The Straits Budget, 1 August 1957

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  • 27 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE :OF THE StHAITS TIMES MALiTiI NATIONAL NlWtfm \'ew Scries, 511. Singapore, August 1, 1951 Price 40 cents (Malayan) or t Shilling.
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    • 419 2  -  A. MALIK IBRAHIM Singapore \|UCH has been writ- ten about indebtedness in the Govern-' ment service and the recommendations made by the. Government and the Btaff Side Council for steps to be taken to stop it. It is a pity. that Staff Side Council, have
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    • 278 2  -  ALAH CHOO. Kuala Lumpur. WITH due respect to M Ungku Abdullah bin Omar of the Johore National Front, to my brothers and sisters of the Muslim faith, and also to every one who claims to be a Malayan, I humbly beg to point
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    • 91 2  - Post-l ibera tion obsession T. A. MIJGAN. Singapore. YOUR > leading article “Debts and Bets'* is most welcome Indebtedness amongst the working class is chiefly due to the mood for wine, women and horses that seem to have pervaded the minds of wage earners ever sine* the liberation. During the
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    • 154 2  -  AIRCRAFT. Changi. I FULLY agree with the letter "Will Independent Malaya have its own Air* Force” (S.T July 17). So far the Federation Chief Minister has only mentioned that the airmen in the MAAF will form the Integral part of the Malayan Air Force
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    • 131 2  -  MCA MEMBER Seremban. T'HE recent outbreak of 1 mass hysteria gripping certain Selangor MCA officials has made the Ma- layan KMT the scapegoat This is no doubt du* to the forthcoming fight for control of the Selangor MCA between Che present officials and the old guard
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    • 243 2  - NO DANG ER OF COMMUNAL TROUBLE C. T. M. Kapar. I CAN see no dam.. 0 f R communal tr j i e of any type in dependent Malay 0 viaed the autn les would only ird against the mal )u S propaganda of me opportunist polit ns RS?** 21
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    • 74 2  -  SAMAR IT 'N Singapore. MY advice to one and all is to take regular deop breathing exercise and oy doing so you will not only prevent *LUNG CANCER but many other lung troubles and other troubles As I am not a scientist I leave the scientific
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    • 50 2  -  non-smok r Sungei Siput NOW that it has 1 officially stated smoking causes cancer oi the lung, how about !-<<•" ing legislation to n smoking in cinemas? If a smoker still pet in smoking, that’s his funeral, but I do not v to die of lung
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    • 96 2  -  sarawAki Singapore. AS a citizen of a country which is steering for indepehdence in the years to come, I fully endorse every word that “Malayan” wrote about “That Merdeka Shout.” It is true there is much to be done by every Mala- j
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    • 632 3 Straits Times. July 25. u*re Ls not much profit ai moment in discussing •;on s between the Feder- and Singapore, but it is edingly ditTicuIt to avoid idelong glance at the loins. F‘>r there are some tical questions which to be solved. We canovade the central bank
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    • 300 3 Straits Times. July 25 Whether the Federation can bring the Communist war to an end next year or not depends more on the public’s response to the Chief Minister’s appeal than anything the security forces can do. The first phase of Tengku Abdul Rahmans plan is an
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    • 187 3 Straits Times. July 25. Three of the five Independents in the Singapore Assembly are now considering joining one or other of the political parties. In the popular imagination the Independent member signifies impartiality the individualist who stands above the squabble of party hacks. In practice very few Independents
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    • 281 3 —Straits Times, July 28. The latest issue of the Malayan Police Magazine warns members of the police force against involving themselves in politics. The duty of the police, says the magazine, is to play a “watchful and impartial role”. The advice Is timely, and can bear repetition and
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    • 213 3 —Straits Times. July 28. There is no substance to the charge that the LabourFront has fixed the electoral boundaries for the CityCouncil and District Councils in more than one sense of the word. But the Government has been a bit peremptory, and its acceptance in the Assembly
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    • 544 3 Straits Times. July 27. It is pleasant to have the Indonesian Government’s reassurance that it has no intention of making another New Guinea issue out of the British Bornean territories. A speech in Indonesian Borneo by the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Mr. Chairul Saleh, was certainly open
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    • 792 4 —Straits Times,. July 29. Much to the credit of the Federation’s Minister i f Agriculture is his staunch support for the co-operative movement. The co-operatives have had a chequered history. But they can become, as the Minister says, the backbone of the farming community, and the
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    • 619 4 —Straits Times. July 3’. The lustrous approval which the House of Lords has bestowed upon the Federation’s Constitution was dimmed by the criticism, as sharp as it was unexpected, which changes made by the Working Party impelled Lord Reid to express. Lord Reid dissociated himself and also
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    • 514 4 —Straits Times. July 3 Mischief was the last thing Mr. G. A. P. Sutherland intended when he warned the Singapore Assembly of the increasing difficultv which governments and municipalities are meeting in their long term borrowing. His comments on inflation and the future of the dollar nevertheless are
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    • 301 4 —Straits Times, July 30 Indebtedness among Government employees in the Federation, claims a senior official, is not as bad as it is in Singapore. He may be right. It may be that the Federation civil servant is more thrifty and that gambling said to be a major cause
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  • 264 5 j/ LUMPUR, July 24. The Chief Minister, Tengku Abfjul Rahman, today revealed the first phase of his “secret plan” to finish the Emergency by the end of next year. It is an intensified p* vchologiail warfare ,‘.i\e in which all Cabinet Ministers and Mliance Federal state, town
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  • 71 5 Kuala lumpur. July 24. Special ceremonial dress will be worn by Ministers and top Government officials during the merdeka celebrations. The Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, is looking for tailors who can make the clothes in time. Malay Ministers will wear a “baju muscat”, a Kedah
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  • 52 5 KOTA BHAKU, July 24, The Federation 'iov eminent has allocated 8100,000 to help east coast (ishermen ‘•stranded’' dur ing the monsoon season The Minister for \gri culture. Inche Abdul 4»»/ bin lshak. is now lourinu Trengganu. Kelantan mi the coastal islands to see how relief can
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  • 175 5 IT LUMPUR, July 24. —Malaya will look to the Arab states and Asian countries, including Siam, for ideas on which to develop modernised palace etiquette and customs. This was the reason a retired high ranking expatriate officer was appointed comptroller of the Royal Household
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  • 22 5 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24. The Siamese Consul-General here. Mr. Sunthorn Honglandaron. is to become Siam’s first ambassador to independent Malaya.
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  • 263 5 SINGAPORE. July 25. (SINGAPORE trade unions were yesterday warned that their certificate of registration would be can- Tiled if they indulged in any undesirable propaganda activities. warning came from the Registrar of Trade Unions, Mr Sng Choon Yee. after a union had
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  • 187 5 SINGAPORE, July 25. SINGAPORE’S Minister for Healtn, Mr. A. J. Braga, said yesterday that it was not the Government’s policy to “turn a blind eye” to patients requiring neuro-surgery. The advice of Mr. Douglas Miller. Australian neuro-surgeon who recently visited the Colony, was that
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  • 141 5 SINGAPORE, July 25. connected with the Singapore British European Association’s projected $1,750,000 hospital are no longer in the hands of the association, the chairman, Mr. Arnold Thorne, said yesterday. He said a number of European firms who had agreed in principle to help
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  • 230 5 SINGAPORE. July 25 i RE Singapore Siam Importers and Exporters ociation yesterday denied Government’s allegation *t rice dealers in the *ny were profiteering 1 n e price of rice has risen 0 to three cents a kati e Siam had suspended •u'orts last week. ,'lr. j.
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  • 352 5 K LUMPUR, July 24 —The Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce have written to the Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, “profoundly deprecating” a speech he made in the Federal Council on July 11. At the end of a debate on the White Paper on the country’s new
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  • 1173 6  - As I was saying CYNICUS A NY challenge to the freedom of the press at once has all good newspapermen up in arms, but it is a little difficult to see how a scuffle in the Ministry of Labour threatens press freedom. A trade union official, angry over a .story
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  • 134 6 (From the Straits Times of July 25, 1907) rpHE Government yesterday gazetted the appointment mbo°tj mn C °vJ m ,S T S n inquire into the opium question. Mr iT Joh Sr A s ders °n is President and other members are Hon. Mr. Tan Jiak Kim
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  • 155 6 SINGAPORE, July 27. Singapore Telephone Board Employees’ Union last night cabled the War Minister in London after it had been told that the Governor, Sir Robert Black, would not meet a union dele- nation at Government House. The delegation was to have
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  • 131 6 SINGAPORE. July 28 fTCHE Singapore Junior 1 Chamber of Commerce U sponsoring a photography contest for school children throughout the island. A bulletin giving details or the contest is being issued to about 400 schools. The chairman oi the Chamber’s All-School Photographic Contest. Mr. P Chan,
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  • 33 6 SINGAPORE, July i The Dutch destroyed Groningen arrived in pore yesterday on a to day informal visit. The under the command ot < J Smith, is on her wa Dutch New Guinea.
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  • 1226 7 IPOH, July 25—The 1 Superintendent of the Central Mental Hospital, Tanjong Rambutan, Dr. M. A. X- Cotheme, broke down and wept when testifying today before the commission inquiring into alleged maladministration of the hospital. Dr. Cochenie was replying
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  • 224 7 SINGAPORE. July 26. SMUGGLERS who tried a new technique to get $250,000 worth of raw opium into Singapore on Wednesday night found the change in tactics dis- ast rous. They lost the opium, which weighed 750 lb., and car' which Customs !T1,, n hope will help
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  • 334 7 SINGAPORE, July 2f>. r pHE Liberal-Socialists and the People’s Action Party severly criticised the Government in the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday for “rushing through” provisions in the Local Government Elections Bill relating to alterations in the boundaries of electoral divisions. Opposition members were
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  • 89 7 11*011, July —A party of aborigine Home Guards who were patrolling the jungle fringes close to their settlement in the Tanjong Ramhutan area have rescued a group of 10 hostile aborigines. The hostile aborigines were in a party of 11 and two Chinese terrorists
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  • 338 8 Six hour stretch: No child can take it, say the heads SINGAPORE, July 20. SINGAPORE educa tionists agreed yesterday with the Malayan Teacher which in its July issue took the Penang education authorities to task for introducing a six-hour school day for primary pupils In Singapore no school has a
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  • 23 8 MKNTAKAB. July 24,-Tne now ollicer in charge of Temerloh police sub-district is Mr. Thong Kuo Sin, former investigating officer of Mentakab.
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  • 400 8 Budget of war news ends a 15-year trip SINGAPORE. July 20. TATTERED copy of the Straits Budget dated January 29, 1942 —1? days before Singapore fell to the Japanese has been returned to the Straits Times by post after journey ings between Australia, India
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  • 336 8 SINGAPORE, July 26. SPECIALISTS employed in Government hospitals in Singapore are irritated over three “slights” by the Ministry of Health. SLIGHT NO. 1: The Ministry’s appointment cl' a committee to investigate specialists’ fees after charges in the Legislative Assembly that they were earning fantastic sums—charges
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  • 170 8 SINGAPORE. July 26. T HE Singapore Ministry of Commerce and Industry yesterday ex plained that it suspended rice exports on Jm v 20 because it had been told by some trader* that the Siamese Gov ernment had stopped all exports. A spokesman said
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  • 102 8 SINGAPORE. July 25. Singapore Government would do its best to absorb all redundant Service civilian workers or find them alternative employment, said the Chief Minister yesterday. Mr. Lim Yew Hock declared that redundancy was a negotiable issue between the workers’ unions and the employers. The proposed
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  • 66 8 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24. The United States ConsulGeneral here, Mr. Thomas K. Wright. will become Charge d’Affaires when the Consulate-General is raised to the status of Embassy on the Federation’s attainment of independence. He will remain in Kuala Lumpur until an ambassador is
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  • 21 8 SEREMBAN. July 24.—The Negri Sembilan merdeka memorial committee today decided to build a swimming pool to commemorate the event.
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  • 49 8 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24 The Federation Central Welfare Council is to sponsor i south-East Asia regional conference of social work 111 November next year. The council, which me* today also decided to sei.c delegates to the world conference of social work 1 Tokyo in December next. \e
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  • 45 8 SINGAPORE. July ‘-t Six Singaporeans Lave elected Associates oi 1 Royal Society of Health. They are Mr. Roland Barker Mr. William I Peng Poey. Mr George Chiang Bong, Mr. K. Sun ram Pillai, Mr. Tam Lam and Mr. Nam Sen t na.
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  • 544 9 COCHEME TO COMMISSION AT HOSPITAL— |POH, July 26. The problem of the C entral Mental Hospital, Tanjong Rambutan, is “space, money and more staff." The Superintendent. Dr. M. A. X. Cocheme, said this today while the commission of inquiry was touring the hospital. The
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  • 312 9 SINGAPORE. July 27. riiHE mayor 01 the new SinJ. gapore City Council was dei(: [bed as "just a figure* head” in the Legislative Assemcly yesterday. This definition was given by the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J.M. Jumabhoy, when
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  • 61 9 vt.*o SINr,APORE J u »y 29. ‘MISS ELEANOR TAN, 19, who leu Singapore at the weekend in the liner Handover io r further studies *n England. tormer pupil of the Singapore Chinese Girls’ School. Cleanot is to study architecture at Birmingham niversity. ‘"’he will be
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  • 26 9 KUALA. LUMPUR. July 26. line terrorists fired at a Guard sentry in the district yesterday. The ntry fired back and the audits fled.
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  • 170 9 Afternoon sessions justified IZ LUMPUR. July 26. The Federation Government has saved at least $2O million by providing afternoon sessions for some school children, the Minister for Education. Dato Abdul Razak, said tonight. From the beginning of 1956 education had cost the Government an
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  • 79 9 l/'UALA LUMPUR. July 26 The Director of Music of the Malay Regiment Central Band. Capt. Edgar Lcnthall, returns to England by air tomorrow on retirement after 36 years in the army. He joined the Malay Regi- ment in 1937, when it was in its
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  • 22 9 SINGAPORE. July 27. The Singapore Workers' Education Association has started a Malay class at Geylang English School, Lorong 21.
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  • 52 9 TEMERLOH. July 28. The Sultan of Pahang presented 33 silver jubilee medals to prominent citizens here during the week s celebrations of the 25th year of his reign. The programme included a fish drive, ronggeng and allcommunity dinner, and sports. More than 3,000 people attended
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  • 163 9 He’ ll probe secrets of beggars and vagrants SINGAPORE. July 27. with a pen- cil, notebook and a list of leading questions, a senior student from the Department of Social Studies at the University of Malaya w’ill go to Johore Bahru in October to quiz a cross-section of local beggars
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  • 195 9 SINGAPORE. July 26. THE Rotary Club in Singapore has come to the rescue of the Salvation Army which urgently needs $100,000 for a new home for girls. Mr. A.E.M. Geddes, president of the club, said yesterday that members had promised to contribute
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  • 26 9 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24A $250,000 workshop for employing trained blind craftsmen will be built in Ipoh The workshop will have room for 100 people.
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  • 374 10 SINGAPORE. July 27. ALTHOUGH nominated members in elected bodies are out of date today, they are needed as experienced hands to uuide the first three District Councils to he established in Singapore next year. With Ihis explanation the* Government defeated a Liberal-Socialist proposal in the Legislative
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  • 41 10 IPOH, July 26.—The town council observed a minute’s silence at its meeting last night to honour the memory of the Dato Panglima Kinta Dr. Dato Haji Mohamed Eusoll bin Mohamed YusotT. who died early this month
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  • 199 10 SINGAPORE. July 27. THE Governor. Su* Robert Black, officially opened Singapore’s new $200,000 cinder track athletic; centre tit Farrer Park yesterday. Sir Robert then started the first event the 440 yards hurdles of the A.A.A. I championships. He congratulated the City Council on
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  • 194 10 Council to more tongues SINGAPORE. July 27. rpHE Singapore Legis-1 lative Assembly yes- terdav said “no” to a Liberal-Socialist move' to allow various Chinese dialects to be spoken in j the City Council, in i addition to Mandarin, i Tamil, Malay and
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  • 248 10 A LOR STAR, July 26. —Gold coins believed to have been used more than 300 years ago during the reign of Sultan Sulaiman Shah, ancestor of the present Sultan, have been found in Kampong Siputeh, 24 miles from here. Today I trekked through two
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  • 51 10 PENANG, July 29. The Federation Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, gave $5OO to the Penang division of Kaum Ibu during his weekend stay here. “The money will be used to buy two sewing machines for our sewing class.” Puan Dasimah Daser. a local Kaum Ibu leader, said
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  • 574 10 I>RUNEI. July 26. —Britain and the Sultan of Brunei today issued proposals to give Brunei its first written constitution. Under the plans the Sultan, who is Asia’s last absolute Malay monarch, will govern nis oil-rich state, a British protectorate, with the help of three “Houses
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  • 192 10 100-year-old gift for MacG on last visit to Perak Sultan KUALA KANGSAR. July 26. —The High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray was presented with a 100-year-old kris in a gold inlaid sheath, as a farewell gift when he made his last official call on the Sultan of Perak here
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  • 282 11 pENANG, July 27.—The Minister tor Educa- on, Dato Abdul Razak, id today that Malayan rodent teachers at trainnc colleges in both Bri\i;n and Malaya must be prepared to teach in any art of the Federation. 1 know it is not very easy i touch in the
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  • 55 11 Brigadier W. H. F Hickie, OBE, brigadier-in-charge of Administration, and acting Commander, Singapore Base District, talks to Recruit Hassan b>n Ka r im, one of the 77 recruits of the Ist Bn. Singapore Regiment, at the passing-out parade on July 27, at
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  • 143 11 SINGAPORE, July 29. The Workers’ Education \>'ociation is busy providing virilities for the study of the Malay language in Singapore. It has started two Malay lasses, one at the Rangoon R ad English School for 25 students and the other at the '.ieylang English School
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  • 790 11  - Countryman ’s Journal TUAN DJEK. fRIDAY, July 19, 1957 Last Sunday wc made one of our fatuous predictions that a dry veil was possible; instead The rain has increased in volume and frequency. the 13th. the Tuan emerged from retreat > attend a party at the Club in honour of
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  • 276 11 IPOH, July 2s. r |MIK National Union of Plantation Workers. worried about the future education of its members’ children due to inadequate facilities for higher studies on estates, plans to set up hostels in the larger towns of the Federation. This is part of the union’s
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  • 102 11 KUANTAN. July 25. A Pahang .state councillor, Inehe Ibrahim bin Arshad, today called on the terrorists to conn- out of the jungle before mcrdeka day. and lead a new life. Inehe Ibrahim Alliance. South Perak) was supporting a motion by the State
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  • 52 11 KAJANG. July 28.-The new Honorary Assistant Superintendent of Police here is lr Lopez of the Public Works Department. A member of the ’oral iofcnce corps during th»* Japanese invasion. Mr. opez inis been active in the Poliee Volunteer Reserve, Home Guard and the St. John’s
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  • 1044 12 3INCVPORF.. July 28. T HE go-slow campaign at the Singapore Harbour Board will end tomorrow and the men involved will present themselves for back-to-normal work. A court of inquiry laid down seven conditions yesterday for a return to normal work, end the Singapore Harbour Board
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  • 240 12 SINGAPORE, July 26. “PERTAIN action” v in connection w ith the structure of xMalayan Airways Ltd. will be taken if negotiations started earlier this month are completed, as expected, by Aug. 9 or 10. The whole operation would then require three to four months to finish. The
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  • 162 12 ‘Short term 9 in Penang KUALA LUMPUR. July 26. HTHE M.C.A. president, Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan. 1 has been persuaded to consider accepting the post of Governor of Penang after merdeka, it was learnt here today. Sir Cheng-lock has made it clear, however, that
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  • 77 12 KUALA LUMPUR. July 28. -The Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, tonight called on Malayan journalists to help to make Malaya a peaceiui and prosperous country. Unable to be present at the cultural show 01 the Federation Malay Journalists Association here, his .speech had teen
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  • 471 12 JOHORE BAHRU, July 28 pOLICE on guard outside the Lee Pineapple Factory at Scudai yesterday fired over the heads of union pickets after two incidents in which seven people, including a policeman were injured. Twelve of the pickets were arrested. Betweer 50 and
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  • 279 13 KUALA LUMPUR, July 28. THE All-Malaya Co-operative Conference today decided to create a co-operative central hank to help develop the country’s co-operative movement. Proposing the move, the secretary of the Seianuor Servant’s Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society, Inche Abu Bakar bin Mohamed Ariff,
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  • 200 13 |7 LUMPUR, July 26. The idea for the public service commissions in the Federation and Singapore originated from the public examination system of recruitment in Imperial China. Prof. C. N. Parkinson. Professor of History at the University of Malaya, said in a broadcast
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  • 34 13 SINGAPORE. July 30. Miss Margaret Cynthia Walker was admitted to the Singapore Bar yesterday by Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah. She *s the wife of Mr. J. B. Jeyaretnam. Deputy Public Prosecutor.
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  • 37 13 iSKKMDlhK W.S.F. HICKIE talking to Quartermaster T. Tonnelly of 37 Water Transport Coy. at the RASC parade on the disused runway of the former Kalians Airport yesterday.—Straits Times picture. —Straits Times picture.
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  • 222 13 1/ 1 ALA LUMPUR, July 28 —A 14-year-old Negri Kembilan schoolboy is taking a ronggeng drum ;i,, d other musical instructs to England to play Malay music for the >" uths of the world. I he best
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  • 213 13 SINGAPORE, July 29. "TALKS now being held between the Federation and L Singapore Government may lead to the settingup of an Institute of Scientific and Industrial Re- search in Malaya. The Singapore Minister for Commerce and Industry. Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, said yesterday that
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  • 223 13 SINGAPORE, July 29. THE Royal Army SerA vice Corps yesterday staged a mammoth parade of military vehicles on the disused runway of the former Kallang Airport, Singapore. More than 850 officers and men and 400 vehicles the entire transport organisation of the army in
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  • 34 13 TAIPING. July 28. Thp Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman yesterday inspected an all-Malayan parade by 179 men of the Volunteer Army Service Corps. Ho complimented the men on their excellent drilling.
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  • 43 13 ALOR STAR. July 28 A large Communist camp was found yesterday by a police special squad patrol near Kuala Nerang. north Ke- dah. The camp, with accommodation for 80 people, .showed signs of having been evacuted two weeks ago.
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  • 242 14 Civil Service debt ‘not so bad in the Federation K LUMPUR. July 28. Indebtedness among Government servants in tlu* Federation is not so bad as jn Singapore, a high official here told the Straits Times yesterday. He said the firm steps against debt taken by the Colony Government were not
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  • 93 14 SINGAPORE. July 29. CMDR. T. H. SUDDATII (above) left Singapore on July 27 on the relinquishment of his appointment as Assistant U.S. Naval Attache. He has been promoted to be the commander of Destroyer Division 362 operating in the Atlantic.
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  • 161 14 KUALA LUMPUR. July 28. •pHE president of the Midlands Co-operative Move- ment of Malaya, Mr. K. Subramaniam, said at a dinner here last night that one of the gravest problems facing independent Malaya was urban and rural Indebtedness. “In rural areas the need for
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  • 105 14 BUTTERWORTH. July 28. One hundred UMNO youths from all over the Federation will take part in the merdeka eve youth parade at Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 30. “They will wear uniforms of white shirt and trousers,” Tuan Haji Ahmad Badawi, vice-president of UMNO (Malaya)
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  • 215 14 SINGAPORE. July 29. 37-day go-slow campaign at the Singapore Harbour Board is over. Members of the S.H.B. Staff Association. which started the campaign, will report back for normal work today. An end to the go-slow came after the association and the board agreed to seven
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  • 159 14 SINGAPORE. July 28. MANY Malayans hold top posts in the Hong Kong public service. Dr. Yeo Kok Chiang said in Singapore yesterday Dr. Yeo. himself a Malayan, retired recently as Director of Medical and Health Services there. "Malaya should be proud
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  • 176 14 SINGAPORE, Jul> 29. r PHE People's Action Party in Singapore is planA ning to reorganise its set-up and amend its CJ constitution. A resolution to this effect will be tabled at the party s fourth annual conference to be held at the
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  • 67 14 KUALA LUMPUR. July 28. —The Petaling Jaya town committee yesterday called for early elections in the more recently developed areas. It also decided to allow the erection of advertisement hoardings subject to its approval. and to re-lay drains It will also give further consideration
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  • 170 14 i LOR STAR. July 28 —Rumour mongers were saying that currency notes would be worthless after nierdeka. the Mentri Besar of Kedah said today. They were also saying that the Government wouh not honour employees pr vident fund contribution he added. The Mentri
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  • 306 15 Hard for Govt and City to get loans rm SINGAPORE, July 30. UNCERTAINTY over Singapore’s future, partly because of constitutional changes, will make it increasingly difficult for both the Government and the City Council to raise money to finance public projects, the Legislative Assembly was told yesterday. Mr. G.A.P. Sutherland,
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  • 257 15 Mr. Sutherland said “the future of long term borrowing in Singapore was not bright”—in fact it had already found it difficult to raise a loan 4 Pessimistic The last City Council loan (for $50 million) would have been a flop had it not been for the help
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  • 240 15 IPOII, July 2<). ’'pilK secretary-genernl of the? Malayan (.hincse Association, Mr. Too Joo I ling, today appealed to the 2,7f>0,000 members of his community in the Federation to join the party and help to make Malaya’s independence work success- fully. In a statement
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  • 232 15 SEREMBAN. July 29.—1 n a setting of feudal splendour the Undang of Jelebu. Inche Samarabidin bin Haji Abdul Rahman, was today ceremonially installed as one of the four nominal rulers of Negri Sembilan. It was a proud day for the 400 villagers of the Undang’s
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  • 428 15 Delay could cause ‘considerable daniaye 9 SINGAPORE, July 30. IJELAY in holding a preliminary inquiry into charges against a Singapore rubber firm, Aik Hoe and Co. Ltd.. Heach Road, might cause a “considerable amount of damage, financial and otherwise” to
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  • 88 15 SINGAPORE, July 29. The Singapore Muslim Advisory Board has appointed a special committee to investigate complaints against certain of the Colony’s kathis. “There have been mistakes over the registration of some marriages and divorces,” the chairman of the M.A.8., Dato S. I. O.
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  • 126 15 KUANTAN, July 29—The 2,000 mine workers now on strike at Sungei Lembing, 31 miles from here, will return to work on July 31 when they open negotiations with their employers. This was stated at a preliminary meeting between representatives of the Malayan
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  • 187 16 FOUND IN LOCKED ROOM KUALA LUMPUR, July 29. 4 39-YEAR-OLD Australian mother died in the General Hospital here this afternoon after being found unconscious in her hotel room which the police had entered by breaking open the door. On the floor near her bed
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  • 95 16 SINGAPORE. July 30 AN APPEAL tribunal in Singapore yesterday turned down the appeals of four unionists who were detained under the Public Security Ordinance during the riots last October. They are Fong Swee Suan. secretary-general of the Singapore Bu s Workers’ Union. James Puthucheary. an ex-official of
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  • 237 16 SINGAPORE. July 30. OESIDENTS in several under-developed rural areas in Singapore, which are to be brought into the “City” under the new boundary limits, may pay lower rates than others in urban districts. The acting chief Secretary, Mr. S.T Stewart, stating this in
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  • 201 16 SINGAPORE, July 30. population of Singapore has grown by more than a half in the last 10 years. A Government statement yesterday said that preliminary figures from the recent census place the population at 1.456,400. With 2.600 people in Christmas Island.
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  • 148 16 Cash before culture —so Colony tax stays SINGAPORE, July 30.. MOST of the live shows brought to Singapore are mere spectacles, with a high commercial value, and very little cultural benefit. As such they are liable to entertainment tax. This was the view of the Assistant Comptroller of Customs and
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  • 320 16 SINGAPORE, Jui >„ [T WAS back to norma! work for employ. s of the Singapore Harbour Board yesterday after five weeks of go-slow tactics. But 27 dockyard workers who reporif,| f, r duty were told that their services wciv nn longer required. i These
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  • 101 16 Kuala lumpur. ju:> —The War Department Civilian Staff Association today gave a 48-hour ultimatum to the Army authorities to reply to its claims for retrenchment compensation. The association’s general secretary, Mr. S. J H Zaidi. told the Straits Times that on expiry of the
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  • 296 16 SINGAPORE, July 30. Local Senior Offi- cers’ Association of the Singapore City Council sent a strong protest to all councillors yesterday against what it calls “a case of gross discrimination by an expatriate head of department in favour of an expatriate member of his
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  • 215 16 LUMPUR, July 29. —Three civilians believed to be agents or supporters of the Communists early this morning made an unsuccessful attempt to seize a rifle from a young British soldier lust outside the perimeter fence of Head- quarters, Malaya Command, here. The soldier.
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  • 910 17 Commission is asked: 'Move Parampalam 9 IPOH, July 30. i CRIMINAL lunatics were organised and coached to stage a fist-waving demonstration against the administration of the Central Mental Hospital, Tanjong Rambutan, it was alleged here today. One of the demonstrators, said the hospital superintendent, I)r. M.
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  • 312 17 KI’ALA LI'MPrH, July 30. JWO young cyclists claimed today they saw a beautiful woman ghost on Kedah’s new Merdeka Bridge oil Kepala Batas. “It was the most eerie rive minutes of my life,” Tan Chet Mins, 17-year-old student of St. Theresa’s school, told the Straits
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  • 39 17 ALOR STAR. July 30.—Telephone wires were cut at the 17 1/2 milestone Pokok Sena to Kuala Nerang Road, in the Alor Star district on July 28. It is believed 10 oe the work of terrorists.
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  • 160 17 SINGAPORE, July 31. A MARINE police patrol boat raced seawards yesterday afternoon to investigate a report that an unidentified armed launch had been seen acting; suspiciously just outside Singapore's territorial waters. The mystery launch believed to be Indonesian—was spotted at midday at a point about
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  • 55 17 SINGAPORE, July 31. Members ot the Malayan trade mission to Formosa are to meet President Chiang Kai-shek at a reception tomorrow. The mission, which is on a two-week visit to Formosa, is touring industrial areas and meeting business leaders. The members are due to leave
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  • 194 17 SINGAPORE. July 31. rpHE Local Government Bill. under which Singapore will have a new fully-elected 32-member City Council and three district councils, was passed by the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Just before the four-day marathon debate concluded, Government and Opposition members complimented the Speaker for his
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  • 194 18 SINGAPORE, July 31. 1'IIE Singapore Govment is conducting a survey of earnings and working conditions of labourers in the Colony .More than 550 industries have been supplied with questionnaires asking them to state before Auf. 31: The number 0 t workmen employed
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  • 45 18 SINGAPORE, July 31. Prof. Yeoh Ghim Seng, Professor of Surgery at the University of Malaya, will leave Singapore tomorrow for Australia to attend the annual conference of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons. He will be away for about three weeks.
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  • 329 18 I.IMIH H. July l>« 1 MS will roll and the Federation national anthem will be heard publicly for the first time as the Chief .Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, finishes reading the Proclamation of Independence at a historic ceremony in the Merdeka Stadium here on the morning
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  • 93 18 KUALA LUMPUR. July 30.- The Federation Government has created a new post of Commissioner for Local Government. who will advise state and settlement authorities on local government affairs. The Assistant Minister for Natural Resources and Local Government, inche Abdul Rahman bin Talib. said
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  • 146 18 SINGAPORE, July 31. men and four women now under detention had their appeals rejected by an appeal tribunal in Singapore yesterday. They were detained during and after the October riots last year. Ho Boon, general secretary of the Motor Workshop Employees’ Union, Chan Weng
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  • 53 18 KUALA LUMPUR, July 30. The working committee of the National Union of Plantation Workers today empowered headquarters officials to open negotiations to settle the strike by its employees. The 26 workers of its newspaper, the Sangamani, oowned tools on July 4 in protest against the retrenchment
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  • 146 18 SINGAPORE, July 31. TWO constables, fresh from the Singapore Police Training School, got their first taste of gang warfare when they tried to break up a secret society clash at the 14th mile Kranji Road early yesterday. The warring thugs turned their fury
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  • 259 18 KI’ALA LI MPI R. .Inly :»0. 'J'HE Federation Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Hahman, said today he was very happy with the way the country's new draft constitution ilful been worded. “Everybody here is happy,” he told the Straits Times, when asked to comment
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  • 29 18 BUKIT MERTAJAM, July 30. —A goodwill committee will be formed in the Bukit Mertajam and Nibong Tbal districts of Province Wellesley at a meeting on Aug. 1.
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  • 201 18 If UALA LUMPi;; j„,, 30-Half oi. he Fej elation s total .mnloiment force ot n o j one million work h P 1 a n t. n g quarrying, mam ulc mg and transport dustries and in r }n ernment and snr.i-Go-eminent service This
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  • 47 18 KUANTAN, July 30 An Alliance Council fur the Kuantain district was formed here yesterday. This follows the recent inauguration of a branch o. the Malayan Indian Congress here All three parties i) t tn s Alliance UMNO. MCA and MIC now have branches here.
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  • 62 18 SINGAPORE. July 31. The strike at the gapore Telephone •"‘JJ which entered its :H' !l 1 yesterday has so far the strikers about SL»> S 1 The strike is over tnc board’s refusal to permanent pass to Vr mit Singh, secretar the S.T.B. Empl
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  • 25 18 ALOR STAR. July 3* Director of Operation' Gen Sir Roger Bower into' Alor Star today tend the meeting of t*y war executive commit
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  • 1084 19  -  oy EPSOM JEEP July 27. VRGR BOND, winner of the Singapore i Id Cup in 1955, made spectacular come- kto pay $258 for a at Penang on July l first day of the -ust Bank Holiday i ting. o key
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  • 770 19  -  ITHE1 THE WEEK 1N SFORT By NORMAN lIIUI SINGAPORE, July 31. T'HE Singapore A.A.A. has named a team of 55 for 1 the Merdeka Games athletics championships at Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 5, 6 and land speculation starts immediately on whether Singapore can
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  • 104 19 OOYAL SIGNALS yesterday won the Parker Cup soccer Anal, defeating Army Pay Corps 2-1 at Ayer Rajah Road. After several misses Signals opened the scoring just before the Interval through centre-forward Tamplin who headed In a Simpson cross. Five minutes after resumption inside right Greatbanks
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  • 562 20 SHARE MARKET 5 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, July 29.J r pH E Singapore Share Market last week could be likened to a man who ate too much rich food too quickly, suffered a bad attack of indigestion and then began slowly to recover. The share
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  • 19 20 < urrent Date of Total Total of payment payment for previous Bedford Plantations Ltd 15% An*. 3 45%
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  • 477 20 rpHE following Nnsineas done 1 In the Singapore Mi are Market last week was eport ed by one firm of brokers for the period July 20 to *6 INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Bmelter 345., Federal Dispensary $2.35. Fraser 3c Heave Ords. $2,874 to $3 00 to $2,87 4. Gammon*
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  • 129 20 DRIFTING TENDE NCY MARKS QUIET TRADE ON SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspond. SINGAPORE, .1, I THERE was a vague and drifting e 1 among industrials on the Singap< shanl Market yesterday with no cheap seller 1( i i keen buyers. *1 Values held generally steady, how. J movements were
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  • 167 20 f THE Federation of Malaya! had a favourable balance in trade for the first half of this year of $lM£ million, with exports at $1,100.1 million and imports at S9O3J million. la the comparable period of last year there was a favourable balance of $278 6
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  • 831 20 SINGAPORE, July 30. INDUSTRIALS Boyor» Seller* Ales Bricks V Pr IJft 1.60 Ords 1.90 200 Atlas ice 11.00 set. (buyers) B. B petrol 64/- 66B M Trustees 010 8.50 Oom. Tin Smelt Pref 19/8 10/8 Ordi. J 4- 86 a sd Eastern United 30.00 81.80 Fed Dispensary
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  • 546 20 K n THE market 0 d th«flf 1 week wttt mort M dealers caution. nrob-'H tog until the r- ls the Goodyear taipH were known. oorul HoUday, Cut In Bath 11 and Co.. Ltd.. i’i cur- 9 rent review of ti smoaJfli pore Rubber Market. I f.
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