The Straits Budget, 4 March 1954

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    28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER New Series No. 395. Thursday, March 4, 1954 Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      TEACHERS AND THE BENHAM PAY AWARD
      527 2  -  V. AMBIAVAGAR President, Graduate Tea* chers Association. Singapore. I WOULD like to reply to tfce editorial entitled “A Million Dollar Error/’ The Benham scales of salary replaced all other scales of salaries for Government servants as from Jan. I, 1950. The teachers and a
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      In spirit of Operation Service
      172 2  -  XAI* HU A HONG. Kluang. I WAS returning recently from Singapore to Kin an? with a friend in a car which broke down without petrol. At about 8.30 p.m M we saw a car coming from Ayer Hitam. We tried to stop it but in
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      NO NEUTRALITY IN THIS WAR
      432 2  -  ANTI-DUALITY Singapore. HAN SUYIN, (Mrs. Elizabeth Comber) is reporter 0 have said at a journalists’ luncheon that all t r Malaya she had found Chinese with sense t grievance because they were not trusted, it was t s she added, that tended to make them
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      ‘ADMIT OTHERS ALSO’
      214 2  -  JOANNA MOORE Singapore. brings hope to hearts of many Euro? n parents and deserves spread support. Such a school or>school B.M.B. envisages would be intended for. and financed ov Europeans, but it would b> a pity for that reason to lin exclusively to European c ren. If
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      TRADER’S VIEW OF ASIANS
      114 2  -  G. H. GUBMt 1 H Singapore. A READER complains tMt at a police check r 1 in the Federation, a Euro; n motorist was allowed to without much fuss anr Asian was asked to pr his licence. Aslans have more be: < Europeans than in thei
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      PLAN TO SAVE BADMINTON HALL
      186 2  -  tuner JOHN T. CHES*r Singapore.. not always seeing eye to eye with Mr Ng Keng Slang, I agree with' him that the Badminton Association and the Badminton Hall Committee should have shown a responsible lead to meeting the cost of the project having once embarked
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      A Singapore Cabinet
      1209 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 25. Substantial advance towards responsible self government for Singapore is recommended by the Constitutional Commission whose report is published this morning. There is no mistaking the significance of the reforms which the Commission proposes. It recommends a Cabinet system of government, its Ministers responsible
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      Practical Wisdom
      889 3 —Straits, Times, Feb. 26. The Rendel Commission’s proposals for Singapore have had, as they deserve, a good reception. There are those who, for reasons of their own, profess disappointment that the recommendations fall short of immediate independence. It cannot seriously be urged that the Colony is ready for
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      Colony and Federation
      833 3 Straits Times. Feb. 27 Relations between the Federation and the Colony were outside the terms of reference of the Rendel Constitutional Commission. The Commission, however, was dealing with fundamental reforms in Singapore’s political and constitutional structure, and could not escape consideration not only of the Colony’s present
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      The Tapper’s Wages
      711 4 —Straits Times. Mar. 1. The wage dispute in the I rubber industry is taking a j most remarkable course. First there were negotiations for a f new wage agreement. These negotiations unfortunately were 1 brought to a premature con- elusion by agreement to submit the dispute to
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      Warning To Planters
      888 4 —Straits Times. Mar. 3 The natural rubber industry is now ploughing steadily on in the wake of synthetic, from fifty to a hundred years behind j the times. If this statement j came from a disgruntled share- 1 holder in the industry, it w’ould get as little
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      CHAIRMAN ATTACKS ‘GUESSES’
      318 4 IPOH, March 1 IIR. W. G. Scott, chairman of the Federated Malay States Chamber of Commerce. Perak branch, today attached “guesswork” in t h e Licensing and Registration of Businesses Ordinance. Mr. Scott was commenting on the reply of the Federation Education Departnu r.t to his criticism
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    The need for a motor insurance claims pool
    1373 5 By A special correspondent jN SEPTEMBER 1951, a Mrs. Anna Lee was c rippled in both legs in an accident. Her daughter was killed and her husband injured. Last year, the Singapore High Court awarded her $26,000 damages. To this date she
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      37 5 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of $24 #0 for six months. (ALL THE ABOVE ARE IN MALAYAN CURRENCY
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    MR. STRIPES TOOK A WALK
    524 5  -  S. RAMACHANDRA. READERS may be interested in two local tiger escape stories from E-A. Brown’s book “Indiscreet Memories”. The first happened on Aug. 13, 1902, when a tiger had escaped from a circus in Beach Road undetected. It was night and the animal took a
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      158 5 ARROWSMITH: To Elisabeth, wife Of E. J. Arrow smith D.1.D., Kuala Lumpur, on 19 Peb., a daughter. CHIONH: To Susie, wife of Mr. Raymond Chionh Kah Kiat, at K.K. Hospital, on 23rd February, 1954, a son, Alan Chionh, both well. MENZIES: On 26.2.54, at 8.M.H., Singapore, to Mary, wife
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      188 5 THE Engagement is announced between Lyn, son of Mr. Patrick Thompson, of London, and Ethel Margaret, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O M. Peacock of Kuala Lumpur. THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced on 27.2.54 between Kenny, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Oliveiro, and Anna, daughter of late Mr. Billy
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      SILVER WEDDING
      23 5 SILVER—WEDDING on March the 1st 1929 at St. Andrews Cathedral Singapore James H. Giles to Edith Y. Perry of Sydney Australia.
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    71 5 DEATH NEWTON: Peacefully in England on ]9th February, aged 91, Elizabeth Newton, widow of the late Howard Newton, one time Munici pal Engineer in Singapore. ACKNOWLEDGMENT MAJOR AND MRS. GOODRIDGE express grateful thanks for condolences on the tragic lo6s of their elder son Michael in a flying accident in England
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    THE RUINS OF AYUTHIA, OLD CAPITAL OF SIAM.
    13 6 Picture by Tan Kok Kee
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    As I was Saying
    715 6  -  CYNICUS. SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. IF precedent is tol‘lowed Singapore will next hear of the new constitutional proposals when the Secretary of State announces, in the House of Commons, the British Government’s approval. But their greater Importance compared with the constitution of 1947 may invite debate in
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1086 6  -  STANLEY STREET. Fish expert WHEN Mr Fred Akhurst, 43-year-old deputy curator of the aquarium at London’s Zoological Gardens, leaves for Singapore on board the Estella today, he will have some unusual shipmates. For he will be taking about 150 different species of American and African
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    Countryman’s Journal
    658 7  -  TUAN DJEK <pHE weather was dry enough during the last week to allow the Tuan to finish weeding the young bananas and to make a start mowing the lawns and pastures. The Cook has dug up his abortive vegetable Plot and has planted bananas as a sole crop.
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    FIFTY YEARS AGO
    63 7 Taken from the Straits times of February 27, 1904. [N Muar, rubber trees suffer 1 Rreatly from the attacks of J, kind of beetle which strips nem of their young leaves. 1 he only remedy seems to be handpicking as a means of destruction. THE F. M
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    A MALAYSIAN NOTEBOOK
    919 7  -  STANLEY STREET. ARRIVAL by bus at Kuala Lumpur is rather different from the Singapore departure. You do not drift from a coffee house at leisure, you are precipitated into a sunbaked maelstrom. The terminus is in one of the less attractive parts of the Federal Capital and
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    MONKEY BUSINESS
    57 7 ip Don t look now, but your pocket’s flj L being picked! This unposed picture was I taken in the Singapore Botanic Cardens fl last week by Cora McDermott, of Changi, B The victim was her husband, and the fast- B I fingered old gentleman got away with
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    Married in Singapore
    21 7 MISS BARBARA REU was married to Mr. Calvin Palmer at the Wesley Methodist Church, Singapore, on Feb. 28.
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    PARTY GOVT PLAN FOR COLONY Cabinet of 9 urged by Rendel Commission
    1110 8  -  By LESLIE HOFFMAN SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. PARTY GOVERNMENT, through a Cabinet, and a r Legislative Assembly of 32 members, only three of them ofticals, are the main recommendations of the Rendel Commission report on constitutional reforms in Singapore,
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    Architect of the new constitution
    172 8 SIR GEORGE William Rendel. 65-year-old arch itect of *hc proposed new constitution for Singapore, was probably one of the most travelled British diplomats before he left the Foreign Service in 1950. fast, tireless worker. Sir George set what will probably remain a record for the
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    Elections Report is attacked
    40 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb Mr. I. Gurdial Singh, the sident ol' the Kuala branch of the Malayan it* congress today called the r ral Elections Report gressive.” Mr. Singh was address in-, annual meeting of the bra
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    OUT: EXECUTIVE COUNCIL IN: A MINISTRY
    1560 9 This is what adoption of the Rendel Report will mean But Governor will keep his reserved powers THE entire shape of 1 government in Singapore will be changed if the farreaching recommendations of the Rendel C ommission on constitutional reform in the Colony are
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    ALLEGIANCE TO THE QUEEN IS ‘MUST’ FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT THE VOTE
    518 9 ‘THERE should be no A question of including in the electoral roll in Singapore people who posses an alien national status and do not acknowledge exclusive allegiance to the Queen, the Rendel Commission states in its report. A
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    THE SPEAKER
    688 10 («»rmior to pick /nmol. 1 ikon Assoinbly will onto 1 AN the question of the appointment of a Speaker "or presiding officer for the Legislative Assembly, the Commission referred to a recomC mendation of the committee ol Unofficial mem5 bers, appointed in August, 1952, that a Speaker 5
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    Majority in Assembly must be effective
    242 10 TIE Rendel Commission said today that if real progress was to be achieved towards self-government, the new Legislative Assembly should be primarily an elected body, and that, if there was to be a majority of elected members. that majority should be an effective one.
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    The new Singapore must have an impartial Civil Service -and that means ‘no politics’
    445 10 IT is of the utmost importance that Singapore should have an impartial Civil Service, the Rendel Commission on constitutional reform says in its report. The danger of a “political” Civil Service is too obvious to need
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    Voluntary enrolment of voters a flop
    443 10 T*HE present system of A voluntary registration has proved a failure, the Rendel Commission on constitutional reform in Singapore stated in its report. Out of a present potential electorate of about 300,000 for the Legislative Council and about 200,000 for the City Council, only
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    The 25th constituency
    86 10 THE Rendel Commission recommended today that there should be 24 identical constitutencies to the new Legislative Assembly and the City and Island Council. There would, however, be one difference. A 25th constituency comprising the islands off Singapore should return a member to the Legislative Assembly only. “Although
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    No more money worries for rural areas if...
    1116 11 THE money troubles 1 of the rural areas of Singapore will be ended if recommendations made by the Kendel Commission on constitutional reform in Singapore are accepted by the Colony Government. The commission, in its report. recommends that the Kural Board should
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    CHAMBERS LOSE FIGHT FOR SEATS
    611 11 hardest fought battle before the Retidel Commission on constitutional reform was that put up by the three Chambers of Commerce in Singapore to retain their seats in the new Legislative Assembly. They lost the fight, but they were gallant losers and the commission’s report, awards
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    Immediate self-rule? That will give Reds their chance
    317 11 THE Rendet Commls- I sion could not accept I the view of a few people I who submitted proposals I to it that complete inde- I pendence should be given I to Singapore immediate- I ly. I Apart from major diffi- I
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    MORE AND MORE ARE SPEAKING ENGLISH
    246 11 y ARIOUS representations T were made to the commission to recommend some form of multi-lingual system for the Legislative Assembly. but the commission recommends that English remain the official language. After quoting figures showing the number of people in the Colony who speak English
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    JOHORE’S BRITISH ADVISER IS DEAD
    428 14 JOHORE BAHRU Feb. 25. THE British Adviser for Mr. John Douglas Hodgkinson, died suddenly this morning at home. Ke was 47. and leaves a wido.v and an adopted son. Mr. Hodgkinson, who was in his office all day yesterday, tecame ill early thi.-, mornin The
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    New taximeters
    32 14 SINGAPORE, Mar. I Taximeters in Singapore will now be illuminated. A City Council decision, passed recently amends the taximeter rules to allow the Registrar of Vehicles to licence illuminated meters.
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    ‘BUSINESS TAX IS FAILURE’
    329 14 1POH, Feb. 25. THE Registration and Licensing of Businesses Ordinance was a failure, Mr. \V. Scott, chairman of the Federated Malay States C hamber of Commerce Perak branch, told the annual meeting here this afternoon. “I do not wish to continue labouring the point but I
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    Dato gets U.S. leader grant
    62 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Feb 25 Dato Abdul Razak. State Secretary. Pahang, accompanied by hi.s wife left by plane yesterday for the Philippines from where they will take boat to America. Dato Abdul Razak, going to America on a U.SI S. leadership grant, expects to spend tw'o
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    12 SERGEANTS SAIL FOR SANDHURST
    85 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 26. Twelve sergeants trom me Federation left Singapore yesterday in the 27.469-ton troopship Georgic for a two-year officers' training course at Sand hurst. Eight come from the Maiuv Regiment, four from the Federation Regiment Major A Cook second :r command of the Federation
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    FIRM SUES MAN FOR $15,000
    98 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 26. A CIVIL suit against Eu Eng Hock, of Kuala Lumpur, was brought in Kuala Lumpur High Court today by Messrs. Robinsons and Co., Ltd., for non-payment of $15,000. Eu was alleged to have ordered goods worth $20,000 at Singapore and Kuala
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    Club officials
    62 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 28. Officials of the Singapore Gun Club for 1954 are: President. Mr. T. F. Stevenson, vice-presidents. Messrs. Oei Tjong Ie and Wee Kali Kiat; secretary and treasurer. Mr. B. F. Santos; field captain. Mr. G. Perry; committee members. Messrs. A. J. Braga. Richard Eu, J. J.
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    SIX-YEAR ROW ENDS
    154 14 Now the army will hand over 14 acres to the government SINGAPORE. Feb. 26. THE SIX-YEAR argument between the Singapore Government and the army authorities over land at Buona ista Road, has been settled by the War Office. The Chairman of the Rural Board, Mr. E. V.
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    Purcell repeats Templer charge
    194 14  -  From HALL ROMNEY LONDON, Feb. 20 FAR. Victor Purcell tor; repeated his char/* that the High Comn., sioner. General Sir CU aid Templer, was ant.Chinese. Dr. Purcell, adviser to t Malayan Chinese Associati was replying, in a letter The Spectator, to last wet letter by Dr.
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    Vibrating walls—by Mrs. Ede
    105 14 Vibrating walls —by Mrs. Ede SINGAPORE. Feb. 27 AIRS. Amy Ede (Progress. J-»*Easti told Singapore councillors at their meet::'.: yesterday that machined which caused a nuisance making a lot of noise sho: not be allowed to operate' residential areas. She successfully refi back to committee decision gi anting licences to
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    AHMAD, THE PERFECT DRIVER
    275 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 28. MEET Ahmad bin Mahmood, 33, who can safely claim to be the best driver in Singapore* today. There is no road regulation, no traffic signal that he does not know, and all are faithlullv followed whenever he i.s at the wheel. Ahmad, has
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    Talks open on the big Govt change
    236 15 SINGAPORE. Feb. 27. *HE Governor of Singa- pore, Sir John Nicol) has opened discussions with his advisers on the administrative changes likely to follow the Rendel Commission recommendations on constitutional reforms Sir John leaves for London in mid-March for consultations on these reforms
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    WRAC Chief
    66 15 AIK COMMANDANT N. M. Salmon, Director of the Women's Koval Air Force, "'ho arrived in Singapore "n Feb. >8 by Qantas-B.O.A.C. onstellation from Britain on a Far East tour. .Air Commandant Salmon "'H tour all units of the Far Air Force at which "RAF members Serve. They u
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    Gave left hand salute for M.M.
    608 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. |NTHE spotless walking-out dress of the Royal Artillery, Lance-bombardier Ramli bin Abu marched down the red-carpeted investiture room at Government House, Singapore yesterday. He halted before the dais on which the Governor sat, resplendant in full ceremonial uniform, and saluted with
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    Final pay proposal by Government
    487 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. CINGAPORE Government has submitted a new formula to consolidate the present salaries and allowances for its employees according to the Ritson recommendations. At yesterday’s meeting with representatives of officers <n all divisions of the Public Service. Government delegates hmted that the new
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    Welfare fund
    59 15 KUSALA LUMPUR. Feb. 28. Kuala Lumpur District Welfare Committee Is appealing to the public for generous donations or to do voluntary work. Donations can be sent to the chairman or honorary secretary. Kuala Lumpur District Welfare Committee, c/o The District Office, Kuala Lumpur, or to the honorary treasurer,
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    TEN GIRLS JOIN THE NEW JUDO CLUB
    202 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. CiNGAPORE judo enthusiasts have organised a club to spread interest in the lapanese art of self defence. It is the Singapore judo Club, with a membership of 70, including 10 girls. Members include doctors, dentists, salesmen, typists and students. An
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    Now Tengku knows all about fishing
    62 18 TENGKU MAIIMOUI), the Yam Tuan Muda. son of the Sultan of Trengganu, who returned to Singapore on Mar. 2 in the liner Willem Kuys after completing a twoyear practical course in fishing in Britain. He said he also did a technical course at Brighton
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    Saigon Prefect guest of City
    50 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 3. The Prefect of Saigon, M. Nguyen Phuoc Loe. and two Councillors, arrived in Singapore yesterday as guests of the Singapore City Council. They had been invited by th“ President, Mr. T.P.F. McNeice tom* the city and study its workings lor a week.
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    HIS DYING WISH TO BECOME TRUE
    254 18 Slone laid for hospital wing SINGAPORE. Mar. 3. "THE FIRST step in turning a millionaire's last wish into a reality was taken at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday when the foundation stone of a new children’s wm» was laid. The Singapore philanthropist, Mr. N.
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    Clare lured 400 from nightspots
    241 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 1 Maurice clare. after successful appearances in Penang, and Kuching, gave his j farewell public appearance in Singapore on Saturday night at the Victoria Hall. To lure some 400 Singaporeans lrom the nightspots on a Saturday evening to hear Beethoven Sibelius and unaccompanied
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    Unions open big drive
    99 18 KUSALA LUMPUR. Feb. 28. A STATE-WIDE drive to enr\ list unorganised workers Into trade unions has been launched by the Selangor division of the Malayan Trad*Union Council. A four-man planning and organisatlon sub-c< mmittee has helped in forming the National Mining Workers’ Union, the Selangor Rubber
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    MALAYA FOR MALAYS
    149 18 This congress may tell Britain: Don’t hand country to Malayans PENANG, Mar. 2. A resolution demanding “immediate direct negotiations” with the British Government for the refill n of Malaya to the Malays will be tabled at the third Malay National Congress in Penang on Thursday. The resolution
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    MEDAL FOR STUDENT
    75 18 THE Royal Institute of Chemistry, Malaya Section, has awarded the first Memorial Medal in Chemistry to Mr. Loke Kwong Hung, an Honours students of chemistry in the University of Malaya. The presentation of the medal will be made by the University’s Vice Chancellor. Sir Sydney Caine, at
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    HE’S NEW TRADE COMMISSIONER
    39 18 MR. EDWARD BOWER, the new United Kingdom Trade Commissioner in Malaya arrived in Singapore on Mar. 2 «n the Carthage. Mr. Bower takes over from Mr. K E Mackenzie. Straits Ti’me^ ie. Straits Times picture.
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    Indian praise for local hockey
    678 18  -  I THE WEEK IN SPORT] By EDIN PETERS SINGAPORE. Mar. 4. \f ALAYA’S hockey stan1 dard has been placed somewhere among the second half of the ten leading teams in the world by Mr. B. L. Gupta, manager of the Indian Hockey Federation touring team.
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    GOOD DAY FOR THE JONESES
    833 19  -  BY EPSOM JEEP IPOH: Feb. 24. The Joneses, Davy and ackie. had a good day at Ipoh vi sterday, second day of the •>erak Turf Club February Zieeting, sharing five races between them In a card of seven events. English Jockey Davy Jones nded a
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    KITSON LEONG SCORES RECORD WIN
    928 19  -  BY EPSOM JEEP IPOH. Feb. 27. [SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD ap|0 prentice Kitson Leong gained his first success on his home ground when he steered Cinder’s Prince home in a re-cord-breaking win over seven furlongs at Ipoh yesterday, concluding day of the Perak Turf Club February meeting. Cinder’s
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    Planter is ordered to pay wife
    107 19 MALACCA. Mar. 1 FVONALD William Macdonald of Ong Hln Tlang rubber estate, was ordered In the Sessions-Court here on Saturday to pay maintenance arrears of £154 to his wife, Dolina Christina Sutherland. Macdonald, and a child. The court president, Mr. G. R T. Chelvam.
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    Padi growers
    15 19 SEREMBAN, Mar. I.—A Negri Sembilan Smallholders and Padi Cultivators Association was formed yesterday.
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    Party attacks the University ‘muddle’
    203 19 SINGAPORE, March 2. THE SINGAPORE Progressive Party in its newsletA ter yesterday attacked the Government for what it called the “University muddle” and for five years of indecision in the development of the University of Malaya. It urges a fresh start on the clear cut
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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      98 19 Big Sweep TOTAL FOOL (9295.750) FIRST: No. *****9 (983,725) SECOND: No. *****2 ($41,862) THIRD: *0. *****4 ($20,931) 8TARTER8: ($2,325 each): Non. $*****, *****4, *****9 *****6, *****9, *****8, *****3, 1 216 7 58, *****1. ,•-> CONSOLATION ($1,008 codi) Noo. *****6. *****3, *****9, *****9, *****7, *****7, *****8. *****7, *****6, *****4. TREBLE TOTE:
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    Buying interest in industrials
    545 20 SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, March 1. ’THE heavy buying of industrial shares which has been apparent on the Singapore Share Market during the past few weeks became more pronounced than ever last week. With investors diverting more and more capital into industrial issues
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    BUSINESS DONE
    216 20 TtHE following list of business done in the Singapapore Share Market last week is reported by one firm of brokers for the period February 20 to February 26: INDUSTRIALS: Fraser A Neave Ords $2.05 to $2.12 Gammons $3.07ft to $3.17&. Hongkong Bank (Col) $845. Wm. Jacks $3.72ft to
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    RUBBER EXPORTS
    43 20 RUBBER exports from Singapore and the Federation of Malaya in February amounted to 70,316 tons which was 6,242 tons less than in December last year. The short month and the Chinese New Year holidays were a contributory factor to the drop.
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    Rahman Hydraulic
    18 20 The Feoruary tin ore output of Rahman Hydraulic Tin Limited was 672 piculs, it is announced.
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    BRITISH FILM QUOTA IDEA ‘OFF THE RAILS’
    256 20 SINGAPORE, March > SI POKESMEN of Cathay Organisation and s> w Brothers—principal film exhibitors in Stngav e and the Federation—yesterday gave only p a approval to the recommendations by a quota mlttee regarding British films. Mr. John Ede, of Cathay Organisation, told the
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    63 20 Singapore Chinese Prodace Exchange: noon prices per picul were:— Copra: quiet; March April $35% buyers. $35% sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; $5B sellers. Pepper: steady; no business reported; Muntok white $345, Sarawak $340. Lampong black $295. Lewis and Peat: closing prices f were:- Copra: easier; March J April $35%
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    Dull trenc continues all week
    236 20 I Rubber M.irhMj SINGAPORE, Feb. 2 FkULL conditions V e continued this v There was a slightly timulating effect from he report that Indonesia a.* arranging to dell io« uoo tons of rubber to Ri sia this year, but the mi e t soon lost
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    183 20 rE following dividends were announced by companies operating in Malaya last week:— THE LAHAT MINKS LTD: A dividend of 9s. 6d. per share less income tax at 9s. in the payable in London on February 25 to shareholders on register on February 22. P1JNGAH TIN DRE1K ING LTD.:
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    857 20 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1 i r pHE Malayan Sharebrokers’ Associations’ revised prices at Its 4 p.m. meeting: yesterday were: INDUSTRIAL Buyers Sellers Alex. Bricks Pr*l» 2,10 2.20 'Ords 3.40 3bo Atlas Ice 12.25 13.25 8.8 Petrol 37/3 37/0 B.M. Trustees 6.50 7.00 Con Tin tttnelt. lB- Ords. 25/-
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