The Straits Budget, 16 October 1952

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) New Series No. 824. Thursday, October 16, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      PLEA FOR A MALAY BANK
      744 2  -  SHEH A. SHAHAB. Singapore. I READ with misgivings the recent report regarding voluntary liquidation of the Malay National Banking Corporation, Ltd., as the collapse of this Bank is tantamount to failure of Malay effort in erecting! a financial institution long dreamt of by them. It
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      SONS OF CHINA
      45 2  -  CYNIC Johore. MR. Lau Ik Kok, at a proKuomintang Double Tenth dinner in Kuala Lumpur, said, “True sons of Cimia can be true to China as well as to Malaya, their adopted home.” Divided love; divided loyalty; dabbling in foreign politics. Alas.
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      Who seeks freedom? ‘Not the people’
      371 2  -  ASIAN. Singapore. RECENTLY we have heard a number of self-st h leaders braying for independence. The majo v of these “leaders” are foreign-bom and theyallegiance to Delhi, Peking or Colombo. They present their cause by saying that he tide of nationalism (really fanaticism) has
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      FUMES FROM THE BUSES
      86 2  -  CITIZEN. Singapore. HATS off to Mrs. Robert Eu for complaining in the City Council about the nauseating fumes pouring from our buses. The bus directors have pooh-poohed the idea that there is anything very much wrong, but only the other day I was passing a bus
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      Permit to publish awaited
      331 2  -  MAK PAK SHI Singapore rpHE people of .apore will remember h A not so long ago. the Press and the Singapore Union i Journalists so vigorously opposed the Emergency <N wspapep Regulations, which were introduced by the Government in order tso it pledged' to protect the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      38 2 m mm t F-- -H •vav.v. g;->:.;,; Pf i 'S'-; *>: A f ,c >■ /7+m tf v t w; Jr** 4 Mo, thats not the Montebellos. TTials Singapore. TFieyVe just heard the water fate's going up now. ta: nA?
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  • The Straits Budget
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      ‘Goodbye & Thank You’
      770 3 Goodbye Thank You’ —Straits Times, Oct. 8. Effusiveness is hardly the word suitably to describe the feelings shown by the people of Malaya towards the men who are helping to fight its battle. It is time we tried to t things in their true perspective and to acknowledge t debt
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      Malayan Students’ Grievance
      308 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 8. Mr. Cecil Wong, the Presidont, at the annual dinner of the Malayan Students’ Union in London, was justified in protesting against the delay in dealing with the students’ claim to be represented on the board of governors of Malaya Hall. The exclusion of
      —Straits Times, Oct. 8.  -  308 words
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      Blue Print For Education
      662 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 10. It has taken the Special Education Committee eleven months to produce its blueprint for the Federation’s national schools of the future, j Measured by the size of the problem, that is not a long time, and it seems to have been well
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      Poor Man’s Rice
      482 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 13. Then were* 1.37 prosecutions in Singapore during September under the Food and Price Control Ordinances. There were 1.72 convictions and lines totalled over .$20,000. On the lace of it, not unsatisfactory (or satisfactory, depending on the point of view); but it happens that
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      Amalgamation Means Strength
      253 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 13. It has long been contended, in this column and elsewhere, that if the natural rubber industry hopes to compete successfully against synthetic it must do very much more than has been done to reorganise itself. There are, it has been pointed out, too
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      In Memory Of The King
      322 4 —Straits Times. Oct. 13. As a King’s Chinese, bom and resident in Malaya, 1 have great pleasure in sending, as a token of my loyalty, a cheque ||nr £lOO Thus Mr. Heah Joo one of Penang's bestknown Chinese, now visiting England, in a letter to
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      The Dollar Earner
      597 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 14. Very little is ever heard about the vast number of i Malayans who carry on with their daily work, despite the Communists, so that the life of Malaya is not disrupted. The tribute w’hich General Templer paid in his Australian j broadcast to
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      The Colony’s Budget
      1093 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 15 There is much to praise in Singapore’s new budget estimates. They were presented yesterday by a Financial Secretary who last year learned a lesson. This time the estimates are realistic, and not merely a hopeful assessment °f spending presented by optimistic heads of
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      210 3 THE STRAITS TIMES ANNUAL for 1953 will be on sale early in November with its usual wide coverage of the Malayan scene in fullcolour and black and white The Annual has been rated Among the features arc: 26 four-colour pictures three of them full-page plates. A scries of graphic picturestories
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    TIME TO TAKE STOCK OF OUR SCHOOLING
    942 5  -  By NONI WRIGHT SINGAPORE, Oct. 10. SINGAPORE’S third k Education Week opens today. This year it is under Royal patronage. This has become an annual .restitution, as useful in rocussing public attention >n progress in a gigantic isk as in reminding parents hat
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    Malayan students in the snow at Lake Mountain, near Melbourne, Australia, during the recent winter. Standing (left to right): Oo Yee Jin, Bessie Phoa, Yong Fah Lin, Jeyarajendram; seated (left to right): Too Joon Swam, Rosalind Yong, June Tan. Margaret Blackburn. David Wong of Singapore is having his first taste of Australian snow.
    53 5 Malayan students in the snow at Lake Mountain, near Melbourne, Australia, during the recent winter. Standing (left to right): Oo Yee Jin, Bessie Phoa, Yong Fah Lin, Jeyarajendram; seated (left to right): Too Joon Swam, Rosalind Yong, June Tan. Margaret Blackburn. David Wong of Singapore is having his first taste
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      105 5 FYFE: To Jean, wife of David Alexander Fyfe, at Teluk Anson, on Sunday, sth October. 1952. a son, James Alexander. O’SULLIVAN: On October Gth, at Bungsar Hospital, K L., to Kathleen, wife of Michael O'Sullivan, a daughter. ABEL: To Lesley, wife of Albert Abel, a son. Paul David, at
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      100 5 BURRAOE BROCKHURST: The engagement is announced between Nigel George Beaumont, only son of Major B B. Burrage, R.A., and of Mrs. Burrage. of Plymouth, Devon, and Monica Louise, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. N. Brockhurst, of Yokohama. Japan. THE engagement is announced between John Champernowne Litton, Malayan Civil
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      MARRIAGES
      87 5 BLAIKIE-BROWN: Robert Blalkie to Nessie R. Brown on October 7th at Singapore Registry Office. BROWN MACPHERSON: On Oct. 4th, 1952, at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Derek Robert Henstridge Brown to Jennifer Ann MacPherson. MARSH—QUTHRIE. On October 11th 1952 at St. Andrews Church Kuala Lumpur. Ronald Martin Marsh
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    25 years of service
    107 5 SINGAPORE, Oct. 9. Mr. A. F. Lau. Chief Clerk ol the Brunei Branch of HarrLson.s and Cro.slield (Borneo» Limited, retired recently at the age of 55. He u,a.s the first man in the company to do .so and had 25 years’ services to his credit. Presenting
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    New Singapore engineer here
    57 5 SINGAPORE. Oct. 9. Mr. T. F. Oswald, new deputy electrical engineer with the Singapore City Council arrived by QantasBOAC at Kallang airport last night. Mr. Oswald was chief power engineer with the Bahrein Petroleum Company. He was met at the airport by Mr. R. A. Waddle,
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  • Obituary
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    48 5 DEATH TOOGOOD: Geoffrey John, aged 4 years beloved son of Jack and Eileen Toogood, suddenly at Muar Hospital, October 8th. IN ME MORI AM IN loving memory of Dr. Yoong Khee Keong died Oct. 9th, 1951, in the General Hospital, Seremban. Greatly missed by his wife and children
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    RICE FIELD UNDER THE PLOUGH
    9 6 Photograph by Birte Steincke
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    As I was Saying
    634 6  -  ■TOIC. “r*ANT YOU INVENT a machine to tap our rubber trees?” asked Mr. Tara Singh, Kuala Lumpur journalist, when he visited Fort Dunlop in England last week. The inquiry had no relation, of course, to recent events on a Malacca rubber estate, where the Duchess and
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    917 6  -  Stanley StreH Proloool j TT S easy enough ;o start I oft “Ladies and gentlemen" when you address any ordinary gathering of Lh n hoi polloi in English. Things become more complicated, lend protocol raises its head with nice exactitude, on occasions like the visit
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    SENTRY EVERY TEN YARDS
    698 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 7. BETWEEN 1,500 and 2.000 soldiers and policemen guarded the 42 miles of road from Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Kubu Bahru when the Duchess '»f Kent and the Duke today visited the Queen’s Own, Koval West Kent Regiment. Security precautions were the most
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    THE DUCHEES MEETS A BANDIT’
    466 8 ‘FAKE’ BANDIT REAL WAR DOG KUALA LUMPUR. Oct 7. T'HE DUCHESS of Kent today had her first glimpse of what a Malayan Communist terrorist looks like and said: “He doesn't seem very impressive, does he?” The “terrorist” was Private Ronald Love, of the 1st Battalion.
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    The death of a Malayan hero
    619 9  -  By LESLIE HOFFMAN K. LUMPUR. Oct. 8. i GIVE YOU today, the 1 name of a Malayan hero —Police Constable Ahmad bin Kambari, 24 years old, and until today a member of the 6th Federal Jungle Company. He was killed at 10.45 this morning
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    GREEK WIFE MEETS THE DUCHESS
    54 9 MUa. PAULINE GRIFFIN, the Greek wife of a British staff sergeant in KK.M.E., with whom the Duchess of Kent conversed in Greek when she visited the Kinrara Military Hospital, near Kuala Lumpur. Mrs. Griflin, who comes Irom Athens, later said they chatted about the beauties
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    He gives the Duke a book he wrote
    123 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 8. rpilE Duke of Kent, who us 1 17 years old tomorrow, will receive a locally wVitten and printed book anions hus presents. The book, “Two Decades of Malayan Trials,” was sent to the Hish Commissioner, Gen Sir Gerald
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    Duchess cables to General
    54 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 8 The Duchess of Kent today sent a cable to General Oliver, of Headquarters, Eastern Command. England, referring to her visit to the Queen’s Own Royal West Kents at Kuala Kubu Bahru yesterday. Tile cable asked the General to tell the? relatives West
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    SHELLEY’S PROBLEM
    140 9 SHELLEY’ S PROBLEM KIIALA LUMPUR, Oct. 8. j)LONDE, round-eyed Sliel- lev Morris, two and a bail years old, shared a bis; problem with the Duelled of Kent today. When the Hu chess visited the Kinrara Military llospitil eight miles from Kuala Lumpur, Shelley, a patient who is also the daughter
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    Duke tries his hand on range
    110 9 K. LUMPUR, Oct. 7. TIIE DUKE of Kent proved today that he is almost a crack shot with the Owen sub-machine gun. one of the most popular weapons in the war against the terrorists. On the range at the Kuala Kuhu Bahru camp of
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    YOUTH OF SINGAPORE SALUTES THE DUCHESS OF KENT
    181 10 In a simple speech, the Fhichess of Kent told 25.000 school c Idren he great youth rally on thi» Padang that they were “the fr* r" !v n Malaya.” The Duchess received the biggest cheer of the day when i \is announced
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    Bandit camp on Royal route
    414 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 9. TJANDITS diitf slit trenches at the sides of the road that the Duchess of Kent travelled along when she visited the Koval West Kent Regiment camp at Kuala Kuhu Kahru. The commander of IS Infantry Brigade, Brigadier \V. II. Lambert, revealed
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    GIFT FROM AUSSIES
    158 12 SINGAPORE, Oct. 10. OFFICERS and men of No. 1 Bomber Squadron. Royal Australian Air Force. Tengah, Singapore, gave the Duchess Of Kent a solid silver casket when she visited them yesterday. The visit was not on the Duchess's original programme, but she asked to see the squadron
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    Duke has ‘long life’ soup
    569 12 Duke has long life soup SINGAPORE. Oct. 10. THE Duke of Kent, who celebrated his 17th birthday in Singapore yesterday, was truest-of-honour at a Chinese dinner at Government House last night. The dinner, given by the Governor of Singapore. Mr. J. F. Nicoli, was attending by the Duke's mother, the
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    TWO MILES OF CHEERS FOR THE DUCHESS
    181 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 9 Thousands of schoolchildren today gave the Duchess of Kent a routing send-off at the end of her four-day visit to the Federation. It was a magnificent climax r to her tour. Duchess drove from King’s House through two miles
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    Head banished
    45 12 SINGAPORE, Oct. 10. A former principal of the Ai Tong School in Singapore, P. F. Yap, was banished recently to Communist China. A Special Branch spokesman. who confirmed this yesterday, said that Yap had been detained under the Emergency Regulations for 14 months.
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    Accidents distress the Duchess
    174 12 KUALA LUMT'UR. tVt THE private se ".vuu> to 1 Duchess of K the following mt"'- A. E. Y< ung, sioner of Police; "Her Royal been dec p y sh( of the two accid< J the death of one a* cial constable and i- a number of
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    The Duchess was so pleased to see fancy biscuits again
    418 13 Food parcel on way to royal home SINGAPORE, Oct. 10. A ONE-POUND loaf of whole-meal bread, price 28 cents, was neatly wrapped up and pushed across the counter of the Singapore Cold Storage store in Orchard Road yesterday. Then the
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    Brother stood by hero’s side
    228 13 Straits Times Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 3. •PHE story of Ahmad bin Kambari, who was killed while guarding the route on w’hich the Duchess of Kent was travelling to Kinrara military hospital yesterday, has had a remarkable sequel. Colonel A. E. Young. F deration Commissioner
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    THE DUKE DANCES CONGA
    219 13 SINGAPORE. Oct. 10 The Duke of Kent danced the conga at a students’ social at Raffles Institution, Singapore, last night. Following this he danced a quick-step with 18-year old Mable Lee Soo Bee. a student from Singapore Chinese Girls’ School. He seemed to have thoroughly enjoyed
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    Duchess guest of C-in-C’s
    42 13 Duchess guest of C-in-C’ s SINGAPORE, Oct. 11. rE Duchess of Kent dined at Flagstaff House last night as the guest of the three Commanders-in-Chief. Far East. Flagstaff House was floodlit and the grounds were decorated Later she went to Prince’s Restaurant.
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    25,000 CHILDREN GREET DUCHESS
    681 13 SINGAPORE. Oct. 13. yjORE than 25,000 Singapore Schoolchildren yesterday gave the Duchess of Kent the most spectacular reception of her Malayan tour at a youth rally on the padang. Otficiallv it was ‘children’s day but thousands of adults enthusiatioally joined in too. swelling the numbers on
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    2,000 AT THE ROYAL GARDEN PARTY
    276 14 SINGAPORE. Oct. 11. THE Governor, Mr. John Nicoll, yesterday entertained 2,000 at a garden party a* Government House in honour of the Duchess of Kent. A hush fell and women curtesied as Mr. Nicoll escorted the Duchess through the crowds and introduced her to
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    The Duchess bends down to chat with Mrs. Carrick
    384 15 SINGAPORE, Oct. 14. AMID the gaiety and colour of the garden party at the University of Malaya yesterday, a woman sat patiently for an hour waiting to be introduced to the Duchess of Kent. •Mrs. John Carrick, wife of a lecturer
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    THE DUCHESS HONOURS WAR DEAD
    203 15 SINGAFGFf F, Oct. 1’ rpiiE Duchess oi Kent. vu*-> A is a war vidow her paid tribute yesterday to the 3,900 British Servicemen ouried at the Kran;i War Cemetery, Singapon Dressed in a beige dress and white hat. .she laid a wreath oi white flowers
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    POLICE PROUD OF SIKHS
    128 15 KUALA LUMPUR Oct LI. MR. J. N. D. Harrison, Assistant Commissioner of Police 'Training), .said today that the Police Force was extremely proud of the “tremendous” service of Sikhs. He was speaking at a tea party held by Kuala Lumpur’s Sikh community to honour Mr. Pritam
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    U.S. wants S’pore ‘jet ore’
    424 16 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct. 10. f fHE UNITED STATES, which is urgently building up a stockpile of 15,000,000 lb. of (he strategically important columbite ore, used to make jet aircraft engines, has extended its search for the ore to Malaya. Unconfirmed market reports,
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    More T.B. victims get Govt aid
    199 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. 10. THE amount now being distributed annually in public assistance and tuberculosis allowances had almost quadrupled in the past 18 months and the number of rases receiving allowances had nearly doubled, the Secretary for Social Welfare, Singapore. Mr. T. E. Smith, told
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    Governors meet
    63 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. 10. Sir Alexander Grantham. Governor of Hong Kong who lh*w into Sinagpore last night on his way back to Hong Kong was met at the airport by Mr. J F. Nicoll. the Governor of Singapore. Mr. Nicoll was formerly Colonial Secretary i n Hong Kong. Sir
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    To begin mission work in Malaya
    54 16 SEATTLE, Washington, Oct. 12.—Delegates to the 18th biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church of America yesterday voted unanimously to begin missionary work in Malaya The challenge of beginning mission activity in MaJlaya was attractive because it was dangerous, the Rev. Franklin Ciark Fry.
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    Mr. K.A. Owen
    17 16 Mr. K A. Owen has been an Education OfTil'T ol the Malayan Education Service.
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    2 officers given MCs
    78 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 10. YOUNG National SerA vice officer 2nd Lieutenant L. R. Hands, of the Ist Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, who killed the notorious terrorist leader, bearded Kajang gang boss Liew Kon Kim, has been awarded the Military Cross. The Military Cross has also been awarded
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    S’pore paper ceases publication
    92 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. 13. A SINGAPORE Chinese daily newspaper the ih Shih which was starter in June stopper publication suddenly yesterday. An announcement by the management that the paper was closing caught its employees by surprise. Altogether 120 persons were employed by the paper of whom 47
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    PENANG’S oldest blood donor. 71 – year – old racehorse owner Capt. Lindsay Vears, giving one pint to the blood bank. Attending him at the Penang General Hospital is Mrs. J. V. Ling.
    35 16 PENANG’S oldest blood donor. 71 year old racehorse owner Capt. Lindsay Vears, giving one pint to th e blood bank. Attending him at the Penang General Hospital is Mrs. J. V. Ling. Straits Times picture
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    Detector could not find the statue
    301 16 rnucu/UCDe SINGAPORE. Oct. 12. £OMEWHERE below the green grass near the bandstand in Waterloo Street, Singapore, is a two-and-a-halt toot high bronxe statute of General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Jap “Tiger of Malaya”. At least, so thinks Singapore sculptor Mr. J. Tarecon. although last week
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    Dawn is back from Perth
    48 16 MISS DAWN GRIND'; daughter of tfl )e iP!!. r Commissioner of labour, Kedah and P*‘ r,ls who rc turned to Singapore on P in the liiwr Sydney, h her parents, alter four months in Perth. —Straits ncr months in Perth. —Straits Times picture
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    M.C.S. Cadet
    20 16 Mr. R. G. Holden, Administrative Officer, Gold Coast, has been appointed a Cadet in the Malayan Civil Service.
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    MALAYAN STAMP FOR THE CORONATION
    87 16 IFPT SINGAPORE, Oct. 11. LEFT is the design of the Malayan stamp which will commemorate the Queen's Coronation next year. shows a three-quarter himt portrait of the Queen in a medal The portrait is in a black background and the frame in the colour corresponding
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    CITIZEN PLEDGE BY PROGRESSIVES
    129 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. 11. wINGAPORE Progressive Party yesterday pledged «< itself to fight for political rights tor Chinese and all other races who are prepared to become full citizens of this country.” A policy statement ld“So that there can be a ease for the enforcement of 1
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    MR. F. J. BYRANT
    20 16 IPOH, Oct. 10.—Mr. F J (Dickie) Byrant. doyen the Malayan Bar, celebrates his 90th birthday tomorrow.
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    Malayan Breweries paid $28 mil. duty
    551 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 11. MALAYAN BREWERIES, LTD., paid in excise duty approximately $28,000,000 in the financial year ended June 30 this year, compared with $12,000,000 two years ago. This is revealed in th e statement of the chairman, Mr. T. Aiken, issued yesterday with the
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    TAX CUTS PROFITS
    239 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 11. (CONSOLIDATED profits of Malayan Breweries. Ltd., and Archipelago Brewery Co. (1941), Ltd., before taxation for the last financial year total $6,109,485. The total profits after taxation—$3,884,485. This is shown in the annual accounts circulated to 1 shareholders yesterday. Estimated tax liability for the two
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    ROYAL VISIT WAS ‘TOO SHORT’
    97 18 ROYAL VISIT WAS TOO SHORT’ SINGAPORE. Oct. 15 1MIE fact that the Duchess of Kent is a Freeman of Singapore City encourages the hope that one day she will return to the Colony, said the Governor, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, in the Legislative Council yesterday. The visit of the Duchess
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    ANTI-GRAFT TEAM STARTS
    81 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 13. THE Integrity Commission, headed by Mr. Justice Taylor, is to investigate the incidence of corruption in Selangor Government services. Notice of appointment was gazetted today. Mr. Justice Taylor can hold the inquiry in public or in private. Members of the commission are: Messrs.
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    HE SENDS GIFT TO GEORGE VI FUND
    41 18 MR. ARTHUR PERRY who has become the first person in Malaya to send a donation to the King George VI Memorial Fund. He sent a cheque for S2OO to the Lord Mayor of London.
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    LEADERS OF BUSINESS IN MALAYA
    259 18 rpilE CAREER of Mr. 1 Harry Jackson, Chairman and Managing Director of Jackson and Company, represents a real Malayan business success story. Forty years ago. Mr. Jackson, “a Yorkshireman brought up in Manchester,” answered an advertisement in the Manchester Guardian, packed his bag before his
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    ‘Treasure Cot’ for hospital
    41 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 14 Mrs. Lee Choon Guan. oi Amber Road. Singapore. ha> donated $5,400 t ’he St. Andrew’s Missit. The donatio:: is me support of 1 prepretuity r. the her late husband. Mr. l* Choon Gtt in
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    Merchant dies in Singapore
    50 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 14. An old Singapore resident, Mr. M. A Reshty, died in the General Hospital yesterday. A merchant. Mr. Reshtv camp to Singapore from I sia more than 40 years He was an uncle of Mr M. Namazie. a member of bin gapore Executive Council.
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    Cup eludes Penang
    1203 19  -  THE WEEK IN SPORT I CONRAD NG gj; \PORE, Oct. 15. apcc more the Malaya q has eluded p r the Colony u’in 3_2 Bu t Penang we r never closer to Malayan soccer’s m( measured trophy t h L i the stirring final lt t Chinese
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    BIG PRIZES AT IPOH ‘GYMKHANA’
    970 19  - BIG PRIZES AT IPOH GYMKHANA’ From EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE. Oct. 12. r PHE first amateur race meeting of the Perak 1 T irf Club since the war held 1 at Ipoh yesterday the big- st ever crowd fof a “gymkl.ana.” Betting was brisk. Tak1 us averaged $20,000 per e, and
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      26 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL $89,682 1ST. No. *****0 (S26,905) 2ND. No. *****7 ($13,452) 3RD. No. *****7 $6,726) STARTERS ($1,345 each): Nos. *****6, *****7, *****9, *****7, *****9.
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    Week was packed with interest
    604 20 I SHARE MARKET] SINGAPORE. Oct. 13. [VIAL AY AN markets enjoyed a week packed with iTI interest in which a very considerable business was written in Industrials and a satisfactory volume maintained in Tins. Transactions in Loans were limited and in Rubbers most meagre. Alter
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    82 20 SINGAPORE. Oct. 15. 'THERE was a fair turnover in copra in Singapore yesterday at slightly easier prices. Business was reported at $3l and s3ol. fo b. per picul, with sellers over and buyers $3O. Coconut Oil; buyers $47 f.o.b. a picul, sellerss4B^.. Produce Exchange: Pepper (white) up
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    BUSINESS DONE
    230 20 SINGAPORE. Oct. 13. Business done in the Malayan Share Market I last week included:— INDUSTRIALS. Federal. Dispensary $1.72 V Fraser and Neave $3.90 to $3 95 cum all. Gammon $2.67 1 to $2.72'- to $2.70. Consolidated Tin Smelters 20 6 to 23 fi. Hammer $2.65 and $2.67 V
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    Kepong Dredging
    17 20 Kepong Dredging Company produced 1.357 piculs of tin for the third quarter of this year.
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    Sungei Way
    17 20 Sungei Way Dredging produced 2.482 piculs of tin for the third quarter of this year.
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    $4,495 for school
    25 20 Donations totalling $4,495 were received by the Fairfield Girls’ School building fund Singapore between July 8 and Oct. 4, it was announced
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    Merchants prefer British quality
    253 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct r> \\TTH huge quantities of Japanese tW offer to them, Chinese merchants Lumpur declared today that they woni to British textiles. They preferred The merchants calmly received tod v announcement that the Governments o r r ration and Singapore will license t v-
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    Rubber output
    30 20 The Narborough (F.M.S.) Rubber Estate. Limited produced 191.000 lb. of rubber for the third quarter of this year. Pusing Rubber and Tin. Limited (Bedrock Estate) produced 133.800 lb.
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    DIVIDENDS OF THE WEEK
    33 20 Dividends announced during the week were INOAPORE Ct 14 South British Insurance 9d Anal A: 83th anniversary 1 T. bonus 3rd “JSSiKiL t ui 1 1 Nov 26 o±*v*
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    878 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 15. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Seilers Alex Bricks. Crds 2 15 2 30 Pref 3 50 3.60 AUa* let 12.50 13.50 B B Petrol 35/- 36/BM. Trustees 6.50 750 Con Tin SmeCt. Pref 21/* 22/- cd Ords 22 6 23/6 Eastern United 36.50 37 50 Fed. Dispensary
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    RUBBER PRICES ADVANCE
    183 20 SINOAPQKf <jt ii sagging ru Tuesday th Ji uton in sentime: tt Cl^an e quiries boti r '!f en volume fro: l0r d Ce and Lewis and .Vat* “JS? report. wee *v Subsequent! Dri( Pi fhe C lowe a s b t ,U b. tore buying slackening
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    Packing control
    170 20 SINGAPORE. Ort 1* Rubber packt-o Vf *ss& 1 V X be‘subject to control by the Maryan Rubber Export Regjsua tion Board, the «ha man of the boar C. F. Smith. toW th Straits Times yesterday. The Rubber Ship!*-". Packing Control Oidnj on will then come S( ri0 us
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