The Straits Budget, 6 November 1952

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    30 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.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      Medical Dept. specialists
      396 2  -  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 specialist
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      Sterner measures
      283 2  -  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 very
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      ‘Threat to freedom’ in rubber business
      375 2  -  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 a
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      MANAGING MALAYA HALL
      244 2  -  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 Eusoff
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      Order of precedence in the Colony
      278 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 in
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      31 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 DIRECTIVE
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Record City Budget
      804 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 expenditure
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      Arbitration Sequel
      365 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 congratulated
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      Stopping Bad Rubber
      747 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 general
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      Paying For The Airport
      276 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 an
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      Education is the Key
      749 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
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      The Federal Budget
      770 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
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      Public Works Costs
      514 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
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      Wage Award
      319 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
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      The Detonators
      287 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
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    HE WILL BUY 50 BULLS
    53 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 the
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    World tour
    29 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 tour
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    FEDERATION REGIMENT
    861 5  -  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 annals
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      BIRTHS
      102 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, Peter
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      119 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. McConnell
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      MARRIAGE
      105 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,
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  • Obituary
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    89 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 is
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    AYER ITAM TEMPLE, PENANG
    8 6 Photograph by Birte Steincke.
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    As I was Saying
    657 6  -  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 summon
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1062 6  -  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 Tom
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    New men are first-class, says the C.O.
    130 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 ends
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    Tell us about graft—call to public
    106 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 being
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    Presentation to retiring Adviser
    57 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 a
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    U.K. aid is sought for new airport
    153 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 of
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    TAUGHT MALAY TO SIR RICHARD
    76 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, a
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    POLICE OFFICER MARRIED
    45 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.
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    Three get medal for good work
    130 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 more
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    The man in a hurry is bound over
    563 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 the
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    ‘Do something’ appeal
    85 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, travelled
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    4 BURIED ALIVE AT QUARRY
    134 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 dynamite
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    Chinese HGs for Kedah
    71 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 Straits
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    Graft probe in Mines Dept
    221 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 am
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    CASH FOR KILLING RED BOSS
    127 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 police
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    Malayans at U.S. convention
    57 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 general
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    GIFTS FOR THE UNIVERSITY
    62 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. Gan
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    School wanted
    21 10 PENANG. Fri.—Penang's north-east district mukim council has asked the Government to build an English primary school in Ayer Itam.
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    To wedding by Comet
    51 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.
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    POLICE KILL SIPUTEH GANG CHIEF
    94 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 into
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    Old folk were guests of the Blythes
    238 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 dining
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    Retires after 26 years
    50 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.
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    BIG SEND OFF FOR FIJIANS
    268 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 operational
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    He sees the ‘ops’ room
    71 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 staff
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    Study gift award
    44 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.
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    Shanghai bound
    30 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.
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    NEW COINS FOR OLD
    78 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-war
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    Mr. J. keeps seat on City Council
    382 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 voting
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    Shell man dies
    69 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 Pulau
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    FIJI WAR CLUB FOR D.O.
    56 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 *> Nemhilan
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    Pay request rejected
    68 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 punish
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    FOUR GET COLONIAL POLICE MEDAL
    72 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
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    PETER, 16, IS FIRST MATE—AND CREW
    144 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 pupil
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    Honoured by C-in-C
    80 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\/ 2
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    2 years for ‘Sar Jee’ chief
    86 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 an
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    GURKHAS GRAB 2 REDS
    306 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 for
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    XMAS MAIL
    38 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).
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    SHE DESERTED HER HUSBAND —to join the Red ‘army’
    197 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 Ah
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    BEAUTY CONTEST
    68 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.
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    M.C.A. to have S’pore
    124 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 Seng
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    Malaria experts visit S’pore
    62 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., and
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    NEW TEMPLE FOR SINGAPORE
    42 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.
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    FOUR PRIESTS WILL MAKE PILGRIMAGE
    184 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,
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    U.S. Defence chief in Singapore
    151 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 have
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    Workers accept ‘10ct less’ award
    283 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 a
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    MISS FLORENCE PONG, talented singer from Hong Kong, who arrived in Singapore with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Philip S. Pong.
    54 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 Musical
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    SECRET TIPS KEEP GRAFT BUREAU BUSY
    145 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 information
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    Warrant out for RAAF officer
    59 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.
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    First time in 96 years
    81 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, is
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    WOMAN RED BOSS KILLED
    147 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.
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    Sir G. ‘fights snobs too’
    78 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.
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    MPIEA SUGGESTS WAGES COUNCIL
    181 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:
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    EX-PLANTER IS BACK TO FILM OUR WAR
    150 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 Britain
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    INDIA’S STAKE IN MALAYA
    160 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.
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    Cost of 2 bottles of whisky
    97 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 certain
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    BIG FEDERAL LOAN TO FIGHT THE REDS $50 mil. at 5 per cent
    1036 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 day
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    $100m.drop is expected
    157 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, made
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    INCOME TAX YIELD IS HIGH
    132 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, shows
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    RUBBER FALL COST GOVT. $97,700,000 THIS YEAR
    221 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 and
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    Spending is cut heavily by budget committee
    269 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 Committee
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    $1,500 for a transfer
    64 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 of
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    REALLY DEFICIT OF $25.8 MIL
    191 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. The
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    Share for the small man
    359 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 be
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    College concert
    25 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.
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    $168 MILLION THIS YEAR
    353 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. This
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    Hotel bills are not all down
    128 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,
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    COURT CLEARS HASHIM GHANI
    70 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 bin
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    Home Guard will total 240,000
    123 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 of
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    She’ll visit White House
    73 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.
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    COLOUR FILM FOR DUCHESS
    58 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 number
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    $20M. MORE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES
    548 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 services
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    T.B. CLINIC SEEKS $200,000
    228 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 for
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    A woman has last word on S’pore films
    137 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 former
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    BEAU TEMPS WINS IN FINE STYLE
    1108 19  -  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 yesterday
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    Negri loses the Fijians
    763 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 can
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    Sultan leaves hospital
    79 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, agreed
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      54 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 $62
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    Industrials furnish bulk of business
    247 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 the
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    Newest cargo liner arrives here soon
    98 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.
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    THE PRODUCE MAKET
    94 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 Lam
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    ORE OUTPUT
    23 20 Takuapa Valley Tin Dredging (N.L.) output for October was 248 piculs. Two dredges worked 561 hours and covered 130,000 cubic yards.
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    DIVIDENDS OF THE WEEK
    106 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% tax
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    BUSINESS DONE
    212 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;
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    Tin output lower
    112 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 statistics
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    830 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.
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    ‘No grab of tin and rubber’
    283 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,
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    Bauxite back in production
    57 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. Output
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    RENEWED BUYING INTEREST
    263 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 that
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    Petaling div. disappoints
    54 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 to
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    Jap Consul at trade luncheon
    52 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 his
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