The Straits Budget, 6 November 1952
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Title Section30 1952-11-06 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRATIS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) New Series No. 327. Thursday, November 6, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.30 words
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Article396 1952-11-06 2 VERY ORDINARY G. P - VERY ORDINARY G.P. Selangor. THINK it is about time our Medical Department began to appreciate the true meaning of the word “specialist”, and to do something to curb the liberality with which this very significant and enviable title is indiscriminately bespangled upon its personnel. A genuine specialist396 words
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Article283 1952-11-06 2 PRO BONO PUBLICO - PRO BONO PUBLICO. murder, ambushes of military and police trucks and civilian buses and other crimes are once again becoming prevalent in the State of Johore. The Government should enforce stricter measures immediately. During the Japanese occupation crimes of the kind we are experiencing at present were very283 words
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375 1952-11-06 2 40 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE - 40 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE. Penang. A S one who has been connected with the Mai A rubber industry for the past 40 years, I am liable to stomach some of the views reported on 28 by your market correspondent to have been pressed by a375 words
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Article244 1952-11-06 2 RETURNED STUDENT - RETURNED STUDENT. Singapore. ¥'N my letter of Oct. 24 A (“Students in London”) I merely echoed the grievances of tiie Malayan students relating to their rtquests for representation the Board of Managemof Malaya Hall, and not u I the point of student accom- modation. as Haji Eusoff244 words
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278 1952-11-06 2 NOW that the Duchess of Kent has departed, it is perhaps appropriate to question some of the formal arrangements made in her honour, in the hope that the same mistakes will not be made again. I refer specifically to the order of precedence in278 words
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Miscellaneous31 1952-11-06 2 V -y/A The guiding principle laid down is that inconvenience to the masses must be avoided .l.< 2 i« :',n A A -i m JV THE COMMUNISTS HAVE A NEW DIRECTIVE31 words
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Article804 1952-11-06 3 Strait Times. Oct. 30 Record expenditure by the j Singapore City Council is an til too familiar story. It is continued in the new estimates of expenditure approved esterday. Total expenditure estimated at $127.9 millions, t which $53.4 millions are on ,,n account. This large cap.11 expenditureStrait Times. Oct. 30 - 804 words
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Article365 1952-11-06 3 Strait Times, Oct. 30 Explanation by the arbitration hoard of its wage award to rubber workers, and negotiation on that basis by the M.P.I.E.A. and the union, was the only possible way out of the difficulties crealed by the board’s controversial report. Both sides are to he congratulatedStrait Times, Oct. 30 - 365 words
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Article747 1952-11-06 3 Straits Times, Ort I From this morning, rubber shipments from Malaya are subject to quality control. The new regulations should not disturb the honest exporter. They are aimed at the swindler who has brought Malayan rubber into disrepute in some overseas markets. Producers and exporters in generalStraits Times, Ort I - 747 words
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Article276 1952-11-06 3 Straits Times, Oct. I In tin* Colony budget which is now in the hands of 11»* Council's Finance ('ommitn is a $.'»7.7 millions estimate for the building of Paya Lebar airport. The estimate twelve months ago was $2O millions There has been no explanation of anStraits Times, Oct. I - 276 words
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Article749 1952-11-06 3 —Straits Times. Nov. 3. Singapore is a cosmopolitan city. It must have a cosmopolitan police force. Even more it must have a police force which is made up not merely of agents for the prevention and detection of crime but of men who are the friends—Straits Times. Nov. 3. - 749 words
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Article770 1952-11-06 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 4 i On the whole the Federation’s budget estimates, and the short review of the current financial position which is published with them, are a pleasant surprise. The Federation is distinctly better of! than recent extracts from the revenue figures had led the public—Straits Times. Nov. 4 i - 770 words
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Article514 1952-11-06 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 5 If it has not already done so. the Finance Committee which is now studying Singapore's budget might take account of the direction in which the Federation's Finance Committee has moved in approaching the problem of the cost of public works. One of the—Straits Times. Nov. 5 - 514 words
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Article319 1952-11-06 4 —Straits Times, Nov 5 Acceptance by the PanMalayan Rubber Workers’ Union of the change in the cost of living allowance ends a wage dispute which had threatened awkward consequences. Mr. Justice Whittan’s explanation of the mis- leading paragraph which led to unhappy complications may bo ingenuous, but the—Straits Times, Nov 5 - 319 words
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Article287 1952-11-06 4 —Straits Times, Nov. 5 Departmental sensitivity could hardly go further tha’r it did yesterday with the publication by a Federate spokesman of a denial of Straits Times story that Sin-gapore-made detonators hav. been reaching the Federation from Singapore. The denial was broadcast, and issued as a general release—Straits Times, Nov. 5 - 287 words
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Article53 1952-11-06 4 KUALA ILMPUR. Nov. 4 An officer of Veterinary DeP oltKtn leaves this week for Pakistan to buy 50 stud hulls. Each will cost betweu* $2,500 and $3,000 Janded_ Most of tne bulls ui-i L( loaned to cattle keepers *-n rubber estates, a spokesin* of the53 words
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Article29 1952-11-06 4 Mr Kiyoshi Iwamot' managing editor of the Kyo News Agency, arrived 1 in bl gapore by Qantas-BOAC Nov. 4 on the last stage ot mrld 1 tour29 words
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Article, Illustration861 1952-11-06 5 H. C; M. PAUL - By H. C. M. PAUL IPOH, Oct. 30. T ESS than four months ago—-on July 3 —the Federal Legislative Council with one voice gave its approval and support to what the Secretary for Defence. Mr. E. B. David, described as an “historic piece of legislation in the annalsPictures By LEE FOO SAN - 861 words
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Article102 1952-11-06 5 RADHA: On Nov. 2nd, an Solomons Maternity Home, to Radha. wife of B. S. Manlam. a son. STOKES: On Nov. 3rd., 1952. nt Jesselton, North Borneo, to Joan, wife of J. O. S. Stokes, a daughter, sister for Susan and Beverly. OUEST: To Judy and Patrick, a son, Peter102 words
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Article119 1952-11-06 5 THE engagement was announced between Dav’d Robb, of Sagil Estate, Tangkak, Johore. and Winifred Muriel, daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. E. V. Rodrigues, of ’45, Banda Hilir. Malacca. McCONNELL-THAM: The engagement is announced between Desmond, only son of Mr. H. L. McConnell. M.R.C V.S., and Mrs. McConnell119 words
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Article105 1952-11-06 5 BRUCE MACKENZIE: At Inverness, on October 6th, 1952, by the Rev. Angus P. Mac Kay, M.A., Ronald R Bruce, Drainage Sc Irrigation Dept., Malaya, to Margaret, only daughter of the late Murdo Mackenzie and Mrs MacKenzle. Inverness. SIBERRY PARSONS: On November Ist., 1952, at St. Mary's Church, Kuala Lumpur,105 words
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Obituary89 1952-11-06 5 DEATHS ARMSTRONG: Passed away peacefully at Svdney. Australia, on Wednesday, 29th October, Eleanor, beloved wife of James Armstrong. FRANK ONESIMUS LESIPUTTY of the Indonesian ConsulateGeneral, Singapore, passed away peacefully at 3 pm. yesterday at Middleton Hospital. The body will be laid at No. 10, Lorong 40. Geylang, until it is89 words
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Article, Illustration8 1952-11-06 6 Photograph by Birte Steincke.Photograph by Birte Steincke. - 8 words
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Article657 1952-11-06 6 CYNICUS - CYNICUS. IF it is true that the General Council of the Singapore Labour Party now lacks a quorum, then the Party’s embarrassment seems to be complete. For the “rebel” group has no party standing while the General Council, if it cannot muster a quorum, cannot summon657 words
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Article1062 1952-11-06 6 Stanley Street - Stanley Street. Vnuldta I AST Thursday’s references j to the first white man to enter the interior of Sarawak. Robert Burns, have, as might have been expected, raised the odd collegiate eye-brow. Burns’s reputation as a desperate villain of deepest dye dies hard. But Tom1,062 words
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57 1952-11-06 7 A happy group at the Reunion Week dinner and dance held on Nov. 1 at the University of Malaya, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore. In the centre is the Chancellor, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, and second from left is the vice-chancellor, Sir Sydney Caine. Beside Sir Sydney is the Chairman of the57 words
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Article, Illustration590 1952-11-06 7 TUAN DJEK - TUAN DJEK Last Sunday the Federation Police Band was to have Beaten Retreat on the padang or Bukit Keraja’an but owing to rain the ceremony had to be called off, and later in the evening a modified version was staged in Jalan Tambatan in the town. The Tuan,590 words
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Article218 1952-11-06 7 From The Straits Times Of 1902. IN addition to carrying the largest number of outward bound passengers that ever passed through here in the French Mail, the S. S. Sydney made another record yesterday by actually beating the telegraph in a race from Ceylon. rE formal sanctionFrom The Straits Times Of 1902. - 218 words
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Article, Illustration27 1952-11-06 7 These two —Mr. Willie Clark and Miss C. Glover were Dyaks for a night. They were at the “Hard Time Party” at the American Club in Singapore.27 words
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Article688 1952-11-06 7 Stanley Street - Stanley Street. IT IS odd that Raffles never seems to have thought of starting a zoo in Singapore, considering his interest in natural life and that he founded the London Zoo. As in so many other things, the first people to have zoos were the Chinese. Woo688 words
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Article85 1952-11-06 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 2 TWO hundred and fifty old boys attended the St Andrew’s Old Boys Association annual dinner and dance at Woodsvillc, Singapore, last night. Among those present were tine Lord Bishop of Singapore the Rl. Rev. H. W, Baines and Mrs. Baines. Sir Han-Hoe85 words
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Article42 1952-11-06 7 SINGAPORE Nov. 2 Mr. A. W. Bellamy, Civil District Judge, Singapore has been transferred as Criminal District Judge and First Magistrate. Mr. Tan Ail Tah. Criminal District Judge and First Magistrate, takes Mr. Bellamy’s place in the Civil District Court.42 words
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613 1952-11-06 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. THE Singapore City Council has asked the Government for a grant, 1 or failing that, to pass a law permitting it to raise the present ceiling on assessment of 25 per cent., said the President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice,613 words
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Article439 1952-11-06 8 SEGAMAT. Oct. 29. DEKAN JAB I new village, two miles north of Segamat, on the main north-south trunk road, is now an armed camp. Following the attack by a strong gang of terrorists on the village police station on Monday night, a 22-hour house439 words
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Article465 1952-11-06 8 SINGAPORE City Council will spend nearly 60 per 1 cent, of Its rate fund income i of $28,780,000 next year on 1 pay and allowances to its staff, the Progressive Party 1 leader, Mr. A. P. Rajah (North-Ward) said during a debate on the465 words
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Article268 1952-11-06 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. T'HE Singapore Government has decided to wind A up the $6,000,000 Indian Immigration Fund and divide the assets between Singapore and the Federation, it was officially stated yesterday. Singapore is to get a onefourteenth share of the Fund which will be268 words
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Article33 1952-11-06 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29. The Chief Justice of the Federation. Mr. Justice Charles Mathew, today welcomed to the Bar Miss Chong Kim Yin, daughter of Dr. Chong Ah Khoonn33 words
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Article174 1952-11-06 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 30. INCOLN’S INN, one of the four London Inns-of-Court, agreed this year to grant special concessions for students in the Colonies to enable them to do half the English law course in their own countries, the secretary of the Singapore Council for Adult174 words
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Article20 1952-11-06 8 KLANG. Oct. 29.—The flag day held last Friday tor the Sir Henry Gurney Library Memorial Fund raised $2,916.20 words
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Article104 1952-11-06 8 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. A 15 per cent, composition offered by Yeo Jin Guat, Singapore match factory owner and businessman, has been accepted by a majority of creditors representing more than 75 per cent, of the total debt. This was announced by Mr. W. G. Alcock, the104 words
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130 1952-11-06 9 IPOH. Oct. 29. FIRST conpany strength intake to the Federation Regiment, now doing intensive basic training in Taiping are first class, says the Commanding Officer, Major D. G. Ryan. “Some are potential officers,” he added. Before their initial six months’ training course ends130 words
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106 1952-11-06 9 Tell us about graft —call to public SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. A GOVERNMENT publicity drive, urging the public of Singapore to give information to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, is to be launched shortly. The head of the bureau, Mr. R. Middleton-Smith, said yesterday that plans for the campaign were being106 words
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Article57 1952-11-06 9 KOTA BAHRU. Oct. 29. Kelantan sportsmen last night presented a Kelantan silver tea set to Mr. W. F. N. Churchill, the retiring British Adviser, as a token of his keen support of all sports organisations in the State since 1946. The presentation was made at a57 words
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153 1952-11-06 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. CINGAPORE’S international airport at Paya Lebar will cost the Government $37,700,000 instead of $20,000,000 as estimated last year. Government has applied to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund for grants towards the cost of153 words
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Article76 1952-11-06 9 TELUK ANSON. Oct. 29. ONE of the oldest residents in the district. Dato Peduka Raja of Perak, Haji Mohd. Arshad bin Mohd. Salleh, has died in Teluk Anson at th e age of 102 years. He was an old friend of Sir Hugh Clifford, a76 words
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Article, Illustration45 1952-11-06 9 MR JOHN RICHARD HAYWARD, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Singapore, and Miss Thelma Winefrede Hilton after their wedding at the Cathedral of the Good Shephened on Oct. 30 The bride arrived in Singapore recently from England by the Willem Ruys. —Straits Times picture.—Straits Times picture. - 45 words
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Article130 1952-11-06 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29. rE QUEEN has awarded the Imperial Service Medal to a telephone supervisor. a head draftsman and a forest ranger in the Federation. the Government announced toaay Miss Joan Pavonaris gets the medal for her work in telephone exchanges for more130 words
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Article563 1952-11-06 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 30. PRIVATE RICHARD GILBERT, 21, of the 13/18 Hussars, left the Sessions Court smiling today after being bound over for causing the death of a policeman guarding the route which the Duchess of Kent took when she visited the563 words
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Article85 1952-11-06 9 SPEEDING: KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 30. TILE President of the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court Mr. J. G. Adams, today appealed to the Army and the security forces to do something about the speeding of some of their vehicles. He particularly referred to armoured vehicles which, he said, travelled85 words
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Article134 1952-11-06 9 IPOH, Oct. 29. "TOUR Chinese labourers were buried alive when a huge section of the limestone quarry in which they were working, near Gunong Rapat new village, three miles from Ipoh, collapsed yesterday. The accident occurred about 12.15 p.m. when the labourers were using dynamite134 words
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Article71 1952-11-06 9 A LOR STAR. Oct. 30. Enrolment of Chinese Home Guards has started in Kedah’s new villages. Lt Col. C. F. H. Walter, State Home Ouard Officer, said today. “It is hoped that Home Guard units will be formed eventually in every village,” he told the Straits71 words
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Article221 1952-11-06 10 IPOH, Oct. 30. THE POLICE are investigating allegations of corruption in the Department of Mines and in the tin industry, said Mr. P. L. MelliarSmith, acting Senior Inspector of Mines, Perak, at a committee meeting of the Perak Chinese Mining Association on Tuesday. “I am221 words
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Article127 1952-11-06 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29. (''ASH awards were given J today to members of the area security squad responsible for the killing of the top Malacca terrorist. Chong Kit Meng, in the Alor Gajah district on Sept. 2. The men—ten special constables and eight regular police127 words
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Article57 1952-11-06 10 Two Malayans, now studying In the United States, will be among those attending the Congress of Industrial Organisations convention in Los Angeles from Nov. 17-21. Tney are Mr. S. Theva Raja, secretary of the Johore Post Office Employees’ Union, and Mr. Yeoh Chcang Seng, honorary general57 words
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Article62 1952-11-06 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 3. A further 172 donations amounting to $10,975 were received for the University of Malaya Endowment Fundi for the week ending Oct. 25. Among the donors were the Dunlop Rubber Company, England, who gave $4,500, bringing their total donations to $36,000, and Mr. Gan62 words
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Article21 1952-11-06 10 PENANG. Fri.—Penang's north-east district mukim council has asked the Government to build an English primary school in Ayer Itam.21 words
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Article51 1952-11-06 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwyn Lowick, of Singapore, jwill be Hying by Comet to England on Nov. IG, for the wedding of their son, Mr. B. R. Lowick to Miss Brenda Mary Grimshaw. The wedding is to take place at Sundridge, Kent, on Nov.51 words
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Article94 1952-11-06 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29. Auxiliary Police on the Perak tin mine at Changkat Bruas yesterday killed terrorist section lender Chong Kuan Hin. He was one of the notorious Siputeh gang. His Sten gun was captured by auxiliaries, who shot him as he was fleeing into94 words
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Article, Illustration238 1952-11-06 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. 31. rIE Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, and his wife threw open their home in Government House grounds yesterday afternoon for a tea party for 62 aged, destitute and blind from Singapore welfare homes. The wide verandahs and large dining238 words
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Article50 1952-11-06 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 31. Mr. J. V. T. Campbell, Deputy Director of Public Works. Singapore, left for England on the Carthage yesterday on leave before retirement, after 26 years’ service Mr. Campbell will be succeeded by Mr. R G. lies who Is expected back from leave shortly.50 words
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Article268 1952-11-06 10 SEREMBAN, Oct TO THOUSANDS Of people 1 from Kuala Pijah and Bahau districts of Noeri Sembilan turned up on Kuala Pilah padang this evening to bid farewell to the Ist Bn., The Fijian Infantry Regiment. They will be leaving verv soon to take up operational268 words
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Article71 1952-11-06 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. 31. The Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the RoyaH Siamese Air Force. Air Marshal Luang Cherd Vudhakas. was yesterday shown round the R.A.F. Ten g ah operations room and told how a:r strikes on Malayan terrorists are carried out. Marshal Luang Cherd and his staff71 words
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Article44 1952-11-06 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 30. Mr Gopai Das, Superintendent of the Malacca Boys Jubilee Club since 1948. has been awarded visltorship to Britain by the British Council to study youth work am. y °Mr Dasus with the Deportment of Social Welfare, Malacca.44 words
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Article30 1952-11-06 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. The Russian-owned freighter, Marshal Govorov, arrived in Singapore waters day with 5.178 tons of cellulose in her holds, bound the Red China port of hai.30 words
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Article78 1952-11-06 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 30. MALAYAN silver coins dated 1945 or earlier will cease to be legal tender on Dec. 31. The Federal Government announced today that this is in continuation of the policy of the Board of Commissioners of Currency to withdraw from circulation all pre-war78 words
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Article416 1952-11-06 11 800 vote to ‘save Labour Parfy SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. IMGHT hundred “rebel” members of Singapore Labour Party met last night and decided to act to stop the party from dying. A resolution was passed setting up a committee to revive tile party. Ail elected Labour councillors are on the committee416 words
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143 1952-11-06 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. K HOLY TREE is hold- ing up work on the Paya Lebar airport site. The tree—a giant boah 80ft. high—is in the way of the new airport's B,oooft. runway. The tree must be moved before the runway can be built,143 words
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Article108 1952-11-06 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. I'HE REDEVELOPMENT of bleached writing on a number of letters and forms applying for Singapore Improvement Trust flats played n important part in the unmasking by the police of a widespread fraud. This is stated in the annual report of the Department ol108 words
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Article85 1952-11-06 11 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Fri.—-The following Malayans passed their Class HI Michaelmas Bar finals in London: Mohamed Din bin All of Negri Sembilan, Gunn Chit Tuan and Miss Gunn Chit Wha of Kuala Lumpur, Y. C. Hwimg of Kedah, V. Jeyaratnam of the Federation Eugene k. H.85 words
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Article39 1952-11-06 11 The ratio of death and birth rates in Singapore during the week ending Oct. 25 is one to four—there were 191 deaths and 839 births. Fifteen people died from tuberculosis and one from enteric fever.39 words
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Article, Illustration216 1952-11-06 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. SINGAPORE’S representatives to the Coronation next June will be Sir Han Hoe Lim, Mr. John Laycock and Mr. A. P. Rajah, it was officially And in Singapore, the Finlayson Green to Government House route which will be used for the huge Chinese.— Strait« Times picture. - 216 words
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Article, Illustration31 1952-11-06 11 MR. H. BLACK, a Senior Inspector of the Singapore Harbour Board Poice, and hi s bride, the former Miss Leonie Minjoot, after their marriage at the Registry Office on Oct. 30.31 words
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Article265 1952-11-06 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 1. 11/TR. Yap Pheng Geek (nominated) threatened yesterday to resign from the City Council in protest against a ruling by the chairman. He said he would not hesitate to resign if he was convinced that anything displeasing to the chairman was called irrelevant.265 words
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50 1952-11-06 11 Professor Chang has now received a letter of thanks from the Lady-in-Waiting to the Duchess, Lady Rachel Davidson.50 words
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Article84 1952-11-06 11 LONDON, Oct. 31. riE Association of British Malaya, which has more than 2,000 members, la.st night elected Sir Patrick McKerron, former Colonial Secretary, Singapore, as president for the coming year. He got 106 votes against 67 for Sir Sydney Palmer. The new committee includes84 words
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Article, Illustration382 1952-11-06 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 1. gY 11 votes to five, Singapore City Council decided yesterday to withdraw a motion declaring vacant the seat of Mr. K. Jagatheesan, Independent member for City Ward, for being absent without sufficient cause from three consecutive Council meetings. Those voting382 words
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Article69 1952-11-06 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 1. Mr. P. (Doc.) Sunciaram, friend and confidant of thousands of Shell oilworkers and their families, died yesterday morning in Singapore General Hospital. Mr. Sundaram, who had been a hospital assistant with the company for 30 years, first at Miri and, since 1947. at Pulau69 words
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Article, Illustration56 1952-11-06 12 m/h/ 1 B L Wi I),stricl officer for Kuala Pilah U i <M Vu th< Hji war c,ub from Capt. V. B. Brown, S'® J?? d V l h Presentation on behalf of the Ist Batta !f' ■"/•"try Regiment before their departure from *> Nemhilan56 words
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Article68 1952-11-06 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. Singapore City Councillors yesterday turned down an application from two assistant architects for a rise iifi pay by $2OO, to bring them in line with officers in the Electricity Department. The Council agreed to give the President and Deputy President the power to punish68 words
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Article, Illustration72 1952-11-06 12 THE FOUR members of the Singapore Poliee Force who received Colonial Police medals from the Governor, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, at the Police Training School on Oct. 31. From left they are: Mr. A. If. Frew, Superintendent of Poliee; Mr. F. G Minns, Superintendent of►ecial Grade.—Straits Times picture. - 72 words
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Article, Illustration144 1952-11-06 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. A FORMER Malayan Airways pilot, Mr. Norman n Padgett, and a 16-year-old Singapore schoolboy, who has had no previous sailing experience, left the Colony together yesterday in a 30-foot yacht to sail to Australia. The boy is Peter Haggie, a pupil144 words
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Article80 1952-11-06 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. Two civilians, attached to the Army, and two soldiers received Commander-in-Chief’s certificates from the General Officer Commanding, Singapore Base District, Maj-General A. G. O’Carroll Scott, at Fort Canning yesterday. Honoured were Staff Sergeant Butterfield, personal assistant to the G.O.C. for the last 2\/ 280 words
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Article86 1952-11-06 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. CHAN BAK CIIOON, aged 40, said by the prosecution to be the head of the secret “Sar Jee’’ society, was yesterday sentenced by the Singapore Third District Judge, Mr. H. A Forrer, to tw« years’ imprisonment for helping to manage an86 words
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Article306 1952-11-06 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 31 (GURKHAS Pitted against the Communist 12th Regiment in the wilds of Upper Perak yesterday scored a double success. They captured two terrorists alive —one section leader and later killed another bandit. The 1 6th Gurkhas have been after the 12th Regiment for306 words
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Article38 1952-11-06 12 Mr. W. A. Cooper, Singapore’s Director of Posts, states that the final date f‘ posting in Singapore of pm cels to Britain for delivery m time for Christmas has been extended to Saturday nexi (Nov. 8).38 words
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197 1952-11-06 13 SEGAMAT, Nov. 2. A WOMAN bandit leader with a $10,000 reward on her head, was killed by men of the 1st Cameronians near Cha’ah, about 30 miles south of Segamat, yesterday morning. The woman was 40-year-old Pang Ah Lan, alias Ah197 words
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Article, Illustration68 1952-11-06 13 ABOVE—Miss Jennie Tan. 18-year-old typist, steps out smartly after having won first prize in the Chinese Swimming Club. Singapore. beauty contest on Nov. 2. She gets a free return air trip to Bangkok. BELOW: the second Miss Rosie Sng. Third place went to Miss Lilian Lim. a stenographer.68 words
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Article124 1952-11-06 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 3. SIR CHENG-LOCK TAN president of the Malayan Chinese Association, has ordered the Singapore branch to form a cabinet in the Colony. Sir Cheng-lock will himself be chairman of the Cabinet. He has appointed the following members: Dato Wong Shee Fun, Messrs. Ng Seng124 words
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Article62 1952-11-06 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 2. Three experts on malaria arrived in Singapore by ,Qantas-BOAC yesterday for discussions with Colony doctors. They were Dr. D. G. Davey of Imperial Chemical Industries, who helped discover paludrine and antrycide, Dr. L. B. Wevill, head of the medical department of 1.C.1., and62 words
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Article, Illustration42 1952-11-06 13 THE NEW RAMAKRISHNA TEMPLE in Bartley Road, Singapore, glitters with lights while a steady stream of H indu devotees files in to list en to the first sermon to be preached within its precinct ss.- —Straits Times picture.—Straits Times picture. - 42 words
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184 1952-11-06 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1. CH3UR priests will leave Singapore on Nov. 13 for r Portuguese India, to attend the Exposition of the body of St. Francis Xavier, which lasts from Dec. 3 to Feb. 3. They are Father M. Telxeira, Vicar of the Portuguese Mission. Singapore,184 words
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Article151 1952-11-06 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 3. South-east Asia is. more secure militarily and economically at present than It was two years ago, the United States Deputy Defence Secretary. Mr. William C. Foster, said at Kallang Airport shortly after nis arrival In Singapore yesterday evening. H added: “We have151 words
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Article72 1952-11-06 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Nov. 1. Sgt. George Hall, of the Ist Cameronians, who has been an instructor with the State Home Guard Training Centre, Kota Tinggi, since its inception, is to rejoin his unit. In appreciation of his services. Sgt. Hall was presented with a gold72 words
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Article200 1952-11-06 14 SEGAMAT, Sat. THE High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald pler. today clamped down a severer punishment on Pekan Jabi New Village, two miles from Segamat, than he imposed on Tanjong Malim. The village. In which three police constables were murdered and two wounded on Tuesday morning, will200 words
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Article39 1952-11-06 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 3. Lieutenant Colonel G. G. Gelder, Master at Arms, FARELF 1 died at the British Military Hospital. Singapore, yesterday. Col. Gelder. former Army and Combined Services fencing champion was secretary of the Army Fencing Association.39 words
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Article, Illustration237 1952-11-06 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 2. LAST WEEK the Sunday Times published a picture showing workmen starting to build a block of four “package houses' 1 which are being put up for the Singapore Land Office at Culega Road, off Changi Road. Yesterday, after 120 hours237 words
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Article399 1952-11-06 14 S’PORE CHINESE POLICE SINGAPORE, Nov *> A NEW trlinin S has been introduced into the Singapore Police Force, with the formation of a Chinese instructional unit. Selected Chinese sergeants and corporal now in the Force will be trained by the new unit On passing out they399 words
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251 1952-11-06 14 Asst Commissioner to be commandant JMPORTANT CHANGES in the command of K the Singapore Police Training School have been made following the announcement of a new training policy and programme. For the first time, an Assistant Commissioner of Police. Mr. R. W. Calderwood. will supervise the new training programmes at251 words
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Article59 1952-11-06 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 3 The newly-appointed director of the Singapore regior.a office of the U.S. Defence Materials Procurement Agency, Rear Admiral Paul Mather, arrived in the Colon> by BOAC Comet yesterday. He was met at Changi Mr R. H. Hawkins, Americ. Consul. The regional office in S: gapore59 words
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Article283 1952-11-06 15 KIIALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. THE negotiating committee of the Pan-Malayan Rubber Workers’ Union today agreed to accept the cut of 10 cents a day in their wages following Mr. Justice C. H. Whitton’s decision that their present scale of cost-of-living allowance is 95 cents a283 words
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Article, Illustration54 1952-11-06 15 Mrs. Pong is an artist and calligrapher who has held many exhibitions in South China. Florence has won first prizes in both the 1950 and 1951 Hong Kong Musical54 words
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145 1952-11-06 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. INCREASING numbers of people in Singapore are telling the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau all they know about graft in the Colony. Mr R. Middloton-Sinith, head of the bureau, said yesterday there had been a good response to an appeal for information145 words
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Article59 1952-11-06 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. Mr. Choor Singh, the Singapore Coroner, yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of Flight Lieut. George Merville King, of the R.A.A.F., attached to R.A.F. Tengah. on a charge of causing the death of nine-year-old Tan Choon Sen& by a negligent act.59 words
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Article81 1952-11-06 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. For six weeks, starting from Nov. 22, Singapore’s City Councillors will take the first “recess” which the Council has ever had since it was established as a Municipality 96 years ago. The “recess”, which will last until early January next year, is81 words
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Article, Illustration35 1952-11-06 15 —Straits Times picture.—Straits Times picture. - 35 words
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Article147 1952-11-06 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 1. PANG AH LAN, woman bandit boss of the Chriah area near Segamat in Johore was shot dead yesterday morning by a patrol of the Ist Cameronians. Ah Lan usually‘carried a pistol and a handgrenade but only the grenade was found on her.147 words
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Article78 1952-11-06 15 COLOMBO, Nov. 3. MR. J. G. NETTO, a trade unionist from Malaya, told the Moral Rearmament Association assembly yesterday in Colombo that the High Commissioner of the Federation of Malaya, General Sir Gerald Templer, had not been correctly presented to the outside world. Gen. Templer.78 words
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Article181 1952-11-06 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 2. MALAYAN Planting Industries Employers* Association today replied to criticism of the Association’s proposal to demand the establishment of a wages council, if the Pan-Malayan Rubber Workers’ Union refused to accept the award of the Arbitration Board. A statement issued by M.P.I.E.A. says:181 words
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Article, Illustration150 1952-11-06 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. A FORMER rubber planter in Malaya who made the documentary films “Desert Victory” and “Burma Victory,” arrived to make “Operation Malaya.*' He is Mr. David MacDonald. (ABOVE) who runs his own film company. He came with his team from Britain150 words
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Article160 1952-11-06 15 NEW DELHI. Nov. 3. SIR Alexander Clutterbuck, new British High Commissioner in India, told his first press conference today that the success of Britain’s present campaign to stamp out Communist terrorists in Malaya “is as much to the interest of India as to ours." India was.160 words
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Article97 1952-11-06 15 JOHORE BAIIRU, Nov. 3 ANG JOO SENG, who offered Uapt. I*. E. Green two bottles or whisky on behalf of a contractor for a favour, was sentenced in the Police Court to four months’ imprisonment. The contractor had to supply firewood of a certain97 words
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1036 1952-11-06 16 Posterity will pay a share of the war KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. THE Federation Government is to raise a $lOO million loan in order to pay for some of the huge cost of the Emergency—s462,ooo a day1,036 words
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Article157 1952-11-06 16 THE Federation Government’s estimated revenue balance available at the end of 1953 is expected to be $237.7 million, ox nearly $lOO million less than at the beginning of this year. A Treasury memorandum said that the Federation’s surplus funds on Dec. 31. 1951, amounted to $334,776,817, made157 words
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Article, Illustration132 1952-11-06 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. TNCOME TAX, which is exA pected to yield the surprisingly large figure of $2lO million in 1952, is estimated to account for more than one-fourth of the Federation’s total revenue in 1953. The revised draft of the Budget. published today, shows132 words
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221 1952-11-06 16 THE REVISED estimate of the Federal revenue for this year shows that due to the fall in the price of rubber, the anticipated income of $110,000,000 from the export duty on the commodity is short of the original estimate by $54,600,000. Customs and221 words
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269 1952-11-06 16 KUALA LUMP UK, Nov. 3 THE ORIGINAL Federation A estimates for 1953 wen based on a deficit of $221 915,325 but this was reduced by the Treasury to $153,613,655 before the draft estimates were presented to the StandinCommittee on Finance. The Finance Committee269 words
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Article64 1952-11-06 16 Transfers of Government Officers in the J e^ era tion may be reduce d t 0 minimum as a result of a r commendation made by Finance Cohimittee of L Federal Legislative Council. One head of department informed the Co r rin th-it the cost of64 words
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Article191 1952-11-06 16 Although it is expected that the Federation’s surplus at the end of the year will be $59,100,000, there will be a deficit of $25,800,000 on the basis of all liabilities incurred during 1952, a Treasury memorandum accompanying the report of the Finance Committee stated. The191 words
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Article359 1952-11-06 17 THE LOAN KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. rE first issue of $50,000,000 of what will be called the Federation’s $100,000,000 security loan will be the largest single loan that has been lloated in this country since the war, a Treasury official >aid today. •'It will be359 words
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Article25 1952-11-06 17 KUALA KANGSAR, Nov. 4.Scouts of the Kuala Kangsar Malay College held a concert on Friday and Saturday to raise funds for the college.25 words
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Article353 1952-11-06 17 $462,000 a day to fight the bandits mum -V- ■>ir<»- 1 .-r-.-rv'.vv'.-»» KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. THE Emergency is costing the Federation $462,000 a day, or $168.6 million by the end of 1952, the Standing Committee on Finance of the Federal Legislative Council announced today. This353 words
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Article128 1952-11-06 17 ALTHOUGH more Government houses w'ere being built, housing and hotel allowances in the Federation were not in all cases low r er for 1953 than in 1952. the finance committee of the Federal Legislative Council stated General reductions in hotel allowances should be passible,128 words
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Article70 1952-11-06 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. HASHIM GHANI, former president of the Peninsula Malays Union, who was accused of cheating, was today cleared of the charge in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court. The court ruled that there was no criminal offence after hearing the evidence, of complainant Ja’afar bin70 words
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Article123 1952-11-06 17 THE Federation will have a total of 240,000 Home Guards, the Finance Committee of the Federal Legislative Council stated in their report on the budget estimates. ’A block provision of $13.8 million for the Home Guard, an increase of $7.8 million over the figure of123 words
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Article73 1952-11-06 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 4. Mr.s. Lim Bon Soo, of Singapore, will be one of the seven YWCA delegates from the Far East who will attend a reception at the White House, the home of the President of the United States, on Sunday. Mrs. Lim, w'ith other delegates.73 words
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Article58 1952-11-06 17 The Singapore City Council is giving the Duchess of Kent a colour film taken by an employee. Mr. A. W. Perera, of the conferment on her of the Freedom of the City on Oct. 1. The Council will buy u copy for its records. A number58 words
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Article548 1952-11-06 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3. a $2O MILLION increase in i\ expenditure on social services in the Federation is one of the outstanding features of the 1953 budget to be presented at the Federal Legislative Council meeting on Nov. 19. The total expenditure on these services548 words
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Article228 1952-11-06 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4 THE Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic needs $200,000 a year to give free treatment to all the destitute tuberculosis sufferers in the Colony, Dr. G. H. Garlick. the medical director and radiologist of S.A.T.A., told the Straits Times yesterday. He said: “Our fund for228 words
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Article, Illustration137 1952-11-06 17 fl*OR the past month a woman has been acting as Malaya’s film censor. She is Mrs. Cynthia Koek, a former London stage actress, who played in many English films in the “silent” days. Since the departure a month ago of the former137 words
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Article, Illustration259 1952-11-06 18 IN THE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD of Malaya today, the name of the Shaw Brothers Organisation has become almost a household word Their present circuit of 79 cinemas has been built up in the past 25 years from one small Singapore cinema in an almost259 words
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Article, Illustration384 1952-11-06 18 In an interview with GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE Legislative Councillor, Mr. Nazir Ahmad Mallal, wants to see Singapore and the Federation of Malaya with established industries in preparation for independence. Mr. Mallal. who returned to the Colony last week after industrial tours in Canada, the United States,384 words
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Article135 1952-11-06 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 4. MALAYA'S 280 railway guards are to get an enhanced salary scale and a windfall of 5400.000 bv way of arrears This follows awards announced today by Mr. Justice Wilson,who refereed their wage negotiations with tho Government. The guards were presented by their135 words
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Article25 1952-11-06 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 6. The 6,062 ton Russian freighter, Peter Chaykovsky, arrived in Singapore's outer roads yesterday from Vladivostoek with engine trouble.25 words
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280 1952-11-06 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 4. assurance that the commission of inquiry into the integrity of the public services would wipe out any racket of which knowledge came to them was given Mr. Justice Taylor, chairman of the commission, in another broadcast tonight. Describing corruption as a280 words
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Article25 1952-11-06 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 5. A woman. Wong Ah Chin, aped 28. of Sago Street, Singapore, was takon to hospital last night suffering from poisoning25 words
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Article108 1952-11-06 18 SINGAPORE, Nov T<HE FIRST Issue of th( University of Gazette, which is to be tS official organ of the UrV sity, was published yesterchv In an introductory rAI the Vice-Chancellor, Si r Svcf' ney Caine, states that \t object of the Gazette ls t “help all108 words
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144 1952-11-06 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. FOR the first time in Singapore a pla.v was last presented in tbe before making its ni:, .Kr Presentation at the Victor. a Theatre on Nov. L 4. Terence Rattingan’s M Lov*; in Idleness. Singapore Stage r welt received by officers and144 words
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Advertisement71 1952-11-06 18 Quarterly Half-yearly Yearly STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Singapore Town Area No Postage 5.20 10.40 20.80 Malaya Including Postage 5.75 11.50 23.00 Br. Empir* Foreign (Including postage 6.75 13.50 27.00 r ly 4u.»u -so.uir The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent express air delivery service71 words
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Article, Illustration1108 1952-11-06 19 EPSOM JEEP - By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 1. Beau TEMPS, a highlyrated West Australian stayer, chalked up hl s first win on the Malayan Turf when he won the Class 1, Dlv. 1 9-f handicap in the style of a top-notcher at Kuala Lumpur yesterday1,108 words
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Article763 1952-11-06 19 THE WEEK IN SPORT By TEOH ENG TAT SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. ItfEGRI-Malacca suffered a severe reverse on Friday when the Fijians, on whom they depended so much for any success, suddenly pulled out of Bahau in Negri Sembilan for re-stationing elsewhere in the Federation. Negri-Malacca can763 words
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Article79 1952-11-06 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 4. THE 54-year-old Sultan of Selangor today left Bungsar Hospital and returned to the Istana Selangor after deciding that he would not undergo an operation. Two specialists and three other doctors had advised that an operation was necessary. The Sultan, it is understood, agreed79 words
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Miscellaneous54 1952-11-06 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: $278,200 1st: No. *****3 $75,114 2nd: No. *****8 $37,557 3rd: No. *****3 $18,778 Starters ($1,530 each): Nos. *****8; *****0; *****9; *****9; *****1; *****0; *****6; *****9; *****9. Consolation ($1,669 each): Nos. *****7; *****0; *****8; *****5; *****1; *****9; *****8; *****2; *****0; *****9. DOUBLE TOTE 1st: 26 Tickets $6254 words
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247 1952-11-06 20 SHARE MARKET] By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Nov. 3. INURING the week, Malayan markets were quieter U than for some time, but a satisfactory turnover was maintained. Industrials continued to furnish the bulk of the business and prices moved narrowly and irregularly. Tins, with the247 words
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98 1952-11-06 20 'T'HE latest cargo-liner designed for the P. and O. Company's Far East service will arrive In Singapore early next month. She is the 11,600-ton Sunda —third ship of the P. and O. fleet to bear this name. Sunda has a length of 525 ft.98 words
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Article94 1952-11-06 20 SINGAPORE, Njv. 5. T'HE price of pepper is steadily dropping in Singapore. Over the past fortnight, the price has declined by about $35 on the Singapore produce market, and yesterday’s quotations were the lowest for months. Muntok white sellers were $560 a picul, Sarawak $555, and Lam94 words
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Article23 1952-11-06 20 Takuapa Valley Tin Dredging (N.L.) output for October was 248 piculs. Two dredges worked 561 hours and covered 130,000 cubic yards.23 words
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Article106 1952-11-06 20 SINGAPORE NOV. 3. Dividends announced Cast week were:— Company Dividend Date PayaMe Books Cjom Pahan* Consol Ords. 66% flnaJ >ss tax Dec. 13 26 Oct./2 Nov. Petaling 20% 4th interim lesa 30% tax Nov. 29 8 Nov. Lingut Tin 30% flnai (No. 46) leas 30% tax106 words
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Article212 1952-11-06 20 By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Nov. 3. Business done in the Malayan Share Market last week Included: Industrials: Fraser Neave $2.50 and $2 45; Gammon $2,724 and $2.75; Consolidated Tin Smelter Ord. 21 6 to 22/14; Hammer $2,624 and $2.65; Hongkong Bank (London Register) £794; Malayan Breweries $4.35;212 words
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Article112 1952-11-06 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 31. DESPITE expectations that the last three months of the year will show an improvement on the September figure, it is almost inevitable that Malaya’s production of tin-in-concentrates this year will be substantially lower than that in 1951, says the quarterly bulletin of statistics112 words
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Article830 1952-11-06 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. 4. Buyers Sellers AUas Ice 12.60 13.50 Alex Brick#. Ords 3.50 3 60 B B Petrol 36/- 37/B M. Trustee# 6 50 7t>0 Con. Tin Smelt. Pref 2.15 2.30 Pref 21/- 22/Ords. 21/6 22/6 Eastern United 36.50 37.50 Fed. Dispensary 1.70 1.75 Fraser Neave Prefs.830 words
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Article283 1952-11-06 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Nov, 4 aN assurance that the regional office of the’nc Defence Materials Procurement Agency to ho opened in Singapore “will not grab the rubber tin markets” was given by the new regional d > tor, Rear-Admiral Paul L. Mather,283 words
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Article57 1952-11-06 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 31. Latest quarterly bulletin of statistics for the Malaya mining industry shows that bauxite, the ore of aluminium, appears in the production figures for the first time since the war. Bauxite is now being mined at Telok Ramunia, in South East Johore. Output57 words
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Article263 1952-11-06 20 \(vi\)\u r Market I SINGAPORE. Nov 1 'THE week opened :U A good demand Continent and m .'l orders from the ed Kingdom, and price, were marked up last Saturday to the highest level of the week says Lewis and Peat’* rubber market review. The report that263 words
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Article54 1952-11-06 20 Bv A Market Correspondent y SINGAPORE. NOV. 5. Holders ot Petaling registered disappointment when tne fourth Quarterly financial year ending j 1952 £2?** agatast 25 cen* r *“SS anticipated In a reduction might be' exp«t o PK f the share at opening and general selling drifted to54 words
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Article52 1952-11-06 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. MR. TADAO KATO, Japane Consul in Singapore, who in charge of economic matte.^ was welcomed at the m luncheon of trade 1 and commercial -and econc representative organisation.. the Capitol yesterday. The speaker was Mr. And Oilmour, Secretary for Econon Affairs, and his52 words