The Straits Budget, 24 February 1955

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    34 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES r”~ f •> MALAYAN NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Series No. 444. ►&#> jr t*» r-:-r~:~:r::™.~. ---•—:i.:==£rrrtzr===r==:. .:,^r:--:.^~—-T:r Thursday, February 24, 1955 Price 40cents (Malayan) fMS:e;'i Or 1 Shillin*r*F
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      DR. LIN ‘MUST SPEND WISELY’
      215 2  -  UM SONG BENG, SUiKaparV. D* Lin Yutang and his staff should know that their estimates for !Ca n y a n g University have caused great in-* dignation and. dissatisfaction among the Chinese rich and poor. Certainly we would like l our university to look
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      Is all well with law practice
      254 2  -  CHEONG HOCK P Singapore. I SINCERELY hope that 1 Sir Roland Braddell, who Is at present inquiring into the possibilities ot' having a P law in Malayan read Mr. J. Y. P. Chia's letter* Possibly Sir Roland's talents could be better used in the
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      ‘Bomo’ for suicide flats
      113 2  -  TTEKONG JOE I SinftDoff I AM not superstitious, I have seen so man believable things -bord on the supernatural, I send you a suggestlo suicide may be stopp Upper Pickering flats I suggest that the am ties enlist the services good ‘Bomo’ or Jfndlar orclst to
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      Magistrates need not have legal qualifications
      311 2  -  g x Y. E COXA, jy|R. A. P. GODWIN, in his letter on the appoint- j ment of magistrates, does not show much sympathy for the local lawyer or understanding of the subject.^ The qualifications for magistrates to-day do not require a full legal
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      ANOTHER MEMORIAL
      133 2  -  8. RAMACHANDRA Singapore. BESIDES the memorial tablet to the victims of the mutiny in St. Andrew’s Cathedral, is another of 40 names in the Victoria Memorial Hall which was unveiled by the Governor, Sir Arthur Young. Harper, Holt and Walton Roads were named respectively after L/Cpl. J. Harper
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      Money ‘wasted’ on pensions
      126 2  - Money ‘wasted on pensions TAXPAYER.^ Ipoh. POR the sake of effecting much-needed < economy in the finances of the Federation is it not about time the Government revised its pensions system? At present, a pensionable officer can retire at 40 or 50 I d compulsorily at 55 The effect is
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      Belongs to all
      46 2  -  KEL 91 HO Johore Bahru. HTHE English languae JL now the property everybody, not only 01 English people. It is har< know what all the discus is about when there is difficulty in its use in c cils, offices and business waste time?
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      40 2 m m a f m Cf: m CM > 'Jfi s« ym. ■m VS Efc c; 'V- f if PLENTY OF SEATS IN THE ORCHESTRA Dato Sir Cheng-Lock Tan says the M.C.A. must play second fiddle to UMNO. 1 y I.
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Lock icon Peace And Freedom
      828 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 23. Tlu Bangkok conference is p U j ni 10 disappoint those who rt looking for spectacular achievement. This word of cautlo n clearly is in season. p or oine extraordinary ideas are emulating as statesmen of Ihe eight Manila Pact countries asst ,nl)le
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      Lock icon Land For Indians
      422 3 —Straits Times Feb. 16. Little has been heard of the Federation Government’s land settlement scheme for Indians since it was announced fifteen months ago. Criticism in the vernacular press, however, suggests that if the Government has forgotten, the Indians have not. There was much to commend the
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      Lock icon News On The Cheap
      649 3 -Straits Times. Feb. 17. The lengths to which some officials in Malaya will go to mark their disapproval of the press and its ways has never lost its power to amaze the working journalist. The latest example, however, has a novelty all its own. Recently the
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      Lock icon Reckless Drivers
      369 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 22. A new motoring offence is to be established in Britain as part of the amendment of the Road Traffic Bill. It is a change which might have merit also in Malaya. The Lord Chancellor agreed, in the course of a debate in the House
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      Lock icon The Nanyang Crisis
      700 3 Straits Times. Feb. 13 Today Dr. Lin Yutang, the Chancellor-designate of Nanyang University, and Mr. Tan Lark Sye, the university’s chief sponsor and the president of its Executive Council, will meet in “a last effort” to settle “existing differences.” That the Nanyang has encountered serious difficulties need
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      Lock icon An Alliance Sweep
      304 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 21. In sweeping the board in the Penang Settlement elections the Alliance has won one of its most important victories. In four constituencies its candidates were returned unopposed, a winning start which left ten constituencies to be contested. That the Alliance was facing a
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      Lock icon Crisis And After
      627 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 22. A week-end of talks and conferences on the Nanyang University crisis, has failed to produce a solution but has shed light on the dispute between the Chancellor and the university’s sponsors. The chief points of disagreement concern the extent of Dr. Lin Yutang’s
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      Lock icon Long Leave And Short Leave
      421 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 18. Six weeks overseas leave a year instead of the usual six months every three years is the new arrangement for some top Singapore Government officers. To the suspicious taxpayer it may look like an expensive enlargement of the privileges which senior
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      Lock icon The Rubber Market Breaks
      359 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 19. The rubber market has been due for a healthy readjustment for some weeks. Now it is getting it, but the patient’s health temporarily may become a matter for anxiety. While several factors have contributed the major reason for the fall in price
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      98 4 HORTON: To Geraldine, wife of D. C. Horton, a son, Bungsar Hospital. Both well. WICHERTS: To Anneke, Wile of J. D. Wicherts on 21-2-55 At Singapore Nursing Home. A bon. Eric Paul. GREENISH: To Alice, wife oi Lieut. Cmdr. G. H. Greenish, R at Johore Hospital, a Sister foi
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      ENGAGEMENT
      40 4 taiuAutiuE.il m. HART WILDEN—ISAACS. HU Engagement is announced Michael, son of Mr. and Mrs i Hart-Wilden of Durnsford mu' House, Mildenhall, Marlborougn. Wiltshire, and Phyllis Marguerite, elder daughter of Mr. and Isaacs of Kuala Lumpur, Malaya and Brighton, Sussex.
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  • Obituary
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    98 4 DEATHS BLACKBURN: Louisa E h« beloved wife of Percy at the Bri > Military Hospital, Kluang, (r February 21st, after a short inn* ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THE FAMILY of late Madam Ch Buck Nee thanks all relatives friei-u. who sent Wreaths, Scrolls, Condo tory Messages etc. Lent Cars a* attended night visits
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    The wife who cried and cried
    304 5 PARENTS ARRANGED THE WEDDING —IT ENDS IN DIVORCE SINGAPORE, Feb. 22. rpHE COUNSEL for a 1 man seeking a divorce, Mr. N. N. Leicester told the Singapore Hi'di Court yesterday; This was a marriage arranged by the parents m d. as usual, it turned
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    HE ASKED: WHAT’S YOURS?’ TOO OFTEN
    240 5 KUALA KUBU BAHRU, Feb. 21. TEMPORARY Police In1 spec tor James Stephens. who had been commended oy the Commissioner of Police for outstanding character and service, was jailed for three months by Mr. I c. C. Rigby, President of the Sessions Court, here today.
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    Colony gift to college
    77 5 TV S 'NGAP0RE, Feb. 22. 1 )ri T > i n S a P° re Government of Mo'nnn e Hi make a grant "l the am capltal fund t'olloop A *!.-Malaya Muslim 'I u f 7 Kla ng, Selangor. 'l-’idoci 0V tn r n r nt
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    Indian rice is here again
    57 5 ALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 A ■if sssn* 01 neariy 100 tons .u r|,a l rt e from India was hum todn, port Swetten- t'in Trtgiav. by 6he Yu K°' slav Indian ,‘L, th K e drst time that M i v f ha s boe
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    Muslim ‘sin’ will end when new Malayan college opens
    751 5  - Muslim sin’ will end when new Malayan college opens By S. SHAHABUDDIN Fatwa Committee j of Cairo’s Al-Azhir University considers it I a sin that Malayan Muslims have no reli- gious college. The answer was implied in its “Fatwa” (ruling) issued i in 1952 in reply to questions put bv
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    BOYS BRAVE FIRE TO SAVE BLIND FATHER
    169 5 SINGAPORE, Feb 22 rrWO Singapore youths braved a fire, which broke out in Beach Road yesterday, and saved their blind and bedridden father from being: trapped in the flames He was taken to hospital. One minute after the father. Lee Joo Hee, 65.
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    Sultan’s launch
    26 5 TELUK ANSON. Feb. 22 A new river launch for the Sultan of Perak, costing $30,000, is now nearing completion at the Marine Dockyard here.
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    7-year term for recruits
    85 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. Local recruits to British Army units in Malaya will in future have to serve seven veai's instead of four, to get better training. Recruits are wanted for mechanical, radio and electrical engineering. They are also fret: to choose irom a wide variety of
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    Directors say: Accept the offer
    260 5  -  Hong Kong firm may buy ggtgSi From HALL ROMNEY LONDON, Feb. 21. THE ownership of the century-old Singapore firm of John Little and Co., Ltd., of Raffles Place, may pass to a famous Hong Kong merchant Arm. It was announced in London today that Matheson
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    Lock icon SATURDAY STUDY
    11 6 THE HAWKER'S CHILD >.—Photo graph by Han Hai Fong.
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    718 6  -  STANI.FY STREET. The crying need IDO not know which house in Hill Street, Singapore, is being pulled down despite its grace and historic associations. But I have not the slightest doubt that the charge of vandalism brought by a correspondent in the Straits Times is
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    As I was Saying
    1112 6  -  CYNH SINGAPORE, Fob. 19. V EARLY nine years alter 20 year old King Ananda Mahidol of Siam was found dead in bed, a revolver bullet through his brain, two of the royal pages and a former private secretary to the king have been executed for complicity
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    MALACCA WANTS GOOD MEN, BUT WHO ARE THEY?’ Reason for elected minority
    273 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 22. FORMER Malacca member of the Federal Legisi.itive Council, Mr. S. Shunmugam, who was also a nieni her of the select committee on elections, today explained why Malacca Settlement Council will have an elected minority. v
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    Square dancing
    31 7 The Joo Chiat Community Centre. Singapore, will hold ballroom dancing and square dancing at the Joo Chiat Social We!fare Centre premises from 8.30 p.m. to 11.30 p.m. every Friday.
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    Countryman’s Journal
    545 7  - Countryman’ s Journal TUAN DJEK. 1AST week we had plenty j of sunshine, with occanal drizzle. In other parts hore there is a drought. Since the Dusun was occupied in 1938 there has been only one dry spell, and then the w 11 Yielded just sufficient r ».-:ing purposes, and
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    IMPORTANT GUEST
    835 7  -  ftiaiaysian notebook STANLEY STREET. “TS HE a really great 1 man?” asked my host, as we sat out on the verandah washing the flaming sun go down behind the swaying palm tree silhouette. It was the magic hour of softness that steals over town and kampong before those
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    148 7 hl the Straits Times of Feb. 16, 1905: T spectacle of Messrs. Fraser and Neave’s big i lorry has now become on as it glides through rerts, although everyf,yes followed it when V.V niade its appearance ‘i-uipore. The firm have ne vehicle a very comJ'ial and so
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    Poster war angers home owners
    188 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. SINGAPORE HAS A STEADILY increasing group of angry property owners, who are going to vote against candidates who have pasted election poster# on the clean walls of private homes. Several constituents of the East Ward have written to one of their City
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    LEGS HAD OPIUM ON THEM
    91 7 SINGAPORE. Feb. 22. r O packets containing raw opium were found tied to the legs of a cyclist, the Singapore Second District Court, was told yesterday. Yip Poh. a labourer, who pleaded guilty to unlawful passession of four pounds of raw opium valued at $2,800.
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    BEST RESPONSE FOR POLICE
    57 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 20— Johore Bahru had its best, response to the campaign for Chinese police recruits when 1 ASP Mabob bin Ahmad, the 1 Recruiting Officer, interviewed candidates at the MCA premises yesterday. Nearly 40 candidates came forward and 15 were selected. On previous occasions
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    The aristocratic apprentices
    508 8 »$40-A-MONTH MILL MEN CAME TO WORK IN CHAUFFEUR-DRIVEN CARS« SINGAPORE. Feb. 17. THREE S40-a-month textile mill apprentices arrived at work every day in chauffeur-driven cars, a Singapore Court was told yesterday. The three apprentices. See Yong Kwong. Sim Cheng Wah alias Sim Kim Po. and Tay Eng
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    MCA second fiddle in Alliance
    264 8 THE ‘MONEY ONLY’ CHINESE DISAPPOINT THEIR LEADER SIR CHENG-LOCK AGREES: 90 PER CENT OF THE VOTERS ARE MALAYS KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 16. J)ATO SIR CHENG-LOCK TAN, president of the Malayan Chinese Association, said today that the MCA, would have to play second fiddle to its
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    PRODIGY’S FATHER WANTS A FLAT -‘you can’t practise in cubicle’
    153 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. HHHE father of Sago Lane's wonder-boy violinist yesterday applied for a Singapore Improvement Trust flat because his son could not practise in the cramped cubicle in which the family now lives. In a letter to the Trust.
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    Malaya Hall gift
    77 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. 17. The Society of Indian Fine Arts. Singapore, has entrusted the Government with a collection of Jaipore brassware for Malaya Hall. London. The gift consists of four flower vases, two flower bowls, two trays and one liquor decanter The Colonial Secretary. Mr. W. A. C.
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    Band in gardens
    32 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. The Regimental Band of the 15/ 10th King’s Own Hussars will play at the Botanic Gardens. Singapore. from 4.30 pm. to G p.m. on Feb. 20.
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    TENGKU SAYS: DON’T WORRY
    212 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 17. TENGKU Abdul Rahman, president of the United A Malays National Organisation, gave an assurance today that UMNO would not take advantage of its partner, the Malayan Chinese Association, because 90 per cent of the Federal electorate are Malays. “The MCA need not
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    VETERAN RETIRES TO FARM
    83 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 16. Mr. H J Barnard, assistant Commissioner of Police on the staff of the Director of Operations is retiring next week, after 27 years with the police. Mr Barnard 45. has family connections in Malaya going back as far as 1890. Born in
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    Crackers for jumbo’s joget in the jungle
    164 8 IPOH, Feb. 16.' WHEN A GAME warden was asked to deal with an elephant invasion he turned up armed with crackers, Inche Abdul Majid bin Ariftin told the Perak State Council today. Inche Abdul Majid, an unofficial member, said Malay farmers and rubber
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    Here to visit the army hospitals
    43 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. Brigadier Helen Gillespy, Director of the Army Nur Services and of the Queen Alexandra Nursing Corps, arrived in Sir. pore yesterday on a tour military hospitals and niC‘ cal centres in the Far r.;i
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    $3,601 for fund
    27 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. 1 The sum of $3,601 was lected at the Singapore A. Tuberculosis Association nese New Year Ball a Victoria Memorial Hall, gapore.
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    100 CASES OF LEPROSY IN SCHOOL There is less prejudice now and more care
    491 9  -  Health officers step up their vigilance By NAN HALL SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. \fORE THAN 100 suspected cases of leprosy have iR been found among pupils in Singapore schools in the last 12 months. Signs of the
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    SUICIDE AFTER A ‘PAY UP’ NOTE
    579 9 SUICIDE AFTER A PAY UP’ NOTE SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. rrftFl SINGAPORE CORONER, Mr. K. T. Alexander 1 w is told yesterday that Donald McPherson, who ns found shot dead in a bathroom in the Y.M.C.A. h :>stel on Jan. 3, had received a letter threatening procuration if he failed to
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    Cultural gift from India
    113 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. MR. R. K. Tandon, the Indian Commissioner in Malaya, yesterday presented 70 books and 86 maps to the University of Malaya for its proposed Department of Indian Studies. He also announced that the Government of India had made a token grant of $4,000
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    MYSTERIOUS Mr CHEN LI
    371 9 the man with a message is really a Malayan Chinese SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. A 1 jRAPH of a Malayan Chinese, published in be straits Times Annual of 1953, apparently <! as the subject of a recruiting advertisement p 1 3 s been criticised in Australia in
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    $75,000 TERRORIST GIVES UP
    280 9 It began with a letter K. LUMPUR, Feb. 16. 'JHE Federation Government disclosed today the surrender of the highest ranking Communist terrorist since 1950. At one time a $75,000 reward was offered for his capture. Ah Tan, state committee member of the East Coast terrorist organisation,
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    ‘Luncheons not enough’ -Sir Donald
    88 9 SEREMBAN. Feb. 16. MALAYAN Rotary Clubs were tonight urged by the High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray. to “do more than hold weekly luncheons and dinners.” He was speaking at the Seremban Rotary Club’s dinner held on the golden jubilee of Rotary International. “The clubs must
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    There was gold in matchbox
    267 10 POLICEMAN TELLS HOW GOLD WAS FOUND RAUB, Feb. 19. A REQUEST for a match at a wedding reception led to the arrest of the owner of the matches, a young employee of the Raub Cold Mine, for illlegal possession of retorted gold. Mr. J. R.
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    Alliance protests on councils
    89 10 KUALA LUMPUR* Feb. 21. rpHE UMNO-MCA Alliance has protested to the Selangor and Kedah Governments against their decisions to have elected minorities in their new state councils. Yesterday the Alliance staged a protest procession in Malacca, opposing the provision of only eight elected seats on the
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    Jobless barristers on increase in Colony
    386 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. UNEMPLOYMENT among young Malayan lawyers returned recently from England to Singapore is increasing, Colony legal circles said yesterday. English Bur examination re- suits show that 60 students from the Federation and Singapore are now graduating a year. A Singapore Education Department
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    MALAYA PULP PLAN
    154 10 Serdang chemist urges new industry KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 20 —A research chemist at the Foresttry Department’ experimental station at Serdang in Selangor believes that the state offers good opportunities for a paper pulping industry. Writing in the “Malayan Forester’’ journal Mr. J. D. Peel, the chemist says:
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    Brian to Tijah: It’s all over
    217 10 Patricia wears a platinum ring From HALL ROMNEY LONDON, Feb. 17. Brian sharpe, 22. who fought the Army for permission to marry a widow, Tijah binte Taleb, 32, said today: ‘‘I think the Army was right.” The Army sent him home in October. He
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    A HAPPY FATHER CANCELS WEDDING
    135 10 Girl who ran from marriage is home JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 17. MISS LIM KIM HENG, 16, ran away 46 days ago because she did not like the suitor her father had chosen for her. Today she came home. Her father, Mr. Lim Eng Kia, was
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    S’pore millions for air raid shelters
    413 10 S’ pore millions for air raid shelters SINGAPORE, Feb. 18. gINGAPORE could survive an atomic raid, Captain G. J. Cocks, chief general instructor of the Civil Defence Corps, said yesterday. People were not as helpless against atomic w r eapons as some thought. An atomic bomb, he said, was different
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    MALAYAN ART FOR PRINCESS
    51 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 17.— Princess Margaret will see Malayan handicrafts at an exhibition organised bv the Girl Guides Association in London in April. Exhibits will be sent fro: cadets and rangers in all c o monwealth countries. The Malayan exhibits innia embroidery, dresses, knitt and art
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    MERCHANT SAYS $154,000 FINES ARE EXCESSIVE
    207 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. JUDGMENT was reserved by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore High Court yesterday in the appeal of Teo Siew Jin, a merchant, against three District Court fines totalling $154,000 on charges under the Foreign Exchange Control Ordinance. Teo
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    BOY: ‘1,000 LINES IN HOUR—SO I FLED’
    288 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 18. jyjAHIN SIDIK, the 1 15-year-old runaway schoolboy, who was brought back to Singapore yesterday after being found on a Johore estate, told the Straits Times that he fled when he was given an hour to write 1,000 lines. Mahin a
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    Schoolboy wins
    38 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18,— Mustapha bin H. M. Tahir, a student of the King Edward VII School in Taiping, is the winner of the poster contest sponsored by the Malayan Youth Council. Thirty-three entries were received.
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    DEATH TAKES A RIDE
    180 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. DEATH took a ride through Singapore’s crow d e d Chinatown streets yesterday, with a sinister-look-ing ghoul as a companion. He stopped every now and then to warn pedestrians, cyclists, trisha riders and motorists in several Chinese dialects and in English that they
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    BEGGING IS BEATEN
    711 12 BILL FISH, making a tour which shuns Malaya’s big cities, visits SEGAMAT, the proud town where... SEGAMAT, Johore. Feb. 16. IT IS our proudest boast in Segamat,” said my guide to this north Johore town of 15,000 people, “that there are no beggars here.” It was an
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    Fliers to lay own bricks for club
    300 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. rpO PREVENT itself being forced out of existence the Singapore Flying Club is proposing that members themselves should move their hangar from Kallang Airport to Paya Lebar Airport and build their own new clubhouse there. A sub-committee has worked out
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    $48,000 paid for tips
    46 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18.The Federation Government last month paid $48,169 for i formation leading to the cnr ture or killing of terrorists The most—sl6.oo0 —was P‘ in Pahang. Johore came mwith $15,469. Other amount-. Selangor, $6,500; Ked. $6,200- Perak, $3,000; Penan*. $l,OOO.
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    Chamber rallies: Parties disagree
    359 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. SINGAPORE political IV parties were divided V* sterday on whether the Chinese Chamber of Commerce should be allnved to continue its election rallies, enlivened by lion dances, some felt that the formation r the Democratic Party by r -eminent Chamber men gave r
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    SAVED THEN THE RESCUER IS DROWNED
    102 13 Toh U p PING Feb t Ifr—Chan tin. r ,nR dr °wned in p on or °nation Swimming here after he had saved 1 hoy i n difficulties. a boy was helped HiJh s,.K ha a ,,ua Uan hark i'm 1 °I stude *>t.
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    Lock icon $300,000 science block for school
    219 13 A PRESENT FOR THE COAT OF ARMS SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. AT the Bartley Secondary School, Singapore, yesterday, the Director of Education, Mr. R. M. Young, opened a new 8300,600 science block. He presented a silver salver to Dr. C. H. Withers-Payne for designing and emblazoning
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    HOUSE RENT IN CAPITAL TAKES SHARP DIVE
    124 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 18. IIOUSE rents in Kuala Lumpur are falling, the Municipal Assessment committee has been told. Rent of terrace houses, has fallen from $3OO a month in 1952. to $2OO and of three-roomed flats from $250 to $175. The tea money
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    Too westernised? Oh, yes sir
    37 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. The mixed team of the Anglo-Chinese School Literary Society yesterday proposed that “Singapore is getting too Westernised” and won the debate against the Raffles Institution Literary and Debating Society.
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    That killer
    34 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 16 There were 30 deaths from pneumonia out of 71 cases in the Federation in the week ended Feb. 5. Two deaths out of 35 dysentery cases were reported
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    Soldier dies
    31 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 18 Malaya Command today announced the death from illness of Pte. Saad bin SharifT of the Ist Federation Regiment during an anti-terrorist operation on Feb. 15.
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    Magnate to build home for orphans
    128 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. THE Lee Foundation is to build a $150,000 nursery home for orphans under the care of the Salvation Army in Singapore Tiin home, which will be built or. a site at the 9th mile, liukil Timah Road, will provide room for
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    Malayan cameramen get U.S. offer
    127 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. AN offer to stage an exhibition of the work of Malayan photographers in the United States, by Mr. Morris Harkness, president of the Photographic Society of America. has been received in Singapore. Mr. Loke Wan Tho, million- aire amateur photographer, and Malayan
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    THREAT TO TOWKAY’S WIFE
    244 13 THREAT TO TOWKAY’ S WIFE SINGAPORE, Feb. 18. A WOMAN who recent- ly married a 72-year-old Chinese millionaire merchant in Singapore has complained to the police of threats to kill her and kidnap her husband. As a result of the threats, Mr. Choo Hock Swee—known as “the King of Yio
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    Off to London
    39 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 17. Mr. P. G. Peralta, acting exhibition officer of the Public Relations office in Singapore, will llv to Britain tomorrow to attend an information officers’ training course in London sponsored by the Colonial Ofllce.
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    Lock icon A LAST DAY WITH HIS CHILDREN
    307 14 They fly to U.S. uncle SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. ASAD FATHER spent yesterday in Singapore with two of his children whom he will not see again for five years The children. Hoe Suet Mui. six. and her brother Hoe Wai Keong. four, will leave tor
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    CITY HALL, ‘BURSTING AT SEAMS,’ TO EXPAND
    171 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. f T HE Singapore City Council plans to build an annexe 1 in Mansoor Street behind the City Hall. It will stand partly on Crown and partly on private land. The proposed acquisition of the private land has been gazetted.
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    Small holders owe $1 Mil.
    116 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 19. Rubber smallholders owe the Johore Government about one million dollars in rent. This sum is still outstanding from their arrears of more than S3V 2 million about five months ago. The Government had threatened to put up the smallholders’ land for
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    Water—25 mil. gallon plan under way soon
    204 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. THE Singapore City Council will begin work soon on a sl9] million scheme to draw an extra 25 million gallons of water a day from the Tebrau River in Johore. The Council recently decided to drop a plan to develop
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    NOW THE ARMY’S BOYS ARE CHEERFUL
    189 14 Second call-up SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. (COLONEL T. J. Hut chinson, Singapore Military Forces Commandant, said yesterday the second 400 National Servicemen “are a cheerful lot and do not have the inhibitions of first group of boys.” Their training started this week. “We have enlisted
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    Malay League polls talks
    35 14 IPOH, Feb. 17, —Delegates from the 23 Perak branches of the Perak Malay League will discuss on Feb. 27 whether they are to take part in the Federal and State elections.
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    Chinese rice for Germany
    37 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. The White Rose, a 5.400-ton Finnish freighter, arrived in Singapore yesterday with 3 545 tons of rice for Hamburg The rice was taken on at the Chinese port of Whampoa.
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    ‘I WILL DIE IF YOU DON’T COME TO ME’
    326 14  -  From HALL ROMNEY LONDON, Feb. 18. OOYAL MARINE RONALD CLULEY, 24, of Great Barr, Staffordshire, has one week to decide whether to sign on for another year or risk losing his Singapore Chinese wife. Cluley married Shirley Teoh Jim Choo, 25.
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    BUONAPARTE HIT ME, SAYS JOSEPHINE
    103 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 16. TIHOMAS BUONAPARTE, a hotel receptionist in Singapore, was acquitted here today on a charge of house trespass with intent to annoy his wife, Josephine Nonis, a telephone operator. Josephine Nonis told the court that on Dec. 19 Buonaparte came to her
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    Engineering Dept, head
    59 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. Mr. C. A. M. Gray, senior lecturer in civil engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia, has been appointed to the chair of engineering m the University of Malaya. He will assume duties am 1 May. But he will arrive in Singapore today to
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    WIDOW GETS $3,200 AWARD
    99 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. The widow and four children of Wong Chee, 37. who was fatally injured while dismantling scaffolding from an oil tank at Spottiswood Park, Singapore, on Nov. 12, will receive $3,200 the maximum claim under the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance The Labour Department acted on
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    Lock icon Children form ‘living rosary’
    62 16 20,000 hear Father Peyton SINGAPORE, Keb. 22. TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE the largest crowd ever to assemble for a devotional meeting in Singapore—tilled Jalan Besar Stadium to capacity yesterday to hear Father Patrick Peyton, the “Catholic Billy (ji*aham.“ Four hundred and fifty children from Catholic schools formed
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    Progressives hit at towkay politicians
    774 16 ‘DOWN WITH THE DOLLAR TYRANTS' SINGAPORE, Feb. 22. JHE S ingapore Progressive Party yesterday attacked the election activities of some members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and called on the people of the Colony “to reject these millionaires and their sycophants who think that
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    $2 million loan to ‘specials’
    45 16 K. LUMPUR. Feb. 21. Up to the end of last year 2,319 discharged special constables had been given interest-free rehabilitation loans totalling more than two million dollars, it was stated today. Another 1.200 applications j for loans are being considered.
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    Priest opens prayer crusade
    204 16 35,000 WILL BE ASKED TO SIGN PROMISE SINGAPORE, Feb 22 nATHOLIC families i n K Singapore will be asked this week to sign pledges to pray together once a day. Several hundred church workers will contact 35.000 Catholics in 7,oeo families. They have volunteered to follow
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    EGGS GIFT (for flood farms) FROM AUSTRALIA
    117 16 SINGAPORE. Feb. 22. THE Australian Government is making a gift of 5.000 eggs to victims of the recent floods in Malaya. The eggs were promised by the Australian Minister fur External Affairs. Mr. R G. Casey. w T hen he was in Singapore
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    That SWORDFISH was a SAWFISH
    138 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Feb. 21. Mr. M. W. F. Tweedie. director of Rallies Museum, Singapore, said the large fish caught on Feb. 19 in the Johore Strait opposite Johore’s Lido was a SAWFISH and not a swordfish. He gave the classification after he examined the snout
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    Round 2: Progressives attack the Chamber again
    646 17 Dr WANG HITS BACK: AND THEN COMES NEW ONSLAUGHT SINGAPORE, Feb. 23. THE Singapore Progressive Party yesterday delivered its second attack in two days against the election tactics of some of the members of the Chinese C hamber of Commerce. I he attack
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    HE’LL RID ‘SUICIDE’ FLATS OF GHOST
    173 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 23. A^ T Indian ghost-layer, Mr. P. M. S. Thangal, last night offered to find out if an evil spirit is haunting the Singapore Improvement Trust flats in Upper Pickering Street. Nineteen people have fallen to death from the flats since they
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    Action Party puts up an ex-detainee
    189 17 3 WITH DR AW: THEY AREN 9 T QUALIFIED SINGAPORE, Feb. 23. VIR. C. V. DEVAN NAIR, former secretary of the Singapore Teachers’ Union, was last night named by the People’s Action Party as its candidate for the Farrer Park division in the Legislative
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    Down on the farm soon —for blind
    72 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 22. Malayan Association for the Blind is planning to set up an agriculture and poultry farming centre. The Social Welfare Lotteries Board has given the association $28,000 for this purpose. The association is now looking for a site. A spokesman
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    $67 MIL. LOST IN A WEEK
    75 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 23. Singapore market sources yesterday estimated that losses incurred in the heavy selling of rubber in the past week totalled nearly $67,000,000. For the first time yesterday, liquidators of speculative rub- ber took a back seat on the Singapore rubber market and
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    Lock icon C-IN-C OPENS NEW SWIMMING POOL
    47 17 THE NEW $159,000 swimming pool for merchant seamen at Connell House, Singapore, wa s opened yesterday by Admiral Sir Charles Lambe, C-in- C, Far East Station, seen here making a speech before the opening ceremony. Straits the opening ceremony. Straits Times picture.
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    NEW COLLEGE OPENS ON FEB. 24
    151 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 21. TWO PROFESSORS from the Al-Azhar University of Cairo, Dr. Mohamed Abdul Raouf and Dr. Mohamed Aboulkheir Zaki, arrived here today to take up their posts at the Muslim College of Malaya in Klang. The college will be open for its
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      32 17 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of $24.00 for six months (ALL THE AROVE ARE IN MALAYAN CURRENCY).
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    TWO DOCTORS, LECTURER GET QUEEN’S STUDY GIFTS
    230 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 22. rFHE FEDERATION Government has awarded a Queen’s Fellowship to Dr. Fang Ung Seng, a medical officer in Perak, and Queen’s Scholarships to Mr. Wong Lin Ken, a graduate assistant lecturer in history at the University of Malaya, and Dr.
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    A big kiss for the bride
    50 18 MR. AND MRS. JEEVARATNAM PHILIPS kiss after their wedding at St. Anthony’s Church In Kuala Lumpur over the week-end. The bride was formerly Miss KamaU Bai, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Sowrajah. Mr. Philips works at the Malayan Railway office in Kuala Lumpur.
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    M.I.C. supports Alliance stand against babel
    269 18 M.I. C. supports Alliance stand against babel KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 22. 'j'HL Malayan Indian congress win join the UMNO-MCA Alliance in opposing any move for multi-lingualism in the Federal Legislature, the Straits Times was told today. Mr. K. L. Devaser, president of the Congress, said: The M. I. C., thinks
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    The citizen —by Sir Donald
    74 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 22 The High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, today said the first thing a citizen must be ahle to do is to support himself. “A citizen must not be dependent on the efforts of other people, neither must he be dependent on the
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    Father Peyton
    36 18 Rev. Father Patrick Peyton, the American Irish priest, whose Family Rosary Crusade brought more than 20,000 people at a mass meeting at Jalan Besar stadium on Feb. 21, left by air for Bangkok yesterday.
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    ‘Let fire engines creep past red lights’
    170 18 ‘Let fire engines creep past red lights SINGAPORE, Feb. 23. T'HE Singapore City Council A wants the traffic regulations amended to allow fire engines and ambulances to go against the red light. Mr. V. K. Nalr, vice-chair-man of the Council’s vehicles and traffic committee, told the Straits Times yesterday it
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    Olympic stadium at Kallang
    930 18 THE WEEK IN SPORT 'THE proposed Olympic staA dium for Singapore will most probably be sited at the present Kallang Airport. The Singapore Government has notified the Singapore Sports Stadium that 20 acres have been earmarked and would probably be leased to the board free of
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    SHANGRILA WINS THE SELANGOR GOLD CUP
    1046 19  -  By] EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 19. i 111 LA, outstanding three-year-old on the lalayan turf In 1953, staged a grand comeback the first of the season’s “classics,” the Selangor < up over 1J Miles at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, ■ding day of the Selangor
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    CARGO RICE SETS MALAYAN RECORD
    746 19  -  By J PSOM JEEP 1 KI ALA LUMPUR, fib. 1$, £ARgo RICE, a compact five-year-old gelding Bobsleigh, ran the test 8f. in Malayan history, when he >pped a fifth of a second !T Rubber Reporter’s '>rd of lmin..|ji/lj*iie: 1 a lightning fast track Kuala Lumpur
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      139 19 TOTAL FOOL: T 9m,*** FIRST: 1*3*20 ($70,563) SECOND: 1419*4 <$35,293) THIRD: *****& ($17,001) STARTERS: ($2,940 v tael* Nos t v/ V.‘J *****; !.«3302S|; 7 ($1,*** 1 Nos. $296*7; 3*7135; 14*614; 16*076; $*****; *****2; *****4; *****2;*'*****9; *****2.^ TREBLE TOTE: FW# tickets|t®j$985 Wl each); OREL' \s$Ttote: isetf rl *•3: 35 tickets ($26),
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    SCARES BUYERS
    656 20 SHARE M A RKETl By Onr j Market Correspondent '0'M SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. SINGAPORE Share Market last week had one of its worst periods for a very Iona time being completely at the mercy of the tumbling commodity price and by the morning of Feb, 19, “near paralysis’*
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    BUSINESS DONE
    232 20 HTHE following business'"done in the Singapore /Share Market last week was reported X by" one jffrm of brokers period^ February 13 to February If:--Industrials: Consolidated Tin Smelters OrcU 80s. 10%d. and 3JUI; Prawr Neav. Ord. $1.81V4, GaHJioir j« 'to ttSLJIonKkong Bank Cdtlonlal 11,116 cd. cci. Win. Jacks 33.70,
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    RUBBER PRICES
    141 20 Feb. 23.' rkfarch first grade buyers f.o.b closed yesterday in Singapore ofll/etattp' at 93% cents a lb., |w* and anree-eighthi cents (above closing price on Fftb. 31. The closing tone was steady CloMlg rubber prices yesterday to cents per lb. were—No. 1. R. 8. SU Spot loose buyers
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    Debacle in rubber mart reviewed
    759 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. n fTHP fluctuations and general p 1 market until the close on Feb. 22, gave no tion of the debacle which subsequently took states the weekly rubber review of Holiday, < Bath Co. Ltd. Factory and trade buying absorbed all offerings and the
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    126 20 rK following dividends Were announced by companies operating In Malaya last week. VPANG TIN DREDGING LTD: A dividend of Is. per share, less Stjfc in- come tax, for year ended December SI, due and payable to aharehoiders on the register at March 2. from 1 Kuala Lumpur/*' London
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    513 20 y* a» »/Xv7' r vX >f ASINGAPORE, Feb. 23. INDUSTRIALS V l ®v«* n& ajw Brice* >£;/v 350 -r- f; SH? if S' O.*. Life 44.00 *<5.00 Hen "“waugh 5 i M d jack»on n T ci 1:«° 1 u 5 cd M. Brewer!** 8.95 4.05 >
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
    28 20 ;.»•;.Jg, SINGAPORE. Feb. TIN: $353.12k per I I (down $1.37H). RUBBER: 92% ce lb. (up two snd i eighths cents). COPRA: $Z9.m; picul (down 92% cem
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