The Straits Budget, 16 February 1956

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    26 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE, OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’B NATIONAL NVWBPiRK New 495 Singapore, Feb. 16, 1956. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.
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      108 1 Bukit }t Timah V, > Z 1 What are they talking about? 4 V No, they're not talking about the next race. They're discussing Burrough's Gin. People who know just how good really good gin is, always ask for Burrough's because it is triple distilled. It is this extra refinement
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      Where the Police offend
      220 2  -  A. B. AVERY. Singapore. TJOW can we expect the general public to take the least Interest in keeping Singapore clean and tidy when the Police, who should set an example to other citizens, are the worst offenders? The walls of public buildings, bridges, ana private property
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      Security of the jungle outposts
      228 2  -  CAPTAIN BLIMP. Singapore. AS we are constantly being informed that Communist terrorist activity is likely to increase, as a result of the amnesty failure, it may be pertinent to enquire whether additional security measures are being taken by the government. A favourite target for the
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      They’re planning an island prison
      374 2  -  A.D. Singapore. WHAT Is Liberal Socialism? I really do not know, and I do not think that the Liberal Socialists do. According to Mr. E. K. Tan '(Democrat) at a political forum at the University of Malaya, Liberal Socialism is a fluid form of Socialism;
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      State of an estate
      138 2  -  SILATARIAN. Singapore. NUMEROUS written requests have been made by the Kampong Silat Estate Community Centre since early 1955, but nothing has so far been done by the S.I.T. to put the roads and drains in good condition. There are hundreds of puddles, concrete slabs on the
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      RIGHT OF A TRIAL
      324 2  -  KUMBANG BETINA. Ipoh. WITH the vast in< ;e in motor traffic 0 post-war years and tlj surance of an er> v steady increase contii it behoves the Tra Ministry to study rr. trends with a vie\ 0 overhauling some 0 1 he existing road regular s
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      UNION MUST FIND OWN LEADERS
      112 2  -  N. T.S Singapore. mHlS clamour by a few JL seamen’s unions ior the retention of one Mr T. A. White as their adv er and their recent reques the Chief Minister to a Mr. White to act as. t r “technical adviser" du« negotiations with
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTH
      22 2 TO EDITH: wife of Major R. P. D. Pemberton, a son, Robert, at Kota Bharu on the 11th of February, 1956.
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    11 2 death SYKES: On 12th February, at 19-M Sheiford Road, Joyce Sykes.
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Lock icon Merdeka In A Year
      1062 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 9. n h nt territory has the threshold of so ;md .mil little confusion us h F. d. of Malaya. of negotiation London yesterday movement on the inumtli..:-• «rant of home rule. >» independence within I Commonwealth by Auisust if possible. The proviso
      —Straits Times, Feb. 9.  -  1,062 words
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      Lock icon Laying Down Arms
      718 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 10. Singapore’s unanimous supporters of multi-lingqalism in government may care to examine this morning a problem of language and meaning which Chin Peng set at Baling. It is of more than a little importance in view of the broadcast appeal to the Communists which
      —Straits Times, Feb. 10.  -  718 words
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      Lock icon Multi-Lingualism
      292 3 vmi i v (uwa, —Straits Times, Feb. 10. By a most impressive vote the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday decided that its debates should be conducted in four languages English, Malay, Kuoyu and Tamil. This was the first time in the Assembly’s history that all elected and nominated members found
      vmi i v (uwa, —Straits Times, Feb. 10.  -  292 words
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      Lock icon The Public’s Buses
      535 3 Straits Times, Feb. 11. The public passenger transport system in Singapore has not been working as well as it should. No-one has been more aware of this than the thousands of people who wait with tensed muscles every day to batter their way into or out of
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      Lock icon Borneo Objects
      208 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 11. None of the three Bornean territories has taken very kirally to the idea that in the happy future they may belong to a Malaysian Dominion. Either they do not like the look of Singapore politics, or they are alarmed at the Federation’s five million
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      Lock icon An Impudent Attack
      814 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 13. The need for radical change in Singapore’s education system has long been apparent. Limited aid for Chinese education, the result of neglect and short-sighted-ness, had given rise to honest resentment and frustration which agents of disorder have exploited. It was this situation, exploding
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      Some Future Problems
      803 4 The Federation’s future relations with the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries occupied most of the Chief Minister’s attention in the interview broadcast from London. Most of the points raised were not perhaps quite as obscure as his questioners implied. The framework of financial control, for example,
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    Malaya will be a good example for all Asia
    1538 5 4 YEAR ago today we A came to live in Singapore. Our arr vH was inauspicious I had told my wife of the warm welcome we should receive (and subsequently did receive), but we spent our first day tied up at
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    The Reds will not give up arms
    329 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 12. T MALAYAN Commu- W| H definitely surrender their r "s after the Federaon gams control of in4 nee SeCUri,y and de C 'siiwat)ori S y e ster(ia y. the Mr n.viri hle Minister, hort vcrbatirri Shal Kave a the r
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    As I was Saying
    1131 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE, Feb. 10. TOHE merger of Pro- gressives and Democrats has not materially alfected seating arrangements in the Singapore Assembly. The Liberal-Socialist six always sat on adjoining benches. They are now a little closer together, and there is still room for Mr. R. Jumabhoy if
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    Bandits’ supply dump found
    56 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 13. A police field force patrol found a terrorist supply dump in a cave in the Kampar area of Perak. The dump contained three piculs of rice, 30 towels, 200 exercise books, pencils, five gallons of kerosene, a large quantity of clothing and
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    SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. TWO visitors from Tasmania have brought to Singapore more inspiration for local women.
    146 6 They are Mrs. M. E. Tatlock, a dress salon proprietress, and Mrs. L. Theta Green, a chiropodist. Both are Tasmanian leaders of the latest movement to give greater equality to women. Members of the
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    Lock icon READY FOR THE NEW YEAR
    10 6 —Photo by K. S. Kong
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    THE ALLIANCE is READY to TAKE OVER IN 3 MONTHS
    441 11  -  By harry miller K l a a lumpur, an v, 8 The AlliMinistry can almost comresponsibility for Vll V lia! government opr,!! hree months ,n^ u Abdu] R -turn from o f the Probable wmetliate^futore s n the A reshuffling
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    Lock icon THE TENGKU’S DILEMMA Fears of a ‘race conflict’
    321 13  -  From LESLIE HOFFMAN i 0NDON. Feb. 9. L very tired Tensku Abdul Rahman told me this morning that the big question which now faces Jim is mobilisation, should tie mobilise all hn people immediately aid precipitate likely raSj conflict or should he
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    COMMERCIAL TV: LEE DIMS THE VIEW
    2491 13 Marshall is all for it SINGAPORE. Feb. 10. GOVERNMENT proposal to hand television over to c o ni in e r c i a I and cinema interests came under strong lire in the Singapore legislative Assembly yesterday. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, the P.A.P.
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    Island-wide hunt for detective
    449 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 10. A COLONY-WIDE search has been launched in Singapore for a detective, Stephen David William Jones, who has been missing since Feb. 6. He disappeared with his service revolver and five rounds of ammunition. Jones, 23, who was attached to the Special Branch of
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    Colonel Blimps? Not the majority
    308 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 10. f FHE Chief Ministers remarks in the Singapore Assembly on Feb. 8 about Colonel Blimps in the Colony have hurt the feelings of many English people here who have warm sympathy for Asian aspirations. Mr. Marshall told the Assembly: “I only wish
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      40 13 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of S24.00 for six months. (ALL THE ABOVE ARE IN MALAYAN CURRENCY)
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    Thugs hold up towkay
    247 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 10. A SINGAPORE rubber millionaire made a 20-yard dash into a house in Shanghai Road last night after two men had ordered him at the point of a gun to set into a car. The millionaire was walking to his home in Shanghai Road
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    RIDDLE of the WORDS
    511 15  -  From HARRY MILLER Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 10 ,f Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, may find himself involved T uuestion of Communist interpretation of the expression “laying a ip irms” when he pursues his quest for peace in Malaya. t oW 'l °l ondon, lie expressed the hope
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    TENGKU TO GIVE HOME AFFAIRS TO NEW MAN
    206 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 10. APART from a Minister of Finance and a Minister of Commerce and Industry to be appointed under the terms of the “merdeka” agreement reached in London, Tengku Abdul Rahman may name a third Minister to take over the
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    DAWN SWOOP FOR GUNS BY 300 POLICE
    196 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11. NINETEEN squads of Singapore police totalling 300 men swooped down on one of the colony’s biggest attap areas at dawn yesterday in search of illegal arms. The area bordered by Henderson Road, Tiong Bahru Road and the railway lines in
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    The M-pact: Copies are here
    79 15 K. LUMPUR, Feb. 10. rE Rulers will meet to ratify the Federation’s “merdeka” charter a week after Tengku Abdul Rahman and his party return from London, informed sources told the Straits Times today. Copies of the agreement have already been received and are now being
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    DEATH FOR YOUNG TERRORIST
    171 15 IPOH, Feb. 7. MR. JUSTICE THOMSON today sentenced a 22-year-old captured terrorist, Chin Kiang Yin, to death for having 20 rounds of ammunition. Chin, who left home In Panjong Tuallang, near Ipoh, in 1951 to join the terrorists, was found guilty of having shotgun cartridges outside
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    New law won’t ‘solve’ problem
    195 15 p Oll. Pfl b. 6. Legislation n m pel employers 0 trade by ts ’ah- contem Plated n L Allia nce GovernDrohi W1 not solve our Problem said Mr. A. R. unf 0 a trade Feders,lumber on the •to 1 C °ancil. thing f: I
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    Hold-up men get $50
    48 15 PENANG, Feb. 10—A Perak Malay, visiting Penang, was robbed of $5O last night. Hashim bin Abdul Rahman of Kampong Sungel Slgar. Perak wa s returning to a friend’s house in Sungei Pinang at about 9.30 p.m. when he wa*s held up by three men.
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    Singapore Rural Board chief: I want to go
    187 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11. TfHE acting chairman x of the Singapore Rural Board, Mr. S. G. Burlock, 43, has been granted a transfer outside Malaya. Mr. Burlock, until recently acting secretary to the Chief Minister, is among the latest expatriate officers to seek
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    MISSING C.I.D. MAN FOUND IN LINER
    124 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11. r FHE missing Singapore A detective, Stephen David William Jones, has been traced. Jones, 23, whose disappearance on Feb. 6 started a colony-wide search, is in the liner Cambodge. which is due in Colombo today. The captain cabled yesterday that Jones
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    Wage pacts signed by two firms
    75 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. THE Singapore Business Houses Employees’ Union which recently submitted wage demands to 25 big Colony firms, yesterday reached agreement with two companies on behalf of its members employed there. The firms are Henry Waugh and Co. Ltd. and the Ben Line
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    Two get new appointments
    38 16 KUALA TRENGGANU. Tues. Inche Bachik bin Abdul Jalal, an assistant State Secretary in Trengganu. has been appointed District OlTicer at Dungun. The present District Officer. Inche Abdul Razak bin Mohamed ArilT, becomes Settlement Collector.
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    MALAYANISE RADIO, TENGKU IS URGED
    203 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 12. yHK Broadcasting Staff Union is to ask Tentfku Abdul Rahman to Malayanise Radio Malaya’s six top administrative posts here and in Penang as soon as possible. The posts are: Deputy Director of Broadcasting, Assistant Controller of Programmes and managers and engineers
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    Girl, 3, drowns
    24 16 SINGAPORE. Feb 14. A shop assistants three-year-old daughter. Koh Siew Keng, was found drowned in a well in Aljunied Road, Singapore.
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    $25,000 damage in Colony fire
    181 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 13. LMRE swept through six locked shophouses in Baghdad Street, Singapore, yesterday and caused $25,000 damage. The destruction would have been W'orse had it not been for an off-duty fireman, Mohamed Baflaria, who saw smoke coming from the doors and widows of the
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    TWO STABBED IN STREET
    134 16 SINGAPORE. Fob. 13. I 1 WO mon were stabbed, one seriously, in a street light, between strikers and customers at the Kam Long Restaurant, Sago Street, Singapore, yesterday. About eight strikers and seven customers, believed to be secret society gangsters, were involved. Knives, bottles, chairs and
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    Tengku: We stay in sterling area
    426 16 LONDON. Feb. 12. rTENGKU Abdul Rahman, A said yesterday that he wanted Malaya to have its own central bank and “issue our own currency.” “But w r e will remain wdthin the sterling area,” of which Britain is the banker, he added. Tengku Rahman
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    HIGH YIELD —BUT THEY ARE UNHAPPY
    355 16 Padi men resent Govt, control KUALA SELANGOR. Feb. 12. OECORD harvest is expected in the 44,000.aere Kuala Selangor rice bowl this year, but the padi planters are unhappy because they fear Government measures would prevent them getting maximum profit. Much of the discontent is
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    Defence switch to be rushed
    203 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 12 —New defence arrangements recommended by the London “merdeka” conference for fighting the Jun war will be implemented with the greatest possible speed. The High Commissioner Sir Donald MacGillivray. said cn his return from London tonight that the new Emergency Operations Council
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    Amah may not have been murdered
    150 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 13. A Government pathologist’s report on Koh Ah Woon, the 40-year-old amah whom the Singapore police believed was murdered, showed yesterday that death was due to drowning. Koh’s body was discovered by two Malays under a stone bridge near the Heap Hoe
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    MARSHALL WARNS S.T.C. Franchise probe
    776 17 S |VI, YI‘ >KK. leb. 14. T ,ji < tm*l Minister, I >i r David Marfy.li, asserted yestera,‘‘ \\y,i the Singapore 'frai-ium Company, uho'C workers have J£„ no strike tor 112 Nv> v, as “manoeuvr j M! ;n soli out to the (ioM-nmient at an
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    BOOM FOR KEDAH’S TITHE FUND
    195 17 ALOR STAR, Feb. 13. rOMH'SORY collection of religious titnes this year cted to boost Kedah’s ‘‘zakat” fund by nr;ui; times—from $33,656 in voluntary contrib”»’: last year to about $2,000,000 during the pre- 7 sent padi harvest. Tuan Haji Zakaria. convenor of the State "zakat” committee,
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    Boy, aged 6, drowns in swim pool
    79 17 SINGAPORE. Feb. 14. CREIGHTON, six- '*-d son of Lieut1 ’ouunander A. W. T. of the Royal Navy, was found yi -4 ml ay in the I'*m ror Swimming a Base, Singapore, wo was swimming children, was v bis father at f the time-limit
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    $6 MIL. APPEAL: DATE SET
    94 17 A TORE. Feb. 15. ’.'""'.'Hio appeal by i oil companies decision of Mr. !lt who had disclaim against 1 Al 1 be heard at j of the Sin”1 of Appeal on Shawcross, a Pp«*ar, with Dr C. H. Withers-Payne, for the oil companies. Mr. Geoffrey
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    CHANGES IN CABINET SCHEDULED
    166 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. SIGNIFICANT structural changes in the Federal Government wilt take place shortly after the Federation Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, returns from London on Feb. 19. The secretary of the successful merdeka mission who arrived in Singapore with three other mission members yesterday said
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    TRANSFER ROW BREWS OVER A WELFARE MAN
    213 17 KUALA TRENGGANU, Feb. 14. 'FHE U.M.N.O. Trengganu is to protest against the A Federation Government’s decision to transfer the State’s Acting Social Welfare Officer, Inche Mohamed bin Mohamed Nor, to Seremban. A delegates’ meeting of the organisation over the weekend took this decision.
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    2 terror gangs ambush police
    221 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 12. A POLICE scout car and a truck were attacked by two gangs of terrorists on the Cameron High- lands road yesterday. In the first attack—at the ninth milestone about 15 terrorists opened fire with bren guns and carbines from ambush positions
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    DANTESQUE PIPS BARAKAT IN THRILLING FINISH
    923 18  -  By KI’SO.M JEEP KCALA lA MI’l'B, IVI). !>. IVVNTKSQUH, with champion jockey Carnet Bougoure astride, snatchU ed a halt-length win from Barakat alter a thrdling last-turlong tussle in the Cold Cup trial over a mile at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, lirst day of the* Selangor
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    Papplewick pays $147—$36 Main race won by Shamrock Slipper
    1026 18  - Papplewick pays $147 —$36 Main race won by Shamrock Slipper By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 14. qiIAMKOCK SLIPPER established himself as the top sprinter in training when he carried 9.5 to a brilliant win in the Class 1, Div. 1,6 F. race at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, second day of
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      137 18 m SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $193,450 1st: No. *****3 ($52,231) 2nd: No. *****0 ($26,115) 3rd: No. *****7 ($13,057) Starters ($1,865 each): Nos. *****0. *****1, *****6. *****1. *****9, *****2, *****2. Consolation ($1160 each): Nos. *****4. *****8, *****0. *****0. *****1. *****8, *****2, *****9, *****0, *****6. TREBLE TOTE: 11 tickets 139 each. FORECAST TOTE
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    Trap after a top-level conference
    470 19 MUAR, Feb. 14. U ILIGHT AMBUSH in deep jungle r m>a angkak, Johore, the Fijians yesterday heir five comrades murdered by Reds near* r Pens 15 months ago. V i p m. they shot five terrorists returning from i-level meeting. The dead Include a state
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    Four bandits flee under Gurkha fire
    139 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 14. A patrol of the 17th Gurkha Division Provost Company in ambush positions on Sidney Estate in the Kajang district of Selangor yesterday fired on four terrorists leaving the estate. There were no known casualties. Home Guards fired at a light
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    JAPS TRY TO BEAT A PEAK
    187 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. EUGHT members of a l- m a n Japanese mountaineering expedition which is to attempt to climb Manashu, a 26,000 ft. peak in Nepal, left Singapore for Calcutta in the Santhia yesterday. Leader of the expedition, 62-year-old Yuko Maki, who began
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    ‘Keep your hands off women’
    99 19 Keep your hands off women’ JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 14. TOHE president of the A Kluang Sessions Court, Mr. N. L. Cohen, told an exSpecial Constable today: “You must keep your hands off the opposite sex.” Hussein bin Sarum, 21, was sentenced to six months’ Jail for theft and to nine
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    STC buses—if union agrees
    194 19 STC buses —if union agrees SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. T*HE Singapore Traction Company said yesterday A that it was prepared to resume its services provided the STC Employees’ Union agrees to four conditions made by the company. The conditions were put forward at a two-hour meeting between the Minister for Labour
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    Next meeting
    27 19 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 14. The next Johore State Council meeting will be held at the Council Chamber, Government Offices building, Johore Bahru, on Mar. 27.
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    Fijians record goes at last
    1048 19 THE WEEK IN SPORT r PHE 1st Bn. FIJI Infantry. A Regiment nearly suffered their first Malayan rugger defeat last week when held to an 11-all draw by the Federation XV on the Kuala Lumpur padang. The Federation very nearly beat the Fijians at their
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    How does a Council get Councillors?
    91 19 PENANG, Feb. 14. |i|USLIMS here plan to set up an unofficial “watchdog committee” to study the activities and movements of the Settlement’s Government sponsored Muslim Advisory Council. A meeting may be called soon to consider whether such a committee is necessary. Several Malay Settlement
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    84 20 /COMPANIES operating vJ in Malaya Announced the following dividends last week:THE KUNDONG RUBBER ESTATE LTD.: A final dividend of 37%% less income tax at 30%, payable on February 23. Books close February 16 to 23 inclusive. KENT (F.M.S.) TIN DREDGING LTD.: A second interim dividend of 10% for
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    Investment buying
    473 20 SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Feb. 11. IJESPITE the approach of the Chinese New Year there seemed to be plenty of ready money about which found its way into solid investment buying on the Singapore Share Market again last week. Traditionally, Chinese New Year week sees
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    BUSINESS DONE
    346 20 rpHE following business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one Arm of brokers for the period February 4 to Febu&ry 10: INDUSTRIALS: Alexandra Brick Prefs. $l.OO, Consolidated Tin Smelter Ords. 29a. Fraser Neave Ords. $1.77 ft to $1.75 to $l.BO, Federal Dispensary Rights
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
    28 20 SINGAPORE. Feb. 15. RUBBER: $1.04| per lb. (down one and seven-eighth cents). TIN: $385,121 per picul (up $6.75). COPRA: $2B per picul picul (up 25 cents).
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    CHAPPEL SAYS PETALING TIN HAS A STRONG FUTURE
    376 20 By Our Market Corresponded SINGAPORE, Feb pETALING TIN LTD., is in a strong p, >; on to face any foreseeable circumstance L g the chairman, Mr. J. T. Chappel in his t statement to shareholders. Mr. Chappel says he cannot forecast the
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    851 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Alex. Brickworks Pref 1.00 1.05 Ords. 1.95 a. 05 Atlas Ice 13.00 (buyers) B. fc> t'etroi 43/- 45/B M Trustees 8 10 6 50 Oon. Tin Smelt Pre 19/- 20/- cd Ords 28/9 29/3 Eastern United 36 50 37.50 Fed. Dispensary
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    Rubber mart quiet with price steady
    359 20 rE rubber market has been much quieter this week, fluctuations have been narrow, and short-covering has the main stabilising factor in the market, say H.C.B. Co. Ltd. in their current report. With minor price mo\ ementa in overseas markets, and oil take reported small,
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