The Straits Budget, 13 October 1955

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    28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NVW8PAPKB ew Series No. 477. Thursday, Oct. 13, 1955. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      A park for lovers?
      142 2  -  CUPID. Singapore. IHAVE noticed practically every night courting couples perched perilously along the wall near the canal behind the casuarina trees at one end of the Padang. It if a pity this city has no place for courting couples to spend a few hours on such
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      Official control of marriage?
      46 2  -  PRO. Labis. A NTI” has expressed A concern over the practice of Indian and Ceylonese youths getting their wives from their own countries, ignoring the lasses of Malaya. Is it his contention that the Government should control the choice of one’s bride?
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      ‘REVOLTING’ WAY TO TRAVEL
      137 2  - ‘REVOLTING WAY TO TRAVEL LEE KIM KEE. Ipoh. WHILE the Singapore City transport service is virtually at a standstill I might as well remind the Commissioner for Road Transport, Federation of Malaya, that the condition of the bus services in the Federation is far from happy. I fail to understand
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      High rents in Singapore
      89 2  -  LESLIE BLAKE. Singapore. NOTHING seems to have happened about the high rents in Singapore and the Rent Control Board is still asleep. I know of a case where a local family pays $4O a month for a house and the landlord is trying his best to
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      The way to make the people save
      63 2  -  ROY. Seremban. AN expenditure tax (not income tax) should be introduced as suggested by Prof. Nicholas Calder, of Oxford University. If we are taxed for expenditure, naturally we wiU save. A nation thrives on its commerce and industry, not on production only. This
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      NO PAID HOLIDAYS FOR THESE OFFICE WORKERS
      226 2  -  VOICE Singapore. THE Progressive Party is to be congratulated for taking up the cudgels on behalf of the white collar workers and we trust some sort of legislation will be introduced soon to limit the working hours and improve the working conditions, especially
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      EX-PoW SENDS A GIFT
      172 2 1 UNDERSTAND that exPoWs are about to receive no less than $25.60 as a compensation award for their services in connection with the Siam Railway. Claims will doubtless have to be forwarded in triplicate and many are likely to have forgotten the address to which they
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      An attraction for capital
      133 2  -  TAXPAYER. Singapore. M R Prancis -m a, when expiau tbe position to the iv bir workers, said that t’ Government was tlu.. of imposing heavier one way of raisin.> vUUe for social develop I think a heaiti r a j temative is to e;i-o ira »e
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      The gangs like the dark
      100 2  -  HS.L Singapore IT is urgent that Lim Tua Tow Road and Teck Chye Terrace be provided with street lamps. Every night cars and lorries are parked along these roads and constitute a real danger. The roads are so dark that a few months ago a
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      No electric light yet
      29 2  -  VI SI TOR. Kalumpang. Even though Serendah is on the main road, being an old town, surrounded by tin mines, it lias no electric lights.
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      DEMAND FOR SAFETY LAMPS
      62 2  -  P C. L v Singapore. THERE should be lighting in Lorong 9, Geylanf. As• l*Jj sewerage work is in process a long trench an< 1 r feet in depth is being delved along the lane, leav» a few inches on each side for pedestrians. The danger
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      CRUELTY TO A KITTEN
      179 2  -  wauciucoo. ,ir u r.f ELLEN V. M. WALT Kuala Lumpur. ON hearing loud and childish laughter and obvious merriment coming from the storm drain behind my house, I went to find the cause. There, in the water fighting for its life and being swept along in
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      Lock icon Don’t Call Us Reds
      561 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 5. us Communists and we „ue for libel. That, in t T, t is the challenge of |r .idual members of the s’ Action Party who been asked to state they stand. Mr. David Marshall’* allegations are ;fr. ntly vague, says Mr. Loe
      —Straits Times, Oct. 5.  -  561 words
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      Lock icon Costly Service
      356 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 5. Singapore’s commission on Malayanisation has now had seven sittings, three of them in public, during which it heard a large volume of oral evidence. It has also received some seventy memoranda. Yet not one word has been said or written yet about the dollars
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      Lock icon The 44-hour Week
      685 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 6. The Labour Bill goes back to the Singapore Assembly improved by amendments in select committee. The most substantial amendment is a further reduction in normal working hours. The original bill provided a 48-hour week. The new working week is not inflexible, but it
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      Lock icon Golden Jubilee
      316 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 6. I The University of Malaya begins to celebrate tomorrow the fiftieth anniversary of medical education in this country. There is much in the Medical School’s half century of history which can be regarded with pride. The medical graduates have served the community and country
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      Lock icon Central Bank Plan
      675 3 —Straits Times. Oct. 7. From time to time cursory consideration has been given to the possibility of change in Malaya’s currency system. As far as the general public is concerned the argument has revolved round Malaya’s hard currency earnings and the belief that Malayan economy would be
      —Straits Times. Oct. 7.  -  675 words
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      Lock icon The Budget Outlook
      732 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 10. When two Government Ministers announce that increases in taxation are being considered they ought not to be surprised if public speculation subsequently marches a little ahead of their possible intentions. But there is in fact no ground to justify at this moment any
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      Lock icon Sir Robert Scott
      486 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 10. Rob Scott His Excellency Sir Robert Heatlie Scott, K.C.M.G., C.8.E., Commis-sioner-General for the United Kingdom in South-East Asia arrives in Singapore this afternoon. And today is October 10 the “Double Tenth’’. Twelve years ago today the Kempeitai began a thirteen months period of
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      Lock icon Shock And Shame
      651 4 —Straits Times. Oct. 11. The post-war reduction of malaria in the Federation probably is the medical services’ most notable achievement. Last year there were 111 deaths in hospital from malaria, easily the lowest figure on record. It was only three years ago that the total fell below
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      109 4 TAYLOR: on 7th Octobe'. Singapore Nursing Home Joyce, wife of Harry J ay 1c*. gift of a daughter playmate for Janice and LiuKERR: On 4.10.55 at Hospital to Jane, wile o r Kerr, a sister (.Rosemary A.. James and Andrew JONES: To Richard anu anne (,Ne e Brohierj Gajah
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      MARRIAGE
      28 4 WHY ATT-WILLI AMS: Andrews Cathedral. Singap> Tuesday 11th October. Ann youngest daughter ol Cowley, of Sevenoaks. Lng .> Robert Arthur, son ol Mrs. L. A. Williams, cl Sin,a,
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    Mr. Lim is out of step with the P.A.P.
    1787 5 \|R LIM CHIN SIONG tells us that he is not a Communist or a Communist sympathiser, but also is not anti-Communist. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. as Secretary-General of the Peoples’ Action Party, repeats his desire for “an independent, democratic. non-Communist Malaya.”
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      43 5 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Th<* weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of $24.00 for six months. (ALL THE ABOVE ARE IN MALAYAN CURRENCY)
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    As I was Saying
    1192 6  -  CYNICUS. SINGAPORE, Oct. 8. rpHE strength wielded by left-wing trade union leaders, and the P.A.P., will be tested on Oct. 12, when demonstrations against the Public Security Bill reach their climax. Workers are asked to down tools for ten minutes as the Assembly meets for the
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    GURKHAS KILL 2 TERRORISTS
    239 6 K. LUMPUR, Oct. 9. patrols have killed two more terrorists who continued to defy the amnesty. A third has been wounded. One of the terrorists was shot on the Kelan Estate in the Kulai area of Johore yesterday and the other in the Bahau district of
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    Lock icon A KAMPONG BEAUTY
    7 6 '—Photo by SUNNY GIAM
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    Malaya will thank rubber pioneer
    115 6 K. LUMPUR. Oct. 7. The Federal Legislative Council will honour the man who Introduced the rubber tree to Malaya, Mr. Henry Nicholas Ridley, who will be 100 on Dec 10 this year. When the council meets here on Oct. 7 the Minister for Economic Affairs.
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    Fire at the trade fair
    58 6 SINGAPORE. Oct. 10. Hundreds of people scattered and fought their way to the open spaces in Mountbatten Road, Singapore, last night when a neon sign caught fire at the Happy World trade fair. Two engines answered the call and put the blaze out. Police believe
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    UMNO WILL PUT REIN ON YOUTH
    157 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 9. T'HE United Malays National Organisation is to strengthen discipline in its youth section. At the same time UMNO will intensify political and leadership training for its junior body. —ay 7 n The secretary-general. n che Senu bin Abdul Rahman, told
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    It’s all quiet
    16 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct No Emergency incidents been reported in the re* ration today.
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    MALAYANS WED IN LONDON
    80 7 SINGAPORE. Oct. 8. MK GUNN ('HIT CHAN, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Gunn I u Teik of Kuala Lumpur, and Miss Peggy Y. C. Loke, rider daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loke Wan Yat. of Kuala I umpur. who were wed in London. The bridegroom
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    STRANGMAN VISIT: MORE DELAY
    90 7 SINGAPORE. Oct 8. ’.H IHOMAS STRANGMAN, chairman of the 1 S:::gapore Traction Company, who is visiting the C ay in a bid to settle the bus strike, has been delayed again. He was scheduled to arrive on Oct. 6 from London. Yesterday, for the second time,
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    COLONY AXE ON LUXURY SPENDING
    111 7 SINGAPORE. Oct. 8. TH? Singapore Govern1 ment will cut luxury nclino drastically •M year and 30 “full m ahead” with soservices. Chief Minister, Mr. Marshall, said last We have been living unnecessarily luxurious We need all the money iul services. have no money to and
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    3 saved from the sea
    105 7 P. SWETTENHAM, Oct. 7. £IX nshermen from Pulau Kctam saved three seamen when their tongkang capsized on Oct. 5. The seamen were going to Port Swettenham with a load of rubber when the bows of the tongkang cracked. They shouted for help as water poured
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    133 7 mi the Straits Times 0<"?. 12, 1905: following properties <t<‘ sold at Powell and saleroom yesterday noon: Six freehold n 8 allotments frontUesker Road, oil Seran- Road. 6.522 square marked lots 142 to 147 rant 244 Bought by 1 iing Peng for $900. ;l( >ld building allot*
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    Visit to an exhibition
    810 7  -  Mm Imffmimm mmtmbmmhx STANLEY STREET. W E had an exhibition T of painting and calligraphy in Singapore this week The exhibits were scrolls in the Chinese manner, scrolls of painting and calligraphy i n which, with a few brush strokes, the artist, Mrs. Feng, conjures up
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    Countryman’s Journal
    609 7  - Countryman’ s Journal TUAN DJF.K. THE rethatching of the Dusun house roof is half finished, thanks to the accelerated delivery of attaps, and the goquick tactics of Wa’ Dollah and his men who are fixing them. Yakub, his son, was fined for a quite uncalled for descent from the roof
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    Major-General Lim Bo Seng’s widow found poisoned
    125 9 SINGAPORE. Oct. 6. Mrs. limbo seng, widow of a Malayan war hero, was found sufferin' from poisoning: in her home in Palm Grove Avenue, Singapore, yesterday morning. A &gt;ister living in an adjacent house heard Mrs. l.im's cries coming from her room and
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    War—‘if Reds reject amnesty’
    192 9 War —‘if Reds reject amnesty’ SUNGEI SIPUT, Oct. 5. T»HE Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, today said that if the terrorists rejected the amnesty, it would mean that they wanted to set up their own government. “And this the people will not accept,” he added. The Tengku was speaking at
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    Blazing ship on way to S’pore
    106 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. 'PHE 6,650-ton Nor- A weg i a n freighter Troja is heading for Singapore with one of her copra-packed holds on Are. The Wilh Wilhelmsen Line ship was on her way to Europe from Manila when the blaze broke out in
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    Six-day week for 320,000
    229 9 WORKERS’ UNION CALLS OFF GO-SLOW THREAT KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 5. JHE FEDERATION’S 320,000 plantation workers have won their claim for a six-day working week—and the “go slow” threat they made last month is off. In future each worker must be given one day off a week.
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    Mother, son drown in river tragedy
    158 9 SWEPT AWAY AS BOAT CAPSIZES KLANG, Oct. 4. 4 EUROPEAN woman and her nine-year-old son were drowned in the Klang River tonight when ninch capsized. woman, Mrs. Antonina "kie, and her son Ricwere in a launch with husband, the Assistant c; Superintendent. Port v
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    Minister’s trip
    52 9 ALA LUMPUR. Oct. 5. Minister for Agricul-. Inche Abdul Aziz bin today listened to the of the fisherfolk at Ketara, off Port, tenham. He made a launch voyage to the island to meet officials of the Hai Sun Fishing Association, who represent the owners of fishing stakes in
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    Envoy here for talks
    58 9 SINGAPORE. Oct. 6. Mr Narciso Ramos, Philippine Minister to New Delhi, arrived in Singapore by air yesterday to attend the ministerial session of the Colombo Plan conference. Mr. Ramos, who is vicechairman and alternate leader of the Philippines delegation, said: “We believe that we can be
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    ‘Cut curfew’ plea
    86 9 KUALA LUMPUR Oct. 5. The Friends of Templer Park Society, which was launched here today, will ask the State War Executive Committee to relax the curlew at the park. At present, people cannot visit this pleasure spot 12 miles outside Kuala Lumpur after 4 p.m. The Minister
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    Handwork show
    29 9 The Chung Hwa Girls’ High School at Bartley Road, Singapore, will hold a handwork exhibition from 8.30 a m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 11 and 12.
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    First lecture was in faculty of ragging
    139 9 SIR Sydney Caine, ViceChancellor of the University of Malaya, sppke words of welcome and fatherly advice to 343 freshmen in the Oei Tiong Ham Hall yesterday afternoon. Sir Sydney Caine, who went with the Pan-Malayan Economic Working Party to Indonesia on Oct. 3,
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    Let’s shout the hair off Marshall: Lee
    285 9 PROTEST AGAINST SECURITY RILL SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. T'HE Singapore Trade Unions working committee yesterday accused the Labour Front Government of trying to break the trade union movement by introducing the Public Security Bill. And a mass rally was urged to “shout’' the hair
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    Policeman fined
    59 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 5. A policeman, Mohamed bin Sirat. was today fined $6O and had his licence endorsed for driving a police armoured vehicle in a dangerous manner at the 6 1/ 2 mile, Chera* Road, on June 25. Inspector K K Pillai, prosecuting. said Mohamed drove at
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    Mr. ANDREN SEES THE GOVERNOR
    425 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. b. JHE GOVERNOR, Sir Robert Black, has been consulted in the row over the compulsory retirement of 44-year-old Mr. A. F. W. Andren, second highest officer in the Singapore Civil Aviation Department. It was learned yesterday that Mr. Andren saw Sir Robert and
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    SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. SINGAPORE’S “OLD SALT” film star said goodbye to the sea yesterday. From now on he’s a land lubber — and he wonders how he’s going to like it.
    118 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. SINGAPORE’S “OLD SALT” film star said goodbye to the sea yesterday. From now on he’s a land lubber and he wonders how he’s going to like it. Grizzled, 55-year-old Captain Charles Evans has been at sea 39 years. He joined Cable and Wireless in 1927, has served
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    Govt. and the students
    60 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. The Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, is expected to marie a statement about relations I)- tween the Government u’ d students, at the Pan-M.uayun Students’ Federation charity ball in Singapore tomorrow night. Organizers of ball, of wh..’h Mr. Marshall is patron, &gt; i.
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    NUDES? NOT US, CLAIM DANCERS
    205 10 PENANG. Oct. 5. THE Penang Cabaret Girls’ Association denied to--1 day that some of its members supplement their income by posing in the nude for locak photographers. “Even if we do not earn enough to keep body and soul together, we would not stoop so
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    4-LETTER WORD-THE EDUCATED P.Cs ARE IN A HUFF
    147 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. SINGAPORE police constables have submitted a petition to the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nigel Morris, asking for disciplinary action against certain senior officers who are in the habit of using abusive language. The petition pointed out that constables were
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    Memorial to Mr. Gandhi
    36 10 TELUK ANSON, Oct. 5. Work has Degun on a modern building which will be a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi. It is being built in Mahkota Road near the Lower Perak Indian Association.
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    Assault in graveyard
    62 10 Report by 2 girls SINGAPORE. Oct. 6. Two teen-aged dance hosteses of the Happy World Cabaret, Singapore, reported they were raped in a graveyard off Lorong Tai Seng on the night of Oct. 4. The girls, aged 16 and 17, said two men took them for a
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    Expats read the writing on wall
    178 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. QUALIFIED EXPATRIATE accountants do not want to join the Singapore Government service because they have seen the writing on the wall. That i s the opinion of the Accountant General, Mr. D. A. F. Smith, who will be testifying before the
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    The sex secret of Ruby
    297 10 OUT OF JAIL BUT QUESTION REMAINSIS SHE A HE OR IS HE A SHE? SINGAPORE, Oct. 6. T'HE sex riddle ct A Ruby Lee is still nnsolved. He tor she) was releas'd from Outram Road prix-r. in Singapore yesterday! But prison authority? helped Ruby to
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    Fishermen call off strike
    63 10 KUANTAN. Oct. s.—£ 250 Malay fisherman at KPahang, 35 miles fro l l 1 who went on strike Oct. 1 in protest aga the low prices they go. their catch from their n anciers, resumed work The Assistant commn er for Labour, Kuantai the Fisheries Officer.
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    Better use of Malayan land would create a more robust economy
    1771 13  -  By ALLINGTON KENNARD i\ ITS comprehensive 1 survey of the probh ins of agricultural development n the y, ration the World Bank Mission report bcx s not repeat the mistake of the Federation’s planners who set their sights on
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    More carbon dioxide pumped into freighter’s burning hatch
    168 13 More carbon dioxide pumped into freighter’ s burning hatch SINGAPORE, Oct. 8. olf-loading copra from the burning hatch of the Troja in Singapore yesterday were forced to stop work because of suffocating smoke. Three hours after the No. 4 hatch of the Norwegian freighter was opened, it had to be
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    One dollar a month for his wife
    75 13 .*****1(1 itAIIKT, o&lt; t A AKRANT tor the arA rest of (unstable Abdul K.idir bin llaji Mohanied. who did not appear before the Sessions C'ourt at Kota Tinggi, was issued yestcrday by Mr N. I&gt;. Cohen Kadir was accused of failing to comply
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    ‘DROP YOUR GUNS’ Tengku’s terms for cease-fire
    889 14 ‘PEOPLE MUST BE PROTECTED KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 7. THE FEDERATION’S Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, tonight A announced his Government’s conditions for a cease-fire in Malaya— Chin Peng must first accept the amnesty terms and order his men in the jungle to lav
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    THE WAR GOES ON
    193 14 Hunting party attacked —one killed, another missing KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 7. A gang of terrorists killed a special constable when they fired on a hunting party in the Sungei Piah area of Grik in Upper Perak on Oct. 5. There were 12 Malays in the party,
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    My son Chin Peng: by a father
    434 14 PENANG, Oct. 7. pHIN PENGS father, Mr. Ong Seng Piew, 54, has given some details of his notorious son “A healthy, hardworking and intelligent lad.” Mr. Ong described Chin Peng or “Boon Hua,” as he calls his second son. Mr. Ong is puzzled
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    IS YOUR BLOOD GROUP B?
    68 14 SINGAPORE. Oct. a. BLOOD DONORS of Group “B’’ are urgently needed by the Singapore blood bank where the stock for this type is very low A Blood Transfusion Service spokesman yesterday said: “Although our present stock is 120 flasks, those of Group B is the
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    School art
    26 14 SINGAPORE. Oct. 8 The Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, yesterday opened the Singapore Art Society’s 14th Inter-School art exhibition at the British Council hall.
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    Wedding waltz leg is ready—but Dawn calls it off
    266 14  -  From HALL ROMNEY LONDON. Oct. 7. IYAWN McFarlane, a crippled girl who had her left foot amputated so that she could have an artificial one to go dancing with her boy friend in Malaya, has broken off her romance. She has
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    Surprise check
    49 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct The Government’s Supply Department, with |h operation of the Point. started a surprise check certain rice stocks kep godowns at Batu Cav miles north of heie. More than 70.000 bag-; have to be counted an will take some days- The check began on 10.
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    The $120 million holiday
    259 15 PENANG, Oct. 7. 4 SIX-DAY WEEK, with two weeks* annual A leave for rubber workers, would have very hi r repercussions on the Malayan rubber industry. Mr. C. Prosper Liston, a leading Penang rubber broker, said today. Mr. Liston estimated annual production would dpip by about
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    FLYING MEN SAY: KEEP ANDREN
    222 15 SINGAPORE, Oct. 8. THE presidents of the 1 Kuala Lumpur, Perak and Singapore flying clubs have written a joint "Keep Mr. Andren” letter to the Singapore’s Chief Secretary, Mr. W. A. C Goode. Their letter Is a result of Mr A F W. Andren’s compulsory
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    ONG BOWS TO DATO TAN
    117 15 Malacca, oct. 9.—The mim.sbr for Posts and Telecommunications, Mr. Ong Yoke n tonight told Sir Cheng- Tan the president of the Malayan Chinese Association. Mi' he would help to make M a really united, strong in democratic organisation. also assured Dato Tan 1 he would
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    Less rice for eating shops
    113 15 KAJANG, Oct. 9. Eating shops in the Kajang area must observe new food restrictions to prevent food from going to the terrorists. The Ulu Langat War Executive Council has restricted eating shops in the area to a maximum of 30 katties each of rice a
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    Budget for all to see
    63 15 SINGAPORE. Oct. 10. Singapore's estimates for next year—the first to be prepared by an elected Government will take at least 10 days to be passed after its presentation at the November meeting of the Assembly. For the first time, all budget deliberations will be held
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    HE PICKED WRONG POCKET
    74 15 JOHORE BAHRU. Oct. 9 Lee Kong, of Singapore, who had three previous convictions. was sentenced in the Magistrate’s Court today to 12 months’ jail to be followed by 12 months police supervision for attempting to pick the pocket of Police Lt. R. B. Carr while he
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    THE BOSS SAYS: THIS UNION HAS GOOD IDEA
    358 15 SINGAPORE, Oct. 9. THE CHAIRMAN of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, Mr. H. F. Clements, yesterday praised an idea of the new Singapore Commercial and Industrial Workers’ Union, organised by the Trades Union Congress. This union, which aims at a 10,000 membership,
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    Union party
    30 15 SINGAPORE. Oct. 10. Nino thousand members of the newly-approved Singapore Chinese Middle School Students’ Union will hold a tea party at the Singapore Badminton Hall on Oct 16.
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    A SERGEANT WINS THAT BIG WALK
    222 15 SINGAPORE, Oct. 10. A SOLDIER, Sgt. J. Bromley, yesterday won the SingaporeJohore Bahru walking contest organised by the Singapore Free Press. He covered the 17.2 miles in two hours, 54 minutes, 39 seconds. Nearly 20,000 people lined up at various points along the route
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    THE ‘NO BARBS’ BUDGET
    455 16 THE ALLIANCE NEEDS TIME KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 9. JHE FEDERATION’S 1956 estimates are expected to be in the nature of a standstill Budget, showing little change from the current year’s expenditure. Approved expenditure for this year totalled $775 million. The estimates have been drawn lip by
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    YOUTH IS KNIFED at CINEMA
    187 16 Gang war theory SINGAPORE. Oct. 10. WHILE about 200 peopie were watching an openair cinema show at Ganges Avenue, Singapore, at 8.25 last night four thugs armed with knives mingled with the crowd and stabbed a Chinese youth in the chest. Tay Gim Hong, 20,
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    The new Mentri with experience
    124 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Oct. 9. The Sultan of Johore has confirmed the appointment of Dato Wan Idris bin Ibrahim as Mentri Besar, Johore. Dato Wan Idris first acted in this capacity after Dato Sir Onn gave up the post. He gave wav to Dato Syed Abdul
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    47 16 SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall. crowns the “Press Princess.” Miss Zeiia Wee. at the Press Ball of the Singapore Union of Journalists held at the Sea View Hotel on the night of Oct. 8. Straits on the night of Oct. 8. Straits Times picture.
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    Hero’s wife on suicide charge
    102 16 Hero’ s wife on suicide charge SINGAPORE, ()ct n MRS Lim Bo Sens, the Widow Of a Malayan war hero, was poisoned V taking an overdose 0 f U s Y pirin tablets with the in* tention of ending her life said a charge which u a J read out
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    Double Tenth celebrations
    34 16 SINGAPORE, Oct, 10 Two hundred Singapore Chinese organisations will celebrate Double Tenth Day. It was on Oct. 10. 1911 that China became a republic under the leadership of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
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    BIG TV FIRMS DON’T WANT TO OPERATE IN SINGAPORE
    411 16 SINGAPORE, Oct. 9. NG television firms are not interested in establishing a TV station in Singapore on the Government's terms. Nevertheless there is local interest in the project and the “bag” is not likely to be completely empty when tenders for
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    TAX RUMOURS: ‘DON’T LISTEN’
    168 16 SINGAPORE. Oct 8. SINGAPORE’S Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, yesterday described attacks on the Government based on rumours as an easy temptation and “a tradition which we have unfortunately inherited from the past. Mr. Marshall was replying to a letter from Mr. S. Jaganathan, president ot
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    BOURNE JOLTS BANDITS
    422 17 Helicopter airlift to jungle JOHORE BAHRU, Oct. 10. rrHE Director of Operations, Lt.-Gen. Sir 1 Geoffrey Bourne, has replied to the amnestyterror areas at Kluang and Rengam. The reinforcements have been arriving secret I v at Kluang for the last five days. They at once entered the
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    Mrs. C. flies in to meet the folks
    151 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 12. AIRS. R. G. CASEY, wife of Australia’s Minister for External Affairs, arrived in Singapore yesterday. She wants to meet the relatives of Malayan students studying in Australia. “We had a party in Melbourne recently for a number of students
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    TUC warns shoe company
    46 17 TUC warns s hoe company SINGAPORE, Oct. 11. C]( V*.' H Jaganathan, presie.‘ of Ihe Singapore Trade 1 Congress, last night that the congress drastic action if C'ta Shoe Co. did not immediately negx&gt;to end the strike of workers. strike is now in its Mi week.
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    Envoy returns
    32 17 SINGAPORE. Oct. 12. The Commissioner lor New Zealand in South-East Asia, Mr. Foss Shanahan, returned to Singapore yesterday after a six-day visit to Saigon for discussions with Vietnam Government leaders.
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    ‘NO BIRTH CONTROL’ BRAGA IN NEW ROW
    322 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 12. SINGAPORE politic ians have mixed views about Health Minister, Mr. A. J. Braga’s impending trip to an international conference on planned parenthood in Japan. Mr. Braga, who will represent the Government as an observer, is a staunch opponent of birth
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    U.N. Day ball
    30 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 12. The Singapore brunch ol the United Nations Association will hold a United Nations Day ball at Rallies Hotel at 9 p.m. on Oct. 30.
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    Jewel raiders leave a fortune
    98 17 SEREMBAN. Oct. 11 OURGLARS. who broke into 13 a goldsmith’s shop and cracked open his safe took 1 000 in gems but icit behind another $2O 000 worth of jewellery, and $3OO in cash. Three employees of the shop slept through the burglary. One ot
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE, Oct. 10. Singapore and South Malaya wicket – keeper, Mr. Terence John Beames, and his bride, formerly Miss Josephine Helena Fish, after their wedding at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in Singapore yesterday. The bride was given away by the Acting Police Commissioner, Mr. D. K. Broadhurst.
    52 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 10. Singapore and South Malaya wicket keeper, Mr. Terence John Beames, and his bride, formerly Miss Josephine Helena Fish, after their wedding at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in Singapore yesterday. The bride was given away by the Acting Police Commissioner, Mr. D. K. Broadhurst. —Sunday Times
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    BATTLE ON FOR $787,000 WORTH OF GOLD
    225 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 12. A SEAMAN was acquitted in Singapore yesterday of a smuggling charge—and a court battle begins on November 28 on the ownership of $787,000 worth of gold. The seaman, Mok Fatt, was freed after the prosecution dropped the charge. After his
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    Rioting charge
    45 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 11. Tan Pong and Lee Cheng I eong claimed trial in a Singapore court yesterday to a charge of being members of an unlawful assembly and rioting in Telok Ayer Street o n Oct. 8. Bail was allowed till Nov. 18
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    Nair: I knew nothing of pickets
    119 17 SINGAPORE, Oct 12 ]tfß. M.P.D. NAIR (IndeA pendent-Seletar) said in Singapore yesterday that he was not aware of the picketing at the opening of the new road at the junction of Thomson Road and Yio Chu Kang Road on the morning of Oct. 10.
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    Benevolent men in bottle clash
    67 17 SINGAPORE, Oct 11. TWO rival benevolent parties clashed during a funeral procession in Syed Alwi Road, Singapore, on Oct. 9. The clash started when a lorry overtook another belonging to the rival party. It lasted a few minutes during which bottles were flung. One man,
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    Lock icon MISSING COUPLE: ‘NOT A SINGLE CLUE’
    440 18 Planes search 5,000 miles PENANG, Oct. 11. A TWO-DAY air and sea search over 5,000 square miles of the Indian Ocean off Penang has so far failed to throw light on the disappearance of a woman passenger, Mrs. E. McClukie Abraham, 37. and the
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    Burnt by acid
    37 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 12. Ng Kim Slew, 23, a photographer of Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore, was admitted to the General Hospital in a serious condition last night with acid burns on his chest and legs.
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    Chosen chief
    28 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 10. The Federation’s Comptroller of Inland Revenue. Mr. A. W. Hodges, has been elected president of the newly formed Malayan Society of Accountants.
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    ‘No politics’ boys get a word in
    94 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 11. TIE Singapore Chinese Middle Schools Students’ Union, which agreed to stay nut of politics and trade union disputes before its registration was approved last week, has declared its stand on a political issue, rhe union’s interim committee has urged the
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    END-STRIKE TALKS FAIL
    397 18 Plan for suburb firms to step in SINGAPORE, Oct. 12. 'JWLKS aimed at ending: the Singapore Traction Company strike collapsed yesterday. There was complete deadlock after a twohour meeting at the Labour Ministry between representatives of the company and the strikers. Later the S.T.C. Employees’ Union said
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    AMBUSH SURVIVOR JAILED
    64 18 JOHORE BAHRU. Oct. 10.— Neo Yew Hla, the sole survivor of a party of three terrorist food suppliers on whom Gurkha soldiers opened fire outside the perimeter fence of Tampoi on Aug. 17, was today sentenced in hie Sessions Court to five y ?ars JaU. He pleaded
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    THE HONEST THIEF
    131 18 MALACCA. Oct. 10 VG BUAN, 20, told the 4,1 Magistrate’s Court here today that this time the police had rightly accused him of theft. Ng said: “A few months ago I was falsely accused of stealing a bicycle and was brought to court. I was acquitted.” Ng
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    MAHJONG —PLAYED AT PISTOL-POINT
    233 18 SINGAPORE, Oct. 12. pOR about 20 minutes r on the night of Oct. 10, three men and a woman played mahjong under nerve-straining conditions. Two masked men, each holding a revolver, were watching them play. The game was being continued on their orders. The intruders were
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    FIREBIRD WIN AT PENANG
    858 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 8. pi;: I5IRD, with Sheldon Geyer astride, followf :l up his recent Ipoh success with a clever „in «the Class 3, Div. 1 7F. Penang: Stakes yesterti opening day of the Penang Turf Club aU ti, i&gt;n meeting. i rebird
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    COLONY IS OFFERED AS A GIFT TO REDS’
    282 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 11. ilNESE youth organis;on, in Singapore yesl,claimed that Comunderground agents .Bering the people of c as “a gift to their masters before sovietp whole of Southui \sia.” 0 organisation, the Sinv Anti Communist ♦i Corps, warned that cunning dogs of
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    FLUNG FROM CAR TO DEATH
    106 19 KLUANG Oct. 10.—A 56-year-old labourer, Taib bin Haji Suleiman, was killed and two others were injured in a motor accident, one mhe from Simpang Rengam, on the way to Ayer Itam Road yC TTie d §?ree were travelling in a car to Johore Bahru, when
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    Peng Soon will coach youths
    1194 19 1— 1" THE WEEK IN SPORT I'ROM Nov. 1, Wong Peng Soon, Malaya’s ace r badminton player, will begin his career as a professional coach attached to the Singapore Youth Sports Centre. At Singapore Odeon Theatre’s Hollywood Room last week, Peng Soon signed a three-year
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    White sticks for blind
    45 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 10. The Malayan Association for the blind will present white walking sticks to all Dllnd people In the Federation. The first sticks will be given away at the Gurney Training Centre for the blind here on Oct. 14.
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    City reception
    22 19 SINGAPORE, Oct 12. The Singapore City Council last night entertained the Colombo Plan delegates to cocktails at the City Hall.
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      45 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL FOOL: $185,700 1ST: No. *****4 ($55,710) 2ND: No. *****9 ($25,069) 3RD: No. *****6 ($13,927) Starters ($2,228 each): Nos. *****1, *****3, *****7, *****9, *****6. Consolation ($557 each): Nos. *****2, *****4, *****0, *****8, *****4, *****7, *****2, *****8, *****9, *****0. TREBLE TOTE: 7 tickets ($140).
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    RUBBER MARKET IS STILL JUMPY BUT PRICE IMPROVES
    482 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct. 12. RUBBER improved slightly in Singapore yesterday later in the market and October first grade closed at $1.24 per lb., one and threequarter cents above the Monday price. Initially the market was weak following drops of
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    BUSINESS DONE
    306 20 SINGAPORE. Oct. 10. rE following business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period October 1 to October 7:— INDUSTRIALS: British Borneo Pets. 445. Fraser and Neave Ords. $1.77% to $1.70, Gammons $2.57%, Hammer Co. $2.50 and $2.47%,
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    830 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 12. 1NDUVCB1AL8 Buyers Sellers Alex Bricks Pref 1.80 1.85 Ords 1.95 2.05 Atlas Ice 13.00 (buyers &gt; B.B. Petrol *1/6 43/6 BM Trustees 6.50 7.00 Con Tlo smelt Pref. 19/6 20/6 cd Ords 20/6 29/8 Eastern United 36. aO 37.A0 Fed. Dispensary 3.15 3.25 Fraser
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    Two depressing factors
    568 20  -  By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE, Oct. 10. THE Singapore Share Market was dominated last week by two factors which overshadowed the market and resulted once again in somewhat restricted trading taking place. The first factor was the drop of 14 cents in the rubber price during the week
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    128 20 V Malaya u&gt;. „,un«S ft* J 22?" g i;iv, nds DAURUBBEK Ca LTD.] A second interim dividend of 15% less 3&lt;k; Malayan income tax payable on October 21 to all shareholtters on register October 13 Books will bo dosed from October 13 t 0 21 inclusive. WILLIAM JACKS
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    KRAMAT PULAI
    55 20 The board of directors of KranuU Fulai have declared a special dividend of 2s. per shan less Income Tax at fls *d. in the Payment to be made in London on October 18 from the accumulated balance of the profit and 106 s account to the shareholders on
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    Year’s heaviest rubber drop
    213 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 10. T'HE week on the rubber market was characterised by big fluctuations in prices, the heaviest for the current year to date, which brought the commodity down to the level at which it stood in mid- July. The feature of the market was the
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    144 20 SINGAPORE. Oct. 12. Singapore Chinese change: noon prices per y 111 terday were: Copra: quiet; Octobei ,71* ers, $27% sellers; Novemu- buyers, $2B sellers. Coconut quiet; bulk. s4o &gt;4 selle^ ot with $42% sellers. Pepper: QV t no business reported white $l6l. Sarawak s l6f ietie s Sarawak
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