The Straits Budget, 25 March 1954

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    29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES X MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER New Series No. Mf)B. Thursday, March 25, 1954 Price 40. cents (Malayan) Or 1 afaUHnff.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      CONFUSION OVER NEED FOR EUROPEAN SCHOOL
      380 2  -  JOANNA MOORE Singapore. has been much correspondence on the subject of a school for European children in Malaya, but there seems throughout to have been a certain unfortunate confusion of the issues in volved. There was at no time any suggestion made that such
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      ‘THE RELAPSE’ WAS ‘OBVIOUS CHOICE’
      204 2  -  DONALD MOORE. Singapore. gTANLEY Street is, of course, entitled to hold his,rather extraordinary views on on Restoration comedy, but not, as a responsible Journalist to mislead the public on facts. The Singapore Arts Theatre decided after ‘Macbeth” that it was in a sufficiently strong position
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      Check oral English too
      101 2  -  8. A. N. Singapore. IAM not interested in the question whether there should be a special school in Malaya for European children Nevertheless. I should like to draw the attention of the Senior Inspectors of Schools, both in Singapore and the Federation to what “Anthonuls” says:
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      He wants inquiry into this also
      199 2  -  VISITOR. rRTHER to your very pertinent editorials of Monday and Tuesday dealing with aspects of the Constellation disaster. I would urge another inquiry into the supervision and conduct of the mortuary at the Singapore General Hospital. I do not propose to detail the shocking
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      Reduce the fire risk
      115 2  -  C, H. K. C. WHEN a plane crashes on landing, it usually bursts into flames from the ignited octane spirit in the tanks as was the case in the recent tragic crash at Kallang. To reduce this ever present danger to a minimum, if not to
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      Pay for State Councillors
      104 2  -  A. B. M. Dungun. INr HB YAHYA bin Sheikh Ahmad has suggested giving a bonus to unofficial members of the State Council Selangor. no doubt a good suggestion for by giving them a bonus, it would mean fair play by the Government towards these members. An
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      ‘Put emphasis on air safety
      324 2  -  L G. VA! r Kuala Kubu Bahru [N connection with the recent accident to the stellation aircraft at Kallang Airport, in wh s many persons last their lives, we must hope i ?arly enquiry and report so that the reasons f accidents are know; This
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      ‘Soaking rich landlords’
      110 2  -  a J-FAGMF Singapore. ris strange that r F land” believes all says. I have been misqv zens of times. My statement to th<_ was a suggestion that < ment should tape all P' i “land or house transac fill Government coffer? "soaking the rich land There was
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  • The Straits Budget
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      The Decision On Ritson
      712 3 —Straits Times. Mar. 18 Finality was reached in the j Council Chamber yesterday in •u* pay dispute which has rent, lie Civil Service in Singapore 1 t »r the better part of two years. By a vote of 17 to six, the Legislative Council approved I
      —Straits Times. Mar. 18  -  712 words
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      Cairnhill Rabbit Hutch
      565 3 —Straits Times. Mar. 18. Scandalous is not too harsh a description of the conditions under which Singapore teachers are trained. The recommendation which the Legislative Council received yesterday for the immediate building of a teachers' training college consequently should be given what the committee has urged—a very
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      Marriage of Hindus
      718 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 19. The Hindu Monogamous Marriage Ordinance, which has had its first reading in the Singapore Legislative Council, primarily is of interest to one section of the community. The Council will examine it in the light of Hindu opinion. But the ordinance does have a
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      Getting On With The Job
      483 3 Straits Times. Mar. 19. A distinguished visitor to Malaya remarked the other day that the rubber industry should “stop moaning about the price of rubber and get cn with the job.” The planter, including the smallholder, will agree with Mr. R. A. Coles, chairman of
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      The Voice of Commerce
      839 4 Straits Times. Mar. 20. The proper mc.ins of controlling prices is through competitive selling. There was a time when no-one questioned it, and there was no need fot the spokesmen of commerce tc: dwell on it. But in recent years this ancient principle has been badly
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      Borneo Relents
      361 4 —Straits Times. Mar. 22. Some weeks ago an unfortunate Bornean villager was hauled into court and fined $3OO for the heinous crime of having and using a power mill. The law says that rice must be milled by hand—except w’hen it is milled by the Government. The Government
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      Growing More Rice
      823 4 —Straits Times, Mar. 23. There seems now’ to be a stock answer for those w’ho question the Federation Government’s rice policy. Most of the recommendations of the Rice Production Committee, it is asserted, are being implemented. As the Committee made no fewer than 156 recommendations, it is
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      Sir John Sanders
      462 4 —Straits Times. Mar. There have been f ov -'l it loyal and faithful sen o: Malaya than Sir John S General Manager of the \i an Railways for eight Acting General Manage; that for twelve years- rupted by the war ;;n t Japanese occupation—hin all thirty years
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    ‘Operation Sword’ got rid of 58 Kedah Reds
    1305 5  -  For eight months, security forces in South Kedah sought the Kedah-Penang Communist State Committee, in an operation called “Sword”. Rigid food control ran parallel with police-military action in the Bongsu forest where the Communists were hiding. “Sword” was one of the most
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      103 5 TREGONN1NG To Judith, wife of Kennedy Tregonnidf, on March 20. a daughter. TO CAI: Wife of Patrick Fitnce. on 10.3 54 at Penang Maternity Hospital, a daughter, Jennifer. ON 15TH March. 1954, at BlingB&r Hospital, to Peggy, wife of Major D. W. Grove, a daughter MILLS: To Dorothy, wife
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      MARRIAGES
      41 5 LOKE LEE: Married Lxkc Yatk Heng to Elizabeth Lee King Wing at, the Registry. Kuala Lumpur on 19th March. 1954. MR. HENRY Charles Geach was married to Miss Marjory Orchard on the 20th March 1954 at the Marriage Registry Singapore.
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    Former ‘Specials’ are finding— A NEW FUTURE ON THE LAND
    460 5 Former ‘Specials’ are finding A NEW FUTURE ON THE LAND TELUK ANSON. Mar. 20. is in progress on the more than 500 acres of district at the cost of $150,000 lised special constables. The scheme, officially known as the Jeram Mengkuang Group Land Settlement Scheme, is the first of its
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  • Obituary
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    197 5 DEATHS ALFRED Sheffield aged 93 late of British Electro Plating Works. Passed away peacefully at 80 Siglap Road. Funeral this evening 4.30 pm. at St. Hildas Church Katcng 5.00 p.m. at Bidadari. VOWLER. Walcot Edward, beloved husband of Gertrude, passed away peacefully at “The Haven Klebang Besar. Malacca, on 20th
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    THE MINARET
    7 6 Photo by Lee Beng Tean
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    As I was Saying
    829 6  -  CYNIC IS. SINGAPORE. Mar. 20. 4T Tokyos international airport last winter a plane bound for Europe skidded on the icy runway. Its undercarriage buckled, and petrol began spewing from its tanks. Within 45 seconds a hr? tender was alongside, and hum was being pumped on the
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1063 6  -  STANLEY STKF.E1 Our players DESPITE Press and radio. actors are still “abstracts and brief chronicles of the 1 time." most free of all men to speak the truth to mob and 1 monarch. Malayans are quick to grasp that a* anyone who has seen the
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    AMITA’S ROMANTIC DANCE She will perform at gala show
    95 7 LOVELY 20-YEAR-OLD Amita (above) will perform “Danse Romantique" in the Capitol Theatre stage show which will precede the gala premiere on Monday of “The Man Between". Proceeds of the show will go to the International House Fund. Amita’s real name is
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    Countryman’s Journal
    617 7  -  TUAN DJEK. TWO Sundays ago there was mention of a jungle climber with large red fruits. Thanks to TYMOTW. and an expert Tamil climber, specimens of the fruit and leaves were obtained. It is one of the Cucumber family. Trichosanthes celebica. The fruits are scarlet, measuring 6 x
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    We want the music of Malaya’s scene
    1162 7  -  Malaysian Notebook STANLEY STREET. A FEW DAYS ago in Singapore, I sat watching a rather dreary American film. It was a film I would immediately have forgotten but for one line in it. Says the drill sergeant to a recruit who knows all
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    FIFTY YEARS AGO
    135 7 Taken from the Straits Times of March 20, 1004. rpHE GAMBLING farms at I Menglembu and Guntong in Kinta were stuck up by robbers Ja.st week. The robbers mingled with the crowd that were gambling, and at a given signal, all the money in the hands of
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    Music-loving snakes drop in to listen to the radio
    146 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 19. OMALL grass snakes have been causing radio interference in the Kajang area of Selangor. 1 or Radio Malaya’s transmitting station built on the edge of the town’s padang —is a popular spot for snakes. I hey conie
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    RITSON PAY ROW ENDS
    1956 8 Govt plan approved by legislature SINGAPORE, Mar. IS. THE 10-week-old pay row ended yesterday. 1 The Singapore Government's plan tor ending the dispute was approved by 17 votes to six at ter a two-hour debate in the Legislative Council. Councillors who opposed the scheme were Messrs.
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    Profit on sugar is $5 mil
    303 8 FINAL FIGURES OF FOOD ACCOUNT SINGAPORE. Mar. 18. SUBJECT to small adjustments. the sugar division of the Food Trading Account. Singapore. for the period January 1, 1949. to February 28, 1954. shows a credit of $5,542,203. The rice division for the same period shows
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    Solution ‘fair’ says Shaw
    581 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. is SETTLING day for the Ritson pay row has com.a said the acting Financial Secretary, Mr iV Shaw, in the Legislative Council yesterday, and th. public, no less than councillors and Government servants, is impatient tor a fair settlement of ihj. vexatious issue. Mr.
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    Labour laws out of date — Councillor
    195 8 Labour laws out of date Councillor Speed-up of new Acts urged SINGAPORE. Mar. 18. DOTH THE labour code and the workmen’s compen1J sation law are outmoded and the new laws being drafted should be passed without delay, said Mr Lim Yew Hock (Lab. Keppel) in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday.
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    Ritson back pay may build a hall
    146 8 SINGAPORE. Mar 1;! THE Council of Action. ua meets today, will ask c* Government employees make contributions f their Ritson back pa> build a hall for their a: It is proposed to ask office Division 111 and IV aiwn-j rated employees to g
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    Trust will build 6,000 new houses
    331 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. SINGAPORE Improvement Trust will build 7 nearly 6,000 houses to rent at not more than $50 and $25 a month, said the trust chairman, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, in the Legislative Council yesterday. The council agreed to lend the trust
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    BOY CLAWED BY LIONESS AT CIRCUS
    91 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. A SEVEN-year-old boy, Tan Quee Huat, was badly clawed in the face by a lioness belonging to the Sheum Circus yesterday. The lioness was in a cage in Outram Road, Singapore, where the circus will be held soon. Tan and other
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    Crush-the-gangsters Bill goes to Council
    90 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 13. A BILL to give the Singapore Government more powers to fight gangsterism, extortion, kidnapping and other secret society activities, was read in the Legislative Council yesterday. The Attorney-General, Mr. E. J. Davies said that he would introduce the second reading at the
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    Airline to remain privately-owned
    316 9 NO TAKEOVER BY GOVERNMENT SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. THE SINGAPORE Government nas no financial interest in Malayan Airways Ltd. and is not considering taking it over. In a written answer to a r question by a Legislative Councillor, the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. C. Taylor says
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    ‘WE HAVE BEEN SOLD OUT,’ SAY WORKERS
    267 9 SINGAPORE. Mar. 18. 4 S the Singapore Gov- ernment issued urgent orders for the distribution of about $2,460,000 Ritson back pay to its 20,000 employees from today, the Council of Action issued a statement describing the new scheme as a “sell out” and
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    A GOODBYE SMILE
    69 10 Yeu Lin’s elephant takes a trip YEU LIN, 19-year-old daughter of circus manager Mr. A. Sheum. has plenty to smile about because her pet baby elephant Jenny is comfortable o n hoard the Janssens, which left Singapore for Indonesia on Mar. 18. The Sheum’s Circus. which has
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    EXTRA PAY DOESN’T RAISE INCOME TAX
    127 10 But Mr. Shaw gives a warning SINGAPORE. March 19. SINGAPORE'S acting Financial Secretary, Mr. H. Shaw, said yesterday that income tax would not be raised just because of the extra S3.375.000 which the Government would have to spend yearly on staff salaries. But he
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    ONLY FEW WANT TO BE CLERKS
    94 10 SINGAPORE. Mar. 13. I3ECRUITMENT of Junior clerks for the Singapore General Clerical Service has been difficult since the war. There are no good grounds for supposing that the position will show any early improvement. This was stated in the written answer of the Acting
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    First aid class
    37 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 19. The St. John Ambulance Association will start a firstold class in English at its headquarters in Stamford Road. Singapore, next month The course will be free and open to the public.
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    Council told: This college is a must
    303 10 SINGAPORE. Mur. 18. IX) P Government priority for a new teacher training college, planning of which must begin now. is recommended in a report tabled at the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday. The report was made by an -ad hoe" committee, which investigated teacher
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    Literacy officials
    28 10 SINGAPORE. Mar. 19. Professor F. Mason and Mr. C. C. Tan have been re-elected president and vice-president, of the Singapore Council for Adult Education, for 1954
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    POLIO VIRUS CAME TO MALAYA AFTER WAR
    142 10 Brought in from overseas w KUALA LUMPUR Mar 17 JJEALTH OFFICERS here believe that a new virus after°the h wir t hi t i 1 h country by over seas arrivals soon a ,f,V h ,-i War bas been responsible for the '119
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    New ‘white’ area in Malacca
    374 10 MALACCA, March is MALACCA became even whiter today wh en another 95 square miles of the Alor a j ah district was declared white. The 27,000 people in the district, mostly Mala s Heard the news with great satisfaction. But the jov \v greatest at
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    The Blythes are back for a week
    111 10 SINGAPORE Mar 13 THE former Colonial Secre tary, Mr. W. l Biytv and his wife returned to*Sr gapore Irom Australia on the Charon yesterday. Mr. and Mrs Bivthe will spend a week in the Colonv guests of the Officer A dm metering the
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    Sir Donald sees new homes
    46 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar IT Sir Donald MacGillivray. the Depute High Commissioner, t <. ly visited Kuala I two new Government housim estates at Cochrane Road am Lower Ampang. He was accomoaniec bv A' r E. M. Oborne. State Em r. t. Selangor.
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    THE KIDDIES SHOW WHAT THEY CAN DO WITH THEIR HANDS
    55 10 WHEN Lady Templer recently visited the Lai Ming. xn(jinese Girls’ School, she watch ed the children do a jf(l work lesson. With her in the picture are Mr. T. i*. m and Madam Choong Mun Cheong, Superintendent ano spector, respectively,
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    Malaya is a happy land, says Bartlett
    365 11 From HALL ROMNEY LONDON, Mar. 18. THE creation of a united and self-governing Malaya would be an immense example to the rest of the Asian continent. according to Mr. Vernon Bartlett. Mr. Bartlett told the Royal Empire Society that he returned from his
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    Alive after 100 ft. fall
    60 11 SINGAPORE. Mar. 19. A 51-year-oid laDourer, oim Khay Huat, was found alive at r he foot of a hill in Pasir Panling after falling 100 feet off a cliff-top, a Singapore inquest was told yesterday. He died in hospital a lew hours later. Sim was
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    Malayan girl guide chiefs may see the Queen
    250 11 13 WILL TRAIN IN COLOMBO SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. rpHIRTEEN MALAYAN Girl Guide leaders will have an opportunity of seeing the Queen next month when j they go to Colombo for an international advanced train- j ing course between April 61 and 10.
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    16 SPECIALISTS WILL TRAIN COLONY’S ARMY
    228 11 NCOs volunteer to serve here SINGAPORE, March 19. OIXTEEN British regular non-commissioned oilicers will train young Malayans who will be called up next month for National Service in the Singapore Military Forces. The NCO’s. ten of whom have already arrived from London have been
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    No call-up for the island boys
    128 11 SINGAPORE. Mar. 19. PERMANENT residents of the islands off Singapore will not be called up for national service at present, Mr. L. H.N. Davis, Secretary for Defence and Internal Security, said yesterday. They are, however, liable lor service when required. Youths in the Colony
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    SINGAPORE, Mar. 19. MR. EDWIN B. CARLOS. 40, senior assistant engineer of the Sewerage Department, Singapore City Council, has been awarded the Residential Fellowship by the Canadian Government.
    74 11 The award was made under the Technical Co-operation Scheme of the Colombo Plan. Mr. Carlos is the first Asian in the department
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    And then the firemen saw red...
    75 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 18. 4 PUBLIC spirited citizen of LX Kuala Lumpur hastily summoned the fire brigade yesterday evening after he had noticed an ominous red glare rising from the post office of Sentul. The firemen dashed to the scene, all set to put
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    REFEREE BLEW HIS WHISTLE, DIES
    135 11 Collapse during football match KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 17. CYED Ali bin Othman Yahaya, 36, referee at today’s Selangor first division league soccer match at Pudu Road ground, collapsed ten minutes before the end and died a few minutes later in the dressing room Syed All.
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    5,633 more are Federal citizens
    45 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 17 Last year 5,633 Federal citizenship certificates were issued, it was announced today. The total at Dec. 31 was issued to Chinese, 33,788 to 362,171, of which 313.197 were Indians, Pakistanis and Ceylonese. and 13,954 to Malayasians.
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    Job done—exit workers’ council
    157 11 Job done —exit workers’ council SINGAPORE. Mar. 19. rpHE Council of Action, formed two years ago to fight for better pay for local officers, will be wounded up in the next few days, it was decided at an emergency meeting last night. After a four-hour debate, the council accepted Government’s
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    THIS MACBETH IS A TIMELESS HUMAN TRAGEDY
    526 12 Shakespeare in Malay dress is an unqualified i« w mmiimmim success says NON I Vi RIGHT 111 i ii **********1111' ***** (I! 111! III Kl ALA Ll’MPl R, March 18. IS the experiment of presenting Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” in dress a success? Yes. An
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    Evils of the slumpby Mr. Coles
    213 12 Evils of the slump by Mr. Coles JOHORE BAHRU. Mar. 18. rE PRICE ol rice must be cut if the present high cost of living is to be reduced and workers live snugly on their wages. Mr. R. A. Coles, chairman of the Johore Planters’ Association, told the annual meeting
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    ARCHITECTS TO HOLD THEIR FIRST SHOW
    206 12 How Singapore has grown SINGAPORE. Mar. 19. SINGAPORE Art Society, in conjunction with the Institute of Architects, will hold the hrst architectural exhibition in Singapore at the British Council Hall from Mar. 26 to Apr. 4. A comprehensive collection of photograhps. maps, drawings and
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    Govt says ‘no’ to Nanyang Airways
    169 12 SINGAPORE. March 20. THE Singapore Government has rejected the application ot Nanyang Airways Ltd. to operate air services from Singapore to Penang and Sandakan. Mr \V. Cawthorne. secretary of the Air Transport Licensing Authority, last night gave the following reasons; <l> The Authority is
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    OFF TO BRITAIN ON HOLIDAY
    37 12 Mr LEE SIEW l.K. editor of the Singapore Free IV >v left Singapore on Mar. is ln the t arthage for Britain on six months' leave. Mrs joined the ship at Penan*;.
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    Police asked to act
    43 12 SINGAPORE M.i- The Singapore S w. fare Department ha> -;-.i a "serious case" of <• m women, in whi< sum of money is in\ The case has been >t-nt' Vr. police for action, say* t: partment’s monthly r- ;xr: >t.*terday.
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    PHOTOS OF A GRAVE GOT HIM A HOUSE
    244 12 Malayan student’s good turn SINGAPORE. Mar. 18. FIVE Asian students now have a comfortable house to themselves in Melbourne because one of them managed to obtain much-desired photographs of a grave. He is Mr. Too Joon Swan, who went to Australia four
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    SILVER HOOKS AND SPIKES IN SINGAPORE PROCESSION
    41 13 A HINDU devotee, with his cheeks and body pierced by silver hooks spikes and needles, marches from Perumal Temple to Veeramapalian Temple in the traditional Panganiuthram kavadi-carrying procession held in Singapore Straits Tiir.es picture.
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    Gen. Templer asks for 40 more helicopters
    544 13  -  From HARRY MILLER KUALA LUMPUR, March 19. GENERAL SIR GERALD TEMPLER, the High Commissioner and Director of Operations, has sent a despatch to the War Office in London asking for more helicopters for the war in Malaya. He considers that they will materially
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    Block buster bombs rain on bandits
    168 13 GIANT MORTARS IN NON-STOP ACTION KUALA LUMPUR, Fri 4 FURTHER phase of “Operar\tion Ivanhoe”—the big antibandit drive which has been under way in Selangor for the past four months was launched on Wednesday night The biggest mortars ever used in the Emergency went into
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    First appeal on new code
    321 13 LABOURER’S SENTENCE STANDS KUALA LUMPUR. March 19. TTIE FIRST criminal appeal in the Federation since the modification of the criminal procedure code was dismissed in the Federation Court of Criminal Appeal here today. A town board labourer. S. Suppan. who was found guilty of culpable
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    CUBICLE ARTIST FOR PARIS
    203 13 A YOUNG Singapore Chinese artist, whose home-cum-studio lies behind a Chinatown cobbler’s shop, will leave for Paris on Tuesday to further his art studies. He is 23-year-old Kam ZinChoon, whose father is an oddjob man and mother a pavement story-book vendor in Telok Aver Street, where
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    All agree on two-faced politicians
    175 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 20. SINGAPORE councillors yesterday endorsed Sir George Rendel’s statement in London about certain two-faced politicians in the colony. Sir George, who headed the commission which framed the colony’s future constitution, said on Thursday that the commission had met certain people who at public
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    PREFAB ISLES TO HELP DRILL SEABED FOR OIL
    99 13 —Reuter. SERIA. Brunei, Mar. 21. TWO “artificial islands” are to be built in the South China Sea about a mile offshore here next month to permit drilling for oil into the seabed Huge steel frameworks prefabricated on shore will be towed into
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    Call to the chettiars
    91 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 21. A call to the chettiars to give their share to the social and political life of Malaya was made bv Dato E.E.C. Thuraisingham. Member for education at a tea party here yesterday He said the chettiars had oeen conservative and backward keeping
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    INQUEST ON AIR CRASH BODY
    305 15 Coroner will order cremation or reburial after identification SINGAPORE, March 24. pHE body of one of the Constellation crash victims, 1 now in the mortuary of the General Hospital, Singapore, after having been exhumed last Sunday, will be oiTicially identified at the resumed inquest today.
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    New union aims to take in 40,000
    63 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 21. NATIONAL union for all factory, mill, smelting works, workshops, sawmill, nottery works and godown 'ommereial workers was formed in Kuala Lumpur today. Called the National Union of Factory and Com merciai Workers, it has a potential membership of 40,000.
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    TRAPPED MEN HIT BACK AT REDS
    155 15 SINGAPORE. Mar. 23. AN AREA security unit ambushed by 16 Communist terrorists in the Sungei Buloh area of Selangor yesterday fought back and put the enemy to flight. Two members of the unit and two terrorists were wounded. The terrorist gang included four women.
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    Mr. Olson’s body flown to U.S.
    47 15 SINGAPORE. Mar. 18. The body of Mr. G. F. Olson, vice-president of W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company, was yesterday flown back to Fort Madison in lowa by Pan American Airways. The body, embalmed in a casket, was given a special compartment.
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    ‘Tommy rot’ says Sir Cheng-lock
    379 15 MALACCA, March 19. JJATO Sir Cheng-lock Tan, president of the Malayan Chinese Association, today described as “tommy rot” the warning made by Mr. Vernon Bartlett, British journalist and author, over Radio Malaya last night that Malaya would turn Chinese in the next 20 years or
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    A ‘GHOST’ WILL GUARD MUSEUM TEMPLER HELPED TO BUILD
    128 15 MALACCA. Mar 19 A LATE 18th. century Dutch house along Fort Road, said to be haunted by the ghost of a nun. was declared open today as Malacca’s Museum by the Resident Commissioner, Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom. The house, made
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    Tribunals for call-up pleas
    73 15 Tribunals for considering appeals for postponement of National Service may be constituted from the following panel, it was gazetted in Singapore ve.sterday: Mr. J. P. Me William (chairman). the Rev Chui Ran It. Dato Syed A. M Al.sagofT and Messrs. T. E. Fernando. E GalLstan. J.
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    ‘This can do untold damage’
    291 15 BARTLETT UNDER/ FIRE AGAIN SINGAPORE, March 23. yERNON BARTLETT, the British journalist and former Member of Parliament, came under I Are again yesterday for his Thursday night broadcast on Malaya. His view that Malaya would turn Chinese in 20 years If the British left was
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    Top-ranking Red is bagged by Gurkhas
    311 16 KUALA LUMPUR, March 21. SURRENDERED terrorist has confirmed that a top-ranking Communist executive killed by a 1/10 Gurkhas patrol near Layang Layang, North Johore, on Jan. 7 this year was Loh Sau alias Siew Tin alias Ah Sau, a fanatical Party veteran. Loh Sau
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    She divorces her doctor husband
    135 16 SINGAPORE. Mar. 23. A YOUNG Singapore pharmacist. Nancy Lau. was yesterday granted a divorce from her husband, Dr. Edward Lau Chew Seng, now resident in Dublin. The suit, heard before Justice Taylor, was uncontested. Tlie decree will become absolute in three months. The couple were
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    Malayans to go to Paris
    80 16 FOR YMCA TALKS KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 21. Malaya will be represented at the centenary of the world's Alliance of YMCA's to be held in Paris in August next year. The annual meeting of the Malayan Council of YMCA's was told here yesterday that 15 names
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    HOW TO BECOME A MACE BEARER!
    188 16 SINGAPORE. Mar. 21. rE Singapore City Council has just appointed 40-vear-old Mr. Goh Sin Zee as its first mace bearer. How should he behave? Well, the Guild of Mace Bearers in Britain has printed certain golden rules. These say that Mr. Goh should always
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    Japanese Consul
    55 16 THE new senior Japanese Consul in Singapore, .Mr. Takao Matsuo, who takes the place ol Mr. Tadao Kato. Mr. Matsuo is a graduate of the Imperial University, Tokio. Formerly chief of tin* passport section of the Japanese Foreign Office, he held diplomatic posts in China. There are now
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    OLDEST BRITON IN MALAYA DIES
    202 16 At 93 he joined Lonely Hear In club and took up dancing SINGAPORE. March 23. rlE oldest European in Malaya, Mr. Alfred Sheffield died in Singapore yesterday. He was in his 94th year. His death followed a threemonth illness. Up till then Mr. Sheffield had
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    $72,000 for informers JOHORE TOPS LIST
    56 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 22. A total of $72,415 was paid by the Federation authorities for information leading to the capture or killing of Communist terrorists during February. Details are: Penang $1,500. Negri Sembilan $3,500. Johore $19,159. Selangor $2,500. Malacca $5,000, Kedah $2,756. Perak $14,000.
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    Some millionaires just ‘regular people’
    443 16 LIXIRY LEXER EX SEXGAPORE SINGAPORE, March 23. EMVE hundred wealthy Americans many of them millionaires —descended on Singapore early yesterday. They came from Cunard luxury liner Caronia which berthed at 8 a.m. i Among the wealthiest on this 99-day Pacific cruise, calling at 26 ports,
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    Pickpocket ‘king’ foils policemen
    120 16 SINGAPORE. Mar. 23. DR GIOVANNI, the king of pickpockets, yesterday showed Singapore policemen how to foil pickpockets. A pat on the back and a handshake could cost you your watch, wallet and other personal belongings. This pickpocketing feat is done liki lightning. He gave the warning:
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    Going on leave
    54 16 MR. H. J. PAYNE. Senior l» > ector of Islay Kerr and < 0 Ltd, Singapore agents 1 P and O and B I. ships. le«t the Colony last week in 1,1 Carthage for C.K. on months leave. Mr. A. G. son will act in the plan
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    Chamber chief on adverse trade balance
    431 17 SINGAPORE. Mar. 19. I ALA Y AN trade 1 figures for 1953 showed an adverse i) a 1 a n c e of over >216,500,000. The overall volume of rade. at approximately _m0.000.000, showed in md figures percentage auctions of 20 percent .< against
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    Police exhibition
    23 17 SINGAPORE. Mar. 24 More than 70,000 people visited the Crime Prevention Week exhibition at the Happy World Stadium. Singapore, last week.
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    $350,000 TB LOTTERY REJECTED
    257 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 21. DATO E. E. C. Thuralsingham chairman of the council of the Malayan Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis said today the council could not support Johore’s proposal to run its own lottery to raise $350,000 for a T.B. sanitorium in Johore Bahru.
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    BEST RADIO STATION FOR SINGAPORE
    249 17 To cost more than $2 million SINGAPORE. Mar. 19. is soon to have the finest radio station in Far East, the acting Direcr ot Telecommunications. Mr. Wagstaff. said yesterday. It will be built at Ylo Chu > ‘hg Road at a cost of mon* an
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    CAR HITS QUEUE: TWO DIE
    80 17 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Mar. 19. TWO brothers were killed and three women injured when a car ran into a bus queue at Sungei Derhaka yesterday. Lau Soon Say. 6. and his brother. Soon Cheok. 5. both died on the spot. An eye-witness said the car skidded
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    Moved pork: $25
    22 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Mar. 21. For moving two katis of pork without a permit Wong Yoon was fined $25 here.
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    S’pore doctor taps the Ipoh tree
    235 17 SINGAPORE, March 24. A 100-FT. Ipoh tree is being tapped in the Singapore Botanic Gardens to get a gallon of the deadly arrow poison of the Sakais for a French professor in Bordeaux who wants to find if it can be used to lessen
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    Registrar retires
    22 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Mar. 22. Mr. P. S. Naidu, registrar of the sessions court. Johore Bahru, has retired from the service.
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    Malaya’s navy doesn’t want call-up men yet—here is why
    241 17 Malaya’s navy doesn’ t want call-up men yet —here is why SINGAPORE. Mar. 24 tPHE Royal Malayan Navy is A not considering taking in call-up men now. Two reasons for it, said Capt. H. E. H. Nicholls, R.M.N., yesterday, were: The R.M.N, was still being built up. Its barracks were
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    Mr. Scott is now a Perak national
    161 17 IPOH. Mar 23. IVtR. SYDNEY DAVID SCOTT, x well-known Perak resident, today took out papers as a Perak State national. He is the first Briton to do so. Born in 1889 at Tayport. Fife, Scotland, Mr. Scott came to Malaya in 1914 and
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    Council Of Action
    52 17 We have been asked by the Council of Action to point out that its statement on the Legislative Council’s debate on the Ritson pay scales was amended after it was handed to the Press. The sentence. “As part of the electorate we shall always remember this day,”
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    Rulers are split on Federal elections plan
    295 18 KUALA LUMPUR, March 23. 'THK Hitfh Commissioner, General Sir Gerald 1 Templer, and other top Federation Government officers, will meet the Malay Rulers here on Saturday for critical talks on the Federal Elections Report. The position is delicate. Earlier discussions, of which Saturday's
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    One-way traffic link approved
    220 18 IT WILL COMPLETE SPORE LOOP SINGAPORE, March 20 STAMFORD Road and Bras Basah Road will become 0 one-way streets in a north-south traffic loop which two Singapore City Council committees have approved. The north-south scheme Is the second part of the Colony’s one-way traffic sys- j
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    RAIL MEN TO VOTE ON STRIKE
    255 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 21. THE threat ol a Malayawide railway stoppage loomed nearer today when the central executive committee ol the Malayan Railway Traffic Operators Union unanimously voted for an immediate strike ballot among its 1.000 members. The union also decided to send a
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    FIRM LOST $80,000 IN 7 MONTHS
    122 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 20. GIM HOE and Company, a firm of local produce dealers, lost $BO,OOO in seven months in 1953, Chng Chin Lam, a partner, said at his public examination in Singapore yesterday. Chng said the business was started in 1942 in partnership with
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    SITE FOR CULTURE CENTRE CHANGED
    119 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 22. HPHE original site chosen for JL Singapore’s $300,000 cultural centre—at the junction of Orchard and Killiney Roads —has been dropped. Public Works Department engineers have found the area unsuitable, a spokesman of the Singapore Council for Adult Education told the Straits Times
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    Knight of Malaya’s railways is dead
    417 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 23. OIK JOHN SANDERS. general manager of Malayan Railways, who was flown home from here last month for a medical examination, has died in a London hospital. He was 61. The news of his death in the Middlesex Hospital on Sunday
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    Reds are using ‘dum-dums’
    228 18 Reds are using ‘dum-dums KUALA LUMPUR, March 19. COMMUNIST terrorists in South Selangor arc using “dunl-dllm ammunition against secant' forces, a patrol of the R.A.F. Regiment discount yesterday. A patrol of No. 91 Squadron. R.A.F. Red ambushed four bandits in the Kuala Kansat Reserve, killed one and wounded two. The
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    Co-op houses completed
    56 18 TELUK ANSON, Mar. -i $450,000 housing estate longing to the Teluk English School Teachers < operative Housing will be opened by Mr. i Carey, Commissioner for operative Development, ration of Malaya, on 1 A garden party will f the opening ceremony. The estate stands on a J;
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    HEDDLE LANDS BIG RACE DOUBLE
    1047 19  -  BY EPSOM JEEP. SINGAPORE, Mar. 20. if, HEDDLE STABLE landed bit-race doable with Roti Galley (9 f.) and Cypress it at Bnkit Timah •rday, opening day of the i. a pore Turf Club March > tint. oman Galley, with Oeorge tney astride, steaked away i
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    EVERY TIME SEVIA WENT HE GAVE $10
    188 19 —Now a rare SATA honour SINGAPORE, Mar. 10. v- VIA SINGH is a famliUr k sight at the Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic. And he is always sure of a welcome. > i Sevia Singh never arrives t the clinic empty-handed. least once a
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    Crash inquiry Commissioner
    41 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 21. Mr. Justice Knight was last night named the Commissioner to hold the public inquiry into the BOAC Constellation crash at Kallang airfield. He will be assisted by two assessors who have not been named yet.
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    Is our shuttle lead going?
    969 19  -  THE WEEK IN SPORT By JOHN MARKS SINGAPORE, Mar. 23. |VHE failure of Ooi Teik Hock and Ong Poh Lim in the All England men’s singles In London last week has touched oft considerable speculation and argument as to whether Malaya’s badminton supremacy Is on
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      52 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: $344,646. 1st: No. *****4 $155,090 2nd: Ne. *****1 77,545 3rd; No. *****4 5> 43,080 (S 4 786 each) Nm: *****2. *****0, *****8, *****1, *****9, *****5, *****6, *****3, *****0. Consolation ($2,584 .< each) No«: *****7, *****2, tWTO. *****0, *****2, *****1. *****2. *****9, *****6. *****2. DOUBLE TOTE Six
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    Tin price jump moves shares
    569 20 SHARE MARKEI By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, March 22. PONFUSION as the keynote in the minds of investors on the Singapore Share Market last week caught, as they were, in the sharp upward and downward fluctuations in the price of the tin metal. Friday’s Jump
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    BUSINESS DONE
    255 20 mHE following list of business done, in the Singapore Share Market last week is reported by one firm of brokers for the period March 13 to March 19:— INDUSTRIALS: Bt. Malaya Trustee Ex. Co.Xtd., $6.75, Consolidated Tin Smelters Ords 25/3, Fraser Neave Ords $2.05 to $2.07$, Federal Dispensary
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    62 20 SINGAPORE, Mar. 24 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul were: Copra: steady; April' May $31% buyers. $32% sellers. Coconut oil; unchanged, quiet; $55 sellers. Pepper: quiet; Muntok white $295, Sarawak $260, Lampong black $245. Lewis and Peat: clokthg prices were: Copra:-steady; April $31% buyers, $31% sellers;
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    861 20 SINGAPORE, Mar. 24 INDUSTRIALS Bayer* seller* Bricks Pr«ls 2.10 2.20 Ords.* 3.33 3*5 Atlas Ice 12.23 13 25 BB Petrol 38/6 39/6 B M Trustees s ao 7.00 Con. Tin smelt Pref 18/- 19/* Ord*. 24/9 25/3 Eastern United 33 50 3450 reu 3 00 3.03 Phaser
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    Waughs to increase capital to $20 mil.
    201 20 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, March 24 UENRY WAUGH and Co. Ltd. annonitc yesterday, that they intend to si> approval for increasing their authorised cap from $3 million to $20 million which indica; that this well established firm is preparing to eu> new
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    Rubber mart starts to move again
    253 20 Rubber Mslrkct SINGAPORE, Mar. 20 market has at last A started to move in the right direction and an advance of over one J a half cents has taken i jver thp week, says Lewis and Peats’ report. Buying by the U S A.
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    219 20 THE following dividends were announced by companies operating in Malaya last week. FRASER AND NEAVE LTD: A first interim dividend of six cents per ordinary stock unit, less 30% income tax. for year end--1 ing June 30, 1954, payable to members on register April If. Books close April
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