The Straits Budget, 13 August 1953

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    28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER kjtn\ -'dies No. 3(57. Thursday, August 13, 1953 Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 •hllllnc.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      Ex-detainee makes a protest
      410 2  -  C.V. DEVAN NAIR. Singapore. KINDLY allow me some space to discuss some facts concerning the treatment accorded to me by the Government of Singapore after my release from detention in April. Apart from being denied reinstatement in the teaching profession, I have been continuously subject to
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      A need for Malay
      120 2  -  J. NARAYANA. I ENDORSE O. S. Harun’s suggestion (Straits Times, July 31) that future candidates for the Malayan Civil Service should have to pass in Malay. Although Malay is being taught in mos‘ non-Malay schools in the Federation, few’ boys or girls preparing for Civil service
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      ‘ARM THE POLICE’
      209 2  -  ROGER. Penang THE Emergency is by no means over but we see policemen in Penang patrolling singly and unarmed. A policeman is a human being; he knows that he is practically defenceless when he is unarmed, and vulnerable to attacks by armed persons. So he adopts a
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      An up-to-date fairy tale
      303 2  -  AESOP. Selangor. ANCE upon a time there were 42 poor unfortunate people afflicted with a horrible and practically incurable disease, who lived in a Free Hospital which was maintained by the kindness and generosity of a sympathetic section of the general public. As the cost of
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      ‘Lift tax on sport in the Federation’
      191 2  -  BAD M \T()\ H Kuala Lumpur. THE Government of Singapore decided sometime ago to remit Entertainment Tax on Sports Meetings (effective from May 1953). The Federation Government, as yet, shows no sign of doing the same. It is understood that General Templer, the
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      Tribute to an old Malayan
      439 2  -  ONG THYI MKt Kuala Lumpur. rjR. H. C. E. ZaehariaJ whose death occurred in the United States fortnight ago at the aJ of 81. was a great figure ij the social and economij life of Kuala Lumpur S the early years of th3 present century.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      The MCA Rebuked
      734 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 7 Relations between the Malviin Chinese Association and [he Federal Government are not su cordial that a rebuke by th t High Commissioner is like|v to b»* taken in good part. But jn expressing yesterday his regret at the reaction of the MCA to
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      Government’s Tin Policy
      407 3 Straits Times, Aug. 6 The Federal Government seems extremely loath to make clear its policy on tin and on the buffer stock agreement drafted by the working party of the International Tin Study Group. The councils of the F.M.S. Chamber of Mines and of the All-Malaya Chinese
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      Rubber Joint Council
      401 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 7. Today’s meeting in Kuala Lumpur between represent--1 atives of employers and work- rr.s’ unions in the rubber industry' is the second step in the proposed formation of a joint industrial council. The first was taken last month, when exploratory talks began and some
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      City Councillors
      123 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 7. Singapore City Councillors who claim the right to interfere in the daily administration of city affairs will be doing the city a service if they carry out their threat to resign. The full Council rightly approved at its last meeting restrictions on councillors’ activities.
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      Federal Revenue
      305 3 Straits Times. Aug. 8 Light on part of the Federation’s revenue is shed by the July statistical bulletin, which gives customs and excise figures that suggest a somewhat better state of affairs than had been supposed. In the first six months of the year, customs revenue totalled $203.3
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      The MCA Replies
      242 3 Straits Times. Aug 8 The feature of the MCA’.s reply to General Templer’s strictures that will rouse most comment is the assertion that only $lOO,OOO remains of the lottery proceeds earmarked for various welfare projects throughout the Federation. It i has generally been assumed I that a
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      The Other Kind Of Bomb
      473 3 —Straits Times Aug. 10. The signing by President Eisenhower of the bill authorising disposal of the American Government’s synthetic rubber plants again brings from American commentators the prediction that the price of synthetic, and consequently oi natural, will go up three cents (U.S.) a pound
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      Tin Conference Outlook
      346 4 Straits Times. Aug 11 Figures of declining employment in the tin industry emphasise the growing seriousness of the fall in price and the resultant closure of many small Malayan mines operated by Chinese concerns. Over 4,000 workers, nearly ten per cent, ot the whole, have been dismissed
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      The Hemline
      348 4 Straits Times, Aug 11. One of the minor and recurrent mysteries of life—Western life at any rate —is what women call the line,” and I where to draw it. A few years ago there was a great sensa- j tion when a famous designer decided that the line
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      And Now A White Paper
      802 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 12. The promised White Paper on the Rice Production Committee’s Report is going to be awaited with some impatience. The report was completed in March, and published last month. There is some doubt whether the White Paper, which presumably will detail the
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      The Price Of Rubber
      473 4 —Straits Times. Aue. 12 Rubber shipments last month delighted the Treasury as well as the trade. They totalled over 77,000 tons, nearly 17,000 tons better than June, and the second highest monthly total since March last year. The low price seems to be attracting more custom
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    HILLARY OF EVEREST TO LECTURE HERE
    87 3 The Straits Times, in conjunction with the British Council, has invited Sir Edmund Hillary, who with the Sherpa Tensing conquered Mount Everest, to lecture n Singapore on the expedition and the climb to the f top of the world’s highest mountain. Sir Edmund has
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    Helicopters got the troops there—quickly
    158 4 SINGAPORE. A us. H THE Royal Navy helicopter squadron in Malaya carries over 4.000 troops on operational lilts, flew 1.500 hour? and moved 100.000 lb. freight between its arrival Singapore on Jan. 8 anJune 1, it was disclosed yesterday. The speedy movement of troops was
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    Mr. Blythe looks into the future
    1062 5  -  HARRY MtLLER In this the second of two articles based on an interview with him, Mr. W. L. Blythe, (\U(h, retiring Colonial Secretary of Singapore, deals with the future problems of the Colony. Mr. Blythe left Singapore after 32 years’ service in Malaya, accompanied
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      142 5 ORCHARD: On August 4th, at Malacca Hospital, to Kay, wife of Stanley Orchard, a brother for Stephen. SIBERRY: On August sth, at Bungsar Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, to Joan (nee Parsons) wife of Dr. N. Slberry, a daughter. TO PANSY, wife of Lionel Bain of the C E 8.. Kuala
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      74 5 KIRK-WILKINSON: The engagement Is announced between Derek, only son of Mr. Mrs. F. Kirk of Blrkdale, England, and Myra Lee, only daughter of Mr. Si Mrs. 8. Wilkinson of Great Crosby, England. CRAWFORD-LEECH: The engagement Ls announced between Jean Lilian Crawford, daughter of Mr. Mrs. A. W. Crawford of
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    Cornish brothers fight in Malaya
    503 5  -  By CAPTAIN D. H. de T. READE IT’S no good the officers and N.C.O.s of Support Company of the 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry in Malaya detailing Private Docking for duty unless they make quite certain which soldier they mean. Private Docking without an initial
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  • Obituary
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    60 5 DEATHS ZACHARIAS: On 24th July, at Waukegan, Illinois. U.S.A. Professor H. C. E. Zacharlas, aged 80. For many years Secretary of the Planters’ Association of Malaya. MR. J. BAKKER of Rantau Tin. Sillau, N.S., regretfully announces that on the morning of the 7th August, 1953, his beloved fiancee, Helena Johanna
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    K. L. STREET SCENE.
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    As I was Saying
    595 6  -  cynic rs. SINGAPORE, Aug. 8. AT the meeting of the Singapore Women’s Council which approved unanimously a resolution asking the Government to bind all communities to monogamous marriage, only the chairwoman spoke. Yet the hall was crowded w’ith women. Anxious women, worried women, angry women, politically
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    833 6  -  STANLEY STREET Turtle-soup V CORRESPONDENT in Selangor nleads with great force and much good sense for an immediate step to Drotect the green turtles tChelone Mydas) which are being wantonly killed for their meat both in the Federation and the Colony. These creatures (they are
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    TERRORIST LEADERS TUMBLING
    174 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 9 THERE were four significant trends in the MalayaEmergency in July, when more bandit leaders wen eim nated —one fewer than total for June. A Federation Goverr.n'.era spokesman said today takes a long time for the munists to train a leader, they have been
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    NEW DOUBT IN KIDNAP CASE
    350 8 Was hide-out in S’pore? SINGAPORE, Aug. 6. SINGAPORE police investigating the kidnapping of Mr. Thio Soen Tioe, the Chinese millionaire, believe it possible that he was never taken to Johore. Their theory now is that he was taken by boat to an island nearby, or
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    ‘9 out of 10 pedestrians don’t look’
    141 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. out of 10 Singapore pedestrians cross the road without looking, said Singapore’s Traffic Police Chief. Mr. W. R. M. Haxworth. last night. ‘If they only wait for two or three cars to pass before crossing. the road is all theirs,”
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    Adviser to commission
    87 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 7. Tii*- Singapore Government! i night announced the ap- no. tment ot Professor O. Hood l 1, .ip.', a specialist on cons- -t 1 *nal matters, as adviser I 1 the Rondel Commission W! h will study the Colony’s k<*on titutlon. f Profi sor Phillips.
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    SPECIAL C.D. COURSE IN SINGAPORE
    82 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. ABOUT 25 civil defence volunteers from the Federation are coming to Singapore for a three weeks course on specialised rescue training, Col. L. T. Firbank, Civil Defence Commissioner, told the Straits Times yesterday. The course starts on Aug. 11 and finishes on
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    INQUIRIES FOR TV
    100 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. f». THE Singapore Government has no: received any “definite’' applications for permission to operate television in the Colony. Mr. J. D. Higham. Uftder-Secretary, said yesterday. But, three local Arms say they have applied separately for television permission. Mr. Higham said there had been some inquiries
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    Estate named for Princess
    50 8 The Singapore Improvement Trust housing estate at Alexandra will now be known t Princess Margaret Estate.* not “Buller Camp’’ as it v.as previously referred to. The site which was n_ ly developed, will have more houses soon. The S.I.T. is building 600 low-ceiling in the area.
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    Five men plan the City’s stadium
    232 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 7. HPHE Singapore Sports Stadium Board has begun to plan and estimate the cost of a modern stadium on the Serangoon Road site which the Government bought for 52.113,000. The board has appointed a sub-committee of five, with powers to co-opt more
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    Bank director
    28 8 The Singapore branch of the Chartered Bank cf India, Australia and China has been told that Sir Paul Benthall, K.B.E. has joined its Court of Directors.
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    A $150,000 JOB FOR ONLY $2,500
    106 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 6. THE 2.640-ton Anglo-Saxon Coastal tanker Liseta got a $150,000 job done for $2,500 thanks to the “surgeon in steel.” Mr F D Blake. The Liseta reached port two days ago with a cracked engine casing. Mr Blake repaired her in 15
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    BUILDERS CLAIMING ANOTHER $2,500,000
    194 8 SINGAPORE Au« ■THE BRITISH firm A engaged in the first contract to build singapore’s new Pasir Panjang power station has asked the City Council to pay an extra $2,500,000, of which $690,000 is for ’nefficiency of labour and sub-contractors. Three Council committees which recently met jointly
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    GARDEN VILLAGE PLANNED
    100 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. MORE THAN 72 acres 0* land at the 10th mile Bukit Timah Road. Singapore, will soon be developed into new “garden" village Services Limited, the owners of the land, will put aside 21 acres for a public park, two schools, a church, a cinema and
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    ‘Make this land into a park’
    49 8 ‘Make this land into a park SINGAPORE Mr. V. K. NaiiSouth) will ask the City Council short 1' 10 acres of Crown Newton 'Circus for park and children's r He said last nigh* New’ton-Dunearn R had grown so rapi there were no faciIi T -i* children in the neigh”
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    Nanyang site inspected
    85 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. Fifteen Federation representatives of the Nanyang University Council, who yesterday saw the Singapore site on which the university will be built, said its natural surroundings are “ideal.” They spent nearly two hours inspecting the 500-acre site off the 141 2 milestone, Jurong Road. Among
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    Party wants ‘muzzle’ law
    81 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. The Singapore Progressive Party is considering the introduction of legislation to prevent members of the Legislative and City Councils from committing breaches of secrecy, Mr. C C. Tan, the president, said last night. The present Standing Orders in Council which forbid Legislative Councillors
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    ‘Talk or your land is closed’
    655 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 5. THE 4,000 people of Sungei Pelek in South-west Selangor were today given a last chance to talk about the Communists in their area—and especially about Ah Tee, who is trying to step into the shoes of “Bearded Terror” Liew Kon
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    Monkey bite
    25 10 A Malay boy was bitten by a monkey in the Botanical Garoms on Aug. 6. He was treat- i m the General Hospital.
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    WOMAN HAS PLAN TO CURB VICE
    285 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 7. THE best way to minimise prostitution in Malaya is to license brothels in clearly defined “red-light districts”, Mrs. Shirin Fozdar, secretary of the Singapore Women’s Council, said yesterday Men can now go to hotels and amusement parks to find prostitutes and
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    Course in U.K.
    30 10 TEMERLOH, Aug. s.—lnche Osman bin Abdul Karim, assistant District Officer. Temerloh, has gone on a course lor Government officers. He will be In Britain about ten months
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    CONCERT OFFERS COME IN
    183 10 SINGAPORE. Am n SINGAPORE City L O had several offers > magic, dancing, music SS other entertainment n. open-air variety conceit tn celebrate City Day. These include Indian music and songs by the Tenkasi Mu lim Benefits Society and item, by the Maudrene’s Scho. Vj Dancing.
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    VISAS NOT NEEDED NOW
    103 10 SINGAPORE. Aug 8 piGHT European countries have been told that their nationals will not need visas for visits to Singapore and the Federation after September 1. A Singapore Immigration Department official said yesterday that the new immigration Ordinance be sufficient for control of travellers. He added;
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    Conservancy fees raised
    42 10 JOHORE BAHRU A The Tcwn Council h< poses increasing c< fees where the “doub system is in operation Where the presen i month the increase v. $1.50. The other scale ol < which range from Sto be raised by SI
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    Family to return with Sultan
    52 10 LONDON. Aug., 7. W Sultan cf Selangor r»"< Malaya in the Willem K August 19 he will b< panied by his sons Badli and Tungku A his daughter Tengku whose husband. Ter. mud. will return abmonths later. The Sultan’s t: Tengku Ismail, will England for
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    THESE RAPIDLY-RISING houses in Upper Aljunied Road, Singapore are for victims of the recent Geylang fire. They are of the new low-cost type developed by the Singapore Improvement Trust. Between 10 and 20 are expected to be ready in a fortnight, 50 by the end of the month, and the rest of the 200 in three months.
    60 11 THESE RAPIDLY-RISING houses in Upper Aljunied Road, Singapore are for victims of the recent Geylang fire. They are of the new low-cost type developed by the Singapore Improvement Trust. Between 10 and 20 are expected to be ready in a fortnight, 50 by the end of the month, and the
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    MCA ATTACKED BY TEMPLER
    532 11 Welfare work ended IPOH t Aug: 6. pHE High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald 1 Ternpler. today scathingly criticised the Malayan 'hinesc Association for ending its welfare work in he new villages. The MCA decisions to end its welfare work followid the Federation Government’s ban on political
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    Former Johore Treasurer dies
    64 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug 5. Wan Jusoh bin Ali, retired State Treasurer, Johore, died here yesterday. He had retired in 1946 after 35 years service His elder brother. Dato Mohd. Salleh died 22 davs ago. Wan Jusoh’s eldest daughter is the wife of Mr. Justice Abdul Hamid.
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    HEADING FOR BRITAIN
    63 11 THREE OF THE Corfu’s passengers who are heading ror Britain. On the left is Wong Kim Thong, an old boy of St. Michael’s, Ipoh, who is taking a six-vear cours» in chartered accountancy. (Centre) Chung Chan Kong and his brother. Chung Wing Kong. Chan Kong will studv
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    MR. LAU: THE GENERAL IS UNKIND
    272 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 7. ol liie top officials t Perak branch of the Ma;s* van Chinese Association ver* 1 in Ipoh yesterday when Gen Templer condemned the Association's reaction to the ban 'in. lotteries. But Mr. Chin Swee Onn who resigned last month, said: “I
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    FOUR NEW DOCTORS
    71 11 IPOH, Aug., 7. Four new doctors from the last oatch ot 34 graduates from the University of Malaya have joined the hospital here to serve a year's internship. They are Drs. Lim Swee Hock. Ong Liang Slang. Lye Lung Zing and Tan Keng Un. Dr. M. Saravanarr.uthu.
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    Fact finder
    38 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug., 7. Mr. W. Fox. State Development Oflicer, is touring the islands off the Mersing coast to get first-hand knowledge of the requirements of the islanders and find out how RIDA can best help.
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    ‘Ban was breach of faith’—MCA
    415 11 ‘Ban was breach of faith —MCA KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. T fpHE Federation Government’s ban on the Malayan 1 Chinese Association lottery was “a breach of faith,” the MCA said today in a reply to criticism levelled at the Association by the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer. 1 il The
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    Gas man quits
    37 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 6. Mr. L. G. Martin, distribution engineer of the City Gas Department. Is resigning from City Council services for personal” reasons. His resignation was accepted last nighf by the Public Utilities Committee.
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    HE WILL ACT AS PRESIDENT
    48 11 MR. J. T REA. Deputy President of the Singapore City Council, who will act as President when Mr. T. P. P. MeNeice goes on long leave next year Mr. R. Middleton Smith will then take over as acting Deputy President. straits Times photograph.
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    ‘BAD VILLAGE’ IS TAMED
    471 12 By PETER KUM KUALA LUMPUR. Aug 8. THE “bad village of Broga which the japs feared to enter 1 has been t3med by General Sir Gerald Tempter. Its gates were thrown open this morning after the 960 inhabitants had been “detained" for nine days. In a
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    Malayan to go to Rome
    48 12 PENANG. Aug 8.—Che Ahmad Rashid. Lecturer in the Agricultural College. Serdang. will be Malaya’s sole delegate to the International Rural Youth Conference at Rome next month. The conference is sponsored jointly by the World Assembly ol Youth and the Italian National Youth Committee.
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    New Sister
    22 12 TELUK ANSON. Aug 9 Miss R. G. D. Stevenson has been appointed Health Sister of the Infant Welfare Centre here.
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    IPOH MAN GOES ON OCEAN SURVEY
    166 12 Eight-month Atlantic trip From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. \uft. 7. YOUNG Malayan biologist is sailing soon with an Englishman and a New’ Zealander in an 18-ton yacht on an eight months’ scientific ocean survey of the South Atlantic. He is Ronald Eric Sharma. 33-year-old
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    Hall opened
    34 12 TELUK aNSON. M'g 9 -The Territorial Chief. Lower Perak.. Ha.ia Musa Ibni Sultan Sir Abdul Asiz opened a community hall—the fourth in the district—at Kampong Changkat Jong, on the Teluk AnsonBidor Road.
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    Rimba is a big boy now— so it’s time to leave
    177 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 0 —Tomorrow evening Mr. and Mrs. II. J. Kitchener, of Klang. will say farewell to their household pet. a 2001b. tiger. The tiger. Rimba. was given to Mr. Kitchener, who is Chief Game Warden of the
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    MacDONALD TRIES A CATAPULT
    70 12 Si ra j >j r Malcolm MacDonald f*, A jug vuth a catapult at the Pjt<. THE Commissioner C.en**''« h Rev j rierouu tries his hand at shoo<^f- L 11 bvsterian Church fun fare.Xp laMV' LITTLE Robert Hubblewhite finds it tough j u n ,Jlt to
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    NEW POLICE COURT OPENED AT BENTA
    122 12 RAUB. Aug. 9. MR. E. M. Smallwood, president of the Pahang Sessions rourt. officially opened on Friday a new court at Benta, 18 miles from Kuala Lipis. Housed in the Benta Home Guard office, the new court will serve Benta estate. Jerokho. Budu, Budu
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    Want allow
    17 12 JOHORE BAHRU iKJaii Elected members of j? 0 g t Council here want an allowance.
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    MALAYAN ARMY TO BE BIGGER
    339 13 gift from U.K. W KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 6. ■nil) federation is to have its own army of B men by the end of 1962, it was announB e( j in Kuala Lumpur today. I his is 4,;>00 more than the present strength ■i its regular
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    EMPLER SEES HOW TO GET MORE FISH
    125 13 Al l.l MPUR. Aug. 9—Four HroN filling experts on Fri* ■by showed General Sir ■erald Templer a Danish ‘■uthol of fishing which improve catches in wl waters. ■HtoT./.i and Lady Templer the fishing boat Vu'Uu! IN it l.umut. Perak v:' ’ai. weli the
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    Cable service for troops
    46 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 8. and Wireless Ltd. are Expeditionary Formessages service next for troops serving i aya and their relatives in Australia. l ar Ke will be $l.lO for JjJJF '(i text of three of the iZW printed on the E. F. M.
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    New liaison officer
    64 13 SINGAPORE. Aug 10 Major Van Boanoi. former assistant Military attache in the Thai Embassy in London, and his wife flew into Singapore by K. L. M. Constellation from Bangkok. He has been appointed Thai Liaison officer at the general headquarters of the Far East Land Forces. Maj.
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    Father gets $45,038 after fatal crash
    219 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 7. !VIR. Justice Briggs in the Supreme Court today awarded Dr. J. H. Ponnampalam $45,038 damages for his own injuries and the loss of his son Daniel Jeyasingham, 12, who died after a road accident on April 2 last year. Dr.
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    BUILD UP A LOCAL REGIMENT
    272 13 'fN’GAPORE. Aug. 8. SINGAPORE p dMvo and City f M fHors yesterday s sed surprise at r Government’s delay frying: out its j>ro|W to form the SinfjV Regiment. vm ,!l th e Straits Times the v they thought that iff s h Government’s non gift
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    More power for RIDA
    78 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug.. 7.The Rural and Industrial Development Authority is to become an incorporated body with powers to acquire land by compulsion on its own behalf or on behalf of any corporation which it has created. A bill prescribing Its functions and constitution and giving it
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    More seek work in Singapore
    177 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 8. MORE PEOPLE registered at the Employment Exchange of the Singapore Labour Department in the past two months after some Colony industries discharged workers because of “slackness of business.’’ The number of people who registered last month was 2.021 an increase of 444
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    ‘Give Council its own lawyers’
    111 13 Give Council its own lawyers’ SINGAPORE. Aug. 10 MR. Chan Kum Chee, a i?A Singapore City Councillor, is to suggest to the Council that it should set up its own legal department. The Council’s legal work is at present carried out by legal advisers in the city. Mr. Chan told
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    Airline chief flies to U.K.
    40 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 8 Sir Leonard Isitt. chairman of Tasman Empire Airways, and his wife arrived in Singapore yesterday by Qantas Constellation from Sydney. He leaves today to attend a conference and air show in Britain
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    Off to Britain
    37 13 TAIPING. Aug. 9 Miss Lim Phaik Joo. daughter of Mr and Mrs. Lim Eng Hong has left for Britain to study law Sin* was formerly a teacher of the lady Treacher Girls’ School, here.
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    HE WAS THE CHILDREN’S FAVOURITE
    159 14 SINGAPORE. Aug. 9. “FATHER CHRISTMAS", the Singapore Swimming Club jaga beloved by hundreds of children, died in the General Hospital on Thursday after a short illness. His name was Chanan Singh but he was known as “Father Christmas” because of his long grey beard and
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    African Private to hang for murder of Lieutenant
    321 14 KUANTAN. Aug. 7 A HUSHED, crowded court today heard a sentence of death by hanging passed on Private Jack Itumo. 24, of the 3rd Battalion, King’s African Rifles, for the murder of Lt. J. R. S. Mather on June 26. Findings and
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    Family remittance to China in July
    23 14 Family remittances to China during July from Malaya totalled $2,022,115 of which $1,328,585 was sent from Singapore.
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    Girl Guides mourn Mrs. Pinnick
    177 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 6—Girl Guides throughout Malaya today mourned the death of their former chief. Mrs. Agnes Pinnick. in Alor Star, Kedah, this morning. Mrs. Pinnick reorganised the the Girl Guide movement j after the liberation and had been chief Commissioner since 1946. For her
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    CAMELS AT COCKTAIL PARTY
    51 14 TWO CAMELS, on their way from Holland to Djakarta, arrived in Singapore over on Aug. 9 by the 10,800 French passenger freighter Karimata. Picture shows them being introduced to guests at a cocktail party by Captain D. J. Lap. Straits i D. J. Lap. Straits Times
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    5 Police die in bandit ambush
    317 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5 CHVE special constables were killed and two wounds yesterday afternoon when ambushed by 2r» ierr rists in the Sungei Siput area of Perak. The men, who were members of area c llrr unit No. 44, were wiped out as they
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    Cathedral to expand its work
    159 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 9. rE St. Andrews Cathedral Council is now reviewing the whole work of the Englishspeaking church in the Colony, to spread its activities. The Archdeacon cf Singapore. the Rev. Robin Woods, told the Sunday Times yesterday that the Council was planning to step
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    SHE’S OFF TO STUDY IN BRITAIN
    63 14 MlSS .Marlene Kliong Mil Lan a private nurse since 1943, left Singapore in the Corfu on Aug. 6 on 2 oneyear Sino-British scholarship lor post-graduate study in Britain. The first part of the course, which has been arranged by the Royal College of Midwives,
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    COST OF LIVING FALLING
    173 14 rpHE cost of living in tfcj •A* Federation lias starts to fall, but not much. The total weighted dex figure (base 1939-lu' for Europeans has hu 1 four points since Janua.: when it was 298 to -94* the end of June. For Malays in the degrades
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    Official’s mistake may cost man his citizenship
    363 15 JOHORE IiAHRr, Auff 9 an application on behalf of (he High Commissioner. I nitiation of Malaya, to deprive Y Fook Chenu r Bl h!•» Federal citizenship—the lirst of its kind in the Bolin t■'> came before a committee of inquiry today. I But
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    Back home after six years’ study
    71 15 I MISS LAI BIAU CHIN, r ,an,s t graduate of the Royal Academy <»t' Music, arrives in Singapore tomorrow oy the ®ranje. She has been away for six studying music at lltiruin allege, Toronto, and **ater at the Royal Academy •t Music, London, for
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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY -BY GAOL CHOIR
    128 15 I Kl M.\ LUMPUR, Aug. 10. IA ROIR f |2 prisoners IL, san l r a Malay version of I ‘'appy Birthday To You” rne a the Sultan of Kelantan I v s te d the state prison |h lengkalan Chena the r r,s °n
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    HONEYMOON IN A LINER
    58 15 1 0 THE Register Office in Singapore on Aug. 6 went Mr. Gordon Brown and pretty Miss Joyce Hing. At 10.30 they were married. At 12 noon they were aboard the liner Corfu, on their honeymoon and heading for England. Joyce was a nurse at the
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    Women to send ‘one wife bill’ to Govt
    337 15 Women to send ‘one wife bill to Govt SINGAPORE. Aug. 7. "THE Singapore Women’s Council will submit a draft A Bill to the Governor-in-Council making the Monogamous Marriage Act binding on all communities. A resolution calling for this was passed unanimously at the Council’s crowded annual general meeting at the
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    3 DREDGES HAVE SHUT DOWN
    225 15 Ik SINGAPORE. Aug. 10 I u.f Federation in the first this year three tin b< rlos(? d down there l r in operation at the 80 i* .‘v H ne compared with 0 beginning of the year, ■hi'i r of jhese dredges hut down did
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    500 at party for Sultan
    45 15 POTA BAHRU. Aug 10. Nearly 500 people attended an oflieial reception last night at Balal Resar in honour of the Sultan’s birthday. A garden party In honour of the Sultan was given in the afternoon by the British Adviser. Kelantan.
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    NEW PLANE WILL SPEED AIR WAR
    233 15 SINGAPORE. Aug. 11. THE arrival in Malaya next month of two of the latest RAF communications aircraft will mark a big step forward in the air war against the Communist terrorists. a senior RAF. spokesman said yesterday. It will be the first time the
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    PENANG EASING TAX
    99 15 PENANG, Aug. 10. THE question of relaxing entertainment duty on amateur sport is being considered, the Resident commissioner, Mr. R. P. Bingham said today. He announced that from July 15, duty had been remitted by half on all forms of entertainment in which “all the performers whose
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    Councillors’ references
    62 15 1 Mr. C. C. Tan will ask at the Singapore Legislative Council meeting on Aug. 18 about Councillors giving recommendations to people seeking employment. He will ask whether Government accepts such recommendations given to people seeking employment in the public service. Would the Government also accept Legislative Councillors
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    Mystery man is shot in hide-out
    410 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 10. PHAN Pun, the Malayan Communist party’s mystery man, whose rank of regional committee member for South Pahang covered toplevel duties, was killed yesterday. Under the old system of rewards, Chan Pun was worth at least $75,000 alive or $35,000 dead.
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    SEWERAGE PLAN IS HELD UP
    154 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 11. SINGAPORE City Council’s sewerage construction programme, already behind schedule, will fall further into arrears unless more technical staff can be obtained, says the City Engineer. Mr. G. Edmond, in his annual report published yesterday. He says that last year once again the
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    Ticket system for hawkers has failed
    160 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 11. -THE tic tiet system of aeanng x with unlicensed hawkers in Singapore has proved ineffective and hawker inspectors should be authorised to arrest and take offenders to court, the Council’s health committee was told at a recent meeting. The ticket system
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    Hospital men call off strike threat
    157 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 10. T*HE strike threat issued by the Singapore Government Hospital attendants, ayahs, cooks and gardeners was called off yesterday. A well-attended emergency general meeting of the Medical Workers’ Union decided to negotiate further with the Government. The strike threat followed the dismissal
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    Recruits wanted for the army
    35 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.—The Army Recruiting Officer here will visit Kajang on Aug. 28 to meet potential recruits. There are vacancies for tradesmen and non-tradesmen in all arms of the service.
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    Sir Donald flies in with a top secret
    239 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 11. THE MAN with an important report from London, Sir Donald MacGillivray, Deputy High Commissioner, kept silent about it yesterday when he arrived in Singapore by Qantas Constellation. Sir Donald will fly to Kuala Lumpur today and report to the
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    Union asked to reopen wage talks
    54 16 SINGAPORE Aug 11 riiHE Singapore City Coun:il X yesterday invited its Labour Unions Federation to reopen negotiations on workers claims for more wages, lew and gratuity. Negotiations were suspended on mutual agreement just before Coronation week. Since then the Federation has appointed a firm
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    Advanced studies for Malayans
    166 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 11. SINGAPORE and the Federation are represented at a course of advanced study of “Child Development and Mental Health” which began yesterday at the University of Sydney. The course, conducted jointly by the World Health Organization and the Australian Government is attended by leading
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    BRITAIN TO AID FEDERATION
    431 17 rnicG. report on mission I KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 11. BRITAIN is to give Malaya financial aid to tide Pi t 0 ,er the difficult year it faces in 1954. This I the message the Deputy High Commissioner, r Ronald MacGillivrav, brought back to the federation today.
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    Councils and the Govt draft
    213 17 [LAN TO XPAND TOWNS Aug. 11.—A five-year de>pment plan has been pared lor six big new vills m the Kinta district ol ak. lour of them Ipoh dlitetf. All have elected i: own councils. •Col. W. Whittaker. Em?ncy Administrative Offisaid: This five-year plan cost altogether
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    Party for Sultan
    38 17 l R 1 5 Aug. 11.—The Sultan cuang was the guest of l 1 tlie luncheon given K,. u e l )cal branch of the Malmese Association in r nour 01 Ilk visit to Raub
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    BOYS’ BRIGADE WANTS $20,000
    145 17 Lilt Aug. 12. I Singapore Boys Brigade r $20,000 to send a r to the centenary K, Jr ,t,ion of the birth of ‘->i«nder of the movement |Ut vp.’ r En S land in July Bovs Brigade was startIJ Britain in 1883 by 29I ‘.‘V William
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    Lion cubs born in KL
    47 17 LION TAMER Amedeo Gerarde of the Busch Circus, in Ipoh, goes sightseeing with four companions the Stey sisters, Sonia (left) and Otte, and two lion cubs, Miss Malaya and Miss Kuala, born in Kuala Lumpur three weeks ago. Straits T imes picture.
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    RIOTERS LOSE APPEAL
    153 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 12. T'HE United Malays Na- tional Organisation announced yesterday that its appeal to the Queen for pardon for seven Muslims sentenced to life imprisonment for offences during the Singapore riots in December, 1950. has been rejected. “The Colonial Secretary. Singapore, has stated that the Secretary
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    Padi experts to escape economy drive
    360 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 10 A WHITE PAPER on the implementation of the rice production committee’s report published last month Is berng prepared bv the Member for Agriculture and Forestry in the Federation. Tungku Yaacob The paper will go to the executive committee and will
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    Builders are waiting for prices to drop
    132 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 12. LEADING Singapore architects and builders say uncertain market conditions for rubber and tin are forcing the public to think twice about planning new buildings. A leading architect told the Straits Times that 18 months ago people were rushing o build
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    Worker shot
    36 17 PENANG. Aug. 11. An Indian labourer was taken to hospital in a serious condition after n police guard at Sungei Pinane workshop opened lire on a moving figure which did not stop when challenged
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    GEN. TEMPLER INSPECTS CADETS
    45 18 GEN. TEMPLER is seen above inspecting a parade of the combined schools Cadet Corps at the Victoria Institution. Kuala Lumpur. Behind him on the right is Brigadier G. T. Denaro, Commanding Officer of the Federation Army. Straits Army. Straits Times picture.
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    TEMPLER CALLS FOR SOME MUSIC
    330 18 Give the boys a band, he says KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 11. ("'EN. SIR GERALD TEMPLER today inspected 120 1 cadets undergoing military training at the Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur. They are members of the Victoria Institution and St. John’s Institution Cadet Corps. The flve-day course
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    BUTTON HALTS TRAFFIC
    142 18 SINGAPORE. Aug. 12. SINGAPORE'S first pedest-rian-operated electric tra- j lfic signal will be working by tomorrow. The signal, outside the City Hall near St. Andrew’s Cathedral. will have a button that pedestrians can press when they want to stop the traffic. The button will cause the red
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    M.C.A. men talk of accounts
    41 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 12. Two officials of the Singapore branch of the Malayan (’hint- c Association have called on the Commercial subbranch of the Singapore police and made statements about the Association’s accounts, the police said yesterday.
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    HE WANTS GOVT TO GIVE JOBS
    239 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 12. 'MR Thio Chan Bee, the Sinx gapore Legislative Councillor, will ask Government, at the Legislative Council meeting on Tuesday, to give jobs for the increasing number of jobless by expanding the public works throughout the island. 1 He will table questions
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    Penang to meet Colony in Cup
    766 18  -  THE WEEK IN SPQRtI By JOHN MARKS SINGAPORE. Aug. 12. THE Malaya Cup soccer final at Ipoh next Saturday will be between Singapore and Penang who will be meeting for the fifth time. Penang qualified for the final on Sunday when they whipped the
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    Dead hostess: an arrest
    61 18 SINGAPORE. Aug. 12. A British soldier, attached to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, was arreted yesterday morning in connection with the death of Doreen Pereira, Singapore d nce will aonear in court Miss Pereira, who N foU ni the Britannia Club. n j dead on Sunday
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    Prices for tins and industrials rise
    626 20 TorfcWXnni'MM—MTWMinfliVWVnun nrrrmm<«—nm»—itii By Our Financial Correspondent SINGAPORE, Aug. 10. pOR the first time in many weeks it is possible to report a considerable improvement in the Singapore share market last week. Tin was relatively steady during the week and rubber showed a welcome rise
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    Guthrie’s outputs
    36 20 In July estates and mines in th-? Guthrie group produced 6.629.900 pounds of rubber, 169,500 pounds of black tea, 12.92 tons of palm oil. 362 tons of palm kernels and 1,118 piculs of tin-ore.
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    BUSINESS DONE
    141 20 THE following list of business in the Singapore share market is reported by one Arm of sharebrokers for the period Aug. 1 to Aug. 7 inclusive. INDUSTRIALS. Fraser Neave Ords. $2.00 to $2.05, Federal Dispensary $2.50, Hammers $3.00, Malayan Breweries $3.80 to $3.85, Malayan Cement $1.32 1 2
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    WAR DAMAGE
    43 20 A small change is proposed to the War Damage Ordinance. The allocations for specific category of claims, it is suggested, might be exceeded or where surplus exists, it might be transferred to other categories. with the approval of the High Commissioner.
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    125 20 rpHE following dividends were A announced last week by companies operating in Malaya. AUSTRAL MALAY TIN: No. 65. 2s. a share, payable September 4. booxs close August 22. HONG FATT: Second interim 5 per cent, making 25 per cent to date for year ending December, payable August 31.
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    Man found for $2,000 a month Govt job
    303 20 SINGAPORE, Aug t-> THE SINGAPORE Government has found the s non a-month Additional Deputy Financial Secret« has been looking for since March. ir y it He is Mr. J. B. Clegg, now Under-Secretarv p nomics) in Jamaica. fico Mr. Clegg is expected
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    850 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 12. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers A.ex Bricks Preffi 2.10 2 20 Ords 3.85 3.95 Atlas Ice 1 12 25 13 25 B B. Petrol 33/- 34/B M. Trustees 6.50 7.50 Con Tin Sme.t Pref 17/6 18/6 Ords 21/6 22/6 xd Eastern United 34.50 35 00 Fed
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    Cheap as it will get
    253 20 SINGAPORE, A. i2. 8 A welcome reaction has P m u during the week n rubber market and. w>;h port from the U.S.A.. a distinctly oetter sentimei apparent. Sellers have somewhat reserved and th>*i has not been the selling sure which developed in -h# early
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    68 20 SINGAPORE. Aug. 12. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: Noon prices per P«® were:— Copra: quiet; Aueust S3I t s jjT ers, $32»; sellers; September buyers, $31% sellers. Coconut oil: $54 sellers. Pepper: quiet; No business ported: White down white $335. Sarawak S33' Laa.P« black $2BO. nrjri# Lewis and
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    LESS RUBBER IMPORTED
    56 20 Imports of rut >• s(i Malaya in July 24,280 tons, conin' ’<'1 "V 25,766 tons in Jum'. ing the seven niont > 153,860 tons, com <‘ 202,368 tons in ‘last responding period yCa Th e July fisuro «“’lud* 5,218 tons imports on p visional permit' 111 and
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