The Straits Budget, 23 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. 325. Thursday, October 23, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      A LOAN THAT WAS CLOSED
      103 2  -  PLANTER. Teluk Anson J HOPE that future loans will be announced in the Press at least a week before the opening date just to give people living outside the big towns a chance to participate. saw the announcement of a loan in the Malay Mail
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      THE CHINESE AND POLICE UNIFORM
      252 2  -  L. P. THAM. Kuala Lumpur. J HAVE been following with interest the speeches made by the Chinese community leaders, i n the Press and through Radio Malaya, to induce Chinese youths in the country to Join the uniformed police of the Federation of Malaya. I
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      CALL TO ARMS
      71 2  -  MALAY BLOOD. Penang. IYECENTLY The Federation of Malaya Volunteer Recce Corps was formed in Penang. I would like to ask all the Malays, especially Pemuda UMNO Penang, to join the F.M.V.R.C. I would like to suggest also that Captain Md. Noor of Penang should come back to
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      The people who pay (and don’t pay) income tax
      568 2  -  LIBERAL. T*HE Manchester Guardian recently produced an editorial which hinted at an acquaintanceship with Mr. A. Helliwell's knowledge of this territory The editorial proposed that local rates of income tax should be increased Whispers in the bazaar indicate this may well
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      TAXING THE WEALTHY
      108 2  -  ANAK S. Singapore. 1/IR. TAYLOR told Mr. Thio at the Singapore Legislative Council’s Budget meeting that there would have to be increased taxation if housing, education and medical facilities were to be increased. Why, then, do Mr. Thio and his colleagues not press for an v!r c
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      Those who were ‘in the bag’
      294 2  -  DOUBLE E.C. Penang. \jUCH has already been i; 1 said on the subject War Damage payments c Citizen of Malaya” ha*’ m certainly hit the naOn tbl head In his letter of o? t ,4 I heartily endorse all ho has to say with
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      HORSES ON THE AIR
      161 2  -  ANG BENG SIONG. Singapore. DOES Radio Malaya exist to serve only those with huge treasure chests and pockets clanging witn money? It seems so because there is a regular broadcast oi horse racing which most people of the working class, like me, do not care to
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      38 2 clmMcm? y^!L.!!! n > t ,er c” »P«ia« problem and meatures for dealing with it are being Fom tah, f'* i p,o ,< ed thc P«**ce, learner drivers are not causing danger to traffic.” Mr. W.U. Slytne, Colonial Secretary, Singapore.
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Rice Harvest Falls
      692 3 Straits Times. Oct. 17. he Federation’s rice hurv, t has fallen by 25 per cent. Xluit would be a serious decline in any year, but the j.,11 particularly serious novv i hat outside resources yr failing. While Malaya probably can never feed itself, whatever the advance in
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      A Warning To Whitehall
      382 3 Straits Times, Oct. 17. ft was remarked ;he other dav that the Colonies and dependent territories have n dollar record unmatched by the United Kingdom or the Dominions. It is the colonies whose rigorous control of dollar spending and additional effort in dollar earning has really
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      Persia Makes A Break
      581 3 —Straits Times. Oct. 18 Persia’s Prime Minister has enforced his ultimatum. Unable to address the Majlis, which failed to muster a quorum, Dr. Mossadeq found Persia’s broadcasting network an adequate instrument through which to announce his decision to break off dip- lomatic relations with Britain. It
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      The T.U.C. Report
      432 3 —Straits Times. Oct 18 The first report of the Singapore Trades Union Congress is a not unencouraging document. It is particularly welcome for the warning it publishes against the political opportunist who is always ready to champion the cause of the workers for the value of their
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      The Elder Statesmen
      728 3 Straits Times. Oct. 20. A visit from, a man like Mr. Clement Attlee, former Labour Prime Minister of Great amount of good to the Labour Britain, would do an enormous movement in the Federation and Singapore. But it is extremely unlikely that Mr. Attlee will get as
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      War Damage Defence
      814 4 Straits Times. Oct. 21 The War Damage Commission’s reply yesterday to criticism of the administration of the scheme adroitly evades direct reply to the main reasons for dissatisfaction. The serious criticism concerns the duality of the awards rather than the quantity, and is supported by reflections on
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      Trading Willi China
      299 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 21. Two hundred thousand tons of rice for Ceylon and 50,000 tons of rubber a year for China are features of a reported trade offer which Malaya will read of with envy. China is said to he willing to Pay above the world market
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      Turn Of The Tide?
      761 4 —Straits Times. Oct. 22. The tragic and chastening affair near Yong Peng comes as a warning against optimism. Yet the reversal of casualty and incident statistics reported by the Emergency Information Services remains remarkable testimony of the new trend in Malaya’s war against Communism. Last week
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      P.C. 49 for Malaya
      75 4 Reuter. LONDON. Oct. 21.— British comedian Brian Recce, who entertained troops in Hongkong and Korea last year, will leave for Malaya on November 3. Accompanying him will be Sheena Tarvey. Odette Field and Peggy Barrett. Reece, of "PC 49" fame on the 8.8. C. is at
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    Overcome by gas fumes
    42 4 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22 Twenty-two-year-old O Karhunen, a European employee of an oil company at Pulau Bukom, an Island ot? Singapore, was overcome by gas fumes while cleaning an oil drum yesterday. He was taken to Singapore General Hospital.
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    THE GREEN HOWARDS
    1618 5  -  History oC the men who have served Malaya well By Maj. D. H. de T. Reade riE 1st Battalion Green Howards, now in Singapore on the first stage ot their journey home after three years’ active service in Malaya, have prepared •t Regimental history of th?Tr part
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      125 5 DUCKWORTH: At B M.H., Singapore, on 11th October, to Heather, a daughter. FURNIVAL: At Batu Gajah, on 13th October. 1952. to Joy, wife of Roy, a boy. JEI FRIES. At KK. Hospital 14th October to Jennifer, wife of M.F. Jeffries, a daughter. DE VRIES: To Lineke, wife of Willem,
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      ENGAGEMENT
      106 5 PITT— SHAII.ES. Tlie engagement Is announced between Richard Alan, younger son ot Commander and Mrs. E. R. Pitt of Durham, England, and Patricia Ann, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Shailes of Kuala Lumpur and Bognor Regis, England. IHE engagement Is between Derek Selby of Dunlop Malayan
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      MARRIAGE
      48 5 JONES-SEDDON: On October i ltth, 1952, at St. Mary's Church. Kuala Lumpur, Alan King Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Jones of Sassafras, Victoria, Australia, to Marian Svddnn. only daughter of Mr. O II Scddon of Kuala 1 Lumpur, and of tin* late Mrs. Seddon.
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    65 5 DEATHS O’SHFA: Jessie, B. beloved wife of F. J O’Shea, In Santa Barbara, California. on 7th Oc tober. 1952. RICHARDS T I) (Commercial Manager. George Wlmpey Co.. Ltd., Singapore), passed away suddenly after a serious ojvratlon in London on Saturday, 18th October. IN MEMORIAM IN everlasting memory of a beloved
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    CAREER WOMAN, PENANG
    7 6 Photograph by Birte Steincke.
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    As I was Saying
    736 6  -  CYNICUS. pOR how long should 1 Councillors’ lips be sealed? Until the public interest demands that their mouths be opened In the budget meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council, Mr C. C. Tan decided the time had come to give the facts about last year's budget
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1061 6  -  Stanley Street. Song of I ho termite IT may be recalled that several weeks ago occasion was found in this half-column to comment on what might be called the song of the termite. Comment came in the first place from that Ripley's paradise. the Sarawak
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    GUNS ABSENT ON ROYAL TRIP
    292 8 The Duchess in Sarawak KlCHINf;, Oct. 15. IVilKX the Duchess of Kent drove through the outskirts of Kuching. toda\ not a Sten gun or armoured car was in sight. She passed through a lane of policemen armed t;nl\ with t runcheons. Thousands of gaily-clad Hag-waving
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    Duchess’s visit was a winner every way
    151 8 si:v(;.\i»oim. (ht. i;,. 'jMW; V!>iT of l he* Je :•!»< of t enl .I vise i.’tiV* t:» SingaM°ro has been an uneua li*:«?•* success in cwry ‘••'ay the* fiovrinor, Mr. Ni. oil ha> stated a telegram to the spi ri**:* r of Stall*
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    P.R.O. WILL BE ON ITS OWN
    51 8 T.-.p Sir.gap'jrc Public Re- i v- O.l'.ce will be a -eparat,» c’epar.inent iron: next ear instead o fa section ai:ached tc the Colonial Se- i rial. rue yeatly cost of running u >art ith nt has risen w. > 101.220 in 1948 to °»458.420
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    More nurses for villages
    74 8 SINGAPORE Oct. 17. l cue more nurses cf tr St. John Ambular.?? Brigade flow into Singapore bv BOAC A: nt st?r:iav icr welfare work in ihc* I new y.ilag.s Th nurses. Mis-es P. M. Da\ av. I. Chandier. A. J. Ilaiuty end E G. Taylor, who
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    A blowpipe for the Duchess
    235 8 TATTOOED DYAKS PRESENT— SUM\ Sarawak. Oct. lt>. y ATTOOEI) Dvak chieftains garbed in colourful lolnc'oths. ienpard skin jackets and plumed he>ddresses gave presents of blowpipes, spears and kicked look ng swords today to tin* Duchess ot Kent. The Duchess flew by Sunderland flying bc/it to
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    Going on leave
    26 8 IPOH, Oct. 16—Mr. J. VI Tclfer. Assistant Commissioner of Labour (Indian 1 Perak, will leave this weekend on a three-month holiday in Britain.
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    THE DUCHESS IN NORTH BORNEO
    674 9 JESSELTON, Oct. 17. rpllE Duchess of Kent and the young Duke landed 1 today i n yet another territory on their Far Eastern tour —British North Borneo. just before five o’clock this evening, they popped out of a speedboat that had carried them Jesselton from
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    HOSPITAL OPENED
    124 9 LABUAN, Oct. 20. THE DUCHESS of Kent this morning flew across British Borneo from Jessdton to Sandakan to unveil ;i bronze plate marking the opening of the Duchess of Kent Hospital. The Sj>andakf.n Chief Me- dical Officer, Dr. W. J. L. Neal, termed the unfinished S 2 million
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    Big campaign to get the women’s aid
    232 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 17. A HIGH-POWERED campaign to organise women’s institutes throughout the federation will soon swing into action. An expert on women’s institutes, Miss M. Herbertson, arrived in Kuala Lumpur yesterday to take charge of the campaign for about six months. She
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    Jap ships on regular run to Britain
    142 9 SINGAPORE. Oct. 18. rrHE first of six Japanese A ships built to maintain a monthly service between Japan and Britain is due in Singapore tomorrow. It is the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line’s 13,000-ton pas-senger-freighter Akita Maru. The ship, on her maiden voyage, is
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    Labour hails visit by Attlee to Malaya
    202 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 19. SINGAPORE labour and trade union circles yesterday described the proposed visit of Socialist leaders from Britain and Europe as a practical step forward by Western Socialists to help tile movement in the Colory This follows the announcement that Mr. Clement
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    DUCHESS IN SARAWAK
    157 10 The lemenßgong Tamawenu Ajong, a Kenyah chief, hows Fow as he is nresented to the Duchess of K <*pt durine a function at the Astana. Kuching residence of the Governor ;»l Sarawak. Kmht: The Duke is invited to drink a tuak toast with a Dvak chief Below
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    Malaya says: Farewell and thanks to Green Howards
    373 12 SINGAPORE. Oct. IG. THE IST. Battalion The Green Howards received the country’s thanks yesterday in a special farewell service at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. Singapore. They were told that a grateful people appreciated their “righteous and indelible work.” The Bat alion, commanded by
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    Officer resigns
    30 12 KOTA TINGGI. Oct. 19. Mr. Chan Han Hoe had resigned as Assistant Resettlr/nent Officer, Kota Kechil. Mr Lim Choo Cheng has been transferred from Plentong to Kota Kechil.
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    Home Guard appointment
    29 12 KUALA LIPIS. Oct. 14. iciche Yeop Mahidin has beer, appointed Deputy Home Guard Officer, Pahang. He was formerly Officer Commanding. K a*m poir g Guards. Pahang.
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    First stone laid and rains gave blessing
    363 12 IPOH, Oct. 16. f|WE SULTAN of Perak this morning laid the foundation siohe of the §900,000 Veterinary Research Institute which is being built to serve the Federation, Singapore and British Borneo. In a speech at the colourful ceremony the Sultan said the project
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    3 MORE STD. SIX CLASSES
    203 12 SINGAPORE. Ocl. 18. classes will be opened by Church of England schools in Singapore next year to relieve the serious shortage of Standard Six accommodation. Three Diocesan scnools the St. Andrew’s morni ar.d af term on schools Wcodsville and the St. Margaret's school < C.E.Z.M.S.
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    Chinese made trip to the Antarctic
    117 12 PENANG. Oct. 1". THE first Malayan to make a trip to tfie Antarctic has returned to Penang after an aosen several years. Hp is Mr. Ooi Kee Hock, wno is back to spend a month's holiday with his family before returning to Nigeria. A
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    Mr. W. A. Spradbrow
    23 12 Mr. W. A. Spradbrow, Government Printer, Jesselton, has been elected a Fellow of the Institution of Works Managers, London.
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    Designs for the mayoral robes
    57 12 SINGAPORE. Oct. in. Dozens of designs for tri mayoral robes and chain office have been submitted t the Singapore City Coun the City President. Mr• 1 F. McNeice. told the St ran. Times yesterday. Mr. McNeice said that a committee of City Councilors will decide
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    New post
    47 12 KOTA BAHRU. Oct. 14.— Mr. F. J. Rawcliffe. headmaster of Ismail English School. Kota Bahru, is leaving at the end of the week for P°rt Dickson as an Education Officer to the Federation and Malay Regiments. He is succeeded by Mr. J. M. B. Hughes.
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    The cornet that came 8,000 miles by Comet
    59 13 CORNET was the first musical instrument to travel “by i onict” ami Adela PA binson. a British Red Cross nurse, who brought it out with her. I*l nvs it •or the -•trails Times cameraman s«u;i alter the jet liner limted at Changi.
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    NEW SET-UP FOR MALAYA FORCES
    173 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 16. rHE Federation Regiment. Federation Armoured Corps and the Malay Regiment have been put a r '*r the command of the G.O.C. Malaya, and for the Federation regular forces e been set up at Headquarters M Uaya in Kuala .nour. Hie Fi’clt
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    NOW 495 SCHOOLS
    76 13 SINGAPORE. Oct. 17. VO new regional English schools were opened in ngapore last month bring- the total number of oools in the Colony to 495 The Education Depart•nt’s monthly renort says c schools will be known as menti and Canberra. Of the total number of oools 279
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    THE ‘MENON’ OFFICER FLIES BACK
    106 13 SINGAPORE. Oct. 17. ]\.IR. E. J. s F \SELL Superin- tendeni ot Police, who f*'v. to Madras with 16 warranis for the Menons. returned by BO Argonaut yesterday. Mr. I insed said that the Ft evident of the Magistrate’s Couri would deliver judgment on Monday
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    Ipoh sportsman transferred
    44 13 IPOH. Oci. 16 The Ipoh Police will lose a keen sportsman when Police-Meut. George Shore. Armourer. Perak Police Headquarters, goes cn ‘ransif r to Kelartan. Mr Shore played rugby rii'udarlv for the police and ♦ook part in several State 1 rials
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    Passengers said—It’s unbelievable
    206 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 16. I PASSENGERS on the first 1 BOAC Comet passenger service to Singapore yesterday described the 2741 hour journey from Condon as unbelievable •It was an amazing experience. There was only one occasion when the aircraft buffeted slightly.” said Miss Ac?el i Robinson, a British
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    Why Duchess missed Penang
    57 13 PENANG. Oct. IG. The Duchess of Kent and her son. the Duke visited Malacca in preference to Penang because it has a tuberculosis hospital of some importance, a Settlement Government release explained today. The Duchess, who is president, of the National Association for the Prevention of
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    TOO FAST FOR THE GROUND CREWS —so the Comet was late
    430 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. Hi. 1 nVKIl 7,770 miles and only one bump—this is the record of British Overseas Airways Corporation's Comet jetliner which reached Singapore yesterday on its first scheduled passenger (light from Condon. And the giant eight-milo-a-minute skyliner was
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    THREE EMPTY SEATS ON RETURN
    266 13 SINGAPORE. Get. 17. THE BOAC Comet Jetliner left Singapore yesterday on its return to London to complete the inaugural service with three empty seats. A BOAC ofTcial told the Straits Times that the three- seats will be occupied later in the journey. On board the
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    ‘Make sure we get the tin’
    398 14 ‘Make sure we get the tin HINT A VALLEY, Oct. 16. a 1 the end of a two-day tour, (ten. Sir Gerald Templer today paid tribute to the tin miners of the Kinta Valley who had resumed operations despite C ommunist threats. “It is the beginning of the second chapter
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    105 nursing cadets are enrolled
    94 14 SINGAPORE, Ovt. 18. AFTER completing a fourmonth course in first-aid. 105 nursing cadets from St. Anthony’s Convent, Singapore, were officially enrolled yesterday at a ceremony in the school. As the ceremony ended and before the gathering dispersed, a huge decayed tree branch snapped. Its *fall
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    GRANDSONS OF SULTAN HOME
    57 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 13. T< ngku Mahmud and his brotner Rahman, grandsons ol 'he Sultan ol Johore, reached Singapore by air vestcrday on their way home lr< >i studies in Sydney Tengku Mahmud brought two boxes or Australian set--I*ng eggs. The brothers will Ma V in Johore
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    A PLACE IN MALAYA FOR ALL CULTURE
    166 14 Government policy clarified TTT 0 PENANG. Oct. 15. T HE Federation’s Deputy Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Mr. F. Brewer, denied in Penang today that it was Government’s policy to “do away with Chinese culture”. Nothing could be further from the truth, he told
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    90 per cent of trade lost
    95 14 PENANG, Oct. 17. PENANG’S present trade with Indonesia had dwindled to one-tenth its volume last year, and there was little prospect of any improvement. Mr. Hyder Tyedkhan. president of the local Indian Chamber of Commerce, said today on his return from a tour of
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    News for the children
    132 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct 17. A BOUT 10.000 copies of the A first issue of a new Malay children’s newspaper. produced by a group of voluntary work* rs. were distributed to Malay schools throughout tlm Federation yesterday. Copies of the pape r were also sent to all
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    MONTH’S GAOL FOR MINER WHO OFFERED BRIBE
    70 14 PENANG, Oct i3 4 PERAK miner, (i(ra A McGauhrine today sentenced to 1 n, th s impnC ment and fined 8200 1,* Sessions Court Presi-’ Mr B. G Smith, on charge of bribery. McGnuhrine wa, onvVt on a summons t har« t corruptly
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    Tempter promises them three suits
    449 14 KINTA VALLEY, Oct. IV [N this richest tin valley in the world, <j r Gerald Templer today saw a practical demonstration of how the tide is turning in Malay;-.'* war against militant Communism. Sir Gerald visited eight posts in the Kami and Batu Gajah areas
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    Family planning
    14 14 Attempts are being made to form a family planning association in Ipoh.
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    CONSULAR OFFICIAL KILLED
    122 14 SINGAPORE. Oct. 1' An OFFICIAL ot the 1 1 nesian Consulate in gapore was killed an. other Indonesian offld were injured when tn* station wagon and a car lided at the junction Dunearn and Whitley R (UI Singapore, yesterday The dead man was tnc Jusuf Hassan, 36.
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    All ready for the big bang
    38 15 THE PERCUSSION BAND of Primary II A pupils of the AngloChinese School, Singapore look uni trtainly at their leader for guidance during the band’s performance at the school’s concert on Oct IG.
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    Johore ‘terror’ in a cell
    328 15 JOHORE BAHRU. Oct. 15. pMVE Malay Home Guards with parangs today captured the most dangerous Communist bandit in North Johore. Mohamed bin Indera, $75,000 terrorist, is tonight in a police cell. And the kampong people are jubilant. For five years Mohamed bin Indera. alias Mat
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    SIR GERALD SAYS: THIS IS SPLENDID
    118 15 ’LN'EFAL Sir Gerald Tem'l pier sent a telegram to the Chief Police Officer in the Batu Pahat area saying: Convey my congratulations to the police and Home Guards who killed two terrorists and captured a high ranking terrorist in the Batu Pahat area. “A
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    K.L. post for Mr H.G. Hammett
    63 15 MALACCA. Oct. 17.—Mr. H. O. Hammett, Malacca's Resiient Commissioner, presided vesterday at last meeting of ’he Municipal Council. Mr. Hammett, who has been cting as Resident Commisioner in the absence on leave t Mr G. E. C. Wisdom, leaves or Kuala Lumpur at the
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    New President of Ipoh court
    53 15 IPOH. Oct. 16 Mr. E. V. A. rs, former District Judge, ngapore, assumed duties in Ipoh early this week as \tra President of the Perak oath Sessions Court. He was last attached to Police Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. Before coming to Malaya he spent 27
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    “THAT IS ME IN THE PICTURE”
    64 15 Miss Katijah binte Ilaji Mohamed Noor. a General Hospital nurse, spots herself (see arrow) in one of the 400 photographs on exhibition at British Council Hall, Singapore, on Oct. 17 The pictures are a complete coverage ot the Royal visit to Singapore. Photographs in
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    JAP CAPTIVE BONUS PAYMENT SOON
    204 15 SINGAPORE, Oct. 19. IT IS HOPED to make early payment of the money real.sed from the liquidation of japanese assets in Britain to former British Far Eastern prisoners of war and civilian internees a Singapore Army spokesman said yesterday. The amount due each individual is
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    Bill ends death penalty anomaly
    92 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 16. IF THE Federal Legislative Council passes a Bill gazetted today, juveniles who commit offences punishable by death will escape the death sentence, even if they are tried after their 17th birthdays. The Attorney-General. Mr. M. J. Hogan, explains that at present
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    THEIR AIM: TO ENHANCE DIGNITY OF LAW CLERKS
    146 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 17. TWENTY lawyers’ clerks yesterday formed ‘’The Law Clerks’ Association of the Federation of Malaya* at a meeting in Kuala Lumpur. The objects of the associa~ tion, said Mr. M. Ponnampalam, the convenor, were to enhance the dignity of
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    No ‘Council’ car badge for Mr. Nair
    124 15 SINGAPORE, Oct 17 SINGAPORE City Councillors should not claim privileges to which they are not entitled. This was .stated at a recent meeting of the Council’s Finance and General Purposes Committee. The committee turned down a proposal by Mr. M.P.D Nair that Councillors
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    Thousands of books presented
    96 15 SINGAPORE Oct 19 SINCE 1947 the British Council has presented 0,295 books valued at $2B 400. mainly to t >, Raffles Libr iry Another $B,OOO was tr.< tiv used in providing xfr t library lurriiture and *<;u;pment for the new Pi:’lts Junior Library Tins v.u. .'tliown
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    Turning point in the war
    294 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 18. THE turning point in Malaya's four year old shooting war against Communism has definitely been reached. Figures tell of the remarkable reversal that has taken place in the Emergency situation in Malaya. At the end of one of the most successful
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    Sky men help kill 2 bandits
    388 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 18. PARATROOPERS of the Special Air Service (Malayan Scouts) Regiment and ground forces have k led two members of what s believed to be a powerful Communist terrorist organisation on the KelantanTrengganu border Th,* dn>D was made* in thr Bakit Yong
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    Officer coming for Home Guard
    58 16 1 rom Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Oct. 19.— SixtyInur year old Brigadier Joseph Patrick O’Brlen-Two-hig has been appointed to the Colonial Service as a State Home Guard Officer In the Federation. Brigadier O Brlen-Twohlg. thrice mentioned in dispatches. retired from the Army two years ago.
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    ‘Borneo Bill,’ 84, dies in England
    103 16 SINGAPORE, Oct. 21. has been received of the death ol 84-year-old Alexander < "Borneo Bill") Robertson, a retired Singapore businessman, at Eastbourne, England. "Borneo Bill" joined the Borneo Company in January, 1891, when he came out to Singapore. Ke later joined the firm of
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    The ‘Moon’ hasn’t hit S’pore yet
    131 16 The Moon hasn’t hit S’pore yet SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. BRITAIN'S latest hit song, “Moon Above Malaya”, has not yet hit Singapore! Radio Malaya and some of the leading dance band leaders are making efforts to obtain either the music or a recording. A Singapore "gramophone record stockist reported yes- terday
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    The man with the lamp goes to vote for the first time
    193 16 a village gees ro the po’ls K- the t.rst t.me —that's an evert An- 4 n the ease oi the new 'are of Permatang Tmggi -t really was bp e.;rt. Not so long ago the ape was co
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    Police school chief returns
    124 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21 Mr. E. V. Smith. Commandant of the Slog a pot Police Training School wt.o was sent to Sarawak shot' after an Emergency was declared there in Augiy.t to advise cn the police organisation, returns to Singapore this morning by the Raja Brooke. Lf.
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    Paratroops kill third border Red
    135 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 21. Paratroopers of the Special Air Service (Malayan Scouts) Regiment have killed their third terrorist on the KelantanTYengganu border. Three others spotted with him in the Pasir Puteh area escaped. but a carbine and hand grenade were recovered. Earlier a troop found
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    Govt to build adult education H.Q.
    208 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. HPHE Singapore Government has agreed to build a 1 $300,000 headquarters for the Adult Education Council on one condition; the people of Singapore must find between $50,000 and $lOO,OOO for the furnishings and equipment. The A.E.C. has set up a committee
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    Services workers: More pay urged
    295 18 SINGAPORE, Oft. 2F {JHIEFS of the Army. Koval Navy and k.' Singapore are reported to ha\e told Vt i hall that Singapore’s civilian workers si,'“u get more pay. 11(1 .More than 30,000 people who work f',, r u, three Services in Singapore will benefit i|
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    LEADERS OF BUSINESS IN MALAYA
    178 18 T'HE CHAIRMAN and •f General Manager ot Guthrie and Companv Limited. Mr. A. F. Taylor, joined the Eastern staff of the company at Kuala Lumpur in 1926. In 1947 he became Chairman and Managing Director of Guthrie’s one of oldest merchant houses in Malaya, founded
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    Police ask: who owns this gold?
    223 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. 4 N order for the forfeiture of $300,000 worth of gold bars an d sold coins—subject to claim by anyone before 12 noon on Nov. B—was8 —was made in the Singapore Third District Court yesterday. The order was made by Mr.
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    NEW PLAN FOR THAT $500,000
    72 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 21. r FHE Malayan Chinese A.s- social ion will use its s'>oo,ooo Malay welfare fund to start, training centres for Malay artisans in the kampongs. an M.C.A. official told the Straits Times today. A memorandum is being prepared and will be discussed
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    BACK FROM SARAWAK
    44 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. The Commandant of the Singapore Police Training School, Mr. E. V. Smith, resumed duty yesterday on his return from Sarawak. He went to Sarawak in August, when an emergency was declared there, to advise on police training methods.
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    Pilgrims return
    19 18 Three hundred pilgrims retimed to Singapore on Oct. 20 in the Blue Funnel ship Glaucus from Mecca.
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    SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. A GLAMOUR girl who is a speedway rider walked into Kalians: airport yesterday with a travelling bag in one hand and a dark green crash helmet in the other.
    126 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. A GLAMOUR girl who is a speedway rider walked into Kalians: airport yesterday with a travelling bag in on e hand and a dark green crash helmet in the other. Miss Fay Taylor, the Irish red-head who once smashed Sir Malcolm Campbell’s lap record at Brooklands, passed
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    ‘No foundation’ for pay reports
    48 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. A Singapore Services’ spokesman said last night that published reports that over 30 000 civilian employees employed by the Services might get more pay “was made without reference to the headquarters of the three Services and is completely without foundation
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    Anti-graft in 4 languages
    30 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 21. Anti-corruption posters in tour languages today were stuck on walls of Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court, the Sessions Court and the police courts.
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    London post for English Electric man
    215 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. A 1 I EH .sixteen year.s ol electrical engineering in Malava, Mr J F. Herbert. Manager (Far Eas-)' the English Electric Company left Singapore today. Arriving in Malaya in 193*5 as technical representative for his company. Mr. Herbert was first stationed
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    SOUND WAVE TAKES CLUB CUP
    1097 19 PENANG, Oct. 19. rjOUND WAVE, a seventh furlong specialist, scored q lever three-quarter-length from Rigoletto in the C b Cup for Class 3, Div. 1 1 rses over his pet distance a Penang yesterday, open- ig day of the Penang Turf ulub Autumn meeting. Tracking
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    S’pore bid to get Turpin fight
    934 19  -  THE WEEK IN SPORT By TEOH ENG TATT SINGAPORE, Oct. 21. SINGAPORE boxing promoter, Little Nene, is a little man with very high hopes. H e wants the ex-world middleweight champion and the present Empire light-heavy-weight champion, Randolph Turpin, to fight the Fijian and
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    NEW COOPER RECORD
    61 19 SINGAPORE’S veteran motorist, Jimmy Milne who won this year’s Johore Grand Prix’s handicap races for sports and racing cars, scored yet another victory at the annual half-mile Bukit Ratok hill climb held on Oc t. 19. Here he is in his Cooper winning the unlimited racing car
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      43 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $359,100 1st. No. *****0 $86,184 2nd. No. *****7 $43,092 3rd. No. *****0 $21,546 Starters ($5,386 each): Nos. *****9; *****4; *****7; *****9; *****1; *****1; *****7; *****0. Consolation ($2,154 each): Nos. *****9; *****3; *****3; *****1; *****1; *****9; *****7; *****9; *****2; *****7.
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    Higher taxation fears premature
    560 20 SHARE MARKET By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct. 19. THE presentation of the Singapore Budget lasi A Tuesday revealed a strong financial state which despite heavily increased expenditure, can be maintained throughout the year without increased taxation.—And so, the fears expressed that pressure would be applied
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    55 20 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. was done in copra In Singapore early yesterday at $35. Thereafter the market was slightly easier, after steady, with buyers $34 per picul f.o.b. and sellers $34 H. Coconut oil. buyers sso sellers $514. slightly easier. Produce Exchange; Pepper unchanged. Muntok (white i $595;
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    BUSINESS DONE
    202 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 20. Business done in the Malayan Share Market last week included Industrials: Consolidated Tin Smelter Ord. 24/4 4 to 23/-; Fraser Sc Neave $3.95 to $4.00; Gammon $2,72 4 and $2.75; Hammer $2.65; Hongkong Bank (Colonial) $745; Malayan Cement $1.25 and $1.26 1 Malayan Colt lieries
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    $6,000,000 SHIPMENT
    52 20 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. Rubber valued at more than $6,000,000 representing one of the biggest single shipments (3.600' tons* to leave Singapore for the United Spates for many months, is due to sail todav in the freighter Letitia Lykes. The rubber is for the ports of Houston, New Orleans
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    TIN OUTPUT
    24 20 Tin mines in the Federation produced J. 990 tons of concentrates during September. Perak produced 3 778 tor.s and Selangor 1.644 tons
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    $346.5 mil. war damage awards
    546 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 20 THE War Damage Commission in thj V months of its existence had assessed 1 amounting to nearly $l,OOO million, th mission’s chairman. Mr. R. Graham, said It had found and trained its staff est offices throughout Malaya, and drawn i necessary
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    DIVIDENDS OF THE WEEK
    97 20 J j SINGAPORE. Oct 22 Di\ idends announced during last week were Company. Dividends Dale payable Books close Uilliaan Jacks A Co. 10 r 7 2nd interim less Nov. 1 Oct 25/Nov. 1 Kuala kampars 30 r tax Renong Consolidated 3/- (No. 30* less Nov. 12
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    Featureless market for rubber
    150 20 SINGAPORE. Oc». 13. There is r.ttr.e to report this week. The rubber market has continued featureless with sagging tendency, says Lewis and R c v weekly report. Demand from abroad is mainn confined to the lower evades. local covering of the October 6ition has maintained the
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    MARKET SHARE QUOTATIONS
    892 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Alex Brickfi. Ords 3.50 3 00 Href 2.15 2 30 AUus Ice 12 50 13 50 B B. Petrol 35/- 36/B.M. Trustees 6 50 7 50 Con. Tin Smedt. Pref 21/- 22/- cd Ords 22 6 23/6 Eastern United 36.50 37.50
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    Burma-Malay Tin
    42 20 An extraordinary J* en 5 meeting of Burma-Malay Tin L Is called for Nov. 8 for the pu pose of considering a special v solution to repay 16/- stern' per share to shareholders, redn ing the capital by £120,000 £30.000.
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