The Straits Budget, 19 March 1953

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    29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER eN v Series No. 346. Thursday, March 19, 1953 Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or I shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      ‘Grilling’ of taxpayers
      186 2  - Grilling’ of taxpayers PRO BONO PUBLICO. Singapore. IJERSONAL experience, backed by the opinions of friends, leads me to suppose 1 that some assistant comptrollers of income tax are indulging in a witless grilling of taxpayers, probably beyond the limits of the income tax department’s legal powers This opinion could of
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      Malays give thought to self-betterment
      279 2  -  T. S. D. Ipoh. T*HE Perak Branch of the U.M.N.0., under the chairA manship of the its President, the Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang. has passed a resolution to the effect that the Government should set up English schools in areas where there is a Malay
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      LEE MENG: A Security Officer speaks
      392 2  - LEE MENG: A Security Officer spe aks SECURITY OFFICER. Singapore. VOW that Lee Meng has had her dainty i save( ™by the sell -righteous pleas for mercy on t oehal by British M.P. s and others who have n i thug in anger in their lives, something can be said
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      ‘The M.C.A. sits backs’
      344 2  - ‘The M .C.A. sits backs’ numcinTANAII V'K-IH. Port Dickson. IT is time the M t t 0 u some indica true feelings rt j .r? thi luture Of Malaya. In recent weeks minen members of the C: com munity have mad- -ment which show that much they may ther wise,
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      OVERBURDENED
      87 2  -  JOHN ENGLAND. Singapore IT IS becoming increasingly evident that this Island Colony, measuring only 17 miles by 24, is overburdened with officials and bureaucrats exercising varying degrees of authority, and that the public suffers from overlapping and inefficiency. If only we could do a little streamlining, get rid of
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      NOT WANTED
      43 2  -  Y.B.S. Singapore. HPROLLEY-BUSES should not A exist. They are not wanted in our city any more than hackney-carriages or bullockcarts. These old-fashioned trollies are not only a danger but a nuisance to the traffic. A ban is much to be desired.
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      The destruction of Tawau
      194 2  -  SAUL EZEKIEL. Singapore. SINGAPORE businessmen and residents who know North Borneo, or who have dealings with that Colony, must have read with distress the news of the destruction of most of the town of Tawau by fire. I am sure they will wish to contribute to
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      CORONATATION BONUS
      73 2  -  13. ANG Bi Singapore. I feel, and I am n r feel as I do, .jj* occasion of Queen ve j Coronation could f bl< happier and more 0 if every employe’ Her Majesty woul (inj sense of patriotism jor his employees a bonus of, say, a nu
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      Govt. Pay Crisis
      722 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 12 I. t at last, the < comment issued fc® B.‘iwr« Ul fami y m n,,. vr locally domicilIXcrV With the report a state-tnent rejecting it. W Goveri.ruitt has decided, the Stra.t> Times reported a;!-'. that a CoinmisE. Aculd he appointed from Kide M.
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      Rubber Profits And Taxes
      310 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 12. Sir John Hay, in a statement accompanying the report of Linggi Plantations, Ltd., has a sharp and necessary word to say of the destination of profits earned in Malaya. Over 70 per cent, of the Linggi profit went in taxation, duty and
      —Straits Times, Mar. 12.  -  310 words
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      Naval Base Award
      194 3 -Straits Times. Mar. 12. There seems to be serious misunderstanding of the arbitrator’s awaid in the Naval Base workers’ wage dispute. A statement issued by the Union President yesterday complained that after reaching a ba.lc daily wage of $1.75, the worker’s te*al wage drops under the award
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      Unmaking A Mistake
      840 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 13 Bv Tuesday, when the Singapore Legislative Council meets, some legislative Solomon may know what to do with the lusty baby which the Government gingerly holds. The Government's own proposal does not appear to he meeting with favour. It is that nothing should be
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      Consolidation Error
      418 3 Straits Times, Mar. 13 One of the chief reasons for discontent among locally domiciled officers in Government service is the manner in which part of the cost of living allowance has been “consolidated” in basic pa>, increasing the latter by 20 per cent. This uniform increase naturally has
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      The Price Of Rice
      648 4 Straits Times, Mar 14 The surprising thing about the increase in the price ol rice, announced by the Federation Government, is that it did not happen h*ng .ago. As the Member for Economic Affairs has explained, the rise was staved off partly because of th( profit
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      Bower And Restraint
      375 4 -Straits Times, Mar. 14. It is satisfactory to see that the problems which will arise if there is to be a substantial increase in the unofficial majority on the Singapore Legislative Council are getting increasing attention. Addressing the annual meeting yesterday of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce.
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      The Malayan Detainees
      636 4 —Straits Tim's, Mar. 16 A lively if somewhat delayed interest in the detainees held in the Federation and Singapore under the Emergency Regulations is being shown by Unofficials on both Legislative Councils. A* a result the Federal Government is to issue this week a White Papbr on
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      Rubber Wage Warning
      452 4 —otraits Times. Mur is It is not clear how far Mr. M. E. L. Robey was speaking or the whole of the planting ndustry when, addressing the Vegri Sembilan branch of the M.P.I.E.A., he warned the Rubber Workers Union that they •annot keep pressing for higher .vages
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      Federal Election Plan
      329 4 -Straits Tiino-s, M fir Meetings which are takiJ place between UMNO anfl M.C.A. leaders may throw mo« light on the proposal made b]fl Tengku Abdul Rah man! UMNO’s President, that Federal “lections should be introduce® by 1954. It is very true thafl constant political pressure m necessary
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    PENANG’S VOLUNTEERS
    389 5  -  1 )y hill fish P LESS than a year f w P nana:’s volunteer 4r s Lave developed wen-organised and lent reserves forman important poten,a second line of n n,,f behind the pernu nent Services. h ave flocked to a: d volunteer land, sea i- tr orces an
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      198 5 ZAIN: COttINNE wife of Inspector T.S. Zain the Rift of a boy last nlßht at K.K. Hospital. Mother and son well. Ceylon papers please copy. DONNELLY: To Valerie wife of J. Desmond Donnelly, at Kandang Ke»-bau Hospital, a daughter. JEFFERIES At Batu Gajah Hospital, on 11.3.53, to Mr. Sc
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      ENGAGEMENT
      61 5 THE Marriage between Mr. Andrew Lim Kim Chuan. second son of the late Mr. Lim Khiam Soon and adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Chan Koon and Miss Lucy Ho Hock Neo, only daughter of Madam Lim Kim Swee and grand’ daughter of Mr. Ho Siew Tien will
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    LEAVE DINNER
    39 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mar. 16. The officers and men of the Johore Bahru Police Volunteer Reserve entertained Mr. N. 1,. Cohen, their commandant, to dinner at the Hokkien Association last night before his departure pp leave to England.
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    ANTI-T.B. ASSN.
    27 5 BRUNEI. Mar 16 A North Borneo anti-tuberculosis association has been formed in Jcsselton Mr. William Chiew, of the State Treasury, was appointed it* interim secretary.
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    A SECOND UNIVERSITY THIS YEAR?
    1970 5  -  By C. Northcote Parkinson In the last ot a series of three articles Professor Parkinson, of the Raffles Chair of History, discusses the project of a “Nanyang University” in Singapore and gives his ideas on the best way of promoting Chinese civilisation, culture and learning
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  • Obituary
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    22 5 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MRS. L. CHRISTIE DEMETRIADES, thanks all friends who sent messages of condolence, wreaths and attended the funeral of her late husband.
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    As I was Saying
    695 6  -  CYNICUS. SINGAPORE, Mar. 14. possibility of a A strike which, practically speaking, would have deprived Singapore of its government has fast receded. Perhaps there never was such a possibility, but while it lasted the prospect, such as it was, did not altogether lack charm Were all
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    AFTER TAPPING HOURS
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    915 6  -  Stanley Street- HalaM’a kami'on^ "THE closure on “Terang Bulan"? But no. A letter from Mr. R. J. Farrer un the subject. Which has been delayed before coming to hand must be referred to. for Mr. Farrer. of the long memory and the rich experience of
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    SIR GERALD’S FAREWELL TO GURKHAS
    84 6 KUALA LUMPUR Mar High Commissioner. Gtu. Gerald Templer, by Lady Templer, bad' 1 w(“fll to a Coronation co f n sent of 145 Gurkhas c parade on the Packing hore 1 afternoon. In his address *o the ha band and the 8o r soldiers in
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    FAMILY PAY IS REJECTED
    1734 8 SINGAPORE. Mar. 12. THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT last night rejected the principle of family allowances recommended by the Benham Committee and announced that it would appoint a Commission immediately to examine the allowances paid to officers in the Colony’s public service. 'Hie Government's decision was announced simultaneously
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    They’ll fight for the Specials’ rights
    144 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 11. SPECIAL constables throughout the country will have associations of their own to champion their rights. These Associations will be run on the same line as those for the regular police. They will act as liaison bodies between the special constables
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    ON FAR EAST TOUR
    28 8 Dr. A. M. Wilson-Rae, Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Colonial Office, reached Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday on a tour of the Far East.
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    UMNO plans for youths in self-rule
    115 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 11. MEASURES to lit UMNO tl* youths in the plans to s< t up an “interim government” for Malaya as a prelude to self-rule will be discussed at a special meeting of UMNO youth leaders in North Malaya at Kepala Batas,
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    THEY HOPE THE EAST WILL GIVE THEM SOME IDEAS
    143 8 SINGAPORE. M. ir A WRITER and a 'fa -n producer arrived in Singapore yesterdav on a tour of the East during which they hope to stock up on ideas." One is the Australianborn ex-newspaper correspondent. Mr Alan Moorhead, author of nine
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    A COURSE ON ECONOMICS —FOR $2
    77 8 SINGAPORE. Mai. 12 A COURSE oj 20 .ecture.N “Economics in Undevel Areas" will be given Singapore by the Adult ration CounciC —at lo cents lecture. The first will start at p.m. on Monday in R of the Raffles Institution Those interested should Mr. Charles
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    24 WILL BE CHOSES FOR SANDHURST
    104 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 11. EHRST batch of 33 potential officers of the Federa- tion and Malay regiments will leave Singapore on Mar. 18 for further training at Eaton Hall in Britain Seven more will leave by air for Britain early in April. The 24
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    LEADERS CONDEMN GOVT’S DECISION
    428 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 12. HHHE Council of Action of the Federation of Government Employees’ Unions will meet on Saturday to consider what measures may be necessary following the rejection of the Benham report by Government. The .secretary of the Singapore Senior Officrr.s’ Association, Mr. (ioh Keng Swec.
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    QUAKERS FOR NEW VILLAGES ARRIVE
    209 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 12. THRU I Quakers have arrivtd in Singapore to work for the Malayan Christian Council in new villages. The trio. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Walker and Miss R. C. Tebbutt 'pent 32 years in China and speak fluent Mandarin. Their work will include
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    Ibans formed into new unit
    266 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 11. NEW FORCE—the “Sarawak Rangers”—will soon be fighting the terrorists, the Federation Government announced today. The Rangers will form part of the Federation’s military forces with the approval of the Sarawak government. The Rangers will be recruited from among the Iban trackers
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    New school for village
    59 9 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Mar. 11. The new village school at Sungei Lembu was opened today by the Penang Senior Inspector of Schools, Mr. R W. WatsonHyatt. The school, which cost $20,000, has three classroom* and three quarters for teachers. There is an enrolment of 70. The Bukit
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    Off the reef, out to sea
    65 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 12. The Indian freighter Jalamohan, which ran aground on a reef near Blakan Mati on Tuesday evening, was refloated early yesterday and left for Japan in the afternoon. The Singapore agents said the ship suffered no damage and was able to sail
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    HE RAN A ONE-MAN COMPANY
    259 9 Engineer gaoled for cheating KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 12. A CRIPPLED 29-year- old engineer, B. C. L. Steele, who ran a oneman “company” at Port Swettenham, was sentenced in the Sessions Court today to six months’ imprisonment on a charge of cheating. With him in the
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    ‘Help’ offer by women
    61 9 ALOR STAR. Mar. 11Several women’s institutes in Britain have ottered to “adopt” kampong institutes formed in Malaya. ‘‘They will help by sending patterns and remnants of materials,” Mrs. R. D. R Hill, president of the North Kedah Women’s Institute, said today. At present 12 organiser-in-structors of
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    Four Malayans in parade
    66 9 Four Malayan police inspectors were among the 22 officers from 11 territories who. having completed a training course at the Metropolitan Police School, London, paraded before the Minister of State for the Colonies, Mr. Henry Hopkinson, at a pass-ing-out ceremony on Mar. 10. They were Inspector
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    Perak gave most to Poppy Fund
    35 9 IPOH, Mar. 11. Perak’s collection of $45,813 topped the Federation’s donations to the Poppy Day Appeal Fund last year. Biggest collection came from Lower Perak $11,304. Ipoh gave $9,509.
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    20,000 may get another $2 1/2 m.
    231 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 11. WAGE increases recommended In Mr. John T Cameron, Q.C., the arbitrator appointed In the Governor, Sir John Nicoll, lor dail>-rated employees at the Singapore Naval Base, may also affect employees in the Army and Air Force establishments in the Colony.
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    Trade balance favourable by $1 million
    107 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 14. Although on actual imports and exports Malaya in January began the year with a small adverse merchandise trade balance of $7,662,000, she had an overall trade balance in her favour of $1,045,118 as she exported a further $8,700,000 in the form
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    TRANSFERRED
    18 10 TAIPING. Mar. 15. Inspector Tan Kim Aec nas come to Taiping on transfer from the Cameran Highlands.
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    Chinese chosen for Malay council
    150 10 IPOH, Mar. 13. T'HE DEWAN NEGARA of Perak, the first to be set J up in the Federation under the recently promulgated Part Two of the State Constitution will hold its first assembly in the Council Chamber tomorrow morning when it will be formally inaugurated
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    Death of Mrs. Matt
    31 10 HOUSTON. Texas. Sun.—Mrs. Faye Matt, wife of Mr. Ernest C T. Matt, director of Messrs. R. Renton and Company, Singapore, died here yesterday after a four-month illness.
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    Inter-Religious Organisation
    95 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 14. Office-bearers of the InterReligious Organisation, Singapore and Johore Banru. for 1953 are Prof. R. E. Holttum, chairman: Inche Tahir bin Manmood. secretary; Mr. Too Beng Chye, treasurer, council members: Mr. V. Packirisamy. Dato Syed Ibrahim bin Ornar Alsagoff, Rev. Canon D. n Chelliah. Mr. Ang
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    A scroll for Jade Snow
    60 10 MISS JADE SNOW WONG. \merican-Chinese ceramics artist and author, admiring a scroll presented to her by the Penang Ladies’ Chin Moo Association. On the extreme left is .Mr. Ng Sui Cam. president of the Penang M.C.A. and in the centre is Mr. Chan Yik King.
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    Labourer bayonets thief—and is knifed
    347 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 14. m SHING after two Chinese who had robbed him a Singapore labourer plunged a bayonet into the stomach of one of them. Then he was knocked down and stabbed. The victim of the robbery. Mr. 800 Kiat Chwee 34. of 104 E.
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    ANY PLAN TO LAY RUBBER ROADS?
    189 10 M KUALA LIIiMPUR, Mar. 13. R. KJIOO TEIK EE wants to know if the Federation Government has a programme for laying rubberised roads and landing strips. If not. then Mr. Khoo wants the Government lo say wdiy. He has tabled questions on the subject
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    Britain will see our Crowning festivities
    110 10 SINGAPOhr P viala yas iM celebration. n, atl shown to Britain's 5 million television a fortnight later nce A film of ah th- ions in the C\> and colonies, to i; r the B.B.C.. wil! b. on June 15. ne <! The producer. M
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    They study to benefit a nation
    81 10 SINGAPORE. Mar. 14 SIXTEEN Indonesian hnh school students arrived in Singapore last night in the Italian liner Sydney en route to Europe. Eight will learn agricultura. tractor methods from the Forguson company’s school at Coventry. England. The rest will study electro generation and telephone
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    Church in emergency
    80 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. The dav-to-dav life e f Church in worship witness has not suffer*■. the emergency, writ* Bishop of Singapore Rev. Henry W Baines 1 March issue of “The Con’ official magazine Andrew Cathedral. Of the Anglican Char Malaya during th" P«'ist and-a-half years an < leadership,
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    341 want to join the university this year
    159 11 I oRE. Mar. 13. I imber of 341 It will sit tor their ft' nations to the n:ril V Vi Malaya nexi ■t’n.vtT"*- Krdls Th v >ng examinations ■Vh «’> ai il towns in the Kf”at; Sarawak and ftingap*'* l ...t v
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    HIGHEST EVER
    20 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 13.— fa* riv ra.c of the Forestry k-pirtr.'.ci'.t »ached a record I SiiiOiOOO last year.
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    Gurkhas kill 2 ‘wanted’ Reds
    39 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 11. Gurkhas operating near Seremban yesterday killed two terrorists. Phun Kou and Kim Kon Sang. Both men were on the police “wanted” list. The; Gurkhas captured two rifles and some equipment.
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    PLANS FOR COST OF LIVING SURVEY
    294 11 I KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 12. PL.W to conduct a cost-of-living 1 survey among I w f>rkvrs in the Federation is now being prepared by a six-man committee headed by Mr. 0. A. ■penicr. Member for Economic Affairs. B. rh. m r> plan is ex
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    Model homes going up for 20,000 people
    441 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 12. 'pWENTY-FOUR building contractors are transforming 1,128 acres of old rubber land into what will soon be Malaya’s prettiest town. They are completing 40 model houses in the new town —to be called Petaling Jaya—eight miles from Kuala Lumnur These
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    OFFICERS CLEARED OF TAKING BRIBES
    142 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 12. pOLICE Lieutenant J. H. Clark was acquitted of A charges of corruption and extortion in the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court today. Clark was alleged to have corruptly accepted $2OO from a rubber contractor, Wong Koon. in a hotel in Kuala Kubu
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    BROADCAST FOR PATIENTS
    27 11 Rftclio Malaya is broadcasting fnr SP n C *H equest Programme ni P aient -s m Federation hospitals every Saturday morning at 8.30. v
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    Lights for them just as Tempter said
    168 11 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Mar. 11. Permatang Tinggi new’ village had electric lights for the first time last night. The lights came less than three months after the High Commissioner. Sir Gerald Templer, had promised them to the villagers. There was no ceremony to mark
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    RELIC OF SAINT
    163 11 MALACCA, Mar. 12. A RELIC of St. Francis Xavier was this evening placed in Malaya's oldest church. St. Peter’s, in Malacca. This opened an 11-day celebration of the fourth centenary of the arrival of the saint’s body in Malacca. The relic—a bone of the saint’s right arm
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    Ex-Services Assn
    51 11 Following wore elected ct!icials of the Ex-Services a.. ciation of Singapore for 1953 President. Mr. E I. Heritor,; hon. secretary, Mr. W R. Dennis; treasurer. Mr. R. K. Love, committee: Messrs. Ee Peng Liang. E L. S. Jennings, VV D. Gillespie, Lee Kiah Wah and F. L. Angel
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    Move to censure Govt on pay row
    525 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 14. L ,w xj'OWE Legislative Council may discuss a |HK t Jls ure against the Government for its 1 motion < family allowances issue, at its |e etinc 011 ,.j "n for permission to introduce the I be* n made by
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    HIGH FLYING STAR
    87 13 HER NAME is Diane Cheng. Yes. you are quite right if you say she is an air hostess, but this pretty 27-year-old is also a leading Hong Kong film star. Diane, better known as Tong Cheng to her fans, flew into Singapore by Cathay Pacific Airways Ekymaster.
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    CONTRACTOR TO QUIT FLAT
    181 13 SINGAPORE. Mar. 13. ABl iLDING contractor living in a Singapore Im provement Trust flat at Tiong Bahru has been told to quit. He was said to be able to undertake a $50,000 contract. And only people with a monthly income oelow $OOO are entitled to have
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    19 HIGHER POSTS FOR CLERKS
    73 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 14. rnHERE are 19 super scale posts in the Singapore Government Clerical Service, states the Colonial Secretary’s Office. Officers on tne permanent establishment who want these posts, .should apply through heads ot departments. Applications must reach the Assistant Secretary. Colonial Secretary’s Office, not
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    NICOLL STOPS MOVE BY RAJ ON PAY ROW
    157 13 ffi s!n2,‘) P0FtE Mar 15 John v, rnor Sir C p has refused ab our-p,„ )iU :,r atha Raj permission censure for its roily allowE ‘Wii Legis. Rii, f "tint*. Rive the notice •°tion. He 11 President to dispense with the notice
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    Ipoh Blood Bank
    17 13 Twenty-throe people donated blood to the Ipoh Blood Bank last month. Seven were Servicemen.
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    HENRY WAUGH CHANGES
    230 13 WITH the retirement of Mr. S. E. Travis as chairman and managing director of Henry Waugh and Co., Ltd. his two offices in the company have been separated. The chairmanship of the company has been assumed by 33-year-old Mr. Henry Alan Waugh, son of the late Mr.
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    Indonesia trade red tape to be cut
    180 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 14 INDONESIA and Singapore have, in talks in the last few days, agreed in principle to simplify trade procedure between the two countries This was announced by th" retiring Director ol Com merce and Industry, Mr. Andrew Gilmour, yesterday at a
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    Mr. and Mrs. Aldo Eggers-Lura, after their wedding on March 14 at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore. Mr. Eggers-Lura, who is with the East Asiatic Company, met his bride, daughter of French Consul in Singapore, M Roger Meffreys, in Singapore about a year ago. Mlle. Meffreys was born in Dublin, lived seven years in Buenos Aires and five in Tientsin before coming to Singapore.
    63 14 Mr. and Mrs. Aldo Eggers-Lura, after their wedding on March 14 at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore. Mr. Eggers-Lura, who is with the East Asiatic Company, met his bride, daughter of French Consul in Singapore, M Roger Meffreys, in Singapore about a year ago. Mlle. Meffreys was born in Dublin, lived
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    BIG PARADE RED DIES IN JUNGLE CAMP
    144 14 KUALA LUMPl'R, Mar. 14. UflTII tin* death I.au .Mah, tlie Ciiniinunisi who marched through London in the victory parade, the terrorists have lost one ol their most valued “intellectuals." I.ati Mali died of tuberculosis in a lonely jungle camp, the rederation Government announced
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    SPOTLIGHT ON COCONUTS
    61 14 JOIIORE BAHRU. Mar. 14. ANEW coconut station is to be established in Johore at a cost o! $12,600. The station will carry out te'ts in the selection of new n! intine material as well as '■< cultural methods It will also endeavour to im--1 trove the technique
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    Haji 150, prays for a long life
    353 14 SINGAPORE, Mar. 15. REPUTED to be the world's oldest living person, Hap [lias bin Haji Abdul Majid says he was 150 years old yesterday—and he is still going strong. Tucked away in a little village in Bukit Timah, S n?apore Haji Has sat
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    GOING ON LEAVE
    38 14 f POII. M.-ir. 15 -Thp British Poral Mi I W. Belwill be leaving later this month on loner leave. During hi« absence Mr F r O Barret will be act In? as British Advi. < r.
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    900 PIGS A DAY KILLED
    90 14 SINGAPORE, 3far. 15. \BOLT 800 to 900 local pigs a day are slaughtered to provide Singapore with pork, the retiring Director of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Andrew Gilmour. said on Friday. The price of leeding stuffs, which came from Indochina ard other places, was high
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    PICTURES ON DISPLAY
    69 14 Photographs from 24 Malayans were among those displayed at the annual exhibition of the Birmingham Photographic Society held recently. Most of the Malayan entries were from Chinese. Particularly striking were two works by Francis Wu “Behind the Bamboo Screen" and Work Begins at Morn.” Other outstanding pictorial
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    New home for people of Belum
    330 14 ,p CH, Mur ii JHE people of Belum, who were evacuated f their bandit-menaced valley amors; u clad hills of northernmost Perak a year a« 0 being finally resettled in their new homes in a safe and rich agricultural area 20 m? south of
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    NEW ORGAN DEDICATED
    95 14 SINGAPORE, Mar. 15. Head of the Methodist Church in South-East Asia. Bishop Raymond L. Archer, dedicated the new Hammond organ of the Bedok Methodist Church in Singapore before a large congregation i n a special service yesterday. Guest-organist for the occasion was Miss Louise Cheng eldest daughter
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    FLYING CLUB SOCIAL
    46 14 IPOH, Mar 15.—The Perak Flying Club held its first post-war social last night when about 150 people attended a champagne barbecue and dance at the clubhouse at Ipoh aerodrome. Among those present were the Mentri Besar the British Adviser and the State Secretary.
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    Youth is the wealth of Malaya
    122 14 KUALA LUMPUR Mar 15 rE wealth of Malaya is n tin and rubber out t youth of the countrv, Mr a Peterson. Director General Information, told a meeting the Selangor Youth OuncE Kuala Lumpur yesterday Mr. Peterson said that t] country wa s on
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    Designs of stamps...
    74 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 13. Selangor's philatelists wa better Malayan stamp desigi The Selangor Stamp C! made representations last ye to the Postmaster General, was told that the matter being considered by the Go eminent. Stamp auctions most popular aetivit: > f t club last year. Malayan stamp-
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    HIS 25 YEARS OF SCOUTING
    48 14 JOHORE BAHRU Mr Syed Hashim bin assistant State Con amnion of Boy Scouts. Johore who* leave‘the state on trimCr wards the end of tie joined as a scout win schooling and has bn nected with the mo 1 25 years without a nreus
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    FILM ON KINTA
    39 14 KUALA LUMPUR 15 A new’ Malayan Film duction called Spirit" will have screening in IpohThe film highligljactivities in the and the training o f Valley Home Guard be shown at the R 1 1 from Thursday.
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    Two charged with criminal assault
    117 14 TAPAH Mar. 13. A 30 YEAR OI.D British police lieutenant. I M I/ivie and an Indian special constable. Corporal N. Singaram. 24 of th- 20th Federal •Tuni’lc Company, were yesterday brought before the’Tapah Magistrate. Tnehe Abdul Aiz on a charge of having raped a 20-year-old
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    THIS PHOTOGRAPH taken from the Straits Times building in Cecil Street shows what the Singapore skyline will look like by the end of this year.
    250 15 Architects for the China Bank Building (extreme left) and for Finlayson House (extreme right) sketched into the picture the approximate heights of these two new
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    Entrance to a Govt office
    95 15 THESE waste-paper baskets and the dustbin above) stood outside the entrance to the new Singapore Government offices in Palmer Koad. They have been complained about by the public. letters have been writtfn to the Press. One said: it’s a shame that our Government offices look
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    To advise on better roads
    52 15 IH I! «APORE. Mar. 17. 1 a rr Wiliams, will ritaii a ll v in ?apore from lo 1 to advise on He ;v 01 better roads. Wyin« J 5? 1 hen? for a week Altf.hu. dci renditions. frill to Singapore, r Federation, lr av,ak.
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    NEW STATION
    19 15 JOhohi n fl| |'iu:r, BAUHU; Mar. 16. w being made 1 V"w agricul,)n°rc. GovM l' cl $14,500
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    FIFTEEN-MINUTE CLEAN UP
    139 15 Gnvernmen t offices entrance tidied SINGAPORE, Mar. 17, niX City t\ fansing departmi*.'.* m-m yesterday nave the entrance to the •i: r v Sincarore Government offie-.■« in Palmer Road a whirlwind spring clean. They also tidied nearby pre mlses in a hastily-ordered “Operation This followed the publication
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    He will be Colony puisne judge
    43 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17. Mr. M. Buttrose. senior crown counsel, Singapore, will assume duties as acting puisne judge on Friday when Mr. Justice Knight leaves for Britain on leave. Mr Buttrose acted in a similar capacity in 1951.
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    TAKES OVER
    38 15 BRUNEI, Mon. The new Chief Programme Organiser of the Sarawak Broadcasting Service, Mr. P. D. J. Daly, has arrived in Kuching to start work. He was formerly in Singapore with the British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service.
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    Gen. Oliver takes over from Sir Rob
    313 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 1(>. THE General who will take over the task of planning the campaign against the Federation’s terrorists arrived unheralded in Kuala Lumpur this morning. Major-General W. P. Oliver was whisked from the airport to a conference of Mentris Besar and
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    New commandant of depot
    70 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 16. MR. J. H. HINDMARSH has boe n appointed commandant of the Federal Police Depot, succeeding Mr. T. H. Stockdale, who has gone to England on leave. Mr. Hindmarsh joined the police in 1936 and became O.C.P.D. Kajang before tin war. H<> commanded
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    Volunteers: ‘Your very own troops’
    114 15 Volunteers: Your very own troops’ SINGAPORE, Mar. 12. AJAJOR-Gen. A. G. O’Carroll Scott, G.O.C. Singapore District, last night praised members of the Singapore volunteer forces for their work in laying the foundation of the Colony’s future military forces. “Join them if you can, and if you can t at least
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    Blackout for 35 mins
    74 15 SINGAPORE. Mar. 17. Singapore residents in the areas along Cecil Street, Robinson Road, Bras Basah Road. Beach Road. Victoria Street and a section of North Bridge Road had a 30-minute blackout from 6 p.m. yesterday. The City Electrical Engineer, Mr. C. C. Payne, told the Straits
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    KLUANG OFFICER
    25 15 JOfJORE BAHRU. Mar. Hi. Mr. J. P. Blackledge has succeeded Mr. M. J. T McCann, who is ~n leave, as Administrative Officer. KHuang.
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    BRITAIN GIVES $10,000,000
    123 15 Our airport SINGAPORE, >lar. 17 fjPllK bill i isii iioveruA ment has approved a gift of to build the new iniernational airport at Paya l.ebar, Singapore. The grant has been made through the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund and is part of the joint allocation to Singapore
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    $300,000 a year savings expected
    124 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. IG. TI/lALAYAN schoolchildren are expected to save more than $300,000 each year through the Students Savings Scheme Broadcasting over Radio Malaya tonight, Mr. V. L. Smith, Acting Controller of the Savings Bank, said bovs and girls in the 167 school, in Singapore
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    Scholarships for three
    41 16 BRUNEI. Mur. 16.—The Australian Government, under the Colombo Plan, has awarded three visiting scholarships for a seminar in public administration to three Government officials in North Borneo They are Messrs. M. Robert. I). H. O’Brien and A. Watson.
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    ‘DEPLORABLE’, SAYS NICOLL
    999 16 ‘DEPLORABLE’ SAYS NICOLL SINGAPORE, Mar. IS. CIR JOHN NICOLL, the Governor, yesterday rebuked the Singapore civil servants who are thinking of striking. He told the Legislative Council: “1 must remind them they have a real duty to the public and the public has a right to expect them to acknowledge
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    EX-ROYAL CAR
    144 16 A black, armourplated Daimler car. which used to carry the late King George VI, and other members of the Royal Family during air-raidj in Britain, will next week be carrying rubber planters about on an estate in Johorr. It weighs four-and-a-half tons, and the doors, roof and sides
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    Detainee centre’s future studied
    342 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. IS. THE future of Singapore's Detainees Rehabilitation Centre at Chua Chu Kang Road is under consideration, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, told the Legislative Council yesterday. He was replying to Mr. Thio Chan Bee (Progressive—Balestier), who had asked for details of the
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    Govt will help house the poor
    332 16 SINGAPORE, Mar THE SINGAPORE A ernment will next provide a subsidy housing the pLI? classes in the eg This was unanimous agreed to at Ves 2 day’s Legislative CounS meeting. Cl Mr. c. R. Dasarathi* R a bour-Rochore) > ij councillor who spoke'stroS against
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    Metal experts for conference
    56 16 Three men. all Federation, will represen. Malaya and British Born territories at the ECAFLK gional Conference on Min ir Resources which opens Tokyo on April 20. r o] They are the acting ton of Geological Survey M* Service, the acting t 1 pa pector of Mines,
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    ‘Cost of S’pore Govt is high’
    425 18 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17. THE cost of Government in Singapore is now 1 out of all proportion and has got out of hand, said Mr. S. E. Travis, chairman and managing director of Henry Waugh and Co., Ltd., in a farewell interview, before he left
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    THEY WON’T GO TO THE FEDERATION
    93 18 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. detainees in Singapore have refused to be sent to detention camps in the Federation, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, said in the Legislative Council yesterday. The legal position was that Singapore detainees coulrtl not be sent to the Federation
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    Post office: Govt ready to arbitrate
    135 18 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. npiIE Governor oi Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, yesterday reiterated the Government’s willingness to put the Posts and Telegraph Union’s dispute to arbitration if it could not be solved through negotiation. Speaking in the Legislative Council on the Union’s threatened strike, Sir
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    40 RURAL BUS SHELTERS
    50 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 17. The Rural District Committees will erect 40 bus shelters in the rural areas of Singapore. They will put up eight shelters in Bukit Panjang. six each in Serangoon, Sembawang and Pasir Panjang, four in Changi. three in Bedok and seven in Bukit Timah.
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    He thanks a wise Colony adviser
    135 18 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. THE GOVERNOR of Singapore, S'.r John Nicoll. in the Legislative Council yesterday thanked the Director of Commerce and Industry. Mr. Andrew Gllmour. for being a wise adviser to the Government. Mr. Gilmour. who has spent more than 30 years in Malaya.
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    SAGGING RUBBER
    245 18 SINGAPORE, Mar. 14. A SAGGING tendency set in this week and yesterday business was done in current month as low as 72 cents po r pound, says Lewis and Peat’s weekly rubbei market report. Tills price was the lowest since June 1950 Fairly heavy and consistent liquidation ha.s
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    COLONY TO SPEND EXTRA $6,500,000
    221 18 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. THE Singapore Legislative Council yesterday approved the spending of an extra $8,500,000 towards the cost of running the Colony. The biggest item was $8,024 990 for the purchase of land, while $217,000. Gov ernnient’s contribution to the estimated $050,000 cosl of the
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    Six score 50s in first innings
    985 18  -  x jnUi .wW-wmmMm in SrURT bv EDIN PETERS SINGAPORE'S cricket season really got under way last week-end and the early season form shown by a number of players is encouraging. Six batsmen, S. Yogarajah. S. Kulasingam and S.K. Sundaram, T. H. Potts, Wison and
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    Tins, rubbers quiet, industrials easier
    706 20 SHARE MARKET By Our Financial Correspondent. SINGAPORE, Mar. 16. IN spite of a succession of events which might have caused a general decline in share values, the Singapore share market last week continued with surprising steadiness and a fair volume of business was done, in
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    BUSINESS DONE
    295 20 SINGAPORE, Mar. 15. THE following business in the share market was reported for the period March 7 to March A 3, inclusive:— INDUSTRIALS. Fraser Neave Ord. $2.47 to $2.50 to $2 45 cum div.. Federal Dispensary $2,77t0 $2.90. Gammon $3.00 to $3.20. Hammer $3 12V» to $3.10 cum
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    Price of mutton down 5 cents
    47 20 The controlled maximum price of mutton, slaughtered locally after importation from Australia, has been reduced from $1.40 per lb. to $1.35. This w’as included in an amendment to the Price Control Ordinance tabled at yesterday’s meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council.
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    Firm of rubber packers defaults
    199 20 Firm of rubber packers defa ults SINGAPORE r j. rpHE SINGAPORE Rubber Market and a y 0 I mercial concerns were yesterday distor?* >d b 5\J defaulting of a large Chinese firm of pack e i y J] to be due to the recent depression i n .^1 Le rubber.
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    90 20 SINGAPORE. Mar. 18. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: Neon Prices per picul were:Copra: steady, buyers 541 f.o.b, sellers $42. Coconut oil: $64 sellers (up $1). Pepper: steady; Muntok white $6lO sellers. Sarawak $605 (up $5). Lampong black $5lO (up $10). Tone: The whole market was stimulated by mere
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    CYCLONE RELIEF
    17 20 PENANG, Mar. 17.—Collections here for the Madras State CycCone Relief Fund now total nearly $13,000.
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    DIVIDENDS DECLARED
    297 20 The following vi, nds announced durn wef J FRASER M \> First terim, six cents, f.,, ear eiw June, payable Ap... n bft close April 6. AYER HIT AM s«*i interim 25 per ten ma S per cent to date h ve ir L ing June. KEPONG TIN
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    816 20 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Mpx HricKs Pref i lb 2 30 Ords 4 10 4.20 Atlas let 12 25 13 25 BB Petro. 35/6 36/6 B M 1 rusteen 6 50 7 50 Con Tin Sme.t. Pref 21/- 22/- cd Ords 22/3 23/3 Eastern United
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