The Straits Budget, 1 November 1956

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NBW8PAFKB New Series No. 532. Singapore, November, 1, 1956. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or I Shilling.
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    • 191 2  -  EYE-WITNESS Sinfmpore. A “Ration ot nlne Chinese student h n an tatemew w, Minuter Mr. a Jew days r -o and wanted to know v at S d a»Mt by “subversive eie' i* on "i'anjone •Catena Road on the night of OcC 25. I could cfiS
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    • 368 2  -  WHAT PURPOSE SAVINGS? > Kuala Lumpur. AS a contributor to the Federation Employees' Provident Fund since Its Inception (1.7.52), I would like to knowjwhy the Fund Is not jpepared to grant loans to contributors against the security of their deposits There does not
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    • 63 2  -  O. HOOPER Ayer Kuntnr Aver kunino and Batong Malaga area is > s’»fT ft rlng from the severest shortage of water within, living memory. 1 have noticed that there has a fair amount of tain where there Is Jungle and rubber estates. Co'»ld the low ratota;) be
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    • 145 2  -  EX-STUDENT. Singapore. THE Sunday Times reportX ed that s°me of the Chinese students who c*jni)- ed out in the Chun? Ch»nc High School exonamed willingness to *o bark to China. T think the Minister Education should, for once, comply with their and give every facMitv, ffree
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    • 73 2  -  MAT LOTS Lnmot. |N your recent editorial Mr you suggested that the selectors of the Malayan Anthem should c msidti old Malayan tunes because ot their local flavour Could 1 suggest that the selectors put on the air such tunes as ‘Bunga Tanjqng,” “Trap, Tap rap.
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    • 104 2  -  CHARACTER Singapore the article entitled “Are A our most brilliant men .selected for training? w by'*: a staff correspondent, has in fact, hit the nail on'the head. Scholarships have been given only to those who hdld higher certificates and degrees. They c are considered by givers
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    • 426 2  -  TONG NVUK UJ Singapore. ¥N y<mr Issue of October so, nofjf that your columnist Mr. Vernon expressed the opinion that one of Jfce facts arising Convocation was that “the Uni- Tpumty still depends too «wch up~n financial help from abroad.** < v I presume he
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 713 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 26. Singapore wakes this morning to a grim prospect. A;moured cars on the street, ti-mps standing by and bus workers on strike the sequel to last night’s rioting begun by students and their sympathisers are unmisi, r.able warning that this is showdown. The
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    • 244 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 25 i A five man committee headed by the acting ViceChancellor of the University of Malaya is to consider setting up part-time degree classes in the University. One of its tasks will be to determine the extent of public demand for such courses. If the
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    • 284 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 26. To no man was Malaya more heavily indebted than to Henry Nicholas Richey. Yet it was only in the iasi declining years of his file that his work here received the recognition it deserved. Twenty years ago the Straits Times could write: “Few present-day
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    • 1132 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 27 Resolute government action saved Singapore yesterday from bloody turmoil. The police and the military kept the situation in hand. But it was a close call. In the afternoon, and again after dark, vicious gangs of rioters threatened the city with mob law. When
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    • 793 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 29 The curfew which helped greatly to make Singapore’s Sunday a. riot free day is to remain in force another 24 hours. It is to be suspended this morning only between seven o’clock and eleven to permit necessary shopping and marketing. The police and
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    • 352 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 29. Singapore is fighting Communist revolution so that freedom shall prevail. The Chief Minister’s broadcast last night should rally every citizen loyal to Malaya to the Government’s side. Mr. Lim Yew Hock revealed the conspiracy of the Middle Road unions with the Middle School
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    • 632 4 —Straits Times. Oct. 30. Gradually the restrictions in bingapore are being reiaxeu. Hie two cunew-iree hours on Sunday were douoieu yesterday, and are bemg extended today to all the aayngnt hours. It is to be noped that the situation wl* continue to improve to the point
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    • 187 4 —Straits Times. Oct. 31. Riot and crisis in Singapote having caused a last-minute change of plans, the Duke of Edinburgh today arrives in Penang, the starting-point of his visit to Malaya. He is a most welcome visitor for many reasons; as the Consort of the Queen, in
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  • 66 4 KUALA TRENGGANU.Oct. 3*> —Sixty-two Chinese from Ayer Jerneh village, incluun schoolmasters, rubber tapp l and village committee meu bers, were given a briefing 0.. the Emergency situation their area yesterday. This was the first of r series of Emergency brieflnorganised by the State Wi■ Executive Committee to
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  • 885 5 WHERE have our leaders been? The job of an Assemblyman in any crisis is to be either in the Assembly, if it is sitting, or with the people who sent him there, if it is not. The Singapore Assembly was not in session. But where were
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  • 757 5 DACK to normal? I hope not. For “normal” has become a .situation in which the younger Chinese members of the community feel a loyalty probably to Peking, possibly to Formosa, but improbably to Singapore or the Federation. Last week taught us two lessons,
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  • 60 5 K. LUMPUR. Oct. 30. A patrol of the Ist. Bn., Queen’s Regiment, has killed a terrorist and wounded another in the Kota Tinggi district of johore. The wounded man and two other bandits escaped. A rifle, ammunition and two packs were recovered. The incident took place on Oct.
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  • 179 5 i 1£UALA LUMPUR, Oct. 24. The Malayan Trade Union Council, which claims to speak for 500.000 Federation workers, has dropped its demand for the abolition of the Sultanates from its memorandum to the Reid Constitutional Commission. The proposal, made by the MTUC executive committee,
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  • 947 6 IXIYEUSiTY SVinEXT EXPLAINS... University students have all along suspected that the PMSF was run as a stooge organisation for a political group of questionable intentions. These are some of the activities which the writer lists to substantiate his claim that the PMSF is irresponsible.
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  • 424 6 SINGAPORE. Oct, 31. THE British European Association of Singapore is working on details of a medical insurance scheme (including maternity benefits) for members. A European nursing home is also planned. The association, formed in August, is quickly getting down to practical work. Its secretary. Mr. Andrew
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  • 691 7  -  VWrawn ttarilvit iIfHERE will be the end of the chain reaction against Communism started off three years ago by angry and hungry men in the Russian sector of Berlin? Few things could be more foolish than to expect Poland, for example to produce a
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  • 140 7 IPOH. Oct. 29. r pHE Perak Government Clerical Services Union condemned the present confidential reports as a basis for promotion. Many Government servants who are not outstandingly efficient and capable in their work have been given p.cod reports by heads of department because they curry favour,”
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  • 66 7 i From the Straits Times of October 27. 1906). Medicine Hut, Canada, have succeeded in inserting about two inches of a dog’s spinal column in the spine of an engine driver named Glover, whose back was broken in a railway accident there recently. The man is said
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  • 299 7  - Countryman’ s journal TUAN DJEK. COR many months the Kota Kechil pigrearers had not called to collect disused banana stems. Lately, however, a young girl, permed and prettily-dressed, rode into the Dusun on a latest model bike. The Tuan chided her for wearing clothes that would soon be stained with
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  • 323 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29 annual delegates conference of the Malayan Trades Union Council today adopted a resolution condemning the Federation Labour Minister’s “weak-kneed” labour and trade union policy and its pronounced partiality towards employers. i The resolution calls on the Federation Government to adopt
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  • 379 7 17UALA LUMPUR, Oct. 29. —The Federation Government today announced five measures for replacing 1,800 expatriate officers and filling 350 vacancies now existing in Div. One with Malayans in accordance with its policy of full Malayanisation by 1956. A white paper to be tabled at
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  • 2010 8  -  ‘When love is gone there should be divorce’ I’V AUinijtoi* Kvnnard Love must take second place to duty to the country and the Party, says Allington Kennard, in his sixth article on life in Communist China. Tomorrow he will sum up his impressions of a six
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  • 199 8 IZUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 27. The Minister for Education, Da to Abdul Razak, today referred to the riots in Singapore and “the frightening example” of how students could be duped and corrupted by the enemies of the state. He said at the graduation day ceremony
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  • 471 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25 4 BOUT 100 stay-in rebels from the Chung Cheng High School in Goodman Road, Singapore, took control of the nearby Yock Eng High School Tanjong Katong Road for two hours yesterday while teachers stood by helpless. They went to the school when
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  • 66 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 24. The Conference of Rulers to r held here at the end of it month will discuss the “hort of the working party compensation scheme for ■patriate officers whose serpr are no more required or •o want to retire. The scheme is to be
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  • 67 9 nEREMBAN. Oct. 24. A group of people here are to petition the Federation Director of Medical Services to report Dr. T. Graham. the former state surgeon, to Seremban. Dr. Graham is now in Ipoh. where he was transferred after his return from leave in
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  • 25 9 SEGAMAT, Oct. 24.-A Malay school of three classrooms is to be built at Sedili Besar, Kota Tinggi, at a cost of nearly $27,000.
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  • 590 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 25 TAEFIANT Singapore Chinese middle school students camping at the Chung Cheng and Chinese High schools have been warned by the Government to clear out by 8 p.m. today. Police and school inspectors will go to the schools this morning to see
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  • 642 9 SINGAPORE, Oct 25 VIR. DAVID MARSHALL returned to Singapore yesterday after his China tour, firmly convinced that the Malayan Communist Party is not receiving any direction from Peking. “I received the clearest possible assurance from the Prime Minister, Mr. Chou En-lai, that there is
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  • 186 9 Minister to probe ships black list SINGAPORE, Oct. 25. THE Singapore Minister for Commerce and Industry. Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, said yesterday he would soon be looking into the Indonesian “black listing” of ships on the Colony registry. The Minister was commenting on an Indonesian warning cn Oct. 23 that
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  • 33 9 PENANG. Oct. 24. A Federal Legislative and Penang Settlement Councillor. Inche Hashim bin Awang. will leave for the United States next week on a three months’ USIS leadership grant.
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  • 1821 10  -  Crusade against religion AHini/tnn Kvnnurti In his seventh and final article, Allington Kennard discusses the fate of intellectuals in a society governed by a doctrine whose tenets cannot be questioned. He examines, too, the position of religion which the Communists hope to eradicate
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  • 262 10 Kl T ALA LUMPUR. Oct. 24 Y^ r HEN Malaya’s fifth census is carried out next year people will be awakened between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. for interviews with enumerators. And the reason, said the Superintendent or Census, Mr. T. E.
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  • 903 11 Island-wide curfew as mobs attack police SINGAPORE, Oct. 26 A CURFEW was imposed over the whole of Singapore island early this morning after two major attacks last night on the police by about 5,000 youths and a series of incidents in various parts of
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  • 723 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 26. SIX MORE people have been arrested in Singapore and another four organisations dissolved by the Council of Ministers in the anti-subversion drive. The latest arrests, carried out by the Special Branch under the Public Security Ordinance, bring the total number taken into
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  • 32 11 Part-time work $30,000 IPOH, Oct. 25.- Employment of private doctors for part-time work in the hospitals in Perak will cost the Government $30,000 this year. Nine doctors are now doing part-time work.
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  • 28 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 26 Four small terrorist food dumps were found in the Kuala Kubu district of Selangor by a police squad on Oct. 24.
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  • 4551 12 SINGAPORE’S WORST DAY OF RIOTING Seven dead sixty hurt Mail van attacked and set on fire The aim: To prevent Red infiltration SINGAPORE, Oct. 27 CEVEN rioters were killed and 70 people injured in daylong violence which struck Singapore yesterday. Despite n curfew suddenly imposed at 3.IH) p.m. in an
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  • 181 14 CURFEW BREAKERS FACE THREE YEARS JAIL SINGAPORE, Oct. 27. ANY person breaking the curfew may be sentenced to three years’ jail or ail unlimited fine or both, said an official statement last night. The curfew, which was originally fixed for (i.30 p.m. to 8.30 a m., was later advanced to
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  • 108 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 28. HTHE Inspector-General of the Home Guard. Maj.Gen. E. B. de Fonblanquc. said today that he had never lost faith in the Chinese Home Guards. That was why he had re-or-ganised them into operational sections, he said when he visited
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  • 207 14 SINGAPORE. Oct. 26. rpHE People’s Action Party 1 yesterday called on the Labour Front Coalition Government to resign. A statement, signed by the P.A.P. secretary-general. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. said: “Tin* Government is unfit to govern W<. call on it to resign” The statement added:
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  • 174 14 SINGAPORE, Oct 9" THE Chief Minister Mr. Lim Yew Hock’ last night castigated the People’s Action Party for a statement issued earlier in the day about the rioting. (see below) He said the P.A.P. leader Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. to hold the P.A.P. blameless for
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  • 207 14 SINGAPORE, Oct. 27 rwy HE volume of cargo 1 handled at the Singapore wharves and in the Roads this year is likely to be an all-time record. t Up till the end of Augu> the total stood at 11.604 tons —about 10 per higher than for
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  • 29 14 KUALA TRENGGANU. Ot 28—The Assistant State Sec tary, Tuan Haji Ismafi Pajang Aris. who is Britain on leave shortly, entertained by the Persat Majlis Melayu yesterday.
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  • 2577 15 DOCUMENTS REVEAL PLAN FOR FURTHER VIOLENCE SINGAPORE, Oct. 29 IS order was restored in Singapore yesterday, the C hief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, declared that his Government was engaged in “Operation Liberation an operation to end tyranny on the island.” In a special broadcast
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  • 107 16 SINGAPORE, Oct. 29. A TAXI driver, Ang Hock Chew, 40, drove his car during the curfew yesterday armed with an unusual permit an expectant mother. He picked up his passenger, a neighbour of his, at Geylang and raced with her to the Kandang Kerbau Maternity
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  • 231 16 MALACCA, Oct. 28. The Malayn Chinese Association publicity chief. Mr Tan Siew Sin, said here today that certain members of the Malayan Party, formed recently to oppose the Alliance in the Malacca municipal elections in December, were “fighting for personal reasons.” “They are disgruntled
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  • 53 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 28. More than 11,000 aliens in Selangor have become Federal citizens this year. A total of 30,000 people applied. The staff of the State National Registration Office is being expanded and the language boards to test applicants will sit more often to speed
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  • 286 16 FEDERATION GOVT: THREAT MAY INCREASE Kuala lumpur. Oct. 28. —A Federation Government White Paper today warned that “evil forces’’ will step up their subversion activities after independance is achieved unless there is strong Government. It says that it is essential at all times to
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  • 602 16 Tour of Federation extended SINGAPORE, Oct. 29 THE DUKE of Edinburgh’s visit to Singapore j, off. But he will still go to the Federation. He will arrive at Penang on the morning of Out 3i The Singapore Government announced yesterday ‘‘with deep regret” that
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  • 97 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. 30. Malayan exports of fined coconut oil t August this year by 338 tons over the month last year, totaii. 642 tons. n Total exports for to* period January-August tni year were 3.976 tons pared with 3.224 tons the corresponding P trl last year.
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  • 933 17 PAP BOSS LIM TOPS THE LIST SINGAPORE, Oct. 28 AN all-day island-wide curfew k has been imposed on Singapore today. There will be a break from 8 a.m. to 10 a. m. for shopping, but otherwise people must remain at home until tomorrow morning.
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  • 153 17 Perak gang loses eight in 10 months IPOH. Oct. 26 TWO terrorists, whose guns misfired when they at- tacked a Malay Regiment patrol yesterday, were later killed in deep jungle in the Siputeh area. 12 miles south-west of Ipoh Thev have been identified as Futt
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  • 30 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Oct. 23. Capt G. D. Thomson has been appointed Harbour Master for Johore in succession to Commander J HillWillis, who has been transferred to Port Swettenham.
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  • 198 17 WHO’S WHO THE TOP 15 NAMES V are the top Middle Road trade union leaders who were among 234 people detained by the Singapore Government under the Public Security Ordinance yesterday MR. LIM CHIN SIONC, secretary general of the Factory and Shopworkers Union and PAP assemblyrpan for Bukit Timah JAMES
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  • 176 17 SINGAPORE, Oct, 31. JWENTY-TWO ocean-going ships are anchored in Singapore harbour waiting for berths, as a direct result of the riots which paralysed the Colony’s entire waterfront. The Singapore Harbour Board labour force of 8,000 turned out for work yesterday, but had to stop at
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  • 33 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 23 Acting Superintendent Tnrhc Merican bin 39 Chief Police Officer. Kelantan. has been aoDointed Honorary ADC t-> the Duke of Edinburgh during his visit to the Federation.
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  • 2283 18 LIFE RETURNS TO CITY DURING CURFEW BREAK Middle Road plot bared SINGAPORE, Oct. 30 I'HE island-wide curfew which has kept the people of Singapore at home for all but six hours in the last two and a half days is off today until 6.30 p.m. From
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  • 645 19 ‘Well doie, Mr. Lia,’ say conaanity Issdsrs SINGAPORE, Oct 30 SINGAPORE community leaders yesterday denounced elements responsible for the riots and railed on the people to co-operate with the Government so that peace could be restored to the Island. Only one of those con- acted
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  • 1137 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP SlaGAfOKK, Oct. 25 pilUNG in top form, 1V Jockey Bob Franklin landed a big-priced doable with Mon Sabrear ($89) and The Hlnger ($79) at Bukit T i m a h yesterday, second day of the Singapore Turf Club Gold Cap Meeting, rhe
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 124 19 BJG SWEEP TOTAL MOL $256,866 1ST: No. *****4 (3115.562) 2ND: No. *****6 57,781) 3RD: No. *****6 (3 33,166) STARTERS (63,676 each): *****6 *****3, *****7, *****6. Not. *****3. *****3, *****2, 2123ft *****6, *****3, *****8, *****4, CONSOLATIONS each): Noa. *****5, *****9. *****6, *****3, *****8, *****6, *****1. *****5, *****6. DOUBLE TOTES Race 1
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  • 525 20 SHARE MARKET By" Our Market Correspondent SlJ*OArOtt£, Oct. 29 A VERY large volume of business was written on the Singapore Share Market last week and it would have been a very good week indeed, if the disturbances in Singapore had n<n curtailed operations on the morning
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  • 90 20 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per piem on Tuesday were:— Copra: sieauy; Oct. $26 buyer*. $26 3|B sellers: Nov. $26 I|4 buyers. $26 518 sellers. Coconut oil: quietly steady; bulk $4O I|2 sellers, drum $43 112 sellers. Pepper: steady: about 40 to 60 tons of business reported
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  • 503 20 Business done in the Singapore Share Market last week as reported by one firm of brokers for the period October fctt to Octooer was:— INDUSTRIALS: British Borneo Pets. 66s. 6d., Consolidated Tin Smelters 28s., Prasei and Neave ords $2.17 cd, $2.05 xd, Gammon $2.16 to $2.17Vfc to $2.06,
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  • 301 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct. SINGAPORE Share Market was firm in all sections yesterday and any doubts that the recent riots would adversely affect industrial share prices were quickly dispelled. A good volume of business was written n d ,hree counters Gammon (done
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  • 55 20 The boards of Bahru Sslango Rubber Company, Bukit Oohßub ber. Company. Pllmoor Rubbt Company, Rosevale Rubber Com pany. and Teluk Piah Rubtx Estate <1914) announce that neftc nations are proceeding with a vto to the amalgamation of all tb companies. The exact form and terms wt" the amalgamation
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  • 430 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. rjiOWARDS the end of the week the rubber market showed signs of coming out of the doldrums and developing Into a trading market with some incentive report Holiday. Cutler, Bath and Co., Ltd Demand has continued to be very good throughout the oeriod; this
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  • 832 20 SINGAPORE, Oct. 30. INDUSTRIAL* Boyer* Seller* Air* dries* Pref 4 .TO 1.75 Ord* 1,.. 180 140 o tlß lC '»3 00 (buyers) B B. Petrol 64/6. 56/5 B. M Trustee* 6.10 6.50 xd Con. Tin Bmelt lB/. 30/- cd 2B/3 2»/» Eastern United 32.00 33.00 Pea Dispensary
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  • 26 20 Laba Cheviot Rubber Ltd. 1 declared an interim divide, or 12H per cent less tax. in rt of the financial year e December 31.
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  • 42 20 Tlie directors of Langkar (Sutnatra) Rubber EsUte havr ceived a conditional offer Anglo-Bcottlrh Securities to I chase all the fI.WO 10 pe** c £1 Preference at ss. 2V4d. per si and all the 835,000 Ordinal "hares at 6H<l- per share.
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