The Straits Budget, 19 February 1953

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    29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER L nv Series No. 342. Thursday, February 19, 1953 Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      Operation Service is in force here
      240 2  -  MATAMATAPHIL. Singapore. IN reply to “Ah Hong” (Feb. 12), I should like to put in a word for the (< much maligned police of'' >> this Colony. As far as my r' experience goes, “Opera- tion Service” has been in << force in Singapore
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      ECAFE and a new light in Asia
      843 2  -  YAP PHENG GECK. Singapore. SALVAGE. Singapore. I DEEPLY deplore the attitude of the Straits Times towards ECAFE, as evidenced by its editorial of Feb. 16. I sadly recall the time when the Malayan delegation to the first Asian Regional Conference of the International
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      U.K. POLICY TO ‘FREE CHINA’
      245 2  -  PAHANG CHINESE. JVIentakab. WILL you, or any of your readers, let me know why the British Government is still alarmed by the decision to let “Free China” attack the Communist mainland? Whv were the British net alarmed when the Communists drove the Chiang Kai-shek regime
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      The state of Kallang Airport
      361 2  -  PE (IASI'S. Singapore. AS an individual who h, often reason to visit pass through KaiLng S port there seem.-, to me be a lack of foresight ai initiative shown by g Government authorities 1 what are surely the ua public facilities at such place. I
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      THE GELAMAT BRIDGE
      105 2  -  iii-{AI “USEN- Kelantan IN your report of *|JL Commissioner’s r -nt 1 M of Kelantan you stat J 13 t walked across the ■•Oelafl*® Bridge. It is no exc t0 L it was spelt that w o' JJ official handout; y< yoU «r e U should know
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      A Muslim College
      564 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 12. II of the Muslim K ei t Committee that was L,.,l .‘veral years ago to C) 'icnv* for the estabt e n( cl a Muslim college in l yil K;j.s enlisted again in r a t few days the interest L t pj:«*r
      —Straits Times, Feb. 12.  -  564 words
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      Traffic Problems
      282 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 12. Fifteen years ago the Trimmer report on traffic problems recommended drastic but practical remedies for Singapore’s crowded streets. The report had much to sav about a solution of the parking problem Four years ago some of the Trimmer recommendations were reuoated by a special
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      North Borneo Report
      662 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 13. North Borneo is a small country with large problems. But its Government mafiages to set the Malayan Governments an example by preparing early in the year a short report on the past twelve months while the facts and the figures still bear an
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      Revolution in Asia
      840 3 —Straits Times. Feb 14 Some pertinent and even startling questions on the financing of economic development in Asia are put in the bulletin of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East in the course of an article summarising Asia’s problems of capitalisation. The article begins
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      The Police Hit Back
      109 3 —Straits Times Feb. 14 Singapore’s Police have had their share of criticism in the past year or two. It is pleasant now to he able to congratulate them on smart work well <lone On three successive days they have made what we hope will prove to
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      Ecafe And Its Work
      746 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 16. TI e annual conference of the K< ora mie Commission for Asia and the Far East, held at 1 i.c.dung, seems to have opened, done its business, and been closed, to the satisfaction of everyone except the Russians. Would it be too
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      Harbour Board Dispute
      518 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 16 The strange turn which the Singapore Harbour Board dis)ute has taken is welcome. A itatement issued by the Board alleging that the Stall Association's demands are connected ./ith efforts to stop corruption nd fraud has led the Associa- on’s executive committee to ecommend
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      John Eber—And Others
      964 4 John Eber And Others —Straits Times. Feb 17. The case of John Eber, the Secretary for the Colonies has told Parliament, will shortly come up again for review. John Eber has been interned for two years, the maximum period of the original detention order. His release is automatic unless the
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      ECAFE Again
      288 4 —Straits Times, 1 In an adjoining column Mr Yap Pheng Geek, who will be leading a Malayan delegation a: the ECAFE trade conference is the Philippines, takes us tc task for the criticism we expressed yesterday of the full conference of the Economic Commission for Asia and the
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    A PLACE IN THE SUN IN SINGAPORE
    1453 5 Ut a Kperial ftlalif (ormpon de n t K>t iN'S of beaches, parks W u d wonder stadiums i 0 Singapore there have in plenty, but still 1. is nothing but Kd-rgrowth at Changi K and -No Road” to Ee Forest Reserve on
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    MALAY CAREER GIRLS
    369 5 From our Kuala Lumpur office MEET Salmah and ,LTA Maznah, two teenaged Malay girls who have come to Kuala Lumpur with one burning amibition—to run a business of their own one day. They are the only girls among 39 young Malays picked by RIDA from all over
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      184 5 DE VERE GOULD: To Myron, wife of K. E. de Vere Gould, at Batu Gajah Hospital, on 11th Feb., a son. both well. DUTFIELD: To Barbara, wife of Peter Dutfield, a son, Michael John Eversleigh, at Malacca Hospital, on the 6th February. Both doing well. OXTOBY: To Betty the
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      ENGAGEMENT
      111 5 THE engagement will be announced between Mr. Chan Mun Yew. son of Mr. and Mrs. Chan Kee Choon and Miss Noeline Low Im Neo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Low Hong Eeng. on 15th February. 1953. GAUNTI.ETT-SMITS. John and Jean announce their betrothal. Deo volente their marriage will shortly
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    362 5 DEATHS S.N MARSHALL died at his home in Vaucluse. New South Wales, on the 16th February 1953. CECIL D. JACKSON, aged 74 at Brighton on Tuesday February 10th. after a long illness. Beloved Husband of Lorna. May his spirit rest in peace after a long life of work. CHESTERMAN. H.
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    CROSSING TO KOWLOON
    9 6 Photo nraph by Chan Poh Geok.
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    As I was Saying
    652 6  -  CYNICUS. SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. ITNREGARDED by the general public, the Federation appears to be enjoying—if that is the right word—a small revolution in legal procedure. It is a change from old and trusted methods which presumably has the beneficent approval of the Government’s law officers, or
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1084 6  -  Stanley Stre^ I hesc Singapore's RENGAM ROAD’S” reference to Time-Life’s idea of geography is capped by Mr. 6. H. Peek of Singapore, who writes: “Time-Life Inc. was outdone by a professor of Troy University. New’ York State, who w’rote to me on Rotary matters in
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    CAR THE GUNMAN USED
    55 8 THE CAR DRUE.S i»Y 1m. anOA ui.VMAN, Ian llo Chuan, after it had crashed into a drain. The number’ plates on the car were fakes. Relow, the d-ivirg scat, showing a hole made by a bullet that missed Tan Other bullets however found their mark.—Straits Times
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    ‘Sea Thief’ was the nickname
    253 8 SINGAPORE policy yesterday continued to uncover more crimes committed by the limping gunman. Tan Ho Chuan, whom they shot dead in a gun battle oil Frankcl Avenue He has been identified by a witness as one of the men Involved in the shooting of Detective
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    IT WAS HIM OR ME, SAYS MR. EU
    255 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 12. >IMIE MAN who shot it out with Singapore’s worst 1 criminal, last night smiled up at his pretty wife and said, “I’m the luckiest man in Singapore to be alive. It was either him or me.’’ Assistant Superintendent of
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    Public enemy No. 1 killed
    693 8 Bv Straits Times Crime Reporter SINGAPORE, Feb. 12. SINGAPORE’S limping gunman, for whom th 0 Colony’s entire Police Force have been hum ing, was killed yesterday while trying to s oot his way out of an ambush in a lane off Frankel A veil ue.
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    Bandit cooks get heavy sentences
    243 10 SHE CARRIED GRENADE AT 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 11. rpwo bandit cooks, one a pretty 16 and the other 1 looking 40 although only 21, today showed not a trace of emotion when they heard heavy sentences passed on them in the Kuala Lumpur Supreme
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    THE PRESS IS POLICE LINK WITH THE PUBLIC
    111 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Ueb. 11. rpiIK press was impor1 taut to the polite because in many ways it was th e link with the public, the Commissioner of Police. Col. A. E. Young, told the Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club today. When Operation Service
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    The rabies danger is now over —IN SINGAPORE
    108 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 13. SINGAPORE Ls now free from the danger of a rabies outbreak, Mr. A. H. Foster, the Chief Veterinary Officer, said at a Press conference yesterday. “The outbreak of rabies in the Federation is now under control. This removed an
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    MR. TAN FOR FORMOSA
    49 10 SINGAPORE. Frb. 12. Mr. Tan Kok Choh, a staunch Chinese Nationalist supporter in Singapore, is to leave for Formosa next week. Mr. Tan, one of the founders of the Chung Shing Jit Pao. has resigned from office as chairman and managing director of the press.
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    S.P.S. OFFICIALS
    55 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 12. The following were elected office-bearers of the Singapore Pediatric Society for 1953: President, Professor E. S. Monteiro; vice-president. Professor J. A. P. Cameron, secretary, Dr. G Keys Smith, treasurer, Dr. William Heng, executive committee: Dr. Foo Chee Guan, Dr. G. Haridas, Dr. K. Y Khoo
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    JOBS WILL BE WAITING FOR 15,000 ‘SPECIALS’
    306 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 12. ABOUT 15,000 volunteer special constables in the Federation, due to complete their five-year service, are to be demobilised by the end of the year. Back in civilian life, they will not represent a major unemployment problem. Government has plans
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    BACK FROM ECAFE TALKS
    54 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 12. Dr. F C. Benham. Economic Adviser to the Commis-sioner-Gene ral’s office, returned to Singapore yesterday by Qantas Constellation after attending the ECAFE conference in Bandoeng Dr. Benham said Russian delegates at the conference made long propaganda speeches and were severely criticised by representatives
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    A SHIP DOCKS-AND TWO DREAMS COME TRUE
    129 10 SINGAPORE. Ftb. 13. DREAM came true for two young girls yesterday morning, when the Burns Philp freighter, Burnside, docked in Singapore. They wire in the city they had wanted to see all their lives. Miss Anno Chamberlain (above left), who conus from New
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    Templer tells why museum matters
    312 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 11 "THE High Commissioner. Gen. Sir Gerald Templer told Malay rulers, their mentris besar, Federal councillors and senior Government officials at the opening of the Federations tiny National Museum in Kuala Lumpur last evening: “A nation without an apprec iation of its
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    Roads more deadly than the Reds
    155 10 KUALA Ll'MPl'H, Feb. u ROAD accidents i n ih e fM eration took an “annuli,! toll” «f casualti?3 times more than sufW. the hands of the terrorist —declared the Commission!! o* Col A F. ySJ at th e Kuala Lumpur RoluS Club meeting: toda>
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    BBC expert to conduct classes here
    100 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Fib U DR. J. A. Noonan, chief adviser to the B3C >n teaching of English, will arrive in Ku:ula Lumpur Saturday. Dr. Noonan, who will be :r the Federation a week. vd. conduct three one-day courv-: on the teaching of English. The
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    Singer enjoys S’por snack
    33 10 MISS LO-LING, a H«n« night club singer who arrived in Singapore. 11 j t r a snack at a party > n e honour. i at a pari\ —StraitsTinie^n tur
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    Now my son can become a doctor
    249 11 $46,000 DAMAGES WIDOW SAYS— SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. 'ilh’S PETER TAY, who was widowed when a SingaM norc Traction Company bus knocked down her ,.1,111(1 in January last year, has decided to spend s45 800 damages awarded her by the High Court ;,er eldest
    II. ITIiillV •* v M v 4. Nicholas six, and Michael, 11.—Straits Times picture.  -  249 words
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    Engineer returns to Malaya
    151 11 MR L T. Wakeford, Con- ::ng Engineer and Governing Director of the Alliance 1 *ing Co. Ltd., has arrived in Malaya to visit his variou* interests and tour the Malayan branches of his or|:ar.i>ations. He is returning to 1 :ui n early in March. Mr Wakeford
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    2 FISHERMEN FIGHT OFF CROCODILE IN BRUNEI BAY
    108 11 BRUNEI, Feb. 13 rVO Kedayan .Malays were fishing in waistdeep water in Brunei Bay close to Brunei town when a crocodile clamped its jaws over the right arm of one, a 50-year-old. and tried to drag him into deeper water. His friend
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    The pilots’ busy day
    102 11 rp TU SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. Dusiest men In Singapore ilf were the shi P v Starting at dawn, they l* rc< > L 8 out of the T r' hy five in the evening. reason for the rush to omgapore was Chinese Year. firin' harbour Board
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    CORONATION COMMITTEE
    40 11 Chin!’’ n!a< i vos from 276 I>01. V;'u CI ?y° n s in Singa4f, !n h eP- 12 appointed a Cor -w", n eon-mittee to plan The bv M- T 1 amttee was headed la n Lark Sye.
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    COLONY POVERTY TO BE INVESTIGATED
    117 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 12. OINGAPORE Social Welfare Department is to investigate poverty in families whose wage-earners do not receive more than $4OO a month. A team of interviewers will be tested by Mr. T. E Smith, Secretary for Social Welfare, on Wednesday, and the survey will
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    NEW OFFICIAL
    21 11 KOTA TINGGI. Feb. 12. Inche Ibrahim bin Ahmad has been appointed an Assistant Collector of Land Revenue in Pengerang.
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    ARCHITECTS MAY HOLD COMPETITION
    179 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 12. ARCHITECTS in Singapore and the Federation may hold a competition to produce an accepted style ol Malayan architecture. Th.s was proposed today by Mr A O. Coltman. president of the Malayan Association of Architects yesterday. He was replying to a speech yesterday
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    COLONY’S HEALTH IS BETTER
    149 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 12. SINGAPORE continues to have more males than females and general health shows considerable improvement. Dr W. J. Vickers, Director of Medical Services, said yesterday. The colony entered 1953 with a population of 1,099,381, compared with 1.041,933 at the beginning of 1952. There was
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    COUNCIL STAFF TO UNITE—AND FIGHT
    125 11 SINGAPORE. Feb. 12. rIE entire staff of Singapore City Council —expatriate, senior and junior officers —plan to unite and fight issues of common Interest. The formation or a joint liaison committee is now under consideration. Two outstanding issues on which all employees are interested are
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    TRADERS MAY PETITION WHITEHALL
    115 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 11. A CHINESE petition to Whitehall protesting against the Licensing and Registration of Business Ordinance is being proposed in Kuala Lumpur. The proposal will be made to the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce now gathering views as to whether a hartal should be
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    1,500 YEARS’ SERVICE
    61 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 13 Seventy Shell Company employees, who have between them nearly 1,500 years’ service with the company, wer e yesterday presented with long service emblems in Singapore. Five of them, Messrs. Koh Set Thian, Ng Lye Seah, J. S. De Souza, Cheang Eng Cheong and Teo
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    £5,000 GIFT —from the M.C.A.
    33 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. It The Malayan Chinese Association today donated £5,000 to the British Flood Relief Fund opened by the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, this week.
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    ELECT THEM
    31 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 12 The Kelantan branch of the Peninsular Malay Union is to urge the State Governments to allow future Mentris Besir to be elected by the people.
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    Best customer—Malaya
    33 11 Best customer —Malaya SINGAPORE. Feb. 12. MALAYA is Britain’s largest customer for bicycles, and last year bought 365.875. I In ali, Britain exported 2,788,640 pedal cycles in 1952, worth .£23,757,282 —a new record.
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    CALIFORNIA SWIM SUIT DISPLAY IN COLONY
    221 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. PAT REA the girl in these picture's is one of Australia’s top models. Her husband. Ray Scott, of Col e of California, is a famous swim-suit and sun-dress designer. To put his latest creations on the Singapore market, Mr. Scott has
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    IT IS MAKING A MOCKERY OF OUR MUSIC, SAY MALAYS
    148 12 MALACCA, Feb. 12. MALACCA Malays have taken strong exception to a song sheet of ‘‘Terang Bulan.” which is printed in Australia and is now on sale in Malaya. Tin* music is described as “by Mai Hoffman, based on a tribal
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    JAPS GIVE BLOOD FOR BEER
    89 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. FOUR Japanese fisherman stranded in Singapore yesterday gave their blood for beer They were from the Kunyee, which drifted helplessly into the harbour more than three months ago. One was too weak to have his blood taken but he got his beer
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    PLAY WAS COCKTAIL OF SHAVIAN WIT
    148 12 SINGAPORE, Fub. 13. IN :i remarkably finished und powcriul manner, Singapore Arts Theatre last night put on two plays, “A Village Wooing” and “Antigone.” “A Village Wooing” was the cocktail ot the pair. It was sharp and brief, and the Shavian wit came over
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    PROMOTION
    28 12 Mr R. Perrier, assistant manager of QANTAS Empire Airlines in Singapore, has been transferred to Melbourne, where he will be manager. He leaves the Colony Feb 23.
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    S.H.B. statement on dispute
    369 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 13. ,r PO accede to Singapore Harbour Board Stall Associa- tion’s five demands would amount to a surrender by the board of its managerial responsibilities, the board said last night. The bo trd had previously not made a statement on the dispute because it
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    TWO WRITERS ENTERTAINED
    65 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 16. Two well-known French writers, Jules Romains, 76, author ol the 27-volume “Men of good will,” and Maurice Bedel, were entertained at a cocktail party by the Alliance Francaise in Singapore last night. M. Romains is on his way to Saigon and M. Bedel, who
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    Courtesy drive in S’pore
    210 12 SINGAPORE. fVb n 4 COURTESY campaign A bolster friendship bf tween the rank and fli e nt the Singapore Police Fowl and the public will b I launched shortly, the Pdfi Secretary. Mr. Peter Clague told the Straits Times night. ast He said that only a
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    More power plant guards
    45 12 Security at Singapore’s Pastr Panjang power at: n will soon be tightened bv peeing more police con tables there. City Council jages will be placed under police con’r There are now 20 :*p cal constables and 12 jagas n ‘be site.
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    Raja Muda ends four-day tour
    37 12 SITIAWAN. Sun.— The Rajs Muda of Perak return *d at tbe week-end to Teluk Am on by boat after a four-day tour of Siiiawan. He visited G ’vornment schools and. police beadquarters.
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    K.L girl for Australia
    22 12 MISS AISIIAII HA s,,iM s Kuala Lumpur. who 11 1 shortly for Australia study medicine in Mc‘* ur
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    Widow, children get $45,800
    329 13 tlUSSAND KNOCKED DOWN DY BUS SINGAPORE, Feb. 13. Lin Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in W\ hr Singapore High Court yesterday awarded K. V damages to a widow, Madam Phyllis Heng t- Sco. and her six children against the Singapore ■netion Company. r»u* damages were awarded
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    Five-year plan gets good start
    245 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. K*HE :uit instaiment ui Sm- C ai) >re's Five-year develouKem p.an has started well. K. wear, director ol Kjbiic Works, said yesterday Ijf the civil engineers and Bchitects being recuited in Brit i n arrived in time there Koukl be no hitch.
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    Vampires strike
    28 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 14. Vampires from Tengah air base. Singapore, yesterday evening struck targets near Kluang in Johore in support of operations by the 2/6 Gurkhas.
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    THE NEW MUSEUM
    51 13 KUALA LUMPUR’S new Nati onal Museum, claimed to be the smallest in the world. T he former museum was bombed during the war and all th at was left of it was the imposing flight of steps (ab ove) leading to the new building.- —Straits Times pict
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    PENS SMUGGLED IN UNDERPANTS Mr. Parker gives a warning
    206 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. AIR. Kenneth Parker, president of the Parker Pen Company, has a warning for customs men on pen-smuggling. I«... Smugglers, he told the Straits Times yesterday, are using underpants which can hold about 50 pens in specially sewed-in slots.
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    ‘Poly’ plan is now in the last stages
    293 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 13 THE GOVERNMENTS appointment of a committee to ptyn a Singapore Polytechnic Institute means that the last stages have been reached, said Mr. 3.H. Snow, originator of the idea yesterday. Mr. Snow said all who had worked on the scheme
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    MOSQUE GETS NEW VOICE
    38 13 JOIIORE BAHRU, Feb. 15—A new set of radio amplifiers and loudspeakers has been installed in the Batu Pahat mosque at a cost of $1,500. The old set. installed before the war, was beyond repair.
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    Mrs. R. P. Bingham
    30 13 PENANG, Feb. 16. Mrs. R P. Bingham, wife of the Resident Commissioner, returned to Penang yesterday in the Alcinous alter a year’s holiday in Northern Ireland.
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    ‘TRENGGANU STONE’ RETURNS
    220 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. rjpHE “Trengganu Stone,” a I relic of the Mohammedan religion, which was returned to the Federation a few weeks ago. is the most important item in Malaya’s new National Museum, Mr. M. W. F. Tweedie, Director of Raffles Museum said yesterday. “The Trengganu Stone,
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    THIS PONY did not like Chinese fire crackers.
    40 14 He was seen tearing clown Grange Road, Singapore, early on the morning o? Feb. 14. It took his own *r, Mrs. h.M.F. Fergrnsson, and the kebun some time to t*oa\ him home.
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    EAST YORKS HERE TO JOIN FIGHT
    308 14 v#;i» run non isr nr:, m.it nr: SINGAPORE. Feb. 16. npIIF 1st. Battalion, the East Yorkshire Regiment, I distinguished tor its part in the invasion of Normandy in 1944, reached Singapore by the troopship Empire Clyde yesterday. The 800 men of the battalion i
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    Now it’s ‘HQ Singapore’
    45 14 SINGAPORE, Feb 16. The title of Headquarters 230 Group, Seletar, will be changed to “Air Headquarters Singapore” from today, the RAF announced last night. The Air Officer Commanding. Singapore, will be Air Commodore W. M. L MacDonald who commanded the group.
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    A FACE-LIFT FOR BUKIT SERENE
    53 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Feb. 15. HUIfE Johcre Slate Govern--i ment has voted $50,000 for renovating the furniture in Bukit Serene, recently vacated by the CommissicnerGeneral. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. Ail furniture bought before the war us to be replaced and .he post-war furnishings will be renovated. /ork
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    Religious leaders favour proposal
    328 14 MUSLIM COLLEGE GREETED SINGAPORE, Feb. u SINGAPORE religious leaders and the president 0 f the United Malays National Organisation yesterday welcomed the scheme to establish a Muslin college in Malaya. j The college will train students who wish to become kathis, imams and religious instructors in
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    Manila trade talk delegates
    76 14 The Malaya-Borneo delegation to the second ECAFE trade promotion conference in Manila on Feb. 23 will be led by Mr. Yap Pheng Geek. The delegates are:—lnche C. F. Hassim (.Federation*, Mr. R. Ju-mabhoy (Singapore*. Mr. L. R. Barnctt-Smith iNorth Borneo), and Mr. G. A. C. Field
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    C.G’s term extended
    37 14 MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD’S term of oflice as Commissioner General for South-East Asia has been extended by thp British Government until thp end of the year. Mr. MacDonald was to have retired in May last.
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    FAREWELL TO SCHOOL HEAD
    50 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 16. MUAR, Sun.—Mr. A Williamson, headmaster of the Government English School Muar, was guest of honour at a farewell dinner given by the staff of the school. Mr. Williamson is going home or long leave shortly. Mr. P. C. Joseph will act as headmaster.
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    Two terrorists killed in day
    50 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. H.A section of No 95 Squadron RAF Regiment killed a *-rrorist and wounded anoth the Rawang district ol S< 1 the early hours of this °rnina. A second terrorist dead by special constab the Kwong Yak miiv Batu Gajah district of r-’orak.
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    ADMITTED
    24 14 Mr. Leslie Rayner. Attorney -General’s C11-' j Singapore, has been .tnr.m to the Bar by the Chiei Ju-' Sir Charles Murray-Ayr <’>• High Court.
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    Every Federal police station a recruiting centre
    103 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 13. FRY police station becomes Aj a recruiting centre and every 0.C.P.1) a recruiting officer under a new policy introduced by the Federation police. Formerly most recruits were enlisted by touring teams visiting each state. This often meant that a
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    UMNO-MCA group for the Council
    255 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 15. ■m: MNO-MCA alliance will form a “discus- vimi in the Federal Legislative Council Buroscnt a united front on the common interests B tin two communities. V UMNO secretary-general, Inche Zulkifli Bsirm told the Straits Times this following yesterE- meeting of the
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    SIX MORE BANDITS GIVE UP
    131 15 ICUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 15. IX more Communist terrorists have surudered in Johore—three the Police at Labis, and jee to the people of ampong Kgngsi new Huge, m the Mersing start of the Briggs B 1. 1950, 149 tei- v, given themselves {wiiii- have been capF
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    RULERS’ MEETING
    171 15 ICUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 13. RULERS’ conference which ended here yester- was one of the most imant ever held, says Inche stapha Albakri, Keeper of Killers’ Seal. was attended by all thp lers and their Mentris ;ar except, the Sultan of and the Mentri Besar fahang. but they were
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    Air chief back
    30 15 I a •^N'Gapof>e < Feb. 17. K' ■>•( r' yA? F SanderB H' has return- An 1 I V' r U 10 "tl a y I v tations in
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    He comes home a barrister
    58 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. Mr. Tan Peng Khoo. barris-ter-at-law, returned to Singapore by Qantas-BOAC from studies in Britain yesterdayjust in time for the Chinese New Year family reunion dinner. He is the son of Mr. Tan Chin Hean. a Teoctew community leader. He was met at
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    PENANG WILL LAY A RUBBER ROAD
    182 15 PENANC, Feb. 14. DENANG will launch its first rubber road experiment within the next few weeks. The Municipal Council has decided to surface part of Light Street with a carpet of rubber powder produced in Malaya. “This is being done to demonstrate one of
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    $5,000 CONTEST WINNER
    219 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. THE first Straits Times $5,000 contest was won by Miss Dora Anchant, 4£ milestone, Jalan Scudai, Johore Bahru. The three judges were Mrs. Virginia Baxter, the Straits Times fashions artist, Miss Gwendoline Bradshaw, Whiteaway’s millinery buyer, and Mrs. Lim Koon Teck. In this contest,
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    AIR CHIEF AT R.A.F. CAMP
    60 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 16. General Sir Charles Height ley, Commander in Chiet fArELF, this morning visited No. 22 Special Air Service Regiment at Sungei Besi. Accompanied by Major General Sir Hugh Stockwell, G.O.C. Malaya, General Keightley had discussions with the Commanding Officer of the Regiment,
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    Christian vote on appeals sought
    155 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 16. W HEN the Cinematograph Film Bill gets its second reading in the Singapore Legislative Council on Feb. 24, Mr. C. R. Dasaratha Raj, Labour member for Rochore, will seek representation of the Christian faiths on the appeal committee. His amendment will propose
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    Pahang plan to resettle ex-detainees
    92 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 10 T'HE Pahang Government is now considering the possibility of resettling released detainees ircm the Morib Malay rehabilitation centre in Jerantut, Dato Abdul Razak bin Dato Hussein, Pahang'; state Secretary, said tod He denied reports that the Government would accept application only
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    NEW VARSITY ‘CERTAIN’
    267 16 NEW VARSITY CERTAIN’ SINGAPORE, Feb. 13. 270 Chinese associations, headed k by Mr. Tan Lark Sye, a multi-millionaire, yesterday took their first step to found a Chinese university. Representatives of the associations, meeting in the premises of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, voted unanimously: “We will have a university
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    POLICEMEN LIVED UP TO MOTTO 3 win badges
    233 16 JOIIORE BAHRU. Feb. 1G. rriLE Repent, of Johor e today presented three members of the Police Force with the badge of the Commissioner ol Police for meritorious service. In honour of the occasion. 150 members of the Johore Police Force under the
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    In memory of eleven who died
    159 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 16. A SHORT but solemn ceremony was held at the narrower Hall. Medical College grounds, Singapore, yesterday when Dr. D. W. G. Farls, Dean of the Medical Faculty, laid a wreath in memory of the 11 medical students who died on Feb.
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    He volunteers to teach girls to fight
    98 16 SINGAPORE. Feb. 17. MR. JAGGEET SEHGAL, a businessman, yesterday answered an appeal by the Singapore Women’s Council to join in the fight against the menace of prowlers. Mr. Sehgal said he would volunteer to train women in the art of self-defence with sticks
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    THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER. Kuala Lipis. Dr. T. A Paraman, and Matron Green at Gantang Panjang, two miles from the main road into the jungle between Bukit Betong and Gua Musang, Pahang, examine a girl during an investigation of an outlying break of pneumonia among Sakais.
    47 16 THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER. Kuala Lipis. Dr. T. A Paraman, and Matron Green at Gantang Panjang, two miles from the main road into the jungle between Bukit Betong and Gua Musang, Pa hang, examine a girl during an investigation of an outlying break of pneumonia among Sakais.
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    Students in Victoria foster unity
    192 16 PENANC, Feb. 14. CINCE its formation two years ago, the Malayan Students’ Association of Victoria had made considerable progress in fostering good will and harmony among Malayan students of all races in Australia, Mr. Tan Phock Kin. former president of the association, said on his
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    ACTING ADVISER
    33 16 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri—Mr. J. K. Creer, Commissioner of Lands and Mines, Johore, has been appointed to act as British Adviser, Johore, during the absence on leave of *Mr. J. D. Hodgkinson.
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    THEY DID NOT SEE ‘OLD’ BALI
    209 16 SINGAPORE. Feb. 16 AMERICAN audiences which flocked to see the troupe of Balinese dancing girls which is on tour in the United States have been disappointed the fascinating bare breasts that have made Bali the tourist attraction of the world have been discreetly covered.
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    Poultry will be cheaper
    187 16 SINGAPORE, Feb POULTRY, egg.s and I will be cheaper m? near future. say s Mr a? Foster, the chief veter 2 officer of Singapore He gives the following sons for his optimism a POULTRY AND EGGS* it, ranikhet vaccination." Jn? supplied to rural farm 5 improve
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    COST OF LIVING INDICES
    97 16 IN December last the cost: living index figures Europeans living in the Fei ration fell one point to 3 (base 1939 equals 100) j December. In the clerical classes ti Malay figure was 419 and th for Chinese. Indian and Eun sians was 411. In the
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    PLANE RETURN TO KALLANG
    39 16 SINGAPORE. Feb 1‘ A London-bound BOA Argonaut aircraft turned M with engine trouble an MJ after it took off from Kal.$ Airport. Singapore, yesterwf The defect was repaired as the plane left again in hours.
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    U.S. SYMPATHY FOR RUBBER INDUSTRY
    146 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 13 T'HE MALAYAN natural rubber industry ran eX Pyj sympathetic consideration of its problems by United States during the next few years, says latest issue of the Natural Rubber News. It also points out that the new Eisenhower administration is not likely
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    COMMON LAW MARRIAGE WAS PROVED’
    731 17 LONDON, Feb. 17. IE Privy Council today dismissed the appeal of Isaac Penhas against the decision of the Singapore fh Court holding as valid the secret marriage of millionaire brother, Abraham Penhas, to a Chinese man, Madam Tan Soo Eng. The Privy Council said it
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    S’pore flood relief men named
    90 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. rpHE Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, has appointed the following to serve on the Singapore Flood Relief Committee Mr. Lee Kong Chian, Mr. Tan Lark Sye, Mr. R. Johnston (Singapore Chamber of Commerce*, Mr. Tan Siak Kew (Chinese Chamber of Commerce),
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    LEE MENG IS REFUSED PERMISSION TO APPEAL
    156 17 —Reuter. LONDON, Feb. 16 THE Privy Council today refused Lee Meng, alias Lee Ten Tai, 25. permission to appeal against her death sentence at Ipoh in September for unlawful possession of a hand-grenade. She was charged under the 1948 Emergency Regulations. The Kuala
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    HOLIDAY IN H.K.
    27 17 Mr. H. E. Kingdon, Civil District Judge. Singapore, has left for Hong Kong on a short holiday. He will be back on March 5.
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    Madam Tan went back to film
    440 17  -  Bu NAN HALL SINGAPORE. Feb. 18. VI ADAM Tan Soo Eng got the news when she was called out of the cinema last night in the middle of the 6.30 screening of “Million Dollar Mermaid.” I never had any doubts about it! she told
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      36 17 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an Inclusive rate of $24.00 for six months (ALL THE ABOVE ARE IN STRAITS CURRkSCY)
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    Four false alarms—then Mr. Blythe’s call got through
    370 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 18. THE telephone rang for the fifth time —an hour late. Mr. \V. L. Blythe, th* Colonial Secretary, picked up the receiver. Then for the first time Singapore and Indones a were linked by telephone. Mr. Blythe’s two-minute conversation, interrupted
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    NEW BILL
    22 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Fob. 16. A register of midwives will be kept if the Federal Legislative Council passes a new bill.
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    LEADERS OF BUSINESS IN MALAYA
    152 18 jl/IR C. E. COLLINGE C.8.E., general manager of Joseph Travers and Sons Ltd., for Malaya came to Singapore in 1920, to work for the company, establLshed in 1666 and said to be the oldest business in the City of London. Mr. Collinge, a keen volunteer,
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    STAFF SAW THEIR WEDDING
    135 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 17 MANY Singapore General Hospital .stall members attended yesterday’s wedding 2? huipltal almoner, Miss Kathleen Joy Eastaugh. and Mr Ronald Broughton Mumford, at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. The Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rf*v. H. W. Baines, conducted the service The bricie was given away
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    North victory at hockey
    1148 18  -  THE WEEK IN SP«t T By EDIN PETERS SINGAPORE, Feb. 18. THE Malayan hockey season Singapore, ended at the week-end at Penang with the annual fixture between the North and the South and the first ever State championship between Singapore and Perak. Since the introduction of
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    CYPRESS POINT TAKES BIG SPRINT
    939 19  -  m JEEP. I...-, lATMPUR. Feb b'. L POINT, clevelv f by Frank Hudson, l pei’tacular ran the f beat Elturius by m a fast-run six I, ,i e for crack sprintP Lumpur yesterday. of the Selangor L. Gold Cup meeting. E; a-, ong the first
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    SELANGOR GOLD CUP TO KINGPORT
    1040 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP. KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 14. iINOPORT, handsome fivef -old English gelding the 2.000 Guinea winner Inasway out of Porters Londge [ne.1 by Mr. J. M. Mason and feined by Neil Hobbs f ;n the first of the peon's classics, the Selangor bia Cup
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      98 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: $255,000. 1st: No. *****1 $68,850 2nd: No. *****1 $34,425 3rd: No. *****2—$17,212 Starters ($2,868 each) Nos: *****2, *****6, *****0, *****7, *****9, *****8. Consolation Prizes ($1,530 each) Nos: *****5, *****3, *****2, *****0, *****8, *****9, *****6, *****9, *****0, *****1. Double Tote: 1st. Double: 2 tickets ($833 each); 2nd.
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    Growing demand for industrials
    702 20 SHARE MARKET <1 Hv Our Financial Correspondent SINGAPORE, Feb. 16. IN spite of a short week, the market closed around noon on Friday, the Singapore share market experienced the busiest pre-Chinese New Year period on record. A considerable turnover occurred in industrials and tins and prices
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    BUSINESS DONE
    253 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 16. THE following business was reported in the Singapore share market during the period February 7 to February 13:INDUSTRIALS: Alexandra Brick Prefs. $2.15, Fraser 6i Neave Ord. $2.45 to $2.50, Pref. $6.70, Gammon $2.85, Hammer $3.10 to $3.15, William Jacks $4.02>/ 2 and $4.00, Malayan Cement
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    ANNOUNCED
    66 20 Only two dividends were announced by Malayan companies last week. They were:HONG FATT: 20 per cent interim for year ending December, making 26 per cent so far, payable March 1, books close February 18. UNITED MALACCA RUBBER: No. 45, first interim 4 per cent for year ending April, payable
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    912 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. IM)l'slKlAL6 Uuyera Seilers Alex BricKs 2 15 2.30 rd 4 .10 4.20 Atlas let 12.25 13 25 g B Petrol 35/6 36/6 B M Trustees 6 50 150 Con. Tin Smelt Prerf 21/. 2J/. Ords 23/- 24/. Eastern United 38 00 39 00 Fed
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    Monthly statements on Income Tax
    197 20 SINGAPORE, fVb is LAST year the Government of the Fed emu Malaya collected about $2lB million from ino tax, compared with the orignal estimate of million. that collections were so much in excess of the estimate was not disclosed until late in the year and
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    64 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: Noon prices per picul were: Copra: buyers $384, sellers $39. Coconut oil: $594 sellers. Pepper: Muntok. white. $555 sellers. Sarawak, $550. Lampong, black. $439. The market was dull generally with no business passing. Lewis and Peat: Closing prices were: Copra:
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    ECAFE talks
    50 20 The Deputy Economic Secretary, Singapore, Mr. T. M. Hart, will lead the Singapore delegation to the trade promotion conference organised by E.C.A.F.E. which will begin in Manila, capital of the Philippines, on February 23. Other Singapore delegates will be Mr. J. R. Jumabhoy and Mr. Yap Pheng Geek.
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    Quiet week on rubber market
    181 20 Rubber' jg^7 SINGAPORE, Feb u This week has been’oi shadowed by the approach! the Chinese New Year holida and the rubber rr.a r ket h quietened down consideraS says Lewis and Peat s week report The sagging tenaea noticeable earlier in the va has been
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    Tin mines in Federation
    89 20 AT the end of 1952 thfl were 705 units producii tin-ore in the Federation. < these, 80 were dredges. 5 gravelpumps, 13 hydraulic# plants, four opencast mi# 11 underground mines, and 4 other small workings. The number of ckedrt working at the end of 1# was
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    Canned pineapple
    30 20 In 1952 the Federation j Malaya produced 602.1 <9 ca#» of canned pineapple. eQJJJ lent to 13.851 tons, comp*" with 606,014 cases in 195* 561,976 cases in 1950
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    Copra production
    44 20 In 1952 copra production, in Federation of Malaya fnn ln tons, compared with 154.355 1951. 4 841 Of the 1952 produc-ion. tons were produced by Sl s[a t# ings and 39.523 ton:, by* Comparable figures for i* 120,620 tons and 39,434 respectively.
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    Mr. Lee returns
    30 20 h#|o Mr. Lee Kong Chian. of the Lee organisation Malaya, returned t 0 pore last week afte. s nearly a year in B-‘ tain the United States
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