The Straits Budget, 27 October 1955

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    29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ;s vV Series No. 479. Thursday, Oct 27, 1955. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.
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      NOT A MATTER FOR THE STATE
      150 2  -  K. H. Singapore. T*HE unfortunate man who has had his football winnings sent back to England by the Post Office is naturally irked about the whole thing, and the average person can hardly blame him. What are the moral evils of gambling? I have
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      Applicant still waits
      63 2  -  WAITING. Kulim. r answer to an advertisement calling for technicians in the Survey Department of the Federation, published sometime in May. one of my children applied for the post. He has never received any acknowledgement from the department concerned. The department should Inform applicants quickly whether they
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      Shortage of doctors
      73 2  -  TAX-PAYER Talping. rE District Hospital in Taiplng is among the biggest in Perak and yet there are not enough medical officers to take charge of the separate sections of the hospital. Recently there was only one doctor to attend to the out-patients, in-patients and the new serious
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      Australia has no need to fear Asian people
      415 2  -  AN ASIAN. Kajang. VOUR editorial "White Australians* prompted me to write you this letter. It* la only logical that Asian students in Australian universities should feel constrained to pass a resolution requesting the Australian Government to reconsider its immigration policy. I would
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      BENEVOLENT GOVERNMENT
      258 2  - BENEV OLENT GOVERNMENT J.C.A. Singapore. r ha questioned th- ‘A a wnlch surrender .ij 1 under the atm,. are nothing more h doned mass mur<i ,‘"f; given jobs when ot been on the u* m i ave lists of labour V! for two years. It seems that t.> nowadays one
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      Firemen and traffic delay
      89 2  -  STUDENT. Singapore. 1 AGREE with the statements made by the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, Mr. J. Angus, about traffic lights. I think the Traffic Chief should change the former rule and should allow fire engines and ambulances to go against the traffic lights. If this
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      Gambling through the post
      226 2  -  W. M. EDWARD Singapore. Fview of what the At-torney-General of the Federation of Malaya has made a dictum, in regard to United Kingdom football pools, why he does not give the same dictum in regard to the huge number of covers sent through the post containing
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      COUNTRY MUST COME FIRST
      164 2  -  WAGE-EARNER Singapore. AS a wage-earner who is anxious that his dollar should retain the same purchasing power, or improve when Malayanisation comes to stay, may I make a few observations? Malayanlsation should be a mission with selfeovernment or independence as the ultimate aim, and not a
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      ‘Mesmeric’ sitting room
      126 2  -  A. G. S. DANARAJ Singapore, rfi Singapore Railway Flats are being redecorated I notice an unfortunate effect in the 0 J°“f a f£ for the internal walls of the sitting room. Original >. colour was cream and now b is being changed to The crimson colour seems
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      Lock icon Progress In Sarawak
      548 3 —Straits Times, Oct. I 9 O. i sixty per cent of Sur. uk’s population now en,,11,0 form of representat;u local government, a qiu t l t >markable development 0 f experiment begun only e ighi years ago. The first five local authorities were racial, an d although
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      Lock icon Top Jobs And High Words
      523 3 —Straits Times Oct. 20. When the Malayanisation Commission began its sittings, the Chief Minister warned members that they must be prepared to be the targets of “mudslinging” and “antagonism.” In the event Mr. Marshall’s fears and any he may have aroused in the Commissioners’ breasts,
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      Lock icon Seamen's Wages
      491 3 —Straits Times Oct 20. The agreement reached on wages and conditions of employment for the Singapore registered seaman is an admirable example of successful and friendly negotiation which unfortunately is all too rare in the Singapore of today. One of the difficulties the shipping companies have faced is
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      Lock icon Hard To Replace
      149 3 —Straits Times Oct 20. Feelings much more positive than the customary regret which acknowledges the impending departure of a high and trusted official are roused by the news that the Federation’s Attorney General, Mr. Michael Hogan, has been appointed Chief Justice, Hongkong. This promotion has been earned
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      Lock icon The Proper Footing
      650 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 21. The reaffirmation by Tengku Abdul Rahman of the Federation Government’s refusal to recognise the Malayan Communist Party puts tin* coming talks with Chin Peng on their proper footing. Singapore’s Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, has left even less doubt of his Government’s opposition
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      Lock icon Atoms For Asia
      642 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 22. America’s generous Colombo Plan ofTer of an atomic 1 research centre and a power reactor opens to South Asian countries fresh vision of industrial advance. The prospect of harnessing nuclear energy may completely transform one of the basic Asian problems of economic development.
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      Lock icon Preventing Blindness
      281 4 —Straits Times. Oct. 24. More is being done today for the blind in Malaya than ever before. There are wider opportunities for education and training in employment. A blind man can get a grant of up to $500 and a loan of up to $5,000 to help increase
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      Lock icon The Colombo Challenge
      757 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 25. Without a doubt the outstanding feature of the Singapore meeting of the Colombo Plan Consultative Committee was the greater realism which all the delegations showed in their approach to the problems of development. That is clear from the published summary of the Committee’s
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      Lock icon Chinese Affairs
      401 4 —Straits Times. Oct. 25. Constitutional and political changes have made some Government departments unnecessary and perhaps in some instances, repugnant. The Secretariats for Chinese Affairs are among those which not only have outlived their usefulness, but which can be regarded as irritating relics. The Malayan Mirror, journal of
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    Tapioca got him into trouble
    44 4 J. BAHRU. Oct. 24. PPokan, who took away a food restricted area a quantity of dried tapioca without a permit, was fined s3ji! in the Sessions Court here today. He said the tapioca for feeding cattle and f ii
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      BIRTHS
      85 4 CLUNIES-HOSS: To Ian Barbara, on 18/10/55, at Ka! Kerbau Hospital, Gift of Mother and Child well. RIPLEY: At Singapore M 1 Home, on 22nd October, to and Ian, of Banir Estate, a Sister for Hugh. GROVENOR: To Chris tin* of J. M. Grovenor. a son, Chj f pher Richard,
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    Colombo Plan of help does not injure national pride
    884 5 tyHAT j s this Colombo h Plan, that has Drought to Singapore [he most important and impressive bunch of political leaders this city has over seen? Why all these flags? Why this conversion of the Victoria Memorial Hall into a home
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    Spirit of selflessness as self-help talks begin
    866 5 THE clock in the 1 tower of the Victoria Memorial Hall chimed the hours in T ones that reminded me of small country towns in England. he air that streamed through the high doorways reminded me that I was in the luxuriant warmth
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    TRENCH COLLAPSES, MAN KILLED
    137 5 Two other labourers are injured E SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. A CITY COUNCIL labourer, Lau Kirn Chua, 25. was killed yesterday and two others were injured Swhen the walls of an 18-feet-deep trench collapsed =at Lorong 9, Gevlanp Road, Singapore. The wooden supports Rave Way while eißht
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    As I was Saying
    1176 6  -  CYNIC I* SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. AN interim report recommending the freezing of super-scale appointments in the public services is the likely reaction of the Singapore Malayanisation Commission to allegations that a hurry of new postings may defeat the purpose the Commission was designed to further. The
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    Chief Minister can’t say ‘my government’
    384 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 24. rpilE Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, cannot speak his mind freely. He cannot even say “My Government” when he means the Federation Government. This admission came from the Tengku himself today. Speaking to the Press Club of Malaya, he said:
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    Bus strike ‘no good to anybody’
    94 6 Bus strike ‘no good to anybody SINGAPORE. Oct. 26. m/|R. A A. Ewing, general manager of the strikebound Singapore Traction Company, returned by Qantas-BOAC yesterday after a two months’ holiday in Britain. He told the Straits Times he was very sorry about the strike because “it brought no good to
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    Countryman’s Journal
    549 7  -  IT AN OJEK. 'l'iir north-east monsoon 1 tart* officially this til. Local wiseacres t a flood at the end year; they reckon will be an annual event to the alleged in the bed of the Jo- re River as a result of •mining operations. D .ring the late
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    THE ROCKS OF IPOH
    811 7  -  3t.tra ysiax xoffuook STANLEY STREET. IF YOU travel the 1 road from Kuala Lumpur up to Ipoh, as, to quote Kipling, “thousands have travelled before," your attention will be arrested by the strange formation of the bluffs that rise out of the jungle. They do not
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    Terrorists fire on army camp
    93 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 23. EIGHT terrorists opened fire on the base camp of the 2nd Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers, in the Tampin district of Negri Sembilan on the night of Oct. 21. The troops returned the fire, but there were no known casualties. Shots were
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    Council angry at ‘bad’ hotels
    237 7 Council angry at ‘bad hotels SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. HUNDREDS of small hotels which carry on a ‘•doubtful business” have cropped up in Singapore’s residential areas and the City Councillors are angry. They told the Straits Times yesterday that they had done “a lot of shouting” against these hotels but more
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    140 7 (From the Straits Times of October 26. 1905* SATURDAY was loyally celebrated in Singapore in honour of Trafalgar Day. There was a general cessation of business and as the Races synchronised with Nelson’s centenary, more than the customary jubilation was apparent in the Colony. Notwithstanding that the
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    Old Frees mark anniversary
    53 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Or* 23 Old Frees in Johore Bahru held a reunion dinn< on Oct 21 the 139th anmv rsary of the founding of the Penang F’ “e School Mr Noel Heos, a former teacher of the schm and Mr. FT. I.aidlaw, State Education officer, were
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    RESCUERS WIN A BADGE
    102 8 SINGAPORE Oct 20 rpiIE QUEEN has approved a badge lor 104 'Helicopter) Squadron, j? A F which recently lilted its 1.000th casualty in the Federation. The squadron, commanded by Squadron-Leader C. R Turner, was formed fft It is now equipped with Dragonfly and Sycamore helicopters. The
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    Teachers Day
    17 8 SINGAPORE. Oct 20 TAIPING. Oct. 19—Chinese schools here will ooserve Teachers' Day on Oct. 21.
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    PUBLIC PROBE ON MINE CLASH
    198 8 K. LUMPUR. Oct. 18. 4 COMMISSION of in- quiry is to be set up by the High Commissioner. Sir Donald MacGillivray, to investigate the clash between police and striking workers of the Tronoh Mines at Kampar, Perak, on April 16 this year. A number of
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    BRITAIN BOOSTS COLOMBO AID
    212 8 £7,000,000 instead of original £2,800,000 marked for technical assistance SINGAPORE. O-t. 19. l>Ki TAIN has decided to increase her contribution for technical assistance under the Colombo Man from £2,800.000 to £7,000.000. Lord Reading, leader of the British delegation to the Colombo Plan conference, announced this in
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    YOUNG BRIDE IS FOUND DEAD
    127 8 Police believe it’s murder K. LUMPUR. Oct. 19. a BRIDE of two months. Rajamani Ammal, 16, was A found bleeding to death from a head wound near the railway track at Segambut, 3t miles from here, at 5.30 a.m. yesterday. She died in the General
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    Colony’s boom millions
    40 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 20. Revenue collected by the Singapore Customs during the first nine months of this year exceeds by more than $2,000.000 the amount collected during the same period of 1954. Total collected so far is $59,685,000.
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    $8,849,431 PAID OUT
    54 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 20. Payments totalling $8,849,431 were made by the War Damage Commission from July 1 to Sept. 30 this year, says a report issued in Singapore yesterday. Claimants numbered 13,294 The report, says the commission paid out a total of $435,435,416.80 up to the end of
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    A THOUSAND AUSSIES SAIL IN
    568 8 Bourne tells them how Chin P Vn was driven out of Malaim PENANG. Oct. 19.—One thousand two hundred and fourteen Australian troops listened intently tonight as the G.O.C. Malaya, Lt.-Gen. Sir Geoffrey Bourne, told them that Communist leader Chin Peng and his headauarters had been
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    ‘Cut out pay’ offer starts a row
    315 10 THEIR LEADER SAYS ‘WE WON’T TAKE LESS MONEY FOR MALA YANISA TION’ SINGAPORE, Oct. 22. TEN THOUSAND Singapore Government workers are annoyed with Mr. K. M. Byrne (representing local senior officers) for telling the Malayanisation Commission that local men would be prepared to
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    SINGAPORE Oct. 19. AN AMERICAN expert, Miss Leta H. Galpin (above), is to conduct a youth leadership course in Singapore
    84 10 The Singapore Youth Council has arranged the course which will start on Oct. 31. Miss Galpin will come to Singapore on Oct. 30 from the Federation where she has been
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    Lock icon NELSON TOUCH—IN COLONY
    146 10 Singapore goes back 150 years to hail a heru SINGAPORE. ()<t THE GOVERNOR Sir Robert Black. Service chiefs and Colombo Plan delegate* were among the 100 guests, who attended a dinner aboard H.M.S Terror at the Naval Base in Singapore last night to mark the 150th anniversary
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    Mr. Tan is new Puisne Judge
    208 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 21. 'yjß. JUSTICE TAN AH TAH is the first Chinese 1 judge to be elevated to the High Court in Malaya. His appointment as a per-* manent judge of the Singapore High Court was announced yesterday. First to congratulate him was Mr.
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    Labour Front officials
    62 10 SINGAPORE. Oct 22 The Telok Ayer branch the Singapore Labour Fr Irast night elected the t ing officials: Chairman. Mr. M P Rmuakrishnan; secretary. Mr. H r. Tan: treasurer. Mr. Jamnadas Mehta: committ •<• Mt-ssr'. Heng Chiang Boon. L.S Sim. P. R. Ghelanl. Song Thian Yew. S.
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    That well dressed look for labourers
    194 10 K. LUMPUR. Oct. 20. AIUNICIPAL COUNCIL labourers here will in future dress a little more smartly. They will be issued with three sets of uniforms each a year, instead of the present two. And in future mandores will be supplied with long pants. The
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    ‘WELCOME’ SIGN FOR No. 1 RED
    168 10 WELCOME’ SIGN FOR No. 1 RED IPOH, Oct. 20. A PLACARD saying “Welcome back. Chin Peng and comrades” will be among scores of others to be paraded through Ipoh tomorrow in a monster am- nesty procession. The Mentri Besar of Perak. Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang, and Ministers, including Dato Abdul
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    FIRE IN PETROL TANK
    53 10 SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. An employee of a petrol pump in Jurong Road. Singapore, threw a lighted cigarette stump into a tank which! he thought was empty. A fire engine was sent for when the tank became ablaze. The fire, however, was put out by workers before
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    DRUGS AT CLINIC ‘MORE WATER THAN MEDICINE’
    154 10 MALACCA, Oct. 19. r|RUGS supplied to patients at the municipal mlt door dispensary in Church Street contained m°rt water than medicine, a councillor, Mr. J. L. d rll/> told the Municipal Council meeting here today. Mr. d’Cruz said this was unfair to poor
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    BEGGARS BLAME WOMEN, OPIUM
    282 11 Blind man has paid guide K. LUMPUR. Oct. 20. OPIUM, gambling and women were the >w:ifall of most of Federation’s 600 C.nnese beggars, acting to a pilot surcarried out this by the Social WelDepartment. When asked by departotficials why they had '.wed their money or it
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    S’PORE BID for A-PLANT
    461 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 21. j ,11. Singapore Government will try to convince Colombo Plan countries that the Colony or South Johore—is the best site for the n "i r:*° r dnd nuc,ear resoarch and training centre offered bv the nitcd States. Pakistan. Ceylon and Indonesia would also
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE, Oct 22 PRETTY HAWAHIR BINTE HAJI ALI, a Kota Bahru schoolgirl who has won the New York Herald Tribune’s prize for the best essay on the subject “The World We Want”.
    72 11 She was chosen from hundreds of students from the Federation and will leave for the U.S.A. on Dec.
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    Naval chief calls on Sir Donald
    41 11 PENANO. Oct. 21.—RearAdmiral H. M. Choudri, Com-mander-in-Chlef of the Royal Pakistan Navy, today called on the High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, at the Penang Residency. a few’ hours after his arrival on a goodwill mission.
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    $700,000 gift to Colony
    181 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 21. AUSTRALIA is giving Singapore a milk reconstitution plant worth $700,000, it was announced yesterday just before the Colombo Plan conference ended. The Australian Minister for External Affairs, Mr. R. G. Casey, who announced the gift, said that the plant could process 1,000 gallons
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    HERE’S HOW to BEAT SUBVERSION
    186 11 SINGAPORE, Oct. 21. T'HE leader of the Indian delegation to the Colombo 1 Plan conference, Mr. Gulzarilal Nanda, said in Singapore after the conference ended yesterday: “I am strongly wedded to democracy, but I am not anti-Communist.” He was speaking at a news conference after
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    Rubber, tin at harvest festival
    85 11 SINGAPORE, Oct 22. OT. Andrew's Cathedral Singapore, will have an unusual appearance during its annual harvest festival service at 10.30 a.m. tomorrow. Sheets and bales of rubJ ber, tin ingots ami palm oil nuts will decorate the cathedral and the service will also be slightly
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    Trooper brings 200 soldiers
    39 11 SINGAPORE. Oct 22. The 22.400-ton troopship Asturias brought 200 troops and 23 Service families to Singapore yesterday. In transit to Hong Kong anti Kure were more than 1.000 troops and about 150 tarn i lies.
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    PASTOR CASTOR: CHURCH VIEWS
    172 11 SINGAPORE. Oct 22. SINGAPORE’S church leaders were politely non-committal when asked to comment yesterday on Kuala Lumpur’s fasting pastor, the Rev V. Paul Castor. Mr. Castor, pastor of the Wesley Methodist Church, went without food for three days to assist the “spiritual welfare” of his parishioners.
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    Acquittal in notes case
    76 11 SINGAPORE. Oct 21. Soh Ban Hock, a pin table operator, who was tried at the Singapore Assizes on a charge of trafficking in counterfeit Malayan fivedollar currency notes, was cleared of the offence yesterday Soh denied any part in an alleged transaction in respect of 1,196
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    ZITA FOUND: WITH GIRL FRIEND
    151 11 SINGAPORE. Oct 22. TPIIE search for Zita 1 Francis. 19-year-old Singapore dance hostess, missing for nine days, is over. Zita returned to her home in Prince Charles Square. Alexandra Road, last night after police found her in a house in Kim Keat Road, oil Balestier
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    Lock icon AIR FORCE CHIEF MEETS CHARLIE THE DOG
    71 12 ROYAL AIR FORCE police do* “Charlie” who has distinguished himself on anti-terrorist operations in Malaya today met the Commander-in-Chief. Far East Air Force, Air Marshal Sir Francis Fressanxes. who will review the Royal Air Force Police—including “air dogs” from Singapore and Malaya—at Changi
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    Gardener was too fierce for thugs
    95 12 SEREMBAN, Oct. 20. A 57-YEAR-OLD Chinese gardener, brandishing a parang, drove three armed robbers away from his house here last night. Tw’o of the robbers were carrying pistols. The three men, who claimed to be policemen, told the gardener that they wanted to inspect
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    Death came in a storm CHALLENGE—THEN BATTLE AND MIN YUEN GANG IS THREE DOWN
    329 12 KUALA LUMPUR, <),t >o POUR TERRORISTS including three 'armed members of the Min Yuen—the handit <upph organisation—have been killed in Federation The Min Yuen members, under the comimiv the notorious Chin Voon. were killed by a
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    Lock icon Man-of-year editor on visit
    103 12 SINGAPORE Oct. 19 MR. ALFRED DIPICH (above), proprietor and editor of the Nassau Dail> Tribune in the British West Indies, arrived in Sinsapore by BOAC yesterday on his way to attend the Commonwealth Press t’nion Conference in Australia. He has been a member of the legislature
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    AIRLINE MEN TO GET PAY RISE: STRIKE IS OFF
    316 12 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. THE strike threat by 600 employees of 1 Malayan Airways in Singapore, the Federation and Borneo —has i been called off. Agreement was reached last night after a two-hour meeting between the management and the Malayan Airways Local
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    Mining unions to merge
    49 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 23. The Malayan Mining Employees Union and the National Mining Workers Union today agreed in principle to join a single organisation representing mining workers in Malaya. A joint working committee is to be formed shortly to work out details of the amalgamation.
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    TIGER KILLS GIRL OF 15
    75 12 KUANTAN, Oft. 19 —A 15-vcnr-oid girl. Fatiniah binte Arifin, was killffi by a tig< r while tapping rubb' r at Jabor Valley Estate. 17 miles from hero, today. Fatimah and her mother won working el*>' f 1 raell ot h( r. Suddenly her mother heard
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    Wanted: Young men with ambition
    184 12 Malacca, Oct. 20. T'HERE are many openings for young men of the right calibre in the Malayan rubber industry, Mr. John H. Lord, executive director of the Dunlop Rubber Company, said at a Press conference here today. “But youths these days seem to be looking
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    Girl missing
    24 12 A 13-year-old Indian girl, Kamachi. has been missing from her house in Bukit Timah Road. Singapore, since the evening of Oct. 19.
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    TALKS IN LONDON —THESE MEN ARE GOING
    217 12 K. LUMPUR. Oct. 20. rpHE Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman. 1 the Keeper of the Rulers’ Seal. Tengku Yaaco tonight announced the representatives ot the liance and the Sultans for the constitutional to be held in London in January. Tengku Rahman said he
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    The three categories of Malayans
    922 13 BYRNE: LINE MUST BE DRAWN SOMEWHERE’— BUT WHO KNOWS WHERE? wi\GAPORE, Oct. 21. ri'liK Malayanimation fonimission spent m „ic than an hour debating tht definition of “a Malayan” with three representatives of jii.000 Singapore {H: .1 Government employees —and reteiN i-d three definition^. One iield
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    ‘Up with Malayans quick—even if a little efficiency is lost'
    345 13 Up with Malayans quick—even if a little efficiency is lost' AND FEDERATION MEN SAY: NO MORE EXPATS. PLEASE El’AI. a LUMPUR. 20 The 30.000Government Staff Council to urge the Alliance Government to stop nnnit diately further XTiiitment or trans:,,r t t expatriate offl»t> to this country. Malayans promoted xMisively” to
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    RUBBER RUSH AT CAUSEWAY
    173 13 Packers’ bid to benefit from low duty ,0 HOKi; BAHRU, Oct. 20. ,l 'C Jonore Bahru 1 Us t<»*ns today cleared more than 3,000 tons of during a big rush u v f packers who fir.advantage of a ,J> m rubber duty of an d three-eighth
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    AUTOMATIC LIFTS IN $3 MIL. SCHEME
    169 13 have been completed 1 multi-million dollar ten-storey blocks of 1 a ts and shops in 'V. re. be built by the Ann Kongsi at 1 Hoad at a cost of J 5 million. have 25 blocks of 10-storey buildings and extensive car parks. The
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    This is so silly, says the fire chief
    81 13 SINGAPORE. Oct. 21. T»HE Singapore Eire Brigade can turn out within 15 seconds hut a fast turn-out becomes silly ll it. has to wait 30 or more seconds for traffic lights to change, Mr. J. Angus, Superintendent, o! the Eire Brigade, told
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    BANDITS’ MARKED MAN
    427 14 Dash for life after pistol jammed LABIS, Johore, Oct. 21. TERRORISTS today tried to kill Mr. Charles (L Stanley, manager of the Anglo-Johore Bekok Estate, for the second time in a fortnight. In today's ambush they seriously wounded the 29-vear-old planter and killed the special constable who
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    Air Officer returns to Malaya
    88 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. AIR VICE-MARSHAL Eric Bates, former Director of Intelligence in the Air Ministry, arrived in Singapore yesterday in the Chusan to take up the appointment of Air Officer. Administration, Far East. He will replace Air ViceMarshal W.J.M. Akerman. whose Far East tour ends
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    Scotsman chief
    30 14 SINGAPORE. Oct. 23 Mr. Roy H. Thomson, chairman of The Scotsman, arrived In Singapore by BOAC yesterday on his way to the Commonwealth Press Union conference in Australia
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    Bathroom baritone sings his way out of three homes
    263 14 BUT PETER (HE WARBLES IN THE WASHROOM) IS STILL DETERMINED TO STAR IN OPERA SYDNEY, Oct. 21 —A Muluvim student is singing his way out of house and home in Sydney. Peter Koo. 25. a student of architecture at Sydney University
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    Boom days for Mr. & Mrs. Singapore
    126 14 Boom days for Mr. Mrs. Singapore —THANKS TO PRICE OF RUBBER SINGAPORE. Oct. 24. r rHE continuing nigh price of rubber over the past year has increased the purchasing power of the public in Singapore. This was one of the reasons n by Mr. J. H. Johnston. Assistant Comptroller of
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    A dominion? not Malaya says Negara
    104 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 23. TJEPRESENTATIVES of 15 Party Negara branches in the Kuala Lumpur division said today that Malaya should not be a dominion. A spokesman of the party toid the Straits Times: “We do not want this country to attain dominion status as
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    Retirement
    25 14 RAUB, Oct. 23 Mr. N. K. Deey. head overseer in the P.W.D. here, has retired after 33 years’ service with the department in Pahang.
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    RAFFLE ISSUE: WARNING BY BISHOP
    189 14 Forget them, he advises SINGAPORE. Oct. 22. T'HE Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev Henry W. Baines, has this advice for church councils or. money-raising raffles —“Leave them alone." He states in “The Courier.’’ monthly publication of St. Andrew’s Cathedral, that the problem is a
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    Rescue bid man goes home
    52 14 SINGAPORE. Oct 23 Major R. B. Rushall. tried to save Lt.-Col Cruickshank from drov in the sea off West Road on Oct. 22. wa> charged from the Ot'. Hospital yesterday. Maj. Rushall was achV to the hospital on th» of the tragedy •suin’ from shock
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    GIRL RED GIVES UP: SHE’S No. 4 IN JOHORE
    147 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Oct 23. A 19-YEAR-OLD girl terrorist gave herself up today near Saleng new village, 12 miles north of here. She is the fourth bandit to sur- 1 render in Johore since the amnesty was announced. The girl, Ns Ah
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    Champion or gestapo?—ask the people
    228 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 21. THE .Malayan Chinese Association, in its official 1 journal, the Malayan Mirror, today urged the Federation Government to do away with the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs. i's work, the IVliiioi said, should be transferred he elected representatives of the people as
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    JAIL FOR TRYING TO KISS SINGER
    117 15 K. LUMPUR. Oct. 14. YOUTH who tried to kiss a Malay opera singer while she was in an open-air cinema, was sentenced to three months’ jail today for using criminal force on her. The First Magistrate's Court \va> told that Mazeli bin Aii 1:1.
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    Lock icon OFF TO JOIN THE ARMY
    57 15 SINGAPORE, Oct. 23 YAP Swce Lcong, 22, waves farewell to Singapore. He sailed yesterday in the Sterling Victory for London, where he plans to join the British Army. For more than a month Yap has been frantically searching for means to get to the United
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    CHEAP MILK
    189 15 Wonderful news! Now we can have more of it’ SINGAPORE, Oct. 24. and Mrs. Singapore yesterday joined the Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall, in thanking the Australian Government for the milk reconstitution Plant to be installed in the Colony. Tl'. _i i-: ;tiv already making have more milk
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    The bell tolled but not for them
    101 15 KLANG, Oct. 23 A police squad rushed to the post office here last night after an alarm bell had rung in the police station. Police vehicles screeched to a stop on the road outside the post oil ice. Policemen surrounded the office and
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    ‘Colombo Plan Express’ sets record
    147 15 SINGAPORE, Oct. 24. YIALAYAN Railways established a postwar record yesterday when it took about 100 Colombo Plan delegates from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur in eight hours and 23 minutes. The normal time is 40 minutes longer. The train which was specially air conditioned, left Singapore
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    BANDITS IGNORE CALL-AND DIE
    143 15 K. LUMPUR, Oct. 2!J. PATROL of the 1/2 Gurkhas killed two terrorists in the Kulai area of Johore yesterday. The patrol called on them to surrender but they ignored it A Sten gun and a shotgun were recovered. A patrol from the 2/10th Gurkhas in the
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    UMNO calls conference
    71 15 SINGAPORE, Oct 24 Thp committee of the Singapore division of UMNO met yesterday and reaffirmed its support of the recently-pass-ed Public Security Bill. It was also decided to call an immediate conference of all political parties in the Colony to discuss the question of immediate self-govern-ment. The
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    Police pull down ‘Peace’ posters
    90 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 OPECIAL BRANCH offleers yesterday tore down scores of posters pasted on trees and shop walls in Kuala Lumpur urging the Singapore and Federation governments to arrange peace talks with the Malayan Communist Party. The posters, written in Chinese, were the work
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    VILLAGES DEFY BAN ON BULL FIGHTS
    179 15 KOTA BHARU, Oct. 23. AMPONG dwellers near here are defying the law which prohibits bull fighting for bets and amusement. In spite of the recent success ol police raids on hull fighting at Tumpat, the fights are spreading to other areas in the state.
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    Port backs $3 mil. plan
    187 15 K. LUMPUR. Oct. 23. rpHE Port Swettenham I Board has recommended that the Fede r a t i o n Government should go ahead with the $30,000,000 North Klang Straits development project, proposed by the Federal Ports Committee in 1952. A less costly scheme, suggested
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    Armoured trucks rumble by and police move in
    383 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 24. VOICE” PLANE flew over the jungle near the Siamese border at 10 a.m. today, calling on Communists to surrender under the amThe “voice,” in Hakka, the predominanl di.ikrl in these parts, could )e heard distinctly in the northernmost
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    Crop destroyed
    24 17 p/eCM STAR. Oct. 25. :n the Jltra district nah. south of the Ma--u .uamese border, have pj (j •->' d a two-acre tapioca
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    C-PLAN SURGEON HERE
    91 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. AN internationally-known neuro-surgeon. Mr. Douglas Miller, is visiting Malaya from Australia under the Colombo Plan. Mr. Miller, one of Australia’s most outstanding surgeons and clinical teachers, is operating and giving demonstrations and lectures at the General Hospital, Singapore He is also lecturing to the
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    THE TENGKU’s DILEMMA...
    274 17 THE TENGKU’s DILEMMA KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 24.—The Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, said today that he was in a quandary over the ending of the Emergency. "The armed forces say leave it to them and they will end the war,” he said. "My party and the bulk of the people
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    The men for London named
    190 17 NGAPORE, Oct. 25. 1; Ghief Minister, Mr. 'avid Marshall, last announced the 1 \of the delegation k 11 le ad to London with the CoJ 'V Office. are the Minister for Y and Welfare, Mr. Lim 'k. and the Minister 11 Government, Lands II; ‘sing,
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    Dole and health service planned for workers
    180 17 MEW ZEALAND EXPERT WILL ADVISE SINGAPORE SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. Singapore Government may introduce contributory health and unemployment benefit schemes affecting the Colony’s 300,000 workers. An International Labour Organisation expert has come to study problems of introducing these benefit schemes in Singapore and to
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    U.N. Association in Federation
    48 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 24. A United Nations Association for the Federation was formed at a public meeting commemorating the 10th anniversary of the world organisation here today. The Minister for Education. Dato Abdul Razak bin Hussein, was elected chairman and Mr. T. Sivapragasam secretary.
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    Company to pay $7,000 for accident
    144 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25 THE widow and two daughters of a man who was knocked down by a Singapore Traction Company bus. but who later died of cancer, will get $7,000 from the comf pariy In full settlement of their claim for damages. This was
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    MARSHALL SEES SINGAPORE AS REGIONAL HQ.
    185 17 Eminently suited to be capital SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, said yesterday Singapore was eminently suited to be SouthEast Asia’s regional capital. “Once free from the political implications of colonial ties, we may hope for greater frank appreciation of this truth.”
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    ‘Middle course’ offers best future for Malayan industry
    1454 18  -  By ALLINGTON KENNARD rapid post-war A growth of Malaya’s population compels increasing attention to the possibilities and problems of industrialisation. The position which secondary industry meanwhile has already won in this country is not always realised. The proportion of workers engaged in
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    Sports fund
    31 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 27. The treasurers of the Singapore Youth Sports Centre Fund have received seven more Rifts totalling $2,520, of which $2,000 came through the Singapore Chamber of Commerce.
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    CITY DECORATIONS ARE QUEENLY: CRITIC TOLD
    89 18 SINGAPORE. Oct. 25. A STRAITS TIMES reader who criticised the flagstaffs and floodlights erected in Singapore for the Co- lombo Plan talks as “cheap and “tawdry gewgaws’’ was answered yesterday by Mr. E. R. Reeves, the conference secretary. “The flags and their staffs were
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    I MUST HAVE LEE, SAYS RAHMAN
    431 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 24. T HE Minister for Transport, Col. H. S. Lee, yesterday offered his resignation from the Cabinet to the Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman. who declined to accept it. This followed his defeat on Oct. 22 in the Kuala Lumpur District
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    $1,000 theft
    18 18 SINGAPORE. Oct Jewellery worth $l.( )r stolen from a house lr ton Road, Singapore. <■ 24 night.
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE, Oot. 27. TWO SINGAPORE sporting personalities were married yesterday.
    78 19 SINGAPORE, Oot. 27. TWO SINGAPORE sporting personalities were mar ried yesterday. .v,. :ene Balierand, discus am? hot put athlete, and Mis Veronica Melville, (at ieft daughter of Mr. and >Irs l Edward Melville, of the Naval Base, were mar- ried at the Church of Christ the King, GHQ, Tanglin. Mr.
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    ‘Let Labour Front join Pan-Asian group’
    259 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 26. A SUGGESTION that the Singapore Labour n Front should join the Asian Socialist Conference will be discussed at the Front’s first annual conference this week-end. The proposal comes from Labour Front head-* quarters. 7, r v The Asian Socialist Conference has
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    Pensions for all — but first full statistics
    215 19 Pensions for all but first full statistics ril SINGAPORE, Oct. 23. ENSION or CQtnjJUlsory insurance scheme can set up in the Colony until fuller statistics are »Ie, says the Singapore Association in a report, Association calls for |Ty diate population and vvl census. 0 is necessary not of 1 the
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    English, Malays to share school
    234 19 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. EK)R the first time in L Singapore, the children of Malay and British soldiers will go to the same school and will use the same playing field. This pioneer school was opened yesterday by Lady Loewen, wife of Gen. Sir Charles E.
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    No grouses today
    74 19 SINGAPORE. Oct. 27. The Singapore Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, and other members of the Labour Front branches sub-commit-tee are unable to hold a meet-the-people session at 6. Thomson Road this evening. A Labour Front spokesman yesterday said the session was cancelled “because of
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    Mr. MARSHALL GETS MORE HELPERS
    313 19 Governor appoints three elected, men as assistant ministers SINGAPORE, Oct 26. Zr, rlE GOVERNOR, Sir Robert Black, appointed three new assistant ministers to the Coalition Governr ment at a short Government House ceremony yes- nterday. T The Chief Minister. Mr David Marshall, who was the
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    NEW ENVOY TO COLONY ARRIVES
    73 19 SINGAPORE. Oct. 27. Mr. EJbridge Durbrow, the new American Consul-Gen-eral in Singapore, who arrived by air yesterday. He looked forward to his tour of Singapore and the Federation and to meeting their leaders “I hope it will be profitable for me.” he said. Before coming
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    HOME GUARD SHOOTS TIGER
    43 19 IPOH, Oct. 25. A full-grown tiger weighing about 3001 b. was shot yesterday by a Home Guard. Said bin Udale- bah. at Lambor Kanan in Parlt, 20 miles west of Ipoh. The carcase was sold for $B5 this morning.
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    Steady prices a feature INDUSTRIALS ACTIVE
    588 20  -  SHARE MARKET By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE, Oct. 24. INTEREST In the Singa- pore Share Market last week was concentrated mainly in the industrial section of the listed securities and it was there that the bulk of business was again written. On balance there was
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    BUSINESS DONE
    318 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 24. rpHE following business done 1 in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period October 15 to October 21: INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelters Ords. 29s 9d. Fraser Sc Neave Ords. $1.76 cd, Gammons $2.60 to $2.57Vi and
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    105 20 SINGAPORE. Oct. 26. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were:Copca:' steady; November $27 3/4 buyers, $2B sellers; November $2B buyers, $2B 1/4 sellers. Coconut oil: steady; bulk $4l sellers; drum $43 1/2 sellers. Pepper: quiet with no business reported; Muntok white $l5l, Sarawak $l5O, Special
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    368 20 DIVIDENDS AN NOUNCED COMPANIES operating in Malaya announced the following dividends last week:— PUKET TIN DREDGING LTD.: An interim dividend of 2 2/5d per share less income tax at 8s. 6d. in the <£ for year ending December 31. payable in London on November 9 to all shareholders on register
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    Better week on local rubber mart
    461 20 AFTER three weeks of decline the Singapore rubber market lias moved Up throughout the week, states the current review of Holiday, Cutler, Bath Cot. Ltd., The 114| cents mark of last week seemed to be a turning point and although the upward trend has
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    842 20 SINGAPORE. Oct, 27. INDUSTRIALS Bayers Sellers Ale* Bricks *.pref 180 Orels 1.95 2.05 Atlas Ice 13 00 (buyers» BB Petrol*.;.... 42/6- 44/6.*. B.M Trustees -6.10 6.501td Con. Tin Smelt. Pref. *l9/- 20/-xd Ords 29/-. 30, Eastern United 36 a 0 37 60 Fed. Dispensary'.. 3.20 v 3.30
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