The Straits Budget, 21 January 1954

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    34 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER New Series No. 390. Thursday, January 21, 1954 i til* ''’yfi r, j^ Price 40 pents (Malayan) Or I shilling. B-fc.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      ‘IT IS NOW ALL SORTS OF THINGS BUT ENGLISH’
      585 2  -  PRO-BRITISH CHINESE. Singapore. ‘TnHE NEW MALAYA is better,” says Dato Sir Roland Braddell. But from the point of view of one who believes 4 that the most important factor to consider is Britain’s ties. pay colog leal and otherwise wfth Singapore
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      Book profits & air conditioning
      67 2  - Book profits air conditioning bookworm Singapore. I ECHO John Ramage*s > sentiments regarding book profits. I had occasion to ask i n a local bookshop why a book marked £2.25. ($18) in England was for sale here at $25. I was informed after all, you are buying it in airconditioning
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      Is this a Chinese New Year joke?
      251 2  -  R. K. HARDWICK Singapore. \f UCH publicity has been I given this week to the dropping, over jungle areas, of four million leaflets imploring the terrorists who might jee them to return to the bosoms of their families for the coming Chinese New
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      Mr. H. has solution
      117 2  -  r. s. Singapore. A LETTER draws attention once again to passengers standing on the steps of S.T.C. buses. It can be easily remedied. Send for the only practical and active police officer that we have in this city, Mr. W. R. M. Haxworth, and let him
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      Fixing of land values and planning
      366 2  -  GEOROE t. PEPLKR Singapore. "TORQUEMADA” takes me to task for having said: “How can anv Government plan development without Axing values at some level?” He then states that the British Government successfully did so from 1909 until the Socialist Government passed the Town and
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      The Party & Aldermen
      352 2  - The Party Aldermen NO MEAN Cm Singapore. X YOUR correspondent “Joh Citizen'’ has voiced his ot jections to the system o: Aldermen, as he is entitled t do, but stated that the mar ner in which the Progressive Party is seeking its introduc tion “arouses suspicion”. “John Citizen" perhaps i,
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      ‘Nonsense’
      58 2  - ‘Nonsense GftH HOOD Singapore, fPHE Hev; Abel Eklund is r 1 ported to have said at f Malaya annual conference the Methodist Church at lacca that the church sh( J take part in politics. To one who has been a Christian minister and a pn cher of the Gospel for
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      More Aid For Asia
      769 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 14 If the secret talks sought by Ceylon’s Finance Minister at the Commonwealth finance conference at Sydney have taken anyone by surprise it can only be because the problems of Asian members of the Commonwealth have made no impact. But there was warning
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      The Ritson Pay Crisis Eases
      482 3 —Straits Times. Jan. 14 It would be unfair to offer more than diffident comment at the moment on the reported Government proposals for the abolition of the non-pensionable expatriation allowance which has been the cause of so bitter and prolonged a dispute among the Colony’s
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      Smallholders’ Danger
      786 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 15 The reminder by the Director of the R.R.I. (in a letter on this page) that the smallholders have made a $7O million demonstration of their faith in the future of the rubber industry suggests that perhaps it is time more information was given of
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      Freezing The Land
      353 3 Straits Times, Jan. 15 Argument on the stabilisation of land prices in Singapore has brought from Sir George Pepler a spirited defence of British experience with wTiich not everyone who has read the White Paper to which he refers will agree. More important to Singapore is the
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      Tin Difficulties
      408 3 —Straits Times Jan 16 There is still too much secrecy about the Government’s tin policy and the manner in which it is intended to operate the Geneva tin regulation scheme should this be ratified. But two points which have been in doubt have been made clearer. Miners will
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      Acts Of Faith
      240 4 —Straits Times Jan. 16. The appeal for trust and faith, made by a spokesman of the Council of Action at the public session of the Rendel Commission, will not fall on deaf ears as the progress towards self-government made by other British colonies shows. But there must
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      Red Blow At Education
      249 4 -Straits Times, Jan. 18 Latest victim of the Cotnmu1 nist terrorists in the Federa1 tion is the Adult Education Association. The victim has not received a death blow, hut a cut of $100,000 in the Gov1 ernment’s annual grant to help the vital work that the
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      Working The Tin Scheme
      718 4 Shraits Times, Jan. 19. There seems still to be excessive secrecy in everything to do with tin and the Geneva agreement for control, although the scheme which the industry is being asked to consider is of interest to more than the tin miners. At the week-end
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      The Harbour Board
      294 4 —Shraits Times. Jan. 19. The Singapore Harbour Board’s year ends in June, which makes it difficult to relate its main figures to those of trade and Government finance, based on the calendar year. But one figure which catches the eye at once is the return of the
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      Indonesian Trade Problems
      412 4 -Straits Times. Jan. 20 Trade talks which have begun with Indonesia have been prefaced by the usual warning that “nothing spectacular” can be expected. Roughly speaking that is right, but the Malayan mission ought to return with some badly needed knowledge about Indonesian trade policy, and it
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      Singapore's Thugs
      181 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 20 Periodically the secret societies impose upon Singapore special trial and tribulation. They are always there but every now and again, when rivalry between the gang> grows to battle pitch, there come the outbursts of violence which show just how serious is this menace to
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    Soldier dies in air drop
    31 4 Officer hurt KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 19 British lance corporal was killed during airdrop operations in Kedah, it was an nounced today. A British officer was wounded
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    Constitutional safeguards in the new Malaya
    1808 5  -  By Professor C. Northcote Parkinson Head of the Department of History at the University of Malaya •THE RESULT of deliberations now in progress in both the Federation and Singapore will be to recommend some form of parliamentary structure on the British model. We are
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    Sikh called to the Bar at age of 52
    132 5 SINGAPORE, Jan. 19. rR more than 20 years Mr. B. Kaher Singh of Negri Sembilan was a schoolmaster in Malaya. Then at 50 years of age, he went to England to study for the Bar. With five other Malayans he has
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTH
      109 5 CUMMING: To Marie, wife of James dimming, at the private maternity home Sydney, a son. SHELMERDINE—On 18th. January 1954 at Kandang Kerbau Hospital. To Joyce, wife of R.P.H. Shelmerdine, a daughter. JANSEN: To Madeleine wife of Cyril Jansen, a daughter. Michelle Madeleine. CHARLTON: To Jean wife of Allan Charlton,
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      82 5 STOKKER KRUYSMULDER: The engagement is announced between Adrian, younger son of Mr. Mrs. J. B. Stokker of Singapore, and Mabel, only daughter of Mr. Mrs. D. C. Kruysmulder, late of Singapore, now residing in Svdney. EDINGTON-PENMAN Patrick William James. Malayan Forest Service, younger son of the late W. S.
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      MARRIAGES
      63 5 HANCOCK—Peterson Good Sheppard Cathedral 16th January. Singapore Mr. Bernard John Hancock. Plymouth England to Miss Audrey Carmel Peterson. Singapore. KING—Elphinstone. The marriage between Thomas Christopher son of Mr. and Mrs. J. King of Glasgow Scotland and Evelyn Winifred daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Elphinstone of Bowen N.
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      SILVER WEDDING
      21 5 DE SOUZA-TESSENSOHN Jocelyn. S. de Souza to Isabel Louise Tessensohn at the Cathedral of the good Shephard on 19.1.29.
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  • Obituary
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    126 5 DEATH HOMER Cheng Hui Ming aged 46, President of Chinese YMCA passed away peacefully 11.35 pm. 17.1.54 Memorial Service at 90 Race Course Road 3.30 p.m. today, afterwards funeral service at Bidadari Cemetary. IN MEMORIAM THOMPSON—In Loving Memory of Mollie who died as the result of an accident in Johore
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1140 6  -  STANLEY STREET. “The Golden Bough" BRITAIN. I see. has not forgotten to commemorat th t centenary of the birth of that famous Scottish Scholar. Sir James Frazer. whose standard work on comparative religions, “The Golden Bough has particular interest for Malayans. First published in 1890,
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    As I was Saying
    603 6  -  CYNICl T S. SINGAPORE. Jan 16 'THERE is one contribution to the debate on trial by jury which has been ignored in comment and correspondence, but which will not have escaped the attention of the legal profession. Whether it has helped elarify the lawyers’ views on
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    MALAY CHILD
    5 6 Han Hai Fong.
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    NEW SARAWAK LUXURY HOTEL
    195 7 A MILLION DOLLAR luxury hotel (shown in artist's impression above) which it is claimed will be the first in Sarawak, is to be built by Tan Iloan Kie Realty < Sarawak) Ltd. To be known as the Aurora Hotel, the building is expected to be ready
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    Countryman’s Journal
    636 7  -  TUAN DJEK. -4 LTHOUGH ho does not hold with Christmas. except as a season dedicated to children, the Tuan looks with amused tolerance at the exuberant behaviour of adults on this occasion. He ignores New Year’s Eve. and is glad when the next four days have passed and
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    A MALAYSIAN NOTEBOOK
    890 7  -  STANLEY STREET. jyjALACCA, a recent writer on these parts assures us, is the only town in the Federation that can boast an atmosphere. I would not quite agree. Penang has atmosphere and Taiping and Kuantan and Kota Bahru. But it is certainly true to say that Malacca
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    Bath-time:
    14 7 A study by Foong Poll Kan c o Internal Audit, City Council, Singapore.
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    It cost less (a little) to live last year
    320 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 1 1. J'llh cost of Jivin.u' for Europe*!ns and A^i;in-* in Singapore \\a* lower at the end of 1 9.V. than at Ihe end of the previous year. The cost ot liviim index liKiire lor Europeans fell by 1.7
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    They’ll represent Johore State
    40 8 They’ ll represent Johore State JOHORe BAHRU. Jan. 12 If V' \.-nt r Be.sar. Ungku Ab1 bin Abdul Hamid ot f ‘‘v' t'sity Ot Malaya and A/i/ah binte Jail a r have “Panted Johor, repre11 1 on RIDA lor three
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    $60,000 DAMAGE IN LAB FIRE
    155 8 KUALA LUMPUR Jan 12 LMRE destroyed part ot a new laboratory building at the Rubber Research Institute's experiment station at Sungei Ruloh early this morning, causing damage estimated at more than $00,000. Most serious loss was a high-speed centrifuge used a>r extracting serum, worth more
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    THIRTY old girls of the Pudu English School, Kuala Lumpur, got together on Jan. 13 in the War Memorial Hall, Singapore and gave their old teacher and principal, Miss Josephine Foss a satay re-union feed.
    77 8 T HIRTY old girls of the Pudu English School, Kuala Lumpur, got together on Jan. 13 in the War Memorial Hall, Singapore and gave their old teacher and principal, Miss Josephine Foss a satay re-union feed. Miss l oss recently returned to Malaya liter her “exile’ in Britain. She flie>
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    Complaints are hard to prove, he says
    161 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 13 /COMPLAINTS of insufficient allowances paid to Malayan scholarship students in Britain are difticult to prove, said Mr L I Lewis, assistant Director ot Education, today. He was commenting on a recent statement by some students in England that their
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    For Johore
    34 8 nr J °T? OR ,f BAHRU Jan 13 Dr Ten oong Fong of Tainmg is expected in Joho?e a bru soon to take up the appointment of Deputy Principal Medical Officer, johore
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    Now he finds father died in Comet
    127 8 SINGAPORE. Jan 16 PTE. John Steel of the Royal Artillery, who arrived in Singapore with other troops in the Dunera yesterday, only learned of the death of his father while reading the Straits Times last night. His father. Mr John Steel, an employee
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    Landlords foil orders to carry out repairs NOW CITY COUNCIL PLANS ACTION
    177 8 SINGAPORE. Jail 14. SINGAPORE City Council has appointed a sub-eom-S mittee to study how owners may be told to repair their houses without ejecting: their tenants. The Council's building committee at its last meeting expressed concern at the
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    Patrons for the New Year ball
    44 8 The Comm:>.sioner-Goneral Mr Malcolm MacDonald and tlm Governor. Sir John Nicoll are joint patrons of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association’s Chinese New Year ball It will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall at 3.30 pm on February 12
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    RIDA aid gives them a school
    40 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan 14 Kampong Ayer Hitam in the Pontian District now has a school of its own. nmf 1 by the People with RIDA aid, it w*as recontlv opened by the District OHicer.
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    Army opens $280,000 Singapore school
    183 8 r,, ni SINGAPORE. Jan. 14 I HE ARMY yesterday opened lt >' ultra-modern school at I asir Pan jane ol Wh h cost about 7 vf. 0, 0 hls exception•»h\ any classrooms. ;i k, r o gyinnasiuni-etim-assemblv-hall Al,h a bamboo stas. ‘toilet w ith dwarf-size
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    MPs’ chief going back to England
    141 8 MPs chief going back to England •SINGAPORE Jan. 14 COLONEL T H. H Grayson. OBE. who has been the Provost Marshal o: Far Land Forces for the last li> months is retiring from the army and will sail from Singapore for home on January 24 Colonel Grayson, who has served
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    They’re as bright as kids who can see
    317 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 13 VHE first IQ. (Intelli- gence Quotient) test given to blind children in the Federation has proved that they are as bright as children with sight. Future vacancies in. the Princess Elizabeth School for the Blind. Johore Bahru, will
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    S’PORE PRISON WITHOUT BARS
    277 9 S PORE PRISON WITHOUT BARS SINGAPORE, Jan. 14. gINGAPORE now has u a prison without bars where 60 long-term prisoners are serving sentences under an experimental scheme aimed at the complete rehabilitation and correction of first offenders. The prison is at the newly constructed Changi Camp which can accommodate 112
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    WORKERS PLAN $1 MIL. GIFT
    233 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 13. X H E Federation of Malayan Estate Staff Unions has decided to raise $1,000,000 from workers for the Lady Templer T.B. Hospital fund. The union executive council decided that all estate staff should be asked to contribute $2 a month for
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    Back from leave
    25 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 13 Mr. G Mackenzie superintendent of the Istana gardens, has returned to Johore Bahru after a vacation tn Ceylon
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    TROOPS FIND HUGE BANDIT FOOD DUMP 1,300 lb. of rice and 6 packs
    113 9 PENANG, Jan. 15. SECURITY forces discovered a bandit food dump in Changkat, Province Wellesley, on Wednesday. They found over 1.300 lb of rice and a bandit resting piace in which were six packs. The rice, kept in
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    Appointed O.C.
    21 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 17. Lt. Yahaya bin Yusof has been appointed to act as Officer Commanding Johore Military Forces.
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    State-wide search for 50
    84 9 IPOH, Jan. 15 Recruiting teams will tour Perak next week to enrol at least 50 Chinese for the Federation Regiment. The programme of these teams it as follows: Jan 21— M.C.A. headquarters and Community Hall, Kampar Membang Diawan New Village, Kampar. Jan. 22 Ipoh Chinese Chamber
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    MALAYAN CAMPAIGN GENERAL DIES, 68
    232 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 14 General Sir Lewis Macclesfield Heath, K.8.E., C. 8.. D. 5.0., M.C., commander of the 3rd. Indian Corps in the Malayan Campaign of 1941-42. died at his home tn Bath, Britain, on Tuesday. He was 68. General Heath came to Malaya straight from
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    State ball
    31 9 IPOH. Jan. 18 A state ball was held at the Istana Iskandariah. in the royal town of Kuala Kangsar last night, in honour of the Sultan of Perak’s birthday.
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    New Trinity College head installed
    139 9 SINGAPORE. Jan 15 THE Rev. c. Stanley Smitn. successively teacher, professor. vice-president, treasurer and acting president of the Nanking Theological Seminary for 34 years, was installed as principal of Trinity College. Singapore, last night. The Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H W Baines. Bi-
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    New police retiring plan
    74 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 13 bill is to be put before the Legislative Council which, d approved, will enable Federation police officers to retire on pension provided they have completed If) years service. Under the present system an officer must have completed 10 years’ service and reached
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    ‘Give Govt hell’, says Dato Tan
    231 11 Da-iv. e- /-u KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 16. A TO S r Chen 6- |ock T an, President of the Malayan Chinese Association, told a public rally here today that the Malayan people should continue to agitate until a jury system was introduced in the
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    20 ministers for funeral of Mr. Cheng
    284 11 SINGAPORE. Jati. 19. THE Singapore Chinese community has suffered a severe loss in the death of one of its outstanding leaders, Mr. Homer Cheng Hui Ming, who collapsed just before the morning service at the Foochow Methodist Church on Sunday and died at
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    Johore’s share
    27 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Jail. 19. Johore contributed $22,392 towards the cost of celebrating the Coronation of the Queen in addition to the Federal allocation of $30,000
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    Back with medals
    35 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19 Mr. c R. Dasartha Raj. Singapore Legislative Councillor who went to India last month to receive war medals pwarded to him, returned to the Colony yesterday in the Raiula
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    LADY TEMPLER TELLS THE WOMEN: I’M SAD TO BE LEAVING MALAYA
    256 11 ALOR STAR, Jan. 14. ADY Templer, wife of the High Commissioner, said here today that she was very sad she had to leave Malaya in June. In her first public reference to her impending departure. Lady Templer told delegates
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    ‘PRIVATE BUILDING HIT BY BILL’
    396 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15. THE. Singapore Association has told the Government that the Land Acquisition (Amendment No. 3) Hill 1953, will discourage all private development schemes. In a memorandum, it says: “Such developments take long preparation and planning. No one will buy land for such a
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    Sir Thomas Lloyd to visit Malaya
    35 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 18. Sir Thomas Lloyd. British permanent Under-Secretary of State lor the Colonies, accompanied by Lady Lloyd, is to visit the Federation from February 6 to 24
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    New partner for Fraser & Company
    165 11 New partner for Fraser Company and Co the 81 year old firm of Singapore sharebrokers has a new partner from January 1 this year. He is Mr. E. A Corless. who succeeds Mr. R. J. W. Brown, who left the Colony cn retirement, on Wednesday. Mr. Corless who is an
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    Travel talks in Manila
    54 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 19 Mrs. Boris Holland, director of a Singapore travel agency, leaves tor Manila by air on Sunday to attend the third Asian and Far Eastern Travel Commission meeting. She will also attend the Pacific Area Travel Association conference to be held there from January
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    THE BOURNES OF BERLIN They will be the Bournes of Malaya
    82 11 TUI! MAN who will succeed Gen. Ten:pier in Malaya, Lieut.Gen G. K. Bourne, is seen above arriving at his headquarters in Berlin. With Gen. Bourne is his wife and in the background his son. Gen. Bourne, G.O.C. of the
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    RENDEL GIVES S’PORE A WARNING: BEWARE OF THIS RED TRAP
    1085 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15. George Rendel. chairman of the commission which is reviewing Singapore’s constitution, warned yesterday that in almost every case where a European country had lost its independence to the Communists, it had been through an attack on its
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    ICI moves to Finlayson House
    79 13 SINGAPORE. Jan 18 THE offices o: the imperial Chemical industries Limited in Singapore have been moved from Cable and Wireless Building to the recently completed Fmlayson House. 1.C.1. occupies five floors m the building and a feature of the new offices is an airconditioned canteen
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    Film Censors Board
    46 13 Mrs. C. Koek has been temporarily appointed chairman of the Board of Film Censors. Malaya. with effect from January 8 Others who have also been temporarily appointed film censors are Mrs. M. Sutton. Mr. Homer Cheng Hui Ming and Mr. K. R. Pisharody.
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    ‘BEWARE OF DISTRUST’
    237 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15. £*HE Rendel Commission was told yesterday that if there was distrust and suspicion in introducing constitutional changes, no genuine attempt could be made towards a parliamentary democratic way of life. inis was stated in a memorandum by the 20.000-strong Council of Joint Action (representing
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    HERE TO SEE THE 3 WHO RESIGNED
    113 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 14 MR. R A. VV. Caine, a director of Lewis and Peat Ltd., London, who arrived in Singapore by BOAC Constellation yesterday for a two-week stay. He joins his three colleagues, Sir George Allen, Mr. G. D. Cotton and Mr. T.
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    RENDEL TO REPORT BY FEB. 15
    132 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 16. rE Rendel Commission, which is reviewing Singapore’s constitution, plans to submit its report to the Government by February 15, the Straits Times understands. The commission has met 15 times during the past two months and has already got much of its
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    4 Queen’s scholars
    67 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 15. Four students of the University of Malaya have been awarded Queen’s Scholarships. They are Abdullah bin Ayub of Sitiaw'an. Perak; Loke Kwong Hung of Kampar, Perak; Lee Khee Wee of Kuala Lumpur, and Ooi Jin Bee of Ipoh, Perak. A Queen’s Scholarship is
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    Hero on crutches receives M.M.
    441 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 17. DIFLKMAN KlKirkabiihadur Rana, of the 2nd IV King Kdward VII Gurkhas, yesterday hobbled forward on crutches to receive his Military Medal from the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Tempter, at King's House. In August. 1952, Rana was the leading scout of
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    TERRORIST MARKSMAN HIT PLANE
    103 14 KIWI.A IJ'MPl'K. Jan. 17 1TKKI{t)KlNTS attacked an A ustc-r plane* fly inn over Johore last month, it was disclosed yesterday. The plane was low o\er a cultivated area when the pilot spotted a group of terrorists. One shot at the plane, and hit it in the
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    TWO PRAISED BY COURT FOR BRAVERY
    236 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 17 *TWO BUSINESSMEN. Mr. Ooi Chooi Bah and Mr. Lye Soli Kim. were praised by Mr. N. L. Cohen in tile Sessions Court here today for bravery in helping to capture one of lour Malay gangsters, who had stabbed a householder
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    New lawyer
    34 14 JOHORE. BAHRU. Jan 14 -oi Antony Bunion Godwin a:, today admitted to the Bar hi the Federation by Mr Must ice storr o n the applicall,,n ()1 Mr L. A g Smith,
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    Johore still worst state for terrorism
    132 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 15. IOHORE was again the worst state for terrorism last month, bandits there being responsible for 87 of the 91 incidents reported. Perak came next with 23. followed by Negri Sembilan with 12. Then* was one indident in Malacca and in
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    Leaders arrive by elephant
    86 14 COMMUNITY leaders with an address of congratulation and loyalty arrive at the Esplanade. Taiping. on the *»4th birthday celebrations of the Sultan of I’erak on JaJn. 15. The address was read by the Tengku Mentri. In the picture can he seen Mr. Jal Manecksha and Mr.
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    EXPORTERS DENY JAKARTA CHARGE
    280 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 17. CINGAPORE business circles are ind-gnant at an allegaton bv the president of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce in Jakarta that local merchants are trying to sell inferior goods at high prices to Indonesia Strongly refuting the accusation, local trade leaders said yesterday that
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    Back at work
    28 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 16 Dr. J.D.O'Shaughnessy has rei turned to Johore Bahru to resume duties as acting Superintendent. General Hospital, relieving Dr P A. Allsopp.
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    The guests arrive by helicopter
    149 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. lb. B4B Naval Helicopter Squadron, in a ceremony at Admiralty House. Grange Road. Singapore, yesterday received a citation for the outstanding achievements in Malaya that won it the Boyd Trophy for 1053. At noon the squadron's comi mander, Lieutenant-Com-mander S. 11. Suthers, accompanied
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    4,000 SIGN THE PETITION FOR TRIAL BY JURY
    216 15 Deputation may see Tempter KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 18. PETITION, which by today had more than 4,000 signatures, will be handed to the Federation’s Legislative Council Speaker asking the Government to introduce a jury system in the Malay States. Organisers of the petition
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    $168,893 for ‘tips’
    56 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 18. The Federation Government paid out $168,893 for information leading to the capture or killing of Communist terrorists last month. The biggest sum was paid out in Johore—sB3,7so Pahang was next with $23,500. Perak $22,750. Negri Sembilan $15,000 Malacca $6,589, Selangor $6,031, Kedah $5,272.
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    Leaving for Britain
    58 15 SINGAPORE. Jan 19. Mr. Chia Chwee Leong. of the Singapore Chemistry Department. will leave for Britain this week on a two-year study course. He will spend nine months at the laboratory of the Government chemist in London, followed by six months with a well-known public analyst. After
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    Indonesian criticism of S’pore traders
    239 15 From Our Own Correspondent JAKARTA. Jan. 15. JNDONESIANS think that Singapore is trying to sell inferior goods at high prices, says Mr. Suchtar Tedjasukmana, president of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce. He welcomed the news that Singapore Is going to send a trade mission here
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    HE KILLED FIVE REDS
    176 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 19, npHE bravery of Rifleman Birbahadur Rai (above) earned him the praise of the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer. Rifleman Birbahadur killed five terrorists single-handed in an engagement this month at Ulu Remis, Johore. Rifleman Birbahadur, 23, is a member of “A” Company,
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    Colony doctors wed
    25 15 •>r. Tan Joo Ling and his bride. Dr. Nallammah K“»h Navarednam, leaving the Wesley Church. Singapore, after their weddinj- on Jan. 16.
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    MEMBERSHIP NOT CASH IS POLICY
    136 15 IPOH, Jan. 17. riE PERAK Progressive Party decided at its first annual meeting today that it is more interested in getting public support and increasing membership than in building up a big cash balance. A resolution, moved by the vice-president, Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam, that
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    $1 mil. more collected
    53 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 18. Federal revenue last month totalled $25,000,000, compared with 523.900.000 in November. Duty on tobacco netted SB.300.000. about $500,000 more than the previous month. Rubbur export duty also increased, from $2,800,000 in November to $3,400,000 while the duty on tin went up from
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    Chinese ‘yes’ to tin pact
    497 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 15. •THE ALL-MALAYA Chinese Mining Association today decided in favour of Malaya taking part in the proposed international tin agreement. Only one of the 150 delegates voted against the decision. Under the scheme Malayan mines would have to contribute 10 per cent
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    More ships, safety and more plans S.H.B. HAD A GOOD YEAR
    304 16 SINGAPORE. .Ian. IK. V MARKED rise in the number of ships using Singapore Harbour Hoard wharves, augmentation of its Police Force and development of the East Lagoon area for deep water quayage are some of the points mentioned in
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    JUST A BAT
    241 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 10. THE “mystery animal of Tanjong Malim” which a Singapore paper compared with the Loch Ness monster, saying that it had been “dragged” into the Tanjong Malim Rest House by the manager, assisted by his son. has been identified. It is a species of
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    MERCHANT SHOOTS A TIGER
    135 16 KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 18. 4 MERCHANT. Mr. Foim Choon Sianu. shot a six-foot 120-kati tiger at Brooklands Estate. Hunting, south-west Selangor, last night. Mr f -na v. tli another mcrchan* Mr. S I 1 nniah. and a jand i wn* r Mr Tong Ban Wab, w*
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    Malaya’s men for Kandy conference
    107 16 KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 19 I \ATO Nik Ahmed Kamil bin Haji Mahmood, Member lor Loral Government, Housing and Town Planning, will lead the Federation's three-man delegation to the tenth .session ol the Economic Commission lor Asia and the Far East. It opens on Jan. 26
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    New cross in Malacca
    154 16 MALACCA, Jan. 19 A NINE-FOOT-HIGH cast iron cross was erected here last night on the same site on w hieh the Portuguese City Cross stood over 400>»'ars ago. Officials of the Malacca Historical Society, including the Resident Commissioner, Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, watched the ceremony.
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    BIG KAMPONG HEALTH PLAN
    168 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 17. and child welfare services which will compare more than favourably with those in any other country will be established in Singapore kampongs. This ,s revealed by the Rural Board's chairman, Mr. E. G. Day, in his newsletter to rural residents. He says the
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    Takes over post
    35 16 JOIIORE BAHRU, Jan. 18. Inspector C. Stevenson has arrived in Johore Bahru from Taiping to take over as Court Inspoetor from Inspector Tahir bin Baehok, who has been transferred to Chemor, Perak.
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    C-in-C returns
    28 16 SINGAPORE, Jatl 19 Air Marshal sir Clifford Chief p 011 it Commander-in-C hi< f Far East Air Force rePervm Singapore from R< nang by air yesterday.
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    BOMB MISHAP IN PLANE KILLS GIRL
    99 16 r KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 18. E Royal Air Force is to hold a court ot inquiry into ?u bo *V b m h*h.ap which caused the death of an 11-vear-old Malay girl. fcainah binte Ali was killed near her home i n Kampong u
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    A LITTLE OF MALAYA WILL JOIN THE U.S.
    127 16 SINGAPORE, Jan 19 A pouna 01 Malayan oar!!, 'OH leave this week America— for tte bta«£S The °earth t l he J’- acmc coa^ 1 Pan I s b( inR flown in a Pa n American Clipper to the international trade fair
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    Top-class training for three in England
    161 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 13 'THREE technical assis- tants of the Kuala Lumpur telecoms department will get specialised training in two big British factories. Messrs, C. G. Yzelman, M Rajapopai and Leslie Rov who have been awarded fellowships by the Unit* Nations Technical Assistants Administration
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    Welfare man to leave Malaya
    31 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 19 Major A Kerr. Chairman cl the Johor? Bahru District Welfare Committee, returns to Britain shortly. Ho has completed his term In Malaya.
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    Moved to Kluang
    27 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 19 Inche Talib bin Abu. Assistant Secretary. State Secretariat Johorp Bahru, has gone on transfer to Kluang as Assistant District Officer
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    HE TELLS THEM ABOUT THE TOILING WIVES OF AUSTRALIA
    135 16 MALACCA, Jan. 14 WIVES of Rotarians smiled when told at a Malacca Rotary Club meeting today that they did not work a quarter as hard as Australian women. Kanagarajah Thambipillav, former Malacca High School boy and final year accountancy student of
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    MALAYAN SOLDIERS who are on a signalling instructors’ course at the School of Infantry signal wing at Hythe in Kent.
    58 17 Sgt. Francis Ooi of the Federation Regiment (centre) is seen with sergeants of the Malay Regiment inspecting fire-fighting equipment at the school which received the freedom of the Borough of
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    Producers against joint council
    249 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 19. JHE Rubber Producers’ Council has decided against taking part in the joint industrial council proposed bv the rubber estate workers and employers. The R.P.C. however, is not opposed to the principle ol a joint council, a recent R.P.C. meeting was told. It
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    For the Choongs it’s not all badminton
    210 17  -  From HALL ROMNEY LONDON. Jan. 19. OADMINTON has brought fame to the Choongs in 19 England. But it is only incidental. Eddie. David, Robert and Miss Amy Choong did not go to England to win badminton tournaments and acquire silver for the sideboard.
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    SINGAPORE. Jan. 15 A SMALL boy in Singapore is having the time of his life learning to ride a pony which stands only seven hands.
    171 17 The boy is Jason Ambler, aged fivc-and-a-half and the pony is Betsy, aged three. Betsy is a 100-guinca ($880) New Forest pony which the Sultan
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    Site hunt is on for nine new schools
    167 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 16. THE Singapore Government is ready to buy suitable school sites Mr. E. W. Houston, Superintendent Engineer of the Public Works Department, told the Straits Times yesterday. The Government is not confining its school building to odd pieces of Crown
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    Australian air line to shut office
    118 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 20 A MAJOR airline company is soon to close its Singapore office. The company is the Australian National Airways and its offices in Prince Street are expected to be shut down within a few weeks. No comment was available from the company
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    S. Selangor flood
    32 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 19 riie Bangi-Dengkil road, in South Selangor, was flooded to a depth of nearly two feet at the 23th mile today. The road impassable to traffic.
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    CHINESE NEW YEAR LEAVE FOR RECRUITS
    95 17 PENANG, Jan. 19 riEAR that once they enlist they would not be able to celebrate Chinese New Year with their families Is keeping Chinse youths from joining the Federation Regiment. "This lear is quite unfounded as the recruits will be given leave to celebrate
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      68 17 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br Quarterly Half-yearly Yearly The weekly issues express air delivery an inclusive rate of Singapore Town Area No Postage 5.20 10.40 20.80 of the service to the $24.00 for six Malaya including Postage 5.75 11.50 23.00 Straits Budget can Empire Foreign (Including postage)
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    KIDNAPPERS GET $100,000 RANSOM
    710 18 ‘Gangster film car snatch in daylight SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. ViR. LIM KOK (JIN, (he multi- millionaire who was kidnapped last Friday, is bark in his home at Itranksome Road, Singapore, alter more than $100,000 had been paid in ransom for his release. > The story of
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    Johore’s first win in 25 yrs
    1181 18  -  the week in sport] mbbi IHHkH By JOHN MARKS SINGAPORE. Jan. 19. JOHORE won the H.M.S. rugger competition fori the first time in the 25 years of the tourn-j ament last Saturday when, they beat a gallant Perak XV by 15 points, (three goals)
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    KEMPTON ONLY FAVOURITE TO WIN
    1189 19  -  By EPSOM J1EEP SINGAPORE, Jan. 16. pH REE RINGS, one of trainer 1 Rodgers’s best money spiniers, put up his best performance ever when he ploughed hrough a heavy track to win he Class 2, Dlv. 1 Mile Handicap in smart style at Bukit Timah
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    BRIDGE LAW II WINS BY 2 LENGTHS
    1120 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP, SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. BRIDGE LAW II (late Lyon Star), a bright new sprinting sta r in the van Breukelen stable, put up a smooth performance when he beat a formidable Class 2. Dlv. 1 field at Buklt Timah yesterday, second
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    Free food for 7,000
    115 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20 OVER 7,000 people were fed yesterday at the Chettiar temple in Tank Road, Singapore, in celebration of the Thaipusam festival. Preparations for the feeding started early in the day when 20 bags of rice were boiled in huge cauldrons. The rice was served
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      108 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: $339,460 1st. No. *****7 ($152,756) .'2nd. No. *****8 76,378) 3rd. No., *****5 42,432) Starters ($3,857 each): s Nos. *****3, *****$, *****6, *****0, *****3, 108J833, *****9, *****1, *****1, *****8, *****9 r Consolation ($2,545 e*ch): -Nos. *****4, *****2, *****0, *****5, *****2, *****9, *****6, *****5, *****5, *****8. DOUBLE TOTE
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    Industrials steadier and rubbers dull
    684 20 [SHARE MARKEti By Our Financial Correspondent SINGAPORE. Jan. 18. »pHE Singapore share market last week found little to encourage investors and operators and consequently went through another rather dull period. Early in the week both tins and industrials tended to ease and some prices were
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    NEW DIRECTORS
    30 20 Mr H. R Smith has been appointed chairman of Bertram Consolidated Rubber Mr C F. Stilwell and Mr H. B* van Praagh have been elected to the Board.
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    BUSINESS DONE
    251 20 The following list of business done in the Singapore share market from .January 9 to January 15 Inclusive, Is reported by one firm of sharebrokers:— n industrials Consolidated Tin Smelters Ords 23/9. Fraser L Neave ords. $2.00 to $1 -97 J to $2.00. Oammon %2m and $2 96
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    Latex exports in December
    74 20 SHIPMENTS of prepared latex from Malaya In December were 6,913 tons of which 2,087 tons went to the United Kingdom. 2,079 tons to the United States, 499 tons to France, 383 tons to Germany. 256 tons to Japan, 277 tons to the Netherlands, 317 tons to
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    Malaya’s trade fell by $374 million in 1953
    275 20 AS was to be expected the sharp decline in tie prices of rubber and tin in 1953. compared whh 1952 is reflected in a steep fail in the value Malaya’s overseas trade last year. Preliminary figures for December’s trade were issued yesterday
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    SOAP OUTPUT
    69 20 F November factories in the Federation and Singapore produced 37,161 hundredweight of soap making the total production for the 11 months of last year 413.156 hundredweight. Local sales accounted for 31,556 hundredweight making the cumulative local sales for the 11 months 336.999 hundredweight. Stocks of soap at the
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    687 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20 INDUSTRIALS Itayers Sellers Alex Bricks. Prett 2.:0 a.ao cd .Ordi 3.70 3.80 cd Atlas Ice 12.25 13.2 S B B. Petrol 85/9 36/1 B.M. Trustees 6.50 7.80 Con. Tin smelt. Pref 18/. fO«*s. v- 33/4 23/7 astern United 33.50 34 50 ed. Dispensary a.
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    Quiet week on rubber market
    210 20 Rubber Marko| SINGAPORE, Jan. 16 WHERE is again very little > A report this week. Rubb prices have remained at much the same level and the dema 1 has mainly been f<>r low grac es to the Continent and Japan There Is a reasonable dema
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    Copra exports
    78 20 EXPORTS of copra froin Malaya in November totalled 6,548 tons, valued at $4,069,193. Exports of refined coconut oil were 410 tons, valued at $433,058 and exports of crude coconut oil were 6,839 tons, valued at $6,547,432. Foreign imports of copra were 10,177 tons, valued at $4,988,041, of which
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    BERTAM RUBBER
    18 20 M*- H. B. Van Praagh of Penang has joined the board of Bertam Consolidated Rubber Co.
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    83 20 THE following dividends I were announced last week by companies operating In Malaya:. HONGKONG BANK: final £3, making £5, for 1953. payable March 5 books close February 19. BENTA RUBBER: 10 per cent for year ended September, payable February 10. books close February 1 KUNDONG RUBBER: final 20
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