The Straits Budget, 22 January 1953

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  • 29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATION AL NEWSPAPER t. NN u*s No. 338. Thursday, January 22, 1953 Price 40-cents (Malayan) Or 1 shilling.
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    • 323 2  -  TUAN TUA Ipoh TIE Singapore Government committee on the retiring age has been forced to give a decision after three years’ hibernation. Three years to give a decision on a subject so vital to a large number of workers, a subject any body of men
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    • 277 2  -  fifty-five plus. Singapora EVEN though the Select Committee on the age of retirement took three years to submit their report they seem to have done a good job ot it. They have given good reasons for raising the age to 60 provided one is medically fit.
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    • 44 2  -  VICTIM. ei Singapore. f are refusing rents when due. After some months they demand an increase. Bona fide tenants disagree and the refusal of rent continues. Why should not Government open a department so that neople ran pay their rents monthly?
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    • 136 2  -  ARTHUR NEWARK. Singapore IN replying to the debate on the pensions increases scheme in the Federal Legislative Council, the Financial Secretary. Mr. Himsworth, Ls reported to have said that the comparisons made by Dr. Duraiswamy were not quite correct, inasmuch as “to the pension of the man
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    • 122 2  -  C. PROSPER LISTON. IN view of the fact that the ratepayers of George Town, Penang, are V being continually forced to pay higher rates, as- > sessment, electric current, x scavenging, stall fees. >> water, etc., I think it is high time that a Raters payers’ Association, repre-
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    • 138 2  -  l). HOIU KTSOxl Singapore. AN ITEM in the S atsTuJ on S.I.T. low-u hc’ J requires some exp. iati 0 nil order that your rt. rs J M get the impression at $25 per month flat re aM to be produced. No probable rent is gJ but
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    • 156 2  -  J. BALKARA SINGH Singapore. rE letter from Mr. AI Lazarous (North wJ City Councillor) in yourfl of Jan 13 has proved b« doubt that no memoranda has yet been submitted byla to the Governor. I Mr. said that I still sticks to his I police
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    • 662 2  -  i,i) lf Singapore. y°U have recently taken up in your leaders the position of both landlord and tenant in regard to the raising of the City rates to 30 per cent., and I am surprised to see that not one person out of the many Hundreds
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 41 2 Mm 'This means, of course, •th<xt only "the Yafo ar left hiding in this parr of -the jungle m k <*>J ■•VVmW: w& sm The Chief Game Warden .s concerned about the depletion and departure of Malaya's fauna in the Emergency.
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 866 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 15. No .onf outside Russia and countries is going believe the fantastic story inch Moscow now tells of the murder" of Zhdanov and lrfforbakov. Nine of the diet’s leading doctors have w arrested, and are stated have confessed their memTship of terrorist groups and
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    • 311 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 15 A Singapore Government statement yesterday confirmed a Sunday Times’ report that an increase in the number of immigrants from India has aroused some concern. In November and December a total of 566 Indian immigrants, newly arrived from India, registered at the Government Labour Ex-
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    • 658 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 16. Communist China's highest administrative organisation has held one of its very rare meetings. Yesterday Peking reported that the Central Pe* pies' Government Council lias approved a recent decision of a committee of the Peoples’ Political Consultative Conference convening some time this year
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    • 319 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 16. The suggestion by some business “experts” that one method of minimising the burden of the Federation’s new business licensing and registration fee is to reduce the number of .associates in the business will delight the Inland Revenue Department. If only one oartner is registered,
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    • 261 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 16. American aid for Indonesia, and the recent acceptance by the Indonesian Government of a long-standing invitation to participate in the Commonwealth’s Colombo Plan, do not denote any change in that country’s foreign policy. There are no strings to either the British or the American
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    • 614 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 17. Several thousand persons are held prisoner in Malaya under the Emergency Regulations. There is not the least doubt that the continued detention of nearly all of them is necessary for the defence of the State. The power which both Malayan Governments have to
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    • 284 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 17. Despite embargoes, controls and alarms, Hongkong continues to prosper. Instead of the small deficit for which the Colony budgetted, the Financial Secretary reports a surplus of $4O million. It is a remarkable result, due partly to the maintenance of trade at an unoxnectcdly high
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    • 331 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 17 Two years ago part of the village of Sclising, in the Pasir Puteh district of Kelantan, was razed by fire. The victims have since been living in temporary attap huts, and have not been doing very well. The Rural and Industrial Development Authority
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    • 558 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 19. Good and bad were well mixc*d at the Asian Socialist Conference at Rangoon. The resolution by which the conference set up a separate organisation for Asia was typical perhaps of the whole. The internationalists at Rangoon, and there were many of them, were
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    • 265 4 —Straits Times, Jan 19 A very temporary but welcome visitor to Singapore today is the Dutch destroyer Piet Hein, which has just completed nine months’ operational duty in Korean waters. The Piet Hein has served under the command of British and American admirals on both the East and
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    • 348 4 a; i »rii utii mu miv* —Straits Times, Jan -0 Neither Mr. Averell Harr;, man’s report, nor official com. ment from Colombo, seems tc tell the whole story of Ceylon) rubber deal with Communis; China. Mr. Harriman, the retiring administrator ot A*, crican foreign aid, has expressed
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  • 42 4 Malayan donations King* George Vr Memor'al Fund incitin'’ from Kamunt'ng Tin L) ing Co. Ltd.; £lOO from V l’am Jacks (Maraya> K l ofl £5O from Champion Ltd.. Singapore: 01 Ltd. Trading Co. (Malaya- ano Raffles Girls’ Singapore.
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  • 1356 5  -  Taqjong Karang, model for Malaya: fhe of her side of fhe picture By MOHD. SALLEH bin DAUD 4 r iOUGH Tanjong A Kui ang has been delfpi0jv.'(i irom a swampy v l land on the Selangor coast into one of /a’s finest &*ana,‘ies everything in this
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  • 442 5  -  KENNETH HILBORNE. Singapore. RENGAM ROAD Singapore. \|R Eric MitcheU has rightly announced “The Plantt's Wife” as rubbish. However, is incomparable rubbish incf there are many films *nailocj. of course, by the crii ;c W’.’ch are equally noniense but which we accept jecau if* w
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  • PERSONAL
    • 64 5 PHILLIPS Henrietta Estate. To Basil and Jean, a daughter. MITCHELL: On 15th January, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, Singapore. to Vicki (nee Nation), wife of W. S. Mitchell, a son. NELSON: On 19th Jan., 1953, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, to Fay, wife of John A. Nelson, a daughter. Anne Elizabeth.
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    • 113 5 McELLIGOTT PORTER: The engagement is announced of Beryl, 2nd daughter of Mr. Sc Mrs. WJ. Porter, North Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, to Philip (Flight Lieutenant R A F.), 2nd son of Mr. Sc Mrs. J.F. McElligott. Cork, Eire. THE engagement is announced of Leila Rachel, younger daughter of Captain and
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    • 38 5 CASSIDY-LEE: On 17th January, at Christ Church, Malacca, by The Rev. Leslie Wilson, Hugh John Alexander, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Cassidy, to Patricia Margretta, twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs R. W. Lee.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
  • 96 5 DEATHS HERTSLET, James Peter. "Gone Home” peacefully on 12/1/53. A First Class Scout. BABY EDWARD AARSON. son of John and Mary Aaxson, at the Green Hill Nursing Home, 16th January, 1953. The funeral will take place at Bidadari Cemetery, at 5 p.m. today. With the deepest regrets. KINGDON: At Batu
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  • 6 6 Photograph by Sunny Giam.
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  • 704 6  -  CYNIOUS SINGAPORE, Jan. 18. IT is not likely that in Singapore, or anywhere else, another Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jones will be born this year. Perhaps it is just as unlikely that Singapore’s youngest Jones will ever be known to his friends as other than Frank. Elizabeth
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  • 1162 6  -  Stanley Street Submariner liriL are now netting to the root of the juru selam business, for if the correspondent whom we quoted on Monday was speaking ex cathedra today’s correspondent is speaking dc profundis. He is Mr. Noel Rees, that great lover and student of
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  • 153 8 SINGAPORE Jan. 15. IT WAS rehearsal day yesterday at the Capitol Restaurant, Singapore, for the “Sun-Kissed Cuties,” eight Australian girls who have come to dance here. Rut it was not the young men who caught the
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  • 162 8 KIJALA LUMPUR, Jan. 14. TIE foundations of local government in the Federation have been laid and the structure should be completed in the next two or three years/’ Mr. H. Bedale, adviser on local government, told the Straits Times today. Mr. Bodale, who camp to
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  • 237 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15. ITNDER the peace treaty, Japan was not hound to make reparations to any country in cash or in kind but only in services, such as salvaging and processing, Mr. E. Wajima, director of the Asian Affairs Bureau of the Tokyo
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  • 27 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15. The C-in-C. Far East Air Force, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Alfred Sanderson, returned to Singapore yesterday after a three-day visit to Saigon.
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  • 147 8 This time the mental hospital SINGAPORE. Jan. 15. ANOTHER strike is threatened in Singapore—this time by the 447 members of the Singapore Mental Hospital Uniformed Staff Union. The union at a meeting on Tuesday evening decided to take a strike baillot on Jan 30 if its
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  • 51 8 PENANG, Jan. 15 Mrs. C. M. J. Kirke. wife of Penang’s Chief Police Officer, will act as director of the Settlement branch of the British Red Cross Society when the present director, Mrs. T. c. Spenser-Wilkinson, wife of the Penang puisne judge, goes on six months’ leave in
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  • 142 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 15. OINGAPOI'E people are becoming less afraid of robbers. In the first two weeks of 1953, members of the public have caught four criminals. Mr. .1. M Maclean, Assistant Commissioner C.1.D., said yesterday: “If people continue to show ibis sort of spirit
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  • 107 8 SINGAPORE, Jan 15. t'OUR Very Important Anj. •T mats arrived in Singapore from Australia yesterday ii a special “cabin” in the liner Nieuw Holland. The cabin was a large wooden crate. The animals were four young pedigree Suamea goats worth $2,000. bound for Sarawak There
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  • 116 8 JOHORE BAHRU Jan. 14 THE REGENT of Johore. Tengku Mahkota. today welcomed the formation o' the Johore Bahru Town Council which met for the first time, when he opened the council. He said he was glad that town councils had been formed in Johore
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  • 126 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. THE CHAIRMAN of the Bor neo Co. Ltd., Mr C. Akers, believes in seeing himself the condition of markets in which his coinp- > is operating. t in A chartered accoun nu the City of London, Mr AK u e ;1 Is now in Bangkok
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  • 165 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 15. Ey t i AirNlV Statistics lor first two weeks of the :.t i year confirm the I t made recently in L the High Comr...". Gen. Sir Gerald Tt-rapa r. that the security forces are winning the i ir.” Up t
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  • 41 9 .—Reuter. M CHINO, Jan. 16. Governor of Sarawak, •nv Abell, today state of emergency n the First DiviSarawak on Aug. 8 ;J;“ 1 tnergency was de- ‘'lowing the murder n nm and the woundrs by a bandit 1 Kuching.—Reuter.
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  • 40 9 t' 1 UMPt-R. Jan. 14. i; rubber tappers 5' i Il "h Commissioner C Cteralcl Temple;*, at -sc* today. i C'v 1,s are undergoing h'] organised hv J drtv. This is the h fur Indian worke oLatt-
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  • 242 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15. f pHE wind swept gently across a hill in Singapore yesterday morning as the 1st Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment met to honour some of their fallen comrades. At Kranji War Cemetery, resting place of the brave, lie 171 men of the
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  • 37 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 15.—A patrol ci the 1st Cameronians ambushed and killed a terrorist itt the Labis area of Johore yesterday afternoon. His rille was raptured. Another terrorist who was with him escaped.
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  • 210 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15. TIIE Singapore Improvement Trust has started on 1953*8 $19,500,000 low-cost housing programme, Mr. Stanley Woolmer, the trust’s chief architect, told the Straits Times yesterday. This year’s programme is for 2,657 housing units and 24 shops. Work on three blocks of seven-storey flats
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  • 52 9 TAIPING, Jan 14.—An Indian motorist, whose car broke cown in Bukit Berapit, called on the police there, after failing to g3t anyone to repair the vehicle. The police telephone 1 their colleagues hi Taiping who sem up their own motor mechanic to do the repairs free
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  • 251 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 15. THE French Consul-General in Singapore, M. M. C. Guibaut, yesterday presented the Cross of the Legion of Honour to a Malayan planter. Mr. H. A. Campbell—the first Briton in Malaya to receive the award since cue end of the war. Mr.
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  • 224 9 1 SINGAPORE. Jan. 15. ’HERE is a mystery in Singapore’s Kampong Cliia Hen if, the little village off Thomson Road where living conditions have been called appalling. Almost overnight, five godown-like structures of wood and attap have sprung up in the village, each
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  • 106 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 16. PERMISSION to form a Sir gaporc branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society will be sought shortly from the parent body in London. This was decided at a meeting of local aviation enthusiasts at Shell House, Collyer Quay, last night. Group Captain W.
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  • 87 10 MR. N. TAKES A SIP—THEN SAYS AH, SO, SO SORRY’ SINGAPORE. Jan. 15. was served at the Press conference at the Japanese ConsulateGeneral yesterday but only on a second attempt. On the (irst filling of their wine glasses, pressmen sipped anil found they had been served with warm water. Politely,
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  • 167 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15. THE fingerprints of a man found guilty in a ease of causing hurt were stated in a Singapore court to be the same as those of a man convicted 22 years ago in Kuala Lumpur on a charge of murder.
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  • 421 10 TEMPLER SAYS: SHOW GUTS’ KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 14. <JIK GERALD TEMPLER today demanded a greater show of “guts” from people who have been helping the bandits. In King’s House, Kuala Lumpur, the High Commissioner received 11 sealed boxes containing Information from the people of the villages and met seven of
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  • 63 10 ALOR STAR. Jan. If). Eighteen women have been enrolled as organisers for the North Kedah Territorial Association of the Women’s Institute. The Alor Star institute has rffieudy been started by Che Don bin to Abdul Ra/.ak, Mrs. T. W. Cubitt and Che Puteh, while four more Institutes
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  • 60 10 r FHE High Commissioner, Sir A Gerald Templer, on Jan. If); visited an old Malay house I ai Bukit Piatu, Malacca, and said: “This is the nicest Malay house I have seen anywhere.” The house is owned by Inchoi Sulaiman bin Abdullah, hie he Sulaiman
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  • 62 10 THE HIGH COMMISSIONER opens the sealed boxes containing information from pea pie of three villages at King's House. “SHOW SOME GUTS,” General Sir Gerald Templer tells the headman from the Pauh new village in Perlis. The inhabitants of this village
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  • 184 10 Malays are told —you must help yourselves PENANG, Jan. 14. T'HE Penang Malay newsA paper Warta Negara today urged Malays not to depend too much on Government to improve their lot. “If Malays wish to remain the pet sons of Government, they will have a rude awakening °ne day and
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  • 239 10 K. LUMPUR, Jan 14 RETIRING benefits' L KX> teachers in aide d En». lish schools in the' Fedei ration and Singapore are to be improved, an official communique annoumfd. Following representation from teachers and manage, ments, a joint committee aj appointed by the two governments
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  • 170 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15 THE BISHOP of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. Henry Wolf* Baines, yesterday conducted memorial service in St. Andrew’s Cathedral for th* Bishop of Lichfield, the Rt Rev. Edward Sydney Woods, who died at his home h Lichfield on Sunday. The late Bishop
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  • 152 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. i NEW POLICY to be adopteri by British information in the Far East, eciaily in the fight against t' .nmunism. Is believed to been discussed at an ant conference at nix Park, headquarters of < -v■ Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, in Singapore.
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  • 53 11 A LUMPUR. Jan. 15. "i:ss onor General lor t s t Asia Mr Malcolm 1 will bo the guest tlio Kuala Lumpur ;1 'h.v “party-night” A 'n Hall on Jan. 23 Lng will bo open and their friends. ,n will bo bv tickets °v
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  • 112 11 THE MENTRI BESAR OF PERAK reading the congratulatory address on behalf of the Rajas, chiefs and oflicers of the State administration to t he Sultan of Perak on Jan. 15, in Ipoh, when the Sultan celebrated his 63rd. birthday. A CHIEF PAYS HOMAGE THE RAJA KIT 1HL
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  • 370 11 Chiefs homage to Perak’s Sultan IPOH, Jan. 15. gRExYKING with time-honoured tradition, the Sultan of Perak today celebrated his 63rd birthday in Ipoh in public instead of at the palace at Kuala Kangsar. Highlight of the ceremonies, which were held on the town padang and seen by 500 guests and
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  • 95 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15. SINGAPORE’S newly appointed Government full-time negotiator, Mr. J. C. Griffiths, had his first meeting with a Government trade union on Monday. Representatives of the Department of Civil Aviation Workers’ Union met Mr. Griffiths and had preliminary discussions Another meeting will take place
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  • 306 11 IPOH. Jan. 15. BIRTHDAY honours were conferred this morning by the Sultan of Perak on the occasion of his 63rd birthday in: Justices of the Peace: Tuan Hajl Wan Mohamed Razalli bin Wan Mohamed l a, Orang Kaya Mentri Puduka Tuan, Perak; Inche Nasaruddin
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  • 129 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 16. QN a tour of South-East Asia, the director of the colonies department, British Council, Mr. C. H. Wilmot, is due to arrive in Singapore on Feb. 1 for a five-day visit. The council states that he is interested in local government, domestic
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  • 118 12 SEREMBAN Jan. 15. AN APPEAL to tin* people of Tin Beranang new village, on the Selan-gor-Negri Sembilan border, to co-operate with Government and to help the military was made yesterday by Mr. Lim Kim, the headman. lie was speaking at a ceremony at the
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  • 191 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. FOURTEEN THOUSAND locally-domiciled r Singapore Government employees will know in the next few days whether they will be granted family allowances. The Benham committee, appointed by the Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, to inquire into the adequacy of emoluments drawn by
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  • 27 12 TELUK ANSON. Jan. 17 —Mr A W V. Kenyon has assumed duties as Colonisation Officer. Lower Perak Ho is being stationed at Teluk Anson.
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  • 151 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 10. They lirst met on the Maetsuycker Hirer months ago. Miss Myra Hume, a nurse at the Military Hospital near Perth, had derided to take a busman’s holiday by joining the Maetsuyekrr as a ste wardens. Mr. Robin Morris,
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  • 95 12 THE MAN WHO DOESN’T KNOW FEAR Mr Chong Peng, headman of Kampong Tcngah. Segamat. who is “Bandit Enemy No. 1” in Johore. Because lie has condemned them publicly, and has worked with the security
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  • 132 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 16. SIR JOHN WARDLAW-MILNE chairman of Begbie. Philips and Haley, Ltd., merchants of Bombay and Colombo. has arrived in Singapore and will remain until Jan 25. Sir John, who has already visited Penang and Kuching, is contacting the local agents of
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  • 83 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 16.—A woman, Koon Foo, who summoned two sisters for allegedly assaulting her on Aug. 10. received $25 compensation in the Second Magistrate’s Court today. Koon said that the defendants, Leong Say Mooi and Lau Mooi, accused he r husband of cheating Leongs niece.
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  • 29 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 16:Mr J D. Hodgkinson, British Adviser, Johore. has accented the invitation of the Johore B.ahi u Rotary Club to be an honorary member.
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  • 243 12 SINGAPORE. Jar 17 BATTERED Dutch coastal steamer has just returned to Sin;.- .pore from Bangkok aftvr a nightmare 12-day jovi: ney during which she was buffetted by momtrous seas and whipped > hurricane-force winds. The ship is the KPM jb. ter Bagan. 1.331 tons, wtu'n *he
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  • 77 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. IT. 'IfORE job seekers used tnt Singapore Employni n’ Exchange to get wx>rk in -vthan ever before Mr. 1 r Haskins. Assistant Coir.ms* sloner for Labour told Straits Times yesterday. They and employers Uekuic for workers came not onlv from Singapore but also r
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  • 36 12 SEREMBAN, Jan. 16: TV planters from Port D. n Rembau and the coast tricts met at the Negri n bilan police headquart* rs terday for a routine ret:« once on the security i J
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  • 169 12 M SINGAPORE, Jan. IG. R- R. .1. Hollis-Ree, senior executive engineer of the Singapore Public Works Department. watched carefully yesterday as a KI.M ConstelI« 1 1ioii taxied across Kallanir airport. But Mr. Mollis-Bee’s main interest was in the effect that the huge airliner was
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  • 207 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 17. thf. t Brigand Squadron 1 \.wh. two and a half u'.-ht the Communist Malaya, will 1.Singapore. s ur:v tl in Malaya in .A ::u*v the squadron has 03 iperational sortiroppitig more than ,S)«) Mil: of bombs. Ma. o.ai A C Sanderson. Fai
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  • 19 13 AN ARTIST S IMPRESSION of the new low-cost seven-storey Singapore Improvement Trust flats which are being in Outram Road.
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    31 13 "r* *™™eVA8AN is «iuu i, Kua, a Lumpur after 1,1 ii>i ,7,. ,lt University h| Jli(l v I. Altcr short h f take up a post m Perth.
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  • 236 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 16. DAMAGE to the two Dutch liners. Oranje and Willem Ruys which crashed into one another in the Red Sea last week, is estimated at between SI,609,900 and 82,415,000. These figures were given in an Amsterdam report yesterday. The Oranie. steaming straight
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  • 46 13 PENANG, Jan. 16.—An orchid expert from Fiance, Monsieur Marcel Lecouple, has given a challenge cup for competition in the Penang Gardening Society’s annual exhibition to be held on March 22. The contest in the orchids section will be divided to nine classes.
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  • 74 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19. In the iasi tnret* months ot 1952, the Malayan War Damage Commission paid out more than $29,000,000 to 12,877 claimants. Of this, $4,214,810 went to tin claims; $9,641,313 to rubber; $3,342,649 to private chattels; $902,000 to seizure and $11,779,790 to other claimants.
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  • 235 13 IPOH, Jan. 16. JHE fear that Communist terrorists once exercised over the labour forces in Perak is being steadily diminished and the relationship between Government officials and labourers has >hown a marked improvement. This was told to the Straits Times today by Mr. R. C.
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  • 77 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19. rpHE Singapore Trade Union A Congress is to ask the Government to nominate a trade unionist to the Singapore delegation to the ECAFE conference to be held at Bandoeng. Indonesia. Tile secretary of the T.U.C., Mr. Chew Seng, told the Straits
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  • 194 13 Govt, motion nearly lost JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 14. AT THE FIRST meeting today of the newly-elected Johore Bahru Town Council, the president, Dato Sheikh Abu Bak&r. used the veto to save a Government motion from defeat This followed an amendment, to the Government motion for
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  • 74 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 18. THE Federation Prisons Department plans a uniform system of reformative training for women prisoners, the Commissioner of Prisons, Mr. O. V. Garratt, told the Straits Times today. To carry out this scheme a separate central prison for all long-term women prisoners
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  • 35 13 PARIT BUNTAR. Jan. Hi. Two anti-rabies vaccination teams have just completed a tour of Krian district. They dealt with 1.047 dogs Dogs which were.not vaccinated have now ordered to be destroyed.
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  • 176 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 16. milE State and the Rural and Industrial Development Authority are considering a $400,000 project to rebuild Kampong Selising, Kelantan, burned down two years ago. Plans for 44 shophouses in the village have been discussed by the chairman of KIDA, Dato
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  • 284 14 PENANG, Saturday fHIRTY five Permatang Tinggi villagers out of a total of 66 sent to a detention camp by the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, last August, have been set free after pledging to be loyal citizens in future. Their release followed a petition
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  • 28 14 TAIPING Sun. A Malay school w T as opened at the new village in Pokok Asam on Friday A tea party was held at the opening
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  • 172 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. ANEW song was heard in Singapore last night when Tanglin Club members joined their guests, the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, in an unofficial regimental air, “Liew Kon Kim’’ —the elusive bearded bandit whom the soldiers finally killed. The occasion was the
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  • 36 14 Ninety-five people gave blood to the Singapore Blood Bank last week. Fourteen were from the immigration Department 12 from < B.O.D., Alexandra and five from 75 Co. R.A.SC Ayer Raja Road.
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  • 111 14 S’ PORE CAFE SINGER WINS U.K. PRAISE SINGAPORE. Jan. 16. \|ISS LIM LEE, 22-year-old Singapore cafe singer. who worked and saved in order to continue her musical studies in London, has been accepted as a student at the Royal Academy of Music. Yesterday, Mr. A. J Thomas, the British Council
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  • 44 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 16.— Expenses in connection with the training of home guards in Johore so far are $150,485. Of this, the training allowance to home guards has absorbed $85,552. The balance has been spent cn building training centres, uniforms and equipment.
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  • 287 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan ig THIS is the story of Mr T K P Dawson. Mr. Dawson is president of the Government Temporary Offi. cers* Association And as their leader, ne has led the fight for security 0 f service for the Federation’* 4,000
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  • 233 15 PENANG, Jan. 19. rpHREE hundred new 1 literates, most of them cornea, were told today: i.yju nre pioneers, go jack i n y°ur villages and each others what you iave learnt. ii ah Joo Seang, presiie n t o! the Adult Education n. said
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  • 127 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 18. THE SATURDAY morning crowds in Singapore thought it was suicide. Th.y stopped their cars, climbed off their bicycles and gaped up (below) at the roof of the Capitol Theatre. There beside the crowning cupola, 100 feet abovo the ground, were a European and a
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  • 35 15 JO,I RE BAHRU, Jan. 15 n K Noah bin Omar lohr, appointed to the iiiccA, ~f‘ x £s utive Council. He 3a v J Dato Abdullah bin 11 h# *ias resigned owing to
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  • 73 15 KLANG, Jan. 16. GOVERNMENT will spend about Sl5 million a year on Home Guards, Maj.-Gen. E. B. De Fonblanque, Inspec-tor-General of Home Guards, said today. There will soon be a big change in the extent of Government aid. he told a section of Klang Home
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  • 344 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 19. 'J’HE 8,000-strong Army Civil Service Union yesterday threatened a “break in the industrial peace” with the War Department in Singapore. The president of the union, Mr. S. T. V. Lingam, told the Straits Times that there was deadlock between the union and
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  • 42 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. Mr. Y. F. Chen, Darrister-at-law, Middle Temple, was admitted to the Singapore Bar by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, yesterday. Mr. C. F. J. Ess appeared in support of the petition for admission
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  • 229 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 18 A MALAYAN Railway chargemaji stood on the Singapore wharves yesterday and waved to his 12-year-old daughter. She was one or hundreds oh the Charon, loaded with Malayan children returning to Australian schools Nandawathi Nanayakkara of Ipoh was leaving her parents for time. Mr.
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  • 168 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 16. THE Queen has approved the award of the .Military Medal to Sgt. Bachandoj Limbu, of the Ist Battalion, 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles, for bravery on Oct. 2i last year. At dusk that day a little con* voy of
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  • 147 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 17. CIVE hundred yards from a road where the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer and Lady Templer had passed barely an hour before, one of Malacca's top Communist terrorists was yesterday killed by security forces. He was Choong Nam Wah, commander of
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  • 29 16 PENANG. Jan. 19.—Penang and Province Wellesley collections for the Madras State Cyclone Relief Fund totalled $5,595 today, according to the 15th list issued by the committee.
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  • 80 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. rREE Singapore aided school teachers have been offered scholarships for higher studies by the Department of Education. They are Miss Tan Sock Kern of Singapore Chinese Girls School, Mr. John Tseng, of St. Joseph’s Institution, and Mr. Benjamin Khoo of Anglo-Chinese School. Miss
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  • 61 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. Air Marshal A. C. Sanderson, C-in-C, Far East Air Force, leaves Changi tomorrow for Clark air base, Philippines, on a two-day visit where he will be the guest of Gen. J. W. Sessums, Commanding General, 13th United States Air Force. This is a return
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  • 176 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. f PWO church services—one at St. Andrew’s Cathedral 1 and the other at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd—were held in honour of the ceremonial opening of the first Singapore Assizes for the current year. The Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley attended the
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  • 42 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 19. The final educational course for Chinese leaders from new villages in Johore began In Johore Bahru today. Mr. H. G. M. Horsley, secretary for Chinese Affairs, Johore gave a talk to the men.
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  • 21 16 PENANG, Jan. 19.—The Federation Government has allocated an additional $60,000 to improve the quarantine camp in Pulau Jerejak.
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  • 139 16 LONDON, Jan. If). JjMGlIT Grenadier Guardsmen, in red ceremonial uniforms, formed a guard of honour when Miss l T na Slim, 22-year-old daughter of the new GovernorGeneral of Australia, married Captain Peter Nigel Stewart Frazer, of the Grenacfier rands. The couple met six months
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  • 299 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 19. VfALAY circles in Kuala Lumpur —the cornel rn oners as well as the aristocrats —today disagreed with the description that “Malay aristocrats will never laugh and seldom even smile in public, for all show of emotion to
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  • 210 16 A NEW THEATRE group has been formed in Singapore Mr. Donald Davies on Friday afternoon registered The Island Players as a theatrical enterprise. He is in partnership with another theatre enthusiast who wishes to remain anonymous. The object of the group is to present good amateur
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  • 208 18 MR. R. JOHNSON. Managing Director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., (Malaya) Ltd., which markets all the manufactured products of the Dunlop Group in Singapore, the Federation of Malaya, Siam, British North Borneo and Sarawak, first came to Singapore in 1932. Born and educated at Southport,
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  • 672 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. STRAINS of “The Kajang Gang”—the SufToIks own Malayan war-song—drifted across the water as the huge troopship Georgic pulled away from Singapore yesterday with the famous “bandit killers” on board. The SufToIks’ song about the terrorists is not politely expressed so the men left the
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  • 100 18 1 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21 'HE BRISTOL Aircraft Company is flying one of its Ave-seater, Alvls-engined Svcamore helicopters to Malavu the hold of a Bristol “freighter,” one of the largest cargo planes in the world. News agency messages state that the freighter, with the dismantled
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  • 188 18 SINGAPORE, Jan 21 Americans are become, increasingly aware 0 f thS Importance of Malava aS the change in the ad ministry tion will not affect their gro* ing interest, the US. Consul’ General in Singapore, Mr c F. Baldwin, said on his return from the
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  • 99 18 PENANG Jan.2o rriHIRTY villagers from ProX vlnce Wellesley are noi attending a six-day civic* course In Penang After an introductory tail by Mr K. J. Henderson .1m Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and a lunch at the Rucbe: Trade Association, the visitors saw a cinema show
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  • 79 18 IPOH, Jan. 20—The Peril Government Clerical Servi" ci Union has selected its hoiW' ary general secretary. Teh Chin Kee, to attend i four-month course on traoj unionism at the Trade Unioa College in Calcutta. Mr. Teh, who is attached 1 the financial branch of tn Perak
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  • 140 18 0 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. NF OF the few civilians— Servicemen’s wives and families apart—who turned up to say goodbye to the Suffolks yesterday was a Pakistani and his two prettv sisters. They were laden with a carload of about 100 garlands of flowers for their friends,
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    86 19 MR W. E. COATES, retiring Strait- District Manager of Cable 1 Wireless Ltd., was educated in Zealand. He entered the cable servire in I914, serving with the iaslern Extension Australia and China Telegraph Co. in New Zealand until 1920 when he *as selected for cable electrician's duties at the
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  • 135 19 PENANG, Jan. 20. ■THE president ol the PenV anu UMNO. Inche S. M. R ainu: Abidin, today praised R at 0nn bin Jaa’far, leader R the :mp, as the “architect .Federation of Malaya.'’ He 1S done and is doing a R r h eat t>al
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  • 32 19 BabaiV 10N Jan 20.—The Rig*. s first En ghsh lanRrth newspaper in at f imn Wl11 begi n pubH Mr ’>?I?i ro A w The editor laid a. Stephens
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  • 108 19 SEVEN Australian-bred racehorses for Singapore and Penang owners arrived in Singapore in the Nieuw Holland from Australia on Jan. 15. Of them, Lady Pollane. Farnley, Banker Boy and Royal Piper are for Penang trainer Jimmy Martin. The others, Admission, Spider King and Wonder Gold, are for
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  • 346 19 ‘Services must not be disrupted SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. POVERNMENT servants have a duty to the public, which should have a guarantee that essential services are not threatened without very good cause, Mr. J. G. Griffiths, Assistant Secretary (negotiations), said yesterday. He gave a history of the dispute between the Singapore
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  • 69 19 MR. A. H. STONEHAM, Penang’s Economic Officer, who is to attend the ECAFE talks in Indonesia, first came to Malaya in 1934 and was connected with the motor industry. After serving with the Ajr Ministry during the war. he was appointed Assistant U.K. Trade Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur
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  • 1096 19  -  THE WEEK IN SPORT] By EDIN PETERS SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. 'J’HANKS to a captain’s game played by the English International, Frank Reynolds, Singapore came out with flying colours in the Malayan Hockey Council’s southern quadrangular meeting played at Malacca. Singapore will meet the northern finalists
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  • 355 20 Another full week good turnover SHARE MARKET I From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Jan. 19. YfALAYAN MARKETS enjoyed another full .week v* with a considerable turnover in the Industrial and Tin sections where selective buying carried many counters higher. Rubbers afforded little and loans practically no business. Fair investments were
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  • 110 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. Singapore Chinrsc Produce Exchange (noon prices):— Copra was reported quiet at $4O a picul f.o.b. buyers and $4l sellers. Coconut oil: sellers $62 1 Pepper: Quiet market with small business passing M’/ntok (white) $5lO sellers; Sarawak $505 (up sl r >; Lampong (black) $405
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  • 75 20 MESSRS. Neill and Bell announce the following tin ore outputs for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 1952. Ayer Hitam Tin Dredging Ltd., 4,805 picuLs; Puket Tin Dredging Ltd.. 2,209 piculs; Tronoh Mines Ltd. (3 dredges), 4.717 piculs; Southern Tronoh Tin Dredging Ltd. (2 dredges), 3,045 piculs; Kepong Dredging
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  • 40 20 Kempas Ltd. produced 405.500 lbs. of rubber in November and 411.200 lbs in December and Radella Rubber Est.-.tes Lid. produced 17,000 lbs. in November and 17,600 lbs. in December. Sungei Tukang Rubber Company’s December crop totalled 56.000 lbs.
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  • 341 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 19. BUSINESS done in the Malayan Share Ma-ket last week included: Industrials. Consolidated Tin Smelter Ord. 22 10 V, to 22 6. Federal Dispensary $2.22Me to $2.27 a. Fraser Neave Ord. $2.50 to $2 55, Hammer $2.85 to $2.924. Hongkong Bank Colonial Register $770. London Register
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  • 21 20 Ou put of ore by Idris Hydraulic Tin Ltd. for the quarter ending Dec. 31. 1952, totalled 78 tons.
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  • 265 20 Slump in parts of Perak Johore KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 20. A TRADE depression has hit parts oi 1'er; and Johore, according to a statement t Federal Labour Department issued today. The statement says that in these areas hundre of people are out of work. But, it adds, in oth parts
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  • 179 20 PROFIT for the year for the Malaka Plnda Rubber Estates Ltd. fell to $202,984 from last year's figure of $446,548 reflecting the drop in the rubber price. The chairman, Dato Sir Chenglock Tan. says that although the price of the company’s rubber had fallen, wages which
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  • 909 20 SINGAPORE. Jan. 21. 1ND1STK1ALN Buyer* StUwi Alex Bricks Pref 2.15 2 30 Orfl.n 3 95 4 05 Atlas Ice 12.25 13 25 B B Petrol 35/6 38/BM Trustees 6 50 2 60 Con. Tin Smelt Pre* 21/- 2*/Urds 22/9 23/3 Eastern United 38 00 39 00 Fed.
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  • 237 20 ltubborMaJ^t SINGAPORE, Jan n A GOOD deal of activity t been seen this week oi sagging rubber market, wh however, has been stimula at times by the covering short positions and some trs buying, says Lewis and Pei weekly report. There has been considera ,'liquidation of
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  • 78 20 r pHE directors of the Perak R A Hydro-Electric Power Comp announce that future dividends the 5 per cent. Cumulative Pre ence capital will be payable n yearly In equal instalments January 31 and July 31 in e year, Instead of on April 1 October 1. The
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  • 69 20 H.K. Bank’s dividend following cable was yesterday by the H l: and Shanghai Banking Co. p in Singapore from the.! office: Subject to audit, Hongk < Shanghai Banking C° final dividend for the be £3 per share, free of H> Corporation Profits Tax off bank premises $3,0 )1 ried forward
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  • 19 20 The following diU announced last wee*:— t fin Benta Rubber, 20 p r: less per cent tax.
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