br A Martel rr <~|)mid, "l T HE mtn Ltd., for > is ye: another ly improving <• tVe the for unnte nicientcome to expe ly conducted n n a n-ume Sales censtitu td *u uUng record and P r l V. d but for
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  • 46 20 Because of rising cost living, the Federated Ma States War Relief Fund. L< don, last year made a sp< C1 Christmas grant of each of the beneficiaries the fund, says Mr. W. Ward, chairman of the Fin in his annual report for ia year.
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