The Straits Budget, 2 December 1954

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    29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF 1 THE STRAITS 'TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL ifawSPAFER Nc\v Series No. 482. Thursday, December 2, 1954 Price 40 cents (Malayan) O' 1 BhU,ln
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      Demand for inquiry into use of banishment law
      470 2  -  M. B. BRASH Singapore. npHE Straits Times today X (Nov. 25) contains a statement made by the Director of the Corrupt Practices •Investigation Bureau. Mr R. B. Corridon.vto a Straits Times reporter, namely, "We call up a -known smuggler and tell him
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      HE’S NOBODY’S WORRY
      356 2  -  OLD SINGAPOREAN. Singapore. > T>EFORE the Japanese occupation of Malaya and Singapore, Radio Malaya was a private enterprise. In those days, the management took as great an interest in reception as in broadcasting. If the owner of a',receiving set suffered undue interference from mechanical causes created by
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      Nanyang will maintain high standard
      499 2  -  A. A. SV JOSUAM. Singapore. DLANS have been pub- llshed for the expansi6n of the University of Malaya and for new buildings for the Nanyang University for the establishment of which nfew legal authority is being sought. Such a state of affairs is a good
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      Question of protocol
      110 2  -  ANAR NEGID Singapore. rE arrival of the deputy secretary for Fijian Affairs, Ratu (Chief J A R. Dovi and Col. T. C. Campbell. Commanding Officer or all the Fijian forces, and the reception they received at the Kallang airport from he customs shows that oil ers of
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      TOO YOUNG TO RETIRE
      59 2  -  LAWRENCE LE* Singapore. T was very happy when I Singapore Govern extended the retiring limit from 55 to 60. I hoped that the Council would follow s that I could enjoy this t fit, but nothing has spired and I am now < upon to retire.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      University Future
      730 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 25. By deciding on a $23 million five-year building programme the University of Malaya authorities have gone against the joint committee of the two Legislative Councils. In the White Paper on the future of the University, the committee said that a capital development programme costing
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      Cheaper Rice Test
      777 3 —Strait.v Times, Nov. 27. A long struggle for the freeing of rice has come to an end. At the beginning of the year, as the Federation Member for Economic AfTairs has now reminded housewives and dealers, the Government is to I turn over to the trade the
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      Borneo Raises Taxation
      876 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 29. Tantalisingly near, yet so far, from the rich oil of Soria, North Borneo has accustomed itself to being Brunei’s poor neighbour. It is a frame of mind which the Colony’s comparatively new Governor, Mr. R. E. Turnbull, dislikes. He has been telling the
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      Electoral Rolls
      462 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 29. Although a sampling of the identity card records made some months ago suggested that they would form an accurate basis for Singapore’s electoral register, publication of the rolls has led to serious doubts. It is possible that the errors in it are getting maximum
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      The Language Question
      852 4 —Straits Times, Nov. 30. In correspondence they have exchanged on the language I qualifications for candidates to the Legislative Assembly, the 1 Singapore Government and the Chamber of Commerce have J taken their respective stands on the practicability, or otherwise, 1 of a multilingual legislature. But the
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      Postmen’s Case
      886 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 1. The Malayan public may be forgiven if it now has the im- pression that postmen in the Federation are determined to strike. The union has changed its ground more than once, and in giving strike notice has made at least one further demand on
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      British Passports
      437 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 1. Mr. Edwin Dutton, a British Protected Person from the Federation, was denied entry into Rome. But Mr. Chia Boon Leong, who is Singapore-born, got his Roman holiday. This episode of the two footballers will not surprise the many Malayans who have learnt, perhaps at
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    Strike will raise cost of greetings
    155 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 30 tF the Federation’s postmtr. 1 carry out their threat to strike on Monday there will be severe interference w n traditional Christmas mail. Tt will cost ten cents to Christmas cards the strike instead of the usu< four as they
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    When husband can sell wife who sins
    1583 5  -  LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF ANCIENT CHINA AFFECTING CHINESE IN MALAYA. FROM AN ADDRESS TO THE MALA YAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY By R. c. H. LIM THE majority of the Chinese in Malaya came to this country during the later part of the Manchu Dynasty.
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      83 5 LEONARD —To Billie and Paddy at the Singapore Nursing Home on 23.11.54 a son. SIMON: To Oily and Eddy a daughter, sister for Rina on 24th November. NO: To Sheila Wai Meng. wife of Keng Slang, a son, at K K. Hospital, on 25 11.54. Both well. COUGH!,AN: At
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    ‘Love must be discreet for the Muslims’
    129 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 30 SELANGOR Muslim leaders today agreed with the Alor Star Magistrate, Tuan Hussain Jamalullil. that lovemaking must be discreet for the Muslims. The magistrate had warned a Malay husband and his wife for kissing in public Inche Abdullah bin Hajl
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    Baby drowned
    26 5 SINGAPORE. Dec. 1. An 18-month-old girl was found drowned in a pond about 15 feet from her house in Jurong Road, Singapore, yesterday morning.
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    Malaysia-as it used to be
    395 5 .—A.K. MALAYA, INDONESIA. BORNEO AND THE PHILIPPINES. By Charles Robequain. (Longmans, 30s.) IT IS difficult to know what to make of Professor Robequain’s book. His publisher commends the Professors “unrivalled knowledge of the physical and human characteristic of SouthEast Asia.” Yet Professor Robequain reports that
    .—A.K.  -  395 words
  • Obituary
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    49 5 DEATHS THOMAS COWAN A: CO., LTD., regret to announce the death in Sydney of Mr. Thomas Cowan Jr. COLLIER: On 24th November at his home at Clnpham Common, London, Ernest George Collier, formerly oi Green and Collier Ltd.. Singapore, very loving and devoted lm.b.«nd of Elhel (Peygy), aged 68.
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    VILLAGE WOMEN.
    7 6 Photo by Kok Ah Ctiony
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    As I was Saying
    683 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE, Nov. 27. are times when the Government information services are right on the ball. Hardly had the Federation budget debate ended than the newspapers were supplied with the Home Member’s defence of the information and broadcasting services, both of which had been attacked for
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1045 6  - Notes from a Malayan Diary STANI.EY STREET. Is this fair? i i HAVE seen Henri Rousseau’s 1 attempts at jungle backj ground,” writes a Singapore artist of long experience, “and Aldous Huxlev must have seen them and b.ing widely travelled in the tropics. has still written that the jungle has
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    YOUR SINGAPORE—OF THE FUTURE
    619 8 Light, air and space—the chief planner paints a picture of the coming metropolis Green belt round the city will provide us with 'lungs 9 and limit unplanned development SINGAPORE, Nov. 26. JiIIE Singapore of the future will have a green belt of predominantly open country which
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    KALLANG BRIDGE WILL BE BUILT ON THIS BUND, THEN CHANNEL MADE
    130 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 26. SINGAPORE’S Kallang Bridge will be built by a new pre-stressed concrete method and will be the largest of its kind in South-East Asia, the Superintending Engineer, Mr. R. J. Hollis-Bee, said yesterday. Tenders for its construction
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    End soon to the surgical delays
    284 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 25. new four-storey theatre block at the Singapore General Hospital—the most modern in South-East Asia—should be In service within two months, the Colony’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. R. Calderwood, said yesterday. But for the London dock strike, which has delayed delivery of
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    To rag or not to rag? Yes (‘It’s a thing to cherish’) say student debaters
    298 8 To rag or not to rag? Yes It’s a thing to cherish’) say student debaters SINGAPORE, Nov. 26. AMID Jeers, titters and boos from wise-cracking “Senior Gentlemen” who formed the bulk of the audience, six freshmen of the University of Malaya last night thrashed out the proposition: “That the present
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    Pioneer of K.L. phones
    45 8 K. LUMPUR. Nov. 24.—The man who installed one of K. Lumpur’s first automatic telephone exchanges more than 20 years ago has died in Victoria, Australia. He was Mr. Charles Neville Guthridge, a former signals and telegraph engineer of the Malayan Railway.
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    Govt, lops $3 off its price for rice
    190 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 25. Tilt prices of federation I Government rice will he reduced 5*2 to S3 a picul when free importation begins in January. *1 hope these reductions will be passed on to the eonsumer" the acting Member for Economic Affairs
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    Impressed, Fijian C.O. heads home
    88 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. -b. C COLONEL T. C. campboi. > commanding officer 01 1 Fijian Military Forces, nr* into Singapore yesterday m RAF Auster after visiting Fijian Battalion at Batu Pan*' He told the Straits Tim' that he was most impr< >- v with what he
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    ‘Planted’ men tell all to Govt.
    478 9 BOOM TO DRUG RINGS SINGAPORE, Nov. 25. INTERNATIONAL opium rings operating in Singapore are being betrayed by informers “planted” by Government antinarcotics squads. This was revealed yesterday by the Director of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, Mr. R. B. Corridon. He told the Straits
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    JUST THE JOB: MORE PAY THAN THE BOSS
    180 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 24. FHE Colonial Office has advertised in a London newspaper for an Assistant Town Planner in the Federation at a higher salary than that paid to the head of the Town Planning Department. The head of the department. Mr.
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    RAF hits at sleeping terrorists
    135 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 26. Royal Air Force anti-terror-ist forces in Malaya have intensified their night attacks on the enemy’s hide-outs. Raids were increased from three in the previous week to nine, says an official statement released yesterday. Fifteen air strikes were recorded during the week. Three
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    Red Cross Home fun fair
    51 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 25. The Singapore Red Cross Home for crippled children at Tanah Merah Besar will hold an “Open Day” and fun fair on Dec. 4. Star attraction of the fair will be Mr. Ron Knight, a magician Handiwork by crippled children will be on
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    RUBBER UNION TO SEEK RISES
    149 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 24. rr HE NATIONAL Plan- tation W o r k e r s’ Union will open talks with the Malayan Planting Industries Employers’ Association on wage rates for its 80,000 members. The negotiations the first undertaken by the new union -will be
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    The Sultan is better
    73 9 IPOH. Nov. 25.—The Sultan of Perak who took ill last week is continuing to make satiSfacI tory progress, the State Physi cian. Dr. Hajl Megat Khas om Megat Omar, told the Straits Times today. Dr. Haji Megat Khas. who is treating the Sultan at the Istanu
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    WHAT’S IN A NAME-- BOTANICAL IT STILL IS
    165 9 WHAT’S IN A NAME--BOTANICAL IT STILL IS SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. THE Singapore Traction Company authorities will stick to the word “Botanical’’ to name the Route 17 omnibuses which run from the city to the gardens, Mr. A. A. Ewing, general manager of the S.T.C., said yesterday. “Many reference and guide
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    $1 MIL. TO TRAIN LOCAL MEN FOR TOP JOBS
    221 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 25. PHE Singapore Govern- ment will spend more than $1,000,000 next year to train local men for bigger jobs. The training schemes planned include the granting of scholarships for study in Britain and the University of Malaya. The number
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    OWNERS TOLD: FIX HOUSE OR SCRAP IT
    161 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 2G. THE leaning live-storey building at the junction of South Bridge Road and Carpenter Street, Singapore, should be tilted to normal position or demolished, !\lr. Denis d’Cotta, the City Police Magistrate, said yesterday. Steps should be taken without delay, he told
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    Bourne drops in by helicopter
    37 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 24. ThdiDlrector of: Operations. LUGen. Sir Geoffrey Bourne, dropped by helicopter today into deep jungle in North Malaya to see how troops w’ere carrying out the new “Bourne Plan.”
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    New Adviser
    29 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 25.— Mr M .1 Hayward will act as British Adviser. Pahang, when hr returns Horn leave early in February it was announced here today.
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    ‘AMBUSH’ LOOKED REAL—SIR DONALD
    311 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 25. DONALD MacGilliv- ray, the High Commissioner, saw a mock ambush at the Police! Depot in Gurney Road, i Kuala Lumpur, today. 1 “Very realistic,” said the smiling Sir Donald. All was quiet as two police vehicles drove through disused tin tailings on
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    Back to the Government
    44 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 25. Mr. R. Middleton-Smith. who was deputy president of Singapore City Council when the President. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice. was on leave, will return to Government service in January. Mr. Middleton-Smith was seconded from the Labour Department.
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    Culture...
    38 10 “I think the Chinese are right in insisting on the preservation of their cultural V* j' I say the Malays and Ilians would be perfectly right to do the same thing —Sir Roland Braddcll sneakln» m Singapore
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    Frog-war village can breathe again...
    193 10 BAKAR ARANG, Nov. 25. THE villagers of Bakar Arang. in central Kedah, are happy again. A baby god. “Loh Chia Thye Choo,“ has assured them that last week’s battle of the frogs will not bring any harm to their village. A medium who went into
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    Cake exhibition
    40 10 KUALA KANGSAR. Nov. 24. —Members of the Women's Institute, Kuala Kangsar District, are holding an exhibition of needlework and cakes at the Central Malay School, Kuala Kangsar, on Saturday next week. This will be followed by a dance.
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    WARNING ON ROLE OF BRITONS HERE
    167 10 ‘A helping hand is not enough SEGAMAT, Nov. 25. INCHE Abdullah bin Mohamed, Johore*s Under Secretary of State, today warned Europeans in Malaya to search their hearts and ask whether they were playing a sufficiently active part in the constitutional development of the country.
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    THE WAY TO END THE EMERGENCY QUICKER Learn to shoot straight, says Bourne
    128 10 PENANG, Nov 2~> rpHE Director of Operations, Lieut. Gen. Sir Guo'fr 1 Bourne, told the Settlement and South Home Guards here today they could help finisr Vh Emergency quicker if they trained themselvu' shoot straight. 10 "Make
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    COLONY TO STUDY LICENCE SCHEME
    193 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 26. SINGAPORE would see how the Federation’s new system of licensing: vehicles works before making: up its mind whether to adopt it, Mr. J. D. Higham, Under Secretary, said yesterday. The present system was working satisfactorily and the authorities were not convinced there
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    ‘MORE PAY THAN THE BOSS’ SOLUTION
    153 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 25. T'HE mystery of the assistant’s job with more pay than the boss has been solved. After a lot of head scratching and wondering whether the Colonial Office had gone wrong in advertising a higher pay for a new assistant town
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    TB expert back from Britainwith 2 degrees
    60 10 TB expert back from Britain—with 2 degrees DR. WONG HIN SI N of the Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore, returned to the Colony yesterday after a 14 months’ study leave course in Britain. He sat for his M.K.C F. Edinburgh and D.T.D. (Diploma in Tuberculosis Diseases) hi Wales and
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    Delegates from China pass by
    78 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 26 ELEVEN Red Chinese cultural delegates arrived m Singapore yesterday in tne Carthage on their way to India. Singapore port authorities, —the Health and Immigration Departments —were not hampered in clearing the vessel, as all the Reds presented themselves for inspection, as soon
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    Posts chief is Rotary speaker
    53 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 2a The Director of Posts, Mi. M. L. Durrant. was Utie-t speaker at yesterday’s Rotai> Club weekly luncheon at Capitol Restaurant in Sine-* pore. He spoke on the import a e.. of correct addressing of let' and the activities of the General Post
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    Postal chief tries to stop strike
    55 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23 The Postmaster-General. E. E. Cassell, flew to Penas', yesterday in an attempt avert a threatened Federal 1 wide postal strike. He met the five-man gi’i\ j purposes committee of the M iayan Postal Uniformed S' Union and discussed th strike threat
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    Skyscraper is still waiting approval
    127 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 27. rpilF. Singapore improvement Trust has not yet approved this S 4 million 15storey building which the Shell Company wants to erect on Collyer Quay. The plans will be considered, for the second time, by the SlT's Planning Committee at a meeting on
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    Ban lifted: ‘Tiger has gone,’ says the warden
    124 12 Ban lifted: ‘Tiger has gone says the warden KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 2fi. THE ban on visitors to Templer Park will be lifted from tomorrow morning. The search party which has scoured the whole park area in the last two days has found no trace of the wounded tiger. “I’m convinced
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    ADDRESS IS DETENTION HOUSE NOW
    76 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 27. A 65-YEAR-OLD Chinese wearing an Indian dhoti, a vest over his coat, and a bright turban wound neatly on his head gave his address in a Singapore court yesterday as “a church somewhere in town.” Ho Lan, who denied a charge of
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    NEW WAGES PLAN FOR ESTATES
    226 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 26. YIALAYA’S 320,000 plantation workers are to get increased wages under a new agreement between the Malayan Planting Industries Employers’ Association and the newlyformed National Union of Plantation Workers. The agreement, which is to he signed on Monday, replaces all previous agreements
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    PLEA FOR ARRESTED STUDENTS
    141 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 27. fTMIE PARENTS ui lour Singapore Chinese High School students who were arrested on Oct, 18 and do tained under the Emergency Regulations have sent a petition to the Governor toi their release or early trial Hie Straits Times was told yesterday. The four
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    ‘NO OXFORD COLOUR BAR IN OUR DAY’
    414 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 27. A COLOUR bar at Oxford? “Not when I was there,” Malayan graduates told the Straits Times yesterday. They thought over their student days but remembered nothing to justify allegations of racial discrimination made recently in an article in Isis, the
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    Celebration
    18 12 SEGAMAT. Nov. 26. Labis branch of the Women’s Institute will celebrate its first anniversary on Dec. 12.
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    Multi-million scheme cheap homes for sale on easy terms
    217 12 RUBBER LAND TO BECOME HOUSING ESTATES SINGAPORE, Nov. 27 TWO Singapore rubber companies yesterday A nounced a joint multi-million dollar plan to build low cost houses for sale to the public on instalm..,., The first of 300 houses to be built
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    NEW CONSUL GENERAL IN SINGAPORE
    69 12 INDONESIA'S new Consul General for Singapore. Dr. Herman KartowLsastro. (above) arrived by air from Jakarta on Nov. 25. He was former head of the Economic Department in the office of the High Commissioner for Indonesia i n Holland. Dr. KartowLsastro. ased 54 succeeded Dr. >loliamed
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    DIVORCE FOR WIFE OF EX-COLONEL
    101 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. A decree nisi was sranttd bv the Singapore High C‘i yesterday to Mrs U Eileen Marie JollifTt. sued Leslie Oliver J° lll e retired colonel, for di p ground of cruelty. The de to be made absolute in months nrrinH in The couple
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    Savings bank deposits up
    39 12 KUALA LUMPUP. Nov. -G A total of $4,793,535 was ci T' sited in the Federations I Office Savings Bank in tober. It was $913,778 more th withdrawals. During Oc 5.992 new accounts were <■ 1 ed.
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    VOTERS’ ROLL MUDDLE ‘We can do little...’
    670 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. SINGAPORE’S political parties are worried about what they claim to be “muddles” in the voters’ roll published last week. Checks on the rolls which contain nearly 300,000 names of people ‘‘eligible as voters’’ have revealed many people who are dead,
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    Dancing pupils say farewell to their teacher
    71 14 Miss Mjudrcne Yap. Singapore ballet teacher, is seen here at i <onW k. u Carthage before her departure to Britain to get married. Miss Yap seventh 7 PUp on boa,d »he Kc Bcdc f Colon, Roller, in Bril.in fib" eX/'? X February. Below
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    MALAYANS CALLED TO BAR
    120 14 The following Malayans have bet'll called to the Bar in London: Pawan Ahmad bin Ibrahim Rashid Perak*. S. T. Sampanther (Singapore*, Ong Kok Hua (Singapore*. Joachim Chia Yeck Poh (Singapore*. Wong Sai Heng (Perak*. Tan Boon Chiang (Singapore*. Chan Kim Chye (Singapore*, Chan Seong Yoon (Kuala
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    It’s sharp practice, candidates claim
    175 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 29. candidates for the Singapore Legislative Assembly election next year have protested against “an undesirable practice in vote registration.” |The draft electoral rolls, now j open for public inspection, show that one candidate had registered himself, his wife 1 and his sons under
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    Pin ups of Stalin and Lenin in bandit camp
    166 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 26. AN AREA security unit found portraits of Stalin and Lenin in a bandit camp in the Jerantut area of Pahang on Wednesday. In the store were also 52 pairs of rubber shoes, a hand sewing machine, a
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    The Gurney grave to get more trees
    78 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 28. FitHE Federation Government A Is beautifying Sir Henry Gurney’s grave in Cheras Road Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur. Mr. TAX.. Concannon, the Federal Town Planner, told the Straits Times yesterday. “Four more cypress trees will be planted by the grave. “They
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    Pool plan criticised
    63 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.—The chairman of the Selamgor Labour Party and the party’s only candidate in the Kuala Lumpur Municipal elections, Mr. Lawrence H. C. Huang, today criticised the UMNO-MCA Alliance for planning to build a swimming pool before providing light, water and housing for the people in
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    New architect
    31 14 JOHORE BAKRU. Sun Mr. C. R. Honey has succeeded Mr. H. I. Ashley, who has beta transferred to Kuala Lumpur. I as architect of the Pul Works Department here.
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    YAP: FIGHT WILL GO ON
    301 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. JHE SINGAPORE Ch mese Chamber of Commerce will continue to fight for a multi-lingual legislature in spite of the Government’s arguments against it. Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, the chamber’s vice president said this yesterday in reply to the Colonial Secretary’s letter, explaining
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    ANZAC mission here for talks
    263 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. piVE officers of the Australian air, sea and land forces and four from New Zealand, flew into Singapore from Sydney yesterday to have talks with local Service chiefs. They w\ll be in Singapore for a fortnight, an Army spokesman who met them
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    Six Reds killed, one dies of hunger
    151 15 K. LUMPUR, Nov. 29. <gIX more terrorists have been killed and another has died of starvation. Four of the bandits were killed in the Sungei Siput area by security forces today. A patrol of the Royal Scots Fusiliers accounted for the other two
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    SMILING MAGDALEN WAS ONE OF THE LUCKY TWELVE
    46 15 TWELVE candidates passed a course in tuberculosis nursing in Singapore yesterday. Here is Miss Magdalen Chan smiling as she receives her certificate from Mrs. K. II. Bland, wife of the Director of Medical Services. Singapore. —Straits Times picture.
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    A DURIAN?
    93 15 No. thanks, says Sir Donald KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 29. THE High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, today refused to try a durian. “No thanks,” h e replied firmly to an Invitation from Mr. E. F. Allen, senior agronomist at the Department of Agriculture. Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman.
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    SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. MISS Yong Siew Lee, a law student, and her fiance Mr. Ng Kam Kew, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, together in London.
    98 15 They plan to marry at Caxton Hall, London on Dec. 18. Both are 23. Their parents are expected to fly to London
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    Opium cure centre at St. John’s Island to be ready next month
    242 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. 'THE new opium treatment centre at St. John’s Island, Singapore, will be ready to take in patients next month, the Director of Medical Services. Dr. R. H. Bland, said yesterday. The centre will have room
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    Mr. Hill and Council fight a two dollar war
    177 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. A TWO-DOLLAR war has flared up between the Singapore City Council and a resident of East Coast Road over conservancy charges during the labour strike last July. Two Council committees have decided that the resident must pay. The
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    New club elects officials
    66 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. The newly formed Chia Keng Youth Club in Yio Chu Kang, Singapore, has elected officials as follows: President Mr. Bay Ah Hlan; secretary, Mr Goh Kim Choon; treasurer, Mr. Yeo Boon Chim; committee members, Messrs. Bay Khim Yong, Harry Tan. Sean Kok Song,
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    Council revives a water supply plan
    150 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. OINGAPOKE City Council is again contemplating the Johore River as a source of “unlimited” water supply for the Colony. The Citv Water Engineer. Mr. W S. Stredwick. will fly by chartered plane to investigate the scheme which was temporarily postponed on
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    FIVE SINGAPORE PILOTS GET THEIR WINGS
    98 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 30. THE GOVERNOR. Sir John Nicoll. yesterday presented wings to five officers of the Singapore Squadron. Malayan Auxiliary Air Force. They are Pilot Officer Hee Swee Khee and Cadet Officers C. R. Hitch, Arumugam Neysadurai. Sulaiman bin Sujak and G. G. Janes.
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    ‘END THIS BIG MUDDLE’
    302 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. CINGAPORE political' parties and candidates contesting next year’s Legislative Assembly elections yester- I day urged the Government to correct as many mistakes as possible in the electoral roll. Checks on the register of about 300,000 names of voters have shown that many are
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    Paglar back from safari says: That tiger may be just a cat—grown up
    188 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. IS the Bedok tiger fictitious? After scouring the area for three days without success, Dato C. J. Paglar, a Singapore Legislative Councillor, yesterday said the report had been exaggerated. And A.S.P. Mr. .1. C.
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    Town hall for jubilee plan
    42 16 JOHORE BAHRU, Nov. 30 Johore Banru Town Council will support the proposal to build a town hall to commemorate the diamond jubilee of the reign of the Sultan. One site suggested is where the present market stands.
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    12 PASS OUT IN TB NURSING
    195 16 2,000 extra beds in 5 years SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. THE Director of Medical Services. Dr. R. H. Bland, yesterday said the Government hoped to provide 2.000 beds more for tuberculosis patients in Singapore within the next five years. Dr. Bland said this at the
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    WAGE RISE IN NEW YEAR
    60 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 29. An agreement for higher wages was signed here today oy the Malayan Planting Industries Employers Association and the newly-formed National Union ot Plantation Workers. The new scheme negotiated last week gives Malaya’s 320.000 plantation workers five to 15 cents more a
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    DIPLOMATS No LONGER LIE IN BOUDOIRS -MR. TANDON
    121 16 SINGAPORE. Nov the Indian t’oniniKR°K r T.n i Ma,ava Mr. R. K. Tandon, yesterd iv gave members 0 f th e Overseas League in S gapore lesson on ho* a diplomat behaves in f or eign countries nowaday* At a luncheon at
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    VISA RULE KEPT DUTTON OUT
    157 16 Federal citizens aren f t covered SINGAPORE. Nov. 30. SINGAPORE'S Controller of Immigration. Mr. M C Compton, explained yesterday why Edwin Dutton, from the Federation, was not allowed to land in Rome while Chia Boon Leong, from the Colony, was while the two football stars
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    Now it is a fine for councillor
    125 16 PENANG, Nov. 29.-- Defence Counsel. Mrs. B. H uon. submitted in the Penang High Court today that rhe arrest of a Kulim Town Councillor, Khaw Seng Guan. was illegal. Xhaw had been admonished and discharged in a Bukit Mertajam Court last month for
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    TURF MAN IS SHOT IN HUNT ACCIDENT
    134 16 IPOH, Nov. 29. jLJR. KOK SIEW LEONG, 39, a Kampar miner and race horse owner, was accidently shot by a member of a party hunting flying foxes at the 60th mile, Ipoh—Kuala Lumpur Trunk Road, yesterday evening. Mr. Kok, with a number of
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    Final damage pay-out to rubber men
    91 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 26. A final payment of 4.3 per cent is to be made on awards on claims in the rubber estate category. the War Damage Commission announced today. The Commission approved a total final payment of 84.3 per cent, but 80 per
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    Co-existence—but Malaya is silent
    110 16 Co-existence —but Malaya is silent SINGAPORE, Nov. 27. There will be no contribution from Malaya this year to the BBC’s Christmas Day broadcast, the head of the British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service, Mr. C. P. Albany, told the Straits Times yesterday. He said: “The BBC has decided that the round-the-world
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    SARMA APPEALS TO GOODE: LET ME COME BACK
    314 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. I. AFTER two years’ exile in India, Mr. P. V. Sarma, former president of the Singapore Teachers’ Union, wants to return to Singapore. He was detained for 687 days under the Emergency regulations before being offered his release on condition
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    SHE IS BACK FROM ADELAIDE-FOR CHRISTMAS AT HOME
    68 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. MISS CHOONG SICK LING, a third-year dental student at the University of Adelaide, who returned to Singapore yesterday to spend her Christmas and New Year with her parents in Ipoh. She is the daughter of Mr. Choong Lee Gan,
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    BASIC PAY UP—BUT ONLY FOR SOME
    341 17 A FTER an hour of lively debate. Singapore City Council last night decided to increase the basic pay of its monthly paid staff by adding a part of the existing allowances to it. The council was divided on how consolidation should be carried out.
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    Ship calls for one passenger
    100 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. T'HE J>,lbb4-lON r’LfUSH freighter Mikoiat Rel made a special can w Slnga pore yesterday to take on Ke.sFeliks, a Pole, who has been u hosoital from Sept 23 Feliks, a former crew mem ber of another Polish ship thPraterstwo, was taken asho*
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    For better roads
    22 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 30. RIDA nas allocated sib.tiOh to Improve kampong bridle paths and cycle tracks in Portian district
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    MILLIONAIRE’S SON FOR TRIAL
    233 17 On ‘plot to cheat bank' charge MALACCA, Nov. 30. 'IVAN K.EE GAK a millionaires son and Lim lions Chiow, a merchant tailor, were today committed to stand trial in the High Court on a charge ot conspiring together with a person oi persons employed m the
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    Mr Dawson’s pledge
    72 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 30. Mr I K P Umamjii utdfpvn* dent candidate tor Bungsar ward in Saturdav Ku iia urn pur municipal elections in his manifesto issued today ou*ug ed to tight for roads in squatter areas and better street lighting He also promised more transport facilities,
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    Johore Bahru town extended
    31 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Nov. 30 Johore LLumi town cuts oeen extended to include ►'ongkalen Renting. The new area will tortn part ot the electoral ward ot Noug Chik
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    ONN WILL QUIT NEXT YEAR
    338 17 It’s official —the date is Jan. 31 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 30. rjATO Sir Onn bin Ja’alar wiii give up bis appoint- ments as Member for Home Atlairs and Chairman of the Rural and Industrial Development Authority on Jan. 31 next year. An announcement by th*
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    RED TAPE HOLDING UP THOSE SKYSCRAPERS
    359 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. EADING SINGAPORE architects complained yesterday that it was taking many months, and sometimes even a year, to get new building plans approved by the City Council and the Singapore Improvement Trust. They said unreasonable delays were causing big losses to firms
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    Diamond restaurant to be rebuilt
    151 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. AFTER almost live years of litigation, the Diamond Restaurant one of Singapore’s best known Chinese restaurants is to be demolished at the the end of this year. In its place at the Great World park a new $50,000 building will be constructed.
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    TID-APA THY—THE DISEASE THAT MALAYA MUST LEARN TO BEAT
    303 18 PONTIAN KECHIL, Nov. 30. VfALAYANS cannot afford to become complacent over the Emergency situation or the political future of their country said the Johore State Undersecretary, Che Abdullah bin Mohamed, here today. “Tid-apathy is a disease which attacks all who stay
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    On leave
    41 18 SINGAPORE. Dec. 1. Mr. D. K. Broadhurst. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Singapore, leaves by air this morning for England on six months’ vacation leave. Senior Assistant Commissioner, Mr. W. J. Parks, will act for Mr. Broadhurst in his absence.
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    ‘City of Penang’ plea
    101 18 City of Penang plea PENANG, Nov. 30. Dr. N. K. Menon, one of three elected Municipal Councillors retiring at the end of the year, today made a “swan song” plea for the raising of Penang to city status. “I hope I will not be called a visionary if I suggest
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    Training chief for the scouts
    75 18 AfR- Michael Chong is to be in charge of scout training courses in Singapore. He will become Assistant Chief Commissioner (training) of the Singapore Boy Scouts’ Association and will be aided by a deputy camp chief and three assistant deputy camp chiefs. A month ago.
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    The Oehlers trip
    55 18 SINGAPORE. Dec. 1. Mr. G. tv a oemers, speak*rdesignate of Singapore’s new Legislative Assembly, wall leave the Colony for Britain in the Oranje on Saturday. Mr Oehlers, who will be accompanied by his wife, will study parliamentary procedure He is expected to return to Singapore at the
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    PLANNED FAMILIES NOW
    54 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 29. People in the new villages are becoming more conscious about family planning. Mrs Joan Saxton, chairman of the Selangor Family Planning Association. said today. Mrs. Saxton said the association intended to send teams of experts to help the residents of new villages with
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    Transfer for Johore D.P.P.
    34 18 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 30. Mr. I. Talog Davies. DPP Johore. leaves for Ipoh on transfer in the second week next month. He will sail for Britain on leave in February.
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    Women stars have much to learn
    1027 18  -  I THE WEEK IN SPORf l By JOHN MARKS SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. TiHE American Thomas Cup coach, Ken Davidson. in an interview with the Straits Times, put his finger on the chief weakness of Malaya’s women badminton players. All our girls tound your weakness
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    CYPRESS POINT TAKES BIG SPRINT
    1124 19  -  -ITJEp/r By EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE, Nov. 25. POINT, ran true to his Gold Vase form when he put up a tif>-top sprinting performance to win the Class 1, Div. 1 6f. sprint under 9.0 at Bukit Timah yesterday, second day of the Singapore Turf Club
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    KINGPORT WINS ST. LEGER
    1223 19  -  EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE. Nov. 28.’ j KINGPORT, winner of the Selangor Gold Cup In 1853, chalked up another classic victory when he won the Singapore St. Leger over If miles in convincing style from Never A Blank at Bukit Xlmah yesterday. concluding day of the Singapore
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    Jap whaler for Antarctic
    35 19 SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. The 11,000-ton Japanese whaling ship Klnjyo Mam arrived in Singapore yesterday to take on water, provisions and bunkers. The ship leaves today for whaling grounds in the Antarctic.
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    Rubber Companies to build houses
    599 20 SHAKE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent Xtyft Singapore, Nov. 29. TWO Singapore rubber companies, which were in the limelight in the early months of this year—Bukit Sembawang and Singapore United have sprung into the picture again with the announcement on Friday, that they have a
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    119 20 SINGAPORE. Dec fc Singapore Cfetneae Produce exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were:— Copra easy; December $30* buyers. $31* sellers: January $31* buyers, $31* sellers. Coconut oU: steady; $50 sellers. Pepper: quiet, no buslnes.c reported; Muntojf. VMto $207 Sarawak $206. Lampong black $145. R. C. B. Ltd. closing
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    BUSINESS DONE
    258 20 JpvwKw fve.fui,yvii ft* fa.71 fFiHE following business doni 1 in the Singapore 8har$ Market last week was reposed by one firm of brokers for the period November 20 to NovemIndustriais: Consolidated Tin Smelters Ords. 27s. 8d. Fraser B Neave Ords. $2. Gammon* $3.47 s #.SSf».JS eonTTco. Ltd.. $1.57*.
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    COLONY FIRMS WILL MOVE TO $3M. OFFICES
    311 20 COLONY FIRMS W ILL MOVE TO $3M. OFFI CE S fFHE new $3 million building Lfi of r the i Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, now rapidly approaching completion in Shenton Way, Singapore, will be known as Crosby House thus linking the Colony with a wealthy merchant, who
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    232 20 THE following dividends I v were among those announced ojAJcem panics operating in Malaya last week:— FRASER AND NEAVE LTD.: A first interim dividend of leas 30% income tax, on the cumulative preference shares, for year ending June 30, 1955, payable December It. Books close December z£ v
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    845 20 /> aL'w y iu rr.vsvy.- i «>Jj >r SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers AIM. Bricn" fst- s.ou i »o y' 1 Orde j.«$, 1.75 -hiff y AtlM Ice 12 35 1X9$ Petrol 32 9 33/3 B. M. trustee* «»0 1.60 con rvo ouielt Peef 18/. it/.
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    Mart slows down
    323 20 Mark^j SINGAPORE. ffiHE tempo of the ni, I has slowed down what this week and Hut tuations have been milder and operators generally are find!\g the Immediate trend s ,t what baffling, says the rubber review of Holidav cutler, Bath Co Ltd At the end of last
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