The Straits Budget, 25 December 1952

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) New Series No. 334. Thursday, December 25, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or I ah.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      A MALAYAN REPLY TO DR. VICTOR PURCELL
      481 2  -  W. G. C. BLUNN. Kuala Lumpur. IN your issue of December 16 you published several extracts reported bv Reuter from a letter to the Daily Telegraph from Dr. Victor Purcell and also from an article bv the same author said to have appeared
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      Squatter ‘legacy’
      401 2  -  W. E. N. NORTHCOTEGREEN Perak. r)R. Purcell’s letter in the Daily Telegraph, quotations from which appeared in the Straits Times, criticising the present living conditions in Malaya in the new villages and the way in which the country is being run. is. to say the least, unfair. I
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      TO MINIMISE CORRUPTION
      456 2  -  AU FAIT. Singapore IT may be the case that corruption in Governm.* and City Council Departments cannot be t<X eradicated. But corruption could be minimkl! considerably if the following points were eniwf2 in all Departments: All application forma for passports, birth certificates, permits and licences which require
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      STATUS AND PERMIT
      236 2  -  J. L. J. HAXWORTH. Controller of Immigration. Singapore. J HAVE the honour to refer to the letter in the Straits Ttarcyrom “Bnuh Subject I wish to correct the impression that a naturalised British subject is in any wav at a disadvantage to a natural born British subject
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      EXPENSIVE THIRST
      126 2  -  E. G. S. Singapore. WHE practice of tie- V A manding payment for >< drinking water at Kan- j dang Kerbau Hospital >, exists to my certain <• I I recall my cookboy’s consternation at forget- j, ;ting to take a bottle of v water one day when
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      The Council Adjourns
      714 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 17. Singapore’s Legislative Council dispatched the last business of its 1952 session yesterday without waste of words. It approved the gift to Britain of a million pounds sterling, passed the Supply Bill—the formal vote on the $2lO million dollar budget—sanctioned a twenty per cent,
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      Debt To The Duchess
      276 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 18. London’s loyal tribute to the Duchess of Kent, home again after her arduous tour of the East, is echoed nowhere more warmly than in Malaya. The Duchess expressed her admiration for the courage and determination of the men and women of all
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      Up Go School Fees
      497 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 18. An increase in school fees in the Federation, other than for primary classes, is an unpleasant and unexpected sequel to last month’s Federal Council debate on education. The Government has made a good case for itself. This is the first increase in
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      Five Year Plan
      332 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 18. The Colony’s five year schedule for the Public Works Department, published this morning, is an intelligent spread of essential work, the P.W.D. being aided in the first three years by the letting of substantial contracts outside the Department. The programme totals $ll2 million,
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      The Labour Front
      588 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 19. Comments by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Special Branch on the danger of Communist infiltration into Singapore’s trade unions presumably was no more than a routine warning. It has attracted attention because of two stubborn disputes which have seemed
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      Malaya And Sterling
      693 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 20. It is refreshing to find any Legislative Councillor, n the Federation or Singapore, taking an interest in Malaya’s trade earnings and how they are spent. Mr. Jumabhey, in a speech which drew from the Colonial Secretary an explanation of some of the benefits
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      Federation Hot Spot
      519 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 22 The Sultan of Kelantan, in i his annual message to the Council of State, has reviewed with some frankness the little known situation in that State. Kelantan has been a black spot, an unenviable distinction I which it has shared for most of
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      A Salute For The Specials
      397 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 22. The decision to reduce the strength of the Special Constabulary by approximately 10,000 men can be taken as evidence of progress. More than that, however, the reduction draws attention to the rising efficiency of the Home Guards and the success of
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      General Lockhart
      230 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 22. The change in the post of Deputy Director of Operations, announced by the Federation Government, is recognition that the High Commissioner is his own general. When the late General Sir Harold Briggs, the first Director of Operations, left Malaya 13 months ago, his successor
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      Down On The Farm
      302 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 23. An unexpected Singapore contribution to Federation fare is touched on by the Acting Director of Veterinary Services in his annual report. The Colony is becoming the Federation’s chicken farm. Last year exports of poultry to the Federation exceeded imports by over half
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      In Camera
      253 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 23 At the end of a trial held in .'wuala Lumpur yesterday in •amera, an Assistant Superinendent of Police was found guilty of obtaining $5OO without consideration from a Chinese. The officer has been Police Circle Intelligence Representative in Selangor He was fined $l,OOO, or
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    SHOOTING ELEPHANTS IN NORTH BORNEO
    1002 5  -  By R. K. HARDWICK IN the rain forests one can hear a long way ahead the 1 noise of a mob of elephants pulling down small trees end feeding on bamboo shoots. All this causes a great commotion in the usually deadly stillness of jungle.
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTH
      88 5 KEMBALL: On 15th Dec., to Racheln, wife of John Kemball. ftt the Mission Hospital, Penang, a daughter, Roslaind Ann. BOOTH: To Lorna and Derek, at, Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on the 19th December, a daughter. Carol Margaret. EOAN: To Mary and Paddy, a son. Kieran Michael, on 12th December. 1952,
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      MARRIAGE
      102 5 SEAII-CHAN: The engagement Is announced between Cheng Liang, second son of Mr. Sc Mrs. Seah Kwang Jim, and Helen, eldest daughter of Mr. Chan Kok Chye and the late Mrs. Chan (Mdm. Chla Yew Neo). THE Marriage will take place at St. Mary’s Church, Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. 23rd
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    Control and the drift of capital
    771 5  -  EltKOLL I). SHEARS, London. T READ recently with very great interest your leader “Time for Vision", in which you so cogently advanced the claims of Malaya to exploit her bauxite and iron ore deposits by the founding in Malaya of aluminium and steel industries.
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    GOGGLE-EYED
    7 6 Photo graph by Wee Thian Kang.
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    As I was Saying
    644 6  -  CYNICUS. GANTA CLAUS, who is believed by many to live on the fourth floor of the Straits Times building, is now working overtime. What he will make of the new traffic roundabouts which seem to spring up' nightly in Singapore remains to be seen but, terrorists
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1018 6  -  Stanley Street. Adopted son Europeans who have stayed for any length of time in Singapore or Malaya can have escaped the impression that Chinese adoption laws and customs are both involved and fascinating. The intricacies are unravelled and the fascination is in every line in
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    THE BRITANNIA CLUB, NAAFI’s new luxury Service recreation centre opposite Raffles Hotel in Singapore, was opened on Dec 17 by the Commissioner-General Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. Picture shows the new club from across the Nuffield swimming pool.
    37 8 THE BRITANNIA CLUB, NAAFI’s new luxury Service recreation centre opposite Raffles Hotel in Singapore, was opened on Dec 17 by the Commissioner-General Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. Picture shows the new club from across th e Nuffield swimming pool.
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    The Purcell attack ‘is hot chillies’
    256 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 18 THE Penang Malay news1 paper Wart a Negara yesterday made a strong attack on Dr. Victor Purcell, honorary adviser to the Malayan Chinese Association and 1947 consultant to the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia. Warta Negara described Dr. Purcell’s criticisms
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    Sir Rob ends Johore tour
    61 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 19. The Deputy Director of Operations, General Sir Rob Lockhart, today returned to Kuala Lumpur from a threeday tour of the Federation’s trouble spots’’ in Johore He visited the Scgamat, Muar. Batu Pahat and Kluang districts. He had talks civil, police and
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    Unions will fight Red infiltration
    483 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 18. FEDERATION and Singapore trade unionists yes1 terday pledged that they would fight to their utmost any threat of Communist infiltration. This followed a warning by the deputy Police Commissioner in charge of the Singapore Special Branch. Mr. A. E. G. Blades, who
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    CO-OPERATIVE ADVISER DUE
    33 8 MR. D. J. SURRIDGE, adviser on co-operatives to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who is to shortly visit Singapore for discussions with the Government and local cooperative leaders.
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    Poppy committee thanked
    55 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 20. The Ex-Services Association in Singapore yesterday entertained the Colony’s Poppv Day Committee, headed by Mrs. Vivian Bath, to lunch at the Adelphi Hotel. The association’s President. Mr. Eric Henton. thanked Mrs. Bath and her committee for their record effort in collecting $116,000 for the
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    Going to Malacca
    30 8 TELUK ANSON. Dec. 19—Dr J. P. Bennett, Medical Officer. Lower Perak, is bemg transferred to the Malacca General Hospital. Dr. V. S Battal. from Inoh succeeds him.
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    S’pore has liquor licence every 1,000 people
    89 8 SINGAPORE, Dec. 19 fpilE 21 new liquor licences granted this week bring Singapore’s total to nearly 1.000 about one to every 1,000 peplc.. A Customs Department officer said yesterday that there are now 380 public house licences of six dif- fcrent types, including
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    ‘Very good’ says Sir Gerald 9 bandits billed, he‘s told
    392 8 ‘Very good’ says Sir Gerald 9 bandits billed he‘s told SINGAPORE, Dec is THE HIGH COMMISSIONER, General s;* Gerald Templer, flew back by Comet la t S»*ht from Hritain and said triumphantlyThis is a tremendous welcome home present He had just been told by th e Straits Tinira ol the
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    OILMEN HOLD OFF BIG TIDES
    176 8 SERIA. Brunei, Fri Engineers in this oil field town overnight won by a small margin the first round of their two-stage battle with the destructive “king” tides of the South China Sea Seventeen oil wells producing 165.000 gallons daily were threatened with serious damage when
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    Dr. P.A. Allsopp
    23 8 RAUB, Dec. 19—Dr P A Allsopp, Health Officer. W Pahang, has been transferred to Johore as Depth Principal Medical Officer.
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    More Chinese for police
    352 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 19. MOVE to break down the language and racial barriers between Singapore police and the public will be made next year when more Chinese will be recruited into the uniformed rank and file, Mr. Nigel Morris, the Colony Police Commissioner, said yesterday. Those barriers,
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    Govt. men can’t hold party posts
    109 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 19. SINGAPORE Government servants may not hold office in a political party, the Straits Times was told yesterday In the House of Commons on Wednesday, the Secretary of State for Colonies, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, said that officers in certain government departments were
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    Russian ship
    36 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. The Russian-owned freighter Timlriazev arrived in Singapore yesterday from Dairen on her wav to London with over 6,000 tons of cargo which includes linseed, soya beans, hemp seeds and cotton seeds.
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    Pupil engineers
    29 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. 21. Mr. A. W. Waterfleld has been appointed a pupil engineer. Drainage and Irrigation, Johore, and Mr. A. Brazier, a pupil engineer, PWD, Kluang.
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    2,000 square miles of land wasted
    282 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 18. H/lINING and bad farming methods had laid waste ill 2,000 square miles of valuable land in Malaya, Mr. J. Wyatt-Smith. forest botanist, said in a broadcast this evening. When it was considered that only 10,500 square miles were now being
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    Treason can mean loss of citizenship
    70 9 A NATURALISED British subject can have his certificate of naturalisation cancelled for an offence such as treason, Mr. J. L. J.. Haxworth. Singapore’s Controller of Immigration, said. “But the case would have to first go before a judge of the High Court, to protect
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    FEDERAL POLICE CHIEF
    185 9 K. LUMPUR, Dec. 18 1UR. W. L. R. Carbonell. chief of the Special Branch, will succeed Col. A. E. Young as the Federation’s Commissioner of Police on May 1, it was announced tonight. Col. Young’s term of office expires at the end of April. He is returning
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    New villages get 58 generators
    86 9 FIFTY-EIGHT generating sets, costing $375,000 are being supplied by a British company for Use In the new villages in the Federation. The order was made by the Central Electricity Board through their London agents. The generating sets represent only part of the order for supplying
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    Sir Charles is honoured
    35 9 —Reuter. LONDON. Dec. 22. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley. the Chief Justice Of Singapore, was today appointed bv the Queen a Commander in the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.—Reuter.
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    ‘Meccano set’ godown can be put up in 20 days
    186 9 ‘Meccano set godown can be put up in 20 days SINGAPORE, Dec. 20. WORKMEN on a site at Spottiswoode Park, off Keppel Road, Singapore, have startled passers-by with the ease with which they handle 30-ft. girders. The lightweight girders are part of Singapore’s first all-aluminium godown, which was recently shipped
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    Blind girl helps Sir Gerald
    330 11 AT STONE LAYING CEREMONY KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 19. TCOR as long as she lives a blind girl, Mary Poon, will remember yesterday as in her own words, •«the most exciting day of my life.” For yesterday, hand in hand with the Queen’s representative. Mary helped
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    TOWN BOARD ENDS 32-YEAR LIFE
    98 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. 18. The jouoke bahru Town Board which was formed 32 years ago, met for the last time yesterday. Dato Sheikh Abubakar, who presided, thanked the members of the Board for their services and co-operation during the year. From 1953, he said, the
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    2 more doctors for Pahang
    44 11 RAUB. Dec. 19. Two doctors are comming to Pahang. Dr. A. M. Samanta, from Penang, will be posted to Kuala Lipis and Dr. P. G. Haigh, who Is coming from England early in January will be posted to Bentong.
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    S’PORE WILL GIVE 100 UNIVERSITY COURSE
    162 11 Only 12 chosen so far SINGAPORE, Dec. 20. THE SINGAPORE Government has already approved 100 bursaries for students in the University of Malaya who are prepared on graduation to serve as teachers in Government or grant-in-aid schools in the Colony for at least five
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    Village church dedicated.
    59 11 PORT SWETTENHAM, Dec. 21 —Twenty-four of the 70 young men and women who helped to build the Methodist Church in Pandamaran new village. Port Swettenham were present yesterday when the Rev. Raymond L. Archer. Resident Methodist Bishop of the Singapore area, performed the dedication ceremony. They came
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    Lieutenant killed
    35 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 21. Second.-Lieut. Peter Hargest a member of the New Zealand Army seconded to the Ist Fijian Infantry Regiment, was killed in a road accident on Friday, Headquarters Malaya announced today.
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    Pathologist
    17 11 Dr. (Miss) Helen Gertrude Thomasine Maycock has been appointed a pathologist in the Malayan Medical Service.
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    Cut out ‘kling’, he says
    70 11 Cut out kling’, he says SINGAPORE, Dec. 20. MR. H J. C. Kulasingha suggested to Singapore Rural Board yesterday that Tanjong Kling. oil Pasir Panjang, should be renamed. He said the Indian population resented the word “Kling.” Mr Goh Tong Lian remarked that the road now known as Chulia Street
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    MONEY INVESTED IN LOCAL LOANS
    283 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 20. rriHE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT has invested A about $52,000,000 locally, the Financial Secretary, Mr. W. C. Taylor, told the Straits Times yesterday Of this $22,000,000 at three per cent and $16,000,000 at four per cent, represent “investments by way of advances” to the
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    Less racial stress in Malaya
    182 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 22. Differences between racial groups in Malaya seemed more political than racial, a well-known American writer, Mr. William H. Carter. Jr., told the Straits Times yesterday. Considering the number of people involved, there was far less racial stress in this country than in
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    SPECIALIST
    15 11 Dr. Hugh Alistair Reid has been appointed specialist physician, Grade B, Malayan Medical Service
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    Dr. J. D. Terrell
    19 11 Dr J. D. Terrell has been appointed a medical officer In the Malayan Medical Service.
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    TOW-ROPE BREAKS, SHIPS IN CRASH
    148 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 22. A SNAPPED tow rope led to a collision in the Singapore Harbour Board between tiu* 11.346-ton pilgrim ship. Tyndareus and the 10.043-ton tanker Caroline Maersk. on Saturday. The Tyndareus was berthed alongside godowns 38 and 39 when the collision occurred. Members of
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    DURING HER RECENT TOUR of Johore, Lady Templer visited the soap factory of Inche Sharif bin Abdul Karim at the 5th. mile Bakri Road, Muar, and bought two bars of soap, Inche Sharif had received a loan of $3,000 from RIDA, on the recommendation of the High Commissioner, Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, to enlarge his factory.
    56 11 DURING HER RECENT TOUR of Johore, Lady Templer visited the soap factory of Inche Sharif bin Abdul Karim at the 5th. mile Bakri Road, Muar, and bought two bars of soap, Inche Sharif had received a loan of $3,000 from RIDA, on the recommendation of the High Commissioner, Gen. Sir
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    10,000 fewer ‘specials’
    324 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. rpHE Federation Government announced today that it had decided lo cut the strength of the special constabulary by about 10,000 by the end of next year. A Federation survey of members of the special constabulary due to complete five years’ unbroken service between July
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    Govt. man’s funeral
    67 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 17. The British Adviser, Negri Sembilan, Mr. M C. IT Sheppard, was present at Cheras Road cemetery today at the funeral of Mr. Arthur Nunis. office assistant. Income Tax Department. Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Nunis. who was 48, died yesterday He was formerly secretary of
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    What the police officer saw
    50 12 KUANTAN, Dec. 17. A police lieutenant peeped through a hole in the wall of a room in Jabor, Trengganu. and saw Teng Sai Wee smoking chandu. Teng was yesterday bound over by the President. Kuantan Sessions Court for one year in the sum of $2OO.
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    MALAYA IS NOT GOING BROKE
    264 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 20. FEDERATION Governinent was further away A from becoming bankrupt than most other countries in Asia, the Financial Secretary, Mr. E. llimsworth, told a Press conference in Kuala Lumpur today. There was no immediate danger of a slump hitting: this country, said Mr.
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    Defence unit to start training
    222 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. T'HE first batch of men and women recruited for the Singapore Hospital Reserve —an essential Civil Defence unit—will start training next month at the Singapore General Hospital. Dr. W. E. Hutchinson, assistant Director of Medical Services (Civil Defence) told the Straits Times
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    He will succeed the Dato
    40 12 JOHORE BAHRU, Dec 17. —lncho Abdullah bin Haji Sulieman, District Officer. Pontian, will succeed Dato Seth bin Haji Said, District Officer, Batu Pahat, when the latter leaves for Johore Bahru to become the State Secretary.
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    TIGER CUB TOASTS TIGER BEER
    293 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. JULTAN. the Tengku Mahkota of johore’s pet tiger cub. drank a toast at Malayan Breweries yesterday the 21st Anniversary of Tiger Brewery. Singapore. And 600 guests joined the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, in wishing the company many happy returns of the day.
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    Information deputy head quits job
    270 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 21. MR. J. N. McHUGH, Deputy Director-General of the Federation Information Sendees, has resigned. He will leave the department at the enc of January to return to his profession as a civi engineer. fVl< “My resignation has nothing to do witn in
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    Perak law student dies
    44 12 LONDON Dec INCHE Jamaluddin bin Udi, 32. an j officer of the 3 service, was found v Cardiff hotel room on &ui Inche Jemaiuddin had in ill health for some His death is believed to been caused by a attack.
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    S’PORE 5-YEAR PLAN
    264 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. THE Singapore Government’s $112,000,000 five-year building and development plan was officially published this morning. It co-ordinates the capita! expenditure of the Education and Medical Plans, and defence and other general projects, the 1953 budgetary provisions for which have already been approved. The Public Works
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    2 join service
    23 13 Dr. (Miss) Mima Muir Gemmell and Dr. (Miss» Isabella Margaret Almond have been appointed medical olhcers in the Medical Service.
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    Man Reds can’t scare gets the O.B.E.
    494 13 A SINGAPORE Chinese bus company proprietor, Mr. Tay Koh Yat, aged 71. of Tras Street, was among 22 people who received honours at a ceremony at Government House yesterday. "Since 1948, and In spite ol losing four buses at the hands of Communist
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    ‘Peace next year’ says Sultan
    353 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 20. “|"HE first 1 1 patrols of Home Cuards skilled in jungle fighting, with automatic weapons, shot guns and jungle kit, passed out at the new $68,000 Selangor State Home Guard Training Centre today. The Sultan of Selangor, who took the salute,
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    N.S. Adviser gives them first aid
    187 13 SEREMBAN, Dec 18. rpHE British Adviser, Negri Sembilan, Mr. M. C. fT Sheppard, yesterday gave first aid to three men and a girl who had fallen in a car into a ravine after a collision n<;ar the 15th milestone, Gemas-Tampln Road. Mr. Sheppard was
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    HOME GUARDS TO GET BETTER GUNS
    214 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 20. THE Federat'on’s 250,000 home guards are ready to 1 Dlay a more important part in the campaign against militant Communism, Major-General E. 13. Fonblanque, inspector general, Home Guard, said r a broadcast to- night. “I would like to think that
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    BIG PLAN TO AID THE BLIND
    129 13 SINGAPORE, Don. 18 SINGAPORE Association for the Blind has asked the Colony Government for about five acres of land to build a proposed $500,000 nursery, primary and trade school for the blind. Mr. G. A. P. Sutherland, the president, told the Straits Times yesterday.
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    SANTA IN SINGAPORE
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    Warning to hospital staff
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    Colony warned of fire danger
    93 14 sinuuvkk, i\v. VI'OKK'S bhrv i hiet\ Mr Sha*. u‘'U't\l<> artusi that unless tire stations "orv built m tho i'oloit>'s outskirts tho \astl\ eMMiuim* rural area* \%ouM not ha\o adequate PlOtOx IUMt .O >.' N > X V S N V A. s *x > V
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    Now chief of staff for Gen Templer
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    Orop in customs revenue
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    EDUCATION OFFICERS
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    OPERATION SERVICE
    64 14 SEREMBAN, D« m A POLICE squad e *nlo "Opera,:.,! service" late v,Vrda, eveninq to rescue a van carrving foodstuffs which broke dou„ the Kuala Plat, Pass The van on ass jt wav to Sri Menanti T k h e owner hlnese locked the van board,d a bus and
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    Publisher is fined
    66 14 SINGAPORE T COLONY Cr.ir.is~ age newspaper ci:.-: *-d publisher. Shui Chert it the Yeh Teng Pac w-c reproduced without pcrm.ssi r. photograph? which appfar-a In the Straits Times Arr..i.. 1953. In his paper, wa? tz-t 5100 wT Mr. T. Kulaseiarerr. me S-ngap-T F* Magistrate. cn ineshaHis printer
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    Union to have rubber estate of its own
    72 14 ipoh. ext THE ?s.#+#-stn>ng Pfrik Estate Empk>y«s Ctnon i» launching *ll4 on a n<rw project for actjiina* a 7 acre rubber estate to be owned on i co* orcrative ba>is bv members of the imoc t? T-s Tii -r. i* 1-1- v
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    PEPLER IN SINGAPORE
    28 14 S L rr IX— -^ai MlT'’ T~:i r? Hiil *Sf iHI TJi —y -jm sr itif nr*i. 1 ir**r 2uin.l SZ3C%M--" Tro^tiir 5r i fj
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    Auxiliary firemen to fight the real thing
    175 16 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23. (SINGAPORE Auxiliary Fire Service men —essential to civil defence —will be given practical experience in extinguishing fires, Mr. J. Shaw, Commandant of the A.F.S.. told the Straits Times yesterday. “There can be no doubt that the unit will be available
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    Mystery of the missing weights is solved
    186 16 PENANG, Dec. 22. PENANG shopkeepers have solved the mystery of their vanishing dachings. For several months they have been baffled by the disappearance of these weights. To make it more mysterious, they re-appear after a few days. The proprietor of a Tanjong Tokong
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    MR. DOUGLAS HAMILTON, Qantas Empire Airways engineer, receives a long service medal from Qantas manager, Capt. Hugh M. Birch, at a ceremony at Kallang airport yesterday. Mr. Hamilton, who is in charge of the instrument section, is the oldest Qantas employee in the Colony having joined in May, 1942, soon after the company was formed.
    58 16 MR. DOUGLAS HAMILTON, Qantas Empire Airways engineer, receives a long service medal from Qantas manager, Capt. Hugh M. Birch, at a ceremony at Kallang airport yesterday. Mr. Hamilton, who is in charge of the instrument section, is the oldest Qantas employee in the Colony having joined in May, 1942, soon
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    JUMABHOY FOR CROWNING
    119 16 SINGAPORE. D/C. 23. rE GOVERNOR of Singa- pore Mr J. F. Nicoll. has named Mr. R. Jumabhoy. I Legislative Councillor. a member of th e three-man Colony delegation to attend i the Coronation Of the Queen In June. Mr Jumabhov has bP~n selected to replace Mr. John
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    ASP. FINED $1,000 FOR TAKING A $500 BRIBE
    125 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 22. W. G. SMITH, police circle intelligence representative at Kajang, Selangor, was today found guilty of taking $5OO without consideration from a Chinese and was fined $l,OOO or nine months* imprisonment, by Mr. J. G. Adams in the Kuala
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    Fed. has 220 trade unions
    54 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 22. At the end of last month there were 220 registered trade unions in the Federation, and 26 others were waiting to be registered The total membership of the trade union movement in Malaya—lf all the 26 now on the waiting list
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    TEMPLER BARE-FOOT IN TEMPLE
    210 16 PENANG, Dec. 22. rE High Commissioner, Gen. Sir Gerald Temler. was told today that to enter the Penang Buddhist Association prayer hall he would have to walk barefooted. Sir Gerald bent and removed his shoes. A menher of the committee, Mr. Lim Teong Aik, then showed
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    TEMPLER MAKES NEW PROMISE
    168 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 22. THE High Commissioner, Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, today kept a date made four months ago to revisit Permatang Tinggi new village, Province Wellesley. And he made a new promise to supply the villagers with electricity. He told the village committee: “As things
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    INSURANCE CHIEF
    93 16 MR. P. F. GIVEN-WILSON. who succeeds Mr W. H. Droogleever Qs Far Eastern Manager ot the General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, Limitcd. Mr. Droogleever, who was in charge of the company*s Far East division since 1938. left Singapore last Sunday for Capetown, where he will be
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    Lieutenants accused
    69 16 JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. 22. Police Lieutenants P. H. Ward and J. H. Lea faced two charges of housebreaking and theft from a Chinese house in February this year, in the Sessions Court today. Both men, who had been previously charged with the same offences in Police Court, claimed
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    MALAYA WON’T BE FIRST TO BENEFIT
    204 16 SINGAPORE, Dec. 23 MALAYA can expe<* 1T1 no immediate or thfl Ct^ CU !l r benefl t from Commonwealth prime ministers’ conference scheme roi rubber, tin, oil, wheat cotton and other raw materials production. The Singapore Economic Secretary, Mr. Andrew gp 0 said in
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    Going to crowning
    63 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 22 Dato Syed Abdul Kadir bin Muhammad Mentri Besar, Johore. and Dato S. Q. Worn; senior unofficial member of Johore Executive Council, have been selected as the State’s representatives at thf Coronation in June. Thev will leave Johore lo May and will travel bv
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    S’pore city rates may be increased
    66 16 SINGAPORE. Dec. 23. The Singapore City Council will hold a specif meet ing on Dec. 30 to consider a motion which willi raise the assessment rate next y from the present 25 to 30 r* cent. An amendment to the Municipal ordinance in the
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    BACK FROM LEAVE
    30 16 Mr I. G. Saimond, Dir tpr of Maclaine Watson Co., Ltd., and Maclaine son and Co., (Malaya) returns to Singapore Dec. 31 after long l eavf Europe.
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    Mining post
    18 16 JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. Mr. W E. Everitt, Inspect' Mines, is now actin*} W. of Mines, Johore.
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    British rubber estates in Indonesia ‘ruined’
    719 18 GRO WING DIFFICUL TIES SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. rnHE GROWING difficulties experienced by British rubber estates in Indo- nesia is strikingly revealed in a batch of rubber company reports which came to hand this week. A OKlA Recommendations for ‘winding up\ complaints of damage to
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    QUIET‘BEER UP’ OPENS NEW NAAFI CLUB
    126 18 SINGAPORE. Dec. 18. AN orderly “beer up” was held in Singapore yesterday when the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, officially opened the new Britannia Club for the services. Brer and “eats” cold turkey and ham, with trimmings were “on the house,” but decorum was the
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    Long service medals for 4 Qantas men
    97 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. Australians who joined Qantas Empire Airways when the company was first formed were presented with long service medals at Kallang airnort yesterday. They were Messrs. Bob Lowe Senior Base Traffic Officer; Ken Hopkins. Area Engineer: Dick Letschman. Senior Stores Officer
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    Land for school
    33 18 KOTA TINOGr, Dec. 23—A piece of land in Mukim Jeram Batu, in the Pontian district has been reserved for a Malay school by the Commissioner of Lands and Mines, Johore.
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    It’ll be done soon—Govt.
    74 18 It’ll be done soon —Govt. SEREMBAN, Dec 23. No action had been taken to promote the building of houses n Seremban town as envisaged by he Housing Trust Ordinance of 1950. said the Negri Sembilan Government at today’s Budget meeting of the Council of State. This was in reply to
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    $5,500 RAISED FOR CRASH DEPENDANTS
    135 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. SINGAPORE Motor Club, through racing motorist Freddie Pope, yesterday gave the Police Commissioner, Mr. Nigel Morris, a cheque for $5,521.55. for the widows and dependants of the three Volunteer Special Constables killed at the club’s Gap Road hill-climb on May 11 The
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    Taiping gets new school head
    47 18 TAIPING, Dec.—The Rev. Bro. Alban has arrived in Taiping to become the Director of St. George’s Institution. He comes from St Patrick’s Katong. Singapore. The previous Director of St. George’s. Rev. Bro. Casimir is proceeding to Britain o n six months’ leave.
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    Scheme to protect rubber traders
    331 18 SINGAPORE. Dec is A. SCHEME for a pan-Malayan association nf rubber trade association to support the M a yan Rubber Export Registration Board and nr tect the Malayan rubber industry was put bef r Singapore rubber leaders yesterday bv u 6 Heah Joo Seang, Penang
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    Leaders of business in Malaya
    298 18 MR. II E A II j o SEANG, President of the Penang Rubber Trade Association for nianv terms. is popularlyknown to his fellow rubber merchants in Penan® as “Boss” or Seang Ko (Brother Seang) Beginning life a $40-a-month clerk in hi' uncle’s tapioca mill. Mr.
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    THIS IS WHAT’S NEEDEDSTUDENT
    220 19 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. ITNIVERSITY of Malaya V students need political consciousness—something the university has so far not given, said Miss Margaret Lim in last night’s Radio Malaya forum which discussed the university. Miss Lim. a third-year art student at the university said there appeared to be
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    Ready to resign from Council
    202 19 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. MR. Tan Chin Tuan, who represents the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce on the Legislative Council, yesterday said he was ready to resign if the chamber insisted on being consulted on all legislative matters. Mr. Tan was replying to criticisms that he
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    THE GIFT IS SENT TO BRITAIN
    73 19 SINGAPORE’S Christmas present to Britain—a £1,000.000 defence contribution—was remitted to the Crown Agents in London early this week. They have now been direced to credit this amount to the British Treasury. This week, Government will also send a message to the Secretary of State,
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    Former tin man is dead
    57 19 LONDON, Dec. 23.—Mr. Swinfen Bramley Archdeacon, who had been described as the architect of the Malayan tin smelting industry, died at St. Leonard's, on Dec. 18. The late Mr. Archdeacon was technical manager of the Straits Trading Co. for 25 years, and for many years
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    Immigration office moving
    58 19 The Immigration Office in Havelock Road. Singapore will be closed all day on Dec. 31. It will also be closed on Dec. 30, except for very urgent passport and visa facilities. The office is moving to its new site at Palmer Road, of! Anson Road and will
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    MOTORISTS ALLOWED TO MAKE ‘LOOP’
    97 19 MOTORISTS ALLOWED TO MAKE LOOP la.. SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. ipOLLOWING protests by Singapore motorists who f A objected to going all the way round the Padang reach the Collyer Quay car park, police yesterday allowed traffic to make a “loop” round the Empress Place island. Mr. A. E. Minns, A.S.P.,
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    SAMAD CASE WAS TWICE REVIEWED
    188 19 He shunned the committee SINGAPORE. Dec. 24. rpHE Singapore Advisory Committee on Detainees A has twice reviewed Inche Abdul Samad’s case since he lodged his objection in 1951, although he refused to appear in person before it, a Government statement said last night. Inche Samad.
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    Corporal’s appeal lost
    66 19 SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. Samuri bin Lamit. a corporal in the Police Force, left the Singapore High Court dock yesterday to serve a sentence of 15 months’ simple imprisonment for taking $7 from a lorry driver. His appeal against a lower court conviction and sentence was dismissed by
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    Civilian XV beats the Services
    850 19  -  THE WEEK IN SPORT By EDIN PETERS SINGAPORE, Dec. 24. fFHE highlight of this a week’s sport in Malaya has undoubtedly been the annual Malayan Rugby Union “classic” between the Combined Civilians and the Combined Services. played at Penang Civilians chalked up their sixth successive
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    Tin irregular, rubber fairly steady
    301 20 Tin irregular rubber fairly steady i SH ARE MARKET By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Dec. 22. f THE FALL of ten cents a pound in Malaya’s staple A with the onset of Christmas brought a slackening in trade, but there was little weakness in any section of the share market.
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    Cargo handled in S’pore down
    54 20 SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. The port of Singapore handled 276,725 tons less cargo for the same period this year than the year before. Since Jan. 1, the Harbour Board has handled 7,195,189 tons, more than a quarter of a million tons less than in the same
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    BUSINESS DONE
    282 20 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. BUSINESS done in the Malayan Share Market last week included Industrials: Fraser Sc Neave $2.52% Sc $2.50; Gammon $3.20 Sc $3.25; Consolidated Tin Smelter Ord. 21|6d Sc 21|7%; Federal Dispensary $2 07% to $2.10; Hammer $2.80 to $2.85; Malayan Breweries $4.30; Malayan Cement $1.15 to
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    PRISONERS EARN
    17 20 Changl prisoners earned $9,077 under the "pay for work” scheme in the past 10 months.
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    DIVIDENDS OF WEEK
    227 20 rpELOK Kruin Tin Ltd. has dedared a final dividend of 15 per cent, less income tax. at 30 per cent, in respect of the year ended Oct. 31. 1952. payable on Jan. 2. 1953 to shareholders on the register on Dec. 19. Idris Hydraulic Tin Ltd has
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    79 20 SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange (Noon prices): A strung, active market was reported for copra with buyers $38% per picul f.o.b. and sellers $39. Coconut ofl; Sellers $6O a picul (up $1). Pepper: Quiet market with small transactions; Muntok white $540 a picul sellers, Sarawak
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    $1,033 unclaimed
    30 20 KOTA TINGOI. Dec. 23. The State Forest Officer, Johore. has announced that $1,***** has not been claimed In the District Forest Office, Merskig. for the past 12 months.
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    Rice inquiry
    23 20 KU ANT AN. pec. 24. The Rice Production Committee has completed its inquiries in Province Wellesley. Kedah, Kelantan, Trengganu and Pahang.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    865 20 SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. INDUSTRIALS Buyer* Seller* :Alex Urines Pref 9.15 2 30 Orda 3.95 4.05 Atlas Ice i2.25 13 25 xd B B Petrol 35/- 36/B M. Trustee* 6 50 7.50 Con. Tin Smelt Pref 31/- 2*/Ords 21/- 22/Easteru United 38.00 39.00 xd Fed Dispensary 2.15 2
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    $166,000 pay-out to smallholders
    195 20 KUALA LUMPUR, 1),... THE Federation Rubber Industry Board today approved immediate n-ivmi n l nf $166,000 to little planters in Malacca as aV, of step in its six-year project to rejuvemt. Il t ,t“ r im smallholdings throughout the country lul >ber Payments will soon be
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    Malaya is $5.4 mil. down
    83 20 SINGAPORE, Dec. 22. WfITH only one month to go, V Malaya has an unfavourable balance for 1952 of $5.4 million. The* November trad# brought an unfavourable balance of $15.8 million, the worst since June In November, exports were $290,000,000 ($299,700,000 in October) and imports $305.870,000
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    Most active week for many years
    341 20 SINGAPORE. Dec 20 THE PAST week has been i Probably the most active one in rubber for many years rewrt 6 'VerT, d Peat s weekly 3^k. ve a» i r e n e i prices, but actual ofT-tukc bv consummg centres has been
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    Govt. ‘gains stature’
    80 20 SINGAPORE. Dec. 22. COMMENTING on the Sinß*pore Government s withdrawal on Dec. 6 oi the “contentious” E x c h a n g 1 Comtrol Bill for furtlier consideration. a commercial respondent says: In bearing to take advantage of u power to push the hill 1 the
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    Lake canteen to cost $46,000
    40 20 KUALA LUMPUR. Dee. The canteen to be built at Lake Gardens Kuala Lun will cost the numic r J $46,000. The Municipal in ance Committee has r< mended that the tend' this sum be accepted.
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