The Straits Budget, 29 July 1954

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  • 25 1 The Straits Budget :THE WEEKLY I ISSUE vOF TOE 1 STRAITS: TIMES NATIONAL NSWoF apis New Series 415. Thursday, July 29, 1954 Price 40 eenta.CMaiayan)
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    • 527 2  -  R. C. HUBBALL t Singapore w am GEORGE PEPLER 1* y' once v* more among us, determined to push through the Land Acquisition; Amendment Bill and preparing to reiterate all his well-known arguments to the, select committee. V It to appropriate to
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    • 96 2  -  MALAYAN, Perak, r THE former High CommlsA sloner may be correct that police lieutenants are needed to lead attacks against the terrorists but why are so many doing office work at police stations? Could not these office Jobs be done bv local men? -*■&>,. <
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    • 56 2  -  ARTHlR CHEW. Singapore. Hawkers v outside sims Avenue market In Singapore do not cover their food. Hence, the food is an inviting place for flies. Also, dust may Settle on the food. When will the food inspectors teach the hawkers some basic rules of hygiene? But
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    • 300 2  -  P. F. ADAMS Controller, Economic Division Treasury. Kuala Lumpur, IN a recent report on cess collection, you quote the views of Mr. K. M. G. Anderson, chairman^of the F.M.8. Rubber Planters Estates Ltd., concerning the collection and distribution of the four and half cents replanting cess.
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    • 88 2  -  TAXPAYER Singapore, 117 HEN is the Education Derij partment going to put a stop to the drinking parties which are becoming the main feature of almost every school sports. The worse offenders are the Regional schools. Some teachers make it a point to attend every sports meet.
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    • 70 2  - 6 am—2pm HOURS THE BEST I. D. PEEL Kepong. a aboul fajs’s*. fftttt? S; “H.W.R." observed 5?^ n WOrkers to most out-of-do ers. They are the houts of the the'worst* Pm v, raised against t commencement of k the early morning i t :i i «faops and offices in the
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    • 80 2  -  ECONOMIST Singapore. A BANDSTAND is quito expensive and Is used perhaps once or twice a month. I fed there Is no need to. it at Queen Elizabeth Wal* What w« want Is the hand. The King George V bark does not have a bandstand (although one
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    • 61 2  -  J. HABBERJAM. Malim Nawar. 1 WOULD LIKE to thank the unknown Chinese gentleman who helped me during a serious car crash on the Ipoh-Chemor road one Sunday evening recently.^ His knowledge of first aid (and his prompt application oi it) helped to save
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    • 202 2  -  REX DUNCAN, General secretary and treasurer, Incorporated Society of Planters. Kuala Lumpur. YOU report that Mr. Henry Hopkinson, Minister for Colonial Affairs, in the House of Commons, on July 8, said that Communist terrorists in Malaya had killed 2,197 Asians and 100 Europeans since the outbreak
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    • 901 3 —Straits Times, July 22. It is impossible not to welcome a cease-tire agreement which ends a war in which half a million men have been killed or wounded. It is difficult not to welcome the truce in IndoChina even for its own sake, for the opportunity of a
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    • 653 3 —Straits Times, July 23. The Rulers’ reply to the Alliance request for the appointment of a commission from outside Malaya to inquire into the Federation Constitution was not entirely encouraging from the Alliance’s point of view. The Rulers are not convinced that a commission drawn from outside
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    • 354 3 —Straits Times, July 23. As amended, the bill which gives the law new powers against the gangster now meets the criticism expressed in the Singapore legislature and by the public. The chief change s that police certification will not be regarded as conclusive proof of the
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    • 236 3 —Straits Times, July 23. Malaya’s rubber estates may not have always the happiest homes, but if an unnamed estate mentioned in the Labour Department’s monthly report is in any way typical, the families which live there are burgeoning. It is a large estate, and it employs five hundred
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    • 923 3 —Straits Times. July 24. The more the consequences of the Geneva agreement are examined, the leas treasurable they look. We should wait, however, says Mr. Eden, for the publication of the detailed arrangements. The full text of the three cease-fire agreements ‘‘will not be found unsatisfactory.**
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    • 384 4 Straits Times. July 24. As a time when the Government allowance for Malayan students at British Universities has been reckoned inadequate at the equivalent of £5OO a year, a correspondent points out that her son, an English student, is up at Oxford on £2lB. The money is
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    • 635 4 —Straits Times, July 26. Singapore's master plan still holds its secrets. But certain indications show' the way the master planner has been thinking. Sir George Pepler has said one or two things that were perhaps precipitate. His dictum that one way traffic is a confession of
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    • 366 4 —Straits Times, July 27. The forests of Sarawak can still furnish a surprise or two.! The most unexpected of them,' recorded in the Forest Depart- I ment’s annual report, is a Sumatran rhinoceros. It had been believed that the lastl specimen was killed several years ago, but
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    • 251 4 Peking’ s Regrets inimv nvv w r Straits Times. July 27. Communist Chinn’s apology for the shocting down of the Cathay Pacific airliner, and the killing of nine of its passengers and crew, is far from a satisfactory explanation of this barbaric outrage. But it is remarkable that responsibility has
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  • 58 4 Dr. Michael Sullivan. who has graduated in Chinese the School of Oriental and African Studies. London been appointed a tecUrer a th(> University cf Ma.aya on the history of ait. Dr. Sullivan who took UP the study of Chinese art in the Fogg Museum. Harvard University. is
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  • 14 4 The Governor cf Singapore has granted certificates ol naturalisation to 41 people.
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  • 1211 5  -  By Harry Miller 4 N important role in the winning over of the dominated groups of aborigines was given to' the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, the spearhead now of Operation Termite.” It was a patrol of the S.A.S. Rt giment which went up
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  • 292 5 —A.K. A HANDBOOK OF MALAY SCRIPT By M. B. Lewis (Macmillan 12s 6d.) JJERE at last is a book for those who wish to learn Jawi, and who prefer to study at their own pace and in their own time. In her new contribution
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  • PERSONAL
    • 233 5 WEST: To Wendy, Nee’ Ayton, wife of John, at Batu Oajah, on 22nd Juty, a daughter. TO SHEILA and Ronald Mowat, of Sedgeley Estate, on 25th July, 1954, at Bungsar Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, a daughter, Alison Claire. TO DOROTHY: Wife of J. Kordyl of Ulu Paloh Est. on 19th
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  • 137 5 KUALA LUMPUR, July 27. A UNITED NATIONS telecommunications expert Mr. Alan Edwards, left here yesterday for Geneva after five months in Malaya. His Job was to Instruct telecommunications radio engineers on the new very high frequency link to speed Malayan communications. Mr. Edwards was
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  • 62 5 jy/IISS JANET LIM CHIU MEI, a former pupil of St. Margaret’s School, who has been appointed matron of St. Andrew’s Mission Hospital, Singapore. She joined the hospital in 1!)40. When it closed in December 1941. she became a nurse at the General Hospital and with
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  • 43 5 SEGAMAT, July 27.—A total of 19 Chinese Home Guards were produced before the Segamat Magistrate for being absent from duty. Eight were fined $25 each, the charge against five was withdrawn while the others claimed trial. Their cases were adjourned.
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  • 38 5 This year’s Malayan chess championship will be played at the Hollandsche Club. Singapore, from July 31 to Aug. 2. The tournament consists of five rounds on the Swiss system. Entries close today.
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  • 29 5 KUALA LUMPUR, July 27. Jan Smeterlln will give a piano recital at the Chinese Assembly Hall here on Friday. Aug. 6 -not this Friday, as reported yesterday.
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  • 42 5 DEATH ROBERTSON. At Pietermaritzburg Natal, on 18/7/54. Gyda Robertson, widow of the late R. M. Robertson formerly of Port Dickson, N.S. and Mother of Gyda Jean Scott. McCORMICK: At Chatswood, N.S.W., on July 26th, J. McCormick late of Kuala Lumpur and Rawang.
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  • 11 6 Straits Times photographer, Kok Ah Chona.
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  • 809 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE. July 24. r pHERE were more hopeful signs yesterday of a settlement of the strike of Singapore City workers It is apparent that many of the men would be glad to get back to the job. Some of the points in dispute were disposed
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  • 1109 6  -  STANLEY STREET. Then and now \S a writer to the Straits Times points out. a strike by the refuse disposal men in the colony was countered before the first World War by volunteers, mostly spirited young assistants from the commercial houses. When this volunteer force
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  • 36 7 Belinda’ s Japanese fan dance in Singapore Belinda Eu who will give an item—Japanese Fan Dance—in the Dance of Many Lands' recital which will be staged at the Capitol Theatre tomorrow.—Sunday Times picture. .—Sunday Times picture.
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  • 1194 7  -  Malavsian .Xotebowk w STANLEY STREET. jyjERUDI, the old capital of Sarawak’s Fourth Division, is a little place with much character. One does not see it at its best, arriving as I did, after dark, with rain slashing in torrents, its landing stage, dimly outlined by a swaying
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  • 34 7 The new telephone exchange at Kulim, Kedah, was opened on July 18. The Telecommunications Department staff celebrated with a Malay dinner at the exchange. Government officials and community leaders attending.
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  • 618 7  - Countryman’ s Journal TUAN DJEK. A MANAGERS’ conference was held in the Police Club. Although several high officials could not attend there was one who had never previously been seen on these occasions. He explained the working of the Special Branch, and told us a lot about the tactics of
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  • 102 7 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24. 11/IR. C. R. Keats, 38, manager of the Bukit Beruntong estate near Rawang, Selangor, was injured yesterday when an Indian estate labourer attacked him. Mr. Keats, who was slashed with a harvesting knife on the face and hands, was rushed to
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  • 38 7 Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. Deputy President of the Singapore Legislative Council, accompanied by Mrs. Tan and two children, has left for Britain. It is understood he will study parliamentary procedure during his stay.
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  • 325 8 KUALA LUMPUR, July 21. 'pHE Federation Court of Criminal Appeal today held that it could not rehear a case of alleged fraud involving $1,300,000 in which five merchants had been acquitted by Mr. Justice Abdul Hamid in the Kuantan High Court in May after they had
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  • 65 8 IPOH, July 21.—Catholics in Ipoh are planning a procession and pageant for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8 to celebrate Marian Year. About 5,000 people are expected to join the procession, which will start at three different centres and meet at St.
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  • 27 8 SINGAPORE, July 22. Singapore Straits Chinese Methodist Youth Fellowship will hold a leaders’ training camp at Telok Mata Ikan from Julv 31 to Aug. 2.
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  • 166 8 1 SEREMBAN. July 21. I people of Pertang I new village, Jelebu, who had a 22-hour curi few imposed on them last year for helping the terrorists, have been I warned again. I The Director of Operations, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Geoffrey Bourne, making his first official visit to
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  • 92 8 —No bugs, no goats KUALA LUMPUR. July 21. ANEW "comfort” for estate workers cement beds has been started on one estate in Selangor, says the Federation Labour Department monthly report, issued today. The manager’s reason for installing them was that bed bugs can not sheltar
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  • 61 8 KUALA LUMPUR.. July 21. Ng EK Poh. 26. Shamsuddin bin Abdul Kadir. 23. and Chin Tuck Chuen. 19. of the Telecommunications Department have been awarded engineering scholarships from the Colonia. Development and Welfare Fund Ng and Shamsuddin will Join the Brighton Technical College this year. Chin
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  • 141 8 IPOH, July 21. A LINK with old Perak was broken last night with the death of Mr. Alan Ramsay, former manager of the engineering department of the Borneo Company’s Ipoh branch, who retired in 1932. The late Mr. Ramsay was 74 years old.
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  • 54 8 KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 —A meeting of the Joint Coordination Committee of the Federation and Singapore was held here today. It was presided over by the Commissioner-General, Mr Malcolm MacDonald. After the meeting, the delegates inspected Federal House and then had tea in the canteen. The Singapore
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  • 147 8 KUALA LUMPUR, July 21. IMPROVEMENTS being carried out on the Royal Air Force station runway at Butterworth will provide landing and take-ofT facilities for bigger aircraft. Although it is primarily a fighter station, the improvements will enable fully load- ed Lincoln bombers to
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  • 311 8 VARSITY MEN ACCUSED OF SEDITION THE trial of eight University 1 opMafaya studemc j 1 two sedition charges which hadhln,„ S on j ally fixed for hearing in the Singauor P EW P r<^ 1S 0n District Court on Aug. 10 and 11 win
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  • 142 8 SINGAPORE, July 22. UNIVERSITY of Malaya will now go ahead with A plans for a $700,000 medical students’ hostel, following the Singapore Legislative Council’s decision on Tuesday to allot a maximum of $350 000 for the project. The University Registrar. Mr. W. D Craig, said
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  • 63 8 IPOH, July 21.—Alliance leaders Tengku Abdul Rahman and Dato Sir Cheng Lock Tan will address public meetings in Perak next month on the Town Council elections and the resolutions adopted over the Sultan of Perak’s refusal to meet an Alliance delegation They will address meetings In
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  • 70 8 SINGAPORE, July 23. Mr. W. S. L. Baker, the last Malayan Civil Service officer who attended an 18-month course in Chinese in Macao, China returned by BOACArgonaut to Singapore yesterday from London At the airport to meet him, was the Johore State Chinese Affairs Secretary, Mr.
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  • 185 8 OFFER OPEN TILL END OF MONTH SINGAPORE, July 23. pOR the first time in more than a year the Singapore Traffic Police can give learner drivers an immediate driving test. Mr. W. R. M. Haxworth, Superintendent ot Traffic, said yesterday. This is possible because many dates
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  • 88 8 JOHORE BAHRU, July 22. Mr. J. C. McDouall, Chief Welfare Officer, Federation of Malaya, yesterday opened an Old People’s Home at Ulu Tiram new village. Built of wood, with a concrete floor and asbestos roofing. the Home has accommodation for 15 people
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  • 24 8 BRUNEI, July 22.—Kuala Belait oil town is to have a new $lOO,OOO post office and Gov ernment Offices.
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  • 189 9 SINGAPORE, July 23. pKOPOSED fluorination of Singapore’s water supply was endorsed by doctors and dentists yesterday. Thev said it would be a positive method of reducing the high incidence of tooth decay in the Colony. Their comments followed a statement bv Singapore’s Chief Dental
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  • 150 9 KEMPEITAI CHIEF APPEALS TO GOVT. PENANG, July 22. 1 APT AIN Isamu Terata, former chief of the Japanese Kempeitai (Military Police) in Penang, has appealed to the Federation Government for remission of his life sentence, the Straits Times understands. He is reported to be suffering
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  • 55 9 KUALA LUMPUR. July 21. The annual convention and Gospel service of the Pentecostal Church of Malaya will be held at the Chinese Assembly Hall. Kuala Lumpur, from July 21 to July 25. Prayers for the sick will be said by the Rev. Alwin de Alvis,
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  • 20 9 BRUNEI, July 22.—The Government has given the ‘go signal’ for establishing a $240,000 International Club here.
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  • 89 9 SINGAPORE, July 23. THE b,M, i oiiigaport- me Rt. Rev Henry Balnea has given his support to an appeal for contributions towards the Christ Church School ouilding fund. The school of six classrooms in debt of $14,000 for its present building, is planning an
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  • 43 9 SINGAPORE. July 22. Singapore’s Director of Medical Services. Dr. R. H. Bland, will present gold and silver medals to 41 blood donors tomorrow. The presentation will take place at the Blood Transfusion Office, General Hospital, at 3 p.m.
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  • 67 9 SINGAPORE. July 23. A human skeleton was yesterday found buried in the beach off Tanah Merah Besar, Singapore. Beside the skeleton, police found a wallet, a cigarette case and two trousers buckles. A number of people killed by the Japanese during the war were
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  • 291 9 SINGAPORE, July 23. JAPAN is planning to stage a huge trade fair in Singapore next March or April, the Japanese Consul-Gen-eral, Mr. Ken Ninomya, told the Straits Times yesterday. “It is now a question of the Singapore Government approving such a large fair”, Mr.
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  • 56 9 SINGAPORE, July 23. Cyril Wilkins Frerichs was sentenced in Singapore yesterday to one month’s gaol for failing to report as a police supervisee for nine months. Frerichs was to have reported monthly for two years from April 10, 1952, to Inspector Hoe Fook Sin. He reported
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  • 98 9 after two years KUALA LUMPUR, July 23. Malayan Railway Signal- men’s Union has given up its two-year-old fight for arrears of salary to be backdated to Jan 1, 1950 instead of Jan. 1 last year. Its representatives took this measure after a two-hour meeting with the
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  • 121 9 Mother of 14 receives special award from medical chief SINGAPORE, July 24. Mrs. M. B. E. Wheatley, of Cumberland Lane, Singapore, has donated more blood to the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service than any other person. During the past five years she has made 30 donations. To mark
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  • 48 9 KUALA LUMPUR, July 23. Petaling Jaya, the growing satellite town near Kuala Lumpur, will soon have a maternity and child welfare centre. It will be ru n by the Sisters of the Franciscan Missionary, who are giving medical assistance to the residents now.
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  • 147 9 ALOR STAR, July 22. ALTHOUGH outnumbered five to one, six soldiers from the 10 th Platoon. B. Company, 5th Malay Regiment, forced 30 terrorists to retreat at Paya Mengkuang Bukit Paku yesterday after a 30-minute fight. The soldiers were removing arms, ammunition and documents
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  • 295 9 PENANG, July 22—Unless the Federation and Singapore get together and form a single political unit there could be no real self-government in Malaya, Dr. N. K. Menon, the Penang Settlement and Municipal Councillor, said here last night. Dr. Menon successfully opposed a motion
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  • 720 10 Wounded Q.C. escapes SINGAPORE, July 26. COLONEL P. A. GREGOIRE, Regional Controller of the Colonial Development Corporation, and Mr. W. A. Gibson, manager of the Kulai Oil Palms Estate, Johore, were killed in a terrorist ambush on a road in the estate about 10 a.m.
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  • 783 10  -  By WILLIAM FISH and FRANCIS WONG SINGAPORE, July 27. TERRORISTS who murdered two Europeans on Kulai Oil Palms Estate, Johore, on Sunday, took pictures of the bodies and gave first aid to a third member of the ambushed party, Mr. Christopher Shawcross, Q.C., before heading back into
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  • 38 10 SINGAPORE, July 27. The Sarawak Steamship Company’s vessel Rajah Brooke arrived in Singapore yesterday from Kuching with 38 Chinese students bound for Red China. The students will tranship by the first available boat.
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  • 228 11 SINGAPORE, July 27. THE Federal and Colonial Building Society Ltd. 1 may reduce its lending rate in the near future, the general manager Mr. J. Burgess, said yesterday. Mr. Burgess was commenting on a letter published in Saturday's Straits Times asking why the Society should be
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  • 101 11 SINGAPORE, July 26. TELEVISION will be introX duced in Siam in January next year, said Mr. L. S. Skoblin, a representative of Radio Corporation of America, in Singapore yesterday. Mr. Skoblin. regional superviser for South-East Asia, arrived after completing plans with the Siamese
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  • 19 11 Nine warships of the Indian Navy are expected in Singapore on a courtesy visit on Aug. 2.
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  • 152 11 SINGAPORE, July 24. TWO ARABS claimed trial in A Singapore yesterday to a joint charge of importing unlawfully on July 21 744 gold sovereigns and 50 half gold sovereigns, which Customs said, were worth about $lB,OOO. They were Sejipid Sheikh bin Ali Alkafif,
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  • 174 11 Municipal workers study abroad KUALA LUMPUR, July 23. THE Kuala Lumpur m u n i ci p a 1 i t y is sending suitable young men and women abroad for study courses to groom them for senior posts, Inche Mohamed Din bin All,
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  • 152 11 SINGAPORE, July 27. TEAM of British and Japanese engineers will begin an extensive survey of the Temanggan iron ore mine in Kelantan early next month to assess the possibility of developing it. This mine was bought by a Japanese syndicate in 1935 and has been
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  • 51 11 SINGAPORE. July 27. Two members of the R.A.F. from Tengah, John D. Skelton and Eric Collier, were injured when their car overturned near the junction of Bukit Timah Road and Coronation Road, Singapore, early yesterday. They were treated at the General Hospital and sent
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  • 144 11 SINGAPORE, July 27. SINGAPORE’S first 0 Asian puisne judge, Mr. Tan Ah Tah, presided in the High Court for the first time yesterday. Mr. Chong Thutt Pitt, a senior member of the bar, welcomed Mr. Justice Tan and said he was the first locally-born Colonial
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  • 91 11 SINGAPORE, July 27. RESPLENDENT In a gown of patterned lace, 18-year-old Australian debutante Barbara Smith waits to receive her guests at her £lO,OOO coming out party last Mon> day night. The party cost her father, Mr. Stanley Smith, a Malayan mining magnate, 10,000. It was held
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  • 62 11 SINGAPORE, July 27. The Rt Rev. H. W. Baines, Bishop of Singapore, left for the United States yesterday to attend the Anglican Congress at Minneapolis from Aug. 4 to 13, and the second assembly of the World Council of Churches at Evanston from Aug. 15 to
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  • 65 11 KUALA LUMPUR, July 26. Inche Othman bin Mohamed, Selangor’s Mentri Besar, is expected to succeed Raja Sir Uda bin Raja Muhammad as Malaya’s Commissioner in Britain. He is expected to leave for England early in September. Raja Sir Uda will return to Malaya
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  • 119 11 SINGAPORE, July 27. A SINGAPORE City Council committee has hit on a compromise on the allied problems of smoking and dignity at meetings. The committee recommends that councillors should not smoke while meetings are held but that smoking should be allowed when the meetings
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  • 39 12 IIIROI (ill. croud-lined streets in Long Beach. California. Marjorie Wee. Singapore air hostess taking part in the “Miss Universe” contest. Is borne on a Moral float. The title went to Miss U.S.A.—A.P. photo. .—A.P. photo.
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  • 267 12 Join housing society, he says KI'ALA LUMPUR, July 25. ptOPLfc wishing to bund their houses cheaply should join their local co-operation housing society. If there was no such society, they should form one. This tip was given today by Mr. V M. N Menon
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  • 106 12 KUALA LUMPUR, July 25. The Federation Government is concentrating on winning over aborigines wno ror •‘nearly 13 years have been in contact with Communism,” said Mr. R. O. D. Noone. Director of Museums and Adviser on Aborigines, In a broadcast tonight. In the past six months, about
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  • 690 12 SINGAPORE. July 25. DEASON Graham Ceol Stuart, 31. who won the Distinguished Flying Cross in Europe in World i War II. was fined $50,000, j in default three months' gaol, when he pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to unlawfully importing 302 bars
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  • 138 12 KULIM, July 25. HURRICANE destroyt*d 46 attap houses at Kampong Kubu, five miles from Banda Bahru, yesterday doing $lO,OOO worth of damage and making 150 people homeless. The first warning the Malays got of the approaching gale was when the trees were blown over to a
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  • 259 12 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24 COLONISTS in the Perak v Government’s five year padi scheme for Chinese farmers in the Changkat Jong irrigation area of Lower Perak are more interested in planting tobacco than padi. "The Government has spent SoOO.OOO on irrigation works there, it will
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  • 52 12 SINGAPORE, July 26. Five young Europeans from the R.A.S.C School, Nee Soon, were injured when a car crashed into the drain at the junction of Farrer Road and Bukit Timah Road at 2.10 a.m. yesterday. They were taken to the General Hospital and released
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  • 30 12 SINGAPORE. July 23. Mr. R. E. Ince of the Education Department Singapore returned to the Colony in the liner Canton yesterday, after six months’ leave in Britain.
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  • 26 12 SINGAPORE, July 23. Mr. D. C. Horton, Secretary to the Rural and Industrial Development Authority in the Federation returned yesterday from leave in Britain.
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  • 114 12 SINGAPORE. July 24. CHEW SOONU SEUNU 48-year-old managing-direc-tor of the Feng Pao. a "mosquito" newspaper, was found guilty in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday of publishing "a certain imputation about a physician.” intending to harm him He was fined $300. The physician, Goh Leong
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  • 123 12 KUALA LUIVIPUR, July 23. HEAVIER court fines are proposed in future on minor offenders in the Federation. Proposals come before the Legislative Council next month. More than 100 offences are affected. In the majority of cases fines have been doubled. Others have been
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  • 234 13 Coroner told of shootings at Harbour Board gate SINGAPORE, July 24. THE two Singapore Harbour Board policemen, con1 stable Hussin bin Lombai. 22, and Constable Laurence Lange, 20, who were shot dead while on duty at gate No. 7, on June 21. were murdered bv four
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  • 250 13 SINGAPORE, July 24. MANY MEN after serving prison terms in Singapore are becoming permanent social outcasts because firms are unwilling to employ them, the Commissioner for Prisons, Major W. L. P. Sochon, said yesterday. Appealing to employers to give ex-prisoners a chance, Major Sochon
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  • 73 13 PENANG, July 24. |>ENANG lawyer Mr. lan Meek was married to Miss Elizabeth Cornell at St. George's Church today. The bride, who arrived from Britain this week, was given awav bv Mr. John Forrester. Mr. Douglas Grant, former B.P.P. Penang, now in Johore Bahru, was best
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  • 110 13 SINGAPORE, July 24. MRS. W. A. C. GOODE, pat--111 ron of the Y.W.C.A., has sent 150 invitations to business and professional women in Singapore in an effort to revive the Y.W.C.A’s Business and Professional Women’s Club. The invitation is to a teatime meeting at
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  • 47 13 Mr. George Kennedy, a former preventive officer of the Singapore Customs Department, has been awarded the Imperial Service Medal by the Queen for long and meritorious service. He joined the Government service in January 1928 and retired on June 14 this year.
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  • 337 13 Bomb death robbed him of his ‘eyes’ KUALA LUMPUR, July 24. BLIND man's courage is helping him to face life anew after a series of personal tragedies in which hope has been quickly mingled with despair. It was in May 1950 that Mr. Chong Pat Seong lost his sight. A
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  • 84 13 KUALA LUMPUR. July 25. In view of the changing political situation in Malaya, the Government Printing Department should gradually allow Malayans to replace the expatriate senior officers, states the sixth annual report of the Federation Government Printing Department Employees Trade Union. It said the
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  • 117 13 TWO Singapore City Council 1 committees have rejected a Government claim to be paid or the construction of a footpath in High Street outside 'he Legislative Council’s new Assembly House. They agreed only to the council maintaining the new footpath. The Government built it
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  • 215 13 KUALA LUMPUR, July 23. HTIHE first prize of $300,000 in A the 22nd Social and Welfare Services lottery was won by a ticket sold in Johore, number *****93. Johore numbers also won the second prize of $lOO,OOO and a fourth prize of
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  • 54 14 MAKJOKIL WEE, represent-; ing Malaya in the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant at Long Beach, California, presents a gift to Long Beach mayor George M. Vermillion (right). Looking on is Mr. Bob Rus* sell, the master of ceremonies. The gift was a kris in a
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  • 113 14 SINGAPORE, July 24. fTWENTY TWO armed l pirates, believed to be Suluks from the Philippines, raided Kampong Melalin at the north-east of Jambongan Island, North Borneo, on Wednesday night. None of the inhabitants of the kampong was injured but property was stolen. Police launches searched the coast
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  • 72 14 IPOH. July 26.—The following are ollice-bearers of the Perak St Andrews’ Society for the year 1954—1955:. Chieftain Mr. C. Ogilvie, vice-chieftain Mr. F P. McHoul hon secretary Mr. M. Ersklne hon treasurer Mr M MacDonald Committee Messrs. K D Robertson, D Freer, G. Mac Kay,
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  • 136 14 KUALA LUMPUR, July 23. A TOTAL of 251 “ghost estates” have been traced through the Rubber Industry (Replanting) Fund Ordinance introduced last year. These estates, with a total of more than 52.000 planted acres, were traced when they applied for registration with the Rubber Replanting
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  • 437 14 Ignore advice to return then negotiate I SINGAPORE, July 27. THE striking labour unions of Singapore City Council last night ignored the advice of the Governor, Sir John Nicoll, to return to their jobs and negotiate with the council authorities. Representatives of the 10.000 strikers
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  • 115 14 IN eight days of the strike. Singapore City Council’s 10.000 daily-paid employees have lost $360,000 in wages, not counting overtime pay. Each man has lost $36 on an average earning of $4.50 a day. The men will get an average of $25 each for
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  • 79 14 KUALA LUMPUR. July 26. The Federation Trade Union Adviser. Mr. J. A. Brazier today stressed the importance of a newspaper owned and controlled bv a trade union. He was inaugurating the printing of the Tamil weekly Sangamani, now owned and operated by the Plantation Workers’
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  • 85 14 SINGAPORE. July 27. MR. John Alfred Chippindale. an engineer, was granted a decree nisi in Singapore yesterday on the grounds of desertion. The decree is to be made absolute in three months. The couple were married in England in December 1938. There were no children. Mr.
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  • 141 14 KUALA LUMPUR, July 25. THE Batai tree (there are thousands of them in gardens all over Malaya) may in a few years give the country a prosperous paper making industry. The trees—known to forestry experts as Allsizzia Falcota—are grown in gardens for shade. Tests carried out
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  • 69 14 Twenty-five-year-old Kani-par-born Rev. Yap Kim llao, who went to the United States six years ago to study dentistry, returned this week to Malaya as a Methodist Pastor. He took a three-year theological course at Boston University, and obtained a Bachelor of Divinity degree R i> aP
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  • 178 14 $35,000 OPIUM IN HIS CAR KUALA LUMPUR. July 22. ONG CHWEE CHOK, 2 r of Singapore, was today fined $10,000 when he was found guilty on two charges of possession of opium. Revenue officer Kam Check Sam told the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court that on information
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  • 51 14 SINGAPORE, July 26. New bicycles and c5 *sh prizes are being offered for the best “safety first” essays submitted during Safety First Week—Sept. 9 to 19. Tlie competition, which is being sponsored by the Singapore Safety First Council, is open to students of secondary and primary
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  • 624 15 33 rd DAY OF THE INQUIRY SINGAPORE. July 22. THE Malay foreman fireman of Kallang; Airport fire services said yesterday that his first duty in an aircraft crash was to rescue the passengers The fireman. Sunardi bin I
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  • 773 15 34th DAY OF THE INQUIRY SINGAPORE. July 23. A NAVAL fire expert’s report on the Kalians Airport fire services in May this year ought to have been given immediately to the Department of Civil Aviation, airline operators and counsel engaged in
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  • 910 15 35th DAY OF THE INQUIRY SINGAPORE, July 24. A FIRE expert employA ed by the British Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation said yesterday that if Kallang: airport firemen had been trained according to Ministry standards there would have been a good chance of saving
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  • 1113 16 KALLANG RUNWAY END NOT DANGEROUS TO PLANES’ 37TH DAY OF THE INQUIRY SINGAPORE, July 28. 'FHE Director-General of Civil Aviation for the Malaya-Borneo Region, George John Warcup, said in Singapore yesterday that there was only a moral obligation to provide
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  • 162 16 M SINGAPORE, Jul v >w H. Christopher Sha\v?‘ cross, Q.C. Bo\ Cs senior counsel, is unlikely to be present at the in Quiry till next Monday because of wounds he received in a terrorist action on Sunday. 1 Mr. Kinsey said he had
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  • 681 16 SINGAPORE, July 27. A FIRE expert said yesterday that the rear pressure dome on a B.O.A.C. Constellation which crashed at Kallang Airport on March 13, would have made an excellent escape route for the passengers if it had been opened
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  • 213 17 SINGAPORE, July 28. pQPIPMENT worth $1,000,(100 has boon ordered A in Coventry for the Singapore Telephone Hoard, its chairman, Mr. Loke Wan Tho, said yesterday. Mr. Loke returned to Singapore yesterday by I3OAC after a round-the-world tour with his wife! He told the Straits
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  • 222 17 KUALA LUMPUR, July 25. A CALL for the establishA ment of an industrial tiusteeship to run the rubber industry in Malaya was made tcciay by Mr V. D. Nair, out- ing president of the Federation of all-Malayan Estates' Staff Unions. The industry, which, he said, had assumed
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  • 61 17 SINGAPORE, July 28. Storekeepers and their assistants. who have complete charge of Singapore City Council stores, may in future be asked to provide securities A committee has recommendf cl this. At present, only council cashiers arc covered by guarantee bonds. A councillor has suggested that only long
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  • 69 17 IPOH, July 27.—1p0h Inner Wheel club, whicn has only 15 members, will hold its first cocktail party on Friday to instal new officials. They are: President, Mrs. Too Joon Ting: vice-president, Mrs. c. H. Cormac; secretary, Mrs. J. B Webster; treasurer, Mrs. H. D. G. Jansz; and
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  • 763 17  - I refused bandits’ pills—shot QC SHAWCROSS SAID TO TERRORIST PHOTOGRAPHER, 'LET ME HAVE A COPY, WON'T YOU?' By PAT MORGAN SINGAPORE, July 28. .VIR. CHRIS iO PH ER SHAWCROSS, QC. told the Straits Times in a dramatic bedside interview yesterday how he escaped death in a Communist ambush in Johore
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  • 199 17 KUALA LUMPUR. July 27. FIFTEEN delegates will represent the Federation at the forthcoming meeting of the World Assembly of Youth in Singapore. The leader of the delegation will be Mr. D. R. Daniel, chairman of the Malayan Youth Council. Mr. Chong Tin Huat. secretary
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  • 25 17 KUALA LUMPUR, July 27. An advisory committee has been set up to look after the Lake Gardens, one of Kuala Lumpur’s beauty spots.
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  • 121 17 SINGAPORE. July 27. T*HE Friends of Singapore may ask the Government to buy and preserve buildings of historic interest in the Colony, said Mr. T. W. Ong. the president, yesterday. The former Temenggong Istana at Tclok Blangah Road, which has been offered for sale,
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  • 243 19 SYSTEM IS ‘CHAOTIC’-Mr. DOW SINGAPORE, July 28. W HE “CHAOTIC SYSTEM” of numberiiig houses In Singapore Is a major problem in preparing the w electoral rolls, the acting Registrar of Statistics, r. R. Dow. said yesterday. In the new rolls, voters win boosted in .their
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  • 96 19 TEMERLOH. July 27. T IE Sultan 6f Pahang, opened the state agriculture show on Saturday. display were agricultural ducts, livestock, school dicrafts, demonstrations of n-sarong weaving, fabric i nting and rope making l: m Manila hemp. ;n the afternoon, river sports re held on
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  • 60 19 LiW Hbe Boon was charged yesterday with intimidating a City Council worker, N. Araurthallngam, at 8yed Alwl Road on MondajPttiorning, by comhim’ unlawfully to stop work. The offence is punishable under the Trade Disputes Ordinance, the Singapore Sixth .Police Court was told. Uni claimed trial and was released
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  • 296 19 DATO LIKENS TEEM TO RUSSIANS TELUK ANSON, July 27. rtATO Panglima Bukit Oantang, Mentri Besar of Perak and leader of the National Association of Perak,; said at a meeting to form branch of the association at Kampong Melayu that the UMNO-MCA Alliance wanted to rule
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  • 137 19 SINGAPORE, July JM. O staff nurses at the Geneal Hospital, Singapore, and a teacher of deaf children t the York Hill School were uests of honour at a fare■‘<*11 party at the Telok Ayer Methodist Church yesterday. le nurses are Miss Lee Soo l ong and
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  • 210 19 ‘Make it law says Inche Hussein IPOH, July 27 JVfUSUMS here are very Interested In the decision of iT1 the Council of Religion and Malay Customs of Perils to urge the Perils State Government to pass a law requiring Malay husbands to compensate their MT
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  • 266 19 I SINGAPORE, July 28. A QUANTITY of raw opium, worth $200,000 i in the “black market,” was confiscated in the Singapore Third Crimln- al District Court yester3 day and put under lock and key. f And two men, Chua Gong and Yeo Ten
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  • 139 19 Fined she offers change for charity KUALA LUMPUR, July 27—A woman motorist, fined $3 in the Magistrate’s Court here, thanked the magistrate and then offered to hand the balance of a $lO-note to social welfare. Vera C Battersby, of Vlcham Road, Kuala Lumpur, asked the A 4 > v V
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  • 605 20 Metal Box Shares for all planned SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent <y.*t Singapore, July *6. }k PVERYONE who subscribed to the public offer >of 500,000 $1 shares at par made by The Metal Box Co. of Malaya Ltd., last week, will receive some shares. The offer was oversubscribed by
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  • 35 20 June rubber crops announced are: AWr Gajah 18,500 lb.; Ayer Pana* 51,000 lb.; Glenealy 62,000 lb.; Kluang 50,000 lb.; Pa Jam 93 000 'IbTHraUsman 23,600 lb.: Telok Anson 46.444 UlU Benut 38.500 lb.
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  • 236 20 nnHE following business done hlr/i* ihe Share Market last week was reported by one firm of "brokers for the 17 M Bo^o hpetroleum 39a., Consolidated Tin Smelters Orde 2«d. 9d. to 27a. 4%d. cd cb end 25a. 9d. x aIL Piuaer Neave Ords. $1.96 to $1.92% Federal Dispensary
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  • 101 20 SINGAPORE. July 28. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul were:- et; Aa u $31% buyers, 831% sellers; Septerober 831% buyers, 832 sellers Coconut oil: quietly steady; $53 sellers. Pepper: steady with small business reported; white pepper up $5, black 82%; Muntok white $215, Sarawak $213%; Lam
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  • 42 20 Messrs K. M. G. Anderson and I H, Hay have been appointed directors of Kamunlng (Perak) Rubber and Tin Company. Mr. W. M. Fenton has joined the bosmds of Selangor United Rubber Mata* Lid, and Banteng (Selangor Rubber Estate Ltd.
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  • 745 20 SINGAPORE, July 28. INDUSTRIALS Ale*. Brick. I-W 1.10 Ati*. ice v,.... 12.as 13.2s *4/# 35/8 rtl coa.' TSrfiSSlt ,8 100 as/- l*/. 77/8 ed CD JEWS" 6.45 9.55 1.92 1.95 fSSf“n«C:;. 1.8 13 £8 ffiai re?? 1 efe oo Bfto.oo Jack.on 0©. 1.48 1.531 M Brewerte. 2.43
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  • 209 20 Market for entrepot trad y V* 'fts's > 1 f* hi. SINGAJPORE,Jui pHE largest shipbuilders In the Par East, Th 1 Ship Industry Co., Ltd., of Japan with a productive capacity of 90,000 tons plan to exr market to Singapore. “We have been aiming at
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  • 76 20 THE following divi- Mends were announced "by companies operating In Malaya last RIVER VIEW 1 ROBBER ESTATES LTD.'PA final of v ;> less 4 30% MUoyan ineome tax. for year ended March 21, 105^ Books close August 8. KLANG Ji RIVER OT: DREDGING CO. LTD.: A dividend of
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  • 139 20 Adi SINGAPORE, Ju. TWK persistent resi.s? toth* (i level had by the end o week caused holders of r, Ured and !SUi ble '*> an ***rish tures, and values gagged and factory sup; rubber rev Co. Ud CUtler h a 1 *liquidaU n which grew in volume as
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  • 43 20 Reuter. KUCHINO. Sat.rftePB «l v: in Juno were White ton J (May total export 73.45 tons f 4 1SL. tsi 1 10.40, Germany Greece 1 19.68, the United SUt** 1 4, New Zealand 1 Llb > T 'T »..-v i ..TT, /l
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  • 35 20 Petaling Tin Ltd. has declar. third quarterjy interim (hvjdeu 7H per cent In respect of the ending October 31, less income at thirty per cent, payable on 27 to shareholders regWej:e<i i'Aug. P'itfOTiBSp^.
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  • 36 20 SINGAPORE, JulyJ The Commahder-ln-Cl] Far East Air Force, Air M shal Sir Clifford Sanderson, 1 turned to Tengah evenlna after a visit to Brit North Borneo, Brunei and 5 rawafc.'7\. v. 2$ jm:.
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