Memoranda and reports, 1941-1948

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Contains:

(fols. 1-2) typed excerpts from Malayan newspapers (7 Mar-24 Oct 1940) about income tax, n.d.
(item 1) By-laws of the Singapore Co-operative Stores Society Ltd.: pamphlet, pp. 26, n.d.
(fols. 3-4) typed extracts from the Annual Review of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, Straits Budget, 5 Apr 1941, concerning trade; two copies, n.d.
(fol. 5) cutting from an unidentified newspaper, concerning martial law in Singapore, 30 Dec 1941
(items 2 and 3) 'A note on Malaya and the crisis' and 'War developments and Colonial Policy': memoranda by A. Creech Jones, M;P., issued by the FCB, pp. 11 and 5, 2-6 Feb 1942
(items 4-8) Labour Party Advisory Committee on Imperial Questions: Minutes of Meetings on 30 Sep 1942 and 14 Oct 1942, with the following draft memoranda: 'Malaya' by T. Reid, CMG (Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George): two versions, Nos 245 and 245A; 'Note on Malaya' by Creech Jones: No. 253; 'Memorandum on Malaya and the decisions of the recent Pacific Conference' by Leonard S. Woolf: No. 254; 'Draft Reply of the Advisory Committee to Mr Attlee's Comments on Memoranda 245A and 254:' by Woolf: No. 260, Sep 1942-Sep 1943
(fol. 6) Colonial Office press release concerning the formation of a new international rubber committee, 28 Dec 1943
(item 9) 'The future of the Colonial Empire with particular reference to Malaya and Hong Kong': draft memorandum by Lt. Charles Burke, pp. 43, n.d.
(item 10) 'British South-East Asia': FCB memorandum, by E.E. Dodd, pp. 11. Comments and correspondence concerning a later pamphlet by Dodd, 'The New Malaya', are in MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/31, folder 4, Sep 1944
(fols. 7-13) Colonial Office press releases on the Malayan (Malaysian) tin industry and Constitutional proposals in Malaya (Malaysia), 2 Feb-23 Dec 1946
(fols. 14-24) copies of two letters from Lim Kean Chye for the Secretary, Malayan Democratic Union, to the General Secretary, National Council for Civil Liberties, London, about conditions in Malaya (Malaysia), and a shooting incident at Bras Basah Road on 15 Feb 1946; with typed sections from the Malay Banishment Ordinance, 14-18 Feb 1946
(fol. 25) handwritten cross-reference to an article from the Malayan Standard 27 Feb 1946, filed under education, n.d.
(item 11) 'Foreign jurisdiction': Statutory rules and orders No. 463, 1946: the Malayan Union Order in Council, pp. 29, 27 Mar 1946
(item 12) 'Malayan Union citizenship': memorandum by George Maxwell, pp. 7, 28 Mar 1946
(fols. 26-37) typed Written Answers from Hansard 23 Jan, 27 Feb, and 10 Apr 1946 concerning food, military administration and racial disturbances in Malaya (Malaysia), three copies; with a Written Reply by George Hall, S/S Col. to Mr Younger, MP, about the introduction of income tax to Malaya (Malaysia); and two handwritten cross-references to material filed under education, [1946]
(fols. 38-42) 'Extracts from a letter from Kuala Lumpur', concerning Singapore labour legislation and trade union movement, Malayan (Malaysian) administration, the after-effects of Japanese occupation, food supplies, 7 Jun 1946
(item 13) 'Education and British Colonial Policy: some problems of Malaya': article by Sir William McLean, Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education in Malaya (Malaysia), prepared at the request of the Central Office of Information for the Journal of Negro Education, published for the Bureau of Educational Research, Howard University, Washington, pp. 4, Jul 1946
(item 14) unsigned cyclostyled memorandum on the Interim Report of the Wages and Cost of Living Committee, pp. 3, 14 Jul 1946
(item 15) 'Notes from Malaya', by Johore Bahru, typed, concerning Malayan Federation, food supplies, bandits, and administration, pp. 3, 3 Sep 1946
(item 16) Malayan Democratic Union statement on the Singapore Legislative Council Constitution Committee's recommendations, pp. 3, 3 Oct 1946
(item 17) statements by H. Ashworth Hope, Chairman, Malayan Tin Dredging Ltd., made at the Annual General Meeting on 18 Dec: booklet, pp. 8, [Dec 1946]
(item 18) 'Distribution of wealth in Malaya': memorandum by A.W. Pinnick, resident in Malaya (Malaysia) for twelve years, pp. 2, n.d.
(item 19) memorandum by Tan Cheng Lock on the 1946 Constitutional proposals for Malaya (Malaysia), pp. 19, 10 Mar 1947
(item 20) Annual Report of the Administration of the Mines Department on the Mining Industry of the Malayan Union, 1946, by A. Bean, Chief Inspector of Mines, Malayan Union, pp. 62, 1947
(fols. 43-51 and items 21-22) memorial by the Occupation Back Pay Committee of Unemployed Government Officers (Federation of Malaya (Malaysia)) concerning full back pay for officers who were unemployed or partially employed during the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945; pp. 10 (item 21); with the following enclosures pinned inside the front cover: Malayan Secretariat Circular No. 25/1947 on this subject (item 22); press cuttings from Malayan newspapers; unsigned telegram concerning a Parliamentary Question by Gammans, MP; letter from N. Ward, for the Deputy Chief Secretary, Federal Secretariat, Kuala Lumpur, to the Honorary Secretary of the Back Pay Committee (three copies), 27 Aug 1947-1948.