The Straits Budget, 19 November 1953

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    28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAP ER Series No. 381. Thursday, November 19, 1953 Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      ENGINEERS WHO DO NOT USE THEIR HANDS
      711 2  -  LOCAL MAN. Singapore. LOCAL educated boys, from time to time, are urged to take up “boiler-suit” jobs if they wish to become professional engineers. None seem to follow this advice, with the result that skilled practical work in Singapore and the Federation is
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      Odds are on the races
      225 2  -  F. F. K. BALL. Kuala Lumpur. q’HE recent alternations to the import duties require a deal of understanding. The Government has removed the import duty on held glasses, opera glasses and telescopes. This will presumably benefit the racing fraternity and opera goers, since all such
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      IF YOU DON’T PAY TAX...
      114 2  -  OBSERVER. Singapore. SPHERE is one vital point in connection with the Income Tax Ordinance which has been forgotten by the general public. As the law now stands the CommissionerGeneral, the High Commissioner and the Governor of Singapore do not pay income tax. There seems no
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      ‘ALL EXPATRIATES’
      150 2  -  B. A. Singapore. ■THE little verse on A “expatriates” by L.A.D published in the Straits Times, amused me. The word, as now used, is on three counts:— t ts grammatically wrong. Expatriate’,’ is a transitive verb, not a noun. 2i Its original meaning has been distorted, so that
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      ‘TORNADO’ FOLLIES
      361 2  -  JOHN EM’ Singapore. I T is obviously time that the foolish youngsters who are studying at the University of Malaya were told exactly what the majority of the public here thinks of their hooligan antics. In the event of a repetition of Tuesday's “Operation Tornado” described in your
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      STOWED AWAY
      45 2  -  n a n Singapore. 'iflllld I SUGGEST that v forget about th'* at present: and dm |,j on monev nlus the s row* that the Government re ed awav somewheiv t build the slums ilP st think, weuld np y. and quickest divine
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Federation Budget
      1257 3 —Straits Times Nov. 12. nv yt-nse of relief that the tderaiioa has weathered the uncial stress of 1953 with asonable credit is not likely sU rvive the shock of the 1954 timau's. made public last ght The Federal Government budgetring for a $222.4 million Hcit This year’s deficit
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      University Policy
      820 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 13 The memorandum of the Vice-Chancellor and administrative officers of the University of Malaya on the proposed moving of the University to the site acquired in Johore Bahru plainly amounts to a rejection of the scheme. It is not, of course, an expression of University
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      Trade with China
      269 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 13 Reports of Indonesia’s big rubber deal with Communist China are reduced to their proper proportions with the statement by Peking’s Ambassador that China would like to buy from 2,000 to 3,000 tons a month. The market will take this in its stride, disappointed
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      ‘A Change of Emphasis’
      806 3 -Straits Times. Nov. 14 Forty senior agricultural officers finish this week-end a short course at the Department’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. They have been told by the Member for Agriculture of the good work the Department has done in encouraging the use of fertiliser, and in
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      Communist Strategy
      860 4 —♦Straits Times, Nov. 17 It is many months since the Commissioner General last reviewed the situation in Southeast Asia. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald’s address yesterday as a guest of the Singapore Union of Journalists was a timely and valuable summary 7 of changes which, imperceptible week by week, in
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      Freezing The Land
      852 4 ICt \4 V A V VI Straits Times. N v. 18 The surprise expressed by Singapore’s Commissioner of Lands that so little interest apparently has been aroused by publication of the Government bill to amend the Land Acquisition Ordinance can be accepted as partial acknowledgement of just
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    Rubber road envoy comes home
    107 4 SINGAPORE Nov IS \TR H K Dimoline >ei-reu:! 11 of the Malayan RuW Producers’ Council last nip returned to Singapore by rjj American Airways front United States, where he r> been pushing the roads idea for the Rubber Bureau. During his month ln he visited
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    Service award
    47 4 gff/ TAIPING.Nov. 17. 0 cient and devoted ‘pede*; commander of tne r ne rai al Division, Mai pr e* W. H. Lambert, yesf« sented the Conn.- \\w Chief’s certificate t. Ney Hua, a War P* civilian clerk. \\r Mr. Wong joined Department in 19* 1
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    Parachuting cats to the forts
    865 5  -  MEN WHO MAKE THE AIR DROPS By C APT. D. H. de T. READE. /UHCKENS dropped by parachute to a Police contingent living in a jungle fort in Malaya suffered no ill-effects, for within 48 hours they resumed laying eggs. Soon another live drop will
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      67 5 HUDSON: To F.nid and John, a daughter, Melanie Collette. Both very well. Visiting 5—6, Oreenhill Nursing Home. SPIELS: To P**ggv (nee Wilkie' wife of Jock, a son, Peter Nigel, HOUGHTON At Kamunting to Pat. wife of R. F Boughton. CEB.. Taipmg, a son (David Neal). Military Hospital, on 13th
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      129 5 THE engagement is announced between Donald Alderman, only son of Mr. Mrs. W. J. Sydenham of London, and Elizabeth June, only daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Wm. Gibson of Singapore and Glasgow. THE engagement Ls announced between Sterling John (S6an) de Courcy Williams. Ulu Tiram Estate, Johore, only son
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      SILVER WEDDING
      26 5 ON 16TH NOVEMBER, 1928, at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. Penang, lan T. Coutts to Annie A. Meff. Present address: 253, Queen’s Road, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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    .. The Towkay of Fraser’s Hill
    752 5  - The Towkay of Fraser’s Hill By PEARLE HARFORD DEEP friendship between a retired Government official of high standing and his Chinese house-boy in Malaya f hat has lasted nearly 5, years came to my notice recently, when I n f Goh Ah Joon, one 01 the most respected tov -*kays
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  • Obituary
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    175 5 DEATHS MR. HUGH PAULUSZ, age 65 years, passed away at his residence Irllbarra Road. Canterbury, In Melbourne. 15.11.53. JONES: On November 5th, at a Nursing Home at Hlndhead. Vaughan Jones (V. J aged 58. late of Penang. Son of Harold and Vera Jones and brother of Lola Barry. Funeral at
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1041 6  -  STANLEY STl 1 T A famous flag I SUPPOSE that the Union Jack which was carried out to the enemy when Singapore surrendered, and hoisted again on the Padang when Singapore was liberated is one of the most famous flags in the w’orld. After the
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    STEVEDORE
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    As I was Saying
    583 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE. Nov. 14 rOR six months now there have been rumours that General Templer is off to a new job. For six months he has resolutely refused all comment; no denial, no confirmation and even no “no comment.” That is probably the best way out
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    Sir George opens with warning
    719 8 nixnii iouMtssio\ SINGAPORE, Nov. 12. WIGHT important men of Singapore who will play a leading part in revising the Colony’s constitution were yesterday warned against lessening confidence in the country’s administration and institutions by any changes which they might recommend. The warning came from Sir
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    Gaol for a year for negligence
    157 8 SINGAPORE. New 12 A 27-YEAR-OLD motorist. Lian bin Abbas was yesterday sentenced in a Singapore Traffic Court to one year’s imprisonment and disqualified from driving for five years for negligent driving resulting in the death of four people. Abbas pleaded guilty to negligently driving
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    She lays wreath, keeps a promise
    300 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 12 AT a simple little ceremony at Kranji Cen-etery yesterday. an Australian schoolmistress, Miss Agnes MacXamara, laid a wreath of Australian wild flowers on the memorial site. The wreath, which arrived hv air the previous evening, had a card attached to it
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    100 APPLY TO BE ENGINEERS
    132 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. \l 4 BOUT 100 young men from Singapore and the A Federation want to become engineers. Th have applied for the Colony City Council's scholarsh.ps to study civil and electrical enelneerimi in Australia. under the Colombo Plan. Today a special committee of councillors
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    Going to U.S.
    33 8 A Singapore journalist, Mr. Ivor V. Kraal, has been awarded a grant to visit the Uniter. States for four months as a guest-employee of the GlobeDemocrat in St. Louis. Missouri.
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    Those trees won’t grow here, professor
    234 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 13. PROFESSOR R. E. Holttum, Professor of Botany at the University of Malaya, yesterday described as “quite impossible" the proposal to plant at Kran.ji War Cemetery an avenue of trees from every country in the British Commonwealth. “It is out of the
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    Kuching gun salute again
    118 8 KUCHING Nov 11 4 GUN due to be find f<* the first time sin* e the war at eight o’clock tonight will revive an old tradition in Kuching. The custom began 'urins the reign of the ‘ocond Rajah. Sir Charles Brooke. The gun was a tinu
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    HERE TO JOIN TRADE OFFICE
    48 8 Mr. S. C. Stout has arrn« J f Singapore to join the > the United Kingdom 1 Commissioner. a Mr. Stout previously > r with the General Por n tv Britain and the A Since the war he wo: export trade departn. Board of Trade.
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    25 to go to Britain
    25 8 tj’.f Singapore Batta Boys’ Brigade will tlngent of three stall sergeants and the Centenary held at Eton. Eng a August.
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    Federation ends year with deficit of $146,088,205
    610 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 miiK Federation ends this year with an 1 anticipated deficit of $146,088,205 and faces an estimated deficit next year of $222,456 792 Revised revenue for this year totals c,)(>(>.,il,i,/oo and is estimated at $514,612,100 Revised expenditure for this year
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    Ex-Malayan guerilla
    92 9 \|R. Peter Kite (above) is a sales executive of Penguin Rooks in Britain. but he is not an ordinary one. He was a guerilla in Malaya during the war. Mr. Kite’s first landing in Malaya was an unpleasant one, he recalled yesterday. He had to bale out of
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    107 convoys in bad area
    91 9 IPOH. Nov. 11—The Military convoyed 6.420 vehicles through the “bad” areas of Chenderiang and Sungei Siput South curing the fortnight when traffic on the main NorthSouth road was disrupted bec -e of the road collapse nerth of Kampar. Armoured cars of “C" Squadron the 12th
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    FEDERATION GETS GRIM WARNING
    199 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 11. A GRIM warning appeared today that unless policies are reviewed, the Federation Government will face the impossible task of trying to maintain services in excess of what the country can afford. This came in the report of the Finance Committee of 11
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    Remittances
    23 9 v remittances from v 1 to China during las 1- n totalled $1,616,473 of t j; 51.189.815 went from c -H tpcre
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    Duty is high-but Govt. revenue remains low
    173 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 11 HIGH duties placed on a number of articles in the Federation Is not bringing th government much revenue From the Federal estimates, published today, receipts have fallen over tim last two year, and there is not much optim- Lsm
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    ACCENT IS ON SAVING
    370 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 11 AN “economy” budget for next year will be placed before the Federal Legislative Council on Nov. 25. Although it has been pruned to ease pressure on the country's finances, the budget calls for an expenditure of $826 millions—$20 millions more than this
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    ‘Crisis’ bill now under one head
    268 9 ESTIMATES FOR 1954 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 11. AN INTERESTING insight into what forms “Emergency” expenditure is given in the draft estimates for the Federation next year which were published today. A new head of expenditure for everything directly connected with the Emergency appears for
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    Officials criticise Councillors on leave talk
    307 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 11. PUBLICATION in yesterday’s Straits Times of the news that the Singapore City Council Finance and General Purposes (Staff) Committee is considering a proposal to alter conditions of leave for senior offices of the City Council has caused alarm and annoyance among
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    Question of etiquette, he says
    232 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 1? /CHINESE and Western etiquette on replying to invitations is diiTerent, said the chairman of the Punctuality and Austerity Council. Mr. Homer Cheng, yesterday. He was commenting: on a reader’s letter. protesting about negligence of many Singapore people in replying to invitations bearing
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    MALACCA IN COLOUR
    55 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 11 Malayan film goers will see the Malayan Film Unit’s first colour production in February next year. Mr T. Hodge, film unit chief, told the Straits Times today. “The film is a study of Ma lacca and is now T being processed in the
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    POOL FOR K.L. THEIR PLEDGE
    122 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 12 THE UMNO-MCA Alliance today pledged that it would fight for a municipal swimming pool for Kuala Lumpur. ft said this in its manifesto for the municipal elections on Dec. 5. in which it is to contest the two seats falling vacant
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    British holiday
    28 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 10.— Mrs. J. N. Creer. wife of the acting British Adviser. Johore. has sailed for Britain with her two children on a holiday
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    New Sarawak Red Cross
    79 10 KUCHING. Nov. 11. The Governor. Sir Anthony Abell i today opentd the first headf quarters building of the Sarawak branch of the British Red Cross Society, built entirely through the efforts of its members and generous coop* ration of the public. Tin* Governor paid a tribute
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    IMPORT DUTIES ARE OUT
    380 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 11 rpHE Federation Govern--1 ment tonight announced cuts in import duties on cameras and photographic appliances, electrical household articles, air conditioning, machines, cosmetics and perfumes. At the same time it raised the preferential import tax on brandy by 75 cents a gallon or
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    FEDERATION SEEKS $336.5 mil. IN LOANS
    316 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 11. THE FEDERATION Government plans to raise 53.10.504.000 in loans up to 1956 and beyond to finance development projects. A Treasury memorandum says that 5150.000.000 will be raised next year. 5100.000,000 locally and $50,000,000 in London. Then. in 1955 and 1956.
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    Federation finances
    175 10 (Continued from Pace 9* loans up to 1956 an i to finance development pro’e:«a which “will benefit future ration.” To ease its financial pU?;;the Government has air eat undertaken economy m asar&It has limited expenditure or ordinary departmental vices and their expansion M® been curtailed. A number of
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    NEW HOMES FOR 40,000 IN COLONY
    215 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 14. PLANS to build 6,000 $2O-a-month houses next year for 40,000 people now living in shacks or cubicles were announced yesterday by the Singapore Government. The Government will start with 3,000 houses on a 120-acre plot off Aljunied Road. The other houses
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    To train at the Yard
    178 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 13 roUK Singapore Police officers have been picked for an intensive six-month training course at Scotland Yard. They leave in January by air to Britain. The Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr. R. W. Calderwood, told the Straits Times that the officers are Mr.
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    Ex-Malayan dies in U.K.
    42 12 Mr William Moir McCrae, formerly of the Public Works Department. Malaya, died at his home in Jersey on Nov 1 Mr. McCrae joined the P.W.D. in 1920 and retired a year or two ago as State Engineer. Kelantan.
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    RICE TO GET NO SUBSIDY
    117 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 11. THERE is no government subsidy for rice next year. This is revealed in the Finance Committee’s report on next year’s budget. The subsidy for padi fertiliser is merely a token because after two years' experiments, benefits from the use of fertiliser
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    Back to his parents
    31 12 ARIS is helped by his parents to get out of the R.A.F. Hastings which brought him back to Singapore from Melbourne Straits Times picture. Straits Times picture.
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    FARM JOB FOR EX-MALAYAN
    99 12 Lance-Corporal R. D. Rimell, a wireless operator who has served in Malaya, will get a farming job when he finishes his five-year term with the Army next year. Cpl. Rimell. 24. has been offered a training job and a temporary home by Farmer Cleeton on his
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    THEY ALL ADMIRE ARIS, 6
    322 12 SINGAPORE B oix-yeak-. nrf Kolop came home ye? 1 terday with a koala bear. buy a tricycle, a flJfM knowledge of Eng l and a new face. The bear was his favo Urit ,l out of a basnet ful 0 f given to him by
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    Income tax protest by chamber
    173 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 13 I THE Income Tax < Amend- ment> Bill seeks to the Income Tax Comptroller extensive powers of search seizure unheard of in ctne. democratic countries, and w I empower him to call I tional assessment at any says the Singapore C.u:*e« Chamber
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    $10,000 Jap terrorist shot by his comrades
    266 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 11. JHIS IS THE STORY of Hosono, a Japanese—4ft. 11 in. high, of slight wiry build, clean shaven and wearing very thick spactaclcs. He spoke English and Malay fluently. Recently the head of the Kedah Special Branch closed a file
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    FIRST VISIT SINCE 1925
    54 14 BACK IN SINGAPORE for the first time since his wedding at St. Andrew’s Cathedral in 1925 is Mr. G. F. Gardner, export sales manager of the Crittall Manufacturing Co. Ltd., who is on a tenday visit to Malaya to gather first-hand information about sales and to
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    HE WANTS ASIANS IN TOP JOBS
    164 14 PENANG, Nov. 12. ABOUT 20 per cent of the 400 expatriate officers serving in Malaya at present are not qualified for the posts they hold, Mr. G. Leo, president of the Malayan Technical Services Union, claimed today. Mr. Leo urged a progressive system of
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    Surrender flag: City agrees
    61 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 13 Singapore City Council’s estates and fire brigade committee yesterday agreed to the restoration of the Union Jack hanging in City Hall which was carried by a British officer when British troops surrendered to the Japanese in the Colony in 1952. The cost of
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    DR. AND MRS. C. RAIN, of Caldecott Hill, Singapore, cut the cake at their silver wedding anniversary celebration at the week-end.
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    Holiday camp opens
    46 14 Tho Governor of Singapore. Sir John Nicoll. screwing home a memorial plaque, before opening the Singapore Youth Council holiday camp at Tanah Merah Besar. Singapore, on Nov. 14. On the plakuc Sir John s second name is spelled ’‘Fcarncs.’' Correct spelling is “Fcarns."
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    Six big smugglers have been seized
    275 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 15. 2IX “BIG NAMES” in opium smuggling in the East have been arrested in Singapore and banishment proceedings have been taken against them. This was disclosed to the Sunday Times yesterday by Mr. C. W. Lyle. Director of the Colony’s C.P.1.8. (Corrupt
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    Planter faces three charges
    68 14 SEGAMAT, Nov. 15. L. H. Hall, 32-year-old planter, was offered $l,OOO bail after three charges had been read out to him in the Segainat Court He was alleged to have broken the curfew on Batu Anam Estate, to have attempted to take food out of a
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    Camp is all their own work
    325 14 SINGAPORE, Nov k JANAH MERAH BISAr'L always been -the h7 S beach in Singapore excentJ needs a couple of dreiiV room* aad a lounge around in 0 So said many who had picnick ed there. ,lck A group of boys and girls whn picnicked
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    Old ‘Saints’ dine, wine and dance
    68 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 15 MORE than 300 me interest. Andrew’s Old Association and their attended an annual re-unit-dinner and dance at hall last night. The gathering congrat’-U Canon R. K. S. Adair* principal, on his O B.E ao* and also bade him He is going
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    Air chief calls at jungle fort
    87 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 12 AIR Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Sanders, Commandant Designate of the Imperial Defence College, London, yesterday went by helicopter to visit a jungle fort in Pahang. When he was there a “voice” aircraft broadcast a message in Scmclai, the abofiginal lan-
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    $50 MIL. OIL PIPE PLAN IS ABANDONED
    387 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 17. ATOP serret project estimated to cost more than S5O million when completed has been abandoned in Singapore after more than $23 million was spent on it. The plan, started by the Royal Navy in 1939 at Bukit Gombak, was to
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    $50 FOR A HERO’S WIDOW
    171 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 13. UIANG BUAY, a 32-year-old Singapore widow, yesterday got $5O from a man she has never met. He is Mr. H. W. Hamilton, of Timaru. New Zealand, a former Changi internee. This brings to $1,330 contributions sent to the Straits Times during the
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    Red Cross chief here
    66 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. Mrs. Margaret Jenour, president of the Monmouthshire, branch of the British Red Cross Society, passed through Singapore by QANTAS-BOAC yesterday on her way home after eight weeks’ holiday In Australia. During her few hours In the Colony she was taken on a whirlwind
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    Sakai who aided Reds give up
    269 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 17. IN one of the biggest operations designed to prevent food getting to Communist terrorists, a large group of Sakais —10 men, seven women and their 12 children —have surrendered to Security Forces in the Endau district of Johore. Arrangements are being
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    ’Varsity will discipline ‘rag’ seniors
    277 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 17. «T*HE university freshmen who took part in last week’s “rag” at the Dunearn Road hostel have been let off with a stern lecture. The seniors will be more firmly punished. Because the freshmen had probably been led into it, the Vice-Chancellor, Sir
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    Red bid to grab S.E. Asia fails says MacDonald
    350 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 17 I THE RESULT of the Communist attempt to A South-East Asia by force, which began ini 19 IS, has been disappointing from their" pointl of view, said the Commissioner-General, y\ t I Malcolm MacDonald, yesterday. I Mr. MacDonald
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    $20,000 A DAY LESS FROM RUBBER
    126 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 17 THE fall in the priced rubber last month cost the Federation Government more than half a million dollars in export duty compared September. The export duty last mon.totalled $3,374,615 as $3,926,658 for Septenioer-* decrease of $552,043. Despite this, Federal revenue
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    ‘Goodwill but no intelligence’
    136 16 IPOH. Nov. 17. PAST administrations have governed Malaya with goodwill and honesty of purpose hut with a remarkable lack of intelligence, says the National Association of Perak in a statement today. The Association believes it can bring to the conduct of Malayan affairs an understand- ing
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    15 Reds killedand ‘last Malay in Malacca’
    398 17 15 Reds killed—and ‘last Malay in Malacca’ KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 FIFTEEN more communist bandits, including r the district committee member for Gemas a branch committee chief and the last Malay terrorist in Malacca, ha\e been killed by security orces in the Federation. Four others were wounded. !l was also
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    MAN HIN WAS A FANATIC
    85 17 ilfONCi Man Hin, the Com- munist’s district committee member for Gemas uho was killed last night. w;is a fanatical Communist. He was feared and hated by his followers. He committed many outrages. He murdered the Chinese manager and a labourer on Hukit Tinggi estate on
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    700 cheques every day
    173 17 I SINGAPORE. Nov. 12 Singapore City Trea91 >ur«*r’s cash section, which Hbar.k' the City Council’s inHc me and pays salaries and ■*.U: >. received 700 cheques a Hbay last year and prepared ■r. nthiy pay packets of more ■than S2.260.000. says the City ■Treasurer. Mr. J.
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    $l00,000 PLAN FOR CLUBHOUSE
    75 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. At the Singapore Cricket lab’s annual general meetV' on Nov. 27, members will >-ss a $100,000 scheme to l r, ovate and modernise the ■Niibhouse. I 1 be club, in various build- has stood on its present f 0r 46 years the proposals
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    3 appointed
    38 17 MUAR.Nov. 17. Following have been appointed returning onicers for Bandar M aha rani Town Council elections: Maharani ward. Mr Sandy Tan. Sultan Ibrahim ward Mr. Wong Tam Chin. Parjt Stongkat ward Inche Mohd Zin bin Maldeen
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    RED BOSS READS A LEAFLET4 GIVE UP
    181 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 17. THE big-scale “surrender-in-groups” leaflet drive in the Federation paid off well last Tuesday, it was disclosed today. Siew Hong, branch committee secretary to the Malayan Communist Party in Raub, surrendered with a woman, Ying Koo, and two men, Chong
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    Reds’ death roll rises to 4,557
    191 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 17. terrorists killed since the start of the Emergency in 1948 up to the end of last month total 4,557, the Federation Information Services announced today. Terrorists wounded total 2,181 and those surrendered 1,214. Eight hundred and four suspects were captured.
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    ACSU now affiliated with British union
    188 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 13. Army Civil Services Union of Singapore is to be A affiliated with the International Federation of Unions of Employees in Public and Civil Services of Britain. The Singapore union yesterday received a letter from the general secretary of the IFUEPCS, Mr.
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    SON BATHESFINDS FATHER’S STOLEN SAFE
    85 17 SON BATHES—FINDS FATHER’S STOLEN SAFE IPOH, Nov. 17. rpHE 500-lb iron safe A stolen four days ago from a pig-dealer’s office in Fair Park was found in the Kinta River yesterday by the dealer’s son who had gone there to bathe. He informed the police and the safe was recovered.
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    Johore CPO to go home
    72 17 KUALA LUMPUR, No v 17. Mr. lan Wylie, Chief Police Officer, Johore, will go to Britain in a fortnight on leave which has been advanced for health reasons. Mr. T. Q. Gaffikin will succeed him. Mr. Gaffikin recently returned from Britain where he was in
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    Struck off
    23 17 Tong Min School in Amoy Street, Singapore, has been struck off the register of schools, because it has ceased to function.
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    Prai-Bangkok express again soon
    118 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 17. THE international express from Prai to Bangkok will resume early In the new year, the Straits Times Clay. This service restarted after the Pacific we r In August. 194 was suspended in January. 1950, mainly because >t Emergency. The general manager of
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    $1,300,000 SEWERS CONTRACT
    145 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 13 HUME Industries (Far East* Ltd., have obtained a $1,300,000 contract to supply reinforced concrete mains for the Kuala Lumpur sewerage scheme. Mr. M. R. Swain, chairman of the firm, said yesterday Chat the whole of the mains for the scheme would be supplied by
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    Hostel ‘rag’ leaders are fined
    91 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18 Five senior students oi the University of Malaya were fined sums up to $5O yesterday for leading the Dunearn Road hostel "rag” in which personal and University propery was damaged. The University Committee of Discipline, headed by ViceChancellor, Sir Sydney Caine, imposed
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    Totalitarian step in disguise, says Yap
    266 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 17. THE Singapore Land Acquisition (Amendment) 1 Bill is a confiscatory and totalitarian measure in the disguise of “public purpose,” Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, banker and City councillor, said yesterday. He said it would eliminate land altogether as an an investment and
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    SIAMESE COINS WHOLLY OF TIN
    123 18 KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 13 rilAM is the only country using coins made entirely of tin. says the Malayan Tin Bureau in Washington. Two of its coins contain 100 per cent and five other coins have 90 per cent tin, says the Bureau’s latest issue of
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    Licensing of butter imports ends
    148 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 18. liHE Singapore and Federation Governments are discontinuing the licensing of imports, on a quota basis, of butter (fresh, frozen and tinned), margarine, cooking fats animal ghee meat, live sheep and goats carcase meat and olTals. This move is expected to ip crease
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    For sale: one troopship
    64 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. The 9,789-ton troopship Dorsetshire, which has carried hundreds of soldiers to and from Malaya, has been handed back to her owners by the Ministry of Transport and is to be sold. “For Sale’ signs were placed on her as soon as she docked
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    He captained Malaya against the Australians
    176 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 17. Mr. a h. flowerdew, one of Malaya’s best known sportsmen and a consulting mining engineer, died in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday, at the age of 78. Mr. Flowerdew retired from Kuala Lumpur with Mrs. Flowerdew six months ago. He first
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    For Macao
    19 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. The 2.639-ton Portuguese coaster Lurio arrived in Singapore yesterday with 600 troops for Macao.
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    DR. ONG’S APPEAL IS DISMISSED
    189 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 13. DR. Ong Bak Hin's appeal against a conviction by Malacca High Court on a charge of causing a woman’s death by performing an abortion, was dis- missed here today. But the court reduced the five-year sentence to two years in view
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    Villager is murdered
    148 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 15 EIGHT armed and uniformed terrorists murdered an elderly Chinese villager with a Sten gun fitted with a silencer in Layang Layang new village in the Kluang district of Johore on Friday night. The terrorists waited until a police patrol had passed the spot
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    $250,000 PARK SITE IS A SECRET
    111 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 18. A $250,000 scheme for a 300-acre park is being studied by a Singapore City Council committee. The park, with hundreds of trees and large open spaces, may also have a zoo. Exact location of the park is confidential as City Council
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    Four badminton stars in ‘revolt’
    982 18  -  THE WEEK IN SPORT By JOHN MARKS SINGAPORE, Nov. 17. THE Badminton Association of Malaya is facing a “revolt” by four of the country’s top stars who have openly defied the association and gone on an unauthorised tour of Formosa. Heading this new controversy is
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    Three officers are awarded the D.F.C.
    132 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 12. AWARDS for three officers and one sergeant navigator of the Far East Flying Boat wing f° r services in Korea have been announced in the London Gazette. The list Is headed by the award of the D.F.C, to S/Ldr. J. G.
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    DYNASTY PAYS $136 FOR FIRST WIN
    807 19  -  From EPSOM JEEP UALA LUMPUR, Nov. 11 -nJASTY, a four-year-old by Derby winner Owen scored maiden win to t $136 nividend for a win Mala Lumpur yesterday, a day of the Selangor Club November meeting. !•> command after the had travelled a furlong, sty,
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    KING CROW SCORES A DOUBLE
    972 19  -  From EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR. Mdv. 15. RING CROW completed a grand double when he carried 9.5 to a handsome twoYngth win in the Class 3 mile-and-a-quarter trophy race at Kaala Lumpur yesterday, con- eiuding dav of the Selangor Turf Club November meeting Jockey Garnet
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    COUNCIL MAY GIVE $1,600,000 CONTRACTS
    145 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 17. SINGAPORE City Council’s public works committee has recommended that, as an experiment, tenders should be sought for next year’s road and drain projects which will cost over $1,600,000. The city Engineer’s Department has previously done such work The committee proposes that contracts
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    Commissioner
    21 19 KLANG, Nov. 16—Inche Abdul Aziz bin Mohammed of the Klang Magistrate’s Court has been appointed Commissioner of Oaths In Klang.
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    Prices improve on bigger turnover
    707 20 i SHARE MARKET! By Our Financial Correspondent SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. FP is pleasant to be able to report a decided improvement in the Singapore share market last week. A much better sentiment developed due to no single reason, and prices showed some improvement in the
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    88 20 THK following dividends A were announced by companies operating in Malaya and Siam last week:— SIME DARBY Co., final 5 per cent, making 10 per cent, for year ended June, payable November 27, books closed November 23. PAHANG CON: final 30 per cent, making 55 per cent, for
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    Land value freeze is attacked
    337 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. 14. THE Singapore Ratepayers*. Association la t night attacked the Government’s proposal t 0 freeze land values before the Colony’s “Mash r Plan” is carried out. Purpose of the proposal is to prevent lai speculation. j The Government wants to block owners of
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    880 20 SINGAPORE. Nov. 18. INDUSTRIAL* Buyers Sellers Alex. Bricks Srefs i ll) i 20 rds 3.70 3.80 Atlas Ice 12 2b 3 25 B B. Petrol 3*/6 35/3 B M. Trustees 8 50 7 50 Con Tin Smelt Pref 18/- 19/Ords 23 9 24/3 Eastern Onlted 34.50 35
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    MARKET IS QUIETER
    183 20 [Rubber Markel| SINGAPORE. Nov 14 rE rubber market has be* i rather quieter this ween and fluctuations narrower. Th reports of possible Indonesian sales to China are now' assuming their true proportions an i the earlier enthusiasm show here has been damped. say„> Lewis and Peat’s report.
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    75 20 SINGAPORE. Nov IS Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: Noon prices per picul were:— Copra: steadv November $37 buyers, $3B sellers: December $3B buyers, $3B sellers. Coconut oil: steady; $61 1 < sellers Pepper: weak; unchanged; Muntok white $335, Sarawak $330. Lampong black $290. Lewis and Peat: Closing prie
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    OCTOBER TIN-ORE IMPORTS RISE
    94 20 IMPORTS of tin-ore into Malaya in October rose sharply to 1.089 tons, compared with 505 tons in September. The estimated metal content of the ore was 801 tons For the ten months of ‘h’c year imports of ore tot. 7.122 tons, with an estim eh tin
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    Latex shipments
    45 20 Shipments of prepared from Malaya in October < ed 5,307 tons, of whir’ tons went to the United j 1.254 tons to the United dom, 694 tons to Franc tons to Italy, 442 tons t t many. 214 tons to Cana smaller quantities countries
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    BUSINESS DONE
    199 20 mHE following list of business 1 in the Singapore share market is reported by Fraser and Co„ for the period November 7 to November 13 inclusive:'— INDUSTRIALS: C.T.S. Ords 23/3, Fraser Neav ords $1.90. Gammons $2.85 to $2.95 to $2.90. Hammers $2.77 Vg, Hongkong Bank Col. $Bl5, Malayan
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