The Straits Budget, 15 January 1953

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) L,\\ ics No. 33/. Thursday, January 15, 1953 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      The absentee estate owner
      296 2  -  C.P.R. MENON. Malacca. VOUR recent leader on “Work, Rain and Wages” spoke the truth when it concluded, “Most of the larger employers have a creditable record; it is the small estate owner, often the absentee employer, who has done least and who must be persuaded that
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      FEES AND TAXATION
      175 2  -  PET MEN! IUS. Singapore. Apparently, to judge from the proposal to increase school fees in the Federation, the Government there cannot help increasing any fee if its revenue runs short But it need not be so if all taxpayers by right are brought to book. As an
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      DUTY WITHOUT CONTROL
      105 2  -  KLYNE STREET. Kuala Lumpin'. I AM obliged by the explanation of the Commissioner of Road Transport to the effect* that the 15 per cent, ad valorem registration fee on vehicles not manufactured in the Commonwealth is a method of collecting the import duty. It is what I
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      TAXI-METERS
      72 2  -  L. M. Singapore. IHOPE the City Council will be adamant in enforcing the use of taxi-meters in all taxis. It Ls all very well to argue that one can always bargain for cheaper rates, but when you are out in the rain, coming from an amusement place or in
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      FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH
      149 2  -  RETINUE. Bukit Timah. IT was with sorrow I heard of the unplanned demise of “J’Avance.” For a moment we in stableland thought the irate Bukit Timah punters had carried out their threat to shoot the so- and-so What does really i n t e r e
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      SELF-GOVERNMENT AND THE CABINET SYSTEM
      304 2  -  C. R. NARASIMHA RAJ. Kuala Lumpur. I QUITE agree with Mr. C. C. Tan, president of the 1 Progressive Party, when he says that the sphere of elected representation in the Singapore Legislative Council should be increased. But I cannot understand the logic of his
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      Worthy of a portfolio
      85 2  -  MAJULAH SINGAPURA. Singapore. ACCORDING to last Satur- day’s Straits Times, Mr. C. C. Tan has announced that f9 r the next Legislative Council elections the Progressive Party will put up only candidates capable of accepting portfolios under a Cabinet system of government. This must be disturbing
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      UNION STREET, PENANG
      46 2  -  Municipal Council Penang. I SHOULD be grateful for the opportunity of inquiring, through your columns, whether any of your readers who takes an interest in local history can say why and when Union Street. Penang, was so named. L. R. F. EARL. President,
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      Primary education in the Federation
      531 2  -  CHEONG HOCK HAL Singapore. AGAIN the public has to thank you for th- ven pertinent questions you raised in Thr \sd av l leader, “The Future of Education”. Last week’ debate in the Federal Legislative Council core the implementation of the new Malayan educa'i#™ policy
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      QUIETNESS AND DEMOCRACY
      114 2  -  NOT KEEPING tJI'lET. Singapore. MR. Wee Boon Soo’s letter Jan. 3 shows a serious la of intelligence surely controversial! matter U sett bv all concerned merely "bet in* quiet.” Especially with Emergency on, it is all t more necessary that Gove! ment pursue a fair and policy
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      Queries on Mr. Eber
      202 2  -  r. I 1 Singapore MR- JOHN EBER was arrested two years '^o, January 8, 1951, and is still under detention wit out benefit of trial in a court of justice. At a revi< held on March 17, 1952 (at which I was present), t chairman of
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      The Future of Education
      764 3 —Straits Times. Jan. 8. e i V Federal CounI dt'Ki »> the implement- c new educational p ll t.. Government scored >"<' called a ‘actical t(f\ T» »rc the house was moved by Mr. p p cho- g Kong which ask\j ie C ,:neil to express
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      The Pensioners
      335 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 8. From the supplementary expenditure of the Federal Government, approved by the Legislative Council yesterday, Government pensioners will learn that at last some relief comes their way. The additions to their pensions are backdated to January’ last, and have been jointly agreed by the Colony
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      Schools And Businesses
      794 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 10. National schools, and the Government’s education policy, were much to the fore in both days’ proceedings of the Federal Legislative Council. Attention was focussed on education at question time, the first business of the Council, and was later sustained by three debates, two
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      The Path of the Learner
      526 3 —Straits Times. Jan. 12. Thirty per cent of would-be car drivers in Singapore fail to pass the test which permits them to have a driving licence. Most of them seem to spend their spare time cluttering up the roads round which they know the testers
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      United Front In Asia
      594 3 Times, Jan. 13. From London, Washington and Tokyo have come reports of the intended formation of some kind of headquarters in Singapore to direct a united resistance to Communism in Asia. The most emphatic of these reports is the Reuter prediction from London that Britain will
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      Tidying Up The Law
      414 4 Straits Times, Jan. 13. At a conference at Ipoh between tin mining interests and the Government a number of desirable amendments to the mining enactments were agreed. They have now been incorporated in new legislation which the Federal Legislative Council approved at its meeting last week.
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      Japanese Visitor
      264 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 13 Mr. E. Wajima, the first senior Japanese Government official to visit Malaya since the war, comes here fresh from a meeting in Delhi of the heads of Japanese diplomatic missions m Asia. Mr. Wajima is head of the Bureau of Asian Affairs in the
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      No Other Tiger
      733 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 14. It may soon be difficult to find a tiger, reports Mr. H. J. Kitchener, Malaya’s Chief Game Warden. Not finding a tiger is already an everyday experience for most Malayans, and they would not have it otherwise, there being few animals which it
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      Rent Control
      245 4 —Straits Times, J. n A closer public interest in city rates and colony taxes would be an admirable outcome of the movement on the part of a small number of Singapore tenants who want to see rent control extended to all houses built since the war. For various
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    ‘Beating the rackets is up to public’
    166 4 SINGAPORE. Jan 13 THE public must get ric: the idea that giving a: taking bribes is part oi ever: day life, Mr. C. W Lvle. hej of Singapore’s Corrupt P:£ tires Investigation Bures; told the Straits Times v«:e day. “Apart from what we
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    S’pore man to study about blind
    116 4 SINGAPORE. Jan 12 THE president of the Sing pore Association -or Blind, Mr. G. A. P. Sutin-naff will study the latest and techniques on the ire the blind when he got on months’ leave on Jan Mr. Sutherland tend J" Straits Times yesterday l
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    Treasury bills
    27 4 KUALA LUMPUR. l L Tenders for Fed* -J vernment treasury r 3r accepted by the General to the exte: 100,000. The bills issued on Thursday
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    Tanjong Karang: a model for Malaya
    1499 5 What was recently a swampy wasteland on the Selangor coast is now one of the country's finest granaries. Mohd. Salleh bin Daud here, in the fiist of two articles on Tanjong Karang, tells the story of this land of promise and indicates how, in
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      91 5 JOSSELYN: On 21st December at Brook Street Maternity Home. Ipswich, to Pat wife of Henry Josselyn. M.C.S., a son. LEWIN: To Esme, wife of Henry Leuin, at Johore Bahru Genera.l Hospital, on 9th January, a son. Gregory. Both well. RYVES: To Eileen, wife of H. T. B. Ryves. at
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      ENGAGEMENT
      82 5 WHARTON PULLING. The engagement is announced between Ronald Harry, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Wharton Upalong Mount Victoria, N.S.W. and Helen, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Pulling of "Chinbok" Cowra, N.S.W. THE ENGAGEMENT is announced of Norma Winifred Blakey, only daughter of Mr.
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      GOLDEN WEDDING
      27 5 JEREMIAH-MILES: On January Bth, 1903, at the Church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Klian Pau, Taiplng, Marcel Philip Jeremiah to Hilda Maud Miles.
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    Three study gifts
    57 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 12. Three scholaxshlps for training a s game wardens are being offered by the Fedeation Government. They are for a three-year course at the Honour School of Natural Science in Zoology. Oxford University. Applicants, who must be Federal citizens and preferably not over 23,
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    128 5 DEATHS MR. LEE CHOON ENG of 297 Clemenceau Avenue passed away peacefully on Wednesday 7th January at 6.30 a.m Funeral will take place on Sunday 11th Jan. at 10 a.m. Deeply regretted. BRAGA: On 8th January, 1953. Bertha Minna Braga nee Asmus, dearly beloved mother of Messrs. F. J. and
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    As I was Saying
    713 6  -  CYNICUS. P 1 was a journalist, the Federal Legislative Council’s only working representative of the profession, who confused the issue when the Council came to discuss at its meeting on Wednesday the report of its Standing Committee on Privileges regarding a breach of privilege bv three
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    SAILING AT SIGLAP
    8 6 Photograph by Han Hal Fong.
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1132 6  -  Stanley SI reel lliumliT oil I he leit THE Old Salt s suggestion. 1 made in softly modulated tones via litis halt-column on January 2, that the Eas Coast Malays learned the art of tlie juru selam (.who go eS underwater to listen for fish
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    ‘Varsity Malay studies start
    337 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 11, START in Malay education at the University of .Malaya will be made next academic session, «hi(h begins in October this year, the ViceChanr'Hor, Sir Sydney Caine, told a press coniVremc in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. 1 [1;. university has for some time had
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    LOW-COST HOUSING IS NEEDED
    129 7 appreciates our problems SINGAPORE. Jan. 10. united Nations will up Malaya’s housing Mbit*:"-' Xv vcutive secretary of IX Economic Commission T A>:a and th e Far East. p 6. Lokenathan. gave :is a> .ranc e yesterday when 3.i i through Singapore v Biiar.it Airways on his
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    MOTHER WAR FOR MR. WONG
    191 7 SINGAPORE. Jan. 12. I|R Nnvsreel" Wong Shiao r 5&, who has “shot” 1' w. through half-a-dozen vil and gtobal—is •-y :r. Singapore to tackle 'r Nl.G.M.’s “News of ft;* D leature. IMr .‘'one was shot in the while covering the t invasion of China. h
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    Back from UK
    42 7 II Jan. 9. B; Lo Mare. Director I ln Penang, return- Oa.' ‘i Jur v yesterday bv W ,r viii u r lu from Lon I lU r ‘‘»nain in the I IV„" C k bcfore re- 1 enang.
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    Rubbish covered
    108 7 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9. PRESIDENT of the Singapore City Council, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice. said yesterday that rubbish dumped in the Boon Keng and Petaling Road area was covered. There had been no evidence of negligence in this respect. It was possible that during the early stages of
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    Gorgon is bringing a Pal for Joey
    411 7 IPOH, Jan. 10. \l/HEN the S.S. Corgon docks in Singapore from Australia on Thursda* she will carry one of her most unusual passengers—a female kangaroo, specially sent out from Perth for “Joey a lonely three-year-old male which lost its mate about five months
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    HOMECRAFT FOR COLONY GIRLS
    146 7 SINGAPORE. Jan. 12. SINGAPORE schoolgirls will be taught more about how to manage a home and family in the new school year which begins this morning. A model flat to be built into the new girls’ secondary school, which opens today in Haig Road, will contain
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    EX-CHAMBER CHIEF GETS DAY’S GAOL
    149 7 PENANG. Jan. 8. ONG Keng Seng, a former president of the Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce, was today convicted of perjury and sentenced to one day’s imprisonment and a fine of $l,OOO. “Perjury must be punished by imprisonment but taking into consideration your standing and
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    On leave
    21 7 JOIIORE BAHRU. Jan. 11.— Major G. Evans, oilieer-ln-charge of resettlement educational classes, hi# g^ e to Britain on leave.
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    The Federation High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, on Friday visited the almost completed $3½ million Police High Training College at Kuala Kubu and commented: “This is going to be a wonderful college.” With him is the Commandant of the college, Mr. S. G. Taylor.
    46 7 The Federation High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, on Friday visited the almost completed $3½ million Police High Training College at Kuala Kubu and commented: “This is going to b e a wonderful college.” With him is the Commandant of the college, Mr. S. G. Taylor.
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    $3 MIL. TO AID POOR IN S’PORE
    293 7 $3 MIL. TO AID POOR IN S’ PORE SINGAPORE, Jan. 10. T*HE Singapore Social A Welfare Department will spend twice as much this year in public assistance as it did last year. At a Press conference yesterday the Secretary for Social Welfare. Mr T. E. Smith, said that $2,000,000 will
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    Crown agent in Colony
    49 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 11. The official Crown Agent Mr. Hugh Jones, arrived in Singapore bv Quantas-BOAC from London yesterday. He is here to to try to make purchases by the Colony Government from Britain easier. He was met at Kallang Airport by Mr. Lee Siow Motig.
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    His new duties
    37 7 IPOH, Jan. 9.—Mr. R. J. Wait, former secretary to the Deputy High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, has assumed duties as District Officer, Upper Perak. He succeeded Mr. 8.W.8. Chapman, who recently left on leave.
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    TWO INDIANS struggle with a python which the man at the right had caught in Kota Kuala Muda near Sungei Patani, in Central Kedah.
    28 8 Picture by Captain Miller.
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    2 Whitley Councils are proposed
    395 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. PLAN for Joint Whitley Councils, to settle conditions of service of Government servants, was submitted today to the Federal Legislative Council. It was proposed that there should be two councils—one for Divisions I to IV officers of the Federal Government service
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    AFTER THE 40th BIRTHDAY —THAT’S WHEN DEATH BEGINS
    81 8 KIT ALA LUMPUR, Joai. 8. DEATH —not life—begins at 40. the Federal Legislative Council was told today The Chief Secretary. Mr. D C. Watherston. said people wishing to enter death benefit societies had to produce a health certificate if they were over
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    No rabies in Selangor
    50 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 9. Selangor has been free of rabies since the end of November, Mr. C. W Wells, the acting Director of Veterinary Services, to the Straits Times today. He said that the Federationwide anti-rabies inoculation programme, which started on Jan. 2 was progressing steadily
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    DEFENCE DEPT BIGGER
    217 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan 7. rr HE FEDERATION S De- fence Department has had to expand to cope with the growing volume of research and planning work in the fight against Communist banditry, the Federal Legislative Council was told today. The Council was asked today to approve funds
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    30 more phones
    50 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9 Thirty more public telephones will be installed in Singapore markets and other popular places soon, a spokesman <>l tlie Oriental Telephone and Electric Company said yesterday. None would be installed in kampongs, as had been suggested by a City Councillor, Mr Lee Choon Eng.
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    Free schools not ‘just round corner’
    444 8 $l7B MILLION A YEAR KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. TO give every child in Malaya free primary 1 education would cost more than $178 million a year, which at present the country cannot afford, the Financial Secretary, Mr. E. Himsworth, told the Federal Legislative Council
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    Only two States escape increase
    44 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 8. The Federation Education Dopell tment today made it clear that the increased scale of school lee.s from Jan l win apply to Government and aided schools in all Settlements and States except Kelantan and Trengganu.
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    Council’s first speaker to be a Malay
    155 8 KUALA LUMPUR, J,*n. 8. TIIF first Speaker of the Federal Legislative Council will be a Malay—but he will not be appointed for at least six months. This was stated In the Council this morning h v the Chief Secretary, Mr. I) C. Watherston.
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    It will cost $190,000 to administer this law
    118 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 THE FEDERAL Legislative Council was asked todav for nearly §190,000 to administer the controversial to gistration and Licensing of Business Bill when it becomes law. Of this sum. §118,600 will be required to pay the salaries of a
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    Room for more at Morib soon
    97 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 7 THE MALAY detainees' rehabilitation centre at McW Negri Sembilan, is to be extended soon, the Legislative Council was t'- yesterday. The centre now has room 120 people but it can take r--60 more when it is said Mr. A. P.
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    New pension proposals
    74 8 SINGAPORE. 13-1- Proposals to increase pensions of retired Sin&aP 0 Government servants placed before the Lr'iLslatCouncil as soon as possible. W. c. Taylor. Financial S pc tary. told the Straits Ti*- r yesterday The new scheme will lines similar to those apP r f by the Federal
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    FORCES KILL 7 BANDITS
    231 10 KUALA LUMPUR. J an 7 □EVEN terrorists wer* 0 killed in the Feder ation yesterday. Two sur* rendered and three were wounded. Cameronians killed two r.or‘h Johore terrorists and killed three Pahang tei r >nstt A Malay Regiment killed a Johore bandit a district security squad
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    More for loan
    22 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 7. Chinese rubber dealers in Selangor today agreed to subscribe $50,000 towards the Federation security loan
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    ‘WHIRLYBIRD’ JUNGLE CRASH
    739 10 WHIRLYBIRD JUNGLE CRASH SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. ABOUT live minutes after arriving in Singapore to join in the anti-terrorist war, helicopter pilot Lieut. R. E Taylor, was picking up jungle flying experience the hard way—seeking a clearing in which to crash land. Ho had just taken off in a helicopter from
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    BUT SUFFOLKS ARE GLAD TO LEAVE
    415 11  -  ‘Goodbye— not good riddance—to Malaya By FRANCIS WONG SINGAPORE. Jan. 10. v i s t Battalion HE folk Regiment crowed the causeway tc snu ipore yesterday To the terror ridden jungles ther side they •Goodbye—but n fc c t ’rood riddance.” Suffolk* are but
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    Federation farewell to the Suffolks
    55 11 J ;n„!s of peple ij np{1 lhe route through Kuala Lumpur taken hy lh Suffoik Regiment as they marched to the railway station on their "V (;er- “l of Jan. 8. At the Fedral Secretariat, the High Commissioner, General > aid Templer, took the salute.—
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    PARENTS OPPOSE A NURSING CAREER
    172 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. (MRLS who wished to join the Government nursing 1 service had been stopped by parents in Singapore, said the Colony’s Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers, to Rotarians yesterday. “I know the idea still prevails in too many minds that
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    New judge for Kelantan
    69 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. Mr. A. W. Bellamy, First Magistrate and Criminal District Judge, Singapore, will soon br* leaving for Kota Bahru, Kelantan, as nidge of the High Court there. Mr. Bellamy, who is a member of the Colonial Legal Service, was first attached to the Itorney-Generafs
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    Suffolks get great send-off
    391 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8. WITH cneers and tears, the Federal capital said “goodbye and thank you” to the men of the 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment a? they left Kuala Lumpur railway station tonight. It was an unprecedented farewell Earlier, with bayonets hashing, the Suffolks had marched
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    Pastoral postings
    78 11 MALACCA. Jan. I.—Few changes were made in pastoral assignments at the end of the six-day annual conference of the Methodist Church today. The Rev. Athimuthu, of Kuala Lumpur, has been appointed Superintendent of the Perak district, with headquarters at Ipoh. The Rev. V. A. Subramaniam succeeds him at
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    Johore Guards
    40 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 7 Lt. Col. R. St. J. Hartley has been appointed a Home Guard battalion commandtr at Kota Tinggi and Mr J. D. C DaleGlossop Assistant State Homo Guard Officer. Segamat. with th« rank Of captain.
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    HELICOPTERS OH TIME
    60 12 SINGAPORE, Jan 11. AT 10.30 AM. yc*»erdiy, six of Malaya s 10 new Siltorsky helicopters Hew over Singapore. They were on their first training flight since they arrived last week on H.M.S. Perseus. Here they are seen pasting over the Victoria Memorial HaW and you don't have
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    MALAYAN DIVIDENDS ‘NOT TAXED TWICE’
    114 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. 1AIVIDENDS of companies operating in Malaya but registered in other countries were not taxed twice the Financial Secretary, Mr. T. E. Himsworth, told the Federal Legislative Council this morning. He was replying to questions by Mr. D. A. Mackay. Mr. Himsworth
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    SPEEDIER TRUNK CALLS PLAN
    194 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. IN a few months it will be as easy to ring Kuala Lumpur or Penang from Singapore as it is to call an office in the City from Bukit Timah. Mr D. G. Peck. Controller ot Telecommunications. Negri Sembilan and Malacca, yesterday described
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    Admiral’s visit
    40 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9 Admiral the Ho n Si r Guy Russell left Singapore yesterday in H.M.S. Alert to visit Hong Korn? and ills licet in northern waters. He Is expected- Uj return to the Colony on Tan. 31
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    Four women dead, 11 injured
    58 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 8. women rubber workers I were killed and 11 other people injured when two lorries collided at the Bth. mile Thomson Road. Singapore’ yesterday. Three women and one man. who were seriously injured were admitted to the General’ Hospital. The labourers were on
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    $5,600 collected
    22 12 Students of the University of a rnn a las L- month Elected oo.eno in Singapore lor the university’s endowment fund.
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    Border bandits on the run
    317 12 PENANG, Thursday. MALAYAN bandits on the Kedah-Siam border art retreating northward into Siam after a combing two weeks’ operation which ended vesterdav. This joint strike was carried out by Malayan and Siamese police with the assistance of troop* anfi Royal Air Force planes on both
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    Paper for the trade unions
    71 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 12. Singapore s first Chinese trade union weekly paper, the Star News or Seng Poh, was issued yesterday. Sponsored by the Chinese section ol the Singapore Trade Union Congress, the paper was introduced to workers and employers at a reception at the Badminton
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    Strike ends—and now it’s ‘get the ships out'
    230 12 Strike ends—and now it’ s get the ships out' 1 SINGAPORE Jan x HE 16,000 Singapore Nareturnal aSe strik< rs who r tl,rn to work at 7 a.m. today after being out for i(i days have been told by J, *5, in on President, Mr K. Sithiah, that they will
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    NAMES WERE MIXED—AND A CUP WINNER WAS DESTROYED
    266 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. THE most puzzled min in all Singapore is Major “Reggie” Knight, captain of the Singapore Saddle Club. By a mistake the City Veterinary department shot his horse. J’avance 1951 Selangor Gold Cup winner when they should have shot another
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    ‘Silly questions can be useful’
    271 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 13. Ki, i,,-( hancellor of the University of Malaya, Sir <vdnt > < aine, told boys of a Singapore school yes- v nave the courage to risk looking a fool by S question to which everybody else knows the r answer.” This was
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    2 years for this orchid to flower
    169 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. I took 12 years of careful Inursinc from seed for the landaileiis Scarlet Runner I a new and very rare type If orchiii —to bloom for the ■pit time about three weeks Lo. sait Mr. M. R. Hender■on Director of
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    Mr. Goh will lead S’pore orchestra
    122 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. ■HE Singapore Musical SocieH ty has appointed Mr. Goh ■on T.oe to be the leader of I Symphony Orchestra, it was last night. for the bust three years, Mr. Rijf and Mr. Goh have joint leaders of the orfstra. P e
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    More virus research
    77 15 uftorM Jan 12.-The Instiuala r ln dlcal Research at ruct l rnpur 1 I s now conssea»vh ior e laboratories for T! n r viruses. tacioi,. J era tion’s medical lost oi f !,s said today that opica’ ivmv? re^ earch is on tw i U h,
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    ‘Traders must be represented’
    161 15 By Our Market Correspondent. SINGAPORE. Jan. 11. ITNTIL Singapore is fully developed politically, trade must always be represented directly by its own elected representatives on the Singapore Legislative Council, the President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Mr. D. T. Assomull, said yesterday Mr. Assomull said
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    ‘ESTATE CONDITIONS ARE NOT BETTER’
    183 15 -Union chief’s challenge KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 8. MR. A. L. Fernando, executive officer of the 52,000 AVI strong Plantation Workers Union of Malaya today challenged the editor of Brown's Malayan Economic Review to produce “facts and figures” to prove that living conditions of rubber workers
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    Back from leave
    17 15 Mr. L. J. Peace, of Payne Davis and Company, Ipoh, has returned from leave.
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    Tin ‘may get better deal from U.S.’
    172 15 Tin may get better deal from U.S.’ SINGAPORE, Jan. 13. rplfE future of Malayan tin A had been brightened considerably by the Republican success in the recent United States elections, Mr. W. Henry LawTence Jr., Assistant Director of the Malayan Tin Bureau, told the Straits Times today. Tin producers, he
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    GOVT. GETS THE FIRST $50 MIL.
    100 15 —Second loan issue soon KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8. qnHE first $50 million Issue of the $100 million Federation security loan has been over subscribed. Subscription was closed at mid-day today. Announcing this louay, the Government said a second instalment of the loan would be
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    Chinese must ‘unite or perish’
    157 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 12 THE Chinese in Malaya are “political pariahs” and must “unite or perish,” states Mr. Tan Siew Sin, publicitr chief of the Malayan Chinese Association, in a statement on why the M.CA. is necessary. Mr Tan says: “The necessity for a strong political
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    ‘Vital that Govt, should back courts’
    158 15 JOHORE BAHRU Jan. 12. IT WAS of the utmost importance that the court should receive the support and consideration of the Government of the country. Mr Justice Storr said at the ceremonial opening of the 1953 session of the Johore Assize today, Mr Justice
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    Tribute to judge
    78 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 14 Tribute was paid yesterday in the Singapore First Criminal Court to Mr. A. W. Bellamy, who leaves shortly for Kota Bahru as Puisne Judge. Tribute was paid by Mr. H. R. Wilson on behalf' of the Bar and Mr. M. C. Boy Le. Senior
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    Red smuggling ‘ring’ in Colony
    189 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 13. 'J’HERE is a “ring” in Singapore trying to smuggle goods out of the Colony to Red China, Mr. J. A. Parker. Comptroller of Customs, said yesterday. He told a Press conference that his department recently uncovered an alleged attempt to smuggle 67
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    Malays ask Govt. for chance in business
    197 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 11. GOVERNMENT should reserve 50 per cent of all business opportunities for Malays to encourage them to participate in the economic life of the country. This was decided at a meeting of Malay businessmen, UMNO representatives, Malay school teachers and
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    AIM TO FINISH KAJANG GANG
    543 17 ttyictey food controls I KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 12. Liit remnants of the Kajang gang in South SOs'lin or are to be starved into surrender or K itii Today the State Government ordered strict W\ rationing and food control throughout all of the Kiitli Kua!a Langat
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    Riot changed his course
    115 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 11. BUT FOR THE SUN Yatsen riots which broke out in China in 1925, Canon R. K. S. Adams would have served in Canton and would never have come to Singapore. Canon Adams revealed this at a luncheon given in his honour by Old
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    Too big for Bukom
    75 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 11. THE BIGGEST TANKER ever to call at Singapore, the 21,335-ton Japanese-built Petrokure, yesterday proved it. She was too big for the oil wharves at PuLau Bukom, and had to be fuelled from the Shell tanker Fiona as she lay in the Western Anchorage.
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    The general is a good passenger
    184 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 12. THE High Commissioner. Gen. Sir Gerald Templer. has made more than 27 tours and covered 9,000 miles by road since he took office 11 months aeo. "Hf> is a very considerate passenger—and very quiet.’* said Lance Cpl. David Bowman, a
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    Gift of car for SATA
    74 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 13 Mrs. Loke Yew, yesterday presented the Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association with a five-seater black sedan. It will help greatly in the work of the clinics’s Almoner’s Department. Investigations into the financial and medical home conditions of patients will be speeded up and home
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    Big gang trapped in Johore
    596 18 SEGAMAT, Jan. 13. THE security forces in North Johore have got 1 their grips on the big terrorist gang that has been dominating the area. Using new tactics under the name “Operation Fantastic,” the police and troops are forcing the terrorists into traps. Today, at
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    SEGAMAT HAS ITS VILLAGE HERO Meet the man who doesn’t know fear
    443 18 SEGAMAT, Jan. 13. m/iEET the man who is not afraid—C horn; Peng, 52-year-old elected headman of Kampong Tengah. a new village five miles north of Segamat. His village is in the heart ot terrorist country. Segamat terrorists have
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    Five tell a story that makes peace seem near
    396 18  -  By GEOFFREY GELDARD SEGAMAT, Jan. 13. IF the live surrendered terrorists produced at the Segamat Police Circle headquarters for a Press conference today are any samples of the rank and file of the Communist gangs terrorising Malaya today, then the Emergency
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    Going to London
    32 18 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 13. Che Banon bint*? Md. Tahir will be leaving shortly for London to join her husband, CapAb(l ul T Kadir, ADC to the Sultan of Johore.
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    GOVT. WORKERS PRESENT CASE
    265 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 14 REPRESENTATIVES of locally-domiciled si nft v pore Government employees yesterday told three-man committee, headed by the Economi Adviser to the Commissioner-General, Dr. p Denham, that men in the lower income g:r«ups} Government service could not afford the min mum diet given to Bushey
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    THEY WILL LEARN TO READ IN 120 HOURS
    140 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 13. THE PENANG Adult Education Association will February start new evening courses to tea beginners how to read and write a simple languai at the end of 120 hours’ instruction. Enrolment of students these new sessions has start in
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    MCA DECIDES TO CONTEST THE ELECTIONS IN SINGAPORE
    130 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 14. IT IS only a matter of time before the Malayan Chinese Association contests the elections in Singapore, the president, Sir Cheng-lock Tan, told the Straits Times yesterday. Sir Cheng-lock, who was on a visit to the Colony, said that
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    New school is opened
    52 18 '3 KUALA LUMP O' la 0lI A new Chinese sei 1 iatf Bruang new villag 1 built with the aid ayan Chinese Ass-'ca* 1 1 declared open ye.st J. E. M Cave, M lector of Land F< tn! Mr. Cave thank- rt for its financial building
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    Camp destroyed
    26 18 KULIM, Jan. 13. Anotl bandit camp has been foe in the Kulim district yesti day It was destroyed by patrol of the Malav Regime
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    SIR JOHN WARDLAW MILNE, of Begbie, Philipps and Haley (Eastern merchants), who is at present visiting Singapore with Lady Wardlaw-Milne
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    Blood saved 2,000 in Singapore
    250 19 I SINGAPORE. Jan. 14. ■Hood transfusions helped save the lives of about r mothers, mostly Chinese, at the Colony’s Kami .m g Kerbau Maternity Hospital last year, (Mrs.) M. M. H. Gibson-Hill. medical oflicer-in-Inarof of the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service, i lie Straits Times yesterday.
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    NICHOLAS (Top), Selangor forward, being tackled as he attempts to go through the Singapore defence in the H.M.S. Malaya rugger final at Kuala Lumpur.
    66 19 Looking on anxiously in the back-ground is Selangor’s Skipper, Harry Bennett. Ken Stimpston of Selangor (left', who was outstanding in the lineouts is seen reaching for
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    New Malayan Commissioner
    65 19 RAJA Uda bin Raja Muhammad. 60-year-old Mentri Besar of Selangor, has been appointed Malayan Commissioner in Britain, it was learned in London. The Mentri swsar will take up his appointment on July 1, if the Sultan of Selangor agrees to his release him then. He will succeed
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    3,000 MORE CRASHES IN 1952
    248 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 14. ALTHOUGH there were 3.U94 more accidents in Singapore last year than in 1951 there were 11 fewer people killed The City's Traffic Police chief. Mr. A. E Minns. A,S P. regards th* overall picture as “a definite improvement.” Mr. Minns told the
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    Town Council’s first meeting
    49 19 MUAR Jan. 13. At the first meeting of the Muar Town Council yesterday, the President. Inche Mahmud bin Mohamed Shah, welcomed the newly-elected councillors and nominated officials and said he hoped they all would work together for the good of the people of the town.
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    Selangor victory in Rugby final
    1091 19  -  THE WEEK IN SPORT By EDIN PETERS SINGAPORE, Jan. 13. THE twenty-fourth H.M.S. Malaya Cup Rugby football final, between Singapore and Selangor, was expected to be a really outstanding _one. Although it failed to come up fully to expectations, it was a hard-fought game. Selangor
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    Big trading in tins, industrials
    281 20 Big trading in tins industrials SHARE MARKET J From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Jan. 12. A LARGE VOLUME of business was written in Malayan markets in the first full week of the year. Considerable sums of new money went into industrials, while profit-taking and re-investment in tins was widespread. In
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    IMPORTS OF TIN DOWN
    55 20 imports of tin and tin concentrates Into Malaya during 1952 at 7,949 tons were 2.604 tons lower than In 1951. In December. 726 tons were imported against 684 tons in November. During 1952. Siam sent Malaya 589 tons of tin concentrates and Burma 118 tons for
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    Dredge closed
    20 20 Jelapong Tin Dredging Ltd. closed down its dredge on Dec. 19, having worked out the company’s dredgeable land.
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    BUSINESS DONE
    276 20 SINGAPORE. Jan. 12. Business done in the Malayan Share Market last week included: Industrials: Consolidated Tin Smelter Ords. 22/6 to 23 3; Fraser dr Reave $2.50; Federal Dispensary $2.22 Gammon $3.83 1 <o $3.90; Hammer $3.00 to $2.95; Hongkong Bank (Colonial Register) $768/-; Wm. Jacks $3.70 to $4.00;
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    Mine Output
    11 20 Renong Tin Dredging Company’s December output was 788.99 piculs.
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    Leaders of business
    206 20 MR. I. G. SALMOND is senior director in Malaya of Maclaine, Watson Company, Limited (London) and chairman of Maclaine. Watson Company (Malaya) Ltd., and of Maclaine Stokvis (Malaya) Ltd. Mr. Salmond went out to Java in 1924 to join the Maclaine W 7 atson organization (one of
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    Rubber exports drop last year
    286 20 By Our Market Correspondent ITNITED STATES purchases of rubber fron ala U in 1952 dropped by more than 120,000 U Co i* oared with 1951, published figures reveal. The U.S. bought 234.248 tons of rubber in 1952. compared with 359.684 tons in 1951. This accounts
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    107 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 14. Singapore Chinese Proauce Exchange (noon prices): COPRA A steady tone was reported, with buyers at s42>*j, sellers $43 <{ Coconut oil; $65 sellers. Pepper was a quiet market, with small business passing: Muntok (white» was down $lO to $5lO a picul: Sarawak $5 '5
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    830 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 14. INDUSTRIALS Bny»rs Srllers Alex. Bricks. Pref 2 15 2.30 Ords 3 95 4 05 Atlas Ice 12.25 13 25 B.B. Petrol 35/- 36/B.M. Trustees 6 50 7.50 Con Tin Smelt Pr vi 21/- 2V- Ords 22/6 23/6 Eastern United 38 00 39 00 Fed.
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    Offerings fairly well absorbed
    211 20 ltul>t>«T Majpr SINGAPORE. J. io AN easier tendency >et a during the past w k rubber prices decline abou; five cents since our la.' ropor\ says Lewis and Peat’.' iark$ report. Offerings were fail., wt absorbed at the lower lev?]* but it would appear that actual
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    U.S. opens DPMA office
    80 20 THE U.S. Defence Materials Procurement Agency Singapore Regional Office, headed by Rear-Admiral Paul L Mather, has opened its headquarters in the Far East Hote.. 60 Telok Blangah Road. Singapore—Telephone No 3564 and 3506. Formerly the region a was at the U.S. Copulate General offices. The DPMA
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    JAPAN WILL TAKE MORE RUBBER
    133 20 Bv Our Market Correspui d* nt SINGAPORE, Ja M chairman of the A Chamber of Commero Hubo® Vssociation, Mr. E. C» olt0^ returned on Monday fro lap where he had discussion tn 1 Japanese rubber trade. Mr. Holiday, who was p 11 r concerned with
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