The Straits Budget, 26 August 1954

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    47 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAY AS NATIONAL NEWSPAPER; A t* •-K fivV. "1* A 1 f 7 •‘•‘f. <-.v,*’ 'l* 1. y> New Series No. 419. h?-3 Thursday, August 26, 1554 era ;V. ■"'.ru*. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling;.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      CHOICE OF COAL OR OIL AS FUEL
      265 2  -  D. H. PALMER General Manarer Shell Singapore Ltd. ANXIOUS” has certainly chosen a run, Uo A attack the oil industry. The criticism v have to face, though happily less frequ i u heretofore, is that the oil companies maim 3* 1 at unnecessarily
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      Malayan ‘student prince’ and his expenses
      555 2  -  L. E. OSMAN. Cambridge. pROM the reports and 4 correspondence in the Malayan Press, it is obvious there is a lot of ignorance about conditions and expenses of Malayan students in Britain. Of the thousand odd Malayan student* in Britain, only 280 on scholarships.
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      FIRMS COULDN’T CARE LESS
      252 2  -  SHAREHOLDERS WARNING. Port Dickson. DECENTLY a friend and myIV self wanted to buy a TSk* mm. camera. We wrote to the local agents of three wellknown makers and to one photographic store asking for details of their various models. Agent No. 1 replied after ten days,
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      LOYALTY OF THE SETTLERS
      202 2  -  ONE COUNTRY. LOYALTY. Singapore. wggflE r v j? v- v*v'* ’’W* IT seems to be the common practice for the Chinese and Indians in Malaya to appeal to foreign statesmen, and politicians, who happerfcto be passing through the country, to help them obtain redress for their
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      ‘Let them get rear mirrors’
      177 2  -  T. H A. POTTS. Singapore. V UNDERSTAND t.-.a: Ls a *®ct that ruaa jvc.c nt figures shw ihat the type of vehicle most tften tnvulveu m un accident pupoiUoLateiy speating.. is a moior-tAcick If this is ITUi vn mwow* ment could be achu v tusktag
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      Indians are feeling like aliens
      118 2  -  MELON NANP Johore. F Penang recently, Da to Sir Cheng-lock Tan present of the Malayan Chinese Ass elation, said that the Clnn sur<x •WSw, you expect them to be i Malaya when you go on con tlnually drubbing tln-i U i e think the same
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Seven Pages Of New Life
      739 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 19. Seven pages of dull looking figures towards the back of the Rural and Industrial Development Authority’s report for the last six months of 1953, laid before the Federal Legislative Council yesterday, form in fact the most interesting part of an account
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      Look Again
      278 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 19. What is the purpose of law? To order everyday life so that the business of living goes as smoothly and easily as possible for as many people as possible, or to rule inflexibly every detail of life with everything a legislator can think up?
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      Fresh Step On The Way
      709 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 20. With the passing of amendments to the Federal Agreement of 1948 and to the Federal Legislative Council Ordinance of 1954 the way is now clear for the Federation to ballot towards the middle of next year for its first popularly elected
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      Feather Beds
      394 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 20. Explanations by Singapore’s Public Relations Secretary about the way in which mem-1 bers of the public can get into Legislative Council meetings to hear what their representatives have to say are interesting, because they reveal a complete lack of understanding by legislative councillors about
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      St. Trinian’s
      179 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 21. Mr. Tann Wee Keng, who teaches English at the Chung Hwa Girls’ School in Singapore, must be a happy man today. Yesterday 645 girls in the school sat quietly but firmly in the school hall instead of going to their classrooms. They sat there
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      Sarawak Has A Plan
      965 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 23. Perhaps the outstanding impression left by a study of Sarawak’s $lOO million five year plan is the small concern which the financing of it has caused the planners. Sarawak is a small and not very rich colony. Unlike, however, nearly all its
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      Plight Of The Padi Farmer
      354 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 23. The padi farmer is getting a little more of the Federal Legislative Council's attention than he has in the past. Whether anything will come of it depends on the determination of those members who have raised on his behalf the question
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      In Search Of Policy
      677 4 Straits Times, Aug, 2 1 The British Labour Party’s statement on colonial policy has had, as might be expected, a warm reception from Malayan political leaders. Most of them would be puzzled, however, if they w’ere asked to distinguish the Labour declaration from the policy already
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      The Incurables
      213 4 Straits Times, Aug. 25 S'? year olcl Chow Ah Boev of Malacca, on her bed of pain is lying heavily on the count,/' conscience. Discharged f ro n hospital as incurable, she live, without hope, an unhappy )U] den to a father whose pathetic resources are strained to
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    HE WON’T SCOFF AT ‘SIN-SENH’
    330 5 SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. MR. J. W. PURCEGLOVE, the new director of Singapore’s Botanic Gardens is one eminent botanist who does not scoff at local herbalism. He is convinced that among the mass of roots, leaves, weeds and fungi which Eastern medicinemen use for their potions,
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    20 MIL. LEAFLETS TELL THE REDS: YOU FIGHT ALONE
    149 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 24. Five R.A.F. Valettas have Just completed a three-week operation in which they dropped 29.000.000 leaflets to tell terrorists in various parts of the Federation of the armistice in Indo-China. “You now fight alone." the leaflets proclaimed. Taking
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    MR. A.P. HAMMICK and his bride, Miss Pamela Liston, take time off during their wedding reception on Aug. 21 to receive congratulations from the bridegroom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Hammick, of Byfleet, Surrey. The call came through to the E. & O. Hotel, Penang, where the reception was held. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Liston.
    69 5 MR. A. P. HAMMICK and his b r ide, Miss Pamela Liston, take time off during their wedding reception on Aug. 21 to receive congratulations from the bridegroom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Hammick, of Byfleet, Surrey. The call came through to the E. O. Hotel, Penang, where the
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    ‘Exploitation’ charge: Colony men hit back
    357 5 Exploitation charge: Colony men hit back SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. A SINGAPORE Legislative Councillor, Mr. N. A. Mallal, said yesterday that he would like to tell the Pakistani delegation to the World Assembly of Youth that the so-called “exploited” people of Singapore enjoyed a higher standard of living than people in
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      155 5 HADLEY—to Phyllis and Russell 18-8-54 ai, Youngberg Memorial Hospital, a daughter, Lynn. McDONALD-BENTLEY: B. Francis to Gwendoline Rosa on Saturday the 14th Aug. in Singapore. ALLARDYCE: On 18th August. 1954, at 8.M.H., Kluang, to Effle, wife of Major J. G. Allardyce R.E., a Daughter. HOSKINS. To John and Margot
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      74 5 BRYANT—BOURKE. The engagement Is announced In Kuala Lumpur between Kenneth, younger son of Dr. and the late Mrs. C. H. Bryant of Hove, Sussex and Carmel youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Bourke of Melbourne, Australia. THE ENOAQEMENT was announced between John Oliver, Son of
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      MARRIAGES
      86 5 MUDIE-HAMILTON: On August 20th, In Singapore, James Francis, elder son of the Late Brigadier T. C. Mudie, D. 5.0., and Mrs. Mudle Elle, Scotland and Margaret Shearer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hamilton of Melbourne. Australia. CRAWFORD-BRUCE: At Penang on August 19th, Hunter Ralston only Son of
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    ‘WALKING IS BETTER THAN SITTING’
    309 5 SINGAPORE, Aug. 22. A FTE 34 y ears in Malaya, Mr. E. V. C. Day, chairman of the Singapore Rural Board, is retiring from Government service for the second time and “wouldn’t mind coming back to another job after leave.” At 58-years-old, Mr. Day is
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  • Obituary
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    49 5 DEATHS OLASSON OWEN. Dearly Beloved Husband of Lily (Betty) and Father of David. Passed away at the Royal Cornwall Infirmary, Truro, July 25th. Late Southern Tronoh Tin Dredging, Tanjong Tualang. KINTREA Passed Away Peacefully at Clachnaharry Inverness on 21st August. Isabel Kintrea,- dearly beloved Mother of Jamie Kintrea Ipoh.
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    THE ATTRACTION? LISTENING TO MRS. PANDIT AT JALAN BESAR.
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    As I was Saying
    703 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE. Aug. 21. WHEN its meetings in Singapore come to an end. the World Assembly of Youth probably will disperse with mixed feelings But not more mixed than the feelings which its proceedings and programme have roused among those whose knowledge of WAY is confined
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1076 6  -  STANLEY STREET. The price of peace FEW would contest the plaint of that writer to the Straits Times who bemoans the poor service to the east coast of Malaya by launch and rail. But is not the very poverty of that service the cause of
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    IN BLOSSOM—the ‘emperor’ flower
    143 7 IN BLOSSOM—the emperor’ flower SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. IjiRIENDS at the Balmoral Park home in Singapore of Lt.-Commander F. E. Martin last night saw the blossoming of a rare flower —the “Keng Hua.” The flower, which according to Chinese legend opens only in the presence of an emperor, blossoms only at
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    Countryman’s Journal
    610 7  -  TUAN DJEK. EARLY on Hari Raya Haji the Tuan was walking home from a. visit to the estate opposite w'hen he saw a, small car enter the Dusun and discharge a family of six gaily-arrayed girls, and two youths—all Javanese. He fled down the road, but unfortunately was
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    PEPLER PLAN WILL EASE ROAD SNAGS
    185 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. THE MASTER Plan for Singapore will help to ease the traffic problem in two ways. Sir George Pepler, town planning consultant to the Government, said yesterday. He flies back to London today after advising Singapore for four years on future development.
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    $856 more for hospital fund
    34 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 20. A basketball game in Batu Gajah, Perak, netted $856 for the Ladv Templer Tuberculosis Hospital Fund. Up to date more than $1,721,313 has been collected.
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    Two-way traffic that went wrong
    1177 7  -  Malaysian Notebook STANLEY STREET. gEYOND the Gap at Pasir Panjang, the road runs past a line of nondescript houses that bar your view where there should, of course, have been an open coast road, like the one that twists around Rio de Janeiro Bay to
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    TOO MANY ACID ATTACKS Council is unanimous THEN PONDERS FIRES, DEFENCE, EDUCATION
    1123 8 Heavy penalties to continiie as long as Emergency lasts SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. ATTACKS with acid, “one of the most revolting of all crimes,” had occurred far too often in the last two years, the AttorneyGeneral, Mr. E. J.
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    Split over the land bill
    302 8 rtinri SINGAPORE, Aug. 18 THE select committee which has been examining the Land Acquisition Bill has been unable to come to a majority decision about two controvert sial clauses. 1 The committees rennrt nnH Ofits Six members were tabled yesterday attheVuga’ 8 pore Legislative Council.
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    $300 MILLION NOW PAID IN WAR DAMAGES CLAIMS
    106 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. THE WAR Damage Commission has paid nearly $3OO million in claims since the end of the war, says the .commission’s annual report, tabled at yesterday’s meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council. Last year $107,079,184 was paid, making the total
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    You still need Councillor’s OK to get into Chamber
    328 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. THE Singapore Public Relations Secretary, Mr. G G Thomson, said today that members of the public who wished to attend meetings of the Legislative Council would still have to be recommended for admission bv Councillors. He was commenting
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    TEXTBOOK SPIVS? NO ONE SAID SO—GOODE
    174 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. THE Singapore Government has not accused Government-aided English schools in the Colony of profiteering in the sale of textbooks to pupils. This was stated at yesterday’s meeting of the Legislative Council in a written answer to a question from M:. C.
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    ‘SAVE BATU ARANG’ CALL TOUCHES OFF BIG COUNCIL DEBATE
    905 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18. a “SAVE Batu Arang” A call by Inche Mohamed Yusoff, president of the Malayan Trade I nion Council, started a one-hour debate in the Federal Legislative Council meeting here this afternoon. Five “ministers’' defended the Government’s decision
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    They’ll spearhead new police drive against terrorists
    391 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18. jy|ORE police lieutenants are being recruited to lead security forces who will be given control of wider areas of the country in the fight against Communist terrorists. This was stated today by the acting Secretary for Defence, Mr. Norman
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    Council agrees to Tin pact ratification
    455 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18. THE Legislative Council today agreed to ask the British Government to ratify the international tin agreement on behalf of the Federation. The decision was taken after a debate in which one Councillor criticised the “secret clause” of the French Government
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    IT’LL COST $85 LESS NOW TO BE BRITISH
    176 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18. THE Member for Home Affairs, Dato Sir Onn bin Ja’afar. announced today in the Federal Legislative Council that British naturalisation fees for residents of Penang, and Malacca will be reduced from the present $l3O to $45. The Government
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    Telling the world—the Govt. way
    104 9 THE Federation Government is relying on its own Information Services to present to the outside world a balanced and true picture of the current situation in the country, the Chief Secretary, Mr. D. C. Watherston, told Mr. G. Shelley (Penang). He said that it was
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    No ban—only a gag
    49 9 TI/IR. Watherston also told Mr. Ifl Shelley that Government financed students abroad are not prohibited from engaging in political activities but their conduct must not be “inconsistent with their obligation to the Government.” Mr. Shelley had asked if these students could dabble freely in politics.
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    130 firms didn’t have to pay
    53 9 rE Financial Secretary, Mr. E. Himsworth, told Mr. S. O. K. Ubaidullah that 130 firms had been exempted from payment of Business Registration fees because of hardship. 178,570 more The Federation’s population increased by 178,570 last year (169.604 in 1952), according to statistics tabled
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    M.P. ‘SWALLOWS’ 20-CENT COIN
    209 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. IT is not very often that children in Singapore get a chance of meeting a real Member of Parliament and when he happens to be an amateur magician and ventriloquist like Mr. Raymond Sorensen, it becomes much more exciting than dull talks on
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    OUR GOLD EARNINGS IN 7 YEARS—U.S. $4,160 m.
    139 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 19. Malaya earned U. 5.55.460 million in the last seven years and spent U. 5.51.300 million of it during the same period, the Federal Legislative Council was told today. This included combined figures for Singapore and Federation for the
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    They all vote for elections
    223 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18 Federal Legislative Council today unanimously passed the bill amending the Federation Agreement to allow the introduction of Federal elections. The Attorney General. Mr. M. J. P. Hogan, said that with the enactment of the hill and two other bills relating to
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    Minimum wage plan is urged AUSTRALIA MAY SHOW THE WAY
    198 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 19. TNCHE MUSTAPHA ALA BAKRI, Member for Industrial and Social Relations, was asked in the Federal Legislative Council today to find out about minimum wages for workers in Australia. He promised to make the inquiry following a
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    ‘Tickets only system best’
    525 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. ONLY one of six Singapore Legislative Councillors asked yesterday about the “ticket only” system of admission to the public gallery of the Council Chamber thinks the system should be changed to make it easier for the man in the street to hear the
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    75 NEW LOCAL COMPANIES
    241 10 By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. JJURING the first half of this year, 94 companies were registered in the Colony while 16 companies closed down, Mr. A. H. Harrison, Registrar of Companies, Business Names and Patents, Singapore, said yesterday. This, Mr. Harrison added, made a total
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    New magistrate
    34 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. Mr. J. P. Trainor has been appointed as the Singapore First Traffic Police magistrate. Mr. Trainor, who was a practicing barrister in Ireland, officiated for the first time yesterday.
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    NANYANG TARGET SET AT $20 MIL.
    220 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 19. THIRTEEN Singapore founder members of Nanyang University met yesterday and set a target of $20 million to be raised by the end of next year. The first step to help to raise this amount will be taken on Aug. 24 after
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    Reds infiltrate labour groups
    285 11  -  By PATRICK CHEE SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. COMMUNIST strength and policy in Singapore remain fundamentally the same as they were a year ago, the director of the Special Branch, Mr. A. E. Blades, told the Straits Times yesterday. The Communist strength remains around 2,000 which includes sympathisers
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    107 vice raids —a record
    136 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. A record number of raids was made in Singapore last month on premises suspected of being used for immoral purposes. Officers of the Women and Girls Protection Section, Social Welfare Department, carried out 107 raids. As a result, 22 girls were detained
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    Their views not wanted
    84 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18. The Federation Government will not take a poll among officers to determine whether they want the Widows and Orphans Fund replaced by an insurance scheme. This was stated in a written reply bv the Financial Secretary, Mr. E. Himsworth, to a Question
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    UNIONISTS TOO SMART FOR REDS-ADVISER
    203 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. SINGAPORE’S acting Trade Union Adviser, Mr. S. Harris, yesterday denied that Communists have swayed local trade union groups. The Director of Singapore’s Special Branch, Mr. A. E. Blades, had earlier told the Straits Times that Communists have obtained some degree of influence
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    Boy missing
    22 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Gan Kun Sua, aged 15, has been missing from the Queen Street Boys’ Hostel since Wednesday afternoon.
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    HOW CAN YOU TELL? HE ASKS
    92 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 19. Mr. Tan Chong Bee suggested in the Legislative Council today a reconsideration of clause 27 (B) of the Minor Offences Ordinance, which considers a •‘common prostitute,” wandering in public places and behaving in a disorderly or in- decent manner “an
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    Haul enough to blow up Raffles Place
    442 11 STOLENBOMBS SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. gUFFICIENT bombs to blow up the entire centre of Singapore—Raffles Place—have been stolen from the Royal Air Force station at Tengah. In a joint statement by the Royal Air Force and the Singapore Police to the Straits Times yesterday
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    Sportsman dies
    39 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. Mr. K. Kanagaratnam, aged 54, a Singapore sportsman, died at his home in Tiong Bahru yesterday and was cremated at the Hindu Cemetery, Bidadari in the afternoon. He leaves a widow and four children.
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    More in unions
    17 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 19 Trade unionists last month numbered 3,919 more than in June.
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    NO SHACKLES says Mr. Lim of Singapore WE’RE PROUD sags Mr. John of Singapore
    520 12 SLAVERY? THAT’S TOO STRONG A TERM TO APPLY TO THIS COLONY, OUR DELEGATES TELL WAY SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. SINGAPORE delegates to the World Assembly of Youth yesterday denied that the peoples of the C olony had
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    BIG FILM SHOW OPENS IN MAY
    322 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 19. »JHE second South-East Asian nim festival will open at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Singapore on Mav h».H n< in\r a r V U will be the flrst festival to be held in the Colony Preliminary details j| the I' festival were
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    Something for birds to sing about
    131 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. FIFT\ Singapore bira-lovers discussed the formation of a Cage-Bird Society at the Robinson’s Cafe yesterday while 33 birds in 23 cages sang merrily. The birds were brought by their owners not only to enliven the meeting which was convened by Mr.
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    THEY ARE MALAYA’S CLUBS
    79 12 IPOH. Aug. 18. COFFEE SHOPS in Malaya are an institution. They are not merely places for drinking coffee, but are clubs of a sort. The British Adviser, Perak. Mr. I W. Blelloch. said this today when he opened the $60,000 premises of Perak Coffee Shopkeepers’ Association.
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    A haji’s prayers have to come first, you know —SO HIS PLANE JUST HAD TO WAIT
    133 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. AN Indonesian haji prayed in a comer of the main terminal building of Kalians Airport, Singapore yesterday and held up a plane for five minutes. Haji Basoh Merkasan. 35, was in
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    AIR MAIL LATE? NOT OUR FAULT Mr Durrant replies to Sir Ewan
    237 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. 4 LL air mail received in Singapore is delivered in the first delivery after its arrival And every airmail letter posted in Singapore leaves the colony either on the day it is posted or tne
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    NO SPIRITUAL UPLIFT AT THE ESPLANADE
    95 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. gINGAPORE S Esplanade promenade may be used for public recreation but not for spiritual salvation. A City Council committee has rejected a Salvation Army application to hold open air religious meetings at the promenade on Saturday evenings. The committee’s decision was
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    Back from U.K.
    35 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Mr. W. T. Rodrigues, a Singapore Assistant Superintendent of Police, who went six weeks ago for a training-course at Ryton-on-Dunsmore, in Britain, returned to Singapore yesterday on doctor’s advice.
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    AN M.P. GIVES SOME ADVICE
    527 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 22. A WARNING against "excessive nationalism” in Malaya was made yesterday by Sir Robert Boothby, a member of the five man Parliamentary team which has been visiting Singapore. “Nationalism has been one of the curses of our age,” he said. “If it is
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    Sultan goes to gaoland he enjoys it
    186 13 Sultan goes to gaol—and he enjoys it IPOH. Aug. 18. rE Sultan of Perak, Raja Sir Yussuf Izzuddin, last night saw a play put on by prisoners at Talping Central Training Prison. It was possibly the first time a Malay Ruler had ever attended such a performance. The show was
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    FEDERAL REVENUE IS $800,000 OVER JUNE
    113 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. AST month’s Federal revenue was $27,600,000 more than $800,000 above J line. As usual the import duty on obacco, cigars and cigarettes nought in the most $5,700,>0 compared with $8,500,000 in June. The tin export tax brought .1.000,000 against $4,500,000
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    S’pore judge transferred
    36 13 Mr. A. W. Ghows, Traffic District Judge. Singapore, has been appointed an Assistant Official Assignee. Mr. J. F. McWilliam. now attached to the Official Assignee’s Office, is being transferred to the Attorney-Gene-ral’s Office.
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    MAN FROM MALAYA AT PHOTO MEETING
    259 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. MAJOR Raymond Thomas, formerly of Headquarters FARELF and well known in photographic circles in Singapore—he wrote on photography for the Sunday Times—will represent Malaya and the armed forces at an important meeting of photographers in the Royal Photographic Society in
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    More basic salary urged for 2,700
    235 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20, OIHE .staff association and unions of Singapore City Council have submitted a scheme for revised salaries on the Ritson scale, to.be effective from July I tl\is year. > The cost to the Council would be over $1,090,000 more a year in
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    SHOT CALF SLEDANG —Five hunters fined $80 each
    163 13 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. 21. Five Malay rubber tappers who killed a calf sledang and were each fined $2O by the Segamat magistrate had their fines increased to $BO each in the Supreme Court. Mr. D. Grant, the Legal Adviser, Johore, who appealed
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    Kiwi party
    30 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. Fifteen WAY delegates from Belgium, India, U.S.A. West Africa and Madagascar were given a ‘nasi beryani’ treat by the Kiwi Members’ League in Singapore, yesterday.
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    36,000 HELPINGS —WHAT A FEAST!
    659 14  -  By WILLIAM FISH SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. VTELL, we re over the edible bird’s nest stuffed with chickens and the hors d’oeuvres. Only ten more courses to go Three thousand guests poise 3.000 pairs of chopsticks expectantly as we await the arrival of shark’s tins with
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    Mr. Haughton
    27 14 Mr. H. M- S. Haughton, for SSJS ye*™ J n the Malayan PuMlc Works Department, died at Thetford. Norfolk, on Aug. 13. He was 70.
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    TEN DAYS A BANDIT —KILLED
    80 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 20. 4 WOMAN. Lai Foo Len, aged 22 who Joined the bandits only 10 days ago. was one of six more terrorists killed. It was announced today. Another bandit has surrendered. A squad w*ere creeping up on a camp in the Ayer
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    Pontian gets the ‘white’ tag now 15TH. AREA IN THE FEDERATION
    310 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 20. THE 15th “White area” in the Kecle. ation was declared yesterday in the Pontian district of Johore. This makes more than two-thirds of Johore’s west coast “white.” The “white” coastal strip extends from Lubok, north
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    645 GIRLS GET THEIR MAN Strike over teacher
    610 14 SINGAPORE, Auk 21 T H u 64 V°K U c 8: K ,ad i f Singapore's Chunjr J*. w H'ffh School (not to be confused with St. Tnnian s) yesterday went on strike for their fa r,t e male teacher, good-looking 40-year
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    Water-boat men rewarded
    51 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. Messrs W Hammer CoSingapore last night presented watches to 18 water-boat crewmen who have each served the company for more than 30 years. The presentation, by Mr. P. B. Purvis, the manager, took place at a party at the workers’ quarters in Perak Road,
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    Police haul in a real tough guy
    289 17 PROWLER IN PARK WAS SNAPPING AT PASSCRS-BY WITH JAWS THAT COULD CRUSH A COCONUT SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. /\NE of the toughest characters Singapore police have ever dealt with spent a night in the Central lock-up this week. He was taken into custody after
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    GOVT. PROPOSES CESS FOR TIN RESEARCH
    170 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 20. rpHE Federation Government proposes to make the A tin mining industry pay for future tin research, and has thrown the proposal squarely into the lap of the industry for consideration. The committee of the allMalayan Chinese Mining Association will meet
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    Wounded terrorist escapes but— PATROL BAGS 2 REDS
    165 17 Wounded terrorist escapes but PATROL BAGS 2 REDS KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 22. 'J’WO terrorists were killed by an area security unit patrol in the Bahau district of Negri Sembilan yesterday. Another terrorist was wound’d but escaped. A patrol of the 2/10 Gurkha Rifles contacted several bandits in a camp in
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    2,000 liable to lose vehicles
    104 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. OWNERS of motor vehicles, who have not yet paid their licence fees which fell due on June 30, are liable to be prosecuted if they are caught using their vehicles. There is provision for a fine not exceeding $5OO. In addition, the
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    Dato Tan hits out at school ban
    374 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. QATO Sir Cheng-Lock Tan, president of the Malayan Chinese Association, today attacked the Education Department for “interfering with the civil rights and liberties of Chinese schools in the Federation. He demanded the cancellation of an order controlling the use
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    School plans $200,000 new building
    108 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. rpHE Kong Yong Chinese JL School in Yio Chu Kang Road, Singapore, plans to raise $200,000 for a» new 16-classroom building. The school, which has a Government-grant-in-aid. is co-educational. and has 1,200 pupils. It hopes to accommodate another 1,000 when the new
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    Rare orchids bloom in S’pore garden
    256 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. SINGAPORE’S youngest orchid grower, 22-year-old Mr. Koh Keng Hoe, Is now the proud possessor of the two most valuable orchids in the Colony—both of them excellent examples of the rare Vanda Nellie Morley. He imported the plants from Honolulu a year
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    SOUTH PACIFIC WINS TOP SPRINT
    1034 19  -  oy EPSOM JEEP. KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. BACKED down to even money on th e totalisator, South Pacific, with Mulley astride, put up a sparkling sprinting performance to collar tearway Applause fif the main sprint race at Kuala i.umpur yesterday, opening day i the Selangor
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    SINGAPORE, Aug. 24. SEA water, 44,800 gallons of it, was brought to Singapore yesterday in the Straits Steamship vessel Petaling.
    85 19 It is for the $470,000 Van Kleef Aquarium. The Petaling took the sea water aboard while on her way to the colony from Palembang. N Three trucks, each with a
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    Island Players’ new play
    69 19 SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. The Island Players, who last week decided not to produce the Noel Coward play “Relative Values," have now received permission to stage “Affairs Of State.” a sophisticated comedy which had a long and successful run in London ■r The cast will include Betty
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    Rule relaxed
    34 19 Malayans are now permitted to take into Ceylon 130 rupees In Ceylon, Indian and Pakistani currencies. This is 30 rupees more than that permitted before. Pakistani currency should not exceed 50 rupees.
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    Poh Lim Malaya’s new champion
    764 19  -  THE WEEK IN SPORT By JOHN MARKS. JTj R i v: SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. flNG POH LIM of Singa- pore is Malaya’s new badminton > r T champion. 'After seven failures, he wop the singles*- title by beating fellow Thomas Cup player Ooi Teik Hock
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      60 19 TOTAL TOOL: $262,900 IRST: i *****1 ($70,983) OND: *****2 ($35,491) IRD: *****5 ($17,745) STARTERS ($2,218 each). Nos: *****8, *****9, *****1, *****7, *****1, *****3, *****3, *****0. CONSOLATION PRIZES ($1577 each). Nos: *****6, *****5, *****3. *****0, *****2, *****0, *****6, *****9, *****8, *****0.?* V.v /TREBLE TOTE; 48 tickets ($54 each). FORECAST TOTE: RACE
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    Bustle and ‘boom ’ for industrials
    511 20 Bustle and ‘boom for industrials [SHARE MARKET By Our Commercial Correspondent. SINGAPORE, Aug. 23. on the Singapore Share Market last week was again concentrated on the industrial section which outshone all others. However, the minor boomlet in this section which saw new high levels in popular counters was not maintained
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    831 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 25. INDUSTRIAL* Bayers Sellers Ale*. Bricks :j.i i Pref 2.03 2.05 ords 210 8 00 Atlas Ice 12 25 13.25 B*. Petrol SJ/8 34/6 BM Trustees 650 7.00 Con Tin Smelt f, Pref 1»/- i*A Ords. 28/- 2R 9 all Eastern United 35 50 86
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    FIFTY YEARS
    67 20 After nearly fifty years in the rub-ber-growing industry Mr. R. F. McNair Scott is resigning his directorships of several estate companies. One of them is Banteng (Selangor) Rubber Estates, -Of which he had been a director since tt\e company was formed in 1907, and chairman for 27 years.
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    PEPPER PRICES JUMP UP
    51 20 T>RICES of white pepper X in Singapore yesterday shot up by $7.50 with Muntok closing at $230 per picul and Sarawak at $227*4—the» highest prices for a week. Continued overseas demand and more local buying caused the rise in the pricey which last week were steady
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    BUSINESS DONE
    211 20 mHE following business done X $n Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period August 14 to August 20; Industrials: Alexandra 4 Brick Prefs $2.02 British Malaya Tru*tee and Executor Co. Ltd., $6.50, Consolidated Tin smelters 28s. and J8- 3d., Fraser
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    119 20 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: moon prices per picul were:— Copra; easier; September $28*4 buyers. $28*4 sellers; October $28% buyers, $28% sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; $49 sellers. Pepper: steady with more local buying; white pepper up $7*4; Muntok white $230, Sarawak $227*4, Lampong black $175. H.CJB. Lid. cteahag price;
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    Dividend raised
    65 20 Straits Plantations, with over 15,000 acres under coconuts In Lower Perak Is raising the annual dividend from 12 per cent, to 18 per cart, with a final recommendation of 11 per cent, in respect of the year aided March 31. Profits advanced sharply from £163,316 to £279,316, out
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    Dunlop expands latex capacity
    295 20 SINGAPORE, Aug BECAUSE of the increasing demand fur 0 made from latex Dunlop Malayan Estae s have purchased Batu Anam Estate, in Johore tiwi td increasing: the capacity of their 616,000 ballot hltf latex shipping: installation in Singapore by a Ulk 180,000 gallons. y 4 >
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    151 20 rpHL following dividends companies. operating in Malaya last week:— THE BORELU RUBBER CO. LTD.: An interim di? vidend of 5%, less 28% Malayan income tax, payable August 28, to shareholders on register August Books close August 23. LARUT TIN 'k FIELDS LTD.: A dividend of Is. per share,
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    OUTLOOK uncertain
    279 20 |Rtibbcir Market j SINGAPORE, Aug. 21. rrtHE week has been one ot I fairly active trading, and whilst the bearish sentiment of the last week is not so much in evidence, all one can say i.s that there is an air uncertainty, says the weekly report of Holiday,
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